Chapter 430: Paper cannot wrap up fire; the exposé is finally out!

This weekend, Seeing Jin Li did not go out for activities, but stayed in the hotel to study.

But because physical training is a long-term process, even though the 5 days of training had already ended, Seeing Jin Li did not dare to slack off in the slightest during these two days of the weekend.

She knew her own body well.

Other people might not suffer a severe drop in physical fitness just because they didn't exercise for two days, but she was different.

She knew that the reason she could persist was not because her body was gradually becoming better, but entirely due to the support of divine power.

To maintain this state, she not only prayed every day, but also kept in mind the daily training ordered by the trainer, carving out three hours every day to exercise during these two days of the weekend.

She not only exercised herself, but also posted her exercise progress in the Pink Girls group chat.

Seeing Jin Li just wanted to let her sisters see that for the sake of acting, she could also be very driven!

Challenge the limits, challenge the impossible!

However—

NANA: 【@Carp, your stamina looks pretty good, you could hold a concert. When are you holding a concert? I'll definitely go as a guest!】

Tongtong: 【(Shocked) Your stamina can actually hold up for so long? So you were the Superwoman I was looking for! Hurry up and join my wilderness survival show, I'm just missing you!】

Lotus: 【? You didn't collapse even after pushing yourself that hard? When are you going to collaborate on a project with me?】

Pearl: 【Rare sight, I actually lived to see the day Carp's stamina surpassed mine. Hearing what the captain said, if we're sisters, hurry up and save me, take my place!】

Sister Meng Meng: 【(Rubbing chin) Your stamina is really quite good. It seems I was too lenient with you last time. Your voice can be developed further; when are you going to sing a duet with me?】

Seeing Jin Li:...

Spare me, a bunch of debt-collecting teammates.

As they chatted in the group, the conversation turned to the co-branded products of Lotus and Pearl.

No one expected that the first co-branded product they launched would actually be a milk tea collaboration!

One can only say that the speed of new tea drink collaborations is fast enough.

Someone posted a photo of the milk tea they bought, with photos of Ji Qinglian and Qi Guanmingzhu printed on the paper cup holder, the two of them making heart shapes at each other, interacting in a friendly way.

Their friendship struck a chord with female fans, and the two of them making heart shapes at each other struck a chord with male fans, so as soon as this milk tea was launched, it sold out instantly.

On the first day, one million orders were sold nationwide, and as time passed, the order volume would continue to rise rapidly.

Some regions were already unable to grab the custom paper cup holders exclusive to the two, leaving only some real-life stickers and posters.

Ji Qinglian said: 【According to feedback from the milk tea brand, based on the current sales momentum, I'm afraid all co-branded products will be sold out within five days.】

Seeing Jin Li asked curiously: 【Is the brand not restocking?】

Qi Guanmingzhu: 【I don't know the brand's requirements; maybe they want to engage in hunger marketing.】

Seeing Jin Li looked at the co-branded products they posted; whether it was the stickers, posters, or the specialized notebooks, they were all very beautiful.

Milk tea brands are also very competitive these days!

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She thought for a moment, turned her head to look at Chen Qin, and gave her a task.

After listening, Chen Qin nodded excitedly: "Okay, I'll call the merchant to negotiate right now. I just don't know if their co-branded products can last until Monday."

Seeing Jin Li specifically instructed: "If the posters and those co-branded products are gone, then they're gone, but the paper cup holders of the two of them must be kept, otherwise it loses its meaning."

Chen Qin: "Got it. This is a big order for the shop, it shouldn't be a problem."

Chen Qin felt that phone communication wasn't enough, so she decided to visit in person and communicate with the shop manager directly; not only would it be more efficient, but it would also show more sincerity.

When she was leaving the hotel, she ran into Bai Jiang's assistant in the elevator.

Bai Jiang's assistant took after Bai Jiang; he was a tall, thin young man with regular features, considered a handsome guy in a crowd, but not enough to be a star.

When Chen Qin saw Bai Jiang's assistant, she even thought Bai Jiang chose his assistant based on looks.

Later, after getting familiar with this assistant, she discovered that his ability to handle things was very strong, his mouth was very tight, and he didn't gossip about stars in his spare time, which made other female assistants very eager to share things with him.

Chen Qin greeted him and said: "You're going out too!"

Bai Jiang's assistant nodded: "Yeah, you're going out too?"

Chen Qin said without changing her expression: "I'm going out to get food for Seeing Jin Li."

The male assistant also said: "I'm going out to eat with Brother Jiang."

The two walked out of the hotel together and separated left and right.

Chen Qin walked for a few minutes, realized she forgot her umbrella, and turned back to the hotel.

Looking up, she discovered that the male assistant who had left had somehow returned to the main entrance, Bai Jiang was standing next to him, and standing next to Bai Jiang was Xu Ting's assistant.

Chen Qin raised an eyebrow; so Bai Jiang was having lunch with Xu Ting today.

She took out her phone, took a photo, and sent it not only to Seeing Jin Li but also to Sister Fang.

Seeing Jin Li replied quickly: 【Got it.】

The relationship between Bai Jiang and Xu Ting was not a secret in the crew; anyone could see it.

Seeing Jin Li also knew that Bai Jiang and Xu Ting had met for meals in private more than once.

They had never called her, and she didn't want to mix into their circle; it was quite good as it was now.

She lowered her head and opened her "Five-Three" workbook to continue doing problems.

On the other side.

Bai Jiang and Xu Ting arrived at the restaurant and entered a relatively private booth.

The two of them were discussing business, and the assistants also went to another booth to eat separately.

The atmosphere in the assistants' booth was not as serious; Xu Ting's assistant pulled Bai Jiang's assistant to ask questions, very eager to express herself.

The male assistant just listened silently, not joining the conversation, acting as the most loyal listener.

Suddenly, the female assistant thought of something, her eyes darted, and she said quietly: "Have you heard the rumors in the crew recently?"

The male assistant frowned, "What rumors?"

"Eh, it's the rumors related to Seeing Jin Li. This matter also involves Sister Xu Ting, otherwise I wouldn't pay attention."

"Seeing Jin Li? Sister Xu Ting?" the male assistant asked curiously.

With someone catering to her, the female assistant opened the floodgates and said excitedly: "Yeah, haven't you heard?

Seeing Jin Li and her assistant were secretly bad-mouthing Sister Xu Ting, scolding Sister Xu Ting for having poor acting skills, and it was heard by others in the crew, so the news spread; it's been circulating for at least a week."

After the female assistant finished speaking, she didn't forget to step on Seeing Jin Li: "How could Sister Seeing Jin Li say that about Sister Xu Ting? Sister Ting is a senior in the industry after all, and debuted earlier than Sister Seeing Jin Li."

A flash of confusion crossed the male assistant's eyes: "It spread out? I haven't heard anything. Did someone see it with their own eyes, and take photos or record audio?"

The female assistant said vaguely: "I don't know, there should be, otherwise why would the news spread so widely? Flies don't bite seamless eggs; Seeing Jin Li and the others must have a problem!"

Male assistant:...

He always felt that this matter was strange.

Seeing Jin Li was the second female lead in the crew, and her training these days had been praised by others.

As a first-tier star, it was impossible not to know that the more it was like this, the more one had to keep a low profile.

The assistant originally wanted to send this news to Bai Jiang, but his hand stopped while typing, suddenly thinking of something, he switched out of the chat interface and instead privately messaged a member of a large group, asking him about any recent rumors in the crew.

This WeChat account was his private account, not his work account.

His private account never sent news related to work, and others didn't know he was Bai Jiang's assistant.

When he first joined the large actor group for "Dawn," he joined as a background actor.

This large group chatted about everything, and every day there were over a dozen background actors self-recommending.

Under his management, he had a pretty good friendship with a fixed background actor (playing a zombie) in the "Dawn" crew; the two hadn't met on set, but had gone out to gather two or three times in private.

So he learned a lot of the crew's hidden rules from the background actor.

【Rumors? Haven't heard any rumors. Recently, many people have been praising Seeing Jin Li for having perseverance; does that count as a rumor?】

The male assistant replied quickly: 【I just heard from someone else that Seeing Jin Li and her assistant were bad-mouthing Sister Xu Ting. Is this true or false?】

【So it's about this... Sigh, brother, are you thinking of leaking this to the media? I advise you not to do that. If you really leak it, you'll be beaten up by the paparazzi who have investigated you thoroughly.】

【I guess you must have heard it from Xu Ting's assistant. I didn't expect that after a week, she's still spreading these rumors!

At first, she was caught red-handed by Seeing Jin Li's assistant, and that staff member she almost used even posted the manager in the large group, specifically reminding others not to be fooled, lest they be used as a gun.

We heard this female assistant's words in the restroom and work area, and none of us paid any attention to her. I really don't know if the female assistant has persecution mania, or if Xu Ting's side wants to make the rumors real. Even if you want to splash dirty water on someone, you can't use such low-class methods...】

After the male assistant finished reading, his brows were tightly furrowed. He looked up at the female assistant who was still talking eloquently opposite him, and couldn't help but fall into silence.

He silently sent the conversation with the background actor to Bai Jiang.

In the booth next door, Bai Jiang and Xu Ting were also discussing Seeing Jin Li.

The pressure Seeing Jin Li put on the two was getting greater and greater, and Director Chu's attitude toward them was very poor, and Bai Jiang's state these past few days wasn't good, so he wanted to discuss countermeasures with Xu Ting.

They were the male and female leads of this drama, and many scenes in the drama relied on them to support it. Bai Jiang wanted to join forces with Xu Ting to discuss the script and practice more.

If they put in some hard work beforehand, presumably Director Chu's attitude toward them would be a bit better.

Bai Jiang expressed his thoughts. Xu Ting was silent for a while and said: "But our characters aren't complex. Even if we discuss them in advance, what can we discuss? We can only depict the details more deeply.

But haven't you seen it from the communication with the director these past few days? The character image the director has in mind is completely different from what we understand.

If we continue to depict it deeply, I'm worried that when the time comes, the director will want us to change it, and we will find it difficult to get out."

Bai Jiang thought for a moment and felt that this was indeed a problem.

He asked: "Then what are your thoughts?"

Xu Ting: "We should re-read the script, write out the character biographies for the two roles, compare them with the ideas the director has communicated with us these past few days, and see where the characters we think of differ from what the director thinks.

If we still can't find the differences, then go ask the director. Don't be afraid of grinding. The more effort we spend in private, the more time we will save on set."

Bai Jiang sighed in his heart.

He just didn't want to communicate with Director Chu frequently, which was why he thought about whether he could solve it himself.

If he was always asking Director Chu for extra help in private, wouldn't that be a disguised way of saying his ability wasn't up to par?

He was an old actor who had filmed many movies after all; who would be willing to admit that their ability was insufficient?

But these words from Xu Ting meant that she couldn't figure it out by herself either.

He played the male lead, and many scenes were with Xu Ting. Since the two of them were pondering the script together, it made no sense to only let the female lead go find the director.

Bai Jiang said: "Okay, tonight we'll take the script to Director Chu's room."

He thought for a moment and said: "But we still have to read the script once first and properly sort out the characters."

Xu Ting smiled: "Of course, we'll read the script when we go back later."

After finishing the serious business, Xu Ting naturally talked about Seeing Jin Li and said admiringly: "I didn't expect her to be able to persist through this week of devilish physical training."

Bai Jiang glanced at her and said lightly: "I thought you wouldn't believe it."

Xu Ting: "I indeed didn't believe it, because Seeing Jin Li's public persona is that of a physically weak person, and she even rejected many projects for this reason, and even my manager has heard of it.

Everyone could see that her stamina wasn't very good during this week's special physical training, but her perseverance and endurance were very strong.

Every time people thought she couldn't persist, she climbed back up. I really admire this spirit of hers."

She suddenly changed the subject, "Looking at how she is also very attentive to her acting career, why doesn't she walk the straight path, but insists on taking the crooked path?"

Bai Jiang: "Crooked path? What do you mean?"

Just then, a message from his assistant came through.

His eyes were looking at the assistant's investigation, but his ears were listening to Xu Ting's somewhat indignant words.

Xu Ting: "She has the ability and the perseverance, but instead of acting well in the crew, she bad-mouthed me to her assistant. Bad-mouthing me is one thing, but she was caught by others, and it spread like wildfire in the crew..."

"My state isn't good, and I've been affected by these rumors to some extent. What status does Seeing Jin Li have to spread rumors about me in the crew..."

Bai Jiang suddenly said: "Xu Ting, have you investigated this matter?"

Xu Ting raised her eyebrows: "Of course I have, my assistant heard it with her own ears!"

Bai Jiang looked at her somewhat seriously: "Have you ever thought that perhaps your assistant has a problem?"

Xu Ting was stunned, "What?"

Bai Jiang sighed: "Sister Ting, not just you, including me, we cannot rely too much on our assistants for the source of information."

He directly forwarded the information his assistant sent him to Xu Ting.

Xu Ting checked it, and the more she read, the gloomier and uglier her face became.

She suddenly remembered that her assistant had been able to record audio for her before, catching other stars saying bad things about her, and she had used this as an excuse to suppress several second- and third-tier stars.

Now, Xu Ting wasn't sure if she had raised a dragon that would bite people. ===== CHAPTER 431 =====