Chapter 73: What Did I Do?

Before Lin Cheng could respond, Ling Xiaoli spoke again:

“How about this, Mr. Lin? You don’t have to keep calling me Miss Ling. It sounds too distant. Just call me by my name!

“Oh, right. My friends all call me Xiaoli. You can call me that too.”

“…Okay, Xia… Ling Xiaoli. You can call me by my name too. Lin Cheng.”

Lin Cheng instinctively wanted to call her Xiaoli, but just as the words were about to leave his mouth, he suddenly became a little awkward and ended up calling her by her full name instead.

“Okay! Lin Cheng!”

【Thump, thump, thump!】

In an instant, his heartbeat suddenly accelerated.

Lin Cheng covered his chest, somewhat at a loss.

A name was meant to be called by others. The name “Lin Cheng” had been spoken by countless people.

But for some reason, the same two words sounded particularly different when they came from Ling Xiaoli’s lips.

“Could you… call me that one more time?”

……

The moment the words left his mouth, Lin Cheng immediately realized what he had said and quickly changed his wording.

“Ahem. I mean, you can call me Lin shi jiu, or shi jiu. That’s what my friends call me.”

“Ah? Okay, shi jiu!”

An even stronger heartbeat surged through Lin Cheng.

He suddenly wanted to know what it would feel like to have Ling Xiaoli call him that in certain situations…

No, no, no.

He took a deep breath and emptied his mind.

Silently, he recorded:

Being around Ling Xiaoli easily disrupts my thoughts and causes inappropriate ideas.

Conclusion: Until I can fully control my state of mind, I should reduce contact.

………

After ending the call, Lin Cheng thought for a moment before sending Feng Weiyuan a WeChat message.

Of course, Feng Weiyuan was still filming, so he didn’t see the message until half an hour later.

—Lin shi jiu: Talk less from now on.

Feng Weiyuan: ???

Wait, what? Can someone tell me what I did?

………

After hanging up, Ling Xiaoli thought:

Hehe, Lin Cheng changed her offer to treat him to a meal into asking her to do one thing. He must want her to help him out at a crucial moment.

Since she was such a good person, she obviously had to agree!

And also, Lin shi jiu?

Rich CEO and his friends really knew how to have fun, using their WeChat names as nicknames. Hahaha!

Ling Xiaoli’s final scene was filmed in the morning.

At noon, she had one last boxed meal with everyone before saying goodbye to the production team and leaving ahead of them.

In any case, she had already locked Su Xuan’s hostility toward her in place, so she wasn’t worried that Su Xuan would do anything to Luo Zhaoyin after she left.

And she absolutely couldn’t waste this precious period of time in the early stages of the original novel.

It was only late January now. According to what Sister Mei had told her, filming for The Investiture of the Gods wouldn’t begin until around March or April after the New Year at the earliest.

During this period, she needed to hurry up and create more opportunities for herself.

Otherwise, once she joined the The Investiture of the Gods production team, where would she find the time to stir things up?

Stars needed works.

But even more importantly, they needed exposure.

Ling Xiaoli understood this better than anyone.

As for that final point—and the most important one—luck, she would leave that to heaven.

She had already managed to come back to life after dying.

Surely her luck couldn’t be that bad, right?

………

【Bang!】

Yan Liye slammed his hand onto the table and stood up.

“What’s going on?! We agreed that this role would go to Northern Film. How can you suddenly change your mind at the last minute?!”

The production representative sitting at the head of the table smiled pleasantly.

“You can’t put it that way. Starlight Entertainment hadn’t previously expressed any interest in The Investiture of the Gods. Now that they’ve spoken up, everyone has to give them some face, don’t they?”

Another assistant director, Liu Cheng, had always disliked Yan Liye’s way of conducting himself.

He was on the same level as Yan Liye and wasn’t afraid of what Yan Liye could do to him, so he didn’t hold back at all.

“That’s because Starlight Entertainment has always actively responded to the policies from above. They’ve never stopped providing public-service advertisements free of charge every year.

“Oh, right. They also insist on doing charity work. Their Starlight Schools can be found all over the country, and whenever there’s a disaster, don’t they donate tens of billions of yuan?

“If Northern Film can do the same, then you can also ask for whatever role you want.”