Today, Dream Jade was even busier. By 830am, she left the house and directly went to a private dance room, and trained her performance with her stage partner. Training with her made the stage partner so tired that he almost cried tears of exhaustion. They practiced intermittently, all the way up to 8 o’clock at night. Only then did they finish.
Even so, Wu Neng did not plan to let off this hard working celebrity, and arranged an interview program on《Lu Yu has a date》, to increase the popularity of Dream Jade before the finals of the competition.
Basking in Dream Jade’s limelight, Xiao Yi and Shen Ming sat in the first row of the auditorium. Xiao Yi was watching with excitement after all, this was her first time participating in a live recording program, and her appearance might be seen on television.
Dream Jade was also somewhat nervous, as it was a few years since her last time participating in this sort of large scale interview program. She had already looked over the script in the car. The questions that the programme’s team prepared, under a request, avoided certain topics that Dream Jade did not wish to talk about, such as the Mistress Incident from that year.
After training for a day, when Dream Jade walked up on stage, she was already exhausted. But under the spotlight, her smile was sweet and amiable, and after she politely shook the presenter’s hand and made her greetings, she sat on the long sofa and started “”chatting.
The basic flow of the conversation started by first delving into Dream Jade’s childhood, then talking about her upbringing, and then talked about issues about her life, her romance, her career, and her opinion on different things. Sometimes, sharp questions such as “Who do you think is the most unreasonable star”, and “How do feel about your company “freezing” you?” would pop up.
Dream Jade was not considered a newcomer anymore, and she could still handle this sort of situation. For the question of “Who do you think is the most unreasonable celebrity?”, she answered it by saying that unreasonable could be understood as being serious and responsible towards one’s job; For the question of “How do you feel about your company “freezing” you?”, she answered it by saying that it could be understood as accumulating experience, learning music. The biggest benefit that the programme brought was that Dream Jade was allowed to sing her previous hit song 《Snow Buries the Flower》.
The atmosphere in the recording studio was very harmonious, even though Lu Yu still asked many typical silly questions, for example,”Have you ever been beaten when you were young?”,”Losing weight must be very hard, right?”, and “Do you know how to use a spatula to cook food?”
Intermittently, the program reached its end. Just as Dream Jade was beginning to clear her throat in preparation for the next singing segment, who knew that Lu Yu’s great brain would have a flash of inspiration. She took out another placard and suddenly asked,”We all know that Dream Jade was famous all around the country that year, and your experience is also the pillar of many girl’s dreams. But, humans will always err, and everyone was young before.
Let us first watch a video clip….”
On the big screen behind her back appeared a narration of a recording by the programme team regarding Meng Qi’s Mistress Incident.
Dream Jade, who was sitting on the sofa looked as if she did not know what to do, and her pleading gaze shot at the Wu Neng that was in the audience. Wu Neng also kept looking, hinting to Dream Jade that he himself did not know anything. Furthermore, to let her calm down, Wu Neng went to go look for the director for an explanation.
The short clip roughly reviewed the entire story of the Mistress Incident, even though the whole thing was speaking up for Dream Jade, such as how she did not sue Liang Jun’s wife after getting beaten up, and did not seek compensation, showing her ‘magnanimosity’; how that year Liang Jun was rumoured to be in the middle of divorcing his wife, so there was a high possibility that Dream Jade was the victim;When Dream Jade was facing criticism, she did not hire internet mercenaries to defend her, and had professional ethics in being…...a mistress.
After the clip, Lu Yu’s first question was “did getting hit at that time hurt?”
Xiao Yi couldn’t resist thinking of slapping the host’s two ears. To ask her if it hurt…...
The atmosphere on site immediately became particularly embarrassing. It was as if Dream Jade was sitting on pins and needles, her body was shaking non-stop and her eyes were holding back tears as they looked around randomly. Her nervous eyes drifted towards the audience seats as she searched for a straw to clutch at. Finally her eyes for god knows why, fell on Shen Ming. The pitiful look in her eyes was practically saying, “bring me away from here”.
However, Shen Ming didn’t move. He just sat there like a machine. He was a bodyguard, not a servant. He was unable to decide what kind of road his clients took for them. If Dream Jade really wanted to leave, not even a thousand soldiers and ten thousand horses[1] could stop her. Shen Ming would also inevitably react with, “if god blocks me, kill god, if buddha blocks me, kill buddha”; But if she just needed someone to give her the courage to escape…...it was impossible fo about we talk about something else?” Dream Jade’s voice was trembling, but she war Shen Ming to accomplish。
“Then, let me change the question, did you love him?” Lu Yu asked once more.
“I don’t know if that was considered love, I just want to say, let the past be the past, just like what you said, who hasn’t been young, and made mistakes? How about talk about something else” Meng Qi’s voice was trembling, but she was still so dedicated to changing the topic.
“I know, this question could have hurt you. But, regarding love, your fans are entitled to know the truth. So, today we also invited a secret guest, Movie Emperor—— Mr. Liang Jun.” Lu Yu exaggeratedly said.
Liang Jun, who was wearing a simple leisure suit, walked out from backstage. That asian man hung his most affectionate smile on his face. As soon as, Movie Emperor Liang Jun, who could even act with the wrinkles at the corner of his eyes, appeared on stage, he immediately attracted the audience’s cheers.
He, who was 44 years old this year, was a top star among China’s male actors. The artistic films he once took part in all won awards internationally. This let him, whose body was no taller than 170cm, somehow capture the hearts of female fans as young as 18 and as old as 80, earning him the title of “the masses’ sweetheart”.
Seeing this man whom she had already not seen for over 2 years, Meng Qi lost control on the spot, covered her mouth with her hands and started crying. God knows which motherfucking sound technician unexpectedly started playing the ending song of the movie《A Chinese Odyssey》, 《Lifelong Love》
Many audience members that did not know the truth started crying as the song played, thinking that it was a pair of unfortunate lovers finally reuniting. But, only Shen Ming knew that Dream Jade was actually crying because she was extremely scared.
Liang Jun sat down by Dream Jade’s side with a smile, and deliberately leaned on her. Dream Jade was already in tears, and absolutely could not answer any questions. Even so, the Lu Yu who had a big brain decided to strike while the iron was hot, and inquired Liang Jun regarding the incident.
Liang Jun, carrying an apologetic smile, said,”Actually, that was a beautiful chance encounter, where we were attracted to each other’s talent. I know that I was unable to make her happy, because after all, I am a man with a wife and kids. Dream Jade is a good girl, she knew that this was so, and did not carry any extravagant hopes in getting anything from me. She just wanted to get closer to me.
“You’ve already learnt favouritism so quickly?” Shen Ming unconsciously laughed.
“Just this once. Who asked that guy to bully my little sister? He deserved to drink toilet water. By the way, when you’re talking, can you stand a bit further away from me? Your body smells of toilet cleaning agents!”
[1]千军万马 lit TL= thousand soldiers, ten thousand horses. TL of meaning roughly the same: thousands upon thousands of horses and soldiers -- a powerful army; a vast host of infantry and cavalry; hordes of troops and horses; millions of troops; like the charge of a powerful army which no force can stop; a large number of mounted and foot soldiers
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