Chapter 295: The Legend of the Great Desolation is released

Soon, the call was connected.

Feng Xiaogang’s voice came from the phone, “Hey! Brother, please call me back. I called you several times this afternoon, but you didn’t answer. What are you busy with?”

Cao Sheng smiled, “Let’s go to class!”

Feng Xiaogang laughed twice, “Oh, yes! I almost forgot that you are still a student. You have achieved such great success when you are a student. I can’t imagine how high you will fly when you finish your studies! Haha.”

Cao Sheng was amused.

Having known Feng Xiaogang for such a long time, he has already understood Feng Xiaogang’s speaking style. He is very polite and always habitually praises people.

If a person with an unstable mind is often praised like this, it is easy for him to lose himself.

“Thank you for the compliment. By the way, what is the matter that brought you to me today?”

Cao Sheng asked about the main business.

Feng Xiaogang: “Oh, that’s what happened. I have good news for you. I showed the script to Gong Li today. She is interested in playing the leading female role. As long as I invite Liu Dehua, Gong Li will be able to play the role. How about that? Isn’t this good news? Hehe.”

Cao Sheng was a little surprised.

Invite Gong Li to play the leading female role?

He remembered that the heroine in the original version of “A World Without Thieves” was played by Rene Liu.

Liu Ruoying started out as a singer and her fame mainly came from singing, while acting was considered a crossover.

However, this phenomenon is very common in the Chinese film industry.

Singers, models, and even athletes like to cross over to act in movies.

These people are quite famous, and their fame can be utilized when promoting the movie.

Cao Sheng didn’t expect that Feng Xiaogang would be able to invite Gong Li to perform this time.

At the moment, Gong Li can be regarded as the number one female star in the mainland film industry, right?
“Not bad! Congratulations, Director Feng!”

Before Cao Sheng finished speaking, Feng Xiaogang answered, “Hey! I’ve told you so many times, call me Brother Feng! Why call me Director Feng? You’re being too polite! Don’t you agree?”

Cao Sheng smiled.

Feng Xiaogang changed the subject, “By the way, brother! How much is the script fee? The company asked me to ask you, how much do you want for the script this time? Just tell me the number!”

Cao Sheng lowered his head and took out the bicycle key. While unlocking the bicycle, he casually said, “Just like last time, you guys decide which one to give it to me!”

The last time he said this, he felt that the mainland film industry was not developing very well at the moment, and script fees were generally very low, with a script fee of two or three hundred thousand being considered high.

He was too lazy to bargain for such a small amount of script money and just told the other party to decide the price.

The reason he said this this time was because through their last collaboration, he had already seen through Feng Xiaogang’s character.

——It’s important to have face!
I don’t know what Feng Xiaogang went through during his growth, but Cao Sheng felt that Feng Xiaogang was very concerned about his reputation after their last collaboration. He clearly said that he would just give him some script fee, but Feng Xiaogang insisted on helping him get one million.

So, Cao Sheng said the same thing this time – just give it to me as you see fit!

Sure enough, when he said that, Feng Xiaogang said quickly, “Oh, no! You let me decide how much to give. I really don’t know how much is appropriate. We are brothers, so we should settle accounts clearly, right? Just tell me a number! Just tell me a number, and I will help you negotiate with the company, okay?”

Cao Sheng burst out laughing.

I put the bicycle key back into my trouser pocket and thought about it. It occurred to me that the box office of “A World Without Thieves” in the original time and space seemed to be very high, probably over 100 million.

These days, it’s rare for mainland movies to have box office revenues exceeding 100 million yuan.

This time, Feng Xiaogang also invited Gong Li to play the leading female role, which will definitely have a bonus effect on the box office.

So, he made a condition, “Then, you give me one million for the script first, and when the movie is released, if the box office does not exceed 50 million, forget it. If it exceeds 50 million, you will give me another 500,000. If the box office exceeds 100 million, you will give me another 500,000. In short, after the total box office exceeds 50 million, you will give me an extra 500,000 for every additional 50 million. Is that okay?”

Beijing.

Feng Xiaogang was surprised when he heard Cao Sheng’s condition.

He never dreamed that Cao Sheng would put forward such conditions this time.

With a box office of over 50 million, they charge an extra 500,000 in script fees?
Box office of over 100 million?

In the past few years, how many Chinese-language films have achieved box office revenues of over 100 million yuan in the mainland? In many years, the total box office revenue of the annual champions did not even reach 50 million yuan!
And Cao Sheng actually mentioned this time that if the box office exceeds 100 million…

Can my Feng Xiaogang’s movie box office exceed 100 million?
He thinks so highly of me?

Is he my mentor?

What a pity… He is a novel and script writer, not a film company owner.

Feng Xiaogang came back to his senses and straightened his back unconsciously, “Okay! This condition is not excessive. I will help you negotiate with the company. I will definitely help you negotiate this condition. Don’t worry!”

Cao Sheng: “Haha, OK, thank you very much.”

Feng Xiaogang: “Hey! What’s the big deal? Why are you being so polite to me?”

……

call ended.

Cao Sheng put away his phone and rode his bike back to his residence.

When the bicycle arrived at the street where his villa was located, Cao Sheng felt a little helpless because the road had recently been widened and renovated.

He thought the original road was pretty good.

Unexpectedly, it suddenly began to be widened and renovated.

It has been a bit inconvenient for him to go in and out recently.

He slowed down, pushed his bike onto the sidewalk, and walked forward step by step.

Middle of the road.

Huang Lin, who was supervising the work, caught a glimpse of Cao Sheng passing by and whispered to the young man beside him, “Hey! Did you see that guy? I heard that the funds for our road renovation were applied for in his name. He’s a celebrity!”

The young man heard this and looked at Cao Sheng’s back, “Celebrity? Who is it?”

Huang Lin smiled, “I heard his name is something like Yidianhui! I heard he’s a novelist.”

The young man was surprised, and looked at Huang Lin, and asked in astonishment: “A little gray in the Central Plains? You are not talking about a little gray in the Central Plains, are you?”

This time it was Huang Lin’s turn to be surprised. “Yes! That’s the name. Why? Have you heard of it?”

The young man laughed, “Hey! Of course I’ve heard of him. I’ve even read his novels! How many young people today don’t know him? He’s the most popular novelist in the country, bar none! Don’t you know him?”

Huang Lin, who was already middle-aged, looked at the young man in surprise. He was stunned for a moment, then turned to look at Cao Sheng’s back.

“The most popular novelist in the country? I was wondering! How come the government specially allocated funds to build this road? It turns out this young man is so famous?”

Young man: “Of course not! People have long said he is Little Huang Yi, what do you think?”

Huang Lin was a little confused, “Huang Yi? Who is Huang Yi?”

……

The time comes on June 12th.

The last three episodes of the Traditional Chinese version of “The Secret Tower of Heaven and Earth” were released to the market at the same time.

Also released are the first and second volumes of Cao Sheng’s new book “Honghuang Romance”.

This morning.

Bay Bay.

As soon as these two books appeared on the shelves of bookstores of all sizes, they were quickly snapped up by young people, and more and more young people came to buy them after hearing the news.

At noon, bookstores of all sizes were crowded with young people rushing to buy books.

The shop was crowded with people. Passers-by outside the shop looked at the lively bookstore and some curiously asked what bestsellers were released today. Some guessed that another work by Zhongyuan Yidianhui was released.

Xu Xiaojun was one of the people who was attracted into the store by the lively scene inside.

He actually doesn’t like reading.

When I was a student, I was a frequent truant student. I often skipped classes and liked to hang out outside.

Now that he is 22 years old, he has gained some fame and has several younger brothers under him.

He originally thought that he would never like reading in his life.

But when I passed by this bookstore today, I was inexplicably attracted by the lively scene inside the store.

Mainly because seeing so many people in the bookstore reminded him of his recent experiences.

Recently he fell in love with a very stunning girl. The first time he saw her, he felt that he had met true love.

By the way, these days not only ordinary people are brainwashed by movies and TV dramas, but people like him are also brainwashed.

Thanks to those tragic dramas in Taiwan, Xu Xiaojun also feels that love is worth longing for and that love is above everything else.

He chased her and confessed his love to her in the street.

But he was rejected by the other party. If it was another girl, he would not give up easily after being rejected. However, after being rejected by this girl, he did not dare to block her way.

He blocked her on the road several times to confess his love to her, and was rejected several times. He never dared to stop her from leaving.

He investigated her.

I learned that she was a top student in the school.

Excellent academic performance.

The disgust in her eyes when she rejected him was so obvious that it stung his heart.

It also made him feel that he was not worthy of her.

And today, seeing so many people in the bookstore, he suddenly wanted to go in and take a look. He thought that if a best-selling book was on the market, he would buy two copies, give one to her, and read the other one himself. After he finished reading it, maybe he could discuss the plot and characters in the book with her and they would have some common topics.

Walking into the bookstore and squeezing into the crowd, he noticed that every young person in the store was holding either “The Linglong Tower of Heaven and Earth” or “The Romance of Honghuang”.

Many of them held several copies in their hands.

Some held two books, and some held three.

Do you usually buy two or three books at a time now?
Xu Xiaojun was quite surprised.

When he came to the bookshelf where the two books were placed, he noticed that the two books were sold by volume. “The Mysterious Tower of Heaven and Earth” has three volumes.

“Hong Huang Yan Yi” has two episodes.

A book like this… Would she, a girl, like to read it?

As soon as the year flashed through his mind, he noticed several girls coming forward to take the two books.

He couldn’t help but ask a round-faced girl, “Um, do you like this kind of book?”

He noticed that the girl was holding the “Exquisite Tower of Heaven and Earth”.

The round-faced girl rolled her eyes at him. “What do you care? Who says I can’t like this kind of book? Do good works have to be divided by gender? Humph!”

After the round-faced girl finished speaking, she snorted coldly, turned around and left.

Xu Xiaojun felt a little embarrassed, but he felt that what she said made sense.

Good works… really should not be divided by gender.

So he glanced at the bookshelf again, took two sets of “Hong Huang Yan Yi” and went to the checkout counter to pay.

The reason why he chose this book was because he noticed that this book only had one or two episodes, while the “Exquisite Tower of Heaven and Earth” bought by the round-faced girl just now had an episode marked “Grand Finale”.

The book has already reached the finale, and he hasn’t read the previous content, so he definitely won’t understand it.

After buying two sets of books, he returned to the billiard hall where he had been reading.

Many young people in the billiard hall took the initiative to greet him. Xu Xiaojun nodded casually, walked into the office inside, sat casually in the boss chair, and habitually put his feet on the desk.

This is a very simple office.

Everything inside was dilapidated.

Xu Xiaojun opened the first volume of “Hong Huang Romance” and began to read it casually. He thought that if the book was really good, he would give her a set in the afternoon. If she refused, he would not let her leave and would ask her to read it. He would ask her questions in the book tomorrow, and she would not be allowed to leave if she could not answer them.

This way, he would be able to chat with her a few words every day.

This was the plan in his mind.

Of course, if this book is not good, then forget it. If not, I can go back to the bookstore and buy two romance novels.

only……

It wasn’t long before he was caught up in the plot of the book.

He found that the author of this book did not seem to have a high level of education, but he, Xu Xiaojun, could understand everything he wrote, using very colloquial language.

It was like a friend telling him a story.

Unlike the novels of Jin Yong and Gu Long, they don’t look so tiring.

But as the plot of the book progressed, he gradually discovered that the cultural background of the author of the book seemed to be much deeper than that of Xu Xiaojun.

He actually knew the names and appearances of those ancient strange beasts from the prehistoric times, and the descriptions were surprisingly lifelike.

And the article on Breathalyst that appears in the book…it has the flavor of ancient Chinese literature.

As time went by, he forgot the author of the book and that he was reading a book. His whole mind was immersed in the plot of the book.

The words in front of me seemed to disappear, and what I saw seemed to be scenes of stories happening in the primitive world.

When he came to his senses, he realized that he had unknowingly finished reading the entire first volume of the book.

“The Legend of the Great Desolation? A Little Grayness in the Central Plains? Are all novels so good nowadays?”

He was not used to reading novels, so he closed the book, looked at the title and author’s pen name on the cover, muttered to himself, and looked very surprised.

He suddenly felt that the people who compiled the textbooks had misled him. If those textbooks had been written in such an easy-to-understand way, he felt that he would definitely love to learn and would not have failed to understand them.

It would not have fallen to this point.

After being lost in thought for a while, he put down the first episode in his hand, reached for the second episode on the desk, and continued watching.

He seemed to have opened the door to a new world.

I never thought that the world of novels could be so wonderful.

During this period, several young people came into his office and tried to talk to him, but he waved his hands impatiently and drove them away.

This surprised the people who came to see him.

Someone noticed the title of the book in his hand and looked enlightened. This was someone who had read the novel.

Some people can’t understand why Xu Xiaojun suddenly likes reading. This is because he doesn’t like reading.

It’s around 4 p.m.

Xu Xiaojun finally finished reading the entire content of the second episode and closed the book in his hand, but did not move for a long time. He stared blankly at the gray ceiling, with the primitive world in the book still lingering in his mind, as well as the plot in which the protagonist, as a crow spirit, flew to the Taoist palace of Hongjun Daozu, and listened to Hongjun’s preaching and treasure division with the Three Pure Ones and others.

The plot in the book made him yearn for it endlessly.

I wish I could travel back to that ancient world.

(End of this chapter)