Ch199 - I should already know your tastes (1/2)
14.11 – I should already know your tastes
translator: xiin
editors: alamerysl & BlueBug
Qing Xi could not recall his rebirth, nor could he remember how many years he had already cultivated for. He had always been high up and aloof, spending his days in closed cultivation. He was just like a legend to the cultivators, someone who had always hung high above the rest, and the goal that everyone aspired to reach.
But at the beginning of the story, Qing Xi encountered the greatest difficulty of his life. He needed to perfectly realize the seven passions and six desires in order to become a god, but he had already forgotten all about what the world held. How could Qing Xi use his own past to achieve a breakthrough? So, in the second section of the story, Qing Xi used a technique and sent his soul into the world.
Read more BL at chrysanthemumgarden.com
Qing Xi’s core soul divided into two parts, and scattered into the three thousand lesser realms, becoming the two protagonists of this story.
One became an ordinary youth who lived had no roots, no family, and lived a miserable life, named Zhu Yifan. The other became a powerful and wanton Young Master of the demon sect who experienced the highest peaks and lowest of lows, Feng Qianyun.
They were two unrelated people, and they began in completely separate places and periods. But as a writer, Liunian had the ability to connect the stories of these two people’s lives as he slowly told the story of two people who were born to be extraordinary, yet also doomed to vanish.
They were Qing Xi’s incarnations, but they were different from Qing Xi in thousands of ways. They were mere, small dots of existence amongst millions of worlds and lives. One of them struggled for a lifetime without getting rid of their fate as a lonely star, obtaining something just to lose it time and again, his character strengthening day by day as he was slowly overcome with indifference. The other was a proud and wanton son of heaven who was suddenly faced with the threat of having his faction exterminated, suffering unspeakable bitterness, resigning himself to death countless times only to narrowly escape at the last minute.
How beautiful and wonderful his life had been at first was in direct proportion to how awkward and cruel his life was later on. He struggled in the mire, sinking and rising again and again, striving his hardest, yet failing over and over again.
The first and second halves of his life followed two completely different styles. The more brilliant the first half was, the uglier it was when he fell.
He met Zhu Yifan when he was at the lowest point in his life. One had experienced a hundred years of gloom, while the other had seen brilliance yet eventually had still fallen. When they met and stood side by side, it was a double dose of bad luck, but they were still able to face it, endure, and continue to live strong.
If you're reading this, this translation is stolen. Please support our translators at chrysanthemumgarden.com
Fate magically gave them a second chance, and they became each other’s lucky stars. As long as they shone on each other, they would be able to move forward along their paths.
They had their hopes raised, but in the end they were even more disappointed.
At the end of the novel, In the end, Feng Qianyun used his own life as the price for prolonging Zhu Yifan’s life, and Zhu Yifan carried his brother’s will with him as he set foot on the battlefield that belonged to him, and the two of them buried themselves alongside their enemies.
When his split souls returned, Qing Xi woke up, he overcome the tribulations and became a god.
But since then, no one had ever seen the god named Qing Xi.
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
< Asking Heaven> had many turning points. Each turning point was when the two protagonists’ fate changed. It was also these turning points that were carefully designed by the author that made allowed the two people to endlessly grow and learn. They always experienced different things at the same time, yet still felt the same emotions. Joy, anger, and sorrow; they were clearly from the same soul, but Zhu Yifan and Feng Qianyun were two independent individuals. They had their own feelings, and ultimately walked down different paths.
It was a very good story. After adaptation, it also became a very good script. It was actually very fortunate for Xue Ling to be given the opportunity to work with such a script so early on.
Xue Ling closed the script and let out a long sigh. “You want me to play Feng Qianyun?”
“Yes.” Shen Yue nodded. Since he had already read the script, he believed that with Xue Ling’s character, he would definitely understand which role he was best suited for. “Liunian will act as Zhu Yifan.”
Xue Ling nodded. Based on Su Liunian’s description of the two people in the script, there weren’t any problems with their character choices. Xue Ling would not request to take on the role of Zhu Yifan, whose character did not suit his acting, for the sake of a so-called breakthrough in fame. Even if his acting skills were even better, Zhu Yifan was not the type of character that was stunningly gorgeous and could be remembered at a glance, unlike Xue Ling.
“Tianxuan chose to sign a contract with me at the start for the sake of Feng Qianyun’s character, right?” Xue Ling could tell that this script had been left alone for quite a while. They had probably begun preparing for the project and looking for actors for a while now.
“Yes, when we first chose the role of Wei Chisu, we also had the intention of looking for someone to act as Feng Qianyun. I understand your acting skills, and you won’t end up being overwhelmed by Liunian. With the two of you there, this film will definitely kick up a storm.”
Xue Ling nodded. Although it could be said that Wei Chisu had similarities to Feng Qianyun, Xue Ling did not feel that it restricted his way of acting. His face was originally a ticket that allowed him to mingle in the entertainment industry, but it also meant that he would miss many good roles because of the differences in character settings.
Xue Ling felt that he had the ability to play the role of Feng Qianyun, and would definitely never let audience to feel like they were watching a second Wei Chisu.
Read more BL at chrysanthemumgarden.com
Since there were no problems, Xue Ling signed the contract while he was there. This time, for , Tianxuan did not look down on Xue Ling because of his shallow qualifications and push down his fees. Instead, he signed the same contract as Su Liunian, and it was definitely the most profitable contract.
Having finalized the contract, Xue Ling inquired about the current film crew situation. The props were almost complete, but the costume preparations were still in progress. The world setting forwas huge, and the plot was extensive. All the teams involved had already gone through a year’s worth of preparations. With this kind of effort and attention to detail for a single film, or rather, four films, the foundations forhad already been laid out.
The crew wanted to recreate the world ofas realistically as possible.
“By the way, this should be your first time cooperating with Director Fan. Once Director Fan begins work, it’ll become extremely tiring. You should rest properly during this period of time, so that you can be at your best state once the filming starts.”
Xue Ling nodded as he gained a general understanding of the director, and made some preparations in his heart.
Fan Yueze was the exclusive director for Su Liunan’s novels, and basically all of his novels had been filmed by his hands. He had also become famous as a youth, and won many international awards when he was still young. Later, he worked in a partnership with Su Liunian and produced many award-winning good works. He seemed to be very easy-going in life, but turned into a complete workaholic once shooting began.
Although Xue Ling hadn’t been in the entertainment circle for a long time, after joining Tian Xuan, he had gotten to meet several directors who worked with Tianxuan. Most of them have cooperated with Su Liunian or Su Xuanqing before, and the works they produced were exquisite, able to fit in with Tianxuan’s philosophy of only releasing amazing works. Fan Yueze was the youngest of this group of directors, but he had the largest number of releases; if he didn’t work, his hands would itch. Su Liunian had said before that he worked as though life was unimportant.