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Chapter 56 God Contract New Book Upload
A week after "Mysterious" won the monthly ticket championship in November, Li Xu signed a new contract with Qidian, officially becoming one of the few great authors on Qidian.

However, what he got was not the top platinum writer contract signed by Tomato and Potato, but a second-level great writer contract, whose level and bargaining power were slightly lower than those of platinum writers.

In 05 and 06, Qidian launched the first batch of platinum writers. Ancient masters such as Wandering Toad, Jingguan, Ekao, Angel Oscar, and Ao Wuchang all became platinum writers at that time.

There are two evaluation criteria: one is that there is at least one completed novel, and the other is that at least one novel has subscriptions of more than 1.

But later, Qidian grew in size and had more and more readers. Dozens of books received over 09 subscriptions every year, so Qidian raised the platinum threshold and launched a second-level title of great writer last year ().

Li Xu was able to secure a contract with a top player so quickly, which was a good opportunity. Last year's Shenji incident caused another wave of top players to leave Qidian.

Influenced by this, Qidian is eager to cultivate a group of new great players like Tomato and Potato as soon as possible to prove its own ability to generate revenue.

In addition, Qidian also values ​​Li Xu's potential and wants to bind him with a great player contract.

The contract period for great writers is five years, and within five years, the author's works can only be signed on Qidian.

Li Xu doesn't care about this at all. It's impossible for him to keep copying novels. At most, he will write for two or three years, or even shorter. He will probably stop writing before the contract expires.

Don’t be fooled by the three novel apps in the Honor Magic6 Pro, which have a total of six or seven hundred novels. However, all the completed novels have been cached, and there are only dozens of novels that can be copied.

And there are even fewer high-quality novels that can be called works by great masters.

Especially the free novels on Toutiao, which are basically brainless and have bad endings.

He is a great writer now after all, he can't just copy bad books, right?
After receiving the title of "Great Author", the traditional Chinese version of the book was quickly published. The Xinchang Publishing House in Taiwan offered the highest price of 4 per copy.

This standard of remuneration is quite high. Most great writers cannot get this amount. For example, supreme writers like Tomato and Potato only earn 50,000 or 60,000 yuan for a copy of the traditional Chinese copyright, and that's for works like "Fights Break Sphere" and "Devouring the Stars".

The reason why Xinchang Publishing House was willing to offer such a high price was, on the one hand, that they were very optimistic about the market prospects of "The Mystery"; on the other hand, Li Xu was adamant about offering a price of 4 yuan per copy and would rather wait a little longer if it was lower than 4 yuan.

The publishing process in Taiwan is simple, and novels are released very quickly. The first volume of the Traditional Chinese version of "Mystery" will be released in Taiwan next month (January).

In other words, starting from the next month, Li Xu's monthly income will increase by 4 yuan.

The usual practice of publishing houses in Taiwan is to withhold one month's payment, which is equivalent to one volume's worth of royalties, so Li Xu will not receive his first publishing income until the month after next.

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Friday, July 12th.

After finishing two classes on the outline of modern history in the morning, Li Xu returned to the dormitory and sat down in front of his laptop.

He turned on his computer and went to the writer's area, but instead of updating "Mystery" as usual, he chose to create a new work.

That’s right, Li Xu is planning to start a new book.

Starting from this month, he will no longer update "Mystery" as frantically as he did last month. Instead, he will update at least three times a day, with occasional extra updates. Next month, the number will be reduced to at least two updates.

In fact, if he hadn't promised last month that he would update at least three times this month after successfully competing for the rankings, he would have reduced it to two times.

A significant reduction in updates means that the income from royalties will shrink significantly.

He estimated that the royalties for November should be more than 11 (before tax), including subscription income, rewards, benefits and monthly ticket awards.

This month, that is, in December, the royalties will probably be only over 12 yuan, and by next month, it will be reduced to less than yuan.

For long-term considerations, "The Mystery" will definitely not be updated so frequently. If it still wants to make more money, then the only way is to start a new book.

After careful consideration, Li Xu decided to copy another novel of the Weird genre, which seemed more logical. After all, he was now considered the founder of the Weird genre.

After the popularity of "Mystery", many people began to follow the trend and write novels with weird themes and sequential potion systems.

Thinking of this, Li Xu wrote the four words "Dao Weird Immortal" in the title column.

"The Taoist Strange Immortal" is an oriental strange novel with a much richer flavor than "The Lord of Mysteries".

When Li Xu first started reading this novel, he found it difficult to get into it because he felt it was too confusing and crazy. But the more he read, the more interesting he found it.

Weird gods and Buddhas, a mad heaven, two worlds where truth and falsehood are indistinguishable; lustful monks, Nurse women, shaman dances, the Way of Forgetfulness...

Copying this novel will definitely not lower the quality.

Moreover, "The Mystery" is a Western fantasy, and "The Dao of Weirdness" is an Eastern fantasy. The two novels are exactly one Eastern and one Western.

After completing the new work, Li Xu uploaded two chapters of more than 5,000 words and waited for review.

He did not inform the editor in advance about publishing a new book, because even if he had told the editor, the editor would definitely not support it.

After all, no great writer would write two novels at the same time. It's hard enough to write one well, let alone two.

Generally, only failed authors will choose to open two books at the same time in order to make more money.

If you write two novels at the same time, there is a high possibility that they will affect each other, resulting in neither being well written.

Only a very small number of geniuses with abundant literary ideas and cheating "plagiarists" like Li Xu dare to do this.

After uploading the new book, Li Xu left the writer area.

He turned his head to look at Xu Haoyang, who was sitting in front of Zhao Jiazi's laptop and concentrating on playing "Cross Fire". He stood up, walked over and patted the other on the shoulder.

"Come on, go out and talk with me."

Xu Haoyang took off his headset, turned to look at Li Xu, and asked in confusion: "Brother Xu, what do you want to tell me?"

"You'll know when you come out." After Li Xu said that, he left the dormitory first.

Xu Haoyang put down the game reluctantly, stood up and followed.

The two of them came to the window in the corridor outside, and Li Xu said to Xu Haoyang, "Please help me pass a message to the girls. Tell them that I failed to pursue Xiao Yu and I'm in a bad mood recently..."

After hearing this, Xu Haoyang was surprised: "Brother Xu, you really didn't win over Xiao Yu? With your conditions, can't you win her?"

Li Xu glanced at him and said, "This is not something you should worry about. Just help me pass the news to the girls."

"Then how should I pass it?" Xu Haoyang asked.

"You ask me? Where did you hear the rumor from before? How did you spread the gossip? Now you tell me the same thing." Li Xu said angrily and amusedly.

"Brother Xu, why do you want me to spread this message?" Xu Haoyang asked curiously again.

"Don't worry about it." Li Xu said, turned around and left.

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(End of this chapter)