Shocking

On the evening of January 28th, in room 901 of a certain unit in Dongsheng Yuyuan Residential Area, Dai Ying's home.

After dinner, Li Xun, Dai Ying, and Dai Ying's parents sat in the living room watching television. The program they were watching was, of course, Young Bao Qingtian.

Li Xun had already moved into room 501 in the same unit, which was very close to Dai Ying's home. Therefore, he wasn't in a hurry to leave after having dinner at the Dai's.

The eleventh and twelfth episodes of Young Bao Qingtian had officially been released the previous night. Dai Ying's parents hadn't seen them yet, so after dinner today, Dai Ying's father suggested they all watch the costume suspense drama written and edited by his future son-in-law!

"Li Xun, don't think I'm just saying this, but even though your TV series is cleverly written, I've already guessed who the murderer is, believe it or not?" Dai Ying's father said with a smile before the eleventh episode even began.

Li Xun also chuckled, "Uncle, you must have secretly watched the ending, right?"

Dai Qingshan laughed heartily and said, "Does that even need a secret viewing of the ending? Your hints are already obvious enough!"

"Then, Uncle, tell me, who is the real culprit behind all this?"

Dai Qingshan replied, "Does this even need to be asked? It's definitely Teacher Meng Fang!"

Upon hearing this, both Li Xun and Dai Ying looked at Dai Qingshan.

Seeing his daughter and son-in-law wearing the same expression, Dai Qingshan felt proud. It seemed he had guessed correctly!

"The clues are already very clear. In the tenth episode, when Bao Zheng gave Teacher Meng Fang a scarf, why did he have such a strong reaction? Things that are out of the ordinary are bound to be suspicious! Therefore, this Teacher Meng Fang must have a problem. Even if he's not the mastermind, he's at least an accomplice."

Li Xun gave him a thumbs-up and said with a smile, "Uncle Dai, brilliant, truly brilliant! I'm impressed!"

Dai Qingshan continued, "Also, the character '日' that the academician was clutching when he died. It's unlikely that the murderer's name just happened to contain the character '日'. That would be too simple. But this character must be an important hint. So, I analyze that perhaps the character '日' doesn't refer to the murderer's name, but to their profession!"

"For example, the character '音' in 'music' contains the character '日'! And Meng Fang is a music teacher at Tianhong Academy!"

Li Xun laughed, "Uncle, you definitely secretly watched the content of the eleventh episode, didn't you?"

Dai Qingshan burst into laughter, "What's wrong? You're upset that I easily solved the clue you painstakingly figured out?"

At this moment, the theme song finished, and the eleventh episode of Young Bao Qingtian officially began.

In fact, the Young Bao Qingtian in this world already differed somewhat from the Young Bao Qingtian in the original world. Besides fixing some plot holes in the original drama, Li Xun had also intentionally adjusted the content of each episode.

For instance, in the original version of Young Bao Qingtian, by the end of the tenth episode, Bao Zheng and Gongsun Ce had already found the source of the torn "日" character in the academician's hand, which was the character "音" from the poem "乡音无改鬓毛衰" (Xiāng yīn wú gǎi bìn máo cuī). However, in the version edited by Li Xun in this world, this plot point had been moved to the eleventh episode.

In the eleventh episode, Bao Zheng, Gongsun Ce, and the others found a replica of the calligraphy the academician Ying Ming had torn. It was a poem—He Zhizhang's "On Returning Home" (回乡偶记).

"Young I left home, old I return; my accent unchanged, my hair turned gray. Children see me, yet know me not; they ask with smiles, 'From whence do you come, stranger?'"

Upon seeing this, Dai Qingshan slapped his thigh and exclaimed, "What did I say? The '日' character in the academician's hand was actually just half of the '音' character for 'music'! There's no doubt that the murderer is Meng Fang!"

Liu Fang chuckled from the side, "You're already this old, and you still get so excited watching a TV show, just like a child who hasn't grown up!"

Li Xun also laughed, "No wonder Yingying is so smart. She must have inherited her uncle's intelligence!"

Liu Fang feigned anger, "Are you saying Auntie is very stupid? Fortunately, Yingying inherited her father's intelligence, which is why she has achieved so much today and can become the vice president of Penguin Video, right? If Yingying had inherited Auntie's intelligence, she definitely wouldn't be as successful as she is now, would she?"

"I'm being wronged! That's not what I meant!" Li Xun quickly retorted, "I meant that Yingying inherited Uncle's intelligence and Auntie's beauty, making her even more formidable and invincible! If she had only inherited the advantages of one of you, wouldn't that be a pity, don't you think?!"

Dai Ying, standing beside them, shot Li Xun a glance and whispered, "Smooth talker!"

The four continued watching the show.

At this point, the plot progressed to Gongsun Ce explaining to everyone that the academician Ying Ming had hinted at Meng Fang as the murderer. The '日' in the academician's hand was actually half of the '音' character for music! However, Bao Zheng found this conclusion hard to accept.

The group arrived at the academy but couldn't find Meng Fang. They heard that Meng Fang had locked himself in the music room since the afternoon to complete something called "Lu Feng" and hadn't come out. So, the group headed towards the music room.

On the way, Chang Yu suddenly acted strangely and rushed towards the music room. When the others called out to her, she said she smelled blood.

Chang Yu followed the scent of blood to the music room. The door was locked from the inside. Chang Yu had to push it three times before it finally opened.

"Ah!"

A scream then erupted from the music room.

The group rushed over, and the scene before them stunned them into silence.

After the zither, a headless corpse sat upright.

At this moment, Bao Zheng's mind flashed back to the stone statues in the ancient altars of the Kuayi Tribe. Meng Fang's death was exactly the same as the deaths of the stone statues in the Kuayi Tribe's altars.

His head had been severed by an evil spirit!

This scene, starting with the sudden appearance of a headless corpse, followed by the flashback to the eerie and terrifying stone statues of the Kuayi Tribe's Blood Altar, was quite terrifying. Liu Fang and Dai Qingshan, seeing this for the first time, were both startled.

"You naughty child, you scared your mother to death!" Liu Fang said, turning her head to scold Dai Ying.

Dai Qingshan, after being startled, suddenly realized something.

"Wait, wasn't Meng Fang the murderer? Why is he dead too?"

"I was just analyzing everything here, and in the blink of an eye, the murderer I identified is dead? How embarrassing, how embarrassing!"

"Also, this boyfriend of my daughter's is not decent. Not only did he scare this old man, but he also kept agreeing with me when he clearly knew I was wrong. Was he waiting for his future father-in-law to make a fool of himself? Damn it, absolutely damnable!"

Next, Bao Zheng and his group found the Kuayi Tribe's ruins. It turned out that the Kuayi Tribe hadn't moved away as a whole, but had been brutally massacred!

When Bao Zheng and his group unearthed the Kuayi Tribe's remains, Chang Yu broke down crying and ran off.

At this point, it must be admitted that Cao Shiyu, who played Chang Yu, delivered a truly remarkable performance in this scene.

At this moment, a thought flashed through Dai Qingshan's mind again.

"This Chang Yu seems very suspicious!"

But he held back from analyzing it for everyone. He was already embarrassed enough from analyzing it incorrectly just now. This time, it might just be another trap set by the screenwriter. He wasn't falling for it!

Then, the highly skilled Commander Mu actually returned on horseback, carrying his own head.

Another one died, and a master at that. And it was the curse death method from the Kuayi Tribe's Blood Altar!

"Who on earth is the murderer?" Dai Qingshan felt his brain cells were no longer sufficient.

Immediately following was the scene where Bao Zheng draped a scarf around Chang Yu. Chang Yu suddenly had an emotional breakdown and pushed Bao Zheng away while shouting.

"When things are abnormal, there must be a demon! Could the murderer really be this Chang Yu? Impossible! How could Chang Yu, a delicate and weak woman, have killed four grown men?"

At this moment, Dai Qingshan suddenly had an epiphany.

"Meng Fang was unusually sensitive to scarves, and Chang Yu is like this too. Are scarves an important clue? Could there be a connection between Meng Fang and Chang Yu?"

Bao Zheng in the drama finally figured everything out.

At night, a masked person suddenly appeared with a knife and held Chang Yu hostage, intending to harm her! A person dressed in black suddenly appeared to rescue Chang Yu but was intercepted by Zhan Zhao.

Then, Bao Zheng gradually revealed the entire mystery.

The origin of all this tragedy stemmed from a legend, a legend of the Kuayi Tribe's treasure!

"Mountain upon mountain, the white mountain embraces a thousand emeralds; water within water, the black water holds ten thousand reds."

Back then, Academician Ying Ming, Grand Scholar Yang Qishan, Commander Mu, and that blind man, the four of them interrogated the Kuayi Tribe about the secret of their treasure. When they couldn't get the information, they became enraged and burned down the entire Kuayi Tribe.

Fortunately, heaven had eyes, and two children miraculously survived.

Because these two children personally witnessed their entire family being strangled to death with ropes when they were young, the brother and sister became unusually sensitive to things like ropes and scarves.

The person who died in the music room had no calluses on his fingers but had calluses on his palms, so the headless corpse in the music room was actually Commander Mu.

And the reason Commander Mu's head bled tears was because the head had been frozen, which caused Madam Bao to misjudge Commander Mu's time of death.

Since the body of Meng Fang in the music room was actually Commander Mu, whose body was the one carrying Commander Mu's head?

Because the blind man couldn't see, he often used his hands to touch things, so it was inevitable that his hands would have some scratches. The so-called corpse of Commander Mu had many small scratches on its hands. Therefore, the corpse that returned on horseback carrying Commander Mu's head was actually the highly skilled blind man!

At this point, all the mysteries were solved!

Next, the siblings Chang Yu and Meng Fang were both shot with arrows, and Chang Yu died in Bao Zheng's arms.

Here, Li Xun made some revisions to the original drama. Bao Zheng's righteous speech about how the Meng Fang siblings shouldn't seek revenge was removed by Li Xun.

At the end of the twelfth episode, Gongsun Ce handed Bao Zheng something that Chang Yu had entrusted him to give to Bao Zheng. It was a piece of paper, completely black, as if it were stained.

Bao Zheng sniffed it and said, "This is the Kuayi Tribe's treasure!"

"Mountain upon mountain, the white mountain embraces a thousand emeralds; water within water, the black water holds ten thousand reds."

It turned out that the Kuayi Tribe's treasure was actually copper oil!

Copper oil could not be mined without government permission.

But they, for a treasure that was ultimately useless, annihilated the entire Kuayi Tribe!

With this, the story of the second unit, Blood Altar, from Young Bao Qingtian concluded.

Dai Qingshan and Liu Fang, who were on the sofa, did not know the ending beforehand. Seeing it tonight, they couldn't help but feel a sense of loss.

For the tragedy of the Kuayi Tribe, and for Chang Yu.

Chang Yu was such a good girl, and she died just like that. What a shame!

Dai Qingshan stood up and patted Li Xun on the shoulder.

"The script is well-written!"

The eleventh and twelfth episodes of Young Bao Qingtian saw their daily viewership explode like a volcano, once again astonishing everyone in and out of the industry who was paying attention to the drama.

With 93 million daily views, it not only continued to hold the top spot for single-day viewership on a single platform but also directly challenged the overall platform viewership champion, The Legend of Consort Chen.

The Legend of Consort Chen's performance was undeniably extraordinary. On its third day of release, its ratings successfully broke 3, reaching an astonishing 3.3, which should have been a cause for great celebration.

However, in the face of Young Bao Qingtian's astonishing achievements and its unstoppable momentum, it seemed somewhat overshadowed.

It made one sigh that it was not its fault for losing the battle.

At this point, all the filmed episodes of Young Bao Qingtian had been broadcast. Audiences who wanted to see the continuation of Young Bao Qingtian's story might have to wait for nearly a month.

Suspense fans across the internet lamented this with deep disappointment and gnawing anxiety, while only Zhao Qi, the CEO of iQIYI Video, secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

He was afraid that if Young Bao Qingtian continued to be broadcast like this, the position of The Legend of Consort Chen as the overall platform viewership champion would eventually be lost!