I just want to be a male partner

The reason that prevented him from finding a cooperative bookseller was the big failure of the previous book "Water Margin".

"Water Margin" spent too much money on the early publicity and estimated printing, so when the book could not be sold, the amount of compensation also reached a considerable amount.

Han Shuo knew that until now, the publishing house that helped him publish the book was still hoarding "Water Margin" that could not be sold and was returned.Even after Leng helped to buy back his book at cost price, the publishing house still lost a lot.

Today "Water Margin" is still sold in bookstores, but strictly speaking, the ownership of these books is cold.It is just a cold promise that if a bookseller is willing to help consignment, they can recover all the money except the cost, and they will be willing to put it on the shelves and sell it at will.If you sell a copy and make a profit, they take it as a gamble.

It was because of such a disastrous loss before that all publishers began to have a prejudice against his book, and many of them told him that they only accept the method of publishing books at their own expense.To put it simply, it means that he must bear all the costs of publishing the book himself, and the publishing house only helps to make the book and assist in publicity matters.

This approach is tantamount to asking him to consign the book to the publishing house and be responsible for all profits and losses. Of course, it is impossible for Han Shuo to agree to such a consignment method.First of all, he personally doesn't have that much money to use, and secondly, he doesn't want to ask Leng to pay for him.

Although Leng didn't tell him, he knew that Leng had spent a considerable amount of money on him.The reason why he can maintain a relatively equal relationship with him after receiving the money is largely because he "never" asked Leng for money.The money that Leng currently spends on him is still all from his voluntary initiative.

He didn't want to make an exception for this matter. If he made an exception, Leng's attitude towards him might change.He can't afford to bet on any change anymore, so he can't self-destruct the Great Wall and take the initiative to do anything that may change the existing relationship.

So during that time, he had no choice but to rely on his perseverance to find other publishing houses again and again, but he was still rejected one by one.Some small publishing houses even explicitly refused to publish books for him on the grounds that they could not afford to pay.

He searched for a long time without giving up, and finally found a publishing house that was willing to publish the book, and it was the publishing house that helped him publish "Water Margin".Even if Han Shuo didn't know much about the situation in the industry, he could still understand that the situation was completely unreasonable. However, when there was no other candidate, he finally negotiated with the other party.

This time Han Shuo discovered that the person negotiating with him had changed again, from a middle-aged man in the past to a young and unserious young man.

The young man didn't seem to be as serious as the previous one, and his attitude when discussing the treaty could be said to be frivolous and rough, but Han Shuo couldn't say much, and he silently endured his dissatisfaction.After a while, after Han Shuo endured the other party's unprofessional behavior for countless times, finally the contract was about to be negotiated at this time, but the young man made a special request at this time.

"Let me tell you~ I have something to say first. When we promote your book, you have to cooperate unconditionally in everything we do, and you must not interfere at all."

Han Shuo's immediate reaction was to refuse, but the young man continued on without waiting for him to speak. His attitude can be said to be extremely tough. "Don't refuse. If you refuse me, just pretend that this incident never happened. If you want me to help you publish a book here, you must accept this promotional condition. If you don't, don't talk any more."

There was no way to avoid this contract, so Han Shuo finally chose to accept it, but he still mentioned one more contract. "I asked not to sign the sale during the publicity..." Before he could finish speaking, the young man interrupted him impatiently. "I definitely won't sign a sale, you think I'm stupid! Why do you sign a sale with me like this, you think I have too much money, don't you?"

Han Shuo's expression was not very good after being robbed by him and being said in such a way.

But since the other party agreed to his request and added his request to the contract document, he naturally had nothing to say.So even though he was in doubt, he continued to sign the entire contract with him, and asked the young man to take away his drafts of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "Journey to the West".

It is risky to give two copies at once, but this is also a last resort.As this family is the property of Huangfu's family, if Huangfu can help him publish a book because of Huangfu's cold face, if he misses this opportunity, he will never find another family who is willing to help him in a short time.

So, he made this last resort decision, but the subsequent development made him regret it.

The publication speed this time can be said to be quite fast. Han Shuo saw that the publication time they gave him was much faster than the previous interval.He was happy at first, but when the publicity started, he couldn't be happy.

He finally knew why the publishing house strongly demanded unconditional cooperation in the promotion. It turned out that the matter was waiting for him during the promotion.When they were promoting "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "Journey to the West", the bookseller actually released his identity photo without any notice, and printed his past star photo on each book, so as to "real golden tail" The slogan of "beauty writer" is to promote the purpose of selling books.

Han Shuo was furious. They were ruining his future!

This propaganda method of booksellers can be said to be extremely problematic.They put photos to deliberately emphasize his beauty, and they were so brutal and direct that other people who didn't buy the book would first have the impression that he was just beautiful.In the future, no matter how good the content of the book is, they will think that it is just relying on face to sell books, and the style of publicity will affect his own style. Now he gives the public the impression that he is the most hated "beauty writer".

Furthermore, they also exposed his real identity. If he is unwilling to give up this pseudonym in the future, then his real identity will continue to affect his identity as a writer.He knows how controversial he is now, and the publishing house is relying on his controversial identity as a mermaid to sell books, kill chickens and extract eggs, and completely squeeze all his value to make money!

This is what makes Han Shuo most angry. He never thought about keeping his real identity and pseudonym, but now he can't easily give up the pseudonym "Mirror Kingdom".

Having lost his system, he no longer has the ability to rewrite books that are completely identical to the original text, and all his manuscripts that have been successfully rewritten have long been linked to the original pen name "Mirror Kingdom". If he wants to change the pen name and start over, he can You can only rely on the books you write to hit the world again.

Although he doesn't think that his writing skills are bad, he knows that his writing skills are not enough to make him such a popular writer.In other words, it is impossible for him to replicate his past success.So he can't easily change his pen name. In the future, he can only make a choice, whether to give up the privacy of his identity as a writer, or give up making a lot of money.

Han Shuo, who didn't want to give up on both sides, deeply hated the cunning of the publishing house.If the publishing house had told him the truth, instead of defrauding his trust with such rhetoric as "unconditional cooperation", he would not have signed the contract and ended up in such a difficult situation!

Han Shuo, who was in a depressed mood, couldn't eat for several days because of this.The worried Huangfu Leng ran to the other party to argue after knowing the matter, but was directly dismissed by the other party on the grounds of the contract, and continued to carry out such propaganda methods, ignoring Huangfu Leng's serious warning.