You were asked to write a political intrigue drama, but you wrote "Da Ming 1566".

Qin Lan hurriedly said goodbye to Chen Yu, saying that she needed to go to the company to complete the follow-up procedures.

Chen Yu headed towards his competition room to finish writing his goal for the day, which was to write it all the way up to Hai Rui's appearance. Meanwhile, the other contestants had finished signing contracts with the top film and television companies and ran into Chen Yu. This time, their expressions weren't as fearful and obsequious as before; instead, they seemed quite pleased with themselves. One of them even let out a cold laugh.

"Chen Yu, I thought you relied entirely on your own abilities."

"Now it seems you've already got some behind-the-scenes support." "I knew it! How could you have so much inspiration, writing so many scenes a day? Turns out you have someone behind you!" "But now, we're on the same starting line. Heh, I'll tell you, under the same conditions, my writing will definitely be no worse than yours!"

"Also, don't think that getting involved with Encounter Pictures is a good thing."

"Heh, you have no idea what you're about to face."

Then, these people excitedly returned to their competition rooms, eager to rely on the off-site guidance of the writing team behind them to bring down the popularity of "Da Ming Dynasty" and take back the attention they deserved from Chen Yu.

Chen Yu raised an eyebrow, understanding dawning on him.

"From what they're saying, they're implying they have someone backing them up, that they think I'm the same way, and that they're all capable now?" Chen Yu chuckled.

"I wonder what you're about to face; you're the ones who should be facing it." "Even with a top-notch screenwriter guiding you, so what?" "Before the Ming Dynasty, you are all ants!" He turned and returned to the competition room, his fingers once again dancing across the keyboard to create the next iconic scene: "[The Emperor's heart is filled with the entire land]," which poured forth!

At this moment, the fifteenth act—the plot of Kyushu Wanfang—suddenly unfolds.

After Emperor Jiajing decided to summon Hu Zongxian, Tan Lun, and Yang Jinshui at the same time, the details of their journey to Beijing were omitted. The fifteenth act begins with these three forces entering Beijing together.

The script's perspective initially focuses on Yang Jinshui. At this moment, Yang Jinshui's fear after his plot to breach the dike and flood the fields was exposed is easily imaginable. His current reaction is similar to Li Xuan's that night, terrified of being dragged out and beheaded. However, after entering the Directorate of Ceremonial, Yang Jinshui, who commanded the utmost respect from high-ranking officials like Zheng Bichang and He Maocai in Zhejiang, now acts as humbly as a lowly eunuch.

As soon as he stepped into the office of the Directorate of Ceremonial, he knelt down and kowtowed three times respectfully. Then, he held up a bowl of tea with both hands and handed it to Lü Fang, awaiting Lü Fang's judgment.

After a moment, Lü Fang said calmly, "You drank it."

Such a sentence immediately made Yang Jinshui feel as if he had been granted a pardon.

As Chen Yu wrote this, he added a few lines of annotations.

Like master, like servant.

The Jiajing Emperor possessed a somewhat unpredictable and authoritative air, and enjoyed riddles. His attendant, Lü Fang, was a senior figure in the inner court and naturally picked up some of Jiajing's vices.

[When an eunuch from outside the capital came to see Lü Fang, he usually knew his fate when he offered him this bowl of tea.] [If Lü Fang didn't accept the tea, he was awaiting his fate—demotion, imprisonment, or execution—all depending on his next words.] [If Lü Fang accepted and drank the tea, then he was safe and sound, and could return to his post.]

[If Lü Fang were to reward the person serving him with the remaining tea by drinking it, it would be a sign of the respect due to a son.] [That's why Yang Jinshui was so overjoyed to hear that Lü Fang had asked him to drink the remaining tea.] The audience gasped when they saw this annotation. "Good heavens, the high-ranking officials of the Ming Dynasty are all riddle-makers!" "Emperor Jiajing was a riddle-maker, but Lü Fang is a riddle-maker even in front of his subordinates."

"Good heavens, if I were to travel back in time and serve tea to Lü Fang, and he made me drink the remaining half bowl of tea, I might think he was humiliating me by making me drink his leftover tea, and I might even throw it in his face."

"Then I'll be dead in a heartbeat?"

"Damn, it's really tough to survive in ancient times, and even tougher to survive in the imperial court!" While the audience was gasping in astonishment, the dialogue in the story continued.

A hint of excitement and anticipation flashed in Chen Yu's eyes. What followed was one of the most explosive lines from the Ming Dynasty.

Yang Jinshui, after finishing the remaining tea in one gulp, immediately started massaging Lü Fang's legs, like a son to his father, saying that Lü Fang looked old again, while crying as he spoke.

Lu Fang stopped playing riddles with Yang Jinshui and went straight to the point, telling him to prepare to see Jiajing. He added that Jiajing already knew about the breaching of the dikes and flooding of the fields, and asked Yang Jinshui to explain the details to the emperor.

At this moment, Yang Jinshui felt just as startled as the audience outside the script. Yang Jinshui was completely at a loss.

"The son's transgression this time..." The audience murmured amongst themselves, their eyes filled with surprise and uncertainty. "What...what does Lü Fang mean by this?"

"Didn't we just give Yang Jinshui some leftover tea, to show he's alright, that he's been spared?" "Why are you now telling Yang Jinshui to go see Jiajing immediately and tell him the details of the breached dikes and flooded fields?" "No, this is breached dikes and flooded fields! Millions of lives lost! A capital offense!"

"If Yang Jinshui tells Jiajing the details, he might even be executed by slow slicing. Isn't Lü Fang sending Yang Jinshui to his death?" "This is confusing me." Just then, Chen Yu felt a surge of emotion.

When he first watched the Ming Dynasty and saw the following line, he was deeply moved and truly understood how the Ming Dynasty's high-ranking officials viewed the common people.

Immediately, Chen Yu tapped his fingers, writing down Lü Fang's next reply to Yang Jinshui. [Lü Fang strolled to her desk, casually reviewing the memorials sent by the Directorate of Ceremonial, and calmly said something to Yang Jinshui.]

【You're doing this for the good of the palace.】

"What's rare is that you don't hide anything; that's the greatest loyalty." "It's just one or two counties. The Emperor's heart is with the entire nation. Say nothing more, prepare to see the Emperor." After Lü Fang uttered these lines, Chen Yu's live stream, as well as the scene inside and outside, fell silent. The next moment, shouts of shock, astonishment, and anger rang out. The chat was flooded with comments. "???"

"Holy crap, what is Lü Fang saying?"

"Yang Jinshui, in collusion with Yan's faction, launched a campaign to destroy dikes and flood fields. For the sake of hundreds of thousands of bolts of silk, they were willing to submerge the fields of millions of people, causing so many to be displaced. Isn't this an unforgivable crime?"

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"Why does it sound so light and airy coming from Lü Fang's mouth, as if the lives of millions of people have no weight at all?!"

"In his words, he's actually praising Yang Jinshui?" "Flooding one or two counties doesn't matter, as long as you're doing it for the good of the palace, as long as you don't hide anything from the emperor, as long as you, as a palace servant, have the utmost loyalty to the emperor, then it's still good?"

"One or two counties are nothing, but does His Majesty have the entire nation on his mind? What the hell? How could he utter such a beastly statement?!"

Many viewers felt their worldviews were about to be shattered at this moment. Before this, Lü Fang's behavior was relatively kind and gentle. For example, when Feng Bao tried to advance his career by bypassing his superiors, Lü Fang didn't kill him. Instead, she continued to recognize him as her godson, helping Feng Bao to consider a change of heart and giving him another path to take.

Despite being a eunuch, his behavior made him seem more like a benevolent elder. However, the opening lines of Act Fifteen revealed the true nature of Lü Fang.

His compassion and kindness were genuine, but those were for his adopted eunuch sons. As for the common people?

Lü Fang didn't care at all! What did it matter if one or two counties died?

As long as you are loyal to the emperor, you are innocent; it's not a big deal!

Meanwhile, some viewers also had an idea in mind. Chen Yu had said before, like master, like servant.

So, could we also say that the servants, especially the old servants who have been with their masters for so long, can reflect some of the master's qualities?

Lü Fang's statement, "It's just one or two counties; the Emperor's heart is set on the entire nation," reflects his true thoughts. But doesn't it also reveal his understanding of the Jiajing Emperor?

Isn't that Jiajing's true thought?

The thought of this sent chills down the spines of the audience, even through the script. "The Ming Dynasty's high-ranking officials, even Emperor Jiajing, didn't treat the common people like human beings at all." "Numbers, just cold, hard numbers."

"Those high-sounding words are all lies, nothing at all." "So what if one or two counties are flooded? To these high and mighty figures, compared to their grand schemes across the entire land, as long as they achieve their goals, it's insignificant!"

Of course, some viewers still held a sliver of hope, thinking that Jiajing was the emperor, after all, how could he remain indifferent to such a major event?

No matter what, Yang Jinshui should be punished, right? At the very least, he should be stripped of his official position, right? And then, the conversation between Yang Jinshui and Jiajing sent chills down the spines of all the viewers.

After Yang Jinshui's audience with the emperor, Jiajing began to inquire about the details of the breaching of the dikes and flooding of the fields.

For example, Yan Shifan's letter to Zheng Bichang and He Maocai, Ma Ningyuan's confession, and Yang Jinshui's explanation of why he thought Hu Zongxian did this.

After Yang Jinshui shared his analysis without reservation, Jiajing seemed very satisfied. Firstly, he was satisfied that Yang Jinshui was completely open and honest, which demonstrated loyalty.

Secondly, he was satisfied with Yang Jinshui's analysis; this eunuch was quite skilled and not a fool.

So Jiajing said something.

[Lü Fang, the Yang Jinshui you've used is quite capable.] [Don't reward him openly, but secretly reward him something.] Upon hearing this, the already overwhelming barrage of comments suddenly intensified several times over. No one could believe that Emperor Jiajing would have such an attitude towards Yang Jinshui, who participated in the breaching of the dikes and flooding of farmland. No execution, no dismissal, not even a symbolic punishment; instead, he praised Yang Jinshui's competence and said he should be secretly rewarded?!

The audience went wild.

"I feel like I'm immersed in an ice cave, my whole body is freezing, really." "I think this part is terrifying, more terrifying than any thriller."

"If I'm not mistaken, Jiajing said Yang Jinshui was efficient? He participated in destroying the dikes and flooding the fields, and you're praising him for being efficient?" "He doesn't openly reward Yang Jinshui, but he secretly rewards him for something. Holy crap, so in Jiajing's eyes, that's it?" "Millions of people, nothing at all, Jiajing didn't even mention it once..." At this moment, a viewer broke out in a cold sweat and summarized the passage. "I looked at it horizontally and vertically, flipped it over and over, and I could only see two words between the lines—'cannibalism!'" Even after Chen Yu typed the words "[End of Act Fifteen of the Ming Dynasty]", the audience's enthusiasm for discussion did not cool down in the slightest.

On the contrary, the phrase "The Emperor's heart is filled with the whole country" once again went viral on social media, dominating the charts on various platforms, and causing the popularity of Chen Yu's live broadcast room to continue to rise.

Meanwhile, in the other competition rooms, while Chen Yu was writing the fifteenth act, the contestants had already secretly obtained script guidance from the screenwriting teams of several top-tier film and television companies outside the competition room.

It must be said that these top-tier film and television companies have really pulled out all the stops to prevent Xiangyu Pictures from reaching the top tier. The screenwriting teams guiding these contestants include many industry-leading screenwriters, even some top-tier ones.

A few words were enough to enlighten these contestants, prompting them to go back and revise their earlier scenes. Looking at the revised scenes, their eyes shone with admiration. In their eyes, it was simply brilliant, several levels above their previous work. If they were to return to the first day to bid with such a script, they would certainly be offered at least a million.

Especially contestant number 6, Andrew, who was considered a top screenwriter abroad during his prime. However, his writing skills declined later on, and coupled with his inability to adapt to the market, he fell from grace.

But now, thanks to the collaborative efforts of the writing team behind him, Andrew's revised script has surpassed his previous peak and is now at a very high level even among scripts by top screenwriters.

"Just for the opening of this script, the starting bid is at least three million!" Andrew and the others looked on with anticipation.

In their view, their revised script was a significant improvement over the original, and they believed it would attract some viewers from "The Ming Dynasty." The livestream's popularity would certainly improve.

Thinking of the success of Chen Yu's "The Ming Dynasty," the flames of jealousy in their hearts were burning fiercely.

How can they accept that one person has overshadowed them all?

They now believe that Chen Yu must have used similar methods before, with a scriptwriting team guiding him from behind the scenes. Otherwise, how could he have such a phenomenal performance? Now that they have the same conditions, how could they be worse than Chen Yu?

They were absolutely certain they'd steal Chen Yu's thunder! The group eagerly clicked on the livestream, only to be stunned by the popularity numbers. "???"

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