Chapter 661: Sister Will Make You Feel Good

"Lately there's been so much work, even Dou Xiao Bao has to keep doing part-time jobs."

Having just finished her work for the day, Nazha still looked like a sweet, goddess-like beauty before getting in the car, but the moment the door closed she started pouting and muttering to herself.

She looked rather unhappy.

Her assistant, who had been with her a long time, knew she wasn't really angry at this point, and couldn't help teasing: "Sis, which Dou Xiao Bao are you talking about?"

Oh my, how bold!

Although Nazha was already twenty-eight or twenty-nine this year, she still had a bit of a girlish streak, and she actually blushed at her assistant's words.

Once she caught herself, she quickly protested in a coquettish huff: "Of course it's my kitty Dou Xiao Bao! What are you even saying!"

"I didn't say anything, I was just asking~"

"Hmph! These days, even kittens have to work part-time to earn their own cat food. It's really not easy."

"Sis, why do I feel like you've suddenly gotten a lot lazier this year? I remember you used to have so much drive when you worked, always talking about making money—do you feel like you've earned enough?"

"How could money ever be enough? I'm clearly still very motivated, okay!" Nazha flatly denied.

She thought she was super career-minded!

Although her mouth was tough, judging a person's true attitude isn't about listening to what they say, but watching what they do.

After signing with Bai Liang's company, Nazha barely kept up her drive for a few days before visibly starting to "go slack."

Actually, back when she was with Tang Ren, Nazha's workload relative to her popularity wasn't particularly heavy to begin with, and now there's even a trend of "lying flat"—compared with her little hometown buddy, it's simply not on the same level at all.

Basically, any less important, lower-paying gigs she could turn down, she turned down.

Even so, she still found it tiring~

The team members privately all unanimously judged that Sister Nazha had really started waiting to become the boss's wife.

She'd truly found her comfort zone, as if Nazha was made for this kind of life—damn, what kind of innate canary-plus-love-brain holy body is this?

Of course, her main "going slack" was in the area of gigs that didn't really help her career, just time-consuming money-grabs. The quality resources Sister Yanzi arranged for her, she definitely wouldn't turn down—she's not actually stupid.

At the same time, although that burst of drive for working hard had faded a lot all at once, her enthusiasm for wanting to act alongside Bai Liang had only grown rather than diminished.

When she had time, she'd go to the company to pester Sister Yanzi; when she had nothing to do, she'd flip through the scripts submitted from outside.

Case in point—Nazha's gig today was in Shanghai, and after she got off work she didn't even go home to rest, heading straight for the company.

Once there, she made her way to Sister Yanzi's office with familiar ease, and the company employees along the way weren't surprised at all, greeting her quite familiarly as "Sister Nazha."

When she first came, everyone would still get excited seeing her, but now... it was nothing new.

You know, in just these few months since signing, Nazha had come more times than her boss Bai Liang had in several years!

She soon arrived at Sister Yanzi's office, knocked and went in with practiced ease, then headed straight for her "workstation."

Sister Yanzi, who was in the middle of handling things, raised a hand to greet her, then without ceremony went back to burying herself in her own work.

At first, Sister Yanzi couldn't help getting a little conspiratorial about Nazha coming to the company so diligently—was she pushing so hard to make her presence felt because she couldn't wait to become the boss's wife?

Later she found out Nazha was still the same old Nazha—she most likely hadn't thought that much about it; her reason for coming was very pure:

Case in point—less than ten minutes!

"Yanzi!!! This script is pretty good, hey~"

Seeing Nazha's eyes light up, if it had been before Sister Yanzi might have been surprised along with her, wondering if she and the others in charge of this work had been blind, missing some treasure.

But now...

"Sister Nazha, are you sure?"

"Mm, it's really not bad! Take a look~"

When Nazha eagerly handed over the script she thought was good, Sister Yanzi glanced at it—this damn thing wasn't the trash script she'd already passed on in the first round? Generic subject matter, cheesy content, muddled plot—a typical youth film.

Obviously, Nazha's recent interest lay in sweet campus romances.

To put it bluntly, our Nazha's taste and judgment were truly damn hard to describe!

She was the type who thought everything was good, with an extremely low bar!

Of course, the upside was—she only wanted to star with Bai Liang in films with sweet romance scenes, and umm, TV dramas were fine too.

So, regarding the company's currently launched project "Major Events of Life," she wasn't very interested.

A funeral-themed subject—just looking at it gave Nazha goosebumps. The role she could barely play in it would also have to be so down-to-earth...

This was completely not her style—how could she be down-to-earth?

She thought her beauty was out of this world!

However, although Nazha's taste was poor, she was actually amenable to advice. After seeing Sister Yanzi smile and shake her head at her, she didn't press the matter, made a helpless expression, then turned and went back to keep searching.

She didn't find it boring either, quite treating these scripts like novels to read.

Besides, her Dou Xiao Bao said she could read more books when she had nothing to do~

But at this moment, Sister Yanzi suddenly gave a light cough. "Sister Nazha, are you really not interested in 'Major Events of Life'?"

"Yanzi, just arrange it however you like, I'm not some unreasonable person. Didn't you say the subject matter doesn't suit me?" Nazha waved her hand, looking like she was the most understanding girl in the world.

Sister Yanzi: Clearly you're the one who looked down on it...

But she said this to put in one last patch, just in case Nazha changed her mind.

And also to lay some groundwork—after all, she'd heard Nazha didn't have a great relationship with a certain someone.

Sure enough, after another round of going through scripts and temporarily not finding a new target of interest, Nazha couldn't help asking: "Has the cast been set? Who'd they get? Please don't tell me it's—"

"Not Reba." Sister Yanzi directly anticipated her question, stating it very bluntly.

Saying she knew what shit Nazha was about to shit just by the way she stuck her butt out was a bit much, but it was definitely true that eight out of ten things Nazha did circled back to her little hometown buddy.

Anyone who didn't know would think these two were some kind of Spirit Pearl and Demon Orb~

"Great!"

Nazha was happy to hear this. Although she didn't really want to act in it, she also didn't want her little hometown buddy to act in it.

If it really were her... then she'd have no choice but to fight for it properly.

You know, that Zha has probed quite a few times about the female lead of "The Wandering Earth 2."

If she could steal the role, she'd probably jump right up and snatch it.

"By the way, filming starts soon, right? Where are you shooting? I'll come visit the set later — I'll be free in a few days!"

Hearing this, Sister Yanzi smiled slightly. "You won't be free. New schedules have been arranged for you."

"Yanzi~~~ Boss Yanzi~~~"

Ahem, Sister Yanzi said she's not Dou Xiao Bai's bro — what's the use of acting cute with her

Fine~ actually it does work a little, after all, that Zha's level of beauty really can slay both men and women.

Even fellow women can't help wanting to look at her a bit more.

But Sister Yanzi said this schedule is set! Not even Jesus could change it.

On one hand, the "fall" of that Shuangzi side really let Sister Yanzi help that Zha scoop up a lot of benefits — if they don't claim the spot early, something might change again.

On the other hand, if the "Life Matters" crew can keep that Zha from going, better not let her go.

First is Unlike Ni Ni — that Zha's relationship with her isn't great; the two have actually argued before.

Next is Sister Xiao Zhao. Their relationship is so hidden, if that Zha runs over there and causes some kind of incident, that wouldn't be good.

And the "Life Matters" project is the most important one among all of Bai Liang's projects this year.

It's not that he divided his own roles into tiers, but rather that Sister Yanzi's side has tiers for these projects.

Without a doubt, the only film Bai Liang is shooting this year — a realist subject that can both chase awards and pull box office — Sister Yanzi naturally takes it a hundred percent seriously! Almost all other projects have to yield to this film.

Including the love-brained classmate at home.

By now the "Life Matters" crew has already begun gathering in Wuhan, the filming location, and the official start of shooting is just a matter of these next two days.

After Bai Liang wrapped on the "Glory of the Police" crew, he didn't even finish the wrap party before rushing to the airport — mainly wanting to seize the chance to shoot a bit more promotional material for "My Heroic Husband," because after this he really won't have time.

"Public fox, leaving already?"

Having just finished recording a set of building-sweep material, the evil little kitty even had some sweat on her forehead, but seeing Bai Liang take a call and look ready to bolt, she still couldn't help trotting over to try to hold him back.

And Dou Xiao Tian was equally eager — though she didn't speak, she tilted her face up with a slightly expectant look.

He stretched out both hands and directly "angrily rubbed" the tops of these two's heads. "The crew in Wuhan is still waiting for me to get there, can't delay any longer."

"Go, go, you scumbag!"

The evil little kitty grabbed Bai Liang's big hand — she's already thirty, being patted on the head like this is honestly a bit shameful. Unlike Dou Xiao Tian beside her, who didn't move a muscle, face full of bliss.

Bai Liang:???

Mm. The scolding wasn't really wrong, so after thinking for a second he didn't argue back either.

But he did try to save face with one line: "You two should be pretty busy lately too, right? Gained so many fans, your schedules must be exploding? Still have time to slack off here?"

"Obviously! I'm famous now~"

The evil little kitty sensed Bai Liang's "mind was made up to leave," and stopped humming, stopped scolding, and instantly became much more normal — that big-sister vibe came out instead.

After all, it's not like when she was "young" — a few years ago she was actually the type who, when she wanted to see Bai Liang, dared to sneak behind her manager's back to his crew to find him.

But the current evil little kitty wouldn't do something like that anymore. Smiling, she tidied Bai Liang's shirt, which actually wasn't even messy — more like completing a rather meaningful "departure ritual."

Then she gave the space to Dou Xiao Tian.

Being a sister to the extent she has, it's already the utmost of loyalty! Honestly, even if Dou Xiao Tian helped her mine a bit to repay her, it wouldn't be too much~

However, the evil little kitty, who had just stepped aside about twenty meters to give Dou Xiao Tian a bit of "private space," took a sip of water from her teacup, glanced over, and the next second nearly sprayed it all out.

Because the car coming to pick up Bai Liang — the moment the door opened, there was a woman with built-in charm standing there "preening and posing."

Holy crap!

She hurriedly put down her water cup, ready to rush over to back her up, but then saw Dou Xiao Tian standing on tiptoe waving at Bai Liang. The car slowly started and drove off.

"Was that Unlike Ni Ni in the car just now? How did she get here?"

Dou Xiao Tian didn't have time to answer right away, craning her neck until the car Bai Liang was in disappeared around the corner, then finally said: "I don't know~"

"You dummy, you don't know anything. This woman is so eager, acting like she can fly anywhere in the country."

Dou Xiao Tian:???

She was honestly shocked by her own Tongtong-jie's mouth — talking about someone like that?

Take her along!

"I also don't think she looks like a good person!" Dou Xiao Tian straightened her back and eagerly chimed in.

"Right~ this public fox guy just likes attracting bees and butterflies! But isn't the female lead of his movie a little girl? Is Unlike Ni Ni going to play the supporting female role for her?"

The evil little kitty quickly figured out what was actually going on — after all, the "Life Matters" project had already been inquired about by plenty of people last year.

Any film project on Bai Liang's side that gets greenlit simply can't be kept secret.

And Li Yitong was actually also among the candidates for the supporting female role, but after her team communicated with that side for a while, due to scheduling issues, they ultimately didn't go for it.

After all, it's just a supporting female role, and a third female lead at that. But she really didn't expect Unlike Ni Ni to be willing to lower herself.

Her now is already considered fully revived — on the film side there's "Shock Wave 2," on the TV side there's "The Longest Day in Chang'an," "My Huckleberry Friends" and other works, her heat is still very high, even her status has risen.

She's also shed the single label of "Yumo" from "The Flowers of War."

This is also why the evil little kitty got a bit triggered and bristled when she saw her.

That's the little kitty's reaction when she meets a "strong enemy."

After a round of analysis in her heart, Li Yitong finally couldn't help sighing: "Meow, just how many people do I have to fight? It's even more competitive than the entertainment industry!"