Chapter 68: Chapter 68 Audition
“You…” Insulted as mentally ill, Wei Ruolan was about to explode with anger, but she still managed to suppress it, “Mu Lingyun, you think you can audition for the leading lady? You really don’t know yourself at all, do you even consider if you’re suitable?”
Mu Lingyun’s mouth curved up slightly, “I was just here to give it a try, but now that I see my opponent is someone like you with no real talent, relying solely on men, a white lotus, I’m filled with confidence.”
“You…” Wei Ruolan clenched her teeth, “Fine, Mu Lingyun, we shall see. I want to see what skills you have to snatch the role of the leading lady away from me.”
“From your hands? There’s not even a stroke of the character eight yet, and you’re saying, ‘from your hands’? Wei Ruolan, do you think the entertainment industry belongs to your family?” Mu Lingyun scoffed, then turned her head away, no longer paying attention to Wei Ruolan.
Wei Ruolan clenched her fists, eyes filled with hatred; Mu Lingyun was too arrogant.
Good, she would just wait to see Mu Lingyun’s embarrassment.
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Soon it was Mu Lingyun’s turn to audition.
After she walked onto the stage, she bowed to the director and producer at the judges’ table along with a professional critic, then she began to perform the three scenes she had prepared.
The first scene, a young girl, despite a life of hardship, was still optimistic and full of hope for life. At that time, she had a kind schoolmaster and mother, fellow students to learn with, and a handkerchief friend to work with.
This girl lived in the mountain streams and fields, carefree and unaffected by the mundane world, always guessing the best of anyone she met.
Mu Lingyun portrayed the girl’s kindness and cuteness, combined with intelligence and shrewdness, to perfection.
The second scene portrayed her family’s betrayal, with her family forcing her to marry a prince she didn’t like and who was frail and on the brink of death.
Knowing that her family had done this to sacrifice her for the sake of her legitimate sister, she felt sad, heartbroken, and confused.
In this scene, Mu Lingyun skillfully portrayed the girl’s distress, confusion, and eventual breakthrough. Whether it was her emotions or her mood, there was a sense of progression.
The third scene, after the female lead marries the frail prince, they treat each other with respect. The frail prince also takes good care of her and even teaches her many things. But the good times did not last long, as the frail prince eventually died.
She had thought that the prince had died of illness, until when she was laying his coffin, she found his lips tinged with black. That was when she realized that he had not died of illness, but had been poisoned.
Later, the female lead had her fellow student and handkerchief friend investigate the matter. This led to her fellow student’s accidental death and her handkerchief friend being injured into a coma. Meanwhile, her so-called family threatened her with her mother’s life, demanding she stop looking into the matter.
At this point, the female lead’s thoughts underwent a complete transformation.
Previously she believed that one should repay evil with kindness.
But now, she felt that one must respond directly to ill treatment. Those who had harmed her and her loved ones had to be punished justly.
For this, the female lead boldly seduced the emperor, became his concubine, and used the power the emperor granted her to continue her investigation. When she found out that the mastermind behind everything was the emperor himself, she remained calm.
In the end, she decided to treat others the way they treated her and used the same poison that killed the frail prince to poison the emperor to death.
And the scene that Mu Lingyun was about to perform, was the one where she makes this decision.
The female lead’s handkerchief friend asked her, “But that’s the emperor. The emperor has ascended to the throne not long ago, he has no heirs, no Crown Prince. If the emperor dies and it leads to great chaos, what then?”