Huayu: As a child star, I just want to be famous

Chapter 117 Look, this cake is big and round
Sister Mei also brought the sales situation of Infinite World 2 this month.

Now that Chen Linfeng's new book is on sale, it can barely be counted as global sales.

In general, the first month sales in various countries added up to over one million.

Affected by this, the sales volume of Infinite World 1 also increased slightly.

In fact, the sales curve of the first book has shown a clear upward trend since a few months ago.

From April to October, sales increased by 4 million. Keep in mind, this book was published two years ago.

Generally, without any special reasons, the sales of works during this period will tend to stabilize.

However, these two million directly pushed Infinite World 1 to the top of the best-selling lists in Europe and the United States.

The initial domestic sales volume has decreased compared to the previous two years because Chen Linfeng has reduced publicity and sales.

But overall, sales are relatively strong, and the popularity of his works is already at the top of the domestic publishing industry.

As time goes by, those who are supposed to buy will always buy it when they hear the news.

It is difficult to attract the attention of people who have no reading habits, unless there is something out of the ordinary.

For example, adaptation into film or television, or official recommendation.

Things like these were still too far away, so Chen Linfeng continued his campus life.

A few days later, Liu Qianqian and Shu Chang both left school and joined the crew for filming.

One of them went to the crew of "The Return of the Condor Heroes" and the other went to the crew of "The Jingwei Filling the Sea".

They are all good dramas and can be regarded as representative works of their respective careers.

Chen Linfeng said he was not envious at all.

He continued to write novels at school, and has been working on the work "She" since last year.

Compared with last year's outline, Chen Linfeng subsequently added a description of the heroine of this work.

That is artificial intelligence.

In the movies of the previous life, that "she" was a strong artificial intelligence.

You can feel the emotions in the protagonist's words and doubt your own existence.

This is close to real intelligent life.

In Chen Linfeng's setting, "she" is just a more advanced artificial intelligence.

It may be more advanced than the later ChatGPT, but the essence is similar.

Although he had specially designed the dialogue between the male and female protagonists to make people feel that this is just an ordinary girl.

This is also the reason why the male protagonist eventually falls in love with "her".

But Chen Linfeng has been giving vague hints throughout his writing.

Everything is a set program, with targeted rhetoric based on big data. There is no emotion and no real communication.

It's just that he hid it well enough that you might need to look carefully to see it.

If you look at it superficially, this is a story about a man falling in love with a special woman through chatting.

It may even give readers a more relaxed and enjoyable experience.

Just like Let the Bullets Fly, on the surface, it is just a movie about bandits fighting landlords.

In order to achieve this, Chen Linfeng has revised his work many times, and each time he finishes writing it, he will show it to people around him.

Especially the reader Shi Xiaolong.

The goal is to make them feel that the novel is both relaxing and interesting.

In addition to attending classes and writing at school, Chen Linfeng is also following the recent broadcast of "Detective Di Renjie".

It was first broadcast on CCTV-8 in August and had a viewership rating of over 3%, ranking among the top three dramas in its time slot. For a first series without big-name stars, it was pretty good.

The most important thing is that it has a very good reputation and is currently being discussed quite a bit online.

It has now begun rotation broadcasting on various local channels, and the ratings are generally good.

Detective Di Renjie is a typical example of relying on carousel to expand its influence.

Even though the ratings aren’t that high, there are still a lot of people watching every rebroadcast, which gradually expands its influence.

At present, Chen's father has confirmed the next film, and the second phase of the Pingshi Film and Television City project has also started. Pingshi invested 600 million this time, and Chen Shantong invested according to the proportion of shares.

Just after class that day, Chen's father came to the school to find Chen Linfeng, and Fang Hua was there with him.

It's late autumn and the weather is already a little chilly.

The three of them found a mutton soup noodle restaurant near the school that was run by someone from their hometown province, and prepared to eat and chat.

Fang Hua mentioned the Zhenguan Reign that he had talked about a few months ago, and took out the script that Chen Linfeng had given him a few months ago from his bag.

"The Art Department of the Central Radio and Television Station is very satisfied with your script, but because they feel that the content is too little, they asked someone to add some content. Take a look at it."

Before the food arrived, Chen Linfeng took the script and opened it to read.

He was so familiar with his script that he simply skipped the parts that had not changed and only read the modified parts.

After watching it roughly, I found that the main part in the front has basically not changed, except for some interactive scenes between Li Shimin and Guanyinbi, as well as his ambiguous emotional scenes with Princess Li Yuanji.

What is this?

When did Central China Television start doing this?

But it’s true, the love story between Li Erfeng and Changsun is quite well written, which makes up for the shortcomings of Chen Linfeng before. After all, he has been single for two lifetimes, so it’s normal that he is not good at writing about love.

Originally, the script written by Chen Linfeng was somewhat intended to be a gender-swapped version of The Legend of Zhen Huan, and there would be nothing wrong with adding more emotional scenes.

It’s just that this scene of being affectionate with one’s younger brother and sister is a bit…

This writing style reminded him of The Secret History of Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang, which was like a historical drama and an idol drama.

Keep reading, this part is about what happened after the Xuanwu Gate Incident.

Chen Linfeng didn't write it, it should have been written by the new screenwriter.

After reading a passage, he frowned. The plot was somewhat similar to "The Long Song of Zhenguan" from his previous life.

Almost all of them are palace dramas, and to be honest, they are kind of poorly written.

Chen Linfeng roughly translated it and did not mention the second half for the time being, but instead talked about the changes in the front.

"Brother Fang, this Li Shimin's love affair with his brother's wife is too childish, but the part with Guanyin is pretty good. Who wrote this?"

"Yang Haiwei is the screenwriter of The Secret History of Xiaozhuang. The station specially hired him to polish it. The overall framework was not changed, but some emotional scenes were added. I think that's quite a favor to you, kid."

It’s really this person!
"Why do we have to add a love scene?"

At this time, the restaurant had prepared the food and started serving it.

All three of them ordered mutton soup with steamed buns, which is perfect for eating in cold weather.

Fang Hua said as he broke a steamed bun, "It's not that we have to add it, but in the past two years, the influence of Korean drama has increased significantly in China. After researching it, the station felt that their emotional dramas are good, so we tried this aspect."

Chen Linfeng shook his head. "This is a serious historical drama, so forget it. I can keep some of the emotional scenes with Guanyinbi, but I'll delete the rest."

"Then you should be the priority. After all, it's your book."

Fang Hua had no objection.

Chen Shantong picked a few slices of meat and put them in Chen Linfeng's bowl, and then talked to Fang Hua about the investment in the next new drama.

He is still willing to cooperate with CCTV, but the company's staff cannot expand that fast, so he can only focus on one side.

I am now coordinating with Fang Hua to see which side to lean towards.

Fang Hua was not interested in the people behind Longlin, as CCTV had too many talented people in this area.

What he wanted was Long Lin's group of extras with a background in Kung Fu, who were very useful.

Chen Linfeng listened to the two people bargaining and suddenly suggested, "Since resources are difficult to allocate, why not just integrate them."

Fang Hua asked with interest, "How do you say that?"

"Look at our two dramas. Both of them follow Li Shimin's rise from the Tang Dynasty to the end of the Zhenguan Dynasty. The themes and contents are almost the same. Isn't this a typical waste of resources? They can be integrated together."

Chen Linfeng saw on the table that there were two sesame seed buns that were torn in half by him and Chen Shantong respectively.

For example, "It's like this pancake. He gives half and I give half, and together we make a whole pancake."

Fang Hua said hesitantly, "Does this mean that Central China Television and Huaying Studio are working together to produce a drama?"

He immediately thought of the problem and shook his head, "Who is in charge of this drama? They are all big companies. If something unpleasant happens, it will be inappropriate."

(End of this chapter)