Chapter 593: My Smile Is No Less Pure

As the victor of last season's Shura field in the entertainment circle, Auntie Chen Hong clearly has her own set of tricks!

What Ni Ping failed to achieve after several years of long-distance romance, she—coming in later—managed to pull off in just two years, directly becoming the great director's Lady.

You have to understand, Ni Ping was no simple contestant either; she too had been a victor once, only to fall short at the very last gasp and get taken down by the latecomer.

In any case, with Chen Hong's level of skill, anything she casually tosses out would be more than enough for Meng Jie to study until her head hangs from the rafters and she stabs her thigh with an awl~

Of course, whether she can actually learn it is another matter entirely.

This sort of thing often depends a lot on talent.

Some people spin around in the Shura field for years without their skill ever rising, while others—even with zero prior experience—only need a little familiarity before being tossed into the harem and going toe-to-toe with Zhen Huan.

As for Meng Jie's little scheme, Auntie Chen Hong basically figured it out by the second day after they got familiar with each other.

She found it amusing in her heart, yet also somewhat wistful.

It was as if she were seeing her own younger self.

However, looking at the seemingly shrewd but actually clear-and-stupid gleam in Meng Jie's big eyes, Chen Hong felt her own set of tricks might not be quite suitable for her.

Green tea and white lotus are one family—many of their tactics overlap—but no matter what, they're all built on a foundation of scheming.

But if someone's scheming can be spotted at a glance, what's the bloody point of scheming at all?

But seeing Meng Jie's eager "Coach, I want to play basketball" look, Chen Hong thought for a moment—want to learn? I'll teach you then~

However, after learning just a little about the story between Meng Jie and Bai Liang—even though the other party didn't tell the whole thing, only briefly revealing a bit—Chen Hong's gaze at her also became a little off.

How can someone be this unlucky?

At the same time, this kind of plot also piqued her interest—a version she'd never seen before! It's actually a "rekindling an old flame" storyline!

Playing hard to get feels great in the moment, but chasing the husband leads to crematorium.

This is practically just like what they write in romance novels~

Still, Meng Jie defended herself a few times: "I'm working really hard now, I'm so good to him."

"How good? Is it taking meticulous care of him in daily life, or going all-out to help his career… or both?" Chen Hong asked with a smile.

That question made Meng Jie hang her head—neither, actually~

It's not that she doesn't want to; mainly, she can't do it!

The former requires putting aside her own affairs and staying by his side constantly; the latter is even harder—isn't that the standard for a strong career woman?

To put it more bluntly, one is a personal assistant, the other is damn Sister Yanzi.

Meng Jie felt that the former she could grit her teeth and try to work at, but as for the latter… Sister Yanzi is really amazing, and she felt that even if she went to do that job, she probably couldn't compare.

"I can work toward that direction."

However, before Meng Jie could even finish declaring her resolve, Auntie Chen Hong came right out with: "After you've achieved those two things, you can just wait to admit defeat."

That twist left Meng Jie's brain a little slow to catch up.

It took her several seconds before she opened her mouth wide: "Huh?"

Chen Hong smiled, because back in the day Ni Ping had achieved those two things—so how did that turn out?

"Men never cherish what's already in their hands; they flock to what doesn't belong to them. The more meek and humble you are, the less they may care about you."

The door to a new world has opened!

So the relationship between men and women can actually be understood from this angle? Meng Jie felt she was gradually understanding everything.

But she had a nagging feeling something wasn't quite right~ though she couldn't quite put her finger on it for the moment.

Not thinking about it since she couldn't figure it out, she was now like a sponge, absorbing the ranking-up experience imparted by last season's king-tier player.

Of course, this sponge of hers has its own underlying color.

After absorbing, it'll inevitably change color and flavor a bit—but Meng Jie couldn't be bothered about that now.

After joining the production, besides befriending Auntie Chen Hong and getting close to her, she also gained something in other respects.

Bai Liang has the complete script for "The Battle at Lake Changjin" over there, and Meng Jie had already flipped through it several times in her spare time.

One line of dialogue in it struck a chord with her.

"If we don't fight this battle, it will be our next generation that has to."

Gotta say, the movie hasn't even been filmed yet, but just this line alone brought Meng Jie plenty of "educational significance"!

It's just that because of the way her brain is wired, the educational significance deviated a little.

After a brainstorm comparable to enlightenment at Longchang, Meng Jie's realization was… if she doesn't act soon to snatch him back, she'll really fall behind! And the competitors will only grow more numerous and stronger—fall behind and you'll get beaten!

Originally Meng Jie had planned to spend more time and effort to snatch her little hedgehog back from those shameless female demons, but after hearing Chen Hong's experienced talk, it seemed to conflict somewhat with what she'd originally thought.

It's roughly akin to the conflict between the experiential school and the methodological school.

Of course, Meng Jie was still quite confident she could resolve the contradiction and ultimately absorb and understand it all as her own.

Because she's very smart, after all!

Bai Liang felt Meng Jie was a bit off—this off-ness began after she had two days of secret chats with Chen Hong in the trailer.

Sometimes when he was napping or resting with his eyes closed, he'd open them and always find this girl staring at him with burning eyes, muttering soundlessly to herself… though her gaze was getting brighter and brighter~

Her behavior was the spitting image of a scheming second female lead in a TV drama plotting some "evil plan."

It's just that this streak of evil wasn't very pure, mixed with a bit of silliness, and the flavor was a little odd.

As for the evil side, it didn't have the pure evil flavor of that little evil kitty.

And in terms of purity, it couldn't even catch up to a certain little handsome guy who had just gone viral recently~

Recently, a video only 10 seconds long went viral on short-video platforms—a young man in Tibetan attire, looking straight into the camera, gaze clear, slightly shy, with a smile on his face… purity maxed out!

The infectious power of that smile was almost catching up to Bai Liang's!

Bai Liang: My smile is no less pure~

After all, he's been publicly recognized by plenty of Misses as a male succubus, a foxy player.

The reason Bai Liang was still able to catch news about Ding Zhen at this point was naturally because Meng Jie had shared it with him.

After getting off set, Meng Jie put on a mysterious air, and very deliberately turned her back to look at her phone, acting as though she didn't want Bai Liang to notice.

Normally in this kind of situation, an ordinary person really would be unable to resist feeling a bit of curiosity or something.

But Bai Liang was unusually able to keep his composure, and in the end Meng Jie couldn't hold it in herself. Wriggling over to Bai Liang like some kind of bug, she didn't mind at all that he was sweaty and covered in dust after getting off set.

At the same time she held her phone up high, almost pressing it right into Bai Liang's face, and said in an exaggerated tone:

"So handsome!"

But strangely enough, hearing her words, she seemed to be praising that guy Ding Zhen, yet her eyes weren't actually looking at the video on the phone at all. Instead, while speaking, she kept glancing at Bai Liang, wanting to see the expression and reaction on his face.

Bai Liang's reaction was, you could say, rather peculiar.

Hearing Meng Jie's words, he really did carefully look at the video, then nodded and gave a thumbs-up. "Yeah, he's pretty handsome!"

Meng Jie:???

How is this different from what she had in her head? Her own little hedgehog is way too magnanimous—praising another guy's looks right in front of him, not a shred of jealousy?