Ji Ning had no idea that he had been labeled as "difficult to deal with" and was still discussing the next film festival with Nuo Nuo.
Her journey into the circle had been relatively smooth until she was blackened by the entire network.
Just two months after the start of university, she turned 18 and was recruited by Qiu Hong to play the fourth female role in a drama called "The Winter Solstice Has Come". Her starting point was not low.
After playing supporting roles intermittently for half a year, a big opportunity came. The well-known director Feng Nan chose her as the heroine of "Sonnets of a Teenager". Generally, a movie takes three months to shoot, but this one took more than half a year to shoot meticulously. After another half a year of production, it was finally released -
The explosion of both word-of-mouth and box office was simply expected. After all, the script of "Sonnet" alone took three years to polish, and the female lead was chosen after a year of searching across the country. As a new star, Ji Ning's face was finally remembered by everyone.
Unfortunately, the Sun He incident happened only four months after I got up. Then came the dark era of the entire Internet. It was a journey of ups and downs, like a dream.
This kind of twists and turns are a great test of one's psychological quality, but it is not the first time that Ji Ning has experienced thrilling things.
She was in the school's key class in high school, and her English was always the top scorer in her grade. Her family was expecting her to study English at a 985 university, but when she was in her third year of high school, Ji Ning suddenly told her, "I want to study acting."
At that time, the joint acting exam was approaching and she only had a few months to study. Her family and teachers were all against it, but they finally agreed after her constant persuasion. However, they didn't think she could accomplish anything, so they told her to remember to take the teacher's qualification exam and go back to being an English teacher if she couldn't film.
No one supported her at the time, but she still made a name for herself. Perhaps the phrase "getting more courageous with more setbacks" has been ingrained in her mind and has become a key word.
So what if she is not favored? She is not born to be defined by others. It is only a matter of time before she proves herself again.
"We were invited to this film festival very early, and the work that shortlisted you was "Sonnets of a Teenager,"" Nono said, "I can brag about your Azure for the rest of my life."
Some people say that the heroine Wei Lan in "Sonnet" is the pinnacle of Ji Ning's acting skills. Her every frown and smile carries the magic of restraining the audience's emotions. The distant glance when she bids farewell to her lover under the crabapple tree, with tears lingering in her eyes, is the white moonlight that many people will never forget.
Ji Ning felt that her acting skills were too immature at that time. If she could get another wonderful role, she would be sure to do better. After all, her studies abroad and acting lines classes were not in vain.
She happened to have nothing to do at this film festival, so she decided to go with the idea of making some familiar faces.
Ji Ning thought of the team behind him that was "controlled" by Sun He: "I have to negotiate the dress myself this time, right?"
Female stars basically only wear their clothes once, and formal dresses are expensive, so there is no need to buy each piece yourself. Unless you come across something you really like, everyone borrows it from stylists or brands they have good relationships with.
"Wait a minute, I'll go ask."
Nuo Nuo went out with the phone and came back twenty minutes later: "They said no, they have already prepared the dress, I can just pick it up tomorrow."
"Really?" Ning leaned back, "Can I trust them?"
Although Nuonuo knew about Huang Miao's situation, she was not too worried: "After all, they are your team, they won't cheat you, right? Don't worry, things like dresses are not your business, they can do it well."
That makes sense.
Ji Ning nodded, accepting it.
The next day, Nuonuo asked about the dress. They said they had borrowed it but wanted to exchange it for a new style, and asked her to pick it up the day after tomorrow.
Nono was a little nervous: "The film festival will open the day after tomorrow, will we be in time?"
"Just take it and go, there will definitely be time." This is what they said at the time.
As it turned out, she made it in time. A few hours before the opening, Nuonuo flew there and back and finally got the dress.
The dress is not ugly, it is fluffy and waist-hugging, and it looks very fairy-like at first glance.
But the more Ji Ning looked at it, the more familiar it seemed. Why did this dress look so much like the one he saw on Weibo a few days ago
She found a Weibo post from her small account that said this was a new model from L, inspired by clouds and floral patterns. L's clothes were always hard to come by, and even if they were available, they were all given to female artists they worked with. How could she, who was not valued, get one
It turned out that her thoughts were necessary.
After a comparison, she found that the dress was a knockoff. Several details did not match the original one, and the color blending was too rough.
Imitation is a sensitive word in the entertainment industry. If an artist dares to wear imitation, everyone will dare to nail her to the pillar of shame and ridicule her to death. Not only that, the artist's fashion resources will also be lost rapidly. She will never push herself into the fire pit.
But it was too late to talk to the big brands again, because the film festival was about to start.
Only an hour and a half left.
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Ji Ning calmed himself down, turned on his phone and started searching for nearby clothing stores.
Fortunately, there is a handmade cheongsam shop on the way to the film festival. It seems to be an original small brand with a good reputation.
When passing by a cheongsam shop, she called out, "Stop here for a moment. I'll go try on some clothes and come back up."
Nuonuo looked back at her in surprise: "You're not going to wear this dress to the red carpet, are you?"
"What else would I wear?" Ji Ning opened the car door. "I've been scolded enough already, do I have to wear fake goods and get scolded to the top of the trending searches?"
"But, but you will also be scolded if you wear this cheongsam," Nuo Nuo was also very conflicted and almost cried, "They will definitely say that Ji Ning is so unpopular that no brand is willing to cooperate with her. Even third-tier brands don't sponsor her, so she can only wear clothes from a small workshop."
Ji Ning touched her head and said, "That's better than wearing fake ones. At least now I feel comfortable wearing original ones. What's there to laugh at?"
She no longer wanted to play the superficial and boring game of comparing whose clothes were more expensive as soon as they got to the red carpet.
Nuonuo even spoke with a nasal tone: "But..."
"No buts, value is not determined by price, suitability is what matters most."
She entered the store, and the waitress enthusiastically introduced a few models to her, and then asked in a low voice if it was Ji Ning.
She smiled brightly and admitted it straightforwardly.
Finally, Ji Ning tried on a red cheongsam, which unexpectedly fit her perfectly, showing off her graceful figure and making her skin look whiter than snow, pure and beautiful.
When several people in the store saw her pull open the curtain and walk out, they were stunned and stared at her without blinking.
Ji Ning looked at Nuonuo: "How is it?"
Nuo Nuo, who had always been reluctant for her to wear a cheongsam, finally bit her finger and let it go, her cheeks almost reddening: "I think it's... pretty good."
"It's too late to be bad," Ji Ning glanced at the mirror casually, "It's about to start."
The opening red carpet walk went smoothly. Ji Ning really didn't think there was anything she couldn't show off, and smiled at the camera with ease. Perhaps because few female stars wore cheongsams today, she felt that the media was very enthusiastic about her.
Less than an hour after walking the red carpet, Ji Ning had just finished removing her makeup in the car and saw Nuonuo looking at her phone with a look of surprise on her face.
She glanced sideways and saw the number one on the hot search list - Ji Ning cheongsam.
"You're really being mocked for being the hottest? Your prediction turned out to be correct..."
"I was wrong," Nuonuo raised his face blankly and said blankly, "I was so wrong."
Ji Ning felt strange and picked up his phone to see what was going on. He heard Nuo Nuo's excited voice: "After 500 years, the first high-quality hot search is finally here!!"
It turned out that on the red carpet today, the person following behind Ji Ning was a certain internet celebrity with a lot of fans. Although he had many fans on Weibo, the internet celebrity's movies were terrible and the real person was clearly inferior to Ji Ning.
The internet celebrity's face was full of hyaluronic acid, her face was stiff and swollen, and her thick double eyelids looked like they could row a boat. Ji Ning was all natural, attractive and natural, and for the first time, the comments were overwhelmingly praising.
This is the difference between celebrities and internet celebrities… Ni Wan’s photos are so beautiful, but she was beaten so badly by Ji Ning in the live broadcast that even a straight girl like me couldn’t help but say that Ji Ning is so beautiful.
Look at Ji Ning’s little face, his head-to-shoulder ratio, his shoulder line, his collarbone and his legs. I guess God gave him this meal but then added a few more spoonfuls of it. Sorry, I won’t eat it tonight!
It’s true that first-tier internet celebrities can’t even beat eighteen-tier artists. Internet celebrities will always be internet celebrities and there is a gap between them and celebrities.
The person above might have some kind of brain disease. Ji Ning is a woman with a box office of 1.2 billion and a viewership of over 2. How can you, an 18th-tier star, just ignore what I said
Let me reveal a secret. There is a studio that sells replicas in my circle of friends. Before the opening, they were bragging that a celebrity named Ji would wear their clothes to walk the red carpet. They didn't expect that they would be thrown away by Ji Ning, hahahaha.
You will definitely find out that it is a copycat [not simple] Wow, what a young lady with positive values, I picked her.
Isn’t this the stunning appearance of the singing diva of Shanghai? I want to watch a Republican drama. Is there anyone who wants Ji Ning to play the role
There were even people recommending the brand. Ji Ning hadn't expected that the brand would be so well-reviewed:
I have worn this cheongsam! The quality is very good, all original, the designer is very creative, it is the pride of Chinese cheongsam, I sincerely recommend it to everyone.
I searched and the price is pretty good. Thanks to Ji Ning for recommending it to me.
Wow, it’s only 899, I can afford the same style as the stars again! !
She wears a dress that costs less than a thousand yuan and looks like a haute couture item. Fashion is really all about looks.
Although Ji Ning also saw some criticism and ridicule, she is not RMB, and no one can be liked by everyone.
Anyway, she finally became popular thanks to the high-quality hot searches. She found that people were not completely against her, and her mood improved a lot. She was still happy even when she went to shoot "First Kiss Diary" the next day.
When Ji Ning arrived at the dressing room at six o'clock the next day, Ji Shiyan was already sitting there drinking tea and reading the script.
She was quite curious about the contents of the script and couldn't help but glance over secretly. As a result, she caught the man red-handed. He looked at her silently.
At first, he didn't say hello because he thought he was working. Now, Ji Ning bowed his head obediently and said, "Good morning, senior."
"Morning," the man said in a slow voice, glancing at the pink bag on the table, "This is for you."
Ji Ning was flattered: "Me?"
He seemed to find it funny. "There's no one else here."
Ji Ning opened the bag and found low-fat cranberry cookies inside.
It's amazing. She said last week that she eats low-fat food to maintain her figure - but she is an artist, so it's normal for him to have concerns.
Ji Ning whispered, "Thank you."
The man flipped a page of the script and said, "No need."
On the surface, he looked calm and composed, but in fact, he was observing her expression while she was eating the biscuits out of the corner of his eye. Seeing that the girl looked good, the man's brows showed a slight hint of pleasure.
There was some noise in the dressing room, and Ji Ning didn't know why he had to read the script in such an environment.
The makeup artist and stylist were chatting, and when they saw Ji Ning, they smiled and said, "The cheongsam you wore yesterday was so beautiful. I bought three after reading it on Weibo."
“But the main thing is that she’s beautiful.”
Ji Ning sat on the chair, closing her eyes to rest while the makeup artist put on her makeup. Once her eyes were closed, her hearing became much sharper, and she heard the stylist was still discussing something in a low voice.
"Why is there a mark under Ji Shiyan's collarbone? Does he have a girlfriend?"
"You must be kidding. It looks like it was caused by the buttons of my pajamas."
"Pajama buttons? Maybe."
"How is that possible?" Ji Ning relaxed a little, put his hands together and blurted out, "He always sleeps naked."
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As soon as Ji Ning finished speaking, he realized that he had spoken out of turn. He sat up straight and tensed his back subconsciously. He felt shocked eyes from all directions, as if asking - how do you know? Have you slept together? It's only been a short while since the filming started. When did you hook up?
Even the man who had been leaning against the wall drinking tea calmly and calmly finally raised his eyes and looked at her with burning gaze.