[{"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-307":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},1297971,1723,"Chapter 307: \"Don't Grab Me, I'm Begging You\"","the-more-tragic-i-act-the-stronger-i-get-my-fans-chapter-307",307,"\u003Cp>Squelch—!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sound of the dagger sinking into flesh was dull and viscous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beads of blood oozed along the blade, staining the once-washed-white fabric on the man's arm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ci did not stop.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He straddled the \"traitor,\" one hand pressing the other's shoulder, the dagger in his hand stabbing up and down like a mad thing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Second stab, third stab.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He avoided all the lethal spots.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The tip of the blade plunged into the man's shoulder blades, his calves—places thick with flesh yet not fatal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A few stabs were even deliberately off-target, driving the dagger hard into the wooden floor beside the \"traitor\"'s head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wood chips flew everywhere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unlike the muffled sound of blade meeting flesh,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>these were crisp, violent impacts of metal striking hard wood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don't come near!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ci suddenly snarled toward the empty air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don't look for me! Get away! All of you get away!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His face was smeared with ridiculous cream, making his ferocity all the more hideous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He brandished the dagger, no longer aiming at the man beneath him,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>but slashing and thrusting at the air as if besieged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn't really about killing a specific person anymore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was driving away countless invisible hands, fighting innumerable vengeful spirits that clung to him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the choice Jiang Ci made in that moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Using Jiang He's post-drug brain damage and fragile psychology,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he turned this execution into a full-blown mental breakdown.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was killing someone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was also killing the ghosts born in his own heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Behind the monitor, Jiang Wen's hand gripping the walkie-talkie had veins bulging.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Assistant Director Wang beside him instinctively stepped back half a pace, mouth open without sound.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the dining table, Lei Zhong froze completely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had been genuinely startled by this sudden madness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had anticipated Jiang He's resistance, his hesitation, even that he might fall to his knees and beg for mercy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But never in his life had he expected this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The young man before them, face smeared with cream and splattered blood,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>looked like a lunatic wielding a blade at empty air, emitting beastlike huffing sounds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lei Zhong had scraped and clawed through the entertainment industry for thirty years; he had seen countless excellent actors, but never this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was stripped of every acting methodology and technique, leaving only instinctual madness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ci's strength drained rapidly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Long-term hunger and an emotionally exhausting, high-intensity performance had pushed his body to its limit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His arms grew heavier, his stabbing movements slowed from frenzied to sluggish.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, with a clink.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dagger, caked with blood and cream, slipped from his weakened hand,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>bounced and spun across the polished marble floor, and finally came to rest in the shadow of a corner.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His whole body went limp.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He scrambled backward on hands and feet until he was backed into a corner with nowhere left to flee.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He hugged his head, curling into a ball, trembling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Muttering indistinctly between shivers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They're dead... all dead...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don't grab me... I'm begging you... don't grab me...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lei Zhong looked at the broken man crumpled in the corner,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and the initial horror in his clouded eyes gradually ebbed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The killing intent faded with it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All that remained was the controller's contempt for a completely broken toy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A man already gone mad could pose no threat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was far more interesting now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The cruel look belonging to Cha Cai reappeared on Lei Zhong's face, even more intense than before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He laughed out loud, a sound that echoed through the empty luxury villa, painfully grating.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stepped forward and kicked aside the barely breathing \"traitor\" who lay blocking the way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He couldn't be bothered to glance once at the comrade who had paved the way for Jiang He.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He raised his hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The pistol that had been tucked at his lower back was somehow back in his hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bang!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A shot rang out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clear, decisive, clean.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bullet pierced the \"traitor\"'s back near his heart, ending all his pain and struggle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The gunshot reverberated through the villa.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the corner, the body that had curled up and clutched its head\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>twitching violently at the sound of the shot, convulsed in sudden, severe spasms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lei Zhong walked slowly to the wall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He crouched down and met the still-shivering youth's eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He reached out with the same hand that had just pulled the trigger and lightly patted Jiang Ci's face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His fingers smeared the cream, tear tracks, and blood from Jiang Ci's cheeks, blending them together bit by bit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It felt like toying with a dirty, amusing toy he had made his own.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You're useless.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cha Cai's voice brimmed with pleasure and mockery.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You can kill someone and still manage to scare yourself into madness.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stood, took a warm, moist towel from the subordinate who had come up beside him, and leisurely wiped his hand that had just killed someone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he finished, he tossed the towel carelessly to the floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But—you're mad enough.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked down at the body on the ground that still trembled faintly, the smile on his lips deepening.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I like it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"From now on, you'll be my dog.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Only bite the people I tell you to.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Click!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Wen's voice finally crackled through the walkie-talkie, noticeably trembling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All the lights on set blazed on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The harsh white light chased away every ambiguous shadow in the villa.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No one dared move.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dozens of crew members, including the background actors playing henchmen, froze in place,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>terrified, staring at the curled-up figure in the corner.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That person was still shaking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Body hunched, clutching his head, issuing small, meaningless whimpers from his throat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The extra playing the \"traitor\" was helped up by the crew,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the blood blister on his arm still seeping plasma.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked toward Jiang Ci not far away, opened his mouth to say something, but only produced a wheezing \"huff\" from his throat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had truly believed he would be stabbed to death by that madman moments ago.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old saying was right: acting opposite someone of film-emperor caliber really could ignite your own performance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Assistant Sun Zhou reacted first; he rushed over, still clutching that blanket.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Brother! Brother!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He ran to Jiang Ci's side but didn't dare touch him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Cut! Director said cut! Brother! Wake up!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The curled figure in the corner did not respond to his calls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sun Zhou turned and pleaded with the director not far away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Wen ignored him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He shoved past the people beside him, stumbling, and lunged at the monitor, snatching the playback device.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Over and over, he watched the footage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He watched the youth gone madly wild with the dagger, clutching his head and roaring,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he watched the lethal convulsion after the gunshot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Wen's face flushed crimson with uncontrollable excitement; his whole body trembled with it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This, damn it, was a perfect performance!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He grabbed the walkie-talkie and practically yelled into it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Wrap! Everyone! Wrap!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The crowd finally began to stir.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But everyone moved with instinctive lightness,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>afraid of disturbing that monstrous figure in the corner who hadn't \"come back\" yet.\u003C\u002Fp>",1177,"2026-06-05T18:00:08.557Z",1,"novelbin.me","323aab2aca8b6154c39c116e6189993981d1d48647e7e26ac20c2335ff8ae882","the-more-tragic-i-act-the-stronger-i-get-my-fans-chapter-308","the-more-tragic-i-act-the-stronger-i-get-my-fans-chapter-306",366,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-more-tragic-i-act-the-stronger-i-get-my-fans-cover.jpg"]