Iris rested her chin on her hand and muttered, "It's good that you're not angry."
The traffic light ahead was red, so Xin Wenwen stopped the car. She glanced at Iris, who was sitting in the passenger seat with her eyes glued to the scenery outside the window, and asked, "She made it very clear to you that I used to be with Lin Leyao and that I cheated on her. After hearing that, do you still like me?"
Iris looked away from the window and replied to Xin Wenwen with a very serious expression, "I like it!"
Xin Wenwen was taken aback by Iris's directness and didn't know what to say.
Iris continued, "If you had caused Yao a lot of harm, Ying's temper would probably have tormented you to death. How could she let you live so happily?"
Upon hearing Iris's words, Xin Wenwen inwardly grumbled; she was practically driven crazy by her aunt. She felt that her aunt had deliberately made her come out to accompany Iris every day just because she disliked her.
During this time, Xin Wenwen often thought that it was fortunate that she and Lin Leyao had only been together for a short time and that their relationship was very platonic. Otherwise, given her aunt's petty temper towards Lin Leyao, she was sure she would be in a worse situation than she is now.
After silently criticizing her, Xin Wenwen asked Iris, "Don't you understand what she meant by 'cheating'?"
“I know!” Iris answered decisively.
"This only shows that you lack manners in relationships, but it has nothing to do with me liking you!"
Iris spoke with such conviction that Xin Wenwen was speechless for a moment, unsure whether Xin Wenwen was criticizing or praising her.
She thought for a moment, then slowly asked, "Do you still like me? Aren't you worried?"
Iris blinked, leaned closer, and asked, "What are you worried about?"
Xin Wenwen said expressionlessly, "You're worried I'll cheat on you."
Iris's eyes lit up immediately: "Do you want to date me?"
"……No."
Iris smiled adorably, cupping her face in her hands, and said, "I know Chinese is a rather subtle language. You asked me if I'm worried about you cheating on me in a relationship, which means you want to be with me, right?"
Xin Wenwen flatly denied it: "I didn't."
Seeing that Xin Wenwen really didn't intend to agree, Iris's overflowing joy quickly subsided.
Iris pouted, looking unhappy, and didn't say anything more. The two remained silent until they arrived at the hotel.
Iris has been staying in a hotel during this period. Xin Wenwen is usually called out by Xin Ying to accompany her. The two of them either meet in the underground parking lot of Huanning Group or at the entrance of the hotel where Iris is staying.
Iris unbuckled her seatbelt, her face still sullen. She said, "You don't need to come tomorrow."
Xin Wenwen's face showed surprise for a moment.
Iris opened the car door, and Xin Wenwen silently watched her back. She finally couldn't help but open her lips, but before she could say anything, Iris immediately turned her head away.
"Don't come to pick me up these next few days. Ying is away on a business trip, and she's worried that Yao will be bored at home alone, so she wants me to come and keep her company."
Xin Wenwen swallowed back all her worries after hearing Iris's words. She nodded and watched Iris enter the hotel without saying anything more.
Author's Note:
This is yesterday's update, and there's more today... Thank you to all the little angels who voted for me or watered my plants between 2022-04-19 21:10:50 and 2022-04-21 01:02:07!
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Chapter 90
Xin Ying went abroad on a business trip, Xiao Yan was busy training the company's new employees, and Lin Leyao, who had nothing to do after filming, seemed like an oddity among a group of workaholics.
Just as Iris had told Xin Wenwen before, after Xin Ying went abroad, Iris took the initiative to ask Lin Leyao to go out and play.
Lin Leyao doesn't have many friends, while Iris is warm and lovely. Xin Ying entrusted Iris with this task before going abroad, hoping that Lin Leyao could make more friends.
Lin Leyao accepted Iris's invitation without hesitation. Iris seemed to have never had enough of S City. A while ago, she, Xin Ying, and Xin Wenwen had already visited all the attractions and places in S City. Now, accompanying Lin Leyao, she enthusiastically revisited the city.
Iris is blonde with blue eyes and striking features. She is tall and stands out in a crowd.
As soon as she entered the mall, she immediately attracted everyone's attention. Lin Leyao, who was next to her, was wearing a mask and hat as usual. Although her face could not be seen clearly, she was tall and had a graceful figure. Even without showing her face, she did not lose out to Iris when standing next to her.
The two went to a coffee shop and ordered two coffees.
While waiting for her coffee, Iris was recognized by quite a few people in the coffee shop.
A while ago, Iris and Xin Ying were photographed and became a trending topic. People didn't know who Iris was, but they could remember her distinctly foreign appearance.
Not far away, at a coffee shop, a young and pretty woman looked over the moment Iris entered. Her gaze lingered on Iris for a short while before being quickly drawn to the mysterious woman wearing a mask beside her.
The woman stared for a few seconds, then her pupils widened instantly.
She recognized Lin Leyao.
The woman quickly took out her phone and secretly snapped a few photos in the direction of Lin Leyao and Iris, then quickly sent them to the chat group.
Lin Leyao's secretary: [I just ran into Leyao!!!]
The fan who immediately recognized Lin Leyao, who was wearing a mask, was one of Xin Ying's four secretaries at Huanning Group.
She had previously become a fan of the pairing of Xin Ying and Lin Leyao because of her love for Lin Leyao. While the fans in her fan group were usually very discreet online, they went crazy in the group, frantically digging into the recent activities of Lin Leyao and Xin Ying and discovering many clues.
After uncovering a lot of details, the fans in the group who had liked Le Yao for several years tacitly stopped mentioning Xin Ying and acted as if nothing had happened.
However, the silence in the group was quickly broken by a photo of Xin Ying and a foreign woman that went viral half a month ago.
The moment this photo was posted, the group chat erupted in chaos.
Many of her friends, who also liked Le Yao, sent her private messages to criticize Xin Ying.
As both a fan of Lin Leyao and Xin Ying's secretary, the secretary kept comforting her friends when they complained angrily: "They were just shopping together, and there was no intimate behavior between them."
His friends were even angrier when they heard this: "You've already got my daughter, and you still dare to go shopping with other women? No matter if you're the president of Huanning Group, or even the Emperor himself, you're still just my daughter's lapdog!!"
Hearing this, the secretary could only pretend she hadn't heard anything and continue to soothe her friend's emotions.
Before this scandal trended on social media, fans in the fan group would secretly ship Lin Leyao and Xin Ying as a couple. Later, perhaps angered that Xin Ying was shopping with a foreign girl, the fans immediately abandoned Xin Ying and started shipping Lin Leyao with other people. Of course, many fans who thought Lin Leyao and Xin Ying were really together secretly wiped away tears, wondering if their daughters would be very upset when they saw this trending topic.
As a die-hard fan of Lin Leyao, the secretary felt a surge of anger towards Xin Ying when she first saw this trending topic.
But the secretary was quite rational. Having worked under Xin Ying for many years, she knew Xin Ying's character quite well.
Moreover, she observed that since Lin Leyao finished filming, Xin Ying had never brought the kitten to the company again, so it seems that the little tabby cat really was Lin Leyao's cat.
Xin Ying always wore the ring on her ring finger. Through these observations, the secretary felt that Xin Ying and Lin Leyao's relationship was as good as ever.
However, she couldn't just tell her fans in the group what she had discovered. She could only input everything she observed into her memo and work on it all by herself.
Iris only made headlines once, along with Xin Ying, and that's enough to make many people remember her face. In this photo taken by the secretary, Lin Leyao is clearly out shopping with this foreign woman, which obviously means that Lin Leyao knows this foreign woman.
The secretary sent the picture to the group chat, and within minutes someone had already posted it on Weibo.
In chat groups and on Weibo, fans and netizens are speculating about Iris's identity, and many fans have expressed that they've shipped her with Iris.
Photos of Lin Leyao and Iris were quickly reposted on the forum. Some people dug up previous photos of Xin Ying and Iris and stitched the two photos together, prompting many netizens to leave comments.
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tyui: [Looking at it this way, Yingjie and Yaomei are so sweet, they even have friends together.]
I am your X: [Looks like Sister Ying has established her persona; she hasn't been flirting with just anyone.]
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While many people were focused on Xin Ying and Iris, quite a few others had already come to the coffee shop after seeing Lin Leyao's address. Fortunately, Lin Leyao and Iris had already packed their coffee and left beforehand.
Lin Leyao doesn't have any particular hobbies; when she goes out with Iris, they just go shopping and take pictures.
The two bought some new clothes and then went to a restaurant for dinner.
Lin Leyao took a picture of the lunch that had just been served and sent it to Xin Ying, who was abroad.
She had just put down her phone when she saw Iris glance at the screen and then put it down again, resting her chin on her hand, looking distracted as if waiting for someone's message.
Iris has been in this state for quite some time now, after she went to the restaurant to eat.
Through this period of time, Lin Leyao has learned that Iris is interested in Xin Wenwen, and seeing her like this, she guesses that she is probably waiting for news from Xin Wenwen.
Iris checked her phone many times but didn't receive any messages from Xin Wenwen, so she simply turned it off and stopped looking at it, focusing instead on chatting with Lin Leyao.
Lin Leyao asked, "White is going back to Australia the day after tomorrow. Aren't you going back with him?"
Iris shook her head: "I'm not going back with him. I want to stay here a little longer."
Lin Leyao smiled knowingly and said, "I'm going to the dubbing studio tomorrow to record the post-production dubbing for the TV series. You don't need to come with me tomorrow. Go and spend time with someone you want to spend time with."
When Iris heard Lin Leyao's words, she didn't show a surprised smile at first. Instead, she thought for a while and then said seriously, "No, I promised Ying that I would come to accompany you while she was abroad. She hasn't returned to the country yet, and I can't break my promise."
Lin Leyao didn't want to trouble her, so she advised, "I have to go to work now. I'm not alone and I don't need you to keep me company. You can go see Wenwen now."
Hearing Lin Leyao's words, Iris hesitated for a moment and felt somewhat wavering, but she quickly regained her composure and said firmly, "No, no, I cheated her out of so much money, I should compensate her."
Lin Leyao didn't hear the second half of the sentence clearly, and she tilted her head to look at Iris in confusion.
Iris caught her questioning look, immediately realized what was happening, and pressed her lips tightly together, afraid that she might have let something slip again.
Finally, Iris made a firm decision: "I'll go with you to do the voice acting tomorrow!"
Many TV dramas nowadays are roughly edited from the footage according to the script while filming is in progress. Often, the first rough cut is completed as soon as filming is finished.
Lin Leyao's "Palace Prisoner" has been finished filming for some time now. Because it is a pure period drama and does not require special effects, the post-production editing was very fast, and the entire plot of the TV series has now been edited out.
The filming of period dramas involves a lot of equipment and is often noisy, making it difficult for the crew to record sound on set, thus requiring post-production dubbing.
Lin Leyao went to a dubbing studio to dub the character she was playing.
Currently, the domestic dubbing industry is mainly divided into two major factions, based on their residential areas: one is the dubbing circle in City B, and the other is the dubbing circle in City S.
One is the capital city, and the other is an international metropolis. These two regions are home to many film and animation companies and have abundant dubbing resources.
The next day, Lin Leyao went to a well-known dubbing studio in S City.
In the dubbing industry, there are not many studios that can be called well at present, and even fewer studios founded by women. Not to mention, there are even fewer female voice actors who can seize a lot of resources in the film and television dubbing industry and lead a group of voice actors to develop their studios into a thriving business.
Lin Leyao had dubbed her own roles in previous period dramas, so this wasn't her first time at this dubbing studio. The next day, she drove Iris along and arrived at the studio with practiced ease.
Wensheng Dubbing Studio was founded by Wen Xiao, a well-known young voice actor in China.
Wen Xiao is still quite young compared to other well-known voice actors, only thirty-three years old this year, but her voice acting career is quite long. She started dubbing for domestic animation when she was five years old, and now she has been doing voice acting for twenty-eight years, making her a true veteran.