The counselor disliked Zhao Chuji intensely and would always create all kinds of difficulties for her whenever she asked for leave; even many of the teachers were quite unwilling to pay any attention to her.
At the beginning, Zhao Chuji did not take it to heart. After all, she had too many things to keep her busy…
The web drama produced by her company had received immense critical acclaim, and she was currently planning to sign several good new scripts and scout a batch of young actors. At the same time, she also had to keep a close eye on Yu Yao’s movements, planning a method to get closer to Yu Yao step by step…
As soon as she entered university, Yu Yao once again started her mode of not staying at home and running around all over the country. It was difficult for her to see Yu Yao even once a month.
This ran completely counter to her plan. She had deliberately taken the exam to enter a university in this city, originally thinking that after entering university, she would have more time to nurture her feelings with Yu Yao…
After all, Yu Yao was a block of wood; to move Yu Yao, one had to expend a massive amount of effort.
It was not until the first assignment after entering university even though she had strictly followed the standard template that she was graded as a fail by the teacher.
Although she did not care all that much about grades, she had never possessed a submissive personality either.
If she asked directly, this group of old slickers would definitely not tell her the truth. She simply went to the teacher’s office under the pretext of asking a question, and straightforwardly controlled the teacher to ask for the reason.
It turned out that someone was directing all of this behind the scenes, and there was more than just one force involved.
Although the director who had attempted to assault her back then was still in prison, there were many people in his family who were in this industry. They hated her to the bone and had already privately put out the word that they would not give her any opportunities.
The other force came from Sun Yan’s family. Back then, because the popular starlet Zhou Wei had bullied Zhao Chuji, Sun Yan had ultimately refused to apologize and was arranged by her family to flee the country.
After the Sun family learned the news that Zhao Chuji had entered the film academy, they contacted everyone they had ever had connections with, telling them to give Zhao Chuji a hard time.
Moreover, Zhou Wei had also graduated from this school and was currently developing very well, being a second-line starlet in the entertainment industry.
One was capital, one was an authoritative big shot within the industry, and she had also offended Zhou Wei…
Being jointly strangled by these forces while also being in the entertainment industry which was the absolute epitome of flattering the high and trampling the low it was no wonder she would encounter so many obstacles now.
If anyone else had encountered this kind of situation, they would probably only be at a complete loss.
But Zhao Chuji had never held any hope for this filthy entertainment industry; her own company was already capable of supporting any resources she wanted.
She was crisp and decisive, manipulating all the teachers who attempted to deal with her. She did not demand that they give her high scores, but only made them restore their professional ethics and treat her with the same equality as everyone else.
At the same time, she controlled the counselor, making the counselor approve all of her leaves of absence.
In this way, her days at the film academy finally proceeded in peace.
Under Zhao Chuji’s concealment, Yu Yao had absolutely no idea about everything she had encountered at school.
In Yu Yao’s view, Zhao Chuji’s luck had gradually turned for the better now; she was beautiful, intelligent, had good grades, and was liked by her teachers. What was more, Zhao Chuji had practiced taekwondo, so no one could make her suffer any grievances.
Yu Yao’s foundation was still developing rapidly. During the year she spent accompanying Zhao Chuji for her exams, most of the pressure of the foundation had been given to the team, and “X” looked visibly a round older to the naked eye.
Now that Zhao Chuji had been admitted to her ideal school, Yu Yao could not idle around either, and continued to run around all over the country…
Yu Yao had her own selfish motives: once she became busy, she could forget that kind of heart-accelerating feeling she experienced when getting along with Zhao Chuji.
Moreover, Zhao Chuji had already grown up, and she herself would eventually have to leave this world after all, so it was also time to slowly distance herself from Zhao Chuji…
But although she thought this way ideologically, in her actions, Yu Yao could not restrain herself at all.
Every time she came home and met with Zhao Chuji, she would uncontrollably feel a sense of breathtaking admiration in her heart, and she could not even help but look forward to what Zhao Chuji would look like the next time she saw her…
After entering university, Zhao Chuji became more and more adept at dressing herself up!
Originally, Zhao Chuji was already a great beauty when she wore no makeup, and now that her features had opened up a bit, applying just a small amount of powder and makeup made her so beautiful that people could not move their eyes away…
Yet, Zhao Chuji seemed to have fallen in love with teasing her, looking for her to “run lines” whenever she had free time.
Zhao Chuji seemed to want to take the path of directing and acting in her own work.
Yu Yao did not understand, but she cooperated fully wherever cooperation was needed.
At the very beginning, it was still some relatively normal scenes of a young girl’s secret crush. Yu Yao only needed to play the person who was secretly crushed on, being gazed at by Zhao Chuji’s pair of eyes that seemed capable of speaking.
Zhao Chuji was truly a natural born actor. Even though Yu Yao knew she was acting, the moment she connected with the sincere emotion in Zhao Chuji’s eyes, Yu Yao’s heart would always skip a beat, and she would become red-faced and ears-hot…
“If you go to film this kind of scene in the future, you should make yourself look ugly!” Yu Yao suggested sincerely. “Being looked at by you like this, anyone would fall in love…”
“How could anyone have the heart to refuse you?”
No wonder so many people in the entertainment industry would develop real feelings because of acting in a drama together.
“That might not be the case.”
Zhao Chuji seemed to view her words as a compliment. She wrinkled her nose, poked her head out from behind the camera, and cast a faint, systemic glance at her, her tone dark: “You wouldn’t.”
“I am an elder after all!” Yu Yao touched her nose guiltily, not daring to look at Zhao Chuji again.
Sometimes she would also watch the videos Zhao Chuji filmed. Even though she felt her own performance was extremely stiff, Zhao Chuji would always praise her untiringly: “Yu Yao, you acted so well!”
“We look just like a match made in heaven…”
“Yu Yao, you must run more lines with me. Only when I am with you do I not feel awkward…”
Every time she was made red-faced and ears-hot by Zhao Chuji’s teasing, she would always uncontrollably stroke the “emotion controller” on her arm, but after thinking back and forth, she had never actually pressed it down from beginning to end…
She could only flee further away, wanting to dilute the bond between herself and Zhao Chuji.
The duration of her business trips became longer and longer. In the first semester of Zhao Chuji’s sophomore year, she even went to a remote area for more than three months.
When she returned home, the sky was already dark, and she had not notified Zhao Chuji either.
But as soon as she turned on the light, she saw Zhao Chuji sitting right there in the living room, looking toward her expressionlessly.
Yu Yao froze for a moment, feeling inexplicably guilty for some reason, and instinctively revealed a smile: “Chuji, you don’t have classes today?”
“Something happened at school, so I came back early.”
“I asked the others, and they said you would be back within these two days…”
“I have made all the food, come over and eat quickly.”
Zhao Chuji smiled obediently just as she used to: “I will go into the room to touch up my makeup first.”
Yu Yao did not understand why she suddenly touched up her makeup in the middle of the night, but having traveled all the way and being famished, she was too lazy to think, and sat down to eat the meal.
Zhao Chuji’s cooking skills were very good, and she had made dishes that Yu Yao liked to eat.
After Yu Yao finished eating, Zhao Chuji walked out again. She had already finished her makeup and was holding a camera in her hand.
This time, Zhao Chuji’s makeup was completely different from her previous white-flower-style makeup. She was wearing a short skirt, had applied smoky eyeshadow with the outer corners of her eyes tilted upward, and wore a bright red lip color, making her look beautiful and dangerous.
Truly beautiful.
Yu Yao could not help but steal several glances at Zhao Chuji.
“Are you full?” Zhao Chuji set up the camera and turned her head to look at her.
“It was delicious!” Yu Yao nodded, praising her out of habit: “Chuji, your cooking skills have improved again.”
Zhao Chuji only smiled, cleared the bowls and chopsticks from the table, and carried them into the kitchen.
This smile of hers looked a bit strange, seeming to carry a bit of unhappiness.
Yu Yao blinked her eyes, pondering whether or not to ask for the reason. Zhao Chuji quickly came out of the kitchen and pressed the camera to record.
“Sister!”
Zhao Chuji had not called her “Sister” for a very long time. With this sudden shout, a few moments of daze actually arose in Yu Yao’s heart, and she allowed Zhao Chuji to sit down, softly and weakly throw herself into her embrace, and grasp her wrists.
“Chuji?”
By the time she returned to her senses, her hands had already been tied behind her back with a rope by Zhao Chuji!
“You…”
Yu Yao’s eyes widened, not understanding what Zhao Chuji wanted to do. As she struggled to shrink back into the sofa, she saw Zhao Chuji lower her head, a smear of sorrow emerging within her beautiful eyes.
“Sister, you always treat me as an insignificant person, summoning me when needed and waving me away when not.”
“When did I ever?”
Yu Yao knitted her brows tightly, looking toward the video camera with its flashing indicator light, her heart completely filled with incomprehension—
Could it be that they were running lines for a scene again?
But why didn’t Zhao Chuji even tell her the lines this time?
“Can’t you just look at me?”
Zhao Chuji raised her beautiful face, her expression sorrowful and despairing, as water moisture slowly pooled within her eyes.
She caressed Yu Yao’s face, the intense emotion at the bottom of her eyes slowly transforming into a deep, obsessive entanglement: “I only want to accompany you…”
The uneasiness in Yu Yao’s heart grew more and more severe. She knitted her brows tightly and tried her best to slow down her tone: “Chuji, I haven’t prepared well yet, let’s start over and film it again, okay…”
“Don’t say any more!”
Yet Zhao Chuji seemed to have made some kind of determination. Giving Yu Yao no opportunity to react, she covered Yu Yao’s eyes, leaned over, and crisply and decisively blocked Yu Yao’s words—
With her lips.
The texture of the lips was soft and moist. Yu Yao only felt as if she were being burned by fire; in an instant, she only felt as if fireworks were exploding in her mind, making a “buzzing” sound…
This was her first kiss!
Why did Zhao Chuji suddenly kiss her?!
Zhao Chuji’s body was also extremely stiff, but the arms holding her tightened abruptly, not allowing her to break free.
For a time, Yu Yao could even hear the violent sound of Zhao Chuji’s heartbeat…
A small tongue carefully and cautiously touched her lips, and seeing that it could not pry open her teeth, it retreated back with lingering attachment…
It seemed like an instant, yet it also seemed as though a long time had passed, before Zhao Chuji released her.
Light was regained before her eyes. Yu Yao was both shy and angry. Knitting her brows tightly, she glared at Zhao Chuji and was just about to question her, but Zhao Chuji took the initiative to let her eyes turn red, shed tears, and weep…
“Yu Yao, is my acting really that bad?”
Her tears rolled down like pearls, a pitiful sight that would move anyone to compassion: “I have been blacklisted by the industry!”
“Today, I submitted my withdrawal from the academy…”