Chapter 3
Qiao Nai got her sunglasses and mask out of her bag and put them on, wanting to leave quickly.
When she walked across the door of a certain private room, Zeng Nan suddenly remembered something, “Ah, I forgot a document in the room just now, Nainai, wait a second, let me go and get it back.”
Qiao Nai nodded, and stood at the door, while leaning against the wall and waiting. The door of the box next door was open, and the voices of loud conversations inside were coming out clearly.
“Today seems to be the birthday of the celebrity she likes. “
“What’s there to chase after those celebrities? None of them have ever read a book, all they do is rely on unspoken rules to go all the way up to the top.”
“That’s right, Xue Jiao, isn’t it that you want to be a start and that’s why don’t want to study hard? Isn’t that also why you failed the college entrance examination on purpose.”
“But with Xue Jiao’s looks, she can’t be a celebrity.
“Those celebrities have to be very open-minded. I heard that you can only get resources by sleeping with the bosses. In fact, it is the dirtiest place to be.”
“The celebrity you are chasing after, you don’t even know which boss she might be accompanying tonight.”
There were male and female voices among them, and Qiao Nai could even imagine how disgusting their expressions maybe without even looking at them. In fact, she also knows that many people have always had this kind of prejudice against the entertainment industry.
It is true that there are many dark and dirty things going on in the entertainment industry, but at the same time, there are also many people like Qiao Nai who have made it so far just by relying on themselves.
In fact, this place follows a simple rule, if you are willing to pay, there will obviously be rewards.
Qiao Nai felt a little displeased, and wanted to turn around and leave without hearing anything further, but then she suddenly heard a girl with a soft voice say, “Our family’s Qiao Nai 1A way that fans of a certain artist address or call that artist. isn’t one of them!” There was a bit of stubbornness in her tone, but with a hint of uncertainty.
Hearing herself being defended, Qiao Nai suddenly stopped and stood up straight.
She had an intuition that the person speaking inside should be the girl she saw at the door just now.
The girl continued, “Our Qiao Nai, has been working hard since she debuted. When she was a trainee, she was the one who practiced till late in the night in the company every day. Later, even when she went to film a movie, she stayed in the desert for three months. There was no team and no assistants, she bore everything alone and ended up suffering a lot. In the beginning, since she had no special training in acting, she was inevitably scolded a lot when she joined the group during the start of her career. To better herself, she watched other actors’ works over and over again, even when she was not filming. She also went to listen to the director’s lectures to other actors when she was young, and it is because of her persistence that she has achieved today’s results.”
Hearing what the girl said, Qiao Nai suddenly felt a little moved.
In fact, she has received a lot of criticism since the start, such as being from a non-acting major, unspoken rules, and being sporting a cold-faced persona.
But in fact, she doesn’t care about it herself. She always believes that what is clean is clean, and there will be people who will see her for what she is, beyond all the gossips.
But she never thought that there are some fans of her in this world who are attacked by others because of their relationship with her, even though they may not really know the real her, even if they may be against the whole world because of this, those fans still choose to defend her from this world.
At that moment, Qiao Nai felt very moved as well as was caught a little bit off guard.
She clenched her fists suddenly, thinking, ‘Since you choose to protect me, I will naturally protect you too.’
She then heard someone inside sneer and say aggressively, “Then may I ask, since the time you started chasing stars until now, apart from the decline in your own grades, what else have you gained?”
Qiao Nai couldn’t bear it any longer. She took off her sunglasses and mask, stepped on her high heels, walked to the door of the box and knocked on it.
Knock.
Everyone’s heads immediately turned over. Looking at Qiao Nai leaning against the door with her hands crossed, everyone was shocked.
A familiar girl in the crowd covered her mouth in disbelief and almost screamed, “Nai…NaiNai?!”
Qiao Nai walked directly to the girl and said to the others, “Sorry, I just passed by. Hearing you guys talking about me, it shouldn’t be considered impolite to come in without authorization.” The implication of this sentence is that it’s rude for these people to discuss other people’s behaviors behind their backs.
No one thought that Qiao Nai would appear here suddenly, causing everyone to not only be shocked by her but her aura as well.
Qiao Nai was already 170 tall. On top of that since she had put on high heels, her height shot up straight to 180, crushing many men present there. She looked at the other people around the table with sharp eyes and said, “I just heard some people saying that you can only become a star if you can’t study well. Let me clarify here that when I was a part-time trainee at the start of my career, I did not give up on my studies. I was admitted to one of the top Universities in the country via the college entrance examination and even graduated smoothly. And now the entertainment industry has higher requirements for the cultural and educational level of artists, because people with not enough qualifications can’t easily mingle in the industry,” Qiao Nai said as she glanced at the people present, “Who was it that said just now, that there are many unspoken rules in our entertainment industry, could it be… that you are familiar with our circle? If its based on your imagination, I can only say that what kind of things you see depend on what kind of person you are. Maybe there is a shortcut, but it is not the solution, all the exposure is nothing but short-lived. The artists that you can see now, have made efforts that ordinary people can’t even imagine.”
The group of people were left speechless by her, looking at each other one by one, but no one admitted to saying those words just now.
Qiao Nai dislikes this kind of people who bully the weak and fear the strong, the most. If they really confronted her face to face, she might not hate this group of people so much.
Seeing that everyone was silent, Qiao Nai glanced at Xue Jiao, “The food in this restaurant is not delicious at all, and the environment is also not good. I will take you to eat elsewhere.” Xue Jiao was stunned for a moment.
But before she even realized, she nodded and immediately got her bag and prepared to follow Qiao Nai.
At the door, Qiao Nai turned around and left a sentence to the rest of the people in a very chic way, “By the way, I will settle your bills, take it as Xue Jiao’s treat.”
The two walked out all the way, Xue Jiao was so excited and nervous that she couldn’t even speak.
Her own goddess was close at hand, and she just saved herself from that situation.
Was she really not dreaming?
Qiao Nai’s body has a very special perfume smell, which is a very gentle rose scent, along with some lychee and a touch of woody scent.
It feels very feminine, but there is also a sense of mystery that makes you feel that the person is far away even if they are close at hand.
Xue Jiao’s mind was now full of the words, ‘My goddess smells so good’.
Once the two walked to a place with crowd, Qiao Nai put on the mask and sunglasses again, and walked all the way to the gate of the restaurant. Qiao Nai then pulled Xue Jiao to an inconspicuous corner next to her.
“I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to get involved, but I couldn’t hold back when I heard them say that.”
Qiao Nai stroked her head and apologized, “Are those your friends?”
“They are my High school classmates. Everyone passed the college entrance exam and went to different universities in a different cities. They got together for a reunion meal today. I failed the exam this year and was going to repeat my studies, but since I went to your birthday meet today, and I was nearby, so I thought I would stop by, but looks like I shouldn’t have come,” Xuejiao said, and then shook her head violently, “No, no, if I didn’t come, I wouldn’t have met you. Fortunately, I came. I feel like I’m dreaming. Are you really Qiao Nai? “
Qiao Nai smiled, revealing a slight dimple, “Would you like me to pinch you?”
“It’s not that I don’t believe you, I’m just curious how did you suddenly come here?!” Xue Jiao asked.
“I just happened to come here to talk about some work.” Qiao Nai glanced at her and asked, “Are you hungry? Do you want to eat something?”
“No, no, I’m not hungry at all, I won’t bother you any longer,” Xue Jiao hesitantly took out her phone, “Well, then, I’ll transfer the bill to you later…”
“There is not need. Why will you spend money to invite people like them to dinner?” Qiao Nai winked at her, “The owner of this restaurant knows me very well, and sometimes offers me a very good discount on meals. So, don’t worry.”
Xue Jiao nodded, “Okay.”
Seeing that she was still holding the mobile phone, Qiao Nai joked, “Do you want to transfer money to me, or want to get my WeChat 2A Chinese instant messaging, social media, and mobile payment app developed by Tencent.?”
“I… I dare not, dare not!”
Xue Jiao immediately shook her head.
“It’s okay, it’s also fate that we meet today.” Qiao Nai took out her WeChat that she used for work. Since she never posted any Moments 3“Moments” (朋友圈) is WeChat’s brand name for its social feed of friends’ updates., she was not afraid of her privacy being leaked. She generously scanned the QR code 4The WeChat QR code is an in-app WeChat feature that lets users easily connect with others and add them as contacts. for her and said, “Even if I owe you a meal, but you have to wait till you take the exam next year. I will give you a treat once you get your desired college.”
“Mmmmm! I will definitely study hard for this meal! No, no! It’s for you!” Xue Jiao clenched her fists, as if she was determined to win.
At this time, the assistant Qiqi saw Qiao Nai and Xue Jiao, and took the support cards that she kept for Xue Jiao just now and returned them to her.
Qiao Nai saw that Zeng Nan was about to leave after coming out of the restaurant, and suddenly caught a glimpse of Xue Jiao’s untied shoelace, and raised one eyebrow lightly, “Your shoelace is loose. “
Xue Jiao looked down, but it was inconvenient to move because she was holding too many things in her hands. She was about to let go of the things on her hands first, when the person in front of her suddenly squatted down, and her slender and beautiful hands started tying her shoelaces.
At that moment, Xuejiao was so moved that she burst into tears.
Goddess tied her shoelaces for her, which is something she couldn’t even imagine in her dreams.
Her star chasing behavior was once incomprehensible to her parents and friends, but at this moment, she suddenly felt that the person she liked was the most beautiful person who deserved to be liked by the whole world.
She was not wrong.
After tying her shoes, Qiao Nai stood up, smiled and waved goodbye to her.
The girl waved excitedly at Qiao Nai’s back, even until Qiao Nai’s car drove away, she still couldn’t let go of it for a long time. She then took out her mobile phone and took a photo of her shoelaces, her face overflowing with happiness.
At this time, He Siyu was watching everything in front of him with great interest in a black nanny car parked on the side of the road.
Although the person was wearing sunglasses and a mask just now, the outfit was clearly Qiao Nai’s clothes in the photo he liked just now.
No matter how you look at that figure and body shape, it looks like Qiao Nai herself.
Not only did she tweet a minute earlier than him, but she even appeared a few minutes earlier than him.
If this is not fate, it can only be said that she has the ability to predict the future.
The corners of his mouth curved a little upwards, suddenly feeling a little interesting.
He Siyu got out of the car and wrapped his face tightly with a mask, sunglasses and hat.
He didn’t let his assistant follow, and came to the private room alone.
When Director Chen and Producer Zhang saw him, they immediately stood up and greeted him politely.
He Siyu didn’t put on any airs, and sat down opposite Director Chen after shaking hands.
Out of the corner of his eye, he glanced at the cup in front of him, which had lip marks on it.
He thought of the actress that he just met.
As soon as he thought of Qiao Nai walking outside just now, he instinctively felt that the person who drank from that cup should be Qiao Nai.
Director Chen opened his mouth first, “Well, Siyu, have you read the script?”
He Siyu said calmly, “I’m sorry, but I just got the script, so couldn’t completely read it.”
Producer Zhang immediately smoothed things over, “Siyu must have a lot of appointments at ordinary times, and we also contacted him in a hurry before.”
“Okay…let me give you a general introduction,” Director Chen cleared his throat and said, “The name of this drama is “Lost”. This is a sad love story, the hero is the dream lover of all women, but because of his past experience, there is only ambiguity and flirting in his world, but no love. The heroine meets him at the darkest moment of her life, thinking that he was her only bacon of light, but then found out that this kind of light can only be seen but cannot be touched by anyone, and it also does not belong to anyone. In the end, after getting hurt by him, she ended up pouring all of her emotions out.”
He Siyu roughly figured out the persona after listening to this introduction.
The director had put it mildly, but in fact the hero is a scumbag who doesn’t take love seriously.
This kind of role is not good for He Siyu’s image.
If his acting is good, he will be labeled as “a scumbag who was just acted his true self”.
Either way, it was a risky move.
But originally he didn’t want to go home today, so he just came to meet and chat.
He didn’t think about taking it too seriously either.
Director Chen had been sizing up He Siyu since he entered the door.
In fact, to be honest, an internationally renowned director like him would not try to curry favor with such popular artists, but when he saw He Siyu himself, he really felt that he was more like the leading actor than any other actor he had ever seen before.
His face was naturally suitable for the big screen.
Although He Siyu’s every expression and movement was properly polite and within boundaries, it gives people a feeling of abstinence, aloofness, and inaccessibility.
Only when such a person plays that kind of wild and full of desire role, will it give people a more impactful feeling.
If He Siyu was an actor, Director Chen would definitely make the decision on the spot, but it’s a pity that he doesn’t have any acting experience. This kind of person is too uncontrollable and may disrupt the rhythm of the entire team.
Director Chen has seen thousands if not tens of thousands of actors. Often times, he only needs to glance at them to know whether the actor is up to the role or not.
And the moment he saw He Siyu, he had a very strong premonition that no one was more suitable for this role other than He Siyu.
He said to He Siyu earnestly, “If you don’t want to be just a traffic star 5Traffic actors are the equivalent of idols, they have a lot of diehard fangirls and they typically act in idol dramas (esp historical ones) a lot. They aren’t really taken seriously by the industry although there are some who are. -Reddit anymore, this is your best choice.”
He Siyu was taken aback, he didn’t expect him to say such a thing.
Since his debut, He Siyu has been labeled with many titles, such as ‘Handsome’, ‘Idol’, ‘Traffic star’, ‘Empty Vase’, but it seems that no one has judged him by his “strength”.
After all, it wasn’t his original intention to enter the entertainment industry, and he also didn’t have too much ambition in this industry, but he always felt that he really lacked something to prove himself.
He seemed to need a chance.
Director Chen felt that this sentence touched him, judging from his micro-expression, and decided to give each other a chance, saying, “Well, you haven’t read the script yet, and now there are many things that are hard to say in detail. When you go back, read the script first, and then let’s try a scene, how about it?”
He Siyu originally wanted to refuse, but for some reason, he swallowed the words of refusal suddenly.
Maybe even he himself doesn’t know, subconsciously he maybe wanted to try it.
Anyway, he had never tried the path of acting before, and there was nothing to lose even if he failed.
He Siyu agreed, “Okay, then I’ll read the script first when I go back.”
“Well, I hope to have the opportunity to cooperate.”
Director Chen’s words were sincere.
He Siyu was about to stand up, when he caught a glimpse of the lipstick marks on the glass from the corner of his eye, and asked, “Who is the female lead of this play?”
“We are still checking whether her schedule is clashing or not.”
He Siyu nodded and asked, “Can I make a request for when I’ll be auditioning?”
“Tell me.”
“I hope to audition with female lead.” He Siyu said indifferently, “After all, we have to see if there is any spark between the two of us.”
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The author has something to say:-
He Siyu:- After all, what if she is not my wife? I only have feelings for my wife.
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T/N:- Just a short note about some of my other translated novels that you might like to give a read. Both of them are completely translated,
https://freenovels.net/the-vicious-villain-suffers-in-the-heart/
https://freenovels.net/delicate-female-supporting-role-a-and-tyrant-male-protagonist-o/
If you like cute high school romance BLs do give the first one the try.
As for the second one, it’s a omegaverse (maybe reverse omegaverse…?) with a female alpha and a male omega. Do give it a try.
Last but not the least, if you like my work, don’t forget to buy me a cup of coffee☕
Thank you(◍•ᴗ•◍)
