Entertainment: Who still wants to fall in love when there are cheats?

Chapter 174 The Filter Is Broken
"Liying? What's wrong with you today? You've been looking at me with such a strange look. Is there something wrong with me today?" Li Boda looked down at his body and clothes and asked Zhao Liying.

"No, no! There's nothing wrong." Zhao Liying quickly shook her head.

"Then why are you acting so strangely today?" Li Boda asked, quite puzzled.

"I, I—" Zhao Liying lowered her head, her eyes darting around, not daring to look up at Li Boda at all. She stammered and couldn't get a coherent sentence out.

"Forget it, stop overthinking. Focus on filming. If you do too many takes today, I'll teach you a lesson." Li Boda slapped Zhao Liying on the head and said casually.

"I, I will definitely do my best in filming, boss." Zhao Liying nodded quickly.

Seeing Zhao Liying like this, Li Boda didn't bother to think about it anymore. As long as Zhao Liying didn't affect filming, there was no problem.

When Zhao Liying saw Li Boda turn and leave, she immediately patted her chest and breathed a sigh of relief, but she couldn't help feeling a little strange.

To be honest, after Zhao Liying signed with Li Boda's studio, she had a pretty good impression of Li Boda, her boss.

After all, Li Boda is very handsome and seems to have a very good personality. After signing the contract, she immediately gave him the role of the female lead.

At the same time, Li Boda's acting skills are also outstanding. Coupled with Li Boda's talent and various amazing abilities, Zhao Liying couldn't help but look up to him.

However, because of the gap between herself and Li Boda, Zhao Liying felt inferior even though she had feelings for Li Boda.

Although occasionally, she would fantasize in her heart that, like in some idol dramas, she, an inconspicuous newcomer who had just joined Li Boda's studio, would have all sorts of misunderstandings with Li Boda and eventually get together.

However, she only indulges in fantasies occasionally; she is actually quite realistic.

Zhao Liying never expected that Li Boda, whom she considered almost perfect, would have relationships with both Li Xiaoran and Jiang Wenli—

This immediately shattered Zhao Liying's positive perception of Li Boda.

However, after the filter was shattered, Zhao Liying's mind was overgrown with weeds, and many strange thoughts arose.

The main reason was that Li Boda's image in Zhao Liying's mind was too perfect, so perfect that it felt unreal. This made Zhao Liying look up to Li Boda and feel that the distance between them was too great. So much so that even when she couldn't help but fantasize, she would warn herself in her heart that these fantasies were all fake and impossible.

Now, because of the woman, after the perfect filter surrounding Li Boda was shattered, Zhao Liying felt that Li Boda was not so unattainable after all.

Zhao Liying, on the contrary, felt that Li Boda was now more grounded and real, and that she could seduce him.

This, however, made Zhao Liying unable to help but develop some feelings for Li Boda.

It's like when you're in school, there's a goddess-like figure who's perfect in every way—looks, figure, studies, personality, etc.—so perfect that ordinary people wouldn't dare to approach her. But later, you discover that this seemingly perfect goddess has some flaws and isn't truly as perfect as she seems. That's when ordinary people suddenly have the courage to get closer to her.

Zhao Liying is a perfect example of this now.

Li Xiaoran and Jiang Wenli can both eat meat, so why can't Zhao Liying have a bite?

Is it because Li Xiaoran and Jiang Wenli are beautiful and famous enough?

But Zhao Liying isn't ugly either. Although her face is a bit round, she's still very cute. If she couldn't catch Li Boda's eye, why would he agree to let her sign with his studio?
As for fame.

She is now the female lead in this drama, while Li Xiaoran is the third female lead, and even Jiang Wenli is only the second female lead. To some extent, this should offset each other in terms of fame.

Thinking this, Zhao Liying's courage grew stronger and stronger, which made her gaze at Li Boda's back become more and more intense.

Li Boda noticed the gaze, turned around, and met Zhao Liying's eyes.

Zhao Liying was taken aback when Li Boda suddenly turned around. Looking into Li Boda's beautiful eyes, which seemed to contain the universe, she suddenly felt shy and quickly lowered her head, not daring to continue looking at him.

"What's wrong with this girl?" Li Boda muttered to himself, too lazy to think about it any further.

Filming! Filming is the most important thing right now!
After being talked to by Li Boda, Zhao Liying tried her best to concentrate during filming, so she was still able to keep up and didn't slack off.

Everything went very smoothly.

And so, the day's shooting came to an end. Because the shooting went smoothly, there was no need to delay any longer, and we left work at nine o'clock in the evening.

After get off work, Zhao Liying dawdled, hoping to find an opportunity to have some meat, but she discovered that Li Xiaoran had made another appointment with Jiang Wenli to go play poker with Li Boda, leaving her no chance to join in.

Disappointed and dejected, Zhao Liying could only return to her room. To prevent herself from overthinking, she worked hard to hone her acting skills, pushing her already tired mind to the point of exhaustion, and finally fell asleep on the bed before midnight.

And it must be said, Zhao Liying's acting skills have improved significantly after this period of honing her craft. Her previously somewhat raw performances have become increasingly mature. She even received praise from director Ye Weimin, who, of course, commended her for her progress in acting.

After all, both Li Boda and Jiang Wenli are far superior to Zhao Liying in terms of acting skills. If we really want to praise acting skills, it's not Zhao Liying's place.

After noticing Zhao Liying's improved acting skills, director Ye Weimin began to intentionally improve her acting level and started to hone her skills.

Then, as Zhao Liying filmed every day, she expended more and more energy, and became increasingly tired after each day's filming.

This is quite normal. After all, once the director approved of Zhao Liying's attitude, he naturally wanted to hone her skills, which was also for Zhao Liying's own good.

Zhao Liying is indeed a very resilient woman. She understands that the director values ​​her because of this kind of training, so she grits her teeth and perseveres without complaining about the hardship or fatigue, and even puts all her energy into filming.

She hardly has any wild thoughts anymore; she's focused solely on filming, so her condition is getting better and better.

On the contrary, Zhao Liying has already caught up with Li Xiaoran in terms of acting skills.

Among several important actresses, her acting skills are almost at the bottom.

After discovering this situation, Li Xiaoran couldn't help but focus more on filming.

Li Boda was happy to see this situation, because the more serious the actors were, the better the quality of the film could be guaranteed.

Li Boda desperately wants everyone to work very hard and take filming seriously, so that the quality of the movie will be higher, and the feedback from Golden Finger will be more valuable and precious when the movie is released.

The competitive atmosphere was heightened, and the director's demands became increasingly stringent.

Then, during filming, the number of takes actually increased.

It's not that the filming got worse; on the contrary, it got better. Then the director's requirements for the scenes also increased, so the number of takes also started to increase.

This resulted in shooting tasks that normally ended at 9 p.m. being dragged out.

The filming task, which was originally scheduled to end at nine o'clock, was changed to end at ten o'clock, or eleven o'clock, or even twelve o'clock.

Just like this time.

"Ms. Jiang, I'm so sorry, I'm really sorry. We have to film until 2 a.m. tonight, so I'm sorry to trouble you to stay up all night." The director apologized to Jiang Wenli with great embarrassment.

Jiang Wenli also frowned, clearly in a bad mood.

The main issue is that she's getting older, and staying up late is becoming more difficult for her.

After all, the older you get, the less your body can handle staying up late.

Especially since Jiang Wenli is such a big star, the director really had to speak well of her when she stayed up so late.

On the contrary, the younger ones like Li Boda, Li Xiaoran, and Zhao Liying had no resistance to staying up late. After all, they were young and could easily handle it.

When the director said they would stay up all night, they would ask what time they would finish. At most, they would tell the director to have someone prepare a midnight snack, and then that would be the end of it. At most, they would just say that they shouldn't film the next morning and should sleep in.

Although staying up until 2 a.m. made Jiang Wenli quite unhappy, she had no choice but to give Li Boda face since Li Boda was the one who brought the production team together.

"Two in the morning, that's all we can do until two in the morning." Jiang Wenli seemed to agree, but the underlying meaning was that she would stay up until two in the morning, and regardless of whether the filming was finished by then, she would definitely just pack up and leave.

Upon hearing this, Ye Weimin nodded quickly and then moved the remaining scenes involving Jiang Wenli to the beginning as much as possible.

If today's scenes aren't finished by 2 PM and Jiang Wenli leaves, then other people's scenes can still be filmed.

Time passed slowly, and it was almost 2 a.m. when the filming was finally finished.

The director breathed a sigh of relief, and the rest of the crew quickly packed up their things and prepared to go back to sleep.

Jiang Wenli yawned several times in a row, feeling listless and only wanting to go back to sleep. She had no desire for any pre-sleep activities, such as playing cards or poker.

Similarly, Li Xiaoran was so sleepy that she could barely keep her eyes open. She planned to go back and get some rest and sleep, and even planned to sleep until noon the next day.

(End of this chapter)