Huayu: From an ordinary person to a happy director

Chapter 62: "Sword Rain" Filming Begins

The road to their dreams was rather difficult. They started by singing in a bar and it took them five years. It was not until 03 when they received the song "Above the Moon" composed by He Muyang that things started to improve. They did not sign with a record company until November 04. Now he can be considered to have cut in.

"You are the company's first group, so the name of the group needs to be changed to 'Phoenix Legend'. The company will fund and invite He Muyang to write songs for you. You should work hard and strive to release a new album early next year. The company will fund one million to promote your album." Shi Lei did not steal He Muyang's job. He just took a break from classes at the music major. He is not a professional, and professional matters should be left to professionals.

However, the lyrics can be written and He Muyang can compose the music to shorten the creation cycle.

"Thank you, boss!" Linghua and Zeng Yi expressed their gratitude in unison.

After 6 years of wasting time, they were finally able to release their own album, which meant they had finally made it.

"Singing a good song is the greatest gratitude. You can go down now!" Shi Lei waved his hand and let the two leave.

After the two left, Liu Yan said, "Boss, I like Linghua more than the other two. When signing the contract, I wanted to sign only Linghua, but Linghua strongly requested to bring Zeng Yi along."

"If Linghua can have greater development without Zeng Yi, should we break up this group?"

“No need, in a few years you will know Zeng Yi’s strength, the two of them are the strongest together.” The most amazing thing about Phoenix Legend is that the two of them never leave each other, and the group has existed for 26 years.

There were many popular groups in the past, but they disbanded for various reasons. When the groups disbanded, the achievements of the groups were naturally lost.

Phoenix Legend continued to release songs, and persisted until the younger generation grew up, and their career reached a new level.

This combination that can make money for 24 years must be cultivated vigorously.

Half a month later, "Sword Rain" officially started filming.

Compared with the previous film, Shi Lei's status is much higher now. He has a series of titles such as investor, producer, director, and screenwriter. No one in the crew dares to disobey him, not even Liu Xiaoli dares to interfere.

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This movie is actually a film with a strong female lead, telling the story of a woman's disputes in the underworld.

It is said that there is a martial arts secret book hidden in the remains of the Indian monk Rama. If the person can solve the mystery, he can practice peerless martial arts and dominate the martial arts world.

It is also said that the remains of Rama can bring the dead back to life and repair any injuries.

The dreaded assassination organization "Black Stone" has been searching for Rama's body.

The controller of the Black Stone is called the Wheel-Turning King, who is actually a eunuch in the palace. In the original novel, the Wheel-Turning King was a little eunuch. Shi Lei changed the Wheel-Turning King into one of the four great eunuchs in the palace. This way, he could establish a powerful assassination organization and explain why the Wheel-Turning King did not mobilize the power of the court.

There is a top-notch master in the Black Stone Organization, who is named "Xiyu" (played by Liu Tao) because his sword wounds are as dense as rain.

The Black Stone Organization killed the Prime Minister Zhang Haiduan and his son Zhang Renfeng. One of the assassins, Xiyu, seized the remains of Rama and met the monk Lu Zhu on the way. Lu Zhu asked Xiyu to withdraw from the dispute and send the remains to the old monk of Yunhe Temple. Xiyu refused and fought with Lu Zhu.

Lu Zhu told Xiyu that her 41-stroke Water-Breaking Sword Technique had four flaws. Lu Zhu's skill was supposed to be better than Xiyu's, but she was stabbed to death by Xiyu, and before she died, she said that she had reached the Zen enlightenment.

Xiyu may be moved by Lu Zhu's exhortation to die, so she sent Rama's body to Heyun Temple, and asked the old monk how to understand Lu Zhu's last words of Zen before his death. The old monk then told Xiyu the story of the stone bridge.

[Ananda said to the Buddha: "I have fallen in love with a woman."

The Buddha asked Ananda: "How much do you like this woman?"

Ananda said: "I wish to transform myself into a stone bridge and endure the wind, sun and rain for 500 years, just to let her pass by."

The Buddha asked: "How much will you like it?
But love at first sight - the world?
Can you pay and wait without asking for anything in return?
Ananda, when the woman passes by the bridge one day, she will just pass by. At this moment, you have turned into a stone bridge, destined to stay with the wind and rain.

You understand all this, but you still accept the pain of fate just for that encounter. Ananda, how much do you like that woman who passed by the bridge that made you give up your life and Taoism and accept the pain of love?
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Ananda said, "It's all worth it."

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After listening to the story, Xiyu had some insights and decided to follow Lu Zhu's advice and stay away from disputes.

Xiyu asked Li Guishou to disguise herself and used the pseudonym Zeng Jing to sell cloth in the market for a living.

After observation, she found out that the honest errand boy Jiang Asheng (Zhang Renfeng in disguise, played by Zhao Wenzhuo) really liked her, so she hurried to ask the old monk of Yunhe Temple for advice. The old monk only gave two words: "follow your heart", so she followed her heart and married Jiang Asheng (Zhang Renfeng). But she didn't know that Jiang Asheng was Zhang Renfeng whom she had killed before. Zhang Renfeng escaped because his heart grew to the right side, so he lived in the market under an assumed name.

Zhang Renfeng didn't know that the woman he married was Xiyu, the killer who had killed him once.

The two of them fell in love and got married as ordinary people.

But the truth will eventually come out. Xiyu, who had been hiding her identity, was found by the Blackstone Organization, and a new round of fighting began.

First, Xiyu fought alone in order not to implicate her husband, but was eventually defeated and injured.

Zhang Asheng stopped pretending and was willing to expose his identity as Zhang Renfeng to protect his wife.

Then, under the watchful eyes of several killers, Zhang Asheng completed the famous scene of sharpening his sword before the battle and repelled the killers.

After learning that she was the murderer of her husband's father, Xiyu did not choose to escape, but bravely faced her past and took the consequences.

In the final battle, Xiyu fed Jiang Asheng the Turtle Breath Pill to make him pretend to be dead. Because of the characteristics of the right side of Zhang Asheng's heart, the Wheel King mistakenly thought that Zhang Asheng was dead, and Zhang Asheng was able to escape the final battle.

Xiyu fought against the Chakravartin alone. She used the four skills taught by the monk and successfully defeated the Chakravartin by a desperate method of exchanging injuries for injuries, but she herself was also seriously injured.

Zhang Asheng woke up and found Xiyu seriously injured. After a struggle between his inner self and his inner self, he did not kill Xiyu but treated her instead.

In the end, the two lived a happy life.

At the end of the movie, Xiyu decided to use her own life to kill the Chakravartin, which symbolizes that she completely killed her past self, was reborn, and completed her self-salvation.

When Ah Sheng was choosing whether to kill Xiyu, love overcame hatred. He chose to give up killing Xiyu, returned to humanity, and became a husband who deeply loved his wife.

The life they both ultimately chose was a plain one, with three meals a day, and daily necessities. This was the beautiful life they had fought so hard to protect and the one they had always dreamed of.

In addition to the three protagonists, the characters of other supporting roles also have their own characteristics and pursuits.

Living a happy life may be the pursuit of all the characters in the play:
The colorful lion wanted to get Rama's body because of the chest ulcer.

Lei Bin (played by Yu Wenle) is a good husband who loves his family and his wife. He ran to the roof in the middle of the night to dry noodles and told his wife that he wanted to return to Changzhou to open a noodle shop after this mission.

Tian Qingtong (played by Liu Yifei) retired from the underworld because she married Lei Bin. She was pregnant with Lei Bin's child, which made Lei Bin think about quitting Blackstone.

Ye Zhanqing (played by Huo Siyan) likes the Chakravartin in order to get complete sex.

The Chakravartin (played by Wang Xueqi) obtained Rama's body in order to be reborn with defects.

The boss of Black Stone, Zhuanlun Wang, had an illicit love affair with the killer Ye Zhanqing. When Ye Zhanqing found out that Zhuanlun Wang was a eunuch, he insisted on leaving with the silver bills. Zhuanlun Wang told him the truth, but Ye Zhanqing did not appreciate it. So Zhuanlun Wang buried the living Ye Zhanqing under the stone bridge.

This echoes the stone bridge story.

On the surface, this drama is about grudges in the martial arts world, but in fact it is about love and the helplessness of martial artists.

Xiyu, Lei Bin, Lian Sheng, they truly interpret the "helplessness" of being in the world but not in it.

Life outside of the underworld is what they yearn for deep down.

Without the halo of masters, they are just ordinary people. They want to have a warm family; they want to study how to dry noodles to make them more delicious; they want to wander the streets with their magic tricks.

However, life played a joke.

When Xiyu learned that she was the enemy who killed her husband's father, she did not choose to escape, but bravely faced her past and took the consequences.

She fed Jiang Asheng a tortoise pill to make him fake his death; she made the final break with the Wheel King. The moment she killed the Wheel King, she also killed her former self and made up for her mistake.

Lei Bin returned home seriously injured and died.

This is a world of ordinary people, where everyone has ordinary worries and sorrows. All the grievances and grudges eventually turn into that stone bridge - the people you love are on the bridge, and the people you don't love are under the bridge.

(End of this chapter)