At the celebration banquet, Liang Yin Xu, who had lost out on the Golden Horse Award for Best Actress for the second time, offended the powerful backer behind the scenes who had launched her career. Several of her investments were slashed overnight, and she faced the risk of being blacklisted across the industry. With the mighty fallen, everyone piled on, and media outlets rushed in to grab their share of the scraps.
Liang Yin Xu herself disappeared from the media's view without a word for several months. Rumors said she was filming a comeback project to make her mark and give her former backer a well-deserved slap in the face.
The inspirational story of a canary escaping its cage to become a phoenix failed to gain traction. The next day, paparazzi caught her at a.../..-rated film set. The leading lady once treasured by directors had fallen so low that she was earning a living by flaunting her.../// charms. What a sensational headline.
Before that story had even died down, another exposé claimed that Liang Yin Xu acted like a diva on the set of a.../..-rated lesbian film and refused to perform the intimate scenes herself. She had hired Ji Yongwei, a body double who specialized in her nude scenes and looked six or seven tenths like her.
Ji Yongwei was new to the industry. They said her family was so poor they had nothing left but debt, and that she'd take any degrading role as long as she was paid.
They said that after the first scene she filmed, Liang Yin Xu told her she was born to act in this kind of movie.
When the rumors reached Liang Yin Xu, she had just finished having sex with her on the sofa.
"Stop crying. Drop that extra role next week." Liang Yin Xu put out the cigarette in her hand and clicked her tongue at the person beneath her. "Going out there and flaunting a face like yours would embarrass me. Stick with me. Whenever I need a body double for a scene, you can do it. I'll make sure you're taken care of."
Ji Yongwei lay in her arms, pretending to be pitiful and crying miserably while feeling sick to her stomach inside.
Everyone knew Liang Yin Xu had climbed her way up by clinging to powerful people, only to get played, discarded, and left behind. What was she doing here pretending to be loaded?
Once Ji Yongwei found her footing in the industry and secured a powerful backer, Liang Yin Xu would be the first person she dumped.
Set in the Hong Kong entertainment industry, with plenty of fictional details.
Both female leads have exes, and they're all women.
Every backer who appears in the story is a woman, too.
There are intimate scenes with other women for the sake of acting. :)
Written for my personal tastes, with no morals.
I'm an outsider to the entertainment industry, so I'm just making things up. There are no real-life inspirations, so don't read anyone into it.
Theme: Become yourself.
