Before anyone could react, the whole filming site had become a red ocean.
Ning Xi was holding a card, and her face was black.
There was one sentence on the card: Remember to pick me up — Evil Fairy King.
"Miss Ning, please sign for the delivery."
"This, can I not sign? Leaving it all here would be a nuisance for work!" Ning Xi tried to politely refuse the delivery.
"Unfortunately no, we promised the customer that we would only leave after you signed for it!" The flower boy looked troubled.
Beside her, the props manager hastily said, "Ning Xi, accept it, accept it! It just so happens that we need to use roses later for one scene. Thanks to you, we won’t need to spend so much effort preparing them later!"
Since the props manager had said so, and Ning Xi didn’t want to make things difficult for the delivery boy, she could only rub the skin between her eyebrows and sign for the flowers.
At this time nearby, everyone was gossiping with admiring faces.
"Oh my god! So many roses! So romantic! Who sent them?"
"Still need to ask? It must be an admirer! Beauties are really treated differently, someone already sent flowers on the first day! And hundreds of them!"
Ning Xueluo’s assistant, Cui Caijing, then said in a seemingly casual way, "It looks like a lot, but actually doesn’t cost that much!"
Right after she spoke, yet another person suddenly came over looking for Ning Xi.
It wasn’t anything elaborate this time; the person carefully handed her a small box.
Everyone was insanely curious as they stole looks at the box, trying to figure out what it was.
Ning Xi opened the box with a suspicious expression. Inside was a large, sparkling diamond, with a note that had four words on it: Long time no see. It was signed: YS.
Seeing these two initials, Ning Xi’s face grew blacker.
F***! Did these two arrange this together? She just wanted to keep her head down, why did it have to be so hard?
Ning Xi had received both the flowers and the diamond before half the day was over. The drama crew was already gossiping like mad.
"Oh my god! That diamond is crazy big! It’s so bright, I’m going to go blind!"
"Ning Xi’s admirers are crazy!"
This time, Cui Caijing had nothing to say, but still whispered waspishly, "Who knows whether the diamond is real or not anyway?"
Ning Xi sat down heavily in a chair, and looked as if her life was ending.
What was supposed to come, would come…
There was nowhere to hide…
There was no helping it, Ning Xi could only apologize to the director. "I’m sorry, Director Guo, I didn’t mean to trouble the crew…"
Guo Qisheng did not mind, and smiled as he waved his hands. "It’s natural for a fair lady to have admirers! It’s alright, it’s alright, we’re going to use your flowers after all."
Not far away, Ning Xueluo looked calm, but was in fact gnashing her teeth so hard in hatred she almost broke them.
How could she not be jealous? This country bumpkin who had been like dirt then could now make men mad for her, and could easily obtain the things that Xueluo had to scheme so much for.
Before filming for the next scene started, Ning Xi found a corner to make a quick phone call.
"Hey honey, did you receive my delivery yet?" The voice on the phone was easygoing.
"Jiang Muye! F*** your uncle! You did this on purpose, didn’t you?" Compared with the voice, Ning Xi sounded much angrier.
"Tut-tut, you are the first one to receive my roses, yet you don't want to f*** me but my uncle instead! You have such bad taste."
"Don’t try to change the topic! What do you really want?"
"I don’t want anything, I’m just reminding you to pick me up at the airport. You promised me already!"
"You still dare ask me to pick you up? You’re not afraid I’ll bring a 40-meter long knife with me to chop you to death?" Ning Xi suppressed her desire to kill this person.
"Are you backing out on your promise?" The voice on the phone turned cold.
"The condition for picking you up was that you would lend me eight million, but now I don’t need it anymore. Didn’t I already send a message to tell you?"
"I don’t care, you already promised me. Even though you don’t need the money anymore, I agreed to help as soon as you asked, and it was for such a big amount. I was sincere. You hate to owe people favors, right? Doesn’t this count as a favor?"
Ning Xi clutched her forehead and paced back and forth. "I won’t talk about how you sent flowers to trap me now, but you know that the news about you coming back next month has already been leaked; your fans and the media will all be at the airport! You want me to pick you up? You want them to tear me apart? Jiang Muye, I dumped you once and you want to take revenge just for that?"
"Do I? I’m giving you a free pass to become famous, so many small stars pray for this kind of opportunity and can’t get it."
"NO! NEED!"
"Fine! If you don’t come, I’m going to let the whole world know that you dumped me! I don’t care that I’ll lose face, I want everyone to carry out justice for me!" The man on the line said, like he couldn’t care less anymore.
"You…" Ning Xi was so angry that she felt her lungs would explode. The most stupid thing she had ever done in her life was to provoke the disaster known as Jiang Muye.
Small one, you think I don’t know how to deal with you?
Ning Xi smiled with contempt. "Fine, pick you up, right? I’ll be there! Don’t regret it then!"
Actually, it wasn’t difficult to deal with Jiang Muye. He was just unhappy about being dumped by a girl for the first time, so he just wanted to make some trouble for her — he would stop once he was satisfied. Her biggest headache was the devil who had sent the diamond.
Forget it, forget it, she didn’t care anymore. There is always a solution to a problem!
"Ning Xi, someone’s looking for you — "
As soon as she was done, Ning Xi heard the production assistant Xiao Li calling for her, which made her really want to run away.
Who was it this time?
It still wasn’t over!
Everyone in the crew was excited. Was it going to be something even more elaborate this time?
In one corner, Cui Caijing’s expression was one of disdain. "These tacky old men only know how to waste money! So low!"
"Miss Xiao Xi, he… hello!" It was a timid girl this time. She looked unhappy and nervous, as if she had done something wrong.
In front of a girl like this, Ning Xi couldn’t be angry even if she wanted to. "It’s okay. You were looking for me?"
"I’m here to give you something." The girl opened what looked like a white cooler box. As cool vapor poured out of the box, Ning Xi saw three bottles that looked like they contained red, yellow and green fruit juices.
"This is…?" Ning Xi’s lips twitched a little. She had watched a lot of palace dramas, and her first reaction was that someone wanted to poison her.
"This was personally made by our Little Young Master. This is watermelon juice, orange juice and green bean juice," the girl replied.
"Who is your Little Young Master?" Ning Xi asked suspiciously, trying to recall whether she had offended a little young master who likes to make fruit juice.
The girl indicated she should read the note on the bottle.
Taking the note off, Ning Xi saw just one English word written on it: fighting, followed by a drawing of a heart.
Ning Xi could imagine how the other party must have blushed and pursed his lips when drawing the heart.
"It’s Little Treasure…" In an instant, the look in Ning Xi’s eyes turned soft, and her turbulent mood immediately calmed.
At first, she had been most worried about having too high a profile when starting her career, which could stir up unnecessary trouble and gossip.
But now, when she thought about it, why should she care so much about the opinions of people who cared nothing for her? If she constantly worried about what people thought of her in this industry, wouldn’t that just be too exhausting?
Back then, it was because she cared too much about what those contemptuous class elites thought of her, about her parents’ attitude and Su Yan’s thoughts, that she gradually lost her confidence and her own identity…
She already understood this, yet had let one instance like this shake her.
She just needed to be herself and keep a clear conscience, and one day, she would prove herself using her own strength.
She was fighting only for the people who cared about her.
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