Chapter 143

The recording of ‘Life in the Country’ was completed on the last day.Sima Qi left the show and took out her phone to look.She saw Zhang Rong’s situation of being blacklisted and popular simultaneously.She was being criticized and earning money at the same time.Huang Yi could not help but curse, “Bah, how shameless.”After being surpassed by Sima Qi as well, Huang Yi was very indignant. When she left, she even glared at Sima Qi.She had clearly accumulated a lot of popularity through a television drama. It had not been easy for her to get first place on the new talent list, but she had been pushed to third place because of all this nonsense. Who would not be upset?She would have been more convinced if she had been beaten through her acting skills.However, Sima Qi and Zhang Rong were both trending because of gossip.With Zhang Rong’s current popularity, Huang Yi could not catch up. It was extremely infuriating.Sima Qi also sighed.It seemed that she had no hope of becoming the champion of the new talent list.If she could not become the champion, she would have to wait three years before participating in the best actress selection.During these three years, no matter how good her acting was, she could only watch helplessly.If she still wanted to become the best actress, she would have to wait for three years.Sima Qi thought gloomily.When Shi Mo saw that she was in a bad mood, he knew roughly what was troubling her.He could not help but ask, “Actually, without this award, aren’t there any other awards that you could win?”If Sima Qi wanted to win an award, Shi Mo could arrange it at any time.Sima Qi shook her head repeatedly. “No, I just want to rely on my own strength.”Sima Qi did not want any award that had been won through nepotism.In the Veiled Queen’s WeChat, Mu Ye sent a message inviting her to meet for dinner a few days ago.After Sima Qi saw it, she replied, “I’m catching up on my work, I don’t have the time.”Finally, Mu Ye stopped sending her any more messages.The Veiled Queen’s circle of friends only had a few updates.One was a photo of the scene during the perfume advertisement shoot.The other was a few first draft photos of the manga.Following all that were photos with compliments of the Veiled Queen’s talent.Mu Ye looked at these photos and felt that they looked familiar.The woman in the manga looked like Sima Qi.The man looked a little like Shi Mo.It was understandable that the Veiled Queen and Sima Qi were good friends and that the characters in the manga were based on good friends.Very quickly, Mu Ye found out that this drawing was from a manga that had been serialized on a manga website.Mu Ye contacted the manga website directly.”I want to buy the rights to an adaptation of a manga, but I want to talk to the artist about the adaptation in person and ask her for her opinion.”The website replied that the manga artist “Xiao Sima” had not been online for a few days.He would only be notified when she came back online.Sima Qi was a little happy when she found out that someone wanted to buy the rights to an adaptation of her manga.However, when she heard that the other party wanted to meet face to face to discuss how to adapt the comic, she felt a little guilty.She was a famous celebrity. If she was discovered secretly drawing a little vulgar manga, she would definitely be ridiculed by the crowd.”The website can take full responsibility. When the time comes, just transfer the money to my account.”The website: “The other party said that they wanted to talk to you, and the price is very high…”Sima Qi gritted her teeth when she saw the numbers. See!In the coffee shop.Sima Qi had a scarf wrapped around her head and sunglasses on her face.She was carrying an old lady’s shopping bag in her hand and she was dressed in simple clothes.At a glance, one would not be able to associate her with the identity of a celebrity.Because of her usual attire, she attracted the attention of many people.Sima Qi’s face was burning as she found a private room and waited.After a while, the door was pushed open.The sound of footsteps from a pair of leather shoes on the floor could be heard.Mu Ye frowned when he saw the person’s attire in the private room.He thought that he had made a mistake.How could the Veiled Queen dress in such an unrefined manner?However, after assessing the height and figure of the person in front of him, he felt that he was right.Thinking of the Veiled Queen’s superb disguising skills, Mu Ye was certain that the person in front of him was the Veiled Queen.He playfully sat down in front of her.Sima Qi’s eyes darted around like a thief. When she saw who it was, she was so scared that she almost ran away.She quickly changed her tone and lowered her voice, “Are you the one who wants to buy my manga?”She kept her voice neutral; it was hard to tell if she was a man or a woman.Mu Ye laughed, “Are you planning to cover yourself like this as you bring up the copyright issue with me?”Sima Qi quickly pulled on her scarf and exposed only her mouth. “Tell me, what did you want to talk about?”If there was anything to talk about, Mu Ye wanted to talk to the manga artist face to face.”Stop pretending, I know who you are!” Mu Ye looked straight at her.Sima Qi gulped and stood up. “I don’t know what you’re talking about.”Sima Qi was about to stand up and leave.However, a hand moved faster than her. Sima Qi felt the sunglasses in front of her had been removed.”We meet again, Veiled…” Mu Ye was dumbfounded when he saw the person beneath the sunglasses.Sima Qi was also dumbfounded.