According to Teacher Su Yu's previous publishing speed and frequency, he should have sent over the initial chapters of his next new book before the legend of the condor heroes was about to conclude.
Both the chu liuxiang legend and the legend of the condor heroes followed this rhythm.
However, this time, Teacher Su Yu had no movement whatsoever until today, when the legend of the condor heroes concluded, which made the Shengshi Fenghua Website a bit uncertain.
They had just increased Teacher Su Yu's share, and as a result, he wasn't going to start a new book?
That's too hurtful, isn't it?
Hearing that Wu Yue was indeed looking for him about the new book, Su Yu shook his head helplessly.
His publishing frequency had been too high these past few months, so this time he planned to take a break for a period before releasing a new work.
Even though he had already finished writing xiao ao jianghu, and the return of the condor heroes had already passed two-thirds of its word count!
"I have no plans to release a new book this year; the next new book will be released in January of next year."
Su Yu expressed his thoughts.
Wu Yue on the other end of the phone felt his heart sink at first, but then he relaxed and felt relieved.
Fortunately, Teacher Su Yu was only planning to rest for a little over a month, which wouldn't have a significant impact on the website's martial arts section.
Moreover, due to the popularity of Gu Zhou Suo Li Weng's three martial arts novels, more authors were now starting new martial arts books on the website.
There were even one or two that performed very well!
And now they just needed to get a definite publishing time so they could appease their readers.
"Okay! The website absolutely supports your decision! Oh, by the way, Teacher Su Yu, the physical book for the legend of the condor heroes is about to go on sale. Would it be convenient for you to sign some copies of the new book? The website plans to offer a thousand signed copies to give back to the readers this time."
Wu Yue spoke tentatively.
Have Su Yu directly sign and sell books?
Shengshi Fenghua had long given up on this unrealistic fantasy.
After all, they had also realized that Su Yu did not want to expose his identity as the martial arts novelist Gu Zhou Suo Li Weng.
But signed books should be fine, right? And a thousand copies, in their opinion, really wasn't much.
At that time, they would internally distribute a batch within the website, and the rest would be randomly given to readers who bought the physical book, which could indeed drive a wave of sales.
Well, let alone the readers, even the website's high-level executives and editors wanted to get a signed book from Su Yu!
This included Wu Yue himself.
"How about this, tomorrow afternoon I'll make time to go to the website headquarters to sign, but you must ensure confidentiality and not let me be exposed!"
After thinking about it, Su Yu nodded and agreed.
Now that his body had recovered, signing a name wouldn't be tiring, would it?
It's just that the five characters "Gu Zhou Suo Li Weng" are too long; should he simplify them then?
In the afternoon, the MV shooting continued to go very smoothly. Tomorrow morning, after shooting another scene at a different location, this MV would be finished.
For the remaining time, Zhao Xiaolu and her team needed to set up the shooting scene for the second MV, which was why Su Yu said he would have time to sign tomorrow afternoon.
It should be noted that they planned to shoot at least two MVs in five days.
Looking at the current progress, shooting three would not be a problem.
It was just that in terms of post-editing, Zhao Xiaolu and her team would have to work overtime and be more tired.
On the morning of the 20th, the first MV officially finished shooting. Han Jiangxue stayed behind to help set up the new location, while Su Yu took the car driven by Qin Gang to the Shengshi Fenghua headquarters.
As the two's car entered the underground parking lot, Su Yu saw Wu Yue and Hu Jian waiting there.
Moreover, at this time, there was truly not a single other person visible in the underground parking lot.
It was evident that their confidentiality work was truly thorough.
After getting out of the car, the three of them directly took the elevator to the large conference room on the top floor of the headquarters. Inside, a thousand copies of the new book, the legend of the condor heroes, neatly arranged and emitting the scent of ink, were already laid out.
"Shall we start? The sooner we finish, the sooner I can go home and rest." Su Yu felt that a thousand copies shouldn't be too difficult.
Wu Yue and Hu Jian didn't say anything either. One sat to Su Yu's left, the other to his right.
One was responsible for opening the new books and handing them to Su Yu for signing, while the other was responsible for neatly stacking the signed books.
This made Su Yu feel that these two must have done such things before!
Otherwise, it wouldn't be possible for them to be so professional!
However, if Wu Yue and Hu Jian knew Su Yu's thoughts, they would certainly scoff.
One is the Chief Editor, the other is an editor; besides you, which other author is worth them treating like this?
If they weren't worried about too many people causing gossip, why would they personally step in to help?
However, looking at the characters "Gu Zhou Suo Li Weng" written by Su Yu in wild cursive, both their eyes lit up.
Although it was the kind of scribble that, if you didn't know the author's name, you wouldn't know what was signed.
But it just gave people a feeling of great reverence!
If they hadn't known that Su Yu's calligraphy skills were also at a ceiling level, they would have already thought that Su Yu was fooling the readers.
And was Su Yu fooling them? Of course not!
This was the wild cursive signature he designed after a long time of thinking after he returned home last night.
It not only saves strokes but also has a very coherent and appealing overall appearance.
And so, in a short while, Su Yu had already signed hundreds of names with a flourish.
However, Su Yu did not get complacent for too long. When the signatures reached over two hundred, he himself started to not know what he was writing.
By the time he reached five hundred copies, Su Yu himself was numb.
If he hadn't asked Wu Yue and Hu Jian and learned that his signing quality hadn't declined, Su Yu would have started to doubt his life.
It took almost two hours for Su Yu to finally sign all the books in the conference room.
At this moment, he only felt that his hand was a little out of his own control.
And he also decided that such a thing would absolutely not happen a second time in a short period!
"Teacher Su Yu, you've really worked hard! Oh, by the way, may I ask if your next novel will still be a martial arts type?"
Wu Yue felt his hand was a little sore too, but he still couldn't hide the joy in his heart.
Among these signed books, he himself was going to take more than twenty copies!
Who told the people who pulled strings and asked him for Su Yu's signed books that he couldn't refuse?
And with one matter resolved, it was time to inquire about the matter he cared about even more.
If the medium-short story "amorous swordsman ruthless sword" was Su Yu's initial foray into the martial arts world as a test.
Then the chu liuxiang legend was the backbone that proved Su Yu's strength in martial arts novels.
And for the recently concluded the legend of the condor heroes, Wu Yue felt it was Su Yu's masterpiece in martial arts novels!
In fact, in Wu Yue's opinion, Su Yu's martial arts novels had already reached a ceiling level at this point.
Each of these three books was progressing and breaking through.
To surpass the legend of the condor heroes? Wu Yue felt it was not possible.
Therefore, he inquired whether Su Yu's next novel would change its style.