Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Upon hearing Liang Yifeng’s words, they laughed and joked for a while, then Liang Yifeng looked back at the script.
Speaking of which, Hong Dali actually didn’t know how to write a script. Moreover, he’d only tried his best to roughly recall the storyline of iPartment. Nevertheless, fortunately, when he first watched the show, he still remembered the relationship between a few characters. Added with a style that was more towards the comical side, and finding a professional scriptwriter to write it, at least it was close to the mark.
Script: Episode one, Chaos at the Wedding—
“The genius youth, Lu Zhanbo, who had graduated from the Massachusetts Technological University, majoring in computing, had completed his studies and returned to his country. He was scouted by an online company to take on the position as an internet engineer. He had a coincidental encounter with the rich girl, Lin Wanyu(played by Tang Muxin) from the Lin Family Enterprise, who had just left home. The two clumsy people entirely without any societal experience unknowingly got onto a bus towards the outskirts.”
“Zhanbo initially wanted to find his half-sister, Hu Yifei(played by Jiang Ruoyu) to live with and depend on her, but after the bus came to a stop, he then realized that he was already lost at a quiet country roadside…”
“Hu Yifei was preparing for a wedding at the apartment that she was staying at. However, she was tasked to take on the role of wedding host together with Zeng Xiaoxian(played by Mu Zixiao), and they got into a fierce conflict over the execution plan of the wedding.”
“Playboy Lü Ziqiao(played by Liang Yifeng) had failed in starting up his own business. He had a coincidental encounter with the pastor in the apartment lobby’s toilet and was misunderstood by Hu Yifei as the pastor. He decided to play along with it and initially planned to promote his own product in the process, but encountered his ex-girlfriend—the penniless and down and out cute girl, Meijia(played by Tai Yajing). She’d also coincidentally came across this place and was planning to stay and cheat around.”
“With the encounter between two foes, both of them were secretly planning on how to expose the other party in order to seek revenge for that feud of ‘dumping each other.’ The wedding was messed up by Hu Yifei and Zeng Xiaoxian, two people who were incompatible like water and fire. The ‘groom’ and ‘bride’ that had come out after a long wait turned out to be Zhanbo and Wanyu who had been sent back by the police. Everyone’s jaw dropped.”
“The real groom and bride finally appeared. The founder of the condominium sent his blessings and expressed his congratulations, and announced that from now onwards, the couples in love would be able to enjoy a rent of half the price! Ziqiao and Meijia instantly understood what to do, and put up an exaggerated performance of ‘love at first sight’ with much chemistry, hoping to be able to move into the condominium.”
“After a ‘forever unforgettable’ wedding, the pair of newlyweds suggested naming this condominium ‘iPartment.’”
Next was the detailed conversations, content and so on for the first episode. The classic lines made Liang Yifeng’s eyes lit up brighter and brighter—
Ziqiao: That person is Chen Yuanyuan, but you? (Looks at the breast) Chen Bian Bian(‘Bian’ means ‘flat’)!
Zhanbo: People describe her as ‘silent as a maiden, active as an insane rabbit…’
Ziqiao: Your eyes, so clear and mesmerizing; your hand, gentle and soft; your heart, crystal clear.
Meijia: Your arms, full of power and energy; your chest, wide and broad; your skin, neither swords nor spears can enter…
Yifei: Zhanbo and I were conjoined twins before we turned two-years-old, our brains were still growing as one!
Xiaoxian: Right, and then one cut by the doctor gave Zhanbo the whole brain!
Zhanbo: Give me five sets of ‘Qiang Bao(Can mean both ‘strong to the max’ or ‘rape’) chicken popcorn’!
Wanyu(To the waiter): Then we’ll order five sets of ‘Qiang Bao chicken popcorn.’
Yifei: The two geniuses, the name is ‘Jin Bao(means ‘awesome’) chicken popcorn.’
Zhanbo: Oh, is it, the name changed?
…
After reading all the content of the first episode, Liang Yifeng let out a long breath and praised. “Good! Good drama, good drama! Dali, I really salute you for this brain of yours, haha. Zhanbo is as naturally dorky and adorable as you, wahahahaha!”
“Ah, am I that dorky?” Hong Dali touched his chin. “Then looks like I still have a very big room for improvement…”
Li Nianwei burst out laughing. “Young Master, you’re really acting as yourself, you don’t need to train your acting skills.”
Tang Muxin elatedly said, “I have so many scenes too! Hee hee!”
Everyone present was very satisfied, only Liu Mingxin looked very worried and down. “Young Master Dali, I’m usually very busy with my company…”
“You can’t reject it.” Hong Dali resolutely threatened. “If you dare to run away, I’ll ask Chuyin to give out little boxers to the whole world, each person gets one! Heh heh, you know the consequences of that!” The little boxer that he spoke of was naturally that “GM’s Little Boxer” with unmatched quality, and there were the yellow-colored texts accompanying it too…
“Alright.” Liu Mingxin was rather despondent. “Then I’ll film it… I’ll make things clear first, I’ve never been trained in acting before.”
“With this look of yours,” Hong Dali touched his chin and sized up Liu Mingxin. “Even if you stand in front of the camera like a piece of wood, the female audiences watching you will be so excited and turned on, so it’s not a big issue as to whether you can act!”
Everyone instantly collapsed on the floor laughing.
“Alright, since everything’s settled, then let’s go and choose the location!” Hong Dali gave out his orders. “Everyone, let’s go now!”
“Wait… Wait!” Liang Yifeng exclaimed in shock. “Dali, it couldn’t be that you haven’t decided on the filming location, right?”
“Yes!” Hong Dali admitted extremely shamelessly. “Aren’t we going to choose it now?”
“Alright…” Liang Yifeng’s head instantly drooped down. “You really don’t do any planning, god…”
“I never need to plan.” Hong Dali gleefully said, “Let’s go!”
The group instantly went downstairs. Not long after they got into the car, Liang Yifeng felt that something was not right and asked the driving Liu Mingxin beside him. “Old Liu, where is Dali driving to? Why does it look like he’s going towards Tianjing Mountain?”
“I feel so too.” Liu Mingxin curiously said, “What is he planning to do? This type of urban drama is able to be filmed at the outer area of Tianjing Mountain? Isn’t there only a piece of construction land over there?”
“Could it be that buildings have already been constructed there?” Liang Yifeng shook his head. “It’s not right, how is it possible that they have been built so fast?”
“Young Master Dali can always create miracles.” Liu Mingxin helplessly said, “Stop guessing. He never acts predictably, so the more we guess, the more confused we’ll get. The last time, at that online gaming fest, I still break out into cold sweat when I think of it now. Back then, I thought it was a good thing. Alas, I’d almost been sold by Young Master Dali yet still counted money for him…”
“So pitiful!” Liang Yifeng instantly became interested. “Tell me more about it, won’t you? I haven’t heard you mention this before.”
“It’s very simple.” Liu Mingxin smiled. “Back then, Young Master Dali wanted to play online games. Didn’t you see Lin Zixuan whom Dali picked up from the roadside back then? Young Master Dali, in order to make her happy, thought of holding this online gaming fest, and even specially set up a company to recruit professional gamers.”
“Mm, and then?” Liang Yifeng curiously asked. “Then what happened?”
“What happened afterwards was simple.” Liu Mingxin smiled bitterly. “And then, he recruited quite a number of professional gamers into his gaming company and held some competitions in my Draconic Continent. Anyway, he’s made it quite popular.”
“This is good,” Liang Yifeng exclaimed in surprise. “You rejected it?”
“I thought so back then too, so how is it possible that I’d reject?” Liu Mingxin turned his head and looked at Liang Yifeng. “An then, I unknowingly fell into a trap. Young Master Dali wanted to start up another game right after, called Dream Dota League. You probably haven’t seen this game before. Anyway, I’ll put it this way. As long as the professional gamers from Draconic Continent see this Dream Dota League game, they’ll definitely like it. So you know what happened in the end…”
“What… What the heck!” Liang Yifeng’s mouth opened widely. “Then, doesn’t it mean that you’ve given the most elite gamers from your Draconic Continent to his Dream Dota League on your own accord?!”
“Correct.” Liu Mingxin was rather honest. “The problem is that back then, I didn’t know about it, and I was still happily counting money for him…”
“This Hong Dali is too scary…” Liang Yifeng’s expression was full of fear. “I’d better be more obedient and obey whatever he tells me to do…”
While they were speaking, they’d reached the construction site of the campus city at the outer area of Tianjing Mountain. Hong Dali shouted once he got down from the car. “Director Li, is Director Li here? Director Li?!”
“Aiya, Young Master has come.” Li Yuanshou had recently moved over there. After all, that was going to be the main focus of his work from now on. Thus, he had to take it seriously. Now that this source of money, Hong Dali, had come, Li Yuanshou was very happy. He hurriedly came forward to welcome him, bowing and greeting. “Young Master, what has made you so anxious? I’d have gone over just with one phone call from you…”
“The matter today is quite important.” Hong Dali glanced around. Currently, the buildings already had a rough outline, and progress was quite good. But Hong Dali was still not satisfied. “Director Li, can you increase the speed of progress further for these buildings?”
“Ah?!” Li Yuanshou looked around too. “The progress now is already very fast, and you want it to be even faster?”
“Yes!” Hong Dali fiercely nodded. “Make it even faster! The progress now is still a little slow… Mm, oh right, how’s it going with the increase in investment? Can you speed up the process?”
“This…” Li Yuanshou thought for a while. “Then works will have to go on 24/7. The progress will definitely be faster, but the capital cost will increase by too much. It’s really not worth it.”
“Cost is not a problem!” Hong Dali laughed heartily. “Add 10 million first and build one condominium building for me in a week! I’m planning to film a drama, and I’m going to choose this location. The location here is quite good, the air is fresh, and it’s not very far from the city area.”
“One… One week! O… OK! Then I’ll ask the workers to work their hardest 24/7!” Since Young Master had given his command, Li Yuanshou naturally couldn’t reject it. “Then Young Master, do you have any specific requirements?”
“Requirements?” Hong Dali touched his chin. “Pave the road first! Make green areas for the entire empty land, make as much greenery as you can! Though it’s a sci-fi town, we must make it green enough. If not, it’d be too uncomfortable seeing all the concrete and metal! Remember,” Hong Dali instructed. “It must pass the quality check. I’ll give this condominium to these good friends of mine in the future, so the quality must be good!”
Just one sentence from this fellow had given away such a big high-class condominium just like that…
