In the morning.
Zhang Ye had just woken up when he drove to Old Wu's parents' house to report the good news.
A bookstore had just opened on the road outside the alley where she lived. He saw the 30-odd young people lining up there rush in like they were robbing someone!
"Fortress Besieged!"
"I want a copy!"
"Do you still have it?"
"What? Why aren't there any more? "
"I've been here since yesterday!"
"Boss, you guys should stock up more!"
"This is so tiring. Why is it so difficult to read a book!"
"My dad has already given me a military order to buy a copy. Hai, where else can I find it? Forget it, I'll go to another bookstore and ask."
"It should be ready by tomorrow or the day after. Fortress Besieged has just won an award, so a lot of people will definitely want to buy it for their collection. There won't be any left in a few days."
"I hope so."
"Then I'll wait another two days."
Some bookstores were out of stock.
Some bookstores were sold out the moment they opened for business.
On this morning, this scene kept repeating itself all over the country.
Zhang Ye walked into the alley contentedly. Listening to everyone's praises and discussions of Fortress Besieged, he was happy for himself … and happy for Comrade Qian Zhongshu!
At the courtyard house.
Zhang Ye pushed open the door and walked in. "Auntie, Uncle."
Li Qinqin was in the yard fetching water. When she heard his voice, she smiled brightly. "Little Ye, you're here? Come on in. We're all waiting for you to have breakfast. It's already ready. "
Zhang Ye went over to work. "Auntie, let me do it."
Li Qinqin said, "Give it to me. You're already a great author."
"What great author?" Zhang Ye smiled and said, "No matter what award I win, I'll still be your son."
Li Qinqin smiled. "I like what you said."
Wu Zeqing also walked out of the house and said with a smile, "You're here?"
Zhang Ye waved at her. "Hey, Old Wu."
Wu Zeqing said, "Come on in. My dad is trying his luck with you."
In Beijing dialect, the verb "luck" did not mean luck, but anger.
Zhang Ye was taken aback. "What about my uncle?"
In the house, Wu Changhe had a copy of Fortress Besieged in his hand. He mumbled, "What do you think? My daughter hasn't even married you yet, and you've already given up on marriage? " He put on his presbyopic glasses and picked up the book angrily. Many of the pages were bookmarked, and the content was highlighted with red and blue lines. It was obvious that he had done his homework. "Look at this paragraph, and look at this paragraph again. Why are you so full of tricks? Insincere! You're too insincere! "
Zhang Ye nearly fainted, "Uncle, that's a novel. It's fake."
Li Qinqin chuckled and said, "Little Ye, just ignore your uncle. He's just looking for trouble. He's been reading this book all night."
Wu Changhe grunted, "It's a good book, but the person who wrote it is too dishonest!"
Zhang Ye didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
Old Qian.
Someone scolded you.
Wu Zeqing said calmly, "He wrote satirical literature. As someone from the Go world, don't meddle in the affairs of the literary world. You wouldn't understand it anyway."
Zhang Ye also explained, "Uncle, don't worry. I'm full of hope for marriage. I'm really not a schemer. I've even written a tomb raiding novel before. Which emperor's tomb did you see me digging up? Those are all novels, so no matter how realistic they are, they're still made up. "
With this explanation, he managed to get through it.
Everyone sat down to eat. After the meal, Zhang Ye hurriedly helped out by washing the dishes, sweeping the floor, and wiping the tables in order to put on a good show. Finally, he even helped his future father-in-law use his account to play a few games of fake Go online and beat up several 9-dan experts from China Qiyuan. Only then did his future father-in-law become more amiable!
Hai, this bro has it so easy!
Over the next few days.
Zhang Ye treated his friends to meals every day, accumulating to seven meals. His friends and colleagues said that it was to celebrate for him, but in reality, they were just looking for an opportunity to get together to drink and chat.
The sales of Fortress Besieged continued to boom.
Every time Eastern Publishing Firm printed a batch of the book, it would be sold out. Moreover, several of the printing houses were working overtime every day and night to continue shipping out more copies!
The staff of Eastern Publishing Firm were celebrating the new year every day. Everyone felt like they were on cloud nine, as though they could fly into the sky if they opened the windows.
"Boss, it's still not enough!"
"We have to increase the print run again!"
"It's too popular! The sales aren't showing any signs of decreasing! "
"It's because it's not saturated yet! Print! Print however much you want! "
"Teacher Zhang Ye is too awesome!"
"Oh yes, let's increase the print run of Ghost Blows Out the Light and Legend of Wukong. With Teacher Zhang's reputation of ascending to the top, we'll definitely be able to get another wave of sales!"
"Alright, I'll contact them right away!"
200,000 copies!
300,000 copies!
400,000 copies!
The increase in sales was almost explosive. Many of the booksellers, publishers, and people from the literary world were dumbfounded when they saw this. Was this book aiming to break the sales record of Ghost Blows Out the Light? But Ghost Blows Out the Light was a commercial novel and was aimed at the market. But what about Fortress Besieged? Yes, Zhang Ye was very popular and Fortress Besieged had won the highest literary award, but ultimately, it was still a pure literary novel!
Selling well on the first day? That was normal!
Selling well on the second day? Understandable!
But on the third and fourth days, the market was still as crazy as ever?
With such a large supply of books, it still couldn't satisfy the crazed buying crowd? And it was still so difficult to get a single book? This was too scary! Commercial novels could not compete with pure literary novels in terms of artistic value. Similarly, pure literary novels could not compete with commercial novels in terms of sales. But Fortress Besieged seemed to be an exception. Be it its literary value, reputation, awards, or sales, they were all top notch. It had broken many of the traditional rules of the industry. The analysis and experience of the professionals were all useless when it came to Zhang Ye!
Quite a few people from the literary world were envious!
Why?
Based on what?
He could win an award and sell well at the same time?
Why did everything belong to him?!
When the other four Qilu Literature Prize winners heard of the news, they also got excited!
Pure literary novels were going to become popular?
The spring of pure literary novels was about to arrive?
On the same day, the publishing houses that they had previously worked with began their large-scale promotions and printing of their books. This was also the usual practice. They would use the popularity of the highest literary award to sell another wave of books. The publishing houses had to make a living, and so did the authors. No one would complain about having too much money. Seeing the craze that Fortress Besieged had created, they also wanted to make a killing!
However, when the four masters' books were republished, many people were shocked to discover that their books were selling in a completely different way from Fortress Besieged!
Some books had a print run of 50,000 copies and only managed to sell a third of them in two days!
Some books had a print run of 20,000 copies and were still not sold out even after three days!
Everyone didn't know whether to laugh or cry. So the market was still the same. So it wasn't the spring of pure literary novels at all. It was just that Fortress Besieged had become popular. It was just that Zhang Ye had become popular!
Zhang Ye had indeed become popular again!
Not only in terms of popularity, it was also reflected in the statistics!
On the latest update of the Chinese Celebrity Rankings Index, on the day that Zhang Ye received the Qilu Literature Prize, his overall popularity score had increased for a while online. It wasn't just a one-sided increase in his popularity score, but the overall increase in his popularity score. This was the superposition of the highest award, and it was accumulated by a percentage. Moreover, the Qilu Literature Prize was different from the other awards. An author could only win the highest award in the literary world once in their lifetime, so the value of it was even higher. The superposition of the popularity score was also greater, and it might even be higher than the sum of the highest variety and documentary awards that Zhang Ye had won. This was also the reason why many of the celebrities on the rankings were chasing after the most prestigious awards. Once the superposition was accumulated, it would add up to a huge amount of data. Qualifications, awards, fan base, number of works, and popularity were all sources of a celebrity's popularity score. The Chinese Celebrity Rankings Index was also a comprehensive ranking. If a celebrity wanted to get into the top seven spots in the entertainment circle, it would depend on their overall popularity score!
As a result, with the superposition of the award and the steady rise in the sales of Fortress Besieged, Zhang Ye's popularity score also shot up by quite a bit!
He was getting closer to those top seven spots again!
The first and second steps of the "Reach the Summit" plan had both been achieved!
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