After hearing Xiao Tian’s words, Qianxun nodded slightly, understanding now how things were.
"It seems Yanzhi’s younger brother is quite impressive," Qianxun said.
"Isn’t he? And to think the second son was born with silver hair; what kind of virtue must the Huo Family have accumulated in their past life? To have such outstanding talents in one family—a pair of jewels. The eldest is one thing, but the second son is also so remarkable," Xiao Tian sighed lightly.
Humans indeed differ from us demons.
If you accumulate virtues in your past life, you’re born into a good life in the next.
But for us demons, despite our longevity, living isn’t easy.
In the past, we could steal some chickens or ducks from farms, but now such petty theft is a crime.
If it weren’t for the jobs we can find at the Demon Management Bureau, to use human terms, we’d be jobless vagrants! We’d only have the option to work construction sites, moving bricks.
Upon hearing Xiao Tian’s words, Qianxun smiled faintly.
In her past life, it wasn’t Yanzhi who was the Crown Prince; he only became Emperor after eliminating several other princes.
And in this life, judging from Xiao Tian’s description, the relationship between him and his brother probably wouldn’t be very close.
Contemplating this, Qianxun stored the hunting blade inside the Jade Glaze while nodding and saying, "The Huo Family indeed must have accumulated virtue in their ancestors."
Otherwise, Yanzhi, with the fate of a virtuous man of ten lifetimes, wouldn’t have been born into the Huo Family.
At that moment, Qianxun’s phone rang; it was a call from Ruan Mianmian.
"Hello, Qianxun, the shooting date for ’Emperor Ming’ has been set. It’s at the end of the month, which happens to be a Saturday. You can come over directly then, and if all goes fast, your scenes will be finished in a few days," Ruan Mianmian said.
And by "Emperor Ming," she naturally referred to the script in which Qianxun had improvised a performance.
In the drama, Qianxun’s role wasn’t substantial, but she played the Imperial Noble Consort, known as both the most favored concubine and the most beautiful woman in the realm, named Hong Xiu, the Prime Minister’s daughter and the male lead’s mother.
The script depicted her as having a childhood sweetheart, only to be selected by the Emperor to join the harem.
Different from other women who withered away in despondence over love after entering the palace, Hong Xiu, carefully cultivated by the Prime Minister, soon realized the importance of the Emperor’s favor after surviving the early palace intrigues and rivalries.
The Emperor, already captivated by her, became even more infatuated with her artful maneuvers; within half a year, he made her the Imperial Noble Consort and even considered deposing the Empress.
But then her childhood sweetheart led a rebellion!
He claimed he was doing it to take Hong Xiu back, but she knew all too well that few men could let go of power’s allure once they’d tasted it.
She was just a pretext for his rebellion.
Yet the Emperor was a man clever enough but lacked ambition.
As her childhood lover’s rebellion made rapid advances, seizing much of the kingdom, the Imperial Noble Consort, now criticized as a disaster by the court officials, died blocking an arrow for the Emperor after giving birth to a son.
Before her death, she told the Emperor if he didn’t strive to be diligent and protect their child, she would die with eyes wide open.
Following Hong Xiu’s death, the Emperor finally experienced an awakening, understanding her best intentions at last, and began ruling earnestly, carefully nurturing their child.
But by then, the realm was split into three, and the Emperor, waking up too late, could only hold onto half of his kingdom.
The rest of the drama focused on the male and female leads.
Qianxun chose this role because Hong Xiu’s character was very much to her liking, and her portrayal was sufficiently domineering.
There was just one aspect she was not completely satisfied with, which was the design of her death to provoke the Emperor into earnest governance.
Indeed, the assassin was brought in by Hong Xiu herself.
But Qianxun was also aware that human thinking differed from that of demons. In those times, Hong Xiu’s actions were without fault, even considered brave.