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Brief explanation of terms so this arc will be a nice and smooth read:
Throughout the novel, you’ll see terms like ‘red’, ‘fire’, ‘explode’, ‘burst’, and other terms that are associated with fire and/or explosions. These are all refer to something suddenly booming into popularity.
Navy/sailor/water army or any term that basically refers to a force on water is actually a group of people hired to sway public opinion on social media. Name is based on the idiom ‘water can bring a boat to shore or sink it’- similar to how they use public opinion to build or destroy someone’s reputation.
This is my favorite arc, otakus. Enjoy!
Big Star’s Little Lover 1
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Jiang Nian ended up hospitalized from her aggressive illness. Due to too much rain in the summer, she accidentally caught a light fever on her way home, which turned into a high fever that night. Zhao Heng rushed back to the hospital overnight after knowing it. After a busy day, he took good care of her at night.
At this time, she and Zhao Heng had not seen each other for more than two months. Not only had the chance of meeting significantly reduced, but even the contact was reduced. Because Zhao Heng was too busy, several of her calls to Zhao Heng were received by either Zhao Heng’s assistant or his agent, Ji Yaling.
They promised Zhao Heng would call her once he was free, but she waited and waited, and nothing happened.
However, Jiang Nian got sick last night and called him feverishly. After hearing the news, he rushed back overnight, indicating that he still cared about her.
Moreover, Jiang Nian had been in this world for a while. She came through years ago, in her junior year, where she and Zhao Heng were hospitalized with heat stroke while shooting a group project. The two who had limited interaction finally got a chance to get close, and things went naturally from there. In the past few years, she not only said goodbye to the life of buying but also worked hard to complete her homework in pursuit of her dreams. Now that she had graduated for a few years, she had lived a life with food and sleep.
The only comfort was probably the love affair with you chasing me and me chasing you, secretly holding hands while watching a movie, hiding in the woods and kissing secretly, and the shuddering nervousness when you first opened the room. Plus, she finally brushed the female aura, which had stagnated at ten, to 58 points. Unfortunately, due to the various issues in the past two months, her female aura had not risen, but instead fell to 50!!!
“867, if the heroine’s aura drops to 0, does it mean that I am going to die?”
“It will be 0, indicating that you are dead.”
“Okay.”
Then so many unusual things happen today, which means that the variable has already appeared,
…How great! The day she had been looking forward to had finally arrived.
She had been really poor for a long, long time. She was so scared that she didn’t get a chance to be a person who looked down on the poor and worshipped money!
It must be said that Zhao Heng was a good lover. Warm, gentle, very graceful, and outstandingly handsome. His features were deep, his nose is tall, his eyebrows are like swords, and his eyes hold stars. One look at those pairs of eyes, and you can see a starry sky- mysterious and beautiful. When this face was projected on a large screen that can magnify the shortcomings of the face countless times, there was no flaw at all. He was only 27 years old. His youth and talent opened countless possibilities. The only thing he lacked now was an opportunity. 1
At this moment, Zhao Heng came in with lunch, bought from the cafeteria, dressed in a simple white T-shirt and trousers. Coupled with the dark, somewhat messy hair on his forehead, he looked like a handsome young boy. Because he wasn’t famous right now, his popularity was not high, and few people knew him. No one even stopped him, for a signature on the way over.
When he saw Jiang Nian woke up, he put the lunch box on the table next to the bed, and sat beside her to touch her forehead.
“It seems you have a fever. Is there any discomfort?”
Jiang Nian shook her head and said sickly, “Much better, but I’m hungry.”
Zhao Heng laughed, rubbed her hair, and set the dishes on the table one by one.
“Let’s eat first, it’s all your favorites. We’ll go home after eating.”
Jiang Nian made a sound in agreement, but she was more concerned about something else: “You come back so suddenly, is there any problem with the crew?”
Zhao Heng shook his head, saying, “I took a leave when I left, and didn’t have any filming in the daytime. I will go back in the afternoon and film a night show, so it’s fine. Don’t worry.”
Even if the crew was fine, Jiang Nian worried that his agent, Ji Yaling wouldn’t be, since her dissatisfaction with Jiang Nian had almost piled up to the sky.
But Zhao Heng didn’t say anything, and she wouldn’t mention it.
After lunch, Zhao Heng sent Jiang Nian home and bought vegetables and fruits for her to snack on. Afterward, he was busy arranging everything for her.
Jiang Nian half layed on the sofa looking burnt out. She was weak, pitiful without strength, as she looked at this small ‘sone’s bedroom, one living room, one kitchen, and one bathroom house…so poor. Artists pursuing their dreams had pretty hard lives before they became famous.
…She followed the male lead to suffer. Did she not worship the God of Fortune hard enough in her last life?
“What are you thinking? I’ve been calling you for a long time.”
Jiang Nian looked back and saw Zhao Heng sitting next to her with cool boiled water and medicine in his hand. She took the water glass and said seriously, “I was thinking about things.”
“What about? ”
“I was thinking about when we’ll get lucky, hit it big, and become filthy rich. ”
“……”
Zhao Heng laughed and said, “Take the medicine first.”
Jiang Nian curled her lips and replied, “……This medicine is too unpalatable.”
“Good medicine is bitter. Be good, eat it soon.”
“……Oh. ”
She swallowed the medicine in Zhao Heng’s hand and was struck with sleepiness soon after. She prepared to rest in the bedroom for a while, and let Zhao Heng take a nap as well. The four o’clock flight was still far away; it was still possible to sleep for a couple hours.
She patted the pillow next to her, and Zhao Heng lay down, wrapped his arms around her, and whispered, “Niannian, believe me, I won’t let you suffer with me all the time. In the future, I’ll buy you a big house and give you the best.”
Jiang Nian relaxed in his arms.
“Really? ”
“Of course, it’s true. Would I lie to you?”
“Then don’t forget. I’m waiting for you to take off.”
Jiang Nian was looking forward to it, and stretched out her little finger,
“Pinky swear, you will never forget what you just said!”
Zhao Heng looked at his sick and delicate girlfriend, who was still being noisy. He took her little hand, rolled over and pressed her underneath, and kissed her on the forehead.
“Never forget, never forget.”
Jiang Nian smiled, bending her eyes, and hooking her arms around his neck saying, “Just know that, if you dare to forget, I’ll punish you!”
Zhao Heng laughed again and hugged her.
“You don’t believe me?”
“You are not credible. How many calls did I make to you before, and was told you’d call back. But what happened? I waited until midnight and only got a good night text message. How do you expect me to believe you?”
Zhao Heng froze, his eyes sharpening slightly, before asking, “When did this happen?”
Jiang Nian stared at him.
“Just before, ah. Yaling Jie and Xiao Zhang [assistant] can testify for me. Ask them if you don’t believe me!!”
Zhao Heng frowned nearly imperceptibly and held Jiang Nian tighter in his arms.
“Okay, it’s my fault. Go to bed first, and take care of yourself later, don’t get sick.”
Jiang Nian agreed. She was very drowsy from the medicine and soon fell asleep in Zhao Heng’s embrace.
Zhao Heng did not immediately go to sleep. He did not ignore the words that Jiang Nian said just now. He remembered that his agent Ji Yaling had said more than once that he should break up, that he was still young, and needed to focus on his career. She insisted it was not a good time to fall in love and had the company urge him several times.
Ji Yaling did not like Jiang Nian, and even felt that Jiang Nian was dragging him down. It wasn’t surprising that Ji Yaling would obstruct them. As for his assistant, Xiao Zhang, who instructed him not to tell when Jiang Nian called? Ji Yaling?
No wonder he felt that Jiang Nian had become less connected with him and sent fewer messages in the past two months. Was it because of this?
After about an hour of sleep, the assistant called and said it was time to leave, saying that the agent was in a hurry. Zhao Heng looked at the woman in his arms. Her lips and face were a little pale, but beauty was beautiful, and such pitiful beauty made him feel pity and distressed without saying a word.
He lowered his head and kissed her lips, roaming lingeringly. Jiang Nian was embracing his neck stupidly, thinking of his broad chest, strong shoulders, muscular waist, narrow hips, and 185cm [~6’1″] height. This man was a walking clothes rack. She opened her eyes and saw that sexy wheat-colored skin and the six-pack abdominal muscles…
She turned over and pressed on the man, facing such a seductive little pity, she would come back to life even if she was deathly ill.
Zhao Heng couldn’t help laughing as her hands went around his neck.
“You are still sick, I’m not in a hurry.”
…The one in a hurry was her! She touched the man’s abdominal muscles, and he pinned her little hand to the side.
“Oh, go back to bed. The assistant is waiting for me downstairs, I’m going to the airport.”
“Oh.”
Jiang Nian flattened her mouth while grumbling turned over on her side, and checked the time. It was only twelve o’clock. They came back from the hospital as early as possible once her situation stabilized. This urging was too urgent. A little assistant certainly did not dare to urge so, she didn’t believe this wasn’t Ji Yaling’s idea.
She felt the man behind her stand up. Jiang Nian mourned the lost six-pack and was ready to sleep again. Who knew that, when she closed her eyes, she felt a strong force from behind. With his chest stuck to her slender back and arm around her waist, Zhao Heng bit her ear with his thin lips and spoke.
“I thought about it, we still have some time. I can’t let my baby down.”
Jiang Nian was surprised for a moment.
“Huh?”
He chuckled in her ear. The husky voice was carelessly bad.
Her skirt was lifted rudely.
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Hmm! Jiang Nian almost fell under the bed and was pulled back by the man holding her waist.
Sure enough, it seemed a warm gentleman had zero gentleness, in bed. He was almost crazy; this contrast was really amazing!
Jiang Nian felt she must have clawed her sheets to pieces.
During their fun, Zhao Heng’s phone rang twice, and he hung up directly.
Jiang Nian could be regarded as causing her own disaster. It was already two o’clock when Zhao Heng left. Wearing his simple white T-shirt and trousers outfit along with a denim jacket for warmth, he still looked every bit like a clean and handsome young boy, not at all like a satiated wolf. He sat on the bed and touched Jiang Nian’s rosy cheek, and said with a smile, “Go to sleep. I’ll call you at night.”
Jiang Nian raised her eyes and hummed. Zhao Heng sat and watched her for a while before finally getting up and leaving.
Zhao Heng’s assistant was arranged for him by Ji Yaling. After a few years together, the relationship between the two was pretty good. Zhao Heng was also good to this assistant: the salary came directly from him, and there was never a missing red envelope for the New Year. But he didn’t imagine the most important boss of this assistant was not him.
After he got in the car, the assistant looked a little anxious, and said in distress, “Heng ge, why are you coming down now? Yaling Jie made several phone calls to remind us. She’s already dissatisfied we’re leaving at this time, if we go back too late, I’m afraid Yaling Jie will be angry.”
Zhao Heng narrowed his eyes and touched his lips lightly.
“The flight is at four-thirty. Will waiting a few more hours at the airport move the plane ahead of time?”
“I didn’t mean that. It’s just that Yaling Jie and the company didn’t want you to fall in love. Now that you return for Jiang Nian’s vacation, Yaling Jie have some feelings…”
Zhao Heng: “I know what I need to do, you just have to do what you need to do.”
Xiao Zhang saw Zhao Heng’s face was ugly, guessing maybe he and Jiang Nian quarreled? He didn’t say any more.
Zhao Heng looked at Xiao Zhang and closed his eyes.
He needed an obedient assistant.
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When Jiang Nian woke up, it was approaching nighttime. Perhaps due to sweating for a while, she felt very good- as if she wouldn’t even be tired climbing five flights of stairs. She picked up her mobile phone and noticed a message from Zhou Heng saying that he had returned to the set, and she must take care of herself and get some food on her own.
Jiang Nian replied to him, “I know :(”
Zhao Heng looked at the message sent by Jiang Nian and couldn’t help laughing. Ji Yaling couldn’t help looking angry when she looked at Zhao Heng. She didn’t like Jiang Nian very much. Jiang Nian was the stumbling block of Zhao Heng’s success. This wasn’t the first time that Zhao Heng rushed to Jiang Nian overnight and hurried back to the studio the next day. Just a little girlfriend, but she’d taken up so much of Zhao Heng’s energy.
Zhao Heng was a very dedicated man. He would never take a vacation, no matter how much he suffered. But Jiang Nian, only Jiang Nian, could let him put everything down and rush to her.
Truthfully, Zhao Heng was assumed to be a playboy because of his handsome appearance. But Ji Yaling knew that this man had been in love with Jiang Nian for ten years, and, after becoming famous, he proposed to Jiang Nian with great fanfare. The two people were also very loving after marriage and were an exemplary couple inside and outside the circle.
Clearly, Jiang Nian had abandoned him for a long time, but he was still obsessed with her, and finally made up!
Ji Yaling felt that she needed to talk to Jiang Nian again. Still, this time, she would no longer let Jiang Nian have the opportunity to stand in front of Zhao Heng.
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Jiang Nian got better the next day. She packed up and went to work for the crew. She was now a director’s assistant in the crew of “Love Donuts,” a light-hearted romantic drama. The heroine, Liu Xiaoxiao, was not very famous but, because she was brought into the group with money and had a strong gold master 2 behind her, she was directly promoted to become the heroine.
This circle was complex and diverse. There were those who tried hard not to follow the wave, and, of course, there were others who were desperate to succeed.
Jiang Nian was a little jealous of Liu Xiaoxiao, who had a much smoother road of worshiping money than her! Where was her rich second generation???
After finishing the daytime filming, Jiang Nian felt like she had lost two pounds again. It happened that Liu Xiaoxiao’s boyfriend, one of the investors in “Love Donut,” came to invite everyone to eat hot pot, so work ended in advance.
Jiang Nian was very happy. Anyway, she was lazy, and it was a miracle she was able to graduate from the Academy of Film and Television.
After three rounds of drinking, dinner was very lively. Liu Xiaoxiao was in the limelight, complemented by the cast and crew left and right.
Jiang Nian was at a table with a few staff members. After eating, she wanted to slip away but was caught and dragged back.
“Jiang Nian, you are too unmotivated. You see, others are bending over backward to show their best face to President Sun [LXX’s gold master, I’m guessing]. You see, you’ve been an assistant for so long, and have learned all you need to learn. If you can catch someone’s fancy, you can direct a drama directly, much better than being an assistant, ah!”
Jiang’s looked at the fat head and big ears of President Sun and then thought of her beautiful little flower. It was better for her not to get involved. Not to mention, she was still waiting for her rich second generation to sponge off of! With the rich second generation, a little President Sun wasn’t worth her attention!
She thanked her colleague for the kindness and made an excuse to slip away.
However, she didn’t expect that as soon as she went out, she heard a man calling for help in the alley by the road.
Jiang Nian glanced inside and saw what seemed to be a few bullies ganging up on one person.
……She raised her sleeves with great excitement. Finally, she had an opportunity to vent the frustration and pain of being poor! Afterward, she would even be known as the angel of justice! Hitting two birds with one stone- perfect! ≧ ▽ ≦
FOOTNOTES
1.Sword eyebrows:
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2. sugar daddy/mommy, but usually with both money and power. ^