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Chapter 144 Entering the Director's Sight

However, the final exams were approaching, and Cao Sheng did not have much time to write the outline of "Hong Huang Romance".

He didn't want to fail the final exam, so he needed to do some intensive review for a while before the test.

Otherwise, if he fails too many courses, his reputation as a "college slacker" will be confirmed.

Before this, the famous writer Huang Shuren openly published an article criticizing Cao Sheng as a college idiot who could not get into college.

Fortunately, the teachers seemed to be worried that too many of them failed the course, which would be embarrassing.

Anyway, before every final exam, teachers would define the scope of the exam and tell them very directly which page's content would be tested.

But even so, there are still people who fail every exam.

Because there are always people who are too lazy to prepare and just want to give up.

When Cao Sheng was preparing for the final exam.

Taipei.

In the early morning, Ah Shu was riding his bicycle. When he passed the door of the bookstore he often visited, he suddenly stopped the bike as usual, propped himself up with his feet, turned his head and shouted to the store: "Boss! Is the second episode of "God's Tomb" here?"

The lame boss poked his head out, looking puzzled. "The second volume of "God's Tomb" shouldn't be available until next month, right? Why are you asking so early this time? Didn't you just buy the first volume recently?"

Ah Shu smiled brightly and rode away while answering loudly, "Boss! You are too behind the times! I called the publishing house and they said that the second volume will be out in the next few days!!"

The boss limped out of the store, looking surprised. "Is this true? There will be a second volume this month? I guess I need to call and ask! This book is selling really well!"

……

evening.

Ah Shu rode his bicycle past the bookstore again and suddenly stopped. He propped himself up with his feet on the ground and turned to shout into the store, "Boss! Boss! Is the second episode of "God's Tomb" here?"

"no!"

The boss's unpleasant reply came from the store.

"Dry!"

Ah Shu raised his middle finger towards the store door, then rode away on his bike with a depressed expression.

This was how he followed the updates of I Want to Become an Immortal in the beginning. Whenever the book was about to be released, he would stop the car and ask at the top of his voice every time he passed by this bookstore.

He has kept this habit till now.

Over the next two days, Ah Shu would stop the car and ask a question every morning and evening when he passed by the bookstore.

Every time he got a negative answer, he would raise his middle finger and yell "Fuck!"

It wasn't until the morning of the third day when I passed by the bookstore that the owner gave me a positive answer: "We're here! Brat!"

Ah Shu had already raised the middle finger of his right hand and was about to say "fuck" again, but when he heard this, he swallowed the words back, looking a little unsatisfied.

In fact, for him, coming here to ask a question at the top of his voice, raising his middle finger and cursing "Fuck" on the way to and from school every day is also one of the pleasures of reading books.

Just like someone said, "Eating noodles without garlic will reduce the happiness by half."

He felt unhappy until he said the word "do it".

But he immediately jumped out of the car and rushed into the store excitedly.

When he came to the cashier with the freshly-made second volume of "God's Tomb" to pay, the shop owner rolled his eyes at him and complained while collecting the money, "You kid, you come and go in front of my door every day, when have I ever offended you?"

Ah Shu laughed awkwardly, took the book he had just bought and ran out of the store. When he got on his bicycle, he suddenly turned his head to look at the store door, raised his middle finger and shouted, "Fuck!!"

"Mother Gan Lin..."

The boss's laughter and scolding could be heard from the store.

……

Book fans in Taiwan feel the taste of happiness.

A few of them called Xinchang to complain, protesting the fact that only one volume of "Shenmu" was published, and strongly demanded that the publication of the book be accelerated.

Although most book fans were unhappy that they could only watch one episode this month, they did not call to protest.

Silent book lovers are always the majority.

But they were excited to see that the second volume of "God's Tomb" was on sale so soon.

Having already watched the first episode, they are now extremely eager to read this book.

The plot of the first episode is like a piece of minced meat they swallowed. It tasted a bit good, but it was far from satisfying.

Therefore, when the news of the second volume of "God's Tomb" being released spread, people lined up to buy books in front of bookstores of all sizes when students got out of school.

Fang Yuru is a field reporter for Taiwan Television.

The daily task is mainly to find news materials on the streets.

That evening, after finishing work, she rode her electric bike and was about to find a food stall to fill her stomach when she accidentally saw a group of young people queuing in front of a bookstore.

She subconsciously stopped the electric bike.

Looked over there for a while.

She has become familiar with the long queues in front of the bookstore over the past six months.

Almost every time it is because Zhongyuan Yidianhui’s new book is on the market.

She went up to inquire and found that it was just as she expected.

The second volume of Zhongyuan Yidianhui’s new book “God’s Tomb” is now on the market.

This made her feel a little uncomfortable.

Because she has always felt that the cultural and entertainment industry in Taiwan is far ahead of the mainland. In her impression, it is always the TV series, movies, and novels sold in the mainland, and very few cultural products from the mainland are popular in Taiwan.

However, ever since Zhongyuan Yidianhui came out of nowhere, it seems that he has easily defeated all the writers in Taiwan.

Not to mention that "I Want to Become an Immortal" has topped the sales list for more than half a year, and now this new book "God's Tomb" is so popular again.

She wanted to ask: What about our writers? Don’t you feel ashamed? When did you become so good-tempered?
She didn't want to collect this kind of news material.

I don't want to bring shame to the Central Plains.

But she knew that if she didn't collect this kind of news, other colleagues would collect it. Instead of letting others make money, it would be better for me to make it.

With such mixed feelings, she picked up her camera and started taking pictures, and interviewed several young people who were queuing.

The next morning, the news that "Zhongyuan Yidianhui's new book "God's Tomb" once again triggered a book-buying boom" appeared in front of tens of thousands of viewers.

……

Liu Junjie is a director.

But since finishing filming the unit drama "Constellation Women Series" last year, he has not touched the director's baton for more than half a year.

This is definitely not a good sign.

He is no longer a rookie director.

In 1982, he directed the TV series "A Beautiful Woman" and officially became a director.

After that, he also directed TV series such as "Yang Guifei", "Xi Shi", "Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils", and last year he also directed the unit dramas "Angels Never Sleep" and "Constellation Women Series".

But this year, he suddenly became idle.

It's as if I've been forgotten by the world.

There is a huge gap in my heart.

Therefore, he has been looking for opportunities recently.

I want to take the directing reins again.

That morning, when he was having breakfast at home, he heard Zhongyuan Yidianhui and Shenmu mentioned on the TV news. He couldn't help but turn his head and look for a while.

A little gray in the Central Plains...

He was not unfamiliar with this name.

A best-selling author!

Taiwan has always had the habit of adapting best-selling books into TV series and movies.

In the past, they adapted Gu Long's works, and later they adapted Qiong Yao's works.

He had thought about adapting Zhongyuan Yidianhui's "I Want to Become an Immortal" before, and even bought the whole set of books, preparing to learn the contents of the whole book.

result……

After opening the first episode of "I Want to Become an Immortal" for a while, he was dumbfounded.

Because what he saw was not the plot and characters, but the burning of production funds.

There are few normal people in this book. When they go out, they either use flying swords, flying shuttles, flying boats or other magical tools, or they use teleportation arrays.

Moreover, they would start fighting if they disagreed with something.

Why do you need to use sword skills? Why do you need to use magic? Magical weapons?

How to shoot this?
How many special effects should be used?

When you were writing this, did you ever think about how expensive the special effects in movies and TV series are?

At that time, he was depressed and smashed "I Want to Become a God" on the table, cursing: "Young people write books without any sense of importance! They don't care about the life and death of us directors at all! If everyone writes like you, what are we going to shoot? Do we directors have to write the script ourselves every time?"

At this moment, he watched the TV news report on "God's Tomb" and curled his lips.

This time he didn't need to buy the book to read. From the title he knew that this time the book was written in a nonchalant style.

"Tomb of the Gods"?
The last one was "I Want to Become an Immortal", which tells the story of becoming an immortal.

This time I want to become a god!
How could that scene be so small?
He felt that if future authors all wrote books like Zhongyuan Yidianhui, the film and television market would probably be over.

Because film and television dramas are just a form of expression of stories.

At its core, there must be a good story.

Adapting best-selling books and classic masterpieces into film and television dramas is a common practice in film and television dramas.

If most best-selling books are the kind that cannot be adapted into film and television dramas, or are adapted poorly, then what kind of film and television dramas should be made of?
Can the entire film and television drama market be supported by only the few screenwriters in the industry who write scripts that have not been tested by readers?

At this time, the female reporter on TV mentioned: "This is the third time this month that a work by Zhongyuan Yidianhui has caused people to line up to buy books. The first time was when the first episode of "God's Tomb" was released, and the second time was when "The Days of Living with a Flight Attendant" was released..."

In front of the TV, Liu Junjie raised his eyebrows when he heard this, very surprised, "'The Days of Living with a Flight Attendant'? This author has also written such a book? This, this title sounds like it doesn't require a lot of funding!"

Yes, when he thinks of Zhongyuan Yidianhui's works now, the first thing that comes to his mind is that the special effects costs will be very high if they are filmed, so high that no one will invest in him.

But the "Living with a Flight Attendant" that the reporter just mentioned doesn't seem to need any special effects.

This book can't be about a cultivator and a flight attendant living together, right?

A plane is flying in the sky? A cultivator is flying on a sword next to the plane, looking at the beautiful stewardess through the window of the plane?
Isn't this the kind of story?

Maybe the psychological trauma left by the opening chapters of "I Want to Become an Immortal" was too great. Although he was jealous of the popularity of Zhongyuan Yidianhui's works, and although "Living with a Stewardess" didn't sound like the kind of story that needed special effects, he still felt that he had to buy a copy of the original novel to be safe and not take it for granted! What if this was really a story about a cultivator and a stewardess living together?

He no longer had the appetite to eat, so he put down his chopsticks, stood up and hurried to the door.

(End of this chapter)