Huayu started by playing Lao Ai

Chapter 168 The Adventures of the Cute Sword Girl

On the morning of April 4th, an ordinary family in Hunan Changsha.

21-year-old Lei Ling was curled up in bed reading a book.

After rereading the "Doraemon" series of books, Lei Ling is imagining how nice it would be if he also had a robot cat.

Then I heard my mother shouting in the living room, "Son! It's time for lunch. You're already grown up, but you don't know how to find a job. You stay at home all day reading useless books!"

Hearing his mother's complaints, Lei Ling did not dare to delay and quickly got up and put on his clothes.

"Go brush your teeth and wash your face first!" Seeing Lei Ling's sloppy appearance, his mother started nagging again: "You are 21 years old, pay attention to your personal appearance!
Look at your hair, it's like a chicken coop!"

Lei Ling did not refute and went to wash up obediently.

"Your third uncle is working at a construction site. If you really can't make it, you can go and work with him. Although tying steel bars is tiring, at least you can make a living."

"You are 1.8 meters tall. It's not a good idea to lie at home every day. When you lie there, you will become useless and you won't be able to find a partner, let alone get married."

……

After graduating from technical secondary school, Lei Ling worked in a factory for half a year, but he really didn't like the mechanical work in the factory, so he resigned and ran back home.

Since the Chinese New Year, he has not gone out to look for a job, but just reads and writes at home.

Lei Ling hesitated for a moment, but finally confessed: "I want to be a writer."

Seeing that his mother was about to get angry, Lei Ling quickly took two mouthfuls of rice, stood up and said, "I'm going to look for a job. I won't be home for dinner tonight!"

After saying that, he ran away.

Lei Ling came to the Gate Internet Cafe and skillfully turned on a computer.

The Internet cafe was full of people, most of whom were playing Hot Blood Battle Flag.

Lei Ling did not play the game. Instead, he opened the web page and prepared to log in to the "Jinyong Inn" on Xinlang.com.

"Jinyong Inn" is an online literature community under Xinlang. At the beginning, it was a community for netizens to discuss Jinyong's martial arts novels. Later, many writers would share their own novels here.

Lei Ling also published his short stories in "Jinyong Inn". He gave himself a pen name, "Leo Illusion".

It’s just that Lei Ling particularly likes fairy tales, and the protagonists of his novels are all children or teenagers.

The short stories he published in Jinyong Inn did not cause any waves.

Lei Ling could only watch as "The Legend of Sun Wukong" written by "Jin Hezai" was sought after by everyone, and "The Young Man Here" written by "Jiangnan" was reprinted in Jinyong Inn and became popular as well.

One of these two is from Yanda University and the other is from Xiamen University, and both are top students.

Lei Ling felt that there was a big gap between him and them, but he was still unwilling to give up his dream of becoming a writer.

When I opened "Jinyong Inn", I saw that the community was very active today and many netizens were posting.

[The Fantasy Sword Book Alliance's Million-Dollar Essay Competition! I've already signed up for the competition. There's nothing to lose by giving it a try. If I win, I'll get a million-dollar prize!]

[Zheng Jing is really generous. He invested 200 million yuan and also spent a million yuan on Yu Ji's essay contest.]

[Brothers, don’t forget each other when you become rich. After you win the million-dollar prize, don’t forget the netizens in the inn. ]

[Pen pals of the Flower Maniac Gang, please come in quickly. The gang leader "Absolute Tianxia Fengyun" and the university scholar "Jin Hezai" will answer your writing questions online and help you win the million-dollar prize! ]

[I have signed up for the competition. The story of Farewell My Concubine is well-known. Concubine Yu is a master of singing, dancing and swordplay. There is a lot of room for adaptation.]

[In-depth analysis of the Fantasy Sword Book Alliance's million-dollar essay contest. I think the million-dollar cash prize is important, but the contract benefits and fame that come with it are more important.]

【Zheng Jing holds a million-dollar essay contest, online literature is bound to flourish! 】

[Zheng Jing is probably the writer with the highest royalties in my country. I hope that the next Zheng Jing will emerge from this million-dollar essay contest.]

……

Seeing these posts, Lei Ling was very curious. He read them carefully and soon understood.

It turned out to be the big star Zheng Jing, who was organizing a million-dollar essay contest on an online writing website called Huanjian Shumeng.

Lei Ling was very excited. He quickly logged into the Fantasy Sword Book Alliance website and checked the specific requirements for the essay.

“…As long as it’s a novel related to Yu Ji and Jian Ji, regardless of the subject matter, you can sign up.

Registration method: Register as an author of Huanjian Book Alliance, and when publishing your work, check the box to participate in the essay contest..."

After reading the requirements, Lei Ling immediately registered and became an author of Fantasy Sword Book Alliance, still using the pen name Leo Illusion.

After becoming a website writer, Lei Ling did not rush to write, but began to browse forums such as Tianya and Longkong to read what netizens were saying.

Lei Ling discovered that most of the topics of the authors participating in the essay contest were concentrated in the two categories of martial arts and history, with some fantasy and swordsmanship.

They are basically adult novels.

Lei Ling's heart moved, and he felt that this was his chance.

What he is best at is writing children's stories.

The sword princesses written by others are all of unparalleled beauty and grace, and the plots are mostly about fighting and killing.

He took a different approach and wrote about the story of a child swordsman, winning with his warm and funny daily life.

Even if you can't win the championship, at least you can get an Excellence Award, a bonus, and the incentive to publish.

In this way, his mother would agree to let him become a writer.

Thinking of this, Lei Ling began to conceive.

He felt that this essay contest was initiated by Zheng Jing, so he should cater to his interests.

Thinking of Zheng Jing’s adaptation of Lu Bu and Diao Chan, Diao Chan is Chang’e who descended to the earth and turned into a young girl.

I also thought of "The Da Vinci Code" written by Zheng Jing, which is an adventure decryption novel.

So Lei Ling wrote the title and introduction of the book.

"The Adventures of the Cute Baby Sword Princess".

“There are countless mysteries in the Eurasian continent, waiting for adventurers to explore.

Lin Mengmeng, who just turned 10, made her birthday wish.

She wants to follow in her father's footsteps and become a serious legendary adventurer of the World Adventure Association.

To this end, she read a lot of books and worked hard to learn about adventure.

It’s just a pity that at her 10th birthday party, her father was out exploring a secret place and didn’t come back to celebrate.

Fortunately, her father sent her a birthday gift, a magical magic book - "Dunhuang Sword Dance".

When Lin Mengmeng opened the book, two cute sword girls of her age appeared. An interesting adventure began..."

Lei Ling wrote more and more smoothly, inspiration burst out, and the keyboard was clacking loudly.

I wrote until 10: in the evening and wrote more than words.

After checking, Lei Ling did not save any drafts and directly posted everything he wrote today on the website of Huanjian Book Alliance.

In the next few days, Lei Ling updated more than 10,000 posts every day.

The book he wrote was soon noticed by Du Wei.

"The Adventures of the Cute Baby Sword Girl" is unique in both style and subject matter among all the novels submitted for the writing competition.

In addition, Du Wei is planning to set up a comic website, so "The Adventures of Cute Baby Sword Girl" is very suitable for adaptation into a comic.

Naturally, this attracted Du Wei's attention and she recommended it to Zheng Jing.

On the morning of April 4, Zheng Jing took out the novel that Du Wei had printed out and started reading it on the plane to Taipei.

At this time, "The Adventures of Cute Baby Sword Girl" has been written for 10 words, and the first adventure story has been completed.

Zheng Jing read the whole book in one breath and thought it was well written.

The story is set in an imaginary city, with both technological elements and some extraordinary powers, a bit like Hunter x Hunter.

The maze adventures in the book incorporate some simple scientific knowledge and are very interesting.

The characterization is also very successful.

Lin Mengmeng is hardworking but also stupid, always making jokes, but optimistic and strong;
There are two sword ladies, one is called Binglan and the other is called Huoling.

Binglan is calm and rational, but a bit scheming; Huoling is passionate and unrestrained, with a simple mind, but also a violent person.

There are also Lin Mengmeng’s classmates, friends and relatives, and each character is very vivid.

Their daily life is warm and funny, healing the hearts of the two foreign sword girls.

Of course, since the protagonist is a child, this book inevitably has some childish plots.

But in Zheng Jing's view, these are not problems.

As a children's book, "The Adventures of the Cute Baby Sword Princess" is very well written and very suitable for promotion.

In China, pure children's literature is very rare.

Most of them are disguised as children's literature, but are actually fake, or they like to preach, and the stories they write are not attractive to children at all.

After reading all the updates, Zheng Jing turned to the beginning and looked at the author's name - Leo Illusion.

When Zheng Jing saw this pen name, he realized that he had met a "great god".

Leo Illusion is a very famous children's book writer in China. In the future, he will create a series of books such as "Charlie IX" and "Monster Master". He is also on the list of richest writers.

The book "Charles IX" has the settings of maze exploration and the Adventurers' Association.

Seeing Shu Chang curiously looking at the information in his hand, Zheng Jing smiled and said, "This is a very interesting novel. Do you want to take a look?"

Shu Chang was very tempted, but still shook his head and said, "No, I'd better focus on studying the role."

In the script of Double Vision, the female lead Huang Meimei is very difficult to play, and Shu Chang is under a lot of pressure.

Especially since she had just finished filming The Secret History of Xiaozhuang three days ago, it was even more difficult for her to immediately switch from Dong Efei to Huang Meimei.

Shu Chang has a strong personality. During the audition, Zheng Jing praised her a lot, which also helped to hold Shu Chang back.

She didn't want the crew to perform poorly and disappoint Zheng Jing.

"Don't think too much about the role of Huang Meimei, and don't try to dig too deep into the soul of an old woman or the appearance of a young girl." Zheng Jing said, "Just portray her as a sweet and lovely daughter in the beginning.

Some of the details about the villains are not something you should consider. This is something the director and I will lay the groundwork for.

Just do what we say and don’t think too much.”

Seeing Shu Chang still struggling, Zheng Jing said, "During this period of time, just treat me as your father.

Enjoy my care and be happy.

On the contrary, it is more conducive to getting into the role.

Movies do not simply pursue rationality, but require plot contradictions and reversals.

The more you look like my daughter in the beginning, the happier we get along, and the more unexpected the reversal will be later."

Looking at Zheng Jing's handsome face, Shu Chang blushed and said, "How can there be a father as young as you?"

Hearing this, Zheng Jing smiled and explained, “Dad is just a feeling, a feeling that protects you from wind and rain, and brings you stability and happiness.

On the contrary, I think that there is no problem for you to play a villain, but the biggest challenge is to show the happiness of being with your father."

Zheng Jinglai plays Huang Huotu, so the script's setting for the male lead will naturally change.

The setting of Huang Huotu is that he went from being a loser to a star in the police force. He is tall and handsome, has a bright future, and has a happy family.

This setting is more contrasting.

After encountering a bizarre serial murder case, Huang Huitu's career and family were destroyed.

Shu Chang's advantage lies in her experience, which allows her to understand the warmth and coldness of human nature and know how to read people's expressions.

Don't be fooled by her sweet appearance, she is actually gentle on the outside but strong on the inside and very opinionated.

But in her life, the role of father is absent.

That’s why Zheng Jing said so.

Hearing Zheng Jing's words, Shu Chang nodded, and she said seriously: "Dad Zheng, after we get to Wandao, you take me to the amusement park.

Let’s experience how real father and daughter should live.”

"Sure, I'm free today."

According to the plan, Zheng Jing joined the group on the 29th, and he arrived at Wandao one day in advance.

Today is free for you to do as you please.

And in two days, Izumi Sakai and Mai Kuraki will come to Wandao to find Zheng Jing.

By then, Zheng Jing will have to film and take care of his Japanese friends, so he will have no time.

(End of this chapter)