Urge him to update? That didn't exist for Yang Yi.
He still updated according to his own pace. Dividing the day into two parts to update two chapters was the limit of his ability.
It wasn't that it was difficult to rewrite the plot of a TV series into words. If it was just words, Yang Yi could update a few chapters a day without a problem. But this novel needed a lot of illustrations to help the audience understand the plot and the characters!
Drawing the illustrations took a lot of time! Updating two chapters a day was enough for him!
Moreover, Yang Yi didn't like to spend a lot of time on drawing and writing novels. He still had his life, Xi Xi, and music … Well, there was still the coffee shop that he was worried about.
"Boss, another cup of mocha!" Another customer called out.
"Okay, wait a moment!" Yang Yi's thoughts were interrupted. He quickly brewed a cup of coffee and brought it over.
After school started, the originally obscure coffee shop became lively. Even if there weren't many students coming in through the back door, it couldn't handle the huge student base of the university. Dozens of people came in a day, which was enough for Yang Yi to deal with!
Moreover, some customers didn't leave after finishing their coffee. Some of them came with friends and talked for a few hours. There were also some who used the coffee shop as a study room. After buying a cup of coffee, they hid in a quiet corner to read and study. They sat there for the whole morning or afternoon.
Did they think the music in the coffee shop was noisy? No, they were listening to music with their headphones!
Yang Yi didn't care about these people occupying the space. He didn't care whether the coffee shop made money or not. Why would he care about these problems?
He felt that with more customers, he would have less time. When he was busy, he wouldn't have time to daydream.
Yang Yi missed the situation when there were only two or three customers a day. It was so good. He didn't have to make coffee or wash cups. Most of the time, he would sit alone in the shop and listen to music with his eyes closed.
Now, if Xi Xi didn't go to kindergarten, he wouldn't have time to accompany her, right?
Yang Yi brought the coffee over and sat down at the bar. He frowned slightly and thought, "This won't do. I have to think of a way!"
How about hanging a sign at the door, saying that only two or three guests would be accepted a day? If there were any more, they would stop selling coffee.
However, he didn't seem to be such a big shot. What reason did he have to reject her? Yang Yi felt that this idea was inappropriate.
Should I raise the price? Selling the most expensive coffee to scare people away?
But Yang Yi didn't want to be a profiteer who only served the rich!
What's more, Yang Yi didn't want to shut out music lovers like Lu Xiaoshu and Miao Chuan who couldn't afford expensive coffee. He had even considered lowering the price!
These ideas obviously wouldn't work.
Yang Yi suddenly thought of Yan Xiaopei. To be exact, he thought of her flower shop. This woman was very shrewd. She hired university students to work part-time in her flower shop, and the salary was much lower than that of full-time employees.
Of course, Yang Yi didn't want to exploit college students, nor did he want to hire cheap labor. However, it seemed that hiring one or two employees to work in his shop was a good idea!
I can give a higher salary. As long as the employee is reliable and capable, money doesn't matter! Yang Yi thought to himself.
He began to imagine a scene where someone would work for him at the bar, and then he, the boss, would sit leisurely in a booth, reading the newspaper and listening to music. If he wanted to drink coffee, he would go to the bar to get a cup.
How cool would that be?
…
Just when "Prison Break" was on the shelves, Yang Yi's other book was also quietly on the shelves of major bookstores.
"Xi Xi's Bedtime Stories" was a ridiculous name given by the cheating doll's father. Obviously, to the readers, it wasn't attractive at all.
Of course, it wasn't that Sahara Publishing House didn't advertise before, but Sahara Publishing House had never touched on children's books before. In terms of copywriting, they were still playing with the adults. Many of Yang Yi's fans more or less knew about this news, but they weren't willing to buy children's books.
Even when the news that Yang Yi had written a fairy tale collection spread among the fan community, many fans thought that it was a rumor and a scam!
"What a joke! Yang Yi can write fairy tales? This is just a fairy tale, isn't it? "Someone mocked triumphantly, and many people agreed.
That was not wrong. Yang Yi's impression to the fans was similar to his own. He was a burly retired soldier who was good at literature and martial arts. He might be cold and taciturn, but he was definitely not a man who liked to tell stories in a childish tone.
Although the subject matter of Yang Yi's two recent books had gradually begun to blacken his image, it was still far from a fairy tale.
As a result, "Xi Xi's Bedtime Stories" was met with a cold reception on the first day it was released. Fortunately, it had rich color illustrations that piqued the interest of some children who accidentally got their hands on it, and it barely sold a few copies.
After a day, Sahara Publishing House calculated that there were only a few thousand copies sold nationwide. Compared to the record-setting "Drawing Sword" and "Soldiers Assault", this book was a flop!
Fu Jun attached great importance to Yang Yi's fairy tale collection project. Long before it was released, as a father, he took a sample book back home for his son to read.
His son liked it very much!
Then, his wife accompanied his son to read it, and she liked it very much too …
Later, Fu Jun read it himself and found it quite interesting. Therefore, he had inexplicable confidence in Yang Yi's book, and thought that this fairy tale collection might be able to create miracles — after all, the reader group transcended age and gender!
However, reality slapped him hard in the face.
"You haven't informed Yang Yi yet, have you?" Fu Jun asked Mr. Lu during the meeting.
"Not yet. Boss, do you want me to call Yang Yi now?" Mr. Lu misunderstood.
"No, no, don't tell him!" Fu Jun waved his hand and said, "I went to Qi Yue's website and read it. His new book," Prison Break, "is really well written. Although there are only two chapters, it made my heart itch. I want to know why Michael went to rob a bank and didn't run away quickly after stealing the money. Instead, he was caught by the police!"
"I think there's a deeper meaning to it." Mr. Lu also read it. He had long become Yang Yi's loyal fan.
Fu Jun didn't want to talk about "Prison Break" with them. He knocked on the table and said, "'Prison Break' did very well. It surpassed 'Remaining Sins' on the day it was published! This is because Qi Yue did a good job in promoting it! "
"We have to reflect on ourselves. Did we do something wrong? Yang Yi's fairy tale collection is so interesting. What did you sell it for? The worst result in the history of the publishing house? "Fu Jun said in exasperation.
Several department managers moved their mouths, but didn't dare to say it out loud. In fact, there were worse results in the history of the publishing house … Boss, you wrote your own autobiography, but you didn't sell many copies at all.
"Go back and think about it carefully. What did you do wrong? Go and take a look at how other children's books are doing their promotions and sales! I'll give you a week. I want to see the sales volume, the sales volume! "Fu Jun shouted, waving his fist.
"And the online bookstore. Increase the publicity for this book. I think more people will buy it if it's sold online …"
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