Minglong Youth: Shared House with Cheng Yushan and Bian Xiaoxiao
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For the time being, he couldn’t guess the purpose of Zhou Chen giving him these two keywords.
One is the mobile phone, which is the device people use for daily chatting and communication.
One is twenty years, which involves time.
What does Zhou Chen mean?
Gong Yu thought about it for a long time but couldn’t figure it out, so he simply gave up thinking about it. No matter what, what he was best at was reasoning, and the keywords he gave Zhou Chen were also related to reasoning and solving cases. In that case, he might as well compete with Zhou Chen on this subject.
Thinking of this, Gong Yu began to conceive his own plot.
It is not so easy to use a mobile phone and twenty years to solve a crime.
In another room, Zhou Chen also wrote two key words of his own on the writing board.
Looking at [snowman] and [criminal], Zhou Chen couldn’t help but think of a very famous online drama “The Undocumented Crime”. The criminals in the drama liked to build a snowman on the scene after each murder, which was very consistent with these keywords.
Of course, the most important thing is that “The Undocumented Crime” achieved considerable success at the time. It involved crime-solving reasoning and human nature, and each character was also very distinctive.
Zhou Chen closed his eyes and began to recall the plot of the play in his mind.
He thought of Li Toyota who was smoking.
I thought of the policeman Yan Liang, nicknamed the King of Hell.
One character after another appeared in Zhou Chen’s mind.
After much thought, Zhou Chen felt that it would be better to proceed directly according to the plot clues, which would make it easier to create suspense. If it was written as a character biography, there might not be a sense of reasoning.
Thinking of this, Zhou Chen walked straight to the computer and started typing.
“It was a dark, snowy night, and the wind was freezing cold. A tricycle that was soliciting passengers suddenly stopped. The driver got off the tricycle and found a long-dead man leaning against a snowman next to the car. He was so scared that his legs went limp. When the police arrived at the scene after receiving the alarm, they all looked solemn. Because there was a note stuck to the snowman with four words written on it – Come and catch me!”
The netizens who were originally sitting in front of the screen, worried about Zhou Chen, were also shocked when they saw that Zhou Chen started typing on the computer without even writing down his ideas.
But when they read the episode plot written by Zhou Chen, they were shocked by the opening of just a hundred words.
Although the number of words is short, it gets straight to the point and directly describes a crime scene.
“Wow, Zhou Chen actually wants to write a crime drama!”
“This opening is simple and direct, starting with a serial murder case. Moreover, the key features of this serial murder case are all the characteristics of making snowmen. It directly combines the two key words perfectly!”
“I like this kind of neat and tidy plot. Come and catch me, the criminal is very arrogant!”
After reading Zhou Chen’s description, netizens began to speculate.
Although crime-solving and mystery dramas are a niche genre, they do have a large market.
Especially in this script competition, many people fell in love with this kind of logical reasoning script because of Gong Yu’s appearance, because you can guess the direction and even the outcome of the story through your own logical thinking. This sense of participation is much stronger than other scripts.
However, they can also see that although both are mystery dramas, Zhou Chen’s writing style is obviously different from Gong Yu’s!
The most important thing is that even when writing a mystery drama, Zhou Chen seems to be able to do it easily. Not to mention, his writing really has that tense feeling.
Just the beginning has whetted the audience’s appetite.
Even Wang Qiang, who was sitting in the audience, couldn’t help but give Zhou Chen a thumbs up.
After all these years, I am only good at youth romance dramas. But Zhou Chen, at such a young age, has dabbled in all kinds of themes, and now he can even write mystery dramas with ease. Is there anything in the world that this guy can’t write?
On the other side, Gong Yu, who had been thinking for a long time, finally came up with an idea in his mind. Just as he was about to start sorting out his thoughts, he inadvertently glanced towards Zhou Chen’s room.
It doesn’t matter if you look at it, but you will be shocked by it.
My goodness, only half an hour had passed and I had just roughly sorted out the plot, and I hadn’t even thought through many parts yet. And Zhou Chen, this guy actually started writing the script directly on the computer!
Do you want it to be so fierce?
Could it be that this guy could really write detective stories?
Gong Yu took a deep breath and suddenly felt a huge pressure.
He quickly adjusted his state, sat in front of the computer and started typing.
In order not to be influenced by Zhou Chen, he even turned his back so as not to see him and be bothered.
Chapter 235 Reverse Smoking Li Toyota
As Zhou Chen and Gong Yu began to create, a large amount of text appeared on the big screen during the live broadcast.
Many people like to watch movies, TV series and animation, but in fact, compared to these two, sometimes words give people more powerful power.
Because many times, some pictures can only be expressed with words. Once they are adapted into film or television, they limit your imagination. This is the unique charm of words.
As Zhou Chen wrote, the characters in “The Undocumented Crime” gradually emerged.
The reason why this drama is wonderful is that they do not portray each character as absolutely good or evil. On the contrary, each character is relatively complex.
For example, Guo Yu, who was a lawyer, was originally upright and kind-hearted, but because he fell in love with his classmate Zhu Huiru, he eventually went down a path of no return.
For example, Zhu Huiru was originally just a poor woman, but after repeated stimulations, she eventually became a murderer.
Even the biggest murderer in the whole play, the real culprit of the serial murder case, has another side that is unknown to the public.
This drama is more about social ethics and human nature than solving a crime.
Almost every episode has a sudden reversal at a critical moment, making people unable to stop watching.
Especially when they saw that after Li Toyota killed someone, he actually smoked in the opposite direction, this detailed description made many people shudder.
“This Li Toyota is too cruel. In order to leave traces of laughter, he even burned the fingerprints on his hands.”
“Smoking in reverse is not an ordinary ruthless person.”
“Indeed, I am very cruel to myself!”
Even though they were separated by a screen, many netizens were attracted by Zhou Chen’s plot. That’s what a good drama is like, the more you watch it, the more enjoyable it becomes.
On the other hand, many people were also watching Gong Yu’s creations.
After all, when it comes to solving crimes and reasoning in this script competition, Gong Yu is considered a professional player!
In this variety show, Gong Yu gained a lot of fans.
However, the comments in the live broadcast room today were a bit strange.
At the beginning, most people thought that Gong Yu had a great chance of winning this final stop. However, after many people read Zhou Chen’s script, they suddenly realized that “Cell Phone” written by Gong Yu seemed a bit boring.
Yes, although Gong Yu’s case-solving reasoning is also very interesting, the rhythm is a bit slow compared to Zhou Chen’s. Moreover, in many aspects of details, which were nothing special before, today they seem particularly rough.
Before I knew it, three hours had passed.
As the host Bingbing announced the end of the creative time, Zhou Chen and Gong Yu also walked out of their rooms.
As soon as the two stood still, there was warm applause from the audience!
The host Bingbing first walked up to Gong Yu.
“Teacher Gong Yu, the last round of the competition is about the subject matter you are good at. If the score is 10, how many points would you give to the script you just wrote?”
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone looked towards Gong Yu.
“Out of 10, I think it should be above 8. In my opinion, this play is of the same level as the previous ones. But due to time constraints, there are still many shortcomings!”
Gong Yu glanced at Zhou Chen next to him and gave himself a score with confidence.
He is still very confident in himself when it comes to logical reasoning.
“Zhou Chen, what about you?”
The host Bingbing did not express her opinion, but turned her head to look at Zhou Chen beside her.
“If the full score is 10, I think…”
Zhou Chen touched his nose and felt a little embarrassed to give himself a score.
“This is my first time writing a mystery drama. To be honest, there are still many shortcomings. I’ll give it a score of six, which should be considered a barely passing grade!”
Zhou Chen looked very humble.
Wow!
As soon as these words came out, the scene was in an uproar.
In the live broadcast room, barrages of comments were flying.
“Such a brilliant script, and you gave it a score of six? How embarrassed would Gong Yuqing be!”
“Be more confident. Turn the six points upside down, it should be nine points! I’m afraid you’ll be too proud!”
“It has to be a 10-10. This is the most exciting script I have ever read! I hope this script will be made into a TV series soon!”
It would be fine if you haven’t read Zhou Chen’s script, but in the past three hours, many people have watched characters and plots appear from nothing. This experience is too shocking.
Even now, many people are immersed in Zhou Chen’s story and have not come back to their senses!
How would you rate this wonderful script a six?
Who are you looking down on?
“This… Could it be that Zhou Chen has written another hit?”
Gong Yu, who was standing aside, was originally very confident in his own creation, but when he saw the audience’s excited reaction when Zhou Chen was mentioned, he became a little panicked for a moment.
But he still felt it was impossible.
Zhou Chen has never written a mystery drama. Even though his logical thinking is meticulous, many of the techniques used in it can only be understood by professional screenwriters in this field.
How could Zhou Chen do that!
However, when the host Bingbing ordered the scoring, Gong Yu was stunned to see the final score displayed on the big screen, which was as high as 9.8 points!
As a professional contestant, I only got 8.8 points, while Zhou Chen got such a high score for his first time.
Is this guy crazy?
Without paying attention to the discussions of the people around him, he walked straight to Zhou Chen’s computer and began to read Zhou Chen’s script carefully.
Although it took a long time to create, it actually doesn’t take that long to finish the script.
After all, the entire drama only has twelve episodes.
“Undocumented crime…copycat murder, serial crime, running away…”
Watching the plot development in the script, Gong Yu was completely dumbfounded.
He has been writing mystery dramas for many years and thought his level was pretty good. But it was not until today that he realized what it meant to be “there are always people better than you”.
The mystery dramas I wrote tend to focus on the case and the logic behind it, but the script written by Zhou Chen, in addition to the confusing case, describes more about the human nature behind the case!
It is equivalent to directly sublimating the theme of the entire story!
This is totally not on the same level as me!
Moreover, Gong Yu also found that Zhou Chen’s characterization was truly full and rich. In comparison, he himself focused too much on the case and neglected the establishment of his personality.
This……
Everything is afraid of comparison. Gong Yu suddenly found that what he wrote was a bit rubbish!
At this moment, the voice of the host Bingbing came from not far away.
“Congratulations, Zhou Chen, for becoming the champion of this season’s script competition and receiving a 2 million yuan reward from our program team!”
“At the same time, congratulations to Gong Yu for becoming the runner-up of this scriptwriting competition and receiving a reward of 1.5 million from our program team!”
Gong Yu, “…”
Obviously, getting a bonus is a very happy and proud thing, but now he suddenly felt a little embarrassed.
Chapter 236 If You Were Writing, How Would You Write
At this moment, Gong Yu just realized that he and Zhou Chen were like dust and stars and could not be compared at all.
Zhou Chen is an all-round genius, and I am only good at writing mystery novels. But even in the area of mystery novels, my ability is far inferior to Zhou Chen!
While Gong Yu was stunned, the program team started the final segment.
auction!
To be honest, whether it is “The Undocumented Crime” or “Cell Phone”, the plot design is very exciting, and as the final champion and runner-up of the script competition, the auction naturally attracted much attention.
Under the watchful eyes of many netizens, the drama “Cell Phone” was auctioned at a rare price of five million.