Qiao Zhen opened her eyes and looked at the black cloth in front of her. Her head and waist were tightly bound, so she reached out and patted Xu Li's face.
Xu Li groggily opened his eyes, hesitated for a few seconds before fully waking up, loosened his arms, and looked down at Qiao Zhen. "Hmm?"
Qiao Zhen immediately sat up, clutching her neck and coughing, "Cough! Are you trying to suffocate me?!"
Xu Li pulled Qiao Zhen into his arms again, his eyes somewhat dark and unfathomable. "Sleep now, I won't smother you anymore."
Qiao Zhen broke free from Xu Li's embrace. She got out of bed to get some water to drink. She had been suffocating from being held so tightly by Xu Li, and her life was in such danger.
This time, she not only turned her back to Xu Li, but also placed a pillow between them. If she suffocated again, she would remove the pillow to buy herself some time to save herself.
Xu Li naturally realized his special feelings for Qiao Zhen. At first, it was because Qiao Zhen looked pleasing to the eye. Then, holding her helped him sleep. And then, his vigilance began to relax after he fell asleep holding her.
This is very dangerous for Xu Li. He is a soldier, and a major general at that. If someone were to use Qiao Zhen to do something to him, he would have been dead in the few seconds he was dazed after waking up.
Qiao Zhen had no idea what had just happened to Xu Li. She was already very tired today, so she closed her eyes and went to sleep. As for Xu Li, she let him be.
The next day, when Qiao Zhen woke up, Xu Li was no longer by her side. She yawned without any regard for her image, then got up to brush her teeth and wash her face. She put on some simple clothes and went to the makeup artist to change and get her makeup done.
"Good morning, Teacher Fan." Qiao Zhen looked at Fan Zhou beside her and asked, "Who is the female lead? Hasn't she arrived yet?"
Fan Zhou looked in the mirror, his gaze unwavering. "The female lead is Yu Kewei. Her scenes are in Hengdian, Zhejiang Province."
It took Qiao Zhen a long time to remember who Yu Kewei was. Yu Kewei is a rising star who has emerged this year. She is a rare female celebrity in the entertainment industry who possesses both talent and beauty.
Yu Kewei comes from a very good family, so good that she can be compared to Xu Li. No one in the entertainment industry dares to sexually harass her, and she has excellent resources. No one on the internet dares to post any explicit comments that criticize her.
[Report from 0: Yu Kewei, the only reborn person in the 108 planes of Blue Star, has coveted Xu Li for ten years. Mission taker Qiao Zhen should be careful.]
Qiao Zhen: [Is 108 a number for a parallel world?]
Yes, I never expected you country bumpkins to know about parallel universes. It's truly an eye-opener.
Qiao Zhen: [Ignorant and ill-informed.]
Chu Chu: [Ignorance +1.]
You are using your numbers to bully the few, and your methods are extremely despicable. I am a magnanimous person and will not stoop to your level.
Qiao Zhen: [Chu Chu, let's take stock of all the original owner's weird relatives and get rid of them completely.]
Chu Chu: [Okay.]
After getting her makeup done, Qiao Zhen went to the set to review the script and memorize her lines. She was very serious about it because she had only watched one day's worth of footage beforehand, so she had to cram at the last minute.
Chu Chu: [I've sent you the materials.]
Qiao Zhen looked at the original owner's terrible relatives and felt very impressed. The original owner's parents were a couple from a remote mountain village. They were extremely sexist and favored sons over daughters. Because their second and third children were all sons, the family was so poor that they wanted to sell the twelve-year-old original owner to three brothers in the village as a child bride.
However, a volunteer teacher was teaching there that day. After learning about this, she took the original owner away from the mountain village. But the teacher was also a single woman with no relatives or friends. If she brought a child with her, she would easily be criticized. So the teacher sent the original owner to an orphanage.
The original owner was easily swayed and easily influenced. At the age of sixteen, she went to Hengdian to work as an extra, determined to earn money to improve her life. She lived a very hard life, but she was still considered a third-rate star in the entertainment industry. Refusing to be subjected to unspoken rules and playing some decorative roles was enough for her to make a living.
After she was able to make a living, she tried every means to help her parents in the remote mountain village. Her motives were simple: revenge for being abandoned. They wanted to sell her, right? She'd use money to humiliate them!
This incident caused quite a stir. When the original owner's parents learned that she was now a celebrity, her father scraped together some money and went to her demanding more. If she didn't give it to him, he threatened to make a scene. The demands started at two or three hundred, then moved to one thousand or two thousand, then to ten thousand or twenty thousand, and now he's demanding an exorbitant 300-square-meter apartment in Beijing.
Back then, Li Dexian used this incident to force the original owner to engage in unspoken rules, but the original owner was lucky. Her first sugar daddy was Xu Li, who was generous and handsome. Moreover, Xu Li has only ever held her while sleeping, and the original owner still has her virginity.
Xu Li was also a gentleman; he did not send anyone to investigate Qiao Zhen, perhaps because Qiao Zhen was just someone he could do without.
Qiao Zhen calculated the time; there were still three months left before the original owner's father gave her the 300-square-meter apartment. Three months was more than enough time for her to make all the arrangements.
"Qiao Zhen! What are you thinking about? It's your turn! You have a lot of scenes to film today, so pay attention!" Director Song shouted in Qiao Zhen's direction through a megaphone.
Qiao Zhen put down the script she had just read and stood outside the tent, instantly getting into character.
"Action!"
Nabu lay slumped on the tent, cautiously watching the angry middle-aged woman inside—her mother, Yazali. She glanced at her brother, Aldor, and hissed.
Hearing the voice, Aldor looked at Nab and mouthed exaggeratedly, "Go to Father."
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