Agreeing to invest was to return the favor to the girl, but he also had to consider Zhao's interests. If he followed the girl's screenplay outline without any changes, Zhao, as the distributor, would probably be laughed at by his peers.
Yang Xiao had also been a scriptwriter, and he was well aware that young people nowadays were deeply influenced by brainless, sweet, romantic leads. What people wanted to watch wasn't the male and female leads getting seriously injured, forced to jump off a cliff, then defying the laws of physics to embrace, kiss, and confess to each other mid-air for half an hour. If it weren't for censorship, they might have even had a child by the time they reached the bottom of the cliff.
After leaving the Script Club, Yang Xiao went home, eating instant noodles while further organizing the new information he had gathered. After a night's rest, the next morning, Yang Xiao, full of energy, directly headed to the Patrol Defense Office.