"Sister Bai, good morning."
Fang Qiu smiled and said.
"Good morning."
Bai Qing also smiled faintly and nodded.
"Sorry, I was delayed by something just now."
Fang Qiu apologized.
"It's fine, don't mind it."
Bai Qing shook her head and said.
"So where shall we talk this time? Should we go to a tea house outside?"
Fang Qiu asked.
"No need, talking in your room is fine."
Bai Qing shook her head and said.
"That works too. Come in, Sister Bai. I just happened to buy some pastries."
Fang Qiu smiled and said.
Bai Qing nodded and followed Fang Qiu into the room.
"It's just pastries without tea, I hope you don't mind, Sister Bai."
Fang Qiu walked to Bai Qing's side holding the pastries and said.
"It's fine, let's get to the main topic."
Bai Qing coughed, took out a document, and handed it to Fang Qiu.
"Mm."
Fang Qiu took the data sheet and quickly scanned it.
"Thirty thousand weekly sales?"
Upon seeing the sales figures, Fang Qiu's crimson pupils shrank slightly, her pretty face filled with surprise and shock.
One had to know that her previous book, Your Lie in April, only sold a little over ten thousand copies in its first week.
Although she could clearly perceive her strength rising constantly this week.
But in her estimation, fifteen thousand would have been a pleasant surprise.
Who could have thought that the results for this book would be triple that of the last one!
For a moment, Fang Qiu doubted her own eyes. After gently rubbing them, she realized the number written there was indeed thirty thousand.
Seeing Fang Qiu's stunned and shocked look, Bai Qing couldn't help but smile and say:
"Also, your royalties for Your Lie in April from publication to date total 400,000 Mora after tax."
"400,000?"
Fang Qiu's pupils shrank slightly, and her delicate body trembled fiercely, as if her heart had skipped a beat, feeling somewhat suffocated.
400,000!
She earned 400,000 from just over 100,000 words?
Even in her past life, these results would make her a top-tier god-level author, right?
Although 400,000 Mora is still far from enough to buy a large mansion like Wangsheng Funeral Parlor, buying a small house in the suburbs of Qingce Village shouldn't be a problem.
Work hard, work a little harder.
Write a few more books, and I can buy a house in Liyue Harbor!
Where would be good to buy?
Let's buy near Wangsheng Funeral Parlor.
Not only is it close to Hu Tao's home so I can visit often, but housing prices near Wangsheng Funeral Parlor should also be lower.
After all, the people of Liyue are still quite taboo about matters of death.
But thinking about it carefully, living alone near Wangsheng Funeral Parlor actually feels a bit creepy...
Leaving aside whether there are ghosts or not.
Working at Wangsheng Funeral Parlor in the middle of the night scared her half to death.
Moreover, it's so cold inside Wangsheng Funeral Parlor; I don't know if the surroundings are affected.
With her sickly body, if she slept alone, would she be unable to withstand the cold energy?
Then near Xiangling's home?
Hmm...
Chihu Rock is too lively; it's easy to get woken up.
Plus, the overflowing aroma of food early in the morning... I can't handle it.
As for near Bai Qing's home?
Let's forget that.
Never live too close to your editor.
She vaguely remembered that in her past life, a god-level author in her group pursued his own editor and successfully got married.
The result was that after marriage, she urged him for drafts every day.
So much so that Fang Qiu often saw him complaining in the group chat.
He said that nowadays, the phrase he feared hearing most wasn't "Come, follow me into the room."
But rather, "Did you write today? How much did you write? You have the nerve to play games with only four thousand words? Are you doing justice to the recommendation I gave you? What do you mean 'normal recommendation process'? Even if it follows the normal process, are you doing justice to the attention I give you? Why aren't you writing yet? Do you still want to go to the annual meeting this year?"
She could imagine that if she lived near Bai Qing, just when she was sleeping soundly, a knock on the door would suddenly ring out, and Bai Qing would push open the door and ask her:
"How much have you written for the new book? How is the progress?"
Just thinking about it made her scalp tingle.
Compared like this, it seems near Wangsheng Funeral Parlor is better after all.
Afterwards, Fang Qiu and Bai Qing chatted a bit about opening up novel channels in Mondstadt.
Fang Qiu naturally had no objections.
She couldn't understand the commercial operations of novels anyway, so it was better to leave it to the publishing house.
After declining to read letters from readers, Bai Qing smiled slightly, then retracted her smile and said, "Then there's only one last thing left. However, before discussing the new book, I want to give you a suggestion first."
"Please speak, Sister Bai."
Seeing Bai Qing suddenly turn serious, Fang Qiu couldn't help but become a bit more serious as well.
"This book, if possible, write a Liyue story."
Bai Qing said seriously.
"Sister Bai means that if I don't write a Liyue story, some people will use that as a pretext to cause trouble?"
Fang Qiu narrowed her eyes slightly and asked.
This situation was not uncommon.
As the saying goes, watching a peer make money feels worse than losing money oneself.
Not to mention the open strife and veiled struggles of those big companies in her past life; even among colleagues, people didn't necessarily want others to do better than them.
This was even more true in the novel industry.
Reporting, stirring up drama—they would stop at nothing.
Those two books of hers in her past life that had too much racy content were frantically reported and banned by people.
Of course, that was her getting what she deserved.
After all, she was the one who violated the rules first.
However, there were also many books that hadn't violated any rules but were reported on trumped-up charges.
"Exactly. You have already written Inazuma and Mondstadt, and even included Fontaine. Moreover, your results are getting better with each book. If the next one is still a story about another country, it's very likely someone will make an issue of it. Although our publishing house will do its best to protect you, it will inevitably affect your image in the hearts of readers, thereby affecting sales."
Bai Qing said.
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