Chapter 16

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Although Qi Yuying was very familiar with the flaws of the TV series she had created, she still did not expect Yang Hua to criticize her. After being stunned for a moment, she immediately pulled a long face. “You don’t have to say that! Do you have any other thoughts?” Qi Yuying grumbled unhappily. Then, she continued to look at Yang Hua with anticipation. Other than the typos, the ratings for this drama were very good.

“Oh, oh…” Yang Hua misunderstood Qi Yuying again. He thought that Qi Yuying was dissatisfied with his perfunctory comment about the typos and wanted to hear other opinions. Hence, he could only rack his brains and think about what else could be improved on this TV series.

“Say something!” Seeing that Yang Hua did not speak for a long time, Qi Yuying could not help but urge him.

“Uh… I think…” As Yang Hua spoke, he was still thinking, “You can let those two female doctors occasionally show their strengths. It’s like they misunderstood each other a few times in a row, but in the end, they get the right results. Wouldn’t that be better? Besides, don’t always make fun of the two girls. You could make use of the supporting characters around them occasionally.

“For example, you could design a villain who always wanted to frame the two female leads, but always ended up harming himself. Do you think this is better? Moreover, your story seems to lack a main storyline. If you watch it too much, won’t the audience get tired of it…”

When she heard Yang Hua, who had never even watched television before, criticize her work, the vanity in Qi Yuying’s heart immediately erupted like a volcano.

“What?” Qi Yuying shouted angrily, “What villain? There was no such character in this story! The audience did not like it either! Did you even understand what I wrote? What do you mean by the audience getting tired of it? If the audience gets tired of it, the director can just end it!”

“I…” Yang Hua was stunned by Qi Yuying’s anger.

In fact, Yang Hua still had some expectations when he said those words. He thought that even if Qi Yuying thought that his suggestion was unreasonable, she should at least say a few words to encourage him. After all, this was the first time he had watched a TV series seriously and had racked his brain for a long time. However, Qi Yuying’s reaction made Yang Hua’s expectations go down the drain. However, it was more accurate to say that Yang Hua made Qi Yuying’s expectations go down the drain first.

“Forget it, forget it! You won’t understand anyway!” Qi Yuying changed the channels in a fit of pique.

However, Yang Hua still could not understand why Qi Yuying was so angry. He even scratched his head in embarrassment and said, “I don’t understand it in the first place.”

“Sigh! Humph!” Yang Hua’s dazed look made Qi Yuying laugh helplessly. She was not a petty woman. After her vanity exploded, her state of mind gradually calmed down. After laughing for a while, Qi Yuying said with some admiration, “But you’re quite attentive. You can even see the typos when you’re watching TV.”

“I’m alright.” Yang Hua revealed a bitter smile. “When I was in school, I spent a lot of effort on typos.”

“Then help me change the script in the future! I’ll really hire you as my assistant.” Qi Yuying clapped her hands and laughed. “I don’t think you should be a male nanny anymore. Just be my assistant. In the future, you’ll be responsible for correcting typos. I’ll pass the script to you for editing after I’m done writing it. All the typos, wording, and syntactical errors must be corrected. The terms and conditions remain unchanged. What do you think?”

“Then wouldn’t I be taking advantage of you?” Yang Hua said with a smile.

“What do you mean by taking advantage? Don’t think that this job is easy. There are more than 7,000 words a day, and you have to think carefully about the grammar. It’s very troublesome! It’s definitely not as easy as sweeping the floor and making the bed. Also, if you take on this job, there can’t be any more mistakes in my script in the future. If there are any more problems… Hehe, if you make a mistake, I’ll punish you with an extra hour of television watching.”

Qi Yuying raised her eyebrows and was very satisfied with the punishment she had come up with at the last minute.

“Alright, I’ll give it a try.” Yang Hua was very interested in this job. He had always done well in language subjects in high school, and being able to do literary work was considered to be able to display his specialty.

“That’s good! I’m supposed to hand in the script today. Take it and edit it first. I’ll hand the script to Director Zhang in the afternoon.” Qi Yuying then pulled Yang Hua into her room.

Although Yang Hua had stayed at Qi Yuying’s house for the whole day, this was the first time he entered Qi Yuying’s room. At the same time, this was also the first time he had walked into a woman’s room.

Seeing those things, Yang Hua’s face quickly turned red like a crab that had been put into a steamer. When Qi Yuying’s gaze landed on the two sets of underwear that she had forgotten to throw into the bathroom before she went to bed last night, she blushed. Without a word, she pushed Yang Hua out of the room, whose face was as red as hers. After a few minutes, she opened the door again and called him in with a red face.

When Yang Hua entered the room again, Qi Yuying had already put away the dirty clothes that were scattered everywhere. However, she didn’t tidy them up carefully. She just picked them up and piled them on the sofa. As a result, a small mountain of clothes appeared on the sofa.

Yang Hua, who had already experienced embarrassment once, naturally tried his best to avoid seeing things that he shouldn’t have seen again. He straightened his neck stiffly and followed Qi Yuying to sit in front of the computer. Then, he unskillfully opened Qi Yuying’s script file on the desktop and began to browse through it carefully.

Although Yang Hua was not very familiar with the operation of the computer, his reading level was definitely not low. His years of reading novels had trained his reading speed. In less than an hour, he carefully read the script that Qi Yuying was about to hand over to the director.

There were 137 typos, 13 misusages, and 17 grammar errors. In the short 16,000-word script, Yang Hua had picked out a bunch of problems. He smiled bitterly and corrected Qi Yuying’s careless mistakes one by one. To be safe, after the first revision, he spent another twenty minutes carefully reading the revised script.

“What? You finished editing it so quickly?” Qi Yuying was very surprised that Yang Hua solved the problem in less than an hour. She still remembered that every time Director Zhang hired someone to change the script, it would take half a day for an episode to be edited.

“I’m done.” Yang Hua answered confidently, “There shouldn’t be any other problems. You can check it again yourself.”

“Forget it. If I was willing to check it myself, wouldn’t I have done it myself long ago?” Qi Yuying returned to her room and emailed the script that Yang Hua had just edited to Director Zhang.

“Well done. As long as Director Zhang doesn’t return the script for me to edit, you’ll officially become my assistant in the future!” Qi Yuying said to Yang Hua with a smile as she walked out of the room again.

“What? The director had even sent the script back for you to edit? How could there be so many wrong words?” Yang Hua’s eyes widened again.

“Hehe, how would I have the time to read old things which I wrote in the past? Every time, I return it the way he sends it to me.” Qi Yuying smiled cunningly. “Anyway, he’s the one waiting for the script to start filming. I’m not the anxious one.”

“Ah…” Yang Hua couldn’t help but be dumbfounded. Thinking about how Director Zhang had worked with Qi Yuying for so many years without getting a heart attack from getting angered by her, he could not help but admire the strong director for a long time.

The script that had been edited by Yang Hua arrived in the director’s hands that afternoon. Although Director Zhang wouldn’t start work immediately after receiving the script in the afternoon, he still complained to the staff around him for a long time after receiving the script half a day late.

However, as he complained, he opened the script and browsed through it. Yes, there was no problem. Director Zhang smacked his lips in satisfaction and quickly went through the plot and filming method in his mind.

The story was still the same as before, and it seemed to be more coherent this time… Hmm? There was no problem. Director Zhang’s satisfied expression suddenly froze. He quickly opened the script and read it again. There was really no problem!

Could it be that his literary standards have deteriorated? Director Zhang called the stage manager to his side with an incredulous expression.

“Look at this article. Is there a problem?” He pushed the screen in front of the stage manager and asked.

The stage manager read through the script and scratched his head. He looked at Director Zhang in confusion. “No problem.”

“Is there really no problem?”

“No problem!”

“What the hell!” Director Zhang exclaimed exaggeratedly.

“What’s wrong?” The stage manager was shocked by the director.

“There are no mistakes in the script that Qi Yuying gave me!” The moment Director Zhang said that not only the stage manager but all the staff present were stunned. For a moment, the originally noisy set was as quiet as a classroom that had the bell rung for a lesson.