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After waking up, Su Yaya washed up and got dressed. She headed out the door and drove the car over to the company to meet up with her manager. Su Yaya soon found Zhou Peiyun, who was holding the second female lead script and the contract in her hands. 

The entertainment company she was at right now was a small company called Starlight Entertainment. This year was the fifth year since it was established.

Competition in the entertainment circle today has become competitive, since various entertainment companies, film studios, online celebrities, and actors emerge in endlessly. Often, there were hundreds of people would fight over a side lead role in an online drama.

A small entertainment company like Starlight Entertainment has very limited resources, and it was indeed no easy feat for this company to have survived for five years under such intense competition.

Perhaps it was because Starlight Entertainment had great luck; originally, it wouldn’t be able to survive the year before, but who would have predicted that the manager, Brother Wang, would discover a handsome man with potential on the roadside. Brother Wang dress the man up and then used his connections to send him to participate in an online drama. Then, that online drama suddenly became popular, even the handsome man who acted as the second male lead became popular. Right then, this actor climbed his way up and became one of the current popular male celebrities.

The handsome man naturally became the top person in Starlight Entertainment. It was around that time that the said handsome actor, Xu Chaoran, had filmed a few drama series and advertisements one after the other before finally winning the Newbie Award. He had earned quite a bit for Starlight Entertainment and even brought fame to some ordinary actors in the company, helping the Starlight Entertainment through the period of difficulty. 

Half a year ago, Su Yaya signed a contract with Starlight Entertainment. She was basically a newbie, so far, she only took part in an online drama which had a normal number of views. She was a second female lead who fought for the male lead with the female lead, but her role didn’t have much screen time. If it weren’t for yesterday, when someone had taken pictures of her and uploaded it on the internet, resulting in a majority of positive comments and with the help of Zhou Peiyun guiding those comments, Su Yaya wouldn’t even be known.

At ten in the morning, Su Yaya arrived at the company on time. The moment she walked in, a group of people walked out from the elevator. The person walked in front of the group was about six feet tall, he wore a casual gray outfit and had long legs, making him stand out from the crowd and people noticing him at first glance. He wore sunglasses that covered half his face and his lips were pursed, which made him appear cold and indifferent. 

Su Yaya recognized him. He was the “big” brother of Starlight Entertainment who participated in a big-budget movie and was very popular, Xu Chaoran.

Xu Chaoran walked past her without glancing at her, and the group of people followed behind him, like a gust of wind. The fans waiting outside the company started to scream out his name as Xu Chaoran walked out, it was so loud that it almost busted Su Yaya’s ear drums.

Su Yaya looked towards the door, and saw too many fans surrounding Xu Chaoran, he was blocked and almost couldn’t get out. The guards had to protect and escort him out as he made his way towards his van.

“Are you envious? If you’re envious, then work hard. When you become popular, there will be many people who will be your fans and support you. They will chase and idolize you.” Zhou Peiyun, who came out of nowhere, stood by Su Yaya’s side and said this. 

There wasn’t a single person within the entertainment circle who didn’t want to be popular. Those who are calm and aloof were just people who didn’t have the abilities to become popular. Those who have the strength to become popular and who want to become popular won’t remain calm and indifferent within the circle. Many times, people simply acted calm on the surface but they would hinder others in different ways, for roles and advertisements.

From Zhou Peiyun’s perspective, Su Yaya was a good seedling that he could cultivate. She was beautiful and had the ability to bring life into her roles as well. There was also Shen Xiuqi who supported her from behind. If she tried harder, she might become popular one day. 

However, this lady had a bad habit, she was a bit lazy and picky on her roles. When Zhou Peiyun arranged work for her in the past, she would express dislike, and would rather go on dates with Shen Xiuqi or have sex with him. She refused to take the job believing, that having Shen Xiuqi as her supporter would free her from worries, so she didn’t place any importance towards her manager, and turned down several work her manger had arranged for her, which was quite irritating.

At first, Zhou Peiyun lost her temper and reprimanded Su Yaya for not working, but who knew that Shen Xiuqi would come over to talk to her the next day, saying that Su Yaya can work if she wants to and if not, let her be, as long as she was happy. 

Well, since the big boss had said that as long as Su Yaya was happy, what else could she say? She was just a manager who didn’t have much power, so Zhou Peiyun could only listen to him. She simply let these matters pass by while pretending to not know anything and turn a blind eye with Su Yaya’s matters and allowed her to do as she wished.

Fortunately, there was still a possibility to cultivate this woman. Her best weapon was certainly her beauty; Su Yaya was able to be on a fashion blogger’s Weibo just by going out and shopping, attracting many people’s attention, which was why Zhou Peiyun was willing to help her take a spot on the hot search rankings in the future. Although it was still currently at the bottom, but the popularity was still there. At least there was a wave of popularity whether this was only for the time-being or not, she needed to become well-known first. That way, people would come over with resources. 

As Zhou Peiyun was pondering this matter, Su Yaya turned her head around and smiled. She said sweetly, “Sister Zhou, I was just looking for you. I have an important matter to tell with you.”

Zhou Peiyun slightly raised her eyebrows, wondering what important matter this girl wanted to say? Could it be that she was too tired and didn’t want to work? Zhou Peiyun already spent a lot of effort to help her obtain a role for the advertisement. If she refuses to work again then she could just give it to someone else. After all, there are other actors working under her; Su Yaya wasn’t the only one. Of course, if that happens, she will no longer arrange work for Su Yaya and will simply let her do whatever she wants to. 

“What do you want to say to me?” Zhou Peiyun crossed her arms over her chest and asked. 

This was the company’s lobby where employees would come in and out from time to time. Su Yaya looked around, and when no one was paying attention, she moved closer to Zhou Peiyun and then said in a low voice, “Sister Zhou, President Shen gave me a second female lead role in a TV show.”

Zhou Peiyun’s eyes immediately brightened when she heard this, this news was clearly beyond her expectations. She thought that Su Yaya was being lazy again and didn’t want to work, who knew she would give her a surprise instead. She hurriedly held her arms and said quickly, “Let’s talk upstairs in my office.”

Su Yaya hurriedly agreed, that’s right, they should be talking about work matters in the office. Plus, since she had gotten the second female lead easily, if people found out about it, it wouldn’t be good, so she obediently followed Zhou Peiyun into the elevator. 

Once they were inside, Zhou Peiyun pressed ‘5’ indicating the 5th floor with one hand while the other had not let go of Su Yaya’s arm. It was rare that she was affectionate to her, sensing this, Su Yaya quickly straightened her posture, and kept her bag aside. She watched as the elevator’s floor numbers change until it stopped at the fifth floor with a ‘ding’ sound. The elevator door opened and two walked out with Zhou Peiyun still holding onto her arm, pulling her straight to the office. 

Zhou Peiyun’s office was at the end of the hallway. She dragged Su Yaya to the entrance and took out the key to unlock her office door and pulled Su Yaya in before closing the door and locking it. Then, she turned around to look at Su Yaya. 

She looked at her with a look that Su Yaya had never seen before, as if doubting Su Yaya thinking if this girl was finally enlightened? Does she no longer believe that love is everything? She wanted to work now? Or, does President Shen didn’t want her anymore so this was the compensation he had given her for breaking up? But this wasn’t right, President Shen was a very generous person. If they broke up, he wouldn’t just give her a second female lead’s role in a TV show! Could there be other reasons?

“Tell me. What exactly happened? President Shen really gave you a second female lead’s role in a TV show?” Zhou Peiyun asked. 

Su Yaya didn’t know what was running inside Zhou Peiyun’s mind, and just nodded her head and delivered the contract to her. She said, “Sister Zhou, this is the contract. I just got it this morning. You know that I don’t really understand these things, so can you take a look at it for me?”

Zhou Peiyun took a quick look at her before taking the contract. She lowered her head to glance at the TV show’s name on the cover and was soon stunned. “This is the drama directed by Zhou Tongguang, called《The Curtains of Prosperity have Fallen》?”

She flipped through the contract to see that it was really Zhou Tongguang directing this. 

Director Zhou Tongguang was an expert at filming historical dramas. The TV shows that he had filmed before all had great ratings. In short, as long as he was part of the TV show, nothing could go wrong.

In this 《The Curtains of Prosperity have Fallen》was also one of the TV series that Sheng Shi Entertainment has invested this year, so in order to get a role everyone pour out their talents and best abilities, battling against each other.

From what Zhou Peiyun knew, the female lead of the drama appeared to be the actress who won both the Thousand Flowers Award and Best Actress award, Cheng Yan. The male lead hadn’t been decided yet but there were two potential ones. One was from Starlight Entertainment, Xu Chaoran and the other was the popular celebrity, Yan Junyi. The two had their special talents and were good at acting. Both had the chances to obtain the male lead. 

With such a great configuration, Zhou Peiyun was really suspicious as to how Su Yaya obtained this role. She looked at her and asked, “Why would President Shen give you this role?”

Su Yaya laughed and said, “Because I’m cute!”

Hehe.

It would be strange if Zhou Peiyun believed her. She said with a gloomy face, “Be serious. What exactly happened?”

She didn’t believe her words so Su Yaya stopped smiling. She told Zhou Peiyun the truth, “I slept with him.”

Zhou Peiyun was stunned for a moment when she heard what she said, before she realized that Su Yaya and Shen Xiuqi had that kind of relationship. Instead of saying that they were a couple, it was better to say that Shen Xiuqi was Su Yaya’s sugar daddy, so it was normal for him to sleep with her. 

“Isn’t it a parting gift?” Zhou Peiyun crossed her arms over her chest and asked.

Hearing her question made Su Yaya’s eyes widened in shock, unable to understand why Zhou Peiyun would say this. She hurriedly shook her head and said, “No, no. How could it be? We’re pretty good together.”

“Really?” Zhou Peiyun confirmed again.

“Of course!”

The moment she finished her words, her phone rang. She opened her bag to take her phone out. Seeing the name on the screen, she smiled happily and waved her phone at Zhou Peiyun, indicating for her to look at the name on the screen.

She said proudly, “See, President Shen called me.”

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