Yin Chengjue sat in the chair, looking at Rong Yu's magnified face in the camera lens, and the sudden change in her expression. He couldn't help but sigh in his heart: God has blessed her with talent.
Who would have thought that Rong Yu had no acting experience before?
He transformed from a gentle and warm-hearted man into someone who disregards everything, arrogant and wicked.
For a fleeting moment, Yin Chengjue truly felt that Rong Yu was a patient with a split personality.
The camera focused on Wu Xiaoye, played by Rong Yu, who not only made no attempt to rescue the kidnapped boy, but also casually glanced around, completely ignoring the kidnappers, and muttered to herself, "What kind of lousy place is this? Why did my brother come here alone... Did you kidnap him?"
Perhaps sensing the presence of someone of their own kind, the thug surprisingly cooperated when faced with Wu Xiaoye's behavior, replying, "No, it was you... he came by himself."
The thugs realized that although the person in front of them had the same body, there was a different soul inside, and now, the soul inside the body had changed.
Wu Xiaoye: "Oh."
As the thugs heard nothing more, a subtle sense of unease rose within them.
Don't you want to know why I collect their tongues?
Wu Xiaoye: "I don't want to."
The thug, an arrogant and conceited psychopath, was instantly provoked by Wu Xiaoye's indifferent attitude, which aroused his desire to vent and speak out.
Ultimately, these serial killers all have a desire to show off to some extent, a sense of smugness that says, "Come on! You can't catch me!"
Wu Xiaoye's indifference precisely struck at the thug's deepest insecurities; his pride could not tolerate such disregard.
"Heh heh, I'll tell you anyway!" the thug said. "Do you know why I specifically look for these children's tongues?"
Wu Xiaoye still gave him an indifferent look, and said casually, "Compared to the tongue, I think the eyes are better, like two crystal beads."
In the original work, this was just a line from Wu Xiaoye, and his expression and demeanor when he said it were described in words.
As we all know, words have an embellishing effect and are difficult to portray realistically, so the actors have to improvise.
When Rong Yu delivered this line, she naturally made a gesture of playing with a ball.
Director Chen frowned slightly and called out, "Cheers."
Director Chen: "Xiaoyu, your gesture is wrong. When Wu Xiaoye said that, he should have been imitating the action of holding a person's eyeball. It should be a person's eyeball, not the jade or iron ball that an old man plays with."
As he spoke, Director Chen held up three fingers and made a twirling gesture.
Rong Yu suddenly realized: "Okay."
Director Chen: "Qi Yuan, and you too, we're acting, not memorizing lines. Do you understand emotions? Show more anger. Anger isn't something you shout out. Lower your tone a bit!"
Qi Yuan: "Okay, okay..."
After starting again, Qi Yuan finally found his rhythm. He looked at Rong Yu, who stood arrogantly in front of him, and spoke his lines in a reminiscent tone—
The former criminal was also a law-abiding, diligent, and honest person. He would mutter a few words before even killing a chicken, let alone harming anyone.
He also has a happy and fulfilling family. His wife is of average appearance but gentle and virtuous, and his daughter looks a lot like him and is very well-behaved and cute.
He is a physical education teacher at an elementary school, responsible for physical education classes for several classes.
School life was very structured, and his life consisted of going back and forth between two points.
He had thought he would continue like this until retirement.
Until one day, he was complained about by a student's parent, who reported him for physically punishing the student.
He was baffled because he hadn't done anything!
He refuted, he clarified, he tried his best to prove his innocence, but the student's parents still filed a lawsuit against him.
The students' parents have a large number of medical examination reports, and even a whole class of students testified, all pointing the finger at him as the culprit for corporal punishment.
The school's surveillance cameras have blind spots, and on the day of his PE class, because it was raining and the field was slippery, he coincidentally led the class to a place where they could shelter from the rain, which was also a blind spot for the surveillance cameras.
The parents even took the matter to the internet, posting about their child's miserable condition, and he was immediately targeted by public opinion.
It's not uncommon for teachers to physically punish students, and it's precisely because such cases exist that they resonate so strongly.
Online keyboard warriors, who only saw the parents' side of the story, came aggressively, regardless of the truth, and simply labeled him as an unscrupulous teacher, criticizing him from beginning to end.
His information was quickly exposed online, and his family was subjected to all sorts of scorn and accusations. Students at his daughter's school locked her in a stairwell cubicle, and even put a large bag of cockroaches and rats with her, refusing to let her out no matter how much she cried and begged. They even clapped, sang, and laughed outside, singing self-composed tongue twisters that didn't rhyme.
Although a passing teacher later dispersed the children and rescued his daughter, she developed claustrophobia and severe social phobia, and she was too afraid to leave the house.
As the incident escalated online, the school, in an effort to resolve the matter quickly, shifted the blame directly onto him, effectively tacitly acquiescing to his corporal punishment of students.
But he really didn't! He didn't use corporal punishment at all. Because it was raining that day, the playground wasn't open for free movement, so he just let the students in that class jump rope in a small area on their own! There wouldn't be any of those terrible injuries shown on the medical report!
The school ultimately dismissed him to protect its reputation. His wife was also affected and lost her job. Unable to bear the situation, she left with her daughter in tears.
Because of this incident, his daughter suffered a lot of contempt and unfair treatment at school, which caused her great psychological trauma. His wife needed to take their daughter to see a doctor, which required a lot of money. At that time, he couldn't even take care of himself, let alone his daughter.
A fabricated charge ruined his reputation, separated him from his wife and children, and left him penniless.
With both witnesses and physical evidence against him, the plaintiff had no grounds for rebuttal and was imprisoned in accordance with the judgment.
"...I still hold a grudge about this. After I was released from prison, I went to great lengths to find one of my classmates from that class." Qi Yuan said his lines, while also being drawn into the story by the dialogue.
At that moment, he seemed to have truly become the villain who had been framed and wronged; he was completely immersed in the role.
Qi Yuan's eyes glazed over, and his grip on the hostage gradually loosened as he drifted into memories, into the memories of this criminal.
“Time has passed, and I’m no longer the same person I was back then, and that classmate has forgotten who I am.” He said, “I subtly asked him if there were any particularly memorable events from our student days, and he thought for a moment and smiled…”
"He told me with a smile that when they were in elementary school, they used to play a group game where no matter what anyone asked, they would answer: It was Teacher Xie who did it, we all saw it."
Too much time has passed, and they have forgotten why they said those things back then. The incident also caused such a huge uproar that it was suppressed by the school authorities. Over time, the matter became a forgotten file, untouched and forgotten.
What remains in the memories of those elementary school students are only the things they did together, and the fact that after they finished doing those things, their original PE teacher disappeared and was replaced by a new one.
Being so young, they easily forget things that are not important to them. After pointing their little fingers at the teacher and saying, "It was Teacher Xie who did it, we all saw it," they can turn their backs and play carefree and happily frolic.
The reason for this was that someone had given them all delicious candy and told them to say the same thing. After they finished, they would receive a piece of chocolate cake.
They never imagined that the candy they received was made with the blood of a once happy family, and the cake they received was made with the flesh of that family.
They ate with great relish, their small faces beaming with innocent and happy smiles.
Cream got on their faces, but they laughed and wiped it off, sucking their fingers clean.
A crisp laugh, pure innocence.
This is a kind of innocent and naivety without guilt.
"...Do you know why I cut off their tongues? Because a child's tongue is the most vicious thing in the world. It makes them say the most vicious things, and they are completely unaware of it." Qi Yuan said, word by word.
At this moment, his figure overlapped with that of the thug; he was himself.
"Do you know why I'm so fixated on the number 102?" Before Wu Xiaoye could answer, he continued, "Because those elementary school students from back then have all grown up, and the people who plotted against me back then are still living carefree lives."
"Isn't it ridiculous? The person who plotted against me was the father of the boy who was seriously injured. He has a hidden tendency to abuse his family. When he had an outburst that day, he accidentally beat his son so badly that he also injured his genitals."
"He took the child to the hospital for a checkup and learned that the child's genitals were damaged and could not carry on the family line. So he thought of the child in the womb of his mistress and decided to give up the son."
"In order to give his wife a proper explanation, he lied and said that the child was injured at school, and finally chose me as the scapegoat."
"Finally, he divorced his wife on the grounds that the child was seriously injured and had become a useless person. Although the process was noisy, the man's family was rich and quickly settled the matter. Then he married his pregnant mistress in a legitimate way."
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