After My Flash Marriage with the Sick Beauty, I Reached the Pinnacle of My Life - Chapter 65

The high temperatures in July and August scorch the earth, a time when most living things suffer.

Xia Shishi stepped out of the car. The big sun immediately made her break into a thin sweat, and her arms were turning red from the heat. She carefully applied another layer of sunscreen before beginning to observe the surrounding mountains.

She had already arranged with the director to stream from the set.

After careful consideration, the director decided to showcase the most difficult side of the actors, which is why he moved the action scene, an outdoor shoot, to today.

When Xia Shishi arrived, the actors were already harnessed up, flying back and forth in mid-air. The most noticeable among them was Zhou Xiaojiang. She had shed her usual fragility and wielded a sword with conviction.

Everyone now knew that Zhou Xiaojiang was Xia Shishi’s “friend,” so the director didn’t mind giving her extra attention and face to this actress who, despite being in the business for several years, was still considered a newcomer.

Xia Shishi raised her phone and pointed the camera at Zhou Xiaojiang.

The audience in the live stream cooperated with praise.

“Wow, she looks like a fairy.” “A beautiful woman’s friends are indeed all beautiful women.” “Why isn’t this young lady famous? She’s clearly so gorgeous.”

Xia Shishi twitched the corner of her mouth. Fortunately, she wasn’t visible on the screen. Looking at the uniform stream of comments, she said coolly, “I thought being hoisted up on wires would be very tough, but unexpectedly, it looks quite fun.”

“Fun?” “Indeed, after being on wires for a long time, actors usually look disheveled, especially dedicated ones.” “So, is she saying she just went up?” “First time seeing wirework filming, actually.”

Xia Shishi started walking towards the director.

To prevent important content from appearing in the live stream, they were currently filming some insignificant scenes. The director planned to have Zhou Xiaojiang hang for a bit and then switch her out, as she was only a supporting character and didn’t have that many scenes.

This was the maximum the director could do to please the investors.

Since she had endured the dangerous wirework, shouldn’t Zhou Xiaojiang be praised for her dedication?

Given the situation, he felt he had already done enough to pull strings for her.

Seeing Xia Shishi, the director’s eyes lit up.

Seeing her in person, she was indeed a beauty. He felt she could easily be cast in a role on the set.

The director greeted her with a friendly smile, but Xia Shishi, upon approaching, immediately spoke pointedly: “I see they are preparing to let Zhou Xiaojiang down. Does that mean her scenes are done?”

The director paused, unsure of Xia Shishi’s intent.

He explained, “We started filming at six this morning, and it’s been about three or four hours now.”

Xia Shishi: “Just filming her alone?”

…That was certainly not the case.

Zhou Xiaojiang had only been on the wires for a proper ten minutes, which is why she looked so relaxed.

The director speculated that Xia Shishi was complaining that the actress she was promoting, given the substantial investment, didn’t have enough screentime.

So, he thought for a moment. Since the footage might not be edited in anyway, he decided to let Zhou Xiaojiang film a bit longer, just to keep the “rich patron” happy.

“No, they’re just letting her down for a check-up, and then she’ll continue filming,” the director affirmed.

“Is that so?” Xia Shishi nodded. “Can I just wander around here then?”

“Of course.”

Everything that needed to be managed had been managed. Content that shouldn’t appear was safely hidden, ensuring Xia Shishi wouldn’t discover anything.

Xia Shishi walked around with her phone, occasionally pointing the camera towards Zhou Xiaojiang, making sure the person was still suffering, before continuing to chat with the audience in the live stream.

Although most people were curious about how celebrities filmed and what a set was like, once they were there, it was actually very boring. Everyone was busy and didn’t have time to pay attention to a visitor.

Xia Shishi’s purpose for coming to stream was not to chat with the crew, so she naturally didn’t mind.

She held up her fair arm: “Look, I applied sunscreen just now, so I haven’t gotten sunburned yet. I look the same as when I first got out of the car.”

She sounded like she was doing a product review.

A person with a system-generated avatar replied: “Not bad.”

This cold tone made Xia Shishi chuckle to herself.

Oh, she actually joined.

Usually, when she messaged her, she would get ignored for a long time. Now, she was following the general audience and responding.

However, the comments were scrolling so fast that she wasn’t afraid Xia Shishi would recognize her.

Then, Xia Shishi’s mischievous eyes darted around, and she genuinely started to play along.

She deliberately selected a lucky person, answering almost every question, even honestly stating what she planned to eat for lunch. Her expression was incredibly well-behaved, which thrilled the lucky viewer, who quickly sent a small gift.

Xia Shishi acted delighted: “Wow, thank you to this Jie-Jie (older sister) for the gift.”

The system avatar sent another comment: “Jie-Jie?”

Xia Shishi continued to ignore it.

“Jie-Jie wants to see the filming scene? Of course,” Xia Shishi moved the camera over. Zhou Xiaojiang was suspended on the wires, appearing a bit timid.

Xia Shishi then began to express “confusion”: “I remember her filming quite a few wire scenes before. Is this one different somehow? Outsiders really can’t tell.”

This comment actually drew out an insider.

“If she’s filmed it several times, then her performance is a bit unsatisfactory.”

Xia Shishi smiled with curved eyes, not responding to that person, but continuing to tease the lucky viewer: “Jie-Jie, do you like looking at my friend?”

The lucky viewer quickly replied: “No, I prefer looking at you!”

The lucky viewer was about to ask Xia Shishi to give her some face so that she could get a better discount when buying skincare products from the Xia Group in the future.

This lucky viewer didn’t know why Xia Shishi was so fond of her and intended to cherish this stroke of luck.

Before she could send the message, the screen erupted with dazzling fireworks.

Someone was sending Xia Shishi gifts.

The fireworks display lasted for a long time. At first, everyone didn’t pay much attention, as a single firework cost only a few dozen yuan, but the user with the system avatar kept sending them, accumulating to several thousand yuan.

“Thank you to this user for the small gifts.” “The streamer is showing favoritism! You kept saying thank you to that person who sent a few glow sticks, but you’re ignoring the firework show.” “Maybe she didn’t expect anyone to actually tip so much.” “So much? Is this a lot? It’s probably not even enough for a bottle of Miss Xia’s sunscreen.”

It truly wasn’t enough.

Xia Shishi’s bottle of sunscreen cost nearly ten thousand yuan. The current fireworks were barely sufficient (and half of it goes to the platform).

The system avatar seemed to have seen the latter comment and stopped sending gifts.

Everyone thought that was the end of it.

Xia Shishi started fanning the flames. She privately messaged Wen Jiao: “Who is this person? Keep sending me gifts. But I’m not interested; I prefer the gifts my Jie-Jie gives me.”

Wen Jiao: “…”

“Holy moly, holy moly.” “They started sending Star Seas.” “Now they’re sending airplanes and luxury cars?” “Did they stop for a bit just to top up their account?”

Fireworks weren’t very expensive, a few dozen yuan each time.

A Star Sea, however, cost nearly a thousand, and those other random gifts, with all sorts of dazzling special effects, were appearing one after another. In this short time, that system avatar had sent tens of thousands of yuan worth of gifts, and they were still sending them rapidly.

Suddenly, that system avatar felt much more valuable.

Xia Shishi was stunned. She wanted to persuade Wen Jiao to stop. She could totally transfer this money privately.

Why split half of it with the platform! The platform hadn’t even given her a contract fee!

Before Xia Shishi could find Wen Jiao and apologize, admitting she had gone too far, Wen Jiao sent a message: “How about now?”

Xia Shishi: “Now what?”

Wen Jiao: “Do all these gifts smell good?”

Honestly, they did smell very good.

And it gave her a lot of face.

Buying a bag also costs tens of thousands, but she might not necessarily use it. However, receiving gifts in a live stream, watched by tens of thousands of people, carried more weight than the affection Xia Shishi usually showed verbally.

Xia Shishi had already recognized that the system avatar was Wen Jiao. Wen Jiao didn’t say it directly, only asking if the gifts smelled good.

“Whose gifts make you happier, Jie-Jie’s or mine?”

Xia Shishi: “…”

Her face flushed.

Applying sunscreen to her face was useless; the sun was still blazing hot.

Zhou Xiaojiang was suspended on the wires, repeatedly filming useless shots.

Especially when one is hanging in mid-air, with a scorching sun overhead, it’s even more frustrating. If these were her actual scenes in the script, she would definitely film them seriously for the sake of the job.

But knowing that these shots wouldn’t be edited in, how was this different from deliberately tormenting her?

As the director called cut, she was slowly lowered.

Zhou Xiaojiang wiped off her sweat and looked over in Xia Shishi’s direction.

She knew that Wen Jiao had invested in this drama, which must have been Xia Shishi’s idea.

Thinking that Xia Shishi was willing to invest for her, Zhou Xiaojiang still felt a bit grateful to her, but after the whole morning, that gratitude was almost gone.

Xia Shishi was streaming. If the camera had been pointed at her, letting the audience know how hard she was working, it would have been worth it.

But Xia Shishi had been chatting the whole time, occasionally smiling. She didn’t need to guess; she knew Xia Shishi was chatting with Wen Jiao.

Zhou Xiaojiang felt she was being played, but she couldn’t quite articulate why.

Xia Shishi wouldn’t have deliberately come all this way just to mess with her.

And sitting there, she was probably waiting for her to finish filming.

It was the director who was being erratic, making her film repeatedly, regardless of how tired she was.

Zhou Xiaojiang was dehydrated from the sun. Seeing that it was enough, the director had someone help Zhou Xiaojiang go down to rest, and then urged the other actors to hurry and get on set to continue filming.

It was already near noon, and the sun was even hotter. The other actors were also slightly disgruntled.

If Zhou Xiaojiang hadn’t wasted time, they wouldn’t have been dragged out until now.

Who wants to film in the noon sun?

These privileged people with connections are truly infuriating.

In Xia Shishi’s live stream.

“It must be hundreds of thousands by now.” “Is this Xia Shishi’s friend?” “If so, all I can say is I hate that the rich people’s money isn’t mine.” “They’re still going…”

Xia Shishi was speechless. She watched the system avatar’s ranking continuously climb, finally becoming her number one supporter, leaving the second-place person far behind.

Xia Shishi genuinely didn’t recognize the second-place person, but they, too, were enraged by Wen Jiao’s attitude of treating money like dirt and were frantically sending gifts to Xia Shishi.

Xia Shishi: “…”

Originally, there weren’t many tips in the live stream; everyone knew she was the Xia family’s daughter and didn’t lack the money from tips.

Now that a few people were competing with Wen Jiao, the gifts received in the live stream had exceeded one million yuan.

Wen Jiao contributed one-third of that.

As soon as Wen Jiao stopped, the second-place person immediately continued tipping, trying to overtake Wen Jiao.

Xia Shishi was tired of watching. She privately messaged Wen Jiao: “I know it’s you. Stop tipping.”

There’s a limit to how much fun one can have, and this limit had been reached. She just wanted to see how much the other few “suckers” would tip.

Wen Jiao: “Jie-Jie?”

Xia Shishi: “Fine, fine, you are my good Jie-Jie. I was wrong.”

Wen Jiao: “Aren’t you going to thank your Jie-Jie?”

Xia Shishi: “…”

She shouldn’t have let Wen Jiao watch the live stream.

She gave a bitter laugh and spoke to the audience in the live stream: “Thank you to this Jie-Jie for the small gifts. Please keep the money for yourself as private savings.”

“Small gifts, hahaha.” “You’re the only one who dares to mock the top tipper like that.” “What’s going on with the second-place person? They stopped. Keep going! Overtake her!” “Must have been defeated.”

The original purpose was to stream the film set, but with all this excitement, everyone was only focused on the drama, and no one cared about the crew anymore.

It wasn’t until Zhou Xiaojiang walked over that the crowd reacted.

Oh, they joined the live stream to see the actors and actresses filming.

Zhou Xiaojiang’s popularity was currently low. If Xia Shishi hadn’t mentioned that she was her friend, no one would have cared. Even so, some people were still clamoring to see the male and female leads.

Xia Shishi thought, isn’t this person the female lead?

The female lead of this world.

Zhou Xiaojiang: “Have you been waiting long?”

Xia Shishi answered seriously: “Not long. I just made a whole million yuan.”

Zhou Xiaojiang: “…” Her acting fee wasn’t even that much.

Is live streaming so profitable? It made her think about doing it too.

In the end, she was held back by the thought of her reputation, believing that as a future famous actress, she shouldn’t involve herself in such things, and she dismissed the idea: “Are you going to stay and eat the boxed lunch from the set later? I think the boxed lunches here are quite tasty.”

“No, I’m a picky eater.”

Xia Shishi adjusted the position of her phone, ensuring Wen Jiao could see her through the live stream.

The audience found her honesty amusing, but Xia Shishi glanced at the comments and didn’t mind.

Then, she saw her good JieJie send a comment: “What are you eating for lunch?”

She was still holding a grudge.

The system avatar, which was now the number one supporter, had acquired many special effects, a profile frame, and an exclusive comment color, drifting across the screen from the most conspicuous position.

She was monopolizing Xia Shishi’s entire field of vision.

In that moment, Xia Shishi really wanted to say she wanted to eat the food from her wife’s mouth.

Xia Shishi sighed with emotion: “A life of ease is truly wonderful. I’m going to have ten bowls of easy-to-chew, soft rice for lunch.”

Zhou Xiaojiang had heard this kind of talk too many times. She immediately spoke with a helpless expression: “Are you messaging your wife again?”