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Chapter 264 — An Unreliable Project · Oct 11, 2026

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251 Chapter 251 — The FBI’s Invitation 2026-10-11
252 Chapter 252 — A Place Where No One Comes. (Bonus) 2026-10-11
253 Chapter 253 — The Delivery 2026-10-11
254 Chapter 254 — A Distant Relative 2026-10-11
255 Chapter 255 — Barbara Morse ( Bonus) 2026-10-11
256 Chapter 256 — Hollywood Tour 2026-10-11
257 Chapter 257 — Griffith Observatory 2026-10-11
258 Chapter 258 — Beautiful From Afar, Unforgiving Up Close (Bonus) 2026-10-11
259 Chapter 259 — The Intern Agent 2026-10-11
260 Chapter 260 — Shifting the Focus 2026-10-11
261 Chapter 261 — A Failed Break-In 2026-10-11
262 Chapter 262 — The Banquet Invitation 2026-10-11
263 Chapter 263 — A Party of Old Legends 2026-10-11
264 Chapter 264 — An Unreliable Project 2026-10-11
265 Chapter 265 — A Mismatched Circle 2026-10-11
266 Chapter 266 — Tony, Long Time No See 2026-10-11
267 Chapter 267 — The Metamorphosis of Stark Industries 2026-10-11
268 Chapter 268 — Troubles Beneath the Surface (Bonus) 2026-10-11
269 Chapter 269 — Stark Pictures 2026-10-11
270 Chapter 270 — The Higher You Stand, the More Blind Spots You Have 2026-10-11
271 Chapter 271 — Daily Life in Los Angeles 2026-10-11
272 Chapter 272 — The Thief 2026-10-11
273 Chapter 273 — The Dream Chaser 2026-10-11
274 Chapter 274 — Charlize Theron 2026-10-11
275 Chapter 275 — The Narrow Road to Success 2026-10-11
276 Chapter 276 — Progress on the Tiger Translator 2026-10-11
277 Chapter 277 — Meeting Again 2026-10-11
278 Chapter 278: A Request 2026-10-11
279 Chapter 279: The Talent Scout 2026-10-11
280 Chapter 280: Another Favor 2026-10-11
281 Chapter 281: Another Ordinary Day in Los Angeles 2026-10-11
282 Chapter 282: The Future Best Actress Goes House-Hunting 2026-10-11
283 Chapter 283: The New Neighbor 2026-10-11
284 Chapter 284: Camping Day 2026-10-11
285 Chapter 285: College Students on Summer Break 2026-10-11
286 Chapter 286 — Driving 2026-10-11
287 Chapter 287 — The Walk 2026-10-11
288 Chapter 288 — Hunting 2026-10-11
289 Chapter 289 — Camp Dinner 2026-10-11
290 Chapter 290 — Cards on the Table 2026-10-11
291 Chapter 291 — A Failure That Isn’t One ( Bonus ) 2026-10-11
292 Chapter 292 — Reflections on the Beach 2026-10-11
293 Chapter 293 — Construction and a Call for Help 2026-10-11
294 Chapter 294 — The Photoshoot Scene 2026-10-11
295 Chapter 295 — Smooth Termination 2026-10-11
296 Chapter 296 — Passion and Confession 2026-10-11
297 Chapter 297 — A Rather Unconventional Dinner 2026-10-11
298 Chapter 298 — Planning for the Future 2026-10-11
299 Chapter 299 — The Henry-Brand Teaching Program 2026-10-11
300 Chapter 300 — A Trip to the Continental 2026-10-11

Chapter 264: Chapter 264 — An Unreliable Project

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”Wait—did you say your name is Henry Brown?”

Lauren Bacall confirmed again, narrowing her eyes.

”Audrey’s little assistant, that Henry Brown?”

”Yes, that’s me,” Henry admitted. Then, a bit uneasy, he asked, ”Why? Is something wrong?”

”Audrey Hepburn’s final recommendation... Love Across Alien Cultures—that Henry Brown?”

At first Henry was confused.

Then it hit him—oh, that book.

The one Audrey had taken his manuscript to publish.

The title was something the publishing house had chosen.

They had handled all the editing and production.

Henry had negotiated not to participate in promotion or book signings, so the royalties he received were modest.

He kept the copyright but ignored everything after.

Hearing someone suddenly mention the book startled even him.

He rubbed his neck awkwardly.

”I heard its sales weren’t great. Didn’t expect someone here to actually have read it.”

Even Katharine Hepburn looked amazed.

”Henry, don’t tell me you don’t know that book is extremely popular within a certain niche.”

Henry replied flatly:

”If you put it that way, doesn’t that just mean it didn’t sell well—only a small group liked it very much?

But of course, if you enjoy it, I’m honored.

”That book—at best I’m just the translator. The stories weren’t mine.

If anyone deserves praise, it’s the original authors.

Though most of them have been dead for a few hundred years.”

”You child...”

Katharine rubbed her forehead.

”You always approach things from such odd angles, leaving everyone speechless. Do you find that amusing?”

”Honestly? It’s very amusing,” Henry smirked.

Katharine sighed.

”Such a troublesome temperament... Is it too late to fix it?

I would really like to meet the parents who raised a boy this maddening.”

”If you saw the people who raised me, you’d think my becoming a decent person was a miracle sent by God.”

He said it with a smile, but everyone present was elderly and worldly—

They all heard the bitterness behind the joke.

So, with tacit understanding, they changed the subject.

Lauren Bacall stepped in:

”Have you ever thought about screenwriting? Adapting one of the stories into a movie?

Some studios are very interested in the stories from your book.

You still own the adaptation rights, don’t you?”

Henry paused only a moment before shaking his head firmly.

”Everyone knows how screenwriters are treated in Hollywood.

Directors change things as they please.

Actors change lines when they feel like it.

Producers have a hundred excuses to revise the script.

”And the stories aren’t even mine originally.

If someone wants to adapt them, they should partner with people from the source culture.

I’d rather not take the blame for a disaster.”

Lauren blinked.

”You don’t think the studios could do a good job?”

Henry chuckled.

”Elizabeth Taylor’s Cleopatra is the perfect example.

So many scenes stuffed with Egyptian ’elements’—yet most were wrongly used.

”Putting tomb-guardian statues inside a queen’s bedroom?

In reality half the palace staff would’ve been executed for such an outrage.

”Of course, scholarly complaints were the least of that film’s problems.”

At the mention of that notorious Hollywood catastrophe, all the old-timers fell silent.

Lauren sighed.

”So it really would end up the same?”

Henry nodded seriously.

”It’s practically inevitable.

Look at the book’s sales—it’s niche.

Adapting it means the budget must be strictly controlled to turn a profit.

”The cultural background is foreign, so proper costumes and sets require investment.

Too little investment, and it looks cheap—

both the source culture and American audiences will complain.

”But spend too much, and the box office becomes a suffocating pressure.

Cleopatra didn’t fail solely because of Taylor.

She was just the easiest scapegoat.

”If I spearhead the adaptation,

even if it doesn’t crash as spectacularly—

even if it merely loses money—

I’ll be nailed to the Wall of Eternal Hollywood Shame.”

He raised a finger.

”Best-case scenario?

Years after I die, people still remember the idiot who thought an ’authentic foreign cultural tale’ could charm self-important American audiences.”

”I’m not denying there are open-minded people...

but they’re not the majority.

”And once the cost exceeds a certain threshold,

the only way to profit is to persuade conservative audiences to watch a film promoting foreign mythology.

”Just imagining it makes me despair.”

Lauren exhaled, disappointed.

”I really thought it could’ve been a good project.”

Henry put on his most innocent face.

”I wish it could be too.

But different cultures come with incompatibilities.

Without solving those, disaster is guaranteed.

”If some annoying person wanted the rights, I’d just take the check and remove my name entirely.

But since you asked, Miss Bacall, I have to explain honestly.

I’d rather not become the annoying person afterward.”

Katharine chimed in:

”Child, next time tell me in advance.

I could’ve negotiated you a hefty adaptation fee—and you wouldn’t be blamed for the failure at all.

Isn’t that ideal?”

Lauren’s earlier enthusiasm finally faded into regret.

”What a pity.

I was even imagining teaming up with Katharine to play Bai Suzhen and Xiaoqing.”

For context:

Lauren Bacall, born 1924—seventy years old in 1994.

Katharine Hepburn, born 1907—eighty-seven years old.

These two wanted to play White Snake and Green Snake...

Well, by age alone—

An 87-year-old and a 70-year-old playing a thousand-year-old fox spirit and a five-hundred-year-old snake demon...

Actually, from one angle, they are appropriately ancient.

Henry had no idea where to begin roasting this.

Hollywood casts twenty-something actresses with faces full of collagen to play thousand-year-old vampire queens.

But for Eastern mythology?

They want to call in the Golden Age grand dames...

This is beyond a beauty filter—this is a frosted bathroom window.

Unless Xu Xian is blind.

Which would explain why, in the original tale, he begged the monk to take away the two demons...

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