Chapter 182
She must be the first link in this plan
In the domestic entertainment industry where fairy-tale dramas are almost synonymous with bad movies, some people actually say that they want to shoot a true fairy-tale drama with a female lead.
Ling Suisui suddenly became interested. She wanted to see whether Yu Mai was just talking nonsense or if he really had something to say.
This project is an original script by Yumi, named "Yaotai Lu". Currently, only the outline and the first two episodes are available. The heroine is a demon, and a nine-tailed fox demon warrior with outstanding talent and extraordinary strength.
Compared to the "princesses" and "goddesses" that are everywhere, the identity of a warrior is indeed fresh.
Ling Suisui continued reading - in the world view of this script, there are four races: humans, immortals, demons, and monsters. To be more precise, immortals are the cultivation and ascension version of humans.
There are emperors in the human world, there are heavenly monarchs in the fairy world, there are demon lords in the demon world, and the monster race also had a demon king, but he died in an accident in battle eight hundred years ago.
The demon race is just a broad reference. All things in the world that have awakened their intelligence can become demons, and conflicts between different races always exist. When the Demon King was alive, all tribes could still obey his orders. But after his death, all tribes immediately became scattered.
It happened that the great war between immortals and demons had begun. Under the enticement of the Lord of Heaven and the Lord of Demon, the demon race was split into two, belonging to two major camps on the basis of race.
The fox clan, to which the heroine belonged, became a vassal of the immortal clan. The nine-tailed fox demon reaches adulthood at the age of 500, and she went to the battlefield at the age of 300. At the critical moment, she took the life of a small leader of the demon clan, thus turning the tide of the battle.
Since then, the heroine has been fighting for two hundred years in a row and has never been defeated, making great achievements in the war against the demons.
The brilliant heroine reminded many demons of the former Demon King and also attracted the attention of the Heavenly Lord. He knew that his son, the young prince of the immortal clan, had always been in love with the heroine, so he simply arranged a marriage for them.
The young master and the heroine are childhood sweethearts and are in love with each other. This marriage is very beneficial to both clans. But in a war after the marriage was decided, the heroine was falsely accused by the immortal soldiers of deliberately letting the young master of the demon clan escape, and they claimed that her many years of military exploits were all fake and obtained by colluding with the demon clan.
The immortal soldiers produced "evidence", and the heroine who was plotted against was unable to prove herself. She refused to surrender until the moment she was pushed onto the trial stand.
The Judgment Seat rained down thunder from the sky and cut off her nine fox tails. To a fox demon, the tail is more important than life. If the tail is cut off, it means that the inner elixir is shattered and the demon power is destroyed. The heroine will become a waste in the future.
The persistent heroine did not give up. Even if the thunder found her guilty, she would still clear her grievances. No one can accuse her of a crime, not even God.
She told her tribesmen that even if she couldn't practice as a demon, she would go to the human world to experience hardships and learn human skills. Humans only have a lifespan of a few decades, yet they dare to fight for the slim chance of ascending to heaven. She has lived for five hundred years. Is she afraid of starting all over again?
This is the script for the first two episodes. After seeing this, Ling Suisui actually believed what Yumi Video said about the "Xianxia".
Although the plot is not very original, she can guess that the false accusation against the heroine must have been the work of the Lord of Heaven, and the fall of the Demon King might also be a problem, but the heroine is able to resist power, stick to her Taoism, and embark on another path of cultivation. She is indeed worthy of the word "hero".
But—once she read the outline below, something seemed wrong.
While the heroine was cultivating in the mortal world, the young prince of the immortal clan followed her, the young prince of the demon clan also came to join in the fun, and there was also the eldest senior brother in the sect who cared for her and the lively and cheerful younger junior brother who admired her...
All in all, the heroine is a tenacious female warrior in the first two episodes, but becomes a Mary Sue who is popular with all men in the next thirty-eight episodes. Even female mosquitoes are jealous of her beauty, and male dogs passing by only bark at her.
Ling Suisui closed the project book expressionlessly. The outline did not contain many questions about how the heroine would cultivate herself again, but the emotional entanglements and the Shura field with several male characters were very detailed.
Is this also called Xianxia? Just buy stocks, why bother with the shell!
How can a woman with multiple men be called a heroine? She is clearly a big blood bag.
But...it’s not to say that the outline that follows is completely useless.
Ling Suisui opened the book again and found that the supporting characters were written in an interesting way. The irony of using the human world to describe the fairyland was also worth savoring, and the calculations between the four tribes were also quite treacherous.
She read it carefully again and finally came to the conclusion that if she removed the melodramatic content such as "Who does the heroine love?" and "The heroes all love her but have their own reasons", and changed the sexual relationships among the male characters into interest links, and it would be best if they could be directly transformed into females, then the quality of the script would actually be very good.
It is obvious that this script has been greatly changed from the original one, which is why there is such a weird sense of division.
Take the part where the soldiers from the fairy world framed the heroine for example. In the end, it turned out that the Queen Mother was not satisfied with her and had a more preferred candidate for daughter-in-law, so under the instigation of the goddess xx, she arranged people to interfere.
Please, it's already a story about immortals, gods and demons, why is it still about "conflicts between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law" and "beating the mistress"? The pattern is too small, and it is completely different from the previous battle between immortals and demons.
Ling Sui asked Feng Yang, what is Yumi Video’s psychological expectation for this project?
Do you want to make quick money like Taohua, or do you want to build a good reputation? If it is the former, she will directly decline the script, because one woman and many men is just unfriendly to her as the heroine, but the market acceptance is very high.
Feng Yang told her that Yumi's proposed female lead was her, the proposed male actors were several popular stars in the circle, and the proposed director was Ding Bin.
This director is quite amazing. Netizens often use the previous fantasy dramas to criticize the current ones. Among the works used as examples, three out of five were produced by Ding Bin.
In addition, the art, costumes, special effects, etc. that "Yao Tai Lu" plans to use are almost all top-notch in the industry. With all this going on, it must be accompanied by top-notch publicity and promotion that can be compared with Peach Blossom, right?
Ling Suisui made a rough calculation and concluded that the investment in this project would be at least 800 million yuan, and this was still an underestimate.
She smiled and said, "Then I must be the first link in this plan."
Feng Yang nodded. Isn’t that what Yumi thought?
Ding Bin would only consider it after Ling Sui was born.
Having reached Ding Bin’s status, he is no longer short of money, and good works can impress him more than money. If we have to choose a female actress in the domestic entertainment industry who can play the role of a "demon warrior", Ling Suisui, who is famous for her fighting scenes and excellent acting skills, must be the best choice. Having her in the role can give the director confidence.
With Ding Bin and Ling Suisui, the weight of the pie will increase a lot, and those popular students will be willing to condescend to play second, third, or fourth roles.
Director Ding Bin needs no introduction. Now Ling Sui's achievements are already comparable to those of the 85 flowers, and even slightly surpass them. As long as she wins a mainstream Best Actress award, she will surpass them in an instant.
With so much traffic gathered, investment promotion will be smoother - or in other words, having Ling Suisui and Ding Bin is enough for this link.
Only when you have money can you talk about the things that come later.
Since the plan was centered around her, Ling Sui spoke bluntly.
"The script outline must have been adjusted. Let Yumi bring the original version to discuss with me. All these extra love lines are not needed. I will not cooperate with any CP hype, and I don't want to see absurd content where the female characters are hurting the protagonist and the male characters are helping the protagonist."
She added: "There is also the setting of those in power - not to mention the secular world, do cultivators and immortals, demons and monsters also default to men being the superiors? I don't like this, let them change it."
Feng Yang nodded and reminded: "I will convey it to you, but Yu Mai may not agree."
Ling Suisui is the platform’s best choice, but not the only one at present.
"It doesn't matter." Ling Sui shrugged, "I don't need this one piece of cake. If they don't give in, then forget it."
As Feng Yang expected, Yumi Video adopted a delaying tactic towards Ling Sui's opinion (euphemistic version), neither saying yes nor no, but just trying to lure her and continue to contact other actresses.
Ling Suisui is indeed not in a hurry. She is involved in many projects. This kind of thing just depends on who loses patience first.
In August, Ling Sui announced several endorsements, the most eye-catching of which was being named Tiffany's global spokesperson.
Tiffany not only posted the time of her birthday on Weibo at 12:19, but also used the local time of 12:19 in other countries and regions to make the official announcement. The highest title of "global brand ambassador" was clearly stated.
With Tiffany, plus the previous Prada and LV, Ling Suisui now has the three true luxury brands in his hands. If we expand the scope of luxury brands to include Guerlain and YSL, she can also wear the crown of the Empress of the Five Luxury Brands.
After all, compared to ambassadors, close friends, and some of the endorsements that are exclusively for Weibo, Ling Sui's endorsements are all the highest titles that are simultaneously officially announced on the external network and are widely used around the world. In terms of quality, she is far ahead of others.
Dai Yan Yixuan, who had previously mocked that peach blossoms had no added value to her, could only shut up silently, find out her previous speech records, delete them, and pretend that nothing had happened.
Although she missed the Magnolia Best Actress Award again this year, even the most self-deceiving anti-fans dare not deny her achievement.
Data may be inflated, but business is not. The most shrewd are capitalists. If she didn't have real fame and commercial value, as well as the additional fashion expression required by luxury goods, which brand would spend money to hire her?
Ling Sui has been quietly doing great things. She previously low-key shot the cover of Marie Claire's September issue, which is the golden September for the five major magazines. As soon as the pre-sale link was released, the number of old fans increased again and they rushed in forcefully.
This is the first book after the hit Peach Blossom, and its sales performance is even better than that of Elle. Onlookers joked that it turned out that the only person who could break Ling Sui's record was herself.
The fans of Suisi calculated that the sales volume was only five times that of another magazine published by Li Mingxu half a month ago. Even so, there are still many CP fans who help to support him. If he really relies on his own fans, I guess the number would be reduced even more.
Sui Si was instantly pleased, as it turned out that a pendant is just a pendant. A few days ago, his big fans were secretly making trouble in an attempt to purify him, completely forgetting the dog-licking attitude of "Sui Si sister is so nice" and "Please give me a chance, sister Sui" during the broadcast of the show.
When Li fans start trouble, Sui Si naturally ignores them and just guards their own popular square and real-time situation. If they continue to make trouble, it means they are helping the poor at the grassroots level, and his family is not worthy of it!
In fact, Li Mingxu quickly fell to his knees in this matter and directly dropped into the fan group to mediate. Doing this won't be able to control the big fans who share posts and are only interested in stirring up trouble, but it can at least persuade the brainwashed little fans. People should not be ungrateful.
But even so, it couldn't completely satisfy Sui Si. The pendant should have self-awareness, this is what he should do.
After all, the fashion circle is still centered around Ling Suisui. Everyone quickly put the matter behind them and got ready for the next official announcement of the fashion COSMO October issue.
Two of the top five women's magazines, which have Ling Sui on their covers in the two best months of the year, September and October, are published consecutively.
Alas, Ling Suisui really raises the threshold of a field every time he unlocks a new achievement. Her behavior makes it very embarrassing for her colleagues who want to brag about their fashion influence in the future!
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