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In Japan, long-form TV dramas are often filmed and broadcast in seasonal series.

"Um, Director Asaka, I have something to tell you. Can you listen?" Before the filming began, Ling also found Director Asaka.

"Ah, of course."

"Look, Clow Reed will appear in two episodes, right? And the dimensional witch Ichihara Yuuko, Sakura's mother in the story. Have you decided on the actors?"

"Of course." Although she didn't know why Ling was concerned about this, Director Asaka said truthfully, "The casting was completed two months ago, and the final two decided to participate were Mr. Kazuo and Ms. Sayaka, both of whom are well-known actors in the industry."

"About this..." Ling said a little embarrassedly, "Can I ask you for a favor? It's about replacing the actors."

Ling also knew that what she said at this moment was the biggest taboo among taboos between investors and directors.

As expected, Asaka looked distressed.

Here it comes, here it comes, the final challenge from the investor. Previously, he had used the Oshima family's order to turn down the request from Sanmu Company to continue filming, but he didn't expect that there would be such a big pit waiting for him.

It is not uncommon for investors to insert actors. On the contrary, it is very common. Where there are people, there are social conventions. But for directors, this is also the most difficult thing.

"Of course, the Oshima family will bear the previous actor's penalty and related compensation, and will not make things difficult for the director."

In fact, although Clow Reed and Ichihara Yuuko are two very important characters in the plot, they have important positions but do not appear in many scenes in reality. They are just supporting roles.

But that's not the problem.

"Can I ask the reason? And who is the actor you are going to replace, Lingye? Is he a famous star?"

"Ha." Ling also smiled awkwardly. She hoped that the replacement actor would not be a star, or even have no acting experience.

Night, Oshima House

"Eh? What? You want me to act in a TV series?"

"I'm sorry, I made this arrangement without your permission. Aunt Nadeshiko, are you willing to go?"

Ling also clasped her hands together. It was always hard to refuse a girl like this.

"But I don't have any experience as an actor, and my identity..."

"It doesn't matter. The Yabo people have already surrendered."

If it was before the end of the war, Nadeshiko's identity as the Yawa people's envoy was indeed inconvenient, not to mention other people, even Ling herself could not be completely assured. But now, Speaker Yawa is dead, Yawa civilization has really evacuated, and Nadeshiko really no longer poses any threat to the earth.

She now has only one identity, that is, Sakura's mother.

Even regarding her identity in human society, Ling can also try to ask Beidou and Nan Xizi to intervene through the TAC team to give her a legal identity to return to human society.

"Also, the role in this TV series is that of Sakura's mother. And she's also a 'dimensional witch'."

Well, that role was really tailor-made for her. Amamiya Nadeshiko was a little hesitant, but actually she was also a little moved.

"Aunt Nadeshiko, maybe you think I'm meddling in other people's business, but I think Sakura really wants to be with her mother. The breakfast you make for me every day is delicious, but, that should be Sakura's, right?"

Every day, she was called by her mother to get up, eat her mother's breakfast and go to school. It was a very ordinary thing, but Xiaoying never enjoyed it. She could only shout "I'm going out" to the photo at the entrance every day, but she didn't get any answer.

"I...but can I really?"

"I don't know, but I think we have to take the first step."

If you don't try, nothing can be changed if you stand still. If Fujitaka and Nadeshiko can't recognize each other, Sakura will be very pitiful. As Sakura's friend, Ling can only do this.

At the same time, the Kinomoto family.

Fujitaka also received a request from Sakura, asking him to play the role of Clow Reed in the story.

"I see. Sakura, do you really want me to go?"

"Yes, because wouldn't it be weird if I called a stranger dad?"

If she were a professional actor, she would definitely not have such thoughts. But Sakura knew that she was not professional, and Director Asaka might have valued this point of her.

Sakura Kinomoto's father is only Fujitaka Kinomoto, and she can't call out "Dad" so naturally to others.

"I see. Actually, if I hear Sakura calling someone else dad, I won't be used to it. If the filming time doesn't conflict with the school schedule, I don't mind it. I just don't know if I can act well. I just can't imagine what the strongest wizard in history looks like."

"Certainly possible!"

Because he is my father. If Clow Reed really existed in the world, he would look like my father.

"So that's it, please!"

The next day, after getting the consent of the two parties to participate, Ling once again found director Asaka.

“It’s really difficult.”

If someone wanted to cut in, Asaka might have refused, even if the other person was a financial sponsor. Some things must be insisted on.

But they are Sakura's father and mother, so it's not an exaggeration to say that they are playing themselves. This is consistent with Director Asaka's previous concept, but I don't know how their acting skills are.

"But, didn't I hear that Sakura's mother had already..."

"Well, it's back again."

"You're back again? Oh, I am. It's good to be back."

Maybe I heard it wrong before. When I heard that Sakura's mother 'passed away', I naturally thought that she passed away. It turns out that it literally means that she has gone away. Asaka was glad that she had not said anything rude before.

"Ok, I see."

Fujitaka Kinomoto plays Clow Reed, and Nadeshiko Amamiya plays Ichihara Yuuko. Since they are Sakura's biological parents, they can be regarded as playing themselves. Maybe it can indeed produce better results.

"Thank you so much!"

Time quietly crossed into December. Since Japan does not have a lunar calendar, this is already the end of the year.

Lingye's secret garden has been basically completed. At first, Mr. Ueki planned to design a palace garden in European style because of her other half's Nordic ancestry, but Lingye prefers Chinese style.

So it is called a 'garden', but in fact it is more appropriate to call it a 'landscape'.

In fact, she loved gardens in her previous life, perhaps influenced by classical romance novels. The courtyard was deep and deep, like the ladies in the story, probably just like the princess dream of foreign girls.

The so-called gardens were originally private residences of the ancients. But obviously, even if she had enough living expenses in her daily life and could not care less about hundreds of thousands or millions, it was still too much to want to own a garden of her own.

Gardens that are not key cultural relics can indeed be bought and sold, but the prices of over 10 billion yuan are enough to make her feel overwhelmed.

I didn't expect that the "garden dream" would be realized in this way.

Chinese gardens are always inseparable from water, and there happened to be a clear river in the secret realm.

There are custom-made pavilions by the river. In ancient times, this was a big project, but nowadays, as long as the price is right, wooden pavilions can be ordered and installed, and you can choose any style.

So these actually didn't take much effort, including the rockery made of strange stones.

What is really troublesome is the transplanting and planting of various flower seedlings. Compared to dead objects, life is more fragile and needs careful care.

"A lot of jasmine has been planted along the river bank as Missy requested. When the flowers bloom next spring, this place will be very beautiful."

"Thank you, Uncle Ueki."

"As long as the young lady likes it." Ueki rubbed Reiya's head, just like he did when she was a child.

Chapter 165 Prehistoric Civilization

The arrival of December means that the semester is about to end for students.

Winter vacation is coming.

Although the winter vacation was only two weeks, school would start soon after the New Year, but there was still a half-month spring break in March. That was the end of a semester, and when the cherry blossoms bloomed in April, they would be five years old.

Ling did not feel uncomfortable with the three holidays a year. In fact, the total length was about the same as her previous school, except that the winter vacation was split into two parts. In fact, she felt more hopeful when she had a break in this way.

“Before humans, have there been any intelligent civilizations on Earth?”

It’s near the end of the semester, and these are the questions the teacher left for us during the social studies class, which also serves as our winter vacation homework.

It is very profound, and even scientists cannot fully understand it, so we certainly cannot expect primary school students to answer it. We just ask students to go to the library to read more books in their spare time to cultivate their ability to learn actively.

In fact, any answer is fine, it doesn't matter whether you discuss it from the perspective of history, archaeology, logic, or even mythology or folk legends.

"Hey, Sakura's teacher gave her this kind of homework."

The three of them were walking on a trail with all the branches and leaves fallen. In spring, this place was a cherry blossom avenue, but now only bare branches remained. Only a few ginkgo trees still had the last few golden leaves that had not fallen off.

"That's right. I don't know which book to look up." Sakura was a little distressed. She thought about asking her father, who was a professor of archaeology at the university, but then she felt that it would be better for her to do her homework by herself.

"Well, please let the authority, Reiya, answer the question!" Tomoyo pretended to be interviewing with a microphone and put her clenched fist pretending to be a microphone to Reiya's mouth.

"Me? An authority figure?"

"of course."

Well, that's true, and probably no one is better suited to answer this question than Gaia.

Before humans, the dinosaurs were the dominant species at the top of the food chain. They lived on Earth for nearly 200 million years starting from the Triassic period. However, the dinosaurs did not create their own civilization.

From the perspective of human beings today, "wisdom" is obviously the most important thing, and we are proud of it. But from the perspective of biological evolution, the cost of "thinking" is too high. The huge brain is a huge burden before the establishment of true civilization. It is complex and fragile, and requires a huge skull to hold it. It is not conducive to movement and consumes amazing energy. So much so that it weakens the ability to survive.

Therefore, in the process of survival of the fittest, wisdom is not the "good", but the "bad" that is eliminated. For a long time, no creature has successfully taken that step. Anyone who tries to "think" becomes someone else's meal.

The dinosaurs became extinct 6500 million years ago. Their birth and extinction over the past million years did not seem to have caused any changes to the planet. If it were not for the fossils hidden in the geological layers, even later life would not have known that they had ever existed.

According to the known conclusions of sociology, the existence of "civilization" on Earth is indeed very short.

Even from an archaeological perspective, the existence of Homo sapiens, which can be called "human beings", is only about 15 years old, and the civilization that can be truly recorded in history is only a few thousand years old.

The huge time gap between a few thousand years and 6500 million years makes it difficult for people not to imagine how many unknown things have happened during this period.

Ling also didn't know, and didn't plan to ask Gaia. Even if there really was civilization in the past, they had long been annihilated. She just needed to protect the present, and that was enough.

A ginkgo leaf suddenly fell on her hair, and Ling also picked up the leaves, which were golden and looked like a small fan.

“Maybe we can ask the ginkgo tree?”

"ginkgo?"

Ling also walked to the ginkgo tree and touched its rough trunk.

"Ginkgo trees have been growing on this land since 2.5 million years ago, in the earliest Triassic period, when the oldest dinosaurs, such as the Coelophysis, were born. They must have seen the history of this planet."

At that time, Pangaea (the original continental plate) had just begun to break apart, and the five continents today were still stuck together on the same huge land. It was a real sea change, just like the creation of the myth.

Ginkgo trees cannot speak. They just stand there quietly, standing there from the very beginning of history.

How do you say that?

Fluttering like a legacy of independence, emergence and immortality.

In the confusion of daily life, people always have to wait for some special time or space node, either looking up at the sky or looking down at the earth, to seriously consider some more essential things that are beyond life.