100 Days Of Escaping My Wedding

Chapter 28: Chapter 028 They Actually Sold Me_1 Chapter 28: Chapter 028 They Actually Sold Me_1 “Mr. Fan, hello, may I ask what brings you here?” Gong Xiaoqiao said politely.

“With such qualifications, Miss Gong, why bother auditioning for such a minor role?”

“Everyone is really strong! I’m already satisfied to have gotten this role,” she replied.

“Miss Gong is too modest. In fact… I think you’d be a perfect fit for the role of Shangguan Xianyue. I wonder if you’d honor me with your company for dinner, so we could discuss it?” The man smiled charmingly, thinking himself to be bewitching, but Gong Xiaoqiao only found him sleazy.

“I’m really sorry, Mr. Fan, but I have a prior engagement,” she said.

“Is that so? What a pity.” The man’s expression turned somewhat sour, and before leaving, he glanced at her contemptuously as if mocking her pretentiousness.

Gong Xiaoqiao sighed. Was this the legendary ‘casting couch’?

That guy was, at best, just a staff member, judging some bit-part role—how could he possibly have the authority to decide on a leading lady? Did he take her for a grade schooler? So easy to fool!

Yet, rejecting him could mean he’d secretly try to trip her up.

But in the end, it was just a bit-part, and it wasn’t as if she’d earned it through acting skills—losing it over such a thing wouldn’t be a big deal.

Exhausted, Gong Xiaoqiao returned to her hotel, opened the door, and threw herself onto the big bed—only to immediately feel that something was off. What was so hard on the bed?

Just as she was about to get up, she was pinned down again. First, she saw a bare chest; then, looking up, a pair of eyes welled up with tears and full of indignant sorrow…

“Gong Xiaoqiao, you actually… actually sold me out…”

“Ah—why are you in my bed? How did you know I was here? How could the hotel just let anyone in! I didn’t sell you!”

“You say you didn’t, but why didn’t you come to my concert?” Jinmulin continued to stare at her with a sorrowful gaze.

Gong Xiaoqiao coughed lightly and turned her head away, “Well, you see, I sold the concert ticket, okay! Why so worked up? I had things to do and couldn’t go. It would have been a waste to keep it, so I sold it…”

“Then you surely don’t know what I sang for my last song, do you?” Jinmulin gnashed his teeth. He’d put his heart and soul into writing a song especially for her, wanting to surprise her at the concert.

“Uh, what was it…”

“Gong Xiaoqiao, I hate you! How could you do this to me, why, why…”

With a twitch at the corner of her mouth, Gong Xiaoqiao pushed away the man draped in nothing but a towel and sprawled on top of her, wailing like a banshee, “Second Senior Brother, are you possessed by a roaring ghost or something…”

“By the way, I haven’t asked you, why are you here?”

“To audition for ‘A World Without Demons.’
“Oh? Really? Did you make it?”

“Mm.”

“Ah! Then I want to go too. I’ll play the male lead! My agent showed me the script before, but I wasn’t interested in the predetermined female lead. But if it’s Xiaoqiao, it’s different—In the script, Shangguan Xianyue is utterly devoted and gentle as water towards Jun Yichen! Ohoho…”

And most importantly, there were many intimate scenes.

Gong Xiaoqiao’s face darkened, “Hey! I think you’ve got some things wrong here! At the start, Shangguan Xianyue is good to Jun Yichen, but later on, it’s Jun Yichen who works like a horse to pay off debts. And also, the role I’m going for isn’t the female lead; it’s just a maid with a mere five minutes of screen time!”

Jinmulin was stunned for a long moment before suddenly grasping her shoulders and shaking her “Little Junior Sister, are you crazy? You’re actually going to play a bit-part? I, Jinmulin, cannot stand for my people playing bit-parts!”