"Yes, I just arrived. Who's that actress you're talking about?"
"Her? Fu Yiqing. Do you know her?"
“I don’t know him,” Shen Jinghe said, somewhat puzzled. “I don’t think I’ve ever heard of this name before.”
Wen Yan smiled and said, "That's right, you haven't heard of her. She's not from our country. She just came here to develop her career. She's from country X."
Speaking of which, the setting of this country X in this novel world is very similar to Singapore in Wen Yan's world.
There are many Chinese people there who speak Mandarin, and quite a few artists work here. Fu Yiqing is one of them; you can't tell she's a foreigner just by looking at her.
Shen Jinghe was clearly used to this: "No wonder. Do you know which company she's signed with now?"
"What?" Wen Yan chuckled. "Are you investigating this and that to stand up for me? Actually, I agreed to the change of roles not because I compromised with her, but because of the director. By the way, have you ever encountered anything like this before? Or is everything you do just smooth sailing?"
"How could things possibly go smoothly?"
"That means you've encountered it before."
"Yes, I've encountered it before, more than once."
"So how did you handle it back then?"
“I wasn’t as lucky as you back then. Once I was replaced, I was replaced, and there was no chance of getting another role of equal importance. But you are different from me now.”
"What's different?"
“I never publicly acknowledged my family relationships because I had no one to back me up back then.”
"I haven't made it public yet. Right now, it seems like only Wanwan knows about my relationship with you guys."
"...Are you stupid? Wouldn't I back you up? You just haven't made it public yet, but I will take the initiative."
"Oh~ So I forgot about you because I didn't think it through!" Wen Yan immediately started teasing Shen Jinghe, "I really didn't expect that our proud, aloof, and unapproachable Mr. Shen Jinghe would ever bother with anyone!"
"You actually took the initiative to stand up for others one day, tsk tsk tsk. Tomorrow I'm going to order a banner and send it to you so the whole world knows about your excellent virtue of 'helping others'."
“…………” Even over the phone, Wen Yan could feel Shen Jinghe’s gritted teeth. “You are about to lose a powerful backer. I take back what I just said.”
“Hahaha,” Wen Yan laughed, “I knew you couldn’t take a joke, but I just love making jokes about you.”
"...Stop laughing. You still haven't told me which company Fu Yiqing works for."
"Okay, okay, stop laughing. It should be Star Entertainment, right? If I remember correctly, it's one of the top companies."
"Yes, I know Star Entertainment. But do you know who her manager is?"
"I don't know about that, I've never even seen her. Actually, filming has only started a few days ago, and she seems to only have two assistants with her right now. But second brother, I know you're very reliable, but I'm not really at a disadvantage this time. Who cares who her agent is, you don't need to get involved."
"What if she bullies you in other places later? Or does something else underhanded?"
"Of course we'd retaliate. If we couldn't win, we'd call in reinforcements. I'm always pragmatic. Wherever there's no danger, that's where I'll be. If I can get someone else to do it, I'll never do it myself."
"..." Shen Jinghe, "You're really something."
"What? You're scared of me being your backer?"
"Who's afraid of who's a dog!"
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result.
Shen Jinghe's prediction came true.
After filming for a few days, Fu Yiqing quit again.
The character she plays, Consort Li, starts out as a palace maid with no background, no money, and no ability, having to learn everything from scratch. She only has a pretty face, so she suffers a lot of bullying in the palace in the early stages.
These past two days, Fu Yiqing has been filming scenes of being pushed into the water or washing clothes for palace maids and eunuchs in the laundry pool. Feeling cold and miserable, he started complaining.
The director of this film was originally a good-tempered person.
However, due to the recasting incident, he had already accumulated some resentment towards Fu Yiqing, and now that Fu Yiqing had pulled this stunt, the director was already at his breaking point.
When Fu Yiqing asked to heat the water in the pool, the director finally lost his temper.
"You requested this role yourself. Didn't you read the script when the role was recast? Now you're already complaining? This is nothing."
“Look at the script yourself. There are scenes later on where you're tortured in the dead of winter, kneeling on ice, and so on. If you can't even handle the laundry scene, how are you going to act the rest? Can you even continue acting? I'm not trying to be mean, but you're really unprofessional!”
"I heard your viewership ratings in Country X are very high. Now I'm wondering how those ratings were obtained?!"
Fu Yiqing was very dissatisfied with this: "Are you questioning my ratings? What makes you say that! My ratings are earned through my acting skills!"
"Winters aren't this cold where I'm from. I just want a more suitable filming environment. I didn't say I wouldn't contribute my acting skills, so how is that unprofessional?"
"If you can't meet the requirements, it means your basic equipment and funding are inadequate. That's your production team's problem, what does it have to do with my acting skills?"
"Fine, fine, fine!" The director threw down the script in his hand. "This is the first time I've heard someone say something like this. You're really good with words. We can't continue filming. You can leave. I can't film you!"
"Me, leave? Can you please get this straight? You didn't hire me, so you have no right to fire me! If you can't direct actors, that's your own problem as a director. If anyone's leaving, it's you!"
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