Growing Fond of You, Mr Nian

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio  Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

“Alright.” Thankfully, Yan Su didn’t ask further questions. Luosang looked at her number and sighed. If it was only about Shi Xu’s assistant framing her, switching her schedule with Zhou Wanke’s, and harming her reputation, she might not tell Yan Su. However, it was actually that Shi Xu might be with another woman. She felt that she had to let Yan Su know.

Yan Su knew nothing about it. If she really had wasted her best years on a man like that, it would be a real shame. To avoid long-term suffering, she had to be decisive. Besides, what Shi Xiang did was awful. She struggled for a short while. The more she thought about it, the more strongly she felt that Shi Xiang had a problem. So, she called Ji Nuanyi. “I hope I didn’t interrupt you,” she said.

“No. I just finished a scene. I’m resting now,” Ji Nuanyi said. “I was going to call you and ask you what happened. I saw your WeChat post. I recommended you for that job. Who’s troubling you?”

“That’s not important anymore. I want to ask you about something.” Luosang lowered her voice and said, “You’ve worked for quite a long time in the entertainment circle. Do you know about Korean artists? Do their agents always watch them so strictly that they can’t even call their boyfriends or girlfriends? Like, they only call their girlfriends or boyfriends every three or four days, and they can’t see their girlfriends or boyfriends in a year or even half a year?”

Ji Nuanyi chuckled and replied with great interest, “How come I smell blockbuster gossip?”

“Just answer my question.” Luosang got anxious.

“Last year, I worked with a first-line Korean male star for three months, so I know something about them. Their companies do manage them strictly. After work, we can go have some dinner, but they can only return to the hotel with their assistants. They rarely actually eat dinner, though. Usually, they only have some fruit or salad, because they need to maintain the perfect body shape. But that’s only if you gain weight easily. However, it’s not as bad as you just said. I often see that Korean male star call his friends in a corner, laughing into his phone. His assistant rarely said a word about that. When there was no work to do, he sometimes spent time with his phone on location, too.”

The more she heard, the deeper Luosang’s heart sank. “So, no matter how strict their companies are with them, they still have personal time for relationships.”

“Of course,” Ji Nuanyi said. “Maybe they don’t have lots of personal time, but their companies won’t watch them, even when they’re sleeping. Look at those popular boy bands. They are managed the most strictly. They’re young, and most of their fans are female. Some of their fans may outgrow them when they have girlfriends, but still, some reporters can occasionally snap photos of them being with some girls. That one you talked about just now, who can’t see his girlfriend in a year, I guess he’s just playing with that girl. There’s a good chance that he has cheated on her.”

Luosang’s heart sank even deeper. That sounded exactly like Shi Xiang. In fact, she had been feeling a little strange since Yan Su first told her about her relationship with Shi Xiang. Seriously, that was not how people maintained a relationship. No matter how busy and tired he was, didn’t he even have time to text his girlfriend goodnight and good morning? “Then… do you think some male stars will want to be with rich and powerful women for better careers?”

“Your father used to run a film company, so I guess you’ve seen a lot of that. Women can do that, and so can men,” said Ji Nuanyi.