Chapter 58 Reunion

  "It turned out to be Mr. Kong, and Zhou Yifan had met Mr. Kong before."

  "Oh, so you're Zhou Yifan."

  Kong Fang sized up Zhou Yifan, his heart constantly shocked.

  He originally thought that the author who could write "The Book of Sword Enmity" must be a middle-aged man who had read countless books. Adding to that couplet, Kong Fang felt that Zhou Yifan's age was probably not small either. Unexpectedly, it turned out to be a young man who looked like he was just around 20 years old. However, although Kong Fang was shocked, he didn't show any expression.

  "The young man is indeed, unexpectedly fortunate enough to meet Mr. Kong."

  "It's all just empty fame."

  On Monday, Yifan was very polite and Kong Fang liked him. However, this is not a convenient place to chat, so he said, "If you have time in the future, come to Shuimu with me to exchange ideas. I really admire the chivalrous spirit you wrote about in your book."

  Having said that, Kong Fang smiled and left with a chuckle.

  When Kong Fang left, even more fans admired Zhou Yi Fan. What kind of person is Kong Fang? The exchange just now was completely on an equal footing. Unexpectedly, their idol actually had such charm and won the favor of Master Kong Fang, a great academic master. From then on, when looking at Zhou Yi Fan again, it seemed like there was something more in his heart.

  ……

  "Chairman Chiang."

  Staff at Hai Da Book City occasionally greet Chairman Jiang Qili.

  Today is an unknown day, and the chairman actually came to the book city in person.

  "Hey, Little Liu, why is it so lively here today?"

  As he walked in, Jiang Qili, chairman of Haidian Book City, asked his secretary.

  "It's like this, today there are two writers holding a book signing event here, and these people are probably their fans."

  "Oh."

  Jiang Qili nodded, not speaking, but kept sizing up the book city. After a while, he said, "Even if there are authors holding signing events, it's impossible to have so many people, right?" He looked up and saw that the entire Haidian Book City was packed with people.

  "I'm not quite sure about this either."

  Secretary Xiao Liu shook his head and said, "I'll go ask Manager Zhang on Zhongshan Road."

  Hai Da Book City is not the only one, there are more than 200 in all of China. And in Beijing, there are even two, this one being a branch on Zhongshan Road.

  "Alright, I'll send over what I've found out to your office in a bit."

  Jiang Qili said as he continued to observe the situation in Book City.

  Half an hour later, Jiang Qili returned to the office.

  "Director Chiang, it's been found out."

  Xiao Liu took a document and came to Jiang Qili's office.

  "Wait a minute, put down this material first, and then go check on that guy named Zhou Yifan, as well as his works."

  Just turned around, Zhou Yifan this author, left a deep impression on Jiang Qili. In his memory, it seems that not many people's book signings can be so grand. Especially when the entire fan base of three or four thousand people arrived, Jiang Qili was also somewhat surprised. This energy is truly terrifying. Is it possible that the book "Jian En Chou Lu" is really that good?

  "This is it, Director Jiang, the information we investigated is about Zhou Yifan."

  "Oh."

  It seems that today's scene was caused by Fan on this Monday.

  "Go on."

  "Sanlian Publishing House recently signed a new author, and the representative work is this book "Sword and Enmity Record". At that time, this work was too innovative, and Tianya Network was hesitant to sign it. However, despite this, "Sword and Enmity Record" still showed extremely strong popularity. Especially among their die-hard fans, who even before the signing, had given a reward of 100,000 yuan. According to revelations, currently "Sword and Enmity Record" has over 60,000 subscriptions on Tianya Network, which can be said to have made a name for itself with just one book."

  Xiao Liu slowly and calmly presented Zhou Yifan's materials. Moreover, he also took out the sales record from this afternoon, which showed that over 1,000 copies of "The Book and Sword: Gratitude and Revenge" were sold out by noon today. Furthermore, this is not unique to the Zhongshan Road branch; we have just confirmed it. In all branches nationwide, "The Book and Sword: Gratitude and Revenge" has also been selling strongly. So far, 20,000 sets have been sold.

  20,000 sets.

  No way, just one afternoon and 20,000 sets were sold out.

  Such data is truly terrifying.

  Is this still written by a new author?

  Jiang Qili is in the book business, and when it comes to book sales, he has a clearer view than anyone else. With 30,000 sets being the standard for entering the bestseller list, this book "Sword Enmity Record" entered the list in just one day. Yes, although they only sold 20,000 sets, not 30,000 sets. The reason is not that they didn't sell well, but because they were out of stock.

  They have also made deals with Sanlian Publishing House, but it's just a matter of 200,000 yuan.

  "Notify them, and then ask Sanlian Publishing House for 200,000 sets of 'The Book and Sword: Gratitude and Revenge'."

  "2 million sets?"

  Xiao Liu stared in shock, "Director Jiang, 200,000 units all at once, isn't that a bit..."

  200,000 sets of sales that only top authors can achieve, and it's a national record, not just Haicheng Bookstore. Zhou Yifan is just a new author, even if he's selling well now, it's just a good start. As time goes on, there will be no momentum left.

  "There's nothing much, just let it be known."

  Jiang Qili didn't explain. Actually, he just wanted to report 500,000 sets earlier. Yes, he was too excited earlier. Judging from the current situation, this book "Sword Enmity Record" will definitely become a dark horse in the publishing industry this year. Later, after thinking about it, he decided to be more stable and only ordered 200,000 sets.

  Of course, if "The Book and the Sword" sells well later on, he won't mind hyping it up a bit.

  In the afternoon of the same day, the signing ceremony for "The Record of Sword and Book" finally came to an end.

  The task of only three or four thousand people is far from over, so Zhou Fan had to decide that the remaining ones would be signed tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. If there was no time to rush back, they could sign and mail them afterwards.

  "Brother Li, does everyone's book get signed every time at other people's signing events?"

  Zhou Fan yawned and asked Li Zhi Cheng.

  "That's not the case, though. For a general signing event, signing a hundred or two is manageable, it's not a big task. I had no idea your fans would come in the thousands, three to four thousand people. If you didn't sign, wouldn't that be too rude?"

  "Sweat, it seems that in the future, this signing ceremony should not be done well."

  Zhou Fan was scared, today's signing event, started out pretty exciting. But afterwards, Zhou Fan almost fainted.

  "This is unacceptable, we will arrange a better detail later."

  Li Zhi Cheng hastily interrupted Zhou Fan's thoughts, an author who doesn't attend book signings will greatly affect his popularity. As a businessman, he absolutely didn't want Zhou Fan to do so. "By the way, I have some good news for you, Hai Da Book City just placed an order of 200,000 sets of 'Shu Jian En Chou Lu' with us."

  "So, our book can be said to have made a good start."

  "Haha, of course."

  Li Zhi Cheng burst out laughing, "Come on, let's go to the hotel and celebrate properly."

  ……

  "Brothers, if you didn't come to Yanjing today, it would be a huge loss."

  In the "Book and Sword" fan group, hundreds of netizens chatted with each other from time to time.

  "What? No way! What a huge loss! Is it that serious?"

  "Of course, take a look at this post and you'll know how thrilling that day was."

  Immediately afterwards, a book friend posted a post on the forum.

  This post was written by a friend who attended Zhou Yifan's book signing event on Monday. He detailed his experience from deciding to go, arriving in Yanjing, and meeting Zhou Yifan. The gathering of over 3,000 people directly led to the police chasing after them all the way to Haidian Book City, where hundreds of meters of queues formed. There was also a competition between Zhou Yifan and someone called "Minglai". As a result, Professor Kong Fangkong from Waterwood University appeared afterwards...

  It was a thrilling day's action, just like in the midst of it all, **non-stop, stimulating non-stop.

  Even behind the poster, they also took out a pair of couplets.

  Men of ambition achieve their goals; in the end, the 102 Qin passes will belong to Chu.

  A man of great effort will be rewarded by heaven, and three thousand elite troops can conquer Wu.

  Horizontal inscription: Red Group of Heroes Gathered

  That's right, this time the three or four thousand heroes who went there were just attending a grand meeting of heroes.

  After reading this post, countless fans went crazy instantly.

  "Heavens, why didn't I go, why didn't I go?"

  "What a pity! What a pity! If I had gone, wouldn't I have been one of the heroes in the Red Flower Society?"

  "Uh-huh, next time it's convened, I'll definitely go, and I'll definitely make a name for myself at the Hong Hua Qun Ying Conference."

  It can be said that the signing ceremony stimulated too many people on that day.

  But it's not all good phenomena.

  For example, on the evening of that day, there were media reports that the author of "The Book and Sword" had been sued.

  They think that Zhou Yifan, the author of "The Record of Book and Sword Enmity", in order to make a big scene, found three or four thousand people to drag to Haidian Book City to pretend to be book fans.

  Many fans saw such information and were immediately furious. On the spot, under Lu Feiqing's leadership, several tens of thousands of book and sword fans launched a campaign to condemn those despicable reporters for speaking nonsense with their eyes open. To prove their innocence, they even exposed the IDs of three or four thousand people on Tiankong.com, along with their names and photos, all completely genuine, not a single fake one.

  Even some book friends who went to the scene that day took out a recording of Ming Lei's comparison.

  This recording is exactly the one where Ming Lei lost his temper and made a big scene.

  As a result, these reporters came quickly to apologize. He was afraid that the scene would be made bigger and the face of "Ming Lei" would be lost completely.

  ……

  Three days later, Zhou Fan ended his book signing event at Haidabook City.

  "Thanks for your hard work this time, Brother Zhou."

  Li Zhicheng held Zhou Fan's hand and kept thanking him.

  "It's nothing, but Brother Li, you should speed up the printing a bit."

  Li Zhi Cheng felt a bit embarrassed, having only printed 500,000 copies initially, thinking it was enough. But unexpectedly, an order from Hai Da Book City for 2 million copies instantly made Li Zhi Cheng's Sanlian Publishing House extremely busy. Upon seeing Zhou Fan's reminder, he hastily said, "Yes, yes, yes, Brother Zhou is right, I have already joined forces with several major publishing houses and we are working day and night to ensure that there won't be any more problems."

  "That's good."

  Zhou Fan smiled and didn't continue saying anything, walking out of Haidian Book City with Li Zhi Cheng.

  "Huh, Miss Ning."

  Originally Zhou Fan was preparing to go to the airport, but unexpectedly saw an acquaintance.

  "Right, Brother Li, I have something to attend to for now and don't want to go to the airport. You guys don't need to see me off either, let me take care of some things first."

  "Ah, Brother Zhou, what's going on? We'll take care of it for you. You're not familiar with Yanjing either."

  "This is a private matter, there are some inconveniences."

  "Alright, then you go ahead and take care of it, and after you're done, give me a call, we'll come pick you up."

  "Line."

  Zhou Fan responded with a sound and quickly left.

  "Miss, haven't we met somewhere before?"

  Looking at Ning Xiaojie who had just walked out of Hai Da Book City, Zhou Fan stepped forward and said.

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