After Transmigrating, I Fell in Love with a Top-Tier Movie Queen - Chapter 25

The awkward atmosphere lingered for a while. Ye Linghua took a deep breath and decided to ignore Yu Zechun’s teasing.

But she still looked at Yu Zechun politely, with a pleasant smile, and said, “Hello, Director Yu.”

“It’s not good!” Yu Zechun found a chair to sit on and continued leisurely, “Trust my judgment. When I think you’re a good match, it means you really are. So, are you two really not going to reshoot a kissing scene?”

Ye Linghua pursed her lips and looked at Lin Xin.

Lin Xin didn’t want Ye Linghua to be in a difficult position, so she couldn’t help but say to Yu Zechun, “As a director, what are you thinking about all day?”

Yu Zechun sighed. “A director also wants to see a couple get together!”

Lin Xin was stunned by what he said and stammered, “Wh-What a mess.”

She had been married to Zheng Lanwen for five years, but they not only had no “couple fans,” they had countless haters.

The five years were not just a battle between her and Zheng Lanwen, but also between her fans and Zheng Lanwen’s fans.

Their marriage ended in a terrible defeat.

Both of their reputations were ruined. Lin Xin knew it was probably impossible for her to be in a couple with anyone else again.

Although she hadn’t thought about being in a couple, after all, she had just gotten out of a marriage. She didn’t want to enter another relationship.

But in today’s society, couple fans are indeed a huge group. Even Meng Kelin was trying to lead them in that direction, but Lin Xin knew she would fail.

Because that bad past would follow her until she left the entertainment industry for good.

Yu Zechun wasn’t being very serious about it. Besides, Ye Linghua wasn’t in the industry and probably had no intention of being in a couple. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have been so bad at acting.

He looked at the time on his phone and said, “It’s late. Let’s wrap for today. We’ll be shooting outdoors tomorrow.”

As he spoke, he got up to leave. He then stopped, gave Lin Xin a meaningful look, and advised her, “Sometimes, trying to step out of your comfort zone is a good thing.”

Lin Xin and Director Yu weren’t close, but they were in the same industry. The entertainment industry seems big, but it’s also very small. Some things just can’t be hidden.

Lin Xin whispered, “I’m not trapped in there.”

Yu Zechun nodded and said, “That’s good.”

In his opinion, it was a real shame that Lin Xin was now in this half-famous, half-not-famous state. Who wouldn’t sigh when she suddenly retired at the peak of her career to become a stay-at-home wife?

When they returned, Zhu Fang had arranged a car. She had booked a hotel nearby, with a room for each person.

This was Meng Kelin’s doing. Lin Xin would naturally need a room, and Ye Linghua had brought in sponsorships, so she deserved a room. Zhu Fang, as the assistant, was supposed to share a room with her colleagues.

But because Lin Xin had terminated her contract with the company, no more staff had been arranged. Zhu Fang didn’t have anyone to share a room with, so she also got her own room.

All three of them were a little tired that night and went to bed early.

Ye Linghua had a lot of things to do in the past few days, so she slept soundly.

But she didn’t expect Yu Zechun to call her when it was still dark outside the window the next day.

Zhu Fang got up and prepared breakfast, calling the two “ancestors” to get up.

She was very frustrated. She was supposed to be serving Lin Xin, but now she had to serve two people.

Luckily, she had a good attitude and quickly got back to work.

After the three of them had breakfast, they prepared a few things. Ye Linghua had learned that Lin Xin liked Nongqi mineral water, so she had prepared a box in the car the day before.

Today, she naturally put a few bottles in a bag. When they left the hotel, the sky was still dark.

A bus was waiting at the entrance, and the other crew members were already on board.

After Ye Linghua and the others got on the bus, they heard Director Yu say they were going to climb a mountain to watch the sunrise. The crew members weren’t surprised, but they were all sleepy and slept all the way to the foot of the mountain.

Then, a group of people carrying a bunch of equipment began to climb the mountain.

Ye Linghua was in good shape from exercising for the past three years. She walked the path up the mountain with ease. Lin Xin was also able to keep up at first. The mountain had stone steps and streetlights, so the climb wasn’t too difficult.

But after a little more than halfway up the mountain, Lin Xin began to lose her strength.

Zhu Fang was breathing even harder than her. Since she was helping carry the water, she was too tired and could only hold onto the railing and wave at Lin Xin. “Sister Xin, I’m going to rest for two minutes. I’ll catch up with you soon.”

Lin Xin saw her sit down on the stone steps. She hesitated for a moment, also wanting to rest.

Yu Zechun glanced at her and called out, “You can’t rest! The sun is about to rise. If you rest, all of us will have climbed up here just to watch the sunrise.”

Lin Xin didn’t want to watch the sunrise at all, but this was work. Ye Linghua saw that she was truly tired. She walked down the steps to Zhu Fang and took two bottles of Nongqi mineral water.

Then she went back to Lin Xin and said, “Let’s go. We’ll go on ahead.”

Lin Xin honestly replied, “I can’t walk anymore.” As she spoke, she even hammered her knees, clearly exhausted.

Ye Linghua looked at the seemingly endless steps and said with difficulty, “I can’t carry you up either!”

Lin Xin’s face flushed. She hit her. “What are you talking about? I never asked you to carry me!”

Ye Linghua laughed and turned to look at her. “I’m just kidding.” Then she handed her a bottle of water and said, “Let’s walk together! I’ll pull you up when you can’t walk anymore.”

Lin Xin took the water with a huff and led the way.

The mountain was high. Although there were stone steps, the climb was still not easy.

Ye Linghua did as she said. Whenever Lin Xin was tired and wanted to rest, she would reach out and pull her.

Lin Xin was pulled up step by step, looking at Ye Linghua’s back. Even though her legs were weak and sore, with that little bit of strength and direction, she didn’t have to find her own way. Even with her head down, as long as she followed that force and used all her strength to lift her leg and take one step, then another…

Step by step, it was difficult, but there was an end to it.

When there was a faint ray of light in the sky, Lin Xin finally, with Ye Linghua’s help, walked to the top of the long flight of stairs.

She had given it her all, panting slightly, sweating profusely, with legs that had no strength left. When she finally stood on the mountaintop, a brilliant glow suddenly appeared!

The beautiful scenery enveloped the tired group, and they all stared at the view as if they had forgotten why they had come.

Ye Linghua also squinted a little and couldn’t help but sigh, “No matter what world, this kind of scenery is always the same.”

As she spoke, she led Lin Xin forward, to a spot near the edge of the cliff with a guardrail. Ye Linghua pulled Lin Xin down to sit there. It was a perfect spot to watch the fiery red sunrise. It rose slowly from behind the mountain.

The light it cast pierced through the clouds in the sky, turning half of the dark sky red and illuminating the entire world.

The misty city below became clear, and the veins of the mountains became visible. The green mountains and clear waters in the distance and the lush greenery up close were a sight that was hard to resist.

The thin morning mist was dispelled, and a new day brought new vitality to the city.

The chirping of birds began, and the rising sun paved a beautiful, colorful path across the sky.

“The sun rises in the east,” Ye Linghua said and turned to look at Lin Xin.

At that moment, Lin Xin was still watching the sunrise. The glow seemed to outline her body in gold.

Sensing Ye Linghua’s gaze, she looked back. Their eyes met, and they smiled knowingly at each other. Time seemed to slow down. The fiery red sun was just a backdrop for them.

“Isn’t it beautiful?” Yu Zechun appeared beside the two women again and asked a question before sitting down.

Ye Linghua and Lin Xin both nodded. Yu Zechun smiled and said, “Then look at it more. It’s not easy to climb all the way up here.”

Lin Xin asked, “Aren’t we filming?”

Yu Zechun looked at the beautiful scenery in front of him and said, “We’re done.”

Ye Linghua was speechless.

Yu Zechun said, “We just needed to film a shot of your backs. A very simple shot of your backs. It didn’t even take a minute.”

Ye Linghua was speechless. She even felt that Yu Zechun was doing this on purpose to mess with the two of them.

Yu Zechun seemed to know what they were thinking and smiled as he explained, “This scene is very important, so we had to film it. Even if the journey was difficult, we had to overcome it.”

Ye Linghua asked, “Just one shot of our backs?”

Yu Zechun said, “Yes.”

Ye Linghua turned her head to look and saw that the crew members behind them were already packing up their equipment. Just as he had said, they only filmed a shot of their backs.

They spent several hours and used a lot of effort to get to the top of the mountain, all for one shot of them watching the sunrise from behind.

No side shots, no multiple angles.

It was so simple that it made them question the necessity of climbing the mountain in the first place.

But Yu Zechun was a perfectionist. Even though it was a scene that was less than two or three seconds long, he still brought the large crew up the mountain step by step.

And with that, all of Ye Linghua’s filming was done.

Lin Xin still had a few more scenes to film. Ye Linghua watched from the side. When Zhu Fang finally made it to the top, she found out that the day’s shoot was over.

At that moment, she almost spit out blood.

The music video shoot went smoothly, and the post-production didn’t take long. Not long after, she received a message from Yu Zechun saying that it was complete.

Meng Kelin immediately took the finished product, sent it for copyright registration, approval, tax registration, and so on. Then, she and her team started discussing the promotional work.

The release of “Dusk” was slowly getting on track.

With that, the song “Dusk,” composed by Wang Shisen, written by Zhang Kunshan, and sung by Lin Xin, was officially complete.

As the weather became hotter, Lin Xin also became busy. Ye Linghua was still a little unsure about her duties as an assistant.

Fortunately, Meng Kelin and Lin Xin didn’t expect her to do much. Ye Linghua was like a bodyguard, following Lin Xin around all day long.

She witnessed the birth of the song firsthand. Watching Lin Xin run around for work, she was about to see the results.

On the first day of summer break, students from all over the country began their journey home.

Lin Xin’s contract with Cloud Sky officially expired. On that day, Lin Xin, who hadn’t updated her Weibo in a long time, finally posted an update.

It was a simple sentence, but it caused a huge uproar on the internet.

Lin Xin V: “Separation is for a better reunion. Thank you, Cloud Sky, for your support along the way. I’ll always remember it.”

At the same time, Cloud Sky Entertainment Company posted a reply.

Cloud Sky Entertainment Company V: “We’ve witnessed your growth all this time. We wish you a beautiful future and hope to see you at the top again someday.”

There were no unnecessary words, but the meaning was clear.

The peaceful termination of the contract still received tens of thousands of comments in the shortest amount of time. Lin Xin’s first step in her comeback was “contract termination.”

I’m so sleepy.