Quick Transmigration: Why did you provoke him? He's love-struck!

Chapter 618 Dawn (24)

"What else would you like to eat?" Jing Chen asked.

Yan Zhen touched his stomach and shook his head: "I can't eat anymore."

Jing Chen looked around and his gaze fell on the fruit cutting stall not far away: "Buy some fresh fruit to take home. It's only eight o'clock now, you'll be hungry by eleven."

These words struck a chord with Yan Zhen, and she nodded vigorously: "Okay."

Just as Jingchen was about to go over and pick out some fruit, her phone rang.

He took out his phone, glanced at the caller ID, and answered it while gesturing for Yan Zhen to come over and choose her favorite fruit.

Yan Zhen shoved the lemon tea into his hand and went to the fruit stand.

She added a lot of green mangoes cut into long strips to the plastic basin. These mangoes are sweet and sour and crunchy, and taste amazing when sprinkled with plum powder.

While busy with his work, Yan Zhen still managed to eavesdrop on Jing Chen's phone call.

The person on the other end of the phone said something, and Jing Chen listened quietly for a long time without saying a word.

After a while, Jing Chen frowned slightly and his tone became serious: "No, I said when I renewed the contract that I don't have time during the winter and summer vacations, and my work plan cannot be changed."

"This is a matter of principle, why insist on bringing up the issue of cooperation?"

After a brief argument, Jingchen hung up the phone.

Yan Zhen turned to look at him: "What's wrong?"

Jing Chen's slightly annoyed expression instantly returned to normal: "It's a work-related matter, not a big problem—boss, how much?"

After buying fresh fruit slices, the two drove home.

Yan Zhen sat in the passenger seat, munching on a piece of fruit with a bamboo skewer. When the car stopped at a red light, she didn't forget to fork a piece and hand it to Jing Chen.

Before they even got home, Yan Zhen had already finished a whole box of fruit slices.

When Jingchen got home, as he was changing his shoes in the entryway, Yanzhen, who was following behind him, asked, "What problems are you having at work?"

Jing Chen bent down, took a pair of slippers from the shoe cabinet, and placed them at her feet, casually saying, "It's nothing."

"Tell me about it. Although I can't help you solve any of your problems, I want to know what exactly is wrong with you."

Jing Chen hesitated for a moment, but still told the truth: "The drama I filmed last year has been broadcast and received a good response. My agency wants to capitalize on this popularity, and they've arranged work for me again during the promised holiday."

Yan Zhen recalled accompanying Jing Chen on set last summer. Upon hearing this, she hurriedly changed her shoes, rushed into the room, took out her tablet, and asked Jing Chen, "Which platform is it broadcast on?"

"Green Jujube Terrace".

Yan Zhen opened the official website of Qingzaotai. On the homepage was a promotional poster for the drama called "Spring Breeze Crossing". Jing Chen, the fourth male lead, was positioned in the poster second only to the male lead.

This guy's about to become famous!

Yan Zhen immediately turned on the drama, enabled the bullet comments, and started watching.

With its exquisite costumes and props, excellent acting, logical plot, and likable main characters, this drama has seen its popularity soar since its premiere.

In just one week, it became the most popular item during the same period.

Meanwhile, Jing Chen's portrayal of the young emperor, with its rich and nuanced character, his acting skills that rival those of veteran actors, and his youthful good looks, has garnered much attention.

The number of followers on the various platforms managed by his agency has skyrocketed, gaining a million followers in just one day yesterday.

"You're telling me this is a villain? Casting such a handsome actor as a villain, isn't this deliberately distorting the values ​​of the nation's future generations?"

"He looks like this! He only killed a few people! What did he do wrong!"

"Such long legs, such broad shoulders, such a slim waist, such a shapely figure... Is this kid underage? No way, I'm breaking the law!"

"Upstairs, the kid was seventeen last year and eighteen this year, he's already an adult."

……

Yan Zhen was overjoyed as he scrolled through the bullet comments. Whenever Jing Chen appeared in a scene, the number of bullet comments was several times that of other times.

"Brother, you're famous!" Yan Zhen excitedly patted Jing Chen on the shoulder while holding his tablet. "You're going to be a big star!"

Jing Chen showed no joy at suddenly becoming famous: "You want me to be a big star?"

Yan Zhen countered, "Don't you want to be a big star?"

“I don’t want to,” Jing Chen said. “People are afraid of becoming famous, just as pigs are afraid of getting fat. Being famous can earn you a lot of money, but you have no privacy or personal space. You’ll be watched wherever you go.”

"That's true," Yan Zhen said. "So you're not planning to capitalize on this wave of popularity?"

Jing Chen shook his head: "No."

He initially agreed to take the role in this drama because of the pay.

After taxes and profit sharing with the company, he received 800,000 yuan from this film's salary.

With my savings, I have just enough to buy a house outright.

Yan Zhen understood and patted him on the shoulder like a good buddy: "Okay, I'll support whatever you do."

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Jing Chen didn't want to capitalize on this wave of popularity, but he couldn't resist the various promotions from the production team and his agency.

The official Weibo account of the production team has been releasing behind-the-scenes footage from the filming process, and the modeling agency has also been posting videos of the models' daily work routines at a rate of one per day.

Soon, viewers noticed Yan Zhen, who was often seen by Jing Chen's side, in the behind-the-scenes footage released by the official Weibo account.

Who is this little girl?

"She seems to be very familiar with Jing Chen. In the behind-the-scenes footage, she was seen sitting on Jing Chen's chair more than once."

"Same question. In the behind-the-scenes footage released yesterday, Jingchen was wearing three or four layers of costumes and was sweating profusely, so he used a handheld fan to cool her down."

"Her agency's Douyin account also features her; in the magazine cover shoot, she was drinking water from a Jingchen thermos."

"So blatant? Could it be his girlfriend?"

"The guess upstairs is a bit outrageous. This child looks to be no more than eleven or twelve years old. Jing Chen is not a pedophile."

"What if? Jingchen isn't that old."

The online speculation gradually became outrageous, and the topic even became a trending topic.

Helpless, Jingchen clarified using his own account: "She is my younger sister, on the same household registration. She is still a junior high school student, so please don't make wild guesses."

This clarification quelled most of the speculation, and Jing Chen's background was also revealed.

He lost both his parents at the age of eleven and raised his younger sister, who is five years younger than him, on his own. At sixteen, he signed with a modeling agency to earn money to support his sister. At seventeen, he filmed "Spring Breeze Crossing," and at eighteen, he became famous. He is currently a freshman at Haicheng University of Science and Technology.

Fans felt heartbroken after learning about this experience, and many embellished versions of Jing Chen's background have also emerged.

For example, after his parents died, Jingchen was left with no one to rely on. In order to support his younger sister, he washed dishes in a restaurant at a young age. The restaurant owner saw that he was young and only paid him six yuan per hour.

For example, when Jingchen was sixteen and had just entered the modeling industry, a wealthy man who was attracted to men was interested in his looks and wanted to keep him as a mistress, but he refused.

For example, a marketing account forwarded a video of Yan Zhen sitting on Jing Chen's rest chair on set playing on her phone, while Jing Chen squatted next to her with a small fan to cool her down, spreading rumors that "Jing Chen's sister has a bad temper and is spoiled. Jing Chen goes to school and work every day, and after a tiring day, he still has to cook, do laundry, and help her with her homework when he gets home. She is definitely a burden."

After the rumors had been circulating for a few days, Jingchen posted again, screenshotting the comments that spread the rumors about Zhen being "bad-tempered and spoiled," and responded accordingly.

“My sister is not spoiled, she is not a burden. We have a washing machine at home, so I don’t have to do laundry. She is very smart and has excellent grades, so I don’t have to help her with her homework. I am proud to be her brother. Please stop spreading rumors, or I will pursue legal action.”