Title: The OOC Villainess and the White Moonlight Heroine are BFFs
Translator: Little Bamboo Spirit
Chapter 55 - The Female Star and Her Unruly Bodyguard (2)
Yue Xia usually didn't wake up until 10 AM. She woke up early today because Shuyao wanted to take photos for their official submission.
Strangely, even though she was the one being spoken about, Shuyao was the one that was busy running around and taking care of everything. So, how could Yue Xia reject her request?
When Yue Xia woke up this morning, she felt so sleepy as if her soul was about to leave her body. She closed her eyes and let Shuyao apply makeup to her face. During the process, she fell asleep.
This was Jiang Shuyao's first time putting makeup on someone else, so she was especially nervous and kept checking. "Does it feel itchy?" "You have to tell me if you're uncomfortable." "Will you have an allergic reaction if you use this?"
At the start, she would get a response, but eventually, her questions were greeted by silence. She lowered her eyes and saw Yue Xia sleeping like a puppy with her mouth slightly open.
Yue Xia's sleep quality was as pure as a baby's.
Jiang Shuyao: "..." W-Well, that was pretty good.
After they exchanged greetings, Li Meizhu looked at Jiang Shuyao with a smile and asked, "Little Jiang, can Aunty join you?"
Jiang Shuyao was slightly uneasy, but she still immediately replied, "Of course!"
That being said, when the photo shoot started, Jiang Shuyao felt like she was participating in a group outing … because three people came along.
Yue Deliang was standing there with a solemn expression. His piercing stare could easily give the mistaken impression of someone about to start interrogating a pair of felons. When he noticed Jiang Shuyao looking at him, he stiffly forced out a smile.
Yue Xia was standing in the center. Without any feeling of self-consciousness, she twirled and asked, "Is this okay?"
"Mhm, yeah." Jiang Shuyao fumbled a bit. She slightly furrowed her brow in annoyance. "If only we had a tripod."
Yue Xia: "Isn't there one available?"
Jiang Shuyao: "Where?"
Everyone slowly turned to look at Yue Qing, who had no sense of presence in group activities.
Yue Qing: "..."
Five minutes later, Yue Qing laid on the ground with a sour expression to take photos while the other three squatted nearby and watched.
His aesthetic sense wasn't much better than Yue Xia's. The photos he took were unfit for viewing.
Next to him, Jiang Shuyao instructed, "Move a little bit to the right. That's right. Lift the camera bit. There's a golden ratio here…"
Yue Qing only knew about golden crispy fried chicken.
He was hopeless. No matter how Yue Qing fiddled with the camera, Jiang Shuyao wasn't satisfied. She kept enduring, and her face looked so conflicted.
Sensing his parents' burning gaze behind him, Yue Qing felt guilty. "How about you replace me?"
Jiang Shuyao was waiting to hear that. She took the camera in a flash and said, "I'll do it."
Yue Qing suffered disdain and withdrew in failure.
It was a sunny Sunday with excellent natural lighting, and the garden scenery was just right. By now, these five people had completely deviated from their original intentions, and the more interested members had broken off to take group photos.
As Jiang Shuyao happily made a 5-pointed star hand gesture with Li Meizhu, she suddenly came to her senses. She looked around in confusion.
Eh… What was going on?
***
Everything was ready, except the last crucial step. Although Yue Xia had inexplicable confidence in her, Jiang Shuyao couldn't imagine the storm that these photos would set off.
When she handed the edited photos to Yue Xia, she only reminded her to check the box for original photos. As a result, ten minutes later, she saw a half-translucent watermark with her name on the lower right corner of the photos.
Every photo had that watermark to ensure it couldn't be overlooked.
It was fine that Yue Xia had seized every opportunity to promote her in the photos, but she didn't stop there. The subtext for the photos almost burst through the screen with Yue Xia's caption: this dress - does it look good? Shuyao designed it for me!
It was very much in line with Yue Xia's reckless style.
Originally, the incident involving Yue Xia was almost about to conclude online. The popularity had been gradually decreasing. Her brilliant move instantly boosted the visits to this app to a new peak within a week.
However, the netizens, who had come here to read more gossip, didn't even notice Jiang Shuyao's name once they saw the photo.
Jiang Shuyao had her own ideas about composition aesthetics. During post-production, she changed the lighting in the main photo into a complementary light red tone. Yue Xia was proudly standing in front of the sea of flowers. Even though the flowers were in full bloom, her presence was still the most captivating.
This was the real KO. When the netizens browsing the topic compared her photos with other contenders, they were stunned.
[If I hadn't been told this was a modification of UP's foundational dress, I would have thought this was a promotional photo for a rising actress in a new show…]
[Big Sis, isn't this too beautiful?]
[I have nothing to say. These photos are at a professional level. You'll definitely get first place.]
[Has no one noticed the important point? Look at the ID of the poster… Yueguo Xiatian (Beyond the Summer), isn't that…?]
[Design, photography, post-production… all done by Jiang Shuyao? This name is too familiar. Is she serious?]
Everyone quickly recalled the previous gossip they heard and were more or less incredulous.
Snatching someone's boyfriend? Knowingly becoming the other woman? Throwing herself at men? Fiancée?
Such a work couldn't be perfunctorily produced. They could easily see that a lot of work had been put into it. If Zhuang Xiaohan had spoken the truth, then Jiang Shuyao wouldn't do this even if her head had been kicked by a donkey.
The popularity of this submission post soared. It didn't take long to surpass Zhuang Xiaohan's submission post. In fact, there was no need to continue the competition. The outcome could easily be seen, so why bother using that criteria to determine the winner?
Zhuang Xiaohan's fans were still jumping up and down when Taoli reposted Yue Xia's post.
[Peach Bread]: So beautiful ^^.
Soon after, over ten big accounts reposted Yue Xia's account and shared similar sentiments. An account with the username [People with knowledge naturally have an elegant temperament] typed a row of "Ahhhhhh!" After that, there was silence.
Zhuang Xiaohan and those big accounts followed each other back, and they would occasionally interact. They should be people that she knew in real life. But now, if people clicked to check, they would see that these accounts had unfollowed her.
Nothing was said, but it seemed as if everything had been said.
Twenty minutes later, Zhuang Xiaohan silently deleted her video, which further confirmed everyone's speculation.
No one would feel good being used as a tool to attack others. Zhuang Xiaohan's sharp remarks towards Yue Xia had been propped up by lies, and they now came back to haunt her. She clearly wasn't able to calmly take what she dished out. After being drowned in ridicule, she quickly blacked out her profile and hid her content.