“Miss, could you please let go of Yongjun’s foot? We have an important meeting to attend in a moment.” The voice coming from beside her sounded a bit anxious.
I won’t let go! This person is the reason why I need to woo someone in the first place. She had clearly made up her mind that if she didn’t touch anyone, she wouldn’t have to play the romance game! However, even though she was thinking this, her grip on the boot loosened a little bit.
“Are you okay?” A cold, emotionless voice came from above her head. It sounded like clear spring water dripping onto pebbles, giving people a refreshing feeling.
For some reason, Mu Xuefei only felt her heart tighten. She quickly let go of her hand, and then buried her head inside the crook of her arm. Until she heard the sound of high heels tapping against the tile floor echoing by her ear, she suddenly looked back and saw a slender back figure. Her height was visually estimated to be one meter seventy-five, her legs were one meter two long, and her walking posture was very straight—you could tell at a glance that she had undergone training. Moreover, the skin exposed outside was very fair. Even though she didn’t see her face, her facial features definitely wouldn’t be bad.
Thinking this, she wasn’t as repulsed by this target anymore. However, did she actually forget to look at what the target looked like just now?
Damn it, how could she forget such an important thing?
[Ding, congratulations to the player for achieving (True Flop – Achievement). Reward: Romance System unlocked.]
[Ding. Romance target (Yun Yongjun) affection: 0/100]
[Ding, affection increase value is now 10/100. Affection interpretation: A little fan trying hard to flop and trying to build presence in front of me, not bad.]
Screw her little fan! Screw trying hard to flop! Screw building presence!
This is an accident, okay?!
Mu Xuefei’s heart, which had just calmed down, was blown up again by the system’s interpretation, and she even blurted out the slang words she used during her middle-school-syndrome phase.
“Dear player, please calm down.” Facing Mu Xuefei’s expression that looked like she wanted to eat someone, the elf flew back a little bit out of fear and reminded her, “Player, would you like to get up first?” Staying flat on the floor the whole time is really embarrassing.
“Why should I get up? The floor is so comfortable, I just—”
“Tap, tap, tap—” A sound of footsteps suddenly started.
The moment she heard the sound, Mu Xuefei “bang—” pushed herself up from the ground with her hands and jumped up, then pressed her back against the wall with her head lowered halfway.
She subconsciously reached out to touch her bangs, but didn’t feel any bangs, and then she remembered that the original body didn’t have bangs at all.
She put her hand down a little awkwardly, smiled at the woman standing in front of her, but found that the other person suddenly froze.
Seeing the other person’s expression, Mu Xuefei’s heart tightened. Did the original body not like to smile? Thinking of this possibility, her expression changed, and her smile instantly flattened, maintaining a poker-face look.
“Hey, Xuefei, the company has already canceled its contract with you, and Brother Zhao was pissed off by you too. Right now…” That person looked at Mu Xuefei with a complex expression before speaking, but as she spoke, she couldn’t go on, her voice carrying a choke, “You should take care of yourself from now on. I—I am also going to switch agencies. After all, we offended the boss before; I can’t keep going without switching agencies either. I was originally worried that you would be crushed and never recover, but now seeing that you can still smile, I can finally rest easy.”
The more you say, the more mistakes you make, and the more flaws you reveal. Mu Xuefei didn’t understand what the other person meant by this, but she could barely guess a few things.
Was the original body probably an actress? And because she offended the boss, the other person used public office for private revenge, and then she could only have her contract canceled helplessly?
Sorting out the relationship between the characters, Mu Xuefei put on a sad yet forced-to-be-strong expression and nodded heavily.
Seeing Mu Xuefei looking like this, the person opposite her pulled the corners of her mouth in relief. Although the smile was a bit ugly, it made Mu Xuefei’s heart feel warm.
Mu Xuefei wanted to open her mouth to call the other person, but she found that she didn’t have the memories of the original body and had no way to call the other person’s name at all, so she could only stiffly pivot, “Ah, what will you do next? What if that boss asks others to make sure no one hires us, what will you do?”
The person opposite her was obviously stunned, her tone a bit trembling, “It wouldn’t go that far, right? Someone in my family still needs money for medical treatment…”
Mu Xuefei just wanted to take out a check and say how much was missing, until she couldn’t find a check and remembered she was in a game now.
Looking at the woman opposite her who was almost about to cry, Mu Xuefei felt guilty inside. After all, it was very likely because of the original body that Sister Chen lost her job by switching agencies. Under normal circumstances, if an actress can have a dispute with a boss, it’s very likely she refused the boss’s kept-woman arrangement or some transactions, and then the other person became angry out of shame and wanted to torment the original body to make her yield. Unfortunately, it seemed now that the original body did not yield or show weakness.
However, she still had to figure out the exact situation. Lifting her head to look at the worried person in front of her, Mu Xuefei made a decision.
Her thoughts turned a thousand times. On the surface, Mu Xuefei suddenly turned serious and abruptly pulled the wrist of the person opposite her, entering a room nearby.
After making sure no one was around, Mu Xuefei spoke with a serious face: “I accidentally fell just now, and then I lost my memory.”
“Are you joking with me? How can you lose your memory from a fall?”
The voice of the person opposite her grew a bit louder, startling Mu Xuefei into quickly covering the other person’s mouth. “Keep your voice down, I’m telling the truth. What is there to joke about with this kind of thing?”
Chen Xinxin looked at the other person in shock, trying to find the slightest trace of a lie in Mu Xuefei’s eyes, but a moment later, she had no choice but to dejectedly look away.
Mu Xuefei noticed the changing expressions in the other person’s eyes and how they finally became quiet, and only then did she breathe a sigh of relief.
“In a moment, I’ll take you to the hospital for a checkup.” Chen Xinxin still didn’t quite believe it, staggering as she leaned against the wall. Pondering for a moment, she gritted her teeth and spoke, “My head is a bit messy right now, let me sort out my thoughts.” After a long while, she finally sighed, her voice a bit decadent, “What do you want to know?”
“Who are you? And who am I?”
“My name is Chen Xinxin, I am your assistant. As for you, you are Mu Xuefei? Do you really have no memory of it at all?” When all was said and done, Chen Xinxin still found it hard to believe that Mu Xuefei had amnesia.
“I really don’t remember.” Mu Xuefei smiled bitterly and spread out her hands. “By the way, how did I become a star?”
“Before your debut, I didn’t know what you were like, but there were rumors that you were scouted out of a restaurant by a talent scout.
Facts proved that the talent scout’s vision was pretty good. Three months after your debut, when you had only filmed one television drama and one movie, you quickly skyrocketed to fame because your character persona was well-liked. The pity is that at a banquet, you offended the boss and were shelved by him, and you could only linger in some third-rate scripts as a background extra with no screen time.”
Speaking of this matter, Chen Xinxin gnashed her teeth. If that boss hadn’t done that, relying on Mu Xuefei’s talent and looks, she would have long since exploded in popularity to become a first-tier star or even a super star. How could she end up like this now where not even a few people recognize her when she goes out?
“Sister Chen, who is Brother Zhao?” What the other party said was pretty much what she had guessed. After all, she had opened a company back then and had entertained many people in the entertainment circle, so she was quite familiar with the twists and turns inside, only she didn’t expect that one day she would face the bloody storms of the entertainment industry herself.
“Brother Zhao is your manager, but he’s no good either. He kept trying to get you to give in and go apologize to that boss.”
Looking at Sister Chen, whose eye sockets had involuntarily turned red from deep agitation, Mu Xuefei patted the other person’s shoulder. “Now that the other party has taken the initiative to cancel the contract, aren’t we just in time to look for a new agency? When the time comes, the sea is wide and the sky is high, and we can fly freely. Why bother imprisoning ourselves in this company with no prospects?”
“That’s right too.” Sister Chen was stunned for a moment, then nodded. “It was me being foolish before. Without this boss’s restrictions, with the connections I’ve built up over the past few years and your acting skills and looks, we will definitely succeed.”
Mu Xuefei was just about to speak when she heard the other person say, “Then I’ll go look for other companies right now and see if any entertainment companies are willing to sign a contract with you.” After saying that, she hurriedly left.
“No, Sister Chen, you…” Mu Xuefei couldn’t stop her in time before the other person went out and closed the door.
She had already said the boss might have spoken with his business partners, so how could anyone be willing to take the risk of making an enemy of an entertainment company just to take in a twelfth-tier minor female star like her?
Although what she said just now was very inspirational, that was just to make Sister Chen feel at ease. To completely break through the obstruction of that unknown boss, she would have to think of another way.
“I can’t tell, you actually have a few tricks up your sleeve.” The elf who had watched from the side as Mu Xuefei bluffed her way through spoke in a surprised tone.
“Am I really that stupid in your eyes?” Mu Xuefei rolled her eyes. However, beauties make the right moves no matter what they do, so the elf, who had a crazy pursuit of beauty, didn’t mind her small gesture.
“It’s not that you’re stupid in my eyes, it’s that you’re just plain stupid.” The little elf mimicked her and rolled her eyes back. “I wonder who was so foolish they wouldn’t even accept the plot line, leading to this kind of situation right now?”
Mu Xuefei touched the tip of her nose and muttered softly, “Didn’t I just fail to react in time? Who knew there would be a time limit?”
“Huh? You still have the nerve to say that? If it weren’t for…”
Watching the little elf put her hands on her hips and prepare for a long speech, Mu Xuefei cleverly changed the subject. “Based on your many years of novel reading experience, what do you think we should do right now?”
The little elf got stuck for a moment. “First… wait and see what happens? I need to think about it.” As she spoke, she disappeared in front of Mu Xuefei.
Mu Xuefei looked at the empty meeting room around her and suddenly felt a bit melancholy, but then she shook her head, opened the door, and walked out.
However, looking at the unfamiliar environment, she didn’t know where to go either, so she simply followed a passing person, only to find herself ending up in the underground parking lot.
She apologetically smiled at the guard watching the cars, and under the guard’s directions, successfully found the exit. However, looking at the coming and going vehicles in front of her, for a moment she didn’t know where to go. Everything in this world was unfamiliar; there was no family she loved, no familiar friends, and she didn’t even know where her home was.
Thinking this, she suddenly felt a bit sad in her heart, squatted down on the roadside, buried her face in her knees, and didn’t understand why she was playing this game.
It wasn’t voluntary at all, was it?
Why should she bear all of this?
Why is her mother so ruthless?
She wants to go home.
Tears flowing from the corners of her eyes dripped onto her thighs, and Mu Xuefei immersed herself in her pessimistic, world-weary emotions.
Amidst her sadness, she suddenly felt something poke the top of her head.
She raised her head and saw a woman standing in front of her with exquisite facial features but a cold expression. The other person’s gaze gave people an inexplicably reliable feeling, and then she noticed that the hand the other person had pressed on the top of her head was slowly retracting.
“Good kids don’t cry.”
“If you want to cry, just look up at the sky. That way, the tears won’t be able to flow down.”
[Ding, romance target affection: 15/100, affection interpretation: Turns out she’s a crybaby brat.]
Mu Xuefei, who had originally been moved by the comfort but was left hanging up in the air because of the system’s affection interpretation: “…”
If there were no system interpretations, I think I would be very happy.