Huayu Shen Gongbao

Chapter 53 begins! A master of historical construction!

Chapter 53 begins! A master of historical construction! (Seeking first-day subscriptions and monthly votes!)

After making up her mind, Lin Chih-ling began to seduce Ah Wei on set.

Xiao Qiao and Zhou Yu were a couple, and Lin Chih-ling had many scenes with A-Wei, including some intimate scenes of hugging.

In this situation, Lin Chih-ling took the initiative to show goodwill, occasionally hooking her finger around Ah-Wei's palm.

Ah Wei quickly understood.

It's common for couples to be together on set, especially since Ah Wei, who seems serious on the outside, actually has quite a wild side in private.

Leaving aside the Hong Kong entertainment circle, there are mainland female celebrities like Dong Jie and Tang Wei.

Seeing Lin Zhiling and Awei exchanging glances, Shen Gongbao smiled slightly, knowing that his plan was half successful.

To ensure everything went smoothly, after getting the specific time and location from Lin Chih-ling, Shen Gongbao also notified Li Hsueh, asking her to arrange for someone to follow and film them.

He also instructed Li Xue to notify the two kings of Huayi to intervene at an appropriate time, and to instigate a conflict between Huayi and Chengtian.

Shen Gongbao had not forgotten that he was sent by Huayi to infiltrate the Chibi film crew as an undercover agent.

An undercover agent must be dedicated to their duties!

On the morning of June 27, Shen Gongbao took a car to the Souhu Building in Yanjing.

Also traveling with them were Wu Yusen, Awei, and Lin Chih-ling.

As a director, John Woo doesn't always stay on set. He takes a few days off at the end of each month to handle personal matters.

The production crew will be managed by several assistant directors.

Ah-Wei and Lin Chih-ling have events in Yanjing these days, and they just happened to participate in this promotion.

Shen Gongbao was the only one who was arranged to join the cast by Han Sanping. As a new lead actor, Shen Gongbao should also make a public appearance.

In the car, Wu Yusen took the initiative to start a conversation.

"Xiao Shen, you can say more during this live broadcast. This is your first time appearing as the lead actor in Red Cliff. The three of us have already been interviewed quite a few times, so it's only right that we give you more screen time."

Red Cliff had a large investment and attracted a lot of attention, so the production team's publicity strategy was to regularly promote the film during filming to maintain a certain level of buzz.

At the end of May, John Woo and several key members of the creative team visited Sina's live broadcast studio for an interview.

This visit to the Sohu livestream room is just a routine promotional activity.

According to Han Sanping's arrangements, the Jueshi Movie Channel may also conduct a live broadcast from the Chibi film set in July, which will be an even bigger event.

In short, the goal is to maintain the film's popularity and keep the audience excited.

In the production of such blockbuster films, every promotional event is an opportunity for exposure, so many celebrities are eager to participate.

John Woo's initiative to let Shen Gongbao appear in public was not out of kindness, but rather an attempt to ease tensions with Shen Gongbao.

There's nothing we can do; too many accidents have happened on the Red Cliff film crew these past few days.

If Wu Yusen doesn't think there's anything wrong with his abilities, then it can only be a matter of feng shui.

He wanted to ask Shen Gongbao for help, but he was too embarrassed to ask directly, so he could only try to turn enemies into friends first.

Upon hearing Wu Yusen's words, Shen Gongbao nodded and said with a smile, "Thank you for your consideration, Director Wu. I'll say more later."

I don't have much interviewing experience either, so please remind me if I say anything wrong, Director Wu.

Seeing Shen Gongbao's good attitude, Wu Yusen smiled with satisfaction and said in a pretentious manner, "It's just an interview, a small matter. You can speak freely."

Seeing that Wu Yusen and Shen Gongbao had "reconciled," Lin Chih-ling also said a few nice words, and the atmosphere of the conversation in the car immediately improved.

Everyone chatted and laughed as they arrived at the Sohu Building.

At 10:30 a.m., the "Celebrity Online - Red Cliff Film Crew Special" program on Sohu officially began.

This time, unlike the previous two live broadcasts of Shen Gongbao's clarification of rumors and the signing press conference, there was no bullying rhetoric or extensive pre-event publicity.

Therefore, the number of viewers in the live stream is relatively small. The combined number of viewers in the video live stream and the text and image live stream is only around 60,000 to 70,000.

This is quite normal, since most people don't watch live streams featuring celebrities.

People follow the entertainment industry through subsequent news reports.

The number of viewers in the live stream was already small, so the host, Yu Shasha, was under some pressure to meet her sales targets.

As a result, after the interview began, Wu Yusen acted pretentious and aloof, Awei was habitually socially awkward, and Lin Chih-ling was also polite and reserved with few words.

They're all incredibly difficult to deal with.

The atmosphere during the live interview was dull, and the number of viewers in the live stream continued to decline.

Yu Shasha had no choice but to communicate more with Shen Gongbao.

After finally finishing asking the standard questions from the script, Yu Shasha immediately turned to Shen Gongbao and asked, "Tong Dawei is injured, and everyone is quite surprised that you are replacing him as Sun Shucai this time."

What was it like arriving at the Red Cliff film set? How was it different from the Forbidden Kingdom film set?

Shen Gongbao shook his head and said, "Both production teams are very good, they feel about the same."

"As for the characters, the Jade Emperor is a mythological figure, while Uncle Sun is an ordinary person in the long river of history. There should be a big difference between them, right?"

"There's no difference between them either, since they're all fictional characters anyway, so there's no essential difference."

From this perspective, I really admire Director Wu. He truly deserves to be called a cultural worker; he has a high level of cultural literacy, a rich reserve of historical knowledge, and can create characters with ease, making both the plot and the characters plausible.

Upon hearing Shen Gongbao's praise, Wu Yusen grinned and smiled happily.

He felt that he had just shown goodwill in the car, and Shen Gongbao had received it; this was mutual flattery.

Yu Shasha's eyes lit up as well, as she had learned about Shen Gongbao's speaking style beforehand.

Are they about to start selling skewers?

Yu Shasha quickly offered, "Could you tell me more about it?"

Shen Gongbao suddenly dropped a startling unofficial historical claim.

"Did you know that there are many secrets about the Three Kingdoms period? For example, Liu Shan was Cao Cao's son, not Liu Bei's!"

Upon hearing this, the viewers in the live stream were shocked, and Wu Yusen sat up straight, becoming interested.

This kind of half-baked creator like him likes unofficial history, and he often talks about these things on set.

The unofficial history that Liu Shan was Cao Cao's son is really wild, and Wu Yusen really likes it!

Before Sasha could even ask, Wu Yusen proactively asked, "How so?"

Shen Gongbao solemnly explained, "Back when Cao Cao launched his eastern expedition, Liu Bei was defeated in Xuzhou, and both of Liu Bei's wives and Guan Yu were captured by Cao Cao. Is that true?"

Wu Yusen nodded: "That's right?"

"What were Cao Cao's hobbies?"

"Cao Cao — Cao Cao likes human Q — Haha, I get it!"

When Cao Cao's quirks were mentioned, Wu Yusen laughed heartily, and even Ah Wei, who was pretending to be socially awkward, showed a knowing smile.

Shen Gongbao continued, "After Guan Yu brought the two ladies back to Liu Bei's camp, Liu Shan was born, and Lady Gan named him A Dou."

Why was he called Adou?

Wu Yusen suddenly realized and answered directly, "Because Cao Cao's name was Aman! A 'mandou' was a measuring tool in ancient times, right?"

Shen Gongbao gave a thumbs-up and deliberately exclaimed, "Congratulations! You've even learned to answer first!"

Discussing unofficial history is much more interesting than discussing official history.

At this point in the conversation, not only Wu Yusen was interested, but the viewers in the live stream also chimed in with their comments.

The audience numbers have finally increased!

Shen Gongbao continued, "A Dou was Cao Cao's son, and Zhuge Liang also knew this."

In order to protect his lord's reputation, Zhuge Liang devised a clever plan at Changban Slope, deliberately leaving A Dou on the battlefield, hoping to cause Cao Cao and A Dou to fight each other!

But Zhao Yun was unaware of this.

He fought his way in and out of Changbanpo seven times, rescuing A Dou and infuriating Liu Bei!

They wanted to kill A Dou on the spot, but A Dou was too strong and they didn't succeed!

This is why Zhao Yun was not given important positions later on and remained a ragtag general throughout his life.

However, A Dou was forced to submit to Zhuge Liang because Zhuge Liang knew the secret of his birth!

After the fall of Shu, why was Liu Shan (A Dou) able to eat, drink, and have fun in Wei, and why is there a story of him being so happy in Wei that he forgot about Shu?

Because he himself is a descendant of Cao Cao!

By this point, Wu Yusen had fully absorbed the information.

That's absolutely right!

He asked loudly, "Then how did Liu Bei know that A Dou wasn't his biological son?"

Shen Gongbao explained, "Guan Yu gave a hint. You see, after Guan Yu returned from Cao Cao's camp, he was always wearing a green turban, and his face was red with anger."

When Liu Bei saw Guan Yu's red face and green hat, didn't he understand?

Upon hearing this, John Woo laughed so hard he bent over backwards, and even slapped his thigh in excitement!

"Brilliant! Brilliant! It all matches perfectly! This way of putting it is really interesting!"

After much build-up, Shen Gongbao finally revealed his true intentions, asking, "Director Wu, haven't you heard of this deconstructed historical material before?"

Wu Yusen shook his head: "No, this is the first time I've heard it."

Shen Gongbao pretended not to understand: "That's strange. I thought you had heard about this and were deliberately making Liu Bei a cuckold to imply something to everyone!"

No, Director Wu, you're definitely being modest!

You must have known this all along; it was a deliberate Easter egg planted in the movie!

John Woo laughed heartily and waved his hand, saying, "No, it's really not, but if you want to call it an Easter egg, you could interpret it that way!"

In Wu Yusen's view, he didn't take history seriously and his attitude was one of arbitrary deconstruction.

Therefore, he accepted everything Shen Gongbao said without question, and even thought it was a compliment.

However, there were quite a few fans of Shen Gongbao in the live broadcast room, as well as members of the Shen Gongbao forum.

They burst into laughter upon seeing this.

"Judging from John Woo's expression, he actually believed Shen Gongbao's fabricated historical accounts. Can someone like that be the director of Red Cliff?"

"Shen Gongbao's actions have shown us the true level of Wu Yusen's education and just how outrageous the fictional character Sun Shucai is! A fictional character falling in love with Sun Shangxiang—this plot is even wilder than unofficial history!"

"Hahaha, this is hilarious! Looks like the Red Cliff movie is going to distort history again!"

"Truly a master of manipulation! Shen Gongbao has completely mesmerized Wu Yusen, and he's still completely unaware!"

"What did you notice? Wu Yusen not only learned to answer first, but he should also thank us! This is the intellectual crushing power of a top student!"

"How did Shen Gongbao come up with this unofficial history? It fits perfectly onto the character of Sun Shucai. It's really brilliant."

"Shen Gongbao: How can we tell everyone how outrageous the character of Sun Shucai is without mentioning Sun Shucai or offending the director?"

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The viewers in the live stream were having a blast, and everyone was making comments.

The number of viewers also began to rise rapidly, reaching over 100,000.

Wu Yusen, who couldn't see the comments in the live stream, found Shen Gongbao's words interesting and said, "History is multifaceted. We shouldn't be too serious and should allow for diverse interpretations."

Shen Gongbao nodded, then gave a thumbs up, praising, "Indeed, deconstructing history is very interesting."

In terms of historical narrative, Director Wu, you are undoubtedly a master!

Upon hearing this, Yu Shasha couldn't hold back and burst out laughing!