"Xiao Gu," Shang Yechu swallowed hard, "can you tell me..."
Gu Wenhua turned his gaze over: "What's wrong?"
Shang Yechu glanced down at the paper Gu Wenhua handed her. The handwriting on the paper was flamboyant and unrestrained, though written very small, it was still full of arrogant arrogance. It was quite incongruous with Gu Wenhua's usual appearance.
"So many changes?" Shang Yechu rubbed her forehead, feeling her head starting to ache. "So this is what you've been busy with these past few days."
Gu Wenhua nodded: "Hmm. I've looked at the script carefully and found that the setting is indeed novel, and it's easy to make exciting moments out of it—should I talk to you first, or go directly to the screenwriter?"
Shang Yechu quickly said, "Tell me first!"
We need to see what Gu Wenhua has changed, and we also need to take some time to think about how to persuade Sheng Wenzhi.
If things go wrong, Sheng Wenzhi might very well take back the copyright. He'd be willing to pay an exorbitant penalty for breach of contract. This would be unthinkable for other authors, but for that madman, it's just a matter of a blink of an eye.
“Okay.” Gu Wenhua seemed relieved as well. It seemed that he wanted to talk to Shang Yechu about this rather than talk to the screenwriter—this discovery did not make Shang Yechu feel much more at ease.
Shang Yechu decided to first look at the core outline preserved by Gu Wenhua. Good heavens! What she found was astonishing!
The plot, setting, and main character design—every aspect—has become unrecognizable. To be precise, apart from retaining the basic setting of "rules," this film has almost nothing to do with the widely circulated novel.
Shang Yechu felt a chill run down her spine, and her teeth began to ache. Before she had even finished reading, she seemed to hear Sheng Wenzhi's voice in her ears: Terminate the contract! Terminate the contract! Terminate the contract!
Just moments ago, Shang Yechu complained that one page was too much, but now she's complaining that this page is too small. Shang Yechu even flipped the paper over, hoping that Gu Wenhua had written something on the back as well.
Unfortunately, there wasn't one. Despite the reluctance, the entire set of settings was quickly read through.
That's all...
Shang Yechu felt that her twenty-year-old body was almost hunched over. She really wanted to order a blood pressure monitor and a box of nitroglycerin pills online.
Gu Wenhua stared intently at Shang Yechu's expression. Seeing Shang Yechu clutching the paper without speaking, Gu Wenhua gently squeezed the manuscript in his hand: "You think I revised it too much?"
It's not just that you've changed too much; you might as well just have Sheng Wenzhi start a new book!
That being said, we should still listen to Gu Wenhua's opinion. Gu Wenhua's experience in commercial films is undoubtedly richer than Sheng Wenzhi's, and he must have his legitimate reasons for doing these things.
"These are just the parts that need to be kept. Can you show me what you want to change?" Shang Yechu put down the core settings and glanced at the draft paper on the table. The writing on the paper was sparse, with large line spacing and margins. The blank spaces were filled with red annotations, also in Gu Wenhua's handwriting.
It looked like a funeral being celebrated. This thought inexplicably popped into Shang Yechu's head.
"Okay." Gu Wenhua paused. "Ye Chu, may I sit next to you and talk?"
"Of course." Now is not the time to be coy.
Gu Wenhua sat down next to Shang Yechu, maintaining a distance that was neither offensive nor inconvenient for conversation. Shang Yechu smelled a fresh jasmine scent, indicating that Gu Wenhua must have taken a shower before coming.
Gu Wenhua took out a pen and tapped on the first sheet of the large stack of manuscript papers.
"The first thing to change is the character design of the main characters."
The original script featured a five-person main cast: a college student, an unemployed hoodlum, a computer genius, a white-collar worker skilled in negotiation, and a mysterious woman disguised as a ghost. These were all very typical characters, vividly portrayed. Shang Yechu couldn't understand what needed to be changed.
Picking up the manuscript and reading it carefully, I noticed a large red bracket next to the protagonist, a "female college student," with the following written in red next to it:
【Kind.
Great, glorious, and righteous.
It will not violate principles.
Virgin Mary type.
Some bookworms.
He is physically weak, has asthma, and coughs frequently.
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