Yue Qingyan carefully considered his thoughts. His narration must contain effective parts, but not at the end. Otherwise, the oral completion of a story will also be included in Faust's evaluation of him. He had just unfolded the story of "Ikebukuro West Exit Park" and had not yet asked Faust what the next additional conditions were. If you rush to complete a story, a random additional condition will be triggered, and the terrible punishment will be activated.

Although the "Crazy Boy" series of stories is a very suitable series, in the current situation of Hong Kong itself, the atmosphere in Hong Kong itself is relatively weird, and it is to rashly make a pure underworld story, which is looking for death by yourself. On the other hand, Yue Qingyan still has to meet with the Hong Kong Police Force, and maybe he has a similar request. If you can integrate Chan's requirements with those of the Hong Kong Police Force, it will be easy. Moreover, in that case, it is equivalent to the entire film and television plan, with the endorsement of the Hong Kong Police Force, then the filming of this series of movies will be safe.

Chen Xinghong mentioned that the interference of the leaders of the specific implementation links and the bigwigs in the circle in these aspects is by no means untargeted.

Yue Qingyan did not think of a story, but a series of stories, building a framework to interpret the development of Hong Kong.

The first part of the architecture is called: "Love in a Fallen City".

Although the name is the same as Zhang Ailing's novel "Love in a Fallen City", the meaning has changed significantly. Eileen Chang's novel has a very clear emotional foundation, and it does show the pressure on individuals in a changing Hong Kong. If you look at a single romance novel, of course, it is very good, but if you look at it from the small to the big cut in a historical novel, it seems to be not enough.

Yue Qingyan's idea was to expand the story of Bai Tassel and Fan Liuyuan. Compile the pre-story of the two, how the two came from and experienced, how they came to Hong Kong, and lived in the turbulent Hong Kong, and met and got acquainted. With the development of the relationship between two people as the context, it strings together various changes in the turbulent Hong Kong.

"Love in a Fallen City" will take a few fragments and write a story about Hong Kong from 1937 to 1945. The whole reflects the various dynamics of Hong Kong throughout the course of World War II, and expands a simple romance story into a historical group story that sees the big from the small.

If you want to say this kind of writing, it is actually similar to the way of writing a story like "The Fall of the Giant". It can be said that it is a great test of the author's ability. Yue Qingyan has two series of stories, "Yinying" and "Ikebukuro West Exit Park", and his macro and micro carving ability has been greatly improved, so he has the confidence to challenge this style of writing.

If it is well written, it will naturally become an epic masterpiece, and if it is not well written, and various plot clues are entangled, then there is no way to read it.

The second part of the framework is called: "The Great Era", which is written about Hong Kong from the 60s to the 90s. Through the grievances of Ding Crab and Fang Zhanbo, many characters are involved to outline the changes in Hong Kong over the past few decades. Yue Qingyan wanted to connect Luo Huiying, Ding Crab, Fang Zhanbo, or one or more of Ruan Mei with the story of "Love in a Fallen City". At the same time, a secondary line was added, which was to bring together a character on the road who was familiar with them. This character has great powers, appearing and disappearing from time to time, and later because of something missing, he gradually disappeared into the story of "The Great Era", but his legend can be faintly heard. And this character, called "Lame Hao", will bring out another series of contemporaneous stories "The Biography of Inspector Lei Luo of 500 Million".

After the completion of the second part of the framework, Hong Kong in the 90s entered a period of transition. Many people are hesitant to stay, and the wealthy class and the political and economic elites of Hong Kong as a whole are particularly tempted, challenged and questioned. Right and wrong, black and white, also appear ambiguous at this stage. This is an era when old rules are about to be broken and new rules have not yet been established, which is especially suitable for the birth of heroes from all walks of life.

And the story of this part begins with an inconspicuous little person under the former lame Hao: Han Chen.

After Han Chen couldn't get along in the Kowloon Walled City, he followed the Ni family, and then when the Ni family gradually withdrew from Hong Kong, he took advantage of the situation and became a prince, and finally bit the Ni family and became the most important big brother in Hong Kong. Such a role, because the momentum is too fast, he is not adaptable, and the police are not adaptable, and the contradictions between the two sides are particularly intensified, and there is no possibility of mediation at all. As a result, both sides responded to each other's camps. As time goes by, the boundaries between good guys and bad guys become more and more blurred......

From the perspective of pure police and gangster films, it is natural that the confrontation story of Chen Yongren and Liu Jianming is better. But if you look at it from the perspective of a historical group story, it's different. The story of the Ni family, the rise of Han Chen, and the many changes caused by it seem to be more emotional. In the end, the confrontation between Chen Yongren and Liu Jianming was only to draw an end to the entire era of inseparable good and evil, representing the arrival of a new generation in Hong Kong where good and evil are clearly distinguished, and jealousy and hatred are like hatred.

Yue Qingyan will naturally do enough to make this part of the story connect with "The Great Era". And the story of this third part is named "Infernal Affairs".

After the story of "Infernal Affairs" ended, the police executive who finally investigated the matter rose again...... This can be connected to the story of "Cold War".

Although he thought about it loosely, as he told it, Yue Qingyan's feeling for the whole story structure became more and more distinct: it can really be done. This is using a story to write a modern history of Hong Kong, the texture of a proper "The Fall of the Giant". Of course, it is extremely difficult to write, and it is necessary to study the original case file for a long time just to consult the materials and the various situations to be understood, and to check the specific text repeatedly. In particular, the way of speaking, the rhythm of life, the form of life, the form of transportation and society, the economic model, etc., almost every basic research is a big project.

(PS: Interested readers can try to see the character system under the group, if it can be established, you need to add some connecting parts, but it can be connected.) It's going to be a very big epic. ）

However, wanting to write something so difficult, Yue Qingyan was very excited. There are not many things that an author can challenge, but as long as this system can be built, it is simply a feeling that people have no regrets in this life. The fly in the ointment is that he is not a Hong Kong citizen after all, but an outsider. But if an outsider like him had built such a historical and realistic Hong Kong, the faces of the local factions would have been swollen.

Well...... It's not good to say. After all, the local factions are all stupid young people with little culture. If you have a little brain, you won't drill into that circle.

Although Yue Qingyan did not finish any of the stories, it took a lot of time to narrate each story, and he also carefully explained how the story system and the story system were related, or how to design them later, what to write at each stage, and which works could be transformed in what direction later. It was as if the whole story system was already in his heart, and he just had to write it.

The waiter in the restaurant refilled Yue Qingyan with tea three times, which supported him to talk until more than 11 o'clock in the evening. He is still a little unsatisfied, and many stories are not told at all.

However, he couldn't go on anymore, and his throat couldn't hold it anymore.

Zhu Yu hurriedly took out the throat lozenge from his bag and handed it to Yue Qingyan. "Son-in-law, you should rest first today...... This thing is really grand. Master Chen, look at ......"

Chen Xinghong had been listening carefully to every word Yue Qingyan said, and behind him, the assistant recorded the entire conversation. The assistant's face is blue, because the minutes to be sorted out today have too high gold content, and the amount is also oversized.

As soon as Chen Xinghong turned around, he said to the assistant: "Go back and sort it out, these ideas of the son-in-law are hard to buy." ”

At first, Chen Xinghong only thought that Yue Qingyan was a good writer who knew some about Hong Kong culture. He has a novel resume, a good writing foundation, experience in film adaptation, and considerable influence in Hong Kong and other regions, if he is willing to write a few stories to him, as long as the stories are passable, he will not lose anything if he works again.

However, when he first listened to the story of Love in Allure, Chen Xinghong was not very cold. After all, he never had to be in a relationship...... But the two lines of the "Big Time" part made him almost explode. "The Biography of Inspector Lei Luo of 500 Million" is not very peculiar, and it is still necessary to see how Yue Qingyan writes it at that time, but through the decades of the entanglement of two competing roles, the history of Hong Kong during that period has been written, how to develop the real economy, how to turn to financial real estate, and how to deal with various crises...... This is the true history of Hong Kong, and it is also the history that Hong Kong people are most proud of.

In this story, Yue Qingyan writes about geniuses and ordinary people, rich people and poor people, and the whole thing has to be sorted out through the social class. This kind of presentation seems to be telling the inexplicable young people of Hong Kong now: You fools, the light of Hong Kong is all made by the hard work of your elders, don't scream if you don't work hard.

In the 90s until the handover, this period of light and darkness was outlined through the four characters of Han Chen, Huang Zhicheng, Chen Yongren, and Liu Jianming. There is also the Ni family, which is a sign of the transition period, and with Chen Xinghong's understanding of Hong Kong, he has such a prototype in his mind. Even, in this period of history, he himself is thinking about which role he is substituted into......

Although this is a story that Yue Qingyan has not yet begun to write, or rather, it is a system of many stories intertwined. But Chen Xinghong is so satisfied with this large pile of things that he can't be more satisfied, and he is so confident that he can't wait to spend enough money to get it out right now.

Chen Xinghong breathed a long sigh of relief and said, "Gongzi Yue, I have been taught." Today has inspired me so much. The framework of the whole story is almost a few million words in a novel, right? Even if it were to be done one by one, it would take several years. The plate was so big that I would certainly like to eat it whole if possible. ”

Yue Qingyan thought for a while and said, "Actually, the novel won't last long. A year. In fact, if you really want to talk about novels, it is estimated that one million words is enough. The main thing is to tell the story clearly. But movies and TV series can't all be done so quickly. ”

"Okay, son-in-law, then, how can we cooperate?" Chen Xinghong was a little apprehensive.

"Master Chen, why do you ask me this? Since I have already said it, I naturally hope to cooperate with you. Yue Qingyan threw the question back.

"Well, 10 million a year. Chen Xinghong said: "This is the guaranteed number. All you need is one sentence: as long as the conditions are ripe and the conditions I give are no worse than others, then cooperate with me. ”

10 million a year only to buy one priority? Zhu Yu felt that Chen Xinghong was probably crazy.