Chapter 23 Chapter 23 New Characters
Xia Nuan patted her chest and gasped. She was almost scared to death. Bullshit heartbeat, all she wanted now was to beat Bo Wenjue.
Bo Wenjue raised his eyebrows and burst out laughing. "You just don't have enough acting experience right now. When you truly identify with the role, you won't be distracted by it."
"If you ask me for advice, it's to find out how you think the character is different from yourself. Then relax and let go. Everyone has different ways of letting go. For example, I like to do extreme sports. If you want, call me and I'll take you."
Mo Zhuyuan immediately stepped forward to put some distance between them. "Bo Wenjue, I see you're still in the moment."
Bo Wenjue glanced at Mo Zhuyuan meaningfully and shrugged, "Maybe."
Bo Wenjue and Xia Nuan clinked their glasses and casually said, "By the way, you and your boyfriend have been apart for so long, don't you miss him?"
This sentence actually crossed the line a bit, but Xia Nuan didn't notice it.
Boyfriend? What boyfriend?
After filming in a closed environment for more than two months, Xia Nuan's brain suddenly froze when she heard the word "boyfriend". She almost forgot that she had a boyfriend.
"It's okay, it's okay." Xia Nuan laughed and passed over the topic.
A girl walked up to Xia Nuan hesitantly, "Teacher Xia, can you take a photo with me? And can you sign an autograph for me?"
She looked at Xia Nuan with starry eyes, her love overflowing. "When you finished filming, I couldn't even squeeze in next to you. I really love you so much."
Xia Nuan had an impression of this girl; she was the crew's food and beverage clerk. Thinking about her previous attitude towards her and her current situation, Xia Nuan felt that Mo Zhuyuan had indeed not lied to her.
When Xia Nuan returned to North City again, it was already late September.
Her contract with the company has expired.
The plane arrived at the airport.
Xia Nuan walked out of the aviation building with her suitcase. It was noon now. Although it was already autumn, the sun was still very scorching.
A beautifully dressed girl saw Xia Nuan's back and suddenly got a start. She ran after her with her bag, "Wife, wife, ah, no, Nuannuan, don't go!!"
Why were they calling so intimately? The hot sun was scorching the earth, and Xia Nuan was the only one around her.
The girl behind finally caught up with Xia Nuan and walked to her side panting, "Xia Nuan, you are Xia Nuan, right?"
"Do you know who I am?" Xia Nuan pointed at herself, her tone full of surprise.
She knew that loud noises would bother Xia Nuan, so she spoke quietly, "Honey, no, Nuan Nuan, I've edited a lot of videos for you. I really like you, can you sign an autograph for me? You don't have to sign if you don't want to. I haven't seen you post on Weibo for the past two months. There was a lot of negative information about you online a while ago, and I was almost pissed off. Luckily, they cleared it up recently. Your previous agency was a complete scoundrel. I guess no artist would want to work for that company anymore."
This girl kept spouting a lot of words, and Xia Nuan was completely confused. In the past two months, she was criticized again and then cleared again.
"It's okay. Where should I sign for you? Do you have a pen?"
Xia Nuan watched her rummaging through her bag, then said with a sad face, "I only have a notebook, I don't have a pen, ahhhhh."
"Can you sign for me with lipstick?" The girl looked at Xia Nuan expectantly.
"Of course."
Xia Nuan handed her the notebook and said, "Do you need anything else? If not, I'll be leaving first."
"Your handwriting is so beautiful, honey, you are really a top student. Can you take a photo with me? Please, please." The girl covered her mouth. Oh no, she habitually said "wife".
What a good coquettish girl! Xia Nuan chuckled and said, "Okay."
When Xia Nuan got into the taxi, the corners of her mouth were still raised. This was the first time she met her fans. Being liked by others, was it such a happy thing?
However, Xia Nuan frowned. She had all these negative news, which had been clarified, and she was also a university bully.
What is going on?
Xia Nuan opened the App Store again and downloaded Weibo. Xia Nuan hesitated and clicked on Big Eyes. It seemed that she couldn't delete this thing easily in the future.
But why did my number of fans suddenly increase so much, and suddenly soared to three million?
Xia Nuan opened her Weibo and found that the messages asking for a breakup had been pushed to the back. At a glance at the front row, all she saw were messages expressing their love for her and offering encouragement.
Um?
Xia Nuan searched for some negative information about her.
The dates were basically a month ago, and many marketing accounts were saying that she was a big shot, and that she was a little gangster, had poor grades, and went to a crappy college.
Old man Xia Nuan is looking at his phone with a face full of question marks?
Who has she offended again? Looking at the scale of those marketing accounts, someone must be hiring a network of netizens to spread negative information about her. Her role in the last web drama was quite popular, so is someone deliberately smearing her to prevent her from exploding?
Xia Nuan was completely confused.
According to the fan, the matter was later clarified, but Xia Nuan still hadn't figured out who clarified it and how it was clarified. The taxi driver reminded her that they had arrived and it was time to get off.
After not being home for over two months, the exposed areas of the floor and sofa were covered in dust. Without cleaning, there was no place to stay. Xia Nuan shrugged, put her bags aside, and began to clean the house.
After about an hour, Xia Nuan finally cleaned the house.
She took a quick shower and immediately picked up her phone to continue searching for answers.
A month ago, negative news about Xia Nuan emerged one after another. At the beginning, marketing accounts said that Xia Nuan was dating a rich man with a financial sponsor. However, because she and Lou Su were officially boyfriend and girlfriend, this slanderous statement did not cause large-scale discussion among netizens and did not attract much attention.
Later, marketing accounts began to portray Xia Nuan as a junior college girl with poor grades.
Because there are so many bad actors in the entertainment industry and there are too many actors with poor academic qualifications, even though people have criticized this aspect, fans are still very tolerant, and this still did not bring any substantial discredit to Xia Nuan.
But the topic of "little gangster" was a sensitive one in the society, and it became a hot topic in the discussion immediately. Some people even brought up Lou Su's past scandals.
As public opinion intensified, a staff member in the circle anonymously revealed that Xia Nuan had not yet become really famous, but she had already started to flaunt her celebrity status. She was more than 20 minutes late for filming, causing the cameraman to lose his temper.
Everything should have been as the person who spread the rumors behind the scenes imagined. Xia Nuan's positive image, which had risen because of "The Concubine's Daughter Cannot Be Bullied", would soon be affected by these negative news.
At that time, "The Pastoral Cottage" was being broadcast, and the post-edited version included more scenes of the interior of the guests' bedrooms than the live broadcast.
Just when public opinion about Xia Nuan was overwhelmingly one-sided.
A sharp-eyed and picky fan @HappyLittlePig suddenly posted a Weibo asking Xia Nuan why she was playing on the computer in her bedroom when she had nothing to do. It looked like she was typing.
Various enthusiastic netizens flocked to the scene, and finally someone found out that Xia Nuan was translating Chinese into French and English.
The popularity of this Weibo post soared.
Xia Nuan can actually translate into English and French. Those marketing scams saying that she is a poor student and illiterate little gangster are not quite accurate.
Just when the discussion on the Internet was very heated.
Netizen @快要学亖了 posted a photo of Xia Nuan wearing a bachelor's gown. The photo was blurry and should have been cut from a complete photo, but the person was obviously Xia Nuan.
@快要学亖了: This was taken a few years ago when I graduated, and I just realized that Xia Nuan is in it. Although I have never seen Xia Nuan, I know her name, and she should not be the little gangster girl that the marketing accounts say she is.
@仔仔爱吃: How did the blogger know Xia Nuan, and why is your IP address abroad?
@快要学亖了: Because I went abroad to study after graduation and now I live there.
However, not many people believed this Weibo post. Most people mocked it. Everyone knows that photos can be photoshopped. Many black fans and netizens swarmed the blogger's comments, accusing her of riding on the popularity. In the end, she was scolded so much that she deleted the post.
Just when Kuroko thought he was about to win.
Many of Xia Nuan's classmates started to make an effort. One posted a graduation photo with Xia Nuan in it; another posted a photo of Xia Nuan in the library; another posted a photo of Xia Nuan when she participated in the competition...
However, the decisive evidence came from someone who found the list of students who were guaranteed admission to graduate school that year on the official website of a 985 university, and Xia Nuan's name was on it.
The black fans who had been jumping up and down suddenly shut up.
All this should have ended, but the identity of the staff member who broke the news about Xia Nuan's big-name spending was suddenly revealed. It was Xia Nuan's agent Yu Lilan.
Xia Nuan spent a whole afternoon browsing Weibo before she figured out the whole story.
Xia Nuan looked at the photos one by one over and over again. She held her phone tightly and sighed.
Then he dialed Ye Li's number and the call was connected instantly.
Xia Nuan: "I hope I didn't disturb you."
Ye Li: "Of course not, what do you want to talk to me about?"
It was past seven in the evening, and already dark. The only place on the entire floor still had lights on was Ye Li's office. On his desk sat an unopened, now-cold takeout.
"It was a while ago. Thank you. I didn't know at the time. I was filming and didn't have my phone with me, so I didn't thank you right away."
When Xia Nuan saw those photos, she knew at a glance that they were all taken by Ye Li.
Ye Li's expression was unusually gentle, and he smiled brightly, "You're welcome. I just don't want you to be misunderstood."
"I--" Xia Nuan hesitated for a long time, but really didn't know what to say.
The curve of Ye Li's lips widened, with a hint of cunning, but his voice was still as gentle as before, "Don't worry, it's what I wanted to do, it has nothing to do with you."
Ye Li: "Have you been filming recently?"
Xia Nuan: "How do you know?"
"You didn't say anything when you were being attacked, and it was such a ridiculous rumor. I just knew you probably didn't see it. Then I thought, you must have gone to film. Is it finished now? Have you returned home?"
Xia Nuan nodded.
"I'm glad you're back. Have a good rest. I'll hang up first."
Was this really Ye Li? Had he changed? Xia Nuan had thought he would use this as an excuse to get her to do something, but Ye Li didn't do anything. Instead, she felt like she owed him a favor, and she didn't know how to repay it.
The next day after returning home, Xia Nuan received a call from Lou Su. His voice was muffled and a little aggrieved, "Did you finish filming and go home? Why didn't you tell me?"
Before Xia Nuan could think of a response, Lou Su changed the subject, "Has your contract with Dahong Media expired? Do you want to come to Langfeng?"
Langfeng! ?
Lou Su was still promoting the advantages of Langfeng to the best of his ability on the other end of the phone.
"It's hard to explain over the phone. Just come to Langfeng. I'm already downstairs at your house."
How could it be so quick? She hadn't even thought about it yet. Didn't Lou Su have a job? Why did he just pick her up as she asked?
And she had only been filming for more than two months, how come the world had changed so much?
At Langfeng Media, Lin Dayong handed the contract to Xia Nuan. "Teacher Xia, take a look. This is Langfeng's sincerity. Currently, the only artist under my name is Lou Su. If you are willing to sign a contract with Langfeng, I will be your agent."
Xia Nuan took the contract but did not open it. Even if Lou Su might have some feelings for her, it should not be enough to sway Lin Dayong, the senior agent, to sign her.
Unless, Xia Nuan tilted her head, "Do you know that I filmed Su Yuzhou's movie?"
Lin Dayong grinned, "Teacher Xia is really smart. If Director Su hadn't continued to suppress the news after the wrap party, we wouldn't have known about it. You can take a closer look at this contract. If there's anything you're not satisfied with, just let us know and we can discuss it."
Lin Dayong smiled brightly, "By the way, the cast list for that A-rated ancient idol drama you originally decided on will be officially announced soon."
Xia Nuan also laughed, "Manager Lin is threatening me. The contract has already been signed. If he really doesn't want me to act, then Langfeng will have to pay me a lot of liquidated damages."
Lin Dayong laughed until his tears came out. "Teacher Xia, you're overthinking it. I just want to tell you that if you sign a contract with Langfeng, then producing one A-grade TV series every year is nothing. You know Langfeng's resources. We're old acquaintances, Xia Nuan, so I won't say anything big. Take a look at the contract first."
Lin Dayong left the room to Xia Nuan alone and did not disturb her any further.
As soon as he walked out of the room, Lou Su stared at him and sneered.
Lin Dayong's confident smile froze on his face. "You've seen the contract, it's really not bad. I was afraid that Xia Nuan wouldn't sign it, otherwise I wouldn't have said that."
Half an hour later, Xia Nuan walked out of the room with the contract, "Can I think about it again?"
Lin Dayong nodded. "Of course. During this period, there will probably be many companies looking for you. However, only after comparison can you know which one is the most suitable. I believe that our Langfeng's sincerity will satisfy you."
Lou Su: "Let's go, I'll take you back."
Xia Nuan glanced at him and nodded.
"I hope you can sign with Langfeng, but don't worry, I won't force you. I respect your choice." Lou Su didn't look at Xia Nuan. He couldn't suppress the emotions in his eyes.
He hasn't seen her for more than two months.
After leaving Xia Nuan's house last time, Lou Su was in self-doubt for a long time. He finally understood that Xia Nuan might not have any feelings for him, but what about him?
Now Lou Su understood that he liked Xia Nuan.
"Go ahead, I won't see you off. If you want to sign a contract with Langfeng, just contact me directly."
Lou Su looked at Xia Nuan with his light brown eyes. He suppressed the emotions flowing in his heart, and then said to Xia Nuan calmly, "See you next time."
A few days later, the A-level ancient idol drama "Palace Wall" officially announced its cast.
The male lead is Xie Yanming, the prince of Yan Dynasty, and the actor is Ji Mian.
The leading actress is Princess Mu Jin of the Chixia Kingdom, played by Xia Nuan.
The night the official Weibo account was announced, Xia Nuan's Weibo account was flooded with fans, all saying that Xia Nuan had ruined the role. She was not qualified to play the role, and that she was not worthy of the role at all, saying that she could not carry the role at all.
It turned out to be Ji Mian. Xia Nuan's eyes lit up. She knew Ji Mian's acting skills, and Xia Nuan was inexplicably looking forward to it.
However, Xia Nuan looked at the comments from netizens and frowned in confusion. She opened the script and saw on the first page that it was adapted from Xin Ran Yiyue's novel "Palace Wall".
How blind she was at that time, she was only focused on flipping through the script and didn't even open the first page. This was actually a drama adapted from a novel IP.
Xia Nuan didn't pay attention to the comments from netizens on Weibo. She planned to search for the novel to see if the script was a modified novel.
The bell rang.
Xia Nuan glanced at the caller ID and raised her eyebrows. It was Ji Mian.
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