Divine Lucky Star
Chapter 427 - Chapter 427: Chapter 426: Heroes and Brave Men, The Four Gentlemen of Qingcheng

Chapter 427: Chapter 426: Heroes and Brave Men, The Four Gentlemen of Qingcheng

“Discuss the script?” Wang Hao looked at him. “Haven’t you read the script carefully?”

“I did,” Lv Junyou replied, “It’s just that I feel I still need to grasp the psychological state of the character better.”

“Right, knowing you’re making an effort is good,” Wang Hao pulled him to sit on the sofa in the room and then took the script, “Let’s look at this scene.”

The two of them started reading together–

[Episode 3, Scene 1, Huixian Building, Day, Interior.

Linghu Chong put down his wine bowl and sneered disdainfully at Yi Lin, “Junior Sister, have you heard of the ‘heroes and brave men, the four elegance of Qingcheng’?”

Luo Renjie said smugly, “Indeed, I am Luo Renjie, one of the four elegance of Qingcheng.”

Lin Pingzhi, in the corner, glanced up stealthily and then quickly buried his head again.

Linghu Chong: “Do you know what the best Kung Fu of the Qingcheng Sect is?”

Yi Lin: “I don’t know.”

Linghu Chong: “Hehe… The most brilliant move, better left unsaid to avoid damaging the harmony.”

Luo Renjie: “What is the most brilliant move, you tell.”

Linghu Chong: “It’s the ‘ Buttocks-back, Sand-smoothing Geese-landing Style.'”

Luo Renjie: “Nonsense!” He threw a punch.

Linghu Chong took a hit on the nose, blood flowing long.

Yi Lin: “You shouldn’t hit him, bullying a wounded man, what kind of hero does that?”

Luo Renjie teased, “Little nun seems to fancy him for his dashing looks, stirring worldly desires!” and pinched Yi Lin’s face.

Yi Lin, furious, struck out repeatedly with her fists.

Linghu Chong: “Junior Sister, don’t hit him, let me gather my energy…”

Luo Renjie threw another punch, and Linghu Chong, seizing the opportunity, kicked him on the buttocks sending Luo Renjie tumbling downstairs.

Linghu Chong: “Junior Sister, that was the ‘Buttocks-back, Sand-smoothing Geese-landing Style.'”

At that moment, Qu Feiyan smiled at her grandfather in the corner, “Hehe, ‘heroes and brave men, the four elegance of Qingcheng.'”

Linghu Chong emphatically said, “No, it’s ‘bear and wild boar, the four beasts of Qingcheng.'”

This statement made everyone upstairs burst into laughter, Linghu Chong’s body could not hold on, and he coughed incessantly.

In a blink of an eye, Luo Renjie climbed back upstairs, took the treasured sword thrown by his companion, and lunged forward, stabbing Linghu Chong in the chest.

Yi Lin: “Brother Linghu…”

People upstairs were focused on Linghu Chong’s life and death.

Linghu Chong looked up, smiling, “Junior Sister, I have a big secret to tell you… that Evil Extinguishing Sword Manual from the Fuwei Escort Agency… Evil Extinguishing Sword Manual…”

Luo Renjie, very curious, bent down close to eavesdrop. Linghu Chong grabbed the sword from the ground and stabbed it into Luo Renjie’s abdomen. Luo Renjie fell to the ground, convulsed a few times, and then lay still.

Linghu Chong collapsed limply on the ground, Yi Lin holding him, calling non-stop.

The Qingcheng disciple scurried out, fleeing downstairs.

Lin Pingzhi also hurriedly escaped, bowing deeply to Linghu Chong as he left, “Thank you for saving my life.”

Yi Lin, thinking Linghu Chong was dead, panicked, yelling, “Brother Linghu, Brother Linghu, you can’t die, you can’t die…”

Qu Yang sighed from the corner, “The little nun also has a sentimental heart, if Linghu Chong survives, she must leave the nunnery and marry him.”

Dragging his granddaughter, he walked to the table and picked up the burnt-tail zither.]

“Is it this scene?” Wang Hao put down the script and said, “First tell me how you think about the character you’re playing?”

As a discussion of the play, it was still necessary to know Lv Junyou’s view on the character.

“I think,” Lv Junyou said, “this Luo Renjie is obviously not a good guy, according to the script, he shouldn’t be one of the good guys. Look at this line: Luo Renjie teasing Yi Lin: ‘The little nun sees him and feels worldly desires stirred.’ Then he pinches Yi Lin’s face. She’s a nun, so his teasing her like that definitely means he’s not a good guy.”

“Right, you’ve got a pretty accurate read on that,” Wang Hao said, smiling, “So how would you play it?”

“Me? I’d deliberately play the character as very bad,” Lv Junyou viciously said, “I want the audience to hate him so much they wish they could kill him on sight!”

Wang Hao: “…”

Didn’t expect the youngster to be so fierce…

“Actually,” since he had taken him as a disciple, it was natural for Wang Hao to teach him proper, “when you play this role, you can’t just look at this one scene. You need to connect the context before and after to understand what kind of person this really is. Right, we might not have time now, so let me explain it to you first.”

“Okay!” Lv Junyou quickly sat upright, ready to listen.

“First off, this Luo Renjie is a character from the Qingcheng Sect,” Wang Hao, holding the script, said, “The young disciples of their sect all have one major trait, and that is, they are enormously cheeky! Note that this cheekiness is different from plain badness. Cheekiness means stirring up trouble for no reason, feeling uneasy if not causing a commotion. Badness, on the other hand, means typically engaging in killing and arson when idle, but exhibiting either wicked behavior or honeyed words with a treacherous heart.”

Listening to Wang Hao explain this way, Lv Junyou immediately felt the essence!

“Little master, you mean I should play this character as cheap as possible, the cheaper the better, right?” Lv Junyou found more reason in the script the more he read, this Luo Renjie really was quite despicable!

“Yes, you should play him so annoyingly that the audience itches to roll up their sleeves and beat him up, that would be perfect,” Wang Hao said with a smile, “Although this is just a small role for you, I recommend you take the opportunity to borrow the script and thoroughly delve into the character’s traits. After all, it’s often hard to grasp the true nature of a character from just one scene.”