Chapter 130: Hope She Comes to Her Senses Soon (Extra Chapter, Begging for Monthly Tickets)

"What's wrong with you?"

Seeming to notice Bai Liang's distraction, Li Xin, who was holding the script, reached out and poked him.

The young lady's gentle voice pulled Bai Liang out of his daze.

He'd been mulling over Zhao Liying earlier, and his thoughts had drifted off somewhere else.

Like what to eat tonight~

"I'm fine, just thinking about what to eat tonight." Bai Liang said honestly.

But in Li Xin's eyes, that didn't seem to be quite the case.

She didn't know why, but when she saw Bai Liang take the initiative to chat about the script with Zhao Liying earlier and get a rather flat response, a strange feeling inexplicably welled up inside her.

Especially after Bai Liang "hit a wall" and sat there looking all "pitiful," shutting himself away.

To put it dramatically, it almost triggered her maternal instincts.

Ah! He's so pitiful~ Our leading lady doesn't seem to like him very much.

When she first met Bai Liang on the set of the "Wei Wei" movie, in Li Xin's eyes he was at the height of his confidence and momentum.

The hot search was full of his name, and even eating a meal made him the center of attention.

But now he seemed to have "fallen off," and that gap... must be quite a blow, right?

Li Xin, who had also "debuted at the peak" and then failed to get popular for several years, said she could really empathize, and instinctively wanted to huddle together for warmth.

Bai Liang: Hmm?

He kept feeling that this young lady's gaze was getting more and more like his grandmother's.

It made this Riven player feel a bit embarrassed~

Seeing him lower his head, Li Xin hurriedly added: "Let me treat you to dinner tonight."

"Dinner?"

"Last time you went to the 'Wei Wei' movie set, we took a photo together and posted it on Weibo, and I rode on your traffic. Consider it my thanks."

This put Bai Liang in a bit of a bind. "Just me? Can I bring someone else?"

"Of course, you definitely should bring someone."

Just the two of them eating together would easily cause misunderstandings. Li Xin thought Bai Liang was being quite thoughtful—bringing an assistant or manager was the most appropriate thing to do.

"Then since I'm bringing someone, you don't have to treat. You can treat me next time." Bai Liang felt he couldn't let the young lady spend so much, and offered proactively.

"How can that be! I said I'd treat, so I'll treat."

Li Xin thought she was being pretty cool at that moment, but when evening came, she was dumbfounded.

Hmm... she seemed to have misjudged something.

Zhao Liying indeed wasn't very enthusiastic toward Bai Liang—maybe she had some opinion—but that didn't mean Bai Liang was pitiful on this set.

On the contrary, he was having a blast!

"Yo! Da Xian~ You're treating today, right? Getting a meal out of you isn't easy, huh. Feels like every time someone pops up to pay for you."

Wang Yanlin started complaining the moment he walked in. He'd had drinks with Bai Liang several times on the set of "Wu Xin Fa Shi."

Normally they'd take turns treating each other, but every time it was Bai Liang's turn to pay, some big sister or young lady would pop up and settle the bill.

The first time was that veteran manager Yang Xing, which opened Wang Yanlin's eyes and made him think this little bro had something going on.

After that, it was Jin Cheng, Chen Yao, and other girls from the set taking turns paying.

The most outrageous time, he didn't run into a single acquaintance, but somehow a "wild" little beauty, star-struck, paid the bill for Bai Liang.

"I didn't bring my wallet today. Last time I drank with him, I was half out of my mind and ran off to settle the bill. This time I deliberately brought nothing—just my mouth."

Lin Genxin said he had plenty of insight on this matter too.

When he'd eaten with Bai Liang before, besides witnessing the young lady's bill-paying stunt, he himself was also a victim.

Got drunk and fought to pay the bill—couldn't stop him no matter what!

Today the bros absolutely had to get a meal where Da Xian treats.

Niu Junfeng:??? So we're all in the same boat~ Xiao Nai—oops, I mean Da Xian—is a real animal!

He'd thought the situation on the "Wei Wei" set was just an isolated case, but turns out Bai Liang eats that well wherever he goes?

Li Xin:... I should be under the car, not inside the car.

She finally understood what Bai Liang meant earlier when he said he'd treat this meal.

She really had lost her mind, thinking the guy was pitiful and wanting to huddle together for warmth.

This young man's social life must be off the charts, right?

Judging by the way Lin Genxin and the others were talking, they clearly weren't just casual acquaintances—each of them spoke with casual, unrestrained familiarity.

She hadn't seen these guys chatting together during the script read-through before~

Bai Liang: Between guys, all it takes is a little eye contact.

At most a few raised eyebrows and a gesture, and the dinner's set.

At this point, the bros finally noticed Li Xin sitting up with her head raised.

Their expressions changed instantly.

Wait, what was this girl doing under the table? The scene looks a bit like a hentai script?

Li Xin: My phone just dropped, I was picking it up.

Misunderstanding cleared, what a scare.

But the way Lin Genxin and the others looked at Bai Liang was still a bit off.

You've gone too far!

Damn, he just joined the set, and if it were a month, or at least ten days to half a month, hooking up with a girl would be forgivable.

Although that's still pretty outrageous, everyone could accept it—after all, this is Bai Liang's basic operation.

But damn, on his very first day joining the crew, he hooked up with the second female lead.

Especially when Li Xin said this meal was her treat, the brothers really couldn't take it anymore.

"Li Xin, listen to your brother, I beg you, I just want to eat one meal the great immortal treats, so please let him pay!"

Wang Yanlin was positively "tearful and sobbing," saying that in this life before he died, he had only this one wish, and he hoped the young lady could grant it.

Li Xin: Is it really that exaggerated?

Hearing these words, she instead got a bit "rebellious," and said very coolly: "It's fine, I'll treat today, and we'll all be filming together afterwards, there'll be plenty of chances."

"Sigh, you don't get it." Wang Yanlin sighed.

Again like this! Again like this!

Are all the girls nowadays this easy to fool? Why can't he fool any of them?

It's unclear whether other girls are easy to fool, but this Miss Li Xin really is pretty easy to fool.

When she had just debuted, she fell victim to a telecom scam, and all the pay from her very first drama was swiped clean—three years of work for nothing.

Perhaps back then, when she wired money to the scammer, her inner resolve was just as firm as her determination now to treat this meal.

Nothing could stop her!

Bai Liang: The young lady who picks up the tab always looks so dashing and cool, next time I'll still find you to treat me to a meal~

After this meal was finished, Li Xin naturally wouldn't feel the pinch over the money; instead she felt she understood Bai Liang a bit better.

So he's actually this well-liked!

She suddenly realized too that maybe what the crew had said earlier—"a lot of people recommended him"—wasn't just a polite remark.

There really were a lot of people recommending him!

So how on earth had she imagined him into a "nobody loves him" pitiful little thing?

Thinking of this, she felt an inexplicable bit of shame; thankfully she hadn't actually said it out loud.

But she also hadn't expected that Bai Liang's "good bros" were so loyal and righteous.

After the meal, they obviously should have all gone back together, but these guys each casually came up with some lame excuse and slipped away one by one.

This was oh no, it's serious—Li Xin, who had told her assistant to head back midway, suddenly realized she now had to "just a man and a woman" stroll down the road back to the hotel with Bai Liang.

At first she was a little flustered, feeling quite uneasy. If the two of them were secretly dating, that would be one thing, but there was no such relationship between them, so it inevitably felt a bit awkward.

Luckily Bai Liang always had the ability to make a young lady drop her guard and worries; before they'd walked two hundred meters, Li Xin was already skipping along with her hands clasped behind her back.

Strolling down the road is really fun!

The hotel naturally wasn't very far from where they ate, otherwise they wouldn't have been able to walk back.

Just a little over a kilometer, perfect for working off the meal.

"Do you have some grudge with Zhao Liying?" At this point, seeming to feel their relationship had gotten a bit closer than before, Li Xin straightforwardly asked the question that had been on her mind from the start.

Bai Liang shook his head. "What grudge could I possibly have with her?"

"Then she seems to have a so-so attitude toward you. Normally she wouldn't be like this."

Bai Liang thought for a moment. "Then that must be her problem. Hopefully she'll see the light soon."

Hearing this, Li Xin couldn't hold it in anymore and laughed behind her hand.

Who do you think you are? Asking a top-tier actress to "see the light"?

Seeming to read her confusion, Bai Liang added: "Everyone else has a great attitude toward me, only she's different. You tell me—is it everyone's problem or hers?"

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"Hers." Li Xin nodded very earnestly.

But somehow it felt like something wasn't quite right~

"You're done for." Bai Liang grinned. "I'm going to go tell her later, so she'll hate you too."

"Hey!"

The young lady couldn't hold back and reached out to pinch Bai Liang. "I treated you to a meal out of the kindness of my heart, and this is how you repay me?"

"I mainly saw that you don't seem to like her much either, so I was going to ask you to back me up. Let's go up against her together on set! How about it?"

A subordinate defying a superior—that's way too thrilling!

It was just trash talk anyway; Bai Liang didn't really care about how edgy the topic was.

Going all the way was obviously nonsense too, just joking around.

But Li Xin's little face couldn't help showing a bit of a bitter expression; unable to suppress her feelings, she simply poured out a couple of lines:

"It's not that I don't like her, I have no grudge with her. It's purely that there's a gap in my heart, and saying it out loud is kind of embarrassing. Plus I really can't back you up—you've only been in the entertainment circle for a year and you're already doing better than me."

Better than her?

Bai Liang couldn't help glancing at the miserable-looking Li Xin, thinking to himself, Young Lady, you're doing way too badly.

The other party read the meaning in his eyes and made to pinch him again!

"I surrender, if you pinch me again it'll be hard to explain later."

"Explain to who?" Li Xin blurted out.

"My manager. She's been really worried about this stuff lately, keeps saying she wants to find me a pretty female assistant."

Li Xin instantly understood what he meant! She couldn't help turning her head away; the sky was already fairly late, so it was hard to tell whether her face was blushing or not.

To keep the topic and the plot from galloping off in an uncontrollable direction, Bai Liang proactively opened his mouth and asked: "I think your career troubles should be your company's problem. Which company are you with?"

"Rongshenda."

"Doesn't sound like much, some little workshop, not good enough for you." Bai Liang rubbed his chin and guessed randomly.

Li Xin's eyes went wide. "You don't know Rongshenda?"

"Should I?" Bai Liang thought to himself that Zha hadn't briefed him on this company either.

Li Xin shook her head in disbelief; after all, Rongshenda was, one way or another, an old-established company in the industry, a very famous star-making factory.

Too bad, it seems a bit behind the times.

Even older than Tang Ren's, it was an even more dilapidated ship from the old era.

She didn't bother explaining to Bai Liang how glorious Rongshengda once was, but switched angles instead:

"Our company has produced Zhou Xun, Chen Kun."

"I know them. Anyone else?"

". Yang Yang."

Him~

Bai Liang actually had quite a deep impression of this person; the two of them had, in a manner of speaking, "exchanged greetings" from afar.

Xiao Nai had originally been preparing to cast him, but then for some unknown reason, he backed out.

At the time, Gu Man had hesitated for ages between Meimeiyang and Capybara.

In the end, the role only fell to Bai Liang.

By all rights, Bai Liang should be grateful to him — what a good guy!

"He's actually pretty good. Your company has quite the eye."

Li Xin's expression turned even stranger. "His contract hadn't expired yet, but he sued the company and broke it off and ran."

"Ahem, is that so."

So he's another rogue ninja. Bai Liang found that he really did have a fate with rogue ninjas of every stripe.

"You don't happen to know him too, right? And get along pretty well?"

As she said this, Li Xin subconsciously took half a step back.

Luckily, Bai Liang shook his head. "At most it's a meeting of minds — we know of each other. Xiao Nai, you should know him, right?"

"I see~ Mm. You don't need to know him. You two are definitely going to be rivals in the future."

"Why?"

"I'm guessing." Li Xin looked at Bai Liang's face and felt her guess was extremely reliable.

If you two aren't competing products, she'll write her name backward.

Not dwelling further on the topic of Yang Yang, this time it was Li Xin who actively changed the subject. "My contract is about to expire soon. I hope after leaving Rongshengda I'll have good prospects~"

"Then your contract isn't very long, is it."

"Eight years isn't long?"

"I have a friend who signed a fifteen-year black slave contract."

Li Xin's face was full of pity. "Is she crazy? What about you?"

"Me? I'm the boss! I run my own studio."

Li Xin was filled with sudden respect, and at the same time quite puzzled — when did going solo become this impressive?

And Bai Liang's resources didn't look like those of someone going solo at all.

Within a year of debuting, he was already playing male leads, and many of his other resources were the stuff of others' dreams.

Calling him a resource coffee wouldn't be an exaggeration.

Still, she subconsciously felt Bai Liang probably wasn't lying. That face and expression of his really did make one feel sincerity — instinctively wanting to believe him.

So the question arose: what on earth was this solo "Capybara" capable of?

To get so many good resources.

After "Princess Agents" officially started filming, Li Xin suddenly began to understand a bit.

You can tell whether it's a mule or a horse once you take it out for a walk.

Not to mention her, even Zhao Liying, who "had opinions" about Bai Liang, was looking at him with slightly different eyes.

That little round face, when facing Bai Liang, finally showed an expression other than indifference.

——

Not in good shape today, so I only wrote fourteen thousand.

(End of chapter)