Chapter 10

“I’ve been too busy lately. If there’s a chance, I’ll arrange a meeting between you and my master.”

He shook his phone, and in the blink of an eye, he was gone.

By the time I returned to the set, two hours had already passed.

Outside, rumors were swirling that I was a “prison-bound actress.”

“Jiang Juexia, what a coincidence. I didn’t expect to run into you here.” Wen Yi greeted me on set, her smile not reaching her eyes.

“Hello.”

“Zheng Nan Zhou thought it would be better for me to give it a try. Before… Director Liu really had no choice, so please don’t be upset.”

Her attitude toward me was completely different from how she was in the Love Full Marks set.

She kept lowering herself, acting so meek that anyone watching might think I was bullying her.

Wen Yi wasn’t bad-looking either, but her style was different from mine.

She had peach-blossom eyes, rather cool and aloof. When she bit her lower lip in silence, she looked especially pitiful.

“Actually, Zheng Nan Zhou…”

I impatiently flipped through my script. “It’s work time now. Can you not make small talk with me?”

Wen Yi’s acting instantly reached its peak, and a single tear slid down from one eye.

“You have no idea how worried he was when you were being investigated by the police! That’s why he left, and Director Bai had no choice but to postpone the casting…”

As soon as she started crying, out of social courtesy, everyone could only comfort her.

[Ding! Host, you have collected one thousand entries related to murder. System upgrade!]

[Skill unlocked: Malice Value.]

I activated the skill, and immediately a glaringly red number popped up.

Wen Yi’s Malice Value toward me had actually reached one hundred percent.

Why?

She was the winner who had snatched both my role and my ex-boyfriend. Why would she harbor such deep malice toward me?

The next second, Bai Yu arrived.

He saw Wen Yi crying and said with a smile, “How about this, let’s just switch to filming a variety show. That would make for great entertainment.”

“…”

Everyone immediately scattered.

Sure enough, no matter how gentle a director may appear, they’re all devils at heart.

I glanced around the set and, as expected, Zheng Nan Zhou was nowhere to be seen.

It’s not that I cared about him; it’s just that he’s been acting so inexplicably lately.

After using the Malice Value, I realized that almost everyone harbors some malice toward others, though most of the time the value is so low it’s negligible.

The cameraman dislikes actors who always need retakes, the junior assistant is annoyed by the arrogant superstar, and even passersby resent the crew for blocking public roads…

After unlocking this skill, I could finally understand one thing so intuitively.

Hell is other people.

There was only one exception.

Bai Yu.

He had no Malice Value toward anyone.

Thinking back, he had never shown any of the emotional reactions a normal person should have.