"Sister Lan? Why are you calling me so early?"
When An Ning received Chu Lan's call, she was still asleep, her eyes not even open, but that didn't stop Chu Lan from telling her the "good news".
"You're trending on social media."
Hearing Chu Lan's words, An Ning remained calm, her closed eyes showing no sign of opening. "Ah, okay, I understand."
She should have known what the trending topics about her would be, so she wasn't surprised. She just lay in bed and raised her hand to rub her slightly sore eyes.
It's so hard to get out of bed this early in the morning.
As she was thinking this, Chu Lan's next words startled her.
Chu Lan's voice, extremely serious and deliberate, came through the phone receiver: "Your name is currently trending on social media. The trending topic is 'An Ning was taken away by the police in the street.' Do you understand? Do you want me to repeat it again?"
An Ning sprang from the bed almost instantly, her tightly closed eyes opening wide, her gaze clear and unwavering, showing no trace of sleepiness.
She stammered, "No, no, Sister Lan, what did you say? You said the trending topic was me being taken away by the police in the street?"
This shouldn't be... How come this is different from what she expected?
Besides, she was only on camera for less than two minutes on Binhai Road, so how did someone manage to take a picture and post it online?
An Ning didn't even bother to confirm the news with Chu Lan. Instead, she opened her phone and logged onto Weibo to check the current trending topics, but she got stuck.
Her phone kept vibrating, and the notification bar was filled with Weibo private messages and comments she had received. The background was refreshing these comments and private messages at high speed, successfully freezing her phone.
An Ning stared at her phone, which hadn't responded to her taps for a while, and after a moment of silence, sat up in bed, ran straight to her desk without even putting on her shoes, and opened her laptop.
She finally saw it clearly, but what she saw differed slightly from what Chu Lan had said.
"Sister Lan, please refresh Weibo again."
Although the phone was frozen, it did not affect their conversation at all. After hearing An Ning's words, Chu Lan did so almost immediately.
Her heart pounded with anxiety after hearing An Ning's words, but when she refreshed Weibo, her anxiety finally died down.
What did she see?
What did she see next?
Why is there another trending topic on Weibo with An Ning's name?
Can anyone tell her what exactly is going on?
Is Heaven going to destroy her?
Chu Lan cautiously clicked on the entry titled #Anning's Early Neurological Images Leaked#.
When she first clicked in, she didn't even dare to look at the screen. It took her a long time to mentally prepare herself before she cautiously moved her gaze up a few inches.
It's no wonder she's timid; she's been tortured so much that she's starting to have mental problems.
An Ning was frequently criticized and trended on social media before, with most of the terms related to her acting skills being offensive, such as "eye-searing" and "unbearable to watch." This is the first time she has been associated with police officers and mental illness.
How could I not be a little worried? After all... it concerns An Ning's future career in the entertainment industry.
To date, she has never seen anyone who has broken the law still be able to stay in the entertainment industry. They are either condemned by the entire internet and forced to leave the industry, or forced to leave the industry by government intervention.
Thinking this, Chu Lan slowly opened her eyes and glanced at the screen in her hand, intending to see what the trending topic was about. However, she was stunned when she saw the content. At that moment, An Ning's words rang out.
"Sister Lan, I'm trending on social media because of my amazing acting skills."
After pausing for a moment, An Ning added,
"Because I played a mental patient so convincingly, netizens began to wonder if I was actually mentally ill."
That wasn't enough; sound was still coming from the earpiece of Chu Lan's phone.
"Some netizens even suggested that I get my brain checked to see if it's a recessive genetic disorder. Actually, I wasn't auditioning at the time; I was genuinely experiencing symptoms."
Finally, An Ning concluded, "Because I played a mental patient so well that people suspected I might actually be mentally ill... Does that mean my acting has improved? And improved a lot, to the point where it's indistinguishable from the real thing?"
"Sister Lan, are you happy? My acting skills have improved so much."
Chu Lan, who was asked this question by An Ning, was speechless.
Can she say that she is now seriously doubting whether Anning really has a mental illness?
I never thought Xiao Ning was so eccentric before.
And the words An Ning just said, combined with what is now displayed on her phone screen, instantly increased the degree of their authenticity by several notches.
After considering countless possibilities for An Ning's words, Chu Lan finally convinced himself, "Your acting has really improved a lot, but wasn't your improvement not very noticeable when you were filming 'With You' a month ago? How come now..."
When asked this question, An Ning had already left her laptop, holding her phone which she had finally managed to get back to normal. Hearing Chu Lan's question, she instinctively replied, "Huh?"
After a moment, he realized what he meant and added, "It might be because I went to the police station. I saw a madman, and I acted according to his behavior."
“I happened to be taken in by the police officer at the time, and that guy was going crazy there. I just happened to see it. I thought of him during the audition, so I played him.”
Creating madmen out of thin air.
Anning lies without batting an eye, as if she had actually witnessed such a scene herself.
After hearing her explanation, Chu Lan reluctantly accepted it, nodding absently, "Ah...is that so?"
An Ning answered without hesitation, "Yes."
Seeing that the other party was so certain, Chu Lan stopped dwelling on it and instead brought the topic back to the two trending topics on Weibo, "So what are you planning to do? These two trending topics... we don't seem to have the money to remove them or suppress the hype..."
She spoke with some difficulty, but An Ning didn't seem to care at all. "This trending topic? We don't need to pay any attention to these two trending topics. Aren't they just creating hype for me? Do you think Director Guo will see this trending topic?"
An Ning's topic shifted so abruptly that even Chu Lan was caught off guard. However, having spent so much time with An Ning in the entertainment industry, Chu Lan, despite her slow reaction time, eventually understood. She asked uncertainly, "You mean... you want Director Guo to see this trending topic?"
“No.” An Ning corrected her wording. “Sister Lan, what I mean is, I want Director Guo to see my acting skills and to know how suitable I am for this role.”
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