Chapter 314: Okay, Okay, Okay, There Are Still Experts!

Li Bingbing is about to arrive at the battlefield!

But before that, the two contestants about to face the peak-state Da Hua remain completely unaware.

Bai Liang is still playing with the "fool."

"Bro, why do you look like your Yin Tang is darkening?"

"You're such a joker," Peng Yuyan forced a smile.

For some reason, he suddenly remembered Bai Liang's nickname: Da Xian~

In this world, you can misname someone, but you can't mislabel a nickname.

Now he goes and mentions Yin Tang darkening again—this truly darkened Peng Yuyan's expression.

Bai Liang:???

Fuck, now it's actually darkening!

Fortunately, Aunt Xu Qing at his side "came to the rescue" at this moment.

"You can read physiognomy? Then can you read palm lines?"

Bai Liang: "Of course I can. I can even take pulses."

"Then check my palm, big sister~"

Peng Yuyan exhaled in relief, though he didn't know why he felt so pressured facing a twenty-something kid—this guy was genuinely weird.

Just as he internally thanked Xu Qing, feeling this big sister still "loved" him, he turned his head and saw Xu Qing letting Bai Liang hold her small hand, grinning broadly.

That genuine joy was something Peng Yuyan had never seen even during filming.

This made him less happy instead.

Yet just as Bai Liang, bored, was reading Xu Qing's palm, the surroundings suddenly grew quieter.

An invisible aura of lethal intent seemed to spread abruptly.

Even Xu Qing sat up slightly straighter, her expression less flirtatious.

Huh?!

Bai Liang and Peng Yuyan both sensed something wrong and looked up simultaneously, their gazes fixed on a certain direction.

Li Bingbing is rapidly approaching!

Sss… a bead of cold sweat seemed to break out on Peng Yuyan's forehead.

At this moment, he suddenly felt regret—he realized he'd seriously underestimated this Da Hua with over twenty years in the industry!

Although Li Bingbing had gradually shifted from the spotlight to behind-the-scenes in recent years, appearing far less often and seeming less popular than during her peak, she'd fallen silent in the industry.

But she'd merely dimmed her fire—not extinguished her furnace.

As Li Bingbing drew nearer, Peng Yuyan's psychological pressure kept mounting.

He'd thought this through too simply!

Sitting in the front row, issuing press releases to flaunt his status, using this "has-been" Da Hua as a stepping stone—

For extra safety, he'd even planned to drag Bai Liang, this "newly risen young actor," along as a scapegoat.

He'd intended to seat Bai Liang in Li Bingbing's spot and sit himself at the far edge of the front row—he'd thought this plan was genius!

After all, Bai Liang was so young—so young and sitting in the front row? Too eye-catching!

This kid was the perfect shield!

If the team's script played out as planned, even if this got exposed, it'd likely be Bai Liang and Li Bingbing tearing each other apart while he slipped away unnoticed.

Gain status, escape unscathed.

Plan executed!

But if everything always went according to plan, there'd be no such thing as accidents in this world.

On paper, this plan seemed harmless—Li Bingbing really was "past her prime," and Bai Liang truly was glaringly conspicuous.

But the problem was, it completely underestimated others' intelligence.

If this plot appeared in a novel, readers would rage that the villain was brainless.

In this world, being evil isn't a problem—you judge by results, not process.

Being stupid isn't a problem either—idiots are happy, look at how joyful that Zha Duo is.

But the worst is being both evil and stupid and turning into a clown on the spot.

Before Li Bingbing appeared, Peng Yuyan had actually been worried she wouldn't follow the script.

But after she appeared, his inner unease only grew worse.

Li Bingbing: "See, I came, and you're not happy~"

Peng Yuyan's mind screamed frantically: Sit in the second row, sit in the second row, sit in the second row.

Unfortunately, when Li Bingbing reached the front row, she stopped.

Peng Yuyan felt his heart pounding wildly, his mouth dry.

But Li Bingbing's slightly cold gaze paused only briefly on him before moving on.

Her eyes locked onto Bai Liang.

Peng Yuyan instantly relaxed.

At the same time, Xu Qing gently patted Bai Liang's other hand, signaling: You're in trouble, kid.

Bai Liang knew Li Bingbing had arrived, but he was still helping Xu Qing read her palm.

So what if Li Bingbing showed up? Even she has to wait her turn.

"Sister, I won't tell you about your palm yet, but your pulse—"

"You're not going to say you've detected a pregnancy pulse, are you?" Xu Qing couldn't help laughing and scolding.

She shot Bai Liang a look: You little rascal, someone's come to cause you trouble—and you're still taking pulses?!

"You can take a pulse too? Take mine for a moment."

Hearing the voice, Bai Liang raised his head and met Li Bingbing's smiling face.

Huh?

Strange~ Let me look again.

So he closed his eyes and opened them again, and found that she really was smiling.

Although he didn't know why this big sister could still smile, Bai Liang rarely refused such small requests.

"Come~"

He gripped Li Bingbing's wrist, feeling her pulse thumping—oh wow, it was pounding hard!

Bai Liang glanced at her face, which currently wore a calm smile, and thought to himself, worthy of being a big star, she's got something.

One whose chest holds thunder yet whose face is calm as a still lake can be made a general!

Too bad, the other Bingbing he'd encountered couldn't appear anymore—otherwise he'd really love to see those two Bingbings competing on the same stage.

"What did you find?" Li Bingbing asked, her smile undiminished.

"Bingbing-jie should rest more lately," Bai Liang said casually.

He couldn't take a pulse to save his life, but in the future he really should learn it—this thing lets you touch big sisters' and young ladies' hands in broad daylight.

"Rest more?" Li Bingbing raised an eyebrow—that remark was a bit interesting.

The little guy is quite kind~

But she couldn't rest at all today—she had to tear apart that Taiwanese little white lotus beside her.

In a flash, Li Bingbing turned directly to look at Peng Yuyan.

The other party had still been pricking up her ears watching the show, thinking to herself that her team's plan was indeed "seamless"—who would have thought that the moment he finished taking the pulse, he'd immediately turn his guns around.

Take a pulse?

This is casting a curse, isn't it?!

It happened too suddenly—Peng Yuyan didn't even have time to adjust and steady her mindset.

The panic and guilt on her face were seen clearly by Li Bingbing. Good! Her judgment was right!

"Scoot over a bit, I'm staying here for a while, want to chat with Xiao Bai."

The tone seemed like a discussion, but Li Bingbing's man-eating gaze clearly wasn't asking Peng Yuyan for her opinion.

The people beside them were a little afraid this sister would slap the other across the face the next second.

"Chat with me? How about somewhere a bit more spacious?"

Capybara poked his head out and offered a pretty good suggestion.

Official Bai Da is kind-hearted and can't stand those "blood-soaked" scenes.

Then Li Bingbing pushed his head back in: Be good, none of your business~

Xu Qing also tugged at Bai Liang at this moment: "You still haven't told me what you found when you took my pulse."

Ah, fair enough—one person, one big sister.

"Qing-jie should also rest more."

Very perfunctory, but big sisters like it.

Xu Qing even winked at Bai Liang, gently beckoning him to lean his ear over.

Then she whispered by his ear: "How did you know sister's been having irregular periods lately~"

Hiss.

Even someone as experienced as Bai Liang was today made half his body go numb by her flirtatiousness.

"This—" "Just teasing you, I'm not having irregular periods."

Bai Liang had just breathed a sigh of relief.

But then Xu Qing immediately followed up: "I'm going through menopause, you know. Sigh, these past few years haven't been easy."

In front of her, Bai Liang was like a fresh recruit.

At the same time, he could sort of tell that this auntie—no, sister—seemed to care about age differently from others.

Most older sisters really dislike people emphasizing that they're getting on in years.

But Xu Qing seemed to be the opposite kind: I'm almost fifty and still this sexy, impressive, right~

Bai Liang was being flirted with silly by the big sister, and Peng Yuyan beside them wasn't faring any better.

To be precise, she was even worse off.

Because Xu Qing at most just flirted, but Li Bingbing genuinely wanted to kill her.

She came up almost face-to-face, forcing Peng Yuyan's butt to scoot outward.

Like sitting in the front row?

Today she'll shove you out in person!

In the end, only half a butt was still on the chair.

Yet over on Bai Liang's side where it was so spacious, she didn't say a word about him moving over too. She just kept staring at Peng Yuyan to "torment" her!

And now, something even more "soul-crushing" came.

!

"What's this thing, kinda digging into me"

With a rip, Li Bingbing directly tore the name tag stuck on the chair off, then casually tossed it aside.

Peng Yuyan, out!

At this moment, some staff member who came from who-knows-where—or perhaps someone from Li Bingbing's team—came to the second-row seat and, in front of everyone, tore Li Bingbing's name tag off too and simply took it away.

Face-to-face ult!

Like sitting in the first row? I'm coming over now, and I'll force you to give up your seat right in front of you. Think you can hold it?!

This scene made the people around watch with their eyes and gasp in their hearts.

Good lord, a public falling-out?

Not a shred of face left for the other side!

Not a single young person in the back rows dared make a sound; they all silently watched the scene unfold.

These days, which young dan actress or traffic star would ever tear into someone face-to-face like this?

Absolutely an eye-opener!

Brutal!

At that moment, Bai Liang also reached out and tore off his own name tag.

"What are you doing?"

Li Bingbing, who had already sat down and struck an elegant pose, watched Bai Liang's movements with a face full of confusion.

She even added: "You should keep yours — it was arranged by the organizers, and besides, you have the right to sit here. Am I right~"

That last line, she said only after glancing at Peng Yuyan.

Clearly, she had no intention of letting Peng Yuyan off easy tonight, constantly stabbing and twisting the knife, sneering and mocking without pause.

However, Bai Liang indicated that bro plays a different game.

"I'm keeping it as a memento."

So the question is, how does one keep a memento?

Half a minute later, Na Zha took the name tag Bai Liang handed over and said gleefully: Then I'll just take it home with me!

Such an important prop from this public tear-in scene — way too meaningful as a keepsake.

With this name tag, I commemorate this Movie Night seat-swap battle.

She had been secretly studying the whole time, while putting herself in Li Bingbing's shoes, fantasizing about how awesome it would be to bully Dilireba until she wailed.

Just imagining that scene made her heart feel all warm and fuzzy.

The people around were pretty speechless — oh wow, there's still a master!

Up front, the big flower Li Bingbing tore into him openly, not leaving Peng Yuyan an ounce of face.

And behind, Bai Liang put on a public "lovey-dovey show," actually giving the name tag as a gift to the Miss

Damn, these lousy name tags — they've really been played for all they're worth.

At this very moment, Li Yifeng, sitting in the second row, suddenly realized that the gap between himself and Bai Liang might be quite a bit larger than he'd originally imagined.

If it were him, in this kind of setting he wouldn't dare pull half the little tricks and flashy moves Bai Liang did.

This guy really isn't afraid of anything

The Movie Night livestream officially began at this point.

Honestly, though the name-tag-seat-swap stunt was both stupid and rotten, the people who've managed to survive in the entertainment circle until today aren't all useless.

At least at this moment, Peng Yuyan could actually still hold his seat.

He perched on half a buttock, striking a pose that said he was going to cling to the first row no matter what.

After all, things had already come to this.

And then the Movie Night damn well gave him an award!

A pretty useless award, called something like Most Popular Actor.

Four stars went up together to accept it.

After collecting the award and coming back, he was dumbfounded.

The space of half a chair that had been left was now completely occupied by Li Bingbing.

Not a single gap left for him.

The most outrageous part was, Li Bingbing was leaning sideways — her butt firmly planted in the seat while her upper body tilted toward Bai Liang, chatting and laughing happily with him.

Smiling so brightly.

"Bingbing-jie"

Now you know to call her Bingbing-jie?

Screw off.

Li Bingbing simply pretended she hadn't heard, doing a guest stint as a little deaf girl — if you've got the guts, sit on this old lady's lap.

After standing there for a few seconds, feeling the gazes upon him growing more and more numerous, Peng Yuyan couldn't keep his composure and quickly took a seat in the second row.

Bai Liang: Told you your forehead was black.

At tonight's Movie Night, the awards with even a shred of substance actually numbered only four.

Most Influential Director, Most Anticipated Director of the Year, Best Actor, Best Actress.

The reason they barely had any substance wasn't because the awards themselves carried much recognition.

Mainly because the people receiving them were badass.

Lao Mouzi, Jiang Wen, Bai Liang, Zhou Dongyu.

One each, arranged perfectly.

Among them, Best Actor and Best Actress went up on stage together, so... Bai Liang walked pretty fast, and Zhou Dongyu had to jog the whole way to catch up with that bastard.

"Hey, wait for me!"

"Sorry, sorry, I'm in a rush to go up and grab the Best Actor award — first one of my life."

Zhou Dongyu:

Weibo Best Actor?

What a joke — that counts as Best Actor?!

Bai Liang: Isn't it called Best Actor? If so, isn't that just the Best Actor award?

"If we work together, the odds of you legitimately winning Best Actor are definitely not small." Zhou Dongyu didn't forget to keep pushing at this moment.

She was still quite confident — among the young actresses in the industry, how many were qualified enough to pair with Bai Liang?

What she meant was pairing up based on real skill or status, not being his accessory, or purely a favor pairing for Bai Liang.

The more Zhou Dongyu thought about it, the more she felt Bai Liang had no reason to refuse her "powerhouse collaboration" invitation.

"This is all decided by my manager. Even if I agreed with you it'd be useless — wouldn't that just be the same as brushing you off?"

Looking at Bai Liang's face full of "sincerity," Zhou Dongyu's first reaction was yeah, right, and the very next reaction was — he doesn't really look like the type of guy who'd lie~

Bai Liang: Tietie, I'm just a person who loves telling it like it is!

Zhou Dongyu: How about... trusting him just this once?

(End of chapter)