Deliberate Possession [Entertainment Industry] - Chapter 106

Chapter 106: What Do You Think?

Jing Xiaoyan kept looking back in two steps as she was pulled away, as if she was extremely reluctant.

Seeing her unhappy look, Jiang Yumian rolled her eyes at her. “Let’s see if they’re still around after we finish filming the show. Let’s go ahead first.”

Arriving at the meeting point, Jing Xiaoyan slightly looked up towards the direction they had just left. It was a bit far, and she couldn’t see clearly.

While the production crew was still contacting Xie Yunhuan, she looked left and right, quickly spotting something. She slightly raised her eyebrows. Indeed, she found her most familiar fan site photographer on the roof of a building not far away.

She laughed and pointed over there, also calling Jiang Yumian to look with her.

Jiang Yumian was shocked. “Good heavens, is this a proxy photographer?”

Lin Xi also looked over there. It wasn’t very far, but the familiar light blue shooting equipment was obvious. She tsk tsk-ed and shook her head, giving a thumbs-up to that direction.

“Not a proxy photographer, but Jing Xiaoyan’s fan site photographer, who is even better than a proxy photographer.”

Jing Xiaoyan also nodded. “Mhm, an old fan. She always appears in the places I least expect.”

Jiang Yumian turned her head to look at her, carefully scrutinizing the expression on Jing Xiaoyan’s face. “You’re so proud?”

Jing Xiaoyan lightly coughed, whispering, “Lower your voice.”

Jiang Yumian raised her lips into a smile. She was actually feeling shy.

“She’s still filming you now.” Jing Xiaoyan reminded her again softly.

Jiang Yumian widened her eyes, a little surprised. “Is she going to take ugly photos of me?”

Although she and Jing Xiaoyan had always interacted in front of the camera, showing a good relationship, the comments on their respective Weibo updates were controlled by solo fans, and their combined topics were suppressed to the very bottom.

This showed that the solo fans truly didn’t ship them, not even mentioning the topic. It was only because the two of them had a good relationship that there was no argument about them trying to gain popularity from each other.

Jing Xiaoyan shook her head. “No, no. She’s filming both of us.”

She said this while rubbing her fingers together, smiling and blinking at Jiang Yumian.

Jiang Yumian opened her mouth. “Do you mean what I think you mean?”

Jing Xiaoyan nodded heavily.

She had video-called with Jiang Yumian all night, rushing to the station early in the morning. Only Xiao Zhang was with her. When she came out, she just happened to run into the fan site photographer at the door adjusting her equipment, preparing to go in. Her phone screen was accidentally recorded by her.

Recently, her and Jiang Yumian’s relationship online had been so ambiguous. She was exposed at that time, but the fan site photographer didn’t say anything. Before Jing Xiaoyan could admit it, she told her that she had already defected and was half a CP fan. Jing Xiaoyan then just winked at her, silently acknowledging it without explanation.

Even Sister Guan didn’t know about this.

She was a little worried that day that she was just saying that to comfort her, but seeing her still following this time, and even waving to her, Jing Xiaoyan was finally sure that everything she said was true.

Jiang Yumian blinked blankly towards that direction. Jing Xiaoyan’s fans are really friendly. Maybe the fans follow the lead—their temperaments are also good, and their emotions are indeed stable, huh?

Not allowing them to continue their off-topic conversation, Xie Yunhuan’s video call had connected, and filming officially began. Everyone greeted him.

Xie Yunhuan adjusted his phone camera towards his car window. “It snowed heavily yesterday. You probably don’t have snow there. It looks so good here. Ah, it’s a pity you can’t see it.”

Jiang Yumian looked over eagerly, then quickly withdrew her envious gaze, snorting softly. “We have hot springs here. Do you?”

Luo Cheng: “Did someone not make it because of the heavy snow?”

Ling Yisong chimed in: “No way, no way. We’re about to soak in the hot springs. How can someone still be stuck in the car?”

He provoked him again: “If you don’t come soon, I’ll soak alone.” After all, he was the only male left.

“Can’t you save the soaking for the evening!” Xie Yunhuan sat up straight and protested. He quickly added, “Tell the director! The plane can fly now. I’ll be at the airport right away. I’ll arrive tonight! Oh, and I’ll use a thermos to pack some snow for you all to play with.”

He quickly reminded them: “Since I’m bringing you snow, can you wait for me before you soak! I’ve never soaked in a hot spring my entire life!”

Jiang Yumian was curious. “Will the snow really not melt if you put it in a thermos?”

“No.” Xie Yunhuan nodded with firm eyes, then quickly threatened, “But if you don’t help me stall for time, I’ll melt it right away!”

Jing Xiaoyan glanced at the screen, ignoring his threat, and pulled Jiang Yumian’s arm. “It probably won’t melt. Do you want to see snow too?”

Jiang Yumian nodded. “I haven’t seen it in two years.”

She had been in the south for the past two winters, a place where it doesn’t snow. The filming was also in the south. The one time she went north was in the summer, and there was no snow then.

Receiving her answer, Jing Xiaoyan nodded, then quickly looked at Director Lu. “Director Lu, let’s soak after he arrives.”

Xie Yunhuan, who witnessed the entire process of Jing Xiaoyan asking Jiang Yumian: “…”

He asked knowingly, “Sister, are you pleading for me because you pity me for never soaking in a hot spring, or because Sister Mianmian wants to see snow?”

“What do you think?”

Jing Xiaoyan turned her head, not understanding why he would humiliate himself by asking.

Jiang Yumian stretched, giving a dismissive expression towards the camera, mimicking Jing Xiaoyan, and repeated, “What do you think?”

Xie Yunhuan: “Alright, alright, alright, Director, quickly edit this part in! I’ve confirmed the CP is real!”

Director Lu had a line of black on his forehead. He truly didn’t know when they developed this habit of constantly ordering her to edit this and edit that. The most frequent phrase she heard every episode was “Edit this in for me.” She had never seen such a bold group of people constantly crossing the line.

Since Xie Yunhuan would arrive tonight, Director Lu was generous enough to postpone the hot spring plan until tonight. After all, this place was a hot spring resort owned by the program’s new investor. They had the place booked for a few days, and they could soak anytime within these few days.

Staff: “You will be divided into two teams to carry out tasks. There are eight treasure chests hidden in the hot spring resort. The chests contain medals belonging to the black and white teams. Each person can only open one. Due to Xie Yunhuan’s schedule, he will automatically be assigned to the team with fewer people after everyone finds their respective medals.”

“Note, the treasure chests cannot be exchanged. Once opened, your identity is determined. The identity information obtained is on the back of the medal. Everyone, please be careful to hide your identity.”

After hearing the rules, everyone quickly understood. It was essentially an opportunity to give the audience a tour of the hot spring resort while looking for the treasure chests. It was said that this was a newly opened holiday resort, and they were there to help advertise it.

The group walked together. Jiang Yumian saw the three-way fork in the road ahead and suggested, “Let’s split up.”

Su Mumu replied quickly, “Sure, let’s go together.”

Everyone looked over. What was going on? Were these two with the worst intentions going to stick together again?

Chu Qianyuan and Jing Xiaoyan simultaneously gave Su Mumu and the quickly nodding Jiang Yumian resentful looks.

Knowing that the two of them were probably up to some mischief again, Jing Xiaoyan opened her mouth, then silently closed it. Fine, don’t disturb them.

“Jing Xiaoyan, you come with me.” Lin Xi pushed Jing Xiaoyan’s shoulder down one path. She was worried about not having time to gossip alone.

Chu Qianyuan wanted to stop them, but Su Mumu and Jiang Yumian had already left. She turned back to look at the mutually staring Luo Cheng and Ling Yisong, sighing helplessly. “Let’s go.”

Su Mumu turned back to look at the others. Seeing that they hadn’t followed, she glanced at the camera crew following them. Thinking it was fine, she quickly tugged at Jiang Yumian’s sleeve.

“Do you know who owns this hot spring resort?”

Jiang Yumian was focused on finding the chest. Hearing her question, she was momentarily stunned. They usually don’t care about who owns the filming location.

Since Su Mumu specifically mentioned it, she thought for two seconds and quickly raised an eyebrow. “Who?”

Su Mumu turned off her mic, cupping her hand to whisper in Jiang Yumian’s ear. “Yin Xiangyu’s sister, Yin Youbing. She just graduated last year. Her family gave this to her to play with.”

She moved her hand away, returning to a normal voice. “Qianyuan asked about it. I only found out when I was leaving. Isn’t that strange?”

Jiang Yumian slightly frowned, glancing at the camera from the corner of her eye. She didn’t voice her thoughts, just nodded. “Strange, but also not strange.”

She didn’t think Yin Youbing’s sudden investment in their show was to help Yin Xiangyu pursue her, given that the two sisters didn’t have a good relationship.

Because of Yin Xiangyu, Jiang Yumian had specifically learned about Yin Xiangyu’s family. Yin Youbing was her half-sister. Although they seemed to get along well on the surface, a deeper look revealed some discrepancies.

Yin Xiangyu was unilaterally cold towards her sister. Her family didn’t say anything, and the company was now almost entirely managed by Yin Xiangyu. Even though Yin Youbing had achieved some success, she still couldn’t shake Yin Xiangyu’s position in their family company.

So the strange thing was this: why would Yin Youbing invest in the variety show that she was filming? She was clearly a partner with her sister, and her sister even liked her. If she knew, that would be very strange.

At the same time, it wasn’t strange. Their variety show was so popular. Getting them to invest was a good business move.

Su Mumu didn’t know that Yin Xiangyu liked Jiang Yumian, but she knew they had a collaboration, so she wanted to remind her.

“Hey, do you think she’s competing with her sister?”

After all, both had a collaboration with Jiang Yumian. Even though Yin Youbing’s collaboration was with the production crew, Jiang Yumian was involved.

Jiang Yumian turned to look at her, casually replying, “I don’t know. Maybe.”

As soon as she spoke, something occurred to her, and she suddenly stopped. She suddenly remembered that Jing Xiaoyan seemed to have done something similar.

Earlier, she had blocked Jing Xiaoyan and ran into her with Yin Xiangyu downstairs at the company. When she left, she had explained to Jing Xiaoyan via WeChat that she only went out to eat with Yin Xiangyu due to work issues. The next day, Jing Xiaoyan proactively offered to endorse a new company game. At that time, she was in an online meeting and refused her in front of Jing Xiaoyan.

Su Mumu heard a soft laugh while walking.

She was confused. “What are you laughing at?”

The smile on Jiang Yumian’s face deepened. “I’m laughing at Jing Xiaoyan.”

Su Mumu turned her head. “Mhm?”

Jiang Yumian ran forward two steps. “Laughing at her for being childish!”

Su Mumu was baffled. She was talking, why did she suddenly run?

Soon, she was stunned again, a little speechless. This girl’s eyes are sharp. She found a treasure chest so quickly.

Jiang Yumian pulled the treasure chest out from the bushes. It was only about the size of two palms. She looked back at the speechless Su Mumu, her expression wary.

She hugged the treasure chest. “I found it first. Go find your own.”

Su Mumu crossed her arms, raising her chin to point. “Why don’t you open it?”

Jiang Yumian’s mouth twitched. “Do you think I’m stupid?”

She could only open it once, and she couldn’t exchange it. She had to wait until she found Jing Xiaoyan before considering opening it.

There was one extra treasure chest here, for Xie Yunhuan. If she found that one too, then no matter which one she opened, as long as four people were on the same team besides Jing Xiaoyan, then she would be on the same team as Jing Xiaoyan. Then it would be up to luck. Hopefully, Jing Xiaoyan had good luck.

But unfortunately, Su Mumu thought the same way. She also didn’t plan to open it immediately after finding it.

Su Mumu snorted softly, not to be outdone. “Alright then, let’s see who finds more.”

“Mumu, I find you not cute at all anymore.” Jiang Yumian patted the weeds off the treasure chest, pouting and muttering softly, “Not even half as cute as Jing Xiaoyan.”

Su Mumu shivered involuntarily at her words. What the heck!

She looked at Jiang Yumian, who was clearly falling in love, with disgust. Constantly mentioning Jing Xiaoyan. She’s beyond saving.

She tsk-ed. “What you said just now is very true. Jing Xiaoyan is childish. I’m not as childish as her. We can’t be compared.”

Cute my foot.

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