After Filming a WLW Movie With My Straight Girl Crush 42p2

Chapter 42 p2

At the media meet-and-greet, the main creators entered one after another and sat on the stage, facing the cameras and reporters below.

The procedure was the same as what was written in the script, nothing special. There was no need to worry too much about the free-for-all Q&A session with the reporters. All the questions the media wanted to ask had been reviewed in advance. There was nothing that couldn’t be asked.

But Xu Ling, sitting next to Qin Cong’an, was very nervous. She kept drinking water, and soon the bottle was empty.

She signaled for a staff member to bring her another bottle. The staff member came from Qin Cong’an’s direction and stood between the two of them. Xu Ling had to turn to face Qin Cong’an and didn’t dare to look at her at all.

During the interaction segment, the two of them acted out what they had rehearsed earlier.

In the role of Jian Yu, Xu Ling was only relaxed for a short period of time. As soon as she was out of character, she fell into a cycle of licking her lips, ah, so dry, drinking some water, and licking her lips again.

The meet-and-greet ended smoothly. Everyone followed the instructions and left the stage.

Backstage, everyone gathered together for another round of pleasantries.

Chang Ning looked at the two actresses she had chosen with a happy expression. “After so long, you can still get into character so quickly. That’s great. It seems Jian Yu and Wen Xi have left a deep impression on you.”

Liang He asked, “Did you two rehearse just now?”

“A little,” Xu Ling said, subconsciously looking at Qin Cong’an, then quickly averting her gaze. “But we changed some things just now.”

Qin Cong’an just nodded and looked towards the exit, so obviously it was almost as if she were doing it for someone to see, telling that person that she didn’t want to stay here any longer.

Chang Ning’s gaze swept back and forth between their faces. She suddenly had the idea of casting the two of them in a story where they hated each other but fell madly in love in the process of revenge, a story of absurd entanglement.

After finishing work, Xu Ling got into the car, her shoulders finally slumping. Then she heard Yi Huai ask a deadly question.

“What’s going on between you and Qin Cong’an?”

“What do you mean, what’s going on?”

“The atmosphere between you two is too off.”

“We haven’t seen each other in a long time. We’re just a little rusty.”

Yi Huai looked at her suspiciously but couldn’t think of any other possibility, so she had to believe her. She asked, “By the way, have you added each other on WeChat?”

“…No.”

“You left too early that day. If you had just stayed a little longer,” Yi Huai said, shaking her head and sighing. “I think if you had asked to add her before you left, she would have definitely agreed. Although she seems very cold, after all, you’ve been together for almost half a year. She even shared her bread with Wen Qianning. What a pity. Now that a few more months have passed, it’ll probably be hard to get familiar with her again.”

“Bread?” Xu Ling was stunned for a moment. Why would Qin Cong’an suddenly buy bread? She didn’t even eat it.

“Yeah, the one you always buy when you pass by and the line isn’t too long.”

The day of the wrap…? That day, Xu Ling had been so hot she was dizzy. If she had stayed outside any longer, she probably would have gotten heatstroke. On the way back to the hotel, when she saw that bakery, she had even muttered to herself, these people are true fans, to be lining up in this heat.

Qin Cong’an had also gone to buy some? No, how could she have gone to buy it herself? She must have had Lin Xinnuo go. Poor Little Lin.

But the bread, could she have planned to share it with her?

Xu Ling looked out the car window, breathed on the window, and the cold glass immediately frosted over. She raised her hand to draw something, but seeing Sister Huai in the reflection, she just wiped it away again.

“Is Wen Qianning still in touch with Teacher Fang?” Xu Ling tried to calm down with someone else’s gossip.

“Huh?” Yi Huai gave her a baffled look, then understood. “You didn’t really think it was Wen Qianning, did you?”

“…It wasn’t?” Xu Ling had run into Wen Qianning going downstairs late at night several times, saying she was going to buy something. Wasn’t she going downstairs to find Teacher Fang?

Yi Huai shook her head in a hopeless manner. “You’re really determined to make the clumsy beauty persona stick.”

Ah?? It wasn’t? Xu Ling felt like her worldview was collapsing. So every time Wen Qianning went downstairs, she was really just going to buy something?

Xu Ling remembered Qin Cong’an telling her not to talk about such baseless things…

Xu Ling shut her mouth tightly. This time, she really didn’t dare to say anything. Then, what about Qin Cong’an and Xie Jing?

“Sister Huai, I… cough, cough, have a question.” Xu Ling decided to ask Yi Huai about it. Anyway, she and Qin Cong’an had “no relationship” now, so she could ask. “Is Qin Cong’an… in a relationship right now?”

Yi Huai looked at Xu Ling strangely. “Why are you suddenly speaking English?”

Xu Ling rubbed her nose. She didn’t know. She just felt it was hard to say in her native language.

“You mean with Xie Jing?”

Xu Ling froze. “Mhm.”

“I don’t know. I haven’t heard much. Those two are very private. Let alone their relationship, I haven’t heard much about their other affairs either,” Yi Huai said, driving and looking ahead. “So, maybe, maybe not.”

Xu Ling looked out the window again, her eyelashes lowered. Tell me no. Just like you said Wen Qianning wasn’t the subject of the gossip, tell me no with certainty.

At that moment, Qin Cong’an was on the phone with Xie Jing.

“Mom’s birthday this year, you’re not coming back?”

“No. It’ll be trouble if I get photographed,” Qin Cong’an said.

“Then you should get her a humidifier this year. The one at home is broken, and it’s leaking a little.”

“Okay.” Qin Cong’an was grateful to Xie Jing for even thinking of a gift for her. Otherwise, she really wouldn’t have known what to get.

Xie Jing said, “I saw the meet-and-greet. You’ve lost too much weight.”

“It’s for the role.”

“Eat more after filming.” Xie Jing received an impatient “I know.” “You’re really something. By the way, what’s the situation with you and her? Is it a promotional arrangement or something? It feels off.”

“Who?”

“Who else? You’re pretending now,” Xie Jing said, puzzled. “Did you have a fight?”

“I don’t know what you’re talking about. Change the subject, or I’m hanging up.”

“Change, change, change!”

Qin Cong’an listened to him ask about her filming, then talk about his own filming, and also about his mother. She responded in a desultory manner, a little annoyed, but didn’t hang up.

The call lasted five minutes and was finally over. Qin Cong’an opened Weibo and also looked at some of the content from the meet-and-greet.

Was she that obvious?

It seemed so.

Qin Cong’an put her phone away. She wouldn’t care about Xu Ling anymore, wouldn’t be moved by her anymore. She wasn’t someone who couldn’t let go, especially since it was only for a short three months.

As soon as the trailer was released, the audience was already looking forward to the story of the two of them in the movie. After the meet-and-greet, the fans started to speculate about their behind-the-scenes relationship again.

[No, the last time they were in the same frame, they were holding hands and being all sweet. Why is it like they hate each other this time?]

[Be like after a breakup and still having to do promotions together:]

[Is this really not part of the promotion? Don’t lie to me. I’m really going to ship it. It’s the first time I’ve shipped An’s CP outside of a drama.]

[An is so obvious. She didn’t look at her the whole time, but when 0 was getting water, she kept staring at 0’s mouth.]

[Isn’t 0 obvious too? 0 is so talkative and cheerful on other shows, but next to An, she’s so reserved and keeps drinking water tactically.]

The last comment even had a picture, with two screenshots of Xu Ling in two completely different states in the same picture. The contrast was too obvious.

Who was 0? It took Xu Ling a long time to realize they were talking about her. What the hell? She wasn’t! She wasn’t!

But in the picture, she was indeed very uneasy in front of Qin Cong’an, looking like a pet that had gotten into trouble and didn’t dare to look at its owner.

Xu Ling rubbed her face. Qin Cong’an was staring at her lips? They must have been mistaken. Xu Ling enlarged the photo. To be honest, it did look like it, but looking at her lips didn’t mean anything. Maybe she was just looking at the dead skin on her lips, and her OCD was acting up.

In a state of confusion, three days later, it was the movie interview.

When she learned that Qin Cong’an had already finished her interview two days ago and had returned to her set, Xu Ling’s mouth twitched a few times, and in the end, she just smiled and nodded.

“Can we begin, Teacher Xu?”

“Okay.”

After a few routine questions, the interviewer asked, “Acting with a senior who has been in the industry for ten years longer than you, there must have been a lot of pressure, right?”

“Pressure…” Xu Ling did feel a little pressure, but it wasn’t because of Qin Cong’an’s status. “It was okay, because Teacher Qin was always very patient in helping me and didn’t give off the oppressive feeling of a senior.”

“Are there any specific examples? How did she help you?”

“For example, when I wasn’t sure about the emotions, she would help me sort out the character relationships and the logic of the events…” As Xu Ling spoke, she was gradually brought back to that time.

The interviewer nodded and listened. “Then outside of filming, did she also give you any help?”

Xu Ling’s answers had been very smooth so far, but now she suddenly faltered. But she quickly came back to her senses. It wouldn’t be good if it were interpreted as “Qin Cong’an is very cold in private.”

“Because we have a lot of fight scenes, it’s inevitable that we’ll get injured. She would give me good medicine. After I applied it, I really didn’t have any scars.”

Yi Huai, at the side, reminded the interviewer to ask more about Xu Ling. Qin Cong’an was a bigger star, but they shouldn’t just talk about her.

The interviewer nodded and asked one last question about Qin Cong’an. “Director Chang said that the relationship between Jian Yu and Wen Xi is a bit beyond a normal relationship. Then, during the filming process, did Teacher Xu develop any feelings for Teacher Qin that were beyond a normal relationship?”

Xu Ling suppressed the surging emotions and first asked back, “Did you ask her this question too?”

“Mhm, I did.” The interviewer was stunned for a moment. Regardless of whether she was sensitive or not, Xu Ling’s tone and expression were really a bit strange.

“What did she say?” Xu Ling held her breath, waiting for her words.

“She said yes,” the interviewer said, and even looked down at the interview script from last time. “Her exact words were: ‘Of course.’”

Xu Ling let out a breath, glanced at Yi Huai, and answered the question. “I did too. Just as Director Chang said, Jian Yu and Wen Xi have a somewhat different relationship. To better portray their relationship, Teacher Qin and I also had some emotional, how should I put it, collisions? So yes, of course we did.”

The more she spoke, the smoother and more natural she became, but her tone became more and a more official, with a polite smile, an expression that seemed like something Qin Cong’an would show.

The interviewer looked at Xu Ling and nodded, then looked down at the script from last time. The situation Xu Ling described was very reasonable. It was just that Qin Cong’an hadn’t said that much. She had only said two words: “Of course.”