Fall In Love With A Substitute

ies, was certainly much more exciting than Starlight’s fucking useless statement.

“Don’t say anymore.
Everyone, even a love triangle’s concentrated efforts could not bring down my Big Sister Lin.”

“??? Is Ye Zixuan the female lead of a CEO novel”

“Then, if my Big Sister Lin was targeted by the female lead’s group, wouldn’t that mean she’s the villainess”

“This woman is soooo venomous.
Have you guys noticed that even after Ji Jing and Shen Yu took action she doesnt even repost their posts.
She really is a flourishing green white lotus”[2]

“Heard from insiders that she and Shen Yu both lost their resources, as they should!”

“What about Ji Jing? #LickingBloodFromAKnife”

“Starlight’s stock price has already plummeted, tsk tsk.”

Within the president’s office, where the atmosphere had frozen and simply made people feel out of breath, the secretary said:

“The Public Relations Department said that it implicated too many artists and that the accounts of all parties have been overcome by the masses, unable to handle it.
Even after inviting the water troops, they still can’t take hold of the situation, so it’s been recommended that we wait for the limelight to die off before cleaning up the scene.”

“At present, there are fourteen artists that have requested to terminate their contracts.
Here is the list of names.”

For the final topic, the secretary’s voice became a lot quieter:

“…Our stock has fallen by 37%, the downward trend has not yet stopped, and the market value has decreased substantially.
Director Li sent a message, asking to meet at the company three hours later.
Director Xi will also be returning today.”

Ji Jing’s face was frozen, as if he had been subjected to the mauling of a savage beast, and his breathing was rapid.

Since the time that he took hold of Starlight, the company’s market value had always been rising.
This time, however, it had been reduced by nearly half of its original value.
It was to the extent that he was about to be held accountable by the board of directors.

Ji Jing closed his eyes, his head a mess as he was unable to make heads or tails of the issue.

How could he have fallen to this degree!

Just who was protecting Lin Qinglu!

Ji Jing propped up his head while the bits and pieces of his phone lay scattered on the ground.
He sat alone in the frigid and spacious president’s office, awaiting the directors’ flames of fury that would befall him.

Shen Yu was currently on his way to the company.
After seeing the love triangle that broke out on the internet and the accompanying tongue-lashing on Weibo, he hastily sent out posts, asking the water troops to disclaim his and Ye Zixuan’s relationship.

Ye Zixuan flawlessly went and held a grudge against Lin Qinglu once more, was cursing Shen Yu within her heart, and thought about how to act pitifully with Ji Jing in order to take her role back.
After seeing Shen Yu’s declaration, she sneered and made a misleading Weibo post, implying that Shen Yu played around ambiguously on purpose and that she was the most innocent.

Shen Yu and Ye Zixuan pulled at each other’s hair, Ji Jing was confronted with the blame from the board members, netizens happily ate melons and were either busy standing up for or condemning them.

There was chaos everywhere, and the ground was covered in chicken feathers.

Not only that but the cause of all of this was just the few phone calls Jian Yixin had made while in the executive lounge with the bright and beautiful autumn scenery.

“Where is Shen Yu? What about Ye Zixuan? Ah?” Yu Bo was just then swinging around the script, losing his temper: “They don’t want to do it anymore, is that it? Terminate the contracts! Replace them!”

While Director Zhao was calming Yu Bo down, the others withdrew to the side to eat melons.

Once Jian Yixin answered the phone, her roomate Su Ting gave her a comprehensive lesson on the latest developments.

“Y’know, the thing on the internet! Pianxian, do you not know?”

Jian Yixin revealed a small smile, her eyes full of curiosity: “Hm?”

“Oh, Shen Yu and Ye Zixuan are being torn apart! Look at Weibo, quickly look, Ye Zixuan’s feigned pitifulness is being called out by Shen Yu’s fans, haha.
It’s really such a huge dogfight.”

“Ah, so that’s how it is…” Jian Yixin looked at it while nodding.

When Su Ting saw her mild, thinly-smiling appearance, she deeply sighed with emotion and said, “Pianxian, you are too pure.
You’re not gossipy at all.”

09, seeing the pure and tender affection on Su Ting’s face, deeply sighed with emotion and said that her host was awesome.

After saying goodbye to Su Ting, Jian Yixin went to speak to Director Zhao about the matter of leaving for a few days.

Before the movie’s solo dance, they had said that they would have to rework the choreography, and it was only until recently that they provided the new one.
Director Zhao thought that Jian Yixin would go back to practice the dance, so he straightforwardly gave her a vacation.

The whole time, Lin Qinglu was in the middle of filming, and even during the breaks, she was talking with Yu Bo.

Jian Yixin waited a bit and noticed that she didn’t seem to have the idea of resting.
As such, she didn’t go over and bother her, said a few words to Liu Lele, and left.

“…If it weren’t because most of scenes have already been shot, I would have talked to the producer about replacing them immediately— What are you looking at?”

“Nothing,” Jian Yixin’s figure went farther and farther away, and Lin Qinglu withdrew her gaze and also her thoughts.
She said perfunctorily, “What are you tossing and turning for? Think about it: just how much money can you save by using this particular incident to promote the movie once it’s out?”

Yu Bo crossed his arms: “Tsk, do you really not care about their evil actions? Even we, the ones watching the commotion, are more worried than you are.”

Lin Qinglu’s lips curved into a smile, and the tip of her tongue curled softly: “After going on for so long with many twists and turns, in the end they’re suffering the consequences of their own actions.
Simply think of it as watching a good show.”

Just a couple of clowns, that’s all.

Compared with them, she was more concerned about who on earth the person helping her was.

Before the scene had ended, Lin Qinglu once again glanced in the direction Jian Yixin had left.

What did Song Pianxian talk about with Director Zhao? Wasn’t she waiting for me a moment ago? Why did she leave? Why isn’t she back yet?

Nevertheless, Movie Queen Lin was prideful and wanted to teach the little dance understudy a lesson.
She even went so far as to avoid her once, so Movie Queen Lin had to let her know that even she had a temper.

And let her wait awhile.

Movie Queen Lin’s plan was absolutely perfect.
The only problem was, why didn’t this person seem to be returning?

After the scene was completed, she summoned over the competent and capable Liu Lele as if nothing had happened:

“Where’s Song Pianxian?”

“Oh, she left the cast.”

Movie Queen Lin’s hand slipped and the bottled water’s cap fell onto the ground.

“She’ll probably return in about three to five days.”

“……”

The author wants to say something:

So the situation is like this.

Jian: I am avoiding doing anything that will arouse suspicion.

Lin: Just what is she doing? Nevermind, I have to teach her a lesson.
Let her wait a little longer and only then can she speak with the noble me (head held high)

When she turned her head around to steal a glance: ?? Where is she?

Lin is not the sensitive and low self-esteem type.
She won’t, just because of an extremely slight avoidance, think that she’s hated.

Lin is like this → confident, proud, fluffy

TL Notes:

Btw i’ve seen some TL’s put smth like “she (character’s name)…” for vague pronouns.
So far, i’ve been using TL notes but i was wondering what y’all preferred: a TL note or smth like “she (LQL)” or “she (Lin Qinglu)” for those translations 

Please let me know if you prefer one over the other!

 

[1] in Chinese, “Miyami” is just a bunch of onomatopoeia like “meow” for “mi”, so it might just be a transliteration of some word.
Maybe japanese?

[2] this person is pretty much calling Ye Zixuan a “绿茶婊” or “green tea bitch” and calling her very scheming and two-faced, pretending to be a “white lotus”