Chapter 288: The Hot Springs Trip
When Zhao Yuyan and Luo Nan arrived at the hotel, Yu Linna was still very calm, a stark contrast to the enthusiastic Zhao Yuyan. And Zhao Yuyan was trying her best to please her, giving her snacks and massages, a fawning look on her face. Although Yu Linna said it had nothing to do with her, Zhao Yuyan still wanted to please her.
Actually, Zhao Yuyan just wanted to comfort her. Seeing her so down because of the animation incident, she couldn’t bear it.
Luo Nan looked on, speechless. She dragged her away to get a room and leave, and Yu Linna’s ears were finally quiet.
After seeing Zhao Yuyan off, Xiao Yanhan came to find Yu Linna again. This time, she showed her the newly drawn short manga. After Yu Linna finished reading it, as before, she told her to keep working hard.
“It would be better if you told the story a little better. Your plot is too simple and crude, and you can’t handle complex plots. You should avoid themes like detectives or mysteries in the future. These are too difficult for you.”
After returning the manga to Xiao Yanhan, Xiao Yanhan was lost in thought. She was also wondering if she had been doing something wrong all along, if she should reflect on it.
“Linna, your suggestion is good. I think we can actually have a collaboration.”
“How so?”
“I’ll draw, you’ll write the script. That’s what my dad did.”
“Mmm, rejected.”
“I knew it…”
Yu Linna had no intention of getting involved in manga.
The previous game character designs had already taken up some of her effort. She still had a third left to complete. In addition, she was almost two-thirds of the way through Ballad of the Enchantress, and she had the idea of finishing it. Currently, Ballad of the Enchantress was serialized up to the eighth volume, and it was expected to be completed in the tenth or eleventh volume.
Ballad of the Enchantress was originally a story about traveling to the future, but everyone read this book for the male and female lead’s CP. And recently, some readers had been speculating, saying online that the female protagonist was actually the male protagonist’s granddaughter, meaning they were in a grandfather-granddaughter relationship. And wouldn’t you know it, this actually made the popularity of Ballad of the Enchantress rise again, becoming a hot topic of discussion on the forums. As for the question of whether the female protagonist was actually the male protagonist’s descendant, the fans had also asked Shion-sensei online, but Shion-sensei was too busy to reply. Plus, with the animation incident, this question was put on hold.
Now many readers were not buying Ballad of the Enchantress out of revenge and were cursing the author online. But there were also rational fans who said that the animation had nothing to do with the author, and the author should not bear all the responsibility. Many of the readers who had flamed online, after calming down, also understood what they had done, and the cursing gradually subsided.
The animation of Ballad of the Enchantress could no longer be changed, solidifying its position as the worst film of the year. Caibi Company was cursed by thousands, and its reputation was completely ruined. Ballad of the Enchantress was also called an example of “tragically animated.” Many fans went to Weibo and suggested to those who hadn’t read the original work to go and read the novel, because the novel and the animation were completely different works.
But to be honest, the fans also loved and hated it deeply. How could they not be angry when their favorite Shion-sensei’s animation was so bad?
Yu Linna did have an idea for a new work. She wanted to change her mood and try a different theme. She wanted to write many stories, to write a work that was different from the time-travel romance theme of Ballad of the Enchantress. But whether it could reach the same height as Ballad of the Enchantress was hard to say. Even Zixuan and the Paper Airplane couldn’t sell as well as Ballad of the Enchantress. Every time, the sales of Ballad of the Enchantress were greater than that of Zixuan and the Paper Airplane.
Xiao Yanhan wondered when she could be as outstanding as Shion-sensei.
“By the way, have you heard that Senior Sister Yumeng has been nominated?”
Fang Jiangning said, holding a cup of milk tea.
“I know. I saw it on Weibo.”
Regarding Tang Yumeng’s nomination, Yu Linna had seen it on Weibo.
The movie Dream Life was nominated for a Golden Horse Award, and Tang Yumeng was fortunate enough to be nominated for Best Supporting Actress. This matter had also made the news. Tang Yumeng had been struggling in the entertainment industry for the past two years, but she had never become popular, was unwilling to accept the casting couch, and had no background or connections, so she could only work hard silently. During these years of precipitation, she had been honing her acting skills, and because of this, she had an excellent performance in Dream Life, making the audience thoroughly hate the character she played. In terms of performance, Tang Yumeng had succeeded.
“She said she wants to invite the two of us to her celebration party.”
“She told me, but I don’t know if she’ll be free. She’s very busy now.”
Yu Linna said.
But it was also a fact. Tang Yumeng now had more film offers, unlike before when she had no roles to play. Now that she was famous, she had many opportunities to take on roles. It was still unclear what kind of performance she would give.
But at least she had embarked on her journey.
“I’m not going to talk anymore. It’s time to take a shower. Linna, want to go together? There’s a hot spring here. It’s very comfortable. Since we’re out here, why don’t we go for a soak together?”
As soon as Fang Jiangning said this, Yu Linna immediately became timid.
“Can’t we just wash separately?”
“Then there’s no point in coming to a hot spring.”
“Actually, in the new era, women don’t really have the custom of bathing together. Chinese women are still very reserved…”
“Come on, it’s just a hot spring. What’s there to be shy about?”
Actually, Yu Linna really couldn’t accept bathing together, even if both parties were female.
As someone who had rarely had intimate contact with girls since she was a child, and had never even changed clothes together, how could she accept bathing with someone else? The difficulty was too high!
Yu Linna was fidgety and refused to accept. Fang Jiangning dragged her, but she still wouldn’t go. Fang Jiangning even said that Chinese girls could also go to the bathhouse together, that there was no such thing as shyness. But Yu Linna just wouldn’t go. She was unwilling to let others see her body.
If this were the island nation, it would be fine. But in China, if a woman said to another woman, “Let’s go take a bath together,” she would only get a white eye in return. Although they were soaking in a hot spring, and had booked a private one, it didn’t mean she had to bathe with everyone. She couldn’t accept it!
“If she doesn’t want to go, don’t force her. Let’s go, I’ll go with you.”
As a Beijing girl, Lan Ranyan didn’t have these concerns. She picked up her clothes and told Fang Jiangning they would go in together, without any hesitation. Girls from the north were just that direct and straightforward, without any hesitation. Even Fang Jiangning was stunned.
And Yu Linna insisted on waiting until Fang Jiangning and Lan Ranyan had finished washing before she went in with her clothes. Are you kidding me? Let her go in and wash with them? That’s impossible! She’s not that kind of person. She would rather wash alone.
The hotel’s architectural style was very similar to a Japanese Hokkaido wooden house design. Besides the rooms using key cards to open, the hotel lobby even had tatami mats and a kotatsu, which was very much like Japan. The wooden floor was made of good materials, definitely not the inferior rotten wood on the market. Anyway, Yu Linna felt quite good stepping on it.
She slid open the door to the hot spring, changed in the changing room, took off her bra and underwear and threw them in a basket, tied up her hair, and wrapped herself in a bath towel before entering. As soon as she entered the hot spring, a wave of hot air greeted her. She held her bath towel, tested the water temperature with her foot, and feeling that it was alright, she slowly submerged her body in the water.
“Ah~”
She leaned against the stones by the warm water, intoxicated. Coming here was the right choice.
But the price of this hot spring was quite high. Just staying in one room cost a thousand yuan, not including the cost of meals and the hot spring. And this was just for one person. What about for everyone combined? That was really hard to say.
For the Yu Linna of the past, this was truly unimaginable. At that time, she even saved on meals. If a meal cost more than 6 yuan, her heart would ache to death. And she really liked to drink milk tea, but she couldn’t afford it. She wouldn’t even part with three yuan for a pearl milk tea. Every winter, when she had no cotton clothes, she would lock herself at home and not go out. When she had no cotton quilt, she would wear more clothes to sleep.
For her to spend so much money on a trip was really unimaginable.
But now she had actually done it.
Of course.
Everyone in the dorm was not poor either. Not to mention her, Fang Jiangning, a big-time streamer, definitely didn’t lack money. Xiao Yanhan’s family background was not bad either; her father was a manga artist. As for Lan Ranyan… she didn’t know what her family did, but anyway, she didn’t seem like an ordinary person.
Thinking like this, everyone in the dorm seemed to be not simple…
Suddenly, the door was pushed open. Yu Linna quickly covered her chest and turned her head. She remembered that this hot spring had been booked by the four of them. It was impossible for anyone else to come in. Fang Jiangning and Lan Ranyan had already come in. Besides…
“Hi, Linna baby, I knew you were still here.”
Xiao Yanhan came in, wrapped in a bath towel, with a smile on her face. Yu Linna’s face instantly turned red. She hid her head in the water, wanting to calm down, but she had forgotten that this was hot water.
Xiao Yanhan pulled her head out of the water.
“Hey, what are you doing? The water is dirty.”
“You, you, you, what are you doing! Quick put your bath towel on!”
Xiao Yanhan untied her bath towel. Her smooth skin, snow-white breasts, and the two cherry blossoms on the peaks of the mountains almost made Yu Linna have a nosebleed. Without taking off her clothes, she didn’t know that Xiao Yanhan was so well-endowed.
“Since we’re already in, of course we should be frank with each other. Wow, Linna, your skin is so fair, much fairer than mine. Mixed-race people are really different. Look at your skin, it’s so enviable.”
“Eek!”
Xiao Yanhan touched her skin. Yu Linna shivered. She subconsciously wanted to run, but Xiao Yanhan was quick-witted and grabbed her.
“Hehe, little baby, don’t go~ Let’s be frank with each other.”
“No, no, no, let go of me! I’m going out!”
Yu Linna said nervously.
“Resistance is futile.”
Xiao Yanhan grabbed her chest and untied her bath towel in one breath. The bath towel fell from her body, and Yu Linna’s smooth body was exposed to her sight. Her flat and weak chest, not-so-perky bottom, and slender waist, just the blush that covered her was enough to make one’s imagination run wild.
“Ah! You pervert!”
She covered her chest and squatted down in the water, not letting her look. Being looked at like this was really too shameful. Could she go out? But Xiao Yanhan was like a hungry wolf seeing a fat sheep, her saliva drooling. She grabbed her shoulder.
“Hehe, Little Linna, let’s see you run now.”
Yu Linna covered her parts, not letting her see, but Xiao Yanhan was like a hungry wolf, desperately trying to look. She rarely saw her in her underwear in the dorm, but now, she could see everything. It was great.
“Alright, since you’re here, help me wash my hair, Linna.”
