113: Chapter 113 Album Release 1

[Host has completed one piece of intelligence, gaining 4 intelligence points.]

[Host has completed one piece of intelligence, gaining 5 intelligence points.]

[Host currently possesses paparazzi points: 38.]

After settling things with Xu Jing and Han Hong, Chen Shaoping parted ways with them and rushed back to the company.

Just as his car pulled out of the restaurant, he received the system rewards and saw that because he hadn't purchased the full 200 million yuan in stocks, the system had deducted 1 paparazzi point.

"red face" was ultimately sold to Xu Jing for 600,000 yuan.

As for the singer, Han Hong recommended a singer named Hu Bing and introduced him to join Tongxing Entertainment Company.

Hu Bing wasn't handsome, but according to Han Hong, he was an all-around singer who wrote and sang his own material.

He was very impressive!

However, his output was very low, which had prevented him from ever becoming popular.

Recently, he wanted to change his lifestyle, so he had the idea of joining an entertainment company.

Chen Shaoping had already contacted Hu Bing; he would be coming to the company to sign a contract within the next couple of days.

At the same time.

The office of Wodian Novel Website.

It was long past closing time, but many Editors were still reviewing novels.

Editor was one of them.

He had recently gained the attention of the leadership, who had assigned him specifically to review the website's event for supporting Wuxia novels.

Although there weren't a huge number of submissions, he still had to look at nearly a hundred novels a day.

Right now, he was rubbing his sore eyes and constantly applying eye drops.

To relieve the eye fatigue.

Then he lit another cigarette.

After a whole day of reading, he hadn't encountered a single well-written piece, which put him in a bad mood.

The next piece was titled "the legend of the condor heroes"; just looking at the title made his head ache.

If the synopsis hadn't been somewhat interesting, he wouldn't have even bothered reading it.

Snuffing out his cigarette, he clicked open the document for "the legend of the condor heroes."

On the other side.

Chen Shaoping had returned to the company. Many people were still there, waiting for the midnight release of Zhang Ying's album.

They had prepared plenty of food: fruit, melon seeds, peanuts, potato chips, and other snacks, even instant noodles.

Some were chatting, others were playing games; it was incredibly noisy.

He went straight to Li Qian and told her about the song "red face" and the matter with Hu Bing.

"So Han Hong looked for you today just for this?" Zhang Ying asked.

"Yeah, Sister Ying. Teacher Han Hong introduced a business deal and a person."

"It would be great if things like this happened more often. I've never encountered this before; you're really lucky."

Zhang Ying laughed happily. Seeing the company thriving as it was now, she felt fortunate about her original decision.

"Sister Ying..."

Just as Chen Shaoping started to speak, his phone rang.

Because the office was so noisy, he stepped out of the office before pressing the answer button.

"Hello, I am Editor from Wodian Novel Website. May I ask if you are 'A Stick', the author of 'the legend of the condor heroes'?"

Chen Shaoping could hear excitement and anticipation in the other person's voice.

When he heard the name 'A Stick', his brow furrowed; it didn't even sound as good as 'Stubborn'.

"Hello, that's me. Is there something I can help you with?"

"I'd like to ask, have you thought about the subsequent content for 'the legend of the condor heroes'? If you have an outline, please send it to me. If there are no major issues, I'm prepared to sign your book."

"By the way, there's one major problem: your word count per chapter is too high. I hope you can change them to about 3,000 words per chapter."

Without much thought, Chen Shaoping replied, "I've thought through all the following content, and I've already written quite a bit. The total word count is around 1.2 million."

"As for the chapter divisions, I don't plan on changing them. Let's just leave it as is."

Since he was just copying things from his past life, Chen Shaoping felt he didn't have the skill level to modify someone else's classic work.

Editor's heart skipped a beat; he hadn't expected this author to be so willful.

Changing it would better fit the current requirements for web novel chapters and make it easier for readers to consume.

But he hadn't expected the other party to refuse so bluntly.

As for the word count, 1.2 million wasn't a small amount, but it certainly wasn't huge.

However, that wasn't important. As long as the novel's data was good later on, the author would find ways to keep writing without needing a reminder.

"Author A Stick, if you don't change it, it will affect your earnings."

"It doesn't matter, I don't care," Chen Shaoping refused decisively.

"Alright then. I'll send you the contract. After you've looked it over, if there are no problems, we'll sign it directly."

"Okay."

Chen Shaoping went back into the office, sat down at the computer, downloaded the contract from his email, and read it carefully.

He was mainly looking at the copyright issues; he didn't want to give the copyrights to the website.

If he did, he'd have to deal with the website's whims when he eventually wanted to film a TV series or movie, which would be more trouble than it was worth.

Sure enough, the current contract template assigned all various copyrights of the novel to the website.

Chen Shaoping read very carefully, taking quite some time to finish the contract.

His core demand was clear: the copyrights must remain firmly in his own hands; this was a non-negotiable bottom line.

He sent his organized feedback to Editor.

Actually, as long as the copyrights were his, he didn't really care about the rest.

He didn't plan on relying on it to make money; he was just writing the novel out first before filming the TV series.

Of course, if it could make money, that would be even better.

Perhaps Editor was still busy with other things, or perhaps he needed to ask his superiors about the contract terms Chen Shaoping proposed.

Chen Shaoping didn't receive a reply for a long time.

Soon, it was midnight.

The intelligence had refreshed.

But Chen Shaoping didn't have time to check it.

Everyone was glued to the data online, and Chen Shaoping was no exception.

Tonight, many people like them were waiting online for Zhang Ying's album.

They were all Zhang Ying's fans.

Liu Zhiqiang was one of Zhang Ying's die-hard fans.

When Zhang Ying released the song "later," he was moved by the song's emotion.

He gathered the courage to contact his first love, Ma Minzhen, wanting to make up for the regrets of his youthful impulsiveness.

To his surprise, Ma Minzhen had also always kept him in her heart, so he naturally won back his beauty.

Now Ma Minzhen was lying in his arms; the two of them were on the sofa together, looking at the computer on the coffee table.

"Zhen, which one should we listen to first?" Liu Zhiqiang's gaze was incredibly tender as he looked at his fiancée.

Ma Minzhen thought for a moment. "Qiang, Yingying rarely sings Cantonese songs, but this time she included three. How about we listen to the Cantonese songs first?"

"Let's start with 'blessing'."

"Alright."

Zhang Ying's album was titled "'Ying' Your Happiness," with a total of eight songs: three Cantonese songs and five Mandarin songs.

They were: "a woman easily hurt," "dancing street," "blessing," "listening to the sea," "can i hug you," "my dream," "always quiet," and "for you, i endure the cold wind."

After Liu Zhiqiang bought the entire album, he gently clicked on the MV for "blessing."

Soon, Zhang Ying's figure appeared in the MV.