A Star Reborn: The Queen's Return

Chapter 27 - Xia Yu's Debut Song

This chapter has been translated by Atlas Studios. All credits belong to them.

Xia Ling had attended many music ceremonies before and was well aware of the distribution of the makeup artists. The number of people surrounding Xia Yu was clearly way over the quota for each person. Yet, Xia Yu was not entirely to blame for this situation. Every year, many makeup artists would volunteer to assist in the makeup of the top artistes, hoping to leech off their popularity. Even if it was just helping to do something small, they could still say that they had "done the makeup for so and so", easily duping those that did not know how things worked in the industry.

What was unexpected was that there would be so much commotion around Xia Yu, who was a new singer in the industry.

Hua Xue begged. "But Ken was the makeup artist assigned to me. The other makeup artists have their own artistes that they are responsible for. Even if I wanted to find someone else now, I wouldn't be able to."

On seeing the entire group still blocking the corridor, Wei Shaoyin's impatience clearly showed on his face. He told Xia Ling, "Xiao Ling, bring her to my makeup artist and get her makeup done."

During the days leading up to the ceremony, Wei Shaoyin and Xia Ling had been spending a lot of time together. As such, he no longer called her Ye Xingling but instead called her conveniently by her nickname, Xiao Ling. This nickname made her recall the unhappy memories of the past. She had tried raising her objection to the nickname. Luo Luo and everyone else called her Xingling, why did he insist on calling her Xiao Ling?

Wei Shaoyin had said that for some reason he felt Xiao Ling suited her better than Xingling.

Xia Ling had been speechless. She thought to herself that this man had the instincts of a wild animal and was a... hmmm, music producer that could touch souls.

Now, this music producer that could touch souls had just thrown her another problem. On hearing Wei Shaoyin's voice, Chu Chen suddenly turned to look at them, his gaze only stopping to look at Wei Shaoyin for a split second before turning to look at her.

Xia Ling knew that this was because he had heard the name "Xiao Ling". In her past life, everyone that she was close to would call her the same.

She sighed in her heart but looked calmly straight at Chu Chen outwardly. Even if her acting was not on the same level as an award-winning top actress, it was still sufficient to deal with this situation. Their gaze met in the air for a moment, and then Chu Chen first frowned before the expression on his face was replaced with disgust and disdain.

She had spent a lot of time with Chu Chen over the years and could now guess what was running through his mind. He probably felt that she was too lowly to share the same name as the former money-spinner of Imperial Entertainment. Xia Ling might have passed away, but her identity and status were still intact. Lowering Xia Ling's class would similarly lower the class of Chu Chen, who was her manager — Hmph, she had never tried to second guess a person from such a perspective before. After dying once, she was able to read more into things and became more realistic.

She turned her gaze away from Chu Chen, bent over and stretched her hand to Hua Xue, "Hua Jie, let me help you up. I'll bring you to get your makeup done."

Although it was the first time Wei Shaoyin was attending the ceremony, with his reputation as a gold-class top producer, no broadcast station would dare treat him shabbily. As a result, the makeup artist assigned to him was also considered one of the best in the industry and did not care to suck up to any of the popular artistes. At this moment, he was taking a rest, and after hearing Xia Ling explain Hua Xue's predicament, he immediately started to do her makeup.