The Teacher is Not Interested in Your Love Story and the Second Illness

The cumulative sales volume of "Love Metronome" in the original book is 50 copies.

What is this concept?This means that the sales volume can enter the top ten light novels of the year!

And the cumulative sales of five volumes...

(The passer-by heroine of the Maruto old thief, the sales volume of the first six volumes is less than 10 copies, and the sales volume of the first nine volumes is 22 copies)

Even with the lowest 7% royalties, Shiyu would have at least 2100 million yen, which is 120 million yuan in soft girl coins.

At least, at least 2100 million yen, because the royalties are not paid according to how much is sold, but according to how much is printed.

Even if it is printed and not sold, you have to pay for it.

so envious……

I'm so envious of Lun Ye_(:з」∠)_

Chapter 22. Traffic Jam

"40 million..."

Machida Sonoko's eyes widened when she heard the words. Although she was optimistic about Shiyu, she never thought that "Love Metronome" would sell 40 copies.

The complete plot outline of "Metronome in Love" is five volumes in total. To reach a cumulative sales volume of 40 copies, the average volume needs to be 8 volumes, which is already enough to compete for the first sales volume of the year.

Machida Sonoko originally thought that it would be good if the average volume sales reached around 3, which is a statistic only for top-notch works, but she didn't expect that Natsuki was even more optimistic about Shiwa than she was.

She couldn't help thinking: In other words, Oreki-kun thinks that Shi-chan can become the top light novel writer?

However, the first volume of "Love Metronome" only sold over 8000 units. If it wasn't for her support, the second volume might have been cut in half.But if there is still no improvement in the second volume, or if the improvement is not great, then only the third volume will be cut in half.

Even Shiyu himself felt a little unbelievable after hearing the '40 volumes' that Xia Shukou said.

She just thought that her child could become a talent, but now he was about to die, and Xia Shu went straight to the first place, which made her wonder whether Xia Shu was fooling her casually. Rejected the royalties of tens of millions of yen!

"I'm not kidding."

Seeing the unbelieving expressions of both of them, Xia Shu explained: "I read the first volume of "Love Metronome" again, and I thought it was not bad at the time. But after I read the second volume, I already felt that This is going to be one of the best romantic comedies in years.

As long as Xia Shizi can maintain the momentum of improvement in writing level without breaking the plot, this "one" can also be removed.

Change to a good enough illustrator, with a matching announcement, and then add the linkage between comics and animations, and even games, the sales of 40 are just the minimum.

But it is too early to say these things, and now we must first prevent this work from being cut in half.

I also know why you would want to give me royalties.

You are worried about my character, thinking that I am too lazy to do my best to help you, because when I was the producer of "The Stranger Without Face", I left most of the work to Yukino, and your situation makes you feel I couldn't afford to take the risk myself, so I had to tie the two of us together with royalties.

But anyway, 4% is too much, and I think I deserve it.

This light novel is already very good, what I did was to find a way to let more people see it. "

Generally speaking, it is very difficult for a work whose first volume does not sell well to be brought back to life in the second volume, because the printing volume of the second volume is customized according to the sales volume of the first volume. It is generally the case that no matter how hard the author tries, The sales volume of the second volume is still not as good as that of the first volume.

Xia Shu felt that it was because of this reason that Shi Yu was so anxious to propose the royalty share.

After listening to Xia Shu's long speech, Shiyu was silent for a while, and then couldn't help but smile and said: "I forgot, Oreki-kun is still an old middle school patient."

Xia Shu asked flatly: "Do you think I'm imagining?"

"No, I'm referring to your refusal of a high reward."

Shiyu straightened his face, stood up, bowed slightly to Xia Shu, and said, "Thank you very much Oreki-kun for being so optimistic about me, and the specific commission will be appointed by Oreki-kun. However, there is one thing that I think must be paid." clearly written in the contract."

"what?"

""Love Metronome" is just a light novel on the verge of death. If it is really saved by Oreki-kun, and the cumulative sales can exceed 40 copies, then I will give Oreki-kun an additional 4% Royalties because you are the lifesaver of this kid."

"This……"

Xia Shu wanted to say something, but suddenly looked behind Shi Yu and Machida Sonoko in a daze.

"What's wrong, Oreki-kun?"

As Shiwa asked, she tried to turn her head to see what Natsuki was looking at, and so did Machida Sonoko next to her.At this time, Xia Shu quickly came back to his senses, and brought the attention of the two of them back.

"4% is still too much, and the horoscope has not been written yet, let's talk about further plans first. Ms. Machida, how much resources can you provide for "Love Metronome"?"

Machida Sonoko didn't look back, but looked at Natsuki and replied: "There are no resources left, the second volume of "Love Metronome" can only be released."

"Can you change the artist? The quality of the illustrations in the first volume is not satisfactory. Presumably, in the case of poor sales, the level of illustrations in the second volume will only be worse."

Generally speaking, an illustrator will take on several jobs at the same time, including game original drawings, animation character original projects, magazines, fanbooks, etc. Otherwise, it is absolutely impossible to survive by only drawing dozens of illustrations for light novels a year.

If the sales volume of the first volume is not good, the price of each illustration in the second volume may be lower, and the artist will naturally not pay more attention to Shi Yu, a pure newcomer. Draw a book, maybe it will be sold at the comic exhibition?

What is the difference between an artist who draws illustrations seriously and those who don't?The illustrator of a light novel about a youthful love story that is really problematic, the illustrations drawn before and after the novel became popular, the difference is so big that people will mistakenly think that it is a different artist.

Although the quality of the illustrations is still not high, at least it is better than the previous volumes.

For most light novels, the quality of the illustrations will directly affect the sales of the novel, because good illustrations are far more attractive to new readers than a paragraph of text.

Machida Sonoko shook her head, showing a helpless smile.

"I think so too, so the original artist has not been asked to continue drawing the illustrations for the second volume. Unfortunately, I can't find a more suitable illustrator in a short time. Although invitations have been sent to several artists, but Both were rejected.

Oreki-kun, can you please invite the artist from the society 'rouge en rouge' you belonged to? "