"Mn, thank you, Sister Bai."
Fang Qiu smiled and nodded, while simultaneously casting her gaze toward the cake lying quietly in the box.
This cake was coated with a layer of faint light-purple jam, echoing the milky white cream. The fruity fragrance and the sweet scent of cream permeated the air.
It was indeed a new flavor.
Unexpectedly, after not visiting for just a few days, that Mondstadt shop had developed a takeout service and incidentally launched a new cake flavor. This made Fang Qiu marvel involuntarily.
"It's just a pity that shop's drinks can't be taken out, otherwise I would have brought one for you," Bai Qing sighed with regret and said.
"It's fine, it's fine. I'm already very happy to have dessert to eat."
Fang Qiu smiled, picked up a fork, and gently cut off a piece. Only after cutting it did Fang Qiu discover with surprise that this cake had actually been improved. It was layered, just like cakes from her past life.
The middle layer was cream wrapped around fruit pulp.
Fang Qiu parted her tender lips slightly and put the cake into her mouth. A cloying sweetness immediately spread through her oral cavity.
"How does it taste?" Bai Qing asked.
"Very delicious, I like it very much," Fang Qiu nodded gently, smiled, and said.
"As long as it's good. When I bought it, I was hesitating, afraid you wouldn't be used to eating Mondstadt desserts," Bai Qing said with a smile.
The cake Bai Qing brought her wasn't big, and Fang Qiu soon swept it clean. After finishing, Fang Qiu was still left wanting more. After all, Fang Qiu had only eaten a little dim sum for breakfast.
"Eating too much of this kind of cake makes one feel cloyed. A while ago, when I went to eat with my seniors, one of my seniors ate too much in one breath and felt nauseous. Fortunately, she held it in and didn't vomit.
"She complained to us the next day that after returning home, she kept wanting to vomit. Her husband thought she was pregnant. When she came home from work the next day, she found that all her aunts and relatives had come to care for her.
"Her mother-in-law even personally stewed chicken soup for her. She sat on the chair for a full two hours, hesitating on how to explain that she just wanted to vomit from eating too much cake, not that she was pregnant..."
When speaking of this, Bai Qing couldn't help covering her mouth and laughing.
Hearing this, Fang Qiu also couldn't help but smile gently along with her.
That eating too much cake makes one feel cloyed is indeed a difficult problem. Even in her past life where industrial technology was extremely developed, very few pastry chefs could solve it.
A while ago, Xiangling actually solved it, but it was a pity she added mixed liquor into the cream. If it weren't for the fact that she would get drunk upon touching alcohol, she could have eaten cake as a meal.
She wondered how Xiangling's improvements were going.
After chatting for a while, Bai Qing coughed and said, "Alright, let's get back to business."
As she spoke, she took three sales reports from the documents and handed them to Fang Qiu.
"Mn."
Fang Qiu nodded and took the sales reports Bai Qing handed over.
"The first one is the sales data of your previous two books in Liyue. The second one is the sales volume of your Sword and Fairy, including the first volume and subsequent volumes, for this week. The last one is the sales sheet of your books in Inazuma. Take a look," Bai Qing said with a mysterious smile.
Fang Qiu first opened the first one.
Mn, the growth was very ordinary. For the two books during this period, a total of over ten thousand copies were sold.
It was just that it wasn't much more.
Translated into terms of web novels from her past life, it meant the two books had an average increase of five thousand subscriptions.
Ten thousand copies, twenty per copy. That is two hundred thousand Mora.
After splitting the profit and paying taxes, it was estimated that about eighty thousand Mora would remain.
Unexpectedly, so long after finishing these two books, there could still be an income of eighty thousand Mora.
Fang Qiu nodded with satisfaction, then opened the second sales report.
Ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, ten thousands.
Mn...
It was a pity, the unit was still ten thousand, not one hundred thousand.
Fang Qiu moved her gaze forward. When she saw the single volume sales figure clearly, her pupils couldn't help but contract suddenly.
The first digit at the beginning was nine!
The sales volume of the second volume was 98,832 copies!
The sales volume of the third volume was 98,457 copies!
The fourth volume...
Although the sales volume for each volume was constantly shrinking, the overall degree of reduction did not exceed two thousand copies.
At the end of the report was the sales volume of the first volume, over twenty thousand copies. The first volume was released first. The first week's sales were over seventy thousand. Adding them up, it was only a step away from one hundred thousand sales.
Sword and Fairy had a total of five volumes.
How much money did this count as...
Mn... calculating is too troublesome, let's just go with one hundred thousand.
A sales volume of five hundred thousand, twenty per copy. A full ten million Mora!
Fang Qiu couldn't help but suck in a breath of cold air, almost suffocating.
Oh my god.
Although she had to split half with the publishing house and pay high taxes. But even so, adding the first volume, a single Sword and Fairy had earned a full three or four million Mora.
Could she go to the shipyard ahead of time to ask about the price of a private ship?
"There's still the data report from Inazuma that you haven't looked at," seeing Fang Qiu unable to suppress the corners of her mouth rising, Bai Qing couldn't help smiling and said.
"Mn."
Fang Qiu gently exhaled, nodded, and opened the third report.
The third one was from Inazuma.
The sales volume in Inazuma was also extremely astonishing. The Eternal and Your Lie in April combined had a total of over one hundred thousand copies.
However, after layer upon layer of profit sharing, it seemed only a few hundred thousand Mora remained.
But all in all, it was already very good.
Thinking of this, Fang Qiu couldn't help but slightly suck in a breath of cold air again. She actually felt that a few hundred thousand Mora was only at the level of "not bad."
Her consumption outlook had indeed upgraded. This wouldn't do.
After finishing the new book sales reports, Bai Qing brought up the matter of the new book.
"By the way, regarding the new book, do you have any leads?" Bai Qing raised her eyebrows and asked.
During this period, Fang Qiu had written a total of three books. Two short stories, one medium-long story.
The word count was already very astonishing. However, as a professional editor, when an author finishes a book, it is natural to push for a new book, right? It is an unalterable principle.
"I do."
Fang Qiu nodded. In these days, she hadn't purely been lying flat and slacking off; she had been thinking about the new book.
"Wait, you should still remember those words I said to you last time, right?" Bai Qing frowned and asked.
"Of course. Don't worry, this time I will definitely write a grand reunion ending."
Seeing Bai Qing's expression of disbelief, Fang Qiu couldn't help smiling helplessly and said.
"Are you sure?"
Bai Qing frowned, thinking things weren't that simple.
"I'm sure. The kind that definitely makes people's lip corners rise after reading."
Fang Qiu nodded and said. Last time she had perfunctorily answered Bai Qing somewhat, but this time, she seriously wanted to write a grand reunion ending.
"Alright then."
Bai Qing nodded.
Seeing that Bai Qing didn't continue questioning, Fang Qiu couldn't help smiling. Just as she intended to pick up a Lotus Cake to put in her mouth, Bai Qing took a piece of paper and placed it in front of her.
"Put it in writing."
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