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However, the woman in charge did not look too well. Even her thick powder could not hide the exhaustion on her face.

[This Ms. Aisha has been plagued by hemorrhoids for years. They flared up again last night, and she barely slept,] 888 said in Ye Mo's mind at just the right moment. [Apparently, there's a little clinic called One Tree in eastern City B that's very good at treating hemorrhoids.]

Ye Mo quietly committed the name "One Tree" to memory.

"Wow, Ye Mo! Ye Mo!"

Suddenly, a young foreign girl with red hair and brown eyes burst into Ye Mo's view. She had big eyes, fair skin, and cute little freckles across her nose and cheeks-a very lively, radiant-looking foreign girl.

"Ye Mo, I'm Julie Te Lawrence!"

The girl held out her hand to Ye Mo and said excitedly in fluent, slightly accented Chinese, "I'm your fan!"

Looking at her, Ye Mo understood-this was probably CG's young heiress.

"Hello, Miss Lawrence." Ye Mo smiled and shook the young girl's hand, her gaze exceedingly tender and affectionate.

Julie blushed under her gaze and covered her cheeks. "Miss Ye, you're so beautiful. I watched you in 'Idealism.' Your acting was amazing! My mom and I both loved it!"

Ye Mo's expression stiffened at those words. She gave CG's young heiress a long look, sorely tempted to ask whether she actually meant that.

After all, her acting in "Idealism" had been so terrible that every day an episode aired, the abuse sent her onto the trending searches. For as many days as the drama aired, her name remained pinned to the trending list.

Yet now, Julie Te Lawrence was actually saying she really liked her performance in that drama.

Ye Mo: Are we sure that really wasn't sarcasm?

She carefully studied Julie Te Lawrence's expression and found her eyes utterly sincere. Clearly, she genuinely thought so.

"..." Ye Mo smiled. "As long as you enjoyed it, Miss Lawrence."

Julie nodded vigorously and said with innocent exuberance, "I loved it! You were so beautiful in it. Back then, I even bought half a month of screen time at a big mall in City S for that drama!"

At that, Ye Mo blurted out, "So that idio... that rich spender was you, Miss Lawrence!"

Ye Mo forced herself to smile. "I was wondering who was so generous, buying me all that screen time."

She had been wondering which idiot had taken a dislike to her and deliberately bought all that time on a big screen to mock her. Heaven knew how long she had been ridiculed online because of that screen.

[Ye Mo's fans are hilarious. With acting like hers in "Idealism," they actually had the nerve to buy time on that big screen at S Mall? Is this supposed to be a joke?]

[LMAO, where did her fans get the nerve to buy that?!]

[Are we sure one of Ye Mo's anti-fans didn't buy this? Did they think she wasn't getting mocked enough online, so they decided to add fuel to the fire?]

Thanks to that big screen, Ye Mo had once again been viciously ridiculed for her garbage acting in "Idealism." During that period, every time she opened Weibo, she saw trending searches about herself.

Naturally, when she clicked them, most of what she found was mockery.

Back then, both Ye Mo and Shen Yan had been guessing which anti-fan had spent so lavishly to smear her. Yet now Julie was telling her that she had bought the screen time, and had even done so as a fan.

Ye Mo: ...Well, that came out of nowhere.

Looking at Julie's eager, expectant, innocent expression, she forced herself to smile. "Thank you so much."

You did a wonderful job. I just hope you never do it again.

Julie did not notice that Ye Mo was saying one thing and thinking another. Believing Ye Mo was truly thanking her, she said, both proud and bashful, "I'll buy you more next time! Whatever other fans' big sisters have, you should have too!"

Ye Mo said, "...Thank you."

After dealing with CG's young heiress, Ye Mo went to the makeup artist to get her makeup and styling done. The moment the dressing room door closed, Shen Yan, who had been itching to say something, finally blurted out:

"So the idiot who bought that big-screen time back then was Miss Lawrence?"

That really was something no one could possibly have expected.

"You got mocked for ages because of that screen. People still talk about it now..." They said Ye Mo had an anti-fan who hated her so much that they had splashed out a fortune on a big screen to ridicule her.

Now they had discovered that this supposed anti-fan was actually a "real fan."

Ye Mo said firmly, "How could the money daddy be wrong? Even if something was wrong, the one at fault would have to be me!"

Shen Yan gave her a thumbs-up-he liked this work attitude of Ye Mo's, steeped in the flavor of a seasoned employee. She was very conscious of being a worker and never put on airs because she was famous, unlike certain artists who got so carried away by a little fame that they could no longer find north.

"Give today's shoot your best!"

The commercial shoot that day did not go particularly smoothly, but the problem was not Ye Mo. Rather, the director was rather prone to "splitting hairs." She was asked to do take after take; sometimes even a simple movement had to be filmed several times.

Ye Mo suspected this director had OCD, striving for perfection in everything.

In the end, filming went on from morning until evening. Only when it was almost dark did the stern-faced director finally feel satisfied and announce a wrap.

After filming ended, Shen Yan took a somewhat tired-looking Ye Mo around to thank the crew. Smiling, Ye Mo collected a pile of business cards and added another batch of contacts to her phone.

The director, who had kept a stern face all day without a single smile, actually smiled at Ye Mo, praised her for doing very well, and even exchanged contact details with her.

CG's representative was somewhat surprised. After all, the director they had hired was notorious for a bad temper and did not even show a pleasant face to clients like them.

Shen Yan, however, was not surprised.

Although Ye Mo had a rather poor reputation online because of her terrible acting, her reputation within the industry was actually not bad. In particular, people who had worked with her generally had plenty of approval and praise for her.

Ye Mo had never considered herself high and mighty just because she was a celebrity. In her view, being a celebrity was merely a job, so she took every job seriously-no one would dislike someone who worked conscientiously for no reason.

This time was no exception. Even when this foreign director asked her to shoot the same scene over and over, Ye Mo showed no impatience. She actively and enthusiastically cooperated with the director's requests throughout, filming however she was told without the slightest objection.

"If you're working, you need to have a proper work attitude!" Ye Mo had no complaints. "I'm getting paid, after all."

Since she was getting paid, she naturally had to work hard. That was Ye Mo's attitude toward work.

Clearly, her sense of responsibility made a very favorable impression, as could be seen from the friendly attitude of everyone working with her that day. Even the director's eyes were no longer as cold as they had been at the start.

"...Are you done filming?" Julie appeared from somewhere and looked at Ye Mo expectantly. "Momo, you haven't had dinner yet, right? Let me treat you to dinner?"

Momo-did Ye Mo's fans all like calling her that? Clearly, Julie really was a diehard fan of Ye Mo's.

Ye Mo sighed inwardly. She rubbed between her brows and gave Julie an apologetic smile. "Sorry, Miss Lawrence. I'm feeling a little tired today, and I'd like to head back and rest."

Julie looked a little disappointed, but she said with understanding and consideration, "That's all right. I forgot-you've been working all day. You must be exhausted."

Ye Mo smiled at her and exchanged contact details with her before saying goodbye and returning to their own car with Shen Yan.