Even if you belong to a demonic sect, you still have to bring glory to the country.

Chapter 55 The Story of the Weaver

This impossibility stems from Guan Zhong's deeply ingrained thinking over the past thirty-six years.

Soldiers fight for the imperial court.

Their existence was to maintain the emperor's rule.

Nobody likes being a soldier. People initially join the army just to have a meal, but later they can't even get enough to eat. What's the difference between a soldier and a bandit?
Let alone soldiers, even ordinary people wanting to unite, form human ladders, and risk their lives to save others would be incredibly moving.

How could Guan Zhong possibly believe that?
"Really!"

Seeing that Guan Zhong didn't believe her, Yu Liangliang simply found a place to park, took out her phone, and searched for news to show him.

Fortunately, these events have been reported, and you can even find photos from that time.

Those soldiers formed a human wall in the rolling Yangtze River, allowing people to step on them to cross.

You can even see the rushing river.

Guan Zhong was illiterate; if he were, he could have seen even more shocking words below.

Hundreds of thousands jumped into the river, fearless of sacrifice...

Guan Zhong stared intently at the photos.

Yu Liangliang explained, "These photos aren't old ones from back then; they're all recent flood photos. My parents told me that the floods that year were particularly devastating, with hundreds of thousands of soldiers going to the disaster relief efforts, and many of them lost their lives. In recent years, our country has experienced all sorts of disasters, big and small, and it's always the military that's on the front lines of disaster relief."

Yu Liangliang would never normally say these things, because they are ingrained in the Chinese people.

He just felt that Guan Zhong was a bit strange, as if he had a kind of hostile attitude towards soldiers.

This horrified Yu Liangliang.

Because he doesn't understand.

Could it be that Guan Zhong used to live in the mountains and encountered something bad, mistakenly believing it was done by soldiers?
It is said that many years ago there were still quite a few bandits in the mountains, and other parties that had been defeated in the war also became outlaws.

This indeed dealt a huge blow to Guan Zhong.

Under the impact, he seemed to begin to understand why the people of this world, when he first arrived, hardly felt any threat to him.

It also made him vaguely understand why the cult leader had those shocking ideas when he was brought back by the old cult leader.

She lives in a world that is too wonderful.

Compared to his world, it was a paradise.

Guan Zhong pursed his lips tightly, and they turned slightly pale from the force.

Finally, he returned the phone to Yu Liangliang, closed his eyes, and said, "My parents were killed by soldiers, but not soldiers from your area."

"what?"

"I don't know, I'm sorry, Brother Zhong." Yu Liangliang said cautiously, "Brother Zhong, you wouldn't happen to be... from another country, would you?"

Damn it, could Li Sui really have smuggled people from abroad back to China?

Guan Zhong knew that he couldn't reveal the matter from ancient times, so he said, "I suppose so."

Now Yu Liangliang understands what his hatred is about.

He hesitated for a moment, then said, "Brother Zhong, live well."

He knew that people couldn't let go of hatred, but in those foreign countries, where such matters were involved, revenge was too difficult.

“My enemy is long dead.” Guan Zhong sighed softly. “I have a wife and children, and I miss them dearly, but I don’t know if they can come. I both hope they come and hope they don’t.”

This is contradictory.

He never wanted to see his wife and daughters come because they were dead.

Yu Liangliang rolled her eyes.

He dared not offer such advice, in case he had indeed gotten in through illegitimate means—Li Sui had indeed dragged him down the wrong path.

Yu Liangliang was inwardly in tears, but outwardly she had to pretend to be nonchalant and take Guan Zhong to the film set.

I just pray that the goddess Weaver Girl, who's been gone for so long, hasn't caused any trouble on set.

The weaver didn't cause any trouble; in fact, she was highly regarded by Gao Tingzhong.

If Gao Tingzhong was initially dissatisfied with Zhi Niang's temper, he's now overjoyed and praising her. Because Zhi Niang's performance is so excellent!

Who would have thought that she would be so perfectly suited to playing the role of a femme fatale?

With every frown and smile, one can believe that only a wicked concubine like her truly has the ability to wreak havoc on the court, rather than simply shifting blame onto a woman because of her beauty.

Previously, Gao Tingzhong had been unable to find a suitable actress for the role of the femme fatale Shan Zhao.

As Gao Tingzhong requested, Shan Zhao was an orphan who had suffered all kinds of hardships in the world. She had once possessed pure kindness, and even after entering the palace to commit evil, she was still torn between the last vestiges of goodness in her heart.

Her charm is indescribable.

She must be charming and alluring, yet she cannot reveal any vulgarity, otherwise it would seem as if she has fallen into prostitution.

She needs to evoke a complex mix of love and hate in people, and be ruthless yet subtly melancholic.

Gao Tingzhong wanted people to portray her involuntary struggle to climb the social ladder by any means necessary, while also conveying her complex thoughts about the world.

In other words, Kao Ting-chung is the client in the design world; he wants a colorful black.

Even Xu Sijia was chosen because she is a veteran actress who has played similar roles before.

But she still failed to meet Gao Tingzhong's 80% satisfaction.

During filming, the character Xu Sijia had the most takes.

Most importantly, this is an action movie!
Even a wicked concubine has to be fought, and the fight has to be spectacular and well-acted.

Xu Sijia was seething with anger at the time.

Gao Tingzhong took a liking to Zhiniang at first sight, but he really wasn't sure whether Zhiniang was good at acting or how much he could train her to do.

Who knew that after reading most of the script, the weaver already understood eight-tenths of the character Shan Zhao.

She also reminisced while reading the script.

It's really strange. If she hadn't known that this was actually another era, looking at Shan Zhao on the script, she would have thought she was reading her own biography for the first half.

However, the details are different.

In the script, Shan Zhao maintained his kindness for much longer than she did.

She still remembers the day her aunt sold her to the leper at the edge of the village.

She cried and struggled, her eyes filled with the leper's hideous face.

She was both afraid and resentful, and resisted fiercely. The leper slapped her so hard that her teeth were loosened.

She collapsed to the ground, coughing up blood and barely breathing, but she did not give up.

She saw a pair of scissors.

As if by divine decree, the pair of scissors was placed right in front of her.

She didn't know why there was a pair of scissors there.

She came to her senses and realized that she had already gripped the scissors in her hand and was stabbing them fiercely into the leper's throat.

She had never killed anyone, yet she knew how to kill with a single blow.

Warm blood splattered all over her face.

She fled in panic under the cover of night and never looked back.

From then on, the world was vast and the road was long; she spent her entire life striving for freedom.

"Crack!"

Gao Tingzhong gave a thumbs up: "Not bad, Weaver Girl, the expression in your eyes in this solo shot is very well done, that's a good shot."

Because he often heard Yu Liangliang call Li Zhi "Weaver Girl", Gao Tingzhong started calling her that too.

The weaver glanced at Gao Tingzhong before her, then slowly looked towards the vast, white blue sky outside the palace.

She slowly curled the corners of her lips into a smile.

(End of this chapter)