Chapter 844

Ten times! 17 million!

Natsume Ruri and Kaga Reisa were lying on the desk, focusing on the sketches and storyboards of the manga.

The little white cat curled up on Natsume Chikage's lap, making a uniform purring sound.

Natsume Chikage was quietly flipping through the shoujo manga in his hand.

Suddenly.

A phone ringtone broke the tranquility.

He picked up the phone, and the screen showed a call from editor Takahashi Jun.

Natsume Chikage pressed the answer button.

【Takahashi Jun: Hello, is this Natsume-sensei?】

【Natsume Chikage: It is, what's wrong?】

【Takahashi Jun: I'm very sorry to disturb you now, you're not busy there, right?】

【Natsume Chikage: Not busy.】

【Takahashi Jun: That's great. This call to you is to inform you. The sales of your novel "The Devotion of Suspect X" today are really very explosive, just as we predicted before.

All bookstores sold out in just one morning, and the bookstores even asked us to increase the printing volume.

So our Late Night Publisher intends to increase the second printing of your novel by ten times, which is fifty thousand copies.

This is much more than the thirty thousand copies we speculated before.

And for a new author's new book, the second printing can reach this level, which is really rare.

It can be seen how excellent your "The Devotion of Suspect X" is, Natsume-sensei.】

Natsume Chikage was pleasantly surprised.

This print run was indeed far beyond his initial expectations.

The more copies printed, the more generous the royalties he could get.

The plan he had in his heart to "buy back the old house before June" became much clearer in an instant.

So after hearing the number of fifty thousand copies, which exceeded expectations, he was really very happy.

The more abundant the funds, the greater the possibility of achieving the goal.

【Natsume Chikage: Fifty thousand copies? That's great, thank you very much for helping me fight for such a large printing volume.】

【Takahashi Jun: No, no, no, in this regard, what I can do here is very meager. To have this result, it is all thanks to your own efforts, Natsume-sensei.】

After some polite pleasantries.

Takahashi Jun seemed to have just remembered something and hurriedly added.

【Takahashi Jun: Also, also, your "Snow Country" is really very excellent. Even if we haven't finished reading it now, just looking at the beginning, we can feel it is very excellent, and it can be seen that this pure literature definitely has the strength to be published.

It's just that in terms of publication, sensei, you also know that we can't publish pure literature here.

We have already informed the group leader about the matter, and the group leader is currently watching your novel, but it is too late now, the group leader gave news, it may have to wait until tomorrow...

I promise, after there is news, I will definitely send a message to Natsume-sensei as soon as possible.

Please wait for a while, sensei.】

【Natsume Chikage: It's okay, I'm not in a hurry about this matter, just notify me when you have new news there.】

【Takahashi Jun: Yeah, yeah, it's late now, so I won't disturb your rest, sensei. If you need me for anything, no matter what time it is, I can answer the phone immediately, please don't worry, just call me.】

【Natsume Chikage: Okay.】

The call hung up.

Natsume Ruri, who had been listening with her ears pricked up, immediately leaned over excitedly.

"Brother, just heard you talking about fifty thousand copies or something, could it be your 'The Devotion of Suspect X'?"

Natsume Chikage nodded with a smile:

"Yes."

Natsume Ruri's eyes bloomed with surprised light:

"It's not thirty thousand copies, but even more fifty thousand copies?"

"Then what we earned this time, isn't it much more than we estimated before?"

Although Kaga Reisa's academic performance was slightly inferior to Ruri's, she was naturally intelligent enough to enter Sacred Heart Middle School with a deviation value of 75.

She did a mental calculation for a moment, and then covered her small mouth in surprise:

"Fifty thousand copies... if only the main personal income tax is deducted... isn't there 17 million?"

Natsume Ruri was so excited she almost jumped up:

"17 million?!"

"That's too much!"

"Brother! Your novel is really too amazing, you actually earned so much all at once!"

"It seems that it's not just tuition, with so much money, I'm afraid we don't have to worry about food, clothing, housing, and transportation until we go to college."

Natsume Chikage revealed a gratified smile:

"Yes."

"Maybe we can move to a better, bigger house soon."

Natsume Ruri blinked, then narrowed her eyes and shook her head firmly:

"No!"

"We just moved from the three-mat shack to this ten-mat house two days ago, why are you suddenly considering moving again."

"Isn't it living well now, why do you still want to move, brother?"

Kaga Reisa also cast a puzzled look.

Natsume Chikage explained patiently:

"Look at where we live now, although it is bigger than the three-mat shack before, in the end, it only counts as one room and one living room."

"When we sleep at night, we still have to lay out floor mats."

"How inconvenient this is."

"So I thought if the royalties came, we would move to a better house or something."

Natsume Ruri listened, although she understood that her brother was thinking for her, her attitude remained firm.

"No!"

"Ruri thinks it's fine like this now!"

"And brother, are you disgusted with Ruri, don't want to sleep beside Ruri, don't want to lay out floor mats with Ruri?"

Natsume Chikage smiled helplessly and denied:

"How could that be, you are my most beloved sister."

Natsume Ruri heard this, very happy, but then narrowed her eyes and muttered suspiciously:

"Brother... you wouldn't be thinking that since you can earn money by writing novels now, you can relax, and then you plan to find a girlfriend?"

The more she said, the more she felt it was possible, and the smile on her face gradually became "dangerous":

"So you thought about having an independent room... and then you could bring your girlfriend home, and be intimate with your girlfriend?"

"It must be like this, right?"

Kaga Reisa's body stiffened upon hearing this.

Yeah...

After Natsume-brother gets the generous royalties, won't he completely get rid of the economic predicament? ===== CHAPTER 845 =====