Chapter 50: CH 50

Qiu Luo had been happily planning to look for Sang Wan Ci to head to the filming set together.

Who knew that he didn’t get to see Sang Wan Ci, but he got to see Lu Zhi Wei instead!

Everybody said that enemies will always meet on the same narrow road, will love rivals now also always meet on the narrow road!!

“Why are you here!”

He repeated the same question in disbelief.

Lu Zhi Wei clearly had her own hotel room, why did she appear in Sang Wan Ci’s room wearing her pyjamas!

The answer was actually obvious.

But Qiu Luo didn’t want to face that reality.

This was his love rival!

Who would be willing to see their love rival appear in their love interest’s room?!

It wasn’t okay even if they were girlfriends; they were in a production crew, can’t they be more discrete!

Lu Zhi Wei’s face was full of helplessness.

Almost everybody on the crew knew that she moved in with Sang Wan Ci because of her hand injury, right?

As the male lead of 《Questioning Deity Sect》, the person with the second most scenes in the whole drama, someone who stayed on set the whole day, could he really be so oblivious to what was happening?

Besides, she was Sang Wan Ci’s “girlfriend”, it was so normal for them to stay together, what was so surprising?

The only thing abnormal was this original male lead.

He knew Sang Wan Ci was attached, but was still so arrogant to pester her and think that he could make her fall in love with him.

This was simply unsavable, she might as well bury him earlier.

Once she thought that this was his true nature, Lu Zhi Wei had no leniency towards him anymore.

How could this stinky man match up to their beautiful and mesmerising Teacher Sang!

Rubbish script, rubbish system, rubbish pairing!

It’s a pity the system couldn’t be given a punch, but she could agitate Qiu Luo.

She leaned against the doorframe, looking at Qiu Luo calmly: “Why else? Of course, it’s because I should be here, otherwise some dogs with bad memory might keep pestering my Wan Ci.”

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He had no rebuttal.

Could it be that his charm really wasn’t as good as Lu Zhi Wei’s to Sang Wan Ci?

Could it be that Sang Wan Ci liked Lu Zhi Wei so much that they had to live together even when they were on set?

Could it be that in their hearts, he was really just a worthless speck of dust?

Qiu Luo started to question his existence.

He felt like his blood pressure was rising.

His charisma has been severely insulted!

Lu Zhi Wei loved watching his angry expression. If he could remember this and stop pestering Sang Wan Ci, it would be even better.

“Mr Qiu, now that it has come to this, I’d like to ask you to look at things clearly. Don’t keep pestering someone else’s girlfriend, this sort of action is despicable. You should do stuff that doesn’t disgrace your appearance.”

She had to admit, Qiu Luo was indeed the most handsome man she had ever seen in her life, but he was also the most narcissistic.

Narcissistic to the point that he wasn’t likeable at all.

He was simply wasting his looks.

It was such an odd thing too. In the original script, whatever he did was accepted and didn’t make people dislike him.

Why was he so bothersome now?

Could it be that because he had the male protagonist halo in the original script, so there was a filter?

If that’s the case, this protagonist halo was too deceiving!

Hearing that, Qiu Luo looked at Lu Zhi Wei.

His obsessiveness over Sang Wan Ci came when he fell in love with her at first sight.

From the first time he saw Sang Wan Ci, he wanted to obtain her, to protect her, to be with her forever.

At the same time, he was a man who believed deeply in the idea of ceremony.

He believed that if you liked someone, you should announce it, put your stamp on it and let everybody witness this romance.

He didn’t like hiding the relationship or his feelings.

So, as long as Sang Wan Ci didn’t announce to the world that she and Lu Zhi Wei were together, he wouldn’t give up on liking her.

He refused to stop until all hope was lost.

So many secret relationships failed in this industry.

In this day and age when same-sex marriage wasn’t even legal, how long could Sang Wan Ci and Lu Zhi Wei last?

He was willing to wait.

Wait until Sang Wan Ci was single again, or until she announced to the world that she had a same-sex partner and utterly destroyed his hope.

“Lu Zhi Wei,” his eyes were burning. “The show isn’t over yet, nobody knows how it’ll end.”

“Rubbish, I’ve seen the script for the ending, I’ve known it a long time ago.”

Lu Zhi Wei wouldn’t entertain him.

Besides, she did have the script for this world.

Although she couldn’t really use it, but the ending definitely wouldn’t change!

Qiu Luo: “???”

Did this person not understand analogies?

Was she really dumb or faking it??

“Hmph, dumb woman.”

Qiu Luo looked at her arrogantly.

“I advise you to see yourself clearly. I can give Wan Ci everything she wants. You? What can you give her?”

After he said it, he saw Lu Zhi Wei consider it seriously as he couldn’t help but smile.

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After thinking about it, you’ll realise there’s an entire Pacific Ocean between you and me.

Feel ashamed, woman!

Then, he saw Lu Zhi Wei answer innocently: “I can…… make dumplings for her?”

Qiu Luo: “???”

Is she even on the same frequency as me???

Qiu Luo felt he really couldn’t communicate with her, and he left in a huff.

Lu Zhi Wei stood at the door, watching him leave. Then she retreated back into the room and sat on the sofa, looking at the sky outside.

Of course she knew there was an enormous difference between herself and him.

Family background, success and looks, it was a tragedy if she compared the current male lead to the original male lead.

But she still had to grit her teeth and make her own mark on this road.

She had to work hard to become excellent and stand out.

She didn’t have a choice, and she didn’t want to lose.

Losing meant that the world would collapse and numerous innocent people would become like the old her.

Not everybody could withstand becoming transparent like her.

For these people, she had to walk this road to the end!

Bored, she called out for Lao Wu, preparing to complain to him.

But Lao Wu was fixing the program and had no time to chat with her.

She “oh”-ed and turned on the television.

…

The employees were still setting up the scene.

Sang Wan Ci sat outside with her script, her eyebrows furrowed as her fingertips gently pressed on her temple.

Seeing it, Xiao Qiu asked in concern: “What is it, Xiao Sang, you didn’t sleep well?”

Sang Wan Ci shook her head slightly: “It’s a small issue.”

—— It was another headache.

But her headache was so odd.

No doctor could figure out the reason for it, and it didn’t hurt for a very long time.

Everybody just thought that she didn’t get enough rest.

Xiao Qiu asked worriedly: “Is it because you didn’t sleep well since there’s another person, so your headache is more frequent?”

Suddenly having to share your room with a person, it would be understandable if you didn’t sleep well, right?

If Lu Zhi Wei tossed and turned in her sleep then it would be even worse.

That was just tormenting her artiste!

Hearing her words, Sang Wan Ci couldn’t help but think of Lu Zhi Wei.

Her face, her smile, and her warm, gentle fingers.

Sang Wan Ci slowly closed her eyes.

She really wanted Lu Zhi Wei to help her massage her head……

Sang Wan Ci sighed softly.

“It has nothing to do with her, don’t overthink.”

How could it be a torment to spend time with Lu Zhi Wei?

If it was a torment, then how could she have been enticed by the atmosphere last night to want to kiss her?

…… This was too ridiculous.

The headache came quickly, and left quickly.

But no matter what, it was good enough that it stopped hurting.

She sighed in relief and continued flipping through the script.

Qiu Luo had gotten his makeup done and arrived at the set.

He looked around and pulled a chair to sit next to Sang Wan Ci.

Sang Wan Ci looked at him blandly, then leaned her body in the opposite direction.

“You’re quite early, Miss Sang.” Qiu Luo said, smiling politely.

“Mm, earlier than Mr Qiu.” Sang Wan Ci didn’t even bother lifting her head.

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Qiu Luo looked at the people beside them and asked his assistant and Xiao Qiu to leave for a bit so they could speak privately.

After the two of them had left, he immediately said: “Wan Ci, you ——”

” ‘Miss Sang’, please call me that instead, Mr Qiu.” Sang Wan Ci interrupted.

“……”

Qiu Luo amended his words: “Miss Sang.

“Why did you let Lu Zhi Wei move into your room?”

Sang Wan Ci flipped a page, her eyes as indifferent as snow: “It’s only natural for her to stay with me, does Mr Qiu have a problem?”

Only natural?

Qiu Luo frowned: “You two have really progressed to the point of living together???”

Hearing that, Sang Wan Ci looked up.

Developed to the point of living together?

Didn’t he know that Lu Zhi Wei’s fingers were hurt?

She contemplated Qiu Luo for a moment silently.

Mm, it was normal that he didn’t know.

After all, how could such a narcissistic person care about other people.

Since he thought it was because of their relationship…… then let him continue.

“Mm, is there a problem?” Sang Wan Ci rebutted.

Let’s just pretend she was living with her “girlfriend”.

She hoped Qiu Luo would come to terms with it sooner and let her go instead of continuing to pester her and annoy her.

Qiu Luo simply could not believe it.

God, the two of them had actually developed their relationship to this stage!

Despicable, it must be Lu Zhi Wei who had bewitched their pure Wan Ci!

At this moment, Director Guo came over.

She saw Sang Wan Ci and asked: “Wan Ci, how’s Xiao Lu’s hand, is she okay?”

Qiu Luo paused in confusion: “?”

Xiao Lu’s hand?

Sang Wan Ci politely stood up and replied: “It’s much better after applying medicine, it doesn’t hurt anymore today.”

Director Guo nodded: “That’s good. You two are friends and she doesn’t have an assistant, so I’ll have to trouble you to look after her. But don’t tire yourself out, make sure to rest.”

Sang Wan Ci nodded: “It’s a small matter, it’s not tiring.”

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Even Director Guo knew they were living together?

It felt like in the whole world, only he didn’t know??

No way, no way this was happening.

He hurriedly grabbed his assistant and asked what was going on.

He had poured all his attention into filming, and aside from asking about Sang Wan Ci , he hadn’t paid attention to anything else.

But his assistant would wait on set and speak to the staff from time to time, so he would definitely know more than Qiu Luo.

The assistant said: “Oh, you don’t know Luo ge, Lu Zhi Wei injured her hand while filming yesterday. Miss Sang offered to take care of her, so Miss Lu moved into her room.

“Mm…… I think Lu Zhi Wei will probably stay until her hand recovers?

“But honestly, they have a really good relationship.”

This sort of moving friendship was really rare, having to take time out of your schedule while filming to take care of a friend.

Anyway, he hadn’t seen such a thing in all his years of working in the industry.

Qiu Luo finally understood.

So that was it. So he had misunderstood. They weren’t cohabiting, they hadn’t reached that stage yet. It was just helping out of friendliness.

He looked towards Sang Wan Ci.

Indeed, the woman he fell for was so kind and loving.

Sang Wan Ci naturally also heard what Qiu Luo’s assistant said.

She was immediately met with Qiu Luo’s lovestruck expression when she turned around.

“……”

He must be doing it again.

No, she couldn’t let that happen.

Sang Wan Ci sat down calmly and waited for Qiu Luo’s assistant to leave before saying: “He’s wrong.”

Qiu Luo paused: “What’s wrong?”

Sang Wan Ci: “Zhi Wei won’t leave once her hand recovers.”

Qiu Luo: “?”

Sang Wan Ci turned to look at him, speaking at a volume that only the two of them could hear: “She will stay with me all the way until she’s done with her scenes and leaves the crew.

“Does Mr Qiu understand?”

Qiu Luo: “……”

—— Damn it, he didn’t want to understand at all!!

…

Sang Wan Ci wrapped up her scenes late today.

It was almost 12.30am by the time she got back to the hotel.

Once she entered the door, her head started hurting again all of a sudden.

The next second, someone was supporting her.

“Headache again?” Lu Zhi Wei looked at her worriedly.

Sang Wan Ci was a bit surprised she hadn’t gone to bed yet.

Lu Zhi Wei hugged her arm and brought her to the sofa, ignoring her surprise.

Once Lu Zhi Wei sat down, she patted her legs, indicating for Sang Wan Ci to lie down: “Quick, I’ll massage it for you.”

Sang Wan Ci rubbed her forehead, looking at Lu Zhi Wei’s hands.

Lu Zhi Wei curved her fingers: “I’ll use my knuckles to do it, not my fingertips, don’t worry.”

Sang Wan Ci still seemed doubtful.

Lu Zhi Wei couldn’t be bothered to argue, directly pulling her down onto her lap.

Her strength was controlled well, a light massage started on Sang Wan Ci’s temples, with the pain easing almost like a light breeze was blowing it away.

Feeling better, Sang Wan Ci relaxed.

As Lu Zhi Wei massaged, she said: “Don’t force yourself if you’re not feeling well.”

Sang Wan Ci’s voice was light: “I’m not feeling unwell……”

Lu Zhi Wei frowned, clearly unhappy: “Nonsense, you’re already like this, you’re still denying it?”

Sang Wan Ci pursed her lips and stayed silent.

She didn’t know why, hearing Lu Zhi Wei care for her like this, her heart actually felt…… happy.

Seeing her stay silent, Lu Zhi Wei started wondering if she had been too fierce.

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She quickly softened her tone, saying embarrassedly: “Did I scare you? Sorry, I didn’t mean to be fierce……”

Sang Wan Ci smiled slightly: “No, not fierce.”

She had never seen Lu Zhi Wei so concerned for someone else.

Anxious, stern, brimming with concern.

It felt like she was the only one who had been placed at the very tip of Lu Zhi Wei’s heart to be carefully protected.

Truthfully, this feeling of being cherished was pretty nice.

Lu Zhi Wei asked: “Feel better yet?”

Sang Wan Ci hummed gently.

Lu Zhi Wei didn’t stop her ministrations: “That’s good. If you’re not feeling well, tell me in the future, got it?”

Sang Wan Ci nodded, her head resting in Lu Zhi Wei’s lap.

“Zhi Wei,” Sang Wan Ci suddenly asked. “Why aren’t you sleeping yet?”

Lu Zhi Wei looked down at her: “I was waiting for you to come back.

“Didn’t our Teacher Sang tell me to wait for you when you left today?”

Sang Wan Ci startled, looking at her: “I said it, so you’ll satisfy me?”

Even if she had to work late into the night before coming back, would Lu Zhi Wei still wait obediently for her?

She couldn’t help but hope that the answer was yes.

Because it would make her happy.

Lu Zhi Wei said: “Of course. Besides, I have nothing to do here, right?”

Compared to waiting around boredly, at least it was better to wait for Sang Wan Ci to come back.

The summer night was silent, with a quiet breeze.

The world seemed to have sunk into slumber, with nobody around to disturb the two of them.

Sang Wan Ci’s eyes looked at Lu Zhi Wei’s clean face unblinkingly.

Lu Zhi Wei’s eyes contained light, gentleness, and her.

A subtle feeling suddenly sprouted like a seedling from soil, continually bumping against the top of her heart.

She wanted to grab onto it, but couldn’t.

In the blink of an eye, the feeling slipped away from her fingers like smoke.

She felt like something about her feelings towards Lu Zhi Wei had changed.

She didn’t know what it was, she had to figure it out herself.

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She had to keep Lu Zhi Wei.

Sang Wan Ci grabbed her hand and sat up, looking at her.

“I have a request that I need you to satisfy now.”

“What?”

Sang Wan Ci didn’t beat around the bush: “Stay here, with me, until you finish all your scenes and leave the production crew.”

Sang Wan Ci: “Ah???”

This, this suddenly???

“Why?” Lu Zhi Wei didn’t know why she suddenly made this decision.

Sang Wan Ci said calmly: “Because of Qiu Luo.”

Lu Zhi Wei: “……?”

Sang Wan Ci: “I told him today that you would continue staying with me, until you finished your scenes.”

Lu Zhi Wei: “……”

Here it comes, our female lead who didn’t follow the script had struck against the greasy male lead.

Lu Zhi Wei could almost imagine Qiu Luo’s expression when he heard that.

The female lead who didn’t follow the script truly would never let anyone down.

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But there was a problem that Lu Zhi Wei couldn’t solve.

“I can stay here with you now that I’m injured, but to keep staying…… how should we explain it to others?”

Not everybody felt like the two of them had a thing like Qiu Luo.

But if there wasn’t a valid explanation, then everybody would really think they had a thing.

She was fine with it, but she didn’t know if Sang Wan Ci minded.

Sang Wan Ci stayed silent for a moment, then looked towards the kitchen.

“Then we can say it’s for your culinary skills.”

Lu Zhi Wei was dazed: “…… Ah?”

Sang Wan Ci said calmly: “We can tell others that I like your cooking, so I made you stay with me.”

Lu Zhi Wei didn’t have scenes every day, so she could also cook when she had time.

There was a saying, the common people depended on food[1].

Humankind needed food to live, and it had to be good food at that.

Lu Zhi Wei thought about it: “It feels…… possible?”

She felt like this could work.

Sigh, to let Qiu Luo give up on Sang Wan Ci, the two of them were working hard.

Hopefully Qiu Luo could feel their sincerity and quickly give up, stop making himself so detestable!!!

Sang Wan Ci didn’t think that way though.

For the first time, she felt Qiu Luo’s usefulness.

If not for him, she really didn’t know what reason she could use to let Lu Zhi Wei agree to stay so effortlessly.

Although he was troublesome, he was also pretty useful.

She stood up to fetch her pyjamas, then indicated for Lu Zhi Wei to come over.

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Two normal words, yet they were enough to make Lu Zhi Wei’s face flush.

But they had bathed together yesterday, so there was little to make a fuss over.

Lu Zhi Wei prepared herself emotionally and followed behind Sang Wan Ci.

Sang Wan Ci raised her hand and casually took her hair tie out.

Her smooth, long hair fell down her back, brushing past her white ear as she carelessly lifted her hair behind her right shoulder.

Standing behind and watching, Lu Zhi Wei could see traces of her pale neck exposed under her black hair as she tilted her head.

Without any superfluous movements, it was charming and attractive, making her heart flutter.

Lu Zhi Wei’s heart took another hit.

Her ears started reddening again.

—— Bathing with such an attractive person, who could stop themselves from blushing!

……

Lu Zhi Wei’s hand was recovering more and more every day.

Sang Wan Ci was also trying hard to find the answer she wanted.

She even searched for the same question in the relationship advice column in many apps: Why would you suddenly want to kiss someone of the same sex?

There were many answers that came out, but most of them pointed to the same possibility.

—— Liking them.

Liking them……

She fell into a daze as she held her phone.

Did she like Lu Zhi Wei?

It really wasn’t just the atmosphere that night?

She didn’t dare to make any conclusive judgements.

Liking someone was a very precious emotion, worthy of being cautious and careful.

Lu Zhi Wei sat on the sofa, sneakily looking at Sang Wan Ci sitting out on the balcony alone, staring at the moon.

Sang Wan Ci had been like this frequently over the last few days.

When she didn’t have a scene to shoot, she would sit alone, thinking about stuff.

Lu Zhi Wei didn’t know what was troubling her.

The system couldn’t help her check what Sang Wan Ci was thinking either.

Lao Wu had said it, the system could only make decisions based on the expressions and feelings that the female lead showed.

Unless they also inserted a system into the female lead, nobody would know what she was thinking.

And forget about inserting a system.

It would definitely require the host to complete missions, that’s the point of inserting a system, and if you didn’t complete them, you would get shocked.

Lu Zhi Wei didn’t want Sang Wan Ci to suffer.

“Wan Ci,” Lu Zhi Wei said softly. “Do you have something on your mind?”

With such a light sound, Sang Wan Ci’s thoughts were pulled back.

She turned to look at the person who was full of concern for her, as she smiled slightly, her eyes peaceful: “Nothing.”

She couldn’t confess it to the person she was thinking about.

After all, she hadn’t confirmed it yet.

Getting up and walking back into the room, she pulled the curtains closed as she picked up the script: “Let’s rehearse?”

Lu Zhi Wei immediately took out her own script and happily said: “Let’s!”

She hadn’t rehearsed in a few days now.

If not for Sang Wan Ci needing someone to rehearse with so she could practice, her acting skills would start getting rusty.

Her hands were much better now, it definitely wouldn’t be a problem to hold stuff.

She flipped through the script: “What scene are you filming tomorrow?”

Sang Wan Ci’s face was calm: “The scene where the female and male leads confirm their relationship.”

Lu Zhi Wei immediately got it.

The scene with the kissing scene.

But based on Sang Wan Ci and Qiu Luo’s current situation, it probably couldn’t be a real kiss.

So…… They would probably fake it with the angles?

They did the angle trick when Sang Wan Ci was filming 《Phoenix》 with Ying Xi Ze too.

Actually, there were many ways to express feelings. As long as the director knew how to shoot it, even if the lead only used their eyes to express it, the atmosphere could also be filled with romantic intent.

So to express love, a kissing scene wasn’t the only way.

She was unclear how Sang Wan Ci and the director would decide for the sake of the effect.

She didn’t dare to assume, but she was also too embarrassed to ask.

She could only assume the role of the male lead now and rehearse with Sang Wan Ci.

She concentrated on getting into character, and went through the scene with Sang Wan Ci.

Holding the script, she followed the request to lean in towards Sang Wan Ci.

When she came back to her senses, four eyes were looking straight at each other, and they could almost feel each other’s breath.

Sang Wan Ci didn’t retreat, she didn’t move at all.

Her glimmering eyes looked straight at the person in front of her, unblinking.

Under her gaze, Lu Zhi Wei blushed.

—— Help, what should she say now to make it less awkward!!!

“After… after that, the male lead kisses the female lead……” She said dumbly.

After that, she saw Sang Wan Ci’s eyes move, the stars hidden inside shining.

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She heard Sang Wan Ci’s response, then quickly retreated to her original position, rubbing her fingers against each other as her ears started burning.

Save her, how could it be so awkward!

How could she lean in so closely, as if she had ulterior motives towards Sang Wan Ci!

Looking at such a pretty face from such a close distance, she almost died!

She sighed internally.

The atmosphere calmed down again.

The two of them sat there in silence.

Lu Zhi Wei was praying for Sang Wan Ci to speak.

As long as she spoke, Lu Zhi Wei would definitely be able to continue the conversation.

As if feeling her embarrassment, Sang Wan Ci called out: “Zhi Wei.”

Lu Zhi Wei looked at her.

Sang Wan Ci made eye contact, and asked: “Have you kissed someone before?”

Lu Zhi Wei froze.

“…… No.”

Thinking about her 26 years of life, how could someone kiss her?

Hearing that, Sang Wan Ci leaned in slightly.

Lu Zhi Wei watched her pink lips part, as they said a sentence that was unforgettable ——

“Then, do you want to try with me?”