"You can make Dream Bubbles? I thought only Fan Chong from Penglai Island could make them!" Overhearing Lu Yang and Tao Yaoye's conversation, Xiao Xinghai showed great interest in the topic.
Lu Yang introduced her with no small amount of pride. "What does Fan Chong even count for? Just a petty scoundrel. This is my junior sister, Tao Yaoye. Not only is she gorgeous, she's brilliant too—she's the one who invented Dream Bubbles!"
Tao Yaoye's cheeks flushed slightly, and she chose to ignore Man Gu's earlier remark.
"As for Fan Chong on Penglai Island, he's just a pirate," Lu Yang continued. "Someone like him would have been thrown straight into prison back in Great Xia. Junior Sister Tao is the original creator."
"That's amazing!" Xiao Xinghai's eyes shone with excitement.
"Then could you give me a role? Hero or villain, I don't care!" Xiao Xinghai had long wanted to be part of a Dream Bubble. If nothing else, those things were wildly famous.
Tao Yaoye felt the Kunpeng Clan had been very warm and hospitable. Ancestor Black Feather hadn't taken his anger out on them, Clan Head Xiao had regaled them with stories of mighty figures, and Xiao Xinghai had shifted between peng and kun forms just to give them a tour. He was quite a decent fellow.
"Sure." It was just a role, after all.
Lu Yang pondered for a moment. "What did you think of the script just now? How about we swap the Dragon Clan for the Kunpeng Clan, and you play the kunpeng that drags Junior Sister Tao into the sea?"
"Great, great!" Xiao Xinghai agreed immediately upon hearing how much screentime he would have.
"What about me? Give me a role too!" Meng Jingzhou sidled over to join in the fun.
Lu Yang pushed Meng Jingzhou aside in disgust. "We have enough characters. There's no room for you."
Meng Jingzhou said eagerly, "How is there no room? Didn't you say you'd carve your flesh and slice your bones to return them to your parents? I can play your dad!"
Li Haoran also leaned in. "Yiren and I happen to be an engaged couple. How about the two of us play your parents?"
Just for the chance to play Lu Yang's father, Li Haoran was willing to sacrifice his dignity and play a pretty-boy toy boy.
"Piss off! How about you two go wreak havoc at sea, and I play your dad?"
"Fine, fine, fine, I'll take another role... Wait, this won't do. Your script barely has any major characters!" Meng Jingzhou felt that with his status, there was no way he could play some nameless extra in a Dream Bubble.
"Think of a way to change the script!"
"Brother Lu, can I have a role too?" Man Gu squeezed in as well, clearly wanting to be in the Dream Bubble too.
Lu Yang felt a headache coming on. Where was he supposed to find so many major characters in *Nezha Wreaks Havoc at Sea*?
This was tricky.
Suddenly, inspiration struck Lu Yang, and he came up with a solution. "We can tweak everyone's origin story. Let's make it so an innate spiritual vine grew four calabashes, and when the calabashes split open, four people popped out!"
"Hey, that's a great premise! It fits right in with the East Sea's wealth of natural treasures!"
"When the time comes, I'll pop out of my calabash first and challenge Xiao Xinghai. If I can't beat him, Old Meng, you tag in, and then Junior Brother Man and Junior Brother Li follow up... We'll fight him like that..."
Su Yiren was a reclusive cultivator, so it wasn't appropriate for her to appear in a Dream Bubble.
Hearing Lu Yang and the others debating so passionately, Xiao Xinghai joined right in. The five of them grew more and more excited as they talked, itching to spar on the spot.
"When the time comes, I'll lead with this move..."
"Then I'll counter like this, trading injury for injury..."
Tao Yaoye couldn't quite understand why Lu Yang and the others were so worked up.
"What's Junior Sister Tao's role, then?" Meng Jingzhou asked the key question.
Lu Yang rubbed his chin in thought. "A butterfly spirit... No, where would a butterfly spirit come from in the East Sea? How about making her a prodigy disciple from Penglai Island?"
"Junior Sister Tao, what do you think?"
"Whatever works."
Tao Yaoye wore an expression of complete resignation. From the sound of this script, she wouldn't have much screentime anyway. They could do whatever they pleased.
Chapter 832