That night, after deeply relaxing, his tense muscles finally loosened. Lin Qi reclined against the headboard, watching television.
Everything on the television was still somewhat different from the Federation. Gefrans used their distinctive, cold-toned humor to set the tone for their television dramas.
From the islanders' perspective, this actually worked very well. They could understand every joke in the dramas.
Whether it was satire, teasing, or ordinary deadpan humor, they understood it all.
But to people outside Gefra, it was extremely difficult to understand. They could not comprehend why those actors would deliver simple lines with rigid expressions, after which some people would burst out laughing while even more people simply looked bewildered.
Earlier, Gefra and the Federation had held a series of cultural exchange activities, with both sides importing large numbers of literary and film works from each other.
There was no need to say much about literary works. Written language was only the most basic form of expression. People would form associations from the words and thereby gain deeper insights.
But films and television directly limited the scope of people's imaginations through their visuals.
The so-called highly rated works imported by the Federation from Gefra were not well received in the Federation.
They were too unique—so unique that Federals could not grasp the core of those films and television shows at all. Some jokes that made Gefrans laugh hysterically even had to be localized before they could put the slightest smile on people's faces.
People could not appreciate the arrogance hidden behind those films and television shows. Yes, that was also a kind of arrogance, an emotion.
You could not clearly explain what kind of feeling it was, but everyone knew and could sense it. Even the jokes were arrogant jokes told from on high!
The response was