After Transmigrating, I Fell in Love with a Top-Tier Movie Queen - Chapter 105

Meng Kelin was practically pulling out her hair worrying over the two of them. Fortunately, Ye Linghua was serious about the relationship and also came from a considerable background, so running around and working hard didn’t feel entirely pointless.

It wasn’t like the fiasco with Lin Xin and Zheng Lanwen back then! The announcement was explosive, right in the middle of Lin Xin’s rising career. Although she had been in the entertainment circle for a long time, that blast nearly wiped her out.

Meng Kelin was busy then, smiling apologetically outside, getting yelled at back at the company. And what did she get? Zheng Lanwen still acted as if Meng Kelin owed her eight million. Meng Kelin nearly beat her senseless out of sheer anger.

Meng Kelin hung up the phone. Yan Li, standing next to her, asked, “What did she say?”

Now that Lin Xin was trending, if they decided to go public, the program’s editing could be more unrestrained. If they weren’t going to announce it, the editing would need to be more subtle.

However, in Yan Li’s opinion, how subtle could they really be?

The two of them were dating as if no one else was around. Even the first episode, edited to be so subtle, had still attracted a massive wave of CP fans.

Now that the mermaid tail necklace issue was out, one could only imagine the coming frenzy.

Therefore, Yan Li thought that since it was all true anyway, they might as well make a killing out of it.

Meng Kelin smiled and said, “Ye Linghua wants to go public.”

Yan Li was stunned: “…I asked about Lin Xin.” Ye Linghua wasn’t an industry insider; what did it matter if she announced it or not? Lin Xin was the one in the entertainment circle! Her decision to go public was the crucial one.

Meng Kelin froze: “Oh, that’s right!” So what does Ye Linghua have to do with it? That woman was talking about being proper and improper; she’s the one who’s not proper at all!

Yan Li: “???” No, what are all of you playing at? So, what is Lin Xin’s final decision—to announce it or not?

Lin Xin and Ye Linghua returned to the fishing village by car. Xin Meng parked the car where they had been picked up last time.

Ye Linghua and Lin Xin got out of the car. Xin Meng leaned out and asked, “Miss Ye, is the filming almost over?”

Ye Linghua: “Yeah, not many days left.”

Xin Meng then asked, “Will you need someone to arrange a pick-up then?”

Ye Linghua thought about the current situation online, then said, “Please arrange it.”

Xin Meng: “Got it!”

With the clear instructions, Xin Meng drove away.

Only after Xin Meng disappeared from sight did Lin Xin ask curiously, “Arrange what pick-up?”

Ye Linghua: “My people.”

Lin Xin was even more puzzled: “Why do we need a pick-up? After it ends, the production team will arrange a minivan to take us to the airport.”

Ye Linghua looked up, thought for a moment, and said, somewhat uncertainly, “Since the filming is ending, I guess there should be one last live stream before we leave.”

Throughout the entire filming process, live streams would be occasionally inserted, but the total number of live streams over the several months of recording was not very high. After all, more of the footage needed to be presented on television. Variety shows ultimately rely on viewership ratings.

Although many CP fans treated this as a dating show focused on Lin Xin and her partner, many segments shown on television also featured other people. After all, the target audience for this recreational variety show was not just the CP fans.

But the profits from live streaming were high. Occasionally showing some non-essential moments, especially for the CP fans, made many segments instantly worth revisiting. Not every moment could be edited into the final cut.

Therefore, every live stream attracted a lot of people. The final wrap-up live stream would likely attract even more.

And… being popular attracts trouble!

Lin Xin tilted her head, watching her with a strange look. This softened Ye Linghua’s heart. She reached out and firmly ruffled Lin Xin’s head, sighing, “Is it because you’re too kind-hearted?” Is that why you constantly forget when you’ve been hurt and can’t see the malice around you?

Lin Xin: “???” Is she complimenting me?

“Or is your memory poor?” Always forgetting all the pain and forgiving over and over again out of a soft heart.

Lin Xin frowned: “Are you complimenting me or not? If not, I’m going to start scolding you!”

Ye Linghua laughed heartily, then pulled her into a hug, kneading her head twice, and said, “No.”

Lin Xin glared at her, about to struggle, when she heard Ye Linghua softly add from above her head, “I’m worried about you.”

Lin Xin froze, her face flushed red. She shyly leaned against Ye Linghua’s chest: “You worry about me, and I worry about you too.”

And so, Lin Xin was coaxed back to the filming location and instantly forgot what she had asked Ye Linghua in the first place.

When the two arrived back at the Cozy Cottage, they found everyone busy with work again. Qu Hejing smiled at them upon seeing them return, watching them walk over with light steps.

Lin Xin said, “We went out for a bit yesterday and brought you back presents.”

Qu Hejing said disappointedly, “You really just went out to play?” Since they’re walking so easily, either Ye Linghua is incompetent, or nothing happened.

Ye Linghua laughed: “What did you think we went out to do?”

Qu Hejing chuckled and said, “Oh my, how would I know what young people want to do? But, I have a book, do you want it?”

A book? Is it another one of those explicit ones?

Ye Linghua smiled through gritted teeth: “Thank you for the kind offer, Sister Jing, but I don’t need it.”

Qu Hejing gave a knowing smile and then said, “Alright. Today we’re preparing boiled fish, and we’re just gutting the fish now!”

Zhuo Yaxin said, “Gong Chen said his Sichuan cuisine is great. The spicy flavor is especially refreshing to eat in the summer.”

Ye Linghua: “…Are you serious?”

Gong Chen, gutting fish in the distance, immediately said, “Of course, I’m serious! You should try some this afternoon.”

Ye Linghua: “…I’ll try.”

So, the first meal greeting the two of them was a table full of overpowering spicy flavors.

The two of them ate, panting and sweating, in a lively atmosphere. The internet was also in a frenzy at this time, discussing how wildly they must have spent their night in the hotel.

At the same time, large numbers of Lin Wan’s fans and Zheng Lanwen’s fans finally woke up from the hurt caused by this incident and unfollowed their idols. Of course, the remaining ones were still die-hard fans.

These die-hard fans had no outlet to vent their anger over their idols being suppressed, so they all turned their attention to Lin Xin’s trending topics.

Consequently, the initial comments discussing how wild the two were gradually became replaced by other statements.

[Heh, riding on the misfortune of others to get on the hot search. Lin Xin is still Lin Xin!]

[You were the one who wanted to marry him back then. Now you’re divorced, and you trample on him like this? Are you just taking advantage of the fact that our Little Wolf has no one in the entertainment circle?]

[No choice. After all, she’s been in the entertainment circle since childhood. Her connections are wider than Little Wolf’s.]

[But her taste is awful. That Ye Linghua looks like a pretty face, a kept man.]

Seeing Zheng Lanwen’s fans jumping in anger, the Star Sisters (Lin Xin’s fans) weren’t upset at all. They knew how many opportunities Zheng Lanwen had lost these past few days—it was karma!

When they saw someone questioning Lin Xin’s taste, the Star Sisters laughed.

[You’re right! Our Xin Bao has bad taste. Why else would she have fallen for trash like Zheng Lanwen?]

[The person upstairs should watch their language. No personal attacks.]

[Oh, you guys can attack Xin Bao as much as you want, but when I retaliate, you talk to me about manners? So your manners can be turned on and off at will!]

[Nonsense! Ye Linghua clearly looks like a pretty face. Are we not allowed to say it? At the end of the day, isn’t she just pandering to CP fans! The worst thing in the entertainment circle is pandering to CP fans.]

[Oh dear, look how jealous you are. Your Master Zheng wants to pander like this but can’t! The CP fan base is about to exceed ten million, which is almost more than your Master’s own fan count. You must be dying of jealousy.]

Instantly, the battlefield of smoke spread, and the fans mixed into a brawl.

After the filming ended for the day, Ye Linghua returned to the room and received a message from Xin Meng, briefly explaining the situation on the internet that day.

She looked at all the online speculation about her being down-on-her-luck. Of course, a few fans guessed that Ye Linghua’s background was unusual, but they were mostly surrounded and ridiculed by other fans.

Among them, only a few fans firmly believed that Ye Linghua was definitely extraordinary.

Ye Linghua looked closely and was speechless to find that these few accounts were her own best friends. At this moment, they were even confronting people online…

[Ye Linghua is definitely a rich person.]

[Hahaha, here we go again. Morning Star fans never give up, trying to assign a Big Boss persona to Ye Linghua?]

[Trust me, sisters, some of Ye Linghua’s clothes clearly aren’t cheap.]

[I’ve checked. Many of her clothes are from chain brands, priced at only three to four hundred.]

This statement shut that netizen up for a moment. They cursed: [She has a few custom-made pieces too! Don’t just focus on the clothes she was too lazy to get custom-made and bought straight from the street shops!]

[You talk so intimately, like you know her.]

[…No, we don’t know her.]

Ye Linghua: “…” These guys.

Lin Xin came back after showering, wiping her hair while looking at Ye Linghua’s speechless expression, and asked, “What’s wrong?”

Ye Linghua chuckled: “Xing Yan and the others are pretending they don’t know me online!”

Lin Xin’s eyes drifted toward the camera. Ye Linghua followed her gaze, then laughed and said, “It’s fine. This episode will definitely air last anyway.” By then, the farewell live stream will have already finished broadcasting.

Seeing that she didn’t care, Lin Xin didn’t say more. She sat next to Ye Linghua, leaning against her. Her wet hair hadn’t been completely dried, and water droplets fell onto Ye Linghua’s leg.

The cool, icy sensation was invigorating.

She draped her towel over her shoulder, leaned over to look, and saw a familiar account still arguing defensively: [If Ye Linghua isn’t rich, I’ll chop off my head and mail it to you to sit on as a stool.]

[Oh my, that’s terrifying. I wouldn’t dare!]

[Here’s another piece of evidence: the suitcase Ye Linghua brought when filming started is very expensive.]

[It’s only seventy thousand-something. Anyone can afford it if they grit their teeth.]

[…Most people wouldn’t ‘grit their teeth’ for that, though, would they?]

Lin Xin finished reading, burst out laughing, and fell onto Ye Linghua.

The scent of shampoo from her dark hair was lingering and seemed to have an intoxicating effect.

Not noticing Ye Linghua’s suddenly darkened gaze, Lin Xin curiously opened the wardrobe and looked at Ye Linghua’s suitcase. The quality did look good, but the price was truly outrageous. She asked Ye Linghua, “Does this thing cost seventy thousand?” It really is expensive! She was a celebrity, considered relatively poor, but even though her life had improved over the years, she wouldn’t bear to buy a seventy-thousand suitcase.

However, those people in the circle who made a lot of money would buy something this expensive. Moreover, Ye Linghua should be richer than them; seventy thousand wasn’t much to Ye Linghua.

Ye Linghua looked at the suitcase and said, “I don’t know. Xing Yan gave it to me.”

Lin Xin: “Why did she give you this?”

Ye Linghua: “It was a free gift when she bought a car.”

Lin Xin was shocked and speechless: “…Uh.” Now that I think about it, I never realized Ye Linghua was a rich person before. It wasn’t that Ye Linghua lacked the aura; it was that Ye Linghua was very approachable most of the time. She never had those strange demands that suggested she was arrogant or lived a life of luxury.

Is it rare for someone of Ye Linghua’s status to properly keep and use even a gifted item from a friend?

“That car definitely wasn’t cheap, was it?” To give such an expensive suitcase as a gift!

Ye Linghua thought for a moment: “About three million-something?”

Lin Xin gasped: “Then this gift isn’t that expensive.”

Ye Linghua nodded: “It’s still quite expensive, but she often buys cars there, so it’s not too bad when you consider that.”

Buys often?

Lin Xin was stunned and asked curiously, “Why does she buy so many cars?”

Ye Linghua: “She likes to collect those things.”

Lin Xin then asked her, “What about you? What do you like to collect?”

Ye Linghua was momentarily taken aback, not expecting the conversation to turn to herself. But she thought for a moment, then smiled and replied, “I like to collect red things.”

Lin Xin nodded, thinking, That’s not so bad.

Ye Linghua, however, remembered the red Ferrari at home. She definitely had to take Lin Xin for a drive in that car sometime.

Having received the answers they wanted, the two were happy and went to sleep.