Anti-War Game: Starting from Normandy Campaign-Chapter 691 - 333: [Film Version Character Shock That Shook Blue Star]
But being weak and often sick made his survival more difficult than that of ordinary children.
And Li He was indeed just as the Blue Star netizens in the livestream room had speculated.
A youth with such determined and bright eyes would surely accomplish great things.
This point.
Was vividly reflected in the first half of his life. Even though he was weak and sickly, even though his family was in decline, none of these became obstacles for Li He. Instead, through trials, this youth became even more outstanding.
Until the age of eighteen.
As a young man, Li He, full of passion and ambition, went to the eastern capital Luoyang to visit Han Yu, the leader of the literary world, and presented his collection of poems.
And the poem "The Song of the Yanmen Commander".
Instantly made him famous in Luoyang.
"To repay the kindness shown by the king on the golden platform, I am willing to draw my jade sword and die for him."
This sentence.
With the most direct, surface-level emotions.
Issued a deafening vow: To repay the king’s kindness, I am willing to wield my treasured sword and die in battle for you!
Through poetry, one sees the person.
It is imaginable how much Li He wanted to realize his ambitions at this moment.
He also needed someone who appreciated and recognized him.
Even the Blue Star netizens in the livestream room, listening to the "film version" where Li He’s voice recited "The Song of the Yanmen Commander," couldn’t help but feel a surge of passion.
They also realized that they had researched too little on the [Huaxia] historical series games.
Why hadn’t they discovered such a character before?
What is the outcome?
According to the "film version’s" duration, he should die young, but even if a character like this dies young, they should leave behind something, right?
The Blue Star netizens in the livestream room thought.
They also looked forward to Li He’s upcoming developments.
But....
The scene shifted.
The just-famous Li He in Luoyang suddenly received news of his father’s death.
He had to observe mourning for three years.
The previous passion and ambition were abruptly interrupted.
The Blue Star netizens in the livestream room couldn’t help but feel a sense of suffocation.
At the most vigorous age, to observe mourning for three years....
He was already famous in Luoyang, and at this time such a thing happened.... but there was no way, as people are prone to both misfortune and blessings, with his father’s death, Li He had to observe mourning.
The scene shifted.
During the mourning period, Li He was not beaten down.
Instead, he focused on studying.
Occasionally receiving visiting friends.
This scene.
Made the Blue Star netizens in the livestream room breathe a sigh of relief.
Indeed.
They did not misjudge him.
Even though he suffered such a setback, he still strived to move upward.
The scene transitioned.
Until the mourning period ended, Li He participated in the imperial examination.
Li He, of course, did not disappoint the Blue Star fans in the livestream room. He passed every hurdle and gained the qualification to go to Chang’an to participate in the metropolitan examination.
However.
Before participating in the examination.
Li He was too outstanding, which scared the competitor with the same name, who then spread a rumor:
"Li He’s father’s name is Jin Su, ’Jin’ sounds like ’jin’ which is in ’jinshi’, therefore, he should avoid this name taboo."
Implying that if Li He were to pass the examination, it would be considered unfilial to his father.
Despite Han Yu, the literary leader, writing "Debate on Name Taboos" to argue on his behalf.
The pressure of public opinion was too great, and Li He ultimately had to give up and left the examination hall.
Seeing this scene.
The Blue Star netizens in the livestream room were dumbfounded.
Fang Ming also took a sharp breath:
"What the hell?"
"What the heck?"
"Ancient version of moral coercion?"
"You taking the examination is considered unfilial to your father, what kind of nonsense is this?!"
"If you can’t pass, resort to underhanded tricks, huh?"
"This is so unfair...."
The Blue Star netizens in the livestream room also watched while cursing.
They had never imagined Li He would face such a formidable opponent and then fail the examination.
But....
What is this?
You taking the examination is unfilial?
How can moral coercion be like this?
This is eye-opening.
However.
No matter how much the Blue Star netizens cursed in the livestream room.
Li He in the "film version" had already lost his qualification.
Returned to the hometown in a daze.
But soon, Li He brightened up and did not give up.
However, at this moment, Li He.
Perhaps realized what ’fear of public opinion’ means, that some things are futile to resist.
The light in his eyes dimmed significantly.
The following year.
Under the recommendation of Han Yu and others, Li He was later appointed as a Court Ritual Attendant (Junior Ninth Grade Upper) through "grace appointment".
However.
Though called an official position.
It was merely a minor role responsible for court ceremonial rites.
Not only was the work tedious and humble,
It was vastly distant from the ambition he held at 18 when he wrote, "To repay you with valor at the golden stage, wielding jade dragon to die for you."
Three years in office.
During this time.
Entering the officialdom, he inevitably became accustomed, and, with like-minded friends, through exchanges, he gained a clearer understanding of the institutional decay and the tyranny of military governors.
Discussing daily with some like-minded friends.
Li He became increasingly dispirited, the light he had maintained for 18 years having long vanished from his eyes.
Three years of officialdom.
Caused Li He to lose motivation, and the position offered no hope of advancement, with little to do daily, the once diligent young scholar became an empty figure in such an environment.
Until illness forced him to resign.
Li He went to Luzhou to seek refuge with a friend, Zhang Che, hoping to find new opportunities, but ultimately to no avail.
After two wasted years.
Li He returned gravely ill to his old home.
However.
Seeing the image, Li He appeared emaciated and haggard.
No one would expect this was a 27-year-old youth.
At this moment, Li He.
Lying in the desolate bedroom of his family home, autumn wind poured through the broken window paper, flickering the candle on the table, casting Li He’s trembling shadow.
Li He lay on the old bed, his once slender body now skin and bones.
His entire body wrapped in thick bedding, showing no rise and fall, his cheeks deeply sunken, and his hair all white.
If one does not mention this is a 27-year-old youth.
Anyone would mistake him for an extinguished old man in his twilight years.
Li He struggled to sit up and opened the window a bit.
The cold wind blew in.
Seemingly invigorating him a little, Li He looked at the old locust tree in the yard, now bare except for a few leaves clinging to the branches, the yard covered in fallen leaves, unattended.
Li He opened his mouth, wanting to say something.
But the fallen leaves, like his life.
In the live stream, Blue Star netizens felt an overwhelming heaviness.
Unsure of what to say.
In the scene.
After looking at the fallen leaves in the yard for a while, Li He slowly turned his gaze inside the house, to the book trunk in the corner, where his life’s poetry manuscripts were stored, but now he didn’t even have the strength to look at them.
In the end.
Li He looked at the old desk in the room.
Perhaps 20 years ago.
Also in autumn, also in such a scene, only then... he was a young man practicing calligraphy.
In a daze.
Scenes from a lifetime flowed before his eyes.
From youthful persistence to youthful ambition, to falling into lows, seeing the darkness of the world, deeply affected, clouded with melancholy... a bitter smile appeared on Li He’s lips.
But eventually, it turned into relief.
In his eyes, fear was gone, resentment was gone, only the relief of no longer needing to struggle.
The cold wind blew into the room.
The flame of the oil lamp flickered, flickered, Li He’s hoarse, relieved voice sounded in voice-over:
"Flying light, flying light, I urge you a cup of wine."
"I do not know the height of the blue sky, the depth of the yellow earth. I only see the cold moon and warm sun, torturing life’s longevity."
"...."
"Naturally, the old do not die, the young do not cry."
"...."
"...."
"Liu Che’s Maoling is filled with halted bones, Ying Zheng’s coffin wasted baoyu fish."
The flickering oil lamp suddenly extinguished amid the final sigh... darkness swallowed everything.
The film slowly ended.
Yet Fang Ming’s live stream room had no bullet screen comments for a while.
Only breathless Blue Star netizens, watching the ended film, typing and deleting, deleting and typing words in the input box.
When the film ended with the phrase ’I do not know the height of the blue sky, the depth of the yellow earth. I only see the cold moon and warm sun, torturing life’s longevity.’
Subconsciously, everyone remembered the ambitious ’To repay you with valor at the golden stage, wielding jade dragon to die for you.’
What did those three years put him through, for such a Li He to ultimately despairingly utter ’torturing life’s longevity,’ such despair.
Before this.
They never thought an unseen NPC could bring such an emotional impact....
