The Security Guard Who Won the Heart of the Unattainable Actress - Chapter 7

Chapter 7

A warning bell rang in Li Guang’s heart. A little figure in her head was screaming for help, “You’re done! You’re done!”

No, Teacher Ran, can you let me explain?

The security guards in the meeting room looked horrified. Li Guang had so bluntly refused a good job, and the person herself had heard it directly.

Li Guang pretended to be calm: Don’t worry, watch me.

Following Ran Mingyue out of the meeting room, Li Guang started timidly, “Teacher Ran…”

Ran Mingyue heard those three words again.

She just knew that the old Li Guang wouldn’t call her that.

Teacher Ran, Teacher Ran, why did it sound so awkward and uncomfortable?

Ran Mingyue turned around and faced Li Guang. The polite, distant smile on her face disappeared, and she frowned.

“Are you afraid of me?”

Not only was she afraid, but she was also avoiding her.

“No, no, no, no!” Li Guang waved her hands repeatedly. “I’m not afraid… Teacher Ran, it’s just that you’re very popular now.”

Li Guang spoke truthfully: “You’re a big star, and I used to be in the industry, so I don’t want to cling to you.”

Ran Mingyue was silent, looking at Li Guang for a long time, her chest heaving uncontrollably. She saw Li Guang’s head slightly lowered, and even her usually unruly stray hairs had drooped.

She let out a laugh, but she didn’t know why she was laughing. “Then why do you say you’re not afraid of me?”

“Teacher Ran, if you need anything for the show, you can call me. But at other times, I won’t bother you.”

Explaining was something Li Guang was terrible at; she had almost no skill in it.

Li Guang felt the air get even colder after she finished her explanation.

Li Guang called out softly, “Teacher Ran?”

Ran Mingyue just looked at her calmly, and Li Guang started to feel uncomfortable.

—Did I say something wrong?

“Are you still bothered by what happened before?” Ran Mingyue suddenly asked.

Li Guang was stunned for a moment: “What happened?”

Ran Mingyue: “…”

When Li Guang said that, she knew that Li Guang must have completely forgotten everything!

Ran Mingyue had always been a master of emotional management unless she really couldn’t help it.

She walked directly into the large conference room where the production team was located.

“Hey, Teacher Ran, wait! Wait!” Li Guang finally remembered that the facial recognition system had been upgraded and might not be accurate. She responsibly chased after her.

The conference room door was suddenly opened from the inside. Wen Yingzhi leaned against the doorway, blocking the eyes of a few people inside who were trying to peek out. “Didn’t you hear? The little girl is calling you from behind.”

If the behind-the-scenes camera wasn’t still on, Ran Mingyue really would have punched Wen Yingzhi until she was reincarnated.

She took a deep breath and quickly composed herself.

“What else is it?”

“The facial recognition in the residential area is being upgraded recently, so it might not recognize you. If you have time, you can go to the property management center to take a new photo,” Li Guang said. “It’s downstairs, you can stop by…”

Ran Mingyue’s face was cold: “I can’t ‘stop by,’ I don’t have time.”

She was here reminiscing about the past, and this little girl was talking to her about facial recognition? Were these the words of a human being with a thirty-seven-degree mouth?

“Slam!”

Li Guang looked at the closed conference room door and awkwardly touched her nose.

Did she say something wrong again?

After Ran Mingyue went in, everyone’s eyes were filled with curiosity.

“What are you looking at? Let’s continue the meeting.” Ran Mingyue forced herself not to pay attention to the commotion outside. In any case, she didn’t want to talk to Li Guang for a while.

No! Not for a short while! She wouldn’t talk to her for a long time!

Li Guang had no choice but to go back to her own meeting room.

Liu Limin said earnestly, “Little Li, you have to work hard. You’re still so young, work hard, and you’ll be the security team leader one day!”

Thinking of the wonderful life of being a security team leader, Li Guang’s eyes lit up again.

“Since you don’t want to be Teacher Ran’s personal bodyguard, we’ll have to wait until the first episode for the production team to assign you,” Liu Limin said. “These few days, let’s just do a good job of cooperating. The work arrangements will be sent in the internal group. All right, the meeting is over, everyone can go do what they need to do!”

Li Guang went downstairs with everyone.

The large conference room next door was still tightly closed, and she didn’t know what they were discussing.

The meeting started at 3:30, and an hour had passed with all the commotion. Li Guang was very satisfied with the passage of time, feeling a kind of joy in wasting time.

She returned to the security office and not long after, she saw many people from the production team coming out of the property management center building on the monitor. She guessed the meeting was over.

She looked at the tall figure in the crowd in a daze.

Even in an all-star variety show, Ran Mingyue was still the most outstanding one.

“You’re clearly a fan of Teacher Ran, so why did you refuse to be her security guard?” Chai Ning saw her look. Wasn’t she a complete fangirl?

Had she been through a rehabilitation program that she could refuse to be Ran Mingyue’s bodyguard?

Li Guang shook her head: “That’s different.”

She couldn’t leech off Ran Mingyue’s fame.

It was written in black and white on the schedule that the personal security guards might appear on camera at any time during the show’s filming. She would be recognized.

Even the most obscure artists, when they came across the name Ran Mingyue, might be labeled as freeloaders, even if she wasn’t, she never was.

A hint of gloom passed through Li Guang’s heart, but she didn’t let it linger and instead seriously looked at the monitors.

It was always okay to appreciate beauty, right?

The beautiful woman being appreciated left the production team’s crowd and walked toward Zone A, possibly going home.

Ran Mingyue arrived at her doorstep but didn’t go in. Instead, she stood for a long time at the side gate’s facial recognition system.

When Li Guang saw Ran Mingyue walk in circles twice, she stood up and shot out like a small rocket.

“Where are you going again!” Chai Ning yelled.

He found that this little girl was so full of energy all day long. She was doing more things than anyone else even though it wasn’t her work time yet.

Li Guang yelled without turning back, “Helping a resident!”

That was her principle.

Li Guang, with her good momentum, took three steps at a time toward Zone A. When she got close to the side gate, her steps slowed down, and she deliberately walked behind a tree, very discreetly.

Li Guang suddenly remembered Ran Mingyue’s cold shoulder.

She belatedly realized that Ran Mingyue had been angry with her for a while now.

So she probably didn’t want to see her right now.

Li Guang changed her one-step walk to a three-step one, feeling conflicted. She wasn’t far and could already see what Ran Mingyue was doing.

It seemed that the facial recognition system couldn’t even recognize Ran Mingyue’s face.

But Ran Mingyue’s situation was a little special.

She was wearing sunglasses, and her aura of aloofness and “don’t come near” was impossible to block. Her slender figure stood in front of the recognition screen, and the system said cruelly, “Sorry, unable to recognize.”

Ran Mingyue didn’t see Li Guang, so she stepped back two steps and stood in front of the machine again.

“Sorry, unable to recognize.”

“Tsk.”

It was very subtle, but Li Guang realized that the impatient exclamation was from Ran Mingyue.

Li Guang couldn’t help but laugh out loud because she didn’t expect Ran Mingyue to have such a cute side. As soon as she made a sound, Ran Mingyue immediately turned her head vigilantly.

Seeing that it was Li Guang, Ran Mingyue replaced her surprise with a deliberately distant expression, and her voice was indifferent: “What are you doing here?”

Li Guang cautiously reminded her: “Teacher Ran, why don’t you take off your sunglasses and try again?”

“I don’t need you to tell me what to do.”

Ran Mingyue still hadn’t forgotten that Li Guang had said she wouldn’t be her personal security, and she was still sulking, not even wanting to talk to Li Guang.

At this time, without a camera, Ran Mingyue’s tone carried a hint of a child’s willfulness that she never showed.

The person with the good temper now was Li Guang. She stood straight with her hands behind her back, the sunlight following behind her.

Li Guang was actually one centimeter taller than Ran Mingyue, although she had a less mature face.

Her face was a standard oval shape. Only when she smiled, her cheeks would puff up slightly, and the baby fat would show. Paired with her dark and bright almond-shaped eyes, she had a kind of natural and charming naivety.

Ran Mingyue then realized that Li Guang was wearing a uniform that fit her perfectly. She had long legs and a slender waist.

With her hat pulled down… she understood why the staff had made that request to her this afternoon.

They said they wanted to film Li Guang for the behind-the-scenes footage.

At this moment, Li Guang’s eyes curved, and all the sunlight blended into her smile.

“Teacher Ran, take off your sunglasses and try again,” Li Guang called out softly. “It will definitely work.”

Ran Mingyue turned her head. For now, it was impossible to tell what emotion was in her eyes.

Li Guang continued in a small voice, her tone soft and sweet: “Teacher Ran, please listen to me.”

The long “please” at the end of her sentence successfully made Ran Mingyue give up on her stubbornness, but she didn’t take off her sunglasses. Instead, she walked back and forth in front of the machine.

“Sorry, facial recognition is temporarily unavailable.”

“Sorry, facial recognition is unavailable.”

Just like Ran Mingyue’s stubbornness, the machine was also very stubborn. No matter how many times Ran Mingyue walked back and forth, it just wouldn’t work.

Ran Mingyue: “…”

Good, very good, exceptionally good.

Her movements were angry, her eyes were elegant. Ran Mingyue finally took off her sunglasses.

Under Li Guang’s expectant and encouraging gaze, Ran Mingyue faced the machine again.

“Sorry, facial recognition is unavailable.”

Just before Ran Mingyue was about to have an outburst, Li Guang spoke, “I told you at the meeting this afternoon. The system has been upgraded, and you need to go update it…”

Actually, it would have been better if she hadn’t mentioned the meeting.

As soon as she mentioned it, Ran Mingyue remembered that Li Guang was unwilling to be her personal security guard.

Li Guang didn’t want to be her personal security guard.

Li Guang refused to be her personal security guard.

This wasn’t the first time Li Guang had refused her, and Li Guang would continue to refuse her in the future.

Li Guang had no feelings for her at all!

Ahhhhhhhhhh! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

Ran Mingyue decided not to say a single word to Li Guang. Even if Li Guang talked to her, she would pretend not to hear.

Li Guang said, “Sister Mingyue.”

Li Guang said this subconsciously, perhaps not even knowing what she was saying herself.

“Okay.” Ran Mingyue’s firm stance instantly collapsed. “I’ll go re-record it.”

Li Guang said, “Let’s go, I’ll go with you.”

Ran Mingyue and Li Guang walked together again, past the property management building they had just left.

The place to record faces was on the first floor, in an office next to the employee cafeteria. As Li Guang passed by, she couldn’t help but be attracted by the sounds inside.

It was almost dinner time, and her stomach… her stomach… really wanted to eat that dessert from yesterday.

Slurp.

Li Guang touched her shriveled belly. She saw Ran Mingyue looking at her out of the corner of her eye and quickly put on a serious expression. She helped her open the door: “Resident, please come in.”

As soon as she entered, Li Guang was stunned.

There were so many people?

The scene was different from what she had imagined. There were at least twenty people in the office, and the outermost circle of people were all carrying cameras, clearly production team staff.

Hearing someone enter, someone whispered “Teacher Ran,” and everyone consciously scattered. So Li Guang saw the four people lined up in front of a computer.

They were the show’s guests, and they all turned their heads to look with curiosity.

“I’m really sorry, everyone. Our property management just happens to be upgrading the facial recognition. You just caught it at a bad time,” Liu Limin said when he saw Li Guang bringing Ran Mingyue. He waved at her.

The production team was also polite and apologized to Liu Limin: “Oh, Team Leader Liu, don’t say that. Our production team will be working here for a long time. Cooperating to record our faces is just a minor thing. We’re the ones causing you trouble.”

After the meeting this afternoon, these people went out and came back in, and the system collapsed even more due to the excessive number of people. So the staff simply brought the guests back to re-record their faces.

And that’s where they ran into each other.

“You couldn’t be recognized either?” Wen Yingzhi, at the end of the line, waved with a smile and said to Li Guang: “Did you come with her?”

Li Guang said: “It’s our duty to serve the residents.”

She gave up her position for Ran Mingyue: “You stand here.”

Wen Yingzhi wanted to make a sarcastic remark, but Ran Mingyue directly blocked her view.

Li Guang waited by the side. She lowered her hat brim a little.

She didn’t know any of the staff here. After all, it was Apple TV’s team, and her previous status was not high enough to cooperate with Apple TV.

As she relaxed, she felt even hungrier.

She slowly walked to Ran Mingyue’s side, hesitated for a moment, and asked in a low voice: “Was that cake yesterday expensive? Where did you buy it?”

“You want to eat it?”

“I do, that cake yesterday was super delicious! It was so fragrant and not greasy at all,” Li Guang was generous with her praise. “Especially the filling, how can someone make a cake this good?”

Ran Mingyue’s lips curled up subtly.

“It was delicious? I’ll tell you, I’m the one who ordered it, and it’s very expensive,” Wen Yingzhi hooked a strand of her curly hair and joined in the fun. “It’s a limited edition.”

“Ah?” Li Guang was flustered for a moment, then her eyes sparkled again. “Teacher Wen, you’re amazing at ordering cakes!”

Ran Mingyue: Black face.

Liu Limin wanted to promote this newcomer, Li Guang, and let her get to know the guests of the show. He hurriedly said: “Little Li, the guests are all here. Why aren’t you greeting them?”

Right, right, right!

Li Guang immediately remembered her identity and politely and obediently greeted the people waiting in line, matching their names to the cardboard cutouts from the day’s arrangement.

“Hello, Teacher Xiang, Teacher Song, Teacher Hua, Teacher Wen.” Li Guang showed her signature smile, but her eyes paused when she saw Ran Mingyue. She felt she should treat everyone equally.

After a half-second pause, the small dimple next to Li Guang’s left cheek deepened: “And Sister Mingyue, hello.”

Good.

Everyone else was addressed as “Teacher X,” but not her.

Ran Mingyue finally felt completely at ease with this address.

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