[{"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-300":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},1297964,1723,"Chapter 300: Coming Back to Life, All for This Sweet Taste","the-more-tragic-i-act-the-stronger-i-get-my-fans-chapter-300",300,"\u003Cp>Jiang Wen's voice seared through the silence of the film set.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a full five minutes, no one dared to breathe loudly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only the faint hum of running equipment remained on the set.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the corner, the old narcotics officer consultant with graying temples finally slowly sank back into his chair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He fumbled a cigarette case from his pocket, shook it for a long time, before managing to pull out a single cigarette.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He brought a lighter to his mouth and pressed the switch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>*Click.*\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A flame leapt up, yet it couldn't light the cigarette.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because his hand was trembling too violently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In a daze, he caught a whiff of a coppery sweetness that existed only in memory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What he saw was the informant from over a decade ago, the one who had died in his arms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That young man, in the end, was just like this. Amidst the extreme agony of life draining away,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he had faced a blank wall, revealed a smile of release, and murmured about the sweet and sour spare ribs his mom used to make.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The silence of the set was torn apart by a flurry of panicked footsteps.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment Jiang Wen roared \"Take a two-hour break!\", the taut string finally snapped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sun Zhou shoved aside the set assistant who had long since gone slack and lunged towards the figure curled up in the filthy corner.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clutching a thick woolen blanket, he rushed over, wrapping Jiang Ci tightly within it,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>trying to use this pitiful bit of warmth to pull him back from that scene.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ci's body was still trembling with uncontrollable, minute shivers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The instant Sun Zhou touched him, he subconsciously activated a system skill.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Emotion Isolation]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All the pain, despair, and madness originating from the character were slowly severed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But his deathly pale complexion and the veins bulging almost to bursting beneath his skin were not an act.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was his body voicing its most authentic protest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Physiological exhaustion couldn't be reversed by a mere thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was like someone just pulled from icy water, every pore exuding a chilling cold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sun Zhou knelt on the ground, frantically pulling a high-calorie chocolate bar from his own pocket, his hands trembling as he peeled off the foil wrapper.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Bro, eat... eat something...\" His voice was choked with tears.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He brought the chocolate to Jiang Ci's lips.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The chocolate slipped from his fingers, falling onto the filthy, waterlogged ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And at that very moment, a torrent of system notifications exploded in his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Ding! Detected extreme collective empathy! From set assistant Xiaohua, Heartbreak Value +188!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Ding! Detected high-intensity compassionate heartbreak! From Assistant Director Sister Wang, Heartbreak Value +210!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[...]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sun Zhou hurriedly reached to pick it up, the water on his hand instantly dirtying the other half of the chocolate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn't care. He offered this life-saving energy block once more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ci reached out a hand, wanting to take it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he couldn't control his trembling fingers. That small piece of chocolate slipped from his grasp a second time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn't show frustration or impatience.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He just lowered his head, looking at the chocolate on the ground, now covered in dust and filthy water,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>then slowly, laboriously bent down, and with two fingers that still quivered slightly, picked it up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, under the gaze of everyone present, he put that dirty chocolate into his mouth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A gritty sweetness melted on his tongue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ci's cheek slowly bulged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He chewed slowly, deliberately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Staring at the empty air before him, his eyes—which just moments ago had been filled with madness and shattering—were now utterly vacant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a long while, he mumbled indistinctly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...Sweet.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Alive again.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The figure who had been terrifyingly mad before the camera, and the overly docile young man before them now, who showed such satisfaction from a mere hint of sweetness,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>formed a contrast of nuclear-blast proportions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beside the monitor, the recently graduated female clapper loader could no longer hold back, bursting into loud, wracking sobs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even the burly, tough-looking stuntmen silently turned away, roughly rubbing their eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Wen stood with his back to everyone, took a deep, harsh drag of his cigarette,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>then exhaled the smoke with force, the white cloud blurring his hard-edged face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the most heartbreakingly real portrayal of an actor after pouring out his heart and soul.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the ultimate professionalism, the most precious childlike sincerity in this impetuous era.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only Jiang Ci himself knew the truth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was just having a low blood sugar episode, and he thought this damn chocolate was really, really good.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Everyone listen up!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Wen threw down the cigarette butt, grinding it out viciously under his heel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Take a two-hour break!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After barking the order, he added another line.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Turn the heater to max.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One hour later, in the corner.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ci, wrapped in a thick blanket, his face still deathly pale, but his eyes now clear and alert.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was cradling his oversized, military-green thermos cup,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>taking small, careful sips of the ginger tea Sun Zhou had just brewed with boiling water, loaded with double the amount of brown sugar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he drank, he pulled out his phone and, expressionless, searched a shopping app for \"portable high-calorie nutritional supplement bars (military edition),\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>even taking a moment to compare the ingredient lists and calorie counts of several products.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This scene made Lei Zhong, who was secretly observing him from not too far away, wear an even more complicated expression.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This kid was a madman in the scenes, yet outside them, he was meticulously health-conscious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was the spitting image of a retired veteran preparing to head out for winter training at any moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lei Zhong began silently steeling himself for the afternoon's scene.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It would be a true scene about \"taming.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two hours later, the set transformed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The location was no longer that filthy bathroom, but the dim, oppressive bedroom of the drug lord Cha Cai from the script.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only a bed and a single chair remained in the room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All other lighting was removed, leaving only a single overhead light shining down at an angle from the ceiling,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>casting a solitary circle of light on the floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The afternoon's filming was about to begin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lei Zhong had changed into a silk robe, left open to reveal the ferocious tattoo on his chest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He sat on the edge of the bed, idly playing with a sharp dagger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And Jiang Ci, still wearing those thin clothes, was ordered to sit on the chair placed at the center of the circle of light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He held his thermos cup, quietly sipping the ginger tea Sun Zhou had refilled for him, a hint of color having returned to his face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Wen's voice came from the darkness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Lei Zhong.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"For this scene, I want you to make him fear you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I want Jiang He to be completely tamed by you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing this, Lei Zhong looked up, a vicious smile twisting his face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stabbed the dagger in his hand into an apple on the bedside table,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>then stood up and stepped, one deliberate step at a time, into that circle of light.\u003C\u002Fp>",1196,"2026-06-05T18:00:08.557Z",1,"novelbin.me","f0af906d27e3d72099b14b4879208e79c4e7cb9e39988a2a79f3b7e6e298770e","the-more-tragic-i-act-the-stronger-i-get-my-fans-chapter-301","the-more-tragic-i-act-the-stronger-i-get-my-fans-chapter-299",366,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-more-tragic-i-act-the-stronger-i-get-my-fans-cover.jpg"]