The Female Lead Keeps Breaking Her Own Persona - Chapter 35

“Ahem.” Gu Jingyun looked away uncomfortably. Qu Anruo put her hand down and happily pounced on Gu Jingyun.

A knock came from outside the door. “Who is it?” Qu Anruo tidied her clothes and got off Gu Jingyun.

Su Haodang stood outside the door holding a bouquet of flowers: “Miss Gu, I’ve come to see you.” The nurse beside him was being glared at by bodyguards and dared not step forward.

Qu Anruo stopped upon hearing Su Haodang’s voice.

“Miss Gu?” Seeing no one respond inside, Su Haodang looked at the nurse. “Isn’t Gu Jingyun here?” The nurse didn’t know how to answer.

“Heh, what is CEO Su here for?” Qu Anruo opened the door, crossing her arms and looking at Su Haodang. She opened the door because she was afraid Su Haodang would make trouble for the nurse. Otherwise, she wouldn’t want to see Su Haodang’s unpleasant face.

The sight of Qu Anruo made Su Haodang’s knees ache slightly. “Qu Anruo! Don’t go too far!” Su Haodang gripped the door frame, his face contorted in anger as he looked at Qu Anruo.

Qu Anruo tried to close the door but Su Haodang used his body to hold it open. “Miss Gu, I brought you flowers.” Su Haodang said, pushing Qu Anruo aside, trying to hand the flowers to Gu Jingyun.

Gu Jingyun grabbed Qu Anruo’s hand and pulled her to her side. “CEO Su, you should leave.” Gu Jingyun raised her eyes and looked at Su Haodang: “Stay away from us.”

“You, you two!” Su Haodang pointed at them in disbelief, then furiously threw the flowers on the ground and angrily left with his bodyguards.

“Anruo, are you okay?” Gu Jingyun carefully checked Qu Anruo. “I’m fine.” Good heavens, Gu Jingyun was so handsome just now. Qu Anruo looked at Gu Jingyun with pink hearts in her eyes, full of admiration.

“Ah, Anruo, your hand…” Gu Jingyun said awkwardly. Qu Anruo looked at her hand and realized it had already wrapped itself around Gu Jingyun’s waist without her conscious direction. Qu Anruo cleared her throat pretentiously and let go of her hand.

The next day, the two went to the set together. Before they arrived, Director Bai had already gone out to welcome them.

“Jingyun, why didn’t you rest for a few more days? It’s fine to take a longer break.” Director Bai said, then saw Qu Anruo walk past her without saying a word.

Gu Jingyun was afraid Director Bai would get angry: “Director Bai, please don’t take offense with Anruo.” Director Bai wouldn’t dare. She wouldn’t dare even if she had a hundred times the guts. “It’s fine, it’s fine,” she quickly waved her hand and said.

Just as they were about to enter, Xu Nanxi also arrived. However, Xu Nanxi was fully wrapped up and covered. Upon seeing Director Bai, she pulled her away.

“I probably can’t continue filming. I’ll be going abroad in a bit.” Xu Nanxi panted as she pulled down her mask. Seeing Xu Nanxi’s slightly swollen lips, Director Bai knew what was going on.

“She came looking for you?” Xu Nanxi nodded. Director Bai didn’t say much, as Xu Nanxi’s situation was somewhat unique.

“Then I’ll be running off first. I’ll trouble Director Bai to find someone else to substitute.” After saying that, Xu Nanxi shoved a box into Director Bai’s hand and hurriedly left.

Director Bai looked at the box with confusion. Why would Xu Nanxi suddenly give her a gift? Director Bai put the gift in her pocket strangely. The female lead’s scenes had only just started filming re-shooting was still possible. The role wasn’t hard to find, but it was difficult to find someone who matched well with the female lead.

Director Bai patrolled the set, and her gaze finally landed on the distracted Qu Anruo.

Just as she was about to approach Qu Anruo, she was stopped by a pair of hands.

“Director Bai?” Wang Chu said in disbelief, looking at Director Bai. No, she glanced at Director Bai: “Did Xu Nanxi give you anything?” Director Bai was a bit confused but still took the gift out of her pocket. Wang Chu opened the box and found a tracker at the bottom.

After taking the tracker out, Wang Chu handed the gift back to Director Bai. “Thanks,” she said. Then, Wang Chu left with a few people.

“This…” Director Bai felt like she had been dragged into a conspiracy.

“Oh, right.” Director Bai suddenly remembered she still needed to find Qu Anruo. Seeing Qu Anruo still sitting there, she quietly approached her.

“Uh, CEO Qu, I want to talk to you.”

“Hmph.” Qu Anruo turned her head away, refusing to look at Director Bai.

“Well, Xu Nanxi can’t act anymore due to personal reasons. Could I trouble CEO Qu to take on the role of the second female lead?” Director Bai said with little confidence. However, Qu Anruo fit the character well, and if her acting wasn’t good enough, she could personally teach her.

Hearing that she was to play the second female lead, Qu Anruo’s interest was piqued. She loved trying new things. “What if I agree?” However, she wouldn’t work for Director Bai for free.

“In the future, any suitable movie roles for Jingyun will prioritize her.” Director Bai had planned this all along. She hadn’t expected Qu Anruo to agree so quickly.

Qu Anruo would always agree to anything that helped Gu Jingyun’s acting career. “Deal.” After Qu Anruo said this, Director Bai’s face brightened with obvious joy.

Qu Anruo’s tone suddenly shifted. “However, from now on, I’ll be arranging bodyguards on the set.” Hearing Qu Anruo’s words, Director Bai strongly agreed.

After signing the contract termination with Director Bai, Xu Nanxi’s agent posted on Weibo that Xu Nanxi was temporarily retiring from the entertainment industry due to health reasons.

No way, Nanxi, please take care of yourself. We’ll wait for you to come back.

The comments were mostly like this, showing how much Xu Nanxi’s fans loved her. The agent then posted that Qu Anruo would be playing the second female lead. Because of Qu Anruo’s status, no one on the internet dared to say anything.

Qu Anruo tried sending messages and calling Wang Chu, but no one responded. How strange. Xu Nanxi ran away today, and Wang Chu also disappeared. These two…

After Gu Jingyun finished filming, Qu Anruo came up to her: “Sister, what should we eat later?”

Gu Jingyun didn’t know Qu Anruo was going to play the second female lead. She looked at Qu Anruo and pondered. “Anruo, you’ve been with me for a long time. You must have your own things to attend to.”

Qu Anruo let go of Gu Jingyun’s hand after hearing this. She looked at Gu Jingyun blankly. “Is Sister trying to send me away?” she said, her voice sounding tearful.

“No, Anruo, that’s not what I mean.” Gu Jingyun frowned, trying to grab Qu Anruo’s hand, but Qu Anruo dodged her.

“I understand. I’ll leave then.” Qu Anruo drooped her head sadly and walked away.

Gu Jingyun wanted to chase after her, but Qu Anruo got into her car first. Gu Jingyun could only watch Qu Anruo drive away from behind the car.

【Host… are you really leaving?】666 couldn’t believe it. Was this still the Qu Anruo it knew, the one who wanted to cling to Gu Jingyun 24 hours a day?

【This move is called ‘retreat in order to advance.’ Sister hasn’t truly agreed to me yet.】Qu Anruo sighed as she said this. She knew what Gu Jingyun’s concerns were, but once she differentiated, she would destroy her gland immediately.

666 looked at Qu Anruo with admiration. It had thought Qu Anruo was truly upset, but it was just acting again.

Gu Jingyun stood forlornly behind the car that had already disappeared from her sight.

Director Bai saw this, walked up, and patted Gu Jingyun’s shoulder. “Having a lover’s quarrel?” Gu Jingyun nodded.

“It’s not a big deal. It’s normal for young couples to squabble. Why don’t you give her a gift or something?” After Director Bai said this, Gu Jingyun remembered the gift she had bought for Qu Anruo hadn’t been given yet. She thanked Director Bai and rushed straight to the hotel upstairs.

Director Bai stood there, looking at Gu Jingyun with gratification.

In the car, Qu Anruo asked Yuanyuan: “Is the house settled?”

“It has been set up as CEO Qu requested. It will be ready for move-in tomorrow.” Qu Anruo nodded in satisfaction.

Su Haoyan found Su Haodang and came up to him. “Aren’t you ashamed?” Su Haoyan angrily slapped the table in front of Su Haodang.

“Ashamed? Heh, Su Haoyan, what right do you have to talk to me?” Su Haodang looked at Su Haoyan dismissively.

“Are you trying to let Mom and Dad know you’re lusting after your own sister!”

Su Haodang looked at Su Haoyan as if he were crazy. He got up and walked in front of Su Haoyan: “Go ahead and tell them. Besides, she’s not our biological sister.”

“And keep the benefits within the family. Don’t you even understand that?” After saying this, Su Haodang burst out laughing.

Hearing Su Haodang’s words, Su Haoyan clenched his fist and punched Su Haodang in the face.

“Su Haoyan! You dare hit me!” Su Haodang said and immediately motioned for his bodyguards to enter.

“Beat him up!” The bodyguards hesitated but still followed Su Haodang’s orders and assaulted Su Haoyan.

Qu Anruo got out of the car and looked at the house: “This house is pretty good.” She said, walking inside.

When she reached the door, Yuanyuan handed the key to Qu Anruo. Qu Anruo opened the door. The space inside was large and had two floors with a staircase.

The location was also excellent. Qu Anruo planned to buy this house after filming was over so she could stay here when she came to visit this area later.

All the furniture in the house was brand new. When Qu Anruo lifted the white cloths covering them, dust flew up in the air.

“Cough, cough.” Qu Anruo was choked and coughed, waving her hand to fan away the dust around her.

“CEO Qu, are you alright?” Yuanyuan also hadn’t expected so much dust.

“I’m fine, I’m fine.” Qu Anruo said, then went to check the master bedroom upstairs.

The master bedroom was also quite large; it would be perfect for Gu Jingyun later. Qu Anruo looked around satisfied and then had Yuanyuan drive her away.

“Where would CEO Qu like to go now?” Yuanyuan asked Qu Anruo while driving.

Qu Anruo thought for a moment. “Let’s go to the amusement park near the set.” Her father had only taken her twice when she was a child when he was in a good mood. She hadn’t been there since.

Qu Anruo sighed, thinking of her father in the other world. However, he was probably doing fine without her. She smiled self-deprecatingly. She was just an insignificant person. Her father loved her mother; she was the one who caused the death of the person he loved. It was good enough that he didn’t send her away.

Qu Anruo looked out the window at the tallest Ferris wheel. “We’ve arrived, CEO Qu.” Yuanyuan stopped the car and said to Qu Anruo.

After Qu Anruo got out, Yuanyuan also wanted to follow, “No need, I’ll go by myself.” She wanted to be alone.

After Qu Anruo left, Yuanyuan received a call from Gu Jingyun.

“Sister Jingyun.”

“Where is Anruo right now?” Gu Jingyun’s voice was a bit noisy. Yuanyuan told Gu Jingyun the address, and the noise on Gu Jingyun’s end disappeared.

A moment later, Gu Jingyun arrived at the amusement park Yuanyuan mentioned.

In the vast crowd, Qu Anruo’s phone was also turned off. Gu Jingyun was not confident she could find Qu Anruo.