A OO Love After Officially Announcing with the Best Actress - Chapter 10

“Boss lady, one jianbing guozi, please.”

“Sure! Please wait a moment!”

At eight o’clock, the morning rush-hour crowd briefly gathered in one place. The next second, they surged onto buses and disappeared into the city’s veins in the blink of an eye.

The world suddenly became open and spacious. Only dog walkers, parents taking children out, and people jogging remained. The few remaining passersby all contributed themselves to the breakfast stalls.

The vendor skillfully spread out the egg. Lin Ke stood second to last in line, painfully forcing her eyelids open as she waited.

She had only slept for two hours. At this moment, her whole body radiated a low-pressure aura, as if dark clouds were hanging over her head.

Her phone dinged.

Great Demon King sent a message: “Remember to add two eggs.”

Lin Ke: “…”

The line gradually shortened, then grew longer again. Lin Ke went from near the back to near the front. Behind her, two chattering middle school girls squeezed together.

“Hey! Do you know Lin Bingran? She seems to be filming a movie in Water Town.”

“Really?!”

“I’ll show you the photo. It’s a leaked shot from an extra.”

Lin Ke turned back. The two little girls, still childish-looking, were excitedly huddled together looking at a phone.

She could not help perking up her ears.

“She’s filming an omega-and-omega story!”

“Ah! Who is she acting with?”

“Someone else with the surname Lin. Not popular. I think she’s called something Keke?”

“Keke bean?”

“Hahahahahaha!”

Lin Ke: “…”

Ding. Her phone rang again.

Great Demon King: “Double the ham too.”

Behind the scenes, Lin Ke was noble and aloof. Online, she was timid and obedient. “Okay, Teacher Lin.”

Exiting WeChat, Lin Ke tapped into the chat with her industry friend, Zhu Mo.

In anger, she typed: “I must become more popular than Lin Bingran and make her line up at eight in the morning to buy me breakfast!”

Lin Ke stood outside Room 601 and knocked.

About a minute later, footsteps sounded behind the door.

The door opened a fist-wide crack. Lin Bingran narrowed her eyes, her amber gaze shifting from hazy to clear. Then she said, “Come in.”

Lin Ke looked at the soles of her shoes, then looked at Lin Bingran. “I…”

“What are you standing there for?” Lin Bingran unpacked a pair of disposable slippers for her.

Lin Ke took off her shoes, changed into the slippers, and stepped onto the carpet in the entryway of Room 601.

Inside the room was the faint green-tea pheromone scent of an omega.

Lin Ke kept her eyes lowered and carefully placed the toes of her sneakers in a straight line.

Lin Bingran went to the bathroom to wash up. When she came out, she was wearing pure cotton pajamas with a cartoon-style big pork knuckle drawn on the belly.

Lin Ke: “…”

The two sat around the terrace balcony. There was hot water prepared on the wooden table. Lin Bingran brewed tea, handed Lin Ke a small cup, and began eating the jianbing guozi. “What did you eat?”

The jianbing guozi gave off its fragrance. Lin Ke had not slept enough and had no appetite.

“Please eat, Teacher Lin. I’m going back to sleep,” Lin Ke said.

Lin Bingran got up, found a script from the sofa inside, and tossed it to Lin Ke. “If you go back, you can only sleep for two hours. You might as well go through the scene.”

Lin Ke held the two pages and glanced at them, then looked at Lin Bingran in surprise.

The two pages of script were the scenes she had to film today. Red and green markers had noted Lin Ke’s performance logic and the understanding of Chu Feng’s character.

Lin Ke was stunned. “…Did you not sleep this morning?”

Lin Bingran was fully immersed in eating and drinking and did not look at her. She only said, “I couldn’t sleep, so I found something to do.”

It would be a lie to say Lin Ke was not surprised. With a complicated expression, she sat down and opened the script.

Lin Bingran ate very quickly this time. After finishing, she offered to run lines with Lin Ke.

How to say the lines, where to pause and emphasize, the character’s logic and thoughts.

“Besides this, there’s also a night scene. How have you prepared for that?” After going through the script five or six times, Lin Bingran suddenly asked.

Lin Ke froze. Thinking of the scene on the call sheet, her blood pressure shot up. “I… I…”

“I said I’d teach you.” Lin Bingran took away Lin Ke’s two script pages. “Now, I’m Chu Feng.”

Chu Feng had cleaned the Li family residence for a full week. Every time she left, Granny Zhou would pay her some wages.

Granny Zhou said that Water Town had simple and honest customs. Chu Feng had clean hands and feet and worked neatly. If the Li family had more work next time, she could come again.

Chu Feng smiled, revealing a pair of white teeth. She bowed deeply to Granny Zhou and ran out of the main hall. When she reached the doorway, she looked back at the round window on the second floor.

For the next half a month, Chu Feng did not see Ji Fengling again.

The old residence backed against a low mountain. It was built on the highest point at the edge of Water Town, and there was a tree facing a certain room on the second floor.

After school, Chu Feng would hold a blade of grass in her mouth and lean against the tree trunk in a daze. Sometimes, she would take out a notebook and do homework. Sometimes, she did nothing at all and simply wondered what that young lady’s name was.

The weather grew hotter day by day. It was the season for harvesting grain in the village. Chu Feng did not go to the back mountain today. After school, she went straight home.

“Jie—” Chu Feng knocked on the door latch, but no one answered.

There were only two sisters in the Chu family. The house they lived in was an adobe mud house left behind by their parents.

Black tiles and mud walls. Chu Feng climbed over the man-high wall and entered through the gate.

Her foot stepped on something. She lowered her head and saw that it was one of her family’s ducks, its belly cut open and thrown into the courtyard.

She went to the water jar in the kitchen to scoop some water to drink. Then she heard obscene, uneven sounds coming from the main room.

Chu Feng was angry and helpless. She scooped up a ladle of water and poured it over her head, then ran over and kicked the door of the main room.

From inside came a man’s rough laughter and a woman’s sob-like cries.

There were no men in the Chu family. That afternoon, after Chu Feng and Chu Qiu had a fierce argument, Chu Feng slammed the door and left.

Chu Feng sat on a tree trunk, twisting a leaf to block the sunlight as she carefully looked at the small double window.

“Cut!”

The unfocused look in Lin Ke’s eyes gathered light again.

Shen Feng laughed loudly and came over to pat Lin Ke on the shoulder. “Xiao Lin, that was pretty good acting! How did you suddenly become enlightened? Who gave you a lesson? Hm?”

Wang Bingbing and Shen Kuo came out. Lin Ke smiled awkwardly and shyly turned her head, searching the set for another figure.

Lu Tu came over holding two bottles of water. She handed one to Lin Ke and one to Shen Feng, then asked curiously, “Director Shen, did Film Queen Lin not come to set today?”

Lin Ke’s nerves jumped. She heard Shen Feng say, “She doesn’t have any scenes today. She’s probably resting at the hotel.”

Shen Feng looked at Lin Ke and said, “Rest for two hours. Notify Lin Bingran to come over and prepare for tonight’s scene.”

Lu Tu gave Lin Ke an ambiguous smile, rolled the script into a paper tube, and poked Lin Ke’s arm with it repeatedly.

Lin Ke gulped down a whole bottle of water, then went to lie on the reclining chair beside the standing fan to rest. The fan whirred as it turned. Her temples throbbed painfully. The moment she closed her eyes, there was only the dream.

“You’ll act as me?” Lin Ke asked in astonishment.

Lin Bingran casually picked up a throw pillow and stuffed it into her arms. She reminded Lin Ke, “Watch carefully. I’m starting.”

Lin Bingran first smiled at Lin Ke, then slowly closed her eyes. The color of her smile changed.

Lin Ke saw a blush float across Lin Bingran’s face, like the crimson of a rose.

The woman opened her mouth, her voice soft and winding.

Following the rising emotion of the scene, Lin Bingran tightly twisted the pillow with both hands, tightening it more and more.

Lin Ke’s nerves seemed to be twisted by her little by little as well. Her palms began to sweat, dampening Lin Bingran’s matching tea cup.

A few minutes later, Lin Bingran suddenly stopped. She opened her eyes and drank some tea to soothe her throat. With the flush still not yet faded from her face, she asked seriously, “How was it?”

Lin Ke could not comment. She threw down the script and fled Room 601 in a panic.

When she reached the door, Lin Bingran chased after her and said something that almost made Lin Ke’s feet slip.

“I hope I appear in your dreams.”

Bang!

A huge door-slamming sound answered Lin Bingran.

“Scene Nine, the ‘Spring Dream’ scene!”

“Set, prepare—”