Who are you calling "little fresh meat"? I'm the king.

Chapter 929 Magical Change (14)

Actually, Meng Ziyi's reputation isn't particularly good...

There's no way around it, she's stunningly beautiful, and when she participated in the variety show "Grade One," her low emotional intelligence and poor communication skills made her the target of ridicule from thousands!
The main reason is that his appearance is not pleasing: his face is not kind and he looks very mercenary, giving people a sense of utilitarianism.

Okay, she's just incredibly bitchy!
It's a real case of a bunch of people smearing and mocking them.

In the original timeline, she started to cultivate a "clumsy beauty" persona, appearing on various variety shows and gaining more and more public favor, thus managing to salvage her reputation.

Her whitewashing was truly brilliant; several actresses of her generation tried to imitate her approach, but none of them succeeded.

Most importantly, Meng Ziyi's personality is just like that. She's a pampered little princess who's straightforward and honest, something that others simply can't imitate.

In this timeline, in "The Smiling, Proud Wanderer," her portrayal of Ren Yingying is decisive and ruthless...

—I demand that everyone who sees her with Linghu Chong gouge their eyes out!

Ren Yingying... has very low popularity—Ren Yingying's popularity is so low that even the number of fanfiction and erotic novels about her is far less than that of Ning Zhongze and Yue Lingshan.

Unpopular characters are easy to adapt, and Jin Yong originally created Ren Yingying as a behind-the-scenes villain. In fact, up to 80% of the way through "The Smiling, Proud Wanderer", Ren Yingying has firmly established herself as the main villain. You can basically see Ren Yingying's shadow in all the previous plots, and it doesn't feel out of place to throw all the blame at Ren Yingying.

The main plot revolves around Zuo Lengchan, while the hidden plot involves Ren Yingying. Even the massacre of the Fuwei Escort Agency can be arranged so that Yu Canghai is Ren Yingying's man.

Major events are usually driven by one of these two, and sometimes they even interfere with each other.

As for Yue Buqun…

The part where Yue Buqun finally obtained the Evil-Repelling Sword Manual felt like he hadn't planned anything at all...

Lin went to find the sword manual without being followed or monitored at all; on the contrary, the people from Songshan were constantly monitoring him!

Linghu Chong fainted while holding the sword manual, and Yue Buqun arrived just in time to pick up the pieces…

Is this a plan? What is it a plan?

Waiting for the golden egg to fall from the sky and land on him... If even one thing goes wrong, this sword manual will never reach Yue Buqun's hands...

However, for some reason, Mr. Jin suddenly developed a great liking for Ren Yingying and decided to completely whitewash her into an innocent and shy little girl. Then he began a series of irrational performances.

In order to extricate Ren Yingying from the early subplots, Jin Yong began to go on a rampage, taking a jab at everyone he could find, and using a grand scheme of blame to completely exonerate Ren Yingying, the biggest suspect in the early episodes.

As a result, Zuo Lengchan, Yue Buqun, Lao Denuo, Lin Pingzhi and their ilk were like discounted vegetables in a supermarket, picking up a bunch of unjustified scapegoats.

Even in "Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils," they couldn't bear to blacken A'Zhu's name...

The section about A'Zhu stealing the Yi Jin Jing is particularly bizarre, but if you think about it, in the entire "Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils", besides A'Zhu, who else is proficient in disguise to the point that other acquaintances cannot recognize him? Murong Bo, who went undercover in Shaolin Temple under the alias "Yan Longyuan" to steal the scripture, happens to be A'Zhu's former master.

But just like in "The Smiling, Proud Wanderer," they couldn't bear to ruin A'Zhu's character, so they simply changed Murong Bo, the final boss, as well...

However, Meng Ziyi did become famous after "Swordsman" aired.

Perhaps it aligns with current trends of thought…

It's quite popular!
Her management team wants her to continue acting in movies and TV dramas and do fewer variety shows. In her manager's words: "If your head is empty, don't embarrass yourself by going on variety shows!"
That's true. Before "Peach Blossom Village" came out, it would have been better for Meng Ziyi to appear on fewer variety shows...

After all, most variety shows can't gather people like Li Xueqin, Xu Zhisheng, and Wang Sulong, who are gentle, have high emotional intelligence, and are also intelligent...

Most people who frequently appear on variety shows have a dislike for stupidity...

Her actions were indeed very easy to make people disgusted with her stupidity... By the way, Shen Yan's Xinghuo Studio took over the adaptation of "Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils". Originally, they planned to adapt it according to the 90 Taiwan CTV version - that version made Duan Yu and Xu Zhu the same person. Wang Yuyan was drugged by Kumachi, and Duan Yu lost his memory in order to save her. After being rescued by the abbot of Shaolin, he became a monk and became Xu Zhu.

Wang Yuyan reunited with her maternal grandmother, Li Qiushui, and was taken to Western Xia, where she became a princess, also known as Xu Zhu's dream girl...

The adaptation may seem outrageous, but it's not entirely without reason.

Duan Yu stumbled upon the Lingbo Weibu and Huagong Dafa manuals in the Langhuan Jade Cave, demonstrating his deep connection with the Xiaoyao Sect. Therefore, it would be logical for him to take on the role of Xu Zhu and continue his past relationship with Wu Yazi.

Li Qiushui is the Empress Dowager of Western Xia and also Wang Yuyan's maternal grandmother. It's reasonable for her to bring Wang Yuyan to Western Xia, but whether she can become a princess is still uncertain...

By the way, Xu Zhu's true identity was grafted onto Murong Fu—Master Xuanci, the abbot of Shaolin Temple, and Ye Erniang, one of the Four Evils, were his biological parents.

The real Murong Fu was just an ordinary monk at Shaolin Temple.

All of this was orchestrated by Xiao Yuanshan, who switched the newborn son of Murong Fu and Ye Erniang with his own…

The screenwriter for this drama is Leung Lap-yan, a top screenwriter for Hong Kong's ATV, whose representative works include "The Land of Love," "Huo Yuanjia," "Chameleon," "The Great General," "I Come from Chaozhou," "My Date with a Vampire," and "The Legendary Twins," among others.

However, Taiwanese prime-time dramas are bound to have melodramatic plots, and with the female lead, Song Gangling, being a star of CTV at the time, there were various added scenes, including a bunch of unreliable suitors.

People like Kumārajīva and Zhuo Yifan became her sycophants...

This is way too melodramatic!

This is also the main reason why this drama received poor reviews...

As for radical modifications... to be honest, if the changes bring something new, the audience is willing to accept them...

Those who claim their work "faithfully adheres to the original" are actually just incapable of adapting it...

……

Yang Mi arrived in Sanya on the first day of the Lunar New Year…

After she arrived, she went out to play with Shi Shi and Shen Li!

Sanya still has many attractions and activities worth experiencing: Wuzhizhou Island, Fenjiezhou Island, Atlantis Waterworld, Nanshan Cultural Tourism Zone, Binglang Valley, Coconut Dream Corridor, yachting, sea fishing, surfing...

However, Shen Yan didn't seem to be in much spirits...

I worked too hard in the past few years!
This year, he plans to take more rest...

Of course, we still need to film, but there's no need to keep doing it like we did a few years ago, one film after another without any rest...

After finishing post-production on "Parasite," he plans to film "The Unknown," then take a two-month break before heading to Yunnan to film "Where the Wind Blows"...

As for "The Magical Night at the Film Studio" and "My People, My Country"...

There's no need to rush these two projects...

Oh, and there's also "Something in the Rain"...

Let's film it next year!
Parasite still needs to compete for the Oscars, and Shen Yan needs to stay in the United States...

(End of this chapter)