Chapter 486: I Refuse
Yu Linna had refused to act in this script. It was unknown for what reason, but anyway, she was unwilling to act. Kang Hyun-ah didn’t understand why. She had carefully read the script and didn’t seem to have found any problems. This script was called When the Alarm Bell Rings. It was about how a good person became a corrupt official, and in the end, had a sudden awakening. Kang Hyun-ah had read it several times and had not found any problems.
Yu Linna sat in her chair with a cold face, not wanting to bother with it. This had made the director very anxious. And Kang Hyun-ah was holding the script again, looking at Yu Linna’s scenes. Actually, the scenes inside were really quite short. It was just a foreign girl who had said a few words in English when she had met the male protagonist. The male protagonist had said that he didn’t understand and had asked her to speak Korean, and then this foreign girl had spoken a few sentences in her terrible Korean.
On the whole, there was no major problem.
But a careful look showed that there was indeed a not-so-good part.
“The lines must be revised, otherwise I’m not acting.”
Yu Linna had very directly asked the other party to revise the script. But the other party was clearly not very willing.
“This joke is so good. Why revise it? No!”
After hearing the translator’s words, Yu Linna didn’t want to waste her breath anymore. She directly stood up and indicated that she was leaving.
“Goodbye.”
Kang Hyun-ah also didn’t understand what was going on. She quickly chased after her.
“What’s wrong, idol? Why are you unhappy?”
“He takes ignorance as a joke. This is what makes people angry.”
Kang Hyun-ah carefully recalled the script just now. When it was written about the role that Yu Linna wanted to take on, there was such a plot. The male protagonist had talked to that foreign girl about the problem of good people and bad people.
And this was also the point that Yu Linna could not accept the most.
The original lines were as follows:
“What do you, this child, know about me? Good people have nothing, and bad people have everything. You don’t understand.”
“Why are you acting like a Chinese child? Can’t you be a little more mature? Don’t be so foolish.”
And it wasn’t just that.
Also, in the back, in the role that Yu Linna was playing, she had come to South Korea to pick up her own bodyguard, and her bodyguard was also a Chinese person. At that time, the role that Yu Linna was playing had to say a sentence in Chinese:
“Are you a pig?”
If it had just been said in Korean or English, it might have been fine, but the script had required that it must be said in Chinese.
Yu Linna found it hard to accept.
She was not a pure-blooded Chinese, just a Chinese with Chinese nationality. But she had grown up in China. She felt that this kind of low-level joke had seriously hurt the feelings of her countrymen, and she could not accept it.
“Shion-sensei, I’m very sorry.”
“It’s not your fault. I just said, if you want me to act, then you have to revise the script. But now, even if he begs me to act, I won’t. To hell with such a script.”
She had her principles, she had her own thoughts. Since the other party was unwilling, then there was no need for her to waste her time.
Some people take their own persistence as a virtue, little do they know that it is just a kind of ignorance. If your joke makes people feel uncomfortable, then it is not a joke, it is being a nuisance.
Seeing this, Kang Hyun-ah had silently decided to withdraw from this crew and not to act in this play anymore. After all, anything was fine, but her idol could not be unhappy. If she felt unhappy, then Kang Hyun-ah could not continue to do that kind of thing.
This matter was just a small interlude.
But it had still been spread within the South Korean entertainment industry. Although this news was not widely spread, there would still be people who knew. On a certain day, this sentence had reached the ears of a certain Chinese person.
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During the time that Yu Linna was gathering material in South Korea, the domestic film circle had not had many waves. If there was anything worth paying attention to in June, it was that the director Ye Zhiyun, who was known as a box office poison, had finally filmed a commercial romance film with her heart. This film was about the hardships of a long-distance relationship and the beauty of love. It had touched the hearts of young people, which had made this movie the biggest winner in June. Even when a Hollywood blockbuster had entered the June slot, it had not been afraid at all and had still gone head-to-head with the Hollywood movie, fighting for the box office. At present, the cumulative box office had exceeded four hundred million.
Ye Zhiyun had finally made a name for herself, and had finally not had to worry about bankruptcy. Many film producers had started to take the initiative to find her, and sponsors had also found her, hoping that their stars could endorse her.
During this period of time, she had also started to appear in the news frequently, and had frequently received interviews. Some had even found her to film a variety show. She had opened up a path in the entertainment industry with her own hard strength, and everyone would finally not say that she had gotten ahead with Zhu Yiqian’s heat. She had everything, and had also finally tasted the taste of success.
She had once wanted to create a place for them to live in this world, wanted to use her own ability to protect that her, so that even if the whole world opposed them being together, she would have the confidence to contend with it.
But now, that her was gone. For whom was Ye Zhiyun working so hard?
For a moment, she seemed not to understand the meaning of her struggle.
“Director Ye, you are very popular now. Everyone says that you are particularly good at filming male-female love stories, and your filming techniques also have a special beauty. Did you study photography before?”
“Not really. It was because of my family that I came into contact with photography when I was very young. I also like to take pictures myself, so I started to play with cameras when I was little. At first, it was a digital camera, and then a DSLR. I’ve also taken a lot of pictures. So when I’m filming a movie, I’m used to filming it like taking a picture, to get a picture-like feeling from the most suitable angle. I will definitely cut out the shots I’m not satisfied with, until I’m satisfied.”
During the interview, Ye Zhiyun was eloquent, a far cry from the image of the incompetent person who had been furiously flamed in the past.
“Director Ye, the love story in the movie, does it have a prototype?”
“Not really. The script was written by Yajun, and the idea was also hers. I’ve discussed it with her many times, and have revised it many times back and forth. The final version is still very different from the original script. Actually, for love, we are all very simple. We just hope to be with our other half for a long time, even if it’s across the other side of the earth. It’s not easy for people in a long-distance relationship to be in a relationship. The time they spend together is little, and the distance is also long. But I hope that every friend in a long-distance relationship can be like them in the movie. Even if there is the most distant distance in the world, they will still come to your side to accompany you.”
“That’s very well said. Thank you, Director Ye.”
No one knew that at the end of the interview, Ye Zhiyun’s smile was particularly forced.
In front of the reporters, she had spoken so eloquently, but in reality, how could she be like in the movie? She had spent so long, had put in so much effort, but in the end, she had been unable to cherish the person in front of her, and had parted with regret.
This movie, she had filmed it herself, yet there were still people who liked to watch it. It was really too ironic. In her eyes, it was clearly a ridiculous fairy tale. Why would so many people like to watch it?
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Yu Linna had seen this interview video in a foreign country. Her mood was very complicated. What kind of mood she had for Ye Zhiyun, to be honest, it was already very vague now. Perhaps she didn’t love her as much as before. Anyway, she would no longer have any thoughts about her. It was just that sometimes, it would be very sad.
Their chat history had forever stayed on the day before their breakup. From then on, they had never sent each other a message again.
Having rejected the script, and having no esports club to go to, and her novel being unable to be recognized by the South Koreans and difficult to produce, under such circumstances, the things she could do were extremely limited. After thinking about it, she had wanted to go and see An Xiayue. So she had bought a ticket to Busan by herself, wanting to find her.
After telling Yu Xiayue, she had said of course she could, and had told her where she was. Yu Linna had left Incheon, alone on the train in South Korea. She had had her ticket checked, and was leaning against the window, looking at the scenery outside. The people around were all Koreans, and she couldn’t understand much of the Korean they were speaking. She still kept silent.
When had it started that she had learned to live alone in a foreign country? When had it started that she had gotten used to being alone? When on earth had it started that she had become no longer herself?
How she missed the old days. At that time, she couldn’t eat her fill, couldn’t wear warm clothes, and didn’t even have a home. But every time she could eat meat, she was very happy. Once, she had earned a little money from a part-time job, and it was also the New Year. She had bought some good meat for a change, and had made herself a bowl of meat sauce noodles. She had eaten that bowl of noodles very fragrantly. It might have been the most fragrant bowl of noodles she had ever eaten.
Now that she was grown up and had money, she no longer had to worry about food and clothing. She also had a job and had become a successful person. But on the contrary, she was not as happy as before, and her troubles had also increased. The her who would be happy just from eating a bowl of noodles before, now, even if a bundle of cash were thrown in front of her, she would not be happy.
She really missed the carefree her of the past, the cheerful her. Where on earth had she gone?
Arriving in Busan, in an unfamiliar place, she had wanted to find Yu Xiayue, but Yu Xiayue’s work was very busy, and she couldn’t come out. After she had waited for a long time for Yu Xiayue to come out, she had told her that she couldn’t accompany her.
“Nana, I’m sorry. I’m really too busy. I can’t get away at all. Can you wait for me to get off work? I will definitely accompany you tonight. This is my hotel’s room card. You take it. I’ll give you the address in a bit.”
Yu Xiayue had stuffed a room card into her hand, telling her to wait for her at the hotel. Then Yu Xiayue had returned to her workplace. She had to be busy with promotions again.
The way she had left was very much like the Ye Zhiyun of the past.
Yu Linna held the room card in her hand, sighed, and slowly walked on this road. Busan, compared to Incheon, seemed to be much more vast. But the people she knew here were even fewer, or rather, there were none at all.
With nothing to do, she went to buy a few clothes, alone in the unfamiliar Busan. Fortunately, some people could speak English, so she could barely communicate. But in the end, her purpose for coming here was just to relax.
She took her phone and fell into deep thought looking at the voice message that Yu Xiayue had sent her.
“Nana, Nana, I’ll be back soon. You have to wait for me properly. Don’t run around. You’re not familiar with Busan. It’s easy to get lost.”
She felt a warm current, put her phone back in her pocket. If only the Ye Zhiyun of the past had been like this to her, how wonderful it would have been. She walked on a street by herself, thinking about whether to buy something to bring back. Yu Xiayue would surely be hungry when she came back in a bit. Thinking like this, she had walked a little far.
