Chapter 816: Yu Ji Commits Suicide

As soon as Cheng Dieyi came out, he snapped at Juxian and Duan Xiaolou several times.

He even threw a pair of shoes on the ground, signaling for the barefoot Juxian to put them on and leave.

Duan Xiaolou gestured for him to call her sister-in-law, saying, "It must be done."

He even asked Cheng Dieyi to be his witness at the wedding.

Cheng Dieyi's eyes turned red, and he only said, "I don't perform plays about Huang Tianba and a prostitute."

"My master never taught me that."

The scene was, for a moment, somewhat awkward.

Juxian added from the side, "Junior brother, whenever Xiaolou mentions you in front of others or behind your back, he always speaks kindly of you."

Just from this one sentence, one could see that Cheng Dieyi and Juxian were not on the same level.

As Duan Xiaolou and Juxian were about to leave, Cheng Dieyi immediately said, "Don't go! Where are you going?"

"Where I go is none of your business," Duan Xiaolou said.

It was clear that he had also been angered by Cheng Dieyi.

"Senior brother, don't go. Master Yuan is inviting us over tonight; he wants to cultivate our talents." Cheng Dieyi's tears welled up in his eyes as he continued to plead.

But did Duan Xiaolou even care about that anymore?

"Does a man surnamed Yuan have any say over a man surnamed Duan?" He looked at Cheng Dieyi and snapped, "I am a fake Overlord, and you are the true Yu Ji!"

This remark could be called a prophecy!

"Let him cultivate you alone." Duan Xiaolou left with Juxian.

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Just like that, Cheng Dieyi went to see Master Yuan alone.

At Master Yuan's home, he saw that precious sword of Eunuch Zhang again.

Seeing this sword, he immediately thought of the conversation he had with his senior brother during their youth.

After drinking, Cheng Dieyi performed Singing for Master Yuan in the courtyard.

When he reached the part where Yu Ji commits suicide, he drew the precious sword.

Master Yuan immediately stopped him, saying that this sword had been consecrated!

In the end, Cheng Dieyi made some sacrifices and obtained the precious sword from Master Yuan, who was fond of him.

When leaving the mansion, he encountered the Japanese invading Beijing halfway.

He took the sword to find his senior brother, but Duan Xiaolou was already dead drunk.

Seeing Cheng Dieyi arrive, he said joyfully, "Good for you, Dieyi, you finally gave your senior brother some Face; otherwise..."

He still thought Cheng Dieyi had come to drink.

Unexpectedly, Cheng Dieyi threw the precious sword to him and said, "Take a look."

Duan Xiaolou drew the sword and looked at it, saying, "A fine sword!"

"We aren't on stage, so what do you need a sword for?" he asked.

At this moment, Cheng Dieyi's heart turned to ash.

He had taken their childhood promise seriously.

He believed his senior brother's words; his senior brother had said that if the Overlord had this precious sword, he would surely be able to defeat Liu Bang and make Yu Ji his Empress.

However.

However.

The sword had been obtained.

Yet this promise was undoubtedly taken seriously by him alone.

This time, Cheng Dieyi did not call him senior brother, but instead said, "Xiaolou, from now on, you sing your songs, and I will sing mine."

After Cheng Dieyi left, the news of the Japanese entering the city spread completely.

—The world had turned chaotic!

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During a performance, a Japanese officer entered the backstage and put on Duan Xiaolou's costume.

Duan Xiaolou told him to take it off.

"This is your costume; even if he wanted the burial clothes off your grandmother's body, you would have to peel them off obediently," the officer's lackey said to Duan Xiaolou. "Do you understand, actor?"

Duan Xiaolou smashed a teacup directly onto the man's head.

Because of this, he angered the Japanese and was taken away.

After Cheng Dieyi learned of this, he immediately wanted to save him.

But when Juxian arrived to ask for his help, he immediately began to put on airs and was no longer in a hurry to go.

Only after Juxian promised him that she would return to Hua Man Lou did he go to rescue his senior brother.

He performed Singing for the Japanese and used it as an exchange to save his senior brother.

Unexpectedly, when Duan Xiaolou learned that he had performed for the Japanese, he immediately slapped him.

And Juxian did not keep her promise; she did not return to Hua Man Lou and instead officially married Duan Xiaolou.

Cheng Dieyi, on the other hand, spent his time with Master Yuan and became addicted to opium.

Standing outside while smoking, he heard the peddler's cries for candied Gourd.

Hearing this sound, he immediately thought of Xiao Laizi and how difficult it had been for him to become a star along the way; he immediately spat out the smoke and instinctively felt a bit of dry retching.

As for Duan Xiaolou, Juxian told him to stop performing, so he began to indulge in keeping crickets.

For him, if he were not Singing, he would not know what else he could do.

Just at this moment, the two's master called them over to pay their respects.

Upon seeing their master, the two immediately knelt down.

The master began to act like he did when they were small, wanting to beat Duan Xiaolou for losing his livelihood.

Duan Xiaolou pulled down his trousers right then and there, baring his buttocks as he lay on the chair, letting his master strike him.

Juxian could not bear to watch this; she could not help but snap at the master a few times, and even blurted out that Cheng Dieyi was smoking opium.

Duan Xiaolou got up and slapped her.

With this commotion, everyone finally learned that Juxian was pregnant.

After Juxian left, the master had the two kneel together and said, "Kneel closer!"

"Move closer still!" the master said again.

The two knelt together, and the master even walked over and pressed their heads together.

The master appeared to be punishing them, but in reality, he wanted the fellow apprentices to reconcile.

The master did not want them to let their skills fall behind.

Nor did he want them to just fade away like this.

From the bottom of his heart, the master was doing it for their own good.

The scene shifted, and one could see the white-haired Master Guan still teaching opera in the training school.

As it turned out, while demonstrating for his disciples, he suddenly fell backward and passed away right there.

While the two were holding the funeral for their master, they discovered a child.

He was kneeling there with a wooden board on his head, and a basin of water placed on the board; he was being punished.

Duan Xiaolou wanted to take it down for him, but he said, "Don't move, Master punished me to kneel for seven days, and the time isn't up yet!"

"The training school has already disbanded, what are you still foolishly kneeling for?" Duan Xiaolou said.

"Master said, if you want to become a star, you have to fulfill yourself!" the youth said while kneeling.

"Everyone else has left, you should go home too," Duan Xiaolou said.

"I was picked up when I was small, I have no home," the youth said.

The audience, seeing this, could not help but think of that infant Cheng Dieyi had picked up!

"Ah! Is it him?"

"It's that child!"

It was very clear that Duan Xiaolou and Cheng Dieyi also had not expected it to actually be him.

Cheng Dieyi stood in the distance watching him and asked, "Did they not tell you who picked you up?"

"They didn't tell me, saying they were Afraid that if I knew who it was, I would become arrogant and not work hard!" the youth said while kneeling.

Cheng Dieyi stared at this abandoned infant he had picked up himself and only said, "Do you still want to sing opera?"

"Sing! Even if I have to beg, I will sing; I want to become a star!" the youth said.

Many in the audience saw this and, for some reason, felt like crying.

"What is your name?" Cheng Dieyi asked.

"Xiao Si'er," the youth said.

He only touched the youth's head.

In 1945, Japan surrendered.

Cheng Dieyi and Duan Xiaolou continued to sing opera.

But the people sitting in the audience clearly did not respect them; looking at Cheng Dieyi, they even shouted, "Come over here and give me a kiss!"

They even used flashlights to shine in people's faces.

Seeing that Cheng Dieyi had stopped singing, many people even went up on stage to lift the hem of his opera robe to see if he was a man or a woman.

Duan Xiaolou rushed onto the stage to protect Cheng Dieyi.

The crowd was suddenly struck by fear.

Duan Xiaolou did not show any Anger; instead, he spoke kindly and asked everyone to go back and sit down.

But he said one sentence: "Even the Japanese were never this rowdy."

It was just this sentence that provoked the soldiers in the audience, and they began to smash things.

In the chaos, Juxian injured her stomach.

Everyone hurriedly tried to send her to the hospital, but then people came in, insisting on dragging Cheng Dieyi away, saying he had committed the crime of being a traitor!

Duan Xiaolou shouted like a madman: "Ah! By what right are you arresting people!"

"By what right do you say he is a traitor!"

Duan Xiaolou kept chasing after them, telling them to release Dieyi.

At this moment, someone called out to him: "Boss Duan, the child is Afraid... will not be saved."

Having lost her child, Juxian was incredibly weak: "Xiaolou, I have truly let you down, you... you go attend to your business."

The scene shifted, and Juxian was lying weakly on the bed.

She felt that this person, Cheng Dieyi, was at odds with this world.

She wanted Duan Xiaolou to promise her that after rescuing Cheng Dieyi, he would not sing opera with him anymore, and that they would live a steady, honest life.

In order to save Cheng Dieyi, Duan Xiaolou had to go and beg Fourth Master Yuan.

Fourth Master Yuan had said before that his performance as the Overlord was incorrect; when returning to the camp for the reveal, he should have taken 7 steps, but he only took 5, and at the time, Duan Xiaolou had snapped back at him.

Now, Master Yuan sat there and asked, "How many steps should be taken?"

"Seven steps," Duan Xiaolou said immediately.

"Walk it for me to see," he said.

Duan Xiaolou did not move.

"Walk it for me to see," he said again.

At this moment, Juxian rushed in, and she even brought that precious sword.

She also hinted to Master Yuan that if he did not save Cheng Dieyi, she would drag him down with them, saying that it was he who directed him to perform at the private party for the Japanese.

But in reality, at that time, Cheng Dieyi was doing it to save his senior brother.

Juxian went to see Cheng Dieyi in prison and told him that he must say he was forced to perform for the Japanese, that he had a gun pointed at him, and that he had been tortured.

She also showed Cheng Dieyi a letter and expressed that everyone should not perform together in the future; the child was gone, and that was the retribution for you all performing together!

Cheng Dieyi was momentarily heartbroken.

When he arrived at the court, the connections had all been made, yet he insisted that the Japanese had not beaten him.

In the end, he was still saved by those who appreciated him.

Time arrived at 1949, and for some reasons, the two senior and junior brothers performed again.

But Cheng Dieyi's voice was ruined because of opium; it had actually cracked.

But this time, the soldiers sitting in the audience were not the same batch as before.

Not only did they not cause trouble, but they also applauded loudly as encouragement.

It was very clear that their quality was much higher.

The People's Liberation Army soldiers did not cause trouble.

Cheng Dieyi began to quit opium, living a life worse than death.

On the other side, Master Yuan was "overthrown."

These were all one microcosm after another in the era.

But when Cheng Dieyi finally managed to quit opium, the now-grown Xiao Si'er began to make trouble.

He wanted to replace him.

In the end, he actually wanted to take Cheng Dieyi's place to play Yu Ji.

They saved him, but he became an ungrateful wretch.

Senior brother came to persuade him: "That little snake was warmed to life by you, and now he has already cultivated into Jackie Chan."

"If we don't go along with him, can we make it if we don't go along with him?"

"This play must be performed!"

He asked Cheng Dieyi to yield to Xiao Si'er.

Who would have expected Cheng Dieyi to only ask: "Yu Ji, why must she die?"

Duan Xiaolou was helpless and could only say: "Dieyi, you really are not obsessed, not alive."

He gritted his teeth and said: "But that is a play!"

In his view, Cheng Dieyi had long been too deep into the play, unable to distinguish between person and play.

After he left, Cheng Dieyi walked out of the room and burned all of his own stage robes.

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Time passed.

Xiao Si'er began to use the power in his hands to try to finish off Cheng Dieyi.

He wanted Duan Xiaolou to testify against Cheng Dieyi, saying he was a "reactionary" and a traitor.

Duan Xiaolou refused at first, avoiding the serious and dwelling on the trivial.

But later, after being threatened, he actually betrayed Cheng Dieyi and truly began to testify against him!

At that moment, Juxian, standing to the side, was stunned, as if she did not recognize the man before her.

He was wearing the Overlord's costume and makeup, yet to survive in the world, he even said Cheng Dieyi had been that something for Master Yuan...

He even threw that sword into the fire.

Instead, it was Juxian who disregarded her own life, ran out, and retrieved that sword from the fire.

Juxian actually felt heartache for Cheng Dieyi.

The crazed Cheng Dieyi began to stand up and said: "I also denounce!"

He exposed Juxian's identity, saying she was from Hua Man Lou.

Someone asked in Duan Xiaolou's ear: "Speak, is she a prostitute?"

"Yes... yes..."

"Do you love her? Do you love her or not?" he said with a ferocious face.

"I... I, I don't love, I don't love her," Duan Xiaolou said.

He also indicated that he would draw a line between them from then on.

After the big scene, Juxian put on her wedding robe and hanged herself.

Time flew by, and eleven years passed.

The scene returned to the beginning of the movie.

Cheng Dieyi and Duan Xiaolou were invited to perform again.

But in this final play, he used that sharpened sword to end himself, truly like Yu Ji committing suicide at the Wu River!

"Dieyi!!!" Duan Xiaolou shouted.

In the end, he only murmured: "Xiao Douzi."

The movie "Farewell My Concubine", end.

(PS: I really regret writing "Farewell My Concubine" as the final movie. There are too many places I couldn't touch, making it very painful to write and not very fluid. The Drama is very fragmented, and I didn't dare to write about the analysis or the audience's reactions. I feel like I shouldn't have written this one; it's the trashiest part of this book...

Next, I will return to daily life and then wrap things up normally.)

(End of this chapter)