"Do you think that given the current sales of their magazine, they won't be able to win over newsstands and bookstores?
It's unstoppable. Zhutian Literature Network has already gained momentum.
As long as they are given some time, they will eventually master offline channels smoothly, so we can only gamble. We gamble that they will be conscientious and won't discard us once we've served our purpose.
That's it. Find someone to contact Zhutian Literature Network.
We are willing to cooperate with them by offering our channels.
At this point, seeing that some magazine editors-in-chief and editors-in-chief were still unconvinced, Liu Yunxiao could only continue to explain:
"You must understand that we are not the only ones with offline channels. Dozens of large magazine publishers nationwide have comparable offline channels, and there are hundreds more whose channels are slightly inferior to ours. If someone beats us to it and uses their channels to cooperate with Zhutian Literature Network.
By then, they won't want to cooperate with us even if we ask.
So, please don't feel indignant.
This is the reality. Hurry up and contact them. I'm also finding a fallback for you. If one day you really can't make it and go bankrupt, you might be able to work at Zhutian Literature Network, or the entire company might be acquired by Zhutian Literature Network, and you'll be absorbed too.
It's always beneficial to build good relations in advance."
What Liu Yunxiao didn't say was that by cooperating and building good relationships in advance, they might be able to sell at a better price if they were acquired, which would be better than direct bankruptcy or collapse.
He also had to make plans for himself.
Next, of course, was a detailed negotiation on how to cooperate and what concessions could be made.
Facing their demands and cooperation invitations.
Ding Yun did not refuse.
Not only did she not refuse, but she responded enthusiastically, and signed a deep cooperation agreement with their literary website for mutual traffic. They could barely be considered to have achieved a win-win cooperation.
This left other companies that were a step too late.
Beating their chests and stomping their feet in regret.
With offline channels, Ding Yun truly achieved success both online and offline. Except for the continued poor sales of Zhutian Literature, the sales of the other seven magazines, each issue, could exceed two million, with some reaching five million. Coupled with the fact that she sold weekly publications, her total monthly sales were absolutely terrifying.
However, the market is only so large.
Even with continuous growth, it's difficult to achieve significant growth in a short period. Therefore, for every magazine Ding Yun sold, it naturally meant that other magazine publishers' magazines wouldn't sell, or their sales would plummet.
Facing this situation, they had no other response besides issuing statements accusing Ding Yun of disrupting the market. After all, it was a free market, and if you couldn't sell your products, you couldn't force readers not to buy them.
Most importantly, even if they wanted to force them.
They didn't have the ability.
Many magazine publishers could only reluctantly make changes again, either change their industry, cut their losses, settle for lower sales, or have their contracted authors imitate the popular styles and plots of Zhutian Literature Network to write novels, hoping to attract attention and maintain some sales.
In addition, some romance magazines managed to retain a significant portion of their sales by offering various gifts and merchandise, which was much better than other magazines that made no changes.
Overall, it was a fierce competition.
Originally, although everyone competed, it was at most occasionally competing in content and sales. But Ding Yun competed not only in content, quantity, and quality but also in price.
She was practically pushing them to their deaths in this competition.
Some who were willing to compete followed suit reluctantly.
Those who couldn't keep up could only lie down and wait for decline.
At this point, Ding Yun promptly stopped various reforms. She couldn't continue to push the competition further. If she did, some magazine publishers would fight her to the death. Anyway, she had already taken the lion's share, and there was no need to leave nothing for others to drink. The current situation was good enough.
...
A few months later.
Ding Yun finally welcomed the college entrance examination.
To maintain a low profile, she still didn't give her all, and finally scored 18th in the entire prefecture. This result was enough to make her family happy and her neighbors surprised, but not enough to cause a sensation. It was just right to be low-key.
As the college entrance examination results were released, Li Qinghua and his wife, as in previous years, held a lively promotion banquet for Ding Yun, and then they completely let Ding Yun fend for herself.
They began to focus their attention and care on their son.
Since he was the only high school student left at home, he was also the only high school student whose grades were very unstable, and they didn't know if he could successfully get into an ordinary university.
If they didn't care about him, who else would they care about?
He was even luckier than Ding Yun. Ding Yun only started to receive enthusiastic attention from her parents in her third year of high school, while he was already enjoying this treatment in his second year. Xu Hui even had the idea of renting a place near the high school to accompany him in his studies.
One could imagine how difficult his life was.
In this world, some people yearn for fatherly and motherly love, and the care of their parents. But Li Dedong clearly did not. He wished he could go to college immediately, no matter how bad the university, as long as he could get away from his parents.
Therefore, unable to bear the constant attention from his mother, Xu Hui, he directly signed up for a tutoring class, officially starting to leave early and return late, trying to stay away from home as much as possible.
This touched Li Qinghua and Xu Hui immensely.
They were almost in tears, lamenting that their son had grown up.
However, they thought Li Dedong had enrolled in a tutoring class to study academic subjects. In reality, Li Dedong had enrolled in a paid e-sports tutoring class.
This matter was only revealed more than a month later.
When Xu Hui thought of going to the tutoring class her son had enrolled in to ask the teacher about his son's progress after more than a month of study, it was exposed.
What followed was naturally an earthquake.
An earthquake within the family. Fortunately, Ding Yun had already reported to college by then and was not affected at all, nor did she understand the specific process.
She only knew that the final outcome was.
Li Qinghua arranged for Li Dedong to take a six-month leave of absence, confiscated all his money, and sent him to a relative's construction site for supervision. He was to eat what the construction workers ate and do just as much work.
Then, less than a week later.
Li Dedong completely surrendered and compromised.
He expressed his willingness to study hard and strive for improvement.
Then, Li Qinghua withdrew his leave of absence application for him, canceled his accommodation, and cut off all his pocket money. He asked his mother Xu Hui to go with him to rent a place near the high school to cook, accompany him in his studies, and supervise him.
After all, he was the only remaining problem in the family.
If accompanying him and supervising him would help.
It was worth wasting time, no matter how much.
However, it was still uncertain how it would turn out or if it would be effective. Ding Yun didn't pay much attention because after she went to college, she became busy again."