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  "Auntie, how's the sales?" Su Xichen asked further.

  To be honest, in terms of box office performance, each installment of the Matrix trilogy has earned over $200 million. Although this is not extremely impressive, it's not a small amount either. It's strange that the sales are so poor after being adapted.

  What's more, when Su Xianchen went to visit Principal Yang Jie, "The Matrix" was sold out extremely badly. He spent a good half day of effort just to buy it.

  "The first three days of sales of 'Ghost Blows Out the Light', you should still remember, shouldn't you?" Wang Ni didn't answer directly but instead asked back.

  "On the first day, sales were 530,000; on the second day, 580,000; and on the third day, 650,000. In three days, sales exceeded 1.5 million." The sales of "Ghost Blows Out the Light" can be said to be a miracle in the industry, as well as a miracle in his career. How could he not remember that?

  In fact, if the sales of "Hacker Empire: The Hacking Mission" can reach three-fifths of that of "Ghost Blows Out the Light", it can be considered a success. Of course, this is also Su Rui Chen's standard. If according to the industry's best-selling book standards, the first-day sales only need to be one-fifth of that of "Ghost Blows Out the Light" would be enough.

  Yes! The first-day sales of over 100,000 copies can already be considered a bestseller. Thinking back to "Journey to the West", its first-day sales were less than 10,000 copies, and after a month, the cumulative sales were only around 200,000, but it was still called a bestseller.

  "The first-day sales of 'The Matrix: I'm a Hacker' reached 930,000 copies. The one million books our company invested in the market are almost sold out!"

  930,000 copies! Su Rui Chen was shocked by this number, and so was Wang Ni. They had originally thought that putting 1 million books on the market would be enough for two or three days, but now they were almost sold out in just one day. Various bookstores and newsstands called to request more books, and they had to print additional copies.

  Originally, it was said that if the sales of "The Ghost Blows Out the Light" could reach three-fifths of the first day's sales, it would be good. Now, the situation has completely reversed. The first-day sales of "The Ghost Blows Out the Light" are less than three-fifths of those of "The Matrix: Resurrections".

  9.3 million! This number is already extremely impressive in terms of cumulative book sales, considering that many books celebrate when they break the 10 million mark and some authors consider breaking the 10 million mark as a goal to strive for. In the previous life on Earth, 300,000 copies sold was considered a bestseller, and in this world, selling 500,000 copies is enough to be called a bestseller. Isn't selling 1 million copies worth celebrating?

  Sales of over 10 million is indeed a celebratory thing, which is unquestionable and normal. However, the first-day sales of "The Matrix: I Hack Mission" exceeded 10 million, which is absolutely an abnormal thing.

  "Nine hundred and thirty thousand? Are the numbers on the statistics sheet correct?" Su Xichen asked incredulously, only to pause for a moment after asking this question, because this was exactly what Wang Ni had just asked the editor at the company, and the editor's previous answer had already proven that this question was meaningless.

  "It seems that the consecutive bombings have taken effect, and the first-day sales have reached such a level."

  From the moment he decided to write "The Hacker's Empire", the promotion of this book has never stopped, especially the grand press conference at the Ritz Sports Hall, which cost ten times more than a normal new book release, and the effect was also very significant. The first-day sales of 930,000 copies had at least 100,000 copies due to the promotion of the new book release, and this money was well spent.

  Then "Ghost Blows Out the Light" laid a solid foundation for it, and Su Release Morning's first writing of science fiction novels and other aspects created this sales milestone.

  "The Ghost Blows Out the Light" sold 1.5 million copies in three days, a milestone in his writing career, but this milestone was soon surpassed by another one.

  "Auntie, what are you doing?" Su Xichen came back to his senses from the 930,000 first-day sales and found Wang Ni writing something with a very complicated expression.

  "A publicity plan." Wang Ni replied briefly.

  Su Release Chen understood, such a first-day sales is indeed worth big book special book, pushing this gimmick out again, sales will definitely go up, because blindly following the trend has always been human nature.

  "Beep beep~~"

  Received a text message: [Xiao Si, first of all congratulations on your new book selling well and wishing you even greater success: -d. Moreover, the most important thing, Xiao Si, graduation activities are about to begin, there's not much time left, have you finished?] This text message was sent by the long-unseen class monitor.

  "Graduation ceremony?"

  When Su Shichen saw this familiar yet strange phrase, all the forgotten memories flooded back into his mind. It was on Class Monitor's birthday a few days ago at Class Monitor's home that Class Monitor had told him about it in detail. The school held an activity where they used songs, paintings and three forms to include the image or name of the whole class, and the first place class could stay on top of the big bell forever.

  Because he thought it was a very meaningful thing, Su Rui Chen solemnly agreed. As for how to get the first place, he had thought of many ways and finally came up with a good one. Originally, he was going to take out time to complete it, but later... later...

  "Oh no, I've been so busy dealing with the Matrix stuff these days that I completely forgot about this. Now the joke has gone too far and will be found out by the head teacher, who will turn into a fierce mother tiger."

  Can't let the head of the class know, so Su Rui Chen replied [How could I possibly forget something like graduation activities......] Just this, Su Rui Chen still felt that there was some explanation needed, so he added [All the comic characters for the whole class have been drawn, don't worry, Head of the Class, you can rest assured.] With this reply, Su Rui Chen felt much more at ease.

  "Dudu~~" Class Leader replied [So that's it, great! Just in time for me and MuMu to take a look at how things are going? Little Fourth is full of confidence and can get first place =-=]

  Come and see, these three words made Su Rui Chen's head swell, come over to see what, no way absolutely not...

  The exam is coming up, you'd better stay at home and review instead.

  It's okay, it's not good to stay at home all the time studying, so it's a good opportunity to come out and take a walk, breathe some fresh air.

  What's with this class leader, I wanted her to attend the new book launch event previously but she didn't have time, now she does.

  "Ding ding ~~" A message that seemed to be urging me to hurry came again [Xiao Si, are you at home now? I and Mu Mu are going to your house soon.]

  No way

  Xiao Si, why are you being so evasive? Didn't you actually do anything? Da Ban Zhang and Su Shi Chen have been friends since childhood, so they understand each other's nature pretty well, that's why he hit the nail on the head.

  The more you try to explain this kind of thing, the more confusing it becomes. If you don't think of a way to bluff your way through, you'll have to bear the wrath of the class monitor. What can be done at this point?

  Ordinary people are powerless, but Su Rui Chen is not an ordinary person. There's only one way to solve the current predicament - [Head Monitor, do you know that you're making me feel really cold-hearted with this?]

  Su released her phone in hand, fingers flying quickly on the screen like a butterfly fluttering through flowers, and sent out a sentence.

  Headmaster's head was stunned, how did he become disheartened? [How did I, Xiao Si, disappoint you?]

  Head monitor, you insist on coming over just because you don't believe in my abilities, you don't believe that I can get first place. Head monitor, this really disappoints me.

  I'm just curious, actually.

  Who knows whether it's curiosity or distrust.

  Sorry Little Four, I was just curious, don't overthink it.

  The class leader started admitting his mistake. It was clearly Su Xichen who had forgotten about the graduation activity, but now it's the class leader apologizing instead. This is a clever trick - turning things upside down!

  This move was learned by Su Rui Chen from the book "How to Cultivate a Bad Guy" in his previous life. In the book, the protagonist Xie Wenyi Dong slept with someone's sister in a hotel, but when he woke up, he preemptively complained and acted wronged, yet in the end, it was the sister who kept apologizing. At that time, Su Rui Chen thought to himself, "How can people be so shameless?"

  Now Su Rui Chen also stole this move and finally defeated Da Ban Zhang with his ultimate technique.

  "I'll make time to take care of the graduation ceremony myself, I don't need Zhang Chen's help with this, I can handle it alone." Su Xichen made up his mind.

  Said hello to Wang Ni and was about to head home when I saw Wang Shan sneaking around in the corridor outside my room.

  Wang Shan rushed out of the room and dialed her good friend Jenny's phone number. As soon as the call connected, Wang Shan asked anxiously: "Hello, Jenny, what's going on?"

  "Hey, Shanshan, what's up?" Jenny asked on the other end of the phone.

  "Jenny, didn't you say that the president of the publishing company is your uncle?"

  "Yes, it was my uncle."

  "Why is the dividend ratio given so low?"

  "Very low?"

  "That's not it, so my mom didn't succeed in persuading him and came back."

  "Is it that Aunt Wang wants to split too much, my uncle is very good." Although Jenny and Wang Shan are close friends, their elbows still bend inward.

  "It's not like that!" Wang Shan defended, and then Wang Shan and Jenny began their conversation in English.

  "Slam!" Jenny hung up the phone heavily.

  Jenny was a blonde little girl with deep eye sockets and high nose bridge, but at this moment she was panting and lying on the bed staring at the ceiling.

  After thinking for a long time, she finally dialed her uncle Fei's phone number.

  "Uncle Verner, how's the publication of 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' going?"

  "Little Jenny, good reasoning, I gave a division that I thought was suitable, but the other company refused."

  "What does Uncle Fei think is an appropriate split?"

  "If your company just gives us the copyright of 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes', then you can get a 10% share of the sales by doing nothing, is there anything better than this in the world?"

  Ferrers said that was fine, but Jennie had heard it all before. The split Ferrers offered was 90-10, which meant that for every million copies of "The Sherlock Holmes Stories" sold, the company would get $100,000 and the remaining $10,000 after various expenses would be left with very little.

  Anyway, Wang Ni felt that as long as they could bring Su Rixing and the fame of "Sherlock Holmes" abroad, it would be worth losing money. The share of the profits from the US release obtained by Huaxia Film was slightly better than this, 3:7 or 2:8, the exploitation was very severe.

  What really got Wang Ni's goat was another demand put forth by Feller, to hand over the copyright of "The Sherlock Holmes Collection". This was going too far, as copyrights are extremely valuable, especially in the US. Stephen King became a billionaire through his writing, J.K. Rowling rose to become one of the top ten richest people in Britain thanks to the Harry Potter series, and Stephanie Meyer's Twilight series spawned a fortune worth tens of millions. "The Sherlock Holmes Collection" was an influential work that spanned an era, Su Xingchen knew its importance, Wang Ni also knew it, so Feller's demand for the copyright was naturally non-negotiable.

  "Uncle Fei, how could you?"

  "We Americans have a wonderful logic: if I hadn't been looking at Jenny's request, I wouldn't have gone to talk, it was a waste of time."

  Fine, Feiler will meet with Wang Ni to discuss the publication of "The Sherlock Holmes Collection" for the sake of wasting time.

  "Uncle Feller, Holmes is different from other books and is a very classic detective story."

  "There are many Chinese classics, but cultural differences make it difficult for the US to accept them. Anyway, Jenny, I have other things to attend to, that's all."

  Feyler made the biggest mistake of his life until "The Holmes Case Files" topped the US bestseller list. Of course, that's a later story. For now, it's all about "The Matrix", and reviews of "Matrix: Ghost in the Machine" are pouring in left and right, as if not reviewing this book would be out of touch with the times. The first-day sales figures haven't been released yet, but when they do, things might get even crazier!

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