On the other side, Liu Rulan walked up to Su Shengxi and said, “Go say hello to Xiao He in a bit.”
Su Shengxi looked up and smiled helplessly, “Sister Liu, I’m about to shoot my next scene, I really don’t have time, sorry.”
Liu Rulan glanced at him, but ultimately did not expose his clumsy lie.
Forget it, it doesn’t matter anymore.
Thinking of her upcoming plans, Liu Rulan lost her previous patience. “Then do as you wish. I’m leaving now. Keep a low profile during this period; there are eyes everywhere watching you.”
“Understood, Sister Liu.”
Su Shengxi obediently agreed.
Only after Liu Rulan left did Su Shengxi’s face fall.
“What an old hag, so much trouble.”
He placed the script in his hand to the side, leaned back on the soft sofa, and started playing on his phone.
-
“Mr. Xiao, hello.”
A strange woman suddenly stood in front of Xiao He.
Xiao He looked up, gazing at the woman with some confusion.
The other party was probably in her thirties, with a neat, ear-length bob, dressed in a black women’s suit. Her expression was serious and stern, carrying a hint of the authority of a school homeroom teacher, which made Xiao He subconsciously sit up straight.
“My name is Liu Rulan, and I am currently an agent at Jiaxing Entertainment.”
Saying that, Liu Rulan handed Xiao He a business card: “I am very optimistic about your future development. If possible, I hope you will consider me to be your future agent.”
Xiao He: ?
He took Liu Rulan’s business card, his expression not yet adjusted to a social state, when the other party continued, “You can first take a good look at my resume and consider it carefully for a few days. I won’t bother you any longer. I hope when we meet next time, you can give me an answer. Goodbye.”
Then the woman left swiftly in her high heels.
Xiao He hadn’t even had a chance to speak from beginning to end, and the person had already disappeared.
This person was truly a bit too efficient, not a single wasted word...
But it was indeed the type of agent he preferred, simple and easy to communicate with.
Xiao He flipped the business card in his fingers, but upon seeing ❖ Nоvеl𝚒ght ❖ (Exclusive on Nоvеl𝚒ght) the text on it, he was slightly surprised.
This was not a business card with a Jiaxing Entertainment background, but rather a business card that only introduced Liu Rulan herself.
In other words, this invitation was extended to him by Liu Rulan herself, and not on behalf of Jiaxing Entertainment.
Recalling how Liu Rulan had deliberately emphasized “currently is,” Xiao He vaguely guessed something.
—This Agent Liu... wants to go solo.
That’s... quite good.
Xiao He pondered for a moment, then still put the business card into his bag.
- Inside the set -
“This phone call, only you touched it yesterday, and then Director Li’s mission just happened to fail, and all our arranged undercover agents and informants disappeared. Don’t you think that’s a coincidence?”
Meng Zetian suddenly closed the distance between them. His cold eyes held both amusement and an imperceptible probing.
The young man he was holding was slender and refined, wearing a pair of gold-rimmed glasses. The eyes beneath the glasses flickered slightly, and he secretly clenched his fists: “I don’t understand what you mean, Captain Meng. If you have suspicions, you can directly report me and have me arrested.”
Meng Zetian narrowed his eyes, staring unblinkingly at the person in front of him. After a long silence, a smile suddenly bloomed on his face, and he patted the other person’s shoulder: “Nickname, Reporter Bai is still so timid! That won’t do! What if a war breaks out in the future, you won’t even qualify as a war correspondent.”
Bai Mingchuan pushed up his glasses, his lips twitching into a forced smile as he replied, “I don’t need to worry about that. After all, this is Shanghai. If there really were any military action, it probably wouldn’t be my turn.”
“Nickname, that’s true—”
Meng Zetian chuckled. They exchanged glances, the smiles in their eyes not reaching their depths.
-
“Cut—”
Wen Hongyuan called out, his expression finally shifting from serious to gentle.
“Good, that take is passed.”
Immediately, the previously quiet office became lively again. Staff members stepped forward, beginning to tidy up the items on the desk and prepare for the next scene. Xiao He released Su Shengxi’s hand, nodded slightly at him, and then turned to get water.
Su Shengxi stared at Xiao He’s retreating back, his expression unusually grave.
“Xiao Su, ah—”
Wen Hongyuan called out to him.
Su Shengxi immediately put on a smile and walked to Wen Hongyuan’s front.
“Look here...”
Wen Hongyuan began to talk endlessly about the scene with Su Shengxi again.
Xiao He walked to the side, and Yi Man’er proactively handed him a bottle of mineral water.
“Thank you, Sister Yi.”
Xiao He took it and thanked her.
Yi Man’er’s face, however, showed a hint of worry: “You’ve really offended Su Shengxi to death these past few days.”
Xiao He: “Eh?”
I offended Su Shengxi?
Xiao He drank water while recalling: “It seems... I didn’t, right? Wasn’t it just normal acting? Could it be that he got into character and started hating me too?”
Indeed, he had more scenes with Su Shengxi recently. The Meng Zetian he played was full of suspicion towards the Bai Mingchuan played by Su Shengxi, constantly pursuing him to catch his suspicions, even setting traps for Bai Mingchuan to fall into, making the novice Bai Mingchuan suffer greatly, often needing the male lead Director Li to come to his rescue.
If he empathized with Bai Mingchuan’s emotions, then it was normal for Su Shengxi to hate him.
“Of course not, his acting is superficial, how could he empathize with the character?” Yi Man’er shrugged, “It’s just that since you joined the crew, he often NGs when acting with you, and you’re making him lose a lot of face.”
Xiao He widened his eyes: “Ah? But when he acts with Teacher Zhang, he NGs even more often.”
“Those are senior veterans, can you compare yourself to them?” Yi Man’er’s words were very direct, “Su Shengxi’s star power is the biggest in this drama, and he has capital backing him. Except for those few veterans, other actors deliberately defer to him. This has basically become an unwritten rule.”
“Huh?”
Xiao He hadn’t expected such a situation.
As a complete newcomer, he really didn’t know anything!
“So you really didn’t know anything.” Yi Man’er looked at Xiao He with pity, “That’s right, you don’t have an agent, so you probably haven’t encountered this kind of situation in previous crews, and no one reminded you.”
Yi Man’er was currently in Group B, filming under the Assistant Director, and was not aware of the filming situation in Group A. She had only heard about it from the makeup artist while getting her makeup done earlier.
Xiao He was a bit speechless: “Then whatever, he can’t kick me out, can he?”
To be honest, Xiao He wasn’t afraid of Su Shengxi at all now. After all, he was the one who exposed Su Shengxi and Xu Youyou’s romance scandal. Would he be afraid of a spineless man who lacked responsibility?
Nickname.
Yi Man’er didn’t expect Xiao He to be so confident. She sized him up, momentarily unsure where this guy’s confidence came from: “Then you just be careful.”
Having said that, she had done her part.
And in the days that followed, Xiao He didn’t notice anything obviously amiss.
Their filming schedule was very tight, and the work intensity was higher than usual. Xiao He was on guard for a few days but didn’t find Su Shengxi trying to cause him trouble. Instead, Su Shengxi recently left right after filming, seemingly busy with other things.
Xiao He was a bit puzzled, but he didn’t relax his vigilance. Instead, after a certain scene, he proactively opened his golden finger panel.
Mu Ze’s long-tail effect still existed. After this period of accumulation, Xiao He had five more lottery chances.
Thinking of the continuously decreasing lifespan points due to not “killing people” recently, Xiao He felt a pang of heartache but still went all-in in one go.
Don’t expect any new crime skills anymore. He really doesn’t have much interest in crime. If possible, just give him more lifespan points!
Oh, System God who controls fate~ Please look at this child!
