[{"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-810":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},1734571,2218,"Chapter 810: 810: Director Lu Enters the Cold Palace","plagued-by-bad-reviews-but-the-top-actress-chapter-810",810,"\u003Cp>Chapter 810: Chapter 810: Director Lu Enters the Cold Palace\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Lu Hualiang got off work and came back, he saw Xiang Chu and Hepburn each holding a bucket of artificial fertilizer, standing in the center of the Medicine Garden, drooling over Xia Weibao’s medicinal herbs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even Director Lu, cold and stoic as he was, couldn’t help but twitch the corner of his eye.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Holding artificial fertilizer, with such a strong smell, and actually drooling…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just how heavy could their tastes be?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That drooling expression, they wouldn’t be thinking of having a taste, would they?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Director Lu felt that he needed to keep his wife and these two with unconventional tastes apart, lest she get influenced into becoming a lunatic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he got home, he saw Xia Weibao, Zhong Wanshu, and Lu Huashan sitting side by side on the sofa, watching TV and chatting, all harmonious and happy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing this scene warmed Hualiang’s heart a bit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Who wouldn’t want his wife to get along well with his mother and sister?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, he soon found it hard to feel warmhearted anymore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why? Because at dinner, Xia Weibao was pulled together by Zhong Wanshu and Lu Huashan, laughing and chatting in a group.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While he sat all alone opposite them, eating by himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Hualiang was full of grievances. Before, his wife always sat next to him during meals and he even helped her dish out the food!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now that privilege had been snatched away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After dinner, Lu Huashan pulled Xia Weibao and Zhong Wanshu back to the sofa in the living room to watch TV and chat about everything under the sun.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What they were watching was a melodramatic soap opera from the golden 8 o’clock time slot. After the soap opera, Lu Huashan brought out a BL drama to watch, and they huddled together discussing the tops and bottoms of two male characters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entirely neglected Lu Hualiang, “…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What has the world come to?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Has it been taken over by fujoshi? They actually make such TV shows!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not only are they made, but they’re being watched as well!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He glanced silently at the snack bags strewn on the coffee table, then at the three women engrossed in the TV show.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Hualiang deeply felt that he was housing three unemployed bums—life couldn’t go on like this!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Bro, you must be feeling bored, right? If you’re bored, go to sleep. Don’t mind us,” Lu Huashan said, waving her hand as if shooing a fly, looking somewhat disgusted that her brother was in the way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hmph!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After being bullied for so long, it was finally mom’s turn to gloat!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Hualiang’s face turned cold. He, too, wanted to go back to his room to sleep, but how could he when his wife was taken? Sleeping alone?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wasn’t a bachelor, so why should he suffer through a lonely night!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unable to bear those soap operas anymore, Director Lu still went upstairs in silence to deal with some paperwork in his study.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Huashan once again raised her middle finger at the retreating figure of her brother.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then she felt something was off and turned her head to find Xia Weibao looking at her with a bewildered expression.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Huashan, “…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Well, Baby, you didn’t see anything just now.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Oh, I didn’t see anything. Watching TV,” Xia Weibao complied amiably.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After looking through the files for an hour, Lu Hualiang came out of the study to find Xia Weibao still downstairs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And every so often, bursts of laughter could be heard from below.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Director Lu was speechless instantly—they say three women make a crowd, and it seems there’s truth to that saying!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He couldn’t understand how they could have chatted all evening and still have endless topics to discuss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not long after he went back to his room, Xia Weibao finally came back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Director Lu felt relieved. Wife, you finally remembered you have a husband.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xia Weibao flashed him a grin and then took some clothes to go take a shower.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The neglected Director Lu, who was just about to reach out and embrace his fragrant soft wife, was pushed away by Xia Weibao.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Husband, I’m going to sleep with mom and Shanshan tonight. You sleep by yourself, bye.”\u003C\u002Fp>",707,"2026-06-06T16:22:11.764Z",1,"novelbin.me","3dd3ca76f2abe92a16d1679212111713d8e54fbde7095f04fc73d642b21d5343","plagued-by-bad-reviews-but-the-top-actress-chapter-811","plagued-by-bad-reviews-but-the-top-actress-chapter-809",1766,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fplagued-by-bad-reviews-but-the-top-actress-cover.jpg"]