Chapter 107 Changing the Topic
Ren Limeng: I am very familiar with the camera, but reality shows are so different.
Ren Limeng: There aren't so many heavyweight guests on the agricultural channel. Every word they say is so roundabout, and everyone has their own agenda, but they're all cleverly hidden behind a kind and friendly smile. I really value this opportunity for "Shan Hai". Maybe I just want it too much, and I'm unconsciously too concerned about gains and losses (sigh)
Ren Limeng: We have to record all day and prepare for the performance, and the production team is constantly innovating. I definitely don’t like this fast-paced and high-pressure recording.
Yan Fangshu: (Hug) (Hug) (Hug)
Yan Fangshu: Mengmeng, you are already great no matter what. Think about it, we are just unknown people, and not being eliminated in the first public performance is the biggest victory!
Yan Fangshu: So every single one of our upcoming campaigns is a guaranteed win! Don't set your goals too high, you're already pretty good!!!
Yan Fangshu: Don't always stare at the top of the pyramid, look at us ordinary people behind it! (dog head) Give us a way out, the anxiety will go away!
After knowing each other for so many years, Ren Limeng believed that if there was only one person in the world who truly understood her, that person must be Yan Fangshu.
Many times, Yan Fangshu understood the unspeakable thoughts behind her smile better than her parents and anyone else, and could see through all her seemingly calm disguises.
The first time she saw the message, Ren Limeng immediately felt the warmth behind Yan Fangshu's joking words, but she couldn't help but feel anxious.
"Mountains and Seas" is a gamble. She has already sat at the gambling table and can only make a move.
With the broadcast of the first episode, her name has become known to more people, achieving her original goal, but this is not the end.
The Orange platform will help her deal with some hot search matters, but the platform has too many things to consider and weigh. She is the host of the platform and also the platform's tool. The platform will never put her personal interests first.
Ren Limeng knew very well that she had to rely on herself to turn all the recent gossip into career support.
This is too difficult for an ordinary worker.
Even as a newcomer in the entertainment industry, Ren Limeng was very afraid that the recording would get out of control one day, causing the image of the host that she had carefully presented to collapse.
Many people describe the public's memory as being like a fish, swimming through the vast amount of information on the Internet for only seven seconds, but being able to easily and deeply ingrain an accurate impression of a certain person. "Shan Hai" has only been aired for a short while, so Ren Limeng cannot take it lightly.
Shen Xingzhi's rumored girlfriend cannot be her only impression. She must rely on the program itself to let the audience know Ren Limeng as the host.
Ren Limeng wanted it so much. This familiar feeling with strong desire made Ren Limeng a little dazed. It seemed that the last time, or the only time, she had such an uncertain and strong desire was many years ago when she wanted to be Shen Xingzhi's girlfriend the most.
It was a complete failure.
And she will not fail again. Even if her desire is like fleeting quicksand at this moment, she must hold it tighter.
Even if holding the quicksand with one hand makes it flow down faster, she will not be afraid because she believes that her other hand can catch everything steadily.
Yan Fangshu: Mengmeng, you should think seriously about Chen Xingzhi’s problem.
Yan Fangshu: I don’t know why, but I feel like the way I look at you two now is a bit like... the way you looked at me and Song Ming back then.
Yan Fangshu: I won’t give up unless I persuade her, but no matter how hard I try, she won’t stop.
Song Ming is Yan Fangshu's first love. In their youth when everyone was focused on practicing acting and just wanted to get into drama school, Yan Fangshu was obsessed with premature love. Her sweet and shining eyes made Ren Limeng sneer. Listening to the details of their love that Yan Fangshu couldn't help but mention over and over again, she shook her head and sighed countless times.
Ren Limeng: ???
Ren Limeng: Fangfang, you were in a premature relationship! You were so exhausted from rehearsing every day, I really don't know where you found the energy to fall in love!
Ren Limeng: If it weren't for Song Ming, you would definitely have been admitted to the China Academy of Drama. In the end, you were just two points short of the required score in the general subjects. If you had talked to him one minute less every day, you would have accumulated those two points. Besides, you two broke up as soon as you entered college. Although you reconciled in the end, can you say that you didn't cut your losses in time when you broke up?
Ren Limeng was very anxious about her relationship with Yan Fangshu from the beginning. Song Ming was a good person, but he was not suitable for Yan Fangshu at that time. The young couple was very sweet, but neither of them considered the future and was only immersed in the happiness in front of them. She was the only one who was anxious.
Ren Limeng had expected that they would break up in college, but she didn't expect Yan Fangshu to be so free and easy.
Yan Fangshu's love life over the years can be described as passionate. After breaking up with her boyfriend Song Ming due to long-distance relationship, she found a new boyfriend in less than a week, claiming that a seamless transition can better heal emotional pain.
Ren Limeng thought she could understand her pretense of strength, but Yan Fangshu seemed to have really given up. There was almost no gap in her four years of college, and she could not hide the sweetness of every relationship she mentioned.
Ren Limeng finally understood that this was Yan Fangshu's character. She just wanted her sisters to be happy.
Yan Fangshu: When you're in love, you should enjoy it while you can! I'm not like you and Yueyue who have goals and pursuits. It's enough for me to go to our Jiangcheng Art College. After graduation, I returned to Meixiang smoothly. There was no delay.
Yan Fangshu: But you were right back then. Song Ming was really naive and idealistic. We had no future together if we played house like that, so I don't regret breaking up then! I really cut my losses in time!
Yan Fangshu still remembers that in order to accompany Ren Limeng and Li Chuyue to practice acting, she handmade a perfunctory birthday present for Song Ming, who was celebrating his birthday. Song Ming frowned and was so angry that he ignored her for a week. Thinking about it now, it was too childish.
During the college entrance examination that year, Song Ming naively insisted that distance was not a problem. They did not compromise for each other, and just thought that love could conquer everything. However, the distance between the two schools, which were a thousand kilometers apart, was enough to defeat their nearly a thousand-day love.
They finally understood that there are many more important things in life besides love.
Even though the two of them later "happened" to return to Mei City and reunited because of work, Yan Fangshu still did not regret breaking up, because her love now was real and the pain she felt back then was also real.
Now she loves Song Ming, who has become her husband, but that doesn't stop her from remembering the pain she felt back then when she was in tears.
Perhaps it is because of separation that they have become better versions of themselves and achieved the results they have today.
Ren Limeng: Are you so resentful? How did Song Ming offend you? Did he fail to call on time while on a business trip? (dog head)
Ren Limeng: It’s okay. I can accompany you this week. Let’s not bother with him anymore.
Ren Limeng: Song Ming and Shen Xingzhi are still different. Song Ming is your husband, and Shen Xingzhi is just a stranger to me.
Ren Limeng: Besides, Song Ming has been pursuing you for five whole years! Whenever you were in a relationship, he would just be your backup, and you would reject and despise him. I'm already a firm Song Ming fan, and I hope you two will be together forever!
Ren Limeng: You suddenly become so self-deprecating that it’s easy for me to think that you are not my only fan (supplementing your face)
Yan Fangshu:?
Yan Fangshu: What kind of sugar-coated bullet did Song Ming give you again?
Yan Fangshu: This is Chen Xingzhi's way of bribing me by not having good food and drinks, otherwise I might have turned against him too (tsundere)
Yan Fangshu: Wait, Mengmeng, I suddenly have a bold guess!
Yan Fangshu: Didn’t you say last night that Chen Xingzhi wanted to continue hyping up the relationship with you?
Ren Limeng: ...Yes?
Chen Xingzhi now not only wants to hype up the CP, but also wants to stick with it to the end. Ren Limeng suddenly felt a little guilty.
She didn't know how to tell Yan Fangshu. The more she thought about it before going to bed yesterday, the more she had a very mysterious and confident intuition -
Shen Xingzhi might... not only want to have a work collaboration with her.
Thinking of his impeccable handsome face, Ren Limeng couldn't deny that her heart was beating fast. If she was the eighteen-year-old Ren Limeng, even if the possibility was extremely slim to zero, she would definitely bravely step forward and give it a try, but now Ren Limeng just wanted to play dumb.
On the one hand, she was unwilling to play a love game again. The illusion of ambiguity was like a bottomless pit with no visible abyss, and she would not let herself get stuck in it again.
On the other hand, compared to love affairs, Ren Limeng now just wants more people to remember her image as a host and successfully complete the career transformation during the bottleneck period.
As long as she doesn't delve into it, all of Shen Xingzhi's actions will not count.
She didn't care what he thought. Anyway, Chen Xingzhi was not the type to play it straight. After recording "Mountains and Seas" for a month, everyone was on the right track and all unnecessary thoughts naturally disappeared.
She couldn't dwell on it.
Yan Fangshu: I have always been a little puzzled. Even if you two are divorced, as a top star, Chen Xingzhi would face great risks if he chose to hype up a relationship with his ex-wife. It would be very easy for him to end up in a thankless position by doing so.
Yan Fangshu: Speaking of Song Ming, I remembered that he came back to me because he insisted that I spilled coffee on his clothes on the day we met again, which caused him to fail in getting a job. He kept pestering me to wash his clothes every day, but I refused even if I offered to buy his clothes for double the price.
Yan Fangshu: Mengmeng, is Chen Xingzhi just looking for an excuse to get close to you?
Ren Limeng: Impossible.
She would no longer guess what Shen Xingzhi was thinking.
It's time for them to change the subject.
Ren Limeng had just finished typing a line and wanted to change the subject, but Yan Fangshu had already spoken a long paragraph, leaving her with no way to avoid it.
Yan Fangshu: Men’s desire to conquer is very strange. Could it be that you have been avoiding him since you reunited, so he wants to pester you?
Yan Fangshu: I was determined not to turn back, so I blocked Song Ming's phone number. But he just kept getting stronger and stronger. In the end, he was so shameless that the whole Meixiang community was gossiping about us. In the end, I couldn't even get a blind date! This is how he got the upper hand!
Ren Limeng: Fangfang, I remember last month you said that Song Ming was persistent and his love was as deep as the sea. You were very moved and regretted that you agreed too late. Tsk tsk tsk, a woman's heart is as unpredictable as a needle in the sea.
Ren Limeng: You two definitely had a fight while Song Ming was away on this business trip. Why didn't you tell me last night? Could it be about the child again? He's doing this for your own good. Don't rush things.
Yan Fangshu: It's not important, it's not important! We're talking about you now, don't get sidetracked! I'm just getting inspired! Let me give you a good overview of Shen Xingzhi.
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