Chapter 56: Chapter 56 Miss Numbers
Luan Xiaoyao: “Ye Xian, you…”
“You what? Look at others, then look at yourself!”
A woman nearly thirty was unbelievably crude, lashing out at a child, whereas Ye Xian, although just of age, was modest and kind, repaying evil with good!
Both being actors, how could their characters differ so much!
Li Jiahua’s insinuations were clear to everyone. Gritting her teeth with fury, Luan Xiaoyao glared at Ye Xian before stomping out of the makeup room.
A buffoon jumping on stage.
Ye Xian curled her lips slightly. Being in the midst of it all, she had no choice but to deal with these “Useless Troops” around her original self. If it were her previous life, she wouldn’t have given her the time of day with such ineptitude.
Li Jiahua came over, looking at him with concern. “Ye Xian, are you alright?”
“I’m fine. I was just rehearsing lines with Sister Xin. Director, did you need me for something?”
“That’s right, there’s going to be a French dialogue added to your scene later. I know you don’t speak French, so there will be a voice-over done in post-production; you just need to match the lip movements.”
“Match the lip movements?” Jiang Xin said. “But even for that, you need some basic French.”
Li Jiahua: “It’s alright. You just need to silently count from one to four throughout, and it will be matched to your lip movements in post-production.”
One, two, three, four?
Cheng Jingshu’s ears perked up instantly.
Ye Xian nodded. “Director, could I see the French lines?”
Li Jiahua handed over the script, and upon seeing his slightly disheveled collar, his anger flared up again. “Ye Xian, if anyone dares to bully you in the crew again, you must tell me! See if I don’t fire them!”
“Okay, thank you, Director~”
Cheng Jingshu gestured to Xiao Wen with her eyes; Xiao Wen nodded subtly and pulled Huihui, who was mesmerized by watching Ye Xian, out of the makeup room.
“Sister Xiao Wen, what’s wrong?”
“Do you have the camera?”
“When Ye Xian films the French scene later, use the camera to secretly record it and post it online.”
“Why?” Huihui was confused; Xiao Wen paused, looked around and whispered, “He can’t speak French and can only substitute it with counting from one to four.”
Huihui immediately understood. Having been in the fan circle for many years, she of course knew the story of ‘Miss Numbers.’
A widely circulated tale spoke of a very popular actress with powerful backing who was exposed for acting like a diva during filming, not memorizing her lines and simply counting from one to four, leaving it to voice actors to dub in post-production. The incident sparked outrage among netizens, resulting in a boycott, and in just a few days, the actress was blacklisted and vanished from public view.
So now, was Goddess Jingshu trying to blacklist Ye Xian in the same way?
But this was a special case for Ye Xian, and it was the director who asked him to do it—it wasn’t his idea at all…
Such a serious breach of professionalism going public could mean the end of Ye Xian’s career in the entertainment industry, no matter how powerful his backing—it was a death sentence.
“Just do as you’re told, and Sister Jingshu won’t skimp on your reward.”
After giving her instructions, Xiao Wen took a card out of her pocket, handed it to her, and hurried back to the makeup room.
Huihui stared at the card in her hand and the miniature camera in her arms, utterly lost.
She had come with a clear purpose, but now her mind was a mess.
She had agreed to record Ye Xian’s scandal, based on her adoration of Cheng Jingshu and the actual existence of black material against Ye Xian, not this kind of false fabrication.
How could Goddess Jingshu deliberately set someone up…