Chapter 59: First endorsement of life [Happy New Year!]

The sky will not collapse for the time being.

On the contrary, the lingering charm of the carnival began to become extremely friendly to Fang Xinghe.

The comments made by the real famous educator Mr. Pan in *Xiamen Daily* completely transformed all opposition into huge expectations.

"A Han Han doesn't explain anything. He is a genius. Even if he doesn't make progress and wastes his talent, failing multiple subjects, he is still stronger than 99% of his peers just by relying on intuition to write things. It is a very high level that can be relied upon to succeed."

"A Fang Xinghe doesn't explain anything either. He is even more of a genius. He worked hard for half a year to take the first place, and wrote articles that shocked the literary world. He can succeed not only by relying on literature, I believe he can succeed in anything he does."

"It's ridiculous that you use two geniuses to judge whether our education is correct."

"The impetuousness of today's society, media people have to take a lot of responsibility."

"If you have to use these two children to argue about right and wrong, then you might as well give them some time to see who goes higher and further."

"My many old friends and I are looking forward to what they can bring us."

The media stopped, no longer chasing them for hot speculation, but included the two in the key observation list, starting a long and gentle observation and comparison.

Fang Xinghe thought he could finally settle down and finish the long novel, so he spent some time carefully sorting out his attributes.

[Attribute Panel]

Appearance attribute: Appearance 99, Body 79 (Expand)

Physical attribute: Strength 79, Speed 80, Endurance 80, Agility 79, Flexibility 79

Hidden attribute: Coordination 81, Perception 79, Recovery 79, Immunity 79, Health 79

Art attribute: Writing 80 (Expand), Acting 37 (Expand), Directing 8 (Expand)

There are a total of 4 big things—

First, writing automatically increased by one point. Focus and persistence improved his output ceiling.

Second, after the system upgrade, there are 4 more expandable items in the attribute panel.

Third, after the body is expanded, it is a very simple adjustable list.

Height: 176 cm (growing), customizable, lockable, cannot be modified after locking.

Weight: 64 kg (growing), customizable, lockable, modifiable.

Body posture: ...

Fang Xinghe pondered for a while and found that this thing is of little significance in life, but it is super useful in acting.

It can manually adjust fat and thin, and can also lock the current state.

Meaning, in a normal state, Fang Xinghe is a perfect human being with 99 points of body shape. Because of the lock, he won't get fat no matter how he eats, and his body shape won't go out of shape no matter how he tosses.

But if necessary, he can also cancel the lock and then quickly lose weight or gain weight to meet different role needs.

And it's not troublesome at all, it can be realized with starlight value.

Now it can be seen that the [Star God System] is a pure entertainment auxiliary system. The new functions are completely prepared for acting. Except for height, which cannot be moved after being fixed, body posture and the like can be fine-tuned.

"Very good, brother is getting closer and closer to the Best Actor."

Fang Xinghe smiled optimistically, and then turned his attention to the art attribute.

After the art attribute is expanded, it makes people's scalp numb.

How can there be so many subdivided attributes?

Fang Xinghe just scanned the list of acting and directing briefly, and focused all his attention on [Writing].

Those two things are not urgent, and they won't be used for at least two or three years.

Writing 80: Rhetoric 81, Writing style 79, Structure 75

Simple three subdivisions.

There are no consciousness flow indicators such as imagery, literariness, pioneering, ideological, humanistic core, etc. The three subdivided attributes shown are all clear techniques.

Pure output ability is a very scientific thing. Where the technique is, how the method is, it is clear at a glance.

The literary talent of "Luo Shen Fu" cannot fall out of the top two no matter how it is ranked. It stands there. A part of later generations criticized Cao Zhi for showing off his skills too much, which does not affect its greatness at all.

But the output content is uncertain, irrational, and difficult to quantify.

To be extreme, the white-as-a-sheet "Battle Through the Heavens" influenced a whole generation of teenagers with its content. Does it have value?

For the Z generation, how does it compare to Jin Yong’s martial arts?

Fang Xinghe is not willing to think deeply, he doesn't intend to copy others, so he just maintains respect.

Tracing back from "Battle Through the Heavens," there are countless works that don't have good literary talent but contain huge emotional power.

For example, "The Three-Body Problem," its awesomeness has never been about the writing style.

Liu Cixin’s writing level in all his works fluctuates greatly, generally between 60 and 85. The texture of rhetoric is often insufficient, and there is rarely that kind of free-spirited writing style based on the Chinese language sense in his writing, but the structure of "The Three-Body Problem" can be described as top-notch, world-class top-notch.

So science and engineering students can also write novels to a very powerful degree, because structure is their strength, writing is in the second place, using content to achieve overtaking on a curve.

For Fang Xinghe, it is the same.

His writing attributes are closely related to his profession and experience.

Strong rhetoric, poor structure, heavy emotion.

Whether it is writing marketing copy or high-end customized blowing articles, the most important point of guiding emotion is always to reduce the resistance of words and increase smoothness.

Shklovsky mentioned: The means of art is to make things strange, to make the form have resistance, so as to expand the difficulty and time of perception.

Therefore, the "literary language" of orthodox writers usually processes words into a strange and distorted appearance with artistic texture, in order to increase the threshold of understanding, forcing readers to increase their attention and try to think, so as to obtain a stronger aesthetic effect.

The language relative to it is called "automated language," or "popular language," which is the core of marketing copy and web novel writing.

This thing is the way of using words that we are extremely familiar with and can no longer trigger extra attention.

For example: "In an instant, Han Han was stunned, his face full of confusion, his heart couldn't believe at all, Fang Xinghe was actually so terrifying!"

A line of words, finished scanning, very smooth, and doesn't lose the sense of picture. Readers can directly fill in the expression details when they see the two words "confused," and "so terrifying" is also a new popular word that is highly summarized.

This is automated language without any reading threshold.

Readers can completely read ten lines at a glance, without thinking, the emotions that should be there naturally appear in their minds, and their attention is fully focused on the plot, thereby fully feeling the fun of the story itself.

So, what would be the effect if the matter of "Han Han was greatly shocked because of Fang Xinghe" was written with more resistant words?

"In a time wave just a little more than one-thousandth of a second, Han Han’s thinking was forcibly frozen on the mountainside. In fact, no one restricted him from acting or thinking, it was just that he himself was unwilling to go forward—if he went forward even half a step, he would face the terrifying pressure brought by Fang Xinghe, and the various problems arising from this would turn into restless and ominous flames of anger, burning out his beliefs. But it was too late, his retina reflected the chaotic waveforms, pulling the dark sky and Fang Xinghe’s ferocious face down together, his pride was all squeezed into distorted lines. Han Han’s nose was a bit sour, thinking distractedly: So, fire will also feel hot..."

Such words are neither clear enough nor conducive to dissemination when performing certain specific target operations.

Maybe a small part of readers will praise it for having more charm, but high-threshold words are destined to become chicken ribs in a low-patience social environment.

So Fang Xinghe is not unable to do it, but it is unnecessary.

Web novels, short videos, and short dramas are all based on the same logic, with strong emotion as the core, reducing all other interference items.

Fang Xinghe is not willing to simply and crudely classify this situation as "audience aesthetic degradation." It is originally something used for relaxation, so it should have the function of relaxation. People who want to learn and think will naturally find profound content to watch.

But the underlying logic of this phenomenon indeed provided extremely clear guiding ideology for his creation, that is—

What is my goal?

Who is the target audience?

How to use the tools and abilities I possess?

Therefore, he could never miss, and every public article played the corresponding correct role.

Not just writing articles, his ideas for making movies in the future will probably be the same.

Appropriately ahead of time, but lowering the threshold;

Serving the masses, but exquisite details;

Goal first, but insisting on aesthetics.

In this way, he soon figured out in which direction the second draft of the long novel should be changed—strengthen the structure again, not rhetoric.

Looking at the starlight value in the starlight panel, it was about enough, so Fang Xinghe added 1 point to [Structure 75].

Starlight value decreased by 330,000.

The system father’s explanation is: because the [Writing] attribute is subdivided into three items, the consumption of adding points to a single attribute is one-third of the whole.

"Hey, this is good!"

Fang Xinghe was particularly happy, only spent 1.32 million starlight, and added the structure to 79 points.

Click again, the structure becomes 80 points, consuming 3.33 million starlight.

If adding the [Writing] big attribute, 1 point needs 10 million, but in fact, his rhetoric and writing style levels are enough to use, and there is no need to waste starlight for the time being.

Strictly speaking, this book is a semi-autobiographical critical youth pain literature based on a realistic macro perspective. The requirements for rhetoric and writing style are not high, only the requirements for structure are slightly higher, and the most important thing is the story core.

So he only spent 7.98 million starlight, pulling the writing to the highest level at the moment and ignoring it.

[Writing 80: Rhetoric 81, Writing style 80, Structure 80]

If he finds any need when modifying, he will add it temporarily to maximize the saving of starlight value.

It’s not that he is stingy, it’s that he is really poor!

[Starlight Panel]

[Number of fans: 8.8 million]

Level 1 floating fans: 8,246,300

Level 2 backbone: 525,100

Level 3 die-hard: 30,250

Level 4 fanatic: 878

Level 5 belief: 0

[Starlight value: 12.88 million]

[Star value: 4]

Good news: PK won.

Bad news: Starlight doesn't rise much...

High-density exposure for so long, the starlight that can be eaten is basically eaten clean. Even if Teacher Yi praised it, it didn't give him much starlight, but because of the first appearance in *People's Daily*, he got 1 more star value.

This thing is really harder to handle than expected... forget it, talking like this is inappropriate, starlight is actually also hard to handle.

Those 8 million floating fans are like fakes. If you pull them hard, *pfft*, squeeze out 8 million starlight.

If you don't pull hard, they might not know what you did at all, and you can't squeeze out 1 point per person.

Even if Fang Xinghe knew early on that floating fans were useless in big events, he was worried enough.

Therefore, he solemnly reminded himself—

Don't be complacent because of floating fans. Backbone fans are starting to be a little useful, die-hard fans can support the biggest foundation, and anything higher is not forced, look at opportunities and luck.

The start is very beautiful, exceeding expectations, so every step behind must be walked more beautifully, so as not to live up to such a start.

Sweeping away the impetuousness in his heart, he began to focus on the second draft.

As a result, it was only quiet for two days, and new trouble came to the door again.

"No time!"

Fang Xinghe was about to hang up the phone, but suddenly paused: "Wait, who? What to do?"

Liu Dashan endured his laughter and repeated: "That, Jeanswest, that brand that sells clothes for young people, they want to find you for an endorsement."

What brand is Jeanswest? Is it as awesome as Baleno?

Fang Xinghe recalled for a moment, feeling that the name was a bit familiar, but not much.

Never mind, let's see.

If the money given is enough, Baleno is not impossible to consider.

He hasn't reached the stage where he needs to consider commercial image. Now, hurry up and let fans have the opportunity to spend money for him, that is the biggest real business.

"How did you think of finding me? How much money? What treatment?"

"Treatment?"

Liu Dashan was stunned by the question, his tone carrying obvious guilt: "I don't understand this either. Or, you talk to them directly?"

Fang Xinghe slapped his forehead, damn, his mouth was too fast.

What kind of treatment is there for endorsements in this era?

It is estimated that it is just taking two sets of photos and sticking them on the wall, and there may not be a few events.

It's also quite good, worry-free.

"Then okay, you bring them to find me, I can't go out."

Fang Xinghe used the future principal like a loyal servant, but Liu Dashan was very happy, happily agreeing: "Okay, then I will bring them over in the afternoon, and find you a lawyer by the way."

"Okay, hang up, damn, there are idiots smashing my window again!"

Fang Xinghe pushed the window open with great anger, and saw a very thick envelope stuck in the gap of the windowsill. Looking at the glass again, it was fine, not broken. Today is a lucky day.

Yesterday, one of his window glasses was broken by a mentally retarded woman—if you want to give me a gift, give it properly. After writing a love letter, you wrapped a bunch of rings, earrings, ear studs, necklaces, and threw them at the window. Are you from the Tang Sect?

Damn, she almost scared me into a heart attack.

Then Xiao Fang opened it and looked, good guy, the necklace is iron, the ring is copper, the ear stud is silver, almost enough to open a hardware store.

It’s not that he dislikes it, the problem is, what kind of thing is this?

Shaking his head, Fang Xinghe opened today’s envelope and scanned it briefly.

The main body inside is a love letter with a very era-specific atmosphere. Anyway, the Z generation didn't see this thing when they were in school.

The content is also topsy-turvy. The previous sentence is a very subtle "want to make friends with you," and the next sentence becomes hot and bold "I am willing to do anything for you," and then he listed his family background and reported his font size.

—My father is who in the county, what talents I have learned, what books I have read, what hobbies I have, etc., etc., blah blah blah.

Finally, attached a photo and two 100-yuan bills.

First glance, the person is quite beautiful.

Second glance, damn, she has developed quite well.

Third glance, bored, meaningless.

Put the 200 yuan in his pocket, tidy up the other things, and throw them into the drawer—full again.

This is Fang Xinghe’s recent treatment. The day before yesterday, there was even a rich woman from the provincial capital who came down to find him, twenty-six or twenty-seven years old, full of style, swaying, driving a Lexus or something, asking all the way, and finally parked the car at Xiao Fang’s door, and started knocking on the door delicately.

Unfortunately, she was also a donkey dung egg with a shiny exterior, and was scared away after being "crotched" two or three times.

Now, the left and right protectors, bodyguard Du Yu and gatekeeper "Crotch-kicker" all live in his house, escorting the new little fresh meat, but this cannot solve the fundamental problem...

Well, in fact, the problem of freedom to go out is basically unsolvable.

Fang Xinghe didn't feel particularly unaccustomed either. He lay in bed for several years in his previous life and reached the last moment. Now, paying the freedom to go out for more than ten years in exchange for health and happiness for more than a hundred years in the future, it is super worth it.

And the situation is not particularly bad. As long as he moves into the new house, it will be quiet—Liu Dashan is fixing his new home. It is said that the space is huge, with a vegetable garden in the back and a large courtyard in the front. There are no high-rise buildings around, all are bungalows.

After that, build the courtyard wall higher, no matter how you practice martial arts and study, you won't be peeped at again.

If you have the ability, throw it again?

First climb up the 2.5-meter wall, then throw things at my window glass from 20 meters away. Which girl can do it, brother will give you a red stick and promote you to the fourteenth sister.

Hehe!

Thinking of that group of dream girls grabbing their hair frantically looking at the wall, Fang Xinghe couldn't help but be happy.

"Come, Du Yu, Crotch-kicker, help me do beast training."

With a greeting, the two immediately put down the handheld game console, ran over, picked up the stick, and silently accumulated strength.

This set of training is one of the emotional foundations that Teacher Feng Yuanzheng used to play An Jiahe.

Generally speaking, through the demonstrative roar and intermittent whipping of the teaching assistant, it fully activates the sense of crisis and confrontation in the actor’s heart, and the action training done by the actor himself also focuses on activating the part of the original beast nature in the heart.

In the end, awaken the naked animal nature, carefully experience that kind of emotion, as well as the corresponding physical feeling, until it forms a controllable instinct that can be awakened at any time. Even playing a wolf child is no problem.

Ge is awesome, right?

Damn, it’s self-abuse!

When Liu Dashan brought the person in charge of Jeanswest to the door in the afternoon, Fang Xinghe looked like he had just been fished out of the water, sitting there panting, his whole body trembling slightly.

"Student Fang, what happened to you?"

The person in charge of Jeanswest was a middle-aged woman in her 40s. I don't know if it was sincere, or to show sincerity, she asked very concernedly.

"Nothing, just practicing some things."

"Practicing martial arts?"

The person in charge was particularly interested, looking at the craft sword hanging on the wall and the 4-meter long pole under the eaves, her eyes revealing real and unmistakable amazement.

"About the same." He perfunctorily replied, not wanting to talk more.

"You are really too hard-working..." The person in charge was full of appreciation, and also curious, "But you shouldn't need to fight now, right? Why are you still so hard?"

Fang Xinghe didn't change his face, raised his hand to pull his half-long hair to the back of his head, revealing a clean and full forehead and a complete face covered in sweat.

Subsequently, he turned to look at the poster on the wall.

Everyone looked with him. It was a poster of *Fist of Legend*, Jet Li kicking his right leg high, very fierce.

"I am about a little more handsome than him, but how is it enough to rely on handsomeness?"

Fang Xinghe said lightly, as if talking to himself.

"I want to be the strongest and most dazzling one of my generation, becoming the most unforgettable symbol in their memory. When everyone mentions me, they either admire or envy. So, now fighting, it is just the right time..."

The person in charge was stunned, and then a flash of ecstasy flashed in her eyes.

The lawyer was stunned, and then looked at the poster thoughtfully.

Liu Dashan was also stunned, and then nodded with relief, but in his heart he was howling frantically—

Right, right, this taste is too right!

Does this business still need to be discussed?

If I were that lady, I would give you a check now, I sign the words, you fill in the numbers, you say how much money, it’s how much!

Thanks to the new alliance "Hey don't make trouble, the waist is not good," let me spend the New Year these two days, and explode more on the 1st.