A OO Love After Officially Announcing with the Best Actress - Chapter 17

Night fell on all sides, and the wall lamp in the room was switched on.

Lin Bingran rubbed lotion onto her face, then continued spreading it down to her neck while looking in the mirror.

Guo Rongrong walked in and said, a little surprised, “Jie, you’re doing skincare so seriously today?”

Lin Bingran blinked her long lashes twice, pondered for a moment, then hummed. “Young people’s skin is too good. Looking at it makes one itchy with envy.”

Female celebrities were all prone to falling into appearance anxiety, so Guo Rongrong said, “Jie, even compared with a twenty-year-old, you’re not inferior.”

Lin Bingran glanced at her through the mirror and smiled. “Of course you don’t think I’m inferior. But look at Lin Ke. Even after staying up all night, her face is still fair with a healthy blush. Tsk.”

The moment Guo Rongrong heard Lin Ke’s name, her expression turned unpleasant. “Don’t be so nice to her. She says she’s your fan, but who believes that?”

Lin Bingran smiled. After finishing the lotion, she considered whether she should steam her face too.

Her gaze swept over the script, and she suddenly said, “Did you tell Director Shen?”

Guo Rongrong said, “I did. The coordinator changed the call sheet. It should be sent in the group chat by now.”

Lin Bingran propped up her chin and took out her phone to scroll through Weibo.

Guo Rongrong packed a few pieces of clothing for Lin Bingran into the suitcase. Lin Bingran had other work these next two days and needed to leave the crew. Her flight was in the early morning, and Du Yi was coming to pick her up.

“Yi-ge is downstairs. I heard from him that it’s a monthly magazine cover. Don’t worry, the photographer is someone you’ve worked with before,” Guo Rongrong said.

Lin Bingran nodded. At her level, aside from long-term brand partnerships, she rarely accepted new endorsements anymore. Today’s magazine shoot was also because the artist had terminated their contract, and a friend had temporarily asked her to step in and help.

“We’re going to W City, so help me make an appointment with Doctor Fang too,” Lin Bingran said.

Guo Rongrong glanced at Lin Bingran and smelled a faint sour-sweet scent in the air. “Did you secretly eat candy?”

Lin Bingran was thirsty. She picked up a cup of tea, clicked her tongue, and said, “No. What candy? So sickly sweet.”

Car lights swept past the curtains. The bright light was glaring. Lin Ke went to pull the curtains shut, then lay back on the bed and tossed and turned all night, tugging and pulling at the blanket, unable to sleep.

After turning over for half the night, Lin Ke opened the interview video she had been thinking about all this time and dragged the progress bar. In the footage, the actor who had already retired from the industry was almost crying as she accepted a tissue from the interviewer.

“After enough time passes, no matter how hard it is to forget, you eventually forget. A role is just a role. Entering and leaving character is a basic quality an actor should have.” She forced out a smile.

The interviewer asked sharply, “Did you fall in love? Or were you unable to let go?”

The actor denied it immediately. She denied it too quickly, which instead made it seem suspicious.

Lin Ke unconsciously slowed down her apple-chewing.

The reporter held tightly onto the question. “Unable to let go of whom? Li Jia, or Lin Bingran?”

Li Jia was the character Lin Bingran had played in that film. This actor and Lin Bingran had played a couple who had been separated for more than ten years. Seven or eight years had passed since the movie was released, and even the interview video was blurry.

“I couldn’t let go of Li Jia, I suppose.”

“What was your daily interaction with her like in the film?” the interviewer asked.

The actor said, “She… was very nice. She could eat quite a lot.”

When this question came up, both of them laughed together.

At that time, Lin Bingran was in her early twenties. Young, beautiful, full of vitality, very polite, respectful toward seniors, and protective of juniors.

A born actor, powerful and likable. That year, her momentum was unmatched.

“Half the young actors in the crew liked her,” the actress answered with a smile.

The reporter laughed. At that point, this part of the interview ended.

Maybe…

Lin Ke thought, perhaps Lin Bingran was not as unbearable as she had imagined. After spending half a month together, Lin Bingran could be considered an interesting senior.

Lin Ke held her phone. The screen stayed on her chat with Great Demon King. She wanted to apologize for offending her today.

She typed: Teacher Lin…

What kind of lousy opening was that!

She deleted it word by word.

I didn’t mean it that way today…

But the other person had probably heard every single word more clearly than Lin Ke herself had said them. If she did not mean that, then what did she mean?

Lin Ke was upset. Thinking of Lin Bingran getting out of the car angrily made her even more upset.

…Teacher Lin, kissing you actually wasn’t that unbearable.

Lin Ke examined that line.

Not that unbearable? So it was still a little unbearable?

Lin Ke: “…”

Better not say anything at all!

Forget it.

If she said the wrong thing and did the wrong thing, she should apologize.

Teacher Lin, I didn’t mean it that way. Please don’t be angry. I’ll buy you Buddha Jumps Over the Wall to make up for it, okay?

After sending the message, Lin Ke tossed her phone aside and closed her eyes. Exhaustion spread through her whole body, and sleepiness surged over her. She slept all the way until the next day.

The next day, the crew’s outdoor location encountered quicksand. After dragging the car out, they had no choice but to choose and arrange the location again. The scenes originally meant to be filmed in one day were forced to be split into two days.

The staff and Lin Ke were all exhausted. After a busy day, Lin Ke only knew that Lin Bingran had not come today. She heard Lin Bingran had other work, and her manager had picked her up yesterday.

Before sleeping, Lin Ke opened her phone, stared at that big cat profile picture for a long time, then sent Lin Bingran two more messages, trying to break the ice in their stiff relationship.

Teacher Lin, have you calmed down?

When are you coming back? The Buddha Jumps Over the Wall all ended up benefiting Director Shen.

She waited two hours, but the chat screen had no reaction at all.

Lin Ke began picking at her nails, thinking:

Not replying on the first day meant she was angry.

Still not replying on the second day meant she was very angry?

If she still did not reply on the third day, did that mean they were going to cut ties?

It was getting late. The next afternoon, they still had to go to the seaside to film. Today, she could rest all the way until noon tomorrow.

It was rare for her to have the chance to sleep early, yet Lin Ke had no sleepiness at all. She got out of bed and swallowed two melatonin pills, then lay there pretending to sleep until the sky turned pale and dawn began to break. Lin Ke was woken by her phone ringing.

“Holy crap!”

Lin Ke was startled awake and followed Lu Tu in panicking. “What happened?”

“Hurry and look at the trending searches! Lin Bingran’s suspected romance has been exposed!”

Romance?

Aside from her, Lin Bingran’s on-screen girlfriend, there was someone else?

Lin Ke’s sleepiness vanished completely. She climbed up to look for her phone, not forgetting to exclaim along with her, “Oh my god!”

Lu Tu said, “Hurry and get up to wash. We’ll talk in the car!”

There were no messages on her phone. Lin Ke tossed it away, quickly washed her face, and rushed downstairs in slippers.

Gossip was more important. She had not even wiped the toothpaste from the corner of her mouth before charging into the RV.

On the other side, a few hours earlier, Lin Bingran had just finished the magazine shoot.

She had wrapped at around five or six the evening before, and by the time she reached W City, it was almost ten. They had shot through the night, rested for only two hours, then started shooting again. She changed into five or six looks, finished the cover, inside pages, and an interview. After two busy days, she did not even know whether the crew’s filming progress had been going smoothly.

Her phone had run out of battery, and she had not had time to charge it. Guo Rongrong said Doctor Fang was waiting for her at the hotel.

The flight was scheduled for morning. She would return to Water Town, rest for half a day, then go to set refreshed and energized that night.

Thinking of this, Lin Bingran lazily yawned.

Guo Rongrong pressed the doorbell. The room door was opened from the inside, and a female alpha stood there with a gentle smile.

Her face was strikingly similar to the actress in the interview video Lin Ke had watched.

Fang Wuyu said, “Yo, this great Buddha has finally arrived?”

Lin Bingran said, “Mm. I’m here.”