I Was Taken by the Female Lead After Transmigrating into a Book - Chapter 95

When Bai Feifei returned to the sofa after rewashing her hands, they were still not completely dry. Huo Wu had already finished her remaining work and was also sitting on the sofa, reading the script.

The content was already familiar to her by heart, but whether she could successfully recite it word for word… that was another matter entirely.

Bai Feifei felt a headache coming on. Suddenly, she asked out of curiosity, “A-Wu, do you think people really just say numbers while acting? How do they manage their breath control then, and how do they determine the emotional connection for each line?”

“You already said they’re reciting numbers,” Huo Wu replied, recalling a past experience. “Why would they care about breath control? It all relies on post-production dubbing.”

That makes sense.

Bai Feifei silently nodded and lowered her head to continue memorizing and reciting. Fortunately, it was a modern drama, and Li Ke didn’t strictly require that every single word be unchanged. However, it had to fit the character’s persona, and she couldn’t show any personal verbal tics or small movements that were not part of the role.

Huo Wu read for a while, then glanced at a serious-looking Bai Feifei and said, “When you were in a girl group, you used to just say numbers on stage.”

Bai Feifei was taken aback. “Ah… what?!”

She had never really looked into the things that the ‘original owner’ had experienced, not only because she wasn’t interested but also because she was afraid of seeing something that would completely shatter her worldview. Some things had already been ‘whitewashed’ by the system when she first arrived, but there were other things that even the system didn’t have the power to fix. For example, the ‘casting couch’ scandal that had been so popular online a while ago was altered in some parts and added to in others by the system, turning it into a completely different matter.

Because of this, every time Bai Feifei heard about something the ‘original Bai Feifei’ had done from Huo Wu, she would break out in a cold sweat.

Who knows if the system has been tidying up the loose ends every time?

She wiped a non-existent cold sweat from her mind and cautiously asked, “When… when was that?” She paused for a second and then added naturally, “I don’t remember a single thing.”

Huo Wu turned to the next page.

Her script was much thicker than Bai Feifei’s. The second page, which was spread open in front of Bai Feifei, was filled with Huo Wu’s detailed notes—thousands of characters that made one’s scalp tingle just looking at them.

After just a quick glance away, she heard Huo Wu say, “I don’t know the full details. It’s just that during your group’s only major… film, you were in the middle. The screen showed complicated lyrics, but your mouth shape was a number.”

Bai Feifei was speechless. She had no memory of this at all and could only ask cautiously, “So… what happened then?”

Huo Wu seemed to have remembered something, frowned, and looked back at Bai Feifei.

After a moment, she suddenly reached out and pinched Bai Feifei’s cheek. “I have an idea, but I don’t know if you’ll agree to it.”

Bai Feifei didn’t even know what it was, but she immediately nodded and agreed, “Whatever you say is fine.”

They had wrapped up work early today, and since Li Ke had just given them a break, Bai Feifei felt energetic and was eagerly waiting for Huo Wu to speak.

Huo Wu closed the script in her hand, took out her phone, which had somehow gotten wedged into the sofa cushion, and after a few taps, a video appeared on the screen.

The video was 3 minutes and 45 seconds long. As soon as Bai Feifei leaned over to look, she regretted swallowing the phrase “Whatever you say is fine”—it was a case of instant karma. The video was exactly what had been relegated to the ‘meme’ section of a certain video-sharing site, and its content was none other than her chaotic group’s main song and its cheap-looking music video.

To call it an MV would be an insult to the term.

The special effects were even two cents cheaper than those in the children’s show Mousa Girls.

Huo Wu watched the video for a couple of seconds, then frowned and looked away.

She couldn’t ignore her own feeling of repulsion—she had never thought about it in detail before, but now that the real Bai Feifei was right beside her, watching the Bai Feifei in the video, even though they were the same person, she felt a sense that they were ‘two completely unrelated people’.

As if to prove a point, Huo Wu played the video again, her gaze constantly moving back and forth between the Bai Feifei in the video and the one in reality. Finally, she said with hesitation, “Strange…”

Bai Feifei felt pathetic. She noticed Huo Wu’s back-and-forth glances but her first thought was that Huo Wu had some strange idea, maybe wanting her to improvise a numerical solo. She cautiously asked, “What’s strange?”

“They’re clearly the same person,” Huo Wu said, looking at Bai Feifei with great curiosity. She then put down her phone and continued, “So why are you so likable?”

Bai Feifei didn’t react at first, but once it sank in, she let out a cry and threw herself onto Huo Wu, hugging and kissing her all over.

After a series of pecks and nuzzles, Bai Feifei pressed her face against Huo Wu’s and said sweetly, “Because the me who is with you is the real me.”

Huo Wu didn’t fully understand the words, but she could hear the happiness in Bai Feifei’s tone. She smiled, placed her phone face down on the side, and said, “I was originally going to have you recite the numbers and dance this again.” She paused, then added, “If this can even be called dancing.”

The girls in the video were staring at a specific corner of the stage, like children in a kindergarten performance who needed a teacher below to lead them through the movements, one by one. Not to mention being in sync, not a single person was on beat. Their every movement was filled with panic.

Bai Feifei thought for a moment, then took Huo Wu’s phone, used Huo Wu’s thumb to unlock it, and re-opened the video.

As she watched, her brows furrowed.

The video gave her a very strange feeling—as if there were another person in the world who looked identical to her but had a completely different personality. Although the ‘original owner’ in the video was singing and dancing, her mouth constantly forming numerical shapes that Bai Feifei could easily recognize, her expression was filled with impatience and a fiery temper. Her every move carried an inexplicable sense of frustration. At the end of the video, she was the first to jump off the stage.

Not only that, her first action after jumping off the stage was to take off her jacket, revealing large tattoos on her back and chest that had been covered by her clothes. As the camera zoomed in, no trace of them being temporary stickers could be seen.

Bai Feifei was a little surprised. Why hadn’t this video been cleaned up by the system?

According to the system, any historical remnant with the original owner’s trace that couldn’t be ‘whitewashed’ would be intervened and erased.

Bai Feifei mentally prepared herself and slowly opened the comments section.

Bai Feifei hadn’t actually downloaded any social media apps—she had uninstalled the few video and entertainment news apps she had downloaded earlier after everything had mostly settled down.

Her phone had been switched to data connection at some point, and the sudden slowdown of the network made Bai Feifei, a superstitious person, turn back nervously. “You don’t think there are still a lot of people cursing me, do you?”

“No,” Huo Wu said after a brief pause. “No one has been cursing you for a long time. Lawyer Xi’s lawsuit cleaning up the mess was very thorough.”

However, Bai Feifei didn’t know a lot of the details.

To avoid delaying Bai Feifei’s filming schedule, Bai Feifei’s involvement in the entire case was not high. In fact, there wasn’t much for her to participate in, as it was a full-power proxy. Even if there was a court hearing, she didn’t have to attend.

The online speculation about the incident had quickly escalated multiple times, and what started as an attack on ‘Bai Feifei’ was strangely elevated to a gender issue by a strange public opinion. Most people started to criticize the history of how female artists climb the ladder of success. Basically, every well-known artist suffered a large number of rumors and public attacks in a short period of time.

Amid the overwhelming trend, a day even appeared, known as ‘Female Artists’ Counterattack Day’. Many artists collectively issued joint statements on the same day, fully authorizing the law firm under Xi Rong to take legal action regarding the rumors. Because of this, most of the lawyers and interns under Xi Rong even gave up their vacation and devoted themselves to the case wholeheartedly.

In Xi Rong’s words: “It’s a definite win, we get paid, we gain fame, and we boost our success rate and qualifications. There’s no reason not to take it.”

Many prominent examples were caught, and since then, the trend of spreading rumors and slandering people has subsided a lot.

When Bai Feifei heard Huo Wu say this, she suddenly realized how much time had passed since that incident.

After a moment, she asked, “After Aunt Rong’s case, have they ever had a losing case?”

Bai Feifei only vaguely remembered that the number of reposts and public exposure would become the standard for a judgment, and she was a little worried that Xi Rong’s team would have a losing case because of her matter—no lawyer wants to lose a case like this, as it could become an indelible stain on their career.

“No,” Huo Wu said with certainty. “One hundred percent win rate on all closed cases.” Seeing Bai Feifei look relieved and a little happy, Huo Wu added, “It was also written into law school textbooks.”

Bai Feifei couldn’t understand why such a simple case would be included in a textbook.

Huo Wu was once confused as well, but she later asked Xi Rong directly. Xi Rong told her at the time, “Cases are not distinguished by size. That incident was serious in nature and aligned with the educational philosophy of the University of Political Science and Law. It touched upon the sanctity of law, humanistic principles, and the rule of law. While it’s true, as Xi Rong told you, that taking the case was very beneficial to their team, it also had a great impact on other fronts.”

Bai Feifei pursed her lips. “I… don’t really know about these things.”

Huo Wu said, “It has nothing to do with you. I’m just saying from a public opinion standpoint, it would have a huge impact on their law firm and even make them public enemies of many… compatriots.”

At this point, Huo Wu chuckled softly, but the sarcasm was palpable. “Because among those who were sued at the time, there were many ‘celebrities’ who were ‘expressing their own views’ but were actually twisting facts and slandering people.”