Chapter 1031: Chapter 1031: You Haven’t Rotted Down to Zero Chapter 1031: Chapter 1031: You Haven’t Rotted Down to Zero Rong Yan smiled faintly, looking into her eyes, “Ms. Dina standing here doesn’t that prove I’m not the flashy type?”

When she finished speaking, she added seriously, “I can’t say that the work will be one hundred percent to your satisfaction, but I do have a seventy percent confidence I can make you happy. For me, anything beyond a fifty percent chance is as good as one hundred percent. Ms. Dina also mentioned that she’s seen my situation back home. For me, ‘Around the City’ is both an opportunity and a challenge. Only if I secure ‘Around the City’ will I have a chance to turn things around. I’m not one to waste my future or your time–I care about this opportunity even more than Ms. Dina does.”

Dina liked the vigor in Rong Yan that she herself had in her youth, but she didn’t like it when Rong Yan played it too strong.

If Rong Yan had continued to be slick with her words, her impression of Rong Yan might have dropped by half, but Rong Yan knew when to stop, openly admitting her situation and candidly speaking her heart, which somewhat improved Dina’s impression of her.

“Aside from ‘Around the City’, I have another project called ‘City Falling’, currently in preparation and lacking a leading lady. I’ve seen your performance in ‘Three Kingdoms’, and it was horribly unwatchable.”

Unwatchable yet she watched… Rong Yan was speechless, her mouth twitching slightly, “Acting isn’t my major.”

Dina glanced at her, “I can tell. If a professional actor delivered that performance, I’d throw her into a ditch.”

“…” So what exactly are you trying to say?

Was she simply trying to wring out Rong Yan’s acting just to mock it?

Rong Yan had never heard of the film industry’s female devil a side so childish and petty, insisting on winning arguments, attacking others’ weaknesses when unable to win. Even her five-year-old son disdained such childish tactics, finding them too immature. Dina, being in her forties, couldn’t be that childish, could she?

Indeed, Dina wasn’t that immature. She looked Rong Yan up and down and then said, “You fit the role of the female lead in ‘City Falling’ quite well.”

Rong Yan’s mouth fell open, “You’re inviting me to be the female lead in your movie?”

What a joke, that’s too far-fetched!

How did these two completely unrelated matters get mixed up?

Weren’t they discussing the soundtrack for ‘Around the City’?

How had Dina shifted the discussion to the lead role in her next movie so abruptly? Rong Yan wasn’t a professional actress; her last acting experience in ‘The Three Kingdoms’ all depended on Li Shengxiao to get her into character. With a director of Dina’s caliber preparing a new film, many top actors like Chu Xi were available for her picking. How did it suddenly come to her…?

Dina said, “I’m just putting it out there. Whether you can become my ‘City Falling’ lead will depend on whether the music you present today satisfies me. If not, we don’t have a possibility to collaborate. But if your music does impress me, the role in ‘City Falling’ is yours.”

Rong Yan’s mouth twitched again, and she spoke frankly, “Ms. Dina, I can’t act. You’ve also seen my performance in ‘Three Kingdoms’; you said it was terrible, and that pretty much sums up my acting skills.”

“I saw it, it’s bad, it’s bad, but it has an air of naturalness, with no trace of artifice in it. The actor I need this time is someone who can be natural. I was actually planning to cast a non-professional, someone who’s only ever played a supporting role and did so stiffly at that, barely meeting the requirement. If I use you, I will personally coach you. Even if your current level is zero, I have my methods to turn you into a hundred, but you’re not as bad as zero–twenty, at most.”