I play Fahai—then what does Fahai play?
Director, think it over again. With this pretty-boy face of mine, I'd have far more immersion playing a scholar—or a master gynecologist.
Xiang Yuan looked at the script in Bai Yue's hands, speechless for a moment as he sank into a long silence.
That was the snake demon he had dreamed of day and night—the top star of the snake demon world, Bai Suzhen. If he played Fahai, then a thousand years ago, what need would there have been for any cowherd boy? he himself would have saved the snake.
Come to think of it, which version of the Legend of the White Snake was this?
Xiang Yuan took the script and read through it line by line. "Senior Sister, where did you get this tale of strange spirits and wonders? Was it an edict from the Heavenly Emperor?"
The Heavenly Emperor knew so much. From Journey to the West to the Legend of the White Snake, it seemed there was nothing he did not know.
Then again, Journey to the West took place in the Tang Dynasty, while the Legend of the White Snake was roughly set in the Southern Song. Journey to the West had not even started filming yet—was it really appropriate to bring out the Legend of the White Snake first?
Oh, the Heavenly God Realm still had several leek gardens in the lower realms. They could harvest a crop anytime and recover their losses.
Then there was no problem.
"It was not the Heavenly Emperor..."
Only after Bai Yue's explanation did Xiang Yuan understand that the Legend of the White Snake script had not come from the Heavenly Emperor. Or rather, the Heavenly Emperor had handed it to Jingyun, who had no interest in taking part and passed