Gold Medal Mediator [Quick Transmigration] 48p1

Chapter 48: Sugar Mommy, Kisses (VI) p1

The set of “The Daily Life of a Transmigrated Consort” was so shabby it was outrageous. When Hua Baihe and Miao Keqi were brought in by the clapper loader, they only then realized that this was the filming location.

She clearly remembered from her impression that NB had invested a considerable budget in web series, and the characters they chose, no matter how bad, were at least from a professional background. Even if the supporting characters were eighteenth-tier small-time actors who flopped in every drama they filmed, they had at least acted before.

But with her and Miao Keqi… this looked more like forcing a duck onto a perch.

How did NB suddenly become so poor?

After Hua Baihe and Miao Keqi had a quick tour of the set’s few cameras, the shabby makeup room, and the shabby dressing room, the two of them looked at each other.

Zheng Xiaojun, on the other hand, was very broad-minded. He held a rolled-up script in his hand and came up to them with a smile.

“Have you two memorized your lines?”

Hua Baihe was about to nod. After all, she had seen the world’s timeline first and had the advantage of spoilers in certain aspects. She was quite confident that as long as this work wasn’t preempted by Wen Pictures, no matter how cheesy, it would definitely be a big hit in the market.

This novel theme, the popular elements, no matter how crude the production, as long as it was a new work that could cater to the public’s taste, it would definitely achieve unprecedented success.

But before she could nod, the director smiled again. “It’s okay if you haven’t memorized it. Just read it over. To make it easier to remember, the lines are written to be relatively simple. Xiao Ning, after our screenwriter watched your videos, he even combined your beauty blogger characteristics and revised the script overnight, specially creating a path for you to level up through skincare and makeup.”

Hua Baihe: “…”

Hua Baihe: “???”

Director, are you serious?

Why can this script be changed just like that?

And now she had a strong feeling that this drama was probably tailor-made for her.

She subconsciously thought of a certain CEO, and then her chrysanthemum tightened.

Director Zheng ignored her bewilderment and smilingly showed her the new script in his hand. The original Consort Shu only had the element of transmigrating to ancient times, but now NB seemed to be cooking a big hotchpotch. Thinking that since it was already an innovation, they might as well go all out, so they added a space element.

The female lead, Consort Shu, with the skincare and makeup products in her space, after going through various discomforts in the initial stage of transmigration, finally established a firm foothold in the harem struggle. Although she did not become the empress, she was the de facto number one person in the harem.

The prince she later gave birth to, because he was deeply loved by the emperor, was named the crown prince.

After Hua Baihe opened the script, her whole face was in a daze.

Director Zheng even said very considerately, “After all, we’ve added the space element, so the lines have been changed accordingly. You can ponder it over while you’re getting your makeup done later. If you don’t understand anything, just come and ask me.”

Because there was only one makeup artist on the set, while Hua Baihe was getting her makeup done, the director took Miao Keqi to familiarize himself with the camera positions and explain the scenes to him.

* * *

Hua Baihe sat in the makeup room, her eyes closed, letting the makeup artist create on her face with a brush.

That makeup artist, who knows if he was a part-timer from the hair salon next door, not only held his brush with his pinky finger up, but his voice was also sickeningly sweet. He called himself Tony in English. As he was doing her makeup, he exclaimed:

“Oh my god, how do you take care of your skin? My god, I’ve done makeup for so many stars, but your face is the most exquisite. Do you have any secrets to share with your sister?”

Hua Baihe thought of the prominent Adam’s apple on the makeup artist’s neck just now and felt that she really didn’t know where to start to share her skincare tips with this “sister.”

In the end, with her strong professionalism, she barely managed to maintain her persona, opened her left eye, and squeezed it at the makeup artist. “Go to bed early, get up early, and stay away from your phone.”

Tony moved the hand that was applying setting powder to her face a little further away and started to laugh uncontrollably. Seeing her open her eyes and look at him, he poked his index finger at her in the air.

“Naughty~ How could you fool me like that~”

Hua Baihe tried very hard not to tremble and slowly, slowly gave him a smile.

As the saying goes, when filming, it’s best not to offend the makeup artist.

Otherwise, who knows how ugly you can be under the lights and in the camera.

“But I’ve seen every episode of your beauty videos. Now that you’ve taken on a role, will you still update daily in the future?”

He picked up an eyeliner pencil. Although he was talking, his hands were very steady. With one stroke, he was done, and he started to deepen the outer corner of her eye. Because she was going to be on camera, the makeup had to be a bit heavier than usual, otherwise, it would be hard to see in the camera.

As Hua Baihe was answering him, she was multitasking, pondering something in her heart:

The change of script was strange in every way.

Including that Wen Congshu.

Putting aside why she went back on her word after seeing her and showed interest in her, even the sudden change of script was very strange…

Did her arrival trigger the butterfly effect?

Or was it that—

The shell of Wen Congshu…

Had also been replaced?

Once some thoughts took root, they were like roots finding a crack in the soil, eagerly taking advantage of the opening and spreading out carefully and densely.

“System, my goose, is the face you created for me this time based on Daji’s beauty?”

Otherwise, how could it make Little CEO Wen bend at a touch?

She was frantically calling the System in her mind.

System: “…”

Okay, shut up. Doesn’t it have any face to lose?

“Next world…” it said ominously.

Hua Baihe immediately said, “Daddy! I can’t repay your kindness of remaking me! How about in our next life, when you’re a cow or a horse, I’ll pick grass for you to eat!”

System: “…[Everyone else is artificial leather, only you are real leather (a pun on being cheeky).jpg]”

Hua Baihe: “For the sake of being a new dad, the looks for the next world…?”

The System replied with a deadpan expression, “Still online.”

Hua Baihe’s heart filled with joy. Little did she know that the System was already proactively scouting for their identities in the next world—

Since humans can no longer stop Hua Baihe’s advance, then the only way is…

* * *

“CEO Wen?”

Zhou Xiaochen suspected her own ears. Did she mishear?

Her boss, in the midst of her busy schedule, had decided to take the time to visit the set of a web series that had only been invested with eight hundred thousand?

She thought for a few seconds and found that poverty had ultimately limited her imagination. Although Wen Congshu had deals worth tens of millions and hundreds of millions, she was, after all, a CEO. Every penny was spent wisely, and even small businesses were treated with such importance.

With her mind made up, she quickly adjusted her expression and said to Wen Congshu:

“Between two and three in the afternoon, you currently have no appointments. You can arrange to go to the set.”

Wen Congshu nodded, indicating that she could arrange it.

Although this little fox would sooner or later end up in her mouth, she also had to inspect her territory from time to time, lest other things, being un discerning, snatched away her prey.

Two o’clock in the afternoon.

Hua Baihe, in the whistling sound of the wind machine, tried to hold her facial expression and, as requested by Director Zheng, showed a mixture of daze, surprise, and obsession.

The plot here was that the protagonist, Xia Dingning, a beauty blogger, encountered a short circuit in her camera during a live stream. While adjusting it, she forgot to turn off the switch, was electrocuted, and transmigrated—

Just as she transmigrated into the body of a showgirl and figured out the fact of her transmigration, she knew nothing about this fictional dynasty. In a state of extreme anxiety, she was arranged to attend a banquet hosted by the empress in the imperial garden.

But while she was still in a daze, a voice appeared in her ear:

“Ding-dong! Your portable space has been activated. Would you like to check it now?”

Xia Dingning was greatly surprised but did not dare to agree in front of everyone, for fear that she would suddenly be pulled into some strange place. If she came out after a great transformation, she would probably be executed as a monster.

She could only pretend to have accidentally fallen behind the group, secretly tapped “agree,” and then saw a semi-transparent page appear in front of her, on which were every skincare and makeup product she had reviewed before her transmigration, with a wide range of brands.

While she was still in shock, the emperor’s carriage happened to pass by outside the imperial garden.

In a fleeting glance, she saw how beautiful the current emperor was. She was completely stunned and completely forgot the etiquette of greeting the emperor. She was immediately reprimanded by the surrounding palace servants for her boldness and was forced to kneel.

Hua Baihe temporarily had nothing to say about this ridiculously cheesy plot that would definitely be criticized for eighty-one reasons if it were a historical drama. She just focused on the expression Director Zheng requested:

“A hint of surprise in the daze, and a touch of obsession in the surprise. It’s like a person who is all alone, standing in a strange place, and happens to meet their true love, falling in love at first sight. Do you understand?”

At that moment, Hua Baihe felt that she had really misjudged many actors.

She heard the sound of ten thousand grass mud horses galloping in her heart.

Every one of them was roaring:

“Who the fuck would think of falling in love at first sight with a man in a strange place where they are all alone?”

“Logic? Did you feed it to the dogs?!”

Hua Baihe sighed and tried to imagine her face as a pile of concrete:

Step one, pour in a pound of daze, then add a hundred grams of surprise and stir. Sprinkle in some obsession appropriately, and after mixing—

In the wind machine, she, facing Miao Keqi, who only needed to have a paralyzed face and not move, showed on her beautiful face…

An expression that looked suspiciously like a child with polio in rehabilitation.

It was not obsession, but more like idiocy.

Beautiful, yes, but no matter how you looked at it, it was silly.

At this moment, Director Zheng, who was drinking water outside the camera: “Pfft—”

Fortunately, he turned his head in time. Otherwise, if that mouthful of water had gone up, he would have been heartbroken over the camera in front of him.

“Cut, cut, cut, cut!”

He shouted a few words in a row. Although this drama only looked at faces, Director Zheng would absolutely not tolerate himself turning the drama into a silly comedy. He immediately put down Miao Keqi, who mostly only had to perform with a paralyzed face and had a natural presence, and explained this part of the scene to Hua Baihe in detail.

Hua Baihe tried to understand through her own speculation and her understanding of the character. After filming this scene twice more, she finally passed.

But she passed not because she made rapid progress, but because Director Zheng looked at her acting, sat alone behind the camera for a long time, and finally gave up and succumbed to her silly route.

“Anyway, there’s no money to change the female lead—a professional is more expensive than Ning Wanwan, and someone cheaper than Ning Wanwan is not as good-looking as her.”

Director Zheng comforted himself like this. Thinking of the fact that the screenwriter from NB would even change the script for Ning Wanwan, he also secretly pondered the relationship between Ning Wanwan and NB.

In the end, Director Zheng decided to be bold to the end and let her improvise.

Fortunately, Hua Baihe had some on-screen presence. Although her facial expression control was still a bit lacking, after acting in a few scenes with Director Zheng in front of the camera, she felt that she had gained a lot. During the lunch break, she was still pondering her control over her expressions.

The System saw her take advantage of Tony’s absence, holding her lunch box and making various expressions in the mirror in the makeup room. It was curious and asked:

“Do you like acting?”

Hearing its question, Hua Baihe immediately frowned slightly at the mirror, a hint of restrained pain in her eyes. When the System saw this, it was still thinking about which scene could make her show such a humiliating expression when it heard Hua Baihe ask in her heart with delight:

“Look, when the Child of Destiny wants to force herself on me in the future, isn’t this expression more impactful than before?”

System: “…”

“In Director Zheng’s words, there’s a touch of fortitude in this stubbornness, and stubbornness in the fortitude, and a hint of despair in the stubbornness. Ah—” Hua Baihe sighed in a theatrical tone and found that the System didn’t respond.

She asked, “System, my dear, why don’t you praise me? Are you not happy about my progress?”

System: “…” Not only was it not happy, but it was also pondering how to kill the host without breaking the law.

But Hua Baihe was still relentless. “Why aren’t you saying anything?”

“I know, you must be so happy that you’re speechless. It’s okay, I understand.” Hua Baihe, possessed by her acting bug, teased her own underage system without a shred of guilt.

For some reason, after Hua Baihe said this, she vaguely heard the sound of someone vomiting blood somewhere.

Her mood was greatly improved by this one-sided conversation. She finished the greasy lunch box in a few bites, opened her phone with its built-in beauty camera, looked at the few bottles of cleanser on the table, and, with a theme in mind, decided to change things up today and do a live stream.

* * *

“I’m tired of editing videos every day. Today, I’ll just do a live stream for you guys, so some people won’t keep saying I use post-production and beauty effects in my videos. Today, this fairy just wants to tell you—”

“Who has the patience for post-production? If a simple phone camera can solve the problem, don’t bother with all that nonsense.”

“I was relatively free the past two days, so I casually browsed through the submissions in the Weibo backstage. Then I discovered that I really overestimated the common sense of you mortals. Some people don’t even know how to choose a facial cleanser? For real?”

As she spoke, a look of surprise appeared on her face. Because her character this morning was only in the early stages, her makeup was not too heavy.

But she couldn’t help the bewitching charm that blended with her own persona. Although she had an innocent look, her facial features were able to break free from that light layer of makeup. As her eyes moved, the bitchy aura underneath was revealed:

[Mom asked me why I’m watching a video while holding a brick]

[Halt! What kind of demon is this!]

[Wuwuwu, fairy, please save my face. I was wondering why I’m getting worse even though I use cleanser and hydrating skincare every day. So there’s a trick to cleansers!]

[Hand over your skincare secrets and we’ll spare you!]

Hua Baihe casually picked up a bottle of cleanser next to her, pointed the ingredients list at the camera, and said with a calm expression, as if she were reluctantly enlightening the ignorant masses:

“I’m not at home right now, so I’ll just pick one as an example. See this ingredients list? I don’t expect you to understand it all. You can all read, right?”

“Come, come, look here. Repeat after me, ‘Ingredients: Water, Stearic Acid’—alright, stop. For those with dry and combination-dry skin, when you see stearic acid, you can put down the product in your hand. Stearic acid is a soap-based ingredient, which is very, extremely, and especially unfriendly to dry skin. If you don’t want your skin condition to get worse, will you stop the loss in time?”

[Your Daddy’s chemistry class has begun!]

[What are you looking at! Hurry up and take notes! It’s a key point for the college entrance exam, you know!]

“This is the most common soap-based ingredient. There are others like sodium myristate and sodium laurate. You can also throw them away when you see them.”

[Wait, what did my ears just hear? xxxx and xxxx???]

[I feel like I just heard a question: Given that 1+1=2, find the Goldbach conjecture?]

The live stream audience all suspected they had accidentally stumbled into a college entrance exam chemistry cram class. The bullet comments were filled with question marks, and some even apologized to her, saying they shouldn’t have thought she was a bitch with only a pretty face—

This! This was clearly a cultured, good-looking bitch!

Hua Baihe ignored the bullet comments, organized her thoughts, and continued her lesson. “Someone also asked me what cleanser to use for oily skin.”

“Don’t you guys often get closed comedones and pimples? Have you considered salicylic acid ingredients?”

With her few words of guidance, the atmosphere in the live stream room immediately changed, filled with a learning atmosphere of “ask if you don’t know.” Countless “difficult and complicated cases” flashed through the bullet comments. Those who didn’t know would have thought this was a small lecture by some dermatologist.

Hua Baihe picked a few representative ones to answer. Not long after, she saw Tony excitedly open the door. She said goodbye to her audience and turned to chat with Tony about cosmetics.

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