But what I'm seeing now is a novel entirely in English, and the content seems completely different.
This only fueled Liu Rumeng's curiosity, making her even more eager to find out more.
Lin Huowang rubbed his slightly sore temples, then handed the stack of manuscript papers to Liu Rumeng, saying, "Mengmeng! This is an English novel, just started. I was just about to ask you to take a look at it."
Liu Rumeng took it, her eyes falling on the title—"Harry Potter".
"Harry... Potter? You're writing a novel entirely in English? And the protagonist is British? What kind of story will this be? Let me see..."
She began to read as she read the strange yet rhythmic name.
The feeling was peculiar; for Liu Rumeng, she was now reading a novel written entirely in English by her husband.
This also made her marvel at how impressive her husband, who grew up in a rural area of Northeast China, was in English, to the point that he could even write novels in English.
The words on the manuscript paper were describing a bizarre scene to Liu Rumeng: "This is Harry Potter, a gloomy, bullied, and dependent boy living in a cupboard under the stairs."
His aunt, uncle, and obese cousin Dudley were extremely mean to him.
Then, letters written in strange emerald green ink, with no sender in sight, began to flood the house, addressed to "Mr. Harry Potter, Cupboard Under the Stairs, 4 Privet Drive, Little Huigkin, Surrey".
This strange phenomenon terrified the Dursleys—Aunt Petunia, Uncle Vernon, and Dudley—who desperately tried to stop the letters and even fled to a rocky hut at sea.
However, on the stormy night of Harry's eleventh birthday, a gigantic, bearded key custodian named Rupert Hagrid burst into the room, blasting the lock open with a pink umbrella. Hagrid brought astonishing news: Harry Potter was a wizard!
Those letters were acceptance letters from a school of magic called Hogwarts!
What shocked Harry even more was that his parents, who died in a car accident, were actually great wizards who sacrificed themselves to protect him at the hands of the evil dark wizard Voldemort!
As for himself, the lightning-shaped scar on his forehead was actually a mark left by the demon whose name could not even be mentioned, and it was also proof that he was the "boy who survived a great calamity"!
Hagrid smashed open the fireplace bricks with his massive fist, revealing a huge pile of golden Galleons hidden inside—Harry's inheritance!
Then, Hagrid led a dazed Harry out of the storm, heading towards Diagon Alley, a magical street behind a Leaky Cauldron in London! There, Harry would buy his wand, cauldron, owl… and begin a magical life he could never have imagined.
This is the world's most famous and globally popular Western classic magic novel, Harry Potter, a classic work for countless people in their youth.
When Lin Huowang was learning English, he read some original English works and watched Chinese translations and several movies, so he was quite familiar with their content and characteristics.
However, his written English is not good; his English writing always feels a bit off.
Even so, Liu Rumeng couldn't stop watching, and her eyes widened in amazement.
It can be said that she was completely immersed in this bizarre and imaginative magical story.
The book features a suffocating cupboard, frantic letters, a volatile Hagrid, a mysterious magical world, a fateful scar, and an identity...
This is all so amazing!
This was unlike any story she had ever seen!
"Awang! This...this really is something you wrote?"
Liu Rumeng read through all the dozens of pages of Lin Huowang's manuscript in one go before suddenly raising her head, her eyes filled with surprise and disbelief.
She flipped through the paper next to her with a list of settings and various notes made by Lin Huowang, and her desire to explore became even stronger.
"This is a Western magical story? Hogwarts? Wizards? Voldemort? My God... this is so... so imaginative! How did you come up with this?"
Liu Rumeng exclaimed in amazement.
Lin Huowang smiled, picked up his milk, took a sip, and said, "It was an idea that suddenly popped into my head. I thought it was interesting, so I wrote it down. It just so happens that my next plan also needs a bestselling English fantasy novel like this to open up some opportunities."
Liu Rumeng continued to lower her head, preparing to read through the dozens of pages of manuscript again from the beginning.
I just glanced through it and already found quite a few problems.
Although Lin Huowang's English is good, it is not his native language and he is not used to writing in English. Liu Rumeng can say without reservation that there are simply too many grammatical and vocabulary errors in his novel.
But this isn't a big problem!
What attracted her was the story's imaginative premise and captivating opening. As for Lin Huowang's English writing, it wasn't up to par, but she could think of something else to work on.
After looking at it for a while, Liu Rumeng pointed to a spot on the manuscript and said, "Awang, look here, 'Hagrid smashed open the fireplace bricks with his huge fist'... The English expression for 'smashed open' is a bit... not accurate enough? It sounds like brute force destruction. Are you trying to express that you found and opened a hidden entrance?"
And here it says 'a huge pile of golden Galleons'... Using such English embellishment feels a bit... straightforward? Perhaps it could be 'a mountain of Galleons, shimmering with an alluring light'?
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