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The true test of an actor's mettle in a play is often seen during the face-off with their counterpart, and without those last 8 minutes, everyone might have already deemed the other actors' performances sufficiently good, not bad by any means.
But with the show-stopping final 8 minutes, everyone else seemed a bit dull by comparison, not to say they were not good, but simply because the beggar was played too well.
Thus, even before the drama ended, several directors and stars began considering adding new blood to their studios.
Zhang Ming looked at Ren He's explosive acting at this moment with some admiration, wondering whether the entire series would have been more compelling if Ren He had been cast as the male lead in Kunlun. After all, with actresses like Xia Yuting taking the lead female roles, the male lead seemed somewhat overshadowed.
