Chapter 109: The Beginning of the Scandal

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Chapter 109: Chapter 109: The Beginning of the Scandal "Just because she got famous by relying on Song Chi? I don’t want to act with someone like that!" The voice sounded somewhat familiar. Zhou Yun quickly realized that this voice belonged to the male lead of the play, Gu Huaichun. Accidentally hearing this kind of conversation, Zhou Yun’s first reaction was not anger, but embarrassment. However, since the very first meeting with Gu Huaichun, his attitude towards her had not been very friendly. Zhou Yun lowered her eyelids. "I know you don’t like her, but she’s the female lead. By pulling a long face at her, have you thought about the fact that you two will have to stay in the same crew for several months? You’ll run into each other all the time. Why bother?" The person persuading Gu Huaichun was also unknown, advising him with earnest concern. Gu Huaichun: "I really can’t stand it. Look at her now, she’s the last one to arrive at meetings, and we all have to wait for her alone. Does she really think she’s that important?" "She’s the most popular one, what can we do? Didn’t you see how even President Huang personally accompanied her here? Just bear with it. Once you become famous after this play, and you have the choice, if you don’t want to suffer this kind of treatment, then just don’t act with her anymore." Gu Huaichun fell silent under the other person’s appeasement. Zhou Yun didn’t care to listen any further and turned to leave. Zhou Lan saw her outside the meeting room and asked in a low voice, "Where have you been? Why did you come back just now?" Zhou Yun smiled and said, "I accidentally overheard a conversation behind a corner." "Ah?" Zhou Lan had a strange expression on her face and asked, "What do you mean?" Zhou Yun then told Zhou Lan about the conversation she had just overheard. Zhou Lan, visibly annoyed, said, "He dares to disdain you? I’m already being nice for not disdaining him! His face looks decent enough; how come his brain has issues?" Zhou Yun shrugged, "Maybe he thinks he deserves a better actress to partner with him." "Bullshit. He’s just a student who just graduated, has never acted in any play, and he’s already lucky to land an A+ level project like this by riding on your coattails." Zhou Lan frowned, "Isn’t this just an ungrateful act?" Zhou Yun: "Don’t speak of him like that. His role in this play has nothing to do with us; he’s from Yuehai himself, right?" Zhou Lan sneered, "Without our approval, could he act in this play? Does he think that just because he’s a Yuehai Network artist and the play is produced by Yuehai Network that he’s some kind of crown prince? Yuehai has so many contracted artists; whether he can become a crown prince or not depends on whether we favor him, okay?" "What should we do then? Can we go directly to President Huang and say we don’t want him to play the male lead and ask them to replace him at this point?" Zhou Yun asked. Zhou Lan had been spewing harsh words, but upon hearing Zhou Yun’s question, she quickly shook her head and said, "The harsh words earlier were just out of annoyance. We’re about to start filming soon. If we suggest replacing the male lead at this time, wouldn’t that seriously annoy Yuehai Network? Although you’re very famous now and have a say in this play, don’t misuse that power. Forcing a change of the male lead would only lead to mutual destruction." "That’s what I thought." Zhou Yun had never seriously considered being able to replace someone that easily. "However, we still need to give him a warning," Zhou Lan said. "People like him, so ignorant of reality, I’m afraid he might cause trouble for you during filming." "Sister Lan, what do you want to do?" "I need to think about it first." During the latter part of the script reading session, Gu Huaichun acted very normally, showing no obvious opinion towards Zhou Yun, though he indeed wasn’t enthusiastic, not as warm as the other actors. Zhou Yun said nothing and bid farewell to everyone with a smile. On the way back. Zhou Lan said to Zhou Yun, "Now Huang Zhong is trying really hard to curry favor with you. He gave me several scripts today, hoping to cast you." "My schedule for this year is already full." "What about next year?" Zhou Lan said. "Tell you what, the scripts he brought this time are much better than the ones before." "What are they?" Zhou Yun asked. Zhou Lan said, "All of them are adaptations of IPs. I looked into these IPs, and although they aren’t big IPs, their online reputations are very good, and the production teams for each one are decent. Particularly the one called ’Letter to You,’ a fantasy series. As you know, fantasy series have been the most likely to be hits in the past decade. The director of ’Letter to You,’ He Luochuan, is a famous director who has released several hits in recent years." Zhou Yun nodded and asked, "Then ask them for the scripts, Sister Lan, and get them for me to read." "Oh, interested? I thought you didn’t want to do fantasy series." "Not at all. I’ve read the novel ’Letter to You,’ and it’s really good," Zhou Yun smiled, "Don’t think just because I didn’t want to do sweet romance dramas that I only want to do serious work. I’m not some big celebrity who can afford to be picky. I just don’t want to do sweet romance dramas." "Why not?" "Fantasy series, even though they are fictional, have no direct references in reality, so I can believe in the characters and the story. However, sweet romance dramas are set in our current world, and it’s all sugar-coated like real life, which feels fake to me. I can’t immerse myself in that world. There are no such men in reality." Zhou Lan laughed. "I’ll talk to Huang Zhong and see how ’Letter to You’ is going. But I suggest you not be too choosy. Besides the script, director He Luochuan is a gold signboard. Even Wei Ruxue worked with him two years ago. To be honest with you, given your current status, if you could star in his work, you would be gilded." "Hmm." "Huang Zhong is really trying to secure a good personal relationship with you," Zhou Lan remarked. Zhou Yun said, "The success of ’Eighth Heartbeat’ must have made him a lot of money." "Right, Xiao Yun, the sponsor of ’After the Scandal,’ Chen Dian, wants to invite you to film an insert ad, and the pay is decent, so I took it for you, okay?" An insert ad is characteristic of online variety shows and dramas; it refers to an advertisement that is inserted midway through the program broadcast. Generally, they invite program guests or the actors in the drama to film it, not as an endorsement, purely to shoot an advertisement. "Okay." "The program will begin filming from this Friday." "Got it." "You have no work tonight, do you want to have dinner with me?" Zhou Lan asked. Zhou Yun shook her head: "I won’t join you for dinner, I’ll go home to rest." "Okay, then you rest well. I have to discuss business tomorrow, Xiaoju will pick you up." "Hmm." Zhou Yun nodded. Once they reached the underground parking lot, the security guard arranged by the company escorted her upstairs, and Zhou Yun entered her home, and they then left.

Chapter 109: The Beginning of the Scandal

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