Chapter 608 The Stories of Screenwriters: The beginning is always the hardest.
Qingping Entertainment's scriptwriting department has now been officially renamed the "Raging Project Scriptwriting Center." The company employs a group of scriptwriters, who naturally became the center's first members after its establishment. Unfortunately, these scriptwriters aren't very famous, so they need to invite a few well-known ones to lend their influence. Firstly, this expands their reach; secondly, having established scriptwriters provide support can reassure the junior scriptwriters, preventing them from becoming hesitant and timid.
These companies in the Chinese entertainment industry have a terrible reputation among screenwriters, all thanks to a group of parasites led by companies like Tianding Entertainment and Guanjun Century.
Speaking of which, when they heard that Qingping Entertainment was implementing the "Raging Plan," Meta Pictures was eager to try and get a piece of the pie. However, Shang Yechu fiercely resisted and refused. Shang Yechu had no liking for Meta Pictures, and besides, Meta Pictures' reputation among screenwriters wasn't much better than the other two companies.
While Metatronics doesn't steal screenwriting credits, what they do is even more terrifying. This company excels at stuffing its production teams with a bunch of cronies and privileged individuals, letting them freely rewrite the script and improvise. Then, they shove their garbage onto the original screenwriter's name.
Fortunately, Metafilm didn't dwell on the matter. Metafilm, which operates on an artist-centric or rather, nepotism-centric model, doesn't place much importance on screenwriters, so when Qingping Entertainment firmly disagreed, they let it go.
The first well-known screenwriter signed by Qingping Entertainment was Jian Xiaojun. Originally, Jian Xiaojun only had one work under her name, "The Mute Woman," which seemed rather thin. But now, with the addition of "The Legend of Happiness Street" and "Love in Two Homes," which has copyright disputes, her portfolio is quite impressive. Having her as the first is a good start for the "Raging Plan."
Shang Yechu had invited Zheng Bohan to join her team. As expected, Zheng politely declined. He preferred working alone and wasn't comfortable with these kinds of things. Becoming a contracted screenwriter for any company was out of the question.
However, Zheng Bohan strongly supports this event organized by Qingping Entertainment. To show his support and prevent any gossip, he even inscribed a calligraphy piece as a gift to Qingping Entertainment:
"Writing is an eternal affair; its gains and losses are known only to the heart."
Of course, a single piece of calligraphy was far from enough to satisfy Shang Yechu. Shang Yechu then proceeded to shower Zheng Bohan with compliments over the phone, making Zheng feel quite flattered. Zheng Bohan eventually promised Shang Yechu that once his current script was finished, he would prioritize collaborating with Qingping Entertainment to become a project-based screenwriter.
"Half a Sky" consumed a great deal of Zheng Bohan's talent. After finishing the novel adapted from the screenplay of "Half a Sky," Zheng Bohan took a long break and only recently began to conceive his next work. It's said that he's only written a title so far. Who knows when he'll finally fulfill this promise?
However, something is better than nothing. Even a fly's leg is still meat.
Zheng Bohan's group of veteran screenwriter friends, however, were eager to try their luck and secretly sought connections with Shang Yechu. Since *Yun Qing Ji*, these screenwriters hadn't had any hit works. They submitted a ton of scripts, asking Shang Yechu to pull strings.
Shang Ye Chu made excuses, saying he was busy filming, and then passed the buck back to Qingping Entertainment. He told them to deal with Qingping Entertainment themselves.
There was no way around it; perhaps the immense popularity of "Yun Qing Ji" had given these screenwriters the wrong impression, as everyone was shoving in palace intrigue drama scripts. However, at the beginning of this year, the authorities hinted that the regulations for palace intrigue dramas would be tightened starting this year, and censorship would be significantly strengthened. Some of these screenwriters' palace intrigue drama scripts were actually quite good, but Shang Ye Chu couldn't take that risk for Qing Ping Entertainment.
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