The golden and green sun hangs right above the sky. White clouds like silk threads and blocks cut the sky into countless polygons. The sight that has been looking straight upward for a long time becomes gray due to the direct rays of light. In this gray, a thin black line with a tail passes across the retina. It is a bird that has strayed from the flock.
In stark contrast to this natural scenery, a mechanical, illusory voice kept repeating in Ethan Jiang's mind:
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Ethan Jiang, who was sitting alone nearby, seemed a little dazed. He felt as if he was floating in the air and couldn't find his place. He subconsciously raised his hand to press his forehead. After a moment, he rubbed the bridge of his nose with his thumb and index finger... After a while, the force from his face gradually sobered him up.
He found himself sitting on a folding chair. Not far from him were the script supervisor, lighting, cameraman, director, actors in ancient costumes, and props. It looked like a proper filming scene - a place he was very familiar with.
But there's something wrong.
Ethan Jiang thought in confusion. His eyes first fell on the familiar performance in the field, and then he looked around. Soon, between the two trees facing him, he saw a long banner with yellow characters on a red background. On the banner was written:
This is where something is wrong!
How could he be on the set when he was 22 years old? He was clearly attending the TV Festival awards ceremony. He debuted at the age of 20 and played supporting roles in TV dramas for 22 years. Finally, when he was 42 years old, he won the Best Actor Award. Even though the value of this award was not high, he was very happy. He drank two more glasses of wine at the subsequent banquet, and then...
Then?
Ethan Jiang looked at his hands in a daze.
The hands in front of him were white, slender and well-maintained. When he turned over his palms, there was not even a single callus. They were nothing like his own hands, which were covered with thick calluses from the fingertips to the pads many years later after filming various roles.
He waved his left arm again subconsciously.
When he was 30 years old, due to a mistake made by the crew, he fell from the wire two meters above the ground and suffered a comminuted fracture of his left arm. It took him half a year to recover. Although he said that he recovered, every time he exerted force in a certain direction, he would still feel a dull pain...
No feeling at all.
Ethan Jiang pressed his arm, feeling more and more surprised, which even showed on his face.
He once again looked at the banner not far away, then turned his gaze back to himself. A vague thought emerged in his chaotic mind, and then became clearer and clearer:
Did he go back to twenty years ago, from forty-two years old to twenty-two years old?
"Brother Jiang."
Suddenly, a laughing voice called out from the side, and then Ethan Jiang felt a weight on his shoulder, as if someone had patted him on the shoulder.
Ethan Jiang's breathing paused for a moment. He adjusted his facial expression slightly and turned around. He saw a familiar-looking man standing in front of him holding two disposable paper cups: "Brother Jiang, drink some water."
"Thank you." Ethan Jiang thanked him and took it, then took a sip and quickly flipped through his memories, trying to find information about the person standing in front of him.
The man said to Ethan Jiang with a slightly envious tone: "Brother Jiang, how are your preparations going? The next scene is yours. You have a lot of scenes as the second male lead this time, right? I heard that Director Zhang thinks highly of you and he called the boss to make an appointment with you in advance."
Ethan Jiang, who was searching his memory, was slightly shocked when he heard the other party say "The next scene is yours" and finally remembered the most crucial thing!
He immediately turned his gaze to the center of the scene, and saw that what was being filmed was the twelfth scene since the beginning, which was also the last scene before the end of Lucas Shu's childhood, the role played by Ethan Jiang.
(It rained heavily that day, and silver snakes danced wildly in the dark night sky, followed by continuous muffled thunder. Little Lucas Shu was hidden in a cabinet by Mrs. Shu. The screams and pleas could not be covered by the thin wooden board. Through the tiny gap, the eight-year-old child clenched his fists and bared his eyes. He felt the splashing blood muddy his vision and burned his skin!)
The child actor hired by the crew sat in a copper-colored low cabinet with his eyes wide open and fists clenched. His body leaned forward, and he was shaking violently, his teeth chattering, and his eyes were staring straight at the empty space in front of him, as if that large piece of concrete floor was the murderer of his father.
This performance was enough. Director Zhang shouted with satisfaction, "Everyone take a ten-minute break. The props team will start preparing for the next outdoor scene!"
"Brother Jiang, it's your turn!" The man next to him who looked like a supporting actor shouted loudly, and shouted in a much more nervous attitude than Ethan Jiang.
On the set, several unhappy glances were cast over one after another, and after making a scrutinizing circle, they were retracted one by one.
At this time, Ethan Jiang didn't have the energy to pay attention to these details.
After remembering the most important information about this play just now, Ethan Jiang's heart sank.
The TV series he is currently starring in is adapted from a martial arts novel of the same name.
In the film, he plays Lucas Shu as the number one villain, and his role spans the entire story from childhood to adulthood.
In this early martial arts novel, the origins of many things all come from a "wordless scripture" that claims to know everything in the world. There has long been a rumor in the martial arts world that whoever obtains the wordless scripture will be the most respected person in the world.
Lucas Shu was born into a martial arts family. When he was eight years old, his family was killed by masked men in the middle of the night because they were involved in a dispute over the Wordless Scripture. As the youngest son, Lucas Shu was saved by his mother hiding in a closet. On a stormy night, through the cracks in the closet, he heard the continuous screams of his family members dying, and saw his mother being killed outside the closet and his brother being burned to death. He was devastated.
It was at this time that Madam Zi, the adopted sister of Lucas Shu's father, arrived. Lucas Shu was about to go out, but was shocked to see Madam Zi cursing and insulting his mother's corpse, and then she walked away after laughing wildly. From then on, he determined that Madam Zi was the culprit of the family's massacre. Therefore, fifteen years later, he relentlessly pursued the male protagonist Nathan Xia, who took Madam Zi as his mother, and vowed to make the other party taste the pain of losing everything he felt fifteen years ago.
At that time, the hero Nathan Xia and the heroine Olivia Kong were a pair of happy enemies. In order to achieve his goal, Lucas Shu seduced Olivia Kong, but was attracted by the delicate, kind, bold and righteous Olivia Kong halfway, and even wavered several times. Until he found out that Nathan Xia was holding the new and old grudges that caused his family to be broken up, he finally decided to fight to the death with the other party, but in the final battle, he found out from the birthmark on Nathan Xia's body that Nathan Xia was his own brother!
It turned out that Madam Zi had been in love with Lucas Shu's father to no avail, so she took advantage of the disaster at the Shu family to steal one of Madam Shu's two sons, and used a child of similar body shape to dress in Lucas Shu's brother's clothes, and then burned him in a fire to pass him off as a corpse. She deceived everyone, and for fifteen years she raised the child as her own adopted son.
At this point, the truth was revealed, the past was turbulent, love and hate were intertwined, Lucas Shu and Nathan Xia and even the justice of the martial arts world had already gone their separate ways and could no longer recognize each other, but they could no longer fight each other. At the critical moment of the decisive battle, he finally chose to clean up those spectators who secretly opposed Nathan Xia, and was immediately knocked off the cliff by Nathan Xia, and their life and death would never meet again in the world.
The script of this TV series is not very exciting, but the characters of the male and female protagonists are well-designed, and the actors also portrayed the protagonists' personalities vividly. In addition, with the market effect brought by the original novel, the TV series was popular for a while after it was broadcast, and the value of the two leading actors increased significantly as a result.
As the second male lead in the crew, he was rewarded with good ratings by the TV series, so his net worth naturally went up a little bit. Everyone from the company's top management to himself was very happy, and they ambitiously wanted to become the leading actor. However, all the benefits brought by the TV series were only reflected in this small increase in his net worth.
His worth has gone up, but his fans haven't.
The first role he played in a TV series after his debut was a villain; the director thought he played the villain role well, so he gave him a second villain role with more lines, and asked him to play this villain the same way as the previous one... Then, the audience and even the director began to think that "Ethan Jiang is a villain actor."
He later auditioned for other roles arranged by the company, but his price was too high, he had few fans, and his acting skills were really not that good. If there were fake actors in the entertainment industry, he would be the one that both investors and directors hate.
Ethan Jiang smiled bitterly.
Then, for more than a year, almost two years, he worked day and night to hone his acting skills, humbled himself, and kept auditioning for new roles. He finally got rid of the restricted villain role and started over - but that was it.
The freshness brought by newcomers and idols disappeared as early as the first year. After two years of wasting time, his acting skills improved, but he started slowly. He is indeed not a talented actor. He can only continue to practice his acting skills while taking on roles. Some roles he was optimistic about were not obtained for various reasons. Some roles he was optimistic about were obtained, but the whole drama was tepid...
He has no talent as an actor and no luck as a person, so at the age of 42, he only won an award that is rarely seen in the industry.
And at the party after the award ceremony.
Ethan Jiang felt his throat tighten.
In the blink of an eye, he went from 42 years old to the turning point of his life at 22 years old.
He wasn't ready last time.
What about this time?
Now, is he ready?
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