Chapter 566: Luo Mo's Performance Strikes a Chord in People's Hearts

Once this rain ended, the film's timeline arrived at one year later.

It really was a heavy rain that lasted for a long time.

Cheng Yong transformed himself, opened his own Factory, and business was very good.

Yet for some people, their fate seemed to have returned to the starting point.

In the rest of the entire film, there were almost no comedic moments.

There were only tear-jerking moments and painful points.

Xu Jinzhu sat there, and from time to time, he could hear faint sobbing.

In the Cinema, many young girls who had come for Luo Mo were already crying.

Lv Shouyi's wife, having reached a dead end, came to Cheng Yong's Factory to find him.

It was only because of this that Cheng Yong learned that Zhang Zhanglin had been busted and had run away, and now there was no one selling Medicine.

As for Old Lv... he had slit his wrists, and it had been a struggle to save him.

The reason Zhang Zhanglin was busted was also because he was greedy; even after selling them for ten thousand, he felt he wasn't earning enough and raised the price to twenty thousand, and since some people couldn't afford it, they reported him, which stirred up a lot of trouble.

Many parts of this film were shot too realistically and were too realistic.

This is human nature.

Xu Jinzhu was a super rich second-generation heir who had been influenced by what he saw and heard since childhood and often listened in on the chats of his uncles and elders, so his thoughts on many aspects and his perspective on viewing problems were different from ordinary students.

At this moment, he was even thinking about why this Zhang Zhanglin had no trouble at all when he was selling Fake Medicine, and had managed to sell it for over ten years.

Yet once he started selling effective real Medicine, it hadn't even been a year before he was busted and had to run away.

There was too much here to think about carefully and delve into deeply.

He thought of the drug merchants in China.

"Is it because this time he really touched their cake and infringed upon their interests?"

"Fake Medicine doesn't matter; the faker it is, the more it highlights our real ones, and the more it makes it seem like our Medicine is the only life-saving Medicine."

"But Imitation Medicine is different; it is truly useful, and the therapeutic effect is the same..."

The more Xu Jinzhu thought about it, the more he felt this film was shot too profoundly; with his brain and thinking, it wasn't enough, and he couldn't see through it.

"Why, why can't it be sold, on what grounds are they not allowing it to be sold!" He even had such thoughts.

Cheng Yong was entertaining important guests at a club, with several bosses holding onto young women, laughing and chatting, yet he was smoking alone on the side, a bit distracted.

After returning home, he started searching for news online.

Then, he went to the hospital to visit Lv Shouyi.

When the camera gave a close-up of Lv Shouyi, faint gasps of surprise sounded in the cinema again.

"So thin!"

"Too haggard!"

"How did Luo Mo get this thin, even thinner than in 'Young China'!"

He looked too unhealthy, too haggard.

Everyone knew what he was like in his daily life, and they could instantly feel how much he had sacrificed for this film.

Honestly, Xu Jinzhu was impressed.

At this moment, he was truly impressed.

He couldn't understand how Luo Mo achieved this level, why he could be this weak; this was too realistic, right?

Xu Jinzhu even suspected, did he happen to be truly sick when filming this segment?

Upon seeing Cheng Yong, Lv Shouyi squeezed out his signature grinning smile and said, "The haircut looks quite spirited."

It was just that when he smiled, the corners of his mouth drooped slightly, and coupled with his current sickly appearance, it looked worse than crying.

"You've got guts, daring to commit suicide," Cheng Yong said, looking at him.

Lv Shouyi pursed his lips, his gaze lowered without looking at him, and he did not reply to this sentence.

The handling of this scene revealed the character's personality vividly and thoroughly.

He did not reply directly.

He only said, "Have an Orange."

In the film, Lv Shouyi had said "Have an Orange" to many people.

In his view, eating an Orange was good, so this was his way of expressing Kindness.

But no one had ever eaten one.

"How did it get like this?" Cheng Yong asked.

"There's no Medicine, so it's like this," Lv Shouyi said.

This made Cheng Yong afraid to look at him, falling into self-reproach.

At this time, a nurse entered to debride Lv Shouyi's wounds and told everyone to go out.

Lv Shouyi very skillfully picked up a towel to bite on.

After the curtain was drawn, Cheng Yong and Lv Shouyi's wife sat outside waiting.

The screams were heart-wrenching; Cheng Yong listened with his brows locked tight, the whole person restless.

Towards the end, the screams grew lighter and lighter, as if there was no strength left even for screaming; the person was in that much pain.

What made everyone feel incomparably uncomfortable was that the woman's expression and appearance had a sharp contrast with Cheng Yong's.

She sat there, and it could be said she was expressionless, her demeanor numb.

She seemed to have become accustomed to it.

Accustomed to this wailing.

Accustomed to this terrifying disease.

Accustomed to this miserable life.

The acting is too good, everyone's acting is just too good!

After Cheng Yong left the hospital, he went to find the priest, and the priest told him that he no longer had the distribution rights for this Medicine, and even if he ran to India to buy it, the regulations were extremely strict now, so he wouldn't be able to bring it in.

Cheng Yong thought of his own transport route on the sea, and he decided to make another trip himself.

On the other side, the doctor in the hospital told Lv Shouyi's wife that he had entered the acute transformation phase, and the Medicine was no longer having much effect.

The woman sat there with a numb expression, her face haggard, dressed in dowdy clothes, and she just whispered, "Is there no other way?"

"There is one, which is to go ahead with a bone marrow transplant, but the success rate is very low, and it's hard to say if he can even survive the chemotherapy; I personally don't recommend it..."

Before he had even finished speaking, the woman, her eyes slightly vacant, interrupted him directly and said without hesitation, "Doctor, we'll do it."

Si Hui's husband did not want to be dragged down by this illness, so he chose to abandon his wife.

Lv Shouyi's wife, however, remained steadfast and never left his side.

This makes one think of the fawning, the gratitude, the hope for a future life, and the faint smile on her face when she invited Cheng Yong to their home for a meal.

This is in such stark contrast to the numbness, emptiness, and exhaustion of now.

Zhao Tong and Xu Jinzhu were perhaps the ones who found it most painful to watch among all the audience members.

Although they knew this was acting, it was, after all, Xu Chujing acting.

Zhao Tong was already crying so hard she was a mess, and Xu Jinzhu suspected she had already become so immersed that she was imagining in her mind what it would be like if it were her own daughter and son-in-law in this state... sigh!

Yet, the heart-wrenching plot had still not stopped.

One could see that after undergoing chemotherapy, Lv Shouyi was even more haggard and thinner, and his hair had become incredibly sparse, starting to fall out severely.

He was woken up by pain in the middle of the night and could no longer continue lying down.

He tried his best not to make a sound, struggled to get up, and then his gaze rested on his wife and child sleeping beside the bed.

The camera gave a close-up of the sleeping child.

Then it gave a close-up of Lv Shouyi.

He seemed to be thinking about something, and then a smile appeared on his face with great difficulty.

Once, because of the birth of his child, he wanted to live.

Now, because of the existence of his child, he did not want to be treated anymore.

——Lv Shouyi died.

He lived for hope, and he also died for hope.

………

………

In the Cinema, it could be said that everyone was crying at this moment.

Many female audience members felt that this kind of torment was a completely different type from the torment in the TV dramas they watched on a daily basis.

It was too suffocating, too desperate, and too oppressive.

In the movie, it was not explicitly stated how Lv Shouyi died; the filming was relatively subtle, but one could guess.

One must know, he had already slit his wrists once before.

Many people say that those who have attempted death often lack the courage to try a second time, afraid to face the endless pain once more.

But, but.

Xu Jinzhu was already numb from watching.

If it were before, if a friend told him that Luo Mo's acting was good, that the Mei Zhangsu he played was truly superb, and that he was the youngest Best Actor, he would still have been dismissive.

"Best Actor is rare? My sister is also the youngest Best Actress!"

But if someone were to praise Luo Mo's acting to him now, he felt that he wouldn't be able to utter any words of rebuttal.

He had been completely conquered by these few scenes of intense acting.

Having only watched two-thirds of the movie, he even felt a bit of admiration for Luo Mo.

"The other few movies I've watched this year are simply trash compared to 'Medicine God'!" he said in his heart.

In the movie, at Lv Shouyi's memorial service, Cheng Yong, Si Hui, and others all went, and many fellow patients came as well.

Only Huang Mao was not seen.

At this moment, Xu Jinzhu noticed a detail.

"This house is different from when they had the meal last time."

"Either they moved to a new place, or they sold everything that could be sold."

When Cheng Yong left, walking all the way out, what he saw were faces wearing Masks.

He could only see their eyes, see the look in their eyes.

There were truly too many fellow patients who had come, filling the entire corridor.

Among them, there were perhaps many people Cheng Yong was familiar with or even knew, and perhaps many people who had once bought Medicine from him.

He just walked forward like this, passing through the crowd, meeting the gaze of pair after pair of eyes.

Towards the end, Cheng Yong simply lowered his head, not daring to look at them.

Every time he brushed past someone, it was a form of torment.

After passing through the crowd, he furrowed his brows and let out a long sigh.

Just as he was about to go downstairs, he stopped his steps.

Because his peripheral vision caught sight of Huang Mao sitting on the stairs above.

Cheng Yong looked back, raised his head, and met his gaze.

Huang Mao was sitting on the stairs, his long, yellow hair covering most of his face, wearing dirty and old clothes, with snot and tears running down, while holding an Orange in his hand, breaking off a segment, putting it into his mouth, and swallowing it with difficulty.

The Orange runs through two-thirds of the entire film's content.

This, however, is the only scene in the entire film where an Orange is eaten.

Cheng Yong's eyes begin to look downward, fixing on the Orange in his hand that has only one segment left.

It is evident that this Orange is dried out and does not seem very fresh either.

At this moment, not only him, but perhaps many viewers in the Cinema will think of Lv Shouyi, played by Luo Mo, and that signature smile of his.

Thinking of him, who was clearly quite tall but so thin that his clothes hung loose and oversized, who would reveal two rows of teeth every time he smiled, his eyes revealing Kindness and a desire to please, while saying in Mandarin with a lack of distinction between retroflex and alveolar sibilants:

"Have an Orange."

Have an…….. Orange.

(PS: Second update.)

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