Chapter 23: Her Future Goal Is to Become a Matchmaker

If you randomly grabbed someone off the streets anywhere in the country and asked:

Who is the most prominent female character in Investiture of the Gods?

Ninety-nine percent of people would answer: Su Daji.

Ling Xiaoli suddenly felt that her future had become incredibly bright!

This was a major CCTV production that even Luo Zhaoyin from the original novel had never appeared in!

Of course, although the future looked promising, that was something for later. Today wasn’t over yet.

Ling Xiaoli felt that not having to audition was a good thing, but she still hesitantly asked,

“Director Hu, does the Eagle God really not need an audition?”

Director Hu waved his hand.

“Just come to the set in five days. Sign the contract later, then go home and get some proper rest.”

Seeing that Director Hu and the assistant director had no intention of explaining further, Ling Xiaoli could only politely say goodbye and leave.

The moment she stepped outside, Ling Xiaoli grabbed one of the staff members responsible for handing scripts to the auditioning actors.

After her “desperate pleading,” she finally got to see her scenes.

Well, how should she put it…

She really didn’t need a script or an audition.

There were two scenes in total, with three lines.

Scene One—

Jade Emperor: “Eagle God, General Tortoise!”

Eagle God & General Tortoise: “Present!”

Jade Emperor: “I hereby order you two to guard Peach Mountain!”

Eagle God & General Tortoise: “Yes!”

Scene Two—

Eagle God & General Tortoise: “The Jade Emperor has ordered us to guard this place. Yang Jian, you little brat, if you want to split open Peach Mountain, you’ll have to get past us first!”

……

That was it.

Even setting aside the dialogue, just looking at the amount of screen time—

The plot corresponding to the first scene was simply accepting the order before disappearing in a flash.

The second scene wasn’t even an exciting battle. Yang Jian would cut them down one after another as easily as chopping vegetables.

After all, the real boss battle was between Yang Jian and the Jade Emperor.

Ling Xiaoli didn’t even need to learn any martial arts choreography. She only had to say her lines, strike a pose, get chopped down, and finish.

……

Ha. Hahaha. At least she had three lines!

Back in the day, Stephen Chow had played a Mongolian guard, the Empress had been a backup dancer, Andy Lau had played a bandit, and Zhao Liying had played a maid.

As for Ling Xiaoli, her first role was a big-screen character with dialogue.

That was pretty good, wasn’t it?

Thinking of this, Ling Xiaoli silently turned her head toward Luo Zhaoyin, who was still grinning foolishly beside her.

How could an ordinary human compare with the female lead’s halo?

Right?

Luo Zhaoyin, still smiling happily, looked at Ling Xiaoli with an even brighter smile.

“Xiaoli, let’s join the cast together when the time comes, okay?”

“Sure!”

After the two parted ways, Ling Xiaoli was alone again.

She opened WeChat on her phone. Looking at the contact card with the username Lin Shijiu in her chat with Feng Weiyuan, she felt a headache coming on.

Although the original male and female leads hadn’t added each other on WeChat at this point in the original story, this unexpected development still left Ling Xiaoli at a loss for words.

So, should she add him?

Or perhaps… just add him directly?

At the very least, this was the male lead’s WeChat contact. Setting aside the matter of clinging to his powerful support, wouldn’t it also be more convenient to introduce someone to A-Yin later?

Speaking of that, Ling Xiaoli couldn’t help complaining about the original plot.

The author’s habit of handing out villain death tickets was merely a peculiar hobby. It wasn’t a major issue.

But readers’ opinions of The Birth of a Entertainment Industry Overlord were sharply divided.

Some said it was especially entertaining because of the female lead’s tightly connected and spectacular career storyline.

Others said it was particularly terrible because the romantic storyline between the male and female leads was so perfunctory that the author couldn’t even be bothered to add the usual clichés.

Ling Xiaoli was somewhere in between.

She loved the exciting career storyline, but hated the disastrously written romance!

Therefore, if she had the chance, she would definitely try to rebuild the romantic storyline and teach the male and female leads how to fall in love properly!

Of course, that all depended on whether she could survive…

Thinking of this, Ling Xiaoli decisively opened the contact card, added him as a friend, and wrote the note:

Male Lead Big Shot.