1980 My Literary Era.

Chapter 355 Lin Wanwan

It was past nine o'clock in the evening when Lu Yao was sent back to the Guowen Society.

Tao Huimin looked at Lu Yao's back and said, "I used to think that all writers are like you, but after meeting so many of your friends, I realized that everyone is so different."

"Indeed, it's hard to find someone as handsome as me."

Tao Huimin gave him a blank look, "Not serious!"

The car was driving on Chaonei Street, Lin Weimin said to Tao Huimin seriously: "The TV series co-produced by CCTV and Xiangjiang's wireless TV station should start next month. I have asked for a role for you, which can be regarded as the female number four. "The Wind" will be released soon. After filming, I will tell CCTV and ask them to inform our troupe again."

Tao Huimin said in surprise, "Really?"

What she likes is not that she has a role to play again, but that she can stay with her boyfriend again.

Almost two months after the script of "The Story of a Female Doctor" was written, CCTV and TVB finally confirmed their cooperation.

Tao Huimin's role as the fourth female role is not considered important. He talked to CCTV and Wireless, and both parties were willing to do this favor, and it was easy to get it.

The most controversial role issue before, in the end, TVB won the upper hand, and got the four main roles of male first, female first, female second, and male third, and the rest were played by actors from the mainland.

After all, TVB has invested far more money than CCTV.

Besides, the main purpose of CCTV's cooperation with TVB is not to train actors, but to take the opportunity to learn from TVB's TV drama shooting experience.

A TV station produces more than 500 episodes a year, but last year domestic TV stations only produced more than [-] episodes.

Such a TV station is worthy of CCTV's cooperation and study.

"The Story of a Female Doctor" is the lead actress, and the leading actress has the most important role, and it is given to Wang Mingquan, one of TVB's leading actresses today.

She participated in the Spring Festival Gala last year, and she is a pro-inland artist. CCTV also recognized this candidate.

Wang Mingquan's appearance is not the best choice for female doctor Tan Yunxian, but she has a stubborn and tenacious temperament unique to Chinese women.

From the perspective of appearance, temperament and acting skills, she is one of the most suitable candidates. As a screenwriter, Lin Weimin also recognizes this.

As for the choice of male number one, TVB has not announced it for a long time. According to CCTV's response, they seem to have been contacting a Xiangjiang male star who has been courting for a long time.

At the end of September, Lin Weimin once again received the settlement of the manuscript fee from Random House.

It had been more than a year since Random House took away several of his novels.

During this period, three novels, "The Man on the Horse", "The Lover" and "The Murderer" were published one after another.

The first prints of the three novels were all [-] copies. At the beginning, "The Lover" was the best-selling novel, and it attracted many readers under the gimmick of "the Far Eastern version of "The Great Gatsby".

But soon "The Horse Man" came from behind. The first printed 20 copies were sold out half a year after its release, and Random House reprinted [-] copies, which was almost sold out a while ago.

Selling 30 copies a year is a testament to the novel's enormous potential.

Random House generously printed 50 copies, and decided to promote "The Horseman" to the vast majority of English-speaking countries.

For "The Horseman" alone, Random House settled Lin Weimin's manuscript fee as high as 85 yuan.

"Taoma Man" sold 30 copies in one year, compared with the annual sales of "Farewell My Concubine" which was [-] copies, it has already exploded.

Lin Weimin couldn't help feeling the power of inertia, "The Kite Runner" was changed to "The Man on the Horse" by him, and it was still welcomed by Lao Mi.

If this trend continues, this novel will soon become his next cornucopia.

Compared with the popularity of "The Man on the Horse", "Lover" is a bit lacking in stamina after the initial false fire. It sold 10 copies for a year, and this year it is still printing [-] copies, and the manuscript fee is [-] meters knife.

Among the three novels, the one with the highest sales volume is "Chasing the Murderer". The first printing of [-] copies has not been sold out yet.

Qiao Sen specially wrote to Lin Weimin about this before. According to the reader survey initiated by Random House, they had to admit the fact that reading this matter really requires a threshold.

Among the 35 survey samples, only 38% of the readers said that they fully understood the author's intention after reading "The Murderer" for the first time, and [-]% of the readers chose to read it a second time before they understood the story.

The most frightening thing is that 27% of readers choose to give up reading directly after feeling that they have difficulty reading.

Buying a book and not reading it is not the most uncomfortable thing for Random House.

What made them even more uncomfortable was the last question of the survey, "Would you recommend this novel to your friends?"

Only 24% of the readers chose "yes".

This is far from a big spectrum. Obviously, 35% of readers can understand the intention of the whole novel after reading it for the first time, but the readers who can choose the option of "yes" are far lower than this number.

Random House was puzzled by such a result, and had no choice but to find a few readers to ask them why they chose this option.

The answer given by the readers is: they recommend books to their friends for social purposes, and they don’t want their friends to have negative emotions during the reading process, so they choose not to recommend them.

Seeing this answer, Qiao Sen lost his mind.

When he introduced Lin Weimin's novel, he only thought about the quality of the novel, but he didn't expect such a phenomenon.

But fortunately, the sales curves of "The Horseman" and "Lover" are excellent, and the print run of [-] copies of "Chasing the Murderer" is not too many.

In addition to these three books, the sales performance of "Farewell My Concubine", which was introduced to English-speaking countries, has also gradually increased. The number of reprinted copies of 60 copies has bottomed out, and this time an additional 50 copies have been printed.

So this time the manuscript fee settlement, the three novels "The Horse Man", "The Lover", and "Farewell My Concubine" brought Lin Weimin a total of 160 million manuscript fee income.

In the second quarter of this year, more than 40 yuan from Broadway was credited to the account not long ago. Counting the money in the previous account, Lin Weimin already has more than 350 million yuan in foreign exchange.

The foreign exchange income he created and owned by himself was more than most of the state-owned factories in the country at this time.

When Lin Weimin's foreign exchange account exceeded 100 million dollars at the beginning of this year, the employees of the Bank of China secretly nicknamed Lin Weimin.

——Lin Wanwan.

This nickname was circulated privately in Yanjing City, but it hadn't reached Lin Weimin's ears yet.

On the day at the end of the month, it happened that "The Wind" had already been filmed, and Tao Huimin had time, so Lin Weimin took her to the upper level of Muxidi.

Before entering the door, Tao Huimin grabbed Lin Weimin with a nervous expression.

"Don't be nervous, just call 'teacher' and 'teacher' when you enter the door, the old man is very kind, just chat normally." Lin Weimin comforted.

Tao Huimin calmed down and exhaled twice, "Okay!"

"Teacher! Teacher's wife! Yo, sister is here today?" Lin Weimin greeted warmly as soon as he entered the door.

Mr. Wan and his wife responded with a smile, but their eyes skipped over Lin Weimin, and stared at Tao Huimin behind Lin Weimin. Tao Huimin was a little shy by the eyes of the two elders.

Wan Fang's eyes lit up when she saw Tao Huimin. Before Mr. Wan and his wife could ask questions, she said, "Yo! Are you here with your girlfriend?"

Lin Weimin pulled Tao Huimin over with a smile, and formally introduced, "This is my girlfriend, Tao Huimin, an actress from Zhijiang Xiaobaihua Yue Opera Troupe."

After the introduction, Wan Fang teased, "My girlfriend has been hiding for so long, and she is finally willing to bring it out for us to see."

"I can't wait to bring her here. Isn't this a different place? I managed to get her to Yanjing this year."

"Then won't you leave this time? Where did you get transferred?" Wan Fang asked.

"Temporarily in Yanjing. She went to act in "The Wind" before. A few days later, "The Story of a Female Doctor" co-produced by CCTV and Xiangjiang will start. I asked her for a role. She should be staying in Yanjing this year."

When Mr. Wan heard this, he nodded in relief. It is always bad for young people to separate the two places.

He exhorted: "I still need to transfer the work later."

"Yes. Hasn't she graduated yet?"

"Have you graduated yet?" Wan Fang was a little surprised, and asked, "How old is my sister?"

Tao Huimin was a little embarrassed, and said something to Wan Fang quietly.

Wan Fang's eyes widened after hearing this, and then she looked at Lin Weimin in a wrong way.

Lin Weimin ignored her and asked Tao Huimin to chat with her, while he chatted with Mr. Wan.

"I heard that your novel has a good reputation!" Mr. Wan said.

"It hasn't been published yet, how do you always know?" Lin Weimin was a little surprised.

Mr. Wan joked: "Why, old man, I can't meet a few friends?"

"Look at what you said." Lin Weimin smiled, and said again: "My novel may have an advantage in the subject matter. It is different from the panoramic historical novels of "Li Zicheng", so everyone should read it fresh."

Mr. Wan chuckled and said, "That's right, I know how to be modest now."

"I've always been humble, okay?"

Wan Fang chatted with Tao Huimin for a while, and asked about Lin Weimin: "Hey, Weimin, I heard that you became the vice president of the Chinese Literature Foundation."

"How do you know? The news hasn't been announced yet!"

"You are the only one who doesn't hear what's going on outside the window of the rumors from the Cultural Association," Wan Fang said.

Wan Fang was right about this point. Apart from literary creation, Lin Weimin seldom paid attention to the news of the Cultural Association and the literary world.

Wan Fang continued: "You are in the limelight, it's a bit big!"

Lin Weimin said with a smile: "If you are big, let's make those people envy and hate!"

Wan Fang clapped her hands and laughed, "This 'envy, envy, hate' is a good use!"

Lin Weimin did not tell Wan Fang what was behind this "Vice President", but Mr. Wan saw it very clearly.

The old man watched the disciple's wings getting harder and harder, with a happy smile on his face.

(End of this chapter)