The King of Soft Rice in Chinese Entertainment

Chapter 296 A Little Birthday

"Happy birthday, Mimi!" With these words, Liu Qianqian and Tang Yan kissed Yang Mi on the cheeks, one on each side.

Yang Mi chuckled, blew out the candles on the cake in front of her, and then picked up a plastic knife to start cutting it.

The three girls happily shared the small cake and played around for a while. While Tang Yan went to the bathroom in the hotel suite, Liu Qianqian leaned close to Yang Mi and whispered, "How did it go?"

"What do you mean, how?" Yang Mi asked back.

"Didn't you want to take advantage of your birthday to ask Xu Jiuyang for something?" Liu Qianqian continued to ask.

"I'll take it. I'm still waiting for a reply," Yang Mi said with a shrug.

"Are you just going to wait here like this?" Liu Qianqian made a strange expression.

"Otherwise what?" Yang Mi retorted again, "Invite him to my birthday party? Please, don't you even bother to find out what his reputation is like on set?"

Liu Qianqian was not good at speaking. After all, everyone in the crew had seen him chatting and laughing with Zheng Shuang, who was a newcomer to the crew and played Qin Hongmian. Even if no one noticed that he and she had any overly intimate behavior, some gossip had already begun to circulate, not to mention that He Qing was also chatting with them.

In this situation, the three girls invited him to their birthday party. Guess what kind of rumors will circulate in the film crew, and how their mother will view her.

But she was still somewhat unwilling to give up: "Actually, you could throw a bigger party..."

"A bigger party?" Yang Mi scoffed. "Besides you and Tangtang, there's also Shishi, who's far away in Beijing and hasn't even started filming yet. Who else could I invite? Your mother?"

Then she revealed a knowing look: "Xian'er, are you afraid of something?"

"Me? How could I be afraid!" Liu Qianqian immediately denied it, then realized she had denied it too quickly.

So, facing the smiling Yang Mi, she could only cough dryly: "Anyway, I played a trick on him before, and now I want to find out some things about my mother through him, but I don't know how to make contact..."

The threat was effective; Liu Qianqian appeared unconcerned on the surface, but she was actually quite nervous inside.

Despite her mother's repeated reminders not to have any close contact with him, she still had Yangyang with her. If he crossed her bottom line and punished her, where could she complain?

So even though the other party didn't do anything to her during this time, and her mother was still by her side, she was still a little uneasy about it.

"I don't know how to approach her?" Yang Mi asked with a half-smile.

"That's right!" Liu Qianqian felt embarrassed and annoyed at being seen through, but before she could speak, Tang Yan had already come out.

"Mimi is an adult now, right? So when are we going to start?" she asked excitedly.

"Not yet, but we can definitely register a company now." Yang Mi subtly rolled her eyes. "It should be in the next day or two. Tangtang, don't rush. You should focus on your studies first. In two years, Qianqian and I will also be taking the entrance exam for the Beijing Film Academy."

That's right. Tang Yan, the disgrace of the Central Academy of Drama, has successfully entered the Beijing Film Academy this year under their influence. As for whether she will become the disgrace of the Beijing Film Academy in the future... it's unlikely. There are far more mediocre graduates from the Beijing Film Academy than from the Central Academy of Drama. Moreover, her reputation as the disgrace of the Central Academy of Drama is more like a persona, since the Central Academy of Drama didn't perform well in the subsequent internet boom.

"Don't worry, I know. I'll go back to class and study hard after filming is over," Tang Yan nodded repeatedly.

At this point, although she was already quite naive, she still retained a sense of innocence and naiveté, and her thinking was very simple and straightforward.

"Tangtang, if anything happens at school, be sure to tell us," Liu Qianqian said earnestly. "Look, you just entered the school and you're already involved in the filming of 'Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils,' and you have a significant role with many scenes. There will definitely be people who are jealous of you, talking badly about you behind your back, and even trying to isolate you. We're not at the Beijing Film Academy yet, so we can't help you much, but at least we can let you vent." "Thank you, Qianqian, I definitely will," Tang Yan said, her gratitude genuine. Meanwhile, Liu Qianqian, smiling broadly, secretly gave Yang Mi a provocative look.

Yang Mi shook her head behind Tang Yan, looking like she was saying, "I don't argue with kids."

The three girls joked around for a while... Well, to be precise, Liu Qianqian and Yang Mi teamed up with CPU Tang Yan, just like they had teamed up with CPU Liu Shishi before.

Looking at the time, it was already quite late, so Liu Qianqian and Tang Yan said goodbye to Yang Mi.

After leaving, Liu Qianqian took Tang Yan back and chatted briefly before returning to her own room.

"Miss, Madam called at 8 o'clock," the maid reported immediately.

Yes, Liu Qianqian has maids by her side, and they are the two maids that Li Yunxin and Angela gave her. They are Japanese and only have given names, one named Feng and the other named Cai.

Feng is with her now, while Cai stayed at home because her mother said that having two maids would have a bad influence. Since she wants to be a star, she has to start by shaping her image from small things. Having one maid can be claimed to be an assistant, but having two would seem a bit arrogant and extravagant.

Although Liu Qianqian was not happy, she accepted her mother's arrangement when she thought about how silly she looked in front of the media at different times in many simulated futures, and the contradictory personas she created because she didn't understand the rules of the game.

Besides, although Feng is the only maid around, she is very efficient, speaks decent Chinese, and doesn't have much else to do on set, so that's enough.

"I understand, Mom. You just need to take good care of Yangyang. You have plenty of time and space." Liu Qianqian said this as the call with her mother was about to end, then quickly hung up and stuck out her tongue.

The last sentence sounds somewhat sarcastic, considering that a certain guy surnamed Xu has been getting along very well with Qin Hongmian and Dao Baifeng these past few days.

Although she had seen information about his future womanizing in the simulation and had seen pictures of him several times, it was still a different story from actually seeing him with women on both sides in person. Don't get me wrong, Liu Qianqian didn't go to be a voyeur; she went to see them openly and honestly.

Yes, I saw it through a simulation.

After all, theoretically speaking, as long as one's mental strength can hold up, there are an unlimited number of simulations for the next day, so she can try and fail countless times to catch someone red-handed.

"Hmph, you dare threaten me? Just wait and see how I deal with you later," Liu Qianqian muttered to herself as she lay on the bed.

She wasn't stupid; she could more or less sense Xu Jiuyang's scheme. But even though she talked about it, she was still hesitant to actually continue flirting with him.

As I said before, if he were to push himself to his mother's limits, she wouldn't just be angry, she might even applaud it.

"Miss, the water is ready," the maid said, bowing as she approached.
The recent scenes have been filmed at the Zicheng Film and Television City, so Liu Qianqian naturally didn't want to skimp on herself and booked a large suite with a bathtub at the hotel where she was staying.

"Okay." The girl struggled to get up, deciding not to concern herself with this annoying matter, but to think about how to bring Tang Yan to her side.

It's said that they've clearly divided things with Yang Mi, separating Da from Tang and Shi from Xian, but no one has said that's absolutely true.

Tang Yan's naive and easily fooled appearance makes her far easier to manipulate than Liu Shishi, who appears quiet but is actually overly lively.

The only problem is that Yang Mi and I are allies... Well, if I can use my methods to win Tangtang over, she probably won't have anything to say.

(End of this chapter)