Chapter 41: CH 41

Lu Zhi Wei stood there with her bowl of instant noodles, her expression worthy of being used for an expression pack.

She had never, in her wildest dreams, thought that Sang Wan Ci would actually lie to Qiu Luo that she was a lesbian.

And she even said she liked Lu Zhi Wei……

“Did Qiu Luo believe it?” Lu Zhi Wei asked incredulously.

Sang Wan Ci nodded calmly.

Everybody is capable of lying.

And with her serious expression, anybody would believe her, Qiu Luo included.

He was probably still sitting in the coffee shop in a daze.

Lu Zhi Wei: “……”

She was utterly speechless.

Good lord, could things even happen this way?

She was incredibly surprised and dumbfounded.

…… Sang Wan Ci was indeed a female lead who never followed the script, she didn’t let Lu Zhi Wei down.

But this made her start worrying about something.

—— The system will cause trouble.

Based on past experience, as long as the atmosphere became nice or warm between her and Sang Wan Ci, the dog system would immediately and exaggeratedly rush out to let her know how outrageous it was.

Now Sang Wan Ci had openly said the person she liked was Lu Zhi Wei. Even though she knew it was an excuse, the system might not know.

Who the heck knew how this ridiculous system would interpret it, and if it only heard what it wanted to hear.

Lu Zhi Wei: 【I’ll be scared if I ask.JPG】

So she looked down and silently fished out the fork that had fallen into the soup as she quietly started counting down the seconds, waiting for the system to pop out.

One second, two seconds, three seconds, four seconds…… Mm?

Why isn’t it coming out yet?

Is it…… Not planning to come out?

Lu Zhi Wei waited for a bit more, the system was really completely silent.

She was surprised.

Good heavens, the outrageous system actually didn’t show up this time?

This isn’t scientific??

She couldn’t let her guard down yet.

【Lao Wu, why didn’t the system give me a mission this time?】

Lao Wu: 【?

【Why are you asking about missions this time, isn’t it good that the system is quiet?】

Lu Zhi Wei: 【Because it would always jump out and give me nonsensical missions in the past, it’s suspicious that it didn’t this time!

【The system is being so quiet, it must be up to something!】

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Lao Wu pushed his spectacles up: 【Eat your noodles, don’t scare yourself.】

The system had its own thinking and its own judgement processes. When the system felt like it should issue a mission, it would certainly come out.

When it felt it shouldn’t, it would be silent.

Now that it hadn’t shown up, the meaning was clear.

Lu Zhi Wei: 【……】

She felt that when she thought the system would show up but it didn’t, this was also…… a sort of ridiculousness.

She forced herself to calm down, turning around to fetch a bowl and wash it, serving the noodles.

—— It was going to clump together in a while, nobody would willingly let their noodles get clumpy!

Sang Wan Ci saw that Lu Zhi Wei had been quiet for a while, and she asked curiously: “What’s wrong, are you unhappy?

“Did I make a mistake, I shouldn’t have used you as a shield?”

In the entire crew, she was closest to Lu Zhi Wei, and she was the one with the best understanding of what kind of person Lu Zhi Wei was.

So when Qiu Luo mentioned Lu Zhi Wei and spoke badly about her, she was uncomfortable, even to the point of not caring about lying about her sexual orientation and saying she liked Lu Zhi Wei.

It was just an excuse to reject him, anyway.

And compared to Qiu Luo, Lu Zhi Wei was indeed more worthy of being protected and liked.

Only an idiot would fall for someone as rude as Qiu Luo.

But now, looking at Lu Zhi Wei’s reaction, she couldn’t help but wonder if she was wrong.

If Lu Zhi Wei minded, then wasn’t she just making trouble for Lu Zhi Wei?

She didn’t want to trouble Lu Zhi Wei.

It was her fault for taking it for granted in the first place, thinking that they were friends so Lu Zhi Wei would help her without any issues……

“I’m sorry, I was being inconsiderate.” She looked incredibly ashamed, apologising quickly.

Lu Zhi Wei paused and turned back to look at her, scratching her head embarrassedly: “I’m just surprised that you would lie that you like girls, just to get rid of him……”

Then she continued: “So you don’t have to apologise, don’t think too much, I don’t mind.

“Really, I’m glad I could help you! If you need to, you’re welcome to continue looking for me in the future!”

Those were her heartfelt words.

A man like Qiu Luo who “only saw what he wanted and heard what he wanted”, he didn’t deserve someone as good as Sang Wan Ci.

And Sang Wan Ci had her own ideas. Being with someone like Qiu Luo who enjoyed controlling every aspect of his girlfriend, it would be too easy for conflicts to arise.

Without the protagonist halos, it would have been impossible for the two of them to get together.

Hearing that, Sang Wan Ci finally relaxed.

Lu Zhi Wei was truly her true love fan. No matter what, she was always standing in her shoes and thinking of her perspective to help her.

Being able to make such an upright friend, it was her good fortune.

That upright friend was currently dishing out noodles into a bowl: “Since you’re here, have some too. We had a full day of shooting, you’ve worked hard too. Treat yourself tonight and don’t worry about your diet.”

Then she looked at the noodles: “Mm, although instant noodles isn’t really considered a treat……”

Sang Wan Ci looked at her back.

Somehow, she thought about those days she spent at Lu Zhi Wei’s house.

It was like this back then. All she had to do was lift her head to see Lu Zhi Wei standing in the kitchen, preparing something for her to eat.

It was warm and comforting.

She really liked being with Lu Zhi Wei.

“It’s okay.” Sang Wan Ci’s voice softened, unknowingly. “Instant noodles are good too.”

Lu Zhi Wei placed the noodles on the round table, then opened up the feast that Sang Wan Ci brought.

Immediately, the fragrant aroma of meat filled the room, whetting their appetites.

Lu Zhi Wei smiled in satisfaction: “Besides, we still have the supper our Teacher Sang bought.”

Lu Zhi Wei was worried the smell of food would be too strong and overpowering, so she asked: “Do you mind if I open the window?”

Sang Wan Ci said habitually: “Anything, I’m fine.”

Lu Zhi Wei: “Then let’s open the window and let some air in, so it’s not too stuffy.”

So the two of them sat by the window, enjoying the night breeze as they ate their supper.

Lu Zhi Wei held the bowl up, slurping the noodles down.

Compared to her, Sang Wan Ci ate more gracefully and elegantly.

“You told Qiu Luo that you like me, so what are you planning to do next?” Lu Zhi Wei asked. “You still have so many scenes to shoot with him.”

Plenty of scenes meant they would have to stay in the crew longer, and that meant more chances for the lie to be exposed.

The male and female leads could only finish shooting together, and it was at least four months away.

Unlike her, she could finish her scenes and leave within two months.

Sang Wan Ci’s expression was serene, clearly not thinking this was a problem: “I’ll just pretend to like you.”

Lu Zhi Wei bit into a piece of meat as she looked at Sang Wan Ci.

Sang Wan Ci: “You’re in the crew for a shorter period of time than him. Before you leave, I’ll just put on another show.”

Lu Zhi Wei paused slightly, then nodded.

Then Sang Wan Ci asked a very important question: “Do you know how to like someone?”

Lu Zhi Wei, who had been single since birth: “…… This question has severely touched my blind spot.”

As a transparent entity, what sort of romantic experience would she have had before.

Don’t talk about romantic relationships, she didn’t even have a secret crush.

Because she knew it wasn’t possible, so her heart had always been as still as a pool.

Sang Wan Ci realised, and softly said: “Sorry.”

Lu Zhi Wei: “Ah, small matter. There are so many forever single people on earth, I’m not alone.”

Sang Wan Ci’s eyes shone comfortingly: “Mm, me too.”

As if she was trying hard to be someone like Lu Zhi Wei so she wouldn’t feel too lonely.

Lu Zhi Wei smiled and rubbed her head, then thought about it: “Why not ask our extraordinary Teacher Ying?”

As a supporting male lead who had liked the female lead before, their Teacher Ying definitely had a lot of experience in how to like someone.

As for Qiu Luo…… Forget it.

Aside from being greasy, he had no other effective suggestions.

Sang Wan Ci’s heart suddenly had an idea, and she picked up a piece of roasted meat for Lu Zhi Wei.

“Eat more.”

“Thanks.”

Lu Zhi Wei smiled contentedly.

Eating noodles and drinking soup, paired with roasted meat, the joy of supper was that simple!

The two of them ate happily, not knowing that outside the hotel, someone was sneakily aiming their camera lens at them……

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The planned day of leave went up in smoke just like that.

Sang Wan Ci had only rested for a morning when Guo Hui called her back to continue filming in the afternoon.

Lu Zhi Wei had it slightly better. She only had one scene to shoot in the day, with the next one at night.

So before her second scene, she could go back to the hotel to rest.

Lu Zhi Wei’s scene today was the little junior sister’s first and only confession scene.

But because the female lead Qiao Jing had unexpectedly found out the sect leader’s use of forbidden magic, the two of them had missed each other, resulting in the little junior sister confessing to the wrong person.

The sect leader thought Qiao Jing had already figured out he used “fate exchanging”, and was scared she would tell the little junior sister and ruin his efforts, so he decided to try to kill her.

To avoid the sect leader’s attempts, Qiao Jing could only flee the sect first and start the next arc of the plot. So, she never got to see the little junior sister.

Lu Zhi Wei sat at the side, waiting for Director Guo to call her over.

She touched a hair ornament and said to Sang Wan Ci: “It’s a shame that you won’t be able to see this type of style much in the future.”

Sang Wan Ci replied: “It’s okay, I can repeatedly see your scenes in the first act of the show once it airs.”

“……”

Lu Zhi Wei: “Just to see this character design, it’s not necessary……”

Sang Wan Ci nodded seriously: “It’s fine, you’re worth it.”

Lu Zhi Wei praised her, she also had to praise Lu Zhi Wei.

Both the idol and the fan had to work hard together.

Lu Zhi Wei thought that she was cute and a little amusing when she was being so serious.

This was her ability, Lu Zhi Wei thought, to be so attractive even when she was serious.

Lu Zhi Wei patted her head, and then looked around the surroundings.

Mm, very good, the oil slick isn’t around, she didn’t have to bear his vengeful gaze.

At this moment, Sang Wan Ci’s assistant ran over with her phone: “Xiao Sang, have you taken a look at your phone?”

Sang Wan Ci: “My phone’s in my bag, what’s wrong?”

The assistant passed the phone to her: “The media outlets are talking about you again.”

When Lu Zhi Wei heard the word “again”, she didn’t think it was strange.

With this face, Sang Wan Ci had been destined to have hundreds of thousands of eyes on her since she entered the industry.

Besides, she was the woman who had relied on a single photo to rush to the top of the hot search rankings in the past. Getting on the hot search for something else wasn’t a surprise.

In the next second, the assistant turned to look at Lu Zhi Wei: “And you, Miss Lu.”

Lu Zhi Wei: “……?”

What did I do???

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Lu Si Jiao sprawled on the table lazily, scrolling through Weibo after she handed in her group assignment.

As she scrolled, she saw a repost on the homepage.

The topic of the post was: #Sang Wan Ci exposed#

She noticed the repost had a comment: WTF, this is considered exposed?!

Lu Si Jiao was intrigued.

Opening the post to look, her face darkened.

What sort of exposé was it to show her eating instant noodles with someone else?

Can these paparazzi not randomly use words!

Lu Si Jiao hated this sort of clickbait the most.

The comments section was mostly agreeing with her.

@Where is my Qing Yu Liu: 《Please redefine exposé》

@Come out, drunken moon Xuan Jing: Can you paparazzi please not stir things up, the beauty is working hard, the beauty doesn’t want to be talked about

@Core player: I opened it excitedly and closed it scolding them

@Today is another day of being poor: You even want to talk about her eating supper with a friend, aren’t you being too lame?

It was then that Lu Si Jiao scrolled up to see the photo that the paparazzi had posted.

There was a woman sitting opposite Sang Wan Ci.

The two of them sat by the window. The photo wasn’t too blurry or too sharp, but it was enough to show the woman’s features.

Lu Si Jiao was stunned.

She rubbed her eyes roughly.

Wait a second, why did this person look…… So much like my sister???