CH 39

Ch 39 - Newest Top Celebrity x Washed Up Film Emperor: Bring Me Into The Role

Yan Qin looked at the fruit in front of him and paused slightly.

“I almost forgot, Mr. Yan doesn’t like eating grapes.”

Lin Sui sat in front of Yan Qin, and though his mouth said those words, he still grabbed a grape and placed it next to Yan Qin’s lips, his actions no different from before.

“You can spit it out again this time, I’ll just feed it to you again if you spit it out until you actually swallow it.”

The green grape pulp slid over Yan Qin’s lips, smearing them with sticky sweet juice.

Yan Qin controlled his expression, but the lines of his lower jaw were stretched taut, his refusal was very clear.

Yan Qin had learnt his lesson, so he didn’t open his mouth to speak in order to avoid being forcefully stuffed, and planned to leave this predicament.

“Why are you refusing? Don’t you know that, for someone like me, the more people don’t do what I want, the more stubborn I’ll be?”

Lin Sui propped his cheek up with one hand and twirled the grape in the other, playfully lingering on Yan Qin’s lips.

“I will be really serious when that time comes, maybe I’ll have someone throw you into my room, use toys to keep your mouth open, and feed you the grapes one by one until you can’t eat any more. Maybe after that you’ll change to like grapes.”

Lin Sui spoke neither fast nor slow, his voice gentle and pleasant.

Following his words, a scene appeared in his mind like an unfurling picture scroll.

Yan Qin’s expression became a little colder, he pulled away from Lin Sui and said: “I don’t remember having done anything to provoke you.”

“You haven’t?” Lin Sui raised his eyebrows in slight astonishment, and smiled lazily, “You being in front of me right now is provoking me.”

An vain and self-important, audacious, and resource-grabbing flower vase may not have any sort of feelings towards a good-looking Film Emperor with good acting skills, but when one added the words ‘washed up’ in front of ‘Film Emperor’, it would naturally be different.

“Some people actually said that you acting with me was degrading and hindering your style, ridiculous, I haven’t even said you’re riding on my popularity, but you’re always putting on airs. It’s annoying to watch.”

Lin Sui threw away the grape in his hand and used a wet-wipe to clean the moistness from his fingers.

Did the villain need a reason to hate the protagonist? No, because when you hate someone, anything can become a reason.

“Eat up, Mr. Yan, consider this as my tuition payment. You’ve worked hard to teach me, if you don’t eat, I’ll truly be too embarrassed to use the things you taught me to act in this movie.”

Lin Sui pushed the fruit in front of Yan Qin, watching him calmly.

Yan Qin did not think this fruit was the end of it, maybe it was only the beginning.

The young man before his eyes seemed like the painted-skin beauties1 from supernatural stories, whose insides were filled with corruption and decay.

The meaning in his words was clear, making Yan Qin a little annoyed.

Being an actor meant having the duty to act well, even more so when being the main actor that influenced the quality of the work, but Lin Sui treated it like a game, didn’t take his own career seriously, and actually used this to threaten him.

Yan Qin had a bit of OCD when it came to filming, he didn’t like bad movies, and he didn’t want to see anything he acted in to be a bad movie.

As soon as he took on the role, Yan Qin had already forewarned Liu Buqun that if the results left much to be desired after a few days of shooting, he would withdraw from the cast.

He’d only asked for an extremely low pay in one part because he really wanted the script to be improved and wanted to help, but also so that he wouldn’t have to pay too high a penalty when he quit.

They day they started shooting, Lin Sui’s performance was flawed and stiff, but he had ingenuity and understanding, so Yan Qin didn’t want to give up too early.

As a result, even though his heart was unhappy, Yan Qin still picked up the grape and put it into his mouth, and that was the end of it.

Lin Sui didn’t talk again, he looked at Yan Qin and left.

The assistants in the breakroom had already laid out the packaged dishes, so Lin Sui let them leave to have their own meals and took out his cellphone to make a call.

“Lingling, why are you suddenly calling me? Are you unhappy on set? What’s wrong?”

The man on the other end had a rough and bold voice that carried a sense of affection.

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1 Refers to a monster taking on a beautiful human appearance. Top.

2 艾特 Means to mention someone with the @ symbol, but I wasn’t really sure if ‘to at sb.’ is an actual thing in english lol. Top.

3 So the original word here is ‘臍橙, qíchéng’ which is a type of orange, but it sounds exactly like ‘骑乘’ which means to ride, turning the username into a play on ‘Wife Rides Me’. I tried to keep the original play on sounds rather than going for the literal ‘Wife Oranges Me’. Top.

4 Hui style architecture is one of the major factions of traditional Chinese architecture styles, dating back to around the Ming dynasty. Top.

TN: This and the following three chaps are kinda long so my uploading schedule will probably be a little wonky(er than usual) until chapters return to a reasonable length (i.e. ~3k cn characters instead of ~6k lol). Longer ones are usually not that much of a problem but four in a row is just a bit oof.