Chapter 42 Before Going On Sale

  Out of the library, Lu Li went to the dormitory. However, on the way, Lu Li received a text message, and when he opened it, he found that last month's manuscript fee had been paid.

  At the end of "Fantasy City", Silentium directly rewarded 10 million yy coins to take down a thousand-yuan alliance, which is equivalent to 100,000 yuan. After deducting the share with the website, 50,000 yuan was left, plus some other large rewards such as "Mosquito" and "**Milk", as well as some small rewards from book friends, the after-tax manuscript fee for last month directly reached 200,000 yuan, which is more than twice that of the first month.

  Looking at the string of zeros behind 2, Lu Li couldn't help but sigh that making money from online articles is indeed fast. No wonder many people enter the online article circle every year. Moreover, he was just a new author who couldn't even be considered a small-time god, and the monthly manuscript fees of those big-time gods were astonishing.

  Lu Li sighed after turning off the text message: At current housing prices, it seems that his goal of buying a better house in Huaqing before the new year has become even more distant. With the addition of this time's payment to the previous one, Lu Li had around 2.2 million left after deducting some expenses. And once "The Eagle Shooting Heroes" goes on sale, he believed that his royalties would increase several times over.

  The next morning, Lu Li received a call from Langdi saying that the contract had been finalized and asked Lu Li to take a look. If there were no issues, he could sign it. Lu Li naturally didn't have any objections, but looking at the large blocks of text on the contract made his scalp feel a bit numb.

  To be honest, it's really a headache for non-lawyers to see these contracts. In the end, Lu Li couldn't help but ask Langdi to briefly explain what they were about, and after confirming that there was no problem, he signed them.

  What Lu Li didn't expect was that the transfer fee for the song "R" was paid directly by Ferdi, totaling 10 million, which is even more than Lu Li's online income. Of course, this is under the condition that Lu Li has not sold some of his copyrights.

  Ludi repeatedly pushed the transfer fee, not that Ludi didn't want the money, but Ludi wanted to use this song to build a good relationship with Langdi. In the future when he mixes in the entertainment circle, who knows if he will need Langdi's help? Haven't you seen the sensation caused by Langdi and Li Ran performing together on stage?

  Moreover, one more friend means one more path, and Lu Li has always believed in this principle. So 10 million may be a lot, but for Lu Li, who has a long-term vision, the temptation is not great.

  However, Langdi was also very stubborn and insisted on paying the fee. In the end, he even left Lu Li with no choice but to accept the money, saying that he would rather not use the rights if he didn't have to pay. Professor Shen Pengjun, who was acting as a witness, couldn't bear to see this and advised Lu Li to take the money. At this point, Lu Li had already become a millionaire. However, for Lu Li, this was still not enough; it could only be said that it allowed his parents to live a slightly better life.

  After finishing a day of classes, Lu Li returned to the dormitory and updated today's chapter of "The Eagle Shooting Heroes" before bursting into tears while preparing to post it online.

  After getting tired of typing, Lu Li said to Takagi who was watching a movie: "Brother, it's time, let's start."

  Takahashi's eyes remained fixed on the computer screen as he replied, "Ari, just a little longer."

  Since Luchi returned from the welcome party two days ago, every night around 10 o'clock, he would ask Takagi, the elder of the dormitory who learned guitar, to teach him how to play the guitar.

  "Alright, big brother, how long are we going to watch movies?" Lu Li didn't hesitate with the guys in the dormitory either, and directly went over to turn off Gao Mu's movie, pulling Gao Mu to teach him guitar.

  "Ah, forget it. I don't know what you're doing with all this stuff every day. You're writing, learning music, and I even heard you enrolled in an acting class. Now you want to learn guitar from me too?" Takagi said, muttering to himself after closing the movie, but still got up from the computer and picked up his guitar to teach Rikka.

  For Lu Li, they can only admire and cannot understand how one person can have the energy to learn so many things.

  Tall wood hugged the guitar and sat on a chair, looking at Lu Li sitting beside him and said: "Ah Li, brother knows you are studious, but still want to advise you one sentence, greedy can't chew thoroughly, you'd better put down one or two things."

  Lu Li heard Gao Mu's words, although moved but didn't take it to heart. Since understanding the situation after rebirth, Lu Li's goal was to become a comprehensive artist in the entertainment industry, so he wouldn't put down anything. Lu Li also knew the principle of not being able to chew too much at once, but Lu Li wasn't trying to master everything, many things just needed to be learned superficially, like playing the guitar.

  Moreover, Lu Li's ability to remember everything he sees also provides him with many possibilities.

  "It's alright, big brother. I know what I'm doing. I don't need to learn it perfectly, just enough to play the guitar is fine." Lu Li knew of Gao Mu's good intentions and explained a bit.

  "Alright, you know yourself, I won't say more. Come on, let's review the guitar posture I taught you yesterday."

  "First, place your right leg on top of your left leg, and put the most concave part of the violin case on your right leg. The back of the case should be against your body at chest level on the right side. Then lift up the scroll to a height that exceeds the case, forming an angle of about 30°~45° with the horizontal direction. Next, place the lower third of your right forearm on the most convex part of the case, relax your wrist, and let your hand hang naturally in a cross shape with the strings, or slightly tilted. Place your right thumb on the fifth string at the sound hole area, and put your index finger, middle finger, and ring finger above the third, second, and first strings respectively. Your right wrist should be arched, forming an arc line with your palm and fingers. Now look at my posture...and then..."

  Lu Li was eager to learn, so Gao Mu naturally taught him well, and he had a teacher-like demeanor, teaching Lu Li everything he knew.

  After letting Ruri get familiar with the posture, Takagi took the guitar from Ruri's hand: "You've learned the sitting posture for holding the guitar, I'll teach you the standing posture later. It's better to start learning while sitting down at first. By the way, it would be more convenient if you could buy a guitar yourself too. Next, let's learn some guitar practice songs..."

  Time passed slowly as the two were teaching and learning from each other, until 11 o'clock when Lu Li went to bed on time.

  Lu Li constantly absorbs different knowledge every day, enriching himself, and goes to the performance class on weekends to learn acting, becoming even busier.

  Time flies quickly, and it's already the last day of October. In just a few hours, "The Legend of the Condor Hero" will be on sale.

  "Is the manuscript ready? Have you written the afterword?" The editor of Gu Feng sent a message over at 7 o'clock in the evening.

  "En, wrote it, no problem." Lu Li saw the message in the YY chat window and replied.

  "Ah, that's good. What about the draft? Is it sufficient? I'm looking forward to 'The Legend of the Condor Hero', don't drop the chain! Although Gu Feng editor doesn't think much of 'The Legend of the Condor Hero' competing for the monthly ticket chart, he is more optimistic about the pre-order situation, especially after giving it a strong push this week, the collection data has risen sharply. Moreover, Gu Feng naturally wouldn't say that he's not optimistic about the competition for the monthly ticket chart, isn't that hurting Lu Li's confidence?"

  "No problem with the draft, Gu Feng is great, you seem to be very nervous." Lu Li's draft was quite a lot, although he was busy every day, but still maintained a relatively stable writing time. At the same time as reassuring Gu Feng, Lu Li also joked.

  "Huh, what? I didn't know, but you should be the one who's nervous!" Gu Feng denied, his voice slightly tense in his bedroom after work, and turned the question back around.

  "What's wrong with me?" Lu Li saw Gu Feng's contemptuous expression and muttered to himself, seemingly, he wasn't nervous at all.

  "I'm not nervous either, I've been ready to go on stage at any moment." Lu Li replied.

  "Hmm, I wonder why I feel like I won't be able to sleep tonight. Forget it, let's wait together until midnight." At this time, Gu Feng was even more anxious than Lu Li, although he didn't directly say that he was nervous, his inability to sleep already revealed the issue.

  It's really a classic style that thinks "The Legend of the Condor Hero" is too excellent, has very high expectations for "The Legend of the Condor Hero", and hopes that the first subscription can reach its own expected goal.

  "Uh, okay, thanks for the help, Gu Feng." Lu Li said naturally, without exposing Gu Feng's nervousness.

  Gu Feng indeed gave Lu Li a lot of help, the data for "She Qiu" is very good now, but this cannot be separated from Gu Feng's strong support. Sometimes even if your book is great, if others can't see it, what's the use?

  At this time, the website's recommendation became even more important. Lu Li remembered that since "The Legend of the Condor Hero" started updating, Gu Feng had never stopped recommending it, and the big and small recommendations made the already high-quality "The Legend of the Condor Hero" data surge. Originally, before going online, Gu Feng wanted to give "The Legend of the Condor Hero" a big push, but unfortunately, Lu Li didn't have much background, plus the position of the big push was highly competitive, and in the end, it was snatched away by a top god.

  But under Gu Feng's efforts, "The Hunter" didn't get the big push, but still managed to get a strong recommendation on the homepage, which is also a pretty good promotion. Moreover, Gu Feng also told Lu Li that as long as "The Hunter" performs well, he will do his best to get the big push for it.

  Lu Li was naturally delighted, after all, the better results "The Archer" achieved, the faster he would become a god. And as for Gu Feng's help, Lu Li naturally remembered it in his heart.

  After ending the conversation with Gu Feng, Lu Li started typing again. Fortunately, he only needed to move things around, if he had to come up with his own ideas, Lu Li didn't know if he would have been able to write it out, because as time went on, it seemed like his heart was beating faster and faster.

  Was I nervous too? Lu Li self-deprecatingly smiled, closed the document she was typing on, and looked at the time - it was already past 10 o'clock, with just over an hour left before going live.

  Lu Di only then saw that the "parting" group seemed to be very active, although apart from himself there were only 11 people, but the messages had already reached over a thousand in just a few hours.

  Ludie didn't know, now in several other "Shooting Hoops" book clubs and review areas, it's already boiling.