Jinghai University.
The professor's office.
Under the sparse moonlit stars outside, Zuo Gaoming, with his chiseled features, and Fan Tao, with her charming fox-like eyes, sat side by side before the computer, typing away.
The white-haired Lu Chengen sat to one side, adjusting his reading glasses and occasionally offering pointers.
The three of them were busy writing Song He Su's paper. It would total fifty or sixty thousand words, equivalent to a novella.
That was after drastically cutting it down. If they wrote it without restraint, Song He Su could produce a paper as thick as a dictionary.
Dazzling English covered the computer screen as Lu Chengen continuously corrected the sentences.
"This passage is too dry. Make it more vivid!"
"Move forward step by step. Don't skip anything. Write the process in detail. Have you ever watched a TV drama? Can a TV drama air the finale all at once? Doesn't it keep viewers hanging episode by episode?"
"Move those grandiose slogans to the end. Putting them in the middle will interrupt the reviewers' interest. Their appetite has just been whetted, and you'll kill it at once. Save the slogans for the final elevation."
Lu Chengen nagged on for quite some time.
Zuo Gaoming and Fan Tao were both somewhat stunned. They had been writing in a dry, rigid academic style, but Lu Chengen kept telling them to make the paper more entertaining.
"Professor Lu... Is this style really okay? It doesn't feel like a serious paper. It feels more like storytelling," Zuo Gaoming couldn't help saying.
Lu Chengen smiled. "I usually tell you to read more Top Journal Papers. You never paid close attention, did you?"
Zuo Gaoming scratched his head. "I... I've read quite a few..."
"Background, conflict, characters, plot, and theme. You need these five things to