Chapter 152 New Tenant

Yang Ruoqian parked the car and walked into the restaurant with a sad face.

After taking a look at the passenger flow inside, his complicated mood improved slightly - it was already dinner time, but there were only a few people inside, not even half, not even a third of the seats were filled.

Even if there was a sudden wave of revenge consumption by Cheng Fei, the restaurant would definitely still be losing money overall.

As soon as he reached the door, the waiting waiter came to greet him and took Yang Ruoqian into the private room.

Opening the door, I found four people sitting inside.

Two are from Chengyu, and two are partners of their short video and online novel platforms.

He arrived five minutes early and was actually the last one... Yang Ruoqian complained in his heart, said sorry, and found a chair to sit down.

Unknowingly, he who worked overtime to the point of sudden death in his previous life was also infected by the various rules he set.

Arrive at the venue as early as you can, and leave early if you can.

As for whether the partner's face will turn the color of pig's liver, it has nothing to do with Yang Ruoqian. If it can lead to the breakdown of cooperation, it is even more desirable.

"Mr. Yang is here."

"Mr. Yang is busy with everything, haha."

The two groups of people who arrived early made some jokes, taking the initiative to help Yang Ruoqian, and also showing their sincerity in cooperation.

Yang Ruoqian closed the door, sat down casually, nodded and asked, "Mr. Cheng, is this the person in charge of Persimmon Reading?"

Act resolutely, get straight to the point... he is a practical person.

"Yes, they are the ones who have reached a cooperation with us this time." Cheng Fei affirmed, "We have already discussed the specific cooperation matters, and then there are some small things, but it involves your artists, so we still have to treat you to this meal. You come to eat.”

"This is Mr. Ma Ming, deputy editor-in-chief of Persimmon Reading."

Stop talking...

Thinking of the self-inflicted exclusive cooperation agreement, Yang Ruoqian's heart ached.

Although the IP income is not available, Guan Yunpeng is always called to shoot something every now and then. After the shooting, he comes back with tens of millions of dollars.

It was a blood-letting trough that Yang Ruoqian couldn't wipe off even if it was placed flat.

However, Kuai Guang is now in a situation where he has too many debts... and too much money to make money, so having one more profitable business won't be a big deal.

Although Yang Ruoqian doesn't care much about novels, he is still a little curious about how much money this project can make: "Editor Ma, I wonder what your profit model is? How do you plan to expand the market?"

"As far as I know, the current novel market has basically been swallowed up by all the major platforms."

Whether it is male-channeled novels or female-channeled novels, single-book purchase models, monthly payment models, free advertising models and even piracy platforms have all been tried.

Reader groups have been developed, and word-of-mouth authors have long signed long-term contracts with the platform. How can the new novel platform be competitive?

In many cases, such a gap cannot be bridged by spending money and publicity.

Most of the reading software is produced by large platforms. No matter how much money it invests, it still cannot shake the status of those old reading software.

"That's why we asked you to cooperate." Ma Ming turned the table and said with a smile, "Our promotion model is very different from the traditional model. It uses short videos + storytelling to promote books."

What Yang Ruoqian suddenly couldn't say in his heart came from an intuitive warning: "Short video + storytelling?"

Persimmon Reading is indeed a novel software under a certain short video platform.

Are they planning to use their short video platform to attract traffic to novel software?

"That's right." Ma Ming said with excitement, "We asked actors to shoot some interesting short videos and put them on the platform, and then asked some video bloggers, that is, book promoters, to explain the content of the novel. Finally Stop the plot at the most ups and downs."

Yang Ruoqian thought for a while and continued to ask: "What about your payment model? Is it a monthly subscription or free?"

"The free advertising model." Ma Ming replied, "Collecting money from advertisers based on clicks can, to a certain extent, avoid the problem of declining royalties when the number of authors increases, and retain authors as much as possible."

"Of course, the money allocated to you will not be small, and it will be calculated based on the number of clicks. The specific algorithm has been written in the contract."

After hearing Ma Ming's payment model, Yang Ruoqian was silent for a long time.

Ma Ming's business model has no way of attracting word-of-mouth authors, and using videos to attract readers doesn't sound very reliable... But isn't this the Tomato novel reading platform in the previous life? !

At the beginning, no one expected them to shake several established platforms, such as Qidian or Jinjiang. But who knew that in just a few years, they would become the novel platform with the largest traffic volume!

Although it only has large traffic, the profit is still not as good as that of the old paid websites, but this model of calculating advertising fees based on clicks can bring very scary profits.

The most disgusting thing is that this model makes money in a steady stream and is sustainable - if it can make a sudden fortune, Yang Ruoqian will just take the system's profit commission this quarter and then lose money in the next quarter. .

But this is a business that earns tens of thousands and twenty million dollars every quarter, and the commissions are not much, so it takes a lot of effort to lose money.

It's neither up nor down, stuck there, as if it's just for disgusting Yang Ruoqian...

The most important thing is that the system does not allow Yang Ruoqian to unilaterally break the contract and terminate the exclusive cooperation agreement with Cheng Yu.

In other words, this money will be transferred to the company account every month to support people.

In the previous life, wasn’t this reading software only released in 19 years?

It’s only 16 years now, you bastard!

Yang Ruoqian looked at the two partners in front of him and lost all his appetite. He could only raise his glass and said with a smile: "Okay, then I wish Chief Editor Ma all the best in his career!"

I hope you don't get a single ad...

"Thank you very much!"

After three rounds of wine, the guests enjoyed themselves.

Yang Ruoqian drank the last glass of wine and pretended not to care and said: "Speaking of which, this restaurant is still owned by our company. How about I treat you to this meal?"

"How can this be done!" Cheng Fei immediately refused, "Who doesn't know how much profit you, Mr. Yang, gave in this deal? It would be outrageous if you didn't even treat me to a meal."

"Besides, I've already paid. It would be too embarrassing to tell you if I charge you again now."

"That's right." Ma Ming also agreed, "Why are you so polite? There will be many opportunities for cooperation in the future."

Since his partner was too kind to refuse, Yang Ruoqian could only put away his petty thoughts.

…

After ending this dinner filled with bad news, Yang Ruoqian turned on his phone and clicked on the app to call a driver.

Suddenly, he saw a message from the rental software agency.

“There’s a new tenant?!”

Yang Ruoqian's eyes lit up, he quickly called for a driver, and then opened the chat box of the rental software.

Since Chang Zhiqing no longer needs to pay rent, Yang Ruoqian's monthly guaranteed income is only 2,000 yuan in salary.

If the house can be rented out, a tenant can provide a rent of 1,500 yuan.

"Oh, it's actually a full lease, and I can get 3,000 per month!" Yang Ruoqian was overjoyed. The unhappiness he had just heard about the big business coming to his door in the restaurant immediately disappeared.

"Looking at the house tomorrow...but I have to go to work tomorrow."

"I'm going to work in this damn class, and the little money I can make is not as much as what I can get from collecting rent. I'll just take a day off!"

Thinking about the 5,000 yuan system reward he had just received in the first quarter, and then thinking about the 3,000 yuan per month he could get by renting a house, Yang Ruoqian only felt that the world really liked to make fun of him.

After working hard for a long time, the income is worse than lying flat and collecting rent...

Didi...

In the distance, a small electric donkey was driving.

"Hello, is the tail number xxxx correct? I am your driver."

"That's right." Yang Ruoqian gave the car key to the driver and sat on the right side of the back seat.

After being sent back by the driver, Yang Ruoqian, who was not very good at drinking, quickly fell asleep.

…

When he woke up the next day, it was almost noon. Chang Zhiqing went to work as usual, and he was the only one left at home.

"There's still half an hour before the agreed time." Yang Ruoqian, who woke up naturally, stretched out comfortably, "Just in time to have breakfast and wash my face."

Yang Ruoqian simply heated up the remaining breakfast in the refrigerator, washed his face, put on a clean casual coat, and prepared for the upcoming big project.

As soon as I changed my clothes, there was a knock on the door.

Then a light voice came from outside the door: "Hello! Is the landlord at home?"

Yang Ruoqian put on his slippers, stood up, walked to the door, and opened it.

Standing outside the door was a very beautiful, tall girl with a pair of clear big eyes and a fair face. Her slightly curly hair was scattered on her shoulders, adding a bit of playfulness to her. temperament.

Speaking of words, she also has two shallow pear dimples. She is pure and lively, and she is a standard beauty.

The most important thing is that there is actually a "recruitable" system label on his head.

There were two people standing behind the girl, one was a housing agent with a contract in hand, and the other was an older and more mature woman.

I guess it comes with a personal agent?

However, Yang Ruoqian has no interest in girls - with this appearance, he is casually capable, not to mention popular, at least he can be popular, which is not in line with the talents that Kuaiguang Group needs.

The moment she saw Yang Ruoqian, a flash of surprise flashed in the girl's eyes: "Are you the landlord?"

"Yes, have you checked the house?" Yang Ruoqian glanced at the next door. "Is there any defect in the house, such as a broken light or broken water pipe? I will help you fix it."

"I've checked everything, and there's nothing wrong." The real estate agent said with a smile, "If there are no problems, you two will sign the contract, right?"

Yang Ruoqian casually glanced at the contents of the contract, including depositing one to pay three and so on. They were all very standard.

Well, the tenant's name is Shang Qianyu.

"Signed."