Chapter Forty-six: Dramatic Adaptation Rights

  "How much?"

  Although not very curious, he must pretend to be very curious, so that Li culture will have a sense of accomplishment. Fortunately, He Mu is an actor and a good one at that, so this kind of shallow performance is not difficult for him.

  Li Cultural two index fingers crossed, spirited and majestic: "One million copies!"

  "Half of China has sold ten million copies!" He Mu's performance skills came into play again, and his accurate and timely surprised expression made Li Wen very pleased.

  "This is just a rough number, the actual sales can reach 105,000 copies. Although the delivery speed has slowed down now, the total sales in the northern region will not be less than 120,000 copies. I have also found the sales channels in the south and we have almost finalized the cooperation details. Although it means giving up some profit, it can help us quickly open up the market, which is worth it."

  I originally wanted to praise Li Pang with the phrase "a tiger father has no dog son", but thinking of Li Bo trapped in prison, I changed it to: "Pangzi, you were born suitable for this kind of thing, it seems that your original choice was correct."

  "I also think I was born to be in the cultural industry, who made me the cultural brother?" Li Wen Hua joked, "Oh, right, the drama adaptation rights of 'Air Stewardess' have been sold."

  "Who did you sell it to?" He Mu asked.

  "He Nian, a young director at the Magic Capital Theater Arts Center, sold it for 1.2 million." Li Wen Hua replied.

  "Only 120,000?" He Mu thought he had sold it for a sky-high price. After all, Li Wen Hua had promised the author a full copyright fee of one million, and now that one-third of the copyright had been sold, but only for 120,000, He Mu began to worry about Li Wen Hua.

  Li Wenhua smiled and shook his head. Although He Mu was a figure in the entertainment industry, he had no concept of the amount of adaptation fees for film and television. On the other hand, Li Wenhua, who had a deep understanding of broadcasting and copyright law, was very clear about it. "You think it's less, but that's not the case," he said. "Theater is a small art form in our country's market, so its box office is also limited. The adaptation fees for theater and film/television are worlds apart." He Mu, a relatively well-known young theater director in Shanghai, was able to buy the adaptation rights for 120,000 yuan, which made Li Wenhua feel very accomplished. "Take last year, for example," he said. "There was an online drama called 'Dad, I'm Pregnant with Your Child', and He Mu only spent 10,000 yuan to buy the theater adaptation rights. Now, the industry standard is usually around 10,000 to 20,000 yuan, so 120,000 yuan for a theater adaptation right is absolutely a shocking price that can shake the industry."

  This time, He Mu didn't express shock at the "sky-high price", his attention had been drawn to something else: "You just mentioned a movie called 'Dad, I'm Pregnant with Your Child'? How can there be such a heavy taste? Has the internet's moral standard fallen to this level?"

  "Hey, can't you be a bit more innocent? I've found that since you entered the entertainment industry, this big dye vat, you've really been influenced. Think about how pure and innocent you used to be, and look at what you're like now, tsk tsk." Li Wenhua sighed.

  "Am I overthinking?" He Mu scratched his head.

  "You're overthinking this, such an eye-catching title is just to attract more readers to click on it. That's how the internet works, a name that's a bit ambiguous and strange has great benefits for clicks. Doesn't 'Stewardess' sound ambiguous too? But in the end, it's a very pure romance novel. So when browsing online, don't be misled by their titles." Then Li Wen Hua briefly told He Mu about "Dad", after listening to which He Mu felt that this title was quite misleading, but the story itself was still pretty attractive.

  "What's the time now?" He Mu asked after chatting for a while.

  "It's almost seven o'clock, how about I invite you to dinner? I heard your finances have been a bit tight lately." Li Wen Hua joked.

  "I'm fine," Hao Muo said with a forced smile. "Don't bother eating, just give me the cash for the meal instead."

  "Get out of here, go play by yourself, I need to work overtime and review my lessons. Last semester I almost failed." Li boss took out his textbook and put on a good student's appearance.

  "He Miao urged: 'You'd better take it easy, don't work so hard, look at how thin you've become.'"

  "You've lost two pounds and it shows, you're really capable." Li Wen Hua said helplessly, maybe it's because of his physical constitution, these past few months he's been busy to the point where he often eats one meal but not the next, yet his weight has stubbornly remained around 180.

  "This is a family tradition for me, I've always been sensitive to weight, not even an ounce or two would be off." He Mu said with a smile, his family was in the pork business after all.

  He Mu was finally kicked out by Li Wen Hua, before leaving He Mu said he wanted to go to university to take a look around and find the feeling of book-smart intellectuals, his purpose was naturally to better interpret Wu Zhe's book-smart temperament as a young colonel, he asked Li Wen Hua which university would be easier to find the feeling he wanted.

  "Go to Tsinghua or Peking University, they are the best of the best," Li Wen Hua said without hesitation, mentioning these two names. However, when He Mu was about to leave, he suddenly called out to him, "I think Beihang University is also good, go take a look."

  Li Wenhua's inexplicable words made He Mu think of that confusing emotion during high school, and that pretty and well-behaved girl. Because of her, He Mu had a rivalry with an unnamed Korean celebrity, which led him to the path of performing arts. It seemed like they were already people from two different worlds, and there wouldn't be any more intersections or entanglements between them. But could He Mu really forget completely? He wasn't a person who was emotionally numb, Li Wenhua knew this point clearly, so he suggested that He Mu go to Beida for a walk.

  "Just go then." He Mu gritted his teeth and stomped his foot, getting on the taxi headed to Beida. The campus was so big, they probably wouldn't run into her by coincidence, but what if they really did? What would he say to her?

  He Mu's mind was a bit confused, did he really want to meet her or didn't he hope to meet her?

  He Mu used to live near the North Film Studio, which is very close to Beihang University. The road where the North Film Studio is located, Xitucheng Road, and the road where Beihang University is located, Xueyuan Road, are actually connected. Going north on this road will lead you there. Now He Mu lives in an apartment near Zhongguancun, which is also not far from Beihang University.

  It can be said that He Mu spent most of his time in Beijing near the Northern University of Science and Technology, but he had never set foot there before. Now, he is finally going to take this difficult step.

  The nightlife in the university campus is always so rich and colorful, with couples or singles walking on Yong Road. He Mu hasn't forgotten his mission, he's here to experience life, not to coincidentally meet old classmates, so he focuses his energy on observing the spiritual appearance of the students around him, hoping to find a match for Wu Zhe's temperament from these students.

  But somehow, as he searched around, he ended up near the girls' dormitory. He swore that he really didn't know the campus map of Beida, and it was purely a coincidence that he walked there.

  It just so happened that today someone was confessing their love under the girls' dormitory building, and many idle men and women crowded around the No. 8 dormitory building. He Mu didn't want to watch at first, but the crowd was surging in that direction, and He Mu couldn't resist the tide, so he had no choice but to follow the flow.

  After all, He Mu had never been to college and had never seen such a scene. The crowd of onlookers was eight deep, with people packed in like sardines, making a huge racket. Everyone was standing on tiptoes trying to get a glimpse, as if they wished their parents had given them an extra inch or two of height.

  He Mu's height of 1.81 meters is still okay, and he can barely see the situation inside from the middle layer.

  In the middle of the crowd, there was a vacant lot filled with candles that formed a huge heart shape. The candlelight twinkled, creating a romantic atmosphere. A slightly handsome male protagonist stood inside the heart-shaped circle, his eyes full of emotions as he held a bouquet of bright red roses. Outside the circle, many of his brothers were cheering him on.

  "Hey, buddy, what's going on?" He Mu asked the big guy in front of him who looked like a sports major.

  "The student union president confessed to the junior sister, these senior brothers are too beastly, not considering our feelings as junior brothers at all!" The big boy said indignantly.

  "It's a bit beastly, do you think he can succeed?" He Mu asked again.

  "This kind of thing wouldn't be so openly and loudly done if the two people didn't have some mutual interest. According to many of my seniors, when someone confesses in public and it's known by the whole school, there hasn't been a case where the confession was rejected. And this time, the one confessing is the student council president, the white knight prince in the hearts of many young girls, so it's definitely 100% guaranteed to succeed." The big guy said with a confident face.

  His analysis also made some sense, He Mu looked up at the balcony above, which was packed with girls, and that should be the female lead's dormitory. However, the female lead shouldn't have shown up yet. Then the male lead started confessing, holding a speech script and seriously speaking to the people upstairs, saying something He Mu didn't quite catch, roughly along the lines of "Certain someone I really like you, from the moment I saw you I was deeply attracted to you".

  After confessing, there was a reaction from upstairs. A girl who might be the heroine's best friend shouted downstairs, "The voice is too small, she can't hear it."

  The male lead's face turned red, couldn't hear it, huh? Got a way! He made gestures to the brothers behind him, and then heard a loud, uniform shout: "***, Meng Xiwen likes you very much!", this shout was repeated in a loop for who knows how many times, and He Mu finally heard the female lead's name, it was her, surprisingly it was her!

  He Mu's emotions hadn't had time to fully react when the cheers and applause erupted from upstairs and downstairs, and it turned out that she had already gone downstairs!

  "Excuse me, make way." "Sorry, make way." "Trouble you, make way," He Mu hastily left the place like a criminal fleeing the scene of the crime. Although he had almost forgotten her appearance, thinking that she would receive affection from other men made him unbearable. Since it couldn't be changed, he might as well not see her.

  Unfortunately, he left early and didn't get to see the president of the student union being rejected with a long face.

  (This female classmate who doesn't even have a name probably won't appear again, this chapter is just a transitional chapter to introduce the next chapter's heroine ~~ Also thanks to Qiye Nantian brother for the reward ~)