Gold Award Secured

500,000 yuan, 400,000 after tax. From Guo Wei's tone, the subsequent film and television adaptation of Kuala Lumpur Affairs is a sure thing and will soon be put on the agenda by Goose Factory.

Goose Factory even proposed to manage him as a person. Any one of these things, if it were Chen Yuanguang three months ago, would have caused his heart to surge with excitement.

However, after his threshold was greatly raised due to time travel, this matter did not cause any ripples in his heart. It was less exciting than when his monthly income from web novels first exceeded ten thousand.

When Chen Yuanguang realized that only three short months had passed, yet countless sails had already set forth and the winds were changing rapidly, he felt a sense of loss.

The world was still the same world as before, but he was no longer the same person he was back then.

Goose Factory was very efficient. Guo Wei replied to him that same evening, saying that it was possible to arrange for Levitt to have a private conversation with him. The duration of the conversation could not be guaranteed, but they would create an opportunity for him to be alone with Levitt.

This promise was enough. Chen Yuanguang was confident that he could shake Levitt's Dao heart with just a few words.

"Let's congratulate the winner of the Gold Award of the 10th Science Fiction New Star Award, Mr. 2477! Welcome!"

There was one Gold Award, two Silver Awards, and three Bronze Awards. In previous years, the prize money for the Gold Award winner was only 30,000 yuan. This year, due to it being the 10th anniversary, the specifications were also raised.

"Let's welcome Da Liu to present the award to our Science Fiction New Star Gold Award winner."

After Science Fiction World magazine and Goose Factory joined forces, this awards ceremony was particularly grand. The first day was the live judging session, and the second day was the awards ceremony in the morning. Science fiction masters presented the awards in the morning, and Michael Levitt would only arrive for the dialogue session in the afternoon.

"Congratulations, Kuala Lumpur Affairs is very well written. Some science fiction mystery works have great plot designs and great descriptions of the future, but the connection between the plot and future technology is not very clever.

Your work, however, gives me a sense of reality, as if the case actually happened.

Keep up the good work, young man. The future of Chinese science fiction depends on your generation," Da Liu said with a smile as he handed the trophy to Chen Yuanguang.

As a casual fan of Three-Body, Chen Yuanguang read a sense of kindness from Da Liu's face, perhaps because of the significant age difference.

"Thank you, Da Liu. Three-Body is an insurmountable peak in Chinese science fiction. I will do my best to write a work better than Three-Body," Chen Yuanguang both complimented the other party and expressed his lofty ambitions.

Later, the quality of Chinese works that won the Hugo Award greatly disappointed Chinese science fiction fans, and netizens realized that it was indeed an honor for the Hugo Award to be given to Three-Body.

"Yes, I didn't tell you before because this matter hadn't been finalized."

After Chen Yuanguang won the award, news articles were everywhere. Jiang University's official Weibo account also quickly reposted Science Fiction World's awards Weibo:

"Our university's fourth-year student wins the Gold Award of the 10th Science Fiction New Star Award."

The comments from Jiang University students below exceeded 100 in just one hour:

"There's a handsome guy of this level at our school that I don't know?"

"Amazing, does anyone have his contact information? I'm from the Jiang University School of Literature and would like to ask for advice."

"As a fellow fourth-year student, I'm still working hard for graduation, but you are so outstanding."

It was normal for Jiang University to report this matter, as it was a student bringing honor to the school. However, other media outlets also rushed to report it, which was due to Goose Factory's operations behind the scenes.

After the film and television copyright authorization agreement was signed, under Guo Wei's leadership, the project was quickly approved. They wanted to release it in next year's summer slot.

Science fiction mystery, low budget, strict logic, low special effects requirements, the original setting in Kuala Lumpur, and the possibility of a larger scale – all these factors made Goose Factory very optimistic about this project.

Of course, the most important factor that made them optimistic was the successful comparable work, Detective Chinatown.

With Goose Factory's promotion, coupled with the inherent news value of the matter itself, just putting up Chen Yuanguang's photo was enough to attract attention.

"You really don't treat me as a friend. It was Xiao Su who forwarded the Weibo to me, and that's how I found out."

"If she hadn't sent it to me, how long were you planning to hide it from me? Are you going to get another dog once I go to New York?" Lin Jia questioned over the phone after hearing the news. Her expression wasn't lifeless at all; instead, it held a hint of a smile.

Chen Yuanguang protested, "No way. I've been busy with the awards today. I was planning to take a picture of the trophy and send it to you after I got back to the hotel tonight. Who knew the news would spread so fast?

You know I'm preparing for the TOEFL and GRE exams while also finishing Kuala Lumpur Affairs. Where would I find the time to look for a dog?"

Lin Jia said from the other end of the phone, "I wouldn't expect you to dare.

I haven't had a chance to read your book yet. Now that you've won an award, how does Science Fiction World plan to promote it?

Do you want me to help you find someone to handle the promotion? My dad seems to know the head of CITIC Press. We could consider asking them to help you.

Also, regarding the copyright, our family seems to have a film and television investment company. I can also ask them to help you with the operations."

Lin Jia hadn't brought this up before because Chen Yuanguang's web novels were all Tokyo romance stories. The copyrights wouldn't sell. Chinese people watching Japanese romance films and TV shows written and acted by Chinese people, speaking in pure Mandarin?

Or relying on lip-syncing for Japanese voice actors? That would be too strange.

Kuala Lumpur Affairs was different. Lin Jia roughly knew that most of the characters were Chinese, and there were successful precedents. She was confident she could help Chen Yuanguang sell the copyright.

Not to mention winning the gold award, even if he hadn't won, just based on the subject matter, Lin Jia was confident she could help Chen Yuanguang sell the copyright.

It was just a matter of price difference.

"I've already sold it, for 500,000 yuan to Goose Factory. Goose Factory approached me with an offer before the awards.

Because Goose Factory was a sponsor of this competition, they participated in the initial review. During the initial review, they felt that Kuala Lumpur Affairs had great potential, so they signed a film and television copyright transfer agreement with me in advance," Chen Yuanguang explained.

"When you come back, you can eat whatever you want at Qun Guang," Chen Yuanguang said.

Lin Jia hummed twice, thinking that while she was starting a new life in New York, Chen Yuanguang was also growing very quickly.

Jumping from romance novels to science fiction novels, this change was a bit abrupt.

"Consider yourself having a conscience. One meal isn't enough; it needs to be a week," Lin Jia said.

Chen Yuanguang said, "When you come back, are you coming back for Christmas? If not, if I finish applying for what I need to, I'll come see you."

Chen Yuanguang estimated that by then, Goose Factory's money would have arrived, and a trip to New York would be more than enough.

Lin Jia said, "I'll definitely come back for a visit, but I'm not sure if I'll return to Jiang City. If I don't go back to Jiang City, you can come find me in Hang City."

"Are you still planning to apply to overseas universities? Isn't your writing career developing quite well?"

Chen Yuanguang briefly explained his plan to Lin Jia.

Lin Jia's mouth was slightly open on the other end of the phone. "That's what you meant by having a way?"

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