Overnight Hit: Vicious Stepmother and Genius Son-Chapter 525 - 522

The next morning, when she got up, the man had already left.

She dressed and came downstairs where the servant greeted her, "Madam, breakfast is ready."

"Hmm."

A few steps more, and she paused to ask, "When did the master leave?"

"Just before 7 a.m."

Ye Zhenzhen didn’t speak further, quietly having her breakfast.

Yu Lili arrived when she was finished, and they went to the set together.

Ye Zhenzhen didn’t need much makeup for today’s scene, just a light touch was enough, so it didn’t take long.

Because of her excellent performance on the first day on set, she had three more scenes today than yesterday.

After every scene, she rushed to remember the lines for the next one, and the few times she NG’d were because Fu Shinuan failed to pick up on her cues.

"Cut!"

Approaching lunchtime, after six takes, Director Yang was still not satisfied.

After calling a halt, he couldn’t take it any longer and stood up to shout at Fu Shinuan, "Miss high and mighty, your emotions are all wrong, your current state is purely looking down on people, arrogant and overbearing, without any jealousy. How many times do I have to repeat myself?"

With so many people from the crew around, Fu Shinuan’s face turned red with embarrassment from Director Yang’s scolding. Yesterday, she’d been on Team B, NG’ing all day, yet she hadn’t heard a single harsh word there.

But this morning, Director Yang had been on her case the whole time.

Fu Shinuan, feeling aggrieved, pointed at Ye Zhenzhen, "Director Yang, this is how I’ve been acting, you always criticize me; how come you never criticize Ye Zhenzhen? My performance is based on her cues."

Director Yang couldn’t be bothered to argue with Fu Shinuan, he waved his hands and said, "Let’s have lunch first, then continue."

He was at his wit’s end. Ye Zhenzhen, when in character, was consistently stable in every scene, while this Fu Shinuan was driving him so crazy he felt like replacing her outright.

Ye Zhenzhen couldn’t care less about Fu Shinuan’s nonsensical talk and didn’t bother to pay her any mind.

However, she felt that with so much time ahead on set, there would inevitably come a day when she wouldn’t be able to stand it anymore.

After lunch, Ye Zhenzhen stepped out of the resting room only to see Qin Lang.

He offered her a cup of coffee, "Got this especially for you."

Ye Zhenzhen glanced at him but didn’t accept it.

Qin Lang increased his stride to keep up with Ye Zhenzhen’s brisk and hasty pace, "Zhenzhen, I want to invite you for dinner tonight, along with some of our high school friends, it’s been a while since we all got together, so how about it?"

Ye Zhenzhen’s lips curled into a mocking smile, "With you?"

"Yes," Qin Lang nodded.

Ye Zhenzhen really felt like these people must be sick in the head, her face wasn’t looking good to begin with, and her mood was even worse after seeing Qin Lang.

"If you’re sick, go get treated."

She couldn’t understand these people, their hearts were always thinking about how to hurt her, yet they could appear so calm and collected on the surface. Such great acting skills, yet they instantly faltered when it came to shooting!

"Zhenzhen, I was wrong about yesterday, don’t be angry anymore, okay? I apologize to you,"

"So if you apologize to me, I must accept it?"

Ye Zhenzhen had intended to walk directly over to Director Yang, but seeing Qin Lang still following her, she suddenly turned left towards the restroom.

Qin Lang’s steps halted, stiffening...

She went into the restroom, and he couldn’t follow her there anymore.

Initially, he wanted to cozy up to Ye Zhenzhen and casually inquire if she knew any of his untold private matters.

His instincts told him she probably knew something.

"Qin Lang, come here!"

Director Yang, sitting in front of the monitor, waved Qin Lang over.

Qin Lang looked towards the restroom, then back at Director Yang, and with a reluctant air, he walked over.

There was still time; he couldn’t rush in this moment.

...

In the afternoon, Director Yang switched the scenes he had scheduled because he really didn’t want to see Fu Shinuan anymore, leaving other directors to handle it.

With this change, the afternoon’s filming pace noticeably sped up.

Watching Ye Zhenzhen’s every move in the monitor, Director Yang let out a satisfied sigh, "Now that’s what I call acting!"

During a break in filming, Ye Zhenzhen received a message from Da Mi inviting her to dinner the day after tomorrow, along with a location pin for the restaurant.

She replied with, "Okay."

Ye Zhenzhen handed her phone to Yu Lili, and Xiao Yi came over with a cup of fruit tea in hand, offering it to her, "Have some, Feige just went out to buy it."

Ye Zhenzhen shook her head, "Don’t want to."

"What’s with you today? You seem to be in a terrible mood. Did that bastard upset you?"

Xiao Yi joked with a smile, not taking it seriously, but Ye Zhenzhen looked at him with a dead serious face.

How did you know?

She asked herself that question internally.

Seeing Ye Zhenzhen’s expression suddenly change, becoming serious, Xiao Yi blurted out in disbelief, "No way?"