Starlight Has No Past - Chapter 38 Part 2

Translated by Team DHH at http://dhh-workshop.blogspot.com.



Starlight Has No Past
Chapter 38 Part 2

Ye Qiao and Zhou Tingsheng continued with small talk all the way back to G City, until Zhou Tingsheng suddenly spoke seriously: “You just came back like this?”
Ye Qiao thought it was a strange question: “What’s wrong?”
Zhou Tingsheng didn’t know whether she was indifferent to fame and wealth or just being silly. He answered in a roundabout way: “You don’t even have a cell phone, how to get notified about work?”
Ye Qiao was stupefied. Her work contact had always been Shen Ting. Shen Ting would always send anything important to Ye Qiao’s mailbox; any other notices she would call or send short messages on WeChat. After losing her cell phone, Ye Qiao hadn’t been able to check her WeChat or even emails. She had gone to Yang City to do the audition in the first place, but after one day, she had totally forgotten about the reason she had gone there for.

Zhou Tingsheng knew she would remember everything now. He gave her head a pat: “Don’t worry. They can’t contact you, but they can still contact me.”
As for why they would contact him, all Ye Qiao could think of was that some deal had been made behind the scenes. But those things weren’t of concern to her at the moment, she asked a question concerning her main concern: “What’s the result?”
Zhou Tingsheng: “Wang Qingming said your image is too unassuming and probably more suitable for the character which Pei Xindan is supposed to play. But they’re still discussing whether they want to do the switch or not. They’re trying to get a hold of you to talk this over.”

Whether to switch with Pei Xindan or not, the characters had equal weight in this movie. Ye Qiao knew this meant that she had already gotten the role. She said to Zhou Tingsheng: “I can do that character, but Pei Xingdan isn’t suitable for the role I’ve auditioned for. The personality of ‘Lin Xuan’ is dark and twisted and doesn’t match Pei Xingdan’s chivalrous disposition. You tell Director Wang about my opinion. I have already portrayed someone with a different temperament in <The Watcher> than the characters I did before. I don’t have any problems playing ‘Lin Xuan.’”

Zhou Tingsheng was aware of how Ye Qaio took her work to heart, but deliberately teased her: “So vain.”
Ye Qiao seriously replied: “It’s not that I’m vain. Actually, you’re the one to blame that everything turned out like this.”
Zhou Tingsheng thought he had misheard: “Blame me?”

Disdain was written all over Ye Qiao’s face: “Didn’t you intentionally choose the section of the script I did for my audition?” She paid attention to the look in his eyes and he was indeed trying to avoid hers. She sneered: “You let me recite so many lines about love and affection so as to satisfy your own desire to hear a confession. I could’ve shown off my acting skills if the lines had been different. No wonder Director Wang would doubt my ability at portraying that character.”

“......” Zhou Tingsheng couldn’t find an excuse. He wasn’t thinking of the consequences at the time. Besides, in his mind, the audition was only a formality. He had invested so much money into the project after all, he wasn’t there just to listen to Ye Qiao’s confession.
Fortunately, Ye Qiao wasn’t upset for long. She suddenly remembered the pictures someone had put in her bag at the audition. She smiled and used her finger to hook on his chin: “You know what, it works this way too. I’ll be performing as an insignificant actress who had a sugar daddy, just like I am now. So it’s rather convenient.”

Ye Qiao could always bring Zhou Tingsheng to the point where he was at a loss for words. However, he had to talk business with her now: “Since they have such an opinion of you already, why don’t you take the role of the protagonist instead of insisting on being the villain. It’d be better for your popularity.”
“It is a risk.” Ye Qiao admitted but she had her own convictions: “I hope every movie I do, I can have some breakthrough, even if it’s a commercial film. Nowadays, the audience isn’t only going to the theatre to see the lead actor and actress. All the righteous and kind characters will be easily forgotten, but the villain, if I can make the character stand out, she’d be be remembered for a long time. It’s true for everything that if you put in more effort then you can harvest more.”

Zhou Tingsheng said: “Then I’ll tell them what you said.”
“En.”

Translated by Team DHH at http://dhh-workshop.blogspot.com.