154 Drinking Testosterone (2/2)
After a few more words, Luo Mingxin fainted, and Ye Shuang resigned to her fate of helping get him into the car. Celebrity Luo trained his body daily, and the weight of his muscles was leaning fully on other people because he could not maintain his balance. It was hard to deal with. When this happened in the past, Luo Mingxin would be conscious enough to allow his assistant to haul him into the car, but after the tussle with Ye Shuang, he fainted before he even entered the car. The assistant was helpless. Thankfully, Ye Shuang was there to help him. Otherwise, the poor assistant would have needed to drag the man in alone.
”I'm so sorry, and thank you so much for your help.” Looking at the ease with which Ye Shuang carried Luo Mingxin, the assistant wiped his sweat and gasped with shock. Then he had to explain, ”Celebrity Luo didn't mean anything by the things that he said; he just had a little too much to drink tonight…”
”I don't think that's all.” Ye Shuang shoved the man into the backseat and, after she straightened herself, asked, ”There has to be something on his mind, right?”
Thinking back to the sponsor offer that morning and the drunken words that night, Ye Shuang felt like the man would not recommend her so much for no reason. After all, they were not that close, and Luo Mingxin would not care so much for an acquaintance.
The assistant was embarrassed. ”It's nothing big. Celebrity Luo has a good script—a wuxia script—but he could not find a good partner to shoot it with, so it has been delayed for almost a year already… Have you heard of Xiao Zhu Hou?”
”A web novelist?” Ye Shuang thought about it. ”He's quite famous, but I don't read many web novels.”
That was a lie. She did not read many male web novels. After all, she was a woman; she would relate more to female webnovels. ”The one who writes historical drama?”
”Yes, that's the one.” The assistant smiled shyly. ”He has a novel with the topic on Nan Song. The word count is just right for an adaptation, but the characterization is hard. As people like to say, there's no Hwa Xia after the Battle of Ya San. Celebrity Luo is actually a nationalist and couldn't rest easy hearing the youths today showing their admiration for other cultures, so he has been vying to try a historical drama, but he's picky so…”
Ye Shuang thought about it, and indeed, she had not heard about Luo Mingxin doing any historical dramas before. Firstly, it was the limitation of topic, and secondly, the limitation of the actor. Even though there were plenty of historical dramas, most of them were about emperors, like Kang Xi or Wu Han… Nan Song‽ People knew about Wen Tianxing, Lu Xiufu, and Yue Fei, but none of this era's emperors were popular!
”I understand, but I simply don't have the time.” Ye Shuang did want to help her idol fulfil his dream, but she could not guarantee the appearance of her male form, so she could only apologize.”Just pretend like you haven't said a word to me today. Take good care of Celebrity Luo.”
The assistant tried to say something, but Ye Shuang had already jumped into the cab.
The taxi drove a distance away, and the assistant pulled open the backdoor carefully and nudged Luo Mingxin. ”Celebrity Luo?”
Luo Mingxin did not open his eyes and mumbled, ”Nothing works with him…”
He then turned over and continued to sleep.
He had asked his assistant to stay to try to persuade Ye Shuang. Even if he might reject it, at least he could use this topic to continue to persuade him, but he did not expect the man to be so adamant in rejecting it. He had even told his assistant to not tell him that he knew anything about this.
The man did not intend to enter this business. The assistant shrugged. There was nothing much he could say. He closed the door and walked to the driver's seat to drive the car.
At the same time, Ye Shuang logged into the website inside the taxi.
It was easy to find Xiao Zhu Hou's works. The man was either a history student or Chinese language student. His writing was interesting and started his timeline from Shang Zhou. He had written something in every Chinese dynasty, and the shortest among them was tens of thousands of words, and the longer ones reached into millions. His latest work was on the Ming Dynasty, and probably next year, he would start one about the Qing Dynasty.
Nan Song… Ye Shuang followed the timeline and soon found the webnovel that was being adapted into a drama that Luo Mingxin's assistant had spoken about. The word count was 460,000 words.
Goodness, that's long. Thankfully, I didn't promise anything.
Since she had time on her hands, Ye Shuang added the book into her library and started to read.An online concept that mocks the 'true' lineage of Chinese history. The Battle of Ya San was the last war between the Song empire and the Mongolian army. The battle ended with the complete annihilation of Song Empire. This also marks the first time a non-Han society laying claim to Chinese land. Therefore, teachings in Japanese and Korean history state that Chinese empire ended after the Battle of Ya San. After the Battle of Ya San, the authentic Chinese culture was taken over by other clansmen and thus an authentic China had ended then.