The Empress In The Modern Era [Entertainment Industry GL] - Chapter 10

Looking at Wang Yun’s reaction, Yu Shilan knew the question had been asked for nothing. Wang Yun had not dreamed of her. But in the end, Yu Shilan still held a fantasy in her heart, so she refused to take back those words and continued looking at Wang Yun.

She was simply too shameless.

Even sleazy men were not as shameless as her!

Disdain surged through Wang Yun’s heart in waves, and she simply shook her head.

“No,” she said.

Yu Shilan’s expression dimmed. She no longer looked at Wang Yun, but sighed and leaned back against the sofa behind her. Still, she said slowly and helplessly, “You might not believe this, but I often dream of you. You in ancient clothing. You look exactly the same as you do now.”

You know I won’t believe it and you’re still saying it?

Wang Yun truly could not say a single word. In her heart, her contempt for Yu Shilan was simply endless, like a surging river flowing on and on. Yet she could not help silently muttering to herself: Could it be that Wang Min and Qiao Feiyu liked this type?

This… was it not a little too affected?

Telling a stranger that you had dreamed of them—forget others, even a three-year-old child would not believe that. Yet Yu Shilan had just said it like that. And maybe she had even used this method to coax Wang Min and Qiao Feiyu. This person truly had no sense of shame at all.

“Then besides me, have you dreamed of anyone else?” For the sake of her future development, Wang Yun had no choice but to patiently test Yu Shilan.

Yu Shilan turned her head and looked at Wang Yun with her eyes slightly raised. In those big, watery almond eyes, there was confusion and faint moisture. “There should be other people in the dream, but I can only see your face clearly. Besides you, I don’t know anyone else.”

Wang Yun: “…”

This love talk was so cheesy!

She chuckled foolishly and said, “Then this must be fate. Although I haven’t dreamed of you, I do find you very approachable. And yesterday, you siblings saved me too. You’re both my benefactors.”

When it came to speaking well, Wang Yun was many times better than Yu Shilan.

But Yu Shilan had no interest in dealing with these pleasantries. She murmured softly, “Why? Why haven’t you dreamed of me, but I always dream of you? We’re clearly two strangers. Even if there’s fate between us, it shouldn’t be like this, right? Could it really have something to do with a previous life?”

Although she was not superstitious, the problem was that she kept dreaming of Wang Yun, so in her heart, she had thought more or less about things like past lives and present lives. Before seeing Wang Yun, she could still comfort herself by saying it was just wild imagination. But now that she had seen her, and the other party had never dreamed of her before, Yu Shilan felt it really might be possible.

Otherwise, there was no reason that could explain it.

Could it be that in her previous life, she had wronged Wang Yun? Owed her a debt, and now had to repay it?

Wang Yun abruptly stood up.

This woman was seriously ill. She was treating insanity as deep affection. May heaven forgive her, but Wang Yun truly did not want to keep entangling herself with this woman anymore. Fortunately, she had learned a tiny bit of this shameless trick. Once she went back and thought it over some more, she might not necessarily use it worse than this woman.

“I suddenly remembered I still have something to do. I’ll leave first,” she said, picking up the bag on the table and walking away.

Yu Shilan did not stop her at all. She had already completely sunk into her own world.

Wang Yun hurried along. In the first-floor lobby, she saw Tao Xiaomei holding two cups of fruit juice. Tao Xiaomei immediately rushed over with a nervous face. “Why did you come down? She… she didn’t do anything gross to you, did she?”

Wang Yun took the mango juice from Tao Xiaomei’s hand, opened it, and gulped down a large mouthful before saying, “She didn’t do anything. It’s just that this person has something wrong here.” She reached out and tapped her own head. “She treats cheesiness as charm and neurosis as deep affection. Now I’m wondering whether Wang Min and Qiao Feiyu also have something wrong with their brains.”

Tao Xiaomei: “…This, this is?”

Wang Yun sighed. “Let’s go. Back to our place. I don’t want to get close to her anymore. She’s honestly a little scary. Oh right, the crew changed my role. Did He Zeng send any news?”

Tao Xiaomei said, “Brother He told you to go back early. He’ll pick a new project for you.”

After hearing this, Wang Yun fell silent for a while, then suddenly said, “Today was the crew’s opening ceremony. Did Dai Qian already go?”

She had been drunk all night and had not received any notice from the crew in the morning. Clearly, everyone already knew about the role change. Maybe many people had known last night, yet she had still been tricked by Dai Qian into drinking with so many people. At the time, everyone had probably been laughing at her in their hearts.

Tao Xiaomei had been following the news about the crew’s opening ceremony. Hearing this, she nodded, then secretly glanced at Wang Yun several times in worry.

Wang Yun took two deep breaths, but in the end, she revealed a smile.

“Why are you looking at me like that? Big Sister is a cockroach that can’t be killed,” she said. “This also isn’t the first time I’ve had a role stolen. When you’re not popular, being bullied is just being bullied. Once I become popular in the future, there’ll be so many roles I won’t even bother accepting them. I won’t care about this one. Besides, this time, it doesn’t really count as being that wronged. Didn’t I steal Dai Qian’s role back then too? One repayment for another. After this, I don’t owe her anything anymore.”

Hearing Wang Yun say this, Tao Xiaomei’s eyes turned red again. Others did not know, but she had accompanied Wang Yun through several years of struggle outside. She had watched with her own eyes just how many grievances Wang Yun had suffered. Yet she happened to have no ability to help. The only thing she could do was stay by Wang Yun’s side.

But when it came to what happened with Dai Qian, Tao Xiaomei felt indignant on Wang Yun’s behalf. “What do you owe her? Back then, who knew she and Zhang Chao were secretly dating? Besides, Zhang Chao was still her boyfriend, but just for the sake of having a meal with you, he fought to get the role for you. If a pie falls from the sky, are you supposed to not catch it? If she hates someone and wants revenge, she should obviously go find Zhang Chao. Why come after you? Is it just because you’re easier to bully?”

Was that not exactly it? The kind were easily bullied.

And it was said that Zhang Chao had even been Dai Qian’s first love. He was also a rich second generation who had entered the entertainment industry. Even if Dai Qian truly hated him, she did not have the ability to take revenge on him or bully him.

“Enough. Let’s not talk about it. Let’s go back and pack up. In a bit, we’ll see if we can book tickets for the afternoon and head back early,” Wang Yun said. Then she stared at Tao Xiaomei’s eyes for a moment. “And you too. In the future, don’t cry at the drop of a hat. We’re both in our twenties already, and you don’t like skincare. Crying all the time is bad for your skin.”

Tao Xiaomei’s mouth pulled open, and tears fell.

Wang Yun reached out and linked arms with Tao Xiaomei.

……

By the time Yu Shilan fully came back to herself, it was already lunchtime.

The door was being knocked on rhythmically, and Yu Yuanxing called from outside, “Sis, lunch! Hurry up.”

Yu Shilan abruptly stood up, only then discovering that she was the only person left in the room. That woman called Wang Yun had run off at some point. She rubbed her eyes and got up to open the door.

“Sis, why didn’t you answer your phone? You made me think something happened to you,” Yu Yuanxing said as he entered and looked around. “That Wang Yun left?”

Yu Shilan took out her phone and looked, only then realizing that at some point, she had set it to silent. No wonder she had not heard it.

“Mm, she left,” she said. “Oh right, you kept her phone number, right?”

Yu Yuanxing said, “No. Didn’t you say that if she left, I should have her leave her number? She stayed to wait for you, so I didn’t ask.”

She left without leaving her number? It seemed Yu Shilan had to think of another way herself.

Yu Shilan had thought about it for half a day and still had not figured out what connection Wang Yun had to the woman in her dream. But she felt that people absolutely did not have a dream for no reason, especially when the person in the dream had truly appeared in reality.

There had to be some connection here.

Even if she did not know it now, if she interacted with Wang Yun more, she might find out.

That dream had truly tormented her too painfully. Every time she dreamed it and woke up afterward, her heart felt empty, as if a piece had been dug out, yet it also hurt terribly. This dream had already tortured her for six or seven years. Sometimes she dreamed it at night, and sometimes she could even dream it during an afternoon nap. If she did not resolve it sooner, it would really harm her body.

The siblings went to eat. Since Yu Yuanxing had to leave at two in the afternoon, after eating, Yu Shilan accompanied him around the filming base for a while. After sending Yu Yuanxing onto his ride, on the bus back, Yu Shilan searched for Wang Yun on Weibo.

She had no manager and no assistant, and she did not know who she could ask for Wang Yun’s number. Because of that, she could only use this roundabout method.

Wang Yun’s Weibo only had 210,000 followers. After clicking in to look, Yu Shilan saw that the most comments under her posts were only about five hundred. And after opening those comments, Yu Shilan was shocked to discover that those five hundred comments had to be cut in half again, because Wang Yun replied to almost every single comment.

Yu Shilan also loved playing on Weibo. In reality, she did not have many friends, so she generally spent more time online. Up until now, although her Weibo follower count was still less than a third of Wang Yun’s, her comments were definitely far more numerous than Wang Yun’s.

Yu Shilan somewhat suspected that part of Wang Yun’s 210,000 followers had been bought. Thinking of this, for some reason, she suddenly felt quite sorry for her, and immediately clicked follow. Although this account was her only account, it did not reveal any information related to her identity, so she was not afraid.

For some unknown reason, after following Wang Yun, Yu Shilan opened Wang Yun’s latest beautiful photo, which was so pretty it looked nothing like the woman in her dream. She copied a fan’s comment, changed two words slightly, and posted it.

On the other side, Wang Yun was scrolling through Weibo and immediately saw that she had gained one more follower and one more comment.

A Cabbage White and White: Pretty pretty Yunzi girl, I’ve always liked you, and finally found your Weibo. [Love you] [Love you] [Rose] [Rose] [Rose]

Netizens these days really were artistic when naming themselves. A Cabbage White and White—what kind of brain circuit was that? Wang Yun complained inwardly while happily touching her own face, then clicked into A Cabbage White and White’s Weibo.

When she saw the other person’s follower count and comment count, Wang Yun smiled even more happily and called to Tao Xiaomei, who was applying something over her eyes, “Xiaomei, come here. Hurry and look. An internet celebrity with more than sixty thousand followers followed me, and even said she’s always liked me.”

Before Tao Xiaomei could come over, Wang Yun received a private message notification. She opened it, and her face immediately collapsed.

Yu Shilan: Hello, Wang Yun. You left in a hurry today and didn’t leave your number. Didn’t you say you wanted to treat me to a meal? Then leave me your number. Mine is 1867558xxxx.

Wang Yun: “…This lunatic really has taken a fancy to me!”