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Chapter 190 Cao Sheng teaches his disciples

She heard footsteps before he reached behind her and looked back.

Seeing Cao Sheng, she smiled and said, "Are you hungry? Wait until I cook this dish and we can eat."

Cao Sheng smiled back, came behind her, put his arm around her waist, and looked over her shoulder at the pork liver being fried in the pot.

This was not the first time she had made this dish for him.

Ever since she knew he liked to eat pork liver, she would make fried pork liver almost every time she came to cook for him.

It's just that at the beginning, she didn't do very well.

The pork liver cannot be cut into willow-leaf shape, its thickness is uneven, and it always sticks to the pan when stir-frying.

And now she has cooked this dish quite well.

"You cooked this dish very well! Do you usually make it at home?"

He asked with a smile.

Huang Qingya continued to stir-fry and hummed, "Do you like it? I specially asked a chef from a restaurant to teach me how to make it. I've also made it a few times at home."

Upon hearing this, Cao Sheng kissed her on the face.

He knew that medically speaking, eating too much animal offal was bad for the body.

But medically speaking, pig liver can improve eyesight.

The main reason was that his family was poor when he was a child and he could only eat meat a few times a year. The meat dishes his mother often cooked for him were cheap things like fish, pork liver and trough meat.

He doesn't like to eat trough meat.

Pork liver was ok.

At that time, if he saw a dish of fried pork liver on the table during a meal, his appetite would be stimulated and he would eat at least one more bowl of rice.

As he grew up, he would occasionally miss the dish he had eaten as a child, and sometimes he would want to eat it again.

In fact, he's had a lot of better food as an adult.

Eating this dish again brings back more memories.

A few minutes later.

Four dishes and one soup are served.

Huang Qingya boiled a bottle of rice wine with hot water and chatted with Cao Sheng while eating.

Cao Sheng: "When did you come?"

Huang Qingya: "I've been here for almost two hours! I went upstairs to look for you and heard the sound of typing in your study. I guess you were writing a manuscript, so I didn't disturb you."

Cao Sheng: "Do you want to change the subject of your new book?"

Huang Qingya raised her eyes to look at him, "Why? The idea you want to give me is a new theme?"

Cao Sheng suppressed his smile and said, "So, do you want to change the subject?"

Huang Qingya smiled and nodded, "Yes! I'm tired of writing Xianxia, ​​so I want to change the subject! Tell me quickly! What's the new subject?"

Cao Sheng smiled, "Is that so? Then come back later! I'll tell you when I come up with a new idea for the subject."

Huang Qingya was stunned, then burst out laughing, "Are you teasing me on purpose? Is the new idea you're talking about a fairy tale?"

Cao Sheng: "Since you are tired of writing about this topic, I will not say anything more. Wait until I come up with an idea for a new topic!"

Huang Qingya glanced at him with amusement and pointed at him, "You! Okay! I just lied to you. I don't want to change the subject at all. I just hope you can give me an idea for a fairy-tale theme! Okay? Tell me what the idea is!"

Cao Sheng smiled.

"eat first!"

He was in no hurry to speak.

Huang Qingya glanced at him sideways again, but did not ask any further questions.

The two of them drank half a bottle of rice wine together and then stopped. After they were full, she got up and made him a cup of tea, letting him sit and rest for a while while she skillfully cleared the dishes on the table.

Cao Sheng didn't listen to her. He stood up and helped to clear the dishes and wipe the table.

When she came back after washing the dishes, Cao Sheng was already sitting on the sofa drinking tea.

She sat down next to him, put her arm around his, and asked curiously, "Can we talk now?"

Cao Sheng originally wanted to say: "Eat you first!"

But I had just eaten and it was not suitable for strenuous exercise, so I decided to talk to her about the idea of ​​the new book first. It would not be too late to eat her after the conversation.

Anyway, since she was here today, she couldn't leave without letting him eat a few bites. "The title of the book is "Three Lives, Three Worlds, Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms"."

Cao Sheng first said the title of the book.

Huang Qingya was a little curious, "This book title is long! It's as long as the title of my previous book. Did you choose it so long on purpose? To make a couplet? But it doesn't rhyme!"

Cao Sheng laughed, "No! It's just a coincidence."

Huang Qingya: "Okay! Then continue! Three Lives, Three Worlds? Are you going to talk about reincarnation this time? And why do you add the four words 'Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms' to the title? What's the meaning?"

Cao Sheng didn't know what it meant either.

But I think the title of the book is good and don’t want to change it.

As for the meaning?

Just help yourself to think of one.

"It's a fairy tale! Reincarnation is too normal. Love needs time to be tested to determine whether it is true love. Everyone can say sweet words at the moment, but as time goes by, love that can always fulfill the promises of the past is considered true love, right?"

Huang Qingya looked at him with bright eyes, was slightly dazed by what she heard, and nodded subconsciously.

Cao Sheng: "So, for romance novels, I think it is very important to extend the timeline! The longer the time, the more it can make readers believe that the relationship between men and women is true love.

For example, I will love you for ten thousand years, until the seas run dry and the rocks crumble, I will love your face when you are young, and I will also love the wrinkles on your face when you are old, etc., right? "

"I love your face when you are young, and I also love the wrinkles on your face when you are old..."

At this time, lyrics with similar meanings had not yet been released.

Therefore, Cao Sheng's casual words had a great impact on Huang Qingya's mind, and the way she looked at him was a little different.

But Cao Sheng did not notice the change in her eyes.

He continued, "So, the idea I'm going to help you come up with this time is that the hero and heroine still love each other deeply after three lifetimes. This kind of love should be what many female readers yearn for, right?"

"of course."

Huang Qingya nodded.

Then he asked, "What are the identities of the hero and heroine? Since you said this is a fairy tale, then... is one of them in a high position? Is the other in a low position? Only a love story with a huge difference in status can have more story tension and be more touching, right?"

Cao Sheng nodded, "Yes! Considering that your book is mainly about a female protagonist, and your readers are almost all female readers, so this time the creative heroine is set to a relatively low status, and the male protagonist is a tall, rich and handsome man in heaven. The female protagonist of a lower status can make female readers feel more involved. You can think about the specific setting yourself, but I suggest that the male protagonist can be set as the prince of heaven, and the female protagonist can be a woman in the mortal world with a gentle personality on the outside and a strong heart on the inside. What do you think?"

Regarding this book, since he had only seen some fragments after it was adapted into a TV series, he couldn't tell Huang Qingya too much detail.

It is even more impossible to give her an outline of the original work.

I can only give her some advice and inspiration.

In the end it all depends on her performance.

Huang Qingya frowned and thought for a while, then asked, "Then... how did the prince of heaven know the heroine on earth? Logically speaking, one of them is in heaven and the other is in the human world, so there should be no chance for them to know each other, right? How do you think they should be introduced to each other?"

Cao Sheng: "A tiger in trouble! Give the male protagonist a plot of a tiger in trouble, such as he was attacked by his own brother, seriously injured and fell to the human world while fleeing, or he was ordered by the Jade Emperor to come to the human world to fight against a demon king who was stirring up trouble, but was tricked by the demon king. Anyway, he was seriously injured! But don't hurt his male function. Then, when he is seriously injured, he will return to his original form and become a small snake or fish or something."

When Huang Qingya heard about not hurting his male function, her expression became a little tense.

When Cao Sheng said that the male protagonist could turn into a small snake or a small fish, she couldn't help laughing and rolled her eyes.

"You are talking nonsense, aren't you? How could the original form of the prince of heaven be a small snake or a small fish? You are talking nonsense!"

Cao Sheng didn't care. "Why can't the original form of the prince of heaven be a small snake or a small fish? The pen is in your hand, you can set it however you want, as long as you can justify it."

"Can this be justified?"

She doesn't believe it.

Cao Sheng: "Why not? Don't you know that snakes can turn into Jiao, and Jiao can turn into dragon? Snakes can practice and evolve, and so can fish! Haven't you heard of the legend of the carp leaping over the dragon gate? These evolutionary processes may not be experienced by the hero himself, but they can be arranged for his biological mother. It is assumed that his mother evolved into a dragon step by step, and finally became the woman of the Jade Emperor. Then the hero was born. His original form was a black dragon, but when he was seriously injured, his realm fell. Not only could he not maintain his human form, he could not maintain his dragon form either. Instead, he turned into a small snake or a small fish!"

Huang Qingya was stunned.

As it turned out, she had read too few online articles and her imagination was too lacking.

After staring at Cao Sheng stupidly for a while, she asked in confusion, "Why did you insist on turning the hero into a little snake or fish? Can't you just turn him into a little dragon?"

Cao Sheng reached out and tapped her forehead. "Are you stupid? Isn't this to arrange for him to meet the heroine? If the heroine knows from the beginning that he is a dragon, how can they get along as equals? How can they develop feelings that have nothing to do with their identities?
You can arrange for the hero to turn into a small snake or fish, and then be picked up by the heroine. The heroine's sister or brother says that the snake can be stewed into soup, or covered with mud and roasted in the fire, but the heroine won't do it! She is full of sympathy and insists on raising it as a pet. After all, a pet! As you raise it, won't you develop feelings for it?"

Huang Qingya frowned, "But this isn't love either? How can a woman sleep with her own pet?"

Cao Sheng smiled, "No! So, when the hero recovers a little, you can arrange dangers for the heroine again and again, forcing the hero to transform again and again, and save the heroine from danger again and again.

Occasionally, you can let the heroine see his human form once, describe him as handsome, and let the heroine fall in love at first sight and never forget him. Feelings are something that can not only be cultivated, but also changed! For example, between men and women, enemies can develop into lovers, and then from lovers, they can develop into family members.

So, it doesn’t matter if the relationship between the heroine and the hero is not love at the beginning, just give them some catalysts to let their initial feelings gradually deteriorate! "

(End of this chapter)