No wonder he felt guilty.
As for the rich man who likes to collect Yue Ke's works the most, he wouldn't say that his family is the richest, but it is definitely quite famous. The era Yin Lian mentioned coincided with the era when his maternal grandparents were searching for Yue Ke's works. If her great-uncle happened to have some relationship with the Ming family, Ming Guichang would not be surprised at all.
But the person sent out to find the book ended up deceiving the original owner? Even if that wasn't cheating... because Yin Lian's great-uncle might really like her great-aunt, and just like Yin Lian said, he still loved her very much in the end.
However, it is because of this that people feel even more guilty.
Due to the only knowledge he had about his maternal grandparents, Ming Guichang himself was not sure whether they would put pressure on manuscript seekers, but he did not have the confidence to say for sure that they would not. After all, his grandparents' behavior and their respect for Yue Ke's works His persistence is well known.
Yin Lian made up a story, but it trapped a big boss who was planning to cause trouble at the beginning. Next, Ming Guichang did not dare to come forward casually for a while. He planned to wait and see again to judge whether this matter had anything to do with his elders, and then decide whether to stand up and expose the other party in the future.
If it was really related, even if this manuscript was really fake or forged, it would be hard for Ming Guichang to come forward rashly. Although this may be a bit embarrassing for his status as a fan, he is an adult after all, not the passionate young man before.
But he could not have imagined in his wildest dreams that what Yin Lian forged was not this manuscript, but this story.
After all, if it weren't for Yin Lian's special background and abilities, forging a fake story to prove a real manuscript would be a bit incomprehensible no matter how you think about it.
But by mistake, the story compiled by Yin Lian really put a thorn in Ming Guichang's heart.
After that, Yin Lian produced the so-called "evidence". Although these evidences were concocted by her, they were surprisingly convincing - nonsense, she could have Yue Ke himself customize the evidence she needed.
Among these evidences is a handwritten letter written by Yue Ke to Zeng Erya, which was originally included in the draft of "Ming Fang's Purge of Injustices". It was impossible to tell from the letter whether this manuscript was finally reviewed and published, but Ming Guichang recognized it immediately. It was very likely that this letter was actually Yue Ke's handwriting.
This letter is not the original, but an old-fashioned photo that Yin Lian took with an old-fashioned camera at that time, and then took it again with a camera from the original world, and finally scanned it into the personal terminal.
She prepared more than a dozen pieces of relevant evidence. In order to match the story she made up, only one or two were extremely convincing and key evidence. The rest of the evidence was just marginal or used as supporting evidence for other content.
For example, in Yue Ke's submission letter to Zeng Erya, she used triple photography to blur her material and origin. However, several old photos of Lucheng and Jingcheng were directly scanned into the personal terminal without being taken by the original world's camera. These differences are actually intended to hint at the different sources of these evidences, and even the different historical changes they have experienced.
In order to create differences, she also created stains of varying degrees and sources on various secondary evidences. Moreover, each stain was individually fabricated with a reasonable plot and clear causes and consequences, and the content of these stories was deliberately blurred, allowing the AI to re-guess the origin of these stains, and regard the AI's judgment as its own guess. Tell them when you ask.
The background is chosen to be on a satellite, especially if it is not clearly stated which satellite it is. The superficial reason is that I am afraid that people will investigate and expose my identity, but in fact it is because some asteroids or private satellites that are not under the government's control are inherently It is difficult to investigate. If it is not even clear which one it is, it will be even more difficult to find traces of Yin Lian and their lives from the numerous extraterrestrial planets.
Sure enough, someone started to ask Yin Lian about the specific place where the incident happened, and Yin Lian replied: "...I hope you won't deliberately investigate the people involved in these things, and don't use it as a selling point."
The reporter argued: "The investigation is just to better understand the story behind this manuscript. If you mind, madam, I can promise not to expose the identity of any of your family members involved in this matter."
Yin Lian said: "You don't need to understand. The manuscript is a manuscript. I am willing to tell these things today just because there may be future owners of this manuscript among the people here. As a seller, I feel it is necessary to tell the truth to The customer provides the background story behind the collection. But I personally don’t care whether the public knows the story behind the manuscript... Rather, I think the value of the manuscript itself is enough compared to the story behind it.”
This is actually the truth.
Compared with the story between an unknown elder of the manuscript seller's ancestor and the manuscript, Yue Ke's only heroine is more valuable and has more discussion points.
But when Yin Lian said this, he was obviously extremely confident in the authenticity of the manuscript itself.
During the Q&A process between the reporter and Yin Lian, Ming Guichang did not participate. Instead, he remained uncharacteristically quiet, immersed in checking the electronic documents of various "evidences" received personally.
The more I looked at him, the more incredible it became.
There are actually some inconsistencies in these "evidences".
This sense of dissonance can only be felt by Ming Guichang, who has always been a collector. It's not that there are any subtle flaws in these evidences. On the contrary, these evidences are so well made, so real and detailed. At least in Ming Guichang's view, he even feels that these things are true.
For example, Yue Ke’s letters. Judging from the projection alone, the handwriting on the letter was actually very realistic. Ming Guichang could almost tell that it was her own handwriting, because he had come into contact with many well-preserved manuscripts of Yue Ke.
But just because I have been exposed to it a lot, I feel that it is abnormal for Ming Guichang.
These photos... are so clean and complete.
Five hundred years ago, the resolution of cameras was very low, and the images they took were very blurry. It’s not that there weren’t higher-definition cameras at the time, but Yue Ke was a nerd herself, and her popularity at that time was far less than that of an ordinary female author who would become more famous in later generations. Normally, it was impossible to have a high-tech camera that cost hundreds or even thousands of silver dollars. She photographed the manuscript.
In fact, this is indeed the case. At least so far, Ming Guichang has not collected any photo or image records of Yue Ke's manuscripts, at least not images taken with the photography standards of five hundred years ago.
But as a seasoned connoisseur, Ming Guichang can still tell the difference between photos taken by old cameras and fake photos. The photos of the manuscript provided by Yin Lian do not appear to show obvious signs of forgery.
In addition, all the evidence collected by Yin Lian was a little too complete. This is not to say that these evidences are not damaged at all. In fact, since Yin Lian has provided evidence, he will definitely cause some dirt and damage on it. However, these signs of damage were just right, which resulted in all the evidence maintaining just the right amount of information and retaining information that proved the authenticity of the manuscript, while not revealing too much other inconsequential information.
This is actually abnormal.
Generally speaking, because the "proof" you are looking for often does not exist specifically as a proof in the first place, it must not be so targeted and will definitely contain some redundant information. If there is no such information, it means that the information must have been processed or manufactured... However, Ming Guichang has no evidence.
And the more he looked at the information, the more he felt that the information was true. In this case, he couldn't hold back after all. He clicked on the chapter of the manuscript released by the organization and read it again.
Because it was close to the start of the auction and Yin Lian had already registered accordingly, the content of the manuscript released at the auction was much more than before, which was almost the same amount of chapters that Yin Lian used for appraisal. This amount of text actually already shows the unfolding of the plot, which is why Yin Lian chose these chapters to deliver to the agency.
As Ming Guichang read, he felt more and more unbelievable, because as far as the part he had read so far, the story was very exciting, at least at the beginning, it was a typical Yue Ke style, not inferior to her other stories. Representative work. And because it is more fresh, Ming Guichang has an extraordinary feeling when reading it.
...It seems that many years after Yue Ke died, I met a new Yue Ke and heard that she had written a new work.
Although this Yue Ke's work still looks as wonderful as before, it is slightly different from the original work. The biggest difference is that Yue Ke is more bold in handling social conflicts. First of all, using a female as the protagonist is quite contrary to her usual style. And if you read her past works, you will find that she always brings out some pity and sighs for the women in society at that time in the details. Although the sighs are from a male standpoint, they are indeed from the perspective of a bystander. , a glimpse of the image of society in Yue Ke's eyes.
Judging from the content of her works, she is cautious and pessimistic about her identity as a woman.
But "Ming Fang's Record of Clearing Wrongs" is different. When facing difficulties, the heroine in it maintains the usual caution, delicacy and step-by-step approach in Yue Ke's articles, but when faced with a real decision, she has the courage to commit suicide... The spirit is completely different from that of the original Yue Ke.
Generally speaking, such a different spiritual core is actually a completely different style of work from the original one.
But AI judged that this could still be Yue Ke's work. The reason is simply that an author's mental state and attitude toward life may undergo earth-shaking changes due to different life experiences and stages.
But Ming Guichang knew...at least he thought he knew that Yue Ke's temperament or way of thinking should not have changed so drastically until he was old.
Reason told him that there were strong contradictions in it, but his emotions or intuition still made him feel that this seemed to be Yue Ke's manuscript. It's just that there are some puzzling things that cannot be explained, making Ming Guicheng's thinking extremely confusing.
And in this chaos, some incredible thoughts even slowly emerged in his mind - although these thoughts were a bit whimsical, Ming Guichang is a literary person after all, and sometimes the leaps of thought and the freedom of thinking It's also unpredictable.
However, the direction of his thinking at this time still followed the desire deep in his heart, so what he guessed was not that someone had obtained Yue Ke's manuscript from history or another world through some strange means, but whether Yue Ke had been reincarnated. , or exist in this world in other ways...such as ghosts.
Of course, this idea was so ridiculous that it only passed through Ming Guichang's mind.
