Making a story logically coherent was only the most basic requirement. A director also had an important responsibility: ensuring the story felt more real.
After all, only with enough realism could it be truly moving.
So what was realism?
In Fu Qian's view, the key was not costumes, makeup, sets, or props, but eliminating anything that felt "deliberate."
Events could be driven by coincidence, but within that coincidence, one needed to sense inevitability.
Yet in the current situation, that aspect seemed to have been handled somewhat poorly—
The female staff member had arrived one step too late and just happened to miss running into Tracy...
Xiao Tong, the girl with the hair clip, suffered from terminal face blindness. She had clearly encountered him, an impostor, yet still failed to notice anything wrong...
Even at this very moment, it was only because both of them had broken in illegally and had not turned on the lights that he could talk with the Lady in the Black Room for so long...
It all made perfect sense, but it merely made sense.
As a seasoned mastermind behind the scenes, Fu Qian felt he could smell an overly deliberate quality to it.
So the director really had been present all along? And could mobilize resources to this extent?
Then one of his earlier concerns did not seem unfounded after all—
Besides the Wells of Time attached to the Demon Mountain group, the director's presence in this mission might also be something akin to a guillotine.
After all, it appeared that he could deftly manipulate the resources of the entire sanatorium.
And it was hard to believe that, in a mission like this, his intentions would be benevolent.
Otherwise, couldn't he simply lie down and trust that "everything was for the best"?
In short, unless