Chapter 235: Younger One Won't Call Her Sis, His Thoughts Are Getting a Little Wild

Miss Jing Tian actually didn't need to turn around when she heard the voice — she knew instantly who had arrived.

She was just about to instinctively flash a smile, but then remembered that this guy had left her hanging for half the day, only showing up now — how could she give him a pleasant face right away?

Mr. will be angry in a moment!

So she crossed her arms over her chest and replied, "You have to call me big sister!"

That line was pretty good~

It expressed her attitude without being especially fierce, and even gave Bai Liang a rather nice way out.

Here, the step is right here — hurry up and come down.

She's not really mad at you, just call her something nice once and that'll do~

In fact, Miss Jing Tian was even looking forward to it a little~

But what she ran into was Bai Liang in his "stubborn mule" mode.

Oh~ she thought it was kind of fun, and wanted to tease him a bit.

"Not calling~" Bai Liang shook his head, meaning someone like you doesn't have a single bit of big-sister air about her — he just couldn't bring himself to say it.

But those words of his gave the other party a different kind of idea, and she couldn't help starting to let her imagination run wild.

As the saying goes.

When the younger one won't call you sis, his thoughts are getting a little wild~

So... this brat has dirty thoughts?!

Miss Jing Tian's big eyes went even wider, and she looked at Bai Liang with a bit of "horror," instinctively about to deploy the rear-step retreat technique she had long since mastered to perfection.

But today's venue didn't have that much strategic depth for her to deploy it.

The moment she tried to scoot back a little, the back of her chair bumped into someone else's chair, and Miss Jing Tian had to apologize~

After apologizing, she was even angrier inside: Damn it!

Naturally, she had to pin the blame for this on Bai Liang.

This guy, after raking in 6.6 billion at the box office, has gotten even worse than before!

Bai Liang: Not really, I've always been pretty bad~

But generally speaking, everyone thinks he's actually pretty nice~

Seeing Miss Jing Tian's little act, Bai Liang had even less desire to call her big sister.

He didn't dare call her big sister — he was afraid she'd call him~

Besides, this little thing — who would believe she's almost thirty? It felt like her baby fat hadn't even fully faded yet.

After sitting down in his own seat, he briefly glanced around. Sure enough, there weren't any familiar faces, except for Fan Fan Bingbing, who smiled brightly and waved at him. The next second, this big sister had already scooted over.

Very direct — clearly she had been waiting for a long time!

Fan Fan Bingbing had finished her social quota for the day early on, then hurried over to sit down, just waiting for him to arrive.

She scooted her chair over now, and looking at Bai Liang, her eyes were bright, her lips were bright too — her lip gloss was actually quite shimmery~

Her eyeliner-lined eyes somehow took on a different kind of allure out of nowhere.

She's a formidable woman!

"You've been incredible this year~ I thought last year's Weibo Night was your peak, but who would've thought it was only just the beginning. If there's a good project that suits you in the future, bring big sister along?"

Bai Liang: "Sure~"

Just based on how this lady — with her boyfriend clearly sitting at the next table — could still lean over toward his side and let him enjoy the magnificent view of her curves, Bai Liang felt he couldn't really refuse.

But the pity was that today this Lady Fan was dressed rather plainly overall. Bai Liang was born a little too late and missed the sight of her in an imperial dragon robe — that was a bit of a regret.

But as for the "together" part, he felt this big sister might not make it — how long until the "incident" was supposed to happen?

Fan Fan Bingbing, on the other hand, was caught off guard for a moment by his swift "Sure."

Huh? You're agreeing just like that?

You're way too easy to talk to.

After a two-second pause, she began laughing behind her hand, and as if by accident, leaned in a little closer. "You're such a good guy, little brother! No wonder girls like you so much~ If I were ten years younger, I'd definitely chase you."

Hearing this, Bai Liang really couldn't hold back and turned to look at Big Black Bull.

It turned out the other guy seemed to be paying close attention to his side too, and the two exchanged a glance.

Big Black Bull even smiled at him, looking genuinely a bit simple and honest — sure enough, the nickname wasn't wrong!

No idea why he's so fond of giving away heart-shaped stones.

Since her boyfriend didn't mind either, Bai Liang was naturally happy to keep chatting.

After a few lines, Fan Fan Bingbing finally revealed her "true purpose" — she wanted to invite Bai Liang to attend the premiere of *Sky Hunter*.

This film was directed by and starred her boyfriend Big Black Bull, and it looked like it was following the same path as Wu Jing.

And Fan Fan Bingbing, as his girlfriend, was doing a thoroughly proper job — calling it support would be an understatement.

From the start of promotion, she had been pitching in energetically, even joining the cast herself, playing the female lead for zero pay.

But even with her zero-pay role, the film's investment still reached 200 million, and to break even it needed at least 600 million at the box office.

Hmm... 600 million at the box office — that shouldn't be much, right?

Having just split 6.6 billion with Wu Jing, Bai Liang felt this was a piece of cake.

Then he very politely turned her down.

No choice — being able to squeeze out time to attend a charity night was already the best he could do; the shooting schedule for *The Wandering Earth* was very demanding.

If he could, Guo Fan would love nothing more than to tie Bai Liang to the crew.

But Fan Fan Bingbing wasn't giving up. "Can Nazha come?"

"That's something you'd have to ask her about — I can't decide for her."

"Really can't decide?" Fan Bingbing didn't show any displeasure at being turned down by Bai Liang, and instead teased with a playful look in her eyes.

"Really, but if Sister Bingbing goes and invites her to join, she probably wouldn't refuse."

She wouldn't just not refuse — that Zha was now acting exactly like a peacock that couldn't hold back its urge to fan its tail.

Almost running around crying: Everyone come look at me~ So beautiful and pretty, looks off the charts, and the box office of my current movie is super high too~ Aren't I amazing!

She just temporarily didn't want to bring unnecessary trouble to Bai Liang — it wasn't that she was truly keeping a low profile.

And after Bai Liang expressed the attitude of "I won't be the one to decide for that Zha," he kept feeling that Fan Fan Bingbing seemed even more enthusiastic.

Oh no!

After all the advice and instructions, he still got entangled by a "bad woman"!

The two older sisters who had been briefed in advance saw from afar that Bai Liang was being clung to by Fan Fan Bingbing, with several others nearby looking restless and ready to pounce.

Exactly like a piece of Tang Sengrou.

Little Sister Zhao, watching from a great distance, said it was beyond her reach — she couldn't exactly walk over and give another reminder.

But as her gaze drifted, she accidentally locked eyes with Yang Mi.

The moment their eyes met, it felt like they both knew exactly what the other was looking at and thinking.

First, a curse in her heart: Little bastard!

At the same time, she couldn't help but wonder what exactly the relationship between Bai Liang and the other woman was. Why so much concern?!

Then the two of them started exchanging glances across the distance.

Zhao Liying: You're closer, you go remind him again.

Yang Mi: I'm not that close either. If you walk a few more steps you'll be right there — you go.

Zhao Liying: You have more people, four of them.

Yang Mi: I'm not close with them~

Zhao Liying: You f***ing—

Of course, an exchange of glances doesn't carry that much information, but that's roughly the gist of it.

But the two of them actually weren't thinking quite the same thing.

Little Sister Zhao felt that the entertainment circle was still very treacherous, and a hot-blooded fool like Bai Liang — silly with at most a little bit of mischief — would very easily be taken advantage of.

Yang Mi, on the other hand, felt it was time to crank up the difficulty for this kid.

If he doesn't run into some "bad women," how can he ever grow up?

A younger boyfriend — the whole point is the nurturing.

Watching your little brother slowly grow into a reliable, mature man — honestly, that's pretty satisfying~

If it really comes down to it, when he starts crying, just open up your shirt and let him lie against your chest and cry.

A soft bosom can hold every grievance; an older sister's tenderness is a remedy that actually works.

This is a kind of emotional value that the little girls mostly can't provide — it's exclusive to the big sisters.

Thinking it through this way, Yang Mi was even a little excited~

Miss Jing Tian: Are you two treating me like I'm dead?!

Seeing Bai Liang and Fan Fan Bingbing chatting more and more happily, she was about to "evolve" into a pufferfish.

At first she thought: You're not talking to me? Then I won't talk to you either! Hmph~

Then it gradually became: You're really not going to talk to me? And now: Come talk to me already.

Unable to hold back any longer, she stretched out a finger and poked Bai Liang.

But the guy didn't seem to notice — he reached over and scratched the spot she'd poked, then kept chatting nonsense with Fan Fan Bingbing.

If we don't talk now, there'll be nothing to talk about later~

Soon she'd become the "beautiful but clueless ex-wife" that netizens always talk about.

Whoever came up with that saying is a real genius!

But Miss Jing Tian turned out to be patient — one poke didn't work, so she kept poking. Exactly like that white-moonlight desk mate in school who pokes you with a pen.

Bai Liang actually had plenty of experience with this — he used to get poked by girls with pens all the time, which made him afraid to wear white T-shirts for a long damn while.

Because some girls, when they're angry, really do poke people with the tip of a pen.

Quite a few of his white T-shirts were covered in dense little black dots.

"Sister Tian Tian, stop it~"

"You knew I was poking you?" Miss Jing Tian asked, barely holding it together.

Bai Liang turned his head and smiled at her. "Could've been a little mouse?"

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Miss Jing Tian, a little embarrassed, quickly added: "You're not allowed to call me Sister Tian Tian! That's rude!"

"Okay, got it." Bai Liang put on a perfectly obedient look and earned Miss Jing Tian's forgiveness.

She was clearly the easy-to-coax type too — the only funny part was how much she liked doing the fake-retreat move.

Fan Fan Bingbing beside them blinked as she watched the two interact, the corners of her mouth curling up uncontrollably, and the way she looked at Bai Liang shifted a little.

Tsk tsk tsk. Still underestimated you, huh!

Bai Liang: I just thought of a topic the three of us can chat about together.

As everyone knows, Miss Jing Tian and Fan Fan Bingbing, to a certain extent, both count as box-office poison — just having their names in a movie has a repellent effect on audiences.

The former is a "heaven-sent Ziwei star," constantly showing up in all kinds of blockbusters, and audiences have genuinely had enough. The key is her track record has never been that great — even when some movies flopped weren't her fault, she still got saddled with the blame.

The latter is simpler — the hype got way out of hand, and her rapport with audiences is terrible.

Back when Meng Jie's first company wanted her to go the route of "famous for being hated," whether it was Fan Fan Bingbing or Yang Mi, both were top-tier practitioners of that path.

What those predecessors did was way more intense than what Meng Jie did, but they could completely not care — after all, they'd already made it to where they were.

Winner takes all, that's all.

So the question is, which of the two has the stronger "drive customers away" attribute?

Fan Fan Bingbing: If I didn't sense that you kid really didn't have any malice, this big sis would really want to slap you silly.

You actually dare bring that up!

Still calling yourself box-office poison.

But looking at the "crystal-clear stupidity" in Bai Liang's eyes, Fan Fan Bingbing could only shrug helplessly.

After all, the capybara was just curious — what fault was that of his?

And Miss Jing Tian was more direct: "This time I've got you, don't I~"

"What if I can't carry the weight either?"

She thought for a moment, "Then nothing for it, just go act in TV dramas properly. When I act in TV dramas people don't really scold me — they actually quite like me."

Her mouth said that, but her eyes clearly meant something else.

Full of hope: You've totally got this, right!

Bai Liang mulled it over. "Whether a movie works doesn't depend on just one actor. If you got Wu Jing to star in a stinker, it'd still flop."

Makes sense!

But Miss Jing Tian still wanted to ask: You've totally got this, right?

"Honestly, compared to movies, I actually prefer acting in TV dramas," Bai Liang suddenly said.

"For real?"

"For real. When I act, I have to watch it myself too. Movies are too short — they usually only tell one slice of a story. But a lot of TV dramas are much longer; they can even tell the whole life of a character. That feeling is gorgeous — like you've lived a whole different life inside it. I'm totally addicted to that!"

"Like the *Great Ming Splendor* we're going to film next?" Miss Jing Tian said, sighing with feeling while cleverly steering the topic.

"Yep, so how's your prep going? Have you studied the life of the fox Empress Sun Ruowei yet?"

That question made Miss Jing Tian knit her brows helplessly — making her play a bad woman

Honestly, she'd also read the original big-female-lead script, and that one was actually easier for her to play.

After all, Sun Ruowei had been rewritten into a virtuous empress. Her Sister Tian Tian looks like this — one look and you can tell she's not a bad woman! A virtuous empress suits her better.

But now she could only play the fox empress.

Luckily Bai Liang encouraged her, saying something like: contrast makes it hit harder.

Miss Jing Tian: Mm, then are you actually up to it or not?

Are you a broken record?!

Bai Liang finally — a rare occurrence — showed a bit of "crack in the armor." He realized Miss Jing Tian's issue wasn't simply a lack of confidence.

She seemed to have been drunk on the 6.6-billion box office of *Wolf Warrior 2*; now her head was full of nothing but waiting for Bai Liang to carry her to victory.

Actually she'd performed pretty well in *How Long Will I Love U*. Bai Liang figured, hadn't they all worked hard together, complementing each other? If it succeeded, she had earned her share of the credit too.

Miss Jing Tian: Don't care, I'm just clinging to a thigh.

Her attitude — not just Bai Liang, even Fan Fan Bingbing beside her was starting to feel something was off.

She began propping her chin and drifting off: sometimes you really do feel a bit weary, and need a man's strong arm to lean on — hope her family's Niu Niu can step up this time!

Niu Niu, you up to it or not?

Fan Fan Bingbing turned her gaze to the big black bull at the next table. The guy seemed to be spacing out — he did look pretty honest, but she just felt he was missing a bit of presence.

Some things don't come from looking burly.

That desperate, all-in energy Wu Jing had when making *Wolf Warrior 2* — whether on screen or off, everyone could see it.

Even when Bai Liang was all smiles, if a lion or an AK was in front of him, no matter how gentle his smile, you could still feel that incomparable, strange confidence of his.

Not looking far — just today, when he made his entrance as the closer, that ease and calm — count everyone present, line up every male artist, how many could pull that off?

Both of them are the type who, the moment they stand there, make you think: damn, this guy's got something.

As for her family's Niu Niu... damn! He seems to be sneaking peeks at the hotly-dressed female star at the next table!

Fan Fan Bingbing stood right up and went to catch him.

If she didn't, who knows, he might've pulled out a Heart Stone~

"She got scared off by you~" Miss Jing Tian whispered mischievously.

Bai Liang did a little bear shrug: "Clearly she was awestruck by your beauty, so she retreated three paces."

That made Miss Jing Tian very happy. "Really?"

"Nope. Wash up and go to sleep."

"You jerk!"

Without giving Miss Jing Tian a chance to blow up on the spot, the Bazaar Charity Gala finally began.

The reason Bai Liang had squeezed out time even by taking leave wasn't really to chase the热度 of this名利场.

Mainly — it was a bargain!

One trip here saved him two other gigs.

Both Bulgari and Mercedes-Benz had sponsored this charity gala; during the auction later, their items would be up.

Bai Liang still had to go up on stage to represent them.

When you endorse a brand, besides shooting ads for money, the contract also obligates you to appear on stage a certain number of times a year and attend various events.

The previous Bulgari gala was one such form.

This Bazaar charity gala was the same.

In fact, he didn't even have to donate his own money this time — the two brands had already arranged everything for him down to the last detail.

(End of chapter)