Chapter 115: Want To Hit Him
Xuan Xia stopped chatting with Yang Wanxiu and greeted Jiang Feng.
Seeing the script in his hand, Xuan Xia’s first reaction was that Jiang Feng had come to run lines with her, but looking at the time, it seemed a bit early.
Sure enough, Jiang Feng didn’t flip through the script. After coming over to greet her, his next words were an apology for delaying progress last night.
Xuan Xia’s smile carried a hint of helplessness as she half-jokingly said, “Teacher Jiang, if you do this, I’m going to feel bad.”
Jiang Feng froze, speechless for a moment.
Seeing him stunned and not saying a word for several seconds, Xuan Xia wondered if she had said something wrong.
She quickly followed up by praising him, “You got into the role and empathized with it, not for any other reason. If you have to apologize for that, then I, whose emotions weren’t as good as yours at the time, should apologize to you even more.”
“Teacher Jiang, if you keep apologizing, I’ll start to suspect that you’re actually blaming me for not being emotional enough and not performing well.”
Pausing for a moment, Xuan Xia added, “Teacher Jiang, if there’s anywhere I’m not up to par, you can criticize me directly. Progress comes from criticism, and I can take it.”
A hint of panic appeared on Jiang Feng’s expression.
After Xuan Xia finished speaking, he hurriedly stammered, “No, you’re great. Really, you’re really great. I didn’t mean to criticize, really, I didn’t.”
Toward the end, Jiang Feng even furrowed his brows tightly, as if blaming himself.
Xuan Xia really wanted to ask if he was serious, but thinking better of it, she didn’t. Instead, she smiled and said, “Then it’s the same for Teacher Jiang with me. You performed so well, I’m full of admiration and don’t have time for anything else, yet you always undermine yourself—what am I supposed to do as your fan?”
“Teacher Jiang, this is fan abuse, you know that?”
Jiang Feng showed a stunned expression again.
But this time, he didn’t stay dazed for long like before; instead, he quickly changed to another topic.
This other topic was the black hot search incident that had already ended.
Right from the start, Jiang Feng apologized to her again.
Xuan Xia was speechless at this apology machine.
Jiang Feng said, “The company’s statement yesterday wasn’t fully considered; it only focused on denial and didn’t even think to say a word or two for you.”
“No,” Xuan Xia interrupted him. “I’ve seen your company’s statement; there’s no problem. Besides, my company also issued a statement for me, using a similar template.”
Moreover, it was enough for a company to clear things up for its own artist; no issue there.
Xuan Xia felt he didn’t need to apologize to her for this at all.
Besides, “This incident got Teacher Jiang involved because of me. Luckily, the hot search has been handled. I also hope Teacher Jiang won’t take it to heart anymore.”
Jiang Feng was silent for a moment, then said, “Leaving you to take all the flak alone was ultimately my fault. So I made a personal statement, hoping it wasn’t too late.”
Huh?
Before Xuan Xia could ask what kind of personal statement it was, Ji Ziyao happened to walk over.
With a dark expression, his tone a bit stiff, “Xuan Xia, come here; let’s have a meeting.”
After Ji Ziyao spoke, he turned and walked to the other side, not even greeting Jiang Feng.
Xuan Xia glanced at Ji Ziyao, then at Jiang Feng, said something, and hurried toward Ji Ziyao.
“Wow, what’s wrong with you? Did you really not see Jiang Feng, or did you deliberately ignore him?”
Not even greeting him—is this still the ever-polite agent?
Ji Ziyao said with a forced smile, “Not hitting him is already very polite of me.”
“…”
Xuan Xia asked, “What did he do?”
Ji Ziyao’s fake smile instantly added gritted teeth. After suppressing curse words, he said, “The hot search is down, but he still personally issued a statement. Isn’t he asking for trouble?”
“Is he afraid netizens will forget? If there really wasn’t his involvement, I’d suspect he was hyping it up.”
Ji Ziyao huffed angrily, glancing at Jiang Feng from the corner of his eye, then said to Xuan Xia, “Stay away from him; just looking at him pisses me off.”
“…”
Xuan Xia had already pulled out her mobile phone and logged into Weibo, finding Jiang Feng’s homepage.
His personal statement was right at the top.
It was just three lines.
Xuan Xia quickly read it through, tilted her head to Ji Ziyao, and said, “It’s written pretty well.”
The wording was concise, logically clear, with personal emotion in it. And the focus was all on defending her and speaking up for her.
But the one flaw was probably that it missed the best time to speak out.
Ji Ziyao: “…”
It seemed the person he wanted to hit had increased by one.
Xuan Xia smiled slyly, put away her phone, and soothed, “At least it’s not kicking someone when they’re down.”
“Hmm, how is this not?” Ji Ziyao sneered coldly.
This left Xuan Xia unable to respond.
Luckily, after cursing inwardly a few times, Ji Ziyao changed the topic himself.
“I got the script.”
“You got it, so fast.”
“But don’t get too happy yet.”
Ji Ziyao had wanted to explain in detail, but when the words reached his mouth, he felt it better not to say for now.
Pausing for a second, he added, “The script will be printed soon; read it after you get off work.”
“Okay.”
Xuan Xia was quite curious, but since it was after work, she’d wait until then.
Reading another script on the film set really wasn’t appropriate.
After finishing about the script, Ji Ziyao brought up the endorsement.
“The company just gave me some inside info. The endorsement will definitely be signed to you, but the endorser title is off the table; you can only get brand ambassador treatment.”
Xuan Xia said “oh oh”; she actually didn’t care what treatment it was.
She was self-aware; she had nothing now, so how could she get endorser treatment?
Not to mention, even “brand ambassador” treatment like this would probably draw a wave of doubts, further solidifying her “resource person” label.
Seeing she had no objections, Ji Ziyao sighed and said, “Alright then. Brand ambassador it is. Work hard, and next year we’ll upgrade the title.”
Seeing his pumped-up look, clearly having forgotten his displeasure with Jiang Feng earlier, Xuan Xia couldn’t help but laugh.
“Hey, can you tell me how Jiang Feng pissed you off? You’ve been glaring at him.”
Ji Ziyao, reminded of old grievances: “…” His mood soured again.
After a while, Ji Ziyao revealed, “That guy is nitpicking and serious. I don’t get how you can get along with him so well.”
Some people just have clashing vibes; hard to pinpoint specific reasons.
But Ji Ziyao was stubborn and wouldn’t say it straight, so he picked the two easiest points to nitpick.
“Nitpicking? Aren’t you trying to say he’s striving for perfection?”
“Serious—maybe he’s just rigorous?”
Xuan Xia deliberately countered.
Ji Ziyao started shaking his head.
He felt Xuan Xia had really been led astray by Jiang Feng.
Or maybe…
“Is this how you top students appreciate each other?”
Speaking of which, Jiang Feng was also a top student in school.
Minor fix. Mainly the last point.
