[{"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-554":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},1734315,2218,"Chapter 554 - 554 554 Your Chocolate is Expired It Tastes","plagued-by-bad-reviews-but-the-top-actress-chapter-554",554,"\u003Cp>Chapter 554: Chapter 554: Your Chocolate is Expired, It Tastes Like Traditional Chinese Medicine Chapter 554: Chapter 554: Your Chocolate is Expired, It Tastes Like Traditional Chinese Medicine Xu Jiayang seemed to be really heartbroken, so she didn’t disturb him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Jiayang continued, “The first time I met her was in my senior year, and she was a freshman.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We were in the same college, but I was in the director program, and she was in acting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One night I was late coming back from a classmates’ gathering, and on the way, I saw her surrounded by several thugs, so I stepped forward and saved her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the way back to her dorm, she was very scared and kept close to me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I just felt that she was too vulnerable and needed protection, and naturally, we came together.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Our relationship developed smoothly; she was really the kind of girl who depended on others, very reliant on me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By my senior year, I had already started interning outside and was a director with a bit of fame in the industry, seldom returning to campus.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every time I came back, she would happily come to find me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Back then, our relationship was really good, but gradually, I started hearing rumors that she had a loose lifestyle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leng Yan, especially, couldn’t stand the sight of her and kept telling me to break up with her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I asked her about it, and she said her classmates were jealous, so they made up stories.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Maybe love really blinded me, I fucking believed it all!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I even argued with Leng Yan a few times over her!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Xu Jiayang spoke, he guzzled down a few more gulps of beer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Later, I graduated, and my works got better and more famous, and we saw each other even less, but we were always in contact by phone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every time I called her, she’d say she missed me and asked me to film a movie for her, so we could see each other every day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How stupid I was back then, I couldn’t hear that she was with me to get famous; I still fucking thought it was true love and felt that she really missed me.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After downing another bottle of booze, Xia Weibao saw that his face was all flushed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But seeing him so heartbroken, she did not stop him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She just gave him a pill, “Director Xu, take this first.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Oh, thanks.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without thinking, Xu Jiayang took the pill and threw it into his mouth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he gulped down a few more mouthfuls of beer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After finishing, he burped and then looked to Xia Weibao.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What did you just give me to eat?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xia Weibao, “…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You don’t know what I gave you and you just ate it?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If I had drugged you, would you be a little more cautious, Director Xu? In a palace drama, you would survive only half an episode, you know.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Nothing much, chocolate beans, for you to chase the liquor.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Oh, got more? Give me some more.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xia Weibao thought for a moment, then brought out a bottle, “This is all I have on me.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Jiayang didn’t stand on ceremony and chewed them all up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Your chocolate tastes a bit strange, has a herbal medicine flavor, might be expired.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After saying that, he guzzled a few more mouthfuls and burped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Where was I?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You were saying that you became famous for making movies, and then Chu Ying wanted to be in your film.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Oh, right. She wanted to be in my film, but at that time she hadn’t graduated yet, with no experience at all. I couldn’t destroy my own movie for her, right?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But listening to her everyday saying she missed me, wanted to film with me, I even abandoned my principles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was thinking of writing her a movie once she officially debuted, would even take the rumors of under-the-table deals as truth!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But she fucking did this to me!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He said as he drank a few more mouthfuls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That time my movie won an award, the Hollywood’s best director award!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is my greatest achievement, and that night I was so happy, celebrating with her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then I got drunk, and the next day when I woke up, I was in bed with her.”\u003C\u002Fp>",716,"2026-06-06T16:22:08.708Z",1,"novelbin.me","5530fd1016c68b711a4be61eb463aa61d3cf718fff27a36c0c3e3b7577737af1","plagued-by-bad-reviews-but-the-top-actress-chapter-555","plagued-by-bad-reviews-but-the-top-actress-chapter-553",1766,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fplagued-by-bad-reviews-but-the-top-actress-cover.jpg"]