Chapter 2.1: The Movie Queen’s Little Fortune (2)

TL: ZhenZhen
Editor: Arya
PR: QianMin
QC: ZhenZhen

In the entertainment industry, all kinds of celebrities could be seen everywhere, and Shen Yu was walking on the road. Naturally, his fans only had eyes for him.

But she was Lin Qinglu. Behind the shop window, many people poked their heads out and observed her in secret. The breeze blew as the shop’s wind chimes jingled.

Jian Yixin took a step back and said, “You must be kidding, we are just friends.” The gap between both of them increased, and Lin Qinglu stood up straight, nodded indifferently to this standard answer, and raised her leg to leave.

Lin Qinglu’s long windbreaker was blown by the wind, gently brushing the side of Jian Yixin’s hip. The moment she passed by, Jian Yixin changed her mind.

“Actually, we used to be friends, but now I don’t want to be friends with him.” Jian Yixin tilted her head slightly, her voice was neither high nor low, but she was successful in stopping Lin Qinglu.

Gazing at the stream of lively people from the window across the shop, there was silence. Lin Qinglu turned back to look at her.

Jian Yixin was very calm.

Since Lin Qinglu had found out that Song Pianzhen and Shen Yu were in an ambiguous relationship, she stood up without breaking their eye contact. In Lin Qinglu’s heart, she had always been related to Shen Yu in an ambiguous manner.

Normal interactions were fine, but becoming close friends with Song Pianzhen would mean that this label must be torn off.

Lin Qinglu might not have a favorable impression of her, and she might have even fallen for the white lotus(1) version of her.

However, ‘simply’ was never a derogatory term. Jian Yixin avoided Lin Qinglu’s eyes and put on a proper expression speaking in a low tone:

“I used to be his fan, but after interacting with him, I found that he was different from what I thought.”

“Sure enough, there is still a need for distance between idols and their fans.”

Song Pianzhen frowned. Because she had been dancing since she was a child, she had a graceful and elegant temperament, like a flawless white swan.

Her face displayed melancholy, like a fairy lost in the middle of a misty lake, beautiful and fragile.

Lin Qinglu blanked out for a while, but quickly recovered.

Tsk, she’s breaking her white lotus character?

She said lightly: “Don’t inform me specifically.”

“As long as you do your job well, it doesn’t matter who you are friends with.”

Shen Yu was walking towards her, but Lin Qinglu was too lazy to meet him, so she left without waiting for Song Pianzhen to reply.

The sound of high heels slowly faded away.

Xiao Jiu(2) was confused again. Just now, the host did not hand in the recording, and instead admitted her identity as Shen Yu’s fan?

[Too late to ask questions.] Xiao Jiu quickly reminded: “Shen Yu is coming soon, what can you tell him?”

Jian Yixin didn’t look back at all, just picked a direction and left.

“He won’t come.”

Xiao Jiu was doubtful, but after Lin Qinglu left, Shen Yu really didn’t go after her.

Jian Yixin thought lightly: “Are you afraid of men who have to enter and exit separately for a meal?”

After both of them left, the shop staff behind the window looked back, and said in a rush:

“Lin Qinglu is so beautiful I can’t help but love her to death!”

“Who is the other young lady, a new actor?”

“Hmm, I don’t know, she’s such a bright beauty though.” The employee said, and posted the picture on Weibo:

“After seeing so many actors, I finally saw the goddess, and the young lady in the same crew with her [with photos]”

The employees put away their phones with satisfaction, but because they didn’t add content tags and the actors’ names, the photos quickly sank in the Internet ocean.

When Lin Qinglu returned with the butterfly cake, assistant Liu Lele was waiting for her in the room.

“…That’s the third bag this month.” Liu Lele looked at the butterfly cake, stretched out three fingers, and added two more after saying, “Today is the fifth time you’re eating that cake this month.”

Lin Qinglu pretended not to hear: “If there’s nothing then let’s go back to the film site.”

Liu Lele sighed and handed over the list: “The list of interviews required by V Video has been sorted out.”

V Video was a short video program. The first period was less than half an hour. The main interviewees were the behind-the-scenes team of the star and the filming crew. They talked about some interesting things about the star. This time they invited Lin Qinglu.

Lin Qinglu took it, and Liu Lele said: “V Video is very interested in your daily life, and there are two interview spots left for the stylist. On the side representing the crew, the original plan is for Song Pianzhen to dance.”

“But Song Pianzhen…” Liu Lele frowned, obviously not having a good impression of Song Pianzhen, “I changed the camera, big sis, how ‘bout you check it out first.”

Although she asked if it would work, Liu Lele knew that her artist didn’t care about it at all, and she didn’t care about it either.

“What would you do about the camera time?” Lin Qinglu scrunched up the list, lowered her head and concentrated on unwrapping the butterfly cake.

“……Huh?”

‘What does that mean?’ Liu Lele was stunned, scratching her head, “Don’t you want to shoot the video?”

“Just Song Pianzhen.” Lin Qinglu raised her eyebrows, her cold was diluted by butter, and the smell was so sweet that it melted.

Unwilling to let it go, Liu Lele tried to dissuade her, “But she and Shen Yu are so close!”

Lin Qinglu was amused by her: “What a mess.”

“Just a rookie, what does she understand?”

However, she was a bit more sensible now.

“It’s fine, just give it to her.”

Lin Qinglu didn’t say any more, and brought the butterfly pastry to her lips.

Between her upper and bottom lips, the fine crumbs stuck to her red lips, sweet and soft.

Jian Yixin found a place to have her afternoon tea, and on the way explained to Xiao Jiu the reason she did that just now.

Xiao Jiu suddenly realized something, shut down and meditated.

(1) White Lotus: This term is normally used to describe an innocent/naive girl. But if it is used sarcastically, then it means that the girl is a scheming person who is only using an innocent facade.

(2) Xiao Jiu: The system’s name is System 09. I changed it to Xiao Jiu (Little Nine) because it sounds cuter.

Chapter 1.2: The Movie Queen’s Little Fortune (1)

TL: ZhenZhen
Editor: Arya
PR: QianMin
QC: ZhenZhen

Shen Yu is worthy of being the second male lead, and his whole body exudes gentleness. But in all fairness, the second male lead who can compete with the male lead is not very different from the male lead, and is quite pleasing to the eye, too. When the dessert was brought, Jian Yixin finally got to the point.

“Pianzhen, you also know the crew’s situation.” Shen Yu frowned slightly. Jian Yixin cooperated: “What’s the situation?” Shen Yu sighed: “Several of us are starring, Lin Qinglu is from Lunar, and Zixuan and I are from Xing Yao. The relationship between the two companies is not good. Let’s set up a play…” Shen Yu continued to speak, but his frowned eyebrows silently complained of grievances. In Jian Yixin’s eyes, he looked like a little daughter-in-law.

Jian Yixin thought, and first tasted the Panna Cotta, which happened to be lemon flavored. So sour.

Jian Yixin put down the dessert spoon gracefully, tilted her head and said, “Are you and Ye Zixuan no better than one Lin Qinglu?”

Shen Yu: “….”

The doubts on the little beauty’s face were innocent and natural, as if she didn’t know the connotations of what she said. Shen Yu endured, and smiled bitterly: “We are often single opponents, not three on the same stage.”

Jian Yixin, dazed: “Don’t take it to heart.”

Shen Yu: ?

“You have to think like this.” Jian Yixin recalled, smiling slowly, “The year before last, you and Lin Qinglu were in a variety show. You lost so terribly that you got on the hot search.”

Shen Yu: ? ?

“Last year, you played Lin Qinglu’s second male lead role. There was a scandal. Lin Qinglu said you were not familiar with each other. You became a joke and you were on the hot search for a week.”

Shen Yu:? ? ?

Jian Yixin said with encouragement: “Look, this year you can already play the male lead for Lin Qinglu’s leading female movie. You are always improving. This is the most remarkable.” Shen Yu’s self-esteem was stabbed back and forth, and salt was rubbed on his wound, so much that he got so angry that he almost jumped up and pointed at Song Pianzhen’s nose and asked, “Are you helping me or bringing me down?”

But Jian Yixin’s expression was too real. When she said the last sentence, her eyes were like autumn water and her lips were smiling. Suddenly, Shen Yu’s temper could not come out.

Forget it, just bear it if you can’t speak, just be sensible.

Shen Yu made persistent efforts and said, “It doesn’t matter if I don’t mention these on the surface, in private, Lin Qinglu used a lot of tricks on me.” In order to prevent Song Pianzhen from asking innocently, Shen Yu didn’t give her a chance to speak at all, and then said, “Lin Qinglu is arrogant. I really can’t stand it. With her, I can’t act well.”

“Then what should I do?” Jian Yixin had enough, and cooperated slowly. Shen Yu subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief, and said, “Are you…willing to help me?”

“In this crew, I can only trust you.” Shen Yu turned affectionate again. Jian Yixin didn’t say whether or not she agreed, but just moved forward, looking shy. Seeing her like this, Shen Yu’s self-esteem replied, “I just want to breathe out, make her a little more trouble, and understand that I am not easy to bully.”

“What can I do for you?”

“You are Lin Qinglu’s dancer, and you look so beautiful.” Shen Yu lowered his voice, “Just cooperate with me and frame Lin Qinglu…” Jian Yixin, who didn’t get the detailed plot, listened very much. “Framing Lin Qinglu will rule you out.”

Jian Yixin: ?

“No one will believe it.” Jian Yixin suspected that the second male lead had become confused, so she tried to clear it up.

Shen Yu was very firm this time: “Why not?” “She is gay.”

When Jian Yixin left the western restaurant alone, he still couldn’t react. “Lin Qinglu is gay?”

System was also dumbfounded, it said with self-blame: “The sexual orientation part is because Lin Qinglu has no dating records and no information is included.”

“However, the information was verified to be correct when the life of Lin Qinglu was retrieved.”

In other words, Lin Qinglu is really gay.

“It doesn’t matter.” Jian Yixin breathed a sigh of relief, but comforted the system, “Now you can update the information.”

System replied dumbly, and remembered: “The recording is finished, we can hand it over to Lin Qinglu.” Before entering the room, Jian Yixin instructed the system to turn on the recording function, and Shen Yu’s plan had been recorded.

Jian Yixin did not agree to Shen Yu’s request. Shen Yu was very understanding, and let her consider it for two more days. But he thought that Jian Yixin’s objective was just to avoid breaking up, and to surrender to Lin Qinglu through the recording. But now…

Jian Yixin thought as she walked. She was convinced that she had never heard the rumors about “Lin Ying Empress is Ji Zai”. She took the privacy-breaking recording and went to Lin Qinglu. No matter how she thought about it, she felt that Lin Qinglu was 80%. Be vigilant towards yourself. Jian Yixin thought about the matter and walked around the corner of the street. There was a shadow in front of her. It was too late for her to return to her senses. She was about to hit someone else when she saw it, and subconsciously twisted her waist to the side. It may be that she moved too much and she looked like she was about to fall, and the person reached out to catch her— hooked her hand on Jian Yixin’s windbreaker belt, and when Jian Yixin stood firm, she immediately withdrew her hand. Not only did she have no sympathy, but because she closed her hand too quickly, she even disliked this dumb person.

Jian Yixin: “…thank you.” With that, she stood firm and they looked at each other. “Lin Qinglu appeared.” At the end of System’s words, Jian Yixin’s sight just fell on that person’s face. Jian Yixin knew what Lin Qinglu looked like, but only when she saw it with her own eyes, she was lazy on her brow bones, and her lips were frantic. Unlike Internet celebrities or ordinary actresses, she has a more relaxed face and a feminine appearance. She raises her hand and her eyebrows, and she is all charming.

With such a face, it is almost impossible to look away. Jian Yixin couldn’t help but admire her when she saw her. Sure enough, it was SSS level. Lin Qinglu frowned and looked at the pastry bag in her hand. In the transparent bag, the freshly baked butterfly cake is most crispy, and a lot of crumbs are dropped with only a single move. It wasn’t until Jian Yixin noticed the butterfly cake that Lin Qinglu said casually, “No thanks.”

Suddenly, Shen Yu came out of the western restaurant over there. She looked over Jian Yixin’s shoulders, looked at him for two seconds, and then looked at her dancer with interest: “I heard that you and Shen Yu are very close?”

Jian Yixin choked.

The sand sculpture Shen Yu, still thinking of framing Lin Qinglu, people can see clearly. Lin Qinglu glanced over at Shen Yu.

She lowered her head slightly, leaning close to Jian Yixin’s ear, a certain distance away: “Looks can be deceiving.” The voice was low, and slightly hoarse.

Author’s Note:

Panna Cotta: Italian cream pudding.

TN: If you’d like, here’s the invite link to the discord channel for the story. https://discord.gg/dEz46pMKBD

Chapter 1.1 : The Movie Queen’s Little Fortune (1)

TL: ZhenZhen
Editor: Arya
PR: QianMin
QC: ZhenZhen

“Pianzhen.” The man in front of her smiled softly and, his voice low, asked, “Do you have time at noon?” A casual invitation, even if it is heard by others, can be turned away for official business. Jian Yixin thought playfully, her cheeks stained pink, she glanced at Shen Yu, then lowered her head, and whispered: “Yes.” Shen Yu nodded, just about to say something, the deputy director called him over, Shen Yu Quickly said “See you at the old place”, turned and left.

System 09’s clear voice sounded: “Transmigration complete, host, please prepare to receive plot transmission.” Jian Yixin sipped warm water to relieve the discomfort of transmigrating. Once she felt better, Jian Yixin stood up and found a free dressing room to receive the plot transmission in accordance with the system’s requirements.

The male lead of this world is the President of Xing Yao, an entertainment company, and the female lead is actress Ye Zixuan of Xing Yao. Ye Zixuan captivated the President, and after some lingering enthusiasm, the two of them got together. Everything seemed fine, but since the Bureau sent Jian Yixin here, there must be an unusual existence in this world. 

The unusual existence is Lin Qinglu. Lin Qinglu debuted at a young age and won the highest honor in the film industry when she acted in her first film. She also won the domestic best newcomer award and the international best actress award. After she debuted for two years and became a movie queen, she garnered a huge fanbase. What’s more astonishing is that this glory and brilliance weren’t short-lived. Relying on her successive excellent works, Lin Qinglu seems to stand at the top of the entertainment industry and became a legend in the entertainment industry. Lin Qinglu stood so high, people could only feel jealous and look up. Her overall quality was assessed as SSS grade by the Quick Transmigration Bureau, but she was just cannon fodder in this world. Therefore, it is Jian Yixin’s task for Lin Qinglu to receive treatment that matches her overall quality. Jian Yixin began to look at her identification information.

According to the system, she is a stand-in and can only be the stand-in. This time she had transmigrated into Song Pianzhen’s body, who was Lin Qinglu’s dancer. She was performing a solo dance for Lin Qinglu in “Zhao Niang”.

The crew only knew that Song Pianzhen was an excellent dancer, but they didn’t know that she was born in a wealthy family, had always been low-key, and came to the crew as a dancer in order to chase stars.

And her idol is Shen Yu, who plays the hero of the movie, and at the same time, he is also the second male lead who admires Ye Zixuan in the novel world. In the plot, Song Pianzhen is very attentive to Shen Yu, but Shen Yu uses Song Pianzhen to give Lin Qinglu a heavy blow and show his favor to Ye Zixuan. But the heavy blow wasn’t elaborated on.

Jian Yixin was clear, and looked at herself in the mirror. Song Pianzhen was born in a top wealthy family. Needless to say, her elegant appearance, and noble temperament were quite rare. Because of receiving too much information in a short time, Jian Yixin’s soul was pressed and her face was pale, which made her beautiful face look even more pitiful. She was used to maintaining a perfect state at all times.

After receiving the original host’s memories, she proficiently took out cosmetics to touch up her makeup. The technique was so delicate that she stunned the system. System couldn’t help asking: “…Host, were you a beauty blogger before?” Jian Yixin put away her lip gloss, pulled her hair behind her ears, and smiled, “I don’t remember.”

Yes, her new host had lost her memory due to a failed mission, which is equivalent to losing all her experience, and is worse than an intern. It is conceivable that it might be tricky to start the task, and maybe she will fail again. The host looks gentle, very easy to bully, and not too smart, a dumb person… System suddenly decided to make it her mission to toughen up her host.

Although she had forgotten everything, as an employee of the Transmigration Bureau, Jian Yixin knew instinctively that it was her job to complete the task perfectly. The outside shooting is over. Only the crew eats while watching over the shooting props.

When Jian Yixin passed by, their voices were a little lower. After Jian Yixin noticed it, she smiled and nodded in greeting: “It’s hard on you.”

Stunned, someone replied, “No, it’s not hard.” Jian Yixin walked out a few meters without averting her eyes, and the stunned person was jerked back to the present by one of his buddies: “You look silly, come back to your senses!”

“Song Pianzhen is so beautiful.” The man sighed, “She looks even better than Ye Zixuan.” “Careful! It’s not good for you to be heard by Ye Zixuan.”

Jian Yixin found a western restaurant according to the “old place” in her memory. As soon as she entered, a waiter took her to the box on the second floor. Shen Yu was looking at his phone and switched it off when he saw her come in. When meeting Shen Yu, the emotional assistance produced by Quick Transmigration Bureau will automatically turn on, allowing employees with no acting skills to perform post-level acting skills.

“Pianzhen,” Shen Yu warmly called. When Song Pianzhen saw her idol, her eyes were bright, and she smiled: “I’m late, let you wait a long time.” “It doesn’t matter how long I wait to meet you.” Song Pianzhen’s face blushed again, and Shen Yu was satisfied, and was assured that his plan would work.