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Chapter 28 Will it be crushed in terms of reputation?

For several days in a row, Cao Sheng kept asking himself: Is the quality of my book "Living with the Air Hostess" good enough?

Compared with Pi Zi Cai's "First Close Contact", will it be completely outdone?

He felt a little unsure.

After all, before his rebirth, although he had been writing for many years and had achieved a little success, and he thought his writing was okay, he only wrote refreshing novels after all, and had no experience in writing literary or pure love novels.

And "The First Intimate Contact" by Pizi Cai is a leader among pure love stories and has conquered countless young literary people.

In the past few days, he has been reviewing the plot of his book "Living with the Air Hostess" over and over again in his mind, trying to judge the quality of his book from the plot.

He put a lot of thought into constructing the outline of this book.

For example: When setting the main plot of this book, he considered the several stages of a love affair. Although he had no experience in writing pure love stories, he had lived for 40 years and had rich experience in love.

You know that most love basically goes through several stages.

The first stage should be the passionate love period.

Couples at this stage basically only see each other's advantages, such as: beauty, handsomeness, good figure, positivity, humor, generosity, etc.

Couples in this period are inseparable and wish they could stick together every day.

He believes that the second stage is the rational stage.

At this stage, the honeymoon period is over. One of the couple may see some shortcomings in the other, or may be under pressure from the outside world, such as obstruction or cold water from parents, relatives and friends.

In short, one party in the relationship gradually regains his or her sanity and begins to reflect on the relationship rationally.

Of course, it is also possible that one of the people in this period realizes that career is more important and that he cannot completely indulge in love.

Anyway, at this stage, one of the people is no longer as passionate as they were during the honeymoon period. Many people will break up at this stage, but a few can persist until the next stage.

The third stage, Cao Sheng felt, should be an independent stage.

If we talk about the second stage, it is when one of the couple gradually regains his or her sanity.

The third stage is when both lovers regain their sanity.

Both of them can see this relationship clearly.

Each of them has dealt with the impact of this relationship on their lives. They work when they should work, and they may not stick together all the time after work. Each of them has a certain personal space. The relationship at this stage does not have the passion of the honeymoon period, nor the bumps and mutual injuries of the second stage. They will get along more harmoniously with each other.

He feels that the fourth stage is a stage of mutual influence and support.

For couples who can persist to this stage, their living habits have become similar, and even their way of speaking and thinking, etc., have begun to become somewhat similar to each other.

They have become accustomed to each other's presence.

They truly fell in love with each other.

Couples at this stage begin to consciously or unconsciously support and influence each other in life and career.

……

This is Cao Sheng’s many years of love experience.

He didn't dare to say that all relationships were like this, but he felt that most relationships were like this.

No one can stay in love forever.

He had no experience in writing pure love stories, so he incorporated his own experience of love into the plot development of this book.

For example: At the beginning of this book, the protagonist Ding Yang and Ran Jing met in a bar, and Ding Yang was attracted by Ran Jing's appearance, figure and temperament.

Ran Jing, whose lover had just died, was amused by Ding Yang's mature yet clumsy approach.

After this meeting, both of them remembered each other.

Afterwards, Ran Jing saw the share rental notice and found Ding Yang's residence. The two met for the second time. They became share tenants in name but lived together in fact.

In the following long plot, Cao Sheng wrote about the various trivial matters that happened to the two people living together.

He tried his best to write in an interesting direction. For example, Ding Yang made a lot of jokes while trying to show his strengths to Ran Jing.

For example: Ran Jing, who lost her lover, was heartbroken, but she maintained her kindness and tolerance in her heart. When she shared a house with Ding Yang, she would wash Ding Yang's dirty clothes while washing her own clothes; every time she came back from a business trip, while cleaning the house carefully, she would sometimes clean Ding Yang's messy doghouse as well; when she cooked, she would also make an extra portion for Ding Yang.

But she was so grief-stricken that she did not respond to Ding Yang's pursuit.

Until she had health problems and suddenly fell ill, Ding Yang rushed her to the hospital. For more than half a month, he was busy taking care of her and gradually opened her closed heart.

In these plots, Cao Sheng tried hard to present the process of the hero and heroine falling in love. He wrote them in great detail and tried his best to present Ran Jing's beauty, gentleness, virtue, and the sadness in her heart.

We also strive to present Ding Yang's hilarious pursuit process.

And Ding Yang took good care of Ran Jing during her hospitalization.

Cao Sheng feels that a pure love story should at least make readers believe that there is real love between the male and female protagonists.

Otherwise, what kind of pure love story is it?

After this plot, Cao Sheng used some words to describe the warm life of Ding Yang and Ran Jing after they started dating.

The relationship between the two entered a sweet stage.

Ran Jing gradually got over the pain of losing her lover, and gradually fell in love with Ding Yang.

but……

As a pure love story, it cannot be written as a happy story, and it certainly cannot be written as a pornographic story.

Therefore, there must be a twist in the next stage of the plot.

The plot twist arranged by Cao Sheng is: By chance, the protagonist Ding Yang discovered Ran Jing's past - she had a lover she loved very much. Although that person died, Ran Jing, as a flight attendant with a good income, came to share a house with him before because she used all her savings to treat her previous lover's illness. Because she spent all her savings on that man, she could not afford to rent the original house and had to come out to find a shared house.

This discovery finally made Ding Yang understand why Ran Jing's eyes always showed sadness inadvertently. He began to doubt whether Ran Jing really loved him, Ding Yang? In her heart, was the person she loved most the man who had died?
In this part of the story, Cao Sheng arranged the plot to highlight Ding Yang's inner doubts and entanglements as much as possible.

Ding Yang loves Ran Jing.

But he suspected that the person Ran Jing loved the most was not him, Ding Yang.

This kind of suspicion is very distressing.

Ding Yang began to test Ran Jing repeatedly consciously or unconsciously. Sometimes he could not control his inner irritation and lost his temper at Ran Jing for no reason.

But after calming down, Ding Yang's love for Ran Jing would prevail again, and he began to try every possible way to ask for Ran Jing's forgiveness.

Ran Jing during this period was pitiful.

I was exhausted by Ding Yang's crazy operations.

She also tried hard to make Ding Yang believe that she really fell in love with him.

But this kind of self-proof is the most difficult, and sometimes it can backfire and have the opposite effect.

After this plot, the main storyline of this book comes to an end.

Cao Sheng arranged another turning point in the following plot.

——Ran Jing is suffering from a serious, terminal illness.

Upon learning that Ran Jing had a terminal illness, Ding Yang finally stopped struggling. His love and reluctance to leave her completely occupied his mind. He began to think of all kinds of ways to raise money and try to find the best doctor to treat her. He even sold his painstaking work, for which he had been reluctant to sell the copyright, at a low price, all just to raise money for Ran Jing's treatment.

At the end of the story, Ran Jing died.

Ding Yang came alone to the bar where he and Ran Jing first met. He sat alone in the place where Ran Jing had sat, drinking alone with sad eyes, just like Ran Jing looked when he first met her.

Just then, a young girl came over with a wine glass and started chatting with him, just like Ding Yang chatting with Ran Jing back then.

Just like Ran Jing rejected him back then, Ding Yang also rejected the woman who came over to chat with him.

……

In recent days, Cao Sheng has repeatedly recalled the plots he wrote, and repeatedly asked himself in his heart: Is this story I wrote good? Will it be completely crushed by "First Intimate Contact" in terms of word of mouth?

(End of this chapter)