
Shen Dada's Journey to Becoming a God
by Xiao Hu Doesn't Eat Fish 12
About This Novel
My name is Shen Mo, a clerk in the bureau of the Ministry of War. On the day Beijing was overthrown, I hid in a water tank in the archives room and survived for three days on half a tank of cold water. I thought I could escape back to the south of the city after the rebels left. My mother was still waiting for me at home. What can be seen when the cylinder cover is lifted is a pair of boots embroidered with gold threads. They said I was a prince. They say I look similar, so much that it's shocking. It is said that there is still half of the country in the south of the Yangtze River, hundreds of thousands of Ming troops, and countless loyal ministers waiting for the restoration of the country - they need a true emperor, and I am that emperor. The Jin Yiwei commander named Lu Ming looked into my eyes and said: "You're fake. But as long as you say you're real, you're real." I have no choice. So I became Zhu Cihong, the crown prince of the Ming Dynasty. From that day on, I started playing a human being. Learn how he walks, learn how he talks, learn how he frowns, and learn his tone of voice when reviewing memorials. I learned the words from Wang Dehua's mouth, learned the rules from Lu Ming's eyes, and saw my own flaws from the faces of everyone who knelt down. Some people want to test me, some want to kill me, and some are waiting behind my back to see how my drama will end. But as I continued to act, I found that I had changed. Those soldiers who died fighting for me knelt in front of me and shouted "Long live the prince"; the old eunuch grabbed my hand before he died and said "I know"; that cold-blooded and ruthless imperial guard suddenly asked me one night: "Who are you now?" I don't know. I only know-- The hardest thing in the world is not to play a fake prince. But when you act so much like you that you can't tell the difference between real and fake-- What should you do.
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