[{"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-312":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},1297976,1723,"Chapter 312: The Darkness Hidden in Fairy Tales","the-more-tragic-i-act-the-stronger-i-get-my-fans-chapter-312",312,"\u003Cp>Those words, \"specifically prepared for those who don't behave,\" echoed for a long time in the damp cave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After saying that, Lei Zhong did not look at Jiang Ci again, he turned and walked out of that den of sin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That night, Jiang Ci (Jiang He) did not sleep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The phrase \"they spiked them\" kept twisting through his nerves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Right now he lay in the deepest darkness, sharing a bed with a devil.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It made him sharper, and it strengthened his resolve to remain undercover.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before dawn, the crew's coach rumbled again up the rough mountain road.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Wen thought the two leads had been excellent yesterday,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He immediately decided not to let the actors rest and to shoot a scene considered the turning point of the whole drama.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bus stopped, Lei Zhong was the first to get off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He did not look back, he walked straight ahead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ci followed silently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two walked single file through a field swaying in the morning mist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Scarlet flowers bloomed all over the hills, eerily beautiful, and a strange sweet scent hung in the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Poppies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ci walked with an unreadable face, but the sweet smell in his nostrils made his stomach churn.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the end of the path beyond the flower field, a building appeared that looked utterly out of place among the village's decay.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A two-story house painted snow-white, so clean it hurt the eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More bizarre, a clear voice of children reading came from inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Grass on the plain grows, then withers every year…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A childish voice echoed through the sinister village camp, giving the scene a hair-raising, absurd quality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lei Zhong stopped in front of the small building, and surprisingly, a softness appeared on his face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This was built with my money.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He pointed at the white building and said to the man behind him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the sign by the door, a few gilded letters were stamped: Red River Hope Primary School.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The children here are all orphans.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lei Zhong's profile looked a little blurred in the morning light,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They either lost their parents fighting, or their parents died from using. I felt sorry for them, so I took them in.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His tone was calm as he said it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ci (Jiang He)'s heart sank piece by piece.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They entered the little building.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In a bright, spacious classroom, dozens of children wearing crisp, neat uniforms\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>sat at desks reciting with a young female teacher.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Lei Zhong entered, the children, far from being afraid, all stood up in unison.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hello, Uncle Cha Cai!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On dozens of innocent, trusting faces, joy and admiration shone as if greeting a family member.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But to Jiang He, those clean smiles were more chilling than the lifeless reaction vessels in the drug factory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He froze in place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This school was not a front for money laundering at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was a breeding ground for Cha Cai's death squads. The deepest pit of the den, an Eden cultivated with children's innocence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These kids would grow up to be Cha Cai's most loyal dogs, the sharpest blades.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They would willingly kill, traffic drugs, do anything for the man who \"adopted\" them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And they would think they were repaying a kindness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang He, playing Jiang He, watched Lei Zhong surrounded by the children and felt his blood run cold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lei Zhong, like a benevolent principal, patted each child's head and even took a few candies from his pocket to hand out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he led Jiang Ci down the corridor to a supply storage room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Come in.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The storage room door was pushed open.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside were stacks of brand-new \"charity supplies.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Backpacks printed with cartoon characters, brand-new pencil cases, and dozens of instrument cases in varying sizes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lei Zhong walked to a neatly stacked pile of books and casually picked up the top one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a beautifully bound Andersen's Fairy Tales, a thick hardback with a colored illustration of the Little Mermaid and her prince on the cover.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He handed the book to Jiang Ci.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ci reached out and took it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The book felt absurdly heavy in his hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That weight was not something ordinary paper and a hard cover could produce.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lei Zhong (Cha Cai) wore a smile that said he was immensely proud of his masterpiece.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He extended a rough, callused hand, and in front of Jiang Ci,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>dragged his fingernail hard along the layered edge of the fairy tale book's cover.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shrrrk—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The exquisite colored cover was slit open.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Underneath the tear, there was not the gray-yellow cardboard one would expect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instead, there was a layer of pure white sheets pressed flat and tight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Behind the monitors.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The young female clapper loader, who had been responsible for props, instinctively covered her mouth,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>her eyes full of horror.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The veteran makeup artist beside her turned deathly pale in an instant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking that this was adapted from real events, combined with the two lead actors' masterful performances,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>this was more physiologically nauseating and terrifying than any prior bloody torture scene.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Ping! Strong Heartbreak emotional fluctuation detected…]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Heartbreak Value source: female crew on set (makeup artist, clapper loader)]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Emotion assessment: utter evil, violated innocence… rage and heartbreak.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Heartbreak Value settlement: +221 points.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Remaining lifespan: 15 years 10 months 28 days.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Pretty, right?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lei Zhong smiled, enjoying the stiffness on Jiang Ci's face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is my new invention.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He leaned in and whispered the introduction of his \"masterpiece\" to Jiang Ci.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Through the charity donation channel, these 'lessons' are packed into love-school buses or taken out when students' art troupes go to perform, and shipped to cities inland.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Who would check inside a group of children's backpacks, who would open a fairy tale book donated to a poor mountain school?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His words were soft, but each one landed heavily on Jiang Ci's heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ci's fingers stroked the fairy tale's beautiful cover.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the cover, the little mermaid gazed up at the handsome prince with sorrow yet full of hope.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His fingertips trembled slightly without his control.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had to respond.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A reaction that fit the role of \"Jiang He.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had to show astonishment, praise, even fanaticism toward this genius-level evil.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But inside, just like the Jiang He in the script, his world was already churning into hell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Behind the monitors.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Wen sprang up from his chair, leaning forward toward the screen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He watched the young man on screen clutching the Andersen book,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>a mixture of shock and admiration slowly forming on his face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This image—perfectly stitching absolute purity together with absolute evil…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>this violent aesthetic!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Wen trembled uncontrollably with excitement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the storage room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ci lifted his face and looked at Lei Zhong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment there was nothing in his eyes but adoration.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Uncle Cha Cai, you really are a genius.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That praise provided a perfect period to this lesson of evil that had just been taught in the supply room.\u003C\u002Fp>",1156,"2026-06-05T18:00:08.557Z",1,"novelbin.me","1b2381bd23437c77c4260e580b637d325c07c14e42c2a4cf418e34cd90c995f6","the-more-tragic-i-act-the-stronger-i-get-my-fans-chapter-313","the-more-tragic-i-act-the-stronger-i-get-my-fans-chapter-311",366,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-more-tragic-i-act-the-stronger-i-get-my-fans-cover.jpg"]