Chapter 421: Continuing to test the edge of courting death

Xu Ting's assistant said, bracing herself, "I just came over to take a look. If there's nothing else, I'll be going now. Sister Ting still needs my help over there!"

"Hey! You wait!"

She was so eager to leave that Chen Qin was determined to stop her, refusing to give up until she got to the bottom of it.

Xu Ting's assistant suddenly burst out with a surge of strength and pinched Chen Qin's hand hard, forcing Chen Qin to let go.

Chen Qin frowned tightly and rubbed her wrist. "Why are you pinching people? I haven't finished talking to you yet!"

The assistant ran off without looking back, disappearing in a flash.

Chen Qin muttered, "Her expression was so off; she must be doing something bad behind our backs. Being so afraid of me asking, could she be bad-mouthing Jin Li?"

The young girl on the side:...

A woman's super strong sixth sense!!!

The young girl silently approached Chen Qin and whispered what the assistant had just told her.

After hearing it, Chen Qin was so angry she laughed. "I knew she was acting sneaky and suspicious; so that was her plan."

She sized up the young girl and said, "Xu Ting's assistant targeted you because she thought you were too young and couldn't keep things to yourself, wanting to spread this through you. What are your thoughts?"

The young girl hurriedly said, "I won't be used so easily. I absolutely won't say a word about this outside, don't you worry! I won't tell anyone, and I won't post any messages on the internet either!"

Chen Qin suddenly smiled. "No, I don't need you to keep this secret. Whether you leak it or talk to someone in reality, I won't interfere."

The young girl:?

Chen Qin: "But there is one premise: you must state it truthfully, without adding oil or vinegar."

The young girl finally understood.

Xu Ting's assistant wanted to use her, and Chen Qin also wanted to use her in return.

The young girl's face flushed slightly. Did she look like someone that stupid?

Chen Qin added, "To compensate for the discomfort of hearing rumors, we will give you a sum of money for mental distress."

The young girl's eyes brightened slightly. Paid dissemination?

She could do that!

She came to the crew to work for a high salary. Doing odd jobs on set was tiring, but the pay was relatively high.

After all, in this day and age, who isn't tired from working?

Going to a factory means enduring the numbness of an assembly line.

Working as a restaurant server means enduring the casual scolding of customers and often being too busy to stop.

Doing odd jobs on a film set was the best-paying work she could find; it included meals and lodging, and she could even play on her phone occasionally!

Chen Qin added the young girl on WeChat and learned she was a college student from a nearby university. She had few classes recently, so she specifically came to the crew to work and study.

Chen Qin turned to talk to Driver Xiao Cheng about this, specifically saying, "I finally understand why Xu Ting's assistant picked her. It turns out she's still a college student, with 'I'm easy to fool' written all over her. I gave her money without signing a contract, and she didn't even think anything was wrong."

She subsequently applied to Sister Fang for five thousand yuan as the young girl's "mental distress fee."

If she really wanted to ruin someone, this amount was already enough to sue for fraud.

The operation in the middle was difficult, but she could completely let the young girl spit the money back out after spreading the word.

However, in the entertainment industry, everyone values harmony to make money, and things are often not done so ruthlessly.

After all, if you want people not to know, you must not do it yourself.

Chen Qin suggested to Driver Xiao Cheng, "Next time Sister Fang pulls us into a meeting, we can suggest she recruit more fresh college graduates as interns."

Driver Xiao Cheng had originally been listening to it as a story, but hearing Chen Qin wanting to recruit college students, she asked curiously, "Why? Don't you think college students are stupid and easy to fool?"

Chen Qin said with a grin, "But they are also very useful. Some things that offend people can be done by them, so we don't have to face the brunt of it."

Driver Xiao Cheng couldn't help but click her tongue and say, "You are becoming more and more like a veteran of the workplace!"

Chen Qin didn't tell Jin Li about this immediately; Jin Li's schedule was very busy throughout the day, and she still had to review.

She was worried Jin Li would be distracted after knowing.

So, after Jin Li finished her homework for the day and was about to sleep, Chen Qin finally told her about it.

Jin Li raised her eyebrows. "Xu Ting's assistant said we were bad-mouthing them, and you caught her in the act?"

Chen Qin nodded hurriedly. "Exactly. At the time, I saw her standing in the corner with a shifty look, and I felt she had bad intentions, so I specifically walked over to ask. I didn't expect to have such a harvest."

Jin Li was amused. "Your luck is quite good, actually catching a rumor in the act."

She pondered for a while and said, "Your handling is fine, but if it were me, I would probably go directly to Xu Ting and ask what opinions she has about me. She can say it directly; there's no need for these underhanded methods."

She was too busy and didn't have that much time to play mind games with people.

She would go to them openly and lay everything out to resolve the thorn in both sides' hearts. Otherwise, there were still two good months of filming left; it was impossible to worry about being rumored about every day.

But Chen Qin's handling was also fine; an eye for an eye was more refreshing.

Jin Li said immediately, "Since you have already communicated these things with Sister Fang, her thoughts can represent mine. If she thinks there is no problem, then it's fine."

"In the future, help me keep an eye on the rumors about me on set, so others don't continue to trip me up behind my back."

Chen Qin frowned slightly, feeling that Jin Li was speaking with hidden meaning.

She asked suspiciously, "Sister Jin Li, isn't it only Xu Ting who doesn't like you? Who else would trip you up?"

Jin Li said faintly, "Bai Jiang."

"Although he doesn't seem hostile to me, Bai Jiang has collaborated with Xu Ting on several dramas, and their relationship is relatively good. It's hard to guarantee Bai Jiang won't vent for her and do something on set."

Chen Qin was ultimately just an assistant and didn't understand the undercurrents on set.

Jin Li had worshipped the Water Official not long ago and was full of divine power; while filming, she could somewhat perceive others' malice and kindness toward her.

The personnel turnover on set was high and their identities complex; many who looked enthusiastic on the surface were actually approaching her with malice.

She spent every day holding a copy of 'Five-Three' to brush up on problems, also wanting to avoid these overt and covert malices.

She had filmed with Bai Jiang these past two days; although she didn't feel malice from him, she couldn't feel kindness either.

He seemed neutral, but in reality, he could change his stance in the blink of an eye.

Conversely, she saw that Bai Jiang and Xu Ting both clearly held kindness toward each other.

When Jin Li first entered the crew, she only wanted to film well and not participate in forming cliques, so she wouldn't deliberately join Bai Jiang and Xu Ting's circle.

Now that she knew their relationship, she would be even less likely to approach them.

Xu Ting had great malice toward her, so she believed the assistant doing this was under Xu Ting's instigation.

Xu Ting's assistant waited in fear for a day and didn't wait for Jin Li to find fault, so she couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

After escaping a disaster, she felt smug again: "Looks like she's a soft bun; I can be even more arrogant toward her in the future. Anyway, she doesn't dare to say anything."

Having been caught once without receiving any punishment, the assistant thought about finding a time to spread the news that "Jin Li said Xu Ting's acting is trash."

Xu Ting told her to investigate what Jin Li was doing; she wasn't a detective, how could she investigate it?

Anyway, Xu Ting didn't like Jin Li and always thought Jin Li was bad-mouthing her, so she would just go with the flow and make Xu Ting's thoughts a reality.

The flow of people on set was so large; once the news spread, no one could trace the source.

Relying on this trick, she had oppressed many second- and third-tier stars. This was her first time using it on a first-tier star, and she didn't expect it to still be useful.

The assistant's courage became completely fat; she felt she had been too cautious before.

If she had known Jin Li's personality was so soft, she should have spread the rumors earlier.

By then, she wouldn't need Xu Ting to ask; she could take the initiative to bring it up, making Xu Ting value her more.

Compared to the assistant's arrogance, Xu Ting clearly felt that the way others on set looked at her was a bit different.

She was an actress and was still very sensitive to the gazes of those around her.

Xu Ting couldn't help but ask the assistant again: "What did you investigate? What moves did Jin Li make?"

The assistant hadn't spread the rumors yet and hadn't recorded any audio, so she could only say, "Haven't investigated anything yet."

Xu Ting frowned: "Why are your movements so slow?"

The assistant stammered and couldn't say anything.

Xu Ting: "You keep a closer eye on Jin Li; she must have done something."

The assistant thought to herself, she wouldn't go find Jin Li; what if she was stopped by that bitch Chen Qin again?

She would run to another place in a while and quietly spread the rumors.

After the rumors spread for a while, she would pretend to gossip and trick others' words out, record some audio, and this rumor would be confirmed in front of Xu Ting.

The assistant's abacus was calculated very well, but reality didn't follow the scene she envisioned.

The assistant arrived in the restroom and stood in front of the mirror to touch up her makeup. Pretending her phone received a message, she opened it and said with great surprise: "Jin Li is actually bad-mouthing Xu Ting, and she was even photographed!"

There were other crew members in the restroom; hearing the two words "Jin Li," they couldn't help but be dazed.

It was actually news related to Jin Li?

Those people turned their heads and saw the assistant's face; their expressions couldn't help but be a bit strange.

They had just learned that news yesterday; they didn't expect to run into the main subject today.

And this main subject was still smugly treating others like monkeys.

Those people glanced at the assistant and immediately washed their hands and left, as if they were avoiding a plague god, not willing to stay for even a second longer.

The assistant was immersed in her own performance and said with an exaggerated expression: "Why does Jin Li look down on Xu Ting? Clearly, she's only a female lead number two!"

She didn't dare say these things in front of stars; she only dared to say them among crew personnel.

People on set would also gossip about stars because their work was very close to the stars, so the content of their gossip would be more explosive. Some people would specifically discuss whether a certain star really had foot odor, body odor, bad breath, trash acting, chaotic private life, and so on.

Every time she pretended to leak news, it would attract a group of people's curiosity.

But this time, the assistant had finished saying everything, only to find that those people had long since left.

The assistant was puzzled: "Could it be that I picked the wrong location?"

She thought for a while and found the floor manager, asking the floor manager to pull her into the crew's temporary actor group and odd-job group.

The floor manager was a bit puzzled by the assistant's request, but she was Xu Ting's assistant after all, so she pushed several large groups of three or four hundred people over, one of which was a group of a thousand people, which was a group specifically for recruiting temporary workers.

Jin Li wouldn't see Xu Ting's assistant's flashy operations.

Because her filming progress was too fast, and the other leads' scenes couldn't keep up, resulting in her having no scenes to film on Thursday.

The scenes originally scheduled for Thursday needed to be filmed with the male and female leads.

And at this time, the male and female leads were still frantically rushing to film Tuesday's scenes!

She couldn't film three people's scenes by herself, so this day became empty.

Seeing this, Jin Li told Director Chu that she wanted to leave the crew a day early.

Director Chu waved his hand without thinking: "You have no scenes to film this week; go wherever you want, no need to tell me."

He suddenly thought of something and called Jin Li back, saying: "You are going to participate in the March Sky concert this weekend as a guest, right?"

Jin Li nodded: "Yes."

Director Chu urged repeatedly: "Don't forget to advertise for 'Dawn'."

Jin Li said with a smile: "Don't you worry, I have specifically prepared lines for 'Dawn', guaranteeing that the audience will remember it."

Seeing her take it to heart, Director Chu was satisfied and also said with a smile: "No need to implant it too obviously, lest March Sky gets angry."

"Don't worry, it was already negotiated; they have no problem."

Director Chu reminded her: "Come back to the crew early after participating in the concert; you need to adapt to the special effects device half a day in advance. I will specifically arrange for a special effects artist to explain how to use the equipment to you."

Jin Li hesitated for a moment and asked: "Didn't they say my special effects are to be filmed with Bai Jiang and the others? Are they going to start special effects next week?"

According to Director Chu's current filming progress, I'm afraid they won't be able to enter special effects next week either.

Director Chu said faintly: "I had the screenwriter draw out the storyboards belonging to your part; you film first. If you have to wait for them to film together, who knows what year or month it will be."

Jin Li observed Director Chu's expression; hmm, no expression.

Director Chu was not angry at all now; this was actually a very bad situation. Only when one cares will one be angry.

Not being angry meant not caring.

Director Chu would have no special treatment for Bai Jiang and Xu Ting; it would be done as it should be, treating everyone equally.

Such a Director Chu would be more rational, and his requirements for Bai Jiang and Xu Ting would also be higher.

Without the advantage of "friendship with Director Chu," Jin Li was on the same starting line as the two of them.

Whether the three people's acting skills were a mule or a horse, one would know at a glance.

Anyway, Jin Li wasn't afraid of comparison.

After returning to the hotel, Jin Li packed two sets of clothes. She didn't take a suitcase, just carried a sturdy and durable denim backpack, and set off for the airport with her assistant.

The flight tickets were booked a month in advance. After March Sky announced the concert location, both flight tickets and high-speed rail tickets were a bit hard to buy and needed to be snatched in advance.

Sister Fang was afraid that if Jin Li waited until she was sure she was going before snatching, she wouldn't be able to snatch them, so she called Chen Qin to book the tickets in advance.

If there was no way to go by then, it wouldn't be too late to return the tickets.

The flight tickets were bought for Friday, and Jin Li and the others needed to change them.

But as the concert date approached, every flight was full, so they could only settle for the next best thing and change to a nearby city, then take a car directly there.

Even if flying to a nearby city, the flight was full. Some people were still asking at the counter if there were any returned tickets, so they could buy them directly.

Only then did Jin Li understand that she could successfully change the flight with her assistant, I'm afraid it was not only because of the luxury user level, but also because of some luck factors. ===== CHAPTER 422 =====