Rebirth: Recovering My Treasure Girl

Inside the hotel.

Zhou Lin and Wu Jenny had already finished eating. They were waiting for Chen Yang to come back and wanted to know the result of the communication.

"Zhou Lin, how much royalties do you think your Aunt Gu will give Chen Yang?" Jenny Wu asked curiously.

Zhou Lin shook her head and said: "How did I know that? Besides, Chen Yang may not necessarily be selected for "Youth of the Century". Isn't it a bit too early to talk about royalties now?"

"It doesn't matter, let's just talk!"

Jenny Wu was nonchalant and continued to ask: "Under normal circumstances, how do magazines pay royalties? Your mother is the editor of a daily newspaper. You should know this, right?"

Zhou Lin thought for a while and said: "I heard from my mother that the manuscript fees of their newspapers are quite low, usually between 20 and 30 yuan per thousand words, and the author will not give it to him unless he asks for it, and he will give it to him only if he asks for it. ."

"Ah? It can still be like this?" Jenny Wu was very surprised. She didn't expect the newspaper society to be so stingy.

Zhou Lin nodded and continued: "However, many magazines on the market are different. They are responsible for their own profits and losses, high-quality manuscripts and high remuneration, and they follow the path of marketization."

“In other words, the manuscript fee from the magazine should be higher?” Jenny Wu then asked.

Zhou Lin nodded again and replied: "Yes, I heard from my mother that the manuscript fee for magazines with good sales on the market is generally between 300 and 500 yuan per thousand words..."

"The more popular magazines can give you 500 to 800 yuan per thousand words. The most powerful ones are well-known magazines such as Zhiyin and Family. They even have slogans of " words per thousand words!"

"One thousand words, one thousand yuan?" Jenny Wu was quite surprised: "Isn't that just one yuan per word?"

The next moment, Jenny Wu muttered and calculated: "Chen Yang's "My Internet Love" has 70,000 words. If it costs one yuan a word, doesn't it cost 70,000 yuan?"

"Oh my God, is it so profitable to write novels?" Jenny Wu looked at Zhou Lin in surprise.

Although Jenny Wu comes from a wealthy family and has never been short of money since she was a child, she is still surprised when she thinks that she can make a net profit of 70,000 yuan by writing a novel.

"How can it be calculated like this?"

Zhou Lin suddenly laughed, shook her head and explained: "A thousand words and a thousand dollars is just their promotional slogan. Unless the manuscript is of extremely high quality or the author is extremely well-known, it is impossible to achieve it!"

Jenny Wu thought about it seriously and thought it was true. After all, the magazine’s money didn’t come from strong winds.

Even if the magazine is really willing to pay such a high manuscript fee, it will definitely have to select the best from the best, and ordinary authors cannot get this money.

Zhou Lin added: "Chen Yang is a newcomer, so the fee will definitely not be too high."

"But I think with the quality of Chen Yang's novel, even if you can't get 1000 yuan for 500 words, you should still get yuan for words, right?"

"If 500 words are calculated as words per words, it would be !" Jenny Wu calculated like a money addict.

Zhou Lin nodded in agreement. She also felt that the manuscript fee for Chen Yang's novel should not be lower than this amount.

While the two were chatting, Chen Yang suddenly came in from outside.

As soon as Jenny Wu saw Chen Yang coming back, she immediately cheered up and locked eyes with him.

Zhou Lin also sat upright and looked at Chen Yang who was walking over with a smile.

Chen Yang returned to the table, returned the phone to Jenny Wu, and said softly: “Thank you.”

Jenny Wu took the phone and asked: "How is it? Are you going to vote for "Youth of the Century"?"

Zhou Lin also asked: "Chen Yang, what did Aunt Gu tell you?"

Chen Yang smiled at the two of them and said, "I had a good chat with Editor-in-Chief Gu just now. She is personally very interested in my novels, and I also have the idea of ​​submitting it to them, but before that, she said I have to take a look. Read the full text of the novel, and then we’ll talk about signing the contract.”

Jenny Wu was impatient and immediately said: "Then send the manuscript to her! Or ask her for an email address and send the electronic version there, it's faster!"

Chen Yang said: "No, Chief Editor Gu said that she happens to be going to Tanzhou this weekend. She can stay in Hengzhou for a while and wait until she finishes reading my novel before leaving."

After hearing this, Jenny Wu immediately looked at Zhou Lin and looked happy.

Zhou Lin also had the same expression. She also felt that it would be best to read the manuscript in person.

"By the way, did you just ask her how the royalties are calculated? How much can she give you for a thousand words?" What Jenny Wu is most concerned about is the royalties.

Chen Yang said: "I didn't ask, but Editor-in-Chief Gu mentioned it. She said that if the quality of the manuscript is good, 300 words per thousand words is definitely available, and the higher the quality, the higher the manuscript fee!"

Jenny Wu immediately said: "Chen Yang, if she is only willing to give you 300 thousand words, you must not vote for them. I think your novel can at least get 500 thousand words, otherwise it will be a secret investment!"

After saying that, Jenny Wu looked at Zhou Lin again and asked, “Am I right?”

"Yes! I think so too!" Zhou Lin immediately nodded in agreement.

After talking about the business, Jenny Wu stood up and said, “You guys wait for me for a while, I’ll go to the bathroom.”

After saying that, Jenny Wu walked away.

Chen Yang looked at Zhou Lin at this time and said with a smile: "Originally, I wanted to ask you out for a big dinner on the weekend, but now it seems that I may not be able to do that."

Zhou Lin was slightly confused after hearing this, but the next second she remembered that this weekend was Valentine's Day.

Zhou Lin's ears felt hot at the thought of Chen Yang asking her to spend Valentine's Day.

Then, Zhou Lin smiled helplessly and said, "Actually, even if Aunt Gu doesn't come over, I can't go out with you on the weekend, because my family has already agreed that our whole family will go to grandma's house to spend the weekend."

"Uh...Okay! I feel much better after hearing what you said." Chen Yang smiled.

Immediately afterwards, Chen Yang asked Zhou Lin: "By the way, what Valentine's Day gift do you want? I'll give it to you..."

Zhou Lin quickly shook her head and said no.

But Chen Yang was very insistent and said that he must give a gift to express his feelings.

Seeing that she couldn't resist Chen Yang, Zhou Lin had no choice but to shyly nod and agree.

However, Zhou Lin also warned her not to send flowers or anything too conspicuous as gifts, because that would be easily discovered by her parents, which would be very troublesome.

Chen Yang readily agreed, and then began to think about what kind of gift would be more appropriate.

After a while, Jenny Wu came back.

Jenny Wu saw the bright smiles of the two people from a distance, so she couldn't help but ask: "Hey, what were you two talking about just now? Are you laughing so happily?"

Facing Jenny Wu’s question, Zhou Lin just smiled and said nothing.

When Chen Yang saw that Zhou Lin was silent, he simply followed suit and smiled without saying a word.

The mysterious look of the two people instantly aroused Wu Zhenni's curiosity even more. Until after getting in the car, Wu Zhenni was still asking Zhou Lin, but still couldn't get the answer.

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Soon it was Saturday.

February 2th, Valentine's Day.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, after dinner, Chen Yang went out carrying a casual canvas bag.

The canvas bag contained the printed manuscript of "My Internet Love", and Chen Yang was going to the square in front of Hengzhou Railway Station.

On Friday, Jenny Wu had returned the manuscript to Chen Yang.

When returning the manuscript, Jenny Wu was in a bad mood. When she asked about it, she found out that it was because of the ending of the novel.

Interestingly, Jenny Wu also expressed the hope that Chen Yang would rewrite the ending so that the male and female protagonists can be together.

Chen Yang didn't agree to Jenny Wu's request, but he didn't explicitly refuse it either. He just said "haha" and accepted it.

At around ten o'clock last night, Chen Yang suddenly received a call from Gu Mei.

The two made an appointment on the phone to meet next to the large circular flower bed in the square in front of Hengzhou Railway Station at two o'clock on Saturday afternoon.

At 1:50 in the afternoon, Chen Yang came to the big flower bed.

Chen Yang immediately walked around the big flower bed and found that Gu Mei hadn't arrived yet.

After waiting for a few minutes, Chen Yang's eyes suddenly locked on a fashionable woman in the distance.

The woman was tall and well-proportioned. She was wearing a high-end khaki winter windbreaker and a pair of brown sunglasses on her nose. She was full of style.

The woman put one hand in her pocket and pushed a large black suitcase with the other. Her steps were light and vigorous, exuding the temperament of an elite working woman from afar.

Chen Yang heard Zhou Lin describe Gu Mei's appearance, which matched very well with the woman in front of him.

Chen Yang immediately came over and asked with a smile: "Hello, is this the editor-in-chief Gu Meigu?"