Chapter 761: Scandal Queen vs. The White Lotus Actor 32

 “What? How could it have been decided so quickly? Doesn't it still need an audition?” the manager asked incredulously.

He had only just received the script on his end!

Hearing this, the person on the other end simply laughed. “With Film Emperor Shang's acting skills, does he even need an audition?”

The manager: ……

……

His face dark, the manager hung up and immediately threw the script down.

Seeing this, Wan Jie also felt his heart sink. “What happened?”

“The male lead has already been set as Shang Baitong!” the manager said with an ugly expression.

Hearing this, Wan Jie instantly frowned as well.

This Shang Baitong.

He had gone public with Tang Wan in a relationship just moments ago, and now he had snatched away the script Wan Jie had his eye on.

Was he doing it deliberately?

……

Shang Baitong naturally hadn't done it deliberately.

The reason he'd accepted this movie was simply that his mindset had changed.

For him, doing well in this movie would merely be the icing on the cake. But he was no longer young, and his years of throwing himself recklessly into the entertainment industry had left him with quite a few injuries. This movie also had too many martial arts scenes and gunfights, so out of consideration for his body, he'd originally turned it down.

But now wasn't he getting married?

A married man had to support his family!

In the past, he'd been alone, so as long as he fed himself, that was enough. But things were different now.

Paying for the wedding, buying Wanwan a huge diamond ring, buying her clothes and shoes—which of these things didn't cost money?

The Tang family was so wealthy. He couldn't possibly let Wanwan's standard of living drop after marrying him, could he?

And with his asking price, this movie would pay him twenty million yuan after taxes!

A good script and excellent pay—of course he had to take it!

……

Tang Wan was also extremely surprised when she learned that Shang Baitong had accepted the movie that Wan Jie had starred in in his previous life.

In the original storyline, that movie had been a box-office dark horse. The year it was released happened to coincide with many major international events, and against that backdrop, the movie's thrilling moments successfully stirred up the national emotions of the Chinese audience.

Driven by those emotions, many netizens went to the cinema three or four times. In the end, the movie's box office soared all the way to four billion yuan.

Wan Jie had become an overnight sensation because of it. Not only had he successfully transformed from a popular idol into a tough-guy actor on the big screen, but he'd also been held up as a model example and showered with praise.

She hadn't expected that this time, Tongtong would take the movie!

Although she didn't know what had gone wrong, Tang Wan was naturally delighted that Wan Jie hadn't gotten the role.

If you have the ability, go have the Bai family force them to make you the male lead!

Hmph!

……

Wan Jie naturally didn't dare ask the Bai family to help him snatch resources right now.

He didn't even dare to do what he had done with the original host and manipulate Bai Pingting into having her family find resources for him.

After all, Bai Pingting was different from the original host. The original host had genuinely loved Wan Jie, so when he said he didn't want their relationship made public and didn't want the Tang family to know about him before he had achieved something, the original host really kept everything to herself. That was why, until the kept-woman scandal broke out, the Tang family had no idea that the two of them had secretly been dating for five years.

But Bai Pingting was different. She was the type of girl who couldn't be separated from her family. Whenever something happened, she would tell her family about it.

What Wan Jie feared was that Bai Pingting might accidentally let something slip, causing the Bai family to think that he was dating her because he wanted to take advantage of the Bai family's power.

If the Bai family then intervened and broke them up, what could he do?

So, having lost this movie, Wan Jie could only swallow his anger and accept another youth film instead.