128: Chapter 128 Moving into the Software Park

Thinking of this, he picked up the phone and dialed Xinghe.

"Hello, Xinghe."

"Pen name, have you finished reading the contract? Have you made up your mind?"

"No, I don't plan on signing the contract."

"Why?" Xinghe's voice was full of confusion.

In his view, Qidian's platinum contract was far superior to a standard contract.

Advances, site-wide promotion, and a higher base royalty rate were things almost every Qidian author dreamed of.

"Because I want to keep the copyrights."

There was silence on the other end of the line for two seconds.

"Copyrights?" Xinghe was somewhat surprised. "You're writing web novels, not something for physical publication..."

"Web novels can be adapted too," Chen Fan interrupted him. "Games, movies, comics—they're all possibilities. I'm very optimistic about my work, and I don't want to have nothing to do with those things in the future."

Xinghe was silent for a moment, then continued, unwilling to give up: "Why don't you reconsider? I can talk to my superiors and increase the revenue share a bit more."

"No need to reconsider. Unless the copyrights belong to me, I won't sign. The standard contract is fine for me right now."

"Alright then. I was hoping I'd have a platinum author under my wing, haha." Xinghe laughed, his tone carrying a hint of regret, but he didn't try to persuade him any further.

"By the way, when are you releasing your new book? Your old one finished half a year ago."

"It'll be a while. I'm building up a backlog."

"How much have you saved up?"

"Around two hundred thousand words."

"You've got two hundred thousand and you're still not releasing it?"

"I plan to save up more. When it goes live, I'll release a hundred chapters at once."

"You're incredible." Xinghe's tone was full of admiration. "Alright, that's it then. I'm hanging up."

After hanging up, Chen Fan leaned back in his office chair and began to consider whether he should release the new book, and when would be the most appropriate time.

In fact, he already had over two million words of his new book saved up.

After all, he didn't need to use his brain; he just needed to type out the text he had already seen in his mind. So even though he didn't write every day, he had managed to save up this much over time.

The reason he hadn't released it was because he had an idea in his mind.

That was to use the release of the new book to promote one of his games.

And it had to be inserted naturally into the book; it couldn't be too forced.

However, he hadn't decided how to promote it or which game to promote yet.

So he just kept saving it without releasing it.

Furthermore, Chen Fan wasn't short on money right now. With the game company generating over ten million a month in revenue, he really didn't care about the royalties from writing novels.

He thought about it and decided to wait until he had a better idea later; there was no rush.

He glanced at the time; it was past three. He had a major lecture at four—an English class. But he couldn't be bothered to run back to campus, so he decided to skip it.

There was nothing to do at the moment, so he prepared to play a game for a while.

Come to think of it, apart from the defend the carrot developed by his own company, he had barely played any other games since his rebirth.

Mainly because he wasn't very interested in the popular games of this era; the only one he was interested in, League of Legends, wouldn't enter the Chinese market until next year.

The game he was about to play wasn't some popular title, but a web game called DDTank.

The gameplay was simple: two players controlled their respective characters, adjusted their angles, charged up their shots, and tried to knock the opponent out of the sky.

It looked simple, but you had to calculate wind direction, angle, and power; it was actually quite technical.

This was his first time playing this game, but in his previous life, he had played a similar one called TNT and had been addicted to it for a while. However, Tencent wouldn't release TNT until next year, so he had to make do with DDTank for now.

He opened the game, created a character, and after a few minutes of the tutorial, he officially started.

His character entered a room, and his opponent was a level ten-something account with the ID "Invincible Cannon God."

Chen Fan adjusted his angle to 30 degrees, charged to half power, and the shell arched through the air, landing at the opponent's feet.

It missed.

The opponent fired back, the angle was tricky, and it hit his character directly, depleting one-third of his health bar.

"Pretty accurate," Chen Fan muttered.

In the second round, he got serious, calculated the wind direction, adjusted to 45 degrees, and charged to full power—

The shell whistled through the air and hit the target squarely.

Just as Chen Fan was having fun, there was a knock on the door from Qiao Linlin.

"Come in," Chen Fan said, looking up.

She pushed the door open and entered. Seeing Chen Fan busy at his computer, she didn't say anything and stood to the side, waiting.

After Chen Fan finished the match, he looked up at Qiao Linlin.

"What's up?"

"Boss, the offices you asked me to look at, I've checked them out."

"What's the situation?"

"There are no vacant floors in our current building. However, there's a Software Park over on Jinye Road that has plenty of empty floors. Plus, the Software Park is a government-affiliated institution, so we can enjoy many preferential policies after moving in."

"For the first three years after moving in, the Software Park will subsidize part of the rent, with the specific amount approved based on the situation. Also, for out-of-town employees joining our company, we can resolve their Xian city residency, and their children's school enrollment can also be prioritized. Secondly, costs like telecommunications broadband are much cheaper than outside."

After listening, Chen Fan nodded. "The conditions are good. What does the Software Park side say? Are there any requirements for moving in?"

Qiao Linlin continued, "The threshold isn't high. First, the business must match; since we do game development, that's no problem. Secondly, it's best if the registered capital is over one million, and we just meet that."

"Alright, then you go ahead and schedule a time with the Software Park. I'll go take a look in person."

"Okay," Qiao Linlin replied, then asked, "There's one more thing: the matter of Software Enterprise Certification."

"Software Enterprise Certification? What's that for?"

"The staff at the Software Park mentioned it in passing. They said that a company like ours could apply for Software Enterprise Certification."

"After certification, we can enjoy quite a few tax benefits—regarding VAT, the taxes we pay for selling games, any portion exceeding 3% can be refunded. As for corporate income tax, newly established software enterprises, once certified, are exempt from tax for the first two years starting from the year of profit, and half-taxed for the following three years."

Upon hearing Qiao Linlin's words, Chen Fan's eyes lit up.

Compared to the perks of moving into the Software Park, the benefits of Software Enterprise Certification were more attractive to Chen Fan.

Previously, Chen Fan thought that once you opened a company, the company's money was your own. After becoming a boss, he realized that every penny the company earned had to have a portion paid to the state in taxes first.

If they could reduce the tax rate to no more than 3%, they could save a huge amount in taxes, which would be extremely beneficial for the company.

"How do we apply for this Software Enterprise Certification?"

"We need to have software products with independent intellectual property rights, technical personnel must make up no less than 50% of the total company staff, R&D expenses must account for more than 8% of software revenue, and software sales revenue must account for more than 35% of the company's total revenue. Once these conditions are met, we can apply."