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<b>Showbiz* Sexy Queen (VIII)</b>
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After this incident, Bai Jieying’s gaze on Mei Mu Lan took on a vague disdain and condescending arrogance, and she was smart enough not to confront the crew with this attitude, but to specifically target Mei Mu Lan.
And after recalling the memories of the original owner, Mei Mu Lan found that this kind of contentious situation was actually the form of daily life between the original owner and Bai Jieying. After analyzing the Bai Jieying in her memories and the eyes of Bai Jieying now, she compared them and came to the conclusion that the eyes and expressions of Bai Jieying’s original owner and the Bai Jieying after crossing over were exactly the same when she looked at Mei Mu Lan.
In this way, it seems likely that the traveler in front of her has obtained all the memories of the original Bai Jieying. Now, Mei Mu Lan and her situation are completely similar, both have lived in real life and both know the plot, and most importantly, they both have memories of the original owner who crossed over.
And the only difference is that the informed part of the plot is different.
Mei Mu Lan is right here in the plot, in a dominant position, but in other areas, the two are actually evenly matched.
Thinking of this, Mei Mu Lan would glare back with the same glare when she encountered Bai Jieying glaring at her again, and this behaviour of hers completely reassured Bai Jieying, dispelling the idea that this Mei Mu Lan in front of her was also a traveler.
And when Bai Jieying went to the director’s side for her second audition, Mei Mu Lan secretly made a plan in her mind: next she had to spend a long time to observe this traveler’s behavior, and the current image of Bai Jieying in the cast was all finely crafted and acted out, not real.
Then in order to see what she was really like, she had to get into Bai Jieying’s daily life in order to do so.
When Mei Mu Lan thought of this, she decided to move out of Aunt Wen’s house and go back to the Mei family for a while to see how she acted in her daily life and how she behaved in private, and once she was familiar with Bai Jieying’s style and behaviour, she could plan for her subsequent task of “solving the travelers”.
So, Mei Mu Lan waited until the day’s filming was finished, then she immediately said goodbye to Ling Yi Yao and “made out”, then drove back to Aunt Wen’s villa. By the time she got home, Aunt Wen was not at home because she had a design job and had gone abroad to get some experience, so after thinking about it, Mei Mu Lan left a note which said,
“Aunt Wen, I’ve been out for so many years and I understand somewhat what my father did, so I’m going to move back in with the Mei family for a while and thank you for taking care of me, all these years!”
After writing it, she read it out a few times and found it to be quite fluent, so she left the note on the dining room table, turned to her room, packed her few bags and left the Wen family home.
Mei Mu Lan followed the route she remembered and drove back to the Mei family mansion in the wealthy residential area of the Second Ring Road.
Because the Mei family is a family of scholars that has been passed down for hundreds of years, the Mei family’s mansion, which maintains the style of hundreds of years ago, is the modern well-known courtyard, in the modern world, such a set of courtyard, in the outside world can be sold for hundreds of millions of dollars, but this is really nothing for the Mei family.
The Mei family’s family ethos pushes the boundaries of money and dirt, and the Mei family’s family wealth ranks among the best in the world.
Mei Mu Lan drove back outside the Mei family home, she walked inside the old mansion and as far as the eye could see there were flower pots, water tanks, recliners…… and other furniture, all of which are relics of hundreds of years old, is an expression of the cultural heritage of the Mei family.
Mei Mu Lan casually swept a glance, and then saw that a middle-aged man wearing a Republican tunic greeted her, with a warm and kind smile on his face, the whole person gave people a feeling of a gentleman as gentle as jade.
He took the luggage from Mei Mu Lan and handed it to the maid who was waiting with his head down, then called out affectionately,
“Missy, you’re back at last.”
Mei Mu Lan knew from memory that this man was the butler of the Mei family, the child of a friend of Grandpa Tai, and had been given the surname Mei after being brought back to the Mei family by Grandpa Tai when he was three years old.
He grew up in the house of Mei and was always brought up by the great lord of the Mei family. Although he was called a butler, his status was not that of a servant, but that of one of the rulers of the Mei family, managing the internal affairs of the house as well as some of the external affairs, a man of great means, loyal and intelligent.
He has a high status in the Mei family and most of the Mei family are close to him. Even Mei Mu Lan’s father, who was the current head of the Mei family, would adopt a slightly friendly attitude when facing him.
When Mei Mu Lan thought of this, she lowered her eyebrows and smiled slightly poutingly,
“Butler Mei, it’s been a long time, you’re still as handsome as ever.”
The smile on Butler Mei’s face deepened a little as he said,
“Miss, I am relieved to see you in such good spirits. No matter what happens at the Master’s place, you will always be the Mei family’s Miss in my heart, and as for that one and her daughter, you need not bother at all.”
Mei Mu Lan heard his concern for herself in his words, and she was moved to say,
“Thank you butler, I understand, I just want to go home for a while, no matter what, I am my father’s own daughter, before I did not know what to do, and made my father and butler worry about me.”
With a relieved smile, Butler Mei said,
“It’s good that you’ve figured it out. There’s nothing in life that you can’t get through. All external things are false, only blood is real. Now, I have ordered your room to be taken care of, you are tired today, go and rest, I will order someone to call you at dinner time.”
“Thank you, butler. I’ll go to my room.”
After bidding farewell to the butler, Mei Mu Lan went back to the original owner’s room.
When she opened the door, she saw a literary and elegant room, which was decorated with a combination of Chinese and foreign elements, which matched her imagination of a woman’s bedroom from a scholarly family, whereas the original owner’s room at Aunt Wen’s house was filled with Ling Yi Yao’s photos and dolls, which made Mei Mu Lan’s heart feel creepy, but for the sake of the mission, she had to maintain this style, which was really depressing.
And this time, finally, she could stay in a normal room, whatever the purpose of going home this time, at least she slept much better and was sure that she could sleep well for the next while.
When she thinks of the original owner, she can’t help but think of Ling Yi Yao. She is now numb to her “obsessed” state and as soon as she sees Ling Yi Yao, her whole being will automatically switch to another channel.
Fortunately, the villain this time, Ling Yi Yao, although ruthless and with blood on her hands, is a very nice person to be around when she is in normal society.
In the face of her own obsessions in and out of the film, she has not even expressed her displeasure verbally, which makes Mei Mu Lan often exclaim that the villain is really well brought up. If it were up to me, I would have taken such a character to the ends of the earth.
And Ling Yi Yao now, apart from a vague, emotionally unstable expression on her face as soon as she saw her, there was nothing else on her face, which reassured Mei Mu Lan and made her even more aggressive at the same time.
I feel like I’ve suddenly gone feckless, and it’s definitely the fault of the cannon fodder girl!
When Bai Jieying returned to the house in the evening at the time the Mei family had set for dinner, she saw Mei Mu Lan sitting on the sofa, sipping tea in a dignified manner, and then gave her usual snide remarks, it was only when her mother made a glib remark to stop her that she skipped away and walked over to her mother and sat down affectionately.
Mei Mu Lan watched coldly, this Bai Jieying was gentle and kind on the set, pouting and half-angry at home, and in front of her stepmother, she was like a real child, chattering about what had happened on the set today.
Her mother learned from her that she and Mei Mu Lan were filming in the same production, so she glanced at Mei Mu Lan from top to bottom.
In a lighter tone, she said,
“Mu Lan, you are from a scholarly family, the family style of your Mei family is to despise the lowest class such as opera singers, if your father finds out about your acting, he will definitely be angry, so think again, change your job, I remember that you sang Peking Opera very well before, you can continue to go into that profession, it is after all something your mother taught you, it is always bad to leave it behind.”
Mui Mu Lan, with her long, narrow eyes, said with the aura of a Peking opera, singing and chanting in a long, short voice,
“You know, I don’t know what this lady is to me. What does the affairs of our Mei family have to do with you, a second-married woman? You claim to be a member of the Mei family, but in the olden days, you would not have been worthy to carry the shoes of a Mei family servant.
You think that just because you have my father’s help, you can really do whatever you want. The Mei family has been passed down for a hundred years, and although my father is the patriarch, he has less resources at his disposal. And who are you to talk to me like that? I have a good temper, otherwise I would have asked someone to slap your mouth!”
Her stepmother’s brain ached with anger at her sharp, eloquent tongue, and she trembled, raising her hand and pointing, unable to say a word.
And Bai Jieying, at this moment, had a weird smile on her face, looking straight at Mei Mu Lan without saying a word.
Mei Mu Lan put down her cup of tea in bemusement, then said to Mei’s butler who was beside her, watching the show as an invisible person,
“I’m also the recognized next head of the Mei family, so if I don’t show them what I’m made of, they’ll think I’m a paperweight.”
With that, she stood up, glanced scornfully at the two women with different faces, tilted her head proudly, and turned to leave.
In the days that followed, Mei Mu Lan went to the film set during the day and flirted with Ling Yi Yao; at night, she returned to the Mei family to anger her stepmother, and lived a very happy life.
Although she and Bai Jieying live under the same roof and work on the same set, they are never together, always staggering their time and appearing one after the other in full view of others. This also made the crew aware of the fact that the two sisters were not on good terms.
Even so, Mei Mu Lan’s concern for Bai Jieying did not diminish by half.
She was following the movements of Bai Jieying every moment, and she found that Bai Jieying was now a queen of all changes, her acting skills were perfect, in life, in acting, in and out of film, and she was showing her superb acting skills all the time.
While watching Bai Jieying act, Mei Mu Lan secretly instructed the detective to continue filming and tracking Bai Jieying’s whereabouts.
She put it all together and waited for the day when it would come in handy.
Three months later, the crew of 《The Burial Man》had completed all the indoor filming and it was time to shoot outdoors.
After much deliberation, the director decided to head immediately to the Kunlun Mountains for a real outdoor shooting.