Chapter 3 -The Hidden Beauty

Know? Right, the Second Young Master just called for help, saying he’d been drugged by Ye Xian, and just as a man rushed out of the hotel wearing a bathrobe, even a stranger should have guessed what happened. “Should I go and take him down?” “No need, making a big scene won’t be good for Xiao Ze’s image.” “Okay.” Pang Kai nodded, steering the car towards the hotel. Bo Tingshen glanced at the gently rippling river outside the window, which quickly returned to calm. The river water in early summer still carried a few strands of bone-chilling coolness. When Ye Xian, shivering from the cold, followed her predecessor’s memory back to her hotel, she was startled by the person in the mirror. There was a head of exploding green hair; the heavy smoky makeup was streaked and patchy from the river water, making the whole face look like a ‘man’ who had just walked out of a horror movie. Was that really her?! It was so ugly she could hardly bear to look. No wonder when she emerged from the water just now, she scared away a group of tourists. Ye Xian quickly took the makeup remover from the dressing table and wiped for quite some time before revealing her true face. So it turned out that this Ye Xian was not only not ugly but actually stunningly beautiful, to the point of being androgynous. A pair of beautifully shaped starry eyes clear and bright, with curled lashes and relaxed brows, a straight nose, and thin lips glowing with a lustrous pink hue. A light curl revealed a dazzlingly charming smile, her skin fair and radiant, the kind that she couldn’t achieve in her last lifetime with any number of expensive skincare products, delicate to the point of breaking at the slightest touch—a face of perfect proportions. With such a face, cutting her hair short would make her a boy as handsome as jade, peerless in elegance; growing it long would transform her into a vivid beauty, charming and attractive. But with such a good foundation, why would she wear such dreadful smoky makeup? Had she gone mad? Thinking this, memories belonging to the original owner sprang to mind: The first time Ye Xian confessed to Jiang Wanze, he brutally rejected her, stating, ‘It’s impossible for me to like someone like you.’ Ye Xian took it to mean he didn’t like her appearance, so she asked him what kind of look he liked. Jiang Wanze thought she was playing dumb and pointed at a poster of a foreign actress with heavy smoky makeup, insulting her, ‘Like that, can you become like her?’ From then on, Ye Xian embarked on the wild path of smoky makeup, never to return. Ye Xian wiped the sweat from her forehead and started to make sense of all this absurdity. She remembered she was attending the Golden Image Awards ceremony, where the host read out her name with emotion, ‘Let us congratulate the winner of the 23rd Golden Image Award for Best Actress—Ye Xian!’ The hall erupted with enduring applause and blessings, and she, with an elegant smile on her lips, picked up her dazzling starlight dress and walked step by step towards the award ceremony stage. As she stepped onto the last step, her dress was stepped on by some careless person, sending her tumbling off the stage, and then… it was the scene of Jiang Wanze berating her in the Jintai Hotel. It must have been her arch-enemy Liu Rongrong’s doing, or perhaps Fang Meier’s, or… The important thing now is that she had transmigrated into the same-named vicious supporting female character, Ye Xian, from the novel “Bossy Movie Emperor’s Exclusive Love.” This novel was given to her by her agent for the next drama she was to star in, advising her to read the original when she had the time to better interpret the role, so she had skimmed through it the night before. The story roughly tells the Mary Sue love story between the female lead, Luo Yuwei, who climbed from an eighteenth-tier actress to the top, and the male lead, Jiang Wanze. In a novel of several hundred pages, the road to love was certainly not that smooth, and the vicious supporting character, Ye Xian, was one of the obstacles.