[{"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-280":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},1297944,1723,"Chapter 280: \"I'll Wait for You at the Wu River\"","the-more-tragic-i-act-the-stronger-i-get-my-fans-chapter-280",280,"\u003Cp>The final trailer ended.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the giant screen, all the brutality and grandeur fell into silence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On that blood-soaked bank of the Wu River, Xiang Yu plunged his sword into himself,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the moment his body collapsed with a thunderous crash, frozen into an eternal frame.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The screen went black abruptly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A line of blood-red characters appeared, one by one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Legend of Han and Chu, September 1st, Coming with a Shock!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside the theater, there was a silence like death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It lasted a full three seconds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was not polite clapping.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was an outpouring from the bottom of people's chests after being washed by overwhelming emotion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The applause surged like a tide, sweeping from the front row to the last, unceasing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bespectacled reporter who had asked the earlier question sat there, stunned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His glasses were gone without him knowing when, clutched tightly in his hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His gaze fell hollowly on the now-dark screen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the notebook spread across his knee,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>those sharp lines he had painstakingly prepared about \"unworthy virtue\" and \"capital's forceful backing,\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>each word now seemed to silently mock his overconfidence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On stage, the lights came back up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Director Wei Song sat there quietly,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>watching the faces in the audience, moved and shocked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That silence carried more weight than any hoarse defense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The work is king.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The host only managed to regain professional composure in the brief pause between waves of applause,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>his throat a little dry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Thank you all... thank you for such an enthusiastic reaction.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He tried to bring the out-of-control atmosphere back on track.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I believe, like me, you cannot wait for the official release of The Legend of Han and Chu.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"However, at the end of today's press conference, we have one more special segment.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The host played coy for a moment, drawing everyone's attention back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"As we all know, due to the tight shooting schedule, our leading actress, the performer of Yu Ji, Teacher Zhao Yingfei, could not be here today.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"However, she specially recorded a VCR for us.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No sooner had he finished than the previously darkened giant screen lit up again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On screen there were no glamorous gowns, no exquisite makeup,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>not even professional lighting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only an empty, dim practice room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A huge full-length mirror reflected the pale moonlight outside the window.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhao Yingfei stood before the mirror, wearing the simplest black practice uniform, her face bare.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was none of the glow of a movie star on her face, only a near-obsessive, icy calm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She looked into the camera.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her gaze seemed to pierce the screen, pierce the noisy theater, pierce the hundreds of viewers,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and finally land on the figure on stage in a black suit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The video was very quiet, only the soft sound of breathing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just five seconds of footage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She spoke only one sentence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her tone was very flat, so flat it had not the slightest inflection,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>yet it contained a calm and resoluteness that transcended life and death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A love that would never waver until death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My lord, I will wait for you at the Wu River.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When she finished, the screen returned to black.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire theater was even quieter than after the trailer had ended.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If Xiang Yu's suicide was the apex of tragedy, a magnificent destruction,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>then Zhao Yingfei's casually delivered line\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>injected the blood-stained Wu River at the trailer's end with the most cruel and the most tender soul.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Backstage, in the control room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Wan stared at her phone expressionlessly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the screen was the real-time chart of The Legend of Han and Chu's online presale box office.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the exact moment Zhao Yingfei's line fell, that curve which had been rising steadily\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>shot upward almost vertically, as if at ninety degrees.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, her Weibo special notification tone went crazy, ringing without stop.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>#I'llWaitForYouAtTheWuRiver#\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This hashtag, without any preheat, blasted toward the trending chart at a terrifying speed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On stage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ci watched the face of Zhao Yingfei disappear from the screen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His fingers, resting on his knee, unconsciously rubbed the slightly cool button on his suit sleeve.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A strange stirring flashed through his chest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was not the emotion of actor Jiang Ci.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It belonged to \"Xiang Yu.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was the resonance unique to the Hegemon who had just lost his beloved at Gaixia and now, on the bank of the Wu River,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>heard her call across life and death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That Hegemon's resonance struck like lightning, splitting Jiang Ci's mindset as a mere \"life-extension day laborer.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He almost instinctively realized that this tragic echo across time and space\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>would harvest Heartbreak Value far more efficiently than any face-to-face, gut-wrenching scene.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was not merely Yu Ji's promise to the Hegemon,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>it was a broad, paved highway to massive additional life — the ultimate form of Bad Ending Aesthetics: cutting someone unseen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Safe, efficient, and with limitless aftereffects.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Thanks to Teacher Zhao Yingfei, and thanks to all the media friends and audience members here today!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The host announced loudly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The first roadshow press conference for The Legend of Han and Chu concludes here! See you in theaters on September 1st!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The press conference ended.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Escorted by more than a dozen security guards, Jiang Ci left through the side passage of the stage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The corridor outside the theater was packed with people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He pushed through the crowd toward the exit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The anticipated ear-piercing protests and jeers did not appear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he stepped out of the cinema doors and breathed the cool air, he paused.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Outside, the group that had been holding protest banners had already dispersed completely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had been replaced by another group.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They stood quietly along both sides of the red carpet, spontaneously making way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In their hands they held various light boards.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>None of the boards read \"Jiang Ci.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They bore only two characters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hegemon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their faces showed no fanatical idol worship, only a solemnity shared by all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among the crowd, the leader of the black-fan protesters who had shouted the loudest earlier now kept his head bowed in silence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He first blocked the \"protest group\" leader he had just paid, then opened his photo album and deleted the secretly taken pictures.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only after doing all that did he set the official poster of Xiang Yu's Wu River suicide as his phone wallpaper.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sun Zhou hurried alongside Jiang Ci, whispering in his ear,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>his voice full of uncontrollable excitement and awe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ci-ge, next stop, Star City.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Director Lin just sent a message—right after the trailer and Teacher Zhao's VCR played, our online presale box office... in fifteen minutes, hit ten million!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That curve looked like a rocket launch!\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1105,"2026-06-05T18:00:08.557Z",1,"novelbin.me","ceb0bbb7fefaceaca95818665cafc41879b5754951a20e5e5750b3de1678c1ee","the-more-tragic-i-act-the-stronger-i-get-my-fans-chapter-281","the-more-tragic-i-act-the-stronger-i-get-my-fans-chapter-279",366,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-more-tragic-i-act-the-stronger-i-get-my-fans-cover.jpg"]