She Only Cares About Cultivation-Chapter 1139 - 917: Super Star 91 (Five Thousand)_3

After "I’m the Rich" was released, as expected, its performance was not as good as before. Even with vigorous publicity and strong promotion from the editor, the best monthly results did not exceed fifty thousand. It’s important to know that in the past, the best performance surpassed one hundred thousand, with a monthly average of twenty to thirty thousand. But now, the number of times it exceeds twenty thousand a month is not many; she doesn’t know if it’s her problem or a traffic issue.

Because she donated all the money last year, she feels particularly secure earning every cent this year. This year, especially, she had four advertisement endorsements, and just from these, she got a post-tax share of three hundred thousand. This doesn’t even count the film and TV resources she’s holding but has not yet signed.

Stars do make money fast, but they also pay a lot. Aside from a few exceptions, the rest are quite clear-headed. The price they get in hand is proportional to their effort.

After National Day, she received an invitation to perform at the CCTV Spring Festival Gala. Besides her, there’s also Ling Yao. Due to their outstanding performance at the beginning of the year, this year, the Spring Festival Gala program team specifically arranged a duet single for the two of them. It’s a great honor that no one can refuse.

The CP reunion added a lot of pressure to Hua Yan, but she didn’t show particular resistance. After all, Ling Yao is her good friend. She doesn’t like to be tied down, which is true, but it shouldn’t affect their relationship. She was very clear about this.

The song they are to sing is the hottest song during the protest period, both very familiar. From the moment they received the invitation, they would practice whenever they had free time.

A "Nine Layers of Heaven" fantasy martial arts drama started filming in October. She played the role of the ruthless fox fairy female No. 2. She attended the opening press conference, although her parts were concentrated in the middle and later sections. However, filming is not shot in chronological order but in groups, staying close to the male and female leads, so it’s composed from beginning to end, resulting in her having to become a frequent flyer again.

The movie "Hunger" is a brain-burning drama. She played the role of the male lead’s kidnapped daughter and needed to join the group in December. The plays that were accumulated in the first half of the year are concentratedly filmed in the second half of the year. Therefore, this year, they won’t stop working during the New Year and will operate as usual, which will cause her to be busy all the way from October.

Sometimes, when she returned to the hotel after finishing the day’s filming, she felt her whole body was sore, and her heart was tired.

Wire hanging and fight scenes were nothing compared to coping with the people’s hearts she faced after becoming famous, which truly made her feel exhausted.

Although the company assigned her an assistant, a deputy agent, and an exclusive makeup artist (Zhou Yao), this doesn’t mean she’s actually hit the big time. She was very clear about her position. Because she was calm enough, she would appear particularly polite and cautious in dealing with those in the entertainment circle outside, afraid of being caught making a mistake and having it blown out of proportion with even more implications.

As a newcomer to this circle, she knew her weight without being deceived by their smiles, which seemed like the smile of Maitreya Buddha, while calling you "sister, sister" with praise. But she felt the smile didn’t reach the heart; it was fake beyond tolerance.

Other than what she saw, there was also the discord between the male and female leads. The female lead was older, more experienced, was slightly more famous, and often displayed disdain towards the male lead. Although both were A-list, the female lead considered her status higher and often was late for no reason. Later, the male lead also started intentionally coming later than her. Even though they seemed polite when there were many people around, their open and secret struggles had already affected the entire crew’s schedule.

As for Hua Yan, who often played opposite them, she was more of an innocent victim dragged into the situation numerous times, especially since the female lead was a full twelve years her senior and five or six years older than the male lead. Yet she was pretty, and after putting on makeup, she overwhelmed everyone with absolute queenly authority.

At the beginning of joining the group, they were not very familiar with each other yet, the friction hadn’t arisen. The female star only focused on butting heads with the male star and didn’t notice her. As the plot developed, she gradually noticed not only was her acting on point, but sometimes she even got caught up in her emotions. Noticing this, she thought Hua Yan threatened her status as the female lead, started asking the director to cut her scenes, and repeatedly humiliated her.

One scene involved her slapping her, as she played a villainous character. The director’s team explicitly required no camera tricks, a real slap, and she agreed.

When filming this scene, as she just slapped her, she immediately stood up and slapped her twice in return. The sound was so loud that the whole hall instantly went silent. As this woman realized she might have gone too far, she turned around with a smile in the director’s direction and said.

"Director Ma, I think it should be hit this way to feel more cathartic, right? The female lead can’t always be aggrieved. Otherwise, you should revise the character setting because it’s really awkward for me to play. I’m originally such a straightforward person, and you’re making me play this Holy Mother-type little poor thing; not only do I feel uncomfortable, but surely the audience will find it stifling too,"

See, not only did she not apologize after hitting, but she also came up with so many righteous reasons.

Just say you hit, and yet why scratch someone in the process. Even though Hua Yan knew there was intense scheming in the crew, she never thought one day she’d be subjected to such unfair treatment. She was dumbfounded, standing there in shock after the two slaps.

"Oh my God, Yanyan, your face is bleeding,"

Others dared not express concern for her. The whole staff was still in shock, yet to react. Even when they did, they’d only have sympathy for her, no pity, let alone righteous indignation, as no one dares provoke her in the entertainment circle.

The assistant and Zhou Yao rushed over immediately, and upon seeing her in such a miserable state, their eyes turned red, "This is too much, this woman is too much,"

Zhou Yao, overwhelmed with pity, began to cry and was about to stand up for her when Hua Yan’s muffled voice came from within her messy hair. 𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢

"Sis, it’s fine, let’s go apply some medicine."

Hua Yan did not turn around to confront Meng Ying, nor did she cry out to the staff. Instead, she chose to carry her cool demeanor to her nanny car.

While assistant He and Zhou Yao were searching for medicine, she was rummaging around in her space while asking Liang Tian, "Did the third perspective capture it?"

"How could such a riveting scene not be recorded? So, how do you plan to retaliate?"

"Keep it first, see what she’s really up to."

"Your face..."

"It’s okay, it won’t ruin, "

She has sorcery and the healing technique learned in the Demon World, how could her face be ruined because of this?

It’s just that she still doesn’t understand the power behind this woman, and today’s humiliation, she will tally it back sooner or later, provided she knows herself and the enemy.

Before she could call Zhou Zhou, he contacted right away, probably after assistant He called to complain.

"I’m on my way, just tidy up a bit, and later we’ll go to the hospital."

"Brother, I’m fine, it’s not that serious,"

"No, it’s quite serious. This Meng Ying is well-known in the circle for her bad temper and arrogance. Isn’t it because there’s a chaebol backing her up, that she can’t stand others doing well? You didn’t even know her before this. I think she just can’t stand your beautiful face, which is why she couldn’t resist making a move, partly to teach you a lesson but also to highlight her irreplaceable status."

Hua Yan’s lips pursed slightly, her gaze turning cold: "Just because I’m young and pretty, she scratched my face?"

"You need to detail exactly what happened today,"

"There’s nothing much to it. I didn’t mind her constant retakes, so why did she get angry and end up punishing me?"

"Do you mean her status wasn’t good today?"

Hua Yan couldn’t help but complain, "Is she on her period or something, emotions so out of control? When doing scenes with the male actor in the morning, she wasn’t as exaggerated, but when it came to me, every time she NGed, especially when I needed her cooperation in the scene, she either got the lines wrong or her expression and eyes weren’t in tune. The whole afternoon she NGed six times, truly unlucky!"