Chapter 148: The Ability to Drive Book Sales is a Bit Strong

Xu Xiaoyin also received the notification that Lu Yan He was livestreaming.

She didn't expect that after chatting with Lu Yan He in the morning and following his channel, he would start another stream in the afternoon.

He streamed in one go from three in the afternoon until six. For three hours, he didn't say a single word, except for leaving briefly in the middle—presumably to use the restroom—and did nothing else.

Xu Xiaoyin was quite surprised.

After all, hearing is believing, but seeing is reality. Seeing that Lu Yan He could truly sit for three hours straight just to read a novel, she now genuinely believed his claim that he usually loved to read.

Someone who didn't truly love it wouldn't be able to sit still for so long.

Before getting off work, Xu Xiaoyin went to see Liu Cheng.

"Editor-in-Chief, I have to thank you for helping me get Lu Yan He's contact number; otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to reach him," Xu Xiaoyin said. "Xu Mingyue and I went to see him this morning, and we also contacted his agent."

She rattled off some key information, then produced a cooperation proposal and handed it to her.

He knew that she hoped he would be well, hoped he would be cheerful and kind, and hoped that after she left, he would still be able to live a good life.

Did you read yourself in this novel?

Lu Yan He read silently to the last page, took a deep breath, and put the book down.

For example, it wrote about the regrets between a boy and a girl in the book, writing about how he always deliberately made her angry in high school, only to apologize profusely after she got angry, repeating this back and forth, making people feel that it served this guy right for secretly loving the girl for so long without her noticing, until something happened to the boy's family, after which he never took the initiative to provoke the girl again, and even became somewhat distant from her.

He heard her answer.

"It's okay, Sister Ziyan. Whether they give a promotion fee or not, I will still read books on the livestream. I am also very happy to help these authors sell more books."

"Good," Lu Yan He said immediately. "Thank you, Sister Ziyan."

After the promotion of these two books, Xu Xiaoyin now completely believed in Lu Yan He's ability to drive book sales.

The author wrote about the girl thinking of that annoying boy from time to time in her day-to-day life. Until after the college entrance exam, the two of them never became as close as they used to be. They met a few times at each other's schools due to school activities, but neither of them poked through that layer of window paper between them.

On one hand, Xu Xiaoyin hoped that the influence of Lu Yan He's livestream would grow larger and larger; on the other hand, she also hoped to cooperate with Lu Yan He for a long time.

Is this book that moving?

Chen Ziyan glanced at the contract, nodded, and said, "I will handle the follow-up matters, you don't need to worry about it. Zhou Ping'an and the others acted quite quickly; they have already deleted you from the company's official website. I'll have someone add you back in a moment."

However, as Lu Yan He started livestreaming to read this book in the afternoon, the e-commerce sales data began to accelerate again. Especially around five in the afternoon, "Star Orbit" even appeared on the hot search lists of several e-commerce book categories. That evening, "Star Orbit" climbed onto the new book sales charts of several e-commerce platforms.

"Besides, when did I ever agree with you not to sign Lu Yan He?" Chen Ziyan stood up leisurely, one hand resting on the table, her posture carrying a somewhat aggressive questioning tone. "Do I need your consent to sign someone as my artist?"

Vice Ma Zong was momentarily speechless.

Chen Ziyan had already set the stance that she would be responsible to the end; there was no point in Vice Ma Zong saying anything more.

In this situation, perhaps one would be very stubborn about money.

Zhou Ping'an strolled over to the Business Department to take a look and chatted with them about the impressions and positioning of the several artists under his management among brand partners.

Later, ten years after graduation, he had become a researcher at an institute. When chatting with everyone about why he joined the club back then, he said that after receiving the club's promotional poster, he actually wanted to join, but didn't dare to come forward. If it weren't for everyone pulling him to the registration desk one after another, he might never have taken that step, so deep down, he had always been grateful to these friends.

When things reached this point, what else could be said?

She said she was already in a relationship with someone else.

Xu Xiaoyin immediately contacted several familiar e-commerce platforms and added the words "Recommended by Lu Yan He's Livestream" to the recommendations for these two books.

Chen Ziyan: "Then do you have any ideas of your own?"

"He didn't urge me to move out, actually." Regarding this matter, Lu Yan He also felt it was strange. "I thought he would make me move out that very day."

Chen Ziyan smiled and said, "Vice Ma Zong, I won't make things difficult for you. Just tell me directly who wants you to drive Lu Yan He away, or have them come find me directly, okay? Re-signing Lu Yan He is my decision, and I will take responsibility."

"I wouldn't let you take risks, would I? Look, this is the authorization signed by Vice Ma Zong." Zhou Ping'an handed a statement signed by Vice Ma Zong to the other party.

She didn't know how Lu Yan He was at promoting other goods, as his livestream hadn't done that, but promoting books was very effective.

He wasn't setting up a livestream channel just to enjoy "peaceful years."

"Invite two authors to be guests on my livestream?" Lu Yan He was incredibly surprised by the news Chen Ziyan told him. This was another unexpected event. "Let me chat with them? This, this..."

Currently, Lu Yan He's livestream popularity wasn't high. The peak number of viewers for reading "Star Orbit" this afternoon was only a little over six thousand, maintaining an average of around four thousand. But the key was that the conversion rate of these viewers was high; out of just this many viewers, nearly a quarter went to buy the book.

Many people went online to order "Star Orbit" because they watched Lu Yan He's livestream.

Previously, he was preparing for the college entrance exam and didn't have the time or energy to come up with tricks. Now, if he just kept livestreaming in such a dull way, it could only be said that he was just going through the motions.

At the same time, people who had received "Nineteen Years of Crime Records" one after another also began to read the book.

Thanks to the current internet era, it used to be difficult for publishers to obtain the real-time sales situation of a book, but now they can obtain very reference-worthy data from e-commerce channels.

Chen Ziyan had prepared herself mentally to have a talk with Lu Yan He about money, to persuade him not to value money too much in the early stages, only looking at immediate interests and ignoring the future.

Zhou Ping'an: "Okay, I'll go again right away."

Vice Ma Zong's fury was blocked in his throat by Chen Ziyan and interrupted.

But of course, the less this was useful, the better.

He was so sensible that it made many of her preparations useless.

However, Lu Yan He was more open-minded than she had imagined.

The boy said no, it was just that the college entrance exam was coming up, and the pressure was a bit high.

Especially when others tipped him, he always had a feeling of being unworthy of the reward.

What Chen Ziyan didn't know was that Lu Yan He himself was no longer the original Lu Yan He. The original Lu Yan He, due to his upbringing, might indeed have had such a flaw, but the current Lu Yan He essentially grew up in a family where both parents were alive and the family situation, while not wealthy, was at least free from hunger and cold. He valued money, but not overly so; he knew money was important and knew how to save, but he hadn't personally experienced the distress brought by poverty, so he didn't look at everything through the lens of money.

This completely exceeded Jiang Yin Publishing House's expectations for "Star Orbit."

Vice Ma Zong took a deep breath, turned, and left.

—Mom, I'm doing very well now, don't worry about me anymore. You should also live well over there, you know?

It was here that Lu Yan He's eyes turned red.

Once is an accident, is twice still a coincidence?

He was still not an extroverted, enthusiastic person, yet he was told by colleagues that he had a warm power, and he was someone his colleagues at the institute were willing to trust.

Chen Ziyan knew Lu Yan He's situation: no father or mother at home, only an uncle who wanted to suck his blood, no support whatsoever. In the few years since he debuted, he hadn't had any income, relying on the company's three-thousand-yuan monthly subsidy to get by, and his savings were limited.

If Lu Yan He could read a novel in his livestream until his eyes turned red, it must be quite good.

When she answered like this, the boy had already returned.

When he was a senior in college, his mother passed away. Many friends from the club came to help him handle the funeral arrangements. They were all young people who didn't understand these things, but they didn't shy away from anything and helped out from beginning to end.

Chen Ziyan was startled at first by Vice Ma Zong's sudden rush in, but she quickly breathed a sigh of relief.

Now, the sales of a novel depend first on the author's popularity, and second, in this internet era, on whether it can become an "internet celebrity" and whether it can become a novel that many people are reading on social platforms, becoming a kind of "social tool."

He said: "This was given to me by an editor from the publishing house. It hit the shelves today, so I'm reading this novel on the livestream. In two days, the author of this book and Liu Jiazhen, the author of 'Nineteen Years of Crime Records,' will come to my livestream as guests. We will chat together. If you are interested, you can watch."

Then, he started working.

That year as a senior, his mother passed away. Before she left, she kept holding his hand, looking at him, her eyes red, wanting to say something, but in the end, she didn't say anything.

—My son is a very introverted child, but he is kind-hearted and also very interested in astronomy and geography. Could you please take the initiative to invite him to join your club?

—He has been introverted since he was a child, and no classmates are willing to play with him. If possible, could you please try to become friends with him?

—This is some nougat I made myself. I don't know if you like it. If you like it, I'll make more for you next time.

Vice Ma Zong was completely blinded by rage.

Zhou Ping'an answered the phone and asked happily: "Vice Ma Zong, do you have any instructions?"

The livestream exchange event was set for this Saturday, the third day after "Star Orbit" hit the shelves.

He Lan hesitated for a long time, but still placed an order.

"Although he said he didn't want a promotion fee, I think if he is really so proactive and willing to help our publishing house promote books, we can't just take a free ride," Xu Xiaoyin said. "Judging by his agent's meaning, he should be willing to cooperate for a long time, so it's even more embarrassing to take this free ride. Especially this afternoon, he was reading 'Nineteen Years' in the livestream again. According to feedback from several of our major channels, 'Nineteen Years' also shipped quickly today. Although not as much as early yesterday morning, the major online channels still sold nearly eight hundred copies, which is still very appealing."

Lu Yan He read this novel, and reading to the end, his eyes even turned red, because there was another story in the novel about a boy who was introverted and somewhat autistic since childhood. Because he had no friends and was timid and cowardly, he was always worried about by his mother. His father passed away very early, and only his mother worked hard to raise him. Fortunately, he joined this club in high school and had a group of friends of his own, which also allowed his closed heart to slowly open, and he began to be willing to communicate with people around him.

Over the past three years, there were plenty of opportunities to drive Lu Yan He away. To put it bluntly, it was just someone with a bit of power, or someone who could exert influence on Vice Ma Zong, but to say this person was very capable, obviously that didn't count.

Vice Ma Zong had nothing to say.

Chen Ziyan contacted him.

Initially, he wanted to do a livestream channel just to see if he could gain some heat and earn some pocket money through this path. Later, the direction of the livestream channel completely exceeded his expectations.

Zhou Ping'an went to the Human Resources Department full of doubts.

Chen Ziyan raised her eyebrows slightly. "Why can't he stay? I've always been curious, what secrets could a high school graduate have that are worth someone targeting him behind his back, driving a eighteen-year-old boy to the wall?"

A friend asked, if he confessed to her, would she agree?

She said, not now.

Two years later, the two of them got married separately and both brought their partners at the time to attend each other's weddings.

Now that Lu Yan He had been explicitly kept by her, she wanted to see if anyone dared to come and say anything to her.

On Thursday, "Star Orbit" hit the shelves.

"It's good that you have such thoughts," Chen Ziyan said.

If they really had ability, they wouldn't be hiding in the dark, using Vice Ma Zong's hand to do this.

If an agent builds a good relationship with the Business Department, more resources can flow into their own artists' hands.

For idol artists, unless they are particularly popular, a business resource is given to whoever it is given to. At this time, it depends on who the people in the Business Department will give it to.

Chen Ziyan was very gratified.

As a result, Vice Ma Zong was full of anger and dissatisfaction, asking: "How exactly are you doing your job? Why is Lu Yan He still hanging on our company's official website? And he even became a second-tier artist?"

Because "Star Orbit" was a youth literature book, Lu Yan He was a bit unable to get into it at first, because he wasn't a traditional literary youth and didn't have much feeling for those feelings and moods of young boys and girls.

Lu Yan He's popularity will definitely get higher and higher in the future.

The girl smiled and said that you were really annoying back then, always deliberately making me angry. She didn't say that later, for some reason, she always thought of his sneaky smile when he was deliberately being bad. It was silly, but also brilliantly silly.

However, the sales trend began to slow down afterwards.

"Chen Ziyan signing an artist doesn't need Vice Ma Zong's consent."

"Yes," Xu Xiaoyin said. "Lu Yan He is indeed not very popular, just had a few news items half a year ago with some heat. I figured that since he loves reading and is willing to help us promote books for free, if he is willing, we will invite the author to his livestream. His livestream is really too bland, without any interest, just him poking in front of the camera reading books. And aren't we cooperating with J-Station? For this livestream program, let J-Station help us hang a homepage push. This can also help his livestream channel gain traffic, which can be considered as returning a favor."

"The cooperation with Jiang Yin Publishing House, although there is no promotion fee, mainly because what they can give is too little, there is no need to eat this bit of mosquito meat, and there is no explicit interest value for the time being, but I think it has positive feedback for you in the long run."

She went straight into the office of the Minister of Human Resources.

The girl smiled and didn't speak.

The boy who was introverted, autistic, and afraid to communicate with anyone back then had now also become a researcher at an institute.

Lu Yan He explicitly stated that "Star Orbit" was a gift from the publishing house, so that in case someone found out about this later, they wouldn't add fuel to the fire and say he received a promotion fee.

Lu Yan He nodded.

This was just one of the regrets about adolescent secret love in this novel, and there were many other kinds, all intertwined in this story.

This was also a preview.

There were quite a few people who had the same thoughts as He Lan.

Zhou Ping'an finished the matter and strolled away.

Then, they reunited at the funeral of the club's advisor, and the two chatted about the past.

Her status in the industry, her connections, and President Hong's trust in her were not things Vice Ma Zong could use to lecture her as a subordinate from a condescending stance.

—Really, thank you all so much.

For example, "Star Orbit," after hitting the shelves, because of the early promotion, sold eight hundred copies within two hours of being listed.

Chen Ziyan's smile only faded after he left.

That would be a huge injustice.

After Zhou Ping'an finished chatting with the people in the Business Department and just walked out, his phone suddenly rang.

"Ziyan, I've told you before, this person cannot stay," Vice Ma Zong switched to a painstaking route.

"It's already deleted," the other party was a bit puzzled. "Brother Zhou, why are you in such a hurry?"

"Chen Ziyan, what do you mean?!" Vice Ma Zong rushed in and questioned with a bad tone. "Didn't you agree not to sign Lu Yan He? Why are you going back on your word?"

"Vice Ma Zong, no matter how much anger you have, knocking before entering a lady's office is the proper etiquette," Chen Ziyan said calmly.

She now hoped that the new readers would form a force to slowly spread these two novels to the people around them.

Chen Ziyan returned from her business trip, and Lu Yan He handed her the signed contract.

Chen Ziyan nodded and said, "The acting teacher I found for you will start teaching you next Monday. The class location is in the company, and I have arranged a rehearsal room for you."

Lu Yan He never expected that reading "Nineteen Years of Crime Records" by mistake the night before would lead to so many things.

She really didn't care what kind of monsters were planning all this behind the scenes.

The other party was stunned and said, "This doesn't comply with the regulations, right? There are regulations for the ranking of artists on the official website."

"Chen Ziyan signed Lu Yan He?!" Zhou Ping'an looked at the person who told her this news in shock.

When Chen Ziyan returned to the company with Lu Yan He's contract, Zhou Ping'an was also communicating with the Human Resources Department about the contracts of several people from Chenghai.

"Okay."

One after another, Chen Ziyan arrived.

Zhou Ping'an wanted to say something else, but for a long time, he didn't know what to say.

The girl asked if you were a bit annoyed with me later, as if you didn't want to pay attention to me at all.

It wasn't until this moment that everyone told him that the reason they welcomed him to join one after another and pulled him to sign up was because his mother had brought this promotional poster back then and specifically entrusted them.

"I'll wait for Li Zhibai and Yan Liang to come back, and I'll tell them in person before moving."

The joy on Xu Xiaoyin's face could not be concealed.

The next day, everyone left the hotel separately, the boy first, the girl later.

Liu Cheng nodded and said, "I only knew you were a student at the Thirteenth Middle School when you told me. It turns out he is studying in the class of an old classmate of mine. Your proposal is to invite the author of 'Nineteen Years,' Liu Jiazhen, and the author of 'Star Orbit,' Ming Yin, to Lu Yan He's livestream for an exchange-style livestream?"

"Ziyan, I've said all I can say. If there is any trouble later, don't blame me for not warning you in advance."

Zhou Ping'an said: "Why do you care so much? Just delete it. Move Li Zhibai, Chenghai, and Yan Liang to the second sequence."

But if you do it, you still want to do it well.

Whose life has no regrets?

Need to revise the contract terms.

"Does she not need Vice Ma Zong's signature to sign an artist?"

Chen Ziyan smiled and said, "Don't be nervous. It's not asking you to be a host or do an interview. Of course, because it's on your livestream channel, you still have to act as the host. This is a very good event opportunity. Your livestream platform, J-Station, will also promote it on the homepage, which can help your livestream channel gain traffic."

"If there is that, then it's easy to handle."

A friend asked why.

Just thought about it all night.

Zhou Ping'an was stunned when he heard this. "No way, I just came out of the Human Resources Department and confirmed with them. They have already taken Lu Yan He off the official website! Could it be that their people made a mistake, originally intending to put Chenghai and the others in the second sequence, but ended up putting Lu Yan He there instead?"

Speechless, silent for a long time, knowing that there was no point in saying more here, he turned and left the Human Resources Department, walking towards Vice Ma Zong's office.

Chen Ziyan was sitting in her office, seriously thinking about the future development paths of Tu Song and Lu Yan He, when suddenly, Vice Ma Zong pushed the door open and broke in.

Vice Ma Zong heard Zhou Ping'an's words and immediately said: "Then hurry up and confirm it, delete Lu Yan He!"

In the bullet screen, many people were shocked that Lu Yan He's eyes were actually red.

In the dormitory of Zhenhua University, He Lan was a bit conflicted. Should she order another copy of "Star Orbit"?

The "Nineteen Years of Crime Records" she ordered following Lu Yan He had just arrived, and she had only read a few pages. Now, Lu Yan He was reading another novel in the livestream, and he was reading it until his eyes were red and he almost shed tears.

"Lu Yan He has already been deleted from our company's official website, right?" Zhou Ping'an asked someone.

While everyone was eating together, taking advantage of the boy going to the restroom, the boy's friend deliberately let it slip that the boy had once had a crush on the girl.

Vice Ma Zong, who had rushed over while engulfed in a fit of rage, was suddenly doused with a bucket of cold water by Chen Ziyan's attitude.

"Yes, the signed contract that was just delivered."

And in this era where the source of most data can be tracked, the first-day hot sales of *Star Orbit* pointed clearly to Lu Yan He's livestream room.

"When are you moving?" Chen Ziyan asked. "Hasn't Zhou Ping'an been urging you?"

The boy said yes, he was very sorry, he was always making her angry at the time, and he didn't explain why he had done so many annoying things; he just couldn't help but want to see her look all puffed up with anger under his teasing, and the way she would chase after him to hit him.

Lu Yan He gave her the feeling of being too sensible.

Before, when thinking about being a book streamer, or livestreaming himself doing something else, there always had to be something interesting.

It was a call from Vice Ma Zong.

"Okay." Lu Yan He nodded.

For a large talent agency with hundreds of signed artists like this, an agent must maintain a good relationship with the business department.

"Also, I've found someone to arrange the song *Childhood*, and we'll find time to record it later," Chen Ziyan said. "It's not decided when it will be used yet; I plan to find a relatively decent gala for you to perform this song for the first time, and after that, I'll put the version recorded in the studio online on major music platforms."

Liu Cheng took the cooperation proposal written by Xu Xiaoyin, nodded, and said, "I'll take a look first."

Lu Yan He had been pondering how to set up his livestream room.

"Good." Chen Ziyan nodded. "Then I must thank Vice Ma Zong for reminding me."

Lu Yan He read this book in his livestream room.

The story itself isn't the point, nor is it particularly creative, but the author's writing is excellent—not the kind that is flowery, but the kind that is very capable of stirring the reader's emotions.

Chen Ziyan's status in the company is no lower than his.

As a legendary agent, she didn't get promoted to a senior executive position purely because she didn't want to, not because the company wouldn't give her the seat.

Before thinking it through clearly, it can only be like this for now.

After he realized what was happening, he immediately put away the anger on his face.

They sincerely wished each other well, and from beginning to end, they never once mentioned their feelings for each other.

You have to know that the authors of *Nineteen Years of Crime Records* and *Star Orbit* still have to go to Lu Yan He's livestream room for exchanges later, and at that time, it will certainly be able to give sales another boost.

But this story is one with quite a lasting impact; it tells the story of members of a high school club, how they participated in competitions together in high school, and then after the college entrance exam, they went their separate ways, occasionally keeping in touch, but the distance between them grew, until everyone was working, and the club's advisor suddenly passed away due to illness, gathering everyone back from all corners of the country to face the regrets left behind back then.

What exactly to do.

Xu Xiaoyin thought for a while and set her sights on a collector's edition of a bestselling novel that the publishing house was launching next week.

The author of this bestselling novel is very well-known and has many readers; if this person could be invited to Lu Yan He's livestream room, both sides could benefit.

This author could bring more viewers to Lu Yan He's livestream room and deepen the impression of Lu Yan He's book-reading livestream room, and the audience of Lu Yan He's livestream room could also help promote the sales of this collector's edition of the bestselling novel.