Gu Ren quickly changed the subject and started talking about his ideas from last night.
Gu Si wasn't with them last night, but she heard Gu Xin talk about it during breakfast, and she's very curious now.
"Third Sister, I've thought it through. I'll just give Xiao Qiu a cross-dressing role. There's no such setting in the current novels, so it's guaranteed to be popular. Also, I won't explicitly state that she's a girl at first. I'll gradually reveal her female identity after she meets the male protagonist. That'll be even more appealing. What do you think?" Gu Ren moved a futon to the carpet next to her and sat down cross-legged.
"Huh? Xiao Qiu is a girl?" Gu Si was a little surprised, Gu Xin hadn't told her yet.
"Fifth Sister, you didn't notice? I noticed it yesterday; that little Qiu brother smelled of a girl's fragrance," Dugu Mingyue said.
Now it was the other three people's turn to be puzzled. How could you, at such a young age, know about the woman's unique fragrance?
“Our Goddess Kingdom has a method to distinguish between men and women. Even though Xiao Qiu has a realistic Adam's apple made of some kind of material, and her voice is rough and her movements are not like a woman's, her scent cannot be concealed. I specifically smelled her yesterday, and she is a girl,” Dugu Mingyue said.
She was still confused, not understanding why Zheng Qiu would dress as a man. What was wrong with being a woman? Although most officials and important figures in the Great Zhou Dynasty were men, it wasn't like there weren't women.
So she was confused.
"You're something else! You could even tell. I only realized she was a woman last night when I hugged her." Gu Ren poked Dugu Mingyue with his finger.
"Why did you hug her?" Dugu Mingyue asked, rubbing her head unhappily.
"Because I want to act cute and charming! I thought she was a boy. I usually act cute and charming like that when I hug my brother, my dad, my grandpa, or my second uncle," Gu Ren explained.
"Oh." Dugu Mingyue was happy again.
Gu Xin and Gu Si: "..."
Little Mingyue is so domineering! If Renren had known she was a girl and still dared to hug her, he probably would have been chased and beaten by Little Mingyue again today, just like he did a couple of years ago.
Previously, when there was internal strife in the Goddess Kingdom, Queen Dugu entrusted Xiaomingyue to Grandma Gu's care. Xiaomingyue stayed with Grandma Gu until she was over a year old, and afterwards she would come over to play for nearly twenty days every month. She especially liked playing with Gu Ren. When she was two or three years old, she was ignorant and liked to hit the chubby Gu Ren. In the past two years, she has become a little more sensible and generally does not hit him, but if Gu Ren provokes her, she will still hit him without hesitation. In short, she is particularly violent.
"Then, I want to talk to you about the male protagonist in the storybook. Third Sister, Fifth Sister, take a look and see if my setting is good or not," Gu Ren said.
"Go ahead." Gu Xin nodded, then asked the maid to bring water and snacks, guessing that she would be talking here all morning, so she couldn't leave without water and food.
"I plan to set the male lead as a scion of a prestigious family, a well-educated top scholar in the imperial examination. The female lead is based on Xiao Qiu, just with a slightly different background. The story begins with the imperial examination of the top scholar. When our top scholar is parading through the streets, a corpse is suddenly discovered, and that's how the case begins," Gu Ren said.
“This, how can you write this? If you do, the Emperor will scold you. Isn’t that cursing the top scholar? Enzi will encounter a corpse during his parade, how unlucky! Besides, Enzi is going to take the imperial examination this year,” Gu Xin said.
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