Chapter 154: Chapter 132: Why Would a Ride-Hailing Driver Buy Novel Copyrights?

This is just a mere cashout of 200,000, I need to continue gifting.

Yang Chen made rounds of gifting to the streamers he liked, and ended up spending only 2 million.

No one competed with him in gifting, so he lost interest and stopped.

At this moment, Yang Chen thought of Yuan Xiaozao.

Yang Chen opened the Qidian APP and read a few new Chapters of Yuan Xiaozao’s novel.

Purely from the tyrant CEO genre, her writing was excellent.

Yang Chen suddenly had an idea, why not buy the full rights to this novel?

When Yang Chen has money in the future, investing in a film company to make this novel into a tyrant CEO drama is also a very good attempt.

Thus, Yang Chen found the QQ number of the person responsible for copyrights on the Qidian website and applied to add as a friend.

Soon, the friend request was approved.

Yang Chen was straightforward about wanting to purchase the full copyrights of Yuan Xiaozao’s "You and the Spring Breeze Are Guests", and asked the other party to name a price.

The copyright customer service had never encountered such an assertive customer before, so she felt Yang Chen was toying with her.

Copyright Customer Service: "Mr. Yang, let’s talk about the details first. Talking directly about the price is a bit beyond my skill."

Yang Chen: "I don’t have time for nonsense. I want full copyrights. Just name a price."

The copyright customer service got a little angry, thinking Yang Chen was deliberately probing the copyright fees at Qidian.

So, she intentionally quoted a high price.

"Based on the estimated copyright fee for other works, full rights for this one are about 3 million."

Yang Chen: "No problem! 3 million it is, have your manager contact me tomorrow. Also, inform them that my requirement is to pay the 3 million through rewarding the work. Contact me before 9 AM tomorrow, or don’t bother!"

Yang Chen then sent over his phone number.

The copyright customer service lady was suddenly dumbfounded; this was the most straightforward and generous buyer she had ever communicated with.

However, to confirm Yang Chen’s purchase intention, she still decided to call first for clarification.

After confirming that Yang Chen indeed wanted to purchase the full rights of "You and the Spring Breeze Are Guests", the customer service promised him that she would have the manager contact him before 9 AM the next morning.

According to the 55 revenue split between the website and the author, for Yang Chen to pay Qidian 3 million, he would need to reward Yuan Xiaozao’s work with 6 million, ensuring Qidian would receive 3 million in copyright fees.

Turning the 6 million into gifts, combined with over 2 million already spent, would exactly cover 8 million, plus the funds in his account, the first phase of funds for acquiring the resort, 100 million, could be gathered.

At 8:30 in the morning, after dropping off a customer, Yang Chen was resting with a glass of water when the head of Qidian’s copyright department, Yuan Jingyi, called.

Yuan Jingyi: "Hello, Mr. Yang, I am Yuan Jingyi from Qidian’s copyright department. I heard from our customer service that you are interested in purchasing the full rights to the novel ’You and the Spring Breeze Are Guests’?"

Yang Chen: "Yes! How much?"

Yuan Jingyi: "Shouldn’t we discuss the details, our responsibilities, and obligations first?"

Yang Chen: "Just give me the full rights, I’m not interested in the rest."

Yuan Jingyi: "Alright. Shall we meet to discuss? Are you in Hai City?"

Yang Chen: "Then you go to Binjiang Villa No. 1 and talk to Yu Shishi. I still have to drive, no time to discuss so many details with you."

Yuan Jingyi was stunned and tentatively asked: "Driving? Mr. Yang, what is your job?"

Yang Chen: "I’m a Bibi ride-share driver. But rest assured, I can afford the copyright fee. Just go to Binjiang Villa No. 1 to talk to Yu Shishi. I have to take orders now, hanging up."

Yuan Jingyi was dumbfounded. Could this be a prank?

Could a ride-share driver spend 3 million to buy the full rights of this novel?

Moreover, wanting to pay by gifting means he would have to shell out 6 million.

It was hard to believe.

However, as the overlord of online literature, Qidian naturally had ways to deal with pranksters.

After much consideration, Yuan Jingyi decided to go to Binjiang Villa No. 1.

If there was really a buyer wanting to purchase the rights, she’d increase her personal performance.

If Yang Chen was pranking, then it would be handled through legal reporting.

The Qidian legal department was no pushover.

At noon, Yang Chen was eating while watching fellow drivers in the group curse the Bibi platform.

Driver Zhang Chunlai: "Damn, picked up a drunk passenger last night, who secretly puked on the seat. Later, I added 200 yuan for cleaning to his order. He didn’t pay and even complained about me, and today the platform fined me 400 yuan. Damn, I really suffered a loss."

Driver Zheng Daqian: "Sigh... speaking of which, I’ve suffered losses too. I asked the platform’s customer service for the customer’s phone number, and they said they couldn’t provide it to protect customer privacy. So, I couldn’t negotiate the cleaning money with the customer and had to add 280 yuan for cleaning to the order’s additional charges. The customer also complained about me, and the platform deducted 400 yuan from me. I argued with customer service, and they said cleaning fees count as additional fees, which must be agreed upon by both the driver and passenger. Damn, would the passengers agree to pay over two hundred for cleaning? How could there be unanimous agreement?"

Driver Chen Xing: "We always say the platform is too unfriendly to drivers; why don’t we strike and demand the platform reimburse cleaning fees? We can’t keep suffering losses in silence."

Driver Zhang Hu: "Don’t make trouble, the platform isn’t short of drivers. Whoever makes the most fuss gets kicked out, and others continue making money driving. So, don’t be foolish and play the hero."

Driver Liu Hu: "Sigh... how I wish one of our platform’s drivers would stand up to the platform, forcing them to change the rules. This would be a welfare benefit for us drivers. If someone can do it, we’d form a driver union, elect them as the chairman, and lead everyone against the platform’s unfairness. What do you all think?"

Driver Zheng Daqian: "I think it’s a good suggestion. Our driver community is fragmented and indeed needs a leader to guide us in working properly against injustice. But who has this ability? And as you all know about our country’s unions, they’re just an organization for company employee management, not really considering worker welfare."

...

At 10 PM, Yang Chen prepared to take the last order and then go home to sleep.

After taking the order, Yang Chen navigated to the entrance of a bar.

Two beauties, rated 85 points, wearing hot pants and low-cut tops got in the car.

The moment they got in, they were yelling and shouting, clearly having drunk a lot...

Source: Webnovel.com, updated by lotustale.com