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Chapter 53
As a seasoned consumer who had read various novels and watched all kinds of TV dramas, Yao Bianliang was well-versed in what the public considered "toxic elements" and "triggering points."
For period romance dramas, unacceptable plot elements were limited to just a few categories.
Yao Bianliang: "First, the female lead's background needs to be modified."
"The female lead isn't the daughter of an official family; she has no noble bloodline, no background worthy of the male lead's illustrious family. She's just an ordinary girl sold by her parents while fleeing from famine."
"After entering the brothel, the madam openly tells her that she's a courtesan who sells art, not her body. But when powerful officials want her body, she still has no choice but to submit."
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Though a simple setting modification, this would completely transform the perfect love story that viewers saw as an unattainable dream.
Were the male and female leads both virgins? No, in this TV drama, neither the male nor female lead was pure.
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The female lead was no longer that girl who entered a brothel yet remained "pure and untouched." On the contrary, she had slept with many men. Among these men were disgusting pig-faced ones, greasy men with fat heads and big ears, and even lecherous old men...
When the general public watches such dramas, they emphasize immersion—automatically inserting themselves into the roles of talented scholars and beautiful ladies, embarking on a romantic journey, indulging in beautiful dreams.
Therefore, in period romance dramas filmed nowadays, almost all female leads are pure and untouched. No scriptwriter would dare write such experiences for a female lead—anyone who dared would definitely be cursed to death by viewers.
Since no one dared write it, she might as well pioneer this brand-new theme!
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Yao Bianliang thought that when it came time to refine the details, she could elaborate on how disgusting the female lead's "clients" were and how miserable the female lead was when forced to receive clients.
This element alone would surely poison off a large number of viewers.
Of course, just this one toxic element wouldn't be enough.
Yao Bianliang continued: "Second, when the female lead is brought back to the prince's mansion by the male lead, what awaits her isn't a life of luxury, but a deeper level of helplessness and despair."
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Viewers would naturally expect the female lead to enter the prince's mansion and slap the faces of various vicious antagonists after suffering oppression in the brothel.
But Yao Bianliang wouldn't satisfy the viewers' expectations. If viewers got satisfaction, how could it be called a frustrating plot?
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The female lead wouldn't have a grand wedding; on the contrary, because of her background as a prostitute, there would be no ten-mile-long procession of dowry, no cheers, and no crowd of onlookers.
She would simply get into a small sedan chair on an ordinary morning and enter the prince's mansion through a side door.
A climactic plot that should have been extremely satisfying would be narrated in such an understated way. Wouldn't viewers feel frustrated?
"The next large segment of the plot wouldn't differ much from the original," Yao Bianliang said. "However, I think we should only keep the scenes where the female lead is oppressed and bullied, while all scenes of her turning the tables and slapping faces should be significantly weakened."
Did you think that after being redeemed and becoming a free person, becoming a favored concubine in the prince's mansion, she could escape the mire and live a glorious life?
Wrong! Completely wrong!
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The female lead merely went from being a slave to many people to being a slave to one person.
She still had no human rights, still faced cold stares, and could only become a plaything for the privileged class.
Her days in the prince's mansion might appear glamorous on the surface, but in reality, they weren't much better than her days in the brothel.
The female lead wouldn't slap the antagonists' faces or triumphantly defeat everyone. On the contrary, because of her lowly background from the red-light district, she would face many sneers and mockery.
Later, as new people entered the mansion, the male lead's favor would become increasingly unreliable.
"Finally one day, the female lead decides to escape, to leave this terrible prince's mansion. But her plan is ultimately exposed, and she's captured and brought back," Yao Bianliang continued following this line of thought.
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The female lead tries to escape, the male lead captures her and declares his ownership on the spot. At first glance, this seems like a common romance trope.
Logically, after being tortured like this, the female lead would typically go in one of two directions.
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Either she would completely darken, using the male lead's love to climb step by step to a high position;
Or she would become desperate and self-destructive, making the male lead regret his actions, initiating a fierce chase-wife mode.
But Yao Bianliang naturally wouldn't follow conventional patterns.
Her lips curved slightly as she revealed the final toxic element of this drama: "After this incident, the female lead completely loses the male lead's favor. Finally, at a banquet entertaining elegant scholars, an old man takes a liking to the female lead."
Е ňu m̂ à. і̆ d̆
"The male lead sacrifices his love and gives the female lead to that person, which becomes a celebrated story."
Mo Youqian: "!!"
Mo Youqian's side remained silent for a long time. Yao Bianliang guessed that he was probably also shocked by this sudden toxic element.
In ancient times, there were laws regarding concubines: they could be bought and sold—meaning concubines were merely private property of the male and female masters, and could naturally be given away.
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The male lead's logic in this drama was simple: you are a concubine I bought back, so you're naturally my property.
I can let you live, let you die, sell you, or give you away, but I absolutely cannot let you leave.
Е̊nu m̊ ă .іd
So in the end, the female lead and male lead don't have a tragic ending or a perfect happy ending—she's casually given away by the male lead as an object!
Moreover, she's given to a middle-aged man with a large belly, a man old enough to be her father.
Just ask, isn't this plot toxic enough!
Yao Bianliang was impressed by her own creativity.
Only someone with a hole in their brain would watch such a drama.
Mo Youqian was also stunned and only asked after a long pause: "What happens next?"
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Clearly, he still had a bit of expectation for this incredibly toxic story.
"Next?" Yao Bianliang shook her head. "There is no next. Let's end with this conclusion; I think it's quite good."
Would the female lead counter-kill the male lead?
Don't even think about it. If the female lead were to counter-kill, the drama would become a satisfying work.
Yao Bianliang paused, then added: "Of course, we could briefly show how miserably the female lead lives in that old man's mansion."
In ancient times, it was difficult for concubines with prostitute backgrounds to change their fate even if they entered high-status households. The better ones might sing and play instruments in the mansion, while the worse ones might even have to receive clients and provide entertainment.
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The masters would never allow them to have children. Once discovered secretly pregnant, they would either be forced to abort or face death.
Mo Youqian: "......"
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By the end, Mo Youqian couldn't help but fall silent.
Compared to this plot, how could the script he had seen earlier be called "frustrating"? It was like comparing a master sorcerer to a minor one—completely incomparable.
Even the system expressed shock: "Host, isn't this script a bit too toxic..."
This was clearly deliberately disgusting viewers, walking and lingering on the edge of breaking rules.
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However, Yao Bianliang was evidently prepared: "System, that's not the right way to think about it. Prostitutes and concubines in ancient times were indeed miserable. I'm respecting history, designing the plot according to the true face of history."
Joking aside, how could respecting history be considered deliberately disgusting viewers?
System: "......"
Though something seemed off, it appeared irrefutable.
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Seeing the system no longer speaking, Yao Bianliang's lips curved upward as she let out a long sigh of relief: "President Mo, what do you think of this script?"
Mo Youqian was silent for a moment, wanting to say something but unable to find any fault at the moment.
Ě n û mа
Finally, he could only say: "I think it's excellent."
Wasn't it indeed excellent?
Just listening to Yao Bianliang's simple description had already given him heart palpitations. One can imagine how terrible it would be if such a plot were actually filmed.
Viewers seeing such a plot would certainly curse in unison. There would be no other possibility, and no chance of a comeback.
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At An Hui University, in a fourth-year Chinese department dormitory.
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The fourth-year student Xie Wan'er, an online novelist and part-time scriptwriter, sat cross-legged on her bed typing. Her fingers rapidly struck the keyboard, creating a tapping sound in the quiet dormitory.
She wasn't a famous scriptwriter, and her online novels were quite average. University courses weren't very busy, so in her spare time, she earned some living expenses by writing novels.
Of course, it was precisely because her works had unimpressive statistics that she was noticed by someone from Kui Qian Entertainment and became the scriptwriter for the new drama.
"Phew, finally finished." After typing the last word, Xie Wan'er relaxed with a stretch, easing her slightly sore wrists.
Following her usual habit, she checked her novel from beginning to end. The latest chapter was another climactic point, where the female lead slapped the face of a newly favored concubine, causing the other party to be thoroughly despised by the male lead.
After reading, Xie Wan'er offered a candid assessment: "Sigh, what kind of brain-damaged plot is this."
Ӗ ǹ ům̊ӓ .і̊d
To write a novel that could make money, she was really struggling!
With complex emotions, Xie Wan'er updated the latest chapter. Just then, new content popped up in her message box.
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The contact was labeled "Sugar Daddy," and Xie Wan'er didn't dare delay, immediately clicking to open it.
Sugar Daddy: "Hello Scriptwriter, after showing the script to the female lead, she proposed some modification suggestions. There are a few small places we hope you can modify. If you have no objections, we can pay you double the fee."
This sentence was followed by a txt document, clearly the modification requirements.
Initially, Xie Wan'er was a bit unhappy about the client asking her to modify the script.
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Modify the script again? Heaven knows, she hated people meddling with her works the most.
However, when she saw the words "pay double the fee," those feelings disappeared.
It's just modifying a script—she would start right away and guarantee to modify it to their satisfaction.
"Alright, let me see." Xie Wan'er replied, then clicked on the document titled "Modification Requirements."
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"Hmm, is the client asking you to modify the script again?" A roommate noticed Xie Wan'er's situation and curiously came over.
The roommate was very familiar with Xie Wan'er's situation.
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This friend wrote bizarre romance novels online daily to make money. Sometimes, to cater to editors and market needs, she had to modify the plot, changing bizarre plots into even more bizarre ones.
"Indeed," Xie Wan'er sighed helplessly. "I wonder what they want me to change the plot into this time."
At this moment, Xie Wan'er was prepared to make the script even more outrageous.
Judging from past experience, the client's requirements were usually just a few types.
Such as "female lead accidentally falls, male lead heroically saves her, the two embrace in a slow-motion circle," or "male and female lead accidentally fall, they kiss, female lead's eyes widen suddenly"—Xie Wan'er had written such scenes more than ten times at the client's request.
The roommate also sighed: "There's no choice. Even if we want to write some deep plots, the client won't agree."
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When they first entered the industry, they had tried to write some plots with depth and meaning.
But unfortunately, the vast majority of investors and directors didn't like such plots. And such novels wouldn't be popular in the online fiction market either.
Being forced to write content you don't like for money versus creating with passion out of love—these were completely different matters.
Therefore, while the novels Xie Wan'er wrote could earn money, their statistics weren't impressive. They fell into the category of passable but not outstanding.
"Hmm, the client's requirements this time seem a bit strange..."
The roommate frowned at the document content, and then her eyes grew wider and wider.
Е̌ nu mа̄
Xie Wan'er noticed her roommate's unusual emotion and began reading as well.
Change the female lead's identity to an "impure" prostitute who couldn't grandly marry into the prince's mansion; have the female lead face various oppressions in the prince's mansion, weakening all face-slapping and villain-punishing content...
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Finally, the male lead actually treated the female lead as an object, casually giving her to the old master of the neighboring mansion?!
"Damn, what exactly does your client want to do?" The roommate was completely stunned. "Are they crazy, specially filming a drama to invite criticism?"
This was simply an extremely toxic script, as if deliberately made to disgust viewers, with all possible negative elements stacked to the maximum.
Especially at the end, where the male lead gave away the female lead as a gift, and to an old man at that. This kind of ending, which could be termed a disastrous conclusion, was enough to break any viewer's heart.
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The roommate swallowed. She deeply felt that if the client wasn't crazy, then she herself was.
It couldn't be that the client had been traumatized and deliberately wanted to film a revenge-on-society TV drama, specifically to disgust viewers.
Was this something a normal person would do?
Thinking of this, the roommate couldn't help but turn to look at Xie Wan'er.
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However, Xie Wan'er's reaction wasn't what she had imagined.
After the initial shock, she didn't look like she was questioning life. Instead, she frowned deeply, thinking seriously.
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"These modification suggestions seem a bit strange..." she murmured softly.
The roommate sighed: "Isn't that stating the obvious."
She hadn't seen such bizarre modification requests in her life.
Xie Wan'er's eyes showed contemplation: "According to the client, these modification suggestions were proposed by the female lead. But if the script is changed into a toxic compilation of a terrible film, what benefit would that bring to her as the future female lead?"
The roommate was startled, also frowning.
Indeed, if a drama wasn't good, the actors would be the first to face criticism.
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Other dramas had disastrous endings because the scriptwriter wasn't skilled enough to handle such a grand structure, leading to an unsatisfactory conclusion, thus being criticized for a disastrous ending.
But from the current situation, this female actress was clearly deliberate—deliberately wanting this drama to be full of toxic elements, deliberately wanting it to have a disastrous ending!
She could easily act in a normal period romance drama. Why would she deliberately choose to act in a toxic mess with a disastrous ending?
It completely defied logic.
Just as the roommate was utterly confused, Xie Wan'er suddenly slapped the table, her eyes brightening.
"I understand now! So that's what she means."
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