Chapter 46 Summary of 2000
After the final exam, it’s winter vacation.
During the winter vacation, Chen Linfeng spent the entire vacation making a pure music album with the orchestra of the Conservatory of Music out of about twenty songs he had written so far.
It includes "thehistory", "Hymn of the Seven Swords", "The Long Road"
"The Night of Confession", "The Street Where the Wind Lives" and "Awakening"
"A Thousand Years of Prayer", "The Thoughts of the Forbidden City", "Fake Love"
"Flight of the Filver Bird", "Heroes Assemble" and other classic film and television drama soundtracks from previous generations.
Following up, he will continue to reproduce the catchy melodies in his mind one by one.
From now on, whether he is making a movie or a TV series, he will never be short of good BGM.
Chen Linfeng found an independent label to cooperate with. Since they only talked about distribution and not copyright, the publisher basically did not do any publicity.
In the end, only 30,000 records were cut, and in the following months, they were slowly sold out based on Chen Linfeng's name.
People in the music industry spoke highly of this record, but it was limited to the industry and did not create a wave of public opinion.
Chen Linfeng has also achieved his goal, mainly to occupy a niche. Secondly, if he wants to recommend his own soundtrack to others in the future, he can also directly release the finished product, which is a lot more convenient.
2000 was the year when the Chen family gained momentum. "Young Bao Qingtian" starring Shi Xiaolong was aired, starting his child star 2.0 model and creating a new world in martial arts TV series.
The first film "Journey to the West" that Mr. Chen invested in was a hit, and then he participated in "Don't Talk to Strangers", and his career was officially on the right track.
Chen Linfeng has achieved both writing and acting success. Not only has he experienced classic roles, but his second novel has entered the neon market, taking a big step towards becoming a famous writer.
It is also worth mentioning that in terms of neon, Kodansha published his "Book of Life and Death" in early March.
With the support of the fan base attracted by the previously published "Destiny", the new book has attracted a lot of attention since its release and is currently gaining momentum.
As of the end of March, it is exactly half a year after the release of "Destiny".
Chen Linfeng's first novel in Neon sold more than 1.8 million copies in half a year. Taking into account domestic data, it sold about 4 million copies.
"Book of Life and Death" also sold more than 500,000 copies in one month on Neon.
Not only that, Kodansha sent staff to search for information about Chen Linfeng and sent a series of novels he published in "Selected Novels", "Youth Digest" and "Sprout" back to Neon China.
Kodansha took a fancy to these stories, merged them together, renamed them "Kirin Short Story Collection", and published them.
In fact, except for the first few short stories, the ones that later sprouted far exceeded 30,000 words and were in the category of novellas.
However, this has no impact. After the release of "Qilin Short Story Collection", it actually sold well.
Even his pure music record album, which only had 30,000 copies, was bought by people who collected information and brought to the headquarters of Neon Kodansha.
It’s just that, after all, the owner of Kotan Club is in the publishing business and has relatively little involvement in music. He only asked people in the industry to make comments.
Then he sent these extremely high comments from industry insiders to his own audio-visual magazines, which was regarded as a side promotion for Chen Linfeng.
When the above sales data spread to China, there was another turmoil.
But now, public opinion has turned as a whole. The literary critics who criticized him last year have basically stopped speaking out, and only a few are still insisting.
Nowadays, there are very few writers who can enter the market of other countries. Chen Linfeng's move can be said to be very morale-boosting.
Especially when he faced off against the Neon writers and won, the people were even more excited.
Although Neon and China had a period of friendship in the last century, there is still widespread sentiment towards Neon in China.
It would be nice to mention it without a few curse words.
The people like to defeat the Neon People head-on and make money from them.
During the critical period of China's accession to the WTO, higher authorities also needed good news, so the mainstream media basically showed appreciation.
After the public opinion turmoil that lasted for more than half a year, Chen Linfeng's golden status as an internationally famous writer began to be slowly established.
It has been half a year since the novel was released on Neon.
Kodansha’s royalty settlement means that Chen Linfeng finally has a fund that he can control.
The price of his novel in Neon is about 600 yen, which is equivalent to 40 yuan in China. For the novel "Destiny", his royalties are 11%, so selling a book, he You can get 4.4 yuan. The publisher's settlement is based on the number of prints rather than specific sales. In other words, Chen Linfeng can receive royalties of 2 million copies at a time, which is about 8.8 million yuan.
Of course it can't be that much. There is also tax. The tax he should pay has been paid by the publishing house in advance and will be withheld during settlement.
Fortunately, he had the foresight. At the end of last year, he commissioned someone to open a studio in Neon specifically to reduce taxes.
The final amount obtained was about 7.5 million yuan.
For a person who has just passed his thirteenth birthday, this is already a lot of money.
Since Neon has maintained low interest rates for a long time, of course you cannot put your money in Neon's bank.
Chen Linfeng found someone through Sister Mei to transfer a large part of it to the U.S. stock market, and within a few months, he successively bought NetEase stocks.
NetEase's stock price is at an all-time low. The price is less than US$1 per share. In a few months, it will be even lower, as low as US$0.51.
However, he remembered that there were also people in China trying to buy the bottom, betting that NetEase's stock price would rebound, so it was better to start a little earlier.
The royalties settled by Chen Linfeng in the second half of the year will be even more. At that time, he will also buy NetEase shares. In the end, until he buys about two million US dollars, he will become a major shareholder.
A small part of the money was transferred back to China, and he used it to buy 20 boxes, or 240 bottles of Maotai. Some of them were old wine from previous years, and he spent a total of about 70,000.
After more than ten years, the money will only be enough to buy a dozen bottles. Now a bottle is only 260, and it will be worth more than ten times in the future.
He doesn’t do it to add value, he just wants to wait until the Moutai liquor becomes valuable in the future, so he can use it to entertain guests.
In the following years, I will continue to buy some while the price is cheap.
Chen Linfeng also bought a house in Shenhai for storage, and it could also be used as his foothold in Shenhai, killing two birds with one stone.
The school days passed quickly, and in a blink of an eye, it was summer vacation.
Ever since Shi Xiaolong finished playing the young man Zhan Zhao, it seems that he has opened up the two channels of Ren and Du.
Since the fourth quarter of last year, many crews have been looking for him to act. From this crew to that crew, they have almost never stopped.
He occasionally talked about this with Chen Linfeng on the phone, his tone full of happy distress.
“There were no filming for two years in a row, and now I’m looking for it again. It’s really good and bad intermittently.”
"There are so many good dramas for you to act in, so just have fun secretly. When you grow up, it will be difficult to have such an opportunity."
"Master Feng, don't read it, don't read it" Okay, I already know the difficulties of transformation in the future. Can’t you just let me be beautiful for a few years now? Let’s talk about the future later.” "Once Upon a Time"...and the most crucial "Youngster Bao Qingtian"
One after another, most of them are classic childhood dramas.
His child star career will reach its peak in the next few years.
There are indeed more juvenile-themed TV series in recent years, which are completely different from those in the following ten years.
As a child star, naturally many people are looking for Chen Linfeng.
There are two worth mentioning.
One is "Nine-year-old County Grandpa". This company called him at the beginning of the year, several times in a row, and was very sincere.
They also invited Shi Xiaolong to play an important role and asked him to help with the work.
The other one is "Prime Minister Xiao Ganluo", this time Xie Miao is paired with him.
The crews of both dramas invited him to play the leading role. The ratings of these two dramas in their previous lives were not bad. There was even a second part of "The Nine-Year-Old County Grandpa", which shows that it was broadcast It was really popular afterwards.
Actually, they all sound like good opportunities, but he let Sister Mei push them away.
On the one hand, it is difficult to ask for leave from school, and on the other hand, he has started writing a new novel, which conflicts with time.
What I wrote this time is also a new theme, drawing on the infinite horror of the previous life.
For the pure music that appears in the novel, a playlist with the same name as the novel has been created on NetEase Cloud. If you are interested, you can listen to it. It will be updated as the novel progresses
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