Substitute Lover [Entertainment Industry] - Chapter 61

As night fell and the city lights came on, the streets were bustling with people.

There were only 3 hours left in the competition.

Ji Fan’s group chose a barbecue stall. The raw materials were frozen meat purchased from the supermarket, which was very cheap but sold at a high price. Among the few of them, there was a popular young idol who had recently become very popular. As soon as he stood at the stall, he immediately attracted a large crowd of people, all crowding the dividing line and waving desperately to buy skewers.

“30 yuan a skewer!”

Song Yuan shouted casually.

Unexpectedly, someone handed over a 100 yuan directly, “No need for change, I just want to take a photo with my brother.”

“….. .”

This business was too easy to do.

A group of people outside the circle shouted loudly, “A live celebrity!”

“Buy, buy, buy!”

“3 skewers.”

“5 skewers.”

••••

On the other side, Jiang Cha’s group chose a slightly quieter location and sold fish balls and other fast food.

There were also many people watching, and they sold quickly.

However, the traffic flow was slightly less dense, and in the end, there was some left unsold.

As night deepened, the host began to count, “…800 and 50, 800 and 75.”

“The first group, 875.”

Then she started counting the second group.

Pointing at a pile of crumpled banknotes, she looked up, “The second group, 903.”

The second group won.

That is, Ji Fan’s group.

According to the rules, it was time for the truth or dare segment.

••••

Since this segment involved the privacy of the celebrities, they moved from the bustling street back to the hotel. On the top floor of the hotel, there was a wide terrace, lit with soft lights, and a round bar offering a buffet of red wine and dinner.

The terrace was booked by the program team, and there were no irrelevant people.

There was a white round table in the middle, and several people sat around it, enjoying the food while starting the game.

There were four people in Jiang Cha’s group, and each person was asked a question in turn.

Song Baiwei is introverted and usually just acted, with almost no gossip. Everyone looked at her, not knowing what to ask. The questions they asked were all superficial, and there was only one sensitive question that made her hesitate.

The question is, “Director Song has never had any romantic rumors with men. Is it because of her sexual orientation?”

Song Baiwei paused and nodded.

For a moment, everyone was surprised.

Only Ji Fan looked like she had expected it.

Jiang Cha looked at her slightly thin figure in the night and was slightly startled.

After Song Baiwei, it was the turn of the two male guests. Jiang Cha kept declining until it was finally her turn. In the meantime, a few people had indeed been electrocuted, but the current was probably very small, and most people just screamed and laughed without any other reaction.

“Sister, it’s your turn.”

Song Yuan looked up and pushed her, “Go on, I’ll go easy on you.”

Her eyes were curved, and she looked like she had a lot of bad ideas.

Everyone formed a circle, and Jiang Cha sat in the middle, directly facing the camera, and began to be questioned.

At first, the questions were friendly, asking about her favorite food, favorite animal, and whether she liked a certain female singer’s songs. But as they went on, Song Yuan became impatient.

Boring.

What kind of boring questions were these?

Everyone went through the motions, asking questions that were just right and didn’t require too much editing, from hobbies to evaluations of certain stars. The process was somewhat amusing, not completely dull.

Jiang Cha was quickly finished.

“Okay, that’s a wrap.” The director glanced at the time. It was almost 10:30, and everyone could rest. The editing team might have to work for a while.

“Wait.” Song Yuan looked up and smiled, “Since everyone is here, and we have the lie detector, why don’t we continue playing?”

“What are we playing? Everyone is very tired.” Song Baiwei glanced at her, “Go back and rest.”

“No way.”

Song Yuan smiled, “Are you really all very tired?”

The staff looked hesitant, especially the few who had been carrying the camera all day, their shoulders were sore, and they really wanted to leave.

But the guests didn’t react much.

First, they started recording after dinner in the evening; second, the recording process only lasted for a short time in the evening, and they had just eaten something at the hotel, so they were full of energy and wanted to move around to digest.

“It’s okay.”

“I can play a little longer.”

“Or let the staff go back first, and we can stay here a little longer?”

“Yes, yes.”

“I object!!”

“I want to sleep!”

The only two who wanted to escape immediately shouted, but were quickly pressed back by their teammates.

“Don’t be a coward.”

“That’s right, there are only eight of us, what are you afraid of having your secrets exposed?”

The director smiled, waved his hand, and left with the staff, leaving only eight people and a few restaurant waiters on the top floor.

“Since the lie detector is still in Sister Jiang’s hands, let’s start with you,” Song Yuan smiled slightly.

Jiang Cha was about to retort, but Song Yuan firmly pressed her onto the leather sofa that circled the enclosure, “Anyway, we’re all going to take turns, it doesn’t matter who starts.”

Jiang Cha was persuaded and had to continue sitting there, still a little nervous.

At first, everyone was a bit reserved, and the questions they asked were still boring, like what their favorite vegetables and fruits were.

The effect was not as expected at all.

If they continued playing like this, everyone could fall asleep.

Soon it was Song Yuan’s turn to ask.

She thought, since they said they were playing a game, couldn’t they be a little more open? After all, there were only eight of them, and they all knew each other.

Her eyes rolled, and she smiled, “Sister, among all of us, who do you think has the looks and temperament that most appeals to you?”

As soon as this question came out, everyone was shocked. This girl was bold! No one spoke, waiting to see how Jiang Cha would answer.

“What do you mean by appeals to you?” Jiang Cha asked.

Song Yuan leaned closer to her ear and said in a voice that only the two of them could hear, “It’s like, who can arouse your most primitive desire. You see her and you want to pounce on her.”

Pounce?

She kept her voice extremely low, but Ji Fan was sitting next to her, and she didn’t know how much she had heard. Jiang Cha, with her thin skin, glanced at Ji Fan with the corner of her eye. She saw that Ji Fan’s expression was as usual, her back straight, and she was sitting cross-legged in a proper manner, as if she hadn’t heard.

Jiang Cha first lowered her eyes to look at the lie detector tied to her hand, sighed helplessly, and then quietly glanced at Ji Fan.

That person still had an indifferent expression.

Her long curly hair was soft and thick, like seaweed, slightly lifted by the wind, revealing the silver earrings on her white earlobe. She clearly had a cold temperament, but Jiang Cha knew that she was typically the opposite of what she seemed, typically cold on the outside but hot on the inside.

Jiang Cha cleared her throat and said, “Yes, Ji Fan.”

As soon as she finished speaking, everyone started laughing, clapping and looking at Ji Fan with teasing expressions. Ji Fan lowered her head and smiled, the corners of her lips curved slightly, her eyes bright, and then she turned to look at Jiang Cha, her smile hidden in her eyes.

“Ms. Ji is beautiful.”

“This appearance, it really inherited the best genes of her parents.”

••••

Ji Fan’s mother was a very famous beauty back then. The older generation still remembers her. When her mother was young, print media was still dominant, and newspapers often had her photo printed on a whole page. As for her father, although he was wealthy, he didn’t have any distinctive features. But he was tall.

Ji Fan inherited her mother’s features and her father’s height, tall and slender. In the past, her father was worried that Ji Fan would grow too tall and it would be difficult for her to marry, but who knew she would be so worry-free and just marry a girl directly.

Jiang Cha looked at her quietly.

When they said this, they weren’t really trying to flatter her.

Song Yuan smiled lightly, her eyes sparkling, and continued to ask,

“So, the woman who made Sister Jiang gay back then was Ms. Ji?”

Jiang Cha hesitated for a moment.

Then she shook her head:

“It wasn’t her, it was someone else.”

“Huh? Someone else? Besides Ms. Ji, have you liked others?”

“Yes.”

Song Yuan immediately became curious, “Are you still in touch with them?”

“Occasionally.”

Song Yuan smiled playfully and asked deliberately,

“How often is occasionally? Do you contact every day?”

“We…”

Jiang Cha didn’t know how to say it for a moment.

Indeed, they did contact each other every day, but it was Bai Yihan who contacted her unilaterally, and Jiang Cha would reply to her, although not immediately, out of politeness.

Should she admit it or deny it?

On second thought, Ji Fan didn’t care, so why was she so worried?

So Jiang Cha nodded and admitted it.

“Wow, you contact every day?”

A circle of people sitting around started to make a fuss.

“Isn’t Ms. Ji angry about this?”

“Hahaha.”

“Ms. Ji trusts Xiao Jiang so much, the two of you have a good relationship.”

Ji Fan was still looking down, her expression cold, revealing no emotion.

Song Yuan smiled lightly.

There was going to be a show.

“What does she look like? Do you have a photo?”

Song Yuan continued to ask.

Jiang Cha was about to reflexively deny it, but then she heard Song Yuan say, “Don’t lie, now the pointer is pointing to the green light, but if you lie, the pointer will point to red, and you will also be shocked.”

Jiang Cha sighed helplessly and had to open her phone and show her a photo.

Song Yuan glanced at it and nodded in praise, “She’s pretty, a girl with a very pure temperament.”

Someone nearby who leaned over was puzzled:

“But why is she the same type as Ms. Ji?”

“Indeed, they look similar.”

“But she looks a bit younger, has she just graduated?”

Jiang Cha explained, “She just finished her Ph.D.”

“Yes, she has a strong student vibe.”

“She should have been very similar to Ms. Ji when she was studying.”

Jiang Cha felt a little embarrassed.

But she didn’t say anything.

She just prayed that everyone would keep their jokes within bounds and not go too far.

“Since you couldn’t be together back then, do you still miss her now?”

Someone across from her, thinking of something, also started to ask.

“I don’t feel anything anymore,” Jiang Cha said.

A surge of electricity instantly spread from her fingertips, and Jiang Cha’s arm went numb for a moment.

The pointer swayed slightly and slowly turned to the right in full view of everyone.

Red light.

She was lying.

In an instant, everyone was excited.

“Oh, you still… miss… her!”

“Hahahaha.”

“Xiao Jiang, this girl is quite affectionate.”

“I understand, who doesn’t have a white moonlight?”

“The first person you like is always the best.”

Jiang Cha looked at the flashing light incredulously.

How could that be?

Did she lie?

Jiang Cha opened her eyes wide in confusion.

Perhaps it was because of the night and the dim light that people became like nocturnal animals, bolder.

With the red flash just now, the atmosphere of the game was pushed to a climax, and everyone looked eager to try.

Many questions that they didn’t dare to ask before were now blurted out:

“Before, the media reported a rumor that you were going to get a divorce. At that time, were you really going to get a divorce?”

Jiang Cha was still in shock, her fingertips were still numb, so she admitted,

“I was planning to divorce.”

“Why?”

Jiang Cha didn’t answer, she just glanced at Ji Fan.

The other party tilted her head, her profile hidden in a patch of darkness, her expression unusually cold.

“Okay, I won’t ask why.”

“Then I’ll ask, why couldn’t you get divorced? Who was clinging to whom, and why didn’t either of you want to leave?”

“…”

Jiang Cha still didn’t answer.

After a long while, a voice said softly,

“Who asked the question.”

The boiling atmosphere was instantly doused by this cold voice, and the whole place was quiet.

The voice was neither loud nor soft, but it was extremely cold. Following the sound, they saw a woman dressed in black, with a flash of diamond in her long hair. Ji Fan coldly lifted her eyelids and looked at the man who had asked the question without emotion.

Anyone could tell that Ji Fan was angry.

Song Yuan seemed not to notice that the man had shut up, but she still smiled and leaned closer to Jiang Cha, asking,

“Is it because Ms. Ji is clinging to you and doesn’t want to leave, that’s why you couldn’t get divorced?”

Jiang Cha dared not lie:

“Yes.”

“So, you don’t have feelings for Ms. Ji anymore.”

Song Yuan looked into her eyes, blinking without blinking, “Yes, or no.”

Ji Fan suddenly lowered her head, her expression cold, her fingers tightened, and she gently turned the silver wristwatch on her wrist.

One second felt like a long, long time.

Jiang Cha glanced at Ji Fan with the corner of her eye.

Ji Fan lowered her head, playing with her watch casually, with an indifferent expression.

Jiang Cha took a deep breath and said coldly, “Yes, I don’t have feelings anymore.”

Ji Fan suddenly looked up at Jiang Cha.

The whole place was dead silent.

The pointer swayed slightly and pointed to the green light.

This was the truth.

She didn’t have feelings anymore.

Her voice was neither loud nor soft, but everyone heard it, and they whispered to each other in low voices:

“Oh my god.”

“What did I hear? They don’t have feelings for each other anymore?”

“No, no, no, it’s just that Jiang Cha doesn’t have feelings anymore unilaterally.”

“Huh? How can you tell?”

The person pointed, “Look at Ms. Ji.”

Ji Fan’s face was as pale as a sheet of paper. She held her forehead tightly, frowning, and the pain seemed to be unable to be hidden anymore, she collapsed weakly, as if she would fall with a single gust of wind.

Jiang Cha looked at her.

What was wrong with Ji Fan?

She was startled, but a little at a loss, and for a moment, she felt a little heartache, not knowing how to make it up to her.

At that very moment.

Ji Fan suddenly collapsed onto her.

Just as Jiang Cha was about to struggle, she saw the other person frown tightly and say, “Don’t move, I feel uncomfortable.”