With Director Jin's undisguised admiration, Qin Shi Huang was soon scheduled for an audition.

Because the role of Qin Shi Huang is quite important in the drama, the audition was arranged for five scenes.

One scene shows Qin Shi Huang leading his ministers on a tour of the Great Wall, displaying his pride and self-satisfaction; another shows him decisively killing Lao Ai after learning of his deeds; a third shows him tyrannically ordering the massacre of all Confucian scholars; the final scene shows him enjoying time with his family, including Fusu and Huhai; and a fourth shows him dejected and regretful on his deathbed for not finding the elixir of immortality.

Qin Shi Huang, who was not very familiar with the world, did not know what a TV series was or what acting was.

After what had just happened, Yu Ningning realized that she didn't know how to act, so she didn't have many demands on Qin Shi Huang.

She simply described the scene to Qin Shi Huang in detail, allowing him to respond in the way that was most comfortable and natural for him.

Although he found these people's requests somewhat absurd—why would anyone pay someone to impersonate him—Qin Shi Huang, driven by his dream of a 5,000-yuan firecracker fund, obediently complied with them one by one.

After the five auditions were completed, there was a moment of silence on set.

For a moment, no one knew how to comment.

It was obvious that the person in front of me didn't know much about acting. There wasn't a trace of acting in him. He didn't even know the most basic way to move around in front of the camera, nor did he know how to present himself under the lights and in front of the camera. Sometimes he didn't even fit the character description of Qin Shi Huang in the script.

More often than not, he gives the impression of living his life without a care in the world in front of numerous cameras—ignoring all the cameras and staff, freely surveying his own palace, treating his co-stars as slaves he can ignore and order around at will, reviewing memorials, spending time alone, thinking, conversing, and even killing at will...

So natural that for a moment, the staff present forgot that these were auditions and instead treated them as spectators observing a scene from the normal life of an emperor.

Even when the scene depicted Qin Shi Huang suddenly erupting in rage, smashing a heavy bamboo slip that nearly cracked open the head of his co-star, and then casually ordering someone, "Drag this person away and tear him apart by chariots," the staff members nearby subconsciously held their breath, feeling as if they were actually there, their hair standing on end.

Despite his inability to act, his lack of understanding of camera angles, and his alteration of the script, everyone shared the same most genuine feeling.

—He was Qin Shi Huang.

The most authentic, living Qin Shi Huang.

An emperor who lived more than two thousand years ago, who ended a chaotic Warring States period, created a glorious and great unified empire, possessed boundless ambition, a tyrannical temper, and an urgent desire for immortality, and who also experienced the joys and sorrows of human life, truly lived a life.

...

After a long while, the tense atmosphere was broken when someone let out a breath, and all the staff members remembered that they could still breathe.

Gazing at Qin Shi Huang standing with his hands behind his back, a screenwriter murmured, "Is this some kind of new performance technique or style? It seems that after being away from school for so many years, I'm starting to fall behind the times."

At this moment, Su Daji smiled sweetly and said, "Director Jin, does this mean I passed the audition?"