Chapter 3455: Diva, Diva (12)

Qiao Ling’er didn’t know exactly what had happened, but Yue Wenlun’s favorability for her was suddenly skyrocketing.

She was absolutely elated.

As the saying goes, what you lose at sunrise, you gain at sunset. While she hadn’t managed to make Mu Shuyao lose her cool out of jealousy, she had succeeded in making Yue Wenlun fall in love with her.

Qiao Ling’er took a deep breath. Now that he was in love with her, everything else would be easy.

"I’m about to act opposite Mu Shuyao. Watch from the sidelines and see if I have any flaws," Qiao Ling’er said to him.

Yue Wenlun nodded. At this point, he was willing to do almost anything Qiao Ling’er asked of him.

He was helping her as much as he could because he wanted her to reciprocate his feelings.

The director called for Qiao Ling’er and Ning Shu to begin filming.

This was a fight scene that required wirework.

Being suspended on wires was a notoriously miserable and painful experience.

The crew members strapped Ning Shu and Qiao Ling’er into their harnesses.

Both women held prop swords.

Ning Shu lightly pursed her blood-red lips and brushed a strand of hair back. Her aura began to shift.

What did this fake fighting matter? Ning Shu had been in more real fights than she could count.

Besides, she had to make it look beautiful.

A martial arts choreographer guided them through the movements.

Yue Wenlun sat to the side, his eyes moving between Ning Shu and Qiao Ling’er as he observed their performance.

In terms of the fight choreography, Mu Shuyao was as graceful as a dancer. However, her eyes were exceptionally fierce and filled with killing intent, mixed with a touch of disgust and disdain. With her hair flying and her red robes fluttering in the air like fire, she looked like a flame dancing through the sky.

Setting aside the character’s personality, this scene alone was breathtaking.

Yue Wenlun was somewhat astonished. Mu Shuyao had always been gentle. When had her acting gained such spectacularity?

Seeing her so bold as the swords clashed and the two women locked eyes, Yue Wenlun was genuinely surprised.

In contrast, Qiao Ling’er’s fighting was clumsy. Although her acting was decent, her presence was completely suppressed by the other woman.

Yue Wenlun frowned. It seemed that even if Mu Shuyao wasn't the female lead, she was likely to become a major star.

This drama might end up producing ‘Double Pearls’—two equally brilliant female leads.

Yue Wenlun glanced toward the male lead, who currently had almost no presence at all. Two women were fighting over one man, yet the performance didn't show that there was anything about the man worth fighting for.

The male lead was essentially being left out in the cold.

"Pass! Good, very good!" The director was very satisfied and shouted through his megaphone.

The two women suspended in the air were slowly lowered, and their harnesses were removed.

Ning Shu rubbed her ribs. Being hung by wires really was uncomfortable.

Qiao Ling’er was physically delicate. By the time she got down from the wires, her face was pale.

Yue Wenlun could hardly stop himself from rushing over to support her.

But Ning Shu placed her hand on Yue Wenlun’s arm first. While smiling broadly at him, she said, "Wirework is so exhausting. Thank you for supporting me. You’re so considerate."

Yue Wenlun’s expression wasn't great, but with so many people watching, he couldn't just shake her off.

After all, Mu Shuyao was still his girlfriend. He had to maintain his public image in front of everyone. He couldn't let his persona crumble.

Ning Shu leaned on Yue Wenlun’s arm as if she were a dowager empress and he was her eunuch attendant.

Yue Wenlun looked back at Qiao Ling’er. Her expression was a bit dazed and her face was pale. Seeing her look so pitiful and abandoned made Yue Wenlun’s heart ache.

Ning Shu caught his expression out of the corner of her eye and scoffed inwardly.

The girl was clearly trying to capture him with her ambiguity and psychological tactics.

In this deep game of emotional traps, whoever took it seriously first was the loser.

From beginning to end, Qiao Ling’er had never actually said she liked him.

That was her brilliance. By not defining the relationship, she could still pursue other targets.

Any interaction could simply be explained away as ‘just friends.’

What a load of nonsense.

Ning Shu used Yue Wenlun’s arm for support as she sat down, then took a bottle of water and began to drink.

Yue Wenlun immediately hurried over to Qiao Ling’er.

Qiao Ling’er was suffering from the aftereffects of the wirework. She hadn't recovered yet, and her face remained deathly pale, making her look heart-wrenchingly fragile.

Ning Shu touched her own face. She felt fine. Was she too tough, or was Qiao Ling’er just too weak?

Ning Shu chewed on her straw while watching the two of them interact.

A stylist came over to comb Ning Shu’s hair and fix her hair ornaments.

Once the stylist left, Ning Shu found the popular Weibo account again to leak more gossip. She reported that Best Actor Yue Wenlun had come to the set but was completely ignoring his official girlfriend to dally with Qiao Ling’er.

The leak was naturally biased in her favor. She also hinted that she was now a ‘fading flower’ and that a breakup was only a matter of time.

She portrayed herself as a second-tier star being dumped by a Best Actor award winner, a bitter victim whose love had been snatched away.

Even if they were going to break up eventually, she was going to make sure Yue Wenlun and Qiao Ling’er came out of it smelling like trash.

After a short break, the director called for work to resume.

Seeing that Qiao Ling’er still looked unwell, Yue Wenlun couldn't help but say to the director, "Can we take a longer break?"

Yue Wenlun was a Best Actor award winner, after all, and he carried significant weight in the entertainment industry. Although the director wasn't happy about him interfering with the production, he had to give him some face.

However, instead of stopping entirely, the director moved on to film other scenes that didn't involve Qiao Ling’er—including Ning Shu’s scenes.

As a result, Ning Shu received another wave of sympathetic looks from the crew.

Her official boyfriend didn't care about her. He had run off to look after another woman and hadn't said a single word to let her rest as well.

Ning Shu, playing her part perfectly, put on a long-suffering face. she pressed her lips together tightly, looking as if she were struggling to hold back her emotions.

People naturally sympathized with the underdog. Ning Shu and Yue Wenlun were a legitimate couple, while Qiao Ling’er was the interloper.

The crew’s gaze toward Qiao Ling’er and Yue Wenlun became quite strange. However, the entertainment industry had always been a place of calculated interests and superficial acting, so these kinds of situations were all too common.

Even though Ning Shu looked upset, her state changed the moment filming started. She was even performing beyond her usual level.

She was very comfortable playing a villainous character. It seemed she was always cast in these kinds of roles.

She felt like laughing with her hands on her hips.

While she filmed, the other two rested and acted all lovey-dovey.

In her previous life, Qiao Ling’er had struggled in the industry without anyone to protect her. In this life, having someone care for her like this made her heart feel warm.

She was satisfied. Her vanity was fed by having a man protect her this way.

Qiao Ling’er felt a flicker of genuine attraction, but it lasted only a moment. She knew she still had other men to capture.

The fact that she had successfully won over Yue Wenlun gave her a lot of confidence.

If she could win over a Best Actor award winner, then top singers, composers, songwriters, and boy band members would be no problem at all. She would be like a fish in water in the entertainment industry.

Her goal was to capture all the gods of the entertainment world.

Her slogan: Flirt, flirt, flirt.

With the system backing her up, Qiao Ling’er was full of confidence.

Once she won over the industry's heartthrobs, she would become a diva, a Best Actress award winner, and even an Oscar award winner.

She would reach the pinnacle of life and become a goddess of the silver screen.

Just thinking about it made Qiao Ling’er’s blood boil with excitement. Her mind was filled with beautiful blueprints for the future.

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