Chapter 58: 058 Unfamiliar
Shi Lan looked icily at Chen Beini, then raised her voice to the director, “Director Tang, isn’t it time to start shooting?”
“Actors in position!” Director Tang called out.
Then, in front of everyone, Miss Shi demonstrated what it meant to utterly crush an opponent.
Throughout the morning, Chen Beini kept NG-ing on set, and Shi Lan was hanging her out to dry.
By the time the morning’s scenes were finished, Shi Lan was relaxed, but Chen Beini had been scolded to the point of shedding a layer of skin.
In the end, as Shi Lan left with her makeup still on, she said to Chen Beini, “Sorry for taking it seriously this morning, but if I hadn’t, you would never find your place. Performing like that must be your limit, right?”
“Oh, by the way, just a friendly reminder, the scene this afternoon is ours again.”
Chen Beini was left utterly livid.
Shi Lan left the set indifferently, taking Sun Ling with her.
On the way to the makeup room, Shi Lan sent a WeChat message to Yan Shixiu: “Don’t interfere too much with my personal affairs.”
When Yan Shixiu saw it, his eyes stung with pain.
Shi Lan: “You had Chen Beini allocate resources to me, which is like putting me on the grill. Whether I accept it or not?”
After reading the latest message, Yan Shixiu sighed lightly and replied, “If Chen Beini is plotting against you, I have to make her pay a price. Moreover, the resources aren’t coming directly to you, they need to be fought for. Are you afraid you can’t beat her?”
Reading the first half of the sentence, Miss Shi felt her spirits lifted, calming her previously irritable mood.
So what she cared about wasn’t the issue of resources or being humiliated by Chen Beini; she had never been afraid of such provocations. In the end, she disliked interference in her personal affairs and being squeezed in her personal space. These were the same pain points as in her past life.
Shi Lan: “What I like the least is others doing things behind my back. Isn’t it better to tell me directly, friend!?”
Yan Shixiu suddenly thought of the past life, when he didn’t understand Shi Lan. He believed that many things could be left unsaid and that adults didn’t need to make everything overly clear—a lesson he had learned since childhood. However, this approach clearly didn’t work with Shi Lan and had led to major communication issues between them.
Iron Straight Lan preferred straight talk; all her cunning and schemes were reserved for the business world, but with people around her, she disliked cryptic or passive-aggressive talk.
Moreover, it was rare today that she actually expressed her feelings directly.
Perhaps this was the advantage of starting as friends, which was also why Shi Lan was willing to communicate normally with Duan Langxi.
Therefore, Yan Shixiu’s heart softened for a moment, and he replied, “It won’t happen again, everything will be in front of you.”
Shi Lan: “Being frank is the foundation of friendship, friend.”
Yan Shixiu, feeling like the one being placated, finally smiled, “Only you dare to run wild on the boss’s head.”
Shi Lan sent over a coffee emoji, feeling better.
Sun Ling, at Shi Lan’s side, occasionally caught glimpses of their chat conversation. Apart from surprise, she could not utter another word because she felt that the way Shi Lan and Yan Shixiu interacted and the way they spoke to each other didn’t resemble that of a minor celebrity and a major CEO.
Who dares to get angry and question Yan Shixiu to his face?
Even Director Tang showed utmost politeness to CEO Yan, and as for Gu Chengyu and Chen Beini, they were even more unassertive, like mice before a cat. So why was it such a scene with Shi Lan?
Could it be that CEO Yan is a masochist?
The more dominant the woman, the more Yan Shixiu likes her?
“An Lan, are you really… really not close with CEO Yan?” Sun Ling asked once again.
Without hesitation, Shi Lan replied: “Not close.”