I Was the One Who Gave Her the Script

Liao Qing was busy working non-stop on the set. The fourth female lead in the drama was banned for tax evasion, but her scenes were mostly completed. Liao Qing had originally planned to contact the screenwriter to remove this character, but since the fourth female lead played a significant role in the drama, she could only find a replacement.

Having set her mind on Bai Yun, she had already made arrangements. However, aside from some cost issues, there were many scenes involving the fourth female lead that needed to be reshot. Thus, she had no time to care about anything else for the time being.

When the dust finally settled, Liao Qing could finally sit down properly and stretch her neck and waist. But just then, the assistant director of the production team came to her. Seeing that he was in a hurry, Liao Qing asked as she calmly put a mask over her face, "What's the hurry? What happened?"

Panting, the assistant director wiped the sweat off his forehead. "Bai Yun has been trending. Look, how can she develop in the entertainment industry when her news is trending every few days? We're hoping this drama will receive approval by the provincial television stations. What if it fails again because of a banned artiste like before?"

Liao Qing's eyes were indifferent as she took the phone and scanned the trending list. "Once bitten twice shy huh, Assistant Director." Being from Beijing, she spoke with a Beijing accent.

"I haven't had much contact with Bai Yun, but a person who doesn't have the professionalism of an actor can't make a role come alive." She had always believed that a character's compatibility with a role was often inseparable from the actor's own empathy and literacy. People with impure thoughts were not transparent. There was absolutely no way for them to shape a character well.

That applied to Chu Jiang, and likewise, Bai Yun.

She tore off the mask. With no makeup on, Liao Qing did look a little old. However, those wrinkles did not make her look defeated. Instead, they made her look more steady and calm. "She's but a fledgling artiste and her news is trending every other day. Someone's behind this." She snorted. "It's simply because she's hindering some capitalists."

Liao Qing had been in the entertainment industry for many years. The prestige she had accumulated was based on her family background and the tenacity she had gained over the years.

She had never been afraid of capitalists. After all, she was one of them.

"Announce on our official Weibo account that Bai Yun is going to replace our fourth female lead. It doesn't matter if we release the still photos later." She made the decision indifferently. At this time, not only would the official announcement attract eyeballs, but it would also slightly turn the situation around.

Liao Qing thought highly of Bai Yun. Even if Bai Yun was truly deplorable, that only meant that her acting skills were excellent, excellent enough that she could not see through her.

Liao Qing first forwarded the video of Princess Anping played by Bai Yun and commented, "When we were casting the role Anping, we had decided on Ms. Yao. Like Ms. Yao who was unwilling to accept the shackles of cancer that fate had given her, the Anping she portrayed was a princess who refused to bow down to fate. Therefore, she fought hard and used her Anping to leave us an indelible mark.

"The scripts for this training class were chosen by me. Bai Yun was unlucky. She was the first to perform, and also, had picked a classic scene which performance ordinary people could not surpass. However, Bai Yun avoided Ms. Yao's acting style and used her method to portray a princess whose country had fallen. She calmly accepted the destruction of her country because she knew that its fate had come to an end, and her royal family could not take on the responsibility of the world. She died for her country because she wanted the world to know.

"The responsibility of their royal family will not be abandoned because of enemies' horses trampling the mountains and rivers. The soldiers didn't die in vain. As long as the royal family still has a breath of soul left, Great Wei will not die, and the royal family will continue to defend their homeland. In all fairness, Ms. Yao and Bai Yun each have their own merits, and I believe no one can really say for sure who was better. They are both Anpings, but each a different kind of Anping."

The long review, coupled with her status in the entertainment industry and the reposts from the various judges, actually made things much more lively than the night on Weibo.

Now that someone so prominent had spoken up for her, Bai Yun's fans and some netizens' rational comments became even more prominent. The Weibo account that had misconstrued Bai Yun's intentions at the start also began to disappear.

Just as everyone thought that this matter had been settled, not long after, the fourth official female lead of Chu Jiang's new drama "Dynasty" was announced to be Bai Yun. Weibo broke into an uproar. In just half a month, Bai Yun had changed from being mocked by the entire Internet to becoming a resource-abundant artiste.