The Rebirth of a Top Star

Shen Nanqiao put her phone away after taking the photos, earlier than everyone else around her.

So when the production team sent people one by one to persuade them to delete the clips, Shen Nanqiao had already escaped unscathed with Zheng Yiyi and Gu Ning.

Sitting in the tent where Gu Ning was alone, Shen Nanqiao told Zheng Yiyi and Gu Ning the whole story.

Zheng Yiyi's anger was palpable; she even wanted to stand up and rush to the director's tent where Xing Anhe was standing, demanding an explanation from the director.

Shen Nanqiao pulled her back at just the right moment, while Gu Ning was much calmer in comparison.

"This matter definitely needs to be dealt with." Gu Ning defined the situation, and Shen Nanqiao knew that keeping these two on the production team was definitely out of the question.

Shen Nanqiao nodded in agreement.

Ten minutes later, Xing Anhe, having finished dressing and refusing to argue with the director, confessed everything.

Since it can't be hidden any longer, it's better to expose the people who framed us behind our backs.

Wu Miaomiao was unaware that everything had ended because of her mistake.

Because Wu Miaomiao is still indulging in this obsession.

Xing Anhe has received the director's final notice: leave the production team before 8 a.m. tomorrow and never come back.

Xing Anhe thought it would be at most a verbal warning, but he didn't expect it to be a final ultimatum.

Xing Anhe refused to believe it and asked, "What about Wu Miaomiao?" He was unwilling to give up. It couldn't be that only he had an accident in the end, while Wu Miaomiao was still alive and well with the production team.

The director's decision did not disappoint Xing Anhe. Director Song told Xing Anhe directly that the two of them could go wherever they wanted tomorrow, and new guests would be brought in afterward.

Director Song was actually having a headache. The new guests had been contacted beforehand and were originally planned to be introduced after the show was halfway through filming.

Now, because of what Xing Anhe and his partner have done, everything has to be brought forward.

It's no wonder Director Song couldn't be happy. He always thought that even if something went wrong, it would be Li Yicheng who would be the first to have a problem.

He can now recall the scene he saw the moment he turned on the flashlight without even closing his eyes.

Luckily, I don't have heart disease, otherwise I might have been in serious trouble.

Director Song didn't want to see Xing Anhe's face anymore, so he closed his eyes and decided to refuse to watch Xing Anhe's plea.

Xing Anhe wanted to cry; it seemed he had messed everything up.

He came out of the director's tent and looked at the densely packed small tents outside. He didn't know which tent Shen Nanqiao was hiding in.

He had no idea how many people had taken photos of him just now, or even if they had been circulated yet.

He was panicked, but dared not tell his agent.

All of this planning has come to naught.

Now, let alone participating in this program to promote his own TV series, it's questionable whether that TV series will even be released at all.

It's all Wu Miaomiao's fault.

Xing Anhe grew angrier the more he thought about it. He found his direction and prepared to go back to the tent where the incident happened, preferably to give the woman who came up with this terrible idea a good beating.

Make her understand the seriousness of the situation.

Before he could even get close to the tent, several people had already come out, seemingly looking after Wu Miaomiao inside.

Keep him away.

A tall, burly man came out from the back, walked up to Xing Anhe, and said, "You'd better leave now, otherwise who knows what might happen when it gets light."

Xing Anhe was wearing slippers, not his usual height-increasing insoles, so he felt awkward and started to tremble when he looked at this person.

He went back to his tent to retrieve his belongings without saying hello; there was nothing there. He simply unzipped the tent and, unexpectedly, found the person he had been searching for inside.

The moonlight suddenly streamed in, and Gu Ning immediately stepped in front of the two people behind her, looking at the fierce-looking Xing Anhe.

Xing Anhe never expected that the person he had been looking for was in his own tent. His first reaction upon seeing Shen Nanqiao was to rush over, but Gu Ning blocked his way, and he didn't have a chance.

He could only yell, "Are you satisfied now? You've ruined me." Xing Anhe was very agitated, and his eyes were red.

Shen Nanqiao looked up at the crazed Xing Anhe and said indifferently, "Was it me who wanted to harm you?"

Xing Anhe stared blankly into Shen Nanqiao's eyes. What kind of eyes were those? Were they calm? Or rather, indifferent?

Xing Anhe was taken aback by Shen Nanqiao's expression. He picked up his backpack, didn't search for anything else, and left the scene directly.

Xing Anhe had walked a long way, but when she looked back, she could still see Shen Nanqiao's eyes clearly. They were like a hunting wolf, without any extra expression, yet extremely fierce.

Xing Anhe felt scared.

Gu Ning didn't sit back down in her original seat until Xing Anhe's departing figure was out of sight.

Looking at Shen Nanqiao behind him, he said, "If you feel unsafe, you can sleep here tonight. I'll go out and keep watch for you."

Shen Nanqiao was calculating the time. The director would be coming to find her soon. She was about to say that she didn't need to, but Gu Ning didn't give her a chance to refuse. He nodded to Zheng Yi and walked out.

From the moment Gu Ning suddenly rushed in front of the two to protect them, Zheng Yiyi's eyes never left them. Sometimes, feeling that someone is very masculine is a feeling.

Just now, Zheng Yiyi found that feeling.

"Nanqiao, don't you think Gu Ning is very manly?" Shen Nanqiao was already tidying up her clothes, and was just about to casually put on one of Gu Ning's coats.

They wore it before when they were filming together.

However, following Zheng Yi's question, Shen Nanqiao restrained herself and did not pick up the coat that could keep her warm.

She wasn't going back to her tent to get her clothes.

Without answering Zheng Yiyi's question, he turned and left.

Gu Ning stood straight at the tent entrance, just like an animal protecting its friend, doing its duty with utmost care.

Shen Nanqiao glanced at him and saw Director Song walking over not far away, and knew that her guess was correct.

Director Song must have figured everything out; it's time he had a chat with me.

Shen Nanqiao said something meaningless to Gu Ning: "Sometimes you need to broaden your horizons." It was nonsensical, but it sounded like a piece of advice.

Shen Nanqiao walked toward the light.

This was the first time Gu Ning didn't follow Shen Nanqiao's retreating figure with his gaze. He turned around and looked at the tent behind him, which wasn't fully zipped up, where Zheng Yiyi was already lying down.

She needed to rest, so she lay down on the bed that belonged to Gu Ning.

When Shen Nanqiao met the director, Director Song still had a cold face and did not relax his expression just because he came to see Shen Nanqiao.

Shen Nanqiao noticed that Director Song was unhappy and didn't speak first. This was the second time that Director Song had deliberately given her the cold shoulder.

The first time was when I first auditioned.

Director Song remained silent, as did Shen Nanqiao.

She quietly followed Director Song until they reached a spot with light.

A large, portable, rechargeable incandescent light bulb hung in front of Director Song's tent.

It was also the light that illuminated everything just now.

Seeing Shen Nanqiao's gaze fall on the lamp, Director Song's face darkened even more. He regretted not lighting it so brightly earlier; now things were beyond repair.

Director Song sat in his chair and looked at Shen Nanqiao. He had never been this tired from recording a variety show before.

Finally, Director Song couldn't help but speak first. Shen Nanqiao sat next to him, half of her buttocks dangling in the air, showing respect for his posture.

Director Song's gaze fell on Shen Nanqiao's face: "Little Shen, what do you think about this?"

Instead of directly exposing Shen Nanqiao's trick, Director Song asked her a question first. Shen Nanqiao pretended to be clueless and seriously began to analyze the situation.

She said seriously, "Director, look, one possibility is that the two of them had already hooked up and were together while I was out on business. They didn't expect me to come back so quickly, and then they were accidentally discovered."

After saying this, Shen Nanqiao noticed that the director's gaze towards her had become even more unpleasant, so she quickly suggested the second possibility.

"There is a second possibility: that the two of them conspired to harm someone else, but ended up harming themselves by mistake."

Director Song was somewhat inclined to believe this speculation, and he looked at Shen Nanqiao without saying a word. Shen Nanqiao felt a little uneasy; she hadn't done anything wrong, so why was he being stared at like that?

Shen Nanqiao didn't dare to look the director in the eye, feeling as if he could see right through her.

"Alright, you've been frightened today, just go home and rest." After saying this, the director prepared to get up and leave.

When Shen Nanqiao heard the director say that she could leave, she was doubtful for a minute, wondering if he was going to cut her out too.

She knew that Xing Anhe and Wu Miaomiao had been kicked out by the director. No way, even if the director knew that she had played a part in this, at most she would just be protecting herself, it wouldn't really mean that she would be forced to leave.

Shen Nanqiao didn't dare to reply. She didn't know if Director Song had noticed her expression, but he added a superfluous word of comfort: "You just need to know that you were really frightened."

Shen Nanqiao then understood what the director meant. She thanked him and left.

They returned to Gu Ning's tent.

Gu Ning stopped standing and found a cushion, sitting directly on the ground.

He put on the coat he had initially prepared to take out. Shen Nanqiao did not lift the curtain to go in, but sat down next to Gu Ning and started chatting with him.

"Sometimes I think people are pretty strange." Shen Nanqiao looked at the moon, which had been coming and going all day. It had finally come out again and hadn't hidden behind the clouds.

The moon's position has changed, and tonight's night probably won't last long.

Shen Nanqiao looked at the rapidly approaching moon and said, "I'll leave as soon as it gets light during the day."

These words would be startling no matter who said them, and Gu Ning couldn't help but be startled as well. Seeing his identical reaction, Shen Nanqiao suddenly wanted to laugh, wondering if she herself had reacted the same way.

"I thought it was a thief today, but I was so startled by what happened that I'm feeling unsettled. So you might have to leave the team half a day earlier."

If others heard Shen Nanqiao say that, they might actually believe it, and might even go up and offer a few words of comfort.

However, Gu Ning, who had been woken up by Zheng Yiyi beforehand, knew what had happened. So he just glanced at Shen Nanqiao, knowing that she wasn't leaving the show, and said nothing else.

Under the moon, the two sat down on the ground for the first time and opened their hearts to each other.

At this moment, Shen Nanqiao spoke less bluntly than usual, and Gu Ning was not as difficult to express herself.

Perhaps it was the intoxicating moonlight, but Shen Nanqiao and Gu Ning chatted for a long time without noticing that a tent was slightly ajar at an angle, and a pair of eyes were observing them.

Shen Nanqiao left very early; he was picked up by Xiaoju before Zheng Yi woke up.

Xiao Ju was truly online 24/7, because Shen Nanqiao sent her a message at 5 a.m. saying that he needed to go back.

Xiao Ju arrived before eight o'clock.

What's more, this location is so hard to find.

Shen Nanqiao greeted Gu Ning, who hadn't slept all night, patted her wet bottom, and left alone.

Such news cannot be contained at all, and Shen Nanqiao was not surprised to see the comments online: it was said that a staff member of the program team explained what they saw, without any pictures, just by speaking.

Shen Nanqiao watched with great interest.

This "staff member" was quite savvy, not mentioning Shen Nanqiao at all throughout the entire process, only saying that some guests on the show were frightened by them and were given special permission to leave early.

Shen Nanqiao didn't even need to play the victim; everyone dug it up for her.

The first thing Shen Nanqiao did when she got home was to go to bed. No matter how many layers of mats she laid on the grass, it was never as comfortable as her big bed at home.

Shen Nanqiao slept straight through until dark, thus missing the countless phone calls Dou Shiyan made to her. Shen Nanqiao's phone was always on silent, so she didn't hear a single one.

When Shen Nanqiao opened her eyes, Dou Shiyan called for the twenty-first time.

Shen Nanqiao's hands moved faster than her brain; before she could even react, the call had already connected. Dou Shiyan's impatient voice came from the other end: "Where are you? I've been standing outside your house for two hours!"

Dou Shiyan has been missing for a long time since he returned to Shen Nanqiao's side. Shen Nanqiao doesn't contact him often, and she doesn't know why he suddenly came to find her today.

Shen Nanqiao opened her front door in a daze, peeked around, and when she found no one there, she said to the person on the phone, "I don't see you. Where are you?"

As Shen Nanqiao gradually came to her senses, she realized that she had moved without telling Dou Shiyan.

Could it be that Dou Shiyan went to his old, dilapidated house?

Shen Nanqiao was thinking to herself when she heard the person on the phone say, "The place I looked for last time, you haven't moved, have you?"

Shen Nanqiao tightened her lips, nodded, then realized she hadn't spoken, and said with a laugh, "I'll send you an address, come find me."

She hung up quickly because Shen Nanqiao knew that the next thing she would hear was Dou Shiyan's mockery.

After hanging up the phone and hearing the message from Shen Nanqiao, Dou Shiyan decided to go and settle accounts with Shen Nanqiao in person.

He drove over as soon as he heard the news, but was met with a cold shoulder for two hours.

Mr. Dou, you're really getting angry.