Chapter 1263 What if (33)

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

"Zhu Xian" has been discontinued for more than a year. At first, this book was still very popular and had a small hit in a niche range. It was just because the updates were unstable and even discontinued later, so the popularity has been very low.

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

"I will wait for it until the end of time. Even if I die in the future, please burn it for me when the novel is updated so that I will know it in the underworld." A reader named Li Jun wrote.

There are many messages like this, full of them, every day.

Zhang Tan thought about it and opened a chapter to officially inform everyone that the novel would no longer be updated.

After writing it and about to publish it, he had an idea. He thought of this small group of readers who had been waiting for the novel to be updated. He felt that it would be too cruel to them if it was published like this, so he wrote another paragraph at the end and then clicked to publish it.

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

What he didn't know was that not long after he posted the notice, it 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 there will be an update, after all, the author has never said that he will not write anymore.

Maybe there was something that delayed him, and he will continue to update after he is done with his work.

Everyone guessed that maybe this was an instruction, because the author was delayed by something, and he should resume normal updates after he is done with his work.

Today, as usual, they opened the page of the novel "Zhu Xian", 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 letter to readers, and then clicked in and saw the text.

The text reads:

Thank you for your continued support for "Zhu Xian". Because work and life are too busy, and in my setting, the length of the novel "Zhu Xian" is more than 2 million words, so after weighing the pros and cons, I have no choice but to decide not to update it anymore. I wanted to come and go quietly, but I saw that some readers still check in in the comment area every day, so I think it is necessary to tell you. Thank you for your attention and support.

Although the story of "Zhu Xian" has only been serialized for less than 50,000 words, this story is complete in my mind. Although it cannot be presented to you in the form of a novel, I want to tell you a possibility, that is, it may be adapted into a script this year, and then presented to you in the form of a movie. Friends who are interested can continue to pay attention here, and I will inform you 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 a little hope rose in his heart.

He just felt that he had a lot to say, so he left a message in the comment area. After writing and posting, he found that a large number of similar messages had already appeared in the comment area, all targeting this notice.

"On New Year's Day, you show us this?"

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

"Is this just to perfunctory us? After more than a year of no updates, we finally waited until the New Year, and thought it was updated, but it turned out to be a notice that it would not be updated!"

"The author is fooling us, the novel is not finished, but he said he wanted to make it into a movie. Is it so easy to make a movie?!"

"It's a wrong pay after all."

Li Jun was very disappointed, but he had to say that he had a little expectation, not for anything else, just for the story of "Zhu Xian". Zhang Xiaofan, the character in the book, is like himself. He saw his own shadow in Zhang Xiaofan. The ordinary life made him hope to have an adventure like Zhang Xiaofan, and then change his life.

He logged into the instant messaging and clicked on a chat group.

The name of this chat group is "Looking for Zhu Xian", which is a fan group built by their part of the die-hard fans. Everyone chats here every day. At first, they just discuss the plot of the novel. Later, when they got familiar with each other, they would often talk about work and life, and gradually became a small circle of friends.

There are not many people in this group, less than 100, but the chat group is very lively, and there are almost no lurkers. 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 hardcore readers like them who are persisting. In this way, perhaps the author will come back and continue to write the novel.

At this moment, the group is very lively, and the topic of discussion is the just-released notice of no longer updating. Everyone's emotions are the same, lost, disappointed and angry. After waiting for so long, they have waited for such a few words.

Everyone was venting their emotions and cursing the author. Suddenly, someone wrote in the group: "Do you think it will be made into a movie?"

The group was instantly quiet, and then someone responded: "You are dreaming, do you believe this?"

"The novel is not even finished, how can it be made into a movie? This is just the author's words to comfort us."

"It's just a pie in the sky."

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

"Look at the number of novels adapted into movies on novel websites in a year. You can count them on one hand. Those that have been adapted have hundreds of millions of clicks and reads. Although we like "Zhu Xian", we have to admit that this novel is far from enough to be adapted into a movie."

Everyone said something and thought that it was unreliable to adapt "Zhu Xian" into a movie.

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

The group was quiet again, and Li Jun in front of his phone was also quiet. He stopped to think, yes, what if? What if it is made into a movie?

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

The group was silent for a while, and someone wrote: "Are you willing to wait?"

This question seemed to stump everyone. After more than a minute, Li Jun responded first: "I am willing to wait. Anyway, I have waited for more than a year, so let's wait for another year. If there is no news at this time next year, I will no longer have any expectations."

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

Of course, some people did not believe it and were unwilling to wait. They thought the author was just fooling people.

Zhang Tan did not know that his notice would make many people sleepless tonight.

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

A total of eight scripts were received, all of which were the bottom works of everyone's box, and there were several more than what was said before. It seems that they did not tell the truth completely before, and everyone kept a hand. This is a good thing.

Zhang Tan spent nearly an hour to roughly read through these scripts. 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", which tells the story of the heroine who has the ability to travel through time and space. In order to save her relationship with her ex-boyfriend, she traveled through time and space back to the time when they just met, and a series of ridiculous stories happened.

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

After reading this script, Zhang Tan immediately thought of Wu Shiying's "Heartbeat", which is somewhat similar.

"Heartbeat" tells the story of the pure love between a boy and a girl. 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 this boy.

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

Wu Zhensheng's script is called "Snowman", which is a suspenseful reasoning story. It tells that every year when the first snow falls, a woman will be killed in the city, and the body will be hidden in the snowman, burying the clues in the wind and snow.

After reading it, Zhang Tan 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 snowing again at night.

The story of "Snowman" is very complete, and the suspense reasoning is also very good, which makes people's appetite.

Zhang Tan likes these two scripts more. Of course, the scripts still have many flaws and need to be polished and improved.

For example, although the exploration of love in Jiang Rong's "Time and Space Lovers" makes this story different from ordinary love stories and a little sublimated, the exploration method is too didactic and easily disgusts readers.

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

Zhang Tan emailed the two back, and wrote in the email to Jiang Rong: "The story of "Time and Space Lovers" is very good, but there are several problems and it needs further revision. There are three main points. First, if this story is to be adapted into a movie, it must not be because of the exploration of love. Movies are movies. They are entertainment products that can teach and entertain, but the educational part is definitely not the main part, so this story needs to be more interesting..."

The email to Wu Zhensheng is like this: "The story of "Snowman" is very good, I like it very much. This is an excellent suspense mystery story. We will discuss it in depth in person after the New Year. Before that, I have three suggestions. First, the clues should be more concealed. For example, after the criminal committed the crime in the chicken farm, he slaughtered three chickens at the same time, and the death time of one chicken was different from that of the other two chickens..."