Chapter 478: The Screenwriter’s Work
“I’m thinking of going to Korea.”
This day, when Yu Linna returned to the dorm, she told Lan Ranyan about this matter. At that time, Lan Ranyan was still working on game programming. She looked up at her with a strange look.
“Did Wenqing arrange it for you?”
“No. I want to go myself.”
“What for?”
“I want to gather some material. I have a script I want to write myself recently.”
Lan Ranyan didn’t think much of it and nodded. After all, Yu Linna was indeed a qualified scriptwriter. Besides the script she had just finished, she had also recently received a cooperation and was preparing to write a script for an animated film. Although she was a novelist, she was actually also developing in the direction of the film and television circle.
To cross two completely different fields and still be able to do it so outstandingly was quite rare in this world. But Yu Linna did indeed have such an ability.
If she decided to do something, then she would do it to the best of her ability.
“Don’t drink too much tonight.”
Lan Ranyan thought for a moment and decided to add this sentence. From a distance, Yu Linna replied, “I know.”
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At night, Fang Jiangning had flown to the competition site because she had a commentary job. Xiao Yanhan, on the other hand, was at the studio, drawing her manuscript. Only Lan Ranyan was left alone. Actually, Yu Linna could have been writing her manuscript in her own dorm, but now every night, after she had finished her own manuscript and had completed the day’s work, she liked to run out to drink.
She would usually go to a bar to drink, and when she had had enough, she would come back. Or she would go to a convenience store by herself and buy a large bag of beer cans, and drink them all by herself in the dorm. Anyway, she would get herself drunk every day. It was not very safe for her to drink outside. Lan Ranyan was worried about her and had called the butler to arrange for a bodyguard to squat in the bar to secretly protect her. Once they found someone with malicious intentions, they would not hesitate to beat them half to death.
And so, Yu Linna had spent two months in a muddle-headed state. In the beginning, she had been so sad that the sky was about to collapse. Gradually, she had also gotten used to the days without her. Ye Zhiyun’s good friend, she had never been willing to delete her, and had always kept her. Occasionally, she could also see her Moments updates. But Yu Linna was getting more and more decadent. Every day, she made herself look unseemly.
She was just reminiscing, reminiscing about the past days when there were not so many troubles. Before, when she had no money, she only had to think about food and clothes, but at that time, she was very optimistic, very cheerful, and felt that everything could be made better. Ever since she had listened to Nangong Ying’s words and had entered the entertainment industry, her status had gotten higher and higher, her money had become more and more, and her troubles had also become more and more. She could no longer face every day with a cheerful attitude as in the past.
This night, the bodyguard arranged by Lan Ranyan had driven her back. Without a doubt, Yu Linna was drunk again, her face flushed, and she couldn’t even stand steadily. For these two months, she had been drinking. From being able to be knocked down by one cup at the beginning to now being able to drink vodka without changing her expression, her alcohol tolerance had improved a lot. But this did not mean that she would not get drunk.
“Wow, how did you come back with such a strong smell of alcohol again? Damn it, do you have to be like this?”
After Xiao Yanhan had returned, she had seen that Yu Linna was once again being carried back to the dorm, and she smelled of alcohol. She pinched her nose, feeling a little uncomfortable. She had even cursed.
But she still helped her up with Lan Ranyan, and with great effort, she carried her onto her own bed. Fortunately, Yu Linna was not heavy to begin with, and her figure was also small. Lan Ranyan herself was from a practitioner’s background and had a very good physical fitness. To throw her up with one hand was not at all strenuous.
“This crazy girl. I told her not to drink so much before she went out, but she just wouldn’t listen. It’s a good thing someone was watching her. Otherwise, she wouldn’t even know how she was being schemed against.”
Lan Ranyan looked at the peacefully sleeping Yu Linna on the bed and sighed.
“In any case, it doesn’t have to be like this, right? Haven’t it already been two months? Haven’t you let go yet?”
Xiao Yanhan was actually extremely unhappy in her heart. That person was too much. They had already broken up, yet she still held such an important position in her heart, and was still hurting Yu Linna. At this thought, Xiao Yanhan was very unhappy.
At the same time, she also envied the person who could leave such an important position in her heart.
“Some things we don’t know without having experienced them. Dating is not as simple as we think. Some people let go after crying, but some people take several months, and some people can’t let go for a lifetime.”
Love is the most difficult thing to understand in this world. People always say that time will make everything pass. But in fact, what can really pass is a part. It is impossible to completely forget it. This world is originally like this. Happy things cannot last long in memories, but sad things are unforgettable for a lifetime.
Xiao Yanhan didn’t say anything more. She could only sigh that this was fate.
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The next morning, Yu Linna patted her head with a headache. She looked at her phone and found that it was already morning. Last night, she had gotten drunk again.
This thing, alcohol, she had clearly hated drinking it at the beginning. Now she had become unable to live without it. The changes in these few months were really great.
It was almost June soon. Yu Linna wanted to spend some time to go to Korea. She was preparing to write a new movie script. Because the new script involved the esports circle, which she had never come into contact with before, she needed to spend some time to understand it.
She had applied to Wenqing to go to Korea to gather material, and at the same time to do a promotion in Korea, thinking if she could have her novels published in Korea.
At the same time, she was also supervising the filming of her movie, Beast Game. Before, she had already supervised the filming of the fourth season of The Smile of the Rose, which was expected to be launched on the web platform during the summer vacation. And Beast Game was originally a Japanese IP, which had been bought by China, and then had been localized into a script by Yu Linna’s hand. The director in charge of filming was Li Jiaxing. He was also in charge of the work arrangement of the special effects team. As for the cast, Yu Linna had discussed with the director for a long time, and in the end, she had decided to use the young actor, Li Yu. Speaking of this actor, Li Yu, he actually belonged to the young fresh meat who had become a big hit in the past few years. At that time, he had earned enough heat with a TV series, but he was not from a professional background, and his acting skills were not particularly good.
After Hu Qing’s Black Wolf, almost overnight, “young fresh meat” had become a derogatory term. These new generation actors with no acting skills and occupying sky-high salaries had fallen into the most fatal public opinion controversy in their careers, and had seriously affected their works.
To use Li Yu was originally Director Li Jiaxing’s idea. Yu Linna had originally refused. She thought that the acting skills of the new generation of actors were not mature, and it would be difficult to interpret the characters inside well. But Director Li Jiaxing had persuaded her. He had said that Li Yu was willing to act, and was also willing to endure hardship, and was even more willing to transform. He had also guaranteed that Li Yu would not take on any commercial activities during the filming of this movie.
With such determination, only then did Yu Linna decide to believe Director Li once.
After all, for this movie, Yu Linna had also invested. She had personally smashed 30 million into it, and the total budget of this movie was estimated to exceed 200 million. One could imagine how much say Yu Linna had as an investor.
Yu Linna’s net worth had risen with the tide, and was long since not in the state of a few years ago. Her current appearance fee was easily hundreds of thousands to start with. If you wanted to hire her, it would be millions at every turn.
Beast Game tells the story of a young man who, in order to treat his family’s illness, had used his property certificate as collateral for a high-stakes gamble, wanting to turn the situation around. As a result, he had lost his life. He was thrown into a gambling den. Here, there were no rules, no humanity. As long as you could win, that was all that mattered. Everyone was a beast, not a human.
This was the result of Yu Linna’s localization of Ace Gambler. She had discarded the relatively dark and cruel descriptions in the original work, and had also revised the original scumbag male protagonist twice, turning him into a young man with flesh and blood, who had participated in gambling to raise money to treat his sick mother. And this movie would also involve the humanity that was rarely talked about in the original work, as well as the difference between humans and beasts.
“I don’t think this scene can be written like this. Think about it. This is the best turning point in this film. How can you arrange for the protagonist to say goodbye to his childhood friend? How can a man be so fussy and long-winded?”
“It has to be like this! If this part is missing, the protagonist will become dull. Without this part of the description, how can it be shown in the subsequent story that he cherishes the female lead?”
Many times, she and the director would have a dispute, but Yu Linna was always very firm and would not give in at all. In terms of the cast, she could listen to the director. In terms of special effects, she could also listen to the director. But in terms of the arrangement of the story, she had to have others listen to her.
They had discussed for a long time. Yu Linna had also said a lot to Li Yu. Although Li Yu himself was in his early thirties, Yu Linna still had a very majestic appearance, putting on the posture of an elder and talking to him about the drama. Her appearance was quite comical.
Coincidentally, their studio was next to the studio of another movie. On that side was the new movie The Treasure Map of Tibet, filmed by the popular young star, Yu Muyan. It was a fantasy-themed movie.
Yu Linna had also gone over there to visit the set, had politely greeted them, and had said a few words. Yu Muyan would come up to talk to her, asking if she could write a script tailored for him next time.
“Shion-sensei, you see me like this. My fame is also not bad. Can you write a script for me? I am very hardworking, and I can endure hardship. As for the price, I will have my agent talk to you.”
To be honest, it wasn’t that Yu Linna disliked him. It was just that Yu Linna felt that a new generation of actors like Yu Muyan was still more suitable for acting in urban romance TV series that didn’t require much acting skills, and the more cliché, the better. This kind of drama didn’t have such high requirements for the actors’ acting skills.
If Yu Linna were to tailor a script for him, she was afraid it would ruin the script. Because Yu Linna rarely took on TV series scripts. What she wrote would surely be a movie script. To write a script for Yu Muyan, she could only be mentally prepared to give the script away. After all, as a screenwriter, she didn’t want her work to be ruined.
“Ah, there will be a chance. You just have to wait.”
Every time, Yu Linna would be so perfunctory with her.
During the filming process, although Yu Linna had also experienced all kinds of hardships, before the filming started, she had seen Director Li’s hard work in training Li Yu, and he himself had indeed worked hard. She also felt that it might not be wrong to have chosen such a person.
Soon, her request to go to Korea had been approved. The reply from Wenqing was OK. Yu Linna could finally embark on her trip to Korea. But before that, Yu Linna had received a phone call, saying that the foreign director, Heston, wanted to find her to buy an IP, and to talk to her about a business cooperation. At this, Yu Linna felt a little strange. What IP did she have to sell?
