Quick Transmigration: Underdog Turns out to be Untouchable

Although the director claimed to be absolutely fair, Ning Shuangshuang felt that this director truly favored Ding Xinxian, this historically polarizing Regent Empress. This drama appeared impartial, yet subtle favoritism was often evident in the details.

For instance, Ding Xinxian indeed had her flaws. She was too harsh on the royal family and noble families, and too lenient towards poor students. However, these shortcomings were quietly obscured by the director’s various embellishments and interpretations.

Ning Shuangshuang fell in love with the role of Ding Xinxian as soon as she read the script. Personally, with a bit of a strong-woman perspective, Ning Shuangshuang highly agreed with this Regent Empress. As for her notoriety, the history of a patriarchal society was solely written by men, which was never fair to successful women.

While Ding Xinxian, as a Regent Empress, was not without faults, she achieved more merit for the common people. Her virtues outweighed her defects. She ought to be a positive character, yet in the thousand years since her death, she appeared in history books as a villain, which was truly sad.

After deciding to take on this drama, Ning Shuangshuang started endlessly reading historical texts, both official and unofficial histories. Although official histories were biased with harsh criticisms and unofficial histories often gave excessive praise, there was no denying that both official and unofficial histories helped Ning Shuangshuang understand Ding Xinxian.

Ning Shuangshuang immersed her entire mind in studying the character of Ding Xinxian, just as she did with the character of Qin Shuangshuang before. It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say she forgot to eat and sleep.

The script for the Regent Empress was excellent, but unfortunately, the director was a newcomer, full of vigor and firmly unwilling to let investors influence casting. This resulted in several investors who initially agreed to fund, wanting the director to cast certain roles, all withdrawing their investment.

The director, Qin Xian, took a long time to find an investor willing to fund without interfering in casting decisions. When the investment finally arrived and they were preparing to audition and cast the roles for filming, there was another problem—the lead role couldn’t find a suitable actor because those auditioning for the lead role lacked acting skills.

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With no choice, Qin Xian could only tentatively send invitation letters to actors he favored. However, being from a small production company with a new director, it hardly looked like a promising crew, and well-known actors didn’t want to come. Relying solely on newcomers meant the chance of it becoming a hit was less than one percent, with most projects sinking without a trace.