I Love Her Because She’s Dim-Witted And Filthy Rich - Chapter 32.2

They originally wanted to visit the Mogao Caves, but after checking, they found out that tickets had to be bought a month in advance, so they had to give up. At night, they went to the Shazhou Night Market and ordered almost all the recommended foods.

That night, they returned to the hotel satisfied. Su Miao was a bit tired from walking, so she went straight to wash up, preparing to rest early.

After washing up, she called for Duan Bainian to go as well. Duan Bainian acknowledged her but didn’t move. Su Miao glanced over; Duan Bainian was chatting with someone, her fingers flying across the screen as she typed.

Su Miao leaned in curiously. “Who are you chatting with? I told you to go…”

The sentence stopped abruptly when she saw the name “Baron.”

Su Miao couldn’t believe it. “You… you’re chatting with Baron?”

Duan Bainian continued typing without looking up. “There’s something I need to communicate with him about.”

Feeling ignored, Su Miao felt like she’d been hit by a massive blow. She was so angry her voice stuttered. “Duan Bainian! You… how can you not keep your word!”

Hearing the wrong tone in Su Miao’s voice, Duan Bainian finally looked up. “What’s wrong?”

Su Miao was full of indignation. “You clearly promised me you wouldn’t continue with Baron! You lied to me!”

She would never believe Duan Bainian again; she was a total liar!

Only then did Duan Bainian realize what was making Su Miao angry. She pulled back Su Miao’s blanket. “I’m communicating with him about work; we’re not talking about private matters.”

Su Miao didn’t believe her at all. “Isn’t your work all handled by my mom? What work do you have that requires you to communicate with someone else?”

Duan Bainian explained helplessly, “You should remember that time at the cafe; that investor, Mr. Ji, is already preparing to assemble a crew. I have to go for an audition for the female lead in a couple of days; your mom knows about this. Shouldn’t I prepare more for the audition? Baron is the on-set screenwriter, and he wrote the script. I’m just normally communicating the plot with him.”

The explanation didn’t help; if anything, it made Su Miao even angrier.

On-set screenwriter? Then if they actually filmed this drama, wouldn’t she be staying with this Baron person every day?

Su Miao turned around abruptly. “Why do you have to film this drama? Why even bother auditioning? Can’t my mom just get you other resources later!”

Duan Bainian was speechless. A child is a child; she never considered the issue of investment and return. She just opened her mouth and talked about getting other resources to make up for it, as if resources were given away for free.

She didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. “Su Miao, if I were you, your mother would certainly push all kinds of resources onto me even if she lost money. But I’m not you, so your mother has to consider cost issues; she can’t just casually provide other resources. You also know that my resources haven’t been great; it’s not easy to encounter a production team this good, and it’s a lead role. If I missed it, I would find it very regrettable.”

Su Miao felt that what Duan Bainian said made a lot of sense, or at least she couldn’t refute it.

But she was still unhappy.

“If you film this drama, you’ll have to stay with Baron every day. He’ll definitely come to pester you again…”

Duan Bainian teased on purpose, “That’s why I’m waiting for you. The sooner you agree to date me, the sooner I can escape being single. No one will go pester someone who already has a partner, right?”

Su Miao didn’t speak.

She was truly annoyed to death, more annoyed than she used to be when the teacher read out grades from the podium.

Why was there such a hurry to confirm a relationship? Just thinking about her mother’s reaction to hearing she was dating Duan Bainian made her head spin. Like tonight, eating at the night market together—wasn’t that fine?

Seeing Su Miao’s low spirits, Duan Bainian stopped teasing her. She stroked Su Miao’s head. “The screenwriter mainly communicates with the director. Under normal circumstances, he and I won’t have much interaction. Besides, I will definitely keep my word. If I said I would keep my distance from him, I will. Don’t overthink it.”

Su Miao was still unhappy, but she didn’t want Duan Bainian to see it, as it would make her look like she was making a scene.

She grumbled, “I’m not overthinking. Go wash up and go to sleep.”

Duan Bainian stepped forward and gave Su Miao a hug before heading to the bathroom.

By the time she returned to bed, Su Miao was already asleep.

Duan Bainian was truly impressed. What was wrong with this person? One moment she was like a jar of vinegar that had exploded, and the next she was asleep just like that?

The next morning, the two of them got up to have breakfast at a local specialty snack shop. Then, according to the plan, they went to see Crescent Moon Spring at Mingsha Mountain in the afternoon and went to watch the “Dunhuang Grand Ceremony” in the evening.

When checking tickets at night, Duan Bainian wore a mask, but Su Miao didn’t, and she was unexpectedly recognized by a staff member.

The staff member asked tentatively, “Um… are you Su Miao?”

Su Miao didn’t think she was famous at all. She was just about to admit it when Duan Bainian tugged her hand, so she denied it. “No, you have the wrong person.”

The staff member hesitated for a moment, then became certain again. “You are Su Miao! How could I be wrong!”

The staff member then looked over at the masked Duan Bainian. “So you are Duan Bainian, right? Heavens! Is your private relationship really this good! I always thought that was just show promotion!”

Duan Bainian denied it. Seeing their tickets had been checked, she pulled Su Miao inside, but they were caught by the staff member.

The staff member stuffed two bottles of drinks into Su Miao’s arms. “Um, I’m a bit excited right now… it’s too rushed and I don’t have anything else, so here’s this for you two to drink!”

Before Su Miao could react, the staff member ran away.

Su Miao looked at the drinks in her arms, thrilled. “She recognized me and immediately mentioned you; she must be a CP fan of ours!”

Duan Bainian, who had been passionately confessed to by fans too many times, didn’t have much of a reaction. She just thought Su Miao was excited because she met a fan. “You will have many fans in the future.”

Su Miao gave an “Aiya.” “No, I’m saying, she’s a fan of the two of us! A CP fan, right!”

Duan Bainian frowned slightly; she found it difficult to understand. Getting this dummy to date her was like seeing a ghost, yet why was she so happy meeting a CP fan?

She couldn’t be bothered to entertain Su Miao and went straight to find her seat.

Su Miao followed while looking back for that staff member… she wondered if that fan would still be on duty after the performance? If she hadn’t finished work, she’d go get a group photo and an autograph for her; fans seemed to really like those things.

It was already after 10:00 PM when the performance ended, and the two followed the crowd out.

Seeing the dummy peering around, Duan Bainian asked curiously, “What are you looking for?”

Su Miao: “I was looking for that fan from earlier, but she doesn’t seem to be there anymore. Sigh, maybe she finished her shift. I originally wanted to give her an autograph.”

Duan Bainian: “… You really pamper your fans.”

Su Miao smiled sheepishly. “Hehe, it’s not about pampering fans; it’s mainly because it’s not easy to meet a CP fan.”

The fans of the two of them were always fighting, arguing over the same things without any new insults—nothing more than calling Su Miao a retard and Duan Bainian a “recycled” actress who couldn’t get famous.

So meeting a CP fan now made Su Miao incredibly happy.

After looking around and not finding the fan, Su Miao was a bit disappointed, eventually leaving reluctantly to take a taxi back to the hotel with Duan Bainian.

After resting in Dunhuang for a few days, the two set off for Beijing.

Su Miao had originally been clamoring about wanting to go to Qingyang. After all, Dunhuang and Qingyang are both in Gansu, and she really wanted to see what Duan Bainian’s hometown was like.

In the end, Duan Bainian told her that the distance from Dunhuang to Qingyang was too far; there were no transportation methods that took less than five hours.

Su Miao didn’t believe it. she went to check and found it took at least a day. she was a bit depressed. “Aren’t they in the same province? How can it be so far?”

Duan Bainian said jokingly, “You must have been bad at geography in high school.”

Su Miao was shocked. “How did you know I was bad at geography? I never even figured out the earth’s revolution and rotation!”

Duan Bainian had a look of speechlessness. “I don’t know if you figured out revolution and rotation, but I know for sure you didn’t learn the map of China well. Dunhuang and Qingyang—one is at the far east of Gansu and the other is at the far west. Gansu is long and narrow, so how could those two places not be far apart?”

Su Miao lowered her head in shame. “My grades were bad since I was little. Sigh, actually I wanted to learn well, but I just couldn’t. Some of my classmates played on their phones every day and still ranked first; it was so infuriating!”

Duan Bainian teased, “Then which subject were you best at in high school?”

Su Miao thought for a bit. “Language arts, I guess.”

Duan Bainian: “What was your score?”

Su Miao scored 77 on the college entrance exam for language arts—not even a passing grade. She found it a bit embarrassing, so she said, “Around 90-something.”

Duan Bainian: “That’s okay then. What about math and English?”

Su Miao immediately became unhappy. “Oh, why are you so annoying! Why do you have to ask my scores! Why don’t you say what you scored?”

Duan Bainian: “For my college entrance exam, I got 143 in math and 131 in English.”

Su Miao: “…”

Su Miao felt a sting of embarrassment. For her college entrance exam, she got 15 in math—three multiple-choice questions. For English, she got 36, all of which were also multiple-choice.

They were all guesses because she chose “B” for everything.

Actually, she had even lower scores; in tenth grade before choosing between the arts and sciences, she once scored a 3 in chemistry.

She definitely couldn’t say that, as it would be too embarrassing.

She began to change the subject. “What time is our flight? Is it time to go to the airport?”

Seeing Su Miao’s face turning red bit by bit, Duan Bainian naturally guessed the truth. She held back her laughter. “It’s at 4:00 PM; the two of us can go have lunch before heading to the airport.”

They went to eat spicy crab at noon. Su Miao enjoyed it immensely because Duan Bainian was doing all the peeling, and she only had to open her mouth and eat.

A new piece of crab meat was brought to her; Su Miao opened her mouth and swallowed it, her eyes disappearing in a smile. “So delicious!”

Actually, it wasn’t that delicious; it was just that because Duan Bainian peeled it, for some reason, it felt more fragrant than what she usually ate.

While eating, Su Miao opened a certain platform. The web variety show the crew recorded last week aired last night; she planned to check the bullet comments. Duan Bainian was so impressive; there would surely be lots of people praising her!

As she watched, she became unhappy because some netizens said Duan Bainian was calculating and only knew how to bully newcomers—a second lead who knew how to steal the spotlight so much that one would think she was the first lead.

But she was the one who proactively gave the screen time to Duan Bainian. If she didn’t say anything, what right did others have to talk?

The bullet comments were really affecting her mood, so Su Miao exited and went on Weibo.

Once on Weibo, she was even angrier.

Because Duan Bainian’s fans were attacking her once again!

Su Miao was furious. Duan Bainian was such a good person; why were her fans so poorly behaved?

She stubbornly scrolled through the comments attacking her, but as she scrolled, she noticed something was wrong. From the looks of it, it seemed her own fans had attacked Duan Bainian first?

She looked carefully, and indeed, her fans were the ones who attacked first, calling Duan Bainian a “scheming bitch” who looked harmless but did nothing good.

Naturally, they were still referring to the issue of stealing screen time.

Su Miao was even more unhappy.

She knew in her heart whether Duan Bainian was good or not; what right did others have to speak?

Even if they were fans, it wasn’t okay!

She recorded a short video of the two of them eating and posted it on Weibo. 【Duan Bainian and I have a great relationship. If you fight under my Weibo again, I will block and report every one of you.】

Half an hour later, her follower count dropped from 160,000 to 130,000…

Duan Bainian didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. “There was no need to post that kind of Weibo. And even if you did, you could have been a bit more tactful, right? Saying things about reporting and blocking—look, your fans’ hearts have been broken by you.”

Looking at the large-scale “unfollowing” scene, Su Miao also felt quite pained. These were followers she had slowly gathered over several months! And she lost tens of thousands in half an hour?

They were so excited when they were howling about wanting to be her “mother,” so why did they unfollow her just like that?

She tried hard to put on an indifferent expression. “These are all fake fans! Good riddance. I don’t care about having a bunch of extra mothers anyway!”

As time marched on day by day, Su Miao was both happy and troubled.

Because… the month was about to be up.