Chapter 456 If I had a baby
At noon on February 2, the group returned to Yuhang City following the plane landing.

After returning to Bihai Lanting, Li Luo and the three girls got off the car, picked up their luggage, and temporarily parted ways with Lin Xiuhong and the others.

When Cui Suling left, she said to Xu Youyu, "Pack your luggage and come home before the 6th. The Chinese New Year is coming soon."

"I know~" Xu Youyu nodded, "Then I'll go back tomorrow night."

Returning to Room 1502 from the gate of the community, Li Luo took out his key, opened the door, and went into the house first to change into slippers.

Ying Chanxi and Yan Zhusheng followed behind, and after changing into slippers, they dragged their suitcases towards their rooms, preparing to pack their things first.

In comparison, Xu Youyu was relatively lazy. As soon as he entered the house, he took off his shoes, stepped directly on the floor with his sock-covered feet, threw himself on the soft sofa, threw the suitcase aside, and let out a long sigh.

Li Luo was not surprised by this. He did not rush back to the room. He walked to the sofa and patted Xu Youyu's butt: "Pack your luggage early. Aren't you going back tomorrow night?"

"What's the hurry?" Xu Youyu groaned, twisted his hips, raised his feet, and swayed in the air. "I finally got rid of their scary sight. I am now completely relaxed. I have returned to dormant mode from combat mode."

After all, in Xu Youyu's opinion, Ying Chanxi and Yan Zhusheng didn't know that he was writing a novel.

After leaving the four parents who knew about this, she felt visibly relaxed.

But Li Luo, as an experienced person, smiled and reminded: "I suggest you don't enter the dormant state too early."

"what's wrong?"

"Based on my experience," Li Luo said slowly, "when your parents find out that you write novels and they confront each other, it won't be long before your relatives find out about it."

"After all, it is a work with 10,000 orders."

"Your relatives may not have a high level of education and may not be able to appreciate the content, but the payment is real."

"In a year and a half, I earned 700,000 or 800,000 yuan in royalties. Can a normal high school student, college student, or even someone who just graduated and started working earn that much?"

"If it were me, I would definitely not be able to help but show off to my relatives in private."

Hearing Li Luo say this, Xu Youyu's expression suddenly changed and he quickly got up from the sofa.

If only Xu Rongsheng knew about this, Xu Youyu would not be worried at all about the situation that Li Luo described.

After all, Xu Rongsheng doesn't seem to be a big talker, and he wouldn't brag about such a small thing to his relatives.

But Cui Suling is not!
In Cui Suling's opinion, everyone knew about this, even Lin Xiuhong and Li Guohong knew about it, so what was the harm in sharing it with relatives?
After all, Cui Suling hadn't read the later contents of Xu Youyu's novel, and thought that everything she wrote was very serious.

Thinking of this, Xu Youyu quickly took out his mobile phone from his pocket, and after thinking it over, he decided to send a message to his father.

Xu Youyu felt that talking directly to his mother would have limited effect, and at times like this, his father had to step in.

After sending the message and seeing the reply from Xu Rongsheng, Xu Youyu finally breathed a sigh of relief, fell back on the sofa, and completely relaxed.

"There's one more thing." Li Luo added, "Since my parents were able to see the photos on Weibo during the annual meeting, maybe other people saw them too, so I think it's better for you not to let your guard down."

"Don't scare me!" Xu Youyu heard what Li Luo was going to say, and immediately turned over on the sofa, glaring at him angrily, "It's all because of your bad mouth!"

"If you hadn't lied to me when you woke me up earlier and told me that my parents knew about my novel writing."

"Maybe my parents don't know about it!"

Li Luo: "...How dare you say such a thing? Uncle Xu already knew about this last year."

"Humph, I don't care." Xu Youyu kicked him angrily, "It's all your fault anyway. I'm so mad at you."

Li Luo grabbed her ankle and lifted it gently, and one of Xu Youyu's legs was lifted high up.

As someone who had not exercised for many years, her body was not very flexible. She immediately cried out and begged for mercy: "I was wrong, I was wrong! Let go!"

Li Luo let go of her hand with a smile, and then said, "What time will you go home tomorrow night? If possible, wait until after dinner."

"What's wrong?" Xu Youyu asked curiously after hearing him say that, "You want to cook?"

"That's not the case." Li Luo said with a smile, "I have prepared a surprise for my dad. We will have a meal to celebrate then."

"Huh? What's the surprise?"

"It will be kept secret for now."

……

night.

Li Luo was typing in the room.

During the break, I dealt with the messages on QQ.

[Qianzhou]: Your book "Little Joy" has performed quite well recently. It has already obtained the boutique badge. It ranks first in monthly tickets and bestsellers in the reality category channel, with basically no other competitors.

[Qianzhou]: And I think the word of mouth is pretty good. When the book was first published, there were quite a lot of people skeptical about it, but now many people are praising the well-written plot.

[Qianzhou]: In addition, the negotiations with the Copyright Department seem to be going smoothly, but I am not very clear about the specific situation. I will have to wait for the final result to come out before I will receive any news.

[Qianzhou]: If you want to know the specific situation, you still have to ask the editor-in-chief or someone in the copyright department yourself.

[Rekindle]: Yeah, I get it.

In fact, Li Luo was somewhat surprised that "Little Joy" could achieve such an excellent result.

Although he has not read the original novel of "Little Joy", this kind of adapted novels are generally not too long.

Li Luo enriched and supplemented the plot of the 49 episodes of the TV series with text, and wrote a total of words. The content and form are definitely very different from the original novel of "Little Joy".

In his previous life, he had read some news about the behind-the-scenes of "Little Joy". It was said that the content of the TV series was only based on the plot of the original novel as the context and framework, and many of the specific plots were filled in by the main creative team themselves.

Apart from some ridiculous settings in the TV series, the plot logic and rhythm of "Little Joy" itself are quite brilliant.

Li Luo expanded the story based on the content of the TV series, writing about 10,000 to 20,000 words per episode. When put into online literature, it actually has a very compact plot.

For example, in Li Luo's book "I'm Not a Star", there are many places where the word count can be increased, or it can be said that the book deliberately lays the groundwork multiple times. The protagonist Li Yang in the book may have written a song and is preparing to debut it on a certain program. You can write 20 to 30 chapters about it, which is about 50,000 to 60,000 words.

In "Little Joy", the conflicts and contradictions are shorter and more urgent.

If the content of 800,000 words were to be structured according to the writing style of online articles, it would probably be around two to three million words.

The emotional line between the male and female protagonists alone can be used to draw a very long plot line.

Thinking of this, Li Luo clicked on the message sent to him by Lawyer Tian.

[Lawyer Tian]: Wenyue Group offered 1500 million for the film and television rights of "Little Joy".

[Lawyer Tian]: To be honest, this price is inflated.

[Lawyer Tian]: After all, your book "I'm Really Not a Celebrity" is the one that has achieved the most explosive success. In comparison, the performance of "Little Joy" is far worse.

[Lawyer Tian]: However, Wenyue Group has already decided that "Little Joy" will be the first prize in the reality-themed essay contest. It is said that this thing has a cooperative relationship with the Changning Municipal Press and Publication Bureau and is officially endorsed.

[Lawyer Tian]: I don’t know if Huayue Film and Television was intimidated or what, but the price they asked for was not particularly low.

[Lawyer Tian]: Originally, I estimated that your book "Little Joy" would be a big success if it sold for at most 7 or 8 million.

[Lawyer Tian]: But looking at the current situation, the transaction price is likely to be more than 10 million.

[Rekindle]: Okay, I got it. Please continue to follow up, Lawyer Tian, ​​and let me know if there is any follow-up news.

[Lawyer Tian]: No problem.

After reading the message sent by Lawyer Tian, ​​Li Luo fell into deep thought.

Now is the year 2016, and although the copyright fever for online literature is still lingering, the craziest period has basically passed.

What's more, "Little Joy" itself is not a hit online novel. It relies more on the reputation of "Rekindling" and the officially endorsed essay award. In addition, it is backed by Wenyue Group to be able to offer such an inflated price.

Li Luo didn't care much about it.

He still remembered what a certain platinum boss had said to him at the previous annual meeting.

When selling film or television copyrights for the first time, don’t worry about the price. The act of selling it itself is the most important thing.

Because for Wenyue Group, which holds a large number of online literature copyrights, its goal is not to help every author sell the copyrights.

It is about maximizing the value of the copyright in hand.

To put it simply, for ordinary high-quality online literature, the average subscription score is just over 3,000. Is it really true that no film and television companies are willing to buy it?

In fact, if the film and television copyright of this kind of online literature is offered at tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands, there will still be many companies willing to hoard the copyright.

As long as one of these products becomes a big hit, you can make a profit and earn back your investment directly.

But Wenyue Group directly offers you a price of several million, would you still buy it?

If the film and television rights to a book with tens of thousands of orders can be sold for a few hundred thousand, many companies will surely be happy to buy it. But if it offers you a price of 10 million right away, will you buy it?
But if it is those online novels that are popular on Qidian, with an average subscription of tens of thousands, Wenyue Group will quote tens of millions.

It seems quite expensive at first glance, but other high-quality books with tens of thousands of orders are priced in the millions or even tens of millions. So isn't it reasonable for this popular online novel to be priced in tens of millions?
For Wenyue Group, it is not important whether the copyright of a high-quality book with tens of thousands of subscriptions can be sold or not.

What is important is whether the price of IP can be driven up.

Once a popular online novel can be sold for tens of millions of dollars in copyright fees, the revenue from one book will be far greater than the copyright revenue from dozens or hundreds of ordinary books.

When the value of copyrights is similar, if only one blockbuster is sold, Wenyue Group only pays for the copyright of one book, while it still holds a copyright library of thousands of works.

For Wenyue Group, this is a sufficient ammunition depot.

Faced with this situation, Li Luo actually had no choice.

What's more, with his current status as a great artist, he is actually the beneficiary of this copyright strategy.

But...

If we can sign a platinum contract next year, we might be able to go a step further and truly gain some copyright freedom.

But that was all Li Luo was thinking at the moment.

After all, after his rebirth, his life is already comfortable enough, so it doesn't really make much difference how much money he makes in the future.

Do I really need to buy a villa and then hire Butler Liu to be the butler?

Hmm...if you think about it carefully, it's not impossible.

When Li Luo thought of this, he burst into laughter, and some beautiful fantasies about the future suddenly emerged in his mind.

Actually... the villa seems to be quite nice?
Although the house in Bi Hai Lan Ting is also very good, it is a bit tight for four people to live in it now.

Usually when Lin Xiuhong and her friends come to cook, and about ten people sit at the table to eat, the dining table is still quite crowded.

If I have a child in the future...

cough cough.

Thinking of this, Li Luo quickly stopped his fantasies and silently said to himself, "What a sin!"

Some things have not yet been concluded, and there is still a long way to go.

They are still young now, so they have to wait until they go to college before they can take it step by step.

Don't be too impatient.

Thinking of this, Li Luo took a deep breath, put his hands back on the keyboard, activated the memory palace in his mind, and continued to immerse himself in creation.

(End of this chapter)