Passionate Love After Marriage With The White Moonlight Movie Queen

Chapter 25: It's Easy For Me To Get What You Wish For

Shen Qingzhi's mouth is arrogant, but in fact, she is still very concerned about tomorrow's upcoming audition.

At nine o'clock in the evening, Gu Jinrong is sitting in front of the computer, reading the email sent by Alice, while Shen Qingzhi is pacing anxiously beside her.

"Ai, you only told me about the role today, and tomorrow I have to audition. Isn't the preparation time too short?"

Gu Jinrong holds the mouse and doesn't look away, "It's not too short. Director Xue values the natural state of actors. Overpreparation may not achieve the effect she wants."

"But I've only read the first two episodes of the script, and they are mostly background introductions. I have no idea what Director Xue will ask me to perform tomorrow."

Gu Jinrong closed the email and casually handed a lollipop to Shen Qingzhi.

"I don't know the situation, that's right, Director Xue wouldn't directly ask actors to perform scenes that already exist in the play. Just relax, you'll be fine."

Shen Qingzhi pouted: It's easy for you to say. It's not like you're the one auditioning. Of course, you can be relaxed.

Seeing that she couldn't get effective comfort from Gu Jinrong, she could only vent her frustration by biting the lollipop loudly and then pacing around in another room.

The script provided limited information, so she could only repeat the five elements of performance she had summarized in her mind and then take a deep breath and exhale.

It was like a student about to take an exam who had to cram at the last minute. She had never been so nervous even during the college entrance examination.

Compared to Shen Qingzhi's unease, Gu Jinrong was confident and well-prepared. She understood Director Xue's preferences and her little girl's abilities. Sometimes, not being prepared was the best preparation.

Sure enough, the next day, Shen Qingzhi entered the audition scene with a nervous face, and an hour later, she walked out bright and sunny.

Just as she was wondering who to share her joy with, Gu Jinrong as if they shared a heartbeat called her.

"Qingqing, the audition should be over by now, how do you feel?"

"Guess." Shen Qingzhi snorted softly, the complacency in her little eyes couldn't be hidden.

Gu Jinrong sighed intentionally, "Ai, don't be sad even if you didn't perform as you like, I can go talk to Director Xue."

Shen Qingzhi became anxious when she heard this, and the untied hair on the top of her head instantly turned up, "Who wants you to intercede, let Director Xue decide according to her own will."

Gu Jinrong was amused and in a good mood, "Qingqing really has a backbone, so what do you want for dinner tonight?"

Food was always a topic that came up frequently. Shen Qingzhi even suspected that Gu Jinrong came back to the country not just for acting but to become a chef.

But this time she didn't order as usual, "I'm going to shoot a magazine later, I don't know what time I'll be back at night."

Perhaps the mouth that has eaten became short*, now she has unconsciously reported the itinerary.

*吃人嘴短  (Chī rén zuǐ duǎn) implies that after benefiting from someone or receiving favors, a person may become more accommodating or tolerant towards them. 

After hearing this, Gu Jinrong thought for a while, "Then I'll make Yangzhou fried rice. If you want to have supper at night, you can eat it hot."

Shen Qingzhi had no objection to this, and the two chatted for a while and ended the call.

She tied her head in a ponytail and took a taxi directly to the headquarters of FLOWER magazine to prepare for the afternoon cover shoot.

This is one of the only two jobs she has not lost recently, which was arranged last month.

FLOWER is a fashion magazine. The main target audience is young people aged 18-30. The magazine is keen to find popular handsome men and beautiful women as the cover characters.

Although this is not a first-tier magazine, it also has a quite large audience. Shen Qingzhi came to the lobby of the headquarters alone, and asked the front desk about the location of the shooting.

There was a young girl in her early twenties at the front desk, and she was taken aback when she heard her intentions: This is a second-third-tier star after all, and she came here without a manager, not even an assistant?

Shen Qingzhi's reaction to the young lady at the front desk was no surprise.

Song Ling had several artists under her command, and it was impossible for her to accompany them all the way even for trivial matters such as shooting magazines.

As for the assistant, the company said that they don't have that much spare money for artists who get "two-month leave" after debuting for one year.

Although Shen Qingzhi doesn't know how to speak normally and she often causes trouble.

She also has advantages, such as saving costs, as today's taxi fare is not going to be reimbursed.

After contacting the photography department through the reception, they provided directions, "You can go to the makeup room on the 3rd floor of Building A and wait. When you come out of the elevator, turn left and it's the third room."

Shen Qingzhi followed the directions and arrived at the makeup room. Since she arrived a bit early, the whole room was empty, and she was the only one there.

Worried that she might have come to the wrong place, she went to the neighboring staff to confirm.

After learning that the makeup artist was a big name and never arrived early, she finally felt relieved and started playing with her phone in her seat.

Estimating that she had waited for half an hour and there was less than an hour and a half left until the scheduled shooting time, someone finally entered the room.

Jiang Ke'er?

Shen Qingzhi had heard before that this shoot was for a double-cover, but it wasn't until now that she found out who she would be sharing the cover with.

Following behind Jiang Ke'er were several other people, and Shen Qingzhi couldn't tell who was her assistant and who was from the magazine.

Although Jiang Ke'er was similar to her, both being considered second-tier celebrities, the grandeur of this cover shoot was much greater than she expected.

As Jiang Ke'er took her seat, the room instantly became lively, with a group of people bustling around her. Even the makeup artist, who had arrived late, finally showed up.

Sitting in the corner, Shen Qingzhi felt like she had become invisible.

She and Jiang Ke'er were never on good terms, and now that Jiang Ke'er was ignoring her, she didn't feel the need to pretend.

However...

Another half an hour passed, and the only makeup artist in the room was still hovering around Jiang Ke'er, seemingly with no intention of moving.

As the shooting time approached, Shen Qingzhi had to speak up, "Excuse me, I'm also here to shoot the magazine cover today, and there's only one hour left..."

The makeup artist glanced at her with some impatience, "Just wait, can't you see I'm busy?"

Shen Qingzhi stared at the makeup artist for a while, only to see him leisurely applying one layer of foundation and one layer of eyeshadow, showing no signs of being busy at all.

Earlier, Jiang Ke'er had to wait for her skincare products to dry before applying makeup, and the makeup artist was willing to wait there patiently.

Even Shen Qingzhi, who was not very astute, realized that someone was deliberately embarrassing her.

If this happened half a year ago, she would have been furious if someone targeted her for no reason, given her spoiled temperament. But now, she has grown.

Ai, this is mainly because I have been causing trouble a little more frequently lately.

Anyway, it's just putting on makeup, who can't do that?

Shen Qingzhi observed the various foundations and eyeshadows on the makeup table and decided to do it herself.

After all, she knew the theme of this shoot, "Summer Romance."

Her makeup skills were average, but she had natural beauty, and summer makeup is all about a refreshing look, there's no need to make it too complicated.

Originally, she arrived two hours early, intending to leave at least an hour and a half for makeup.

When she finally started doing it herself, it took less than half an hour.

With just 10 minutes left before entering the photography studio, the makeup artist finally remembered her existence.

Seeing that Shen Qingzhi had already arranged her makeup, he raised a complaining tone, holding a manicured finger.

"Hey hey hey, you little stars nowadays, you don't understand anything, just love to do things your own way."

"You made yourself up like this, and if I have to remove your makeup and redo it, we definitely won't make it on time. You decide what to do now."

Shen Qingzhi coldly snorted in her heart: You make it sound like 10 minutes is not enough time to remove my makeup.

"I won't trouble you then." Shen Qingzhi said, leaving this remark and directly heading to the photography studio, leaving the makeup artist and Jiang Ke'er exchanging glances with each other.

After Shen Qingzhi entered the photography studio, the subsequent clothing changes and photo shoot went relatively smoothly.

Although she was initially criticized by the photographer for having light makeup, when the actual shooting started, it turned out to be really good.

Shen Qingzhi finally breathed a sigh of relief: It seems that Jiang Ke'er doesn't have such great influence, she can't buy everyone here.

Actually, she had accidentally learned before that Jiang Ke'er has some family relationship with the vice president of FLOWER, but she didn't take it to heart.

In this circle, there are relationships everywhere.

Although this time she still made a fool of her, but it was nothing more than that.

Such tricks can also anger her immature self half a year ago.

For this cover, the magazine wanted to reflect summer youth and the friendship between the two girls.

The photographer originally planned to have both of them with their foreheads touching, to create a more intimate look.

But Jiang Ke'er insisted on having Shen Qingzhi lean her face forward to make her own face appear smaller.

Jiang Ke'er has been quite high-profile recently, and with her connections to the vice president's family, the photographer couldn't do much but give Shen Qingzhi a helpless look.

Shen Qingzhi didn't care about it, she couldn't be bothered to get close to Jiang Ke'er. If they had to face each other during the shoot, she could handle it without any problem. Her face can withstand 360 degrees of slapping without dead ends*.

*Her face could withstand scrutiny from all angles.

After spending the entire afternoon, the cover shoot finally ended.

Shen Qingzhi changed back into her own clothes and was about to go home when she saw Jiang Ke'er standing alone at the door of the makeup room.

With no one else in the makeup room at the moment, Jiang Ke'er entered and closed the door behind her, staring at Shen Qingzhi with a cold smile.

Shen Qingzhi: ?

What's the meaning of this? You provoked me the whole afternoon, and I didn't even come looking for you to settle the score, yet you willingly come to me?

After finishing her work, Shen Qingzhi was so hungry that she didn't have the energy to reason with her right now, so she went straight to the door and said, "Excuse me."

Jiang Ke'er stared at Shen Qingzhi, removed her usual sweet disguise, and deliberately showed off.

"You acted very calm today. I heard that the role you have carefully prepared recently is yellow*, Nangong Xue. Do you want to know who won this role in the end?"

*fail/plans didn't push though 

Shen Qingzhi: Thank you for the invitation, I don't want to know now.

She stretched out her hand to move the woman away from the door, but unexpectedly, Jiang Ke'er looked very thin, but her lower body was very stable.

She used 80% of her strength, but she didn't seem to move.

It must be because Jiang Ke'er is too solid, definitely not because I'm weak!

Jiang Ke'er didn't care about Shen Qingzhi's reaction, and talked to herself.

"It's me. In fact, the show wanted to invite me to play this role from the very beginning. After all, my commercial value evaluation in the first half of this year was 50% higher than yours.

"Originally, I still had a female lead drama, and I thought it would be tiring to act in two dramas at the same time, so I pushed it away.

"But when I know that you have been focusing on this role recently, I couldn't resist and took the part."

"It's easy for me to get what you wish for."

Shen Qingzhi rolled her eyes in her heart. Jiang Ke'er was the only one who stole a role and said it so triumphantly.

Seeing Jiang Ke'er's expression of not intending to let her leave, she said helplessly, "Then congratulations, can you let me go now?"

Seeing that Shen Qingzhi remained unaffected, Jiang Ke'er became even angrier.

When Shen Qingzhi first debuted, she always overwhelmed her.

She was a young flower waiting to explode, but because of this newcomer who came out of nowhere, she was robbed of a lot of edge.

Now, finally, she had a chance to regain some ground due to Shen Qingzhi's poor reputation. However, she felt no sense of achievement from this victory.

Jiang Ke'er was not reconciled and continued to intensify her efforts.

"Treasure the opportunity you still have to talk to me face to face, from today onwards, the gap between us will become wider and wider.

"In the future, when people mention you, Shen Qingzhi, they will know that you are not as good as me, Jiang Ke'er.

"Did you read Queen Gu's Weibo last night, now she is the female lead of her new drama, and I am the most popular among netizens.

"You know that the producers are very respectful of public opinion when they choose actors now."

At this moment, the screen of Shen Qingzhi's mobile phone suddenly lit up, and she made a silent gesture to Jiang Ke'er, "Pause for a moment."

As she spoke, she clicked on the WeChat chat box.

Have You Eaten A Bunny Today?: Qingqing, the Yangzhou fried rice is ready, isn’t it great, waiting for you to come back. \(^o^)/~[Picture 1][Picture 2][Picture 3]