CH 1

Spoil Your Wife Like Your Life Depends On It (TN: I’m going to use the SWLL to abbreviate this because the other abbreviation is a pain in the ass)

Chapter 1

August 3rd, 6:30 pm

The summer heat in Senchuan City is inhumane, and it is even worse on the set of the web drama “Academy of Fine Arts”. Because of the male lead’s schedule, the director is frantically speeding the progress of shooting up, and the various props scattered on the ground adds to that chaos.

After filming a scene in the scorching sun, Ye Kehuan felt like she is being roasted.

Sitting down, Ye Kehuan coughed twice and took the phone from her assistant’s hands to browse the internet, opening a black post about herself only to see all the netizens scolding her—

[Troubled Netizen: “Is Ye Kehuan’s face built like walls? How many times has she had a facelift without some AC count in her heart? Can normal people grow that kind of European-style big double eyelids? Can her nose be so high? And still have the nerve to send out press releases every day for this and that, I really want to vomit when I see her face!]

Ye Kehuan couldn’t help but touch her own face. Just kidding, it’s natural. And the press releases were not what she wanted to send, ah ……

[Netizen 123: “Is Ye Kehuan dead today? I’ll ask again tomorrow if not. :)”]

Seeing this message, Ye Kehuan squeezed her coke can until it was scrunched and said to herself, “Don’t come tomorrow, don’t ask your Sister Ye, I’m full of energy and alive and can still fight for another five hundred years.”

Ye Kehuan left the post after.

The assistant looked at the side, wanting to say something, and finally opened a bottle of water and handed it to Ye Kehuan: “Sister Huan, take it easy, don’t with those people!”

Ye Kehuan listened, took the water, drank two mouthfuls, and nodded: “I’m not angry, I’m not angry, only fools will be angry.”

After hearing this, the assistant wiped a sweat, pursed her lips, and smiled: “That’s good, that’s good!”

Ye Kehuan nodded and stopped talking. However, even though Ye Kehuan said this, her heart is still suffocated from those words.

The company gave her a black and red route, and the current situation is more black than red. She is like a brick, moved to wherever a topic of interest is needed.

At this time, Ye Kehuan’s phone rang again. She picked it up and saw that all major tabloids were pushing the news of “Jiang Laien returning to China”.

After seeing the words Jiang Laien, Ye Kehuan froze for several moments before she felt her temples exploding with pain and turned the news to the sky.

Who is Jiang Laien? Jiang Laien debuted in her third year of high school, although she did not have frequent activities in the entertainment circle at that time.

Nowadays, despite Jiang Laien being only 25 years old, she has been in the industry for more than eight years. She is known as the national goddess. All the TV series she filmed are hits, which also goes for movies. She became a queen of television two years after her debut, and a film queen three years after. She is a strong dark horse in the entertainment circle in recent years and is known as a rare genius of the century. Beauty and strength coexist, and popularity and acting skills fly together.

However, what everyone doesn’t know is that Jiang Laien is also an old acquaintance of Ye Kehuan. And also, a person whom she doesn’t want to communicate with even when she’s dying of old age.

However, they are now peers by coincidence, and whereas Jiang Laien is experiencing good fortune, she herself is has become endlessly black (TN: black meaning hated/has a terrible reputation).

Thinking of this, Ye Kehuan closed her eyes and let out a sigh to comfort herself: “It’s okay, it’s okay. Our positions are different. You shouldn’t be able to meet each other in the short term. It doesn’t matter if you do your own thing. Namo Amitabha, good good1.”  After comforting herself, Ye Kehuan looked at Jiang Laien on the screen again, which dredged up many unwanted memories, so she threw her phone aside again.

At the same time, in Liangcheng International Airport

After greeting the fans who came to meet her after her flight, Jiang Laien arrived at the airport parking building through the VIP access, put the suitcase in the trunk of a nanny car, and finally got in.

Because she made two films abroad in a row and took a half-year vacation, she has not returned for a long time.

In the blink of an eye, she felt as if the architecture of Liangcheng seem to have changed and become unfamiliar.

After the driver drove the car out of the airport, her agent, Zhao Yunqing, spoke: “By the way, Laien, would you like to consider participating in a variety show or something? I know you don’t participate in these things, but domestic reality shows have become extremely popular recently!”

Jiang Laien smiled after listening: “I don’t want to engage in these artificial things, I just want to concentrate on filming.”

For her, the thing she wants to do most is film. As for fame and wealth, she doesn’t have many thoughts. For fame, she’s already popular enough, and she doesn’t lack money whatsoever. So, for the entire time, she has been able to be very willful and unrestrained.

“Participating in a variety show can also be regarded as an adjustment since you haven’t been in the country for a while,” Zhao Yunqing said, not giving up, “Look at you, you’re so popular but disappeared for a time. Everyone is looking forward to your return. So, if you do a reality show now, it would be absolutely explosive! Think about it, a national goddess who has never participated in a variety show, doing nothing else but personally finding ingredients to cook in the kitchen, and this alone is already very eye catching!”

“So I just need to catch the attention of fans.” Jiang Laien stroked her hair, revealing a white and elegant neck.

Zhao Yun paused slightly a continued: “Anyways, there’s recently been a reality show called “Food is Ready” that has been asking you to consider. Recently, everyone, men and women, young and old, have been watching it.”

It’s not unreasonable that Zhao Yunqing wants her to join this program, since after all, it is very popular. Although Jiang Laien doesn’t need to participate in any variety show to break out on her own, who doesn’t want their artists to become more popular? It’s the same reason that people don’t mind too much money.

Jiang Laien still shook her head unconsciously and unlocked the phone to open Weibo that was recently downloaded to read the news.

After scrolling and scrolling, when Jiang Laien saw an interactive Weibo about Ye Kehuan in the official “Food is Ready” Weibo, her eyelashes trembled.

Ye Kehuan? Is this Ye Kehuan the Ye Kehuan she knows?

Then Jiang Laien looked at Zhao Yunqing again: “This Ye Kehuan… newly debuted?”

“She…Ah, yes, she is an older newcomer who has just debuted for over a year. She is as black as coal and was scolded half to death after she started.” Zhao Yunqing replied casually.

“Really…” Jiang Laien pushed the sunglasses on the bridge of his nose.

“Yeah, you went abroad for too long and you haven’t been online during your break. It’s normal if you don’t know. Ye Kehuan only debuted in the middle of last year. Although she has looks, her acting skills are terrible.” Zhao Yun sighed lightly.

Zhao Yunqing continued to speak: “In short, this person is full of negative scandals. They say she used to be a little lady…”

Zhao Yunqing shifted in her seat and continued: “They say she smoked, drank, and fought during her student days, had many abortions, coveted fresh meat small flowers, but also always sending what the press release, and her fans can wait to slap her to the ground……”

Truly? Jiang Laien looked at the phone. Why didn’t she know that Ye Kehuan was such a person?

Thinking of this, Jiang Laien squeezed her fingers and pushed up her sunglasses. Quietly, she continued to scroll through Ye Kehuan’s Weibo. Looking at the photos, she could tell that this is indeed the Ye Kehuan she knows and looks exactly the same.

“By the way, the show that Ye Kehuan is participating in is the “Food is Ready” show that you asked me about, right?” Jiang Laien asked suddenly.

“Yes…” Zhao Yun nodded lightly, suddenly worried that Jiang Laien would refuse because of Ye Kehuan’s poor reputation. She suddenly regretted that she had just said so many bad things.

Jiang Laien pressed the sunglasses down a little to look at her, revealing a pair of beautiful eyes: “Help me contact the program team.”

It was Friday in a blink of an eye.

After filming the last scene in the swimming pool, Ye Kehuan dragged her tired body a few steps before putting on her clothes and taking out a bottle of mineral water, leaving for the building of the variety show group for a meeting.

Before reaching the door of the conference room, Ye Kehuan felt her phone vibrate as she held the door handle. She walked aside to pick up the phone: “Hey, Sister Cheng.”

“The program group of ‘Food is Ready’ will be holding a meeting later, don’t forget.” Her agent Cheng Xin said.

“I know,” Ye Kehuan paced down the corridor, looked out the window again, and whispered, “I’m already at the conference room door,” she whispered.

“Oh, that’s good! By the way, you are lucky that this season’s show is estimated to be a big hit! It will usher in unprecedented ratings!” Sister Cheng said almost every word with a smile. She can feel her joy listening through the phone.

“Ah? What do you mean?” Ye Kehuan was taken aback.

“Do you know who joined this show?” Cheng Xin said, building suspense.

“Who?” Ye Kehuan asked casually after taking a sip of water.

In the next second, Cheng Xin yelled with great enthusiasm: “Of course it’s Jiang Laien, the popular movie queen! A national goddess with her own traffic, isn’t it crazy?!”

Immediately, Ye Kehuan choked on the water and started coughing nonstop.

Jiang Laien? Ha, could this be the legendary narrow road2? Ye Kehuan quickly turned her head and looked at the door of the conference room.

Footnotes:

1: 南无阿弥陀佛善哉善哉 — I’m not sure how to translate this? It’s a Buddhist saying that has lots of nuance that idk how to explain so just think of it as “peace be with me” or something I guess

2: Narrow road: enemies on a narrow road, meaning that fighting is inevitable.

Translator’s note: I like this series. It’s very cute and romantic. So I’m lazily translating a couple chapters to see how it goes.