Translator: Dj2203
Editor: Dj2203
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Chen Hongming was so angry that he contacted his agent, “What’s the matter with you? Don’t you have any suitable scripts recently? Can you do it?”
The agent said helplessly, “Didn’t I recommend a few scripts to you a few days ago?”
“I don’t want to play those, I want to play the leading male lead, do you understand the leading male lead?”
“Then wait a moment, there are few scripts for leading male leads now, and there are already suitable candidates for the previous ones. The new IP projects have also not been approved yet.”
Chen Hongming hung up the phone angrily, feeling very unhappy.
He was not happy, and his fans were not happy either. The reason was simple: they had failed miserably.
Ling Qing’s fans upvoted the previous post and said unceremoniously, “Sister Hongyan, please open your eyes and see clearly, okay? Our brother is robbing your family of resources? It’s obvious that your brother is not dedicated and unwilling to audition! I’ve talked about this 800 times, why are you still here playing Liaozhai[1]?”
Ling Qing’s popularity was very high at the moment. Fans were saying things to each other, and coupled with the passers-by, Chen Hongming’s fans were simply unable to fight back, and in the end they could only behave and delete the post.
But Ling Qing didn’t know that since he was preparing to shoot a magazine cover with Qin Yanyu.
Yun He watched him change his clothes and come out, and said in surprise, “Handsome!”
Ling Qing adjusted his clothes in the mirror and looked at himself in the mirror with some confusion, “Have I gained weight recently?”
“No, right?” Yun He said, “I feel that you are pretty much the same as before.”
Qin Yanyu had also changed her clothes by this time. Looking at him wearing a white shirt and suit pants, she thought he looked pretty good in modern clothes as well.
“Am I fat?” Ling Qing asked her.
Qin Yanyu shook her head, “No.”
Ling Qing felt as though he had gained weight, and his abdominal muscles were no longer so obvious.
etc!
He suddenly realized something and silently looked at his belly.
Not that big of a deal, he thought, probably not?
Ling Qing counted the time and found that it had been a month since he and Yu Chen took no protective measures.
This meant that if it had indeed happened, it didn’t seem impossible.
Ling Qing: …
Ling Qing decided to hide these thoughts behind the scenes!
Anyway, he didn’t feel any discomfort now, nor did he have any symptoms of pregnancy, so as long as he didn’t go for a check-up, he would never be pregnant!
It was so reasonable that Ling Qing believed it himself.
A magazine shoot finished very quickly. Ling Qing had taken many magazine photos before traveling through time, and Qin Yanyu had long been accustomed to it.
The two took several single and double photos respectively, and then ended the shooting.
The photographer said in amazement, “You two look good together.”
Ling Qing smiled, and Qin Yanyu smiled dryly, both of them showing very gentle smiles.
After taking the magazine photos, Ling Qing returned home in the nanny car.
He was lying on the bed, very worried about whether he was really pregnant?
If he was really pregnant, should he go to the hospital for a checkup?
Alas, women could still take a pregnancy test, but could men do the same? How to measure it?
Ling Qing regretted it. Why did he study finance? He should have studied medicine!
If he were a master of gynecology, why would he still be confused now?
Ling Qing couldn’t figure it out, so he simply closed his eyes and started to sleep.
When Yu Chen came back, he saw him lying on the bed, sleeping very soundly.
He lifted the quilt, lay down in it, and hugged Ling Qing. Ling Qing naturally curled up into his arms, feeling inexplicably well-behaved.
Yu Chen kissed him and slept with him for a while.
When Ling Qing woke up again, it was already meal time. He touched his stomach and felt that he was hungry.
“Xiao Yu.” He poked Yu Chen.
Yu Chen opened his eyes hazily and said hoarsely, “What’s wrong?”
Ling Qing asked him, “Do you want to eat? It’s dinner time.”
Yu Chen smiled, stretched out his arms and hugged him, still feeling sleepy, his voice was still a little hoarse, as he said in a low voice: “If I don’t eat, I will eat you.”
Ling Qing: …
Ling Qing thought he was probably crazy, he actually thought he was quite sexy like this!
He held Yu Chen’s head and kissed him, “Let’s eat, it’s evening and I’m hungry.”
“Then let’s go eat.” Yu Chen rubbed the tip of his nose and kissed his lips again, smiling broadly and gently.
Ling Qing rubbed his face and a smile appeared on his face.
They had steak for dinner. The steak was very tender and Ling Qing was very satisfied.
At this moment, Yun He called him and said that two of the three crews he had auditioned for had already replied to her and the audition was successful.
Ling Qing was very calm. He was very clear about his own performance level. He performed normally and would not lose the audition because of his acting skills. If the final audition failed, it would most likely be because of his popularity.
But now that he had exploded, his popularity had followed, so at this time, there was no reason for losing the audition.
“Okay, I get it. I’ll think about which one I want to take.”
“Well,” Yun He said, “I guess in a few days “Complaining of Dreams” will also give me the results.”
Ling Qing nodded, “I hope so.”
After all, among the three scripts, relatively speaking, he was more inclined to the script “The Dream”.
The script of “Complaining of Dreams” was actually very simple. 20-year-old Mo Tang lived in a happy family, with harmonious parents, a respectful brother with several friends, such that everything seemed happy.
But suddenly one day, both his parents committed suicide, and Mo Tang and his brother fell from the clouds into the mud in an instant.
He felt that his family’s death was strange, but everyone advised him to be more open-minded. This was life.
However, Mo Tang refused to accept it, so he went to investigate the cause of death of his family. His father’s friend told him that his father had embezzled public funds, so he committed suicide out of fear of being convicted.
His mother’s friend told him that his mother had cheated on his father with her old classmate and he had found out. She guessed that his father killed his mother first and then committed suicide.
His brother couldn’t accept that his parents were such people. He was so painful and resentful that he began to drink to drown his sorrows.
Mo Tang didn’t accept it either, so he continued to investigate.
He desperately recalled the eve of his parents’ accident and kept going to his parents’ place of work to consult with their colleagues.
He pressed the numbers in the address book of his parents’ mobile phones, called them one by one, and asked them whether their parents had come to see them or contacted them before they died.
But the results he got made the story more and more similar to what his parents’ friends had said at the beginning.
Mo Tang’s brother was disheartened and advised him not to investigate anymore. This was the truth. Their father killed their mother, and all the happiness they thought was just a false phantom.
But Mo Tang didn’t accept it. He didn’t believe that his mother would cheat, let alone that his father would embezzle public funds. He knew very well what his parents were like, and they were not such people.
However, public funds had indeed been misappropriated, and the person who embezzled it had indeed turned out to be his father.
His mother’s old classmate did exist in his mother’s address book, and there were intimate photos of them on her phone.
Mo Tang’s brother gave up. He moved out of this home that was full of bad memories for him, put down his parents, and started his own life again.
But Mo Tang couldn’t let it go and continued to investigate.
Finally one day, Mo Tang suddenly discovered something. As if he saw a glimmer of light, he eagerly went to find his brother.
But his brother just asked him, “Are you still dreaming? Have you not woken up from the dream?”
His brother refused to listen to him and kicked him out of the house.
Of course, Mo Tang didn’t wake up from his dream, and he didn’t think it was a dream. He just wanted to know the truth and wash away his parents’ grievances.
He walked forward alone, while everyone advised him to accept the facts, everyone thought he was crazy and even his brother did not understand him.
But he still persisted in his persistence.
His girlfriend asked him, “Why? Your brother is obviously willing to accept it, why don’t you accept it?”
Mo Tang said seriously: “I have lived with them for 20 years. I know what they are like. I know them and I don’t accept it. If I don’t speak for them, then no one will speak for them!”
At the end of the story, all the truth was revealed, and everyone was sighing, except Mo Tang, who fell asleep with relief.
In the dream, the family was reunited, and they seemed to be back to their normal days. The four of them were eating around the table, laughing and talking about what happened today.
The sun was warm and the years were quiet.
Ling Qing had auditioned for the role of Mo Tang. This role could be said to be the absolute male protagonist in the movie, with the strongest tension and expressiveness.
He represented persistence and trust, while being stubborn, young and full of hope.
Ling Qing checked the director of this script and found that he was a new director with a very captivating lens and strong control over the story.
His previous movie “Someone Is Listening to Me” received very high reviews, and Ling Qing was also amazed after watching it.
There was no doubt that this was a director with ideas and abilities, so from the beginning, this was what he cared about the most. Unfortunately, “Complaining of Dreams” had not yet given him a reply.
Before receiving a reply from “Complaining of Dreams”, an unexpected TV series invitation was sent to Yun He’s mailbox.
When Yun He saw it, she just felt that the wind and water were constantly turning, and they always turned back.
“The crew of “Love Will be Yours” sent you an invitation, hoping that you can participate and play the male lead. If you are willing, they don’t even need you to audition, they can cast you directly. I saw the salary, and it’s not bad.”
“Is this also an IP?” Ling Qing didn’t understand very well.
“That’s right. It was also published as a book first. The sales of the book were good, so they adapted it into a drama. It’s a modern drama.”
“I don’t want to take on this kind of drama first.” Ling Qing obviously had his own plan, “I don’t want to completely become a commercial actor. When it comes to popularity, it’s good to maintain it. There is no need to constantly consolidate it. More importantly, I hope that my works will be more representative and not too homogeneous.”
“Okay,” Yun He smiled and said, “Actually, I didn’t plan to let you take it, because the heroine of this drama is Tan Keyao, hahaha, are you surprised?”
Ling Qing had almost forgotten who this was, but after a minute or two of thinking about it, he just remembered.
Tan Keyao, the heroine of “March Peach Blossom Smile” at the beginning, who ran away because she disliked him for being too unpopular and was later replaced by Qin Yanyu.
He couldn’t help but laugh, “The entertainment industry is really a circle.”
“Yeah, it’s going round and round, and it’s her again, but before she disliked you, now it’s you who dislike her.”
“Then there’s no need to think so, I’m just not interested in this drama, no matter who the heroine is, she just makes me even less interested.”
“She will definitely think so,” Yun He said with a smile.
“Then let her do it.” Ling Qing obviously didn’t take it seriously.
Sure enough, after Tan Keyao found out that Ling Qing had rejected the invitation to play “Love Will Be Yours”, she turned to her agent and said, “Did he do it on purpose?”
“At that time, I disliked him for being unpopular, so I didn’t want to act with him. And I let him go. Now he is popular, so he rejected it when he saw that the heroine was me!”
The agent also thought that this was the case, and said regretfully, “If I had known that this drama would become such a big hit, I would have insisted that you should act in it. Now that I think about it, the investment in this drama was quite large from the beginning, and the book is also very popular. It must indeed be a hit.”
“There are many TV dramas with large investment and popular books. Aren’t there many of such dramas? Who knows what kind of bad luck this show has become like this!”
Tan Keyao slapped the table in anger, “Qin Yanyu is really lucky, she can catch up with any good thing, and she took it from me but she can still be popular!”
The manager sighed, “It’s all fate.”
But it was inevitable that no one would be willing to accept this kind of thing!
If they had known, they would never leave, they would definitely stay on the crew and finish filming the movie, then now, Tan Keyao would be the famous one.
It was a pity that there was no medicine for regret in this world.
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[1] If somebody say that you are speaking “liaozhai”, that means that you are telling something strange and untrue.