I’m Really a Superstar

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At the dinner table, a family of three was eating dumplings.

Zhang Ye was notified of the news that the radio and television released a list of new bad actors. Zhang Ye was notified by a phone call from his eldest sister. He only knew that such a big event had happened, so he quickly went online to take a look, and he was immediately happy.

Mom asked, "Why is your sister looking for you?"

Zhang Ye smiled and said: "Radio and Television has lifted the ban for me."

"When did it happen?" My mother put down her chopsticks upon hearing this.

"Just now, I'm no longer on the list." Zhang Ye was in a very high mood. He picked up his chopsticks and stuffed two dumplings stuffed with chives into his stomach.

Dad stopped eating and said, "That means that starting from today, no one will care about you whether you are on TV, doing programs, or publishing?"

The mother said cheerfully: "Of course, who cares after the ban has been lifted? Great, it has been so many days, but my son is finally released. Xiaoye, did Director Wu help you? "

"Definitely." Zhang Ye said.

My mother knocked on the table and said, "Director Wu, you really want to ask people to come over for dinner. I will cook the food myself. Thank you very much."

Dad interjected: "Come on, how big of an official is Director Wu? How come you come to our house for dinner, and they treat you like this?"

"That's true, I really can't help it." Mom said.

The father looked at his son, "Remember to thank Director Wu later."

Zhang Ye said happily: "I understand, you two don't have to worry about it."

afternoon.

As soon as the ban was lifted, I got a call.

I don’t recognize the number. The person over there has a female voice.

"Hello, is this Zhang Ye, Teacher Zhang?"

"It's me, who are you?" Zhang Ye returned to his bedroom to answer the phone.

"Hello, Teacher Zhang, my name is Li Mei, and I'm from Oriental Publishing House." There was a cautious tone in the other person's tone, and he must be young.

Zhang Ye suddenly said, "Publishing company? Oh, is there something wrong?"

Li Mei adjusted her tone and said softly: "That's right. I want to ask first, do you still have the copyright of "The Legend of Wukong"? We just finished a meeting and we really want to write your book. No." Do you know if we have the honor to cooperate with you? Well, you may not know much about our publishing house. Let me tell you a little bit. We may not be that famous in the industry, and our scale is not as good as that of Beijing Education Publishing House. However, our funds and publicity are definitely no worse than any major publishing house. If you leave "The Legend of Wukong" to us, I can assure you that we will definitely use the maximum resources to promote and operate it."

Zhang Ye smiled and said: "The copyright has not been sold yet, but I want to wait for now. There is no rush."

"Teacher Zhang." Li Mei said anxiously: "If you have time, can we meet and talk? I know you are busy, so I can do it anytime, as long as your time is tight."

Zhang Ye pushed, "Let's talk about it later."

Just after I hung up the phone, someone from South China Publishing House called again.

It was a gay man, "Teacher Zhang, we read your new novel and liked it very much. Can you talk about the simplified Chinese copyright of "The Legend of Wukong"?"

Zhang Ye still said: "We won't talk about it today, let's talk about it later."

The man immediately said: "You can raise the price, and I will submit it to the boss. If it works, we will sign the contract. We will immediately invest in publicity and help build momentum for your book. There are so many topics about you in the country now, and it is gaining popularity. We want to take advantage of it." If "The Legend of Wukong" is released with this popularity, the sales volume will definitely increase. It would be a pity if it is delayed and the popularity decreases. Do you think it is suitable for us to meet?"

Zhang Ye left room to speak and said, "I'll think about it again."

The person said: "Well, if you are interested in publishing, please contact us first. We dare not say that we are the first or second best in the industry, but we are definitely the most professional and established publishing team."

There were four or five calls in a row, all from the publishing house.

Zhang Ye gave a few perfunctory words and then gave up.

There are also some publishing houses that may not have Zhang Ye’s contact information, so they send messages through private chats, forums, etc., saying that they want to publish "The Legend of Wukong", and some publishing houses want to buy it. Due to breach of contract, the copyright of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" and the re-release copyright of "Collected Works of Zhang Ye" were returned to Zhang Ye. They even gave out quotations, some for more, some for less, and so on.

Zhang Ye didn't reply. It's not that he doesn't want to publish. He doesn't have any money now and is still waiting for the rice to be harvested. However, after what happened before, Zhang Ye's trust in the publishing house has been greatly reduced. The two publishing houses with which he had a good relationship had an incident this time. They issued a ban and ordered them to be banned. They each came to Zhang Ye to demand liquidated damages. The faces of the publishers who made trouble worse were obvious. Although Zhang Ye understood them, after all, Radio and Television was their superior department. , it’s up to them, they have to execute it, but of course Zhang Ye feels uncomfortable, especially for the Beijing Education Publishing House. He even keeps track of this account. Even if you have a reason for what happened, even if you are catering to the superior department, you can still That doesn't require millions of liquidated damages, right? Oh, this is a perfect job

As a result, Cao Cao came when he said Cao Cao.

At around two o'clock, Zhang Kui, the editor-in-chief of Beijing Education Press, called. As soon as he got up, he blew himself up at his house and revealed his identity.

Zhang Ye smiled and said, "Do you have a problem with me?"

Zhang Kui was the one who advocated asking for liquidated damages from Zhang Ye. The main reason why things got so bad that time was because of the banning order. Their publishing house believed that Zhang Ye would definitely start from the entertainment industry. disappeared and would never appear again, so I thought about making a final profit and recovering a little bit of the losses. After all, many of the printed copies of "Ghost Blows Out the Lamp" were removed from the shelves and returned, but in fact, their publishing house You know, they didn't lose anything, but actually made a lot of money. The popularity of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" was not average. Their final act of charging liquidated damages was actually squeezing the last drop of Zhang Ye's blood. Want to squeeze the last value out of him.

But who would have thought that things would develop beyond Zhang Kui's expectations. After being banned, Zhang Ye not only did not leave the public eye, but his popularity soared. He appeared on camera every day. Even two hours ago, the radio and television broadcast Zhang Ye's Zhang Kui's name was removed from the list of bad artists. This was obviously a surprise and unexpected to Zhang Kui. If he had known this, he would definitely not have done it so brilliantly.

Zhang Kui had many thoughts in his mind, but he chuckled and said: "Teacher Zhang, we may have had some misunderstandings before. In fact, the liquidated damages we asked for at that time were to give an explanation to the superiors. You should be able to understand. We couldn't help but do many things. The banning order at that time was the most serious in history. No one dared to neglect it. Haha, it's better now. Congratulations to Mr. Zhang for returning to the entertainment industry. We have already guessed it. With you His skills and abilities will come back sooner or later, and we can continue to cooperate again."

Zhang Ye smiled half-heartedly, "Continue to cooperate?"

"Well." Zhang Kui said to himself: "The liquidated damages of 3.5 million last time were just a formality, a formality. Now that you have lifted the ban, the liquidated damages can naturally be returned to you. "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" "The publishing house will re-sign the copyright for your new work "The Legend of Wukong". We will continue to cooperate and work together to promote "The Legend of Wukong" and start it. I will be personally responsible for this."

Zhang Ye understood what he meant.

The Beijing Education Publishing House wants the copyright of "The Legend of Wukong" from him. As long as he hands over the publication of "The Legend of Wukong" to their publishing house, they will return the previous liquidated damages and continue to take back the copyright of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" Simplified copyright, in other words, if Zhang Ye's new book is not signed to them, and if the copyright of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" is not given back to them, then the 3.5 million liquidated damages will naturally not be returned.

This is asking Zhang Ye for money, trying to force him to sign a contract

Zhang Ye was still thinking about when he would settle the score with his wife. Unexpectedly, the other party found him first and threatened him with inducements. I also want the copyright for his new book

ha

Zhang Ye said directly: "Editor Zhang, do you know that when you asked for 3.5 million liquidated damages, why did I call you without thinking?"

"Huh?" Zhang Kui was startled. In fact, this matter has been something their publishing house has been wondering about. Logically speaking, no one else would have agreed so readily. Otherwise, they would not give it, or else they would bargain for it. I have never seen it before. Zhang Ye had never given money so readily.

"Because." Zhang Ye said: "The losses that your publishing house will face will far exceed the 3.5 million yuan, so I gave you pleasure and pleasure at the time." This guy has a character that will retaliate when he has a grudge. When he was chased and beaten by the Beijing Education Publishing House, it was obviously not Zhang Ye's style not to pay it back. If you eat mine, I don't need you to spit it back. I don't need this little money either. I will let it stop him. In your belly, I will feel uncomfortable for the rest of my life

Zhang Kui's face darkened, obviously he didn't believe it. What's the loss? What losses can they have? Even if they can't talk about "The Legend of Wukong", at most they won't be able to make the money. How can there be losses? Oh, inexplicable

The phone was hung up.

the other side.

Beijing Education Press.

Zhang Kui laughed it off and started to deal with today's work. He didn't take Zhang Ye's words to heart at all. It was a pity that there was no copy of "The Legend of Wukong", but their publishing house would not stop publishing it just because they couldn't sign the book.

However, things were obviously not as simple as Zhang Kui thought. He never expected that Zhang Ye's words would come true immediately and so quickly.

An hour later, Jingcheng Education Press received a rectification notice from the superior department and a frightening review notice.

The whole publishing house was in chaos

"How could that happen?"

"What? This..."

"Why is this happening?"

More than a dozen publications from their publishing house have been ordered to be removed from the shelves.

"The Widow's Spring".

"milk".

"Tang Dazhang Crosstalk Collection - Audio and Video Products".

"One Hundred Selections of Crosstalk - Audiovisual Products".

Wait, wait, etc., all of them have been cut, and most of them have just been released. Even Tang Dazhang's cross talk collection was the copyright they just bought. They just spent a lot of resources and funds on promotion, the CDs were carved, and the packaging was all It's done, but it hasn't been released yet, so why is it banned? They took a look at the instructions given by superior departments. Some of them were because the content of the novel involved sensitive information, and some were because of suspected plagiarism and illegal words in the cross talk jokes.

urgent meeting

All the senior management of the publishing house are here

Zhang Kui was really anxious this time, "What happened? Is there really such a problem?"

A female deputy editor-in-chief said anxiously: "I just asked someone to check. The reason for the removal given by the superiors does exist, but the situation is very minor, and... things of this level were fine before. , other publishing houses are doing it, why is it suddenly censored this time?”

Another person asked, "What about other publishers? Have they been notified of their removal?"

A young man said: "I just asked, everything else is fine. The one who received the rectification notice and large-scale removal notice is our publishing house."

Everyone was stunned, "This..."

Zhang Kui said loudly: "Contact me immediately and communicate with the above to see if there is room for relaxation. This batch of novels and audio-visual products must not be removed from the shelves. No publisher can bear the loss. If necessary, you can follow the above According to the regulations, some clips will be deleted, but they must be guaranteed to be put on the shelves for normal sales.”

There was a middle-aged man in charge of this matter who immediately went to the public relations department, but when he came back to the conference room ten minutes later, he had a gloomy look on his face.

A senior executive asked: "How's it going?"

The person in charge took a breath and said: "No, those named works must be removed from the shelves, and modifications are not allowed. There is no room for negotiation, and... it will be implemented immediately today."

Zhang Kui was confused, "Isn't it possible to modify it?"

The person in charge shook his head, "We need to wait for notification when the approval will be approved again, but an acquaintance secretly told me not to have high hopes.

Zhang Kui slammed the table angrily, "Why?"

A middle-aged editor said: "Isn't this bullying?"

"There is a new leader above, and the new officer must take action after taking office. Are we... a typical example of being caught? But why is it us?

There was a lot of depression and complaints in the conference room, and everyone was in a panic.

These are more than a dozen excellent works, especially those cross talk collections. After this cross talk competition, although the competition was suspended, the release of Zhang Ye's wonderful cross talk that surpassed this era actually brought the entire cross talk industry to the forefront. It has reached a higher level, becoming more and more popular and attracting more and more attention, so they spent a lot of money to use Dongfeng to make a batch of cross-talk audio and video products, but now they are banned before selling a single CD? This is simply nightmare news for their Beijing Education Press.

Finished

Big loss this time

Just counting the suppressed works and CDs, the loss is more than one million. This is still the small boss's, and there are also suppressed copyrights, publicity fees, and the resources used. This loss has already It's immeasurable. If it's more than a few million, it's going to be a loss of tens of millions.

And not only the financial loss, but also the reputation, credibility, and the golden brand of their publishing house will plummet. You know, this incident will definitely cause them to lose a large number of authors. Why? Because there is nothing wrong with other publishing houses, and they are all fine. Only your Beijing Education Publishing House has a problem? Was this or that banned by the censorship department? This obviously gives the authors a sense of unrest. People will think that your publishing house has poor public relations and it is too dangerous to publish here. If you cut off other people's cross talk CDs today, will your own works be cut off tomorrow? They may not sign their next work. Therefore, this kind of loss in reputation is simply countless times more serious than the loss in money. It shakes their foundation.

The losses are more than heavy? ?

The female deputy editor-in-chief was suddenly startled, "Could this matter be related to Zhang Ye's lifting of the ban? Our publishing house was a little too harsh on Zhang Ye."

"Zhang Ye?"

"It's him?"

"Yes, the new leader was from Peking University before."

"Is Zhang Ye really trying to settle scores after the fall? How could he have such energy?"

A few people were very angry

At this moment, Zhang Kui also thought about Zhang Ye's phone call and Zhang Ye's "bold words". Thinking about it now, Zhang Kui's heart felt cold. He didn't know if Zhang Ye planned this matter. , but he knew that this matter definitely had something to do with Zhang Ye

The female deputy editor-in-chief sighed, paused, and sighed again, "I made a suggestion at the beginning that there should be a leeway. Even if Zhang Ye is banned, it cannot be said that he is too evil. He has never been It cannot be judged by common sense, alas, it is too late to say anything now."

The huge amount of liquidated damages they demanded that time was indeed due to their publisher being unreasonable. Now it seems that their publisher may have really made a fatal mistake, because they did everything so well that they now have no room for maneuver.

"What should I do?"

"If they are all taken off the shelves, we will have no funds to continue operations. These losses cannot be made up. Over time, a large number of authors will definitely be lost."

"Damn"

"Editor Zhang, please think of a way."

If the gap cannot be filled, they all have to bear the responsibility.

Zhang Kui didn't say a word. He knew there was nothing he could do. At this moment, he felt a trace of regret in his heart. A single thought caused a devastating blow to their publishing house, and his future might also be ruined. It will be ruined because of this. You don’t need to ask to know that the position of editor-in-chief will definitely be replaced in the future. The cause and effect of this is the 3.5 million liquidated damages? Now think about it, what kind of money is this to your mother? It's only 3.5 million. This is money that no large publishing house will take seriously. As a result, because of this, their current tangible and intangible losses combined... It may be more than ten times more than that amount.

Is it worth it?

Definitely not worth it

But when Document No. 43 was issued some time ago, who would have thought that Zhang Ye would not be affected, and now he is back in the entertainment industry. If he had known this, what kind of liquidated damages and money would he ask for? By providing help in times of need, not only would their publishing house not suffer such a disaster, but the new book "The Legend of Wukong" would definitely be signed to their publishing house, which would definitely make them a huge profit. What happened to them? He ended his relationship with Zhang Ye early and added insult to injury, which led to the current situation.

Zhang Kui slammed the table again and said: "Try to recover the losses as much as possible."

"What do you mean?" the female deputy editor asked.

Zhang Kui made a stern face and said: "You can recover as much as you can for copyright fees."

Another place.

Tang Dazhang was watching TV at home when the phone rang.

"Hello, Teacher Tang, I'm Xiaoyan from Jingcheng Education Press."

"Oh, hehe, hello Xiaoyan, what do you want from me? Is the cross talk album going to be sold?"

"No, uh, there is something wrong with your cross talk collection. The relevant departments above have issued a notice of removal, so... we are contacting you because we want to discuss the original copyright fee."

"Removed?"

"Yes, I just received the notification."

"Do you want the royalties back?"

"to us……"

"The lack of publication is your problem, what does it have to do with me?"

"After all, there was a problem with your work, which led to its removal. It is impossible for our publishing house to bear all the losses, don't you think so?"

"There's no need to mention this matter, it's impossible."

"Teacher Tang, you are also a leader in the cross talk world. This..."

"I said, this has nothing to do with me, the copyright fee cannot be refunded to you."

"This situation is stated in the contract. If you are like this, I can only tell the legal department and leave it to the lawyers to solve the problem."

"Okay, I'll wait"

After hanging up the line, Tang Dazhang became worried for a while with a dark face. Did he not read the almanac these days? Why are you so unlucky? He had just learned the news about Zhang Ye's lifting of the ban at noon, which made him feel very bad. Now that such a heartbreaking thing has happened again, maybe he will need to file a lawsuit? Damn, who have I provoked these days?

at the same time.

Some crosstalk actors whose copyrights were bought by Jingcheng Education Publishing House have received calls one after another, asking them to return their original copyright fees.

One of Tang Dazhang's apprentices: "What? Impossible"

An old crosstalk actor who boycotted Zhang Ye before said, "Don't even think about it."

There is also the author of "Widow's Spring", who is also a writer who has always questioned Zhang Ye in the literary world. This time he is also on the removal list. It was enough to be angry that his new book was banned, but now the publisher actually wants him Return the advance payment? Of course he didn't agree

All sides quarrel

All kinds of tear-ups

There was a fight between the Beijing Education Publishing House and Tang Dazhang and others. This matter was reported in some self-media news that afternoon, and some newspapers also published it in inconspicuous corners. I heard that the dispute was even to the point of filing a lawsuit. , I guess I won’t be able to finish the fight in a while.

at home.

Zhang Ye also saw these news. Seeing that these bosses, who had all caused trouble for him in the past, were now yelling at each other. You bite me and I bite you. He also spread his hands and stopped paying attention. , I felt it was too boring, so I sat down in front of the computer humming a little tune and continued writing the extras for "The Legend of Wukong".

This account has been settled with them.