Chapter 128 Too Frontier for Humanity
Yang Ruoqian finished a busy day at work and drove home.
He reached an agreement with the online novel platform before leaving get off work. After some hard bargaining, he finally persuaded the platform to sell the copyright of this garbage novel to Kuiguang Company at 200% of the standard publishing fee.
"Are you back?" Chang Zhiqing, wearing a loose nightgown, opened the door for Yang Ruoqian and touched Yang Ruoqian's lips on tiptoe. "How was work today?"
From that night on, Chang Zhiqing packed up her personal belongings and moved into Yang Ruoqian's home.
And naturally, I no longer have to pay rent...
As a result, Yang Ruoqian's guaranteed monthly income plummeted from 3,500 yuan to 2,000 yuan.
However, after Chang Zhiqing moved out, the room next door became completely empty, and the conditions for recruiting roommates could be lowered accordingly.
After all, Chang Zhiqing had too high requirements for her roommates, so even though she had been online on the rental app for the past few months, no one had come to rent the house.
As long as there are new tenants, with a rent of 1,500 yuan per person, Yang Ruoqian's guaranteed income can reach an astonishing 5,000 yuan per month.
Yang Ruoqian touched his lips and coughed lightly: "It's okay. I negotiated a web drama project with another company. It's quite important."
To be honest, Yang Ruoqian was somewhat uncomfortable with the sudden change in their identities from college classmates to good friends to superiors and subordinates in the company to lovers.
But Chang Zhiqing can do these things naturally...
"The cost of filming a drama is not low, so you should be careful." Chang Zhiqing reminded him, "Also, you must choose a good script, so as not to ruin the reputation of our actors."
Although she is on vacation and unemployed at home, Chang Zhiqing still remembers this basic common sense.
"The main thing is that time is very tight, and I have to revise the script tonight." Yang Ruoqian sat on the sofa and sighed, "I found a novel that is quite suitable, but some details still need to be revised."
"Tonight? Are you in such a hurry?" Chang Zhiqing was immediately unhappy. "Besides, shouldn't the screenwriter be the producer's job? Why are you asking us to do it?"
Yang Ruoqian explained: "I took the initiative to ask for it. After all, they were a new company and I was not confident in leaving our actors entirely to them."
After all, Cheng Fei said that she has a very strong writing team. If they follow her plan completely, they won't lose money...
"Then you should take some time to rest. You don't allow your employees to work overtime, but you work overtime yourself. It's really..."
That's because employees working overtime is good for the company...
The purpose of my overtime work is to create more loss-making projects for the company...
Yang Ruoqian muttered inwardly, then waved his hand: "Don't worry."
"Wash your hands and get ready for dinner." Chang Zhiqing was too lazy to bother with anything else. After giving her instructions, she went into the kitchen to serve the dishes.
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After dinner, Yang Ruoqian relaxed a little, took out his computer, put it on the table, and planned to make some changes to some details of this online novel.
This online novel has extremely poor writing, confusing narration, and fragmented rhythm. It is also filled with a lot of crude, childish, and embarrassing pretentious and face-slapping plots. It lacks a sense of immersion and is extremely difficult to enjoy.
However, it is not enough to be extremely difficult to be enjoyable. After all, the basic framework of the story is still there, and the overall style is still enjoyable. If it is made into a web drama, maybe some people will still like to watch it.
The quality of this novel cannot be compared with the current fashionable high-quality new media articles, but it is enough to show that there is a market for this kind of writing. It’s just that the author did not write it well.
Yang Ruoqian planned to make some changes in certain details and change all the plots in the novel that could arouse the audience's emotions.
Then add all the poisonous points that can touch the audience's sensitive nerves.
First of all, the male protagonist must be portrayed as a loser who is completely dependent on the golden finger, whose behavior is brainless, whose words are not childish, and who gets angry and shocked at trivial things, but swallows his anger when encountering big things...
Bully the weak and fear the strong!
Secondly, the protagonist is given the image of a bootlicker. He is clearly the so-called "national god of war" and "invincible dragon king", who can defeat an entire foreign army with one punch, but he rushes to become someone else's son-in-law, and repeatedly tolerates his cuckolded fiancée, and even obeys her every word.
Finally, some points that make sense are changed to be unreasonable, for example, the hero is obviously the "God of War Dragon King", but no one recognizes his identity, and there are always countless cannon fodders sending people to kidnap the hero's family.
Highlight the idea that the game is not over until the audience is driven to death.
As for special effects, they are used in useless places as much as possible. For example, there are "big scenes" of dozens of helicopters whizzing past on the rooftop, and "shocking plots" of dozens of black luxury cars coming towards you.
In short, the special effects must be burned off quietly and quietly, burning to the most useless place.
Otherwise, it is likely to attract audiences who don't care about the plot, don't pay attention to the characters, and just come to see the special effects.
The special effects of the web drama are not very good to begin with, and this is a big mixed up theme of alien races, superpowers, martial arts, immortal heroes and military affairs that takes place in a modern city, and the story is full of poisonous points...
Yang Ruoqian, who had read many online novels and watched many TV dramas, began to feel nauseous.
Online scripts of this kind are not popular with female audiences, and now they have offended the pitifully small male audience group as well. Are you still afraid that the show will not be a hit?
With the ready-made script in hand, Yang Ruoqian quickly started typing...
After working until three in the morning and compressing a novel of hundreds of thousands of words into a plot of more than 100,000 words, Yang Ruoqian breathed a sigh of relief.
“Done!”
"It's so hard to type... Well, I can still sleep for five or six hours, so I don't need to take a day off tomorrow and can go to work normally!"
After sighing, Yang Ruoqian threw the document to Lin Cao, took a shower, and went back to his room to prepare for bed.
He had just sat on the bed and had not yet had time to lie down when a pair of white, slender arms suddenly stretched out from under the quilt, clasped Yang Ruoqian's neck, and pulled him into her arms.
There was anger and resentment in Chang Zhiqing's voice. It was obvious that she had been waiting for a very long time: "You are finally done with your work, huh?! Busy man?"
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The next morning.
Lin Cao sat at his workstation, looking at the script that Mr. Yang sent him.
In the first few days, since there were many "old friends" in the company, Lin Cao was always asked many questions, which was quite embarrassing.
But after his soul was cleansed by the company's strict relaxation rules, his body was relaxed in the massage room, and his appetite was conquered by the employee cafeteria, Lin Cao quickly integrated into the Kuiguang Company and found it difficult to extricate himself.
"Have you heard that the new operations guy was idle at home and had nothing to do. He was found out by CEO Yang and his salary was deducted by 200 yuan. It's really scary."
"Horrible, how did Mr. Yang find out?"
"Because the work progress at the end of the previous day is different from the progress at the beginning of the next day..."
"Fortunately, Mr. Yang took a day off today."
"It's another day when both leaders are away. It's great. I can work overtime during my break."
Lin Cao lowered his head feeling somewhat guilty.
He was free yesterday and secretly took a look at the resumes of actors who might be interested in this web drama. As he expected, most of them were small extras who worked on various film sets.
Even if there is a professional actor occasionally, he is completely unknown, cannot get any roles, and is not even considered an 18th-tier actor who has passed his prime.
Even if you are out of date, at least you had to have some "popularity" once.
After all, big-name actors and popular stars have their own channels and their own agencies, so they don’t need to discuss cooperation through social recruitment.
As for what he learned when Mr. Yang took him out to discuss cooperation...
All we can say is that he learned everything except nothing.
He is indeed a boss who can repeatedly harm himself and turn defeat into victory.
When they were rivals in the past, he realized from repeated failures how cunning Yang was and how capable he was of making long-term and covert plans.
Only after becoming his subordinate did I realize that all those things were just the tip of the iceberg.
Otherwise, with so many years of work experience, why couldn't he understand what Mr. Yang said? "Let's read the script first."
Sometimes an actor doesn’t have to have great acting skills, he also has to be suitable.
Letting an actor with excellent acting skills play a role that is not suitable for him may result in a lot of wasted effort. A large amount of remuneration will be spent, but the audience will not buy it at all.
On the contrary, if a once unknown actor is asked to play a suitable role, the effect is very likely to be to achieve great results with little money. It is even not impossible to directly make the actor completely famous!
As for how to judge whether an actor is suitable, it is up to the agent Lin Cao to make the decision based on the script.
"Boss Yang entrusted such an important task to me alone. I think he really recognized my ability. I must give him a satisfactory answer."
With an extremely solemn and sacred mood, Lin Cao opened the document that Yang Ruoqian sent him in the middle of the night.
This small document concerns the life and death of a project worth tens of millions of dollars, and also concerns the future of Lin Cao.
Word loaded quickly.
A row of book titles appeared directly in front of Lin Cao.
"The Divine Son-in-Law Protecting the Nation: I Return with an Army of 10 Million to Fulfill the 10-Year Agreement"
"Ten years have passed!"
"Ten years ago, I was left to fend for myself like a stray dog on the street. Ten years later, I, the Dragon King, have returned... Is she okay?"
“It’s time to collect the debt!”
When Lin Cao looked at the title of the book and the first three lines of words, he suddenly felt as if thunder was rolling in the sky.
This script...
It’s really poisonous!
In just two sentences, he was able to clearly portray a useless protagonist!
I have to say that anyone who can write this kind of plot must have a certain level of talent.
Lin Cao suppressed his shock and continued reading.
The story takes place in the urban setting of "Dragon Country", where many foreign tribes are eyeing and want to invade at any time. Fortunately, the so-called "Four War Gods" and the mysterious "Peerless Dragon King" protect the country and thus escape disaster.
And this so-called "Peerless Dragon King" is naturally the male protagonist of this drama.
The hero is not only the invincible "Peerless Dragon King", but also the legendary medical god who has mastered the "Taiyi Divine Needle".
As for why the male protagonist has to hide his identity even though he is already invincible, even the screenwriter Yang Ruoqian doesn’t know. It is set up like this anyway, so what?
Ten years ago, the hero was slandered as a spy of a foreign race, his martial veins were destroyed, his dantian was shattered, he was expelled from his home, and even his fiancée ignored the engagement and ran away with his enemy.
Due to various reasons, the hero became the son-in-law of a big family. He was looked down upon all day long. His wife was also flirting with other people and was even unwilling to look at the hero straight in the eye.
Lin Cao was looking at the script in shock, and he complained, "Good fellow, it's bad enough that he got cheated on, but he got cheated on twice..."
Not only did they dance like crazy in the audience's minefield, they also had to pee...
No, the script personally selected by Mr. Yang must have a deeper meaning and must not be as simple as it appears on the surface.
Perhaps, Mr. Yang wants to create a true work of art that combines online literature, traditional TV dramas and web dramas.
Behind these seemingly absurd stories, perhaps every word and every punctuation mark has profound educational significance.
After changing his mindset, the shocked expression on Lin Cao's face disappeared.
The script must be a good script, I just didn’t understand it.
So Lin Cao continued to look down...
After becoming a son-in-law, the male protagonist was driven to a foreign battlefield. By chance, he got the "Taiyi Magic Needle" and used acupuncture to cure the leukemia of a big man's daughter. From then on, he rose to prominence and became the "Dragon King" step by step.
Ten years later, the male protagonist heard that his ex-fiancée had leukemia, so he returned to the family that had abandoned him, intending to put aside the past grudges and use his acupuncture to cure his ex-fiancée's leukemia.
As a result, as soon as he entered the door, he was humiliated by all the family members. The male protagonist silently endured all the abuse, refused his subordinates' intention to reveal his identity, and cured his leukemia under the watchful eyes of his ex-fiancee's current boyfriend.
The subordinates asked the male protagonist why he wanted to cure the disease, and he said that he was a relative after all.
It's a very hilarious act of filial piety.
After leaving the family in humiliation and ridicule, the male protagonist returned to his parents' home as a son-in-law, only to discover that his current fiancée also had leukemia and was having an affair with the second male villain.
A plot that is almost exactly the same as the previous one happened again. Everyone in the girl's family was sarcastic about the son-in-law, saying that they spent 5 million yuan to hire a miracle doctor to treat the illness, and that the male protagonist was a swindler.
At the same time, the miracle doctor arrived and confidently treated the male protagonist's fiancée. However, not only did the fiancée's leukemia not get cured, but she vomited three liters of blood and was in critical condition.
The male protagonist wanted to take action, but was scolded again. But before he could finish scolding, a group of vicious people suddenly broke into the door of his house. The female protagonist brought 30 billion US dollars in cash and asked the male protagonist to cure her father's leukemia...
Amid the shock of the crowd and the unwilling roar of his fiancée, the hero, after feeling aggrieved for so long, finally completed his first pretentious plot.
However, before the installation was completed, one of his men suddenly came hurriedly reporting that the protagonist's mother had been kidnapped because someone needed this to cure the old lady in the family of her leukemia.
For the sake of his mother, the male protagonist had to abandon the female protagonist in a very ridiculous way and go alone to rescue his mother. To his surprise, he discovered that the person who kidnapped his mother was actually his ex-fiancee.
So after all kinds of mercy and psychological struggles, the hero was forced to kill his entire family, but only let his ex-fiancée go.
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After more than 100,000 words of bloody plot, because the script was so bad, the hero finally killed all the enemies with one hand and got the beauty.
After seeing the ending, Lin Cao fell into a deep daze.
Since you can destroy all enemies with one hand, why bother with those hundreds of thousands of words before that?
"There must be some deep meaning!"
(End of this chapter)
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