In July 2007, Xiaomeng took the third RTVU exam and passed it successfully.
Xiang Nan also officially announced the creation plan of "Ghost Blowing Lantern II".
"Ghost Blowing Lantern I" was launched in the fall of 2005 and completed in the fall of 2006. This series has received a huge amount of attention.
The cumulative sales of genuine books have reached more than 8 million copies. The click-through rate of Tao Ban online exceeds 10 billion, and the sales of Tao Ban books have reached nearly 100 million copies.
The Baidu Tieba alone has hundreds of thousands of members and tens of millions of posts. They are interested in exploring the slang, terminology, treasures, monsters, anecdotes, etc., and are even more familiar with it than Xiang Nan.
It can be said that "Ghost Blowing the Lamp I" was the most popular and popular book in 2006.
With this series of books, Xiang Nan has grown from an unknown person to a famous best-selling author.
Therefore, his "Ghost Blowing Lamp II" is naturally particularly eye-catching.
Fans of the book all want to know what kind of thrilling adventures Hu Bayi, Wang Kaixuan, and Shirley Yang Tiedan will go on.
The bookseller is more concerned about who Xiang Nan will give the copyright of the book to.
You know, Hujiang Publishing House only obtained the publishing rights for "Ghost Blowing the Lamp I". Xiang Nan only promised them that he would write four parts. Now all four films have been handed over to them, and the contract has been completed.
Therefore, "Ghost Blowing the Lamp II" is now a piece of dry food without an owner, and naturally it has attracted a lot of looting.
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After some comparisons, Xiang Nan finally chose to cooperate with Writers Publishing House.
First, it is an old publishing house with strong strength and wide distribution channels. "Ghost Blowing Lantern II" can have good sales if left to it.
Secondly, the royalty rate it provides is also relatively high. When Xiang Nan was still a newcomer, the royalty share was only 10%. And he is now a best-selling author and holds a hot IP such as "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", so this time the royalty share has been increased to 20%.
For a writer who has just debuted for two years, it can be said that it is very good to get this share ratio.
In fact, Xiang Nan has already completed the creation of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp II".
This book is only one million words long, so it is not considered a huge work. Xiang Nan has been writing intermittently since the completion of "Coiling Dragon" last year.
The reason why I didn't release it right away was mainly because I wanted to wait for "Oni Blowing Light I" to gain popularity before releasing it. Only in this way can you obtain the highest returns.
As soon as he signed a contract with the Writers Publishing House, Xiang Nan immediately took out "Ghost Blowing the Lamp II: Huangpizi Tomb" and handed it over to them for distribution, and thus received an advance payment of RMB 500,000.
Including the income he previously earned from "Ghost Blowing the Lamp I" and "Coiling Dragon", Xiang Nan has earned nearly 20 million yuan in income, which can be said to be very rich.
And he invested all this money in the real estate market. Yanjing City only started to restrict home purchases in 2016. Before that, as long as you had money, you could buy a house in Yanjing.
Therefore, Xiang Nan invested 90% of his funds in the Yanjing property market.
Now he holds more than 20 properties. Among them, there are not only small apartments of 60 to 70 square meters, but also townhouses, single-family villas, loft bungalows, and even a small courtyard house.
It can be said that he is a small landowner.
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In August, "Ghost Blowing the Lamp II Huangpizi Tomb" was officially launched, once again attracting rushes from book fans.
The sales volume in the first week reached 300,000 copies, which is quite shocking.
As for this book, book friends also gave very good reviews, thinking that Xiang Nan's imagination is still amazing. Moreover, "Yellow Pied Tomb" mixes various folk tales, which is quite local and mysterious, and can be called the Chinese version of "Harry Potter".
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Xiang Nan plans to move to Yanjing after Xiaomeng gets his diploma from TV University.
First, they now live in Kaiyuan City, which is still too close to Ivory Mountain. Xie Guangkun still comes to disturb me occasionally. I urge them to have children quickly and tell them not to waste money. In short, it is still very annoying. If you move to Yanjing, you will be far away from Yuanshi, and your ears will be quieter.
Secondly, Yanjing is much more prosperous than Kaiyuan City after all. The supply of materials is more abundant and various resources are more abundant. At the feet of the Emperor, the most virtuous area, living there is naturally better than Kaiyuan City.
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Compared with Xiang Nan's success, the operation of Ivory Mountain Hot Spring Resort is a bit troublesome.
At the beginning, because it was well publicized and the hot springs were used as a gimmick, many people who loved traveling in the Liaoshen area took advantage of the cold weather to come to the hot springs to enjoy the snow scenery and taste the hot springs. Tasting the local flavor of the countryside, they find it quite attractive.
But after arriving, I realized that the price of the resort was a bit high. A standard room for two people costs 300 yuan. A room with the same specifications in Kaiyuan City only costs 150 yuan, which is twice as expensive.
Chicken stewed with mushrooms, a home-cooked dish that usually only costs 20 or 30 yuan in restaurants, but here it costs 80 yuan. Bangzimian pancakes cost no more than 30 cents, but they sell for 5 yuan here. Not to mention that if you want to soak in a hot spring, you have to spend extra money.
This makes tourists very dissatisfied and think that they have been cheated. As a result, it spread to hundreds of people, and in just over half a year, the brand of Ivory Mountain Hot Spring Resort became stinky.
There are fewer and fewer tourists coming day by day, making the villa gradually unable to make ends meet, which makes general manager Wang Musheng very embarrassed.
You know, when he took over this business, he made a guarantee with his father that he would run the villa well. For this reason, he set the price high in order to make the accounts beautiful and show his talents.
But now the number of tourists is decreasing and the losses are increasing, which is a bit troublesome. Once his father finds out that his resort has not been open for a year, it will become a pornographic affair, and he will have to be punished.
Maybe when the time comes, his father will get him a little brother to compete with him for power. He heard from Xiangxiu that Xie Dajiaoer was preparing to become pregnant.
Although it is risky for a woman to have a baby at the age of 40, it is not impossible. His father is also very strong and can really give him a younger brother. At that time, he will be in trouble.
Therefore, in order to cover up his incompetence, he could only falsify accounts and falsely report profits to maintain the prosperity of the facade. But in fact, even the people in Ivory Mountain feel that the villa has become lonely.
When there were so many tourists before, Liu Neng Supermarket was also crowded, with a maximum daily turnover of more than 8,000. Now, only the villagers come to consume, and the daily turnover is only one or two hundred, which is far from enough.
In the past, Wang Laoqi made ten plates of tofu a day and supplied them to the villa, but now he can't even make one plate a day. It shows how lonely you are.
However, although the villagers felt something was wrong, they had no idea how to bring the villa back to life. I just sigh with emotion when chatting occasionally.
