[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-plagued-by-bad-reviews-but-the-top-actress":3,"chapter-plagued-by-bad-reviews-but-the-top-actress-plagued-by-bad-reviews-but-the-top-actress-chapter-204":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Plagued by bad reviews, but the top actress!",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1734015,2218,"Chapter 204 - 204 204 Stealing a Kiss","plagued-by-bad-reviews-but-the-top-actress-chapter-204",204,"\u003Cp>Chapter 204: Chapter 204: Stealing a Kiss Chapter 204: Chapter 204: Stealing a Kiss Xia Weibao, while asleep, was very peaceful, her head slightly tilted, with a few strands of soft hair hanging down, covering half of her face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Hualiang reached out and gently pushed her hair back behind her ear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Revealing her delicate, fair little face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had just eaten a cake, and there were still crumbs at the corner of her mouth, which Lu Hualiang reached out to brush away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The scent of orchids wafted over his fingers, causing his body to stiffen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He found it hard to pull his hand away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at her rosy lips, shining like crystal, his throat felt tight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His heartbeat quickened at that moment as his gaze locked onto her lips.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He slowly leaned down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xia Weibao was resting against his arm, so this movement inevitably pulled at his shoulder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xia Weibao’s long eyelashes trembled lightly, as if she was about to wake up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Hualiang was startled and sat up straight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As if the scene of him about to do something bad was just an illusion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xia Weibao woke up drowsily, looked around in confusion—it wasn’t her room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She yawned and looked somewhat sluggishly at the man next to her with a stern face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blinking, then blinking again, she then remembered that she had come to watch him play video games and had fallen asleep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Director Lu, have you finished playing your game?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes,” Lu Hualiang nodded gravely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But inside, he was lamenting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was so close to kissing her…Xia Weibao stood up, “Then I’m going to go back to my room to sleep.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before leaving, she casually took the two large bags of snacks with her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Hualiang, “…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That must have been her real purpose for coming tonight, right?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next day, when they went to shoot the film, everyone in the crew noticed that their leading lady’s spirits were high again!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She breeze through her scenes in one take; she was not only skilled in acting but also good at mentoring newcomers, able to immerse them, and herself, in the emotions of the scene.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a result, the others also completed their parts almost in one take.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The whole day’s shooting was done by four in the afternoon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Jiayang’s whole face beamed like a chrysanthemum, patting Xia Weibao’s shoulder in consolation, “Well done, keep it up.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xia Weibao chuckled in response, then quickly changed out of her costume and left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching her hasty departure, Xu Jiayang once again suspected that she must be going on a date.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And who exactly is the man behind Xia Weibao?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After leaving the set, Xia Weibao didn’t head straight home but went to see Yin Mulan instead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To treat her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After giving Yin Mulan a thorough check-up, she came up with a treatment plan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xia Weibao took out the medicine she had picked in the primeval forest and began to grind it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Teacher Yin, I’ll leave these herbs here. Grind them like I did and apply them on your foot with a bandage, change it every three days, and I’ll come back in a month to treat you,” she said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yin Mulan looked at her, not understanding at all what kind of medicine it was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But she trusted Xia Weibao.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So she nodded, “I’ll apply it on time, thank you for your trouble.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xia Weibao looked up and smiled, “No trouble at all, it’s the least I can do.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her radiant smile bloomed like a hundred flowers in spring, especially her eyes, bright and sparkling, holding a sky full of stars.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yin Mulan was somewhat dazed by the sight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She really was beautiful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even she, a woman, felt a little enchanted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Awkwardly turning her head away, Yin Mulan’s face flushed slightly with embarrassment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And Xia Weibao, focused on applying the medicine, didn’t notice her discomfort at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After applying the medicine, Yin Mulan offered to have Xia Weibao stay for dinner, but she declined.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xia Weibao glanced at the time, it was five-thirty, Lu Hualiang would be getting home soon, and she had to get back quickly too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She couldn’t let him go to bed early tonight!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing her eagerness to leave, Yin Mulan teased, “So anxious, are you going on a date with your boyfriend?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xia Weibao was startled for a moment, her face suddenly turning red.\u003C\u002Fp>",728,"2026-06-06T16:21:59.440Z",1,"novelbin.me","daaa5a28555840074acf4c3aabb2b181bf8815119c7b1da3d4e5bd6b36984f56","plagued-by-bad-reviews-but-the-top-actress-chapter-205","plagued-by-bad-reviews-but-the-top-actress-chapter-203",1766,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fplagued-by-bad-reviews-but-the-top-actress-cover.jpg"]