[{"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-235":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},1297849,1723,"Chapter 235: So close, yet so far","the-more-tragic-i-act-the-stronger-i-get-my-fans-chapter-235",235,"\u003Cp>That confession spanning time and space, its lingering warmth had not yet dissipated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The applause still echoed in their ears.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet, just one day later, the atmosphere on Soundstage A had completely changed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The staff who had been immersed in the resonance of \"Unresolved Injustice\" yesterday now wore only the numbness of being wrung dry by high pressure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Mouyi demanded that the entire crew enter a \"state of war.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The set designers worked through the night, completely transforming the area around the Divine Tree that had witnessed demonic transformation and rebirth into a scene of hell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Broken walls and ruined pillars lay everywhere, the earth scorched black.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Low-lying smoke created by dry ice drifted in the air, flowing slowly along the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Filming officially began.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to the script, in the modern era, she used her life as a catalyst to activate the spirit jade, forcibly tearing through time and space.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her body would be transformed into a stream of light in post-production.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next second after the camera cut, it would be the ruins of Shangdu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In mid-air, a model of a spatial rift exploded into existence out of thin air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suspended by wirework, Su Qingying fell from the rift several meters high, landing heavily on the ground covered in scorched black soil.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dust billowed up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Cut!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The wirework technician immediately stepped forward to unbuckle her safety harness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Qingying did not get up right away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She lay prone on the ground, coughing violently, each breath shaking her chest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When she finally pushed herself up, her first reaction was not to search for that figure she longed for with all her heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was completely nailed to the spot by the scene before her eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was gone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nothing was left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The prosperous Shangdu from her memory, those vibrant lives, had all turned into the scorched earth beneath her feet and the wreckage in the distance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her hands trembled uncontrollably.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Qingying slowly reached out and grabbed a handful of the black soil from the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mixed within that handful of soil were long-dried and solidified blood clots belonging to both the demon race and the human race.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The coarse texture and that faint, almost imperceptible scent of blood made her utterly certain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was truly back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no ecstatic joy on Su Qingying's face, nor any wailing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An extreme micro-expression change, magnified infinitely by the high-definition camera within a few short seconds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the bewilderment after traversing time and space, to the astonishment of confirming her return, to the horror of witnessing the devastation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, it was that overwhelming despair of clawing her way back from hell to the mortal world, only to find that the mortal world had already become hell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ci stood behind the monitor, watching Su Qingying's performance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was a top-tier actor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She conveyed the most complex emotions with the subtlest of movements.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And it was at this moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the other end of the battlefield, wirework lifted Luo Yu into the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Chi Jie he portrayed stood upon a \"mountain of corpses\" piled from countless prop bodies,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>those corpses belonging to the resisting humans, and also to the minor demons who refused to submit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He sensed something, slowly turning his head to look in A Li's direction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The muscles on his face twitched, pulling into a distorted smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He merely waved his hand casually.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A powerful air current created by special effects fans, mixed with smoke, dust, and rubble, swept towards A Li who had just landed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A Li, with her mortal body, was utterly unable to withstand it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A Li instinctively raised the Lingxi Bow, but that bow which had once sealed the half-demon king was now fragile and brittle in her hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She could only watch helplessly as that storm of demonic power grew larger and larger before her eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even though there was nothing before her, Su Qingying's performance was terrifyingly real.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was as if she truly saw the world-destroying demonic power surging towards her, her pupils constricting sharply, instinctively raising her arm to block.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the critical moment, a dark golden barrier materialized out of thin air before A Li.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Boom!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The storm crashed against the barrier with a dull thud.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The smoke and dust dispersed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That figure slowly walked out from behind the shattered barrier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ci.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No, it was Ye Chen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was no longer that flamboyant, lively youth in red robes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clad in black garments embroidered with dark patterns, his long hair unbound, casually cascading over his shoulders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Around him swirled a layer of thoroughly tamed dark golden demonic power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That power was no longer violent, but restrained, calm, yet more dangerous than ever before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had completely changed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he did not look back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the very moment he appeared, his gaze was locked onto Chi Jie in mid-air,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>not sparing even a single glance for the person behind him, the one he had crossed life and death to return to see.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ci calculated coolly in his heart that, at this moment, a deep, affectionate look back would only bring brief solace,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>while this kind of resolute \"not looking back,\" this silhouette of shielding his beloved behind him while facing hell alone,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>was what would maximize the tragic sense of \"reunion being parting in death.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could feel that gaze from behind, mixed with ecstatic joy and despair, pricking his back like needles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In mid-air, the smile on the face of Luo Yu's Chi Jie froze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He caught a scent from this \"reborn\" Ye Chen, an aura powerful enough to threaten him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two arch-rivals began their first round of confrontation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No movement, no lines.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a collision of auras.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo Yu portrayed Chi Jie's madness, brutality, and that wariness towards the strong to perfection.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And Jiang Ci simply stood there calmly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He responded to all the other's provocations with a composure bordering on contempt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A Li watched Ye Chen's back, that back which had appeared in her dreams countless times.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tears finally overflowed from her eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She wanted to rush forward, to embrace him, to confirm his existence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the moment she took a step, she was gently pushed back by an extremely gentle demonic power, steadily sent to a relatively intact broken wall in the distance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Qingying's performance contributed another highlight at this moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She did not struggle, leaning against the broken wall, her body slowly sliding down, collapsing to sit on the ground,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>portraying the pain of being so close yet unable to embrace to perfection.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Through the on-set sound headphones, Jiang Ci captured her faint, yet heart-wrenching, intake of breath.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He knew Su Qingying had perfectly caught the \"scene\" he had thrown to her,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and in her own way, had pushed this moment to a new height.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Behind the monitor, Zhang Mouyi's hand unconsciously clenched.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the effect he wanted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ye Chen spoke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His voice, reshaped by demonic power, had become low and magnetic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Chi Jie.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The debt you owe, it's time to repay.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment his words fell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the camera frame, something slowly trickled from the corner of Jiang Ci's eye.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not a tear, but blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A drop of scalding, crimson blood-tear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to the script, this was the ultimate manifestation of the immense strain the power of full demonization placed on this reshaped body!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ye Chen was overdrawing his own life force to launch this battle!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Mouyi immediately grabbed the walkie-talkie.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Push! Push in on him!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Give me a big close-up on his face! Don't stop!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The cinematographer almost reflexively pushed the camera frantically towards Jiang Ci's face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That drop of blood-tear slowly trailed down the cold, hard contours of his face,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>finally dripping onto the black fabric of his garment, spreading into a small, dark stain.\u003C\u002Fp>",1302,"2026-06-05T18:00:08.556Z",1,"novelbin.me","7880c892f7956eb4f305b75055c25a4d13ad6d68877fb0161226a2a3f876ab57","the-more-tragic-i-act-the-stronger-i-get-my-fans-chapter-236","the-more-tragic-i-act-the-stronger-i-get-my-fans-chapter-234",366,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-more-tragic-i-act-the-stronger-i-get-my-fans-cover.jpg"]