What to Do When Pretending to Be an Alpha Gets Exhausting [Entertainment Industry] - Chapter 8

Ye Xingyuan threw Ji Chuxi into the car.

Ji Chuxi knocked his head and became a little more clearheaded from the pain. He complained, “Can’t you be a little gentler?”

“No.” Ye Xingyuan had no intention of being gentle at all. He climbed into the car and rummaged around for a while before raising his head to ask Ji Chuxi, “Where did you put your inhibitors?”

Ji Chuxi casually pointed.

Following the direction, Ye Xingyuan found the box containing the inhibitors.

“Hurry up.” Ji Chuxi was feeling unbearably uncomfortable and could not help urging him.

Ye Xingyuan took out the syringe and pushed it slightly. A tiny drop of transparent liquid overflowed from the needle tip.

“Are you doing it yourself, or should I help you inject it?” he asked.

Ji Chuxi was weak all over. He glanced at Ye Xingyuan, then obediently stretched out his smooth arm.

The needle pierced into his flesh, and the inhibitor was pushed into his body.

The medicine took effect very quickly.

A few minutes later, Ji Chuxi had completely calmed down.

It was just that the narrow space inside the car was still filled with a large amount of wild chrysanthemum fragrance.

After the discomfort passed, Ji Chuxi turned his head and stared at Ye Xingyuan without blinking.

“Something wrong?” Ye Xingyuan happened to meet his gaze.

Ji Chuxi curled his lips and could not help asking, “Why don’t you feel anything toward me at all? Am I really that unattractive? Or are my pheromones completely unappealing to Alphas?”

Ye Xingyuan casually took two bottles of water from the side, opened one, and handed it to Ji Chuxi. His voice was clear. “It’s not that you’re unattractive. I just don’t like Omegas.”

“Pfft.” All the water Ji Chuxi had just drunk sprayed out.

Droplets of water slid down the seatback.

Ye Xingyuan pulled out a few tissues in disdain and handed them to him. “Calm down.”

As an Omega with extremely sweet pheromones, he only wanted to be an Omega who could be cute, sweet, salty, and still have an absolutely wonderful sex life. Was that too much?

“Is that too much?” he asked the system.

System 001 pretended to crash. “Beep beep biubiu zzz gao gao.”

Ye Xingyuan: “…Get lost!”

He had not even said that he had taken a fancy to Pei Yanchen yet.

Although it was a first love destined to die before it could bloom.

While doing missions during transmigration, he could influence the development of the plot and cause butterfly effects, but past experience had shown that if he was meant to stay single, he would still stay single.

Unless someone could awaken self-awareness and take the initiative to fall in love with him, it was impossible for him to obtain love.

He could not even stop being single.

Just thinking about it made him angry.

Ye Xingyuan, a ten-thousand-year single dog, chugged a bottle of water and calmed down.

Ji Chuxi pressed two fingers to his forehead. “You don’t have a fever. Why are you talking nonsense?”

Ye Xingyuan grabbed his wrist and pushed it away. “Which eye of yours saw me talking nonsense?”

Ji Chuxi rolled his eyes. “You used to be willing to throw away your life for Su Luoqing. You rejected me again and again for him, and now you’re telling me you don’t like Omegas? Even if you want to comfort me, there’s no need to curse yourself, right?”

“The past is the past, and now is now. People can’t live in the past forever, and I can’t possibly like Su Luoqing forever either.” Ye Xingyuan did not care whether Ji Chuxi could accept it or not. After saying that, he opened the car door.

Ji Chuxi followed him out of the car and asked, “Really? Have you really thought it through?”

Ye Xingyuan nodded in silent confirmation.

“It would’ve been great if you had figured it out earlier. Then you wouldn’t have fallen to your current state. Besides, Su Luoqing has so many pursuers around him who are better than you. There’s no way he’d ever look highly upon you.”

Ji Chuxi was blunt and did not like beating around the bush when he spoke.

But he was not wrong.

Su Luoqing was an advanced fishery manager. There were so many noble fish in his pond that even if they lined up, Ye Xingyuan’s turn would never come.

Only the original owner had been foolish.

He sacrificed everything for love.

Raising the banner of love high, he gloriously marched to his death.

In the end, his family was ruined, and he was still never given another glance.

“Let’s go. I’ll take you back.” Ye Xingyuan escorted Ji Chuxi to the door of his room.

“Wait.” Just as Ye Xingyuan was about to leave, Ji Chuxi called out to stop him.

Ye Xingyuan stopped. Ji Chuxi chased after him a few steps. “I’m really sorry for hitting you yesterday. And for what happened today, thank you.”

Ye Xingyuan was good at reading people’s expressions.

He knew Ji Chuxi was not rotten to the core.

On the contrary, Ji Chuxi was the kind of person who easily made others feel sorry for him.

He took the baseball cap off Ji Chuxi’s head and hooked it on one finger, spinning it in circles. “You’re welcome.”

At 4:30 a.m.

Ye Xingyuan was still half-asleep and half-awake.

He was woken up by Xu Xiaopan.

He rubbed his eyes and yawned. “What time is it?”

Xu Xiaopan said, “Four-thirty.”

Ye Xingyuan’s sleepy peach blossom eyes widened round. “You woke me up at four-thirty? Am I the protagonist? Am I a big shot? I’m not. I’m just cannon fodder with no billing rank.”

After saying that, he wanted to lie back down and sleep again.

Xu Xiaopan wrapped his arms around his shoulders and refused to let him lie down, shaking him hard. “Brother Xing, don’t sleep. The assistant director just called me and told us to be at the set by five for a makeup and costume test.”

Ye Xingyuan was unbearably sleepy. Although his biological clock was early, that did not mean he could wake up at any time.

His eyes were half-lidded as he said painfully, “I’m too sleepy. Let me sleep a little longer.”

Xu Xiaopan snatched away his pillow. “Brother Xing, don’t sleep. From what the assistant director said just now, they’re going to add scenes for you.”

“Add scenes?” Ye Xingyuan’s voice was flat, without any fluctuation. Clearly, his soul was still asleep.

“Add scenes?” he asked again.

Xu Xiaopan’s voice was loud and clear. “That’s right, add scenes. The assistant director said they’re temporarily adding ten scenes. If you perform well, they’ll continue adding more. Maybe in the end, your name might even appear in the cast list.”

“Add scenes.” Ye Xingyuan worked hard to wake up his soul. He yawned long again, then crawled up to look for his shoes. “All right. I’m a dedicated actor. I’ll get up.”

When he arrived at the set.

They began the costume test.

After trying on the costume and makeup, they also took character stills.

Originally, for his role, they had only planned to casually put on some makeup, drape him in one of the princess consort’s old outfits, and film it quickly. But after one night, the director suddenly added ten scenes for him.

After the character stills were taken.

The assistant director came to find Ye Xingyuan.

Today, the assistant director was smiling especially kindly, unlike yesterday, when his face had been gloomy.

“Xingyuan, do you have time? I need to talk to you about something.” The assistant director walked over with a chuckle. When he saw the clothes Ye Xingyuan was wearing, he even praised how good they looked.

“I do.”

Ye Xingyuan followed the assistant director into an empty conference room.

The assistant director said, “Last night, I talked with your manager. She said your schedule is very open, and we can add scenes as we like. Our director saw that your acting has improved a lot and wanted to give you more opportunities, so he had the screenwriter revise the script and add ten scenes for you.”

Ye Xingyuan said, “Thank you, Director.”

“Don’t be in such a rush to thank me. I came to find you today because there’s actually something I’d like to ask of you.”

“Director, please go ahead.”

“Hey, don’t call me that directly. It wouldn’t be good if the director heard.” The assistant director said this with his mouth, but his face was blooming with smiles. “Actually, it’s like this. Last night, the director and I discussed it and felt that we could start hyping up the drama’s popularity. But Teacher Ji doesn’t like being tied together with Best Actor Pei for hype, so we thought we could have you and Best Actor Pei follow each other on Weibo.”

“Best Actor Pei and I follow each other?” Ye Xingyuan still could not quite believe those words after saying them aloud.

“That’s right. You two are highly topical, so we can use this chance to boost the drama’s popularity,” the assistant director said with a smile.

“I’d like to follow Best Actor Pei, but Best Actor Pei may not be willing,” Ye Xingyuan said bluntly.

He knew exactly what the assistant director was planning.

At present, everyone still thought he was the same Ye Xingyuan from the past, and that he and Pei Yanchen were both rivals and love rivals.

It could also be called a relationship between enemies who did not get along.

If people like that suddenly followed each other, even thinking with one’s toes, it was obvious they would make it onto the hot search.

At that time, the production crew could take the opportunity to have marketing accounts come out and guide the topic, redirecting the popularity toward the drama. Without spending a cent, they could gain huge traffic.

As expected of a sly old fox.

However, if he really could follow each other on Weibo with Pei Yanchen, there would be no harm to him either. The benefits would be even more obvious.

It was just that the difficulty of operating this… was too high.

Seeing Ye Xingyuan hesitate, the assistant director clapped his hands. “I almost forgot to tell you. Last night, the director also revealed to me that there are actually quite a lot more scenes that could be added to your character. It’s just that the screenwriter isn’t very willing to revise the script.”

“Director, I’ll work hard to get Best Actor Pei to follow me.”

“As expected, talking to a smart person saves effort. Then we’ll wait for your good news. The screenwriter’s side can prepare to add scenes at any time.”

Ye Xingyuan smiled, inwardly spitting.

A bunch of old foxes.

Author’s Note:

Pei: I absolutely will not follow Ye Xingyuan. Absolutely not!

Pei: Pah!