Title: The Villain's Contract Lover
Translator: Fringe Capybara
Chapter 24 - Dirt (Your Little Bit of Information Hardly Made You The Know-It-All of the Entertainment Circle) (2)
Right then, Chang XiaoYa had finished her lunch and walked over with her juice in her hand. She glanced over at Xiao Yuan’s cellphone screen and said in an odd manner, “Hey, WanZhi was following Jiang YueXian’s activities as well? I saw that he posted pictures of a little fox today. I’ve heard that you have an unusual relationship with him. Do you know who that fox belongs to?”
Currently, let it be within or outside of the entertainment circle, actors or fans, everyone knew that Xu WanZhi had been leeching off Jiang YueXian’s popularity. In reality, the two of them hardly even talked with each other. Chang XiaoYa was obviously mocking her with the word “unusual”.
Coincidentally, how could Xu WanZhi not know who the fox belonged to?
In the original novel, Chang XiaoYa has the setting of a bad temper girl. She was blunt and Liang ZhiQuan was sweet, soft, and silly. Many times, when Liang ZhiQuan was bullied, it was Chang XiaoYa who’d stand up for her, including right now.
Xu WanZhi was left speechless: This little dynamite. She didn’t even know that she was being used like ammunition by Liang ZhiQuan. She smiled and kicked the bomb right back at her, “Of course I do, but Jiang YueXian wouldn’t let me share that information. Sorry, XiaoYa.”
Chang XiaoYa shook her head with contempt and hrumphed. Her eyes seemed to be saying that, I knew you didn’t know. Stop pretending.
Unfortunately, Xu WanZhi couldn’t be bothered with so much as to look at her. She kept her head down and kept on eating slowly.
Chang XiaoYa, feeling unsatisfied, asked again, “That little fox is so cute. Are you itching to get one for Jiang YueXian too? It looks to me that he is really into foxes. He was never like that with his cats and dogs in the past.”
Xu WanZhi pushed her food around with her chopsticks as she shook her head nonchalantly and said, “I have been pooling all my time on focusing on the filming and studying the script so that I don’t let the female support character outshine me. Which is to say that I don’t have time to do what everybody else is doing right now. Since you care so much about Jiang YueXian, why don’t you get one for him? That way you will have more excuses to get close to him. Maybe you will be able to get more female lead roles then. You can’t always just play female supporting characters.”
During their first rehearsal after their filming has started, Chang XiaoYa implied that Xu WanZhi’s acting was so bad that she will be outshined by her. At the end of the day, three of the nine pictures in the promotional collage was Xu WanZhi in the center with Chang XiaoYa squeezed in the corner of one of them. Xu WanZhi brought that up intentionally right now to take her down a notch.
That taking down struck Chang XiaoYa where it hurt most.
Everybody knew that Xu WanZhi was the queen of negative publicity with zero acting skills or family background to speak of. She never would have measured up to someone like Chang XiaoYa, who possessed formal acting training.
Somehow, everything had flipped after the start of this filming.
Chang XiaoYa flustered. She stuck her head in front of Xu WanZhi and whispered, “Xu WanZhi, my advice for you is not to be too showy. Humans do; heaven watches. I have dirt on you too.”
“Dirt?” Xu WanZhi snickered. “Are you talking about what’s between me and Mu ZhenYu? You call that dirt?”
She was so straightforward when she mentioned Mu ZhenYu that Chang XiaoYa was completely thrown off. Chang XiaoYa’s eyes widened. Her lips moved, but she wasn’t able to force a word out after a long while.
What Xu WanZhi thought had been confirmed; she was right that Chang XiaoYa. Chang XiaoYa knew all about the matters between her and Mu ZhenYu, Qin Sheng, and Liang ZhiQuan. But she didn’t know that her identity as a close friend of Liang ZhiQuan had also been exposed.