From the very beginning, when he met Qiong at the Golden Mead Club, Li Wei had thought that if their paths ever crossed again, it would definitely be because of a case.
Now it seemed Li Wei had guessed right again.
That was hardly surprising. Of the four of them, aside from East, who was a jockey, the other three-an actor, a writer, and a painter-all belonged to cultural circles.
And within cultural circles, show business had the most bullshit.
Even in the modern world, with sound legal systems and surveillance equipment everywhere, show business was plagued by one scandal after another. In an era without a sound legal system or much surveillance equipment, it could only be even more of a headache.
But to be honest, this was a little beyond what Li Wei had expected. He had thought he was definitely heading to a murder scene.
Oh, right. If that fellow hadn't dodged, it really would have become a murder scene.
The Eye of the Goddess Theater was quite famous in Fog City. In Li Wei's time, it would have been on roughly the same level as Broadway-though Li Wei didn't care about that. After all, he rarely watched stage productions. Plays, musicals, and the like didn't interest him much.
As far as Li Wei was concerned, Western stage productions and Eastern Peking opera were much the same. To put it crudely, neither would just talk normally. One went "aaah, aaah," the other went "ee, ee, ya, ya," and then they sang a story to background music. For Li Wei, who was used to movies and television, it was rather hard to get into.
Of course, musical films existed too, where halfway through a fight, both sides suddenly joined hands and started singing and dancing...
Ultimately, though, this