kvmb Chapter 844 The Entertainment Industry, The Original Female Lead Killed by the Transmigrator (10)
Chapter 844 The Entertainment Industry, The Original Female Lead Killed by the Transmigrator (10)
After winning an award and seeing a significant increase in box office revenue, the investment wasn't a complete loss. So, the company held a celebration banquet and took the opportunity to invite some people from the industry to attend.
Xiao Yun brought Xiao Yu with her, which was a way of letting him know that she wasn't going to be an idol, so there was no need to hide her relationship.
Moreover, she won the Best Actress award for her first leading role in a film, which has already established her status as a powerful actress, and her future path will only become easier.
The banquet was held at the Ming Shi Hotel. As the host, Xiao Yun had to arrive at the venue early to greet the guests with Zhao Yaqi and other company executives. Xiao Yu stayed close to her, her eyes never leaving her, finding her charming as she chatted and laughed with others.
People who knew Xiao Yun couldn't help but tease her about his behavior. Xiao Yun wasn't embarrassed at all; instead, she openly expressed that she liked him just the way he was.
Lin Hui and the boss of her former company, Jincheng Entertainment, also came. Xiao Yun personally called to invite them. She plans to collaborate with Jincheng Entertainment on her next film, as they hold the rights to the IP that is going to be a huge hit.
The invitation also included several actors who were somewhat famous but hadn't yet become famous, as well as two directors who were once very famous but had faded into obscurity since not having any new works.
Of course, we also invited two other entertainment companies and some people from related industries as a token gesture, but not all of them came. Although Jiuxiao Entertainment is developing well, it is still a new company without a strong background, and not everyone will give it a second glance.
As long as those who need it come, that's fine. After a brief exchange of pleasantries, she exchanged contact information with those who needed it. She couldn't possibly state her purpose directly at the banquet; she would communicate with them privately later.
However, it did find a few acting opportunities for the actors under his management. The entertainment industry is a small circle. Even if everyone can't share resources, they will still exchange information from time to time. After all, it's impossible to just play around on your own.
Xiao Yun thought the banquet would end smoothly, but she wondered if the halo hadn't fully returned to her yet. Why was there such a high risk of accidents happening around her, the female lead?
Just as I finished thinking that, I heard a woman scream coming from a private room in the corner of the banquet hall.
By this time, all the guests had left, and only the company's staff were left to wrap things up. Xiao Yun frowned. If she remembered correctly, they had booked the entire banquet hall, and the private rooms would not be used for other guests, but rather for resting or changing clothes and washing up.
The guests she invited have all left, so who is in that private room now?
Thinking this, he already extended his divine sense in that direction and found a man and a woman in the lounge of the private room. One was lying naked on the bed, and the other was sitting on the edge of the bed with disheveled clothes.
The woman by the bed was frantically putting on her clothes, which looked like the uniform of a hotel employee.
The person lying on the bed was not awake, looking like they were drunk and unconscious, but... this person doesn't seem to be on her guest list.
Who is this person? Could he have been asleep in the private room before they arrived? And when did this waiter go in?
When Xiao Yun's divine sense swept over the waiter again, he suddenly stopped. Hey! This guy actually has a system too!
She focused her divine sense into the other person's mind, located the system, and then merged into their consciousness.
Then they heard the woman communicating with the system through her consciousness, "System, are you sure it worked? Can I really get pregnant on the first try?"
Then a mechanical voice sounded: "Confirmed. The host is naturally fertile and has taken the fertility pills from the system store. She will definitely get pregnant, and it will be twins or triplets."
"That's good. Now we just have to wait for someone to find us. This way, I'm out of the loop, otherwise I wouldn't be able to prove that I slept with him. Disrupting the surveillance has its advantages and disadvantages."
"Huh? Why isn't he awake yet? Didn't you say he'd wake up once the drug wore off? And he'd only think he had a hangover, and no drug residue would be detected. Could it be a too high dose, or an allergic reaction?"
"Don't worry, everything produced by the system is top-notch. He'll wake up soon. Strange, you were calling so loudly just now, why hasn't anyone come yet?"
"Yes, wasn't there supposed to be a banquet? Aren't so many people curious?"
"Why don't you shout it out again? Maybe they'll think they misheard you."
Xiao Yun was completely dumbfounded. These two... did they wander onto the wrong set? Which novel about a pregnant woman running away with her child is this?
The people in the hall were naturally curious, but since the boss, Xiao Yun, hadn't made a move, they couldn't very well go over to watch the commotion and leave a bad impression on him.
Xiao Yun withdrew her divine sense and saw a group of subordinates exchanging gossips with their eyes. Seeing that Xiao Yu's eyes were also flashing strangely, she chuckled and said, "Let's go and see what's going on."
Xiao Yun and Xiao Yu led the way, with the others following behind as they arrived at the door of the private room. At that moment, the "waiter" screamed again.
Xiao Yun gestured to the hotel staff to open the door. The staff member went up and intended to knock, but the door was ajar and opened with a knock.
Then the woman ran out looking panicked, and the man on the bed woke up, frowning and rubbing his head.
Seeing that Xiao Yun didn't seem inclined to speak, Zhao Yaqi had no choice but to step forward and ask, "What's going on?"
The woman sobbed, "I came to clean the private room, but I didn't expect there to be someone inside. Then he knocked me unconscious, and when I woke up, this is what happened... Waaah..."
Zhao Yaqi raised an eyebrow. She wasn't stupid; there was clearly something wrong with the situation. "I'm not asking you, but this Golden Wind and Jade Dew Banquet Hall is booked by our company. How could there be outsiders sleeping in the private rooms?"
The woman and the staff present were stunned. The man inside was not a guest of the banquet.
The woman stared at them in disbelief, her mind frantically calling out to the system, "System! System! What's going on?! Isn't this the president of the Ji Group? Why isn't this a Ji Group party?"
System: "Host, please wait a moment, I'll go check right away!"
The other waiters looked bewildered. Soon someone went to call the manager, who first apologized to Xiao Yun and the others, acknowledging that it was indeed the hotel's oversight and that they would offer a discount as compensation.
At this moment, the man also became more sober, got up, put on his clothes and came out. He looked around with a puzzled expression, then frowned at the woman.
The manager quickly went up to ask what was wrong. The man said that he had drunk too much at the Ji family party, went into a private room to rest, and then woke up like this. He had no other memory of it.
Xiao Yun glanced at the woman's face, which had turned pale instantly, and chuckled inwardly. This system wasn't very reliable; it had probably picked the wrong target.
The manager said with some surprise, "The Ji family's banquet was last night. You've been inside for a whole day and night, and no one has gone in?"
After saying that, he looked at the head waiter and service staff in charge of the banquet hall. After the banquet ended and before the second session began, no one had cleaned up.
The foreman quickly said, "Tian Yuanyuan was in charge of cleaning yesterday. Today was her day off, and we all thought she had gone home yesterday. We never expected this to happen to her..."
The system in the woman named Tian Yuanyuan's mind was apologizing to her, "I'm sorry, host, Xiao Si mistook you for someone else. This is the cousin of the president of the Ji Group. The two look very alike, and when I heard someone call him President Ji, I... I misunderstood."
"And also, I didn't control the dosage well, and you all slept for a whole day and night..."
Tian Yuanyuan: I really want to dismantle this idiotic system!
Xiao Yun gave Zhao Yaqi a wink, and the other immediately stepped forward, saying, "Since it's a misunderstanding, we'll leave now. However, your hotel really needs to strengthen its management."
The manager nodded hurriedly, assuring everyone that he would handle it well.
The man also said that he wanted the hotel to investigate thoroughly, as he had excellent drinking manners and would never force a waiter. He wanted to find out if he had been drugged or framed, and reserved the right to hold the hotel accountable.
The manager didn't want to escalate the situation, as it could seriously damage the hotel's reputation. He said he would thoroughly investigate and give the other party a satisfactory answer, and then asked Tian Yuanyuan to go to the office with them.
Tian Yuanyuan lowered her head, not daring to look at the crowd, and slunk away after them.
Xiao Yu leaned close to Xiao Yun's ear and whispered, "This is quite interesting."
Xiao Yun smiled and shook her head, preparing to go back and talk to him about the system. "Alright, we should go back now, or Mom and Dad will worry."
After everyone tidied up, they left the banquet hall together, and this unexpected incident became a topic of conversation for them for a long time afterward.
Xiao Yun placed a wisp of his divine sense into Tian Yuanyuan's mind, preparing to see what kind of system it was, whether it came from the same source as before, or from a new dimension.
After returning home, the two ate a bowl of their mother's homemade egg noodles before going to their room. Don't expect to be full after such a banquet; you'll need an extra meal when you get home.
After returning to the room, he took Xiao Yu into the space and went to Yao Yao's place to see if he had figured out anything about the system.
"Mom, Uncle Yu, you've come at the right time. I was just looking for you. I was wondering why I couldn't find the data about the linked dimension. It turns out that the system can create clones. When it was deployed to this world, it created several clones! And they all have different functions, each sending different tasks to the host they inhabit."
"What!?"
Xiao Yun was also taken aback. The system in the previous higher plane had also had system clones, but they were all there to assist the main system. He didn't expect this one to be independent.
Isn't this equivalent to a main system arriving with a system squad? It seems this world is more chaotic than we imagined.
Yao Yao continued, "The system's mission is to redeem the villainous female supporting character. Previously, each time it was bound to someone with the same name as the villainous female supporting character in the book, they would transmigrate and do the main quest in this world."
Xiao Yun raised an eyebrow. "Every time? So, this system doesn't just take one host on a quick journey through different small worlds, but rather changes hosts in each plane?"
Yao Yao nodded, "Yes, and after the mission is over, it will drain the female supporting characters who helped it steal the female lead's luck, causing them to die and even their souls to dissipate, making the Heavenly Dao think that they have suffered a backlash, so it will no longer be able to find the system."
So, those hosts selected by the system were just tools, and they were probably tricked into binding themselves without their knowledge. Otherwise, no one would risk their own life to benefit someone else.
She told Yao Yao about what Tian Yuanyuan, whom she had just met and who also had a system, had done.
"So Tian Yuanyuan was also chosen to complete the task of whitewashing the villainous female supporting character? Then who did she replace the pregnant female lead? It definitely wasn't me, the original owner of this body. Not to mention there was no pregnancy or childbirth plot, I never had any interaction with anyone surnamed Ji in either of my two lives."
Moreover, she's targeting the wrong system. That system is so unreliable. Could it be because of the clone?
Yao Yao shook her head. "No, what Tian Yuanyuan has is a childbirth system. President Ji's child should be the next protagonist. The protagonist you possessed didn't have children in his first life. And after the world is fully formed, it's impossible for the same plot to loop indefinitely. A new chosen one will appear next."
Just like Feng Yuyao before, even if she succeeds, she cannot replace the chosen one of destiny selected by Heaven. The original owner's destiny was absorbed by the system, not transferred to her. Therefore, there will inevitably be another protagonist.
The reason why the Heavenly Dao of this world discovered and restarted so quickly was because the original soul of your body was discovered by the Underworld, and a connection was established through her, which alerted the Heavenly Dao and caused the second restart.