Liang Shi listened quietly to her finish speaking, guessing that she hadn't eaten either, and handed her a small bread roll.
Zhao Ying asked in surprise, "How come you have everything here?"
Liang Shi: "..."
“I’m used to it,” Liang Shi said. “I often get hungry in the middle of the night while filming.”
Zhao Ying felt that she was like a treasure chest, with everything readily available.
“You don’t look like you’re joining a production for the first time at all.” Zhao Ying tore off a piece of bread and ate it. “You have everything in your small suitcase.”
Upon hearing this, Liang Shi shrugged and deliberately tried to lighten the mood: "Then maybe I was on set in my dream."
Zhao Ying immediately called for a halt, "Stop! I'm afraid of the word 'dream' now."
Liang Shi: "..."
What Zhao Ying needed was someone to talk to, and Liang Shi fulfilled that role perfectly.
After eating a small bread roll and drinking a sports drink in Liang Shi's room, Zhao Ying felt her energy returning to normal.
After thinking it over, she asked Liang Shi again, "Do you think I should endure it or leave?"
Liang Shi hesitated: "Which one do you prefer?"
It's like kicking a ball around; the problem has been pushed back to where it started.
The answer was flawless.
It's not Liang Shi's fault.
She didn't have any real friends in the industry before; they were mostly just casual acquaintances. To say that they were close friends wouldn't be an exaggeration.
But when she has a new drama airing, quite a few people help promote it.
She always gets along well with people on set, and can usually make two or three friends while filming a movie, but only on set and during promotional events.
She usually keeps a low profile.
Moreover, Sister Wang had warned her that there were no true friends in this circle.
They are basically all in a community of shared interests, including even Sister Wang.
People come together because of shared interests, but if they encounter resource selection issues, they will inevitably be framed and fight each other.
Therefore, Liang Shi developed the habit of speaking with perfect discretion.
After answering Zhao Ying, she felt it was somewhat inappropriate and added, "If you really feel like you can't keep going, then take a break, go on vacation, and then film your parts when you're back to your best form."
“I get really creeped out by Shu Yi right now,” Zhao Ying said. “I can’t act with her at all. I feel like crying just thinking about the look in her eyes last night.”
Zhao Ying let out a soft breath and couldn't help but say, "I just think, what idiot would fall in love with that kind of psychopath?! It's totally self-torture, okay?"
Liang Shi: "..."
I could sense a deep despair in Zhao Ying's words.
Liang Shi comforted her with a few words. Since she still had scenes to film, and it was a late-night shoot, she went to the film set to get her makeup and hair done, leaving Zhao Ying alone to rest in the hotel.
Zhao Ying didn't want to go back to her own room, fearing that she would run into Shu Yi and go crazy, so Liang Shi let her stay in his room.
That night, Zhao Ying changed rooms and slept in the room next to Yan Xi's.
That night, it was said that the people living on Shu Yi's floor heard knocking on their doors late into the night.
A producer came out to see what was happening, and was so frightened that he lost control of his bladder.
Shu Yi, wearing a white spaghetti strap nightgown and a wig that she had somehow gotten her hands on, knocked on Zhao Ying's door.
She looks like a female ghost from a horror movie.
Everyone who came out of that floor saw that scene, including the director.
The next day, Zhao Ying heard from the director that she was secretly glad she had listened to Liang Shi's advice and changed her sleeping location. Otherwise, according to the producer's description, she might have suffered more than just urinary incontinence; she might have had a heart attack and been rushed to the hospital.
With her strong imagination, she felt her scalp tingle just listening to it, as if she were actually there.
Zhao Ying still mentioned to the director that she could no longer work with Shu Yi.
Although she said she could dedicate herself to art when she was in school, she didn't expect to die like this.
If this gets out, people will laugh their heads off.
The director had never seen Shu Yi like that before and thought everyone was exaggerating, but this time he saw it with his own eyes, and the level of horror was so high that even he, who had directed horror movies before, would feel scared.
No wonder Zhao Ying hasn't been in good form for so long.
The director nodded wearily: "I'll consider it."
Zhao Ying: "..."
Seeing that he was still hesitating, Zhao Ying said bluntly, "It's impossible for me to act with her again. Looking at her face makes me feel like I'm watching a horror movie. How can I act out being in love with her? Maybe in the next life."
Director: "If..."
“There are no more conditions.” Zhao Ying was always straightforward, and once she made a decision, she didn’t hesitate. “I’ve already put up with this several times. If I could still hold on, I wouldn’t have brought it up with you. You’ve seen what Shu Yi is like, and you know what I was like when I was filming. If it really doesn’t work out, let’s terminate the contract. I’ll pay you the penalty for breach of contract, and we can renew the contract for the next project.”
director:"……"
This left the director with no way out.
He knew that Zhao Ying was truly anxious.
After what happened that night, filming naturally stopped during the day.
Yan Xi even joked with Liang Shi, "This film crew really has bad feng shui."
Liang Shi didn't feel anything. She had encountered quite a few unlucky film crews before, some of which had already finished filming when news suddenly broke that the male lead had been arrested for drug use.
Others have finished filming and are in the promotional period, but the female lead's relationship has been exposed.
Unfortunately, the female lead is a rising idol.
There are also cases like hers before, where after the promotional period ended and the show finished airing, one side would frantically criticize the other.
It can only be said that in this industry, those who survive are the ones with survivor bias.
Only one-tenth of dramas make it to the public eye; the rest either die along the way or are cut in half.
During the day of rest, the director made a decision—to replace Shu Yi.
But how to talk to Shu Yi is also a problem.
Shu Yi's agent insists that Shu Yi does not have a mental illness. If the director were to make a characterization of her here, he would probably be attacked by fans to the point of not recognizing his own mother.
We can only bring it up tactfully.
So the director decided to use the universal excuse—you're great, but not quite right for me.
However, before the director could even approach Shu Yi, a trending topic related to Shu Yi appeared online—Shu Yi is a drug addict.
—Shu Yi Studio needs to pay 370 million yuan in back taxes
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This trending topic came out of nowhere.
On the same day, Chen Liuying, who was trying to make a comeback, was also trending on social media.
It seems insignificant under Shu Yi's entry.
Previously, many people went to criticize Chen Liuying, but today everyone is busy gossiping about Shu Yi and has no time to pay attention to her.
As a result, her set of revealing "artistic photos" went unappreciated.
The few occasional ones are also like this:
[Anyone who didn't know better would think they'd stumbled upon Store A.]
Art is a fig leaf; I hope you have it.
Are you really not considering making Category III films?
[The person upstairs, stop talking. I suspect she's already filming.]
[The level of explicitness in this photo is beyond what I've even seen in Category III films.]
[Sister, how many yuan for one night?]
[...]
They are all very vulgar words.
But Chen Liuying's photos were vulgar to begin with, with very little clothing on her body, and were not conventional art photos at all.
If it were something unconventional, innovative, or thematic, that would be one thing, but it's simply about showing off one's figure.
Does this woman really think she can fool her female fans like this?
[I have a feeling she's trying to meet up with her fans?]
[Didn't they previously expose her for sleeping with fans? Sure enough, the internet has no memory.]
[...]
The comments section sparked a new wave of discussion, but the level of attention and discussion was too low.
It's amazing that even this kind of data can trend on social media, and even be at the top of the list.
Anyone with a discerning eye can tell it was bought.
The hashtag #ChenLiuyingIsSoBeautiful# even stayed on the top trending list for a short while, but unexpectedly, just a few minutes later, Shu Yi's hashtag suddenly appeared on the trending list and then quickly rose to the top trending list, directly suppressing Chen Liuying's hashtag.
The fact that Shu Yi was a drug addict was revealed by his ex-wife.
Therefore, the related hashtags also include #ShuYiSecretMarriage#.
Shu Yi is still a Best Actress winner, even though her Best Actress award is only a domestic award and not very prestigious.
But she is quite popular, with over 70 million followers on Weibo, making her one of the most popular young actresses in mainland China.
Moreover, she has always maintained a pure and gentle image as the girl next door, so the news about her that broke out shocked everyone.
Netizens are like a badger jumping around in a melon patch.
In her blog post, Shu Yi's ex-wife revealed that Shu Yi had a slight tendency towards domestic violence and would hit people while sleepwalking. At first, she thought it was because Shu Yi was suffering from mental trauma due to the loss of her mother, so her ex-wife forgave her. However, she did not expect Shu Yi to become even more violent, and her ex-wife could not help but file for divorce.
The two were classmates for many years, dated for eight years, and then got married.