The Trending Topic Herself: The Villainess is the Superstar!-Chapter 212: 76.7%

Maya Monroe raised an eyebrow, suggesting: What else?

The makeup artist had seen many interviews and variety shows with Maya Monroe, increasingly feeling that Maya was truly an unusual character. 𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶

"In that case... that’s great."

Maya nodded in agreement.

The makeup artist understood Maya Monroe’s preferences well, knowing she disliked wasting time on makeup. So, she slowly brought up some topics, trying to divert Maya’s attention so she wouldn’t feel too bored:

"I saw you were recently voted the ’Most Beautiful Face in Asia Pacific’, it’s quite remarkable!"

Maya’s attitude was somewhat indifferent, not caring much: "Really?"

There wasn’t the slightest smugness or arrogance, her reaction was overly calm. If it were other artists, there would have been media coverage everywhere, this impressed the makeup artist.

"Indeed, it’s a recognition of your looks, as voted by the public."

"Oh... thank you."

Maya slightly hung her head, seemingly due to fatigue, her long lashes casting shadows on her eyes. Her eyes were indistinct, giving a touch of dreamy intoxication.

The makeup artist unconsciously swallowed.

Honestly, Maya deserved the top spot.

*

After filming the advertisement, Ryan Spencer took Maya back, thanks to the makeup, her face didn’t show any signs of exhaustion.

She had obediently let the makeup artist apply makeup for a reason. After all, Ryan’s lectures were quite exhausting to handle, it was best to avoid them when possible.

Sure enough, Ryan couldn’t detect anything unusual, even complimenting her on how vibrant and beautiful she looked today.

After briefly explaining the advertisement shoot, Maya expressed a strong desire for food.

Ryan said, "I remember a restaurant that’s quite good, very private, many celebrities dine there. Let’s check it out today."

Seeing Maya was about to say something, Ryan preemptively said: "No hot pot today, eating super spicy with you every day, my old bones can’t take it anymore. Let’s have something lighter today."

Maya followed Ryan to a small restaurant, the setting quiet, quite tasteful.

Just during the waiting time, Maya’s phone suddenly rang.

But she didn’t answer, directly cutting the call off.

Ryan looked up at her: "Why aren’t you answering the phone?"

"I don’t know them."

"If they have something urgent? Maybe you should call back to avoid missing something important."

Maya lazily responded "Hmm" and then involuntarily closed her eyes.

Too tired, extremely tired...

She didn’t sleep at all last night, her consciousness kept drifting between dreaming and waking.

They sat facing each other, Ryan seeing Maya’s exhaustion, didn’t have the heart to keep talking. She must have put considerable effort into the ad shoot.

The ringtone rang again, Ryan frowned, deliberating whether to wake Maya or not.

Scott suddenly nudged Ryan’s arm, his voice low, presumably out of consideration for Maya’s nap: "Ryan, your phone is ringing."

"My phone is ringing?"

Ryan pulled out his phone and indeed, his call alert sounded.

Ryan and Maya used the same phone model, Maya didn’t bother changing the ringtone, thus the call ringtone was always the system’s default short tone, common and generic.

Coincidentally, Ryan had the same.

Due to such a mix-up, Ryan’s earlobes blushed, then he went out to answer the call.

Ryan returned looking pleased, even someone as slow-reacting as Scott could see Ryan’s joy.

"Ryan, what happened?" he quietly asked.

The other assistants also looked over.

Ryan sat back down, his voice joyful: "Maya’s audition was successful!"

"Really?!" Scott exclaimed in surprise: "Maya is the best!"

The other assistants also rejoiced together.

Maya was awakened by the commotion, her sleepiness had mostly vanished: "What’s going on..."

Ryan laughed and said: "I just got the call, your audition was successful, Maya!!"

"Oh... the audition..." Maya suddenly sat upright.

She recently only participated in one audition.

"... What do you mean?"

Ryan chuckled: "Are you so happy you’re confused? You passed the audition for ’Mirror’! You got the female lead role!!"

Maya felt her head buzzing, she struggled to utter a few words: "I... passed the audition?"

How could she succeed?!

She didn’t even perform, there should be no chance at all for her to get the role!! This role should have gone to Kiki Monroe!

"Look at how happy you are, later have something nice to calm your nerves."

Scott poured Maya a cup of tea.

Not minding the tea’s bitterness, Maya downed it in one go, not recovering for a long time.

"Another cup."

Scott poured Maya another cup.

After several cups of tea, Maya experienced the gloom of drinking.

"Maya, are you okay?"

"... I’m fine."

This means her deadline for completing tasks was indefinitely extended? The longer it drags, the easier for things to unravel, thus the chance of task failure is similarly high...

Maya’s heart was a turmoil of complicated feelings, she wasn’t this distressed even when being besieged.

She checked the plot development rating again.

76.7%

The plot development depends on external readers’ satisfaction with the book’s progress, Kiki Monroe can be considered the book’s center, its excitement virtually hinges on the female lead.

Originally thought this time it’d be a dreadful figure, but...

Maya blinked, sure that the plot development rating was nowhere near this high yesterday.

Without Kiki securing the role, plot excitement should decrease, how come?

A strange thought crossed her mind again, Maya furrowed her brow.

Could it be so...?

As dishes were served, Maya had little interest in tasting.

Again a ringtone, Maya saw it was—Yvonne Hall.

Why was she calling? Because of the audition? Or some other event?

Maya stood up: "I’ll take a call."

"Hello, Mrs. Hall?"

Yvonne’s voice was still kind: "You should have received the crew’s call, right?"

Maya recalled the earlier terminated call, she lightly replied "Hmm."

"Mrs. Hall, frankly, I don’t understand how the role landed on me? My performance wasn’t good, I’m quite aware of that."