Ji Li only saw this much at the beginning and really didn't know how to evaluate the screenwriter's imagination.
Ye Ruhui plays the Magic Mirror, which shatters into pieces at the beginning and exists only in the Snow White Queen's memories.
"Can you stop being so perfunctory? You're the Queen's recollection now, filtered through the lens of death and deep affection. Can't you at least show some emotion? Treat the Queen like the goddess you can't have!"
Ye Ruhui: "I've never had a goddess, how would I know what my attitude would be when I talk to a goddess?"
Jian Mingyuan: "Can't you imagine it? Can't you imagine the person in front of you as Audrey Hepburn?"
Ye Ruhui: "If you can mistake the old man next door for Cleopatra, I can mistake a man for Audrey Hepburn."
Jian Mingyuan: "Can't you even respect your public image?!"
Ye Ruhui: "You're just babbling on here like a tree, and you think your persona won't crumble?!"
Jian Mingyuan: "..."
Wu Yiqing slapped the script on her face and rolled her eyes helplessly at the sky.
Out of the corner of my eye, I suddenly noticed two people who had appeared at the threshold.
"Squad leader? Ying...Yunsheng?"
Ji Li nodded: "Don't worry about us, you just focus on your rehearsals."
In the end, the roles chosen to draw attention in cross-dressing were not Sleeping Beauty, but rather the two main characters.
Because there are too many classes in the whole grade, the time left for each class to perform is limited. Apart from the main actors, the other characters actually only have a few lines throughout the whole play. Most of them are like Jian Mingyuan, who plays trees, seas, and castles.
It is said that because moving props up and down the stage during the performance is too troublesome and too easy to break the audience's immersion, the students were simply asked to carry one prop on their backs onto the stage as a backdrop.
The only character who doesn't need to cross-dress, has more than ten lines of dialogue, and doesn't have to carry heavy props is the Magic Mirror.
Therefore, it's clear that Jian Mingyuan's envy of this role is not without reason.
Unfortunately, Ye Ruhui did not feel honored at all.
Is it even human for a man to act alongside another man while simultaneously considering him his dream lover?
As for why both lead actors had to cross-dress?
“To be honest,” Wu Yiqing said sincerely, “when we first started discussing the collaboration, our idea was for you two to play the lead roles.”
"Well……"
“But none of you are willing, so we had no choice but to settle for the second best and remove Sleeping Beauty, who has the fewest lines. It’s not bad that one of you is willing to dedicate yourself to the arts festival.”
"Well……"
"It's a pity that none of you want to be a girl."
"No."
Upon hearing this, Ji Li instinctively turned his head.
Wu Yiqing asked in surprise, "What? You're willing? Then why did your class's literature committee member tell me you didn't agree to act in it?"
Ying Yunsheng looked at the open space in front of him: "I just don't want to be alone, I didn't say I don't want to be a girl."
Ji Li turned her head to look at him.
Ying Yunsheng didn't say anything more, but just stared at the small patch of light cast by the incandescent bulb on the ground.
People will always have absurd thoughts at times.
He wished he were a girl; the thought had actually crossed his mind before.
It's perfectly normal for a girl to like a boy, but if a boy likes another boy, he's considered crazy.
.
Ying Yunsheng never expected that the day after he said those words, his own literature and art committee member would come to him again.
"I heard you don't actually mind cross-dressing?"
Ying Yunsheng didn't even lift his eyelids: "I don't perform in stage plays."
"No way, brother! Ji Li finally agreed, you can at least give him some face if you don't want to..."
Ying Yunsheng suddenly stopped writing: "Who agreed?"
"Huh?" Wen Wei was stunned for a moment before reacting, "Ji Li, he's now..."
Why did he agree?
“I don’t know either,” Wenwei scratched his head. “The people in their class seem pretty strange, there wasn’t even a hint of anything.”
There were signs.
Ying Yunsheng thought.
After watching the collaborative performance of the two classes yesterday, they walked back together, and Ji Li suddenly asked him, "Do you prefer the Deep Sea Witch or the Snow White Queen?"
Why are you suddenly asking this?
Do you prefer the Deep Sea Witch or the Snow White Queen?
"Miko of the Deep Sea."
"Why?"
"She's amazing."
Ji Li was surprised: "Amazing?"
Ying Yunsheng nodded: "That's impressive."
At least she dared to love.
Now, the class's literature committee member sat in front of him and said, "Ji Li has chosen the Snow White Queen, and there's still one Deep Sea Witch left. I've already asked, and the guys who play these two roles are eager to go on strike. If you agree, you can take over the role of the Deep Sea Witch right now."
Ying Yunsheng gripped the pen tightly.
You can't think about it.
It's not something to be expected.
Don't be presumptuous.
Can't……
"Brother, big brother, please, I beg you, Ying Xueba..."
"I'll act it out."
Cultural Committee: "You...really?!"
A note from the author:
Thank you so much for your support! I will continue to work hard!
Chapter 22
Chapter 22
Erhu strings
"puff--"
Lin Chengshuang spat out a mouthful of soda: "You? Playing Snow White?!"
Ji Li handed him a tissue.
Why did you decide to play a villain?
"Not the villain, but the protagonist."
After a moment's thought, Lin Chengshuang understood: "An adaptation? A dark fairy tale? The Snow White Queen awakens, overthrows Snow White, and becomes the Queen of the Kingdom?"
You can understand it that way.
After all, according to the second half of the script, Snow White did indeed become the queen.
But not in Snow White's kingdom, but in Sleeping Beauty's kingdom.
"This is the kingdom I created with my own hands," said the Deep Sea Witch. "The Rose King destroyed all the spindles, so I made one myself and used it to kill the Rose Kingdom's princess, plunging the entire nation into an eternal slumber. This is the utopia I built for her, where no foolish humans will ever disturb her happiness again. Here, she is the most beautiful woman, and all the roses in the kingdom bloom for her alone."
At this moment, the mirror spirit Ye Ruhui and the deep-sea witch were back to back, reciting their lines together as two sides of a mirror. After a long silence, they went to the screenwriter and asked, "Do you particularly admire Shakespeare?"
"Uh..." Compared to Ye Ruhui's stern face and essay-like attitude, Ying Yunsheng's delivery of lines received unanimous praise from everyone.
Ji Li sat on his desk, watching a scene end and the person walk off the stage. He bent down, unscrewed the cap of a beverage bottle, and handed it to them: "You really like the Deep Sea Witch."
Ying Yunsheng gave a very soft "hmm".
The other person handed him a bottle of lemon tea. When he tilted his head back to drink, he habitually blocked the entire bottle opening. The plastic bottle gradually tightened and flattened, but the bubbles still escaped from between his lips and teeth after entering his mouth, and he couldn't hide them no matter what.
Ji Li watched him quietly finish his drink.
The next scene features the Snow White Queen and the Deep Sea Witch in a confrontation, with Ye Ruhui temporarily leaving the stage.
Guided by the sea witch, Queen Snow White discovers the sleeping Rose Kingdom. She ventures into uninhabited territory and arrives at the castle. The thorns outside the castle all curl up into a ball, the dragon buries its head in its lair, and the roses throughout the castle bloom instantly.
Queen Snow White saw the beautiful princess sleeping amidst a profusion of flowers.
"And then she fell for him? In front of a corpse?" Ye Ruhui was shocked.
Wu Yiqing slapped the script into his mouth and said, "Shh!"
Jian Mingyuan: "Didn't you read the script...?"
Cui Zhuoyue grabbed a mineral water bottle and stuffed it into his mouth as well: "Shh!"
According to the script, Ji Li should turn around and look at the Deep Sea Witch behind her at this moment.
Then he saw Ying Yunsheng's eyes.
Silent, muffled, with churning emotions, yet always suppressed.
Just like in the story, she saw through her crush at a glance, but never mentioned it.
Ji Li couldn't tell whether the other person was too immersed in the role or was seeing something else through him.
Regarding the fact that Queen Snow White fell in love with the sleeping Princess Aurora at first sight, Giri had actually asked why.