Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Si Huang walked to the entrance of the audition venue and received many exclamations along the way.
At this time, there was a sound of applause from the other end of the audition, as if a certain audition actor’s performance had been favored by a large number of judges.
“Inviting the next audition actor Si Huang to come on stage and audition for the role: Michus.”
As this voice sounded, Si Huang walked step by step into the entrance of the audition stage.
The projection lights on the stage were bright, making her silver hair and platinum clothes reflect a halo, and her whole person seemed to be enveloped in a layer of holy light. With her cold and flawless face, she captured all the judges present in an instant. Their eyes, heart beating and breathing all stopped for a moment.
Si Huang glanced around the audience. Because the lights on the audition stage were too bright and there was no light where the judges were sitting below, she couldn’t see their expressions clearly.
There was also a young man with brown hair on the stage, who must be the audition actor who received applause from the review team before.
Originally, the other party should have left after Si Huang came on stage, but he stood there in a daze.
Si Huang looked at him, and surprisingly he was an acquaintance.
Le Xian whom he met in H city once.
However, his hair was dyed dark brown, and the wound at the corner of his eye was treated and healed well. After applying a layer of powder and makeup, no trace was visible.
Le Xian came back to his senses as soon as Si Huang looked over. There was a hint of fear in his eyes, and his shoulders trembled instinctively.
“Le Xian, go down, Si Huang, you can start.” Director Xiao Jin, who was sitting in the middle of the judges’ side, said.
These words were like a release order for Le Xian. He immediately nodded and walked towards the exit. After only two or three steps, when he was less than two meters away from Si Huang, he suddenly heard a cold voice coming from above his head, “Did I let you go?”
The voice was clear and sweet, as if it were the moonlight flowing in the desert, without any emotion and full of invisible pressure.
Le Xian was startled. He raised his head and saw a young man in front of him who was dressed in orthodox clothes and had a face like a god.
He stood there, as if bathed in holy light, his elegant face kissed by God, his silver hair so clean that there was no trace of dust, his deep eyes looking him down from top to bottom, his natural gift. Noble and unattainable, his eyes seemed to be pitiful, but also like looking at an ant and bug. He was so arrogant that he was supposed to be disgusting, but the emotions he felt in his heart before being disgusted were…awe and inferiority complex!
Le Xian’s eyes widened, and he was frightened from the bottom of his heart. The pair of dark green eyes filled with pathological madness and murderous intent appeared in his mind again. When he was looked down by the man in front of him, an indescribable pressure hit his nerves and made his brain shake. Then he broke into cold sweat.
At this time, if anyone came and spoke out, breaking the aura created by Si Huang, it could wake up Le Xian and remind him that this was still an audition place, and they were just acting. With this understanding, he would not be dragged into the drama by Si Huang and be afraid of becoming like this.
However, no one on the jury made a sound. Not only did they not make a sound, they unconsciously relaxed their breathing, and even held their breath, staring closely at the performance in front of them, for fear of affecting the two people on the stage.
From the moment Si Huang spoke her first words, the aura around her had undergone earth-shaking changes. The silent change seemed to have real magical power. It swept out like a wave of air with her as the center, impacting everyone and their five senses and mind in an instant.
The young silver-haired bishop was the most mysterious priest in the ancient country. It was said that he could communicate with the gods. He had the blood of gods flowing through him. He was the son of god who was born into the world. He was a god in the eyes of people all over the country. No one knew how old he was, and no one knew where he came from. By the time they got to know him, he had already become a bishop and appeared in front of people in the most perfect and noble form.
Such a perfect and holy existence, was the most evil villain in “Tooth of Time”. He was hypocritical, hegemonic, killed indiscriminately, tortured, was world-weary, and treated everything as a game. He did not need any reason to do evil!
Judging from the introduction, this was probably the kind of villain that people would hate and dislike the most. He was so duplicitous and evil to the core that he was destined to become the most reviled character in the movie. No one expected that Si Huang would choose a top-notch villain for his first movie. Yu Xi was shocked when he first learned about it, but he couldn’t defeat Si Huang and could only do as he asked.
When the crew of “Tooth of Time” got the news, most people were not optimistic about him, and even thought about rejecting him. After all, Si Huang had a face that did not belong to a bad person, and they had imagined Michus as a middle-aged face, with a face that had gone through many vicissitudes of life. The image of the bishop in their mind was thus very different. One of the reasons why Bishop Michus was given silver hair at the beginning was to highlight his old age. Who would have thought that this silver hair on Si Huang’s head would be so…so…
Beautiful! sacred! pure!
At this moment, they seemed to really see everything that should have been illusory. The person in their sight was the most mysterious and noble bishop of the ancient country. He stood in the splendid and solemn and cold cathedral, with marble dust-free floors and a spacious temple. The towering ceiling, candlelight lit up the entire hall, and the sculpture of the god was behind him, watching him silently.
“Kneel down.”
Le Xian met his deep gaze, and the clear voice penetrated his ears and seemed to ring into his mind. At this time, it seemed that he was no longer Le Xian, but had really transformed into the timid and shy genius pharmacist Gule who performed in the audition. Facing this mysterious bishop, he didn’t even have the courage to resist, and he knelt down on the ground softly.
“Repent before the Lord.” The young silver-haired bishop sighed softly in a clear voice.
The cowardly genius pharmacist looked up with a pale face and saw the god-like face of the bishop. The deep eyes under the shadow were full of pity, “Repent for your sins.”
“I… What did I do wrong?”
“You helped the enemy. You are a traitor, a demon who killed his brother and his father.”
“No…”
The young silver-haired master stretched out his hand as if to touch his head, but in reality they were only a centimeter away. “Your kindness saved an evil demon and will bring about Endless wars, causing countless innocent people to lose their lives.”
“No…”
“This is no longer kindness, but sin.”
“No!” The genius pharmacist couldn’t stand the pressure and shouted, his pale face full of pain. After that, he was left with a heavy breath.
The young silver-haired bishop retracted his hand, “It seems that your heart has been eroded by darkness. Pagans who have fallen into darkness cannot understand God’s blessings and mercy will receive the punishment they deserve.”
The genius pharmacist shook his head violently. “I didn’t, I’m not…” However, the silver-haired protagonist looked down at him, and his mouth lost the words. For a moment, he seemed to see hell in the other person’s eyes, and his whole body was trembling with fear, and his whole body was soaked in cold sweat.
“Take him down.” The young silver-haired protagonist ordered.
….
Five seconds…ten seconds…one minute…the silence lasted for a full two or three minutes.
No one spoke, and naturally no one came to drag Le Xian away.
Le Xian’s trembling mind slowly returned to calm as time passed. He suddenly came to his senses and realized what was happening in front of him.
“F**k!” Le Xian suddenly stood up from the ground and took two steps back, looking at Si Huang with shocked and angry eyes.
His reaction also woke the others up.
“Bah, bang, bang!” A burst of fierce applause sounded, and the man who stood up was a foreign man. He should not be too old, he looked to be in his twenties or nearly thirty. Looking at Si Huang in amazement, he shouted loudly in English: “Awesome! God, you are amazing! You look like an angel!”
“Finn, sit down.” Xiao Jin reminded in skillful English.
The foreign man named Finn sat back obediently, but his excitement remained undiminished and he said loudly: “I can find infinite inspiration in him, Xiao, that’s him!”
Xiao Jin once again used warning eyes. Staring at him, the latter shrugged his shoulders and made a gesture of zipping his mouth.
Xiao Jin turned to look at Si Huang on the stage, suppressing the excitement in his heart as much as possible, and asked her calmly and in a steady tone, “Have you seen the introduction of the character Michus?”
Si Huang raised his eyebrows, “Yes.”
Xiao Jin said: “Then you should know that Michus should have a middle-aged image. He should be handsome and full of vicissitudes of life, compassionate and majestic. His evil is hidden in his bones, and he can tear open the sacred layer at any time. The coat of the boy shows us the ugliest side, but you… To be honest, boy, you are too perfect. I see a little bit of evil in you. Forcibly making an evil appearance will only make people feel regretful.”
Everyone suddenly understood after hearing what he said, and then they all showed expressions of regret. Only Finn frowned, struggling to listen to Xiao Jin’s Chinese words, with disapproval on his face.
“I don’t think so.” Si Huang was not hit by Xiao Jin’s words that sounded like rejection.
Xiao Jin asked: “Then what do you think?”
Si Huang said: “The Michus that I know is the highest holder of the ancient country’s divine power, the controller of the imperial power, and the spiritual belief of the people of the ancient country.”
These words when said by her in a calm tone gave people an inexplicable spiritual impact, as if Michus really existed.
Xiao Jin was slightly stunned, “So?”
“He is the deified person in “The Tooth of Time”, the only god.” Si Huang raised his head, “The appearance of a god never needs to be defined, nor does the evil deeds of a god need to be pretend, his evil is recognized by all the people who believe in him, that is justice, there is no need to use evil to suggest to others. Only when God is killed and faith is overturned, everything about God will be denied.”
The whole place was silent.
At this moment, no matter whether it was Le Xian who was on the same stage with her, the jury in front of her, or Yu Xi and others standing at the entrance to the backstage, they all lost their voices for a moment.
“Well said!” The person who suddenly shouted was Finn. He stood up again and asked sharply in English: “Since Michus is a god, how can you, as a human being, play the role of this god?”
No. Wrong, how can people know what God is like?
This kid’s understanding seemed to be correct, but he ended up shooting himself in the foot!
Just when everyone thought Si Huang would be speechless, they heard her still calm but powerful voice, “I am an actor. In this field, I am a god and can become anything.”
Such arrogance. To put it bluntly, even contemporary movie kings and actresses would not dare to say it casually. But now it was said by a minor who had just debuted. People’s first thought was that of a newborn calf not afraid of tigers[1]. It was impossible to believe him. To be a little more straightforward, anyone who heard it would just laugh loudly.
But in fact, no one there laughed at her or even warned her not to be too mad.
Because when the man in fine clothes on the stage said this, there was no arrogance at all on his face. He was calm. Only the light in his eyes was like the blazing sun breaking through the dark clouds, so bright that it shone with scorching light, one could feel her confidence and enthusiasm from it, as if everything was just as he said, this was his field, where he could be fearless and omnipotent!
“Bah bang bang!” Finn clapped loudly again. This time he looked at Si Huang with more burning eyes and even more respect. “Boy, I believe that one day you can really become a god in this field. After all, you are so outstanding when so young, you have plenty of time to embark on this road to becoming a god!”
The cultural differences between China and the West had created differences in human nature. Country Z paid attention to modesty and restraint, while country M advocated self-confidence, publicity, and excessiveness. In the West, modesty had become an excessive inferiority complex. On the contrary, if you showed modesty, you would be looked down upon as someone seemingly unwilling to believe in your abilities.
Therefore, if Si Huang’s words were seen by people from country Z, most people would probably think that she was too arrogant, but they were very to Finn’s liking.
As for the director of this film, Xiao Jin, as an overseas Chinese who grew up in a foreign country, his personality was also more open-minded than the traditional Z people. When he heard what Si Huang said, it didn’t seem obvious on the surface, but in fact he had a very good impression of him in his heart.
“Finn, your evaluation of him is too high.” He turned to Finn and reminded: “He is just a newcomer who has appeared in a TV series.”
If such a high evaluation was spread, it would be very difficult for the newcomer. It would not be a help, instead it would bring a lot of trouble to his stardom.
“I trust my intuition.” Finn said seriously, staring at Xiao Jin with stubborn eyes, silently urging: What are you waiting for? Set him up quickly! Set him! Set him up, bastard!
Xiao Jin looked at his best friend who had become more and more childlike as he grew older, nodded to the people around him, and then said to Si Huang: “You and Le Xian go backstage and wait.”
This sentence already explained the result.
Finn turned to Si Huang and blinked.
Si Huang noticed it and nodded politely to him, then turned and walked towards the exit.
The staff there quickly got out of the way.
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[1] It tells us that young people tend to be less considerate and they are often adventurous and daring.