After returning from my cultivation journey, I built a farm through fortune telling.

Chapter 153

"I knew I'd forgotten something!!" Bai Xiao slapped her thigh. "Isn't today my first day on set? I was going to call you after I finished work and washed up, but then I forgot...hehe—"

Director Wang invited Bai Xiao to play the second female lead. That drama started filming ahead of schedule this month; the day before yesterday was the opening ceremony, and filming officially began yesterday. Due to some objective factors, filming wrapped up very late.

Bai Lu rolled her eyes: "You didn't forget, you're just crazy about shipping this couple!"

"Oh dear!" Bai Xiao pouted, "I'm a future female star, after all, I definitely need to keep up with what's going on in the entertainment industry!"

"Okay, okay, future female star, you're on my radar!"

Bai Lu had no choice but to compromise. What else could she do but spoil her best friend?

She asked, "How's the film crew? Has no one given you any trouble?"

"I have powerful connections too, who would dare to make things difficult for me!" Bai Xiao said proudly. "You don't know, Director Wang practically worshipped me on set. If I hadn't been afraid of being too high-profile and asked him not to put up with my attitude, he wouldn't have held back at all! He wanted the whole crew to know that I was someone he had connections with!"

As she spoke, she became somewhat indignant: "Isn't this just harming people? I'm a beautiful young woman in my early twenties, and he's almost forty. What if these gossip accounts twist my story and say I was sexually harassed? What will become of my innocence? Once the '3' sign is on my head, it'll be hard to take it off!"

Bai Lu nodded: "That's really too much. I'll talk to him on his behalf!"

"No, no, no!" Bai Xiao quickly stopped her. "I've already discussed it with Director Wang! He'll treat me like any other actor from now on! After all, I'm going to make a movie, not to be treated like royalty."

“You know, although I’ve been acting for a few years, I’ve always played minor, peripheral roles—it’s not that my acting is bad, I’m a professionally trained actor after all! But this is my first time playing such an important role as the second female lead, so it’s inevitable that I’m nervous, and nervousness leads to mistakes.” Bai Xiao sighed, “I was just too nervous today, and I kept making mistakes. At the beginning, when I made a mistake, Director Wang didn’t dare to criticize me. He cautiously and kindly asked me if I could do another take. You know, Director Wang is notorious in the industry for his harsh words, but looking at the way he looked at me, if I had said ‘no,’ he definitely wouldn’t have asked me to do it a second time!”

"You have no idea how complicated the looks were when everyone from the assistant director to the actors to the crew members looked at me! So many people thought I was having an affair with the director! Only heaven knows that my real backer was thousands of miles away in Yangcheng!"

"Baby, it's truly your honor that we grew up together, practically naked!"

The egret picked at its ear: "What did you say? Whose honor?"

"My honor, my honor!"

Bai Xiao grinned mischievously where Bai Lu couldn't see: "Baby, let me tell you, if I were a villainous supporting character, I'd be walking around like a madman on set right now!"

"So, are you going to change your name?"

"Why change my name? I, Bai Xiaoxing, will never change my name or surname! My real name and stage name are both Bai Xiao!"

"They're practically walking sideways, wouldn't calling them white crabs be more fitting?" the egret said, then couldn't help but laugh out loud: "Hahahaha—"

Bai Xiao: "..."

(End of this chapter)