Chapter 70 Chapter 70 The reason for falling in love is...
"The script, the team, the budget—everything about this film was prepared to the highest Oscar standards." Chu Sheng's voice was as deep as a cello. He glanced at her sideways, "And so is your pay."
Therefore, she was able to get this opportunity because of Chu Sheng. Xia Nuan stood there in a daze, a muffled sound coming from her ears. After a while, she realized that it was her heart beating, heavy and suppressed.
After being in the circle for so many years, she naturally knew that it was good to lean on a big tree for shade, but just yesterday, she thought it was herself - Xia Nuan's eyelashes trembled, and her eyes drooped. No, she might not be so sure.
The air in the car seemed to be no longer circulating, so Xia Nuan opened the window on one side.
At dusk, the setting sun cast a light yellow halo on Xia Nuan's profile. Her hair fluttered in the breeze, obscuring her features.
Chu Sheng raised the corners of his lips and did not disturb Xia Nuan's thoughts.
"Is it because of you that I was selected?" Xia Nuan finally found her voice. Although it was a question, her tone was affirmative.
Chu Sheng's eyes swept across Xia Nuan's tightly furrowed brows. Her lips were tightly pursed just now, but now that they were loosened, her pale lips had a bit more color for no reason.
His heart was touched lightly, and ripples appeared. His deep blue eyes darkened for a moment. Chu Sheng narrowed his eyes slightly and suddenly sighed softly.
Xia Nuan's eyelids suddenly twitched uncontrollably. At the same time, a voice suddenly appeared in her mind: [Host, host——]
“Not entirely.”
Because of Chu Sheng's words, she ignored this voice.
Not entirely. Xia Nuan's thoughts became hazy and sluggish, and there were indeed reasons for that. But he couldn't figure out why Chu Sheng did this.
Her expression became calm, and she looked up at Chu Sheng on the side. "You do this—" Xia Nuan's voice paused for a moment, and her lips parted. "What do you want to gain?"
Chu Sheng's gaze fixed on Xia Nuan's lips, then he restrainedly looked away: "I just want to see you again."
He seemed to be speaking casually, his expression calm, but his eyes were like a whirlpool, carrying a trembling wave. As if this matter was very important to him.
The doubts lingering in Xia Nuan's heart became even stronger. Xia Nuan subconsciously clenched her fists, and all the past interactions with Chu Sheng flashed through her mind.
Does he like himself?
It’s not that Xia Nuan doesn’t feel Chu Sheng’s inexplicable concern for her. It was even the same when they were in Sicily a few months ago. But the problem is that she has not even spent a week with this person.
Chu Sheng's gaze stayed on Xia Nuan's face. With a bit of lazy indifference, he tucked the loose hair by Xia Nuan's ears behind her ears, and stroked the hair by her ears with his fingertips, slowly and gently.
Chu Sheng's eyes widened slightly, and a smile reappeared in his eyes.
"Are you satisfied with my sincerity?"
Sincerity? What bullshit sincerity!
Xia Nuan cursed in her heart, but her nerves were tense again.
Chu Sheng was too close.
There was a rustling sound of hair rubbing against each other in her ears. Warm fingertips started from the hair and gently touched her cheek. Xia Nuan's breathing almost stopped in an instant, and her hair stood on end.
The boundary of distance was broken, and that unspeakable danger spread from the spine, instantly invading the whole body, and even the barely maintained composure became a little difficult.
Xia Nuan's heart was beating wildly, the surrounding noise disappeared, but the electronic sound in her mind gradually became clearer.
Her eyes were dazed for a moment. What was that sound just now?
【Host, host, it’s me! 】
【Story maintenance system?】
Xia Nuan's pupils constricted. This system had disappeared for several years, and she thought she would never hear this voice again.
Xia Nuan felt like she was dreaming. Although she hated this system at first, its sudden appearance at this time made her feel less scared for no reason.
[It’s me, it’s me, host, you finally heard my voice. I came here this time because I have something very important to tell you, you——]
[Okay, but now is not the time to chat, we will talk later]
Her nearly shattered emotions seemed to be held together by an invisible force, and Xia Nuan finally regained control of her body. She leaned sideways and out of the hand's grasp.
"You're too close to me." Xia Nuan's expression was flat and her tone became cold.
What was she thinking just now? But in a moment, her fear disappeared. Chu Sheng raised his eyebrows, but the interest in his eyes was even stronger than before.
But he did not take any further action, just lowered his eyes slightly and said sorry softly.
A few years ago, when he was in China, he did develop a subtle affection for Xia Nuan. But he wasn't a young man, and he wouldn't be blinded by love. To him, love was just a dispensable condiment, or even a troublesome and useless emotion.
But he didn't know when he started dreaming about Xia Nuan.
As if it were a role-playing game, he watched Xia Nuan grow up from a child, watched her fall in love and break up, watched her act, and watched her eyes light up when she received an award.
Sometimes he is Xia Nuan's classmate, sometimes he is her neighbor, sometimes he is her colleague, and sometimes he is her boyfriend.
She is always around in my dreams.
These dreams were so real that they were terrifying. He had someone look up Xia Nuan's life and find all the photos he could find, only to discover that everything in the dream was completely consistent with reality.
At first, he was tired of these bland and happy dreams, and even envied the girl in his dream for being able to live such a life. If there hadn't been family strife, he might have been like this, a free and easy photographer.
But later, he no longer hated her, but he was still jealous. He was jealous of those who could truly be around Xia Nuan, and those who could touch her and kiss her.
He could hardly control himself and pay attention to everything related to Xia Nuan.
But the reality is that due to certain restrictions, he cannot enter China and cannot see Xia Nuan at all.
Just because he can't go doesn't mean he can't get someone to be with him.
At the beginning of this year, he finally took control of most of the power in Molegs, and he thought he could go to see Xia Nuan in person.
He secretly invested in and planned that travel variety show. He knew that based on Xia Nuan's personality, she would definitely choose this variety show in the end.
He had originally planned to meet her by chance at the Italy stop.
But he didn't expect that his brother, who was as stupid and ignorant as a pig, would not just keep his tail between his legs and survive, but would become restless and start making trouble, ruining all his plans.
The sun sets in the west and disappears on the horizon, and night replaces dusk.
Now, Molegus belonged to him alone.
He finally came to her side and he didn't want to let her leave again.
Under the street light, the Maybach stopped in front of the apartment door.
Chu Sheng opened the car door, and his aggressive features softened under the streetlights. "Go back. I'll come back tomorrow morning to pick you up to go to the crew."
Xia Nuan narrowed her eyes and said unhappily, "Thank you for your kindness, but my agent will take me there, so don't bother."
Chu Sheng was calm and nodded to show that he understood, without showing any embarrassment of being rejected.
Xia Nuan twitched the corner of her mouth, but suddenly Lin Dayong's voice came from behind her: "Xiao Xia, I just drove to the crew, but the people there said someone had already sent you back——"
From where he was, he could only see a blond man standing opposite Xia Nuan. Lin Dayong subconsciously assumed that this was the movie's lead actor, Aidan Crowley.
"Mr. Crowley, please send Xia Nuan back." Lin Dayong switched to not very standard English. He was about to chat for a while, but the moment he approached, the smile on his face froze.
He recognized the wrong person.
His feet seemed to be nailed to the ground, and he smiled stiffly and awkwardly: "It turns out to be Mr. Kirken. Sorry, sorry, I was dazzled for a moment."
Lin Dayong is not a stupid man. What Xia Nuan said before instantly connected in his mind.
He and Xia Nuan were practically isolated in New York. They couldn't afford to offend a mafia boss who controlled a certain area. He still didn't know what was going on, so he couldn't anger him for now. Otherwise, they would be the only ones to suffer. Chu Sheng glanced at him indifferently, and Lin Dayong instantly broke out in a cold sweat.
"See you tomorrow."
After Chu Sheng said this, he left in the car.
After understanding the whole story, Lin Dayong took a deep breath, and the first thing he said was an apology: "Xiao Xia, I was too careless. You said it so many times before, but I stubbornly thought it was you-"
Lin Dayong blamed himself so much that he could hardly raise his head. He really hoped that Xia Nuan could move to a higher level, and this Hollywood movie was a unique opportunity, but compared to Xia Nuan's safety, these were nothing.
"Xiao Xia, he's a mafia guy with countless lives on his hands. Now he's going to great lengths to get you abroad. What he wants is not simple."
The air conditioning in the room was very cold, but Lin Dayong's forehead was still covered in sweat. Xia Nuan handed Lin Dayong a wet wipe.
Xia Nuan had sorted out her thoughts by now, but with them came an unanswered question. She and Chu Sheng had spent some time together briefly a few months ago, but she didn't think that just a few days of spending time together could make Chu Sheng develop such strong feelings for her.
unless--
The system appeared. Was it trying to tell me something important? What could it be?
Xia Nuan lowered her eyes, her eyelashes covering her eyes, making her expression look particularly gloomy.
Lin Dayong wiped his face hastily and said dryly, "The filming locations are basically all in Italy. We're going there next week. That's his lair. If he wants to do anything...Xiao Xia, we have no way to resist."
Lin Dayong suddenly fell silent. After a moment, he raised his head and said, "Xiao Xia, how about we terminate the contract and not act in this movie?"
"Brother Lin, the film contract has been signed, and the penalty for breach of contract is too high." Xia Nuan blinked and comforted him, "Maybe this matter is not as bad as we thought."
And it’s not completely impossible.
Last week, after Xia Nuan was confirmed as the lead actress in "Poetry in the Rain," central media officials contacted her, wanting to film a documentary behind the scenes of the film. However, she declined the offer because she didn't want to be filmed both on and off camera.
But now that I think about it, this might not be a bad way to protect myself.
"Brother Lin, please contact the central media again. I agreed to shoot a documentary."
Lin Dayong's eyes suddenly lit up, and his depressed mood was instantly swept away: "Yes, that's our Chinese official media."
It was now Huaguo's morning working hours, so Lin Dayong immediately stood up, opened the plan sent by the other party, and called the central media.
By the time everything was finalized, it was already two o'clock in the morning in the United States.
【System, are you still there? 】
[Yes, yes, yes]
It seems that what she heard before was not hallucination. Xia Nuan blinked faster and faster: [What did you want to tell me before? ]
[Host, do you still remember that this is a small world derived from a novel?]
She remembered clearly what the system said before it disappeared. Lou Su, Ye Li and herself were the cornerstones of this world. As long as the three of them were in a stable state, the world would develop according to its own logic, and she herself would no longer be bound by the system.
But she didn't think there was anything wrong with the three of them.
Xia Nuan thought so and asked.
[Host, you are right. As long as the cornerstone of the world is safe and alive, there will be no problems.]
The system's electronic voice was inexplicably frantic: [But the problem now is that according to the timeline of the original novel, the story is about to end. But as the heroine, you have no intention of falling in love at all -]
Xia Nuan was a little confused after hearing this: [Sorry to interrupt, is there anything wrong with me not having a relationship?]
[Have you forgotten that this novel is essentially a romance novel?! If you don't fall in love, the world's will will be bugged, and the world will eventually collapse.]
Perhaps it was because there were too many things happening today and her thoughts were so fluctuating that Xia Nuan was shocked to the point of numbness.
The safety of the world is related to whether or not you are in a relationship. Xia Nuan's mouth twitched. What a fragile and brainless world.
[Host, you said it]
She remembered that the system seemed to have merged with the world's will, so she had essentially tampered with the system right in front of her. Xia Nuan's eyes shifted, and she coughed lightly. Just as she was about to say something to ease the awkwardness, before she even opened her mouth, a thought suddenly flashed through her mind.
[System, I have a question for you]
【Um】
She could actually hear anger in the electronic sound. After not seeing it for a while, the system has become much more humane.
Xia Nuan quickly offered some words of comfort before continuing, "Since you are now part of the world's will, can you tell me if there is a bug in the world's will? Or, in other words, has the world's will done anything to make me fall in love?"
The system was silent for a moment: [There's nothing it can do. The world's will won't allow the world to collapse. Furthermore, you've already completed those missions, completely merging with this world to become its foundation. He can't control any of the foundations of the world, and naturally, he can no longer control the host. If He doesn't want to disappear, he will naturally—]
Xia Nuan didn't respond to this question, but instead asked: "If I don't fall in love, how long will it take for the world to collapse?"
[In three years at most, this world will collapse. Host, this means everything here will perish.]
The world will collapse because she doesn't fall in love. Although it is indeed abstract, she has lived in this world for more than 30 years. Just like the system told her a long time ago, this is a real world.
The family in her memories, the friends in her life, the career she fought for—
She had long regarded this place as the real world.
She didn't want any of this to die.
Xia Nuan asked softly: [Then if I just have a casual relationship, then that would be fine.]
[Of course not. We have our own criteria. It must be a relationship based on genuine, sincere, and passionate affection and love! ! ! ]
Xia Nuan also fell silent. This seemed a little difficult for her.
The system thought of Xia Nuan's reason for not wanting to fall in love: "Host, the world derived from our novel operates on the logic that the male characters who appear in the novel and fall in love with the female protagonist will definitely fall in love with the female protagonist. This is their underlying nature. Even if you don't want to accept it, this is not something that can be changed by human power."
Xia Nuan didn't look sad, but rather calm, as if a heavy burden had been lifted from her heart. She sighed and said, "As expected, it seems the people I know really like me because they are influenced by the will of the world."
The system quickly retorted: [No, that's not the case!]
But Xia Nuan just said "Oh" and said nothing.
This silent response made the system a little scared. Although it had not been with Xia Nuan in these years, as part of the world's will, it had actually been paying attention to Xia Nuan.
The host's character is so determined that those men have been pursuing her for many years, but have never been able to completely enter her heart. Otherwise, it would not have come out in a hurry to remind her three years before her complete collapse.
[Host, host, the foundation of the world is completely uncontrolled by the world's will. Moreover, there is no description of any character who likes the heroine in the novel. Even those characters who do not appear in the novel will not be controlled to like the heroine. Therefore, all those loves and likes are not fake!]
True love and affection?
Xia Nuan's eyes were a little confused. She bit the tip of her tongue, and the slight pain made her realize that this absurd reality was not a dream.
Xia Nuan chuckled softly, her eyes curved. Her previous life plan had indeed not included a love affair, but now, for the sake of world peace, it seemed she had to have one.
Really, I couldn't help but laugh out loud.
[Host? Are you okay?]
[I was just wondering what kind of love could save the world.]
Xia Nuan threw herself onto the bed and stared at the ceiling light. Even though the light wasn't glaring, it still left a mark in her eyes.
[Host, based on your requirements for love and the calculation of the success rate of love, I have selected the following list of men who are not controlled by the will of the world. If you want to fall in love, I recommend choosing one of these people.]
The system's electronic voice made a noticeable hiss before continuing: [Of course, while this doesn't conform to the moral standards of human society, it's actually possible to choose all of them if you want.]
[Host, the system will assist you from now on. Please make sure to have a wonderful love relationship!]
[Yeah, I get it.] He felt inexplicably perfunctory, but even if the host wasn't proactive, the system couldn't have any issues. The system operated for a while, and a list of recommendations appeared in the air, including 3D high-definition stereoscopic images of these people.
[Lou Su] [Ye Li] [Ji Mian] [Bo Wenjue] [Chu*? #]
The system looked at the garbled last recommendation, its data flow scrambled for a moment. Was it a bug? The system casually deleted the last name.
[Host, host, isn’t it just a love affair——]
The sound stopped abruptly, and the system looked at Xia Nuan, who had closed her eyes and fallen into a deep sleep, and sighed humanely.
It secretly made up its mind, isn't it just a love affair!
It still doesn't believe it. In three years, it will definitely help its host have a perfect love!
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The author has something to say: The next book to be published is: "My Husband is Long Aotian (Through the Book)"
[One-sentence introduction: I didn’t want to be a poor wife, but later I ascended the throne]
In his previous life, Shen Yaoguang, who had worked hard to become the general manager of a company, was in a car accident and was reborn as a 28-year-old girl waiting to be married in the family of an ancient country gentry.
After getting to know the surroundings and learning that he had traveled through a book, Shen Yaoguang was completely quit.
The male protagonist of Long Aotian, the future emperor, and currently a scholar, Qin Yungang, has just been chosen by her father and will marry him in a month.
Although he looks like a decent person and has a bright future now, he rebelled a year later.
She only wanted to live a peaceful life, so how could she be willing to marry an emperor who was bound to rebel and would have many concubines in the future? Not to mention that she was just a passing mention in the plot, "dying of illness" before ascending the throne to make way for other beauties.
——
But her father had set his sights on this son-in-law and she had no chance to resist.
On their wedding night, before the veil was lifted, Chen Yaoguang said to Qin Yun, "I know you had to marry me because of my father. Once this storm is over, we can get divorced."
A month passed, and they still hadn't divorced. Two months later, and they still hadn't divorced. Were all those promises we made so confidently back then just lies?
In the third month, Shen Yaoguang couldn't bear it any longer and said, "Shouldn't we get a divorce?"
Qin Yun's lips curled slightly, "What are you talking about, my lady? We are newly married, and I, your husband, cannot bear to hear the word divorce."
Bah, you bastard.
Shen Yaoguang had anticipated this situation and fled with the money she had prepared. She had been wandering around for half a year and had fallen in love with a neighbor boy, and they were about to discuss marriage.
Qin Yun led a group of people to occupy this place.
Chen Yaoguang and his neighbor boy disguised themselves and prepared to escape to other refuge places again, but they were caught by Qin Yun himself at the city gate.
"Ma'am, where are you going?"
——
There was chaos and plundering and fighting.
Later, Chen Yaoguang stayed with Qin Yun through thick and thin, and never abandoned him, watching him grow from a scholar to a regional overlord, and then to an emperor above all others.
Later, the new emperor ascended the throne, and the emperor and empress served together in the court, and were called the Two Saints.
Later, the queen ascended the throne.
【Small Theater】
One morning, Chen Yaoguang was absent from court due to some matters.
A minister risked his life to make a protest, which was bound to force Your Majesty to remove the two saints and restore the imperial throne.
The young general, a founding hero and a powerful figure, glared and snorted, his lips pressed tightly together, his hard face filled with coldness. "I think it's not possible."
The former number one scholar, now the Prime Minister of the Cabinet, held a sceptre in both hands. His face was handsome and gentle like jade, his long eyes narrowed slightly, and a sharp edge appeared. "I also think it is not possible."
Standing on the dragon throne, Qin Yunhan lowered his eyes slightly, with a smile on his face, but his voice was smiling but it made people shudder for no reason, "My dear, please don't hit the wrong pillar."
【Highlight】
①The heroine is very smart and always super clear-headed. The hero falls in love first.
②Marriage first, love later, the male protagonist does not want to divorce for other reasons
③ There will be some people who only have one-way arrows for the heroine
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