Chapter 24 : Patron, Please Keep Me 4 (2/2)

“Jiang Wan!” The girl pointed her finger at Shi Sheng, enraged to the point of trembling.

“What do you want? Chatting with me is very expensive but seeing as how we’re in the same company I’ll give you a discount…”

“Enough. You still have an ad shoot, don’t waste time with irrelevant people.” Milan interrupted Shi Sheng’s words and glared at her. “Jiang Wan, you can’t be too arrogant. This world is more complicated than you think.”

‘If I(bbb) got really arrogant, you’d be fucking lying on the ground right now!’

Shi Sheng smiled but did not speak or give any reply. When Milan looked at that smile she felt the hairs on her back stand on end. The person in front of her clearly hadn’t changed but she felt like she had.

‘She’s just a little brat, what can she do? With my contacts, I could place obstacles in secret and make her unable to remain in this circle any longer.’

Thinking of this, Milan felt a bit better. She gave a light harrumph before walking towards the lift.

When the girl on high-heels walked past the two, she deliberately collided into Tang Yin, causing him to retreat a couple of steps. “Just you wait!”

When the lift door closed, Shi Sheng looked smilingly at Tang Yin. Tang Yin pushed up his glasses. “Sorry.”

He had failed as an agent when he let the actress under his care be bullied by someone else.

“Now that I think about it, that girl’s surname was Tang too.” She could clearly feel the enmity coming from that girl. And Tang Yin’s reaction wasn’t quite right either. Tang Yin’s body stiffened as panic and embarrassment flashed in his eyes.

Shi Sheng hadn’t had time to see it clearly when she heard System’s voice ring out suddenly.

[Random Quest encountered. Do you wish to accept it?]

‘There are random quests too? Fuck no, I refuse to do it. I haven’t even finished a single one of the main quests yet!’

Shi Sheng thought System would force her to accept it but it didn’t speak up after she rejected it. ‘It seems like random quests aren’t that important…’

“Let’s go.” Having been interrupted by System, Shi Sheng was too lazy to continue questioning Tang Yin.

Tang Yin couldn’t help but let out a sigh of relief. His gaze when he looked at Shi Sheng had changed though. She wasn’t the same as the Jiang Wan from the information he had been given. At least, in their few days of interacting with each other, he hadn’t seen a hint of self-consciousness or timidity.

There were quite a few people in the audition hall already. Tang Yin went to get a queue number before accompanying her in waiting. There were quite a few people who had come to audition. There were those who had an agent accompanying them who were discussing with said agents in low voices. There were also those who didn’t have an agent and so could only sit nervously at the side, their faces filled with apprehension as well as hope and expectations for the future.

However, every single one that went in came out in a depressed slump. There were some who even ran away crying.

Shi Sheng, however, just sat there like she owned the place, not a hint of nervousness or apprehension to be seen. She wasn’t even reading the script, instead just staring at a girl opposite her.

That girl shifted a bit uncomfortably under Shi Sheng’s gaze but she discovered that the person opposite her wasn’t looking at her but gazing off into space and had just so happened to fix her eyes on that spot.

[1] There’s actually some wordplay going on here. The raws say ‘我怕前程变成前尘’. ‘前程’means future and is pronounced ‘qian2cheng2’ while ‘前尘’, pronounced ‘qian2chen2’, literally means dust in front, which could refer to the dust on someone else’s road to – in this context – fame. They sound similar so it’s wordplay.

Author’s note:

Lalala, begging for votes over here~