The emperor of Yan: Why does my brother get to be a hero and play one too? / Kristen: Saria cried, but I won't

Perhaps Director Chen Qi still harbors feelings for Victoria? And the fact that he now agrees to let him call him "teacher" suggests that... he also hopes that he can return to Victoria's company?

This idea has filled Vina with even more hope for the future. She is currently on set, learning everything and wanting to know everything. She hopes that one day she can stand on her own on set and become someone Chen Qi needs.

In this way, perhaps Chen Qi can teach her more, giving her a better chance of success!

While Vina was looking forward to a bright future, in Kazimierz, after the live broadcast ended, Eureka was once again received by the Grand Knight Commander, whose suggestions surprised Eureka greatly.

"Huh? The Kazimierz authorities are really willing to hire me as a foreign correspondent?! To go specifically to the filming location where Director Chen Qi is?"

"That's right, and you can rest assured, Miss Eureka. You are now officially a correspondent stationed in Kazimierz. Your equipment is funded by the Supervision Committee. All you have to do is go to Director Chen Qi's location, conduct live broadcasts and television connections, and report on the local situation."

The Grand Knight Commander smiled at Eureka's surprised expression and replied, "Of course, the salary is quite good. So, Miss Eureka, would you like to be hired?"

"Of course! Thank you so much for giving me this opportunity!"

Eureka immediately accepted the job she had been longing for, then, remembering something, she asked:

"So, where should I go for my first job? I have no idea where Director Chen Qi will go next..."

"Director Chen Qi is currently filming in Columbia, but Columbia probably won't accept our foreign correspondents there, given the recent assassination scandal..."

The Grand Knight Commander pretended to ponder for a moment, then, facing the enthusiastic Eureka, he proceeded to assign the task:

"Then you should head to Lungmen first. I heard that Director Chen Qi's next filming location is there, and the Lungmen authorities must have already started making preparations. You can go to Lungmen first to find out more and generate some buzz for Director Chen Qi's movie."

"Don't worry, I guarantee I'll complete the mission!"

Upon accepting the mission, Eureka immediately understood his responsibilities: to scout out the situation in Lungmen, speculate on the subject matter of Director Chen Qi 'Chen Qi next film, and generate buzz for it in advance!

However, what Eureka didn't know was that her current employment by Kazimierz and her assignment to Lungmen wasn't because her work had been recognized... but rather because the Grand Knight Commander thought that this unlucky girl, who always seemed to stumble upon some information, might be able to find out more about Chen Qi for Kazimierz.

Unbeknownst to Eureka, her identity as a foreign correspondent was in fact that of a "spy," and she thus embarked on a journey similar to Chen Qi's, traveling to various countries...

Chapter 186: Emperor of Yan: Why can my brother both be a great hero and act as one?

Meanwhile, in Yan, Zuo Le and his colleagues at the Imperial Calendar Bureau had all returned to the capital. After Zuo Le testified as a witness about the Commercial Federation's assassination attempt on Chen Qi, he immediately went to see the Emperor of Yan and told him everything he knew.

"You mean, Director Chen Qi's true form is actually a Feranmut? Feranmut that resembles Aslan?"

"Absolutely true! Your Majesty, and Director Chen Qi is clearly different from the Feranmut of our Great Yan. He is not Feranmut within the Great Yan territory! He may be Sargon, or Feranmut from another territory, therefore he has no hatred towards our Great Yan!"

Zuo Le also reported this news directly to the Emperor of Yan, and took the opportunity to share his analysis of Chen Qi, saying:

"Moreover, he is clearly not the kind of Feranmut who is inherently cruel. I believe that the fact that so many people in the Integrated Cultural Troupe, and that Nian and Xi are both willing to stay by Chen Qi's side, is enough to prove this point."

"... Although Nian and Xi are both 'years' in Chinese, long-term observation has shown that the two women dislike killing and battlefields by nature. If the people around them are people who treat human life as worthless, the two women would absolutely not tolerate it."

At this moment, just as the Grand Tutor nodded in agreement with Zuo Le's guess—he didn't understand Chen Qi, but he did understand the two women, Nian and Xi—he stepped forward and addressed the Emperor of Yan:

"Your Majesty, this old minister believes that Zuo Le's words are not without merit. If Chen Qi is indeed the incarnation of Feranmut, and harbors no ill will towards our Great Yan, then he is not an unusable person."

"Currently, most of the Celestial Masters in the various Celestial Masters' Manor are old, and there is a lack of successors. It will be difficult for them to shoulder the responsibilities of the old Celestial Masters in the short term. Moreover, most of the old Celestial Masters are busy guarding against 'Sui' and other Feranmut in various places. This situation cannot continue."

"If Chen Qi were Feranmut, he would naturally be closer to us than the Feranmut of Great Yan. If Chen Qi could buy us more time regarding the Great Yan Feranmut issue, it would definitely be very beneficial."

"... I haven't thought this through yet." The Emperor of Yan also had some doubts. Although Chen Qi was unlikely to be Feranmut within the Great Yan territory—after all, Great Yan didn't have a beast kin like Aslan —the mere mention of "Feranmut" highlighted Great Yan's greatest internal threat. How could he be at ease?

In particular, Chen Qi himself acts quite ostentatiously. Now, Victoria, Kazimierz, and the Sarkaz clan are all undergoing earth-shattering changes, directly or indirectly, because of his actions.

The Emperor of Yan worried that even if Chen Qi had no reason to overthrow Yan, letting his talents run wild would still cause great turmoil within the Yan —who knew what tricks he might find to manipulate things if he really let loose?

Furthermore, the Emperor of Yan was worried that if Feranmut like Chen Qi were to solve Yan's Feranmut problem, even if the other Feranmut stopped causing trouble, they might all end up in Chen Qi's crew... At that point, Chen Qi's threat level might not just be a threat to any particular country, but would truly become a threat to the entire Terra.

Of course, the possibility of this was very small, but the Emperor of Yan knew very well that he could not take such a risk by letting Chen Qi do such a thing. Otherwise, if it really succeeded and the power to shake the earth was truly in one person's hands, then he would become a sinner for all time.

Although many people have commented that Chen Qi was someone who "single-handedly stirred up the earth," that was merely a description of his literary talent. In the end, it was still force that settled everything.

The button to use force must never be held by someone else, no matter how much you trust that person—no reason, no ambition, no idea. Moreover, the Emperor of Yan doesn't entirely trust Chen Qi.

"We need to find a way to get Chen Qi to focus. Feranmut are much more pure than humans; once they set their sights on a goal, they often exhibit extraordinary persistence."

"Since he's Feranmut transformed into a human, and now he's devoted himself entirely to literature... it's best to keep him from experiencing anything else, as long as it's not violence or power. Let him indulge in whatever else is fine; it won't cause any major upheaval!"

The Emperor of Yan had also made up his mind. Yan had not yet reached a point where it needed someone like Chen Qi to intervene in the matter of the Feranmut. He was not Chongyue, and the Emperor of Yan did not trust him. Therefore, he would never entrust confidential matters to Chen Qi.

Now, let Chen Qi focus on filming and writing dramas. He doesn't need to worry about anything else. If he likes someone, he can ask for whomever he wants, and the Emperor of Yan will give it to him. As long as he doesn't ask for troops or power, everything will be fine!

The main point is... even the Emperor of Yan didn't hold out much hope for such thoughts... After all, even if they weren't Feranmut, how many ordinary immortal beings were truly obsessed with money and beauty?

If Chen Qi were truly simply bound by women, he would be much more relaxed. But the problem is, Chen Qi would never be interested in such trivial matters that are easily attainable. He couldn't be tempted by the titles of Lord of Sarkaz and Lord of Victoria, let alone women.

"This matter can be discussed later— Zuo Le, I heard you say that Chen Qi plans to film a martial arts drama in Lungmen? And he even gave Wei Yenwu Madam Wen Yue two martial arts manuals?"

"Yes, Your Majesty, I have not yet sent it to Lungmen. Please take a look."

Upon hearing this, Zuo Le immediately handed over the two martial arts manuals that Chen Qi had promised to the Emperor of Yan. The Emperor of Yan looked at the two martial arts manuals and felt somewhat worried when he thought that they were to be sent to Wei Yenwu.

It wasn't that the Emperor was worried that Wei Yenwu, who was already a master of the Great Yan, would become even stronger after learning the martial arts... Rather, the Emperor of Yan was quite convinced that his elder brother would not rebel. He wished that Wei Yenwu would become even stronger so that he could one-on-one fight the Feranmut in the future and eliminate the threat beneath his feet.

At that time, he would have done his duty as the elder brother, and might be able to suppress his resentment over his brother's escape without telling him back then, and reluctantly forgive him.

The Emperor of Yan was mainly worried that the martial arts manual written by Chen Qi, an outsider, might not have captured the essence of Yan's martial arts. Blindly practicing a martial arts manual with incorrect methods could actually harm a martial artist's cultivation.

"Zuo Le, send the two manuals to General Chongyue Jade Gate tell him to study them as soon as possible and see if there are any problems."

"If there are no errors, send it to the Martial Arts Academy to copy it, and then send it to Lungmen."

"Yes." Zuo Le immediately accepted the task. He hadn't dared to look at the manuals along the way, but he vividly remembered Chen Qi using a move from the "Lion's Roar Technique" technique, which caused the Campaign Knight to give up resistance.

If this tactic can be replicated, then the Great Yan might have a better chance of winning against many armies, forces, and even Feranmut that lack racial advantages in the future!

"Furthermore, Your Majesty, Director Chen Qi needs some martial arts practitioners, specifically those skilled in fist, leg, and staff techniques, as well as experts who use the zither as a weapon."

"... First, go to Lungmen to find suitable candidates. If not, recruit martial arts practitioners from all over the country to go to Lungmen."

The Emperor of Yan didn't say much about Chen Qi's plan to use martial arts practitioners to make movies. He simply didn't plan to transfer people from the Celestial Masters' Manor to act in the film for the time being. After all, the Celestial Masters' Manor's Mansion was short-handed, and it was better to transfer people as little as possible unless necessary.

"I can only hope that Chen Qi's movie will actually help the image of our Great Yan, while my brother will have a chance to shine..."

Tsk, thinking about it carefully, it's a little unsettling. The Emperor of Yan thought to himself, feeling a bit jealous that his elder brother was occupying an important role in a martial arts film, playing the role of a great hero, an image that the two brothers had longed for since childhood.

After all, Wei Yenwu had already been a great swordsman, while he had spent half his life confined to the palace. Now, even the opportunity to act wasn't reserved for his younger brother, Wei Yenwu, but instead...

"Should I tell Director Chen Qi that there's no need to give him so many good roles? Just give him a comedic one."

However, the Emperor of Yan had no idea that his hopeless words would actually come true in the future. The movie "Kung Fu Hustle" would, along with its immense popularity, also make the image of Wei Yenwu, the ruler of Lungmen, as a "henpecked husband" known to all the people of Yan.

Back to Chen Qi's side, filming of " To the To the Moon" is still progressing smoothly. As the characters played by Saria and Kristen continue to travel through John's memories, they begin to collect more clues and important memories, gradually learning more about John and River.

For example, "Anya," the lighthouse that River had been willing to give up her own treatment for so John would take care of her regularly, turned out to be an abandoned lighthouse.

For example, River specially cut her hair short, and the paper rabbits scattered all over the ground that they saw before were all made by the River.

Moreover, River had asked John time and again before about the meaning of these yellow paper rabbits, but John still couldn't give River the answer she wanted.

The memory they are currently watching is John, played by Chen Qi, on the River first date with Xiaoxi, played by Alina. They are under the lighthouse called "Anya," and at this moment, Alina is still tirelessly trying to make Chen Qi remember something.

She tossed a small sandbag in front of Chen Qi, seemingly testing him—testing the boy from her memory whom she had recognized at first glance, but who had been unable to recognize her for so long.

She wanted him to recall something, but because she had difficulty expressing herself and couldn't say what was on her mind, she could only try to use some objects to stimulate Chen Qi to remember.

And this sandbag is clearly the key to it.

"Can you throw it to Anya?" Alina asked. Chen Qi, though finding it strange, didn't think much of it and immediately grabbed the sandbag as he climbed down from the log.

"Who knows? Would you like me to give it a try?"

As soon as he finished speaking, John, played by Chen Qi, barely hesitated. He glanced at Alina, and seeing that she didn't stop him, he casually threw the small sandbag out.

The sandbag flew through the air in a perfect arc, but Chen Qi, positioned on the cliff edge and some distance from the lighthouse, seemed to lack the strength to throw it properly. Instead of landing on the ground above the lighthouse, the sandbag plunged into the vast ocean...

Upon witnessing this scene, Alina's pupils dilated instantly, and she instinctively rushed to the edge of the cliff, making a gesture as if to reach out and retrieve the sandbag.

Alina's actions startled Chen Qi, who immediately shouted anxiously, "River! Are you crazy?! Get away from there!"

"..."

However, after a long silence, Alina withdrew her hand. And when she stood up again and turned to look at Chen Qi, her expression of sadness, heartache, and disappointment was deeply etched into everyone's hearts...

"... Cut! That take is a wrap!" The tense atmosphere didn't last long until Nian's voice rang out again. Soon, Chen Qi, no longer in character, immediately pulled Alina up and shouted to Nian:

"Let's slow down the shot of them throwing the beanbag! That's a key shot, a message we need to convey to the audience!"

"... Saria, what happened to you just now?"

Meanwhile, after the play ended, Kristen, as the guide of the "audience's perspective" in the film, noticed that her co- Kristen, after the previous inexplicable emotional fluctuations, was once again exhibiting unusual behavior in his acting.

"When Director Chen Qi threw that sandbag just now, you seemed to instinctively try to rush over and catch it? Saria, were you planning to do that?"

"... Your imagination."

However, Saria has no intention of admitting these things, and apart from acting, Saria and Kristen's relationship remains strained, with Saria never saying much to Kristen.

She only intended for Kristen to experience and understand for himself. She felt that her approach was a very "straight man's" way of putting things, and even if she put the words into words, it would only be dry and unconvincing.

Kristen, however, sensed something was amiss from Saria's repeated strange behavior...

What exactly is the story behind this movie? Why could it move someone as strong as Saria so deeply, time and again?

Chapter 187: Kristen: If Saria cries, I won't cry.

"Director Chen Qi, I must admit that filming has gone smoothly so far. Although we're still focused on collecting John's memory fragments, I can already sketch out the relationship between John and River —it's definitely a love story."

"But... I still don't understand, what does all this have to do with To the Moon? I simply can't connect these pieces of evidence I've pieced together with To the Moon."

Filming continued, but a few days later, as the plot deepened and Saria's frequent unusual behavior occurred, Kristen increasingly felt that the plot of this movie, titled " To the To the Moon," might not be the kind of movie she had imagined.

As he spoke, Kristen also took out many of his prepared notes, which Chen Qi glanced at curiously before asking in surprise:

"Oh? Miss Kristen, are you speculating about what will happen next?"

"It's just a habit of a researcher." Kristen didn't take Chen Qi's words to heart. Chen Qi looked at all the notes Kristen had taken down, as well as those points he considered crucial, and couldn't help but admire Kristen's sharp analytical skills.

Kristen's notes basically recorded all the key points and props used during the filming period, such as some items she considered crucial: paper rabbits, pickled olives, lighthouses, beanbags, fairy tale books, etc. The platypus doll that appeared frequently in the filming was also recorded by Kristen.

Of course, there were also many other important plot points that Kristen considered key moments in the story, and he recorded them all without missing a single one.

In a conversation, John's good friend's wife, Isabelle, also revealed important information: Isabelle also suffers from the same disease as River, but it was discovered in time. In addition, she herself wanted to change herself, so she pretended to be a normal person by "acting".

But Isabelle sensed that although River clearly longed to communicate with others, she resisted change. She was intentionally keeping herself the way she was before, as if waiting for something to happen.

Another plot point involves her and Saria traveling back to John's student days. Back then, John, just beginning to experience romantic feelings, asked River to go to the movies, but he waited a long time in the theater without receiving any news about the empty seat next to him, thinking he had been stood up.

However, after he came out, River unexpectedly came out from another exit. She had been in the same movie theater as John the whole time, but she was far away from him and did not sit next to him.

When pressed about why she saw him but not John, who was sitting with her, River's answer was perfectly suited to her speech impediment, yet it was also full of romance and poetry:

"What does it matter? We're in the same space, watching the same movie."

"... At the time, Saria and Muelsyse were impressed by Miss Alina's answer, finding it full of poetry." Kristen, on the other hand, had a vivid memory of this scene, as it had only been performed recently.

Incidentally, Muelsyse also played a supporting role in " To the To the Moon," namely Isabella, the wife of John's good friend, who suffers from the same symptoms as River, but because she was diagnosed early and can "act" to appear as a normal Isabelle.

John's friend Nicolas is played by our Miss Vina. Chen Qi is not too demanding of Vina, who is quite respectful of her performance. For supporting roles with limited screen time, Vina is still willing to make a cameo appearance.

"However, I think this is just a logical inconsistency caused by simple multifunctional autism. River's experiences and words clearly show characteristics of the relevant symptoms."

"Saria and Muelsyse, sometimes they overthink things because of their emotions, just like those overly literal reading comprehension exercises. Even when the author didn't think that way, they always make a lot of connections."

Kristen clearly had a different understanding of this matter, but Chen Qi, the original author of this world, was standing right in front of her at this moment, and Kristen's words made Chen Qi's expression become a little strange.

"So, after all that acting, Ms. Kristen, do you have any new understanding of the characters John and River?" Chen Qi didn't answer Kristen's question about To the Moon, but instead asked about her current understanding of the characters.

Kristen, being a researcher, was accustomed to answering every question that came her way, and immediately continued in her reply:

"Hmm... From my current perspective, my view of John's character has changed a bit. I think his thoughts, which are similar to the River's... while not exactly noble, are quite normal for boys of that era to pay attention to girls who are unusual or in a vulnerable position."

"School of Principle speaking, it's normal for many boys to have a natural protective instinct towards vulnerable but naturally beautiful girls... However, in the end, John seemed to always be attracted to the River's qualities, and River seemed to be playing along with John's preferences, never changing her mind."

This wasn't just something Kristen made up; John himself admitted it in the story. During his student days, he developed a crush on the unique River, so he started to approach her, invited her to movies, and expressed his special feelings for the River to his friends.

From Kristen's perspective, this kind of budding teenage affection is quite normal. Ultimately, the two did get together, and although their illness prevented them from truly understanding each other, they were happy enough.

However, in the storyline, Saria, who plays Neil Watts, shows some disgust towards John for getting close to the River, finding him "selfish and greedy."

--However, it was precisely for this reason that Kristen couldn't help but find it strange that John's life was already so perfect, so why would he still have the idea of To the Moon?

"... Director Chen Qi, are you sure you're not making a simple romance film with a sci-fi background?" Kristen was starting to have doubts and asked Chen Qi.

"These contents have absolutely nothing to do with To the Moon. In fact, in these memories, River never expressed her last wish to To the Moon... If that were the case, it would be fine, and it could be considered a great science fiction romance movie. But so far, none of the memories have anything to do with the moon."

"Well, I can assure you, Miss Kristen, that you will eventually see the moon you want to see, provided, of course, that you are truly in the mood to pay attention to the moon at the time."