Chapter 881: Thirty Years in the East, Thirty Years in the West
Concubine Li was very surprised by the Imperial Concubine's request. She asked, "What is the subject?"
Yao Jieyu also looked at the imperial concubine with curiosity.
Xiao Xixi: "It's basically about the protagonist sailing out to sea and traveling around."
Concubine Li frowned: "What's so interesting about this kind of story?"
Xiao Xixi: “There are many things to watch.
For example, you can set the protagonist to be a poor bastard who suffers from family oppression.
He was kicked out of the house by his eldest brother and had nowhere to go.
At this time, you'd better focus on describing how hateful your brother is, so that the readers will hate him so much that they want to reach into the book and strangle him to death.
Remember, hatred is an important way to stimulate identity.
As long as you can make the reader empathize with the protagonist, your story is halfway successful."
Princess Li showed an expression of being taught a lesson and asked, "Then what?"
Xiao Xixi continued.
“Then you let the down-and-out protagonist join the caravan, heading south to a seaside town.
It is best to use real place names, which will help increase the reader's sense of immersion.
The protagonist happened to save a drunk here. When the drunk sobered up, he found out that he was actually a captain.
The captain invited the protagonist to join the fleet, and the group set sail.
It was not until this time that the protagonist realized that there were many countries on the other side of the sea.
Those countries have many rare spices, exquisite handicrafts, and completely different cultures.
The people who live there are very tall, with high noses and deep eyes, completely different from the people here.
Some of them have blond hair, some have brown hair, and some have red or black hair.
Their eyes also come in many colors, such as blue, green, and gray.
Some of them like to eat raw fish and shrimp, some like to cut beef into large slices and fry them, and some like to put vegetables in bread and eat them as meals.
What is bread? It's the steamed buns we have here.
Let’s get back to the topic.
The protagonist and his group traded with these foreigners.
They sold their country's goods at prices dozens of times higher than the market price, and then purchased all kinds of spices, food ingredients and handicrafts from the local area at very low prices.
After that, they shipped these goods back to the country, and the selling price increased more than ten times, making the profit frighteningly high.
Everyone on the boat made a fortune, and even the protagonist who just joined in the fun made some money.
After tasting the sweetness, the protagonist immediately used the money to buy a batch of goods and officially joined the sailing team.
He quickly accumulated wealth through this method of speculation and married the captain's only daughter.
The protagonist later inherited the captain's fleet and continued to expand it, eventually becoming the most powerful navigator on the sea and accumulating a fortune that was rich enough to rival a country.
After learning that the protagonist had become successful, all the relatives and friends who once looked down on him came to find him, and even his elder brother who once kicked him out of the house wanted to make peace with him.
Now it depends on how you develop?
You can write that they reconciled and finally became a happy family.
You can also write that the protagonist is not only unmoved, but also slaps the faces of those snobs, making them deeply understand what it means to be in the east for thirty years and to be in the west for thirty years. Don't despise the young and poor! "
Princess Li blurted out without thinking: "I must give those snobs a slap in the face! They ignored me in the beginning, but today I will make them unable to reach me!"
Xiao Xixi took a sip of ice milk tea to moisten her throat.
"You write the story, and you have the final say on what kind of life you want to give the protagonist."
Concubine Li thought about it carefully and hesitated again: "But I have never written a story with a male protagonist. The stories I wrote before were all about women as the first protagonist. I am afraid that I can't write a story with a male protagonist well."
Xiao Xixi suggested.
“You can try writing first.
If you really can't write from the male protagonist's perspective, then replace the male protagonist with a female protagonist.
The main storyline remains unchanged, just slightly modify the beginning of the story.
For example, the heroine’s family has been in business for generations and has a large business.
But because the heroine's father accidentally offended a local tyrant, he was beaten to death.
All the family property was taken away, and the heroine's brother lost one leg, becoming a cripple.
Seeing her family business declining and her mother crying all day long, the heroine decided to give it a try.
She disguised herself as a man and sneaked into the caravan and headed south, hoping to gain a glimmer of hope for her family in the south.
By coincidence, the heroine happened to help the captain, and was afterwards invited by the captain to go sailing together.
When the heroine discovered the business opportunities at sea, she wrote to her family and asked them to go south with her.
The family worked together to start a business, bought merchant ships, expanded the fleet, constantly traveled back and forth on the sea, earned a lot of wealth, and finally led the family to the pinnacle of life! "
Yao Jieyu was fascinated by what she heard.
At this moment, she couldn't help but applaud: "I like this story!"
Princess Li asked, "What about the powerful villain who killed the heroine's father?"
Xiao Xixi gave her some advice.
“You can make the heroine’s family an imperial merchant.
When the heroine represented her family to go to the capital to offer tribute, she took the opportunity to file a complaint with the emperor, asking him to redress her father's grievances.
The emperor ordered a thorough investigation of the case and found out that the facts were indeed as the heroine said. He immediately arrested the powerful villain and avenged the heroine's father's life.
The heroine's revenge was achieved, and the family business reached a new level. "
When Concubine Li heard this ending, she immediately felt like the anger that had been pent up in her heart was released, and she felt relieved.
Yao Jieyu couldn't help but ask, "Why are all the plots about the heroine pursuing her career? Didn't the heroine get married? Who did she marry in the end? She must be very pretty, right? When the emperor sees her, won't he want to take her into his harem?"
Concubine Li looked at her with a look of disdain: "Isn't it better to pursue a career? Why do you have to enter the palace? What's good about entering the palace? It would be fine if the heroine is lucky enough to be favored, but what if, like us, she encounters a temperamental person... cough."
She swallowed back the words "moody".
She secretly glanced at the imperial concubine, and seeing that she looked unconcerned, she mustered up the courage to continue.
"What if the heroine also meets an emperor who doesn't even look at her? How will she live in the future? How miserable it would be to be a widow."
Yao Jieyu thought so too. Once you enter the palace, it is like entering a deep sea. It is more comfortable to be free and at ease outside.
She urged, "Sister Li Fei, please go back and write this story. I really want to read it."
To be honest, Concubine Li was also a little itchy.
Her mind is now full of the plot of the heroine fighting back to revive the family and defeat the villain, and she really wants to write down all the plots in her mind right now.
Xiao Xixi said, "No hurry, I haven't finished yet."
Concubine Li and Concubine Yao both looked at her.
(End of this chapter)
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