Seven Emotions Supernatural Power: Thought!
Central Capital, 5 p.m.!
The Central Capital Grand Theater, which Dongcang City had spent a fortune building in the Central Capital, had finally opened its doors!
In truth, the Central Capital Grand Theater had already been completed for over a month, but Liu Jingzhuang insisted that only a heavyweight play would be worthy of the theater's premiere.
Thus, for all this time, the other plays had been staged in the theaters beside the Central Capital Grand Theater. Although the magnificent Central Capital Grand Theater sitting empty had sparked plenty of rumors, Liu Jingzhuang believed that Chen Luo could definitely write a masterpiece surpassing all previous Play Scripts!
Wen Chang Pavilion's Great Scholar Leng Hanbing believed this as well. Leng Hanbing had wagered five Great Scholar treasures that Chen Luo could write a Play Script within a year that did not belong to the Romance of the West Chamber, and successfully stage it at the Central Capital Grand Theater!
Yet even they had never expected that only two months later, they would already be waiting for the wondrous text—The Peony Pavilion, with its glorious beauty filling the capital and its deep feeling leaving one haggard!
When Chen Luo had written The Peony Pavilion, the phenomena it had drawn had been far too sensational. As a result, everyone was filled with curiosity about this play.
From the stray words that had occasionally leaked from Duke Anguo's Mansion, they learned that it was probably a story about dreams, about love, and about life and death!
But one thing was certain: the literary splendor of this play was enough to rival the Preface to the Pavilion of Prince Teng, "On Loving the Lotus," and the Record of the Peach Blossom Spring!
That alone was enough to drive every Confucian