"Painting the Heart as a Cage" Jiuzhou Haimuyunji Emperor and Empress colleagues

Well, the main text and the side story are finished, this is already the best "Drawing a Heart as a Cage".

After thinking for a long time, I finally decided to disclose the behind-the-scenes footage of the creation of "Painting a Heart as a Cage".Because I really put a lot of thought and time into this work, and of course there is a long, unknown history of blood and tears.

Here is a collection of the feelings of creating these words in the past 160 days.I hope that after you understand it, you will read "Painting the Heart as a Cage" carefully, and you may have a better experience.

〖About this article〗

"Painting" and "cage", these two words are the key words that can represent Mu Yunqin and Nan Rong Mingyi - Mu Yunqin guards a silver painting to see things and think about people, Nan Rong Mingyi every day Painting Yinrong is deceiving oneself; Mu Yunqin once said that he is also trapped in this cage, and Nan Kumingyi can only get what he wants only by becoming the most ferocious beast in the cage.Therefore, the title of "Drawing a Heart as a Cage" is not only to match the storyline, but also because of these two characters.

I mentioned in the Lofter comment section that the original intention of writing this story was not to change anything, but to satisfy Mu Yunqin and Nan Kumingyi in my heart.The ending of the two characters in the play is not good, at least not a good death, which makes me really sad to watch-but this, in order to follow the direction of the original play, I cannot change or destroy it (after all, it is a fanfiction).That's why I opened my mind and tried my best to create a story about the empress that everyone likes and can accept without destroying the original plot.

In the original drama, Mu Yunqin did not fall in love with Nanku Mingyi in the end. This is really unacceptable. After all, his affection for "Yinrong" in the state of "acting" is so strong that it can be revealed on the screen. Come.For me, unless Mu Yunqin is really good at acting (it's a pity for him to be the emperor), otherwise he must have shown some real affection for Nanku Mingyi in that game.Therefore, I set the story as you have read - extreme love and hate, murder and death, in line with the direction of the original drama, and the ending extends outside the drama. The connection is rationalized and the feeling of being relieved by the ending of the story (at least it can relieve the impact brought by the ending of many TV dramas haha).As for why it can't be changed to a simple little beauty, in addition to not destroying the original plot, one of them is also because my interpretation of the empress's feelings is like this.They fell in love and killed each other for most of their lives. From a practical point of view, even if they really fell in love, they would not be able to be together happily again.Because their hatred and harm to each other is a real, bloody forest, and it is impossible for them to put everything aside.Therefore, only by letting Mu Yunqin bring Nanku Mingyi the most tragic injury is actually the proof of his deep love for her and the only thing he can give her, can everything be rationalized, and it can also match the plot and not follow the rules. Routine.Of course, this has also created a brutal style of writing, and the more I read it, the more I can't bear it.But this is what I want to bring to everyone—love to the extreme, pain to the extreme, obviously deep love can only be expressed in the way of violation, how involuntary, embarrassing, empty and suffocating, and finally hated to the point of pain When your heart is almost hollowed out and you are about to lose yourself, you realize that everything is still beautiful, but it is no longer complete. It is a beautiful shortcoming and a warm sadness, so that you will remember it for a lifetime.If you really feel this way after reading "Drawing a Heart as a Cage", congratulations, you have really experienced the love of the empress.

Regarding the setting of pregnancy, in fact, when I wrote this work, Teacher Jiang Qinqin had not announced her pregnancy.The reason why I think of the stalk of pregnancy is this: because of this drama, I became a fan of Teacher Jiang, so I went to search for the shows she has been on, and accidentally learned that in "Luyu's Gift", Teacher Chen Jianbin expressed his desire to re-appear. Want a child, but Teacher Jiang himself doesn't really want it.In order to satisfy my imagination, I added pregnancy elements.So you can imagine how much I felt when I found out that she was really pregnant... and I firmly believe that when Mu Yunqin regarded Nanku Mingyi as Yinrong, he I really "enjoyed" her Yinrong - there is a scene in the play when Nan Kumingyi tore off the imperial gift, Mu Yunqin visited at night and overheard her breaking down and calling Yinrong's name, then turned and left .From the fact that Mu Yunqin would go to her at night, it should be possible to find out that there should be that... er, "Qinrong" normal night life between the two of them, cough cough cough.Therefore, the setting of pregnancy has been studied carefully, and it is not created casually.

〖About supporting roles〗

The first is Yinger.I saw the role of Ying'er in the book. Sheng'er and "Queen's Daughter Mu Yunying" once went to visit the newborn little Hege.I was wondering why the role of Yinger did not appear in the play, and I also felt that the role of Yinger is very important, because he is the child of Mu Yunqin and Nan Kumingyi except He Ge, the child is the crystallization of love, of course it must exist ah.So I set her as the first child of the empress, who died before Mu Yunqin succeeded to the throne (so that she does not need to appear in the play), and it can also match the setting of Nan Ku Mingyi as the original partner in the play. Definitely (otherwise it would be strange that the original partner is the third child, but I still think too much).Because it is set to be Mu Yunqin's first child, of course it must have a special emotional effect on him.Because of thinking of Ying'er, Mu Yunqin was unable to harm Mingyi for a while.Also because of Yinger, they set their third child as a girl, so that Yinger has the feeling of returning to them.Of course, the most important thing is because I want Teacher Jiang Qinqin to have a daughter!

Then there is Ashan.Ah Shan plays a very important role in the story, especially in the third act.This is because I feel that if she saw everything that Nan Ku Mingyi went through (from the hard work of conceiving and giving birth to the child being killed as soon as it was born), then in the drama she finally decided to assassinate Mu Yunqin. will be more convincing.

Of course there is Sheng'er.Sheng'er is actually the purest person, he has seen it most clearly in the love and killing between Mu Yunqin and Nan Ku Mingyi.Before Mu Yunqin could face up to his heart, he could already see that he was attracted to her.And under her vicious appearance, he could see the embarrassing fragility in her.So in the end, he decided to fulfill them.He knew Mu Yunqin's plan——Mu Yunqin knew that once the child was born, he would not be able to protect Mingyi, so after the child was born, he had to let her identity die and send her away, and he could only lock her up for the rest of his life. protect her.Sheng'er promised that after Mu Yunqin succeeded to the throne, she would keep Nan Kumingyi alive and let her leave quietly to reunite with her child.However, the plan changed midway, Mu Yunqin was assassinated and killed, He Ge usurped the throne and was murdered, Ming Yi also committed suicide.So after he decided to give up the throne and run away, the first thing he did was to revive Mingyi, and then let her live in the mystic enchantment, so that he would not be harmed during the time he ran away.Then he ran away for the second time in accordance with the book, this time he really left, and he let Ming Yi come out to reunite with the child.Someone once asked why Sheng'er helped Mu Yunqin and Nan Kumingyi, when he should have stood by his mother.But I think Mu Yunsheng is a kind person, he will only do what he thinks is right, and he is not a person who hates others, so he is so special and pure.

Finally, Han Xiangdong.This character appeared in the extra chapter and is a brand new character.He is a man who looks a lot like Mu Yunqin but actually has nothing to do with him.But Han Xiangdong is not Mu Yunqin, but Mu Yunqin is Han Xiangdong——that is because Mu Yunqin's spiritual gossamer was attached to Han Xiangdong after it dispersed (remember what Sheng'er and Mingyi said), at that time he He was seriously ill, and after he recovered, he had an extra thread of Mu Yunqin's spirit, and he began to have the consciousness of Mu Yunqin.But he couldn't remember it all the time, as if he had lost something, it was because his spiritual consciousness was very weak, until he met Ming Yi, and he regained the spiritual springs attached to him.As for why he wanted to join the role of Han Xiangdong, of course the most important thing is to consummate the empress.Mu Yunqin is destined not to be with Ming Yicai, so another man who looks exactly like him and has his spiritual consciousness will guard her (and Han Xiangdong is also an actor of Mu Yunqin himself in the modern drama "Happiness Falls from the Sky"). Yes, I feel that there is no sense of disobedience, haha).Because I sincerely hope that the second half of Nan Ku Mingyi's life can be as she wished in the play: to have a husband who loves her, and an amazing child.Furthermore, it was because the late stage was deeply influenced by the pairing of "cult CP"-Mu Ruhanjiang and Nanku Mingyi.On BiliBili, Draculaup used "Meng Zhu Yuan · Chun Sheng" as the BGM to cut a piece for the cult CP, and I almost derailed from the empress CP.I think that if there is an afterlife, a young milk dog like Mu Ruhanjiang would be very suitable for Mingyi, so I also hinted in several places in the article that Han Xiangdong's age would be a few years younger than Mingyi (Mingyi was in ten It should be in his early 50s after the year), and at the end of the article, he briefly introduced Han Xiangdong's background.Han Xiangdong should be a very reliable man, because he is both Mu Yunqin and not Mu Yunqin—he has Mu Yunqin's kindness, affection, and perseverance until death, and at the same time, he also has the freedom and humor that Mu Yunqin does not possess .This time, Mu Yunqin lives in another way, as Han Xiangdong—he is an ordinary man, no longer an emperor, he may be able to give Mingyi the simplest and most comprehensive love, no love or hate anymore And harm stands between them.Of course, all of this belongs to the side story. Whether Han Xiangdong can be accepted as the next Mu Yunqin is up to the imagination.

〖about myself〗

After writing these more than 6 words, my feeling is—gratified, I am relieved that I have survived like everyone else.When I was writing, I really put all my thoughts into it, and also put myself into the characters to pursue the most authentic feelings.So many times, I wrote that I abused my heart, kidney, liver and lungs, which is not false at all.Especially the ninth act, it took me almost two months to finish it.I experienced many of Mu Yunqin's very abusive psychological activities in this way for two months, and I also read and wrote the lines of Nan Ku Mingyi by myself-every time I read it, I feel that my heart is stabbed cut once.There is also the tenth act, which I really wrote to tears myself.At that time, I was endlessly looping the episode "Queen" of [Kyushu · Sea Shepherd Clouds] and the very tragic theme song of [Langya Bang]. When I was writing that scene, I was extremely depressed. Write such a heart-wrenching plot with experience and imagination.If I personally think the sweetest line is Mu Yunqin's "I don't feel dirty" in the seventh act, then the most abusive line that really makes me very, very uncomfortable is Nan Ku Mingyi in the tenth act Said "I don't want you anymore".At that moment, she finally made up her mind to give up on him and kill him, and when she finally kissed him goodbye and he died in her arms, she realized that she might be wrong, that he might really love her, but she felt like Missed it... Repeatedly, she couldn't figure it out and completely lost herself.She resolutely gave up her life, more or less she also felt that she had no meaning to live.Of course, Mingyi still had to live, because Mu Yunqin hoped that she could live for herself until she died, and she also knew that she could live and protect their children, and this was the only love he could leave her.Teacher Jiang Qinqin once said in an interview that when she played the role of Nan Ku Mingyi, she sometimes felt that she was hollowed out.The same goes for me, all of this, just before the stage of imagination flows into words on the screen, I already feel a little sad, empty and relieved, and I have been working hard to finish writing with such emotions.So, no matter how poignant the whole creative process was, it was all over—at least a good one.

Finally, thank you for reading these words that took me all afternoon and typed at 2 o'clock in the morning. "Painting a Heart as a Cage" is purely a self-entertaining fan work, but it means so much to me, and I hope that you who are reading this text have some experience.As I said, this Kyushu dream of love and hate is over. I sincerely hope that I will bring you a wonderful reading experience.

Thank you.

-Dust so close, 2018.06.09