Side Character Transmigrations: The Final Boss is No Joke

y self-conscious, which made others subconsciously look down on her.

But the Jiang Wan sunk into the couch right now was different.
Just by sitting there, there was a noble aura that seemed as if she was born with it.
In her eyes, there was no caution or lack of self-confidence, there was only calmness.

Were it not for that face, Milan wouldn’t have thought this person was Jiang Wan.

“I’m not going to act in 《City-Toppling》 anymore.
Help me deal with it.” Shi Sheng could only speak first when she noticed Milan just staring at her in silence.
《City-Toppling》 was the name of the TV drama with an ancient setting she was just in.

Milan woke from her thoughts as she asked reflexively, “Not acting? Why?”

“I don’t like it.” ‘I prefer making money over shooting films.
Too bad Jiang Wan wanted to stand at the peak of the entertainment circle…’

Milan acted like she heard a funny joke.
“Jiang Wan, who do you think you are? Just because you say you’re not going to act anymore you can just quit? What, you think your family owns the set?!”

‘There wasn’t such a thing in this world where you could do whatever you wanted with just an “I don’t like it.”! I don’t like having to carry her either but its orders from above.’

“Anyways I’m not going to the set anymore.”

“Jiang Wan!!!” Milan was exasperated.
She had already been unhappy with having to carry such an actress but now said actress wasn’t even listening to her.

Shi Sheng rubbed the tip of her ear as she spoke in an innocent voice, “Milan-jie[1], if you have the time to be yelling at me you might as well be using it to figure out how to resolve this matter.”

Milan forced herself to calm down as she persuaded Shi Sheng in a nice tone, “Jiang Wan, 《City-Toppling》 is already at the halfway point of filming.
Do you know how much money the company would have to pay in damages if you pull out now? You’ve only just entered the company; how would you be able to afford that amount? This matter would also be detrimental to your reputation.
You have to consider clearly for the sake of both you and your future.”

“I’m not going to act.”

“Jiang Wan, you’re just a newbie.
If you continue to be this wilful, even if the company thinks highly of you, you’d still be buried[2]!”

“I’m not going to act.”

No matter what Milan said, Shi Sheng only gave her this one reply.
In the end, Milan left in anger.
Not too long after she left, Xi Mo’s call came in.
Shi Sheng let it ring for about 30 seconds before picking it up.

“Why aren’t you going to act?” Xi Mo’s voice was a bit raspy.
Every syllable seemed like it had been imbued with a magnetic field that got one drunk just hearing it.

“Didn’t like it.” Shi Sheng gave a clipped reply.
It was silent on Xi Mo’s end for a while before the sounds of someone busying themselves could be heard.

‘Ha… Looks like this busy person thinks his ‘shield’ is pretty important; He took time out just to call after all!’ Shi Sheng tossed the phone aside before finding Jiang Wan’s notebook inside the messed-up sheets of her bed.

Shi Sheng searched for ‘Jiang Wan’.
There wasn’t any big news about her.
Shi Sheng then watched the young adult TV drama that Jiang Wan had acted in.
She deduced from it that Jiang Wan’s acting skills were pretty standard.
But since it was a youth TV drama, acting skills weren’t all that important.
The most important were the looks.

She then searched up ‘Dongfang Entertainment’ as well as ‘Xi Mo’ to get a better understanding of the two before closing the page.

Shi Sheng seemed to recall that Jiang Wan had a Weibo[3] account.
She searched for the Weibo number in her head before logging in.
The moment she did, she was bombarded by notification alerts, causing the page to hang for a few seconds while they were processed.
There were above a thousand posts and was increasing as she watched.

[1] In the raws it’s ‘米兰姐’ which means Big Sis Milan.
But I think it breaks the flow and sounds too respectful.
Sis Milan also seemed weird to me so I went with letting the Big Sis part in pinyin.
It sounds better.
To me at least.

[2] The raws state ‘雪藏’ which literally means ‘snow hide’.
When used in this context, it means to not give the actor/actress who signed the contract with the company, any opportunities to get good publicity.
Basically, the good roles in the good movies would be kept from them.
I couldn’t find a word/phrase that fits this so I decided on this.

[3] Something like Twitter for China?

Author’s note:

I updated, so please vote~

Seeing as how it’s my birthday, aren’t you guys going to comment or vote? *sobs* Don’t treat me like this.
Smash me to death with votes!!!

Translator’s Corner:

That text was savage indeed…

The author referred to herself as ‘宝宝’ or ‘baobao’ which, if you remember from Chapter 1, means baby.
I find that adorable.