Who are you calling "little fresh meat"? I'm the king.

Chapter 916 Adaptation (23)

"Hey, do you want to remake 'The Return of the Condor Heroes'?"

"...Why would you think that? What's wrong, do you want to play Huang Rong?"

Yang Mi was taken aback: "Why Huang Rong?"

"The age is just right; Huang Rong in 'The Return of the Condor Heroes' was in her thirties..."

"Pah!" Yang Mi raised her hand and slapped him across the face...

"You can't exactly play Qiu Qianchi, can you... and you can't spit out date pits either!"

Who is Qiu Qianchi?

Shen Yan smiled and searched for Qiu Qianchi, then said, "She is the wife of Gongsun Zhi, the master of Jueqing Valley. Gongsun Zhi cruelly pushed Qiu Qianchi into the underground cave and severed her tendons in order to elope with his maid Rou'er... This is the person!"

Yang Mi took the phone, glanced at it, and nearly went crazy with anger: "Me? I play such a role?"

Shen Yan suppressed a laugh: "Didn't you want to change your image? Play Qiu Qianchi, and the audience will definitely look at you in a new light!"

“…Then you play Gongsun Zhi, and I’ll play Qiu Qianchi!”

"... "

Before Shen Yan could answer, Yang Mi was already plotting: "Look, Gongsun Zhi is a scumbag... and you're a scumbag too!"

"Me? How am I a jerk?"

"If you're not a jerk, why are you touching my feet?"

"You put it on my lap yourself, why shouldn't I touch it?"

"If you're not a scumbag, then why did you get together with me behind Shishi's back?"

"Sister, it was you who took the initiative!"

"You can refuse, right?"

Shen Yan was very frank: "Why should I refuse? I've always liked you!"

"...You're shameless!"

"If I had to say who I resemble in Jin Yong's novels, I think I'm a bit like Duan Zhengchun... He's neither ruthless nor malicious in harming his old flame; on the contrary, he's quite responsible!"

Yang Mi looked at him suspiciously, then asked, "So, Shi Shi also had a child with another man?"

"…I…"

Kill with one hit!

Oh, I forgot, Duan Zhengchun's only son, Duan Yu, was born to his wife and his cousin...

"It was just an example," Shen Yan said, momentarily stunned. Luckily, his phone rang. He glanced at the caller ID and immediately said, "...The takeout is here, I'll go open the door..."

……

"I never intended to film 'The Return of the Condor Heroes'... 'The Return of the Condor Heroes' is a boring story..." Shen Yan said while eating, "I had previously considered making a version of 'The Return of the Condor Heroes' based on 'The Deer and the Cauldron'..."

"What?"

"Just film it in the style of Stephen Chow's 'The Deer and the Cauldron,' and look at Guo Fu, she's just a low-budget version of Princess Jianning... The climax of the original 'The Return of the Condor Heroes' is actually during the Battle of Xiangyang, when Yang Guo tells Guo Fu to kneel down, and she immediately kneels down, which startles Yang Guo, who quickly says: 'That's not what I meant...'"

Yang Mi immediately got it: "You mean Guo Fu is an M?"

"Yes, Wei Xiaobao initially treated Jianning like a normal person, and Princess Jianning would bully him. Wei Xiaobao had no choice but to act as the dominant one, and Princess Jianning was satisfied, becoming obedient and docile... Yang Guo was just ignorant, not as worldly as Wei Xiaobao. After all, Wei Xiaobao grew up in a brothel and was very knowledgeable!" "Really?"

Shen Yan was speechless: "What are you thinking? Beautiful, bad-tempered, and brainless... Jin Yong has written female protagonists like that before, and they all flopped!"

What work?

"The female protagonist of *The Sword Stained with Royal Blood*, Wen Qingqing, is bad at martial arts but has a terrible temper. She's always slamming doors and leaving, and she's constantly being taken hostage. She's capricious, jealous, and loves to run away; her IQ and EQ are consistently offline..."

"I haven't read much of 'The Sword Stained with Royal Blood'..."

"The biggest problem with 'The Return of the Condor Heroes' is that the love story in 'The Legend of the Condor Heroes' is too perfect... After writing the almost perfect, idealized love story of Guo Jing and Huang Rong in 'The Legend of the Condor Heroes,' Jin Yong deliberately wanted to write about unsatisfactory and imperfect love in 'The Return of the Condor Heroes.' So he wrote about Li Mochou, who went mad from heartbreak; Wu Santong, who fell in love with his adopted daughter; Wang Chongyang and Lin Chaoying, who clearly loved each other but couldn't be together; Gongsun Lü'e, who knew she couldn't have him but was willing to die for him; Xiaolongnü and Yang Guo's master-disciple romance; Xiaolongnü's loss of virginity; Yang Guo's loss of an arm..."

According to this narrative, the ending should be that Xiaolongnu jumps off a cliff and dies, a tragic love story!

As a result, readers couldn't stand it anymore and were outraged. Jin Yong, who had just started his Ming Pao newspaper and was counting on The Return of the Condor Heroes to boost sales, had no choice but to back down and bring Little Dragon Girl back to life.

"Furthermore, since 'The Return of the Condor Heroes' is a sequel, it's necessary to maintain a balance of power, which results in the villain, Golden Wheel Monk, not being very strong in combat and lacking in a sense of oppression..."

The key point is that the villains are not targeting the protagonist at all. The villains are actually experts from the Mongol camp, and they are targeting the experts of the Central Plains martial arts world.

Nemo Xing and Yin Kexi were the strongest warriors recruited by the Mongols from India and Persia, respectively.

The Golden Wheel Dharma King was the most powerful master in Tibetan Tantric Buddhism and was also appointed as the National Preceptor by the Mongol Khan.

In other words, these people are all national-level masters, the strongest masters of the Mongol Empire that dominated Eurasia!
But their combat effectiveness is weak and lackluster...

Because we need to maintain a balance of combat power!
The new boss, Jinlun, not only failed to surpass Huang Yaoshi and Ouyang Feng, who were supporting characters from previous works, but instead suffered setbacks at every turn, demonstrating a shockingly poor ability to defeat weaker opponents…

The top combat power of the two sides is a huge gap of 9 to 1 - Jinlun is the only top master among the villains. The protagonist group has a total of 9 people who are at the same level or higher than him, including the Old Urchin, Guo Jing, Yang Guo, the Eastern Heretic, the Western Poison, the Southern Emperor, the Northern Beggar, Xiaolongnu, and Qiu Qianren!
The most outrageous thing is that Little Dragon Girl chewed up minced meat and fed it to Guo Xiang, who was less than a month old...

It's not even a month old!

Guo Xiang was truly lucky; she only had a few good days after joining Li Mochou's household...

Yang Mi, no longer interested in "The Return of the Condor Heroes," then asked, "So... what are you going to do after 'The Smiling, Proud Wanderer'?"

"Originally, I planned to make 'Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils'... but 'Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils' is not easy to make!"

Why is it difficult to do?

"What I mean is it's hard to come up with something original..." Shen Yan shook his head, then continued, "However, we've already partnered with Yuewen to launch a writing contest, preparing to adapt a fan fiction..."

"Huh? I thought you were going to make a Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils movie from Murong Fu's perspective!"

"Murong Fu is boring... He's incredibly stupid, suspicious by nature, mediocre in both literary and military affairs, socially inept, bad at business, and unable to read the room for opportunity. He always ends up on the side of the unlucky ones..."

In fact, Shen Yan had considered cutting the storylines of Duan Yu and Xu Zhu, and only filming Murong Fu and Qiao Feng...

In the martial arts world of the Han Chinese, the two were known as Murong in the South and Qiao Feng in the North, yet both were of different ethnicities. One was a rough-and-tumble hero, the other a wealthy young master. One wandered the martial arts world to find his Khitan heritage, while the other traveled far and wide to restore the Xianbei people. One was bold and straightforward, the other cunning and calculating. Their fates were intertwined by the grudges left by their fathers, ultimately leading to the same end…

Until the very end of the novel, all of Xiao Feng's ambitions and ambitions turned to dust. Unable to uphold his loyalty and righteousness, Xiao Feng committed suicide at Yanmen Pass, perishing alongside A Zi at the same cliff where his mother had fallen to her death.

Murong Fu lost everything. His cousin followed Duan Yu, he killed one of his four close friends with his own hands, the other three broke off all ties, his father became a monk and stopped caring about worldly affairs, the restoration of the Great Yan Kingdom was in vain, and he lost his mind. He wandered the forest with Abi...

Even deleting the Xu Zhu storyline would be better...

I really don't know what the point of Xu Zhu's existence is!
Duan Yu, protected by various protagonist halos, not only mastered the Northern Darkness Divine Art, the Six Meridians Divine Sword, and the Lingbo Steps, but Xu Zhu, a fool with good fortune, somehow absorbed the power of several grandmasters of the Free and Unfettered Sect along the way, becoming a peerless master...

The key issue is that having a separate subplot completely outside the main storyline feels somewhat redundant.

But... if you change it like this, it won't be "Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils" anymore. Instead, it will become a Japanese manga—two protagonists with different personalities who ultimately choose different paths, a standard formula for a hot-blooded Japanese manga!
(End of this chapter)