He's Mine, No Objections Allowed

Chapter 40 - Scene of the retrenchment

"Why didn't you say something just now, why did you let me stay like this for so long?!" Lin Xia was so angry she was panting. "Hurry up and pass me your make-up!"

She fussed about for a long while, scattering Tu Jinglan's make-up kit all over the table and spent over thirty minutes to finish patching up.

"Are you silly or what, yesterday when Su Yi was live streaming, why didn't you take the chance to go show your face there?"

Lin Xia knew that Su Yi was live streaming, but she never took it to heart. For a permanent second female lead who wasn't some currently trending celebrity, a few thousand or so audience would be a good turn-up.

How could she have expected the other to have more than a million or so audience, and that even Director Chu would show up!

Didn't that equate to taking out everything both in the industry and outside? With that director around, Su Yi could manage to have the good resources she could ever want and then some.

Tu Jinglan had clearly thought about this too, but she wasn't able to lose her face and go knock on Su Yi's door. She grit her teeth and said, "I don't want to be riding on her coattails."

"Why are you trying to be all high and mighty at such a critical time?" Lin Xia said, as if hating how she didn't know better and wouldn't learn. "What a good opportunity that you wasted, just like that."

Tu Jinglan hurriedly said, "It's okay, Lin-jie, she's so famous now, how about you prepare some scandals and other dirt on her to send out? There'd be a lot of attention."

"You think you need to teach me to do things?" Lin Xia gave her a disgusted look. "Qi Lian has been chased out by the Chu Corporations, it'd be hard to enter the Chu Corporation headed projects in the future. You've been around for so long in the crew, did you form good relationships with the others?"

Tu Jinglan hurriedly nodded. "Other than Su Yi, the others are okay, but now that Qi Lian is gone, can't we find others?"

Lin Xia frowned, saying, "We'll talk about that later."

The show was filmed, the cake had arrived, one time bigger than the one Lin Xia brought over.

Su Yi bid Tu Jinglan a 'happy last day (of filming), Tu Jinglan unwillingly said thank you, and it was over.

When she returned to the cake, Chu Xi was still propping her chin on her hand, smiling.

"Is that witch still outside?" Seeing that she entered, Chu Xi sat up straight. "Is the cake that you ordered arriving, can I smash her face in once more?"

Su Yi said, "No, sit down."

Chu Xi was so curious she could die while in the make-up room. She leapt at the chance. "I heard you say just now, she was your previous agent? Why didn't you tell me!"

"I worked with her for less than half a year, what is there to say?"

"Tell me the truth, do you two have bad blood?" Chu Xi asked, holding her head. "No no no, that's rubbish, otherwise you wouldn't have joined in. What did she do to you, take away your resources? Not let you film? Or, force you to sign an unreasonable contract?"

Su Yi looked at her, amused. "You know quite a lot."

"I guessed it right?"

Su Yi picked up the brow pencil brush and brushed the edge of her brows a few times, saying insincerely, "About there."

Wu Xue came in with a cup of honey water, placed it in front of Su Yi and, seeing that everyone was present, started scolding them one by one.

"Chu Xi, how old are you now? You're not a primary school kid, don't do such childish things to people you hate! And you, she's young and doesn't know better, you – have you deaged too? Slapping the cake onto her face in front of so many people, who knows if someone took a photo of that. If the media were to just caption and post it, you'd be 'kicked out of the entertainment industry' again. The problem here is that you really meant it, you can't even try to deny that!"