Lin Yuyao agreed readily.

"No problem, Xiao Jiang, you are right. I also feel that my writing skills are not that good and there is a lot of room for improvement. I will definitely write the next one well and submit it when I am done."

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Jiang Cong: “…”

President Niu: “…”

No, isn't this too straightforward?

Didn't she realize that this was a test for her?

Is he stupid or is he trying to compete with them?

He covered the microphone and asked, "Boss, what do you think we should do now?"

President Niu was so angry that he exhaled several times and said, "Don't beat around the bush with her. Tell her directly that she must sign the overseas free authorization. Otherwise, the two books she has in my hands will no longer be sold overseas from now on. It's a five-year contract, and I will drag her to death."

Jiang Cong thought, isn’t this too direct?

What's the difference between this and robbery?

But as an intern who got in through connections, he had no choice but to do it in order to keep his job and successfully get a permanent job.

"Ms. Lin, this is what is happening. If you cannot expand overseas markets, I am afraid that your domestic sales will be affected."

Oh, it can also affect domestic sales?

Lin Yuyao asked with a smile: "How does it affect you? Why?"

Jiang Cong thought hard and said, "In fact, our publishing house has been losing money since we accepted your first two books. We are more optimistic about the overseas market for your subject matter. If we can make money in the overseas market, we can offset the losses in China. If you don't agree, then we can't continue to invest in China. The more we invest, the more we lose."

"That's not right." Lin Yuyao said calmly, "Overseas licensing is free, how can you use overseas revenue to balance domestic accounts?"

Jiang Cong: “…”

"Your content is free, but...but we have something included in the package."

Start talking nonsense.

"What kind of things are included? For example?"

"This..." He was speechless, sweating all over, and looked at President Niu anxiously.

President Niu gritted his teeth and cursed, "It's useless," then grabbed the microphone.

"We plan to cooperate with well-known publishers in Hong Kong and Macau, and let you cooperate with well-known authors in Hong Kong and Macau. Their books are charged. Simply put, we sell their books and give you your books."

Oh, her book is a gift.

"Is it President Ushi?"

"Yes, it was me. Young man, I saw your potential and that's why I'm willing to make a loss to train you. It's a rare opportunity for you to be able to sell your works in bundles with famous authors. You still have a long writing career ahead of you. Using one or two books to open up the vast overseas market will only benefit you. I hope you can consider it carefully."

"Sorry, I don't want to." Lin Yuyao still refused.

President Niu was very angry, "You are just a young girl, don't you think you are great just because you can write a few words?"

"I don't think so, but I also know it is my right to agree or not, and I just don't agree."

"Hmph, I think you are too lucky and don't know how high the sky is or how deep the earth is. Well, you don't agree, right? I can tell you clearly that I will not accept your manuscript here. In this South City, no publishing house will accept your manuscript. Lin Yuyao, there will be a time when you will beg me for help."

After saying these harsh words, he turned around and ordered, "Notify everyone that from now on, all books under Lin Yuyao's name will stop printing, and we will no longer accept her new manuscripts."

ah?

Someone said, "Boss, we just signed a contract for 100,000 copies. If we breach the contract..."

Before I could finish listening to the other party's words, there was a beeping sound from the microphone.

Hang up?

Lin Yuyao laughed and hung up the phone.

"Yuyao, what's wrong?" Zhou Jing came over and asked curiously.

Lin Yuyao briefly talked to her.

Zhou Jing sighed after hearing this. "Did they ask you to give it away for free? Are you going to get angry if I don't give it to you? Such a big publishing house actually did such a shameless thing. How shameless."

Yes, they are just shameless.

"So what do you do now?"

Lin Yuyao pointed upstairs and said, "I'll open my own. Anyway, I won't submit my works to their publishing house in the future."

The upstairs is being renovated, which is much simpler than decorating a private rental apartment.

The wires are pulled up, the floor is laid, the walls are painted white, and then the office chairs can be sold directly.

Only the pantry and archives are a little troublesome.

They said that the work would be completed in twenty days at most.

"But your book is still in their publishing house. Can you get it back?"

Lin Yuyao frowned and shook her head. This was a bit troublesome.

She signed for five years.

"It doesn't matter. The copyright will be returned to us in five years."

"Five years? Those aren't the best years that have been wasted."

"No, the things are mine. I can hold onto them for five years and sell them later. If they don't sell them, they will be the ones who suffer the loss."

It should be said that the publisher suffered the loss.

President Niu is just a salaried employee, and no one knows what he is doing.

He doesn't care.

She doesn't care anyway.

There's no way she'll sign a free agreement.

I don’t know how Sister Song is doing.

Lin Yuyao guessed that it was Sister Song who resigned, but the other party did not approve it, but the publishing house suspended her.

No, she had to find a way to contact her.

A trip to Yunhua Publishing House might not yield any results, so she simply told Fu Huaiyi about it in the evening.

"I remember you said you were very familiar with the Chen family?"

"I'm not very familiar with him, but it's okay."

"Then can you contact Chen Bingzhi?"

Fu Huaiyi: "Are you looking for him?"

"Yes, I want to ask her what happened to Sister Song."

She briefly recounted what happened in the afternoon.

Of course, she also did not forget to mention the threats made by President Niu to her.

Fu Huaiyi was so angry that he laughed. "If you know that he is the president of a second-rate publishing house, you would think he is the Minister of Culture. He is a bully who only bullies small authors."

Originally he was still hesitating whether to report him.

After all, reporting him is a troublesome thing, and you have to find evidence and so on.

He is a person who fears trouble. Unless the other party goes too far, he is actually unwilling to get involved.

Now, there is no need to hesitate.

It was like forcing him to eliminate harm for the people.

He hugged his wife and said, "I definitely won't beg him, but I know that if he wants to beg grandpa, it will be useless."

"What do you want?"

"Report him."

"Report what?"

"It depends on what he did."

Lin Yuyao said, "Saying that he did something dirty is just our guess, and we don't know what he did. What if we are wrong?"

"Oh, trust my guess. If he's clean, I'll take...your last name."

Lin Yuyao: "Mr. Fu, please be serious."

"Serious, I've always been serious."

He checked the time, let go of her and stood up. "I'm going downstairs to make a phone call. I'll be back soon."

"Give it to Chen Bingzhi?"