Chapter 9

Facing Ji Qingyuan’s question, Zhu Xinyue laughed and asked him back in a clever way, imitating his tone: “You care about me so much? Ayuan, you don’t like me, do you?”

Seeing her casual attitude, Ji Qingyuan heaved a sigh of relief, took his hand off her shoulder, and said, “Don’t joke, I said, I only treat you as my sister. But my brother is kind to everyone, I’m just afraid that you will misunderstand him, and then get hurt and come and cry to me.”

Zhu Xinyue curled her fingers and rubbed her eyes, pretending to cry, and joked, “Oh, oh, oh, the tears I cried for you can gather into a long river.”

Ji Qingyuan was amused by Zhu Xinyue and reached out to rub her head.

Why didn’t I find her so cute before? Every time he talked to her about their relationship, she was either angry or crying. How could she joke with him?

“It’s getting late, go to bed early. After signing the contract in two days, you will be my junior sister, and you will be busy afterwards. Go to bed quickly.” Ji Qingyuan walked forward from behind her, pushing her shoulders.

Zhu Xinyue turned half way around and asked him, “Aren’t you going to sleep?”

Ji Qingyuan said: “I’m going downstairs to watch a movie and do my homework. I have to be fully prepared for the next play.”

Zhu Xinyue stood at the stairs and looked back in the direction of Ji Qingyuan.

Whether in the novel or in the original owner’s memory, Ji Qingyuan is a perfectionist. He has a talent for acting and is more willing to work hard to complete his work.

Such people are indeed very charming.

“Fighting.” Zhu Xinyue clenched her fist to cheer him up.

Ji Qingyuan waved his hand and told her to go back to her room and rest.

Just as Ji Qingyuan said, after Zhu Xinyue signed with Jinhuan, she became his junior sister.

As for the contract profit, she didn’t try any more. She quietly asked Ji Qingyuan and learned that her share was about the same as his. She knew that this was all Jinhuan could give her, and it would be impolite to mention it again.

“These are the resources I can give you. You don’t have much experience. If you play the leading role right away and don’t perform well, you’ll easily be criticized. So my suggestion is…play supporting roles in big productions, become familiar to the audience, and take it step by step.” Brother Hu handed Zhu Xinyue several scripts.

Zhu Xinyue was sitting in the conference room of Jinhuan Entertainment Studio at this time. Through the transparent wall, she could see the employees in the office outside working at their positions. But for some reason, after she came, there were always people leaving their workstations, passing by the conference room from time to time and looking inside.

Brother Hu walked to the glass wall, grinned at the employees passing by, and then pulled the blinds to block their view of the conference room.

He certainly knew why they were so curious.

Brother Hu turned around and looked at the girl who was concentrating on reading the script across the long table.

Her facial features are just right, one point more and she is gorgeous, one point less and she is dull. The entertainment industry is not short of beauties, but what is lacking is special beauties. Fortunately, her temperament is very unique, a completely non-aggressive temperament, gentle and tolerant, especially her eyes. When she looks at you, it seems that you are healed. No matter what mistakes you make, she will forgive you.

If I have to give her a personal label – probably just like her name, she is a moonlight type of beauty, because the moonlight shines equally on everyone.

When Brother Hu was looking at Zhu Xinyue, Zhu Xinyue pretended to be reading the script in her hand carefully, but in fact she was confirming the next plot with the system.

System: “In order to protect Ji Qingyuan’s star career, you can shoot the same movie “Peach Blossom Spring” with Ji Qingyuan, and stay close to prevent Ji Qingyuan from getting hurt and affecting the filming.”

Peach Blossom Spring is the next movie that Ji Qingyuan is going to shoot. This movie is the beginning of how Ji Qingyuan and the heroine of the novel, Jiang Rui, met and fell in love.

During the filming, Ji Qingyuan was injured while saving Jiang Rui. Out of guilt, Jiang Rui often went to visit him, and ran into the original owner who was taking care of Ji Qingyuan. The two often quarreled in front of Ji Qingyuan.

But most of the time, the original owner was aggressive and sarcastic, making Jiang Rui look like a quiet little white flower.

As for melodramatic novels, this kind of plot is a very classic old cliché.

“If I save Ji Qingyuan, won’t it affect his relationship with Jiang Rui?” Zhu Xinyue asked.

The system said in a cold tone: “If the relationship between the hero and heroine of the novel can be so easily influenced by you, what is the point of talking about destiny and love stronger than gold?”

Zhu Xinyue raised her eyebrows in surprise.

This is different from the book-traveling novels she has read. Doesn’t the system try to match the male and female protagonists of novels?

Zhu Xinyue temporarily kept an eye out, put away the script in her hand, looked up and asked Brother Hu: “I heard that Qingyuan is filming “Peach Blossom Spring”, and this movie is also invested by Jinhuan. The creative team and the leading actors are very good. Can I go and learn from them?”

Brother Hu was mentally prepared. Ji Qingyuan told him yesterday that Zhu Xinyue had always followed him in doing whatever he did since she was a child, so she would most likely propose to work with him in the same movie.

He chuckled, took out a script from his bag and handed it to Zhu Xinyue.

“I dare not take all the credit for myself. This is what Qingyuan told me to do.” Brother Hu turned to the page with the colored label. “This role is a minor supporting role with only a few lines, but you will always be by the side of the senior. If you are lucky, the camera will focus on you and you will become familiar with your face. Tomorrow morning at nine, I will ask my assistant to pick you up for the audition.”

In the original world line, this did not happen. The original owner was still struggling with the confession video at that time, and Ji Qingyuan introduced her to resources in the entertainment industry only later.

After Zhu Xinyue returned to Lishan, she read the entire script carefully.

The background of “Peach Blossom Spring” is an ancient fantasy world. It tells the story of a group of idealists who live in seclusion and use secret methods to protect the people on the island. They live a peaceful and happy life until the arrival of the protagonist, who breaks the tranquility of Peach Blossom Spring and reveals the truth of the “secret method” – sacrificing a few to fulfill the majority.

The role that Zhu Xinyue auditioned for was the personal bodyguard of the second elder of Taohuayuan. After reading the script, she marked out the character’s lines and the places where he appeared.

There aren’t many lines, just four.

“Okay, Second Elder.”

“Received, Second Elder.”

“No problem, Second Elder.”

And when facing the invader and dying, he said, “I haven’t reported to the second elder yet.”

Why does it look so familiar?

Zhu Xinyue slapped her thigh. Isn’t this the three most commonly used words by a worker at work?

She is very familiar with these lines!

Originally, Zhu Xinyue was not very confident about this role, but now she feels a little more confident.

This movie is adapted from a novel. Zhu Xinyue also read the original work and found that it was quite different from the script. After reading it, she also read all the readers’ comments and book reviews that she could collect on the Internet. After comparison, she found that the movie script was more straightforward than the novel, and many metaphors in the novel can be found in the script lines.

In this light, the name “Peach Blossom Spring” is also full of irony.

Zhu Xinyue had been doing “homework” for the whole day and had used her brain too much, so she needed to go out to replenish her energy and planned to go downstairs for a midnight snack.

I happened to run into Ji Linyu who was returning home after working overtime.

“Brother Linyu, good evening!” Zhu Xinyue sat on a high chair in the open kitchen and waved to the man at the entrance.

Ji Linyu smelled a strong aroma of food, looked up at her, and asked casually: “What are you eating?”

Zhu Xinyue: “Instant noodles. Would you like some?”

Ji Linyu was about to refuse, but when he saw her sitting alone in the empty kitchen, with only one light on in the kitchen and a dim living room between the entrance and the kitchen, he suddenly changed his mind: “Sure.”

In the past, when Zhu Xinyue came home from overtime, she would also give herself a “snack”. The rental house was too quiet and it was boring to eat alone, so she would usually play TV series on her mobile phone to accompany herself while eating.

This time, Zhu Xinyue was eating instant noodles with a tablet computer in front of her, which contained an analysis of the novel “Peach Blossom Spring”.

Ji Linyu sat on the high chair next to her and took the instant noodles she brought, “Thank you.”

He looked down and saw soft-boiled eggs and ham in the bowl, which was more substantial than he had imagined.

Zhu Xinyue returned to her seat and swiped the screen of her tablet. She originally just wanted to turn the page, but somehow it turned into a split screen.

She had never used a tablet with this system before, and she was so flustered that she dropped her chopsticks.

Ji Linyu was quick to help her catch the chopsticks and put them back on her bowl.

“Ah…thank you. How do I get this tablet back to its original state?” Zhu Xinyue asked Ji Linyu for help and moved her tablet between the two of them.

Ji Linyu took a look and slid his finger across the screen, and the webpage changed from split screen back to full screen.

He noticed what was written on it.

“Peach Blossom Spring?” He signed the investment for this film and television project.

Zhu Xinyue nodded and said, “I have an audition for a role tomorrow. I don’t know if I will be chosen. I have to do some homework.”

“What role?” It requires her to be so attentive.

Zhu Xinyue rubbed her face, drooped her shoulders, tucked her chin in slightly, looked up at him with a dead expression, and said in a low voice: “A guard.”

Doesn’t sound like a very important role.

Ji Linyu rarely joked with her and said, “Your performance doesn’t look like a guard, but like a zombie .”

Zhu Xinyue kept laughing and then she couldn’t laugh anymore.

“Why……”

Ji Linyu heard her sigh and seemed to be troubled, “What’s wrong?”

“I’m a little worried about tomorrow’s audition.” Zhu Xinyue turned to Ji Linyu and counted on her fingers, “I’m not a professional actor and have no experience in filming. I get nervous when I face the camera.

“I’m afraid…I can’t do it.”

Ji Linyu raised his eyebrows and did not respond to her, but said, “Let’s eat noodles first.”

Zhu Xinyue thought he meant, don’t think too much.

Well, she didn’t expect the big boss to comfort her.

But she didn’t expect that Ji Linyu didn’t leave after she finished eating the noodles.

He sat on a high chair and waited for her to finish eating. After she put down her chopsticks, he picked up her and his own bowls and chopsticks, walked into the kitchen and started cleaning up.

Zhu Xinyue watched Ji Linyu cleaning the kitchen.

He half-rolled up his shirt sleeves, revealing his strong arms, muscular lines and blue veins spreading upwards from the back of his hands. After taking off his suit jacket, only his shirt and vest were left , with broad shoulders and a narrow waist, and a pair of long legs bound in neat suit pants.

It turns out that there are people who are impeccable from appearance to character.

Zhu Xinyue recalled her father. Every time they had a meal, it was her and her who did the housework. Sometimes, if she said a few more words to him, or asked him to wash the dishes for the whole family but only his own dishes, he would be unhappy and would throw the dishes directly into the sink and lose his temper.

Why……

Ji Linyu put the dishes into the dishwasher. After washing his hands, he slowly wiped the water stains on his hands. Turning around, he saw her sitting in her seat, looking at him absentmindedly.

Encountered by him. She suddenly came to her senses, blinked rapidly, looked away, and studied the tablet in front of her, muttering, “This tablet… is so hard to use.”

In the chaos, one look has to be covered up with a hundred fake moves.

Ji Linyu chuckled.

The acting is so poor and stupid that it makes people worry.