[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-more-tragic-i-act-the-stronger-i-get-my-fans":3,"chapter-the-more-tragic-i-act-the-stronger-i-get-my-fans-the-more-tragic-i-act-the-stronger-i-get-my-fans-chapter-154":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","The More Tragic I Act, the Stronger I Get — My Fans Beg Me to Stop Killing Off My Roles",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1297768,1723,"Chapter 154: The Genius of Reverse Marketing","the-more-tragic-i-act-the-stronger-i-get-my-fans-chapter-154",154,"\u003Cp>The brand’s female director, Director Wang, spoke in a sharp, decisive voice that shattered the awkward silence in the soundstage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She strode over to the monitor in a few quick steps.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone’s eyes instinctively followed her movement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The cinematographer still had his camera lowered, stunned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked at Jiang Ci’s face on the monitor, then at this person beside him who looked almost mad, and his mind went blank.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This—this can be used?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That smile, where is any hint of \"Embrace the Sunshine\"? This is plainly a farewell to the sunlight!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Director Wang ignored everyone else.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her gaze was fixed on the monitor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Who says embracing the sunshine has to be an idiot grin?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her voice was not loud, but it landed with weight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She turned, scanned the photographers and her team who were staring in disbelief,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and began a speech about \"reverse marketing\" that would upend everyone’s professional assumptions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Look at the advertisements on the market now! The same fake smiles over and over, manufactured warmth—consumers are already aesthetically exhausted! Maybe we can try a different approach!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Director Wang spoke faster and faster, her emotions growing more intense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Who are our target customers? Those city workers burning the midnight oil in CBD cubicles!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Those who run themselves ragged for a living, whose hearts are already riddled with wounds!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“They need healing, and there is nothing wrong with that! But…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She paused, extended a finger, and tapped Jiang Ci’s face on the screen with emphasis.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That feeling of ‘foreseeing decay amid brilliance’!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That sense of ‘feeling broken within warmth’—that refined vibe!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This, is the weapon that truly hits the softest part of their hearts!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This is the healing they actually need! A resonant healing that says, ‘Oh—so you’re hurting too.’”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sun Zhou felt his worldview being ground into the dirt by Director Wang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You can… do it like this?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The cinematography team exchanged looks, every face a portrait of “who am I, where am I, what did I just hear?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Director Wang, however, was completely immersed in her closed logical loop. She clapped her hands sharply.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“All previously planned shooting schemes are scrapped!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She walked up to the bewildered cinematographer and issued new orders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“From now on, I will direct personally!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She pointed toward Jiang Ci.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We’re changing the shooting approach!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Have him look out the window, imagine he’s saying a final goodbye to the world he loves but must leave!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Have him pick up that cup of coffee and imagine it’s his last supper!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Let him open that book and imagine it’s the keepsake left by his deceased lover!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Director Wang’s instructions peeled away the sentimental shell of commercial advertising and exposed the cruellest, most resonant core inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ci stood where he was and listened to these requests.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside, he was ecstatic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Isn’t this just putting Bad Ending Aesthetics into a commercial?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The client’s requirements could actually align perfectly with the thing that kept him afloat?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Is there such luck in the world?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Assistant Sun Zhou nearly burst into tears.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He quietly approached Jiang Ci and whispered, voice trembling, “Ci… Ci-ge… is this… is this reliable? Our endorsement fee won’t be gone, will it?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ci, in the middle of changing clothes, glanced at him without showing anything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He replied to Sun Zhou in three calm words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Trust science.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sun Zhou: “?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What does science have to do with this?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ci leisurely added another sentence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Trust the client’s aesthetic.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sun Zhou: “…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked at Director Wang not far away, eyes glittering as if already envisioning skyrocketing sales, and for the first time felt profound doubt about the word “aesthetic.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From that moment, the atmosphere in the soundstage turned bizarre.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The background had been meticulously arranged to look sunny and peaceful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beige sofa, warm lighting, lush potted plants, and a gigantic floor-to-ceiling window simulating blazing sunlight outside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the scene’s protagonist, Jiang Ci.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every movement he made, every pause, was saturated with narrative.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he followed Director Wang’s instructions and walked to the window to look out at that “sunlight,”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>there was not a shred of warmth or yearning on his face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was an absolute calm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He leaned forward slightly, his palm pressed against the cold glass; that posture was like touching the cheek of a deceased lover through icy glass.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Behind the monitor, the cinematographer’s finger pressed the shutter uncontrollably.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Click!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Perfect!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He shouted excitedly, not even realizing his voice was trembling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was no longer filming an advertisement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was shooting the final shot of an art-house tragedy!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Next, Jiang Ci sat on the beige sofa and picked up the steaming cup of coffee.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t drink it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He simply looked down at the white steam rising from the cup, for a long, long time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That expression didn’t look like someone savoring coffee.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was more like looking through the coffee at a magnificent life that was nevertheless destined to be tragic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The cinematographer had also fallen into a creative frenzy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As if his channels had been fully opened, he kept changing angles, capturing that innate broken feeling radiating from Jiang Ci.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes! Just like that! Look at your hand!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Don’t move! Hold that pose!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Perfect! So perfect!!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under the lens, Jiang Ci had already transcended the role of a model.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was the male lead of an epic tragedy, having lost everything, walking alone toward the end of his life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The strong story aura he emitted cast a tragic filter over the bright set around him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Filming finished smoothly and ahead of schedule.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What was supposed to be a full day’s shoot wrapped up perfectly by three in the afternoon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ci changed back into his own clothes and quietly sat in the corner of the rest area.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the distance, Director Wang and her team crowded around the monitor, watching the footage they had just shot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Images flowed across the screen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>First, Jiang Ci at the window, hand against the glass.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, the silhouette holding the coffee cup as if cradling an entire world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sun Zhou nervously clutched his clothing hem, barely daring to breathe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“My god…” a young planner on Director Wang’s team whispered, admiringly watching the screen, “this lighting and shadow, every twitch of his facial muscles looks like it’s telling a story.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The cinematographer’s eyes were shining; he pointed at a close-up and excitedly told Director Wang, “Director Wang, look here! This look!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“He’s supposed to be looking toward the lens, but it’s like he’s pierced through the lens and seen something none of us can see! This is sophistication! This is art!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Director Wang wore a smile of sure victory and nodded in satisfaction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her team members no longer wore their initial confusion; in its place bloomed excitement and worship.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The way they looked at Jiang Ci had changed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ci watched that client team like they were intoxicated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He finally became certain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This shoot was a sure success.\u003C\u002Fp>",1151,"2026-06-05T18:00:08.557Z",1,"novelbin.me","900a9f6f815d919a76d6ed00c46576ce0be678182e71fb05d945d75a08fef67c","the-more-tragic-i-act-the-stronger-i-get-my-fans-chapter-155","the-more-tragic-i-act-the-stronger-i-get-my-fans-chapter-153",366,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-more-tragic-i-act-the-stronger-i-get-my-fans-cover.jpg"]