Starlight Has No Past
Chapter 33 Part 2
Zhao Mo bashfully replied: “I’m going to Yang City for an audition this time. It’s the new picture <Innocent City> that’s being produced by Hengshan Pictures and will be directed by Wang Qingming. There’s a rumor online saying that Director Wang has contacted your agency and would like you to play one of the two main female leads. Is it true?” In reality, she already knew the answer as she was asking. Ye Qiao was flying to Yang City at this time, obviously the rumor was basically accurate.
Ye Qiao frowned. From her understanding, she still wasn’t sure that she would get the part in <Innocent City>. The rumor circulating online couldn’t possibly have been leaked by the producer or her own agency through official channels. An actress who spread the news that she had gotten the lead without having been officially confirmed as part of the cast would run the risk of being seen as a self-promoter in the eyes of the director. Who would deliberately spread such a rumor?
She couldn’t hide the fact that she was going for an audition for the film. Ye Qiao casually explained: “I’m only going for an audition. There’s no guarantee of the final result. You’ve done quite a few films now, you should know very well how the non-disclosure agreement is written.”
Zhao Mo realized that she had asked something she shouldn’t have. Fortunately, the speaker announced that it was boarding time and thus ended the awkwardness.
After they got off the plane, they went to the same hotel, on different floors.
Ye Qiao’s room was arranged by the production company and it was a VIP suite. Since Shen Ting was still on vacation, Ye Qiao came by herself without much luggage. She let Zhao Mo check in first. Zhao Mo held her boyfriend’s hand tightly and forced a smile at Ye Qiao before going ahead to the elevator. She had a lot of luggage and it took some effort, with the help of Shen Yi, to get everything into the elevator. Right before the doors closed, Zhao Mo glanced at Ye Qiao, now in front of the check-in counter with only a few items, and quietly bit her lower lip.
Shen Yi was talking about the plan for the next two days: “Tomorrow, I’ll go talk to the advertisement company about my modeling job while you’re doing the audition. Afterwards, we can go eat at Arts Street. After we’re done with our business, we can tour Yang City for a couple of days. How is that?”
Zhao Mo’s mind was elsewhere: “En? What?”
Shen Yi was a little annoyed: “What’s wrong with you today? You’ve been distracted ever since we were in the airport……”
That night, Ye Qiao fell into a bout of endless insomnia again.
In the city where she had grown up, she experienced 13 years of vicissitudes in life. All the memories floated into her head. It was a short 13 years in her life while she was only a child, yet she felt like she had experienced the cycle of birth, old age, sickness and death with all the joy and sorrow, good and evil in life.
The moonlight came into the room through the lace curtains on the window. Ye Qiao inadvertently remembered lines from an ancient poem: Who was the first one to see the moon along the river bank? When did the moon first start to shine on the river?
Only the moon would keep a person company year after year regardless of the joy and sorrow in her life, gently yet heartlessly.
Conflicting feelings occupied Ye Qiao’s mind; she had to take a Diazepam tablet to go to sleep.
The next day, Ye Qiao went to the location for the audition and met Zhao Mo again.
The movie studio was located at a remote part of Yang City. The air there was much fresher than inside the city. Ye Qiao took off her face mask and went to the restroom to wash her hands. Zhao Mo was in the restroom touching up her makeup. They insipidly greeted each other. Zhao Mo watched Ye Qiao pump out liquid soap and slowly washed out the bubbles between her fingers. Ye Qiao’s fair skin face reflected in the same mirror as hers, yet Ye Qiao’s was even more gleaming and natural than her delicately made up face. Zhao Mo suddenly put down her foundation case and said: “Yesterday…...thank you.”
Ye Qiao looked up: “En?”
Ye Qiao’s indifferent attitude made Zhao Mo’s concern seem unnecessary. Zhao Mo had made up her mind to clarify everything with Ye Qiao: “Shen Yi and I…...are going to get married in the future.”
Ye Qiao recalled the person with the name Shen Yi and those two gentle dimples came to mind. She smiled: “Congratulations.” She didn’t say anything more.
When she turned around to leave, Zhao Mo called out to her again. She wanted to make it all clear to Ye Qiao but didn’t know how it could be “clear.” How could she make something that was unclear in the beginning “clear” now.”
Ye Qaio turned to see Zhao Mo’s uneasy expression. She understood what Zhao Mo was trying to convey to her: “For many things, it’s not important whether other people remember it or not, or tell others or not. The important thing is not to give the chance for people to remember or tell someone. Since you’re planning to marry him, then you should remind yourself what you should do and not do, whenever the many “opportunities” arise in the future. Aren’t these things already clear to yourself?”
Ye Qiao suddenly gathered her eyebrows and said: “I’ve seen your performance in <The Watcher>, you have talent and work very hard. I hope you don’t dwell on the past too much. We will probably work on the same film again. If you’re going to have a wedding, I’ll send you a gift.”
There was nothing else that Ye Qiao could say. She left the restroom and went to the makeup room to set her bag down. Xu Yinshan happened to be in there.
Translated by Team DHH at http://dhh-workshop.blogspot.com.
Thank you for the chapter😃😃
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