Chapter 1314 1416. Like Father, Like Son

Chapter 1314 1416. Like Father, Like Son

Although document software such as WORD and WPS now have cloud storage, Nie Wei naturally chooses to save scripts, which need to be kept confidential, on the local computer.

After Nie Wei returned to the manor at night, he printed out the script and handed it to Li Binbin.

"This is just the first version. In the later stage, I should remove some unnecessary and procrastinating plots that I think are necessary to make the rhythm of the TV series more urgent."

"There are only 36 episodes in total. Do you want to reduce it?" Li Binbin flipped through the script and said, "In fact, I think the rhythm is already very good. I feel that this TV series is comparable to those refined Hollywood TV series."

"Don't worry, I know it." Nie Wei replied with a smile.

In the suspense genre, the biggest difference between American TV series and Asian TV series is that the content of American TV series is always more focused on the case, and friendship, love, and family affection are secondary. They pay more attention to the tense atmosphere, so each climax is designed to be very close. Basically, as soon as a criminal is caught, a bigger crime will be involved soon, and the protagonist will immediately take action and engage in a new battle.

Asian TV series have a lot of human elements in them. They are not obsessed with catching criminals, but will be interspersed with a lot of stories about friendship, love, and family, and then use emotions to promote the plot, and some of them are even irrelevant to the plot.

Comparing the two, Nie Wei prefers the rhythm of American TV series.

There are definitely emotional scenes, but they will never steal the limelight of the main plot. They will only be side details, and they must be related to the main plot and closely follow the main plot. What Nie Wei wants to do is to make every relationship a foreshadowing, and then it will be related to a subsequent case, so that the emotions can also be integrated into the rhythm of the main story line, becoming a boost, rather than a drag.

Nie Wei was not very satisfied with the first version of the script. Thirty-six episodes were still a bit too much for Nie Wei, and he felt that he could cut four to six more episodes.

But this number of episodes is undoubtedly one of the few in Chinese TV series.

Chinese TV series nowadays basically start with more than 42 episodes, while the most common TV series on the market are basically around 50 episodes, and those large historical dramas are no problem with 70 or 80 episodes.

Because TV stations pay for TV series by episode, a few more episodes may bring in hundreds of millions or even tens of millions of extra revenue.

This is why many Chinese TV series nowadays seem to be a bit suspenseful to the audience.

Because they are really suspenseful, for the sake of money, they drag the story that can be told clearly in more than 30 episodes to 50 episodes.

If Nie Wei was an ordinary screenwriter, he might have to compromise for money, because even if the screenwriter didn't want to suspense, the company would force the screenwriter to suspense, but Nie Wei is different. He is a screenwriter, but he is also the boss of the company. No one will force him to do so. He can write whatever he wants.

With money and power, Nie Wei can be willful.

Nie Wei doesn't care about the revenue of a TV series, as long as he doesn't lose money. What he cares more about now is the quality issue. In Nie Wei's opinion, it is a big mistake to exchange money for water injection. If the quality of the TV series itself can be improved, thus increasing the price, this is the right thing to do.

Unfortunately, this is not applicable to everyone in this market. Most TV series still have to compromise with the rules of the big market.

"Okay, I'll take a look at this first. I'm also looking forward to the new version of the script." Li Binbin put away the script, said hello to Shu Chang, and left the manor.

After Li Binbin left, Shu Chang immediately asked Nie Wei: "The script is written, how come I don't know about it."

"It was written yesterday." Nie Wei said with a smile.

"Let me see it too." Shu Chang was very curious about the script, and asked Nie Wei for the script. Nie Wei naturally had nothing to keep secret from Shu Chang, and this script itself had Shu Chang's contribution in it.

After printing another copy of the script, Nie Wei handed it to Shu Chang, and then went to wash and prepare for a rest.

Half an hour later, after Nie Wei finished washing up, he found Shu Chang still sitting on the sofa, staring at the script in his hand.

"Wife, stop reading, go to bed early."

"I know, I know." Shu Chang didn't even raise his head and answered perfunctorily.

Nie Wei shook his head helplessly and didn't urge him anymore. After all, Shu Chang was very persistent in the concept of beauty sleep, and he would probably put down the script in a while.

Nie Wei didn't think much about it, went straight back to the bedroom, lay on the bed and fell asleep quickly.

At 4:30 the next morning, Nie Wei's biological clock woke him up on time. He sat up from the bed, rubbed his eyes, and suddenly started, because he felt something was wrong.

But what was wrong? Nie Wei was puzzled for a moment, and his hand subconsciously touched around, and suddenly realized, where is Shu Chang beside him?

Nie Wei walked out of the bedroom and headed for the living room where he last saw Shu Chang, but he didn't find anyone. Nie Wei turned around the kitchen, but Shu Chang was not there either. Then Nie Wei turned around again and finally found Shu Chang in the study, who was still reading a script.

"I said, you didn't sleep all night and just read the script here, right?" Nie Wei walked up, snatched Shu Chang's script, and asked in surprise.

Although he was questioning, Nie Wei was actually very sure, after all, the bloodshot and tired look in Shu Chang's eyes could not be concealed.

"Give me the script, I'll finish reading it soon." Shu Chang shouted loudly, and rushed forward to grab the script that Nie Wei had just taken away. After sitting down again, the woman couldn't help yawning.

Seeing Shu Chang yawn and continue to read the script with wide eyes, Nie Wei felt both amused and helpless.

Because the roles of the two seemed to be reversed. Usually, Nie Wei would stay up late for work, and then Shu Chang would run over to persuade Nie Wei to rest, but now it became Shu Chang who stayed up late to read the script.

"Okay, rest early, you can read the script anytime." Nie Wei persuaded, and found that Shu Chang didn't respond. He was helpless and suddenly felt a little empathy, because he was usually the same as Shu Chang now.

However, Nie Wei and Shu Chang are still different.

"Wife, I heard that staying up late will make people bald. Even if you like this script, you should worry about your hairline."

When Nie Wei talked about baldness and hairline, Shu Chang froze.

"Ah, I'm a little sleepy. Forget it. I'm going to catch up on my sleep. Don't call me for breakfast. If I don't wake up at noon, don't call me for lunch." Shu Chang put down the script and walked towards the bedroom obediently.

Nie Wei's words firmly grasped the thing that Shu Chang feared most in his heart, that is, baldness.

Shu Chang's hair is very smooth, but it is not particularly thick and shiny. In recent years, Shu Chang always feels that his hairline has moved up a little, and he is worried that he will be bald, although Nie Wei can't see where Shu Chang's hairline is moving up.

But Shu Chang herself said that there is indeed a similar situation in the genes inherited from her ancestors, so the keywords she hates to hear most in recent years are hairline moving up and baldness.

Shu Chang's shampoo has also changed from focusing on fragrance in the early years to focusing on practical functions such as strengthening hair roots. Nie Wei naturally thinks Shu Chang is worrying too much and has said that even if Shu Chang is bald, he will still love her as always. Of course, these love words are useless. Instead, they make this little woman angry and say that Nie Wei cursed her to be bald.

Nie Wei said that he was very wronged, but he also remembered Shu Chang's reverse scale deeply and dared not touch it easily.

So today, after seeing Shu Chang staying up late to read, Nie Wei immediately thought of using this point to persuade Shu Chang, and it really worked. Shu Chang went to bed obediently with just one sentence.

When Nie Wei came to the gym in the yard, Cheng Zimo was already doing warm-up exercises.

When practicing martial arts, it is naturally impossible to practice only the moves. That is useless. The body is the top priority, and the skills and strength obtained from practicing martial arts are actually based on the body.

So in addition to standing, boxing, and swordplay, Nie Wei and Cheng Zimo usually practice yoga and judo, and use a lot of professional equipment to exercise the muscles of various parts of the body to make the whole body full of strength.

Swimming and long-distance running are also necessary. In addition to strength, endurance is also very important as a fighter.

For example, today is judo training and yoga training to enhance the flexibility of the body, especially Baguazhang, which pursues flexibility. There are also high requirements for flexibility. If the flexibility is not enough, you can't do many skills well, and the power will naturally be greatly reduced.

For example, Zhang Ziyi really practiced Baguazhang in order to shoot "The Grandmaster". It was not the kind of pretending to pose, but she really went to learn from a master. The teacher at that time stretched her, and she was so painful that she had difficulty walking for several days.

The two men stretching together is actually a bit weird. Fortunately, this is a private manor, and the cleaners who come in to clean up in the early morning will occasionally laugh after seeing it, but the two can't see it, so it doesn't matter.

Two hours later, both of them were sweating profusely.

After washing up, Nie Wei and Cheng Zimo came to the restaurant. Shu Chang was not there. Cheng Zimo asked curiously. After all, Shu Chang should have been drinking coffee and waiting for them to have breakfast at this time.

"Your sister-in-law stayed up late to read the script last night. She is sleeping now. Let's eat first and don't worry about her." Nie Wei explained casually.

While eating, Nie Wei talked about giving Cheng Zimo a holiday.

"Tomorrow is New Year's Eve. Come to the manor on the sixth day of the first lunar month. Don't forget the girls. Be proactive. Go buy some gifts today and send them there. Give them affordable ones. Don't buy those messy skin care products. I'll ask someone to prepare two boxes of Cordyceps sinensis for you. You can give them to your future father-in-law and mother-in-law."

"Okay, I know." Cheng Zimo agreed a little embarrassedly, and did not refuse Nie Wei's kindness.

The word "father" in "Master" means that the apprentice should respect and honor the master as if he were his father. Similarly, as a master, the apprentice should love and cherish the apprentice as if he were his own child.

This is the traditional way of getting along between master and apprentice, which is different from the teachers who are paid to teach students nowadays.

Under this kind of getting along mode, the master will be willing to pass on some of his unique skills to the apprentice, so from the moment Cheng Zimo became his apprentice, the relationship between the two was not relatives but better than ordinary relatives. Although they were not blood-related, they were like blood-related.

After knowing that Cheng Zimo was going to be Nie Wei's bodyguard, the first thing Mr. Cheng told him was to let Cheng Zimo protect Nie Wei with his life.

As a master over the years, Nie Wei has also been conscientious and responsible. Not only did he give Cheng Zimo a good life, but he also taught Cheng Zimo everything he knew. Otherwise, Cheng Zimo would not have made such rapid progress and realized the cleverness of the dark power so early.

And why did Mr. Cheng always tell Nie Wei to take care of Cheng Zimo's lifelong affairs? Because this is also Nie Wei's responsibility, so Nie Wei is so concerned about Cheng Zimo's love, always reminding him, and also giving a lot of advice.

After breakfast, Cheng Zimo took two boxes of top-grade Cordyceps sinensis, and greeted Nie Wei, then went to the garage to find an off-road vehicle and left the manor.

Nie Wei went to the bedroom to see Shu Chang who was still sleeping, and then went to the study to continue revising the script.

Recently, the "Summer of the Band" produced by Fanxing finally ushered in the finals on the day before New Year's Eve. The four teams completed this grand finals in front of 50,000 people in the Workers' Stadium in a live broadcast.

It's called the finals, but it's more like a feast for the band. In addition to the four bands participating in the finals each singing two songs, the bands that entered the top 16 also came to the scene and brought a song.

Fifty thousand fans at the scene and tens of thousands of viewers in front of the TV were immersed in the atmosphere created by the band, and the ratings naturally soared, with the peak easily breaking six, completing a perfect ending.

Although the show ended, the impact was far from over.

Six of the top ten hot searches on Weibo that night belonged to these bands, and the band's performance style once again entered the public's sight, just like the three heroes of Magic Rock back then, and became popular throughout China.

The New Pants Band won the championship. After a night of revelry, the team members woke up and found that the world was different.

The contract brought by the agent had a double-digit increase in the amount of remuneration, and the profit was dozens of times more than the previous remuneration, which directly shocked several people.

"These are endorsements, clothing, such as Clover and NEO, starting at one million per year."

"And these are invitations to sing songs, 200,000 per song, and this is just a trial price. I think after some negotiation, 300,000 will be easy. If the quality of the songs is good enough, 400,000 or 500,000 is not a problem."

"These are commercial performance contracts, 500,000 per song, and we will give a discount of 800,000 for two songs. Now there are more than a dozen commercial performances that have sent invitations. You can take a look and choose one by the way."

"And this..."

Everyone watched the agent take out contracts from his briefcase like Doraemon, and they all widened their eyes and opened their mouths in shock. The strings of amounts and the well-known manufacturers and brands made them feel like they were dreaming.