22 The Actress Will Arrive Soon (1/2)
Whether Ye Shuang wanted to or not, she couldn't stop the inevitable. At least she was luckier than Mother Ye and Father Ye in the sense that on the morning of the visit, she had a valid reason to not be home. Therefore, when she departed from home the next day, Ye Shuang was the target of her whole family's envious and deplorable gaze.
”Bro, how can you live with yourself after leaving us to fend for you‽” Little Brother Ye groused. As the only son in the Ye family after Ye Shuang was gone, he had no valid reason to escape this tragedy, or else with his personality, he would have disappeared faster than Ye Shuang.
”I'm your Sis, not your Bro!” Ye Shuang patted Little Brother Ye on his head lightly and uttered helplessly, ”Anyways, I'm afraid it'll cause too much excitement if I stay, especially considering how old our grandmother is…”
Well, Ye Shuang was lying; the real reason was she was afraid of Grandmother Ye being overly passionate and welcoming. Different from other elders, Grandmother Ye had a rather modern mind-set… which was another way of saying that the woman had no filter. Ye Shuang could remember an unfortunate incident from her high school when she was ensnared by her grandmother during Chinese New Year. Her genial grandmother had asked with a kind chuckle, ”Shuang Er, have you found a boyfriend yet?”
Seriously, why would a grandmother ask something like that to a girl that young‽ Didn't the older generation always assume the children of the family are always as pure as a sheet of white paper when it comes to issues of relationships and sex‽
Regardless, Ye Shuang felt like she couldn't understand the inner workings of her precious grandmother's mind; she was probably too young or something like that. However, she did know that if she had stayed, there was a high probability Grandmother Ye would reach for her hands and ask with a smile, ”Son, have you hit second base with our Shuang Er yet?”
Ye Shuang shivered just imagining that scene.
After bidding her family farewell, Ye Shuang waved down a cab to head toward Fang Mo's company. Today wasn't the shooting day; she was there just to get herself used to the location and set the make-up.
This prep-work would take up quite some time because the presented image was everything in an advertisement. She had to try on different outfits if they wanted to have different scenes. Furthermore, celebrities often had little flaws on their faces or bodies that they wouldn't want you to know about that needed to be sorted out during this pre-shooting period. Therefore, selection of outfits and make-up was an important and central part of the video-shoot prep-work.
Alas, none of these would have been applicable to Ye Shuang. Fang Mo nodded in satisfaction at the sound of collective sigh when Ye Shuang walked through the door in a black tracksuit. His heart filled with something akin to pride—this was a friend that he had approved of, so naturally, he would be the center of attention wherever he went.
Those who hadn't seen Ye Shuang on the day she went to the company to sign the contract had initially thought that their Big Boss was a bit rash to use a completely unknown newbie instead of some famous celebrities… However, after seeing Ye Shuang in person, they realized those celebrities might have won against Ye Shuang in terms of fame, but they lost to Ye Shuang fully at something else… something called face… The loss was so devastating that their fame would have meant nothing.
”This is our new spokesperson‽” A manager, whom Ye Shuang had seen before at the huge company meeting giving speech, stood up with a glow on his face. ”He's perfect; our advertisement this time will definitely cause huge shockwaves!”