at a measured pace, letting members of the audience who didn"t quite understand the book obtain a rough understanding of it, "The Great Yu Dynasty"s style is also particularly interesting. Certain aspects could be described as even more open than the modern age, right?"
"En, that"s right. For example, since the start of Emperor Jingyuan"s reign, commoners could also wed male partners. The management of taxes and politics were also very advanced…" Mu Chen continued Chu Qin"s topic of discussion, speaking frankly with a.s.surance. When he received this drama, he read through the original text twice. The experts invited by Song Xiao also conveyed to them the history of the popularization of science. Now, speaking about it was a simple matter for him.
"Chen Chen –," The film emperor"s calm and collected appearance set off a kind of unceasing, frantic enthusiasm off stage. Mu Chen gestured while speaking, his every movement infused with the majestic presence of the emperor in the drama. It was extremely enchanting.
Zhong Yibin"s mouth curled, feeling that the surrounding girls were way too noisy. They really had not seen the world; In what ways were Mu Chen that vulgar person cuter than his family"s Qin Qin. Just as he was thinking this, someone patted his shoulder, "Hey, handsome. We meet again!"
The girl behind him had on a face of happiness. She was that fan of Chu Qin he met the previous time during the program recording. Without saying anything further, she shoved an LED board at Zhong Yibin, "Quick, we need to pressure Mu Chen"s fans, otherwise they"ll be the ones in control of the venue."
Zhong Yibin looked at the LED board in his hands with the words "Qin Qin" printed on it, and then looked towards those incessantly excited fans of Mu Chen. He decisively held the LED board high up in the air.
Chu Qin glanced at Zhong Yibin off-stage who was diligently raising the board and the corner of his mouth couldn"t help twitching. He coughed dryly, "Alright, if we go on with this it"ll become a science education program. Look, the queen isn"t contented either," His words drew everyone"s attention towards Qiao Su"s direction.
Qiao Su smiled helplessly, "When did I become queen?"
The audience followed along with hoots of laughter. Mu Chen raised his chin and gave a demonic smile, "You are Zhen"s[3] empress, of course they have to call you queen." These words were said with a cadence unique to the ancients. In fact, this was a cla.s.sic line in the drama. It was just that saying it in such an atmosphere gave it a rather odd feeling of comedy and excitement.
Qiao Su smiled faintly. When Mu Chen"s gaze flit over, his heart suddenly thumped rapidly. He slowly cast his gaze downwards, concealing the momentary chaos within his eyes.
"Ya[4]–," The audience off stage simultaneously became impa.s.sioned.
"Aiya, that"s it, we haven"t started the next segment!" Lin Xiaoxiao leapt out to stop them, putting on an appearance of "cannot bear to see this pair of male dogs[5]".
After an introduction of the drama"s plot and an interactive game, the heavily antic.i.p.ated "It"s dark, please shut your eyes" began.
Chu Qin let the large screen show several scenes. There was the Empress" grand wedding ceremony, the moving scene of the empress sacrificing himself in the name of love after Emperor Jingyuan"s early death, and the gentle countenance of Emperor Hongyuan when meeting his spoiled concubine…
Five scenes were shown in succession, a feast for the eyes. The people in front of the television were teased by these scenes, their hearts so itchy that it was hard to endure.
This week when the program aired, the drama would already have broadcasted two episodes. The audience would be aware of the actors" respective roles and their excitement would be unflagging for the latter part of the plot.
"Let"s do it like this, we"ll draw lots. Play whatever you drawn, us hosts will fill in for the remaining roles, okay?" Chu Qin held several knotted boards for them to draw. The few of them pushed one another around before Mu Chen was pushed out to draw the lots.
The order had long been arranged - first draw the second board, which was the scene of Emperor Hongyuan meeting his spoiled concubine, then the fifth board would be drawn, which was an envisioning of the wedding between Emperor Jingyuan and his male empress. These would push the program to its climax.
The performance between Emperor Hongyuan and the spoiled concubine was very interesting but the scene most antic.i.p.ated by everyone was still the interactions between Mu Chen and Qiao Su.
"Ai, this won"t do, I can"t act anymore. There isn"t a head eunuch," Qiao Su had been teased till his face was red and attempted to stop it. This was because the head eunuch would be in the scene busying himself during the wedding.
"Isn"t it just a head eunuch, there is one! Zhu Dachang[6]!" Chu Qin waved over the host Zhu Chang, who had warmed up the audience and was squatting at a corner.
"Zha!" Zhu Chang instantly got into character and diligently ran over, smoothly putting on the Zhou Dynasty"s eunuch cap.
Qiao Su looked at that out-of-place dressing and couldn"t resist laughing, "This is the Great Yu, where did you come from?"
"Replying to Queen, this servant just resigned from the Great Zhou and accepted a job here through the back door," Zhu Chang said seriously.
Mu Chen coughed lightly and dragged Qiao Su, who was still embroiled in a final struggle, over, "Stop arguing, be docile and enter the bridal room with Zhen."
The author has something to say: I"m a chick acting as the ma.n.u.script deposit box~ wandering around outside means less upgrades, there is none who avoid me 2333[7]
Small theater:
Er Bing: This game is really interesting, I want to play too
Qin Qin: Play what
Er Bing: You act as the empress and I"ll act as the emperor
Qin Qin: Then?
Er Bing: Then you must call me husband!
Qin Qin: …… Oh
[1] 腐情节: Literal translation is "rotten plot". From what I could deduce on google, this means that the plot is fluffy i.e. lots of mushy interactions that would make single dogs envious. Please correct me if this isn"t the correct interpretation!
[2] 借位亲吻: Making use of the camera angle to make it seem like there was a kiss, when in fact there isn"t. No English term for this, or at least as far as I know. Do tell if there is~
[3] 朕: A way of saying "I" that is a.s.sociated with the Emperor
[4] Onomatopoeia for surprise or doubt. In this case, it"s surprise.
[5] 狗男男: Translated it literally because my research didn"t yield any results, though it"s likely to be a phrase similar to single dogs, just in the context of a couple. Waiting for enlightenment >
[6] The Zhu Dachang here actually translates to big pig intestines (the same joke was used in the earlier chapters).
[7] Slang for "laughing"