Chapter 7

Xiang Nuan slid the screen and couldn’t help laughing.

“The drama has gained popularity both inside and outside the drama, this is great!” Zheng Xuanlin’s eyes sparkled with excitement as he watched the popularity soar.

“Xia Zehua is very cooperative.”

“Of course he cooperated. How could he not want such a good win-win opportunity? If this drama becomes popular, he can also be promoted to a higher level.”

Zheng Xuanlin patted Xiang Nuan on the shoulder: “Unlucky in love, but successful in gambling! Nuan Nuan, luckily you performed exceptionally well in this drama. Many fans said that your acting was surprisingly good in this drama, and it didn’t even look like you were acting. With the right time, right place, and right people, we will definitely be able to turn the tide!”

Xiang Nuan pulled the corners of her lips, lowered her eyes, and hid the sadness that flashed across her face.

In the afternoon, Xiang Nuan arrived at the backstage of the press conference. All the crew members were there, and everyone got to know each other in advance. Because this drama was filmed last year, everyone hurriedly joined the crew after the filming, and there were not many opportunities to contact each other. Xiang Nuan only had some contact with the second female lead, Bagel.

“Let’s go over the process first. We’ll introduce ourselves first, then talk about interesting things about the crew, perform some exciting scenes from the play on the spot, and then play some small games.” The host was explaining the arrangements while holding the script.

Beiguo bumped into Xiang Nuan’s arm and joked, “You need to interact more with Xia Zehua. Your two CP fans are eagerly waiting for you.”

Xiang Nuan smiled and said, “I’ll try my best.”

Xia Zehua sighed: “Look at how reluctant you are, do you dislike me?”

“How dare I? I heard that I was going to have a couple relationship with the entertainment industry’s top male star. I was so excited that I couldn’t sleep well yesterday.”

“You better not have slept well!”

Everyone burst into laughter.

After all, we had worked in the same group before, so the atmosphere quickly became lively and we gradually regained the atmosphere of playing together in the group before.

The agents of both parties even specially invited Xiang Nuan and Xia Zehua to hold a small meeting.

“It’s better to maintain the characters in the show, so that fans will feel more involved and will be more likely to follow them.”

Zheng Xuanlin was quite relieved. The characters in this drama fit Xiang Nuan’s personality very well. Both of them have a strong energy in their bones.

“You’ve always been a young white flower, but that’s only suitable when you’re young, and it won’t last long. It’s a good opportunity for you to transform yourself, too.”

“Okay.” Xiang Nuan nodded.

Xia Zehua spread his hands: “Okay, from now on, I will be a quiet and beautiful boy.”

“Just keep your mouth shut!” his agent warned him.

“Poplar” is a youth drama. The heroine Ni Man is a new transfer student. She is a problem student, eccentric and rebellious, and never listens to instructions. The hero Ji Yang is an excellent student who ranks first in the grade.

Two people who were originally very different from each other intersected because they were in the same class. Ji Yang was the class monitor and needed to manage the attendance of the entire class. Ni Man often skipped classes. He reminded her several times out of a sense of responsibility, but she still did her own thing.

It was not until one weekend when he got home from cram school and accidentally ran into Ni Man busy in a fried chicken shop that he realized she had been busy making money to support the family.

He then found out that she had a mother who was seriously ill in bed, and her father had abandoned her and her daughter long ago. Her relatives had been trying to shirk their responsibility for her custody, and she had been abandoned by countless people. In the end, she had to carry everything on her own with her thin shoulders.

He wanted to help her, but she was like a hedgehog, not letting him get close to her, forcing him to stay away and scolding him. She didn’t need someone like him who was out of touch with the world to pretend to be kind.

Later, Ni Man offended a gangster because the gangster confessed his love to her and asked her to be his girlfriend. She rejected him, and then on her way home from work late at night, she was blocked in an alley by a group of gangsters.

Fortunately, Ji Yang showed up in time. As a model student, he picked up a brick and started a fight for the first time. He was beaten to a bloody pulp but finally drove away the thugs. It turned out that Ji Yang was always worried about her coming home late from work alone, so he would always wait for her when she got off work and silently send her home.

Ni Man was gradually warmed by him, put away her edge and allowed him to get close to her, and even made an appointment to plant poplar trees together, but Ji Yang broke the appointment.