Chapter 180 Visiting the Set

Jiang Jiani kept her word.

After dinner, I stood against the wall for 20 minutes instead of 10 minutes as usual.

After standing there, I took a shower and went to bed.

As a result, my body was screaming that I wanted to sleep, but my mind couldn't sleep at all. When I opened my eyes and looked at my watch, it was only six o'clock, and I immediately groaned.

A winter morning, six o'clock in the morning, is no different from one o'clock in the morning.

I couldn't fall asleep, so I got up to make breakfast and read a book to pass the time.

Then I randomly picked a book from the bookshelf to read.

No matter how many times I read it, I always admire Yang Anni's ability to collect books for leisure.

She has only lived in this house for a little over six months, but she has already bought more than one hundred, almost two hundred, books.

Jiang Jianni felt that this girl must have a lot in common with Lu's father, who liked to collect martial arts novels.

Because most of the books Yang Anni bought were martial arts novels, as well as science fiction and suspense novels, and some ghost stories and the like.

As for classics and philosophical works, in her words, she reads to relieve boredom, not to add to her troubles.

There's no romance involved.

Many romance novels today don't differ much from those from years later; they're either melodramatic or based on reality, featuring things like infidelity, finding a lover, marriage, or divorce.

She was completely uninterested in these things.

Jiang Jianni suddenly remembered the first romance novel she read in junior high school, a work by Xi Juan.

Xi Juan's novels can be described as a breath of fresh air in the romance novels of the 1990s.

Overall, it's all sweet, with a light and humorous writing style. There's not much bitterness or deep resentment, nor is there any sense of "it has to be you".

She was reading a book that her classmate had stolen from her sister; it was called "Rich Girl".

Jiang Jianni borrowed the book for three days. Except when she was in class and afraid of being discovered by the teacher, she read it while eating, sleeping, and even in the bathroom. In short, she spent all her time reading the book.

By the time she returned the book to her classmate on Monday, she had read it at least twenty times.

That's how he went completely mad.

Otherwise, she wouldn't have devoted herself to writing after starting university.

The enlightenment was truly excellent.

Jiang Jianni felt that Yang Anni, who couldn't get into other people's novels, would definitely be able to get into Xi Juan's.

By the way, what year did Xi Juan debut?

Has she started writing a book yet?

Jiang Jianni never expected that, despite having read almost all of Xi Juan's works, she would never have thought of learning about her idol's life.

She made up her mind.

If I have the chance in the future, I must meet this idol and ask him to sign his autograph.

That way she'll have her idol's autograph.

But right now, the most important thing is to visit the film set.

When Lu Xiangyang returned, she asked worriedly, "You said that if we go to see Annie on the set, it will disrupt their work schedule. Should we buy something beforehand?"

She never visited the set.

But she had read many novels about set visits, written her own set visit stories, read many news reports about set visits in real life, and read many news reports about celebrities buying milk tea and drinks for people to keep quiet when they were late or caused trouble.

So should they also prepare something?

Summer is alright.

It's hot, so I'll just buy a few cases of soda.

But now it's the dead of winter, we can't just buy ice-cold soda and make someone who's already freezing even colder, even colder, right?

She's not that despicable.

Lu Xiangyang found it strange: "Why do we have to buy something?"

"We're just going to see your sister, not to get to know the whole film crew, so we don't need to buy anything, right?"

Jiang Jianni shook her head deeply: "You don't understand!"

This is not just an apology for disturbing someone's work; the key is to save face for Yang Anni.

What do actors learn from their struggles and hardships in the entertainment industry?

Besides money, it's all about face.

Especially since Yang Anni is still in the early stages, letting people know that she is not alone and not so easy to bully will at least make her future career as an actress less difficult.

Why.

She's the kind of person who always repays kindness; if someone helps her on the first day of the month, she'll definitely help them on the fifteenth.

She was thinking of sending milk tea, which is a common practice among celebrities.

When I went out, I realized that I hadn't seen a single milk tea shop on the roadside in all these days in the capital.

Speaking of which, when did milk tea become popular?

I can't remember.

But that didn't stop her from looking down on the capital: "Look at this? Such a big city, and not even a bubble tea shop."

Lu Xiangyang was speechless. He sighed and said, "If you hadn't let Sitian open that shop, there wouldn't be any milk tea shops in our city."

He still remembers the amazed look on his family's faces when they drank the milk tea.

His father and his brothers had never had milk tea, which was understandable, since they were either from ordinary backgrounds or later served in the army—the army doesn't provide milk tea for you; you're lucky if you can eat your fill and avoid malnutrition.

But his mother came from a good family.

His mother has tried all kinds of coffee and tea, and she's even had milk tea made by the family cook, but none of them have the same sweet and fragrant taste as the milk tea made by Jiang Jiani.

His mother had never drunk it either, which means that this stuff really doesn't exist, or is rare.

He even suspected that the milk tea shop his family owned might be the only one of its kind in the entire country.

Jiang Jianni: "..."

Really?

Could it be that their milk tea shop really became the first in the country?

With this doubt in mind, they still couldn't find anything suitable to give to everyone in the crew, even after they found Yang Anni.

There are so many things that didn't exist in the 1990s.

Yang Anni burst into laughter: "You come to see, so why bring food?"

"No, really no need."

"We're not millionaires, why waste money like this?"

"Besides, I don't get along well with everyone on set."

"If you send me something, the people I hate will definitely eat it too, and I'll be furious."

"So there's really no need to send anything, no need to waste money on this."

After saying that, Yang Anni pointed to her clothes and said with a smug look, "Sis, do you think I look good in this outfit?"

She's currently filming a minor villain role in a war drama.

The villain's good-for-nothing sister, a stupid and wicked little idiot who not only holds the villain back but also tricks the protagonist.

The little idiot has a pretty high status; she's a female student who returned from studying abroad, and she usually dresses very fashionably.

Yang Anni is dressed like a female student who has studied abroad, wearing a princess dress and with her hair styled in curls, just like Bai Xiuzhu, played by Liu Tianxian in "The Story of a Noble Family".

The only difference is that the clothing is much simpler.

Even so, Yang Anni was still very happy.

She's been acting for a year, and this is the first time she's worn such a beautiful outfit.

Jiang Jianni looked her up and down and said, "It's quite pretty. Shall we take a picture to remember it?"

She'd never even heard of the show's name; it was bound to flop.

Yang Anni's scenes for today were finished. She accompanied Jiang Jiani and Lu Xiangyang to watch the filming for a while—actually, there wasn't much to see, just people walking around and talking.

Jiang Jiani looked at it for a long time but still couldn't understand what was going on.

Yang Anni changed her clothes and removed her makeup, planning to have dinner with her sister and brother-in-law.

After walking only ten steps or so, Jiang Jianni's expression suddenly changed, and she quickly pulled the two of them to hide on a side path.

Yang Anni, not understanding what was going on, obediently followed instructions.

After Jiang Jianni said it was nothing, she turned her head and looked around: "Sis, who were you hiding from just now?"