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Chapter 1263 What if (33)

The novel "Zhu Xian" has nearly 50,000 words serialized on the novel website. There was no agreement signed with the website at the beginning, so the copyright still belongs to Zhang Tan. If the script is adapted, there will be no infringement issue.

"Zhu Xian" has been discontinued for more than a year. This book was still very popular at first and became a small hit among a niche audience. However, the update was unstable and even discontinued later on, so it has become very popular. low.

But what surprised Zhang Tan was that some readers still checked in and left messages in the comment area every day to cheer him up.

"I want to wait until the end of time for it. Even if I unfortunately die in the future, please be sure to burn it to me when the novel is updated so that I can learn about it." A reader named Li Jun wrote.

There are many messages like this, filling the screen, every day.

Zhang Tan thought for a while and opened a separate chapter to officially inform everyone that the novel will no longer be updated.

It was finished and just about to be published, when he thought about the small group of readers who had been waiting for the novel update. He felt that it would be too cruel to publish it like this, so he wrote another paragraph at the end, and then clicked publish. .

After posting, Zhang Tan closed the webpage and continued writing the script of "Zhu Xian".

What he didn't know was that not long after he issued the notice, he was discovered by those die-hard fans.

These people have persisted for more than a year, checking in in the comment area every day, hoping that one day it will suddenly be updated. After all, the author has never stopped writing.

Maybe something happened and I was delayed. I will continue to update when I'm done.

Everyone guessed that maybe this was an instruction because the author had something to do and was delayed. After he finished his work, he should resume normal updates.

Today, as usual, they opened the page of the "Zhu Xian" novel, but were shocked to find that there was a prompt for the latest chapter. Everyone was refreshed and hurriedly clicked in. They saw that the title was a notice to readers. Then they clicked in and saw the text.

The text content is:

Thank you all for your continued support of "Zhu Xian", because work life is too busy, and in my setting, the length of the novel "Zhu Xian" is more than 2 million words, so after weighing it, I reluctantly decided not to update it. I originally wanted to come and leave quietly like this, but I saw that some readers are still checking in in the comment area every day, so I feel it is necessary to tell you. Thank you all for your attention and support.

Although the story "Zhu Xian" is only serialized with less than 50,000 words, it is complete in my mind. Although I cannot meet you in the form of a novel, I want to tell you a possibility, that is, it may be published this year. Adapt it into a script and then see it in the form of a movie. Friends who are interested can continue to pay attention here. I will notify everyone here if there is any progress.

Finally, I wish you all a happy Spring Festival and a happy family!

After reading it, everyone was in an uproar.

Reader Li Jun was angry and disappointed at first, and then felt a little hope in his heart.

He just felt that he had a lot to say, so he left a message in the comment area and posted it after finishing it. Only then did he find that there were already a large number of similar messages in the comment area, all targeting this notice.

"You're celebrating the Chinese New Year, just show us this?"

"I thought there was some good news! The author is going too far!"

"Are you perfunctory with us? Updates have been suspended for more than a year. I finally waited until the Chinese New Year and thought it was updated, but the result is that the notification is no longer updated!"

"The author is trying to fool us. He hasn't even finished the novel yet, but he actually said it would be made into a movie. Is the movie so easy to make?!"

"It was a wrong payment after all."

Li Jun was very disappointed, but it has to be said that he had the slightest expectation, not for anything else, but for the story of "Zhu Xian". The character Zhang Xiaofan in the book is like himself. He sees his own shadow in Zhang Xiaofan. The ordinary life makes him hope that like Zhang Xiaofan, he will have adventures and change his life.

He logged into instant messaging and opened a chat group.

The name of this chat group is "Looking for Zhu Xian". It is a fan group created by their die-hard fans. Everyone chats here every day. At first, they just discuss the plot of the novel. Later, as they get to know each other, they often talk about work and life. , gradually became a small circle of friends.

There are not many members in this group, less than 100, but the chat group is usually very lively, and there are almost no divers. Everyone joins here because they like "Zhu Xian".

They are the ones who check in on the novel website every day.

They insist on checking in every day, so that one day the author will accidentally click on it and see that there are still a group of die-hard novel readers like them persisting, so that maybe the author will come back and continue writing the novel.

At this moment, the group is very lively. The topic of discussion is the notification that has just been released and will no longer be updated. Everyone's emotions are the same. They are disappointed, disappointed and angry. They have been waiting for such a long time for such a result in just a few words.

Everyone vented their emotions and cursed the author. Suddenly someone wrote in the group: "Do you think it will really be made into a movie?"

The group fell silent for an instant, and then someone responded: "It's just a dream, do you believe it?"

"The novel has not been finished, can it be made into a movie? These are just the words of the author to comfort us."

"Just draw a pie."

"If the novel is serialized and becomes very popular, it may be made into a movie, but this is it now? I would like to ask who will invest."

"Look at how many novels are adapted into movies on novel websites every year. You can count them on one hand. Those adapted have hundreds of millions of clicks. Although we like "Zhu Xian", Admittedly, the novel is far from adequate for a film adaptation."

Everyone said that the adaptation of "Zhu Xian" into a movie was unreliable.

At this moment, the group leader suddenly replied: "What if."

The group was quiet again, and so was Li Jun in front of his mobile phone. He stopped and thought, yes, what if? What if it becomes a movie?

If it is really made into a movie, it would be a big surprise for them.

There was silence in the group for a while, and someone wrote: "Are you willing to wait?"

These words seemed to stop everyone. After more than a minute, Li Jun responded first: "I am willing to wait. Anyway, I have been waiting for more than a year, so let's wait another year. By this time next year, if there is no news, then I won’t have any expectations anymore.”

His words took the lead, and everyone left messages one after another. Although they were full of resentment, many people still reluctantly expressed their willingness to wait.

Of course, some people said they didn't believe it and were unwilling to wait. They thought the author was just deceiving people.

Zhang Tan didn't know that his announcement would keep many people awake tonight.

At this moment, he was no longer writing scripts, but was reading the scripts sent by Jiang Rong and others.

We received a total of eight scripts, all of which are our top picks. There are a few more than what we mentioned before. It seems that we didn’t tell the truth completely before, so everyone is keeping something to themselves. This is a good thing.

Zhang Tan spent nearly an hour looking through these scripts, and the ones that left a deep impression on him were one by Jiang Rong and one by Wu Zhensheng.

Jiang Rong's script is called "Time and Space Lovers". It tells the story of a heroine who has the ability to travel through time and space. In order to save her relationship with her ex-boyfriend, she travels through time and space back to the time when they first met. This leads to a series of ridiculous stories.

This is a love story, the overall style is sweet, and it also discusses love and what kind of love we need.

After Zhang Tan read this script, he immediately thought of Wu Shiying's "Pumping Heart", and the two were somewhat similar.

"Heartbeat" is about the innocent love between boys and girls. At the same time, through the self-examination of the heroine, she judges whether the person she loves is worthy of love. Once her self-esteem is touched, she immediately decides to give up the boy.

Jiang Rong's "Time and Space Lovers" also has this kind of discussion.

Wu Zhensheng's script is called "The Snowman". It is a suspenseful mystery story. It tells the story of a woman who is killed in the city during the first snowfall every year. Her body is hidden in the snowman, and the clues are buried in the snow.

After Zhang Tan finished reading, he opened a curtain and looked out through the window. It was pitch black outside and nothing could be seen clearly, but snowflakes could be seen falling on the window glass.

It started to snow again in the evening.

The story of "The Snowman" is very complete, and the suspense reasoning is also very well done, making it exciting.

Zhang Tan liked the two scripts more. Of course, the scripts still had many flaws and needed to be polished and improved.

For example, Jiang Rong's "Time and Space Lovers", although the discussion of love makes this story break away from ordinary love stories and is a bit sublime, the way of discussion is too didactic and can easily offend readers.

Wu Zhensheng's "The Snowman" has some logical loopholes, which is very fatal for a suspenseful mystery novel.

Zhang Tan replied to the two people's emails and wrote to Jiang Rong: "The story of "Lovers of Time and Space" is very good, but there are several problems that need further revision. There are three main points. First, if this story is to be adapted into Movies, then it is definitely not because of the discussion of love. Movies are movies. They are entertainment products that can educate and entertain, but the educational part is definitely not the main part, so the story needs to be more interesting..."

The email written to Wu Zhensheng is as follows: "The story of "The Snowman" is very good. I like it very much. It is an excellent suspense reasoning story. We will discuss it in depth in person after the year. Before that, I would like to make three suggestions. , First, we need to be more subtle about burying clues. For example, after the prisoner committed the murder in the chicken farm, he slaughtered three chickens at the same time, and one of the chickens died at a different time than the other two chickens..."