When the Female Lead Becomes Obsessive – Chapter 6

Volume One: Those Years I Was a CEO

She’s competing.

A single picture left both of them speechless.

Wen Nuan’s brows furrowed tightly, a look of anguish on her face. She lay weakly on the bed, constantly questioning, “Why? Why? Why is the female lead bent [gay]? Why does the female lead like me?”

System: 【Because love won’t be easily sad, so…..】

Wen Nuan gave it a cold glare: “If you keep singing, I’ll report you!”

System cried pitifully: 【….My points, a whole five hundred thousand points, wuwuwu…】

Wen Nuan: “….Sing, go on, sing.”

【What exactly are you worrying about?】 The system looked at Wen Nuan’s self-pitying appearance.

Wen Nuan sighed deeply: “I’m really quite puzzled, why is the female lead bent?”

【I’m also quite puzzled, why is the female lead bent?】 The system asked curiously.

“Do I look like a jizai¹?” Wen Nuan looked at herself in the mirror.

The system shook its head: 【No, but the female lead doesn’t either.】

“Then where exactly did things go wrong?” Wen Nuan shouted frantically.

The system saw her like this and reassured her: 【Alright, stop wailing, anyway, the blackening value is only 4, it’s estimated that when the female lead gets the Best Actress award, it can be eliminated. As for whether the female lead is really bent, it remains to be seen. Maybe in a while, she’ll like someone else?】

Wen Nuan thought about it, and it was true. Nowadays, people’s feelings aren’t that long-lasting. She never believed in any kind of unswerving, lifelong love.

It was probably because she had been too good to the female lead before, causing the female lead to mistake her kindness for love.

Anyway, her attitude that day could be considered a rejection. Hopefully, the female lead will know when to give up and find a lover to grow old with, supporting each other through thick and thin.

“Wait a minute, the male lead is going to be with the supporting female character, so doesn’t that mean the female lead has no official pairing?” Wen Nuan realized this problem with alarm.

The system waved its hands: 【Don’t worry, our primary goal now is to eliminate the female lead’s blackening value, unfreeze the points of the mission world, and promote the main character to achieve a great harmony in life. The plot line on the male lead’s side has already developed very well. He will achieve a great harmony in life much faster than the female lead.】

“So, we only need to conquer the main character with the blackening value?” Wen Nuan understood.

The system nodded: 【Yes, that’s the idea, but we also need to stabilize the development of the mission world, avoid any life-threatening dangers to the male and female leads, which could cause the mission world to collapse and lead to mission failure.】

Wen Nuan understood. These were similar to the rules of previous missions. After all, the male and female leads are the main body of the mission world. If one of them dies, the mission world will become unbalanced and collapse, and the mission agent’s task will also fail.

You Jiayi joined the production, it was an immortal hero drama² invested by Yixin Entertainment, named 《Qing Yan》³, it was a big female lead drama, an S+ project, with an investment of nearly one billion yuan, from this, it can be seen that the Xu family attaches great importance to You Jiayi’s first drama after her comeback.

The directors are He Chuan⁴, who has won an Oscar, and Gong Yuyao⁵, a three-time Golden Horse Best Actor brought up by Shu Changning.

《Qing Yan》 not only has beautifully built indoor sets, but also outdoor scenes, requiring travel to four cities.

These cities feature seas, grasslands, snow-capped mountains, and forests, striving to ensure that all the exterior scenes of 《Qing Yan》 are filmed in real locations.

Shu Changning currently has only one artist under him, You Jiayi. When he has nothing to do, he follows You Jiayi to the set to film, treating it as a publicly funded trip.

Today’s scene was being filmed on the beach. You Jiayi had her wire equipment on and stood by the sea.

The waves dampened the hem of her dress, and the sea breeze was fierce, blowing her clothes.

Shu Changning stood beside her, glanced at the weather in the distance, and clicked his tongue: “The weather isn’t very good today.”

You Jiayi looked at the distant accumulation of dark clouds slowly moving towards them, “It’s alright, today’s scene needs this kind of weather to create atmosphere.”

Shu Changning had also read the script and knew that the director’s choice of this kind of weather today was deliberate. He looked at the wire cables being blown by the sea wind, swaying a bit too violently.

“Come, everyone evacuate, prepare for filming!” The script supervisor shouted from afar with a loudspeaker, hurrying people away.

“Be careful during filming, the wires are swaying too much. Don’t force yourself, your health is important,” Shu Changning said worriedly.

This girl, You Jiayi, was too strong-willed. No matter how much pain or hardship she endured, she wouldn’t say a word. She was clearly only 24 years old, but she was a ruthless person who could endure a lot of hardship.

This was the second real-location shoot for the 《Qing Yan》 crew. The previous one was in a forest.

In the forest, the crew chose a location similar to a primeval forest, with towering trees everywhere, the dense foliage completely blocking out the sky.

In such a geographical environment, the difficulty of wirework was very high. The oddly shaped branches would obstruct the flight trajectory of the actors during wirework.

And actors were easily scratched by the branches, resulting in injuries. Therefore, under normal circumstances, the director would use stunt doubles.

But You Jiayi didn’t use a stunt double, she did everything herself.

Shu Changning watched this girl, who didn’t even have two liang⁶ of flesh, hanging from wires, sometimes crashing into thick tree trunks, sometimes getting caught on tree branches. The filming was perfect, but she was bruised all over.

The moment Shu Changning saw You Jiayi take off her costume, her fair skin was covered in bruises, some places were even swollen, looking particularly terrifying.

Today the weather was too gloomy, with heavy dark clouds in the distance and a strong wind blowing by the sea.

You Jiayi had already been lifted high up. Shu Changning looked at the violently swaying wire cables, his brows furrowed tightly.

With the director’s shout of “Action!”

You Jiayi quickly performed the flying action taught by the martial arts director, doing a flip in mid-air, holding a long sword and swooping down. The staff pulling the wires in the back quickly released the ropes, but one of them lost his grip, causing the trajectory of the wires to go awry.

Originally, You Jiayi was supposed to land on the beach, but when the wire went askew, she plunged towards the sea. The strong sea wind blew the staff off balance, making them unable to hold the cables tightly. You Jiayi fell into the sea like a kite with a broken string, disappearing from sight.

Shu Changning was shocked and immediately ran towards the sea, shouting: “You Jiayi—”

The crew panicked and all ran towards the sea.

“Teacher You—”

“Quick, save her—”

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“Ouch…” Wen Nuan looked at her finger cut by A4 paper and put the bleeding fingertip in her mouth.

She touched her chest, suddenly feeling uneasy.

The system spoke up: 【There is some not-so-good news.】

Wen Nuan’s heart skipped a beat: “What?”

At that moment, the phone on the table vibrated. Wen Nuan opened it. It was a WeChat message from Shu Changning.

—Shu Changning: You Jiayi was injured. She fell into the sea during wirework.

System: 【That’s what I wanted to say too. Fortunately, the crew rescued her in time, and the female lead is not in mortal danger. Otherwise, the two of us would have been forcibly expelled.】

Wen Nuan breathed a sigh of relief: “That’s good, it’s good that she was saved.”

“Did the female lead’s blackening value increase?” Wen Nuan worried that the female lead’s blackening value would increase due to the injury.

The system shook its head: 【No, it’s still 4.】

Wen Nuan relaxed: “That’s good. It seems that the female lead really loves acting. Even though she was injured, she didn’t complain at all.”

Truly admirable and respectable.

The system saw that Wen Nuan only asked about the blackening value, 【Aren’t you going to check on the female lead? Maybe the blackening value will decrease?】

It had been a month since she and the female lead last chatted on WeChat.

Wen Nuan found it ridiculous, “If I check on the female lead, the blackening value will decrease? What a joke! She’s filming with Gong Yuyao now, he’s a Best Actor, with good acting skills, good looks, good temperament, and a pretty good personality.”

She raised an eyebrow, with a mischievous smile: “It’s estimated that the female lead and Gong Yuyao have developed feelings for each other because of the drama. And now that the female lead is injured, maybe Gong Yuyao is comforting and caring for her. If I go to check on the female lead now, wouldn’t I be disturbing the young couple’s sweet time?”

The system thought about it, and it made sense.

The male lead in this drama was specially chosen by Wen Nuan for the female lead, and Wen Nuan also made a backup plan. The second female lead in 《Qing Yan》, Cai Zi⁷, is a jizai, and her style is quite similar to Wen Nuan’s.

If things don’t work out with Gong Yuyao, there’s always the second female lead, Cai Zi.

Wen Nuan simply replied to Shu Changning, telling him to take good care of the female lead, and continued to deal with the work at hand. Ren Kai and the others had organized a welcome-back party for her.

She had been busy with the female lead’s affairs during this time and hadn’t had time for them. Now that they had caught the opportunity, they insisted on drinking with her until they were all drunk.

Wen Nuan thought that she had indeed been too tired lately and should go out and relax, so she accepted Ren Kai’s invitation.

Shu Changning looked at Wen Nuan’s reply, it was very businesslike.

He glanced at You Jiayi. Just now, he had felt her gaze constantly glancing at his phone, presumably wanting to see the chat records between him and President Xu.

“President Xu said you’ve worked hard, and she wants you to rest well and not push yourself too hard,” Shu Changning put away his phone and smiled.

You Jiayi lowered her eyes and whispered, “Is that so?”

Shu Changning saw her like this, knowing that she didn’t believe him, but the words had already been spoken, and he had to continue with the fabrication.

“Yes, President Xu is very concerned about you. After all, you are Yixin Entertainment’s leading artist.” Shu Changning pulled her blanket up higher, “Don’t worry about the crew, the director wants you to rest for two more days, your health is important, they can film Gong Yuyao’s scenes first.”

You Jiayi twitched the corner of her mouth: “Okay, thank you.”

“It’s nothing, you rest first, I’ll go deal with other things.” Some paparazzi had filmed a video of You Jiayi falling into the sea and posted it, and now Weibo was exploding.

You Jiayi closed her eyes, looking like she didn’t want to be disturbed.

Shu Changning got up and left, closing the door.

You Jiayi slowly opened her eyes and clicked on the phone by the bedside. There were messages of concern from her mother and other friends, she replied to them one by one.

But there was no message from Xu Wen Nuan.

As if possessed, she clicked on Xu Wen Nuan’s WeChat Moments. The recently posted dynamic was a photo of her drinking and having fun with friends at a bar. In the photo, she was so drunk that her cheeks were flushed, and her clear eyes still shone brightly even in the dim environment, like a sparkling gem.

Wen Nuan looked at the group of guys sprawled out drunk, a mix of beer, baijiu⁸, and whiskey, four or five men couldn’t drink as much as her, a single woman.

What useless trash.

Wen Nuan lit a cigarette, her foot propped up on the liquor table in front of her, swaying slightly.

She held the cigarette in one hand and a glass of whiskey in the other, watching the men and women frantically shaking their bodies on the dance floor.

Extravagance, □□.

A scene of indulgence and excess.

Suddenly, the image of the female lead lying on the hospital bed, looking so thin and frail, flashed through her mind.

She had just seen Weibo, someone had filmed the entire process of You Jiayi falling into the sea due to the wire accident.

That thin, small body, blown about by the sea wind, in the blink of an eye, falling into the bottomless sea.

Shu Changning had mentioned to her more than once that You Jiayi was too hardworking and too strong-willed.

But Wen Nuan knew her personality well. In the past, the unscrupulous company, in order to make money, wouldn’t care whether she did the stunts herself or used a stunt double.

Her manager didn’t really manage You Jiayi either, frantically taking on work for her, making her work nonstop. You Jiayi was also competitive, and she managed to make a name for herself, becoming one of the popular “Four Little Flowers”⁹ at the time.

And in the past, she used to supervise You Jiayi, telling her to pay more attention to her health, to let stunt doubles do the work whenever possible, not to do dangerous actions, not to put herself in danger. Her constant reminders made You Jiayi gradually restrain herself a bit.

And she did these things only because she didn’t want the female lead to be in danger, which could lead to the collapse of the mission world.

But now, You Jiayi’s series of actions after her comeback seemed to be saying to Wen Nuan:

If you don’t care about me, I’ll work myself to death.

Wen Nuan watched the video of You Jiayi falling into the sea over and over again, smoking one cigarette after another.

Three o’clock in the morning.

You Jiayi wasn’t sleeping soundly. She felt the phone on her pillow vibrating and picked it up to look.

Her gaze froze, and her sore eyes were filled with disbelief.

—Wen Nuan: Take good care of yourself, don’t get hurt.

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