Superstar's Development Diary
Chapter 51 Pre-Diet Foreplay Ends

Chapter 51: Chapter 51 Pre-Diet Foreplay Ends

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On the beach, He Jinxia, with disheveled hair and dressed in a bulky down jacket and thermal pants, looked even more swollen due to her already large figure. She sat on a tall stone stool, appearing from afar like a moving colossal sphere.

The crew had waited for a full two days and finally got the heavy rain they needed. After the rainstorm, they hurriedly drove to the seaside. Taking advantage of the lower temperatures, they filmed the final scene of Chen Xiaohui before her weight loss.

This scene depicted Chen Xiaohui slapping Miss Lin and getting fired. At the time, it was the end of the year, and He Jinxia, having become utterly disheartened, ran back home to spend the New Year.

During the New Year, temperatures are generally low. To keep the setting real, the actors had to wear thick clothes. However, in overly warm weather, combined with heavy clothing, the actors would sweat, and their makeup would be affected.

If it weren’t for the rainstorm, Dong Qiin had already considered using artificial rain to cool down areas locally and change the shooting scene’s weather.

At this moment, Chen Xiaohui, played by He Jinxia, had reddened eyes and a blank stare as she looked at the rolling waves on the sea. Her heart churned with the waves. She reached out to touch her eyes, holding back her tears.

Just three hours earlier, her parents had kicked her out to go on a blind date.

There were three blind dates. To save trouble, Chen Xiaohui had arranged to meet them all at the same time in the same café, just at different tables.

Chen Xiaohui thought that if one of the three had acceptable thoughts, she might as well marry him. But she didn’t expect that the blind dates she met were each more ridiculous than the last!

As she thought about what those people said to her, Chen Xiaohui felt tears welling up again. She quickly raised her head, fanned her face with her hand, and muttered to herself, "Xiaohui, don’t cry. Those scum aren’t worth your tears..."

Finally, Chen Xiaohui managed to stabilize her emotions when her phone rang—it was a call from Sun Zhiying.

Chen Xiaohui didn’t know what mood she should use to face him and hesitated before hanging up.

An hour before, her best friend Feng Xiaoxiao had sent a voice message. Chen Xiaohui clicked in and saw that after the voice message, she had sent a link.

Chen Xiaohui’s eyes widened. The content of the link was about Miss Lin winning a national fashion design award. The award-winning piece was hers!

Chen Xiaohui clenched her teeth, no longer able to contain herself, and burst into loud sobs.

"Cut! Good! Leading man, go over there, Jinxia, keep crying!"

The leading man, played by Wu Daxi, Sun Zhiying, frantically looked around the beach, continuously calling Chen Xiaohui’s phone. The call wasn’t hung up this time, but nobody picked up.

As Sun Zhiying searched, he suddenly spotted a spherical shape on a distant stone stool. His brows furrowed. It was... Chen Xiaohui?

"Cut, that won’t do! Wu Daxi, your emotion isn’t strong enough. You’re too slow. You need to be more expressive. The instant you spot He Jinxia, your brows should furrow. By the second second, your eyes should widen, showing a shocked expression..."

Luo You, seeing the director instructing Wu Daxi, quickly ran to He Jinxia’s side and handed her an ice pack. "Quick, hold this against you, don’t let yourself get too hot."

With tear stains still on her face, He Jinxia unzipped her down jacket and immediately took the ice pack, pressing it against her chest.

She felt some itchiness in her arms and back but didn’t pay it any mind.

Minutes later, the scene was reshot. He Jinxia continued to cry tearfully, and fortunately, this time Wu Daxi had no issues, and the take was successful.

The camera switched, and Sun Zhiying had already approached Chen Xiaohui, shouting at her, "Chen Xiaohui, don’t be impulsive. Whatever is troubling you, we can talk about it. Don’t even think about jumping into the sea!"

Chen Xiaohui’s crying abruptly stopped, and she turned around to howl at Sun Zhiying, "Who told you I was going to jump into the sea?!"

Sun Zhiying was dumbfounded, "You were crying and wobbling about, you’re not thinking of going... going..."

Chen Xiaohui’s face was red from crying, and she was gasping for air between sobs, her voice coming out in pants.

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"Screw jumping into the sea, I’m not going to jump—hell no, I still have a great life ahead of me to enjoy!"

Sun Zhiying let out a sigh of relief and glared at her, with lingering fear in her voice, "Then why the hell are you crying?"

Chen Xiaohui tried to sniff back her tears. Why cry?

Cry over her weak and incompetent self?

What for? She was just a bit overweight, why did everyone look down on her?

Chen Xiaohui bit her lip as tears surged forth once again.

She breathed heavily in her chest as she suddenly raised her middle finger to the sky and roared at the top of her lungs, "I! Will! Lose! Weight!"

"Damn you, heaven, I’m done playing your games!"

"I refuse to believe that I—Chen Xiaohui—can’t slim down!"

"Good, cut! That’s a wrap for this scene!" With the director’s excited shout, all the scenes featuring He Jinxia before her weight loss were officially complete.

From joining the crew for training to the scenes before weight loss, it had been a full two months, and He Jinxia embarked on a comprehensive weight loss and fitness regimen.

Since she dropped her "retirement announcement," two and a half months had passed.

Every day, people’s lives are filled with events big and small. Today a star gets married, tomorrow another gets a divorce, the day after another has a baby...

Among these myriad hot searches of deities and demons, He Jinxia’s weight loss comparison was like a small splash, occupying the trending charts for a few days before disappearing completely.

Only her devoted fans and haters, who always remembered He Jinxia’s weight loss, would occasionally visit her Weibo page. On a whim, they’d check in and guess when the next picture would be released.

Some guessed a month, some two months, and others guessed there’d be an explosive comparison at the end—but no one thought it would be within a month.

Losing weight is a big project, after all; no fan thought she could lose much in less than a month.

However, they all guessed wrong—or it was a case of unequal information.

For the previous weight loss comparison photos, except for the haters who firmly believed in "He Jinxia’s slimming scandal," other fans and bystanders thought those slimmed-down body pictures represented her current state.

In reality, those photos were far from her current state. They were taken by Luo You one month after joining the crew, and by the time the photos were released, she had already been on set for two and a half months.

So, the official release of the second set of weight loss comparison photos came much sooner than anyone expected.

Just half a month had passed, and on August 1st, He Jinxia uploaded a new photo on her Weibo.

It was another weight loss comparison photo, but this time it compared her previous slimmed-down self. A few fans browsing Weibo for fresh news spotted it first, and at that moment, the fans exploded with excitement.

One of the fans joined He Jinxia’s official fan group and immediately shared the Weibo update in the group. Not only that, but she also joined some unofficial He Jinxia fan groups and shared the news there too.

Word spread from one person to ten, from ten to a hundred, a hundred to a thousand... In just half an hour, the search volume for He Jinxia’s Weibo skyrocketed.

Tonghua Entertainment, third floor.

Luo You and Zhang Dayou were fully prepared, closely monitoring the data. After half a month, the two old partners had joined forces once again, ready to create a new wave on the trending charts!