The Right Way to Cheat a Kiss Scene [Showbiz]

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Currently serializing: A Lord Beneath Her Skirt [Young Master x Maid's Daughter]

[Mean, clingy, love-struck young master x gentle, sensitive beauty with touch starvation]

Coming soon: Newlywed Ambiguity [Marriage Before Love]

[Reserved, devoted business tycoon x spoiled, radiant heiress]

Blurb:

Aloof, celibate actor x pure, alluring ingénue

A late-blooming romance | Nine-year age gap | Fiction becomes reality

The day Jiang Wanzhi graduated from film school, the hashtag #MostBeautifulGraduate topped Weibo's trending list.

Thanks to her stunning, breathtaking beauty, she unexpectedly landed the role of the fourth female lead in a renowned director's new film, Palace of Splendor: Princess Yueli, the most beautiful woman in Beicheng. In the script, Princess Yueli is infatuated with General Pei Linzhi and pulls out all the stops to win his favor, her every glance brimming with allure. The actor playing Pei Linzhi is none other than Xie Jinchuan, a triple-crown Best Actor and Jiang Wanzhi's idol since her teenage years.

She was so nervous about acting alongside her idol that she trembled all over.

Xie Jinchuan, however, was a gentleman, patient and considerate. Whenever she flubbed a take, he patiently filmed the kissing scene with her again and again. After their intimate scenes, he even thoughtfully helped her put on a sheer shawl to keep her from exposing too much.

Jiang Wanzhi was deeply grateful. She praised Xie Jinchuan to everyone she met, saying that he truly deserved his reputation as a triple-crown Best Actor who excelled in both character and craft, and that he was so considerate toward a rookie like her.

The director nearly choked on his own blood. Was this girl stupid? Xie Jinchuan's wolfish intentions were obvious, and she still couldn't see them? The kissing scenes were filmed from far away, so they could have faked the kisses, but he kissed her for real every time, and deeply, too! The director had already called cut, but Xie still let his hand linger at her waist. When he helped her put on the shawl, his fingertips brushed against her bare shoulder and neck...

In the past, Xie Jinchuan had always kept his distance from his female costars. He avoided intimate scenes whenever possible. So why was he acting so clingy now?

Still, considering that he was already thirty and this was his first late-blooming romance, the director decided to turn a blind eye.

After filming wrapped, Jiang Wanzhi packed her bags and prepared to leave. Xie Jinchuan cornered her against a wall, his voice husky. "You seduced me eight hundred times in the film. Why are you giving up now?"

Jiang Wanzhi admired him even more. "You really are a great actor. You got so deeply into the role that you still haven't come out of character, even after filming wrapped!"

Xie Jinchuan fell silent for a long moment, then smiled helplessly. "Zhizhi, I'm pursuing you. Can't you tell?"

[Bonus Scene 1]

After the eighteenth botched take of their kissing scene, Jiang Wanzhi's ears were red as blood. She apologized in a small voice. "I'm sorry, Mr. Xie. I forgot my lines again..."

Xie Jinchuan looked down at her, his thumb gently brushing the corner of her lips. "It's all right. Let's go again."

The director finally snapped and threw down his script. "Xie Jinchuan! You deliberately messed up your lines so she couldn't respond, didn't you?!"

Xie Jinchuan kept a straight face. "Yes. My mistake."

Jiang Wanzhi, touched: "Mr. Xie is so nice!"

The entire crew: "..."

[Bonus Scene 2]

During an interview, the host teased, "Mr. Xie is nine years older than Wanzhi. Is there a generation gap?"

Xie Jinchuan smiled faintly. "It's fine. The year she was born, I already knew how to solve quadratic equations."

Jiang Wanzhi nodded earnestly. "That's right. Mr. Xie is amazing at math!"

Fans: "...Is that the point?!"

That night, Xie Jinchuan pinned Jiang Wanzhi against the wall, his voice low and husky. "Now I'll teach you something else."

Jiang Wanzhi, confused: "...Calculus?"

Xie Jinchuan: "..."

[Bonus Scene 3]

A male celebrity praised Jiang Wanzhi's beauty on a variety show and said he wanted to work with her. That night, Xie Jinchuan suddenly followed a wedding ring brand on Weibo.

When Jiang Wanzhi saw the trending topic, she hurriedly called him. "Mr. Xie! Did you follow them by accident?!"

Xie Jinchuan, unhurried: "No. I'm choosing one."

Jiang Wanzhi, relieved: "Oh, are you going to be their ambassador?"

There was a three-second silence on the other end.

Xie Jinchuan: "Jiang Wanzhi."

Jiang Wanzhi: "...Huh?"

Xie Jinchuan: "I'm proposing."

Jiang Wanzhi: "?????"

Reader's Guide:

1. A late-blooming romance x a fan's teenage crush coming true.

2. High-energy warning: "professional guidance," including kissing-scene coaching and late-night script rehearsals.

3. The heroine's reaction time takes three laps around the earth, but her straightforward attacks hit every time.

4. While the entire entertainment industry ships them, the stars themselves are still wondering, "Is he just acting with me?"

Currently serializing: A Lord Beneath Her Skirt [Young Master x Maid's Daughter]. Please visit the author's page in the upper-right corner and add it to your favorites.

[Gentle, flirtatious beauty with touch starvation x mean, clingy, love-struck young master]

Jiang Cheng is the eldest son of the richest family in Beijing.

Ruan Qingyao is the daughter of the Jiang family's housekeeper.

They were two parallel lines that should never have crossed.

Until one night...

Ruan Qingyao's touch starvation flared up. As she hid in a storage room to soothe herself, Jiang Cheng caught her.

As if in a trance, he reached out and stroked her trembling back.

From then on, his touch was her medicine, but it became his addiction.

At school during the day, he pulled her into an empty restroom and left a kiss mark on her collarbone, whispering hoarsely, "Only I can touch you here."

At night in the Jiang home, she sneaked into his room,

letting her fingertips roam greedily over the grooves of his abs as she fell asleep to the sound of his increasingly unsteady heartbeat.

Their secret, twisted relationship continued throughout their school years.

Then, on graduation day, Jiang Cheng gripped her chin and suddenly asked,

"When are we getting married?"

Ruan Qingyao froze. "Married? Who's marrying whom?"

The man's eyes narrowed dangerously as he pinned her against the wall.

"You've been touching me for six years. Now you don't want to take responsibility?"

Coming soon: Newlywed Ambiguity. Please visit the author's page in the upper-right corner and add it to your favorites.

[Reserved, devoted business tycoon x spoiled, radiant heiress]

Everyone said Lin Zhiyi must have saved the galaxy in her last life to be reborn as the Lin family's heiress and marry Zhou Shiyu, a man at the very top of the pyramid.

Only Lin Zhiyi knew how suffocating this "heaven-sent fortune" was.

When she was eight, her elders led her by the hand to a cool, distant young boy with smiling faces. From then on, her life was branded with the label "Zhou Shiyu's fiancée." He was dull, boring, and strict, a perfect statue carved from the mold of an heir. She was carefree, laid-back, and wild, like a wildfire in the wrong place.

She hated him for fourteen whole years.

At twenty-two, just after receiving her diploma, she was forced to go and register their marriage. She thought this was the climax of her "puppet life," but she had no idea it was only the beginning of its collapse.

A paternity test shattered her dream of having spent twenty-two years as the Lin family's heiress. It turned out that everything she had enjoyed, from her surname to her family's affection, was the result of a ridiculous mistake that began at a hospital.

The real heiress, the girl who carried the Lin family's blood, was found and brought home. She bore a striking resemblance to Mrs. Lin, and had a calm, resilient spirit tempered by adversity. She was graceful and polished with everyone she met, diligent in her studies and work, and won everyone's approval and sympathy with almost no effort.

Overnight, Lin Zhiyi fell from the clouds and became a laughingstock, a usurper who had stolen someone else's place.

She packed her bags and stood in their luxurious marital home, waiting for Zhou Shiyu to end a marriage that had always been a farce.

The man who was always impeccably dressed in a suit and never let his emotions show merely loosened his tie and calmly took her suitcase.

"Mrs. Zhou, your home is here, and nowhere else."

Male lead: To outsiders, Zhou Shiyu is the cold, disciplined head of the Zhou family, a man who keeps his distance from women. Only he knows that ever since that eight-year-old girl angrily smeared cake on his face, he has never looked at anyone else. Years of patient restraint were only so he could wait for her to grow up and claim her openly as his own.

Female lead: The Lin family's "fake" heiress, who hides her loneliness behind a bold, rebellious facade. She hates being told what to do, and hates the male lead who was part of the plan even more. Only when her world collapses does she realize that the silent "tree" she had always tried to escape has long since put down roots and become her strongest fortress.

Theme: World peace