Everyone drove to Leifeng Pagoda. Today, the lavishly funded Chicken Strip production team had booked out the entire place, so there were no tourists.
Jiang Siming finally understood why Chicken Strip always claimed they were short on funds. As it turned out, they had spent it all on props and locations.
Jiang Siming admired that. It was like making a movie—the money was mainly spent on post-production and the script, rather than on hiring big-name stars.
Leifeng Pagoda stood beside West Lake, magnificent without losing its grandeur.
Seeing the pagoda reminded Jiang Siming of the Legend of the White Snake he had watched as a child. He had watched the newer version, Legend of the White Snake, the one starring Liu Tao.
The older version was what Jiang Siming's parents' generation had watched.
The plots of the two series were not all that different, though. Later on, Bai Suzhen was imprisoned beneath Leifeng Pagoda.
Fahai had said that Bai Suzhen would only be released from Leifeng Pagoda when the pagoda collapsed and the waters of West Lake dried up.
Xu Xian then became a monk at the temple beneath Leifeng Pagoda, chanting scriptures and sweeping fallen leaves beneath the pagoda day and night. He never got to see Bai Suzhen again before passing away.
What Jiang Siming liked most was that the newer version had added another scene near the end. It was merely a brief narration, saying that in some year, the waters of West Lake had dried up during a severe drought, and Leifeng Pagoda had been struck by lightning and collapsed once, a thousand years later.
That scene fulfilled all the viewers' wishes. Although the series never said that Bai Suzhen had come out, it gave everyone endless room for imagination and hope for a happy outcome.