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Chapter 13: Love is unknown

Liu Shishi and Li Qi have become more and more familiar with each other recently. They often receive messages from each other, ask about each other’s meals, and say good night before going to bed!

However, most of the time they were talking about the script, and acting together was a very important thing for them at the moment.

Finally, with Li Qi’s unremitting efforts, he invited Liu Shishi to his home. As for how he did it, it was probably to have lunch first, and after lunch, he said there was nothing fun to do, so why not talk about the script and rehearse the scenes?

Shishi is a good actor, so of course she expressed her support. As for going to Li Qi’s house, it’s broad daylight, what’s the problem with that!

Li Qi got the final version of the”Startling by Each Step” script from director Lin Jianfen very early on.

Through the descriptions in the novel and the script, I got to know the character I was going to play, the Eighth Prince.

The breeze and the moon are as gentle as jade. Because of her mother’s low status, she has a smooth and versatile style of doing things. She is kind to others but also calculating. She has a romantic impulse and infatuation for love, but still cannot resist the desire for power. She wanted to get Ruolan but got her lifelong resentment; she wanted to get Ruoxi but was abandoned by her after getting her; when she knew who she loved, she lost the selfless and true love of the legitimate wife.

As for the gentle breeze and moon, as soft as jade, this kind of temperament given by the outside world requires the understanding of the actors, and they need to think about it from all aspects, such as walking, sitting, lying, emotions, character personality, speaking speed, tone, etc.

Li Qi’s performance style is closer to expressionism. He cannot interpret the role of an ancient prince in an experiential way. Of course, if it is a modern drama, for example, if the role has industry characteristics, Li Qi will still choose to spend time to experience it.

As for the impression of”Startling by Each Step” in his previous life, Li Qi can only retain some good aspects. After all, the overall age of the cast in the previous version was relatively old, which can be said to be the middle-aged version of”Startling by Each Step”.》

To put it bluntly, this drama is not a traditional historical drama, but a costume idol romance drama, so of course they have to find younger actors. However, everyone knows the nature of Tangren Films, which prefers actors from Hong Kong and Taiwan, which is one of the reasons why they later fell into decline.

As for Maertai Ruoxi played by Liu Shishi, she hesitated between the Eighth Prince and the Fourth Prince, and was also emotionally entangled with the Thirteenth Prince and the Fourteenth Prince. The more Li Qi understood, the more difficult it was for him to accept. Fortunately, he was not an experienced actor, otherwise he would have collapsed.

“The heroine Ruoxi hoped that the Eighth Prince would give up the fight for the throne, but the Eighth Prince refused. Ruoxi turned around and sided with his opponent, the Fourth Prince. Shishi, what do you think of this plot?”Li Qi looked at Shishi and asked

“This shows that the Eighth Prince does not put Ruoxi first in his heart. The most important thing in his heart is the throne of the emperor. Ruoxi feels that the Eighth Prince does not love her enough. Can’t he give up all these for Ruoxi?”Liu Shishi said

Li Qi then asked,”Between the throne of the emperor and the woman you love, Ruoxi, can you only choose one?”

Liu Shishi said seriously:”Between the country and the beauty, in the heart of the Eighth Prince, he chose the country, so why did Ruoxi want to be with him? Is this Ruoxi still the same Ruoxi? She is not worth her efforts!”

Liu Shishi has been reading this novel and studying the script recently. Gradually, she has been putting herself more and more into the shoes of the heroine Ruoxi. Li Qi can feel some of her changes. She feels sad about the passing of time from time to time, and even the way she walks and talks has become similar. This cannot be allowed!

Li Qi looked at the biography he had written: Aixinjueluo Yinsi, the eighth prince of the Qing Dynasty, was born to Consort Liang Wei. He was raised by Consort Hui when he was young, and was praised by the ministers for his virtue. The eighth prince was loved by Emperor Kang since he was young, and was named Beile at the age of seventeen, the youngest prince to be given a title at that time.

Emperor Kangdi once appointed the Eighth Prince to manage the Guangshan Treasury, rebuild the Dongyue Temple, and act as the chief of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. When the incident of deposing the crown prince occurred, the Eighth Prince and his accomplices were eager to try.

However, Emperor Kang was disgusted by the Eighth Prince’s use of Zhang Mingde’s face reading to select his heir, which greatly damaged the Eighth Prince’s image in his heart. The Eighth Prince’s personal prestige and private party power were greatly damaged, but the Eighth Prince himself was unwilling to admit defeat. In the last ten years of the Kang Dynasty, he did not give up the fight for the position of Crown Prince.

On November 13, the 61st year of the Kang Dynasty, Emperor Kang passed away. Yinsi, who had thought that his accomplice, the 14th prince, would succeed to the throne, was shocked when he saw the 4th prince succeed to the throne, but he could do nothing about it.

After the fourth prince came to power, he changed the name of the eighth prince, Yinsi, to Yunsi.

In order to stabilize people’s hearts, he first named him Heshuo Lian Prince, ordered him to handle the affairs of the Ministry of Works, and concurrently served as the Minister of the Lifanyuan.

In the fourth year of Yongzheng’s reign, after Emperor Yongzheng had secured his position, he found various excuses to strip him of his title, imprisoned him, changed his name to”Aqina”, and changed the ninth prince’s name to”Saisihei”.

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Aqina and Seshihei mean dog and pig in Manchu, which is a signal to get rid of the other party. Sure enough, four years after the fourth prince came to power, the eighth prince died. It can be said that everything was lost!

Seeing Shishi’s immersion in the play, although Brother Hu is now playing the role of the Fourth Prince, Li Qi is still a little worried. What if Shishi falls in love with Brother Hu because of the play, then he will be in trouble. He doesn’t know whether her past experience in another time and space will happen to her again. He doesn’t want to gamble on such a thing.

“Shishi, do you think the Fourth Prince will treat his brothers well after he takes the throne?” Li Qi asked

“Of course not, they are all brothers. I think as long as they don’t pose a threat to his throne, the Fourth Prince will be happy to give them a prosperous and wealthy life and let them enjoy their old age in peace!” Liu Shishi thought for a moment and answered affirmatively.

“After the Fourth Prince came to power, he took revenge on the Eighth Prince’s party. This is understandable, right? After all, you also said that this was a threat to his throne.”Li Qi said

Liu Shishi thought there was nothing wrong with this and said,”That’s right, since you want to participate in the fight for the throne, you must be prepared to accept the fate of failure. The winner is the king and the loser is the bandit. Isn’t this what you men often say?”

“Actually, the TV series was originally planning to film some of the later plots, so that there would be more episodes and the revenue would be higher than the current plan. But because the later plots were too different from the previous characters, they were worried that the audience would not be able to accept it, so they finally gave up. Do you know?” Li Qi made up a story to Liu Shishi, anyway, the right of interpretation was his.

Liu Shishi suddenly became curious and asked,”What are the scenes that were not filmed and deleted later? Tell me quickly.”

Seeing Shishi’s reaction, Li Qi said with satisfaction:”Of course it is the plot after the fourth prince came to power. Everyone knows that Yongzheng had fifteen brothers, most of whom died during his reign. Especially when he was in power, the outside world’s view of him was that he plotted against his father, forced his mother, killed his brother, butchered his younger brother, was greedy for money, liked to kill, was addicted to alcohol, liked silver, liked flattery, and was servile.”

“Yongzheng’s mother was Uya. She had three sons, one of whom died early, leaving only Yongzheng and his fourteenth brother Yinzhen. After Yongzheng ascended the throne, Yinzhen was locked up by him. Even if his mother wanted to visit him, Yongzheng would not allow it. Afterwards, the empress dowager was very angry and hit her head against a pillar and died.”

“From this we can see that when Uya saw her brothers killing each other and her younger brother being locked up by her older brother, she must have been extremely angry!”

“Even the 20th prince Yunyi, who did not participate in the fight for the throne, was imprisoned for various reasons, stripped of his title of Beile, and demoted to Duke. Well, he is just a lazy and glutton. There are too many people like him now, and I am afraid that some viewers will sympathize with him!”

“Few people who practice diagnosis and treatment are clean, and this kind of thing is very common!”Liu Shishi tried to explain.

Li Qi continued,”After the Fourth Prince ascended to the throne, do you know where he stayed every night?”

“Of course I live with my loved one, is there any need to ask!” Shishi said

“Haha, that’s not true. The emperor couldn’t live in one place all the time. He stayed with different concubines every night. It was also for his safety, so he slept in a different place every night.”Li Qi said

Liu Shishi found it hard to believe. Was Ruoxi really willing to live like this? Was she still the Ruoxi she thought she was? Thinking of this, she felt bitter inside and tears fell uncontrollably.

Looking at Shishi who was crying non-stop, Li Qi wanted to slap himself a few times. He was so mean in trying to help Shishi get out of the drama!

But this was not the time to think about these things. Li Qi held up Shishi’s face and wiped away the tears with his thumb.

The fingers gently rubbed her face, making Shishi feel a little shy, and her face instantly flushed. She asked shyly:”Are all men so obsessed with power? Ruoxi just wants a pure love!”

Li Qi looked at Shishi and said,”Power is indeed very tempting, otherwise no one would say that a man cannot live without power for a day!”

“What about you? Is it the same for you?” Shishi asked

Li Qi thought for a moment and said seriously,”Yang Guo said at the end: Life is fleeting, martial arts, power, fame, money, all are false. Hong Qigong and Ouyang Feng are very skilled in martial arts, and Genghis Khan has a vast territory. But so what? In the end, it’s nothing but a handful of dirt. Only love, only love that lasts until death, can last forever.”

After hearing this, Liu Shishi thought of the deep love of Yang Guo as described by Li Qi. Isn’t this what she expected?

“Li Qi……”Shishi called softly

Hearing Shishi’s soul-stirring voice, Li Qi looked at the blushing face opposite him and gently kissed her on the forehead.……