Su Qingtang stared at her empty bank account with a blank face. She wanted to cry but no tears would come out. All she had was a measly 5,000 a far cry from the 20 million that she just had.
Yes, the sudden investor was Su Qingtang using all of her life savings to fund the movie. She wanted to cry but no tears would come out.
She looked at the script in her hand one last time with a strange expression on her face. "System, I suddenly feel that the protagonist is pitiful. She had her heart broken twice in one night."
The name of the movie was to be "Shades of the Night". It showcases itself as the typical love story of the female protagonist, Yan Man and the male lead Lin Yanfeng. Young Man fell in love with her senior brother Yanfeng who was an upcoming businessman and she worked hard to be worthy of him and tried her hardest to be with him. Her best friend Qin Shining, the daughter of the police chief, however tirelessly foiled her plans and soon started showing her colors of being the true ultimate villain in her constant ways of obstructing her best friend's plans of getting with Lin Yanfeng. Soon they had a major fight in which Yan Man decided not to stay friends with the 'white eyed wolf' Qin Shining that she had called her best friend for years and thoroughly cut off her best friend. Finally, after a while of fruitless striving, she gets the male lead to be her boyfriend. But soon she realizes things aren't what they seem when she hears Yanfeng making a shady deal with a man notorious for being ruthless. She doesn't give up and investigates and realizes that Lin Yanfeng's company was simply a coverup for his various underground dealings. She decides to confront him and follows him to one of his meeting places to talk to him but accidentally gets embroiled in a deal gone bad where she was used as a hostage. Out of nowhere her ex best friend Qin Shining comes and takes the bullet for Yan Man. It turned out she had resorted from helping her friend openly to keeping her safe in secret.
The ending scene is Yan Man holding her best friend as police officers storm the building and Qin Shining's father the police chief comes in, but Yan Man doesn't seem to notice as she realizes how wrong she was about the whole ordeal. All she ever was was a puppet to the male lead. He needed her business expertise that she painstakingly accumulated and couldn't be bothered with 'wasting' money by hiring her so he accepted her as his girlfriend, nothing more or less.
Shades of the Night was a drama aimed at showing that there is never total black and white in life and how very dangerous misunderstandings could be, and worked to displayed the power of the pure love of friendship instead of the normal movie types which just focused on relationships between male and females. It was totally a breath of fresh air.
Su Qingtang sighed sadly as she read the script. "This Qin Shining is also very pitiful, isn't she?"
The system looked at the host as if she were stupid. "Yan Man? Pitiful? The real pitiful one is the policeman father who suddenly lost his daughter for no reason. The female lead is just plain ungrateful and a fickle little thing who forgot a great person over an awful slag man. Both the male lead and the female lead are both horrible human beings. A match made in heaven."
Su Qingtang kept silent. The system wasn't wrong, but she disagreed with it. All human beings are selfish and selfish gain is always one of the reasons that motivate a human to do things. As a person that didn't understand that the male lead was trash, she had the right to be upset with her friend who continuously got in her way without explaining herself properly. Overall, there were a lot of mistakes that were made that led to the situation that they were in but that's what made the story relatable. If the plot was too clean, then it wouldn't have the messiness characteristic to real life.
The taxi pulled to a halt and Su Qingtang's heart bled a little bit more as she paid her fare.
"Couldn't the system be like those systems in online books with a system store and sell useful skills and stuff." She grumbled.
"Its not my fault you can't do anything! All those pitiful dishes that were burnt to a crisp because of your stupidity." The system retorted, breaking Su Qingtang's glass heart.
"Damn! It was only a few times! Why are you talking as if I wrecked a lot of food! Why are you suddenly bringing up my dark history!"
The two lifetimes of food burnt by Su Qingtang: "Do I look like a few times to you?"
Su Qingtang picked up the fragments of her broken heart and walked into the filming site.
She curiously looked around, taking in everything. The small crew lightly greeted her as they went about on their way. The burly Qiao Bifan walked over with joy shining on his face.
"Miss Su, you made it." He greeted, before waving over a few people. "This is Wen Xingshen who is playing Li Yanfeng, and this is Bai Ziwen who plays Yan Man. This here is Su Qingtang playing Qin Shining"
Su Qingtang appreciated his straightforwardness and smiled as she greeted the man and woman before her. "Please take care of me."
Bai Ziwen playing Yan Meng looked to be in her twenties and had a friendly and warm aura surrounding her. She smiled and greeted Su Qingtang back. "Bifan, where did you find such a cute little sister?"
Wen Xingshen stayed silent but greeted her politely, he wasn't unfriendly, but it could be seen that he was a very introverted person. "Little sister Su."
He looked a bit familiar but Su Qingtang quickly dismissed the thought. It shouldn't matter too much.
The greetings didn't last too long as they were ushered into different places by the makeup artist who soon appeared.
A small smile graced Su Qingtang's lips. Film industry, here I come!