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

Chapter 360, Huang Silang

At this moment.

It was time to join the film crew. The pre-production work for "Let the Bullets Fly" was complete, and all that was left was to go to the Diaolou (watchtowers) in Kaiping, Guangdong Province.

The next thing to happen is probably during or after filming, when "Lurking" will be released.

This patriotic TV series is about to be broadcast, and it is currently undergoing pre-broadcast promotion and publicity, with CCTV providing support in a steady and pragmatic manner.

For Li Yun...

In terms of television dramas, it is by no means something that can be easily neglected.

Conversely, in terms of TV dramas, domestic productions are currently still in their comfort zone.

Although each industry has its own unique characteristics, unlike the film industry which has been gradually eroded, domestically produced TV dramas remain the choice of a large portion of television viewers. Although it may sound a bit shameful to say this, it's because most domestic TV stations only broadcast domestically produced dramas.

The comfort zone means abundant resources, without having to compete fiercely with established foreign film and television industries.

You can slow down the pace of development a little.

Historical drama

Li Yun narrowed his eyes slightly.

Occasionally.

While sleeping.

Li Yun could feel the sensation of iron horses and icy rivers entering his dreams.

I dreamt that I became a general who had fought countless battles.

He also dreamed that he became the all-powerful prime minister.

Their personalities are already influencing themselves.

When they appear, you need to send them away, you need to "treat" them.

But Li Yun also seemed to miss the vivid feeling of fighting on the battlefield in his dreams.

If this season of "Lurking" receives a good response...

He will be able to compete for resources for historical dramas, just like Sun Honglei did back then.

"Kaiping County, Guangdong Province."

On the other side, after learning that Li Yun was going to Kaiping County to film a movie, Lu Zhengguang also sighed and shook his head softly.

Ultimately, it's all about fate.

Lu Zhengguang also watched the movie "Silenced" and expressed great admiration for it. If he submits it to an award, there is still a chance that it will get a nomination.

He declined to comment on Li Yun's plan to invest all the profits from his next film.

Everyone has their own choices.

The greatest power of an adult is the power to take full responsibility for their actions.

After hearing that it was Kaiping County, Lu Zhengguang still made a phone call.

"Old Lu."

"Little Li, do you think this old man is bothering you?"

"How could that be, Elder Lu?"

Li Yun respected Old Man Lu very much. This old man was the one from whom Li Yun truly felt a sense of 'family'.

Li Yun also cherished this elder who cared about her very much.

"Kaiping County, you know it, right? That's your mother's hometown."

"I know"

Li Yun thought for a moment, then nodded.

Li Yun still had a vague idea about this place, since he had grown up in an orphanage since he was a child.

To be honest, there are too many pale parts in my memory.

Too vague.

Deep down, there's still a kind of attachment to one's homeland.

This is a bodily instinct.

It's haunting me.

however.

Li Yun's first thought was whether this instinctive attachment to his hometown could be beneficial to his acting career.

Can that feeling of belonging to one's hometown be utilized in the role and in filming?

Does my "Huang Silang" need this kind of emotion?

When she thought of her mother's hometown, she was surprised to feel such emotions. Even Li Yun was somewhat astonished by her own thoughts.

That's quite surprising.

Even he was surprised by his own thoughts.

He was actually thinking about turning this feeling into a powerful technique.

Even the director himself admires Li Yun for this.

This point must also be acknowledged.

He channeled all his emotions into his acting.

I'm thinking about whether there's any way to improve.

To have come this far.

It is definitely not purely due to external help.

Absolutely not.

He arrived in Kaiping County with an emotional state of mind, reflecting on his role.

To put it nicely, this is a very well-preserved cultural site.

To put it bluntly...

This place is actually quite poor.

A barren place.

There are not many resources.

Using this place, Goose Town, where taxes were collected 80 years later, is quite a fitting choice.

The taxes in Goose City have been collected for 80 years, and the people are all poor; there's no more profit to be made from them.

The culprit is none other than himself, Huang Silang.

Together with each of the previous county magistrates, they ruthlessly squeezed money from the local people, leaving the area desolate and barren.

Huang Silang is despicable.

To transform one's hometown into this state.

He is an absolutely heinous criminal.

At this time, Li Yun also had rather complicated feelings towards Kaiping County. On the one hand, it was his mother's hometown, and there were still memories of his family there.

The emotions that remain here are in stark contrast to Huang Silang's cruelty towards this land.

Contradictory.

"Sometimes you have to understand one thing: an actor is an actor, and a role is a role. If you keep confusing the two, aren't you afraid you'll really go crazy?" The director asked Li Yun this question in a teasing tone.

At least for him, it didn't matter whether Li Yun was really crazy or not.

I'm just a little curious about everything he's sacrificed for this path.

Occasionally, he can inspire admiration.

But it does make people think about it sometimes.

Is this kind of abnormal madness really a good thing?

"That's not contradictory. At least I think it's quite interesting. Very interesting."

At this moment, Li Yun smiled with narrowed eyes.

Turn everything you experience in life into lessons.

This is something that actors should do.

Go perform, go experience, go become that person.

There are also many poor and underdeveloped counties and districts in the Pearl River Delta region.

He wasn't as wealthy as he had imagined.

That's how it is in Kaiping County.

When Li Yun stepped into this place, when his own emotions were fluctuating.

Emotions arising from this body.

In a sense, the body and consciousness are thought separately.

It's as if I've taken over this body; the lingering emotions won't affect me.

The jumbled personalities in my head have far more influence than your physical body.

But that feeling does indeed exist.

Just like Ip Man and the others.

For me, false emotions do indeed exist.

Li Yun could even feel the emotions welling up inside his body.

That's something called rejection.

Yes, Li Yun sensed it.

That feeling of rejection within the body.

It is poverty.

It is backward.

For him, his mother was a source of warmth, but also of poverty.

My hometown is backward, and I didn't receive any proper education there. I had to drop out of school early to work, and I almost died in Hengdian.

To die humbly on the road to one's dreams.

Because of poverty, because of backwardness.

I hate poverty and backwardness.

Even if that place is my hometown.

I hate it too.

Li Yun's thoughts were confused by physical emotions.

Li Yun calmly observed the surging emotions, observing them detachedly, just as he would observe the emotions of other personalities.

Despite the intense fluctuations, I was able to remain calm and composed.

To observe from an outsider's perspective.

That kind of loathing for one's origins.

This leads to extreme emotions.

On what grounds?

Why am I born inferior to others?

Without parental love, without emotional support.

He had always been accompanied by loneliness, and his final obsession was simply to take revenge on his own blood relatives.

However, this revenge was cut short before he died.

There was no result for this body.

With regret.

It's still quite a pity.

They were unwilling to spend their entire lives in poverty.

Not to mention material enjoyment.

Yes, that's right, I'm not willing to accept it.

That feeling of resentment was exceptionally strong.

Why am I the one who is poor? Why wasn't I born in a wealthy place?

Why should I be poor?

How wonderful it would be if I were born a native of Beijing.

I will be better than others at that time.

I will have everything that others have, I will be born with a head start, and my life will be a smooth road.

I admire, I feel sorrow, I don't know why I have to go through all of this.

All I know is that this world is unfair.

All I know is that this world is divided into strong and weak, and the law of the jungle prevails. If I were strong, I would devour all the weak.

I am absolutely not reconciled.

At this moment, Li Yun felt this emotion.

If, if I were...

If I were the original me in this body, and I had another chance, a chance to become a superior person, a chance to become an oppressor at the top of the food chain.

If this place were my hometown.

A place that gave me birth and raised me, but which I do not love. It brought me only poverty, backwardness and ignorance. When such a place and such a person as me exist.

What kind of person will I become?

At this moment, Li Yun felt his body trembling.

The soul's consciousness began to move in another direction.

The well-dressed, refined man in front of Li Yun suddenly turned hostile and stared at him, as if all his pretense had been exposed.

He became arrogant and monstrous, his very being a creature of the jungle, driven by a thirst for power and a desire to be strong.

Because he has lost it before, he will do everything in his power to seize it now that he has it.

He caught him now.

So he became a person.

He became Huang Silang.

Because he was once weak, when he was given the chance to change his fate, he turned into a monster.

A monster devoid of humanity.

Wealth, animalistic instincts, everything.

"If I were given a chance to change my fate, a chance to reach out a knife to the weaker and seize their resources, what kind of person would I become?"

"So this is what it means to become Huang Silang, that ruthless villain who only cares about profit. Indeed, Huang Silang is a perfect example of someone who has no conscience, only knows how to seize profits, and has lost all sense of morality."

Li Yun looked at himself in the mirror, at the grotesque and blurry image of a refined man, his true appearance clearly revealed.

This face is Li Yun's own face.

Huang Silang's face.

(End of this chapter)