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As she spoke, she took small, quick steps toward the computer desk.

"etc."

Jiang Bei reacted quickly and stopped her.

Immediately afterwards, this "script master" who had been in seclusion for more than 20 days and hadn't even washed his face, actually pulled out a few wet wipes and first wiped the keyboard, then the mouse, the desktop, and the armrests. He even patted the chair, and finally even pulled over a relatively clean bed sheet and laid it on the chair.

"Please sit down."

He coughed, trying to maintain his composure:

"The conditions are simple, please make do with them, fairy."

Liu Yifei glanced at him, a hint of amusement in her eyes.

She could tell that this guy was actually quite clean.

During this period, I was truly driven crazy by the script.

She stopped complaining, sat down in the chair, picked up the mouse, and opened the document.

The document title is very simple—

Hannah.

She was slightly taken aback at first, then scrolled down.

At first, she was just browsing casually and didn't flip through the pages very quickly.

But as I looked at it, my gaze changed.

The core of the original "Hannah Montana" is nothing more than "dual identity"—

An ordinary high school girl goes to school during the day and transforms into a star at night. Only a very few people around her know her secret, which leads to a series of chaotic and hilarious mishaps.

Jiangbei adapted this system.

The setting was moved from a small town in the United States to Xiaotianzhu in Beijing.

The female lead is no longer the blonde, blue-eyed Disney sweetheart, but a girl named Liu Meixi who lives in the Xiaotianzhu villa area and attends Tianzhu High School.

During the day, she is a quiet, academically excellent, and excessively beautiful first-year high school girl.

At night, she puts on a wig and changes into a sequined stage outfit, transforming herself into the popular teenage singer "Hannah".

Shu Chang plays Li Chang, who is her best friend and deskmate at school.

She appears clever, is talkative, loves gossip, and has a quick mind; she's the kind of lively character who can turn a small matter into a huge mess.

Xie Yuan's portrayal of the father, Liu Yuan, is particularly well-developed by Jiang Bei.

On the surface, he is a mild-mannered, kind-hearted middle-aged father who spends his days at home cooking soup and tending to his plants, but in reality, he is the only person in the family who has mastered all the secrets of "Project Hannah".

He was not only responsible for covering up, making up lies, and saving the day, but he was also often tricked by his daughter and son.

As for Zhu Yiwen's portrayal of the older brother Liu Wen, it's purely a comedic role.

He's not a bad person, but he has a sharp tongue.

He always acts like a complainer, saying things like, "My sister is a big star, but I'm not even as successful as the security guard at the gate."

He uses his sister's resources while constantly clamoring to expose her, but he always ends up getting himself into trouble.

Liu Yifei started watching from the first episode again.

I'd only watched the beginning when a smile was already creeping onto my face.

The first episode begins with Li Chang's obsessive infatuation with singer Hannah. After finally managing to snag concert tickets, he discovers that his best friend Liu Meixi is completely uninterested in the concert.

She pestered Liu Meixi at school, asking her all sorts of questions.

Liu Meixi could only try to appease him while secretly sending a text message to her father, asking him to send "Hannah's" performance costume backstage as soon as possible.

As a result, Li Chang accidentally sneaked backstage and flung open the door to the dressing room—

What we see is "Hannah" removing her in-ear monitor.

Then, Liu Meixi and Li Chang went through a frantic process of covering up, concealing, and then having their lies exposed, only to have it backfire and they had to cover it up again.

Jiangbei wrote this passage in an extremely fragmented and derogatory manner.

For example, Li Chang was so shocked that his eyes almost popped out, but he still forced himself to look like "I knew something was wrong with you a long time ago";

Liu Meixi, still in stage makeup, stood there looking utterly hopeless, probably having already murdered her eight hundred times in her mind;

When Liu Yuan, the father, rushed in to save the day, his first words were—

"I told you the door needed a fingerprint lock, but did anyone listen?"

Liu Yifei's shoulders started trembling when she saw this.

She first smiled with her lips pursed, but then she couldn't hold back and burst out laughing.

"What is this...?"

She laughed as she continued scrolling down.

The more I flipped through it, the faster I got; the more I flipped through it, the more addicted I became.

The Jiangbei version of "Hanna" retains the original's main storylines of "dual identity," "campus + celebrity," and "friends sharing secrets," but almost all the specific plot points have been reconstructed and localized.

For example, the American-style school dances and celebrity parties in the original version.

For him, these all turned into more down-to-earth high school performances, commercial shows, TV recordings, and parent-teacher meetings;

He changed the brother's misfortunes in the original version into a social death scene typical of male high school students in the capital city.

He secretly rode his sister's sponsored electric scooter to pick up girls, but the security guard mistook him for a thief and detained him at the gate.

Or perhaps they tried to show off by getting a ticket to Hannah's show, only to end up being sent backstage by their younger sister to move speakers.

In another episode, Liu Meixi tries to conceal her identity by attending a brand event as "Hannah" while also participating in a school English speech contest as an ordinary student.

She, Li Chang, and Liu Yuan took turns working together, switching between wigs, school uniforms, and stage costumes, ultimately turning it into a large-scale spy comedy.

Liu Yifei couldn't hold back her tears halfway through the video.

She ripped off her mask and leaned over the table, laughing so hard her shoulders were shaking and her eyes were red from laughing.

Then the laughter grew louder and louder.

"Hahahahaha—"

She laughed while covering her mouth with her hand.

But his signature freckles were still visible, his eyes curved into crescents, and his whole face was surprisingly bright.

When she saw her brother Liu Wen mistakenly take the "Hannah's Exclusive Support Light Board" as an emergency light for a power outage in the neighborhood and run wildly backstage at the concert, she laughed so hard that she leaned back and almost fell off her chair.

Seeing Liu Yuan earnestly lecturing his siblings on "being humble," only to then go to the neighborhood to take out the trash wearing Hannah-themed pajamas, she laughed so hard she almost cried.

"Jiang Laoliu—"

She patted Jiang Bei's arm while laughing, her eyes glistening with tears.

"How did you even come up with that?"

"The part about Liu Wen using Hannah's fan club account to insult people, which ended up making him a trending topic..."

Hahahaha... That's so mean!

"And there's that scene where Teacher Liu wears a wig in the middle of the night to answer a commercial performance call for her daughter—"

She laughed so hard she gasped for breath, her gums almost flying off:

"How did you even get into this brain?"

Jiang Bei stood to the side with his arms crossed, trying his best to maintain a nonchalant and aloof demeanor:

"You don't understand the world of geniuses."

"This kind of thing is a burst of inspiration."

"It's just that I haven't been in great shape lately, otherwise I could have written even more like crazy."

Liu Yifei rolled her eyes dramatically.

"Just a few words of praise and you're all high and mighty."

Despite saying that, she couldn't suppress the smile in her eyes.

But as she was laughing, she realized something was wrong.

I was so carried away patting Jiang Bei's arm that I almost leaned against him.

This gesture is a bit too intimate.

Her hands paused abruptly, her ears burning slightly. She quickly pulled herself back, sat up straight again, and pretended to continue flipping through the script as if nothing had happened.

Jiang Bei seemed oblivious, simply leaning against the table and looking down at her.

She looked at it very carefully.

Despite her laughter, her expression became increasingly serious as the story progressed.

Because this script is not just for laughs.

It's really smooth.

The relationships between the characters are smooth, the plot twists are smooth, the storyline progresses smoothly, and even the little hook at the end of each episode is perfectly placed.

The story is funny at first and establishes characters, but then it subtly leans towards themes of "growth," "friendship," "family," and "the struggle between celebrities and ordinary life."

Relaxed, but not flimsy.

It was lively, but not empty.

She could even imagine herself sitting in the classroom in her school uniform, looking every bit the ordinary high school student, only to turn around and put on a wig to sing on stage.

That contrast, that boisterous energy—

That's really interesting.

So she read faster and faster.

One episode, two episodes, three episodes...

Until you scroll down to the last page.

At the very end of the document, four words lay quietly—

Season 1 is over.

Liu Yifei paused for a moment, then looked up at Jiangbei:

"Is the first season over?"

"What do you mean?"

"Is there a second season?"

Jiang Bei shrugged, his tone quite honest:

"That depends on whether the audience buys into it."

"If it airs well, a second and third season won't be a problem."

"If it flops... then consider the first season as its swan song."

Liu Yifei stared at him for a few seconds, then suddenly her eyes crinkled into a smile.

"I don't think they'll pounce."

"At least--"

She gently shook the mouse, her eyes crinkling into a smile that revealed her gaping teeth.

"I'm already looking forward to season two."

"It's enough to have expectations."

Jiang Bei stood up, stretched his aching shoulders, and unceremoniously told him to leave:

"Now that you've finished reading the script, go back and memorize your lines."

"I just finished my tribulation, so I need to take a shower first, and then get a good night's sleep."

For the past twenty-odd days, he has lived like an ascetic.

I rely on takeout for meals, sleep on the sofa, and have almost forgotten how to wash my face.

Now, not even Liu Tianxian, let alone the Queen Mother of the West, could stop him from catching up on his sleep.

Urged on by him, Liu Yifei seemed to only then remember the real reason she came here.

The smile on her face faded slightly, she pursed her lips, and said softly:

"My mother wants to see you."

Jiang Bei was about to walk to the bathroom when he heard this and stopped in his tracks, slowly turning around:

"...Meeting the parents already?"

"Has our relationship progressed so quickly?"

Liu Yifei's ears burned, and she raised her hand and punched his arm:

"What are you thinking about!"

"It's a matter of cooperation!"

After saying this, her momentum inexplicably weakened, and her voice lowered slightly:

"And... I haven't told my mom yet."

"What the hell?"

Jiang Bei was completely sober.

"You didn't say that?!"

"Endorsements, releasing songs, filming movies, starting a company—you haven't mentioned a single one of these things to your aunt?!"

He had always assumed that Liu Xiaoli was aware of the situation.

After all that—

It's not that they defaulted, it's that they had no idea at all!

From beginning to end, it was this guy with the toothy teeth who was secretly causing trouble behind his family's back!

Jiang Bei felt a chill run down his spine.

This is hardly "wanting to see you".

This is clearly a call to "come over for organizational review".

Given Liu Xiaoli's fiercely protective nature, she was shocked to learn that her daughter was working with a young man she had only known for a short time, who had no connections or family wealth, on endorsements, singles, companies, and TV dramas...

She's quite cultured for not bringing a knife to their door.