NOVEL NEXT Chapter 20: First Revenue! Warm-Up Before Official Broadcast!
"We hope to place drone ads in your Honkai products. No specific requirements. We propose a price of 5 million per second of footage."
5 million per second of footage is already considered a high price in the market.
Xia Wen was puzzled about why this drone company valued Honkai: Star Rail so highly.
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Hence Xia Wen looked up the Drone Company's contract reason.
"Your products have greatly impressed us. Depicting and realizing the future has always been our company's philosophy."
Xia Wen nodded.
The Drone company was already a fairly large company and didn't need any product endorsement.
Instead it turned out they were genuinely interested.
In the Herta Space Station, there were already many drones.
However, for the design, it had to follow the Honkai: Star Rail style, and the system would handle it.
Xia Wen marked it with a check.
He continued to review the documents.
But as he flipped through the pages, none of other offers were satisfactory.
Either the offers were too low, or they required maintaing the contract for many years, treating Xia Wen as a fool.
However, this advertising collaboration requests also sparked Xia Wen's creativity.
He had been thinking about how to make the company run smoothly. Currently, all daily expenses were covered by the funds from Ningguang's acquisition.
There was only expenditure, no income.
But how to monetize, which Xia Wen had been pondering for a long time, today, it suddenly became clear.
Clothing, furniture, electronics, food, cosmetics, almost all these avenues could be monetized.
Kafka, Himeko, and the other female characters who would be introduced as the series goes on.
Xia Wen believed they would surely become superstars.
Their makeup, costumes, and jewelry brands they use would become famous.
Xia Wen could handle these himself.
For example, creating a clothing brand named after something in the story.
For cosmetics, in the Penacony act, Robin also endorsed a cosmetic brand called 'Color.'
Although fictional, Xia Wen could make it a real brand.
The benefits were numerous.
The most important thing was perfectly integrating the brands with reality, without any awkwardness.
Xia Wen had plenty of such references available.
Not just Honkai: Star Rail, but Genshin Impact's Wanmin Restaurant could handle food, and the Golden House as a tourist attraction.
In the future, every famous destination from the series would appear in his MiHoYo theme park.
Appearing in reality!
Just thinking about the opportunity to visit Liyue in reality, taste the Wanmin Restaurant's food, or go to Penacony and enjoy SoulGlad, was exciting.
Of course, if there were suitable endorsements with appropriate prices and brands in the future, Xia Wen would consider them and not outright reject them.
Having figured this out, Xia Wen felt refreshed.
"Ganyu."
"First, contact the drone company and finalize the contract."
Xia Wen thought for a moment and added, "Also, keep an eye on these type of companies in the future."
Saying this, Xia Wen took out a piece of paper and wrote a detailed list, handing it to Ganyu.
The list covered clothing, cosmetics, furniture, electronics, design, and even food.
Looking at the diverse list, Ganyu didn't ask many questions but nodded seriously, "Got it, boss."
Xia Wen trusted Ganyu with these matters.
Seeing Ganyu start to get busy, Xia Wen also began working on his tasks.
First, he downloaded the already completed Interstellar Journey MV from the system.
At the same time, all special effects for the Herta Space Station space station had been completed by the special effects module.
Xia Wen decided to split it into two episodes.
Unlike traditional series, Xia Wen did not fix the length of the episode, instead, the focus was on telling the story thoroughly, with the length and format adjusted to fit the story.
Each episode had a movie-like length, similar to Sherlock Holmes from his old world.
The space station's plot was not long. It served as an introduction, so the two episodes totaled around 300 minutes, just right.
The Belobog Arc was a bit longer and had a more complete story, following a traditional heroic route, also just right.
The Xianzhou side needed changes, it's not that the original storyline was bad.
In all fairness, the Xianzhou's storyline text was quite high-quality and the dialogues were well-crafted.
But to appreciate the brilliance, the story of the Five Cloud Quintet was unavoidable, if the audience didn't understand the story of the Five Cloud Quintet, they would find it hard to connect with the related plot.
So, that's where the focus had to be.
The Xianzhou chronicle and the Blade chronicle seemed to be able to carry this part of the content on their own.
While Xia Wen was carefully considering these, a slight snoring sound caught his attention.
Turning around, he found Ganyu had somehow buried her head in a pile of documents and was sleeping soundly.
Muttering "sweet flower" and smacking her lips.
Such sleep-talking made Xia Wen chuckle.
It seemed that the sweet flower was real in this world.
Walking over quietly, Xia Wen gently draped his coat over Ganyu and left without disturbing her rest.
After he left, Ganyu remained asleep, even clutching Xia Wen's coat and sniffing his scent.
In her dream, the sweet flower had somehow turned into her boss.
"Boss, boss, don't pat my head…"
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The next day.
In MiHoYo's filming studio.
March 7th, Kafka, and others were gathered together.
"Boss, boss, why did you call us over so early? Are we filming something new?"
March 7th exclaimed.
"Yes."
Xia Wen nodded and smiled, explaining, "Tomorrow is the official broadcast of the series."
"Today, we will also release the MV for Interstellar Journey."
"So I thought, while the MV is being released, we should do a interview. You all need to film a small interview now."
March 7th immediately reacted.
"Boss! Is it like, 'Hello, I'm XXX, and I'll be waiting for you at Honkai: Star Rail tomorrow at noon'?"
"Exactly!"
Xia Wen snapped his fingers and said with a smile, "And tomorrow at noon, when the release happens, I hope we can start a live stream together and watch it with everyone. The live reactions from the main cast will definitely be interesting. It will not only enhance the audience's impression of you but also help you adapt in advance."
Xia Wen's suggestion was immediately agreed upon by everyone.
"This will also help us have a better start."
Himeko nodded.
And so, under Xia Wen's direction, they began filming the short interviews.