Chapter 49

A few hours later, the plane landed.

Xie Yang came out of his closed-eye state and asked Nagarjuna, "How is my new song?"

Long Shuyou looked excited, with a suppressed eagerness to try, and replied: "Very good, it's a pity that your phone ran out of battery halfway through, so I didn't get to hear the next few half-finished songs."

"Don't worry, I'll send you the song once I charge my phone."

After chatting for a few words, the two stood up and prepared to leave. Just after they took two steps outside, the heroine's voice, which she would never mistake after hearing it once, suddenly came from behind them.

"Xie Yang?"

Here it comes.

Xie Yang stopped and looked at Long Shuyou in front of him.

Long Shuyou also stopped, then slowly turned around, looking past Jie Yang and behind him, with a green light in his eyes that was familiar to Jie Yang.

This is a terrible golden finger.

Xie Yang turned around and looked at Mu Zhouyi who was approaching from behind him, and Xue Xian who had a stiff and strange expression behind Mu Zhouyi, and nodded politely: "Hello."

Mu Zhouyi's flawlessly beautiful face contained a hint of surprise and joy that was not offensive, as well as a hint of subtle uneasiness. She politely stopped two steps away from Jie Yang and said, "What a coincidence! I didn't expect to meet you on the plane."

Xie Yang politely replied, "It's quite a coincidence." After saying that, he took the initiative to greet Xue Xian who was behind her.

Xue Xian also raised his hand to greet Li Yang in return. His attitude was polite yet a little aloof, not very warm.

Mu Zhouyi didn't notice Long Shuyou being blocked by Jie Yang. After seeing Jie Yang and Xue Xian greet each other, he suggested, "Are you going to the crew, together?"

This invitation was too reasonable and it would be awkward to refuse it. Xie Yang nodded.

It was not good to keep blocking the aisle, so everyone got off the plane first. When they reached an open place, Mu Zhouyi finally noticed Long Shuyou who was beside Li Yang. She showed an even more surprised expression, took the initiative to approach Long Shuyou, extended her hand and introduced herself: "Hello, Master Long, I am Mu Zhouyi, the actor who plays Ye Bing in "Crazy Musician". I didn't expect you to be on this flight, it's nice to meet you."

Xie Yang watched Long Shuyou stretch out his hand and politely shake hands with Mu Zhouyi.

He raised his hand and pressed his brow.

"Hello."

Xie Yang gathered his thoughts and looked at Xue Xian who had walked up to him without him noticing.

Xue Xian's facial features have a bit of a cool and handsome feel. His hair is carefully styled and he has makeup on his face. Because of the colored contact lenses, his eyes look particularly bright. At this moment, these bright eyes were looking at Jie Yang with a false friendliness. Xue Xian said: "IUD is very good."

According to the principle of reciprocity, Jie Yang should also praise Xue Xian's work. But unfortunately, Xie Yang has never heard any of Xue Xian's songs. He could only politely reply, "Thank you for the compliment."

However, Xue Xian seemed to have interpreted Jie Yang's response as disdain and provocation. The false friendliness in his eyes turned into scrutiny. Then he smiled perfunctorily at Jie Yang, took two quick steps to Mu Zhouyi and started talking to him.

Xie Yang successfully dropped the order and walked alone behind the three people. He glanced at Long Shuyou who was walking on the other side of Mu Zhouyi, then turned around and asked Wu Shui who was following behind him about the time.

Wu Shui raised his wrist to look at his watch and replied, "It's 2:28 pm now."

Xie Yang withdrew his gaze.

Two twenty-eight is approximately half past two. Assuming that Mu Zhouyi had just used the favorability skill on Long Shuyou, then since Mu Zhouyi's system is still at the elementary level, the favorability that Long Shuyou had towards Mu Zhouyi gained through the skill would last to three points.

Three points... I don't know how much good feelings Long Shuyou still had towards Mu Zhouyi in his heart, since he was no longer affected by the skills at that time.

The group went out from the VIP channel and met with the life director sent by the crew to pick them up. After some more polite greetings, the assistants went to pick up the luggage, while the others, led by the life director, walked towards the car sent by the crew to pick them up.

What made Xie Yang happy was that the cars sent by the crew to pick people up were not buses, but several SUVs. He picked one and got in, and to his surprise, Long Shuyou, who should have been affected by the skill, actually declined the heroine's invitation and got in the same car with him.

Xie Yang looked over.

Didn’t the heroine just use the favorability skill on Long Shuyou?

Long Shuyou closed the car door, and the calmness on his face disappeared in a second. His tone was a little doubtful about life, a little incredible, and a lot of excitement: "Jie Yang, I actually encountered another interesting voice!"

"..." Judging from the tone, the heroine did use her skills on Long Shuyou.

Xie Yang glanced at the driver sent by the crew and asked in a low voice, "Are you referring to Mu Zhouyi?"

Long Shuyou nodded, his eyes shining: "Are you interested in working with her? The result of your singing together will definitely be great."

Xie Yang didn't say anything. He asked Wu Shui, who was sitting in the passenger seat, for his cell phone. He searched for the clip of Mu Zhouyi being forced to sing on a variety show last year, and put on headphones to signal Long Shuyou to listen.

Long Shuyou was puzzled and took the headphones and put them on.

Two minutes later, the excitement on Long Shuyou's face faded completely, his eyes dimmed and his brows furrowed. He listened to the singing clips of Mu Zhouyi many times, but still felt it was not enough, so he searched for some interview videos of Mu Zhouyi and listened to them.

Long Shuyou took off his headphones, frowned tightly, and looked confused.

Xie Yang asked: "Do you still want me to cooperate with her?"

Nagarjuna remained silent. He returned the phone to Jie Yang, took out his own phone and searched for all of Mu Zhouyi's past videos, then plugged in headphones and listened to them one by one.

…

During the more than two-hour drive from the airport to the crew, Long Shuyou kept holding his phone and watching Mu Zhouyi's past videos. The more he looked, the weirder his expression became. Finally, when the outline of the hotel where the crew was staying appeared in front of him, Long Shuyou took off his headphones.

Xie Yang asked, "What do you think?"

"Very strange." Without the influence of the skill, Long Shuyou's tone was much calmer. "Her voice... is like she suddenly had plastic surgery. In a media interview half a month ago, her voice was still very normal, but when she participated in an event a few days ago, her voice changed."

"What has changed?"

Long Shuyou shook his head, indicating that he couldn't say it.

Xie Yang also guessed that Long Shuyou couldn't say it. The heroine's golden finger is very powerful. The transformation of the heroine is to magnify the advantages and weaken the shortcomings on the basis of the original conditions, which only makes people vaguely feel that something has changed, but they can't tell where it has changed.

Otherwise, judging from how frequently the heroine beautifies her appearance, reports suspecting that she has had plastic surgery would have already been flying around.

In the original book, after noticing the heroine, Long Shuyou quickly discovered the change in her voice. However, by then, the heroine had used her favorability skill several times on him, and he had a high favorability towards her. In addition, he really couldn't hear the change in the heroine's voice, so he quickly put the matter behind him.

But now, Nagarjuna’s favorability towards the heroine is not that high.

The car stopped in front of the hotel.

Xie Yang asked Long Shuyou to get off the car, and he followed him out. After making sure that he was out of the driver's hearing range, he said to Long Shuyou, "I won't cooperate with someone with such unstable voice conditions. Besides, Mu Zhouyi is having an affair with a stupid relative of mine, so I have to avoid suspicion."

Hearing the gossip suddenly, Long Shuyou looked uncomfortable and repeated, "Ambiguous?"

"Yeah. Last time my relative was sick, Mu Zhouyi rushed over to take care of him and cooked soup for him. I think the two of them are getting close. Let me remind you again, don't say anything you think when there are outsiders around. Fortunately, you didn't mention Mu Zhouyi's name in the car just now, and I deliberately lowered my voice, otherwise tomorrow your appreciation of Mu Zhouyi's revelations will be all over the Internet."

Long Shuyou frowned when he heard this, and looked at the driver who got off the car behind them. He didn't know what he was thinking about, but his brows suddenly frowned even tighter.

Director Xu Heng is on the set filming scenes for the male lead and several supporting roles, and won't be back until dinner time. So after arriving at the hotel, the life director arranged for everyone to go back to their rooms to rest.

After arriving in the room, Jie Yang washed his face first, then took out his mobile phone to charge it and called Qiu Xing.

The call was answered in a split second, and Qiu Xing's sinister voice came out: "Jie Yang, Wu Shui knew to report to me that he was safe after getting off the plane. Are you not as sensible as Wu Shui?"

"My phone is out of battery. I asked Wu Shui to let you know he was safe. Didn't he tell you?"

There was silence on the other end of the line.

"Don't deduct Wu Shui's salary. He probably didn't explain clearly because he was too busy helping me with my luggage and was careless."

“…Who said we were going to deduct his salary?”

Qiu Xing hung up the phone.

A minute later, Qiu Xing called again.

Xie Yang answered the call.

"What's going on with Mu Zhouyi? Why did you take a job related to her?"

Xie Yang explained: "It's not about Mu Zhouyi, it's about Xue Xian. I came here to steal Xue Xian's job. Mu Zhouyi just happened to be the female lead of this crew."

Qiu Xing stopped talking again.

"I promise to stay away from her."

Qiu Xing hung up the phone again.

…

In the evening, Xu Heng set up a plan and brought the crew's deputy director, screenwriter and several main actors to welcome Jie Yang and his group.

Xie Yang finally met the best supporting actor Shen Yan, who in the original book would have a clear emotional entanglement with Mu Zhouyi.

Chen Yan is 35 years old this year and has already won three Golden Globes awards. His achievements are unrivaled among his peers and his godhood was established early on.

Originally, considering that Mu Zhouyi was only a popular young actress without any major awards, she could not join Xu Heng's crew as the female lead and act with Shen Yan.

But the heroine is the heroine after all, and she has a golden finger. The original book mentioned in detail that in order to get this opportunity, the heroine first used her favorability skill to get an audition opportunity for "Crazy Musician" from a high-level official of Huangtian, and then used the golden finger to surpass all the other actresses in the audition and attracted Xu Heng's attention. Then, to be on the safe side, she took the opportunity of shaking hands to increase the favorability of Xu Heng and the producer respectively. It was only after such a series of operations that she finally squeezed out several other heavyweight movie queens and got this opportunity.

Xie Yang had to admit that the heroine was really hard-working and inspiring when it came to grabbing resources.

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