Read Novel Full Chapter 693: Xiao He: Just Memorize a Tiny Bit of Lines? Where’s My System?!
Chapter 693: Xiao He: Just Memorize a Tiny Bit of Lines? Where’s My System?!
After an impressive coronation ceremony, Xiao He successfully earned the recognition of most people in the production team.
Even the senior colleague, who initially didn’t like talking to Xiao He much, now frequently took the initiative to chat with him.
It was around this time that many belatedly realized Director Chou had deliberately scheduled such an important scene first—it was actually to pave the way for Xiao He, establish his authority, and make his subsequent filming on set easier.
So that old fox Director Chou—what seemed like targeting was actually support!
Suddenly, no one dared to look down on Xiao He anymore.
Xiao He’s subsequent filming on set went very smoothly.
But maybe it was because his outstanding performance had sparked inspiration in the screenwriters on set that, in the days that followed, Xiao He would always receive fly pages from the production team before shooting.
Fly pages: Temporary modifications or additions to the original script, adding new pages.
And unfortunately for him, the plot being filmed during this period was mainly focused on the imperial court, involving a large number of dialogue-heavy scenes spanning nearly a decade of story timeline. So Xiao He not only had to change his styling and makeup every few days, but the sheer volume of old and new lines had his brain completely fried.
-Emperor Chen’s reign was characterized by swiftness and decisiveness. Basically, any policy or order he decided on, he would execute without hesitation—even if pushing it forward faced heavy obstacles, or if it meant sacrificing the interests of some to benefit the majority.
So from the perspective of his time, he seemed more like a tyrant, stubborn and opinionated, with an overwhelming desire for control, a true hegemon in the court.
But it had to be admitted that many of Emperor Chen’s choices were extremely correct.
He placed special emphasis on the military industry, forcefully advancing the development of metallurgy, casting, machinery, and the artisan system, pushing the entire nation toward the emergence of mechanization, standardization, and large-scale production driven by the military sector.
He placed special emphasis on the military industry, forcefully advancing the development of metallurgy, casting, machinery, and the artisan system, pushing the entire nation toward the dawn of mechanization, standardization, and large-scale production driven by the military sector.
He had never seen a world of roaring machines, but with a heart set on strengthening the military, he forcefully pushed the dynasty to the threshold of technological innovation and the flourishing of all crafts. He laid a crucial foundation for future military industry development. In fact, many military technologies from his era created repeated opportunities for future generations of Chinese descendants to counterattack in times of crisis and provided more inventive ideas…
But as later generations judged, on this pioneering path, Emperor Chen was destined to be lonely.
The predecessors had too narrow a vision to understand the epoch-making significance of the First Industrial Revolution in the coming great era, and the descendants, already standing on the bloody and tearful answers, could only look back and sigh at heaven’s jealousy of his genius.
And naturally, this part of the discussion became an important logical direction for the court scenes in “Imperial Enterprise.”
A large amount of classical language, quotations from scriptures, and specialized terminology… polished by the screenwriters of later generations, the production team collectively built a unique image of Emperor Chen.
But the actor had to pay a tiny bit of a price—
After memorizing lines until his eyes glazed over once again, Xiao He collapsed onto the sofa in the lounge, letting out a long, despairing sigh.
“I admire Emperor Chen more and more now.”
If you asked him, it was still because Emperor Chen was too merciful.
Although many later generations described him as an absolute tyrant, that didn’t mean he was completely arbitrary, turning the entire court into his own one-man show.
Quite the opposite—Emperor Chen often considered others’ opinions and debated in the court, persuading them to accept his views.
So when he was “arguing with a group of scholars” in the court scenes, Xiao He began to miss the jianghu days when people just fought it out at the slightest disagreement—
Only when he became him did Xiao He understand how difficult it was to be a wise emperor for the ages, and how hard it was not to have someone dragged out and beheaded when his blood pressure spiked from the arguments.
This Emperor Chen thing—after arguing with you, argue with you, after arguing with you, argue with you again…
Hey, bro, aren’t I the emperor?
If everything is up to me, why are you all still yapping? What’s up? Not listening to me? Going against me? Got a problem with me? Unconvinced?
By the time he finished memorizing the lines, there were only three words in Xiao He’s heart—“Kill! Kill! Kill!”
“Kill them all! Kill them all! Anyone unconvinced? Kill! Anyone not listening? Kill! Anyone I don’t like? Kill kill kill!”
“Hahaha, kill them all! So much nonsense! Kill kill kill!”
After several consecutive days of filming, Xiao He’s resentment was heavier than a ghost’s.
When he was lying on the sofa, daydreaming about his tyrant career, Xiao Chen next to him didn’t dare to get close. He could only carefully organize the props on the side, afraid that Xiao He might get annoyed and have him dragged out to be “killed” too.
Just then, Liu Rulan walked in.
Seeing a lump of black human-shaped aura lying on the sofa, she almost thought she was seeing things. After waving her hand again, she finally made out that it was Xiao He lying there.
Liu Rulan: …
She couldn’t help but laugh: “It’s just a bit more lines to memorize, isn’t it? That bad?”
“Just! A bit! Isn’t it?”
The next moment, Xiao He scrambled up from the sofa like a shot. His bloodshot eyes glared at Liu Rulan, his expression icy and grim, with a murderous aura that suggested he might stab someone if she said another word.
Perhaps his resentment had erupted and he could no longer suppress the sinister energy on him. This time, even Liu Rulan was taken aback by his deep, dark stare. She weakly stepped back, then coughed lightly to defend herself: “It wasn’t me, it was Director Chou who said it.”
“Director Chou?”
Xiao He ground his teeth, unable to even stand hearing that name anymore.
Everyone said the old man actually had good intentions for him.
But in his opinion, that old man was just pure evil!
All the pressure was dumped on him, wasn’t it?
Didn’t he see that he was almost broken?
“Right, I really tried to persuade him,” Liu Rulan shrugged. “I just finished telling him about taking leave at the end of the month, and he said he’d adjust the schedule for these few days to make sure all the scenes during your leave are made up, so your leave won’t delay the production.”
“And, and more scenes added?”
Xiao He felt like he really couldn’t take it anymore.
More added?
Even with his golden finger system propping him up, he couldn’t handle this!
He was already memorizing lines without sleeping, and now they were adding more dialogue-heavy scenes. Did Qiu Zhenlong really think he was a genius with a photographic memory who could memorize lines after reading them once?
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Actually, by the end, Xiao He really couldn’t hold it together anymore and wanted to just cheat, to draw a photographic memory related skill.
But at the last moment, he got a bit reluctant.
After a long period of accumulation, he had indeed saved up one million points again.
But… for the remaining points, he still wanted to draw a house!
Thinking back to his chat with Liu Rulan last time in Beijing, Xiao He wanted to test the system’s ability, to see if he could use another million points to draw a house in Beijing.
After all, skills-wise, he honestly didn’t have many aspirations anymore. But if he used a million points to draw a criminal base… where would the system’s limit be?
Converting it, it should at least be a house worth hundreds of millions! And it would have to be in a central location, even more lavish than Director Zhuang’s villa… Then, waking up from bed, the first thing he sees is the ceiling, the second is the Forbidden City. Walk a few more steps, and he can see a bunch of antique displays… Ooh hoo hoo!
Turning the criminal system into a house blind box—he, Xiao He, would be the first!
“Heh, hehehehe—”
Xiao He tilted his head back, completely forgetting the hardship of memorizing lines, and began a beautiful daydream.
Xiao Chen was horrified: “Oh no, Sister Liu! Brother Xiao has gone dumb from memorizing lines!”
Liu Rulan took one look, twitched the corner of her mouth, and said with great pity: “Don’t mind your Brother Xiao. He’s been like this a lot lately. Just wait a bit and he’ll be fine.”