[A Playful Opera Actress with Lucky-Koi Charms x Luo Shi, CEO of Aeternum Group | 1v1 | Two Equally Powerful Leads]
The first time Jinli appeared on camera, she opened a folding fan.
Back then, nobody knew who she was.
All they’d heard was that she was an opera performer, dressed in long silk sleeves, someone no one had ever seen before. Some said she was beautiful, others called it a publicity stunt, and some just waited for her to become a laughingstock. She walked onto the set of Between Mountains and Rivers carrying a fan and a well-thumbed copy of The Complete Collection of Kunqu Plays.
Luo Shi, the man standing at the pinnacle of power, who had left home with her when they were eight, stayed by her side from beginning to end. He only appeared when she needed him, saying, “I’m her husband.”
Across three seasons of Between Mountains and Rivers, they journeyed from the fish lanterns of Yannan Village to the underground river in Hidden Water Cave. She performed a stage walk on a beach at low tide, sang “The Palace of Eternal Life: Hearing the Bells” in the wind atop the city wall, and unfurled six meters of silk in a valley.
She wasn’t there to be seen. She was there to help more people be seen.
Zhou Er said, “She’s my soulmate in life.”
Song Yu said, “That night, we just sat there talking. The fire was burning, and later, someone remembered what we’d said.”
She accepted two jade bracelets, blue on the left and red on the right. Once she put them on, she never took them off. She also accepted a pair of cotton dolls, one named Little Fish and the other Little Luo.
The door stood open. She walked out, and someone was waiting there.
“Big brother, someone’s bullying me!”
