I'm not mentally ill, I'm a master of a thousand faces!

Chapter 161, Anger

"How did your script reading go?"

"Director Yu, am I alright here?"

Yu Mingsheng's presence here wasn't surprising, as the Heavenly Court group consisted of veteran actors.

They are all treasure actors from CCTV.

If things still don't go smoothly even like this.

That's definitely not a problem with these veteran actors.

at this time.

Yu Mingsheng paused for a moment before speaking.

"How is our Erlang Shen doing? Have those veteran actors said anything?"

Yang Hui pondered for a moment before speaking.

"Can act."

This is the conclusion reached by veteran actors during the reading session.

Whether they can handle their performances is another matter.

But the role.

Yes, she can act.

Capable of the task.

However, it cannot be said to be particularly good; this is debatable.

"As long as I can act, that's good enough."

Yu Mingsheng was fairly satisfied with this answer.

He can act.

The focus was originally intended to be on the agarwood youth group.

It's still a story of a young man's underdog triumph.

Ye Jiunian wanted young people and teenagers to gain something from this story.

This is also a point of contention between Yu Mingsheng and Ye Jiunian.

Yu Mingsheng believes that a work only needs to please a certain group of people.

Wanting to have it all, wanting to win everything.

The final result will only be losing everything.

At this moment, Ye Jiunian, with dark circles under his eyes, brought over a stack of final drafts.

These are all things he worked on all night.

"The script is almost ready, except for the one for Erlang Shen, which I'm a little unsure about."

"Go check on how the readings are going with the Heavenly Court group," Yu Mingsheng said with a smile, looking at Ye Jiunian's conflicted expression. "Don't worry so much, you'll stop worrying once you see it."

According to information from Yang Hui's side...

The experienced veteran actors in the Heavenly Court group all felt that Li Yun was only at the level of "being able to act".

If Ye Jiunian were to see it for himself, he probably wouldn't get hung up on unrealistic things like personality flickering or character arcs.

We need to polish the script for the junior group properly.

That's fine.

Li Yun's reading aloud to the Heavenly Court group continued, further deepening the impression on the veteran actors.

He can act.

However, how well they will perform when filming begins remains to be seen.

However, the Heavenly Court group's scenes were already expected to be cut once.

It doesn't matter anymore.

Li Yun, on the other hand, was reading the scripts for each character: the Jade Emperor, the Queen Mother of the West, Chang'e, Pigsy, and so on.

Everyone's script.

Li Yun even went and asked for a copy of Chenxiang's script.

"Can you even finish reading so many scripts, and they're not even the final versions?" Yang Hui said, but he still gave the script to Li Yun.

"It's okay. As long as the basic character settings remain the same and their perspectives don't change, it's fine."

That's true. The final version of the script is just being polished and hasn't been changed much.

Li Yun smiled and took the script.

From someone else's script.

A copy.

Go and see.

Look at Erlang Shen in their eyes.

What is he really like?

"Erlang Shen? What kind of person are you?"

"You possess both divinity and humanity. As a human being, you are Liu Chenxiang's uncle and the Third Holy Mother's brother. But as a divine being, you persecuted your sister and suppressed her under the mountain for the sake of so-called heavenly rules and discipline, simply because she fell in love with a mortal and had a child with him."

"You despise Liu Yanchang, this mortal, but you don't hate Chen Xiang, this demigod—because he's your nephew."

"In this story, Chenxiang and his friends shouted about love, bonds, and family ties as they rushed towards you and towards the Heavenly Court, ultimately defeating the Heavenly Court that represented evil. And then there's you, Chenxiang's uncle, who finally repented and realized the great love in the human world."

"You are clearly the strongest person in Heaven, yet you have repeatedly failed in your efforts to capture Chenxiang, allowing him to grow stronger. It's hard not to think that you were deliberately letting him win."

At night.

Li Yun looked at the middle-aged scholar beside him; at this moment, his appearance had already changed.

His long robe had transformed into silver chainmail, and his hands, clasped behind his back, held a double-edged, three-pointed dagger.

He's almost become that judicial god.

He's become Yang Jian.

but.

On his forehead.

That represented his third eye, but it never grew.

But it's still here.

The God of Justice, representing order, has been absolutely loyal to the laws of Heaven for thousands of years. However, when his own family members committed a grave mistake, he began to question the laws of Heaven and even tried to subvert and change them.

Everything he did was for the growth of agarwood.

Everything he did was in the hope that the Heavenly Laws would be amended.

This is Erlang Shen from the script.

But what Li Yun wanted to figure out was...

What does Erlang Shen truly want?

His desires, his obsessions, his goals.

He genuinely cared about training Chenxiang and tormenting his sister; he felt that if his nephew couldn't grow up, it wouldn't matter if he died.

Chenxiang wants to split the mountain to save his mother, to revise the corrupt heavenly rules, to bring joy to his family, to reunite his entire family, and to break the cruel old order.

At this moment.

Erlang Shen said calmly.

"Do you really think the people of Heaven are wrong? The Queen Mother of the West's heavenly rules forbid humans from falling in love with gods. Where did she go wrong?"

"Why should I willingly enforce this ironclad law for thousands of years?"

The prequel to the previous life of Lotus Lantern filled in this plot hole, but Li Yun, who had watched the show, strongly suspected that it was a patch added later.

Moreover, the hole wasn't filled in very well.

At least in the early stages, Yang Jian genuinely upheld the laws of the Heavenly Trial, the laws that had remained unchanged for thousands of years.

Erlang Shen Yang Jian is also a hybrid of human and god, born to his mother Yao Ji and another woman.

The story of splitting the mountain to save his mother is based on Yang Jian.

With a single axe stroke, Peach Mountain was cleaved in two.

They saved Yao Ji.

It has undergone changes in legends and stories.

That's how it came about in various versions of splitting the mountain to save one's mother.

"Yes, if you were a good person, if you truly supported Chenxiang splitting the mountain to save his mother and amending the Heavenly Laws, you wouldn't have adhered to the Heavenly Laws for thousands of years, only to suddenly repent at this moment."

"As the God of Justice, you have been loyal for a thousand years, but in the end, it all boils down to one thing."

"So you also agree with this law!"

At this moment.

Li Yun figured it out.

Yang Jian's third eye on his forehead also opened.

Yes.

He is Chenxiang's uncle, and he supports Chenxiang in honing his skills.

But he is truly a god of justice.

I genuinely believe that these heavenly rules are corrupt.

And they genuinely uphold this precept.

Ultimately, it's because he doesn't think it's wrong.

I don't think what I'm protecting is wrong!

In the script of Lotus Lantern.

Yang Jian is contradictory.

If he truly believes the Heavenly Laws are wrong, yet remains steadfast in his duties for a thousand years, and then goes on to help Chenxiang.

Ultimately, it boils down to his favoritism towards his relatives, regardless of the facts.

This weakens his starting point.

He represents the celestial court's justice system.

The rules governing the universe.

His sudden repentance is untenable.

He can indeed possess both divinity and humanity.

His humanity stems from his roles as an uncle, an elder brother, and a family member.

His divinity stems from his adherence to duties and rules that he has upheld for millennia.

He agrees with this responsibility.

Identify with

One's own responsibilities.

As God Himself.

Li Yun tonight.

I didn't dream.

It was a real, tangible feeling that "I" had become Erlang Shen.

There was no sense of ambiguity like in a dream.

It felt like being there.

as if

right here.

At that time, "I" was not yet the True Lord Qingyuan Daomiao.

I am still Yang Jian.

I am still the son of Yao Ji.

I have a younger sister, who will later become the Third Holy Mother; her name is Yang Chan.

At that time

All I know is that I live in a quiet village, my mother is a renowned beauty, and my father is a scholar.

This is Yang Jian.

His parents.

Their fates were exactly the same as those of Chenxiang's parents.

the difference is.

The Third Holy Mother is Yang Jian's younger sister.

Yao Ji was the younger sister of the Jade Emperor.

He is the nephew of the Jade Emperor.

for real.

The King of Gods.

The blood relatives of the Jade Emperor.

However, my birth was not accepted by the world.

Hated, loathed, and despised by heaven and earth!

Because I am a hybrid of god and man.

It is the hatred of heaven and earth.

At this moment, Li Yun sneered.

"Ridiculous, no one's birth should be abhorrent."

"Really? Then why didn't your father want you? He didn't want your mother, letting her die alone in the hospital, leaving you all alone from childhood to adulthood. Did he even know he had a son named Li Yun?"

"Because some people are born with hatred. Not everyone is born into this world with love in their heart. It may be a mistake, a dirty mistake, a beautiful mistake, but ultimately, it's not the right one."

Yang Jian's birth was hated by heaven and earth.

And my birth

He was then hated by his father's family.

Therefore, he was impoverished and destitute, and thus all alone.

So even after his mother died, he never even came to see her.

this world.

It was so desperate.

It was so gloomy.

"Damn it! Damn it! Kill ...

at this time.

Li Yun was shaking the mirror in the hotel bathroom.

In the dead of night.

That feeling of being disliked and hated.

Feel the same.

Yang Jian, born of a human and a god, was hated by heaven and earth. Since you hate me, why should I follow your laws, why should I abide by your rules, why should I follow your regulations? Why not let Chenxiang sever these heavenly laws in one fell swoop?

You, heaven and earth, have all despised me.

Why should I do it well?

I was born out of necessity, Li Yun.

Since you are disliked by everyone, and since that damned father has abandoned you and left without a trace, you still ridiculously seek his approval and embark on the path of becoming an actor.

You guys are all pretty funny.

but.

This kind of "anger".

This feeling of "unwillingness"

It can be used as an emotion.

He merged into Yang Jian, and into Erlang Shen.

It made me feel the same way, and it resonated with me when I was acting.

I can also empathize with this feeling of disgust.

Transform him into indifference and cold-bloodedness.

Yang Jian, that's the kind of person he should be.

He was supposed to be that kind of person.

"child."