What if the tragic ending of the side stories was just an act everyone put on? (Part one)

On set.

In front of the green screen, Lou Yunxiao soaked in the "Three Paths River," filled with blood-red fruit juice, sobbing, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry..."

Everyone beside him watched intently. At the camera, the director nodded in satisfaction and gestured to the production assistant.

The assistant immediately snapped the clapperboard and announced happily,

"That's the final scene! Congratulations, everyone-that's a wrap!"

In an instant, the entire set became lively again, everyone exchanging congratulations.

They had even started discussing where to hold the wrap party.

Ning Ke stepped forward to help Lou Yunxiao out of the pool, only for the tall man to catch him around the waist without warning.

Lou Yunxiao hugged him tightly, his body still trembling a little.

"A Ke, thank goodness we didn't make the choices we did in the script..."

"Thank goodness you let me understand you and find you..."

His words stirred Ning Ke's heart.

The script for this production came from a fanfic written by a reader of "Ask the Heavenly Dao."

When Ning Ke first read it, it had shaken him deeply.

He felt that if he and Lou Yunxiao had taken even one wrong step, they might have met the same fate as they did in the story.

That was what had given him the idea to film it.

Aunt Bai, his brother, Xiao Xiao, and the others had all gone along with his whim.

And that was how this production came about.

Now, though, it seemed the story had affected Lou Yunxiao's emotions after all, since he wasn't a professional actor.

Patting the man's back, Ning Ke sighed. "I'm grateful too that you didn't lose your reason because I deceived you. Instead, you stayed calm and kept following me, doing everything you could to understand all my pain and pull