"Director Shao, I really want to adapt your experiences into a manga," Qin Lu said seriously. "Please accept my request just once! Just once!!"
"Comrade Little Qin, I'm also very seriously telling you my answer—when I say no, I an no. Give up!!!"
Shao Yichen answered decisively.
After Qin Lu's manga was adapted into a large toy comrcial... no, a children's TV series, his original work also received considerable popularity, getting a reverse boost in sales. Although it had already concluded, it actually achieved legendary sales after completion, becoming a pillar of the manga platform he was contracted with.
Qin Lu, as the author, naturally gained quite a few fans.
Although Qin Lu was still the art director and executive director of Shao Yichen's film team, during less busy tis, such as when Shao Yichen wasn't making films, he returned to his old profession and had the idea of continuing to serialize manga.
But what subject to continue serializing was a new problem for him.
After much thought, he ca up with the idea of drawing material from life.
Look, they had a director with such magical and inspiring experiences—genius girl, skipped grades, experienced betrayal, beca dejected then rallied, returned to campus, had a discerning eye for talent, made films, successfully slapped faces.
What a perfect feel-good story template! Adapting it into manga would naturally be just as attractive!
Why not draw material from her experiences?
And so, Qin Lu took up his pen and, taking advantage of Shao Yichen having just finished making a film and currently not wanting to seamlessly join another production but only wanting to indulge in cat-petting, decisively wrote a serialization outline for the manga.
However, at the final step of creation—seeking the opinion of the person involved—he was decisively rejected.
"No! Absolutely not!" Shao Yichen insisted. "What's worth drawing about my experiences? Just thinking about it feels shaful!"
"Don't worry." Qin Lu had a "no need to worry" expression. "I'll make appropriate modifications to ensure this protagonist's appearance will only have the slightest subtle resemblance to you..."
"That's not the problem!" Shao Yichen said painfully. "I... I don't like reading manga about making films! Why can't you continue drawing the next cha series! Isn't robots fighting appealing!"
Moreover, for a manga with herself as the protagonist, Shao Yichen asked herself honestly—she simply couldn't read it!
Hearing this, Qin Lu finally understood where the problem lay: it turned out Shao Yichen, as a loyal reader of cha manga, had a natural resistance to him changing his drawing direction.
Thinking of this, he quickly made a guarantee: "Don't worry! Since you're so resistant, I can modify the filmmaking story to piloting chs, or even piloting spaceships! You can not only see ch piloting, but the person piloting the chs is you yourself!"
"Really?" Hearing this, Shao Yichen was slightly moved.
But at the sa ti, new doubts arose in her heart—was manga content really that easy to change? Changing filmmaking content to ch piloting, and changing it so easily?
With this doubt, she took the manga outline from Qin Lu's hands, and after reading a few pages, she collapsed again, making the sa sound as before.
"No! Absolutely not!!" She collapsed, shaking the manga outline in her hands.
"What's wrong?" Qin Lu was very aggrieved. "I think the character setting I gave you couldn't be any better..."
"This is way too good?!" Shao Yichen shouted. "What kind of new Mary Sue character is this?! Falls in love with everyone she ets?!"
If this thing were actually drawn, her lifelong reputation would be ruined!
At the sa ti, Shao Yichen finally understood why Qin Lu claid "changing the filmmaking process to ch piloting is no problem at all."
Because the focus of this manga wasn't on her career at all!
This manga... was a thorough romance manga!
The so-called filmmaking was just her thod of attracting nurous male characters!
Qin Lu clearly didn't realize where the problem was: "I think the content is fine, very realistic."
Shao Yichen: "...Where is it realistic? Do you think my life with Li Xingyu is too happy and want to cause us trouble?"
She opened the shoujo manga outline and pointed to the plot on the first page: "What's the deal with and Nan Rongyu, Nan Rongzhou? 'The girl experiences the feeling of being moved for the first ti'..."
Halfway through, she realized this was at a dinner gathering and Li Xingyu was still chatting with Le Ziyao, Jiang Miaomiao and others nearby, so she lowered her voice: "What happened to the docuntary manga?! Adapted from Shao Yichen's personal experiences—this is how you adapt it?"
"My relationship with Nan Rongyu and them is purely gaming comrade friendship!"
Qin Lu: "But Director Shao, you know, manga still needs people to read it, so I had to add a bit of lodrama..."
"What about Little Bai?" Shao Yichen was exasperated. "'Between loving and being loved, the girl falls into a whirlpool of hesitation'... Love what?! He's clearly a CP fan who posts about his ships on social dia every day! And he even blocks , the real person!"
"This, well, it's like this." Qin Lu explained quietly. "Although we all know internally that compared to liking you, Director Shao, Little Bai is more likely to like Li Xingyu as an idol, outsiders don't think so. If I don't draw it this way, it would actually look more like avoiding suspicion..."
Shao Yichen imdiately put the outline on Qin Lu's head: "You clearly just think a pair of twins competing with Li Xingyu isn't eye-catching enough! I see right through you!"
The problem is you've attracted readers' attention, but what about my reputation as the prototype?
Shao Yichen stuffed the outline back into Qin Lu's hands, secretly glanced at Li Xingyu, and lowered her voice to threaten Qin Lu: "If you really want to draw it, I won't pursue it relentlessly—but these groundless romantic plotlines must be deleted! Must be!"
Qin Lu was in a difficult position: "But I rely on these plots to create climaxes, keeping readers hooked..."
"That's your problem!" Shao Yichen was decisive.
Although she was easygoing, she had to stand firm on matters of principle! Otherwise, who knows what Qin Lu would turn the plot into later!
"Alright." Qin Lu sighed, thinking that without those rumors, your life would just be filmmaking, how boring would that be?
His eyes moved around, as if he had thought of a good idea.
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A week later.
Shao Yichen saw Qin Lu slinking out of Li Xingyu's office dejectedly.
She curiously asked Li Xingyu: "What happened? Did you have an argunt with Qin Lu? Although he's unreliable, manga artists inevitably have so idealism..."
"Nothing serious, it's already resolved." Li Xingyu said with a smile.
—Want to steal my wife from ? Not even in a manga.
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