Chapter 014

The moment the video lit up and he saw the person in it, Shen Luo's face changed immediately.

He immediately raised his head and questioned Xu Jingning: "Video, where did you get it from?"

"It was just a coincidence. Someone wanted to film me and expose my dirty laundry, so I found a way to stop them," Xu Jingning put away her phone and replied with a smile, "I didn't expect that by prying open their mouth, I would get something else."

After confirming who arranged the secret photographer, Xu Jingning immediately thought of Chu Xinrou. He went to talk to her in detail with some doubts. Only then did Xu Jingning know how the secret information was obtained.

It turned out that Fu Shulan had arranged more than one person to take secret photos, but a team. They took photos of other guests to some extent, but the person who took the photo of Chu Xinrou was unlucky and was caught by her bodyguard directly. He found out the cause on the spot.

"I don't think Fu Shulan is coming for me. After thinking about it, you are the only one who has a relationship with her and deserves my reminder." This is what Chu Xinrou replied at the time. "But everything is uncertain. You can also take this opportunity to try others. After all, the team Fu Shulan found is unreliable and too greedy."

So, Xu Jingning, who has always been smart, took the opportunity to find Chen Luo.

In fact, Xu Xingcheng did not successfully find the gang that took the secret photos, and the video in Xu Jingning's hand was not obtained from the two media outlets.

But he was smart enough. After Chu Xinrou's reminder, he took advantage of the TV station's censorship and surveillance and got some other things by posing as a victim.

This is the video of Chen Luo meeting with the sponsor.

"I'm not targeting anyone, I'm not forcing you to cooperate, but if you're willing to cooperate, at least put away your hostility first."

Shen Luo raised his eyes and looked over, and Xu Jingning took the opportunity to express his sincerity - deleting the video in front of him.

Speaking of which, since the start of the show, the two have indeed not had any overt conflict. Shen Luo is not a brainless person. Although his face is still cold, he still raised his head, which is considered a compromise: "What are you going to do?"

"Fu Shulan is too greedy and wants to control too many people. She doesn't really care about this job. In her opinion, it's just a normal resource exchange. But we know that this is unfair to the program and the weekend group." Xu Jingning smiled and said, "Since she wants to be the one in control, let's give her this stage."

"Don't play dumb with me." Shen Luo narrowed his eyes, "What do you mean by that?"

"What I mean is, let's create some trouble for her before the next round of performances."

"It doesn't have to be too big, just enough so that she can't participate in the performance."

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More than half a week had passed since the show started, but Fu Shulan still hadn't gotten what she wanted. After venting her anger on the bribed paparazzi once again, she angrily smashed her phone against the bed.

This bunch of rubbish, who claim to have great performance, can't even film the dirty laundry of an 18th-tier actor.

The most recent one was ruined because of Yan Xun's reaction, which made her feel very bad.

There was another voice coming from the other end of the phone, and Fu Shulan realized that not only did she not hang up, but she also accidentally pressed the speakerphone button.

"Ms. Fu, please don't be anxious. There are still a few days left before the agreed deadline. If we fail to meet your requirements by then, we will return double the deposit."

After hearing this, Fu Shulan's expression improved a little.

The person taking the voyeuristic photos on the other end was laughing secretly. Although he failed to take pictures of Xu Jingning for the time being, he did get some photos of other guests. This trip was a profit anyway.

The two sides ended the call in peace. Just as Fu Shulan was about to turn off her phone, she caught a glimpse of the message on WeChat.

When she clicked on it, she saw that it was a group chat for students, and a student was asking her for her thoughts.

"Senior Fu, you haven't come to rehearsal these few days, which really affects everyone."

This was the nth time that other members of the team had sent messages to Fu Shulan, but she only glanced at the message and threw the phone to her assistant: "You can reply."

The assistant gritted his teeth and edited the message: "Sorry everyone, I'm still in the team and really don't have time."

Xiang Yuan was very dissatisfied with her big shot behavior. Perhaps stimulated, he immediately asked in a voice chat: "Senior Fu, are you really busy or don't want to come? If you don't want to come, it's okay. We can still replace you in time."

Fu Shulan heard the voice clearly. She frowned and snatched the phone back: "How can you talk to your senior like this?"

"Besides, actors should be serious about filming. Aren't variety shows all about routines? They just go through the motions and perform for the audience to have fun. Why waste time?"

After these words were spoken, the group chat was silent for a moment, until a voice message came out at the end of the weekend, which was obviously cold and serious: "Fu Shulan, variety shows are also work. No matter what your profession is, any job should be taken seriously."

Fu Shulan sneered and did not respond.

Although they had not been getting along very well before, it was not until this moment that the group officially broke down.

Several people in the group were a little depressed about this result. One less character was a big loss for them.

Some people even couldn't help cursing: "Why did the program team find such a person?"

Weekend looked at him and the student immediately realized his slip of the tongue and shut up.

Seeing that they were all staring at him, Weekend sighed and said, "I have no choice but to activate the backup plan."

Xiang Yuan couldn't help but ask, "Sister Zhou Zhou, what is the backup plan?"

Weekend winked at him and said, "Contact your director and you'll know soon. Just focus on rehearsing well."

"As for the rest, Xiao Jingning said, just follow his lead."

There was less than a week left until the next round of performances. During this period, apart from making some time to deal with Fu Shulan, Xu Jingning spent the rest of his time preparing seriously for the performances.

The brand new script was delivered to Xu Jingning the day after the reading. This time the gender was changed, and Director Chen also slightly modified some lines and plots, but the entire script was changed, which made people feel refreshed.

"It's pretty good. With this change, I can feel the sublimation of the intention. The program team must be satisfied." Chen Zi gave a fair evaluation, "It's just that Xu Jingning's lyrics were deleted a lot. The long-term actions and facial expressions of the plot are really a test of her acting skills."

Xu Jingning didn't think it was a big deal: "It's okay, it's a good opportunity to hone my acting skills. Don't think I'm holding you back these two days."

Chu Xinrou smiled and said, "Don't worry, you won't hold me and Chen Zi back. These scenes are all your and Teacher Yan's individual scenes."

"Yeah, that's right." Xu Jingning joked, "I hope Teacher Yan will scold me less when the time comes."

"Ah, so Teacher Yan would scold you?" Chu Xinrou suddenly teased, "Come on, you Xu Jingning are his favorite student, right?"

"Hey, hey, hey, stop joking!"

Being teased like this, Xu Jingning hurriedly raised her head to look at Yan Xun opposite her, but the other party seemed not to care about what she said, and just raised his lips and smiled lightly.

There was a little bit of dignity in his gentleness, but his eyes seemed to be watching the younger generation playing.

The three students fell silent.

They all knew that Yan Xun was immersed in the role.

Seeing him like this, Xu Jingning got an idea and said, "Master, which piece of iron are we going to refine today?"

Yan Xun took the opportunity to continue: "Don't worry, we won't be smelting iron today. Master will teach you something else."

They were still resting and playing a second ago, but as soon as they talked, they immediately got into the mood again.

As the performance time approached, the program team started live broadcasting the material collection. Yan Xun's group was the last one to be interviewed. Amid the anticipation of thousands of netizens, they finally welcomed the arrival of this day.

At the beginning, the drone first took some outdoor shots. This small villa is located alone in the suburbs, surrounded by many ecological parks, close to mountains and water. The extremely realistic artificial landscape has caused countless people to sigh.

Later on, an annotation was added that this was the house under Yan Xun's name, which made others envious at the same time, but also made people feel it was natural.

[Oh my god, I really envy the students in Yan's group. In such a good environment, rehearsals will go much more smoothly! ]

[Wow, just this atmosphere alone has already made me immersed in the drama, it's perfect for filming a costume drama. 】

【Thank you, Teacher Yan, for letting our baby enjoy this kind of treatment! 】

After entering the villa, Director Xu arranged two photographers to follow Yan Xun to visit and shoot, while the rest of the people adjusted the equipment for the next stage. Xu Jingning walked to Director Xu, and after asking for his consent, he smiled and greeted a still camera: "Good morning, everyone!"

【Good morning, son! 】

[Ahhh, fresh Ningning! Ningning is so beautiful today, let mommy kiss her! ]

[Ning Ning Ning Ning, my little matchmaker, when are we going to start a live chat? I’m so thirsty for new news!!!]

Although he couldn't see the content of the comments, Xu Jingning guessed what they would say: "Don't call me son. If you do, I won't be able to give you alimony."

【Tsk, how heartless.】

"You are not allowed to call me a matchmaker, or I won't do the live broadcast this month."

The barrage of comments that had just been cheering and shouting suddenly became much cleaner.

The producer who had been paying attention to the netizens' feedback smiled and said to Director Xu: "We really made a fortune by signing Xu Jingning. He is so interesting."

Watching the live broadcast room gain popularity, Director Xu couldn't help but laugh: "Yeah, in my opinion, it's unjust for such a person not to be popular."

"But don't look forward to the live broadcast too much. I don't have much time recently. We can chat about a few cents now."

Taking advantage of the ten minutes or so he had, Xu Jingning sat on the floor and shared some of his daily life in front of the camera. He just said that rehearsals were very hard, the script was very interesting, and the costumes and props were very realistic. However, these expected topics were inexplicably attractive when he talked about them.

Xu Jingning is very good at telling stories, and many of his fans have settled in because they like watching his live chats.

He himself seemed to be very into this atmosphere, but because he was too absorbed in the conversation, he didn't notice someone approaching from behind.

[Yan Xun is here, should I remind Ning Ning? ]

[It's no use reminding him, he can't see the comments]

However, more and more people started to post Yan Xun, and even many of them posted kswl.

"What are you looking at so seriously?" Yan Xun squatted down, gently pressed Xu Jingning's shoulder with one hand, and tilted his head towards his ear, "Or is it that our little Jingning is so hardworking that he is still practicing in front of the camera during the break?"

The man's mature and deep voice contained a gentle smile, as if leading people to the edge of danger. Even though Xu Jingning had gotten used to this voice over the past few days, he was still caught off guard and it touched his heart.

After being in a daze for a second or two, he suddenly remembered something very important.

"Yan, Teacher Yan!" Xu Jingning wanted to cry but had no tears. "The live broadcast is on!"