Chapter 106: Planning a New Book
After talking about things that cannot be said, Fan Ziruo was too embarrassed to take the initiative to talk to He Yunxiao.
This deadlock can only be broken by He Yunxiao himself.
"Ziruo, do you know how to write a love story now?"
Fan Ziruo raised his head slightly and said, "Well. Probably describe more dialogues and interactions between the male and female protagonists. Make the ordinary daily life vivid and interesting."
He Yunxiao immediately clapped his hands and said, "Yes! That's it!"
She is worthy of being a heroine whose specialty is "learning". This learning speed is too exaggerated. With just a little guidance, she can immediately draw inferences from one example and integrate it.
Now Fan Ziruo already has a story she wants to write. In order to let her write a story that everyone likes to read smoothly, He Yunxiao continues to guide her.
"Ziruo. How to write ordinary life vividly and interestingly?"
Fan Ziruo thought for a while and said, "Characters."
Hearing the word "characters", He Yunxiao's eyes suddenly lit up!
Then he asked eagerly: "Tell me more specifically, why is it a character?"
Fan Ziruo was looked at by He Yunxiao's "greedy" eyes, and said a little embarrassedly: "Because it is a love story, most of the time it is about the interaction between the male and female protagonists. Then according to the length of the novel, the plot of the male and female protagonists occupies the majority. Because the plot is just eating and sleeping. So, if the protagonist itself is interesting, then the story must be interesting."
If he was not afraid of losing his composure and losing his favorability.
He Yunxiao simply wanted to stand up and judge the case and applaud!
Genius! A real genius!
In just half an hour, he has figured out all the valuable experience I have gained from years of struggling!
This is really...
This...
Wow, compared to Fan Ziruo, I am really a waste...
Since the favorability has increased, He Yunxiao can easily arouse Fan Ziruo's emotions.
Looking at He Yunxiao's suddenly collapsed expression, Fan Ziruo's originally good mood also fell. She was afraid that she had said something wrong and made He Yunxiao unhappy, so she tried to ask, "Sir, is Ziruo wrong?"
He Yunxiao denied it repeatedly, "No, no, no, you are right. If you want to add color to the ordinary daily life plot, you have to have an outstanding character."
"So, if you want to write an outstanding love story, you must have an outstanding character."
Seeing that He Yunxiao was in a good mood, Fan Ziruo became happy too, and she immediately asked the most critical question, "What is an 'outstanding character'?"
This question is difficult to say, and it is also simple to say.
He Yunxiao explained, "If he can make you feel that he is a living person, then he is an 'outstanding character'. He must have a name, personality, hobbies, shortcomings, desires, etc."
He Yunxiao took out the manuscript paper and listed these elements one by one on the manuscript paper.
"If you fill in all these, then this character setting is basically complete."
After handing the fill-in-the-blank draft paper to Fan Ziruo, He Yunxiao was not idle. He took out a new piece of paper and wrote these elements again as a table for designing the female character setting.
After writing, He Yunxiao looked up at Fan Ziruo who was holding a brush and frowning in thought, and felt a little relieved.
Hehe, sister Ziruo, character setting is not that easy to write. When I thought about the character setting at the beginning, I scratched my scalp and couldn't think of it.
Fan Ziruo is smart, but she still belongs to the category of "people". At most, she is a genius. Compared with Chu Xiaoxiao, a pervert who is the best in the world at the age of 16, she is much more real. She will feel sleepy when she reads too much and will be confused when she just gets up. Even if she has a lot of knowledge in her stomach, there is more knowledge that she doesn't know, such as He Yunxiao's most extensive knowledge.
He Yunxiao looked at Fan Ziruo frowning for a long time, but he was not in a position to interrupt her. He was so idle that he even blew the wet ink on the paper.
Later, he was too idle, so He Yunxiao pretended to be in a self-study class, like a teacher inspecting students doing homework, and walked behind Fan Ziruo with his hands behind his back to see what she wrote.
The first thing he saw on the manuscript paper was the sharp contrast between He Yunxiao's dog-crawling brush writing and Fan Ziruo's beautiful hairpin flower small regular script.
He Yunxiao didn't think it mattered that his handwriting was ugly, but now his dog-crawling handwriting was placed next to Fan Ziruo's beautiful handwriting, and he really felt like a toad next to a swan.
It felt right.
He Yunxiao skipped the general handwriting and looked at the specific content written by Fan Ziruo.
Plot positioning: male protagonist
Name: Xiao He
Cao!
Why does this protagonist have the surname Xiao!
He Yunxiao now feels physically uncomfortable when he sees the surname "Xiao".
"Ziruo."
Even if Fan Ziruo was frowning and thinking, He Yunxiao couldn't care.
When Fan Ziruo heard He Yunxiao calling her, she immediately responded, "What's wrong, young master?"
He Yunxiao pointed at "Xiao He" and said, "Ziruo, can you change the name of the male protagonist?"
Fan Ziruo blushed and became embarrassed when she heard He Yunxiao say that.
Young master wouldn't realize that "Xiao He" is actually two homophones of "He Yunxiao".
She asked guiltily, "Why did you change it, young master..."
He Yunxiao replied guiltily, "Uh... This is because I read a novel before, and it also used this name."
Fan Ziruo was very guilty and didn't dare to ask further, and quickly agreed to change the name.
She used a brush to cross out the two words "Xiao He" and wrote "Xiao Yun" next to "Xiao He".
He Yunxiao: ...
What is "Xiao Yun", those who know will know.
He Yunxiao was almost embarrassed to death. He said tremblingly: "Zi Ruo, can we not use 'Xiao Yun' and change the surname?"
Fan Zi Ruo was also very embarrassed. She knew that if she used "Xiao Yun" as her name, the young master would probably find out again. She didn't expect that she would be found out so soon.
"Okay. What do you want to change it to?"
"Change it to... change it to..."
He Yunxiao knew that he was a bad name. When he wrote novels in his previous life, he had to think about a name for a long time. After thinking for a while and having no clue, he had to say: "Haha, I don't know either. Anyway, don't use the surname 'Xiao'."
Fan Zi Ruo said "Okay", took the pen, thought about it, and then stole a glance at He Yunxiao. He was a little tangled in his heart, but soon calmed down and wrote "He Xiao" on the paper.
He Yunxiao: ...
He Yunxiao was completely speechless.
"He Xiao" was exactly the name he used in his previous life. Now, I don't know if it was a coincidence or something, but it was written by Fan Zi Ruo by mistake.
He had corrected Fan Ziruo's name twice, but it was not easy to correct it again this time.
Anyway, no one except himself knew that He Xiao was his previous name. Although it looked a little inappropriate, it was much better than the surname Xiao.
Fan Ziruo asked carefully with selfish intentions: "Sir, can we call him 'He Xiao'?"
He Yunxiao said helplessly: "Yes..."
Fan Ziruo's selfish intentions succeeded, and he said happily: "Okay, from now on 'He Xiao' will be the hero in my new novel."
He Yunxiao saw that Fan Ziruo was so happy for a name, and found something wrong.
He himself is also an author, so it is inevitable that he will have some private goods.
Fan Ziruo will not have any bad ideas...
"Ziruo, have you thought of the name of your heroine?"
He Yunxiao was standing behind Fan Ziruo.
Hearing He Yunxiao's question, Fan Ziruo put down the brush, turned sideways, raised his face, smiled, and said flatteringly: "Sir, can the heroine be called Fan Zi?"