Chapter 296

Liu Yifei rolled up her sleeves and said, "There are a lot of ingredients, and it's a bit difficult to prepare. It will probably take until around 1pm. Go buy breakfast yourself."

Li Qingxian rubbed his hands and said happily: "Okay, I won't eat more breakfast. I'll just wait for the delicious food you make for me, Sister Fei."

After making a few jokes, Li Qingxian put on his clothes, tidied himself up simply, and went out to prepare breakfast for himself.

There is a bookstore near the steamed bun shop.

Li Qingxian thought about it and decided that she was free anyway, so she ate breakfast while walking towards the bookstore.

Just wait and see.

Although it is the release date of his new book, he is not in a hurry.

After all, even if "The Fortress Besieged" is not the worst, it is definitely not too bad.

However, when he arrived at the bookstore, he was stunned.

Surprisingly, there weren't many people in the bookstore.

"Sir, is this copy of Fortress Besieged for sale?"

The shop owner looked up and pursed his lips at him: "You can choose from the bookshelf over there."

Li Qingxian walked closer and saw that the bookshelf of "Fortress Besieged" was full of books, but in the end only a few were sold out.

He took one and went to the counter to complete the formalities.

"Manager, what about the sales of Fortress Besieged?" Li Qingxian asked with a puzzled look on his face.

The shop owner looked at the barcode and said, "This magazine only has advertising. The slogan is good, but whether it can sell well depends on the content inside."

While paying, Li Qingxian asked, "Manager, what do you think of Fortress Besieged?"

"Haha." The shop owner looked at Li Qingxian paying the bill, with a hint of sarcasm on his lips, and the worries in his heart immediately disappeared:

"I've never been there. No one would like such a novel."

"You see, other bookstores are scrambling to buy books, but I ordered fifty copies."

"Those bookstore owners who were busy stockpiling goods are probably going to regret it now."

"Okay, I understand." Li Qingxian nodded and left.

He stared at the book in his hands, looking confused.

Why are the first-day sales of "The Fortress Besieged" so bad?

Or is this the only bookstore that has this situation?
What about other shops?
October 11th.

Sanjiang Literature Museum.

After receiving sales data from various bookstores.

Editor-in-chief Yin Pingqing and other editors all looked very unhappy.

Everyone gathered in a conference room and the atmosphere was solemn.

"Oh, I don't know. More than 40,000 people ordered a copy, but only a few bought it."

"This is simply cheating!"

"I had thought that we would sell more than 30,000 copies on the first day, but today we only sold less than 10,000."

Yes.

After the all-day sale on October 10th.

The sales volume of "The Fortress Besieged" on that day was 6,791 copies.

However, as a novice, it is quite good to have such performance.

However, this is still far from what they expected.

Yin Pingqing looked helpless, sighed, and said, "This time, I was wrong."

The other editors also shook their heads.

"It's no wonder, there are so many appointments available."

“Maybe our slogan is catchy, but not many people really noticed it.”

"I see. A rookie is a rookie. If you want to continue to cooperate with me, you must discuss the profit distribution."

“If sales aren’t good, should we stop printing?”

Yin Pingqing was stunned for a moment, then nodded repeatedly.

"But even if I say it now, it's too late. There are only 10,000 copies, and they will all be sold out in two months." Upon hearing this, the others nodded in agreement.

After all, there are only more than 10,000 copies, so it won’t have much impact on them.

……

Liu Yifei received a call from the newspaper at around four o'clock.

When Liu Yifei learned about the sales data of "The Fortress Besieged" yesterday, he was also a little surprised.

She is not a professional publisher.

When he heard that it was sold for 6000 yuan, he was excited.

However, when he heard what Yin Pingqing meant from her voice.

Only then did she realize that her sales were not very good.

During dinner in the evening, she talked about this with Li Qingxian.

Li Qingxian didn't seem to care. "6000 is 6000. I can only write honestly and calm myself down."

Liu Yifei felt relieved when she saw Li Qingxian was so calm.

“If we sell 6000 copies a day, we can sell at least 5 copies in a month.”

"Including our profits, it should be over 100,000."

Li Qingxian glanced at Liu Yifei and suddenly said, "Sister Fei, I stayed here for a while today just to fill my stomach."

"You're with me all day, and you don't have any work. Aren't you afraid of spending all your money?"

He was aware of how good Liu Yifei was to him.

However, he really didn't want Liu Yifei's future to be affected.

It would be great if Liu Yifei could come back and be her agent.

With her around, Cui Xin wouldn't cause trouble for her.

Liu Yifei said calmly: "I saved some money when I was working before, it should be enough for now."

Li Qingxian asked again: "What should we do next?"

"You'd better focus on yourself." Liu Yifei rolled her eyes and said with a smile: "Even if you sleep on the street, I won't starve to death."

……

October 14th.

Fortune Building.

The horse merchant was a wealthy businessman. When he came back, he found his children studying in the hall.

He looked as if he had seen a ghost.

This guy, instead of playing games in his bedroom, is actually studying?
But soon, he breathed a sigh of relief.

Without a doubt, it was watching some anime.

Ma Shang had already made plans to teach his child a lesson.

Every day, apart from playing on the computer, I watch anime. I spend the whole day playing.

If he really became a useless person, how could he inherit the family business?

But this time, he decided to take a different approach.

He came up behind his son, rubbed his head and said, “What are you reading?
"Dad, you're home." Ma Xiaoshang raised his head.

"Yes." Ma Shang nodded kindly. "Xiao Shang, I'll tell you."

But the book he sold, Fortress Besieged, was pretty good.”

“Uh…” “Fortress Besieged?” Ma Shang was stunned.

"Yes." Nodding. Ma Xiaoshang raised the book in his hand and said, "This is a very popular novel. I was planning to save it, but once I opened it, I couldn't stop reading it."

Hearing this, Ma Shang showed a strange look on his face.

He has also seen "The Fortress Besieged" in some areas.

At the beginning, it was the advertising slogan of "Fortress Besieged" that left a deep impression on him.

(End of this chapter)