FWTS Chapter 076

 "Modifying the beginning will to some extent involve the interests of the publishing house, especially since Hou Muyun has gained popularity and 'The Sword Master' has seen a surge in sales. Moreover, with the online serialization still unchanged, the sales of physical books are quite good.

In less than a month, the sales volume of the three volumes has reached nearly two hundred thousand copies, which is definitely considered a very good achievement even in traditional books, let alone in online literature.

However, there were no mandatory restrictions when the contract was signed, and with Changjiang Publishing House's determination to publish after the third volume, as well as having already signed the comic version of 'The Sword Master,' it was naturally impossible to encounter any difficulties on this matter.

And there were no issues on the side of Qiyue Chinese Network either, as the modification was carried out on the same day.

Editor: "Monkey, regarding the publication of physical books after the third volume, Changjiang has offered conditions that are one percentage point higher at each tier than originally agreed, which is considered top-tier royalties for online literature. If you have no objections, we will start publishing the fourth, fifth, and sixth volumes as soon as possible, and it's possible that we'll even publish up to the ninth volume directly."

Hou Muyun: "No problem."

Editor: "Monkey, how many millions of words do you expect 'The Sword Master' to be?"

Hou Muyun: "Given the current development of the plot, it should be around five million words."

Editor: "Five million! That's not a small number, but now it's already over two million seven hundred thousand words. At your current update speed, it won't take more than two months to complete! Your current update speed, to be honest, is a bit frightening! Haven't you thought about slowing down a bit?"

Hou Muyun: "I have, but there's definitely no way to slow down now. This month will definitely have to continue with the fifteen-chapter updates, and starting next month, I'll gradually write side stories, then push the main story updates to ten chapters. Then, by the following month, which is the new year, I plan to continue slowing down the updates for 'The Sword Master' while starting a new book."

The editor was somewhat surprised: "You're planning to start a new book?"

Hou Muyun: "Yeah! I've roughly thought about the genre, and when I have time recently, I'll slowly outline it!"

After finishing the conversation with Hou Muyun, the editor immediately went to the chief editor's office and informed them of Hou Muyun's plan to start a new book. Shortly after, the editor and the chief editor went together to the CEO's office of Qiyue Chinese Network.

Hou Muyun's performance during this period has attracted too much attention, especially now that he's topped the monthly votes again. For the editorial department, an author like this wanting to start a new book is a big deal. Putting aside everything else, in terms of treatment and contract level for Hou Muyun, they will definitely have to be raised, and he will also definitely be given more autonomy.

There's no doubt, at this point, Hou Muyun is fully qualified to negotiate with them!

No one is foolish.

Both the editor and the chief editor know why Hou Muyun informed them of his plan to start a new book several months in advance, and that it's just "preparation" to start a new book, whether it will actually happen is uncertain.

In addition, they also understand why Hou Muyun has been keeping up with the novel's update pace, not just to satisfy the fans, but also because of the level of his contract for this book, which only entitles him to a share of the profits and has low autonomy. Naturally, he wants to end this book sooner to negotiate for more rights.

Of course, Hou Muyun also slightly slowed down the pace of updates by announcing the side stories, which served as a buffer time, a buffer time for negotiation.

The website provides a platform for authors, and authors bring profits to the website. How much profit the author brings to the website determines how much resources and treatment the website gives to the author, which is fair and reasonable!

Now, it's obvious that Hou Muyun's capabilities far exceed his treatment, so naturally, he seeks higher treatment. The website, in order to retain Hou Muyun, will naturally offer higher treatment.

At around three o'clock in the afternoon, Hou Muyun received a message from the editor's side.

On behalf of the website, the editor made many promises, and the most unimaginable thing for Hou Muyun was when the editor told him that the website had proposed to modify the original contract, which would include many clauses beneficial to him.

This was something completely unexpected for Hou Muyun.

In his view, the ideal situation would be for the website to give him as much autonomy as possible for the next book, and he never thought there would be any changes to this book. After all, the contract was there, and now the website was conceding some of its vested interests, which undoubtedly showed its sincerity to Hou Muyun!

As for the next book, the website did not mention a single word.

The editor's response was very comforting for Hou Muyun.

At the same time, what Hou Muyun did this time was also very comforting for the website.

Without explicitly stating it, just a glance, and both parties understood each other.

This is undoubtedly the most comfortable way to cooperate.

Of course, the main reason why the website is willing to give up a part of its vested interests is because of Hou Muyun's abilities!

'The Sword Master' will undoubtedly become an IP, and it is highly likely to be a big IP. There should be no worries about copyright. However, from the website's perspective, Hou Muyun himself is an even bigger IP, and it's the kind of IP that can be managed independently!

Hou Muyun is different from any other author!"

"What's sesame, what's watermelon, it's obvious.

Still, the same old saying, nobody's a fool!

Agreed to go to Shanghai the next day to personally modify the contract and sign supplementary terms.

At four thirty, arranged to meet Fei Ning for a workout, and at the same time, packaged the carved works with a professional spray gun and edible vegetarian treatment, brought them to the store, and handed them over to Xiaopang and Fei Ning, who had already been brought into Hou Muyun's management group. These works and the previous lottery prizes were all handled by them to be sent out, and they already had the list of addresses.

Spent two hours singing in the evening, and also started preparing the outline for the side story.

The next day, Hou Muyun woke up early, much earlier than yesterday, and the first thing he did was to look at the system interface, where the update progress bar was already over ninety percent.

Waiting left and right, the more waiting, the slower time felt, so he had to go downstairs for a run. When he went out to buy breakfast after the run, he met the middle school student from yesterday.

The student was very polite: "Brother Monkey, can I call you Brother Monkey?"

Hou Muyun patted his mushroom head: "Of course you can."

The student was very excited: "My classmates all really like you. They were all envious when they saw my signed drawing yesterday. I didn't tell them you live in this neighborhood because I was afraid they would bother you. But they really like you a lot and all want your autograph. Could you sign a few for me to take to them? I know your time is precious, you don't need to draw, just sign."

Hou Muyun readily agreed: "Of course."

Taking the paper and pen handed over by the student, he quickly signed a dozen or so, and even drew a cartoon character from 'The Sword Master' for each one.

"Thank you, Brother Monkey."

"You're welcome."

This time, Hou Muyun returned the pen to him, took his breakfast, and went back, feeling very good, feeling like it was the best start to a day.

Of course, the premise is that Hou Muyun didn't hear what the student said as he watched him leave.

"Originally, a signature should only be worth 20, but now with the addition of the cartoon, selling one for a hundred should be no problem. And they even took a photo together, they'll definitely believe it all."

...

Back home, staring at the progress bar at ninety-nine percent for a while, a series of crisp electronic sounds rang in his mind.

"Beep! System update complete!"

"Beep! System functionality restored!"

"Beep! System starts to receive point acquisition!"

"Beep! System adds card pack lottery!"

...

At the same time as these electronic sounds appeared, the interface began to restore, back to almost the same as before. He saw the avatar, saw the attributes below the avatar, saw the package, saw the unused cards in the package, and also saw the card compass, and saw the points below the compass reset to zero.

The only difference was a small compass appeared next to the card pack compass!

This small compass was the new change added after the update.

Hou Muyun looked at the small compass, and information about this small compass automatically appeared in his mind.

This small compass is also for lottery, but it's not for cards, it's for card packs!

This card pack compass is also divided into seven areas, with the same proportions as the card pack compass!

Each lottery draw costs 100,000 points, and the card pack drawn will contain several cards, all of which are related or the same cards!

Related or the same, this naturally helps to quickly master a certain skill or attribute, which is undoubtedly a huge surprise for Hou Muyun!

Of course, the original card compass can still be used, and the points consumed remain unchanged.

In summary, this system update provides Hou Muyun with a second way to draw lots, a way to quickly specialize and master skills!

"Although I lost a lot of points, this wave is really worth it!"


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