Volume 9, Chapter 20 (End) Chapter 607 Yuan Xudong's Novel Inspiration
At this time, a cell phone rang. It was Ding Yixuan's phone. She reached out and picked up the phone on the dining table. It turned out to be a video call from her contracted editor. She looked at Yuan Xudong, who was busy cleaning the table with his head down, and smiled:
"Then I'll trouble you. I'll go take a call first."
"It's okay, go answer the phone first!"
Yuan Xudong raised his head and smiled. Ding Yixuan nodded slightly at him, then took her phone to the master bedroom. When she entered the room, she answered the video call and greeted with a smile:
"Hello, snore!"
"Master, when will you open a new pit?"
The web editor whose nickname in the video was Hulu asked with a smile. Ding Yixuan said a little embarrassedly:
"What great god? I'm just a small loser, please stop laughing at me!"
"Although you have only completed two novels and are still a newcomer in the online literature circle, your writing style is very good. I am very optimistic about you!"
"But I haven't figured out what to write next yet. I have no inspiration!"
"I think you should try a different subject instead of writing about farming. If the content is not original, readers will easily get tired of it!"
"Change the subject?"
Ding Yixuan lacked some confidence:
"But I'm only good at writing this kind of warm and plain life copywriting. I started writing because I read too many farming articles and I was itching to write!"
"But farming literature lacks a market, and film and television copyrights are hard to sell. Why don't you write modern romance novels? This kind of novel is easy to adapt into a TV series!"
"Modern romance?"
"Yes, nowadays female readers love to read this kind of down-to-earth urban sweet love stories, stories about overbearing CEOs, and contemporary novels such as getting married with a baby, marrying into a wealthy family, and the rise of women. Film and television adaptations are also very advantageous. Do you want to give it a try?"
"But how do you write a modern novel?"
Ding Yixuan still hesitated:
"I've never been in a relationship before, and I don't have any experience, right?"
"It is precisely because you have never been in love that the love you imagine will be more beautiful. Don't be afraid. Just observe your life first and start drawing inspiration from the people around you, okay?"
"Okay, I'll think about it!"
"Okay, let's stop here for today. When you are ready to open a new pit, remember to contact me!"
"Okay, bye!"
"Bye-Bye!"
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After the call ended, Ding Yixuan simply tidied up the room, made the bed, and then walked out of the bedroom.
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In the living room, Yuan Xudong had already cleaned the table. He had also washed Ding Yixuan's lunch box and chopsticks and placed them neatly on the table. He was now feeding Gou Ge, Ding Yixuan's pet cat. As the saying goes, love the house and love the dog, or love the dog and love the house. Yuan Xudong felt that Gou Ge, who was originally very ugly, was not ugly anymore. Its ugly yellow hair had become fashionable and international. At this time, Ding Yixuan came out of the bedroom and saw Yuan Xudong feeding Gou Ge cat food. She couldn't help but smile and said:
"Sorry to bother you, I hope Brother Gou didn't disturb you?"
"No, no, I get along well with it. Brother Gou is very well behaved."
Yuan Xudong smiled, he stood up and looked at Ding Yixuan and said:
"I'm sorry, I used your cat food to feed Gou without your permission. I think he seems a little hungry."
"It's okay, you don't have to be so polite to me, we are roommates."
Ding Yixuan smiled and said, while she squatted down and gently stroked Brother Gou who was eating cat food. She looked like a girl who loved petting cats. Yuan Xudong smiled and said:
"Excuse me, I just heard you say, are you an online novel writer?"
"Yeah, don't say sorry anymore!"
Ding Yixuan gave Yuan Xudong a cute and playful look and smiled:
"I just write for fun. I wrote two farming books before. Do you like reading novels?"
"I like it. Actually, I also write novels. But the books I write don't do very well. I can just make a living. How about you?"
"I'm not very good either, but I write novels part-time. I won't starve to death, but I won't be able to eat enough either."
Ding Yixuan looked at Yuan Xudong and asked with a smile:
"What novel did you write? Can I take a look?"
"Of course not, girls can't read the novels I write!"
Yuan Xudong immediately refused, and Ding Yixuan asked curiously:
"But why can't girls read it? What kind of novel do you write?"
"It should be considered a modern romance, mainly set in an urban setting. The protagonist is a country boy, and then he falls in love with a rich girl, and from then on, a series of short stories about happy enemies unfold. That's about it!"
Yuan Xudong told the truth. Of course, he just concealed some unimportant content. In addition to liking the rich girl, the male protagonist also liked multiple female supporting characters, from female college students to female models. But there was nothing he could do about it. Who asked the contracted editor to say that the novel he wrote before had no selling points?
What is the selling point?
What is the simplest thing to attract boys?
that power?
Urban background, who dares to write this?
So what else?
money?
Beauty?
Perfect, that's all. Yuan Xudong determined the core selling point in just three minutes, and then spent another three hours writing a short story about a poor boy who was hit by a car driven by a rich girl and sent to the hospital. He handed it to the editor, who approved it, and then signed the contract for it to be put on the shelves, etc. As for the outline and detailed outline?
Yuan Xudong said that before he started writing, he had no idea what the future would be like, so, naturally, his novel failed and the title of great writer that he was about to obtain was lost. He used to earn over ten thousand yuan a month, but what about now?
Thinking about the 7,000 yuan in royalties he had just received this month and the several hundred yuan in personal income tax he had to pay, Yuan Xudong's mentality collapsed. He decided to start a new book. Although he hadn't decided what to write, he was ready to fail. Thinking about this, Yuan Xudong looked at Ding Yixuan and asked:
"What novel did you write? Can I take a look?"
"No, the novels I write are not suitable for boys."
Ding Yixuan blushed and said:
"I'm ready to start a new project. My editor recommended that I write modern romance, but I have no experience. Can you teach me?"
"Well, you can watch Korean dramas and change the plot, or find materials around you and process them to create some touching and romantic plots and atmospheres. Let me give you an example, for example..."
Although Yuan Xudong can't write, this doesn't stop him from teaching others how to write, just like a single man teaching others how to chase girls. Although he has zero practical skills, he has full theoretical scores. He gave an example seriously:
"For example, you and I, we live together..."
"ah?"
Ding Yixuan slightly widened his eyes, and Yuan Xudong continued:
"What I mean is, suppose, you see, I am your landlord, but I am a sub-landlord, and I rent the house to you and make a profit from the difference in rent, but in fact, you are the landlord's daughter, but I don't know. At the beginning, I thought you were an ordinary girl from a poor family, and then I bullied you, and I put this bullying in quotation marks. For example, you have a gentle personality, so I asked you to clean the house, make breakfast for me, etc. In this process, I am the male protagonist and you are the female protagonist, and the plot develops with the male being strong and the female being weak.
This went on for a while. By chance, your identity as the landlord's daughter was exposed. It turned out that you were a Shenzhen hukou and had several houses at home. You were a real lady. But what about the hero? He was a migrant worker in Shenzhen and a sub-landlord. At this point, the hero and the heroine swapped positions. The hero had no money to change houses, so he tried to please the heroine and started doing housework. The situation was reversed.
Later, after a series of bloody plots, the hero and the heroine fell in love, but they didn't say it and just kept it in their hearts. The heroine thought that the hero bullied her before because he didn't like her, but in fact it was because the hero was a straight man. He deliberately bullied the heroine because he liked her in his heart, so he bullied her. Later, he tried to please the heroine and had no money to change the house because he didn't want to leave the heroine, not because he really had no money to change the house. He didn't dare to tell the heroine that he liked her because he was a failed writer.
The monthly royalties were only a few thousand yuan, which, even with his salary, was not enough to buy a house and get married in Shenzhen. He was afraid that he would delay the girl's life and fail to provide her with security, but he was reluctant to leave her.
Things went on like this for a while, and finally one day, the male protagonist wanted so much to make money to buy a house that he used all his savings since graduation, totaling more than 800,000 yuan, to buy stocks. However, reality gave him a heavy blow.
Financial news is touting the bull market every day, such as structural bull market, new energy track stocks, military industry stocks, etc. After the male protagonist bought these stocks, the capital forces behind them began to reap the profits. The male protagonist is just a microcosm of millions of retail investors. All his savings have been cut in half and he is deeply trapped. He can either cut his losses and admit defeat, or continue to wait. As for what the future will be like, no one knows.
Under such circumstances, the male protagonist lost hundreds of thousands of his savings because of stock speculation. His work and part-time job as a novel writer were greatly affected. As the saying goes, when it rains, it pours. After some things happened, the male protagonist lost his job, the subscription of his novel plummeted, and readers scolded him for writing something, asking if he had sold it to a studio. With his savings gone, his job and part-time job gone, the male protagonist was deeply hit. He started delivering takeout while looking for a job.
That night, it was raining outside. It was drizzling at first, and then it turned into a downpour. The male protagonist was still delivering food outside, and then tragedy struck. He was too anxious, and was afraid that the order would be late, so he hurried to the community to deliver the food. When he came out, his second-hand electric bike was stolen, and the food on it was also stolen. He wanted to cry but had no tears, or maybe his tears had mixed with the rain. At this moment, he received a call from his mother. His father was accidentally injured and needed more than 100,000 yuan for medical and surgical expenses. He was asked to transfer money to his family. The current medical expenses were all borrowed, and he had to pay it back as soon as possible.
The male protagonist agreed and said he would wait for two days. He decided to sell the stocks as soon as the market opened tomorrow. In this way, he lost the opportunity to make a profit. After hanging up the phone, the male protagonist walked home in a daze.
He bought a few bottles of wine on the road. He got drunk for the first time even though he never drank. He blamed himself for stock speculation and the cruel fate. He worked so hard to make money, but he was almost thirty years old and still couldn't afford a house. Not to mention a house in Shenzhen, even a commercial house in his hometown cost millions. His family was poor and his parents had no money, so he could only rely on his own efforts. But even if he worked really hard, how could he afford a house worth millions?
He has dated girlfriends and even gone on blind dates, but the first thing they asked him was whether he had a house. If he did, they would get married, if he didn't, forget it. This is the girl's freedom, and he only blamed himself for being incompetent. But is a house really that important?
Of course his family also has houses, two of them, one in his rural hometown and one in the slums of the city. The house in his rural hometown is several hundred square meters, with a large front and back yard. Because of the village-to-village roads, it only takes a few dozen minutes to drive to the city. To be honest, this distance is nothing in big cities like Beijing and Shanghai.
But the reality is, the house in his hometown is not valuable and does not count. And the house in the slum is more than 100 square meters and is also located in the city. And the location is very good. There are kindergartens, elementary schools, junior high schools, high schools, hospitals, supermarkets, etc. around it. But why is it called a slum?
Because it is also worthless. The commercial houses around it start at one million, but the slums nearby are worthless because they don’t have a real estate certificate. The price difference is more than ten or twenty times. He simply can't understand it. Just because there is an extra real estate certificate, can it be several million more expensive out of thin air?
Of course, the houses in the slums are not illegal buildings, but the legacy of urban development. They have not encountered demolition. The issue of demolition is mentioned here again, the social phenomenon of getting rich overnight!
Going back to the past, the hero returned to the rental house drunk. He was in a daze, as the saying goes, men are three-quarters drunk. The heroine felt sorry for him. He cried in the heroine's arms and said that he liked her drunken words. At this point, the heroine finally understood the hero's true intentions. She felt sorry for him and was secretly happy. The next day, the hero sold all his stocks and went home. After visiting his father, he came back. He only had a little money left for living expenses and planned to start over. Although he was a bit miserable, fate could kill him but could not defeat him!
The heroine likes his indomitable spirit. The hero vaguely remembers what he did when he was drunk before. He was not unconscious at the time, but he just lost his previous self-control and inhibition. He plucked up the courage to express his feelings to the heroine again, and promised that he would do his best to make her happy in the future. Maybe he doesn’t have much money, but he will love her and do his best to love her. Then the heroine agreed, and the two began to fall in love. They were sweet every day, and the hero also doted on the heroine very much!
The story develops to this point. After a period of happy life, one night, the hero and the heroine finally fall deeply in love and have their first communication meeting.
Later, when the heroine's parents knew about their relationship, they strongly opposed it, but love would not give in. They moved to another community, and the hero worked hard to save money. At the same time, he often visited the heroine's parents. He could understand their concerns, and with sincerity, even metal and stone can be moved. In addition, the hero secretly signed an agreement with the heroine's parents. The general content of the agreement was that if the hero really married their daughter, if they divorced in the future, he would have to leave the house with nothing, etc.
The male protagonist did not covet the female protagonist's family's money and house. He just liked the female protagonist, a cute and healing girl.
What follows is the watershed and climax. For example, the hero deliberately abandons the heroine because he falls ill, or the heroine deliberately abandons the hero. Let me take the example of the hero deliberately abandoning the heroine because he falls ill. Sometimes fate is so cruel. The hero falls ill, seriously ill. He abandons the heroine before the wedding and arranges a supporting actress to play with him. Then the hero and the heroine separate. Several years later, the heroine is still single, but she gives birth to a daughter, a very cute girl, in whom you can vaguely see the shadows of the hero and the heroine.
As for the hero, after he separated from the heroine, he unexpectedly sold the copyright for a sky-high price. He recorded every detail between him and the heroine in the novel with simple and romantic words. He serialized the novel under a new pen name while fighting the disease. As mentioned in the previous article, fate can kill him but cannot make him surrender. As long as he is alive, he will not surrender.
This novel was very popular and was even made into a TV series. The male protagonist made a lot of money, but no one knew who the author was. They only knew a pen name. The female protagonist also read this novel, and it even became her spiritual support.
Through this novel, although the hero and the heroine have not seen each other for several years, they have always maintained a very subtle spiritual connection. Later on, the hero can be arranged to finally defeat the disease, and he comes out of the sanatorium and becomes more mature and stable, while the heroine also changes from a naive girl to a mature woman and a single mother.
The subsequent plot is that the male protagonist becomes more mature and more charming and pursues the female protagonist again. He is no longer the poor boy he used to be, but a well-known mysterious writer and her idol.
She was no longer an ignorant little girl, but had become more mature and sexy. However, she was still his beloved. During his days in the sanatorium, she and writing novels were his spiritual support. Whenever he wanted to give up, he could not help but recall every little detail between him and her. The illness could torture his body wantonly and make him feel miserable, but he always held a glimmer of hope. He wanted to return to her, just as he had promised. He loved her and he would try his best to love her until he really died. Even if he really died, he would finish the novel. That would be his last gift to her, but she just didn't know it.
Later, the hero unexpectedly met his daughter. In the kindergarten, he met her who came to pick up the child from school, and their eyes met..."
At this point, Yuan Xudong suddenly stopped talking. His throat was a little dry. Seeing Ding Yixuan staring at him blankly, he said in surprise:
"What’s wrong with you?"
"No, it's okay. What happened next? Our eyes met. What happened next?"
Ding Yixuan asked impatiently. It was obvious that she was quite interested in the outline of Yuan Xudong's story. Seeing her like this, Yuan Xudong smiled and said:
"Want to hear the rest of the story?"
“Hmm~~”
Ding Yixuan nodded hurriedly. Yuan Xudong coughed twice and said:
"Okay, from now on, breakfast and cleaning will be up to you, OK?"
"OK!"
"Their eyes met, and then the heroine..."
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