Chapter 482: Zhiyun’s Melancholy
Who would have thought that the two big stars of the South Korean entertainment industry were actually a lesbian couple? If this were to be known to others, it would surely scare them to death. After all, neither Yoon Jeong-eun nor Kang Hyun-ah seemed to be the type to be lesbians. As stars, they had acted with other male stars and had also filmed normal male-female love stories.
Yu Linna, as an outsider, had accidentally witnessed the two of them being intimate. And Yoon Jeong-eun herself was of a suspicious nature and had to keep an eye on her. She even had to take her out for meals, and during meals, Yu Linna had to watch Yoon Jeong-eun and Kang Hyun-ah exchange loving glances. Oh my god, she was about to be blinded.
“What are you looking at, you stinky girl? Just focus on your food. If you dare to look a few more times, I’ll poke your eyes out when we get back.”
Although Yoon Jeong-eun was extremely gentle to her lover, she would even wipe her mouth for her during meals and would specially help her eat the dishes she didn’t like. But she was not like this to outsiders.
Kang Hyun-ah was also in a dilemma. One was her lover, and the other was her own idol. Which side should she be on?
Fortunately, Yu Linna herself didn’t mind this. She would just focus on eating her own food.
“How long have you two been together?”
When she was bored, Yu Linna would also find a topic to chat about. After all, it was quite boring to just eat and not talk.
Especially when she had been forcefully brought out by Yoon Jeong-eun.
“We’ve been together for about two years now,” Kang Hyun-ah said with a smile. Yoon Jeong-eun was just about to scold her, but seeing the happy smile on Kang Hyun-ah’s face, she thought for a moment and decided to forget it.
“Then your relationship is pretty good.”
“It’s alright. We’ve been together for so long. Although we’ve also argued, and have even fought, but I think this is a necessary part of life. After experiencing so many storms, I feel very happy to be with her.”
“I’m so jealous.”
“Hahaha. Sensei, you will find a suitable partner. I believe so.”
Yu Linna smiled wryly and said nothing.
Yoon Jeong-eun had a stinky face and sneered.
“Hmph, you, if you have a lover, you will surely break up.”
Yu Linna’s hand trembled.
“Wait, Jeong-eun, you can’t say that. It will make people uncomfortable if you talk like that.”
“…Alright, I’m sorry. Hey, girl, I was just kidding. Don’t mind it.”
She used her terrible Chinese for the second half of her sentence.
Yu Linna didn’t say anything, just sipped her drink, but many memories flashed through her mind.
If you have a lover, you will surely break up…
That’s right. She had indeed broken up with her. In November of last year, they had gotten together. This March, their relationship had ended. The time they had been together was only five months. She had also wanted it to be longer, and had even wanted to marry her, but how could there be so many fantasies?
Kang Hyun-ah saw that she seemed to be thinking about something and called out to Yu Linna. Yu Linna came back to her senses and quickly returned to her normal state, as if nothing had happened. And this was just a small interlude for Yu Linna in South Korea.
…
Ye Zhiyun, who was still in China, was working hard on her own work, moving forward to become a qualified director. Her movie I Just Want to Be With You was about to be released in theaters. It was positioned as a romantic comedy. This was another challenge for Ye Zhiyun, but the outside world was generally not optimistic. After all, she had a previous record. The two films she had directed before had both flopped. The standard of this film should not be much better.
But many people had forgotten that Ye Zhiyun was not from a professional background. In her career, she had only had a few works. To be able to do this was already very difficult.
But the outside world didn’t care. And in this film, Ye Zhiyun had used a large number of newcomers, and the screenwriter was also a newcomer. Besides herself, almost everyone was as new as they could be. Just in terms of the promotional lineup, they were already a big step behind others.
Ye Zhiyun had given up the opportunity to enter the summer blockbuster season. She herself also felt that the competition in the summer blockbuster season was too great. She had chosen to release it in June, but to be honest, there were also many strong rivals in June, and even Hollywood imported films. To release it under such circumstances seemed unrealistic no matter how you looked at it. But Ye Zhiyun still decided to face it head-on. If she delayed the release, it would not do her any good either.
“Boss, I’ve finished writing the script. You can film it anytime. If you still need anything, you can find me.”
Wen Yajun had given the finished script to Ye Zhiyun. After Ye Zhiyun had read it, she was quite satisfied and nodded.
“Yajun, this story you’ve written is not bad. I quite like it. But your story’s style seems to have changed a lot. The story you wrote when you first came was quite romantic. Why are you changing your career to write about a drug bust theme now?”
“Ah, this… let’s not talk about this first. Boss, how are you now? You’re not drinking tonight, are you?”
Ye Zhiyun leaned against her chair, thought for a while, and nodded.
“I drank a bit too much last night and was photographed by a reporter, who said I was an alcoholic. Forget it. I’m not going to drink anymore. It’s not good to always be drinking. The media always likes to find me to flame me. I can even cause so much trouble just by drinking.”
“It’s good that you’re not drinking.”
Wen Yajun was really scared of her.
In the company, Ye Zhiyun was just a shareholder. Her other identity was a director. It was just that Wen Yajun liked to call her “boss.”
And Ye Zhiyun had been very fond of drinking recently, always going to places like bars, and even pulling Han Ying along. Han Ying’s identity in the outside world was relatively sensitive to begin with, and she was also a returned overseas Chinese from Japan. Her new movie, I Just Want to Be With You, was about to be released. To go out drinking with Ye Zhiyun at this juncture, of course she would be flamed if she were photographed.
Han Ying also didn’t want to go out every day. That was also quite tiring.
“Boss.”
“Mmm.”
“You, do you need something to drink, besides alcohol?”
“…Buy me a bottle of a refreshing drink. My head is a little dizzy.”
“Alright, alright.”
Wen Yajun quickly went out. This boss of hers was also not easy. After breaking up with her girlfriend a while ago, she had been in a muddle-headed state for two days, but she had still returned to her work post and continued with her career. It was just that sometimes she would stare out the window in a daze. It would be a long, long time before she would return to reality and continue with the work at hand.
Actually, sometimes Wen Yajun wanted to say, Since you like the other party, why did you have to break up?
This point, Wen Yajun found it hard to understand. After all, she had never been in a relationship. And she had also been a hikikomori for a few years after graduation.
“Zhiyun, take a look at this document. If you think it’s okay, then sign it.”
Dai Wenqian walked in with a pile of documents and had her look at them one by one. If she thought they were passable, then she would sign them. Ye Zhiyun rubbed her temples, feeling her scalp go numb, but she still looked at them carefully.
“Why are there so many of these things?”
“Stop complaining so much. These are all sponsors. It’s not bad to be able to get a sponsor. We don’t have that much money at this stage.”
After experiencing two consecutive rounds of failure, the outside world no longer had the patience to wait for Ye Zhiyun to grow up. Even if Ye Zhiyun had debuted with the identity of a beautiful director, this circle still spoke with strength. Without ability, she simply could not gain a foothold here.
With insufficient funds, insufficient investment, unable to hire big names, and no quality guarantee, how was Ye Zhiyun going to prove herself?
Especially since the outside world was still spreading rumors that Ye Zhiyun had a relationship with Zhu Yiqian. Zhu Yiqian’s lesbian rumors had been circulating in the circle for a long time, but everyone had never had any evidence. And Ye Zhiyun’s close contact with her would naturally make many people think in that direction. It could be said that Ye Zhiyun’s fame was not unrelated to Zhu Yiqian. Zhu Yiqian had really brought fame to Ye Zhiyun, although in a negative sense.
“Zhiyun, I’m taking this away.”
“Okay. By the way, Wenqian, can you get me two painkillers? My head hurts.”
“I told you not to go drinking last night, and you still did.”
“I’m not going tonight.”
Dai Wenqian had a helpless look on her face. On her way to deliver the documents, she had also gone back to her own office to get some pills and had given Ye Zhiyun two. Ye Zhiyun had taken the pills, rubbed her temples. The heavy dark circles under her eyes showed that she had not been sleeping well.
“It would have been fine if you hadn’t forced it back then.”
Dai Wenqian couldn’t help but say a few more words.
Ye Zhiyun’s hand trembled, and then she smiled, a smile that was even uglier than crying.
“If we don’t break up, I have no confidence that I can be with her anymore. To continue to be together, what’s the point?”
“But you didn’t throw away your ring. You haven’t let go, have you?”
“My heart is not there anymore.”
Ye Zhiyun waved her hand, indicating that she could leave. Dai Wenqian didn’t say anything more and left. She had been starting a business with Ye Zhiyun after dropping out of school for two years, and until now, she hadn’t achieved anything. Actually, Dai Wenqian had been thinking if she didn’t have the ability in this area and had also thought of giving up.
These days, she had cried too much. Even if she had worked hard, what she couldn’t do, she couldn’t do.
Ye Zhiyun would also cry, but she was unwilling to let others see it. Wenqian knew that she was also bearing this pressure. She was moving forward under pressure, just hoping to do better.
Ye Zhiyun just wanted to make herself more outstanding. She wanted to complete the wish she had not completed in the past, even if that person was no longer here.
…
Just as Ye Zhiyun’s new movie was about to be released, a big event had also occurred in the entertainment industry.
And that was Nangong Ying, who had not had any news for a long time and had basically been blacklisted by the entertainment industry, had a piece of news in the near June.
And that was that the Hong Kong film Blood Whale would be released in mainland cinemas in October of this year, starring Nangong Ying.
Just this one small piece of news had caused a huge uproar on Weibo.
The information that Nangong Ying had been blacklisted in the mainland had been confirmed. People were also speculating about the situation of the popular star, Nangong Ying, after she had left the mainland to develop in Hong Kong. Chenghe had also been on the hot search, but not many people had left comments on this. Everyone was just concerned about why Nangong Ying had been blacklisted.
And to have fallen to the point of running to Hong Kong to film?
In the last century, Hong Kong did indeed have the beautiful name of the Hollywood of the East, but it had declined after entering the new century. Now the largest film company in the country was the mainland’s Chenghe Film Company. Although Hong Kong films were still around, they couldn’t make a big wave. Especially action films. It was said that Nangong Ying was even acting in an R13-level bloody and violent film this time, and the language was also Cantonese. It was really unknown what kind of wave it could stir up in the country. After all, in domestic films, people generally still watched Mandarin.
The news of Nangong Ying filming in Hong Kong had caused a heated discussion in the country. Compared to the topic of Ye Zhiyun’s box office poison director, Nangong Ying’s heat was clearly a little higher. And Nangong Ying herself had finished reading the newspaper in Hong Kong, but she was too lazy to even respond.
