The Villainous Celebrity Wife of the CEO - Chapter 162.2

After Mu Xiulun went offline, Su Jishi suddenly lost her interest in playing games. Her heart felt heavy.It felt like a cold front crossed the border. Her chest was stuffy, and even breathing was a burden.

She plugged her phone into the powerbank and tossed it into Xiao Xia’s arms, wanting to sleep.

Xiao Xia tugged at the corner of her clothes and whispered, “Sister Su, go and chat with the other guests.”

Su Jishi asked in confusion, “What are we going to talk about?”

Xiao Xia: “Talk about anything. We’re in a variety reality show. Don’t be too distant from everyone, or else when doing the task, you’ll be too unfamiliar.”

Su Jishi did not understand the laws of the game in the entertainment industry, but since Xiao Xia said so, she obeyed honestly.

So she got up from her seat and walked to the back row.

The other artists were chatting feverishly, and when they saw her coming, they naturally happily gave up a seat.

Su Jishi sat down frankly and asked them what they were talking about.

Mr. Wei Jing said with a Taiwanese accent, “Of course, we are talking about our recent work.”

Yan Changhui: “Yes, since the show was released, the books handed over are five or six times more than before. I even received job offers from South Korea!”

“It’s pretty much the same for me. Thanks to this show, my agent actually helped me win a big female lead role this time!” Chen Gangyu said joyfully, “You don’t know how hard it is for an idol actress like me to get a female lead once she turns 30. Look at how ridiculous the last modern drama I did. The male lead is a famous scene-stealer. Stealing the male supporting character’s scenes wasn’t enough, he even stole the female support’s scenes!”

This was the first time Su Ji listened to insiders’ gossip. In order not to reveal her true identity, she had always kept her distance from people in the entertainment industry and hadn’t made any close friends. However, the five cast of Wilderness Winner had experienced the natural disasters together in Indonesia and “shared joys and sorrows”. Hence, their feelings were naturally deeper.

Su Jishi listened with gusto, occasionally inserting a word or two.

When she heard Chen Gangyu accuse the male lead of stealing the female lead’s role, Su Jishi asked, “The male lead and the female lead are independent from each other. What kind of scene did he steal and how?”

Chen Gangyu replied, “What other scene could he steal? Of course, he stole the emotional scenes! In the play, I and the second male are a couple, with some old tropes like the hero saving the damsel in distress and whatnot. You know what happened? All these tropes were changed to the male lead himself, just to promote rotten hype CP with the second male lead. It made me, the official match, look like a mistress.”

Su Jishi: “!!!”

Qin Qiu also contributed a major gossip of his own: “Who said only supporting characters can encounter bad things? My drama this time is a great ancient master puppeteer, the kind where the protagonist upgrades and fights ghosts the whole journey from the ‘first volume’. I read the original book when I was in junior high school. I liked it very much. It has been serialized for three years, and I followed the updates to the end. When my agent told me at the time that I had been given such a big production, I went crazy with joy.”

Su Jishi: “Isn’t that great? You get to act in your idol’s work. That’s the dream of many fans!”

“After I signed the contract and got the script, I almost died of anger!” Qin Qiu pounded his chest: “The original had more than ten million words, but the screenwriting team simply didn’t have the time to read the original all the way through. They only read the first million words, and the subsequent content was all their original!”

Su Jishi: “…”

Qin Qiu became even more enraged as he spoke, “This TV series has a total of 48 episodes, but only the first three episodes were written according to the original!”

The crowd sighed.

There was nothing new under the sun. When outsiders looked at the entertainment industry, they thought that everything was always bright. It was only when they were in it could they know the complexity and variability of it. As actors, the most unacceptable thing was to be forced to act in bad films…But when the same thing happened more often, only numbness would be left in the end.

The other four people shared gossip from the circle, and Su Jishi listened quietly. Compared with them, Su Jishi suddenly felt that she was really lucky. Although her family wasn’t exactly happy, she was able to enter the industry she loved, and her mentors never belittled her because of her nationality or gender.

The entertainment industry was indeed a difficult place to mix in, ah.

“By the way…” Chen Gangyu lowered her voice and spoke mysteriously, “I just overheard a tipoff. The program group suddenly sent us to Lin County because there’s a temporary flying guest[1] that will be inserted there!”

“What?!” Wei Jing asked, “We’re only at the second location, ah. There’s already a flying guest?”

Yan Changhui: “Didn’t you say that Xu Yadan wanted to come before? Did the program group agree?”

Chen Gangyu shook her head: “I’m not sure of the specifics. But just now, when we were resting in the service area, I heard the Producer answer a phone call, saying that the flying guest had arrived. As for who the specific guest is, I’m not sure.”

The artists brainstormed about who the mysterious “flying guest” was for a long time, but with their limited information, all they could do was to temporarily bide their time and wait for the truth to be revealed.

Su Jishi couldn’t understand what they were saying, and after returning to her seat, she asked Xiao Xia quietly: “What is a flying guest? Is it a parachute landing from the sky when appearing on stage?”

“In addition to playing mobile games, how many domestic artists can parachute, huh?!” Xiao Xia spat, “Generally, in outdoor reality shows like this, in addition to the fixed cast, some supporting artists will also be invited. Sometimes, when the program’s performance is too poor, they will invite big-name artists to make guest appearances to boost the fame of the program; sometimes, when the show is too popular, some celebrities will find ways, such as bribing, so that they can appear and ride in the coattails of the show’s popularity.”

A popular reality show like Wilderness Winner, which set a variety record with just three episodes, definitely fell into the second category.

Xiao Xia asked, “Sister Su, did you understand my explanation?”

“Yes, I understand.” Su Jishi said calmly, “What flying guests? Isn’t ‘temporary workers’ a better term’?”

But when she thought of the unknown temporary worker, Su Jishi somehow recalled what Mu Xiulun had told her.

…Could this temporary worker be related to the Mu family?