Ch31.2 - International Star (1) Part 2

Translated by Aytise on Foxaholic.com

At first, the original owner still tried to face the gossip and fight back to prove her innocence, but more and more people kept on throwing dirty water on her, to the point that, and no matter what she said, no one believed her. (TN: throw dirty water means making accusations and blaming someone for something they didn’t do.)

Eventually, she couldn’t take it anymore and ended up committing suicide.

But the original owner was merely an unknown 18 th line actress, so no one paid much attention to her suicide, and in the blink of an eye, it was quickly covered up by other news and gossip, as if that person had never existed.

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As if that person had never existed…

According to the plot, the current timeline is at the moment Liu Manman first stole the original owner’s role. The latter was so frustrated and sad she neglected her health and caught a cold.

Yet, Chu Zheng didn’t feel sick, so her body must have automatically recovered after she took it over.

[Xiao Jiejie, in light of your outstanding performance in the last mission, I will make a rule adjustment.] Wang Zhe stressed the word ‘outstanding’.

A cold glint instantly flashed through Chu Zheng’s eyes as she asked sharply: “You want to change the rules?”

[……] Xiao Jiejie, don’t be so fierce, ah! [I …… I’m only doing it for Xiao Jiejie’s sake.]

If it weren’t because you always wanted to kill and get rid of people, unwilling to spend money, would I have to through all this trouble?!

I’m also suffering bitter hardships in order to make you spend money, ah!

Why can’t she be more like the Xiao Jiejie next door?

[Xiao Jiejie still has to spend the money like before, but there is no need to have monetary and physical equivalence anymore. But you still can’t throw it away, donate it, give it to someone else, destroy it, etc.]

The new rule adjustment meant that contrary to the previous plane where she had to pay two dollars to buy a two dollars’ worth of water, she was now allowed to spend a hundred dollars for a two dollars water bottle.

[Main task: Please spend ten million in two hours. The money was deposited in your bank account, please check your card.]

Chu Zheng: “……”

“Say it again.” She didn’t seem to have heard him correctly just now.

[Main task: Please spend ten million in two hours. The money was deposited in your bank account, please check your card.] Wang Zhe mechanically repeated the same sentence.

Chu Zheng: “……”

Wasn’t the last mission a step by step progression?

Why did it suddenly start with 10 million this time!

Son of a bitch, you’re messing with me!

[Xiao Jiejie, every plane is different, the amount to be spent will naturally be different as well.] Wang Zhe explained, [And the last mission was a just novice plane, its purpose was mainly letting Xiao Jiejie adapt to the missions’ environment and get familiar with tasks.]

He’s very considerate!

Unlike those black-hearted systems that directly gave their hosts hellish tasks, he was nice enough to let her adapt!

Chu Zheng annoyedly held her forehead and propped herself up on the bed.

How could she spend ten million in two hours?

Buy a villa?

She first needs to know where to get it from!

With the original owner’s knowledge, she couldn’t find a house and complete the transaction in two hours.

Chu Zheng looked around the room and finally found the original owner’s phone casually thrown under a script.

The title was “Phoenix Imperial Concubine Qingcheng”, it was the drama that the original owner had successfully auditioned for. But her third female lead role ended up being snatched up by Liu Manman.

Initially, the drama wasn’t a big production, but it somehow got very poplar after it aired.

Not only Liu Manman got instant popularity, many other actors also got more famous thanks to this drama.

When Chu Zheng opened the phone, the first message on the screen was a 10 million RMB deposit notification.

In the contact list, Chu Zheng found the director’s contact information and directly dialed his number.

The phone kept on ringing for a while before finally being answered. Without waiting for Chu Zheng to open her mouth, the other party directly rebuked her in an annoyed tone: “Miss Gu, how many times do I have to tell you? You’re not suitable for this role, so let’s work together the next time the chance arises, alright?”

Apparently, the original owner had called the director to complain so many times he was completely fed with her by now.

“I’ll invest ten million.”

“Miss Gu, I’m a very busy person. If you don’t have anything important ……” The director’s voice suddenly trailed off, “What did you just say?”

“I’ll invest ten million.” Chu Zheng indifferently repeated.

The director seemed to be choking on his saliva and stayed silent for a while.

“Miss Gu, you’re not joking with me, are you?”

“I’m a very busy person, I don’t have time to joke with you.” She’s only got two hours! She’s really very busy!

The director: “…… ” The sentence he just said was thrown right back at him.

This little had come before to audition for the third female lead. Her acting skills weren’t too bad, and she was very good-looking ……

However, her background seemed very ordinary. Did she really have that much money?

The director was a little suspicious, but it was true they were currently lacking in funds for the drama.

“Where is Miss Gu at the moment? How about we meet and talk more about it?”

“See you at Film City.” Her apartment wasn’t far from Film City, and even if the director was slightly further, they could quickly meet there as it was the closest location to both of them.

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