I'm a spy in the film

Chapter 38 Copying is happiness

Listening to the sound of water in the bathroom, Bourne lay alone on the bed, recalling their meeting.

Their friendship began with a volunteer job at a New York orphanage.

It was summer vacation when he came to New York to stay in touch with his mother. In order to earn points, he found this volunteer job in the orphanage. He finished most of the cleaning work during the day. In the evening, because he was the youngest among the many volunteers and looked young, Bourne was arranged by the adults to lead the children in the orphanage to play.

Looking at the few worn-out toys in the orphanage and the expectant looks in the children's eyes, Bourne really had no idea what he could do with these toys that were either missing limbs or broken and old. He had no choice but to tell the children the fairy tales he often read to his little niece in his previous life. This lecture lasted for more than an hour.

When Bourne finally finished his story, someone took the lead in applauding. That person was Ella.

Only then did Bourne realize that at some point, the adults and volunteers who had finished their work in the yard all came to listen to the story. They were either standing or sitting, and no one made a sound. They all listened quietly to Bourne's story until it ended.

From then on, Bourne often saw this beautiful girl in the orphanage, who was dressed in fashionable clothes but did the most tiring and dirty work without complaint. What's more interesting was that every time Bourne showed up, the girl would work faster and harder, just to finish her task ahead of time so that she could hear Bourne's story in its entirety.

Ella was actually very curious about how many unheard-of interesting stories this boy had.

The summer vacation passed quickly, and the girl was no longer satisfied with the short one-hour story time. So, on the afternoon before Bourne was about to leave New York for San Antonio, a Cadillac stopped at the door of Bourne's mother Connie's house.

Ella, who was also 16 years old, was not at all nervous when facing Byrne's mother, Connie, who was already a barrister, and his stepfather Brady, a prosecutor. She talked to him eloquently. Of course, the content of her conversation was that she wanted to sign Byrne to be an exclusive children's book writer, as she believed that Byrne had outstanding talent in this area.

Naturally, Connie rejected this outright. How could she, who expected her son to become a barrister, fall in love with a little children's writer? Even though Ella came from a media family with many channels and offered generous conditions, it did not shake Connie's determination to train her son to be a lawyer.

The failure of the collaboration did not damage their friendship, but deepened their relationship. However, at that time, Bourne and Selina were in love in San Antonio, and his correspondence with Ella was purely about children's literature creation. It was also at that time that Bourne's writing skills and illustration techniques began to improve rapidly.

The turning point came two years later, when Bourne was going to Davos to attend university and moved to Davos with his father, and Selina, who had shown her talent for management, began to take over the family business, so the two had to break up peacefully. At the same time, Ella also experienced a series of setbacks, including the death of her biological mother in a car accident, her father's rapid remarriage, her stepmother's frequent tricks, her brother's departure to Europe, and her own gradual decline in power. The relationship between the two young men and women, who were in a period of emotional emptiness, finally broke through that step.

It's just that the two sides have not confirmed the relationship, because Ella believes that establishing the relationship before settling the family will be detrimental to Bourne's future development. But Bourne simply yearns for a free and easy life.

Ella has always been suspicious about her mother's car accident, but she encountered obstacles at every turn during the investigation. She was even attacked inexplicably several times. Although not serious, it was enough to make her alert.

So, she applied to study at Pratt Institute, expressing her ambition for art rather than business, in order to paralyze the unknown enemies; at the same time, she quietly trained herself in a planned way to improve her abilities, and Byrne was her best coach.

Especially after discovering that Byrne had endless creative ideas and constantly improving literary level, she boldly collected and organized Byrne's stories and illustrations and sent them to her brother in Europe for publication. As a result, the market response was very good. Her brother also gained a firm foothold in the European children's book market and grew stronger step by step.

Of course, Byrne also received a lot of royalties, enough to support his daily life, study and training expenses. The rest was also used by Byrne to help others and earn points.

Since then, Bourne has been going further and further down the evil path of copying books, especially children's books. Now, he is even preparing to copy the big CP "Harry Potter". Thanks to his elder sister who was a middle school English teacher in his previous life, he has a deep impression of the Chinese-English translated version of the Harry Potter series.

Sure enough, the charm of literature is irresistible in any world. If I were just a muscular man, I would be just a sparring partner, destined to not be able to enter the girl's inner world. But now, Ella and I can resonate in the spiritual world through children's books. What a fate, wow!

Who says I have points? Most people can’t handle a girlfriend who has the dual identities of a literary young woman and a Barbie doll!

Bourne took a sip of wine, thinking with some pride, but he didn't expect that his expression was seen by Ella who just walked out of the bathroom.

"What happy things are you thinking about? You look so proud, let me hear it!" Ella, wearing a white bathrobe, lay gently beside Bourne with a smile on her face, but her two slender fingers had quietly pinched a piece of soft flesh on Bourne's waist.

"How come all the women in the world know this trick?"

Bourne smiled bitterly in his heart and had to change the subject. The real business had not yet been discussed.

"Have you read the book I gave you today? How is it? Can it be put on the market?" Bourne said with a serious face.

"Humph,"

As smart as Ella was, she knew her boyfriend was trying to change the subject. She rolled her eyes at him beautifully, but still answered truthfully, "Very good. Although I only watched part of it, I can see that the world view is very huge. This should be a series, right?"

You guessed it right, Harry Potter is just a series, plus the movies made before the time travel, and the prequels, Bourne thought to himself.

Ella continued, "Magic, wizards, magic school, and a little boy with a mysterious background. The setting of this book is very novel. Although I have never read similar books before, I think this is an excellent selling point and is bound to attract many readers."

"I will ask my brother to select a group of readers in various countries and have them try reading the book to see the effect. If the response is good, we will roll it out across the board and promote it in several major cities at the same time."

"So, there's only one question left, Bourne. Where are you at with the book, and when will it be finished?"

Bourne held his forehead with his hand. He had dug himself into this pit. How could he be urged to submit his manuscripts after traveling through time? This was not the life I wanted!

"I'm not doing this to make money. I'm doing this to bring the charm of literature to people in other worlds. I'm a disseminator of culture!" Bourne silently encouraged himself in his heart.

After reading books all day and expending a lot of physical energy at night, Ella felt extremely tired both mentally and physically while enjoying the pleasure. She soon fell into a deep sleep.

Bourne went to the living room, took out the Book of Ramblings and continued to study.

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