Chapter 2.1: The Movie Queen’s Little Fortune (2)

TL: ZhenZhen
Editor: Arya
PR: QianMin
QC: ZhenZhen

In the entertainment industry, all kinds of celebrities could be seen everywhere, and Shen Yu was walking on the road. Naturally, his fans only had eyes for him.

But she was Lin Qinglu. Behind the shop window, many people poked their heads out and observed her in secret. The breeze blew as the shop’s wind chimes jingled.

Jian Yixin took a step back and said, “You must be kidding, we are just friends.” The gap between both of them increased, and Lin Qinglu stood up straight, nodded indifferently to this standard answer, and raised her leg to leave.

Lin Qinglu’s long windbreaker was blown by the wind, gently brushing the side of Jian Yixin’s hip. The moment she passed by, Jian Yixin changed her mind.

“Actually, we used to be friends, but now I don’t want to be friends with him.” Jian Yixin tilted her head slightly, her voice was neither high nor low, but she was successful in stopping Lin Qinglu.

Gazing at the stream of lively people from the window across the shop, there was silence. Lin Qinglu turned back to look at her.

Jian Yixin was very calm.

Since Lin Qinglu had found out that Song Pianzhen and Shen Yu were in an ambiguous relationship, she stood up without breaking their eye contact. In Lin Qinglu’s heart, she had always been related to Shen Yu in an ambiguous manner.

Normal interactions were fine, but becoming close friends with Song Pianzhen would mean that this label must be torn off.

Lin Qinglu might not have a favorable impression of her, and she might have even fallen for the white lotus(1) version of her.

However, ‘simply’ was never a derogatory term. Jian Yixin avoided Lin Qinglu’s eyes and put on a proper expression speaking in a low tone:

“I used to be his fan, but after interacting with him, I found that he was different from what I thought.”

“Sure enough, there is still a need for distance between idols and their fans.”

Song Pianzhen frowned. Because she had been dancing since she was a child, she had a graceful and elegant temperament, like a flawless white swan.

Her face displayed melancholy, like a fairy lost in the middle of a misty lake, beautiful and fragile.

Lin Qinglu blanked out for a while, but quickly recovered.

Tsk, she’s breaking her white lotus character?

She said lightly: “Don’t inform me specifically.”

“As long as you do your job well, it doesn’t matter who you are friends with.”

Shen Yu was walking towards her, but Lin Qinglu was too lazy to meet him, so she left without waiting for Song Pianzhen to reply.

The sound of high heels slowly faded away.

Xiao Jiu(2) was confused again. Just now, the host did not hand in the recording, and instead admitted her identity as Shen Yu’s fan?

[Too late to ask questions.] Xiao Jiu quickly reminded: “Shen Yu is coming soon, what can you tell him?”

Jian Yixin didn’t look back at all, just picked a direction and left.

“He won’t come.”

Xiao Jiu was doubtful, but after Lin Qinglu left, Shen Yu really didn’t go after her.

Jian Yixin thought lightly: “Are you afraid of men who have to enter and exit separately for a meal?”

After both of them left, the shop staff behind the window looked back, and said in a rush:

“Lin Qinglu is so beautiful I can’t help but love her to death!”

“Who is the other young lady, a new actor?”

“Hmm, I don’t know, she’s such a bright beauty though.” The employee said, and posted the picture on Weibo:

“After seeing so many actors, I finally saw the goddess, and the young lady in the same crew with her [with photos]”

The employees put away their phones with satisfaction, but because they didn’t add content tags and the actors’ names, the photos quickly sank in the Internet ocean.

When Lin Qinglu returned with the butterfly cake, assistant Liu Lele was waiting for her in the room.

“…That’s the third bag this month.” Liu Lele looked at the butterfly cake, stretched out three fingers, and added two more after saying, “Today is the fifth time you’re eating that cake this month.”

Lin Qinglu pretended not to hear: “If there’s nothing then let’s go back to the film site.”

Liu Lele sighed and handed over the list: “The list of interviews required by V Video has been sorted out.”

V Video was a short video program. The first period was less than half an hour. The main interviewees were the behind-the-scenes team of the star and the filming crew. They talked about some interesting things about the star. This time they invited Lin Qinglu.

Lin Qinglu took it, and Liu Lele said: “V Video is very interested in your daily life, and there are two interview spots left for the stylist. On the side representing the crew, the original plan is for Song Pianzhen to dance.”

“But Song Pianzhen…” Liu Lele frowned, obviously not having a good impression of Song Pianzhen, “I changed the camera, big sis, how ‘bout you check it out first.”

Although she asked if it would work, Liu Lele knew that her artist didn’t care about it at all, and she didn’t care about it either.

“What would you do about the camera time?” Lin Qinglu scrunched up the list, lowered her head and concentrated on unwrapping the butterfly cake.

“……Huh?”

‘What does that mean?’ Liu Lele was stunned, scratching her head, “Don’t you want to shoot the video?”

“Just Song Pianzhen.” Lin Qinglu raised her eyebrows, her cold was diluted by butter, and the smell was so sweet that it melted.

Unwilling to let it go, Liu Lele tried to dissuade her, “But she and Shen Yu are so close!”

Lin Qinglu was amused by her: “What a mess.”

“Just a rookie, what does she understand?”

However, she was a bit more sensible now.

“It’s fine, just give it to her.”

Lin Qinglu didn’t say any more, and brought the butterfly pastry to her lips.

Between her upper and bottom lips, the fine crumbs stuck to her red lips, sweet and soft.

Jian Yixin found a place to have her afternoon tea, and on the way explained to Xiao Jiu the reason she did that just now.

Xiao Jiu suddenly realized something, shut down and meditated.

(1) White Lotus: This term is normally used to describe an innocent/naive girl. But if it is used sarcastically, then it means that the girl is a scheming person who is only using an innocent facade.

(2) Xiao Jiu: The system’s name is System 09. I changed it to Xiao Jiu (Little Nine) because it sounds cuter.