pure white crown

Mr. Arnold Hosea is a teaching director of a well-known drama academy in the UK.

Of course, this is just one of his identities.

His other identity is that he is one of the directors of a large British drama troupe, and he has a very wide network of contacts and a high status in the drama industry.

He is like a gourmet who is famous all over the country and the world, but what he judges is not food but drama.

After receiving a letter from his student Arnold and confirming that he had nothing to do on the night of December 18, he took a plane across half the world at the invitation of the other party and arrived in the capital of China in the evening of the same day.

It was Marshall who came to pick him up from the airport. During the process of taking the car to eat authentic Chinese dishes, Marshall kept nagging him about all the various things he encountered during the short few days here. Among these things, there is a person who appears most frequently, and this is the one who made Marshall write to him in advance and invited him to come here.

Mr. Jiang.

Mr. Hosea clumsily used his chopsticks to pick up a plate of dessert that would spin. He laughed at the student he liked the most: "It seems that this orientalist is very satisfying to you?"

"I have to admit that's the case." Marshall said, people have natural curiosity, the more he is not allowed to see Jiang Xing here, considering the rehearsal he saw at the very beginning, the more he looks forward to it Show tonight.He was even thinking now, what level of Mr. Jiang was represented by the time he saw him?Is it normal performance, super normal performance, or not so good performance?

Reminiscing that this is a movie star who has only recently started to study drama, he silently selected the above option as "extraordinary performance".

Mr. Hosea finally got the dessert in his mouth.

He picked up the napkin and pressed his mouth amidst the sound of the piano, and said, "I'm very interested in what you said. But fortunately, we will know the result soon."

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"The King of Ashles", a remake of the British drama, started promoting it a month ago, because this time Jiang Xing joined and starred in Jiang Xing, so there was no need for too much other publicity, Jiang Xing himself Fans of the show will be able to get round tickets for the premiere—of course, this is not the case. This is a big drama, and there are still many fans of their own drama who bought tickets, and fans of pure Jiang Xing There are quite a few who didn't get the tickets for the premiere, so they can only wait for the subsequent screenings.

At 08:30 p.m., everyone began to enter the arena, and at [-]:[-], the performance officially began.

Hosea and Marshall and the British guidance team sat in the prepared seats in the front row.Before the play started, they still communicated in a low voice, and when the play officially started, all the voices stopped, and everyone maintained a polite silence.

Sitting next to them were Chinese personnel, and these two groups of people almost occupied this row.

And the position after that is not the position where ticket sales start directly.There are also relevant people in the industry, reporters in the industry, and tickets for the leading actors within the troupe.After that, it is the ticket sales for the masses.

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Jiang Xing finished his makeup and performance costume half an hour ago, ready to go on stage.

It's not his first time performing, but it's his first time performing live.

This is a kind of feeling that is not too similar to acting in movies or TV dramas.

When acting in movies and TV series, although it is definitely on the big screen that the largest audience can see it in the end, but when he is acting now, the direct observation and evaluation with the naked eye is limited to the crew.Most of the time, what he faces directly is actually just the director's own preferences and suggestions.

But now it is different.

When he was performing, he could directly see the audience watching the play, and he could directly get the most straightforward feedback from their expressions—good, bad, boring.

Now, yes, right now.

He steps onto the stage.

The curtain was raised.

A dark crowd appeared in sight.

They are no longer permanently separated from him by a screen.

They are within arm's reach of him!

The rendering of the atmosphere on the big stage can make people temporarily forget everything.

Jiang Xing quickly immersed himself in the role he played.Just like the previous two months of training, this is a brand new challenge and a continuation of his past; he is completely, sharply, every nerve and every muscle is immersed in this character——

His head is always high above.

There was no disdain in his gaze, but no one could really get into his eyes, which shone brightly called "Ambition".

Always provocative in his words, so decisive in his actions!The point of his sword is omnipotent, and the ground trembles with fear wherever the iron cavalry steps.

His talent made countless people kneel down at his feet one after another, begging for love and mercy!

But he was unmoved.

He laughed and turned around, his scarlet skin representing honor and blood.

Too many accolades, too many victories.

His throne is getting higher and higher, and there are more and more dry bones under his feet; people come and go around him, his eyes are burning, but he never really stays on them!

The world is divided into two extremes.

Extravagant, prosperous, thriving.

Barren, poor, numb and dark.

The mob stormed the palace and set fire to the grandest place in the world!

The flames licked the emperor's body, he howled and rolled, and finally became a coke on the ground.

History began to be tampered with by the victors.

His achievements were erased, and he became a complete lunatic, dictator, and careerist. All he brought to the people was suffering, and the people held justice and finally overthrew the tyrant's tyranny.

But there are others who lament.

It is those who seek the truth of history, looking for clues, trying to restore what was covered up, and perfect what was destroyed, so after hundreds of years, someone finally talked about him again and not just called him a "tyrant". They described him as a cross between an angel and a demon, a king of men who seduces and depraves and lifts men to heaven.

They judged him on his merits and his sins.

They commented on him, Achilles, who was born in the morning glow, died in the flames, and finally got eternal life in the history books.

A drama, two hours plus 10 minutes.

From the first moment on stage, Jiang Xing felt the muscles in his arms trembling slightly.

It's not fear—of course it's not fear—but nervousness, excitement, and anticipation. These emotions are repeatedly fermented in the nerves and transmitted to the blood, so that he even feels the slightest bit of fire in his blood. Stinging and burning sensation.

Even the heart that was well placed on the chest was making an unknown roar!

Jiang Xing did not enter the state.

He has been, since a month ago, has been in the state.

When he stepped on the stage, it was when Achilles stepped on the stage; when he performed with others, it was Achilles who was full of vigor and slammed Fang Qiu!

Wherever he turns his eyes, it doesn't matter which one is the scenery on the stage, the actors, or the audience in the stands. This is Achilles looking down on his people and enemies!

And in the end, when he was burned by the flames and swallowed by the flames, he was the king, and the struggle of two thousand and forty hours in sixty days in two months came to an end——

He turned around and walked off the stage. Apart from the music of the play and the actors' lines, he heard long exhalations. Those voices seemed to be silent voices mixed together, one by one, In the end, it converged into the sound of ocean waves.

He slumped down on the backstage chair, not knowing when the sweat was pouring all over his body.

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The drama on stage also has a tail.

The leading actor, Achilles, has left, but at least [-]% of the audience has not recovered for a while.Most of them are absorbed in the feeling just now - what kind of feeling is that?It is simply difficult to express in words!They saw Achilles dying in the flames on the high platform, and for some reason, they felt the same feeling as the mob in their hearts - regret and excitement at the same time; joy at the same time and trembling at the same time!It seemed that the next moment, the king engulfed by the flames would stand up again with the flames and turn into a demon god!

But in the end, of course, Achilles didn't stand up again, he really, completely died.

So the heart captured by Achilles, the heart occupied by regret and excitement, secret joy and trembling suddenly relaxed, and then became empty...

The last few minutes of the episode have also been acted out.

All the actors who had left before came to the stage, and they all took a curtain call after the red curtain was hung.

In the first few rows off the stage, the reporters set up their cameras and quickly took photos for recording. The Chinese and British sides stood up together and applauded this wonderful performance. Behind these people, they gave seat tickets to the actors’ families and friends On the stage, Lu Yunkai applauded along with the crowd.

The trip he made before was just to follow in Jiang Xing's footsteps. Now that Jiang Xing's drama is being released, how could he not appear on the scene?

In fact, Jiang Xing had mentioned it to him before, and directly gave him an internal ticket for the front row.

He watched the whole play seriously.

Even if he didn't know much about drama before, even if he had never systematically trained in it, people's aesthetics are always similar. Sitting in his seat, he can feel the aura emanating from Jiang Xing from a long distance away. .

That kind of momentum is like facing a huge wave, like Mount Tai pressing down on the top!It makes people tremble from the heart, making the skin on the whole body tighten because of it!

He couldn't help smiling, and applauded vigorously and seriously.

——What can be more beautiful and dazzling than seeing the one you love with your own eyes, and feel proud overflowing your chest?

Not far away from him, in some positions in the rows in front of him, there were people talking in English in a low voice, separated by several positions, and because their voices were not loud, Lu Yunkai didn't pay attention or listen at all. Seeing what they were talking about, his eyes were only locked on the stage, chasing every move of one of them.

And in a place that Lu Yunkai didn't pay attention to, Marshall was talking with Mr. Hosea.

Even though it was the curtain call at the end of the play, Marshall's voice was not high. In fact, he was talking to Mr. Hosea in a low voice, as if holding his breath.

He said: "I believe it now! When I saw the other party before, the other party hadn't shown such tension! Yes, the other party was already very surprising and admirable at that time, but now - just let People feel that this is an extreme audio-visual feast! I actually got goose bumps watching his performance! This is unimaginable! And behind this feast, I don’t believe it at all—it’s just incredible— —I never thought that the other party only studied for two months!"

"Two months!" In order to emphasize his tone, he also waved his hand heavily like a knife! "What's two months worth in drama? Can't ordinary students succeed in laying a foundation? But he can already play the leading role! Yes, teacher, I think even in our UK, in our country's theater troupe, he Also worthy of the lead role!"

"...well, of course, I see that," Hosea said.

"To be fair, he's still a long way from our first-line drama actors." Hosea assessed in a gentle tone. He looked at the students who were anxiously about to say something, and quickly added, "Of course, of course, All of this is without taking into account the premise of 'two months'. Assuming it is true—"

"Of course it is true!" Marshall insisted on his point of view!

"Then I am very interested in this actor." Hosea said, "I think we should take some time to get in touch with each other...Of course," he glanced quietly to the side, "to escape the siege of those crew members."

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While the British were whispering, the audience in the theater had begun to leave.

Lu Yunkai walked towards the backstage with easy steps. Now he doesn't need any ID card to go in and out of various places - just his own face is enough.

So even behind the stage of a drama, which is actually quite different from the entertainment industry, he found Jiang Xing's dressing room easily and familiarly without anyone's guidance.

This is a single and quite large dressing room. A large dressing table is placed against the wall. Facing the dressing table are leather sofas and coffee tables. It is for the temporary rest of tired actors.

When Lu Yunkai walked in, Jiang Xing was sitting in front of the dressing table asking the makeup artist to remove his makeup.

He heard the sound of someone coming in from the outside, turned his head slightly, and saw Lu Yunkai's figure, he nodded to Lu Yunkai, let the makeup artist finish the last spot on his face, then smiled and said: "Come here ?”

"En." Lu Yunkai responded, and his eyes flicked from the coffee table in front of the sofa: the mahogany coffee table was full of gifts from the audience and fans dragging the staff to the backstage, among them was a large bouquet of tulips of various colors!

Because this bouquet of tulip pink, purple, yellow, red and other winks looks like a large bouquet of strange flowers of seven colors, so it is particularly attractive, and it is guaranteed to stand out from the crowd among a bunch of gifts, and it will definitely be popular among people. See it at a glance!

Lu Yunkai felt satisfied.

But this was not enough, Lu Yunkai deliberately pointed to the bouquet of flowers and said "wow", and then he was relieved to see Jiang Xing's gaze turned to the flowers following his voice.

This bouquet of flowers fell into Jiang Xing's eyes.

Even if he had seen it before entering the dressing room, when he looked at it again, he couldn't help complaining: "The color matching of this flower...the unattractive eyes will never stop."

This effect is what Lu Yunxin wants!

He laughed cooperatively: "That's right, I don't know who would send such flowers, why don't you pick them up and have a look?"

Jiang Xing picked it up.

He poked the conspicuous and delicate petals with his fingers, and found a greeting card with only one corner exposed from the petals. He pulled the corner of the greeting card, but found that this small piece of paper was unexpectedly heavy—— Then he found a boxy box under the greeting card he pulled out.

Gifts of gifts.

It would be amazing to ordinary people, but it was nothing to Jiang Xing.

He opened the boxy black box, but showed a surprised expression when he saw what was inside.

That is a watch.

A starry sky watch is a new watch he wants recently. It has a dark blue bottom and a starry sky inlaid with broken diamonds and gold sand on the dial. The slightly curved glass has a slight refraction...

The watch is certainly beautiful.

The only problem is, it's worth hundreds of thousands.

Jiang Xing's current status is not enough to accept a watch, but he has always disliked accepting things from fans, especially such expensive things.

He picked up the greeting card, but on the back of the stamped greeting card, there was only a crooked smiling face drawn on the back, and there was nothing else.

Jiang Xing couldn't help but frowned slightly.

Lu Yunkai said at this time: "Isn't this the watch you mentioned to me last time? Someone dropped the pillow from the sky when you wanted to sleep?"

Jiang Xing said thoughtfully: "Well... I think, maybe this gift is not from a fan, but some friend of mine playing a little joke on me. After all, the gift is too accurate."

Lu Yunkai: "..."

He guiltily averted his gaze.

Jiang Xing also asked Lu Yunkai at this time: "What do you think?"

Lu Yunkai simply didn't have the courage to answer...

Jiang Xing thought for a while, then said again: "Well, I remember that I haven't told many people that I want this watch recently, it seems that there is only one, two, three...?"

"Maybe," Lu Yunkai replied calmly, "It just happened to be delivered. You have to let certain fans be particularly lucky or certain fans are particularly good at guessing your preferences!"

Jiang Xing looked at Lu Yunkai for a few seconds.

After a few seconds, he thought about it, took out the watch, put it on his wrist with a smile, and said, "...Maybe, maybe you're right."

Before the words were finished, the noisy voices came from far to near. When the two turned their heads, a group of people had already crowded into the dressing room together!