✅ A star Reborn: The Queen's return (Completed)

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Chapter 141: The Dancing Role
Translator: Atlas Studios  Editor: Atlas Studios

Xia Ling had seen the script and found it alright.

The role she was to audition for was a dancer who would perform a beautiful dance at a palace event before killing the emperor. The role required the performer to be extremely skilled in dance, and the character of the role was not easy to grasp and present as well. If done properly, it would be a highly interesting and fantastic act. However, the level of difficulty was extremely high, and any lack of cautiousness could ruin the portrayal of the role.

Li Lei asked her how the script was.

She said, “I’ll have to discuss it with Sister Mai Na.”

Li Lei looked hurt. “Why not with me?”

Xia Ling simply said, “Can you tell the difference between folk dance and classical dance? Or the difference between ‘War and Death’ and ‘The Gambler’?” This Big Boss was good at everything, but he was indeed lacking in professionalism. The first time they met, he had not even heard of the best-selling song from her previous life that brought to fame. The previous night, when Lin Yuanyi mentioned “War and Death,” his look of confusion revealed his complete ignorance of it. Xia Ling sometimes shared Lin Yuanyi’s sentiments — landing in the hands of somebody so unreliable, how had Skyart Entertainment not shut down yet?

Li Lei was even more hurt now, but Xia Ling was speaking the truth, and he had no way to refute it.

Sister Mai Na arrived quickly. She was a top-tier manager indeed – after having an understanding about “War and Death” and the role, she paused for a mere moment before saying, “Take it up.”

Xia Ling asked, “Are you not afraid that I wouldn’t do a good job?” She was nowhere as confident about her acting as she was about her singing. In her previous life, she had only acted in a grand total of one film, and that role was one that Imperial had specially tailored for her.

Sister Mai Na said, “This is a rare opportunity. Although this role is not easy to act out, it suits you quite well, and there isn’t that much screen time, so if you put in more effort for it there shouldn’t be a big issue. There are so many big shots in this show, and it is a blockbuster. You have a four and a half minutes solo dance scene… it’s definitely worth fighting for.”

The entertainment circle was not a place where accumulating experience meant the most, so it would be foolish not to take a shortcut.

Nobody would give up the chance to rise to fame.

Hence, Xia Ling nodded. “Alright, I’ll take it.”

She gave Wei Shaoyin a call to let him know that she would not be able to go to the recording studio for a while and that her priority would be to secure the role in “War and Death” first. Not only did Wei Shaoyin not make things difficult for her, he simply restlessly replied, “Alright, go ahead.”

His response got Xia Ling worried instead. “Ah Wei, what’s the matter, are you unwell?”

On the other end of the line, Wei Shaoyin was in the recording studio, wearing his crisp and clean white shirt with a memorial album between his slender fingers. The album had a black kraft cover with a gold butterfly on it, and besides the butterfly were two words in a beautiful handwritten font — Her Masterpieces.

It was the Diva Xia Ling’s last album.

The album included the newly released “The Caged Butterfly” and some of her other songs.

Wei Shaoyin stroked the butterfly gently. “Xia Ling’s last album, have you listened to it? I suggest you listen to it. Feng Kun’s a jerk, he’s using past records to boost their image… But, Xiao Ling, we have to postpone our original schedule for the song release, because this album that the jerk has put together has awed everyone again!”