A Slight Smile is Very Charming

Part 13: He isn't me

The video player is set up to play the video on loop. While Wei Wei is still entranced, the player has already started playing it again, the lively flute music starts, the figure of the heroine in red dazzles on screen, and is just about to charge down the mountain on her horse in matchless grandeur.

Wei Wei quickly closes it. Now that she knows the ending, it is a bit depressing to watch the spoof in the beginning. She doesn't have any desire to watch it again.

Wei Wei opens the minimized game and sends NaiHe a message: "I finished watching it. It was really good."

After she insipidly types out these words, Wei Wei has nothing else to say. Actually, her mind is clearly filled with thoughts, but she doesn't know how to verbalize them. Can she actually say that it almost drew her to tears?

That seems pretty foolish, sigh = =

Looking for something to say, she asks: "You changed the ending?"

Just as she sent the message, NaiHe's name lights up and with great speed, his reply comes back. "Uh-huh, I changed it. Otherwise, the length would not have been long enough."

"You're back ^_^~~length? What length?"

Wei Wei is a bit puzzled. Is he talking about the length of the video? But from her recollection, there isn't a length requirement.

NaiHe: "In the detailed rules and regulations for the competition, it says that, if the length of the video exceeds half an hour, the experience and other rewards will multiple if it wins."

NaiHe: "Since we already made it, then we should take all that there is."

Wei Wei feels silly. Indeed, she didn't notice this rule, but....classmate Great Master, how are you so certain that we will win...

But, but, this isn't the main point. The main point is, according to what the Great Master said, can it be that the plot at the end that almost made her cry is actually added on because he wanted to increase the length of it?

As she gets to this point in her thinking, Wei Wei can't help but open the video to check. Sure enough! The video isn't too long or too short. It is exactly 30 minutes, not even a second more.

......

Even though the cruel facts are now placed in front of her, Wei Wei Still carries a bit of hope: "Then...how did you think up the ending? It's a lot better than the old ending."

NaiHe: "The old ending was also fine, adding flashbacks during the walk to the jump off the cliff can also make 30 minutes. But it made it too obvious."

@_@

Playing flashbacks? He means to play the previously played, ready made parts? How come this sounds like what you call adding extraneous padding...Wei Wei remembers that there seems like there is still a lot of these flashbacks in the current ending. With much difficulty, she asks: "Then the current ending...is actually made for showing flashbacks?

"Pretty much."

Wei Wei has nothing to say.

So the great master didn't just add to the length, but to add to the length, he inserted a ton of flashbacks. The Great Master's ending is completely the result of procrastination and laziness. What's that about being touching, what's that about life and death being boundless, they are all fleeting clouds on the horizon...

>o<

Wei Wei suddenly feels that the her who was extremely moved was truly too idiotic...