Chapter 296 - Invitation for the Venice Film Festival (1/2)

Yun Xiangxiang had always been a goody-two-shoes. Her parents had groomed her into an upright lady. She was also a reserved person. Spewing her drink was out of character, so that piqued Li Xiangling’s curiosity.

Song Meng stopped fighting with Li Xiangling. She looked at Yun Xiangxiang excitedly. “Come on, tell us. I want to know too.”

“It’s nothing.” Yun Xiangxiang shared it with her friends since it wasn’t anything worth keeping a secret.

Song Meng guffawed when Yun Xiangxiang finished telling what happened. “I want to see the look on Faye’s face at that moment.”

Song Meng could hold a grudge. Faye tried to use them to attack Yun Xiangxiang today, planning to turn her and Li Xiangling against Yun Xiangxiang. That was stupid. Faye knew nothing about them.

Faye’s plan backfired. Song Meng now hated her more. When she heard Faye getting humiliated, Song Meng was elated.

“It must’ve been quite the look,” Li Xiangling nodded. She could imagine it.

“Go to sleep,” Yun Xiangxiang said good night when she saw that her friends had cheered up.

The girls still had to go to work the next day. Yun Xiangxiang had to keep on filming. She was about to power off her phone when a message popped up. Wu Zhao sent it to the film’s group and tagged everyone.

[Wu Zhao: Venice is going to have a film festival near August’s end. Any one of you can go?]

[Sun Qiluo: Which part of the film festival is the film going to take part?]

[Wu Zhao: Best Picture, Film of The Year, Best Male Lead, Best Female Lead, Best Director…]

Wu Zhao made a list of the categories “The King’s Plan” would be taking part in. Everyone was excited, but Xiong Ao doused their flames of excitement.

[Xiong Ao: These are just possible categories. Even if we get nominated for every single one of them, we might still not win for any of them. That would be rather tragic.]

[Wu Zhao: …]

Yun Xiangxiang pursed her lips and smiled. Wu Zhao was probably thinking of kicking Xiong Ao out of the chat group now.]

[Yun Xiangxiang: I have time for that since it’s August.]

Her cla.s.ses wouldn’t start until September came. She would have been done with “First Love” and the selection for “Flying Sky” by then. She didn’t have anything better to do anyway, so she might as well go to expand her horizons.

She could go to the Xibai Film Festival in her past life thanks to her endors.e.m.e.nt, but she didn’t have the chance to go to any international film festivals.

She didn’t think she would be awarded as the international best female lead, but she still wanted to see the Venice Film Festival’s glory. The compet.i.tors would be the best films in the world. Going there as a partic.i.p.ant and going there as an amba.s.sador for a product were two different things.

[Hou Cang: I won’t be going. I have a lot of matters to settle at home.]

[He Xingzhou: I will be joining in the fun.]

[Sun Qiluo: I want to go, but I just took a new job that needs me to start work in mid-August…]

Sun Qiluo was a supporting actress in “The King’s Plan.” The best supporting actress was the most challenging award to get in international film festivals. Even if the film were acknowledged, the leads would get the awards first before the supporting actors were considered.

If the film weren’t acknowledged, the leads wouldn’t even be awarded, let alone the supporting cast.

Sun Qiluo wasn’t planning on going. She could get some attention by going to a red carpet event, but it wouldn’t be aired in the nation.

Sun Qiluo did have plans to go global, but she walked a different path from Yun Xiangxiang. She would focus on filming dramas first.

“Let’s hope Xiangxiang gets the best actress for a leading role award again!” Song Meng was excited at the news. Her sleepiness was blown away.