Chapter 45

Amidst the anticipation of everyone, the time just passed 20:00.

Amidst the refreshing of countless people, the first and second episodes of *Phantom Blood* were officially released.

The moment acquaintances of Xu Feng like Yang Mi and Liu Yifei clicked in, dense bullet comments instantly occupied the entire playback page.

[Here comes the brother~]

[Although it’s not the second season of *Bleach*, I believe in Xu the scumbag’s strength]

[Still a bit worried, acting as a foreigner is more or less easy to be unaccustomed to the soil]

[You can doubt Xu the scumbag’s character, but you can’t doubt his strength]

[...]

Seeing the full screen of bullet comments, many people who wanted to watch the drama with peace of mind immediately clicked the bullet comment close button.

As the passionate opening song ended, a narration voice first reached the audience’s ears—

"Two prisoners of fate looked out from the prison of realization,"

"One looked at the dirt, one looked up at the stars,"

"So, which one are you?"

Hearing this narration, many Aizen fans have already started to move.

Although they don’t quite understand it, it feels super classy.

My chuunibyou just loves this!

Xu Feng’s drama was as straightforward as ever, never giving the audience that restless urge to hit the fast-forward button.

In just ten short minutes at the start, the background was fully introduced.

On a dark, rainy night, the British aristocrat Joestar’s carriage plummeted off a cliff, and Brando—

was mistaken by the other party as his savior.

Subsequently, two protagonists with diametrically opposed personalities were presented to the audience—

Jonathan, born into wealth, dreaming of becoming a gentleman like his father;

Dio, born in the slums, desperate to climb the social ladder by any means necessary, craving to be above others.

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As the plot unfolded, Dio officially became the adopted son of the Joestar family and began to crush Jonathan’s self-esteem in every way possible.

When they saw Dio playing dirty in a boxing match to isolate Jonathan from his peers, and then killing his pet dog, Danny—

countless viewers clenched their fists in secret. They were hard; their fists were hard.

They wished they could crawl into the screen and give Dio a solid punch.

At the same time, they were complaining frantically.

Is the protagonist’s father blind?

How can he not see that Dio is a psychopath after all this?

Soon, the classic scene arrived.

On a tree-lined path stained red by the setting sun.

Dio, with a look of pure "Dio-ness," leaned against the tree trunk carved with the names of Jonathan and Erina, wearing a cunning smile.

Immediately after, the most classic scene of Dio in *Phantom Blood* played out.

"I'll kill you!!!"

Seeing the scene where Dio forcibly kissed Erina, the pure-love warriors in front of their screens almost couldn't resist punching the bastard on screen.

The character Xu Feng was playing this time was simply too hateable!

"Your first kiss wasn't with JOJO,"

"It was me, Dio!"

However, when Xu Feng shouted this line with a twisted, hideous expression—

the audience, whose minds had just been consumed by rage, were caught off guard the next second, nearly choking on their own spit.

Damn!

What kind of expression is that?

Yang Mi said, both angry and amused:

"A moment ago I wanted to punch this character Xu Feng is playing, but now I just want to screenshot this expression."

It wasn't just Yang Mi; many netizens who were stunned by Xu Feng’s expression had already taken action.

They screenshotted his thumb-up, devilishly iconic expression, turned it into a GIF, and spread it wildly across various chat groups.

At the end of the first episode, the timeline fast-forwarded to the adult years as Jonathan and Dio entered university.

Jonathan began to delve into the secrets of the Stone Mask.

Meanwhile, Dio temporarily hid his fangs, spending a fake youth alongside Jonathan.

At the very end of the first episode, Jonathan accidentally discovered a letter from Dio’s father, Dario Brando, and suspected that his own father’s worsening health was due to poisoning.

To uncover the truth, he decided to head to London alone.

Upon learning of this, Dio also began to make his move.

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In just one episode, the plot background had been thoroughly laid out.

It was a world of difference compared to those traffic-star dramas that go on for ten episodes without the audience knowing what the protagonist is even trying to do.

If it were the work of any other actor, it would be fine, but unfortunately, this was Xu Feng’s work.

And precisely because of that, the audience always held him to the highest standards.

Just like how the people of the Dragon Kingdom demand that the national table tennis team win world championships or it’s a failure, while for the national football team, just not losing too embarrassingly is enough.

And the situation Xu Feng faced was just like the national table tennis team.

Sure enough, when Fat Di, Deng Chao, and the others from the *Phantom Blood* crew opened the second episode.

The comments were filled with:

[Wait, is this show really filmed by Xu Feng?]

[This isn't his usual level!]

[Isn't Dio's villain presence too low? Just for the family fortune? He's a hundred thousand miles away from Aizen, okay?]

[No, aren't you guys being too demanding?]

[To be honest, even if this show isn't as good as *Bleach*, it definitely deserves an 'excellent' rating, right?]

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"What is wrong with these people?"

Fat Di said, feeling extremely aggrieved.

"Nothing I can do. Good people are meant to be held at gunpoint. Liu Xiang only tripped once and look at how the keyboard warriors trashed him. I’m doing pretty well compared to that."

Xu Feng laughed nonchalantly.

To be honest, if this show were played by Lu Han or some other young idol, the brainless fans would have praised it to the heavens.

But unfortunately, everything he had filmed so far had been a masterpiece.

It made his fans feel that everything he produced was either a masterpiece or a failure.

PS: I feel like many friends on Feilu haven't watched JOJO, but please rest assured, I will finish it after it goes live.

But I still recommend watching it, at least watch the third part, it's genuinely good. ===== CHAPTER 99 =====