20demayo Chapter 88 The Actress Who Competes with a Newcomer for the Best Actor 34
Chapter 88 The Actress Who Competes with a Newcomer for the Best Actor 34
Yun Qing felt that the system was absolutely right, so she unceremoniously reached out to hug it.
However, Gu Zezhi suddenly took a step back, dodging her hand.
Yun Qing: !!!
Gu Zezhi, you've gone too far!
Seeing her puffed-up face, Gu Zezhi couldn't help but reach out and poke her cheek, saying with a smile, "I'm cold, let's wait a bit."
Hearing him say that, Yun Qing reached out and touched him; he was indeed cold.
Yunqing: Should we tell him that he didn't actually have to take a cold shower?
Just then, Gu Zezhi's phone rang; it was his agent calling.
Gu Zezhi patted Yun Qing's head and said, "I'll go answer the phone. You go to sleep first."
Yun Qing: ...Alright then.
Gu Zezhi didn't ask who was outside the door just now, assuming it was Yuanyuan looking for Yun Qing, and had no idea that it was Ning Meng who came to see him.
However, after he answered the phone, he heard Ning Meng's name from his agent.
Having a target made the investigation much easier.
Zhou Yi, the agent, was no pushover either, and quickly confirmed that the recording had indeed been leaked from Ning Meng.
However, it is difficult to produce solid evidence.
Ning Meng initially acted on her own initiative and didn't handle the matter very well, but her agent is resourceful and had already cleaned up the mess for her.
After a moment's thought, Gu Zezhi said, "There are rumors circulating online about Ning Meng and Qi Zhao, right? You can add fuel to the fire and make it official for them."
"Hmm? Aren't you going to drag innocent people into this? Is Qi Zhao deliberately trying to create a scandal?"
"I'm afraid it's more than that."
Qi Zhao would gain little benefit from creating a scandal with a newcomer like Ning Meng, so it wasn't worth his effort.
Having been in the industry for many years, Zhou Yi had seen all sorts of tricks. Hearing Gu Zezhi say this, he roughly guessed what was going on. "Okay, should we inform Teacher Lin's team about the recording?"
"You should tell her agent so they don't have to go through the trouble of investigating."
After hanging up the phone, Gu Zezhi went to the bedside and saw that Yun Qing was already asleep, still holding her phone in her hand.
When Gu Zezhi reached out to take the phone from her hand, he accidentally touched the fingerprint unlock area, and the phone screen lit up instantly.
Then he saw the contents of the phone.
Newcomers should focus on acting and improving their skills, instead of trying to use tricks or take shortcuts.
Perhaps still hesitating, Yun Qing hasn't sent it yet.
It goes without saying who the newcomer is, and netizens will definitely be able to guess immediately.
He glanced at the sleeping Yun Qing, gently kissed her, picked up his phone, opened his social media account, typed out the sentence verbatim, and clicked send.
Then he deleted the messages from Yunqing's phone.
The next morning, Yun Qing looked at the trending topics with a dazed expression.
How did it become Actor Gu criticizing a newcomer for taking shortcuts? Shouldn't it be Lin Yunqing?
Did she fall asleep last night and grab the wrong phone?
That's not right! Gu Zezhi was on the phone at the time, so there was no way she could have gotten his phone!
Moreover, she remembered that she hadn't had a chance to send it out yet.
This was actually a line Lin Yunqing had said in the original storyline, but the situation is different now, and she is still considering whether she needs to say it even harsher.
After all, Gu Zezhi said he felt cold last night, which was another way of rejecting her!
She couldn't help but feel anxious and uneasy.
At this moment, Gu Zezhi leaned over and kissed her, asking, "What's wrong?"
Yun Qing shoved her phone in front of him, "What's going on?"
Gu Zezhi glanced at her and then put his arm around her, saying, "It's not good for you to post those kinds of things. There are all kinds of people online. Maybe some people will think they know everything and think you're deliberately suppressing newcomers because you're afraid they'll steal your thunder."
Yun Qing: Is it possible that I am deliberately suppressing newcomers?
Gu Zezhi squeezed her hand and said, "The effect will be the same if I send it."
Yun Qing: ...
[System, Gu Zezhi actually stole my job as the villainous supporting female character!]
The system calmly replied: "Yes, you can rest assured now. Your boyfriend was ruthless and merciless towards Ning Meng. You can disregard this rival. However, if you still feel it's not enough and want to mock her, that's fine too."
Ning Meng was woken up by a phone call from her agent, whose voice was cold: "Ning Meng, take a look at the trending topics yourself."
Ning Meng had a bad feeling.
When I saw it trending on social media, my bad premonition came true.
"How could that be? Why would Teacher Gu say that about me? He definitely wasn't talking about me."
Hearing her words, the agent couldn't help but sneer, "Who else could it be but you? Who doesn't know that when people mention the newcomer at 'The Emperor,' it's Ning Meng?"
Ning Meng couldn't bear the blow and couldn't help but cry. She couldn't understand why Gu Zezhi would treat her like this.
The agent, irritated by her crying, said, "Could you be any more stupid? I told you to focus on filming, and you went and badmouthed Lin Yunqing! Did a donkey kick your brain?"
"You actually kept this from me! If someone hadn't owed me a favor and given me a heads-up, I wouldn't have known what you were up to behind my back!"
"Do you think Lin Yunqing and Gu Zezhi's team are pushovers? If I hadn't cleaned up the mess for you in time, it wouldn't be Gu Zezhi accusing you of taking shortcuts now, but rather solid evidence that you've spread rumors and slandered Lin Yunqing!"
Ning Meng was startled when she heard this. She had always thought she had kept it very secret, but she never expected that her agent would find out.
Besides her, her agent also manages other artists. Even though she is a newcomer who is valued by Director Zhang and seems to have great potential, she can only be ranked last compared to other artists who are already very popular or have become popular.
So her agent didn't have time to keep an eye on her personally. They were going to prepare an assistant for her, but Ning Meng said that a newcomer should act like a newcomer, so she didn't want one.
The agent didn't have a suitable candidate yet, so he thought it would be okay to wait.
Knowing that she was a newcomer filming alone on set, her agent was also a little worried, so no matter how busy she was, she would call every day to check on her.
But Ning Meng didn't tell her anything about the good things she had done.
The agent rubbed his temples and said, "Gu Zezhi is clearly standing up for his girlfriend. Now that you and Qi Zhao are a publicly acknowledged couple, he must have been involved in this."
"If you just focus on acting, your future will be much brighter than Qi Zhao's. Why would you think of flirting with him and taking shortcuts? What kind of shortcut is Qi Zhao? Or are you two really dating?"
Ning Meng's mind was already in a mess, and this only made it worse. She explained in a daze, "Sister Qi, Qi Zhao and I are just friends."
"Friends? Do you and your friends just casually hug and feed each other? Look at the photos that have been leaked online, how ambiguous they are, who would believe you're just friends? Ning Meng, what exactly are you doing?"
Ning Meng was no longer able to think clearly and didn't care about hiding anything anymore. She cried and said, "I like Teacher Gu, but Teacher Gu wants to create a scandal with Lin Yunqing. I'm very sad. It was Qi Zhao who kept comforting me."