Chapter 574: I've Seen Your Kind of Green Tea Plenty of Times Before!

"The Battle at Lake Changjin?!"*

In fact, before this dinner, Reba really had no idea that Meng Jie could actually be connected to the *Battle at Lake Changjin* project.

After hearing about it, her pupils instinctively contracted for a moment.

*Inwardly: I've underestimated her! *

*She's hidden it so well! Not a whisper of it outside! *

The casting for *Battle at Lake Changjin* has long been public knowledge — the project is about to start shooting.

And because Bai Liang and Wu Jing — the two actors with the strongest box-office pull right now — are teaming up, the project's buzz both inside and outside the industry has simply shot through the roof.

It hasn't even started filming yet, and plenty of media outlets are already predicting things like "a fifty-billion box office as the starting point."

The key thing is, hardly anyone is actually pushing back on that.

As if a fifty-billion box office were nothing more than a bunch of clay chickens and pottery dogs — child's play, a cinch.

Reba had, of course, been following the project too, but this thing was basically a celebration for the hard-core male actors of the film world; this kind of subject matter generally didn't offer female actors a slice of the spotlight. Besides, she wasn't really part of the film circle herself — she could only make her way in the TV drama world. That was also the main reason Nazha had been able to rise from behind and now could subtly edge her out.

Even though Reba had never lagged behind in popularity or traffic, Nazha could land film roles — and she actually had the track record to back it up. Now, at any event with even a shred of class, Nazha's seat was guaranteed to be better than hers.

Still, Reba just couldn't figure out what *Battle at Lake Changjin* could possibly have to do with Mencius. With her current status, at most she'd just make a cameo in a film like this, right?

That assessment was spot-on — and in fact, that's exactly how it was.

But Wu Jing's attitude about it was really misleading, and it caused Reba to misjudge.

He'd specifically mentioned Mencius — could it be that he'd actually stuffed a long romance subplot into this war题材?

Does that even make sense?!

If that were really the case, it would truly be baffling — hasn't the lesson of *Everest* sunk in yet?

Or is it… the doing of a certain classmate nicknamed "Big White" who refuses to reveal his name?!

So, when Bai Liang showed up right on time, he found Reba looking at him with a touch of grievance in her eyes.

Bai Liang: Huh? What's going on?

But he didn't have time to investigate for the moment. At the same time, Reba's stubborn streak kicked in — she quietly tucked the matter away in her heart, refusing to ask or speak of it and add to her own frustration.

"Liang-ge, showing up this late — three penalty drinks first!"

"Fill 'em up!" Bai Liang waved a grand hand. Three glasses first, to rinse the mouth.

But by now~ Reba had already temporarily pushed that mood down. Once the three glasses were poured, she took one with a smile. "Let me help you share a bit~"

Seeing this, Meng Jie naturally refused to be outdone — she reached out her little hand and started grabbing.

Her good bestie Wang Churan definitely had to help out at this point. She pretended not to notice the glance Reba shot her way, and didn't even exchange any words with Bai Liang — her whole stance was "I'm helping Meng Jie out"~

Reba: …You think I'm as dumb as Gulnazar Nazha?

She declared she could smell the scheming on the other woman from several seats away!

But she really couldn't figure out what was going on inside Mencius's head — it felt a bit unhinged. Bringing a bestie like that along, isn't that just inviting someone to steal your man?

Reba had besties of her own, and she kept a very close eye on them — her besties even helped keep tabs on each other.

So when it came to Meng Jie's behavior of seemingly oblivious "inviting the wolf in," she was nothing but contemptuous.

But right now she couldn't be bothered to deal with the other woman — she was busy socializing in her capacity as Bai Liang's girlfriend~

She kept raising her glass, though she didn't actually drink that much.

After all, today's gathering was all friends — no one was deliberately pushing drinks — but the dinner-table atmosphere had still gotten going.

In this respect, Meng Jie came off as much weaker. She actually drank more than Reba, but her presence couldn't compare at all.

It got to the point where she felt like she was drinking in sulky solitude — she ended up drinking even more than Reba, her cheeks flushing red.

At this point Reba smiled and said to her: "Little Meng, drink a little less — you've still got filming tomorrow, and drinking too much isn't good for your health."

How could Meng Jie stand that provocation!

"I can hold my liquor just fine! It's nothing!"

"Then let me toast you~"

Looking at the other's half-smiling, half-not eyes, Meng Jie declared she absolutely would not back down — she picked up her glass and started gulping.

Beside them, Wang Churan stayed silent, working hard to minimize her own presence — she smelled the whiff of dinner-table bullying in the air.

If Little White-gege didn't step in to help today, Meng Jie was probably going to have to be carried home.

But what struck her as odd was that, although Reba had launched an attack, she only launched that one attack.

After that, she didn't keep putting Meng Jie on the spot or escalate the pressure.

Reba: Make you all pitiful so you can play the可怜 act right there and be the little green tea, making Big White feel sorry for you? Dream on!

Three rounds of drinks in, it was time for the halftime break.

Wang Churan hadn't been able to drag Meng Jie along to form a bathroom team, so she could only head there alone.

Going to the bathroom wasn't actually about needing to pee — she wanted to touch up her makeup a bit.

Sometimes the women's restroom line being long isn't without reason.

Just as Wang Churan was nearly done touching up her makeup, she suddenly heard a somewhat familiar sound of high heels walking outside.

The reason it felt familiar wasn't the tone, but the rhythm of the footsteps.

Fast.

Not only did the other woman walk fast — her speed in the bathroom was fast too.

The door closed, and there was a burst of urgent, forceful water sounds.

Wang Churan didn't think much of it — she just took the person in the next stall to be Dilireba and muttered a couple of complaints about her.

Then she put her makeup tools back into her bag and went outside to wash her hands.

But before she even finished washing her hands, Reba came out of the bathroom.

When she saw Wang Churan, she only glanced at her — no intention of greeting her at all.

But Wang Churan couldn't help secretly rolling her eyes, complaining inwardly: She really pees with force! And the volume is huge~

Just as she was thinking about whether to tell Meng Jie about this for laughs later, a cold voice suddenly rang out by her ear:

"Roll your eyes one more time, I dare you!"

"Huh?"

Wang Churan turned her head to look, and her heart gave a start.

Reba was slowly wiping her hands while staring at her expressionlessly.

"Jie Reba, what did you say?"

"Drop the act. You've got the guts to roll your eyes at me, but not the guts to admit it?"

"I... I didn't..."

"I've seen plenty of your green-tea type! What are you playing pitiful for?"

"I really didn't..."

Wang Churan was panicking inside, never having imagined that Dilireba would come at her directly like this — and in such an in-your-face, no-holds-barred way.

Meng Jie hadn't even been given this kind of treatment yet, and she got to enjoy it first.

At the same time, the pressure was really immense... Aura is a very mystical thing, but right now it was truly pressing down on Wang Churan so much she could barely breathe.

Let alone rolling her eyes — her eyelids had instinctively drooped a lot.

"Heh."

At this point Reba wasn't in as much of a hurry as when she'd just gone to the bathroom. She unhurriedly dried her hands, then tidied her hair in front of the mirror.