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

Chapter 316, You Too Are Prey of Mount Emei

A name is a way of recognizing a person.

This was the initial way people perceived Yu Zecheng.

His name is Li Yun, an actor with a special aerospace force background, and a man who won the Golden Eagle Award for Best Supporting Actor.

A fairly outstanding member of the new generation.

An actor whose name is memorable.

But what about now?

His name has been forgotten.

Even what is personality?

All I remember is that he went crazy for a while when filming started.

A very minor incident.

An unexpected interlude that made people think of nowhere else, only making them feel that Li Yun was a little too flamboyant.

I didn't feel anything else either.

Until filming began.

Li Yun's name has been almost forgotten.

Who exactly is this handsome young man?

The feeling I get these past few days.

That is Yu Zecheng.

Like the old stationmaster played by Feng He'en, he has given people the feeling that he is no longer just anyone these days.

Instead, he was the former stationmaster of Tianjing Station.

It's Station Master Wu.

This suddenly brings to mind.

The last time Gao Yuanyuan said that an actress gave her this strange feeling was...

It was still Li Yun.

Someone who, in my opinion, can be compared to a national first-class actor like Feng He'en.

To be honest, at the beginning.

Everyone thought Gao Yuanyuan was joking.

I genuinely thought he was just joking.

Even today.

Whether it's a joke or not is hard to say.

At least that absolutely natural feeling.

Currently, only Li Yuncai in the crew has shown such qualities.

This is an absolutely outstanding quality.

This characteristic is undoubtedly astonishing.

At least in terms of feeling, being able to look exactly like a veteran actor is enough to be shocking.

"That's so natural, to be honest. I was quite impressed with him at first."

Wang Gang also became serious at this moment.

I have a very deep impression of Li Yun.

After all, his position within the system is something that even those who are already in the system envy.

Why bite somewhere?

They can enjoy the stable benefits of being a government employee, but they can also stir up trouble among the people.

To say that I wasn't jealous at all would be a lie.

Only someone like Feng He'en, who doesn't pursue worldly fame and fortune and values ​​the peak of their career and the enjoyment of the process, wouldn't feel jealous.

But how many truly remarkable people are there in this world?

How many people can truly escape the mundane?

There aren't many.

Li Yun left a deep impression on him.

But in the few days since filming began, his impression of Li Yun has become increasingly vague.

He is no longer the winner of the Golden Eagle Award for Best Supporting Actor.

He was no longer a special member of the Aerospace Force.

He's no longer the guy who suddenly went crazy in the hotel, the one who seemed like a attention-seeker.

He's like a completely different person now.

No, it's not that he/she has become a different person.

It started from the very beginning.

The person who appeared before everyone was not Li Yun.

What's somewhat inexplicably creepy is...

From that moment on, he became Yu Zecheng, and he was no longer Li Yun.

Saying.

People we know.

It should be Yu Zecheng.

As the director, Jiang Wei didn't initially have a deep impression of Li Yun's acting skills.

His outstanding performance in The Return of the Condor Heroes.

There was also a profound resonance with Mr. Jin Yong himself.

Because he is the original author.

Jiang Wei seems to know what it feels like to be the original author now.

Although "Lurking" is adapted from other novels, in reality, it was mostly adapted by the screenwriter himself.

It can be said that "Lurking" is a semi-original work of his.

Perhaps his current mindset is closer to that of Jin Yong when he read The Return of the Condor Heroes.

When he saw his character come to life before his eyes.

That's not acting.

That's the natural thing about him becoming that person.

He naturally became him.

He became Yu Zecheng.

Just like Feng He'en became Station Master Wu.

"It truly lives up to its reputation."

To be honest, Jiang Wei murmured as he saw the scene before him.

Li Yun's performance was somewhat beyond his expectations, at least much better than he had anticipated.

At present.

The entire crew gave him that feeling.

Only Feng He'en, Wang Gang, and Liang Xiang, who are second-tier, are still a bit lacking.

If it's Li Yun.

He can do it.

In this spy drama that focuses on small-scale scenes.

Chatting and laughing with these veteran actors

The natural feeling made Li Yun no longer Li Yun, but Yu Zecheng.

A young man who wears glasses and is somewhat simple-minded in private.

A young man who even looks somewhat ordinary.

He worked in the Military Intelligence Bureau's cryptography department.

Responsible for eavesdropping.

After get off work, he would take Zuo Lan to her favorite noodle soup shop.

He ordered a pork offal soup noodle dish, perhaps because his salary wasn't high enough at the time, so he only allowed Zuo Lan to eat it each time.

He was just an ordinary big boy.

"How is it? Is it delicious?"

"tasty."

Wearing a large shirt, Yu Zecheng smiled憨厚ly. In front of him was his love interest, Zuo Lan.

Yu Zecheng had already planned out his future with Zuo Lan.

After the dog days surrender.

Let's get married.

This is a good day.

A pretty good day for both of us.

May I?

Zuo Lan agreed.

But she also mentioned something.

After the War of Resistance against Japan ended.

Is it really all over?

There might be some minor friction.

But we'll always be one family.

If you sit down and have a good talk, good things will always happen.

Zuo Lan, however, did not believe it.

She absolutely did not believe that everyone could sit down and have a proper talk. If they could talk, everything would be peaceful by now.

after all.

The bald man made it clear that he opposed the idea of ​​two families being treated as one.

Yes, who would willingly hand over their throne to someone else when they feel they have the upper hand?

Yu Zecheng believed it, and even believed it with unwavering conviction.

Although everyone has different ideals, the friendship between them, who have fought side by side for many years, is genuine. Since they are all comrades-in-arms, they can talk about anything.

The chairman knows what to do.

Yu Zecheng now deeply believes in the Chairman.

It should be so.

Zuo Lan was making very left-wing remarks here, and Yu Zecheng was carefully warning her.

This is Qingcheng, a city teeming with Kuomintang agents. One must be careful with one's words and actions. However, Zuo Lan, a progressive student, is not afraid of this and bluntly states that the Kuomintang agents are like rats in the gutter.

Little did she know that the man in front of her was a member of the Military Intelligence Bureau.

But did Zuo Lan really not know?

Who knows?

But Yu Zecheng doesn't care anymore.

He was just a nobody. After the war ended, his greatest dream was to have three chubby babies, buy a small house in Qingcheng with Zuo Lan, and settle down happily. How wonderful it would be if she could take care of the family and he could earn money to support them.

At that moment, Yu Zecheng suddenly revealed a silly grin.

It was a very happy smile, the look of a sunny young man filled with anticipation as he looked towards the future.

It wasn't until Yu Zecheng, as a Kuomintang agent, overheard the conversation about "Zuo Lan" that this happened.

He panicked.

Zuo Lan, she is from Yan'an, this woman with whom he confided his love, but she and he stood on opposing sides.

They are enemies of the Military Intelligence Bureau.

They are one's own enemies.

When reporting intelligence, Yu Zecheng made his own choice.

He concealed the information about Zuo Lan.

Very decisive.

What kind of person was Yu Zecheng?

A spy.

The image of a spy in my mind is one who is always unyielding and willing to die for his cause; that's what makes a spy.

He decisively deceived his superiors and subordinates for the sake of a woman.

This was Yu Zecheng's first impression.

Even Jiang Wei himself felt that Li Yun's portrayal of Yu Zecheng was too decisive, as decisive as... to use a popular phrase.

Is it called "love-obsessed"?

Yes, it's love-struck.

When it comes to career and love, they choose love without hesitation.

Is this the kind of character that should appear in a spy drama?

Jiang Wei was unaware that, in fact, he had indeed hidden Zuo Lan's scarf in the scenes he gave Yu Zecheng here.

But the emotions here can be entangled, complex, or even hesitant.

But the "Yu Zecheng" in front of us chose the emotion of "decisiveness".

He decisively hid all information about Zuo Lan.

This action was even witnessed by Wu Zongfang, who was standing nearby.

Wu Zongfang was Yu Zecheng's first superior. If Wu Zongfang hadn't been from Yan'an, Yu Zecheng's story would have ended here!

"This Yu Zecheng is too ruthless," Peng Yuyan said in a low voice. He wasn't questioning Li Yun's acting skills, but the setting here made him very suspicious. Was he really acting like a professional spy?

Eddie Peng is also playing a spy this time.

His name is Xie Ruolin, but his spy, in a sense, is a contrast to the spy of the protagonist Yu Zecheng.

Xie Ruolin was after money.

Yu Zecheng. Here, it's all for a woman.

He almost got himself killed because of a woman.

How could someone like that be a good spy?

If Li Yun's acting skills were outstanding, and the sense of immersion and naturalness he conveyed was truly impressive, they were all deeply moved.

But there's the issue of this role.

It's not about the actors anymore.

It was right at the decision made by screenwriter and director Jiang Wei.

Should we cut it, or let Li Yun continue acting?

Everyone posed this question to Jiang Wei.

Jiang Wei remained silent for a moment before making his decision.

play.

Continue the performance.

But Jiang Wei's biggest dilemma right now is that Yu Zecheng, played by Li Yun, has already slipped out of his control.

He is no longer Yu Zecheng from his own script.

No longer a character who steps out of their own script.

Rather, it is an individual who controls their own destiny.

An independent individual

The script for "Lurking" is very tight.

The beginning, in particular, is so fast-paced that it's almost unbelievable how tightly packed it is.

In just a few days of filming, which is practically half an episode in total, the character Lü Zongfang, who appeared at the very beginning and was almost a first-class actor, finished filming here.

Here, Lü Zongfang and Yu Zecheng prepare to assassinate the traitor Li Haifeng.

The main reason why Lü Zongfang assigned Yu Zecheng to do this was probably to protect Yu Zecheng. After all, his act of secretly hiding information about Zuo Lan was not very clever. If someone were to investigate, it wouldn't be difficult to find out the relationship between Yu Zecheng and Zuo Lan.

Stay away from Qingcheng, this place of trouble.

Lü Zongfang may know that Yu Zecheng does not want internal strife.

From beginning to end, my greatest wish was simply to drive out the Japanese devils, nothing more.

However, after arriving at the mission location, Lü Zongfang died as a result.

He was killed by Ma Kui, played by Liang Xiang.

They sent him away without hesitation.

An elder who had shown him kindness and support was murdered right before his eyes.

Yu Zecheng had no time to grieve.

His task was to fulfill the wishes of his elders and superiors.

Go and kill Li Haifeng, a traitor and former "code expert" of the Military Intelligence Bureau, who defected to the Wang Jingwei regime on the eve of the Japanese surrender.

At this moment, Yu Zecheng transformed into a lone warrior.

One man, armed with a Mauser pistol, intercepted Li Haifeng's car.

The conversation between the two was brief.

Which side are you from?

From Yan'an.

It's still from Nanjing.

Yu Zecheng said, "It's about resisting Japan."

He could deceive his superiors and subordinates for the sake of a woman.

To deceive the superior.

It makes him seem like a love-obsessed person.

But in reality, Yu Zecheng's stance began to be fully revealed to the public from this moment on.

He cares about Zuo Lan.

They also cared about resisting Japan.

But at this time.

Yu Zecheng truly didn't care whether he was surnamed S or Z in this society.

He served the Kuomintang military intelligence service purely because the Nationalist government was in power at the time.

He graduated from a school affiliated with the Military Intelligence Bureau, that's all, and there's not much connection between them.

That's just the kind of person he is.

Later on, he even agreed to become "Emei Peak".

It was also because Zuo Lan was willing to risk his life for Yan'an.

That's why he chose Yan'an.

After the victory in the War of Resistance against Japan.

In his somewhat naive fantasy.

Everything can be discussed properly by sitting down.

However, after one incident, his stance shifted when he discovered that the head of the Military Intelligence Bureau was Boss Dai.

In order to reclaim the assets seized by the Japanese, he actually sold intelligence to them.

this kind of thing.

The high command of the Military Intelligence Bureau did not hide it from him.

It was done in front of Yu Zecheng.

This left Yu Zecheng feeling incredulous.

This was also the first time his mindset had changed.

At least, the people in Yan'an.

I wouldn't do something like that.

Having visited Yan'an once, Yu Zecheng thought to himself in this way.

You can also tell from the micro-expressions on their faces.

Yu Zecheng's change of mindset.

It will be presented in its entirety right here.

His mindset began to change, and a transformation took place.

At this time.

Li Yun's portrayal of Yu Zecheng

At this point, Feng He'en also began to feel eager to try.

"I never imagined I would want to act opposite a young man like this."

Feng He'en originally came here to perform and have fun.

But Li Yun's behavior seemed to be telling him that acting out scenes is a two-person affair.

Until later, during a one-man show.

When Li Yun is alone.

The genuine fear that flickered in his eyes.

As he smiled and said goodbye to the leaders and Mr. Dai.

The fear on his face was obvious.

He is a spy.

A spy who lives in the shadows.

He was in the Military Intelligence Bureau.

He was the same in Yan'an.

While talking to Wang Cuiping about the fears of being a spy.

That chilling cold that seeps deep into your bones.

Do you know how the last comrade from Yan'an sacrificed his life here?

He said it in his dream.

Give the tea to Comrade Li.

Then all his comrades along the same line were pulled out.

It was all because of something he said in his sleep.

Regardless of Li Yun's language.

Or perhaps it was the slight trembling in his body.

All of this is explaining the matter.

This included Jiang Wei and his group.

Only then did I begin to realize what was happening.

Spying is not child's play.

It's a very cruel and cold thing.

His fear.

It's like telling everyone.

What exactly is the lifestyle of a spy?

Even in dreams, one must follow certain disciplines.

I can't say it.

Otherwise, you and your comrades will suffer as well.

The emotions presented by Li Yun.

Even the atmosphere made the undercover film crew feel somewhat oppressed.

This dull and oppressive feeling.

The fact that the film crew was infiltrated at the beginning was unprecedented.

"I feel the atmosphere has changed a bit," Peng Yuyan said softly, though he also felt a chill run down his spine.

He is not a spy.

Even though he's an intelligence broker known to both sides, because he doesn't pledge allegiance to anyone, you can get intelligence from him if you have money. This makes him feel the safest and most uninvolved.

They are also the ones who can stay clear-headed in this kind of atmosphere.

He has no faith.

Or rather, this character has no beliefs or stance.

He even communicates with people from the Ugly Country, so where does his stance come from?

But now he could feel that the two sides in the crew had suddenly become tense and cold.

Station Chief Wu, Ma Kui, Li Ya, Mr. Dai, Zuo Lan and Comrade Li on the other side, and Commander Wu who has already died and finished filming.

The atmosphere between the two sides, the subtle changes that occurred, and the dryness and coldness.

This is his first time filming a spy drama.

I also know that spy dramas are different from other genres in some ways.

But I never expected it to be so different.

Such an inevitable change in atmosphere.

"He single-handedly changed the atmosphere of the entire crew?"

At this moment, Jiang Wei was also somewhat shocked.

Acting skills are one aspect.

But it brought with it a change in the aura and atmosphere of the entire crew.

This is something that not everyone can do.

His micro-expressions and his fear seemed to tell everyone that he had always lived in the shadows, under the surveillance of the Military Intelligence Bureau during his time at Tianjing Station.

wrong.

Not Tianjing Station, he had lived in this atmosphere from the very beginning. He was a Kuomintang agent, a seasoned Kuomintang agent.

That subtle feeling of fear and vulnerability.

It gives people a greater sense of feeling.

I think Yu Zecheng is a human being.

He is a living, breathing person with his own principles and stance. He can change because of certain things, but he also has bottom lines that should not be changed.

But at this moment.

Something chilling happened.

Yu Zecheng.

His face, which had just been filled with subtle fear because a comrade had dreamt of being arrested, suddenly became beaming with smiles, and he became Yu Zecheng of Tianjing Station again.

He transformed back into that Emei Peak, his face flawless.

So, who exactly was the naive young man who fell in love with Zuo Lan? It was Yu Zecheng.

Is he still that seasoned spy, skilled at handling surveillance and with extensive experience behind enemy lines?

He was still that man who, for a moment, revealed a hint of fear.

Or perhaps he's the kind-hearted guy at Tianjing Station.

That smile that switches so seamlessly.

This sent a chill down the spines of Station Chief Wu, Ma Kui, and the actors Li Ya.

The coldness spread from my feet to the top of my head.

Yes, the eyes in the shadows are fixed on Mount Emei.

Mount Emei.

They were also being watched.

They, too, are prey of Mount Emei.

(End of this chapter)