Male Sing and His Pet Owner: Chapter 75

“Take a look and see if there’s anywhere else that needs changing? Feel free to raise any conditions you want. I’ll approve whatever I can.” Zhou Jiyang said to Zhao Kaile with a smile: “After all, we’re friends. Can’t mistreat you.”

After saying this, he felt a very unfriendly gaze cast from beside him. He had no choice but to patiently explain to Zhan Hang: “Don’t look at me like that. I’m not really trying to steal your person. I’ve already recruited several people. Just let Kaile come over and put his name on the roster first.”

“Thank you.” Zhao Kaile didn’t know whether to laugh or cry: “But I…”

“You can’t be his assistant for a lifetime.” Zhou Jiyang pointed at Zhan Hang sitting nearby, that tone as casual as if he had just picked up trash while strolling down the street: “A man needs to have his own career ambition. Kaile, I appreciate your talent, so I’m willing to give you a stage to shine brilliantly.”

Zhan Hang had a dark expression and said angrily: “His boss hasn’t died yet, OK??”

Zhou Jiyang twirled his pen and smiled: “I’m not telling him to quit immediately either. He can sign first and come play when he’s free.”

Zhao Kaile looked at Zhou Jiyang with a complex expression for a while. In his heart, he also understood that what he said wasn’t wrong.

Right now he had just entered society, still young and inexperienced. Zhan Hang was also quite tolerant of him. But he couldn’t rely on his boss’s tolerance to live. What if one day Zhan Hang made it big and wanted to change assistants, or completely gave up on his career and didn’t need an assistant anymore? Where would he go then? Not to mention there was still a considerable debt between them. This was the factor that made him most uneasy.

“I’ll think about it again.” He said softly, his expression seeming to already waver a bit.

Zhan Hang: “…”

A moment later, Zhan Hang dragged Zhou Jiyang upstairs, that expression as if he wanted to murder and dismember a corpse.

Zhou Jiyang was grabbed by the collar and pressed against the door panel, his expression grave as he made a swearing gesture: “Listen to me, listen to me. I really just wanted to help you provoke him a bit! I don’t mean to steal your person! Of course I also quite want him to come… but but but, brother is first in my heart! I absolutely have no other ideas!”

Zhan Hang said furiously: “But he really wants to go!”

“Hehehe.” Zhou Jiyang said guiltily, trying to coax him: “Don’t be angry. If he wants to come, just let him come. It’s not like he can’t do both sides’ work at the same time.”

Zhan Hang lifted him up a bit more: “Are you speaking human language?!”

“Fine.” Zhou Jiyang said calmly: “Then I can’t help it either. I’m only responsible for speaking clearly. The fact that he would really want to come only shows he’s had similar thoughts for a long time. Have you really been abusing him?”

Zhan Hang: “No!”

Zhou Jiyang: “Then your treatment here isn’t as generous as mine.”

Zhan Hang still wanted to roar, but afraid the decibels would be too high and be heard by the person downstairs, he could only suppress his voice: “Ask around the circle, which assistant has a monthly salary as high as his and treatment as good as his??”

“Who says, that person…” Zhou Jiyang recalled for a while and said: “Didn’t Sister Ying also buy a car and a house for her assistant?”

“…” Zhan Hang practically wanted to strangle him: “She’s been with her for over twenty years!”

Zhou Jiyang: “Okay okay, not joking with you anymore. Then that only shows one problem. The child has grown up, matured, wants to build a career. When you were in your early twenties, didn’t you also have a surge of hot blood after being encouraged by a few words? Mutual understanding.”

Zhan Hang released his hand, looking at him with residual anger, but in his heart he also understood that what he said made sense. Actually, ever since he knew Zhao Kaile was the Dog Chasing the Moon, his mentality had already changed.

Both pondered according to their own thoughts for a while, but they didn’t converge with Zhao Kaile’s thought patterns at all. He essentially still believed his primary task was to save money and repay the debt. However, if not specifically mentioned, Zhan Hang had basically already forgotten about this debt. He never took this matter to heart from the beginning, and now it was even less likely to be treated as something important.

At night, Zhao Kaile was organizing Zhan Hang’s wardrobe. This person hadn’t developed the good habit of putting clothes back after wearing them. Basically he threw one piece wherever after wearing it, needing a big cleanup once a week.

Zhan Hang sat on the bed boredly flipping through a magazine, still thinking about what Zhou Jiyang said to him during the day, his mind in turmoil.

“Brother Hang, this one is very old. You probably don’t wear it much anymore.” Zhao Kaile shook a sweatshirt and looked up at him.

“Mm, throw it away.” Zhan Hang said expressionlessly: “In the future, don’t ask me. You decide yourself.”

Zhao Kaile didn’t know what he was angry about again. He only quietly nodded.

For a moment, only the rustling sound of him organizing clothes remained in the room. Outside the window, cold wind whistled. The indoor lighting was dim and yellow, a scene of gentle warmth.

Zhan Hang ultimately couldn’t resist and actively spoke up: “Do you really want to go to Zhou Jiyang’s place?”

Zhao Kaile hesitated for a while, then reacted that he was talking to him. He hurriedly turned to look at him and said in surprise: “No.”

He said it very decisively, as if he had already thought it through. This surprised Zhan Hang and also gave him a bit of belated joy.

However, he still couldn’t speak properly. He only restrained his emotions and said coldly: “Why not go? The treatment isn’t much better than here? You also don’t need to be on call 24 hours a day, don’t need to exhaust yourself following into the crew, can’t sleep well or eat well, don’t need to look at my stinky face every day, doing the work of several people alone. Why not go?”

Two consecutive identical questions nearly confused Zhao Kaile. He said at a loss: “Because, because my contract hasn’t expired yet…”

Zhan Hang: “…”

Zhao Kaile: “…”

Zhan Hang said angrily: “Get out!”

Zhao Kaile shivered all over and rolled out in terror.

He discovered he was increasingly unable to figure out the pattern of Zhan Hang’s temper!

How could this be! Can’t say wanting to leave, can’t say not wanting to leave, then what exactly should he say!

Ten-something minutes later, Zhao Kaile was huddled under his blanket tapping on the keyboard. The WeChat notification sounded. It was a message from his editor Xiao Mian.

Xiao Mian: Wang Tai! Our website negotiated with their company a bit. They agreed to raise the price! Added to 550,000! Do you want to reconsider?

Zhao Kaile: !!!

Zhao Kaile: I, I, I’ll reconsider, will reply tomorrow.

Xiao Mian: Okay! Sleep early! #finger heart

This message was no different from a big pie falling from the sky. Zhao Kaile tapped randomly on the keyboard in confused consciousness for a while, completely unable to write anything. He had no choice but to close the laptop, open his eyes wide and lie on the bed seriously considering this matter.

Although Zhan Hang didn’t agree with this matter, but ultimately whether to sell or not depended on his own decision… Zhan Hang being willing to offer a high price was Zhan Hang looking highly upon him, not that he was really a purple micro star descended from heaven with a pearl covered in dust for many years without anyone appreciating him. More likely, this work was really only worth this much money… The other party agreeing to raise the price also showed they really brought sincerity, otherwise they wouldn’t have conceded this step. The atmosphere has been hyped to this point, so might as well sell it…

All these years he buried his head in bitter writing, completely clueless about anything else. Selling copyright was even more like a big girl sitting in a bridal sedan chair for the first time. There was no one around him to ask. There was only Zhan Hang, who was wearing ten levels of filter toward him, so his opinion was completely not referenceable… It seemed he really could only make the decision himself.

Wait, wait. Since Zhou Jiyang is in distribution, doesn’t he also quite understand this industry?

A golden light flashed through Zhao Kaile’s brain. He opened Zhou Jiyang’s chat box.

Zhao Kaile: Are you there?

Zhou Jiyang’s reply came quickly: What’s up? Decided?

Zhao Kaile: That, do you know approximately what price range a novel sells for when selling copyright?

Zhou Jiyang: Buyout? That’s hard to say. It depends on the book’s field, content, length, quality, sales performance, author’s fame… etc etc etc.

Zhou Jiyang: You want to sell copyright? Then just sell it to me directly.

Zhao Kaile: Then can you help me estimate?

Zhou Jiyang: I’ve already estimated for you. I’ve looked at every single one.

Zhao Kaile: …

Right now he was really regretting, regretting that he let Zhan Hang know he was the Dog Chasing the Moon.

Zhou Jiyang quoted 400,000 for this book. Whether there was any personal favor component in it was unknown. Zhao Kaile nodded. Sure enough, Brother Hang made an offer wearing ten levels of filter, completely without reference value.

Zhao Kaile: Thank you, I was just asking casually. Sleep early.

Zhou Jiyang: Don’t be like that. Is it a bit low? Can negotiate more. Don’t go don’t go.

Zhao Kaile: No… I just feel it’s strange to do business with friends. Mm, I don’t know if you can understand.

Zhou Jiyang: #laugh cry

Zhou Jiyang: You and Zhan Hang are quite alike. You and him are the same type of person.

Zhao Kaile looked at the screen, moving his eyebrows in puzzlement.

The same type of person? What type?

The next day, Zhao Kaile drove Zhan Hang to the recording site. Zhan Hang’s eye circles were slightly dark, clearly he hadn’t slept well the previous night.

Zhao Kaile gripped the steering wheel woodenly, thinking was it this serious? Which sentence offended him?

Zhan Hang didn’t say a word, turning his head to look outside the car window.

Zhao Kaile cleared his throat, preparing to actively find a topic: “Brother Hang, there’s something I want to tell you.”

Zhan Hang frowned and gave an “mm,” signaling him to speak quickly.

“I sold that novel of mine.” Zhao Kaile gave a hehe: “The website helped me negotiate and raised it by 100,000.”

Zhan Hang indeed was no longer silent: “…550,000??? Didn’t you hear a single word I said before?! Zhao Kaile! You’re an idiot!”

“I, I, I asked Zhou Jiyang. This is market price.” Zhao Kaile said tremblingly: “Brother Hang, I know you can’t bear to see my heart’s blood work being lowballed, but I’m not that glass-hearted. Whatever the price should be is whatever the price should be. I know my own weight. It’s fine…”

“Who can’t bear it?!” Zhan Hang was so angry he spoke without choosing his words: “When you’re swindled until you don’t even have underwear left and go beg under the overpass, I won’t even spare you a glance!”

Zhao Kaile: “…”

It wouldn’t reach the step of begging for food!!

Author’s note:
That couple buzz cut thing, laughing meself to death hahahaha