Chapter 202: True Friends

The process of inviting contributions was much harder than imagined.

Lu Yanhe originally thought that no matter what, Li Zhibai and Yan Liang would definitely agree immediately. Who knew that Li Zhibai refused without hesitation.

"You want me to write an article? Forget it, the articles I write have incoherent sentences and a bunch of typos. Who would watch it if I wrote it?" Li Zhibai shook his head without hesitation, "Find someone else."

Lu Yanhe said, "Who else can I find?"

Li Zhibai: "Don't pull this on me, you don't just know the few of us."

"But if you don't write, who else will help me write?" Lu Yanhe said.

Li Zhibai: "..."

Lu Yanhe: "Help me out."

Li Zhibai: "I really can't write it, it will definitely be mocked by everyone if I write it."

"We will definitely help you modify it, we won't let you be mocked by others." Lu Yanhe said, "You write a first draft first, and I will modify and supplement it based on the first draft you wrote, how about it?"

Li Zhibai: "How about you just write it for me and sign my name."

"That's not how you slack off."

"Little Lu, it's not that brother won't help you, it's that you really found the wrong person." Li Zhibai looked helpless, "I really can't write."

Seeing Li Zhibai in such a dilemma, Lu Yanhe couldn't continue to persuade him.

The start was unfavorable, and he was frustrated. Fortunately, Yan Liang agreed immediately without any refusal.

This made Lu Yanhe breathe a sigh of relief.

Lu Yanhe told Chen Siqi about Li Zhibai's reaction and said, "If it really doesn't work, he can dictate it, and I'll help him write it?"

Chen Siqi said, "You already have a lot of things to do, are you OK?"

"OK, I have to write it well for the first issue anyway." Lu Yanhe said.

"Alright, I plan to modify our plan today and change it according to the form of a Mook." Chen Siqi said, "I went to organize some relevant materials. There are still many Mook books published by domestic publishing houses, and they have always been pushed out. The concept of an electronic magazine might be an outdated concept to the platform as soon as they hear it. Using the concept of Mook, everyone can accept it more easily, and it's also convenient for me to make a benchmarking product."

"Alright, listen to you on these. The form doesn't matter, whether it's a magazine or a Mook, it's actually the same content." Lu Yanhe said, "I will contact everyone I can contact today, and then tell you."

"Okay."

Lu Yanhe hung up the phone and started searching his address book.

Cheng Hai, Chen Jing, Tu Song, these are all artists from the same company, and he has a relatively good relationship with them, so he can ask them for help.

Song Lin Xin, the genius female singer who became popular overnight by covering *Memory* in *There's a Song to Respond*, also had dealings with her.

Peng Zhixing, a contracted host of Beijiguang Video, had dealings at the graduation party.

Jiang Yuqian and Huang Kai, the protagonists of *The Golden Age*, are also among the few stars Lu Yanhe thinks are the most popular.

As for Wang Yunfan and Li Qian, the relationship is too average, he can't open his mouth, forget it.

Counting them all, there are only these people.

Who else does he know?

Does he want to invite them all in the first issue? Not to mention whether they will agree, if they really agree, this will be the swan song, because Lu Yanhe has no one else to invite.

The column "The Student Days of Celebrity Artists" will be a swan song directly.

Lu Yanhe thought for a long time and finally left the names Jiang Yuqian, Tu Song, and Song Lin Xin. Let's ask these three people first.

But putting these names together, except for Song Lin Xin, they are all from Star Entertainment, just like a special session for Star Entertainment.

"Invite me to write an article about my student days?" Jiang Yuqian was surprised and stunned for a moment, "Yanhe, you're doing well, why did you suddenly ask me to write an article?"

Lu Yanhe explained to her what he was doing.

"You want to make an electronic book?" Jiang Yuqian's tone revealed an unbelievable tone, "What are you doing, being an editor-in-chief?"

"Yes." Lu Yanhe said, "My classmate and I want to do this together this summer vacation. Yesterday, I also met with Ye Mai Network and reached a preliminary cooperation intention. By then, this book will be on the shelves for sale on Ye Mai Network."

Jiang Yuqian hesitated and said, "Yanhe, I really can't promise you this immediately. I have never written this kind of thing. I am very willing to write this if you ask me, but this—"

Lu Yanhe understood where Jiang Yuqian hesitated.

He said, "Sister Yuqian, I know, usually you accept interviews, and others write the interview content into articles, but we want to make such a book, inviting you to write this article is to look back at the era of the past from your perspective. Is this okay? I have organized a few similar articles written by other actors for you, you take a look first, and then consider whether it's okay?"

"Alright." Jiang Yuqian smiled helplessly, "Who told you to come to me to write it? I can't refuse directly. I'll take a look first, but I'll say it clearly first, Yanhe, if I really feel I can't write it, I will still refuse."

"There must be many of your fans who want to read this article. Regarding your memories of your student days, I believe Sister Yuqian must also have many people and things you miss." Lu Yanhe said, "Ye Mai Network is a place with many real users. Many people write diaries and their lives on it. Sister Yuqian, you can also look at this website when you have time, and publish articles on this website, everyone will have more understanding of you."

"I know Ye Mai Network, the dramas I starred in didn't exceed 8 points on this website." Jiang Yuqian said with a smile.

"Then you need to let them understand you more." Lu Yanhe said hurriedly, and after speaking, he was covered in sweat, not expecting such a thing to happen.

After talking with Jiang Yuqian, there were still Tu Song and Song Lin Xin behind.

Lu Yanhe called them one by one, explained the reason for the matter clearly, and invited them to write an article.

Tu Song heard, "My god, I haven't written an article for several years."

"Just treat it as writing something on a social platform."

"There's nothing to write about. I didn't listen to the class seriously, I always wanted to sing, participated in various singing competitions, was stopped by my parents at first, scolded and beaten, I insisted on singing, and finally they agreed."

Lu Yanhe's eyes lit up and said, "Then you write about this thing of you insisting on singing?"

Tu Song: "Ah? What's there to write about, it's all unbearable memories."

"It can let everyone know how passionate you are about singing."

"Can you understand it just by an article?"

"An article is a record. Your fans will know, and people who listen to your songs and want to understand you as a person will also know." Lu Yanhe said, "When others want to understand you, if there is an article written by yourself, they can understand you through your own article, instead of understanding you through things written by others."

"What you said seems to make sense, I'm a bit persuaded by you."

"Write one."

"I'll try writing it." Tu Song said.

Lu Yanhe put a checkmark under Tu Song's name and breathed a sigh of relief.

Only the last person, Song Lin Xin, was left.

Lu Yanhe originally wanted to call her directly, but when he was about to call, he reflected on his relationship with Song Lin Xin and felt that calling suddenly would be very presumptuous. People would probably think it was very abrupt, after all, they had only met twice before, and they almost never chatted at ordinary times.

Thinking about it, Lu Yanhe still sent a paragraph of text to her, describing what he was doing, and finally expressing the hope that she would write an article with her student days as the theme.

Less than five seconds after sending it, Song Lin Xin replied: Okay.

Lu Yanhe was stunned.

Song Lin Xin asked again: When do you want it?

Lu Yanhe stared in shock.

Damn?

Agreed just like that?

Not a bit of hesitation!

That Song Lin Xin would have such a straightforward response was something Lu Yanhe hadn't expected at all.

He was stunned.

After Chen Siqi got everyone's response from Lu Yanhe, she was a bit surprised and said, "So, everyone is basically willing?"

"Yes." Lu Yanhe nodded.

"You have good popularity." Chen Siqi couldn't help but say.

Lu Yanhe was also a bit surprised. Although there were some refusals most of the time during the communication process, they finally agreed and didn't refuse directly.

Chen Siqi thought for a moment and said, "In terms of celebrity artists, if Jiang Yuqian is really willing to write and writes one for us, then with her sitting in town, this section is enough. Now we have to go to the writers to invite contributions. Have you talked to Liu Jiazhen and Mingyin?"

"No, they are writers, inviting contributions from them is different from others. I also want to ask you, what is the standard for the manuscript fee?" Lu Yanhe asked.

Chen Siqi said: "That must be the market standard."

"However, there is basically no market standard now, there are not many that can be referred to." Chen Siqi said, "Since we don't want to make a book just for fun, we have to consider the issue of cost and revenue. Have you considered how many copies this book of ours can sell?"

"No." Lu Yanhe shook his head.

Chen Siqi said: "Then have you thought about what the upper limit of the production funding for this book is?"

"No." Lu Yanhe continued to shake his head.

Chen Siqi said: "Xin Zixing reminded us of one thing, we didn't make a detailed budget table. I made one first, you take a look."

Chen Siqi sent the budget table she made to Lu Yanhe.

Lu Yanhe clicked on it on his computer.

Production funding 50,000 yuan.

The manuscript fee for the fiction novel section accounted for 20,000 yuan, and the expected number of novels to be published was five, with an expected manuscript fee of 4,000 yuan/piece.

The student days of celebrity artists, expected to be between 1500-3000 words, with a manuscript fee of 2,000 yuan/piece, expected to be six pieces, totaling 12,000.

There are also various other manuscript fees, about 10,000.

Just the manuscript fee part is 42,000.

The remaining 8,000 all have to be used for layout design, and it's not enough.

Chen Siqi said: "This is very unprofessional, it's just that whatever I could think of, I wrote it down first, and estimated a number myself. This doesn't count any editorial and other labor costs."

Lu Yanhe hesitated and said, "Then the production cost of 50,000 yuan is definitely conservative."

"Yes." Chen Siqi nodded, "So, I asked you, how many copies do you think can be sold on Ye Mai Network, and what kind of price do we set?"

"It would be better to communicate this with Ye Mai Network."

"We have to have an estimate ourselves. If it's 10 yuan a copy, we need to sell 5,000 copies to cover the 50,000 production cost." Chen Siqi said, "Relying on one channel of Ye Mai Network, can we sell so many copies?"

Lu Yanhe said: "But besides Ye Mai Network, are there other channels that can put this book on the shelves?"

"Making Mook, many places can put it on the shelves, there are still many platforms selling electronic books." Chen Siqi said, "If it is exclusively sold to Ye Mai Network, and sold with multiple platforms, the market we have is different, so I think we must have an estimate and a bottom price before talking to Xin Zixing about this."

"I heard from her meaning, she definitely wants Ye Mai Network to exclusively put this book on the shelves."

"If it is exclusively put on the shelves, they have to provide us with better conditions." Chen Siqi said, "Now we can take out such a creative lineup, the book made will at least not be ignored. We also have the confidence to talk about cooperation with various platforms. Many platforms must be interested in an electronic book with sales prospects."

Lu Yanhe nodded.

Chen Siqi said: "Do you think we should contact other platforms first and then talk to Ye Mai Network, or talk to Xin Zixing again first, and then see the situation?"

"Talk to Sister Zixing again first. I asked her for help before, and she gave me feedback at the first opportunity. In the cooperation with her, don't be too official."

"Okay." Chen Siqi nodded.

Because of this matter, Lu Yanhe suddenly had a lot of things to do these few days, and even the time for livestreaming became less.

Lu Yanhe went to the old bookstore to buy many previous magazines, flipped through them one by one, and took various notes.

Mook is the same. If it is just a stack of articles, it is just a collection of works. Compared to a regular collection of works, magazines and Mook have a big difference, with significant "theme" and "topic" concepts.

In the livestream room, everyone saw Lu Yanhe suddenly start to look at those old magazines, and they were a bit confused, not knowing why Lu Yanhe suddenly started to look at old magazines.

When the phone background popped up a notification that Lu Yanhe started livestreaming, Yan He was still driving. She clicked in and played it as a background all the way until she drove home. Lu Yanhe had been flipping through those magazines by his side, because it was muted, there was only the picture.

Lu Yanhe wanting to make a magazine with his classmates, no matter how you listen to it, it sounds a bit incredible, but Yan He felt it was unreliable in her heart, but she didn't stop it.

At the age of nineteen, you can toss as you like. This is Yan He's idea.

No matter how you toss, it is a very valuable experience for Lu Yanhe.

Yan He didn't want Lu Yanhe to become an artist whose life only had acting work, nor did she want him to stay away from real life from now on.

Yan He has the style of an old-school agent, doesn't want to treat artists as commodities, nor does she hope they are assembly-line products, hoping they have their own style, their own characteristics.

If Zhou Ping'an hopes his artists toss less and it's best to be 100% obedient, then Yan He hopes that on non-principled issues, the more her artists can toss, the better.

These are agents who grew up in different eras, with different characteristics.

Although the general environment has changed greatly now, Yan He still hopes her artists are like those superstars in the past, releasing their personality charm, and maximizing the charm, instead of packaging, labeling, and only pursuing simple popularity.

Yan He feels that Lu Yanhe wanting to make a magazine, making Mook, are all good things. It's good to be able to toss, success is good, failure is also good, a little more life experience and experience, it is very helpful to enrich a person's personality.

Yan He just feels that Lu Yanhe is a bit too much of a "three-good student", excellent is excellent, but it seems a bit tepid, not so distinct in personality.

Yan He would rather he toss a bit more.

In fact, how much can Lu Yanhe toss in the four years of college? Lu Yanhe is too young. For a male actor, being too young is not a particularly good thing, there are not so many suitable roles. In the film and television market, mainstream male roles are still between thirty and forty years old.

Young male roles are either genre films or idol dramas.

Yan He doesn't hold hope for Lu Yanhe to win awards in these four years, so it's better to take this time to toss a bit more about other things and accumulate life experience for himself.

When Zhou Ping'an heard that Lu Yanhe wanted to make a Mook, he was stunned and asked: "What is Mook?"

Li Zhibai said: "Magazine-style books."

When Zhou Ping'an heard the word magazine, he felt he understood a little bit, and asked in surprise: "Is Lu Yanhe really planning to transform and develop in the cultural circle?"

"Of course not." Li Zhibai shook his head, "Anyway, I'll tell you first, both Yan Liang and I are going to write an article for him, don't blame us for not reporting to you later."

Zhou Ping'an was speechless and said: "If you two have this energy, it's better to record one more show."

"Anyway, we have both agreed to this, don't try to stop us. Didn't you say yourself that you have no private grudge against Lu Yanhe?"

"I have no private grudge against him, but it doesn't mean I'm happy to see you two always spinning around him. How come you two still have such a good relationship with him?"

"We were teammates for three years, lived in a room for three years, can the relationship not be good?" Li Zhibai asked back.

Zhou Ping'an had nothing to say.

"You two can write, but the manuscript must be seen by me before it can be published." Zhou Ping'an looked very worried about them and said: "Don't write some unsuitable content and publish it. Lu Yanhe doing this thing needs a gimmick. You are brothers now, I'm too lazy to persuade you again, anyway, what I should control, I still have to control."

"We'll see."

"What do you mean we'll see? This matter is not negotiable!"

"If you have that energy, it's better to go and bring your favorite." Li Zhibai rolled his eyes, "Bringing Ma Zhiyuan and still expecting me to believe you, forget it."

Zhou Ping'an was choked.

"How many times do you want me to emphasize? Even if I brought Ma Zhiyuan, it won't affect you." Zhou Ping'an said earnestly.

Li Zhibai gave a hehe, "Go and coax Cheng Hai with these words, I'm too lazy to talk to you. Anyway, I'll tell you in advance, I will find a new agent. I don't get along with Ma Zhiyuan, it's absolutely impossible to stay under your hands at the same time. If you love to bring him, don't worry about my business."

Zhou Ping'an was a bit annoyed and said: "This is not up to you! I have been bringing you for four years, don't play young master temper. In all fairness, am I not good enough to you?"

"I don't feel it now." Li Zhibai was righteous, "Ma Zhiyuan's work, he loves to take it if he takes it, if he doesn't take it, he doesn't take it. When have I ever had this treatment."

Zhou Ping'an: "..."

"Gone." Li Zhibai said he would go.

"Wait!" Zhou Ping'an shouted at him angrily, "Li Zhibai, I ask you seriously, are you really going to change agents, and you won't stay under my hands with Ma Zhiyuan no matter what."

"Yes." Li Zhibai said, "I have never suffered this kind of anger! Don't you know how much I hate that idiot? I tell you, I haven't found anyone to black him until now, it's giving you face, I'm too lazy to find trouble for you, otherwise, I would find black fans to black him to death every day."

Zhou Ping'an's forehead veins bulged, "Don't mess around!"

"I'm not joking with you." Li Zhibai said.

Zhou Ping'an was silent for a moment and said: "Two years, I will only bring him for two years. Don't commit a crime, I'll tell you one more time, you were brought up by me personally, Ma Zhiyuan was taken over by me halfway, the boss asked me to take it, I have no way not to take it, but I promise you, I will only bring him for two years, after two years, I won't bring him, okay?"

"Who knows if what you said is true or false." Li Zhibai sneered.

"I admit I'm not a good person, nor do I tell the truth to everyone, but I shouldn't have fooled you, right?" Zhou Ping'an said.

Li Zhibai: "Who knows."

"Two years, I will make you more popular than Ma Zhiyuan. In fact, you could have done it long ago. If it weren't for your own laziness, you definitely wouldn't be worse than Ma Zhiyuan. Think about it yourself, where have I treated you badly, you are so lazy, you want to rest, I let you rest, you are extremely unwilling to take the work, I didn't let you take it, right?" Zhou Ping'an said, "Even if I have been saying not to let you associate with Lu Yanhe, you really associate all the time, what have I done?"

"What can you do?" Li Zhibai asked back, "People are now mixing up after leaving you, so what if Ma Zhiyuan is popular, will the Beijing TV gala invite Lu Yanhe, will it invite Ma Zhiyuan? The social image is different, okay."

Zhou Ping'an: "..."

"However, since you can give such sincerity and make a two-year appointment, I'm not unable to compromise." Li Zhibai said, and said again, "But as long as you do one thing that damages our interests for Ma Zhiyuan's interests, I will change agents immediately."

Zhou Ping'an looked at Li Zhibai's indifferent appearance, so angry that his teeth itched, but he was helpless.

Li Zhibai just has the confidence to say so, and he has nothing to say.

"Also, don't sow discord in the future. We are true friends with Old Lu, not something you can sow discord, people have left, don't miss them anymore." Li Zhibai said. ===== CHAPTER 203 =====