"yawn"

The next morning, Arthur woke up from his sleep with sleepy eyes, reached out and touched his side. No one was there, and looked up at the clock hanging on the wall. It was already past nine o'clock.

I sat up, raised my arms, and stretched my waist. I have to say that staying up late in the evening is really uncomfortable and dizzy.

Fortunately, he is young and strong, otherwise he would be serving the Dragon Mom first and stay up late to code letters. He would definitely be physically and mentally exhausted. How could he wake up like this? He would be so fierce when he wakes up, and he can fight for another 300 rounds!

What a pity, Dragon Mom is not good...

But that's true, after all, there is a huge difference. Her petite figure is her own opponent who can stand on her fists, run horses on her arms, and gravel the bear mouth.

Turning around, he reached out and pressed the service ringtone on the head of the creator, lifted the quilt, picked up the nightgown from the stool beside him and put it on, tied his belt, walked into the bathroom barefoot on the carpet, and quickly washed up.

When he came out, all the curtains in the master bedroom had been pulled open, and the maid was cleaning the shop. The housekeeper Paul stood beside the sofa in the living room with a white towel on his arm, smiling and waiting. After seeing him, he bowed gracefully to greet him.

Arthur took the white towel handed to him by Paul, wiped his hands, sat on the sofa, watched the waiter put the breakfast in place, picked up the black tea and took a sip, and asked, "Where is Emilia?"

"After Miss Emilia had breakfast, she took Old Dean and Burt to play Frisbee in the garden. She didn't know you were awake, do you need to tell her?"

"Forget it, let her play. By the way, I saw that Old Dean's two hind legs were a little unstable, and his vision seemed to be a little problem. Let's ask the pet doctor to come and take a look." Arthur picked up a sandwich and took a bite, picked up the Times, which was very flat ironed on the side and spread it out. As he said, he quickly browsed the newspaper's title.

The butler Paul showed a sad look on his face and said helplessly: "There is no need to let the doctor examine it, it is just too old."

His fingers holding the newspaper couldn't help but tremble slightly. Arthur also said helplessly and sadly: "Let people like it, don't let it run out alone... There is a beginning and an end, its life begins in this castle, so it ends here too. The wilderness is not its destination!"

"Okay, lord, I will be noticed." After the butler Paul finished speaking, he smiled and changed the heavy topics to continue reporting: "In the morning, Tom White called, and today he would bring guests from Random House to visit you. Because you rested late last night, I was worried that you would not have a good rest, so I arranged my time at 2 o'clock in the afternoon."

"Oh?" Arthur looked away from the newspaper and looked at the butler Paul and asked with a smile: "Have he said, how did he talk to the other party?"

"After saying that the two sides talked happily, Tom said that the treatment given by the other party was very fair. According to European practice, the royalties were royalty-free and the standard tax rate was 15,000 copies. You can get a 10% price after tax, an increase of 5,000 in prints, and a 2% increase in royalties. If you publish a pocket book or translated into a foreign language, you can also withdraw a 4% profit. To show sincerity, Random House Press is willing to pay you a $1 million in royalties."

Listening to the retelling of the butler Paul, Arthur's slowly curled upwards slightly and his brows frowned slightly, as if he was not as happy as he imagined.

Paul, who saw Arthur's expression, couldn't help but ask in confusion: "Lord, don't you seem to be very satisfied?"

"Indeed, there is no problem with royalties. The key is that the prepaid royalties are one million dollars, which is quite different from the amount I expected." Arthur was not greedy, but relied on. After all, "The Fifty Shadows of Gray" is not very popular on the Internet, especially its fame in North America, which is definitely not comparable to ordinary best-sellers.

The prepaid manuscript fee of one million US dollars is not much or less, which can only be considered a normal amount, but for Arthur, who is crazy about money, it is really unsatisfactory.

After hearing the words that his young Count could not satisfy even a million dollars, the housekeeper Paul really didn't know what to say. In his opinion, over the past period of time, he was really surprised and admired Arthur's endless means of making money and the amount of money he obtained.

As the steward of the Bolin family, he has seen money, but it was his first experience to earn nearly two million pounds in less than a month. The problem is that his own count really did not take much effort to do it easily. This speed of making money has surprised him.

Now, he still disliked his earnings and slowness. He really didn't know what to say.

"Forget it, it's useless to say this now. It's better to see the people from Random House in the afternoon and listen to what they say..."

Although the amount did not meet his expectations, he was satisfied after all. In any case, Arthur Bolin finally earned the first million in his life. Well, plus the 750,000 pounds he earned to register the auction house antiques, it should be the second million US dollars.

Didn’t a rich man say that the most difficult thing to earn in life is the first 1 million, and this foundation determines the wealth of your future life. When you earn the first 1 million in life, you will find that earning 10 million will be much easier than earning 1 million for the first time, because you have passed the stage of making money from hard work to making money with money!

Of course, the 1 million mentioned here is the cash flow that can be taken out, not the fixed assets generated through time accumulation, but real money!

To put it bluntly, using money to make money is much faster than getting a fixed dead salary, and the growth rate is much faster.

Therefore, not every kind of ox is called Telunsu, and not everyone can complete this 1 million primitive wealth in a short time! And when the key to finding wealth is found, life will change!

"Ah really? God, my dear, you are so awesome, I can't believe it..."

When Arthur calmly told Emilia who had returned from walking the dog, the dragon mother's expression changed and was full of magical colors. Her two eyebrows were almost as if they were alive. The shock made her open her mouth wide and exclaimed and sighed.

I have to say that Emilia's mouth is really big. When she doesn't make exaggerated expressions, her appearance is really useless. Oh... Forget it, because the big mouth has many advantages, I won't complain.

"Pooh"

The bright red hun was printed on Arthur's smiling cheeks. Emilia wrapped her hands around his neck, leaning in his arms, and smiled happily: "I really didn't expect that such books would be so popular."

"Hey! What do you mean? What does that kind of book mean? Do you believe it can be comparable to Harry Potter's sales?" Arthur said in a angrily laughing and crying.

"Haha... I'm so laughing. Just the changing content you wrote, and you still want to compare sales with Harry Potter? Dear, I admit that you are very talented, but you can't exaggerate it. Moreover, you should also consider some of the negative effects that the novel may bring to you. After all, you are a British nobleman or an earl.

Dear, I think it's better for you to keep your identity secret. In fact, this is a good marketing technique and a sense of mystery that makes everyone guess who the author of this book is, and maybe there is an unexpected effect." Emilia has really been unable to accept it since she read "The Fifty Shadows of Gray", and Arthur was able to write such a novel.

"Is it a mystery?" Arthur thought of a singer in the Celestial Dynasty who only heard the sound but did not see the person. He was also playing with the mystery at the beginning. Maybe he should really think about it. After all, he really didn't know that once he was disclosed as the author, public opinion would float there.
Chapter completed!