The door to the make-up room in this studio was in bad condition and several of the regular make-up artists and celebrity assistants knew this well.
The door lock had been in use for a long time and was badly rusted.
The latch would often get stuck in the lock when the door was closed tightly.
When they use this room, they usually leave the door slightly ajar, never fully closed.
When Bao Ruanruan arrived today, Zhao Ming had no intention of locking her in there and interfering with her shoot.
But her luck was just too bad!
She just casually shut the door with a crisp snap the moment she walked in.
Zhao Ming didn't even have time to warn her.
Of course, he wasn't going to warn her anyway.
As soon as she entered, she sang to him, Swing that big blade at the devil's head...
This lyric had sent his adrenaline through the roof!
Zhao Ming figured her bad luck was just her fate.
There was nothing he could do about it now.
For a man like him, even if he had considerable strength, he wouldn't dare to break the lock.
If he broke the latch inside the lock, the door would truly be stuck, and someone would have to come to dismantle it.
Zhao Ming stood in the corner, his arms crossed over his chest.
At this point, all he could do was watch her grow scared and panicked.
Sorry.
Go ahead and cry.
But just as a faint smile started to form on his lips, Bao Ruanruan made her move.
A dark green jacket with white-trimmed sleeves was draped over her thin waist, where her white t-shirt had been tucked into dark green pants.
When the wind blew, her jacket billowed out.
It drifted aimlessly as if it had no substance.
This further accentuated her tiny waist, making her whole body look as slender as a willow.
Quite a sight.
Zhao Ming couldn't help but admit it.
But halfway through watching her, he froze.
Wind?
Blowing her clothes?
Where did the wind come from?
There wasn't even a fan in the make-up room.
And then—creak—
Bao Ruanruan opened the door.
"???"
Her slender fingers left the supposedly jammed lock.
As she did so... she pulled out a black hairpin, which was supposed to be in her hair and had somehow been straightened at unknown times, out of the lock gap!
Once the door was fully open, she used the pointed end of the hairpin to poke at the lock cylinder a few times.
Her elegant eyebrows furrowed slightly.
"Mm, it is indeed broken."
Zhao Ming: "!"
Bao Ruanruan sighed.
"These old-fashioned locks are dangerous. A bad person can easily pick them open with a card."
Zhao Ming: "!!!"
You are the bad person, aren't you!
With a serious look on her fair face, Bao Ruanruan suggested, "Better change it soon, or something bad might happen."
As she spoke, she suddenly let out an 'ah'.
"Oh, sorry, I borrowed this hairpin for a moment."
Her slender hand quickly bent the ordinary black hairpin back to its original shape.
Then she fastened it next to her perfectly formed bun.
It was used to secure a stray lock of hair.
Then, with one hand in her pocket, she sauntered out the door.
"Next time you're locked in, you can do it like this too. Bye, Big Brother."
Zhao Ming: "......"
He didn't know what to say, feeling like he was in a dream the whole time.
Until there was a bang.
The wind had suddenly blown.
And it had shut the opened door once more!
!
!!
Zhao Ming rushed over, but was still a step too late!
He almost spat blood!
After taking a deep breath, he finally turned his attention to the hairpin pocket in the make-up bag.
Maybe he should... try?
One minute later.
Bao Ruanruan appeared promptly at 9:00 at the shooting location.
"Let's start then."
Qian Hongyi noted her punctuality and gave her another mental point.
But just as the director walked over, a nearby staff member suddenly rushed in, shouting urgently:
"The make-up artist upstairs has broken the lock! We need someone to take the door apart!"
"D*mn, what was he doing?"
Qian Hongyi: "?"
Director: "??"
Bao Ruanruan: "???"
She blinked innocently.
This definitely wasn't something she taught... was it?
But this was just a small episode.
The shooting schedule was tight, and the director quickly got to the point. "We'll start by shooting the parkour sequence. Xiao Bao, watch the parkour animation clip first."
Bao Ruanruan took the tablet.
It turned out to be a 5-second video of a character doing parkour.
The character climbed onto the roof of the first building, did a one-foot run-up, leapt high, landed on a flower pot on the second building, rolled to the ground, vaulted over a clothesline on the roof, then made a precise long jump to the left side of the third building, ran sideways, dove into the air, cleared a TV station signal wire, and landed on the roof of the fourth building.
"We'll be filming on flat ground here, but you have to think of it as four separate rooftops. Start with the first building on the left, jump from the marked point..."
They were shooting in front of a huge green screen in the studio.
There were three marked jump points on the floor.
To create a sense of motion, the director wanted to film her entire sequence of running, jumping, landing, and running again in one continuous shot.
The cameras were mounted on tracks and would follow her as she ran.
"Don't worry, we're not asking for high-level stunts," the director reassured her thoughtfully. "We just need the full sequence of running, jumping, and landing."
Bao Ruanruan nodded and watched the parkour animation three more times.
She had it memorised.
This was something she was very familiar with.
In no time at all, she had memorised all the jump points, as well as the take-off and landing techniques.
But the director was still worried. "Even though we're on flat ground, your facial expressions and jumping movements need to feel as realistic as possible. The background will all be added later with special effects."
Bao Ruanruan nodded again. "No problem."
The camera started to roll.
With nothing to do, Qian Xuezhou stood nearby, wringing her hands nervously as she watched.
Looking worried, she muttered, "Those moves look so difficult."
"Brother, if she doesn't do well, please don't get mad at her."
She pleaded cautiously.
Qian Hongyi couldn't help but laugh.
"If the ad was just about a regular schoolgirl running, wouldn't that have been fine? But no, you insisted on a parkour theme. How is a girl supposed to do that? And she has to imagine being on rooftops? Listen to yourself…"
Jumping between skyscrapers in parkour was clearly a world apart from a long jump on a track field.
Qian Hongyi reached out and gently pushed her head down. "Be quiet."
His phoenix-shaped eyes turned to the slender figure in dark green stretching in front of the camera.
It was indeed difficult.
That was why they would be filming it all day.
The final ad would use a mix of live-action and animation to complete the parkour scenes.
"Let's see how it goes first."
Qian Hongyi took a sip of the bubble milk tea📹 his assistant handed him.
When he was under pressure, he needed the tapioca pearls.
This pressure came from this ad being Pengmai's first nationwide full-product line advertisement under his leadership.
The chewy texture of the pearls would momentarily relieve his stress, leaving only excitement.
But—
Just as he caught a mouthful of pearls in his mouth and was about to bite into them—
"Action!"
Then came the clapping sound of the slate!
The slender, dark green figure before his eyes stepped back half a step, then sprinted forward—
She shot straight out of his line of sight!
Just as he was about to savour the mouthful of pearls, the dark green figure swiftly ran to the starting point and stomped her left foot, clad in Pengmai white sneakers, on the ground.
Her right leg, clad in tight dark green track pants, straightened sharply, revealing its elegant lines as she leapt high into the air.
Her slender figure, light and graceful, was like an arrow released from a bow, leaping precisely to the second marked landing point.
Right on target!
After landing, she propped herself up with her hands, rolled her body to avoid an imaginary 'obstacle' on the floor, and immediately sprinted to the next jump point.
Pa!
With a backflip, her legs landed perfectly on the second marked landing point.
Precise and sharp.
Her movements were clean and seamless.
Then, with a quick sidestep, she sprinted to the final yellow-marked jump point.
As she took a large stride, her legs stretched out in a perfect split in mid-air.
They formed a large arrowhead shape—
Her right leg landed gracefully.
Her small face was tense as she raised her head in earnest.
Then her left leg caught up with her right.
She sprinted quickly to the unseen edge of the set... out of the camera's view...
"! "
"!! "
"!!!"
The entire set went silent, leaving only the loud gulp of Qian Hongyi swallowing a mouthful of pearls from his milk tea in shock.
Everyone froze.
Everyone was silent.
Everyone was still.
Qian Xuezhou stood with her mouth agape, taking a while to recover. "Ah! That's exactly how Sister Bao sprinted towards me when she saved me that day! Just like that! Just like that!"
Qian Hongyi: "..."
Then why the hell were you so worried earlier?
He picked up his milk tea and then set it back down again.
He suddenly didn't dare to drink it any more.
"Director."
Bao Ruanruan walked back after completing the three jumps, lightly smacking her forehead in frustration.
Her snow-white skin instantly showed a faint pink mark.
"Can we do it again? I'm sorry, I made a mistake just now—I didn't do it well enough."
A mistake?
Where?
Didn't do well enough?
Wasn't it him who currently didn't do well?
He never expected her to pull off a backflip!
The director, completely confused, said, "Wait, let me check the monitor first!"
"Oh," Bao Ruanruan replied, biting her lip apologetically.
Her accuracy, in her mind, was far worse than in the game.
In gaming terms, it would be game over for her by now.
"Just now, after my second jump landed, I failed to dodge the clothes rack on the rooftop in time. I should have immediately dropped to below 50cm and rolled on the ground, but I didn't—I missed half a roll…"
Director: "???"
What nonsense are you talking about?
Qian Hongyi's eyes lit up.
He quickly walked over to the monitor, picked up a parkour animation video designed by their advertising team from the table, and skipped to the first second.
He compared the two.
In the video, the animated character started running, jumped to the second building, immediately rolled after avoiding the clothes rack, and then leapt to the third building...
She really did miss half a roll.
But... every other movement, down to the second, matched perfectly!?
Qian Hongyi’s mouth fell open.
Biu!
He squeezed the pearl milk tea cup so hard that the tea splashed out of the straw.
"Then should we... reshoot?" Even the director wasn't sure anymore.
Two hours later, the commercial shoot wrapped up early.
Qian Xuezhou happily grabbed Bao Ruanruan, dragged her to the nearby lunch station, and sat down to eat with her.
Meanwhile, the director was still reviewing the footage on the monitor.
As he watched, he repeatedly clicked his tongue in amazement and clapped his hands in awe.
"President Qian, is this spokesperson really an actress?"
"Are you sure she's not... a retired gymnast?"
Qian Hongyi: "I… I'm sure."
He was sure because not long ago when she was at a sports meet, she had shot her target with such high precision.
At the very least, gymnasts couldn’t pull off something like that.
……
After successfully wrapping up work, Bao Ruanruan received a red envelope from Qian Hongyi.
"You've worked hard. The director said the results were excellent—this is an extra token of appreciation."
Bao Ruanruan blinked. "Thank you."
Qian Xuezhou then handed her a gift box filled with snacks, along with a few beauty salon vouchers.
"Sister Bao, I heard you withdrew from the model competition… 5555📹 ~ I don't even know when I'll see you again."
"If you ever get a job in Nancheng, come find me! You can stay at my place—I'll take care of you~"
Qian Xuezhou was reluctant to say goodbye.
Bao Ruanruan found her adorable and gave her small hand a few squeezes, feeling that her daily happiness quota had been met.
So happy~
A job like this—cute girls around, just running on flat ground with no danger.
She could definitely take on more.
The most secure residential communities were calling her name.
"Thank you, Xuexue, for introducing me to such an important job. When I buy a safe house in the future, I'll invite you to stay over."
"Yes! I want to come!" Qian Xuezhou was excited.
But as she waved goodbye to Bao Ruanruan, reality began to set in.
She nudged her second brother, who was getting ready to head back to Nancheng.
"Brother, what's a safe house?"
Qian Hongyi—a marketing and management double master's graduate—accidentally swallowed a mouthful of tapioca pearl.
This question completely stumped him.
"Uh… probably… maybe… a house on a street called Safety Road?"
Bao Ruanruan had just finished shooting the ad.
By the time Tang Xi rushed to the scene after hearing the news, she arrived just in time to see Bao Ruanruan stepping out of the studio, wearing a dark green sports jacket.
Tang Xi let out a defeated sigh.
She was a step too late again.
She was about to turn and leave when Bao Ruanruan walked towards her, stopping her in her tracks.
Bao Ruanruan had an oval face, small enough to fit in the palm of your hand.
Her apricot-coloured lips were cutely shaped—an elegant M-curve on the upper lip, plump fullness on the lower lip, looking incredibly soft.
Her nose was small and refined with a delicate yet well-defined nose bridge.
And her clear, watery eyes, with slightly downturned corners, tinged with a faint hint of red, gave her a fragile, delicate charm.
Like a fledgling bird perched on a branch—her gaze was pure, yet weak and vulnerable.
Tang Xi felt a little breathless.
She had seen Bao Ruanruan on the screen several times.
She had even caught a glimpse of her from a distance on the set of the latest filming of the Model show.
She knew Bao Ruanruan was a uniquely beautiful woman.
But she hadn't expected that her delicate and refined presence would be completely undeniable up close!
This kind of slenderness and fragility wasn't just about facial features, bone structure, or classic beauty.
It was an innate, unparalleled personal aura!
The moment Bao Ruanruan walked against the wind, it made people want to protect her.
Tang Xi took a deep breath.
She suddenly felt an impulse—
She wanted to shelter this little fledgling, whose wings had yet to fully grow until she was strong enough to soar!
"!"
How could this be!?
Just then, Bao Ruanruan, now only a few steps away, delicately raised a hand to cover her mouth as she let out a small yawn.
She glanced around and noticed a slim girl with a ponytail carrying a camera, staring straight at her.
She looked quite thin, and although she had been watching her the whole time, there was no hostility in her gaze, just—a motherly affection?
Huh?
Bao Ruanruan blinked, thinking she must have imagined it.
But when she looked again, there was still... affection in that girl's gaze?
She didn't understand, but since there were no bad intentions, she didn't dwell on it.
Safe.
There were no anxious-looking strangers or suspicious individuals nearby.
Bao Ruanruan smiled in relief.
—She's looking at me!
—Our eyes met!
Tang Xi froze.
For a moment, she felt as if the soft glow of the moonlight reflecting off the shimmering lake had enveloped her in warmth.
Just as she was about to take a deep breath, Bao Ruanruan's lips curved into a sweet smile.
It was as if a spring breeze had blown away all the gloom.
Tang Xi's blood froze for a moment, and then it rushed straight to her head.
Blush!
Her right hand instinctively reached for the camera shutter.
Meanwhile, Bao Ruanruan casually reached into her pocket and took out a neatly folded medical mask, sealed in a disposable plastic bag.
Then, she pulled out a small portable alcohol wipe, carefully cleaned her hands, and meticulously put the mask on.
Safety +1.
Bao Ruanruan smiled as she walked over to the rubbish bin to throw away the plastic bag.
Tang Xi unconsciously followed her.
"Be careful."
A soft, gentle voice touched Tang Xi's heart.
And at the same time, a unique scent of ginseng tea wafted through the air.
It brought her a sense of peace.
Bao Ruanruan's eyes narrowed slightly as she watched the ponytailed girl, camera in hand, almost walk straight into the rubbish bin.
She instinctively reached out to catch her.
If the girl hit the rubbish bin, she could get hurt.
And if the rubbish bin fell, all the unclassified rubbish inside would spill out onto the ground.
Rotten food, discarded needles, even used batteries that required special recycling... all of this could lead to serious safety issues in the future.
"Eyes forward when you walk, kid."
Bao Ruanruan sighed.
Bending down, she picked up a discarded bottle of mineral water that someone had accidentally dropped and threw it into the rubbish bin to prevent the girl from stepping on it and falling.
After that, she took out a small bottle of hand sanitiser, carefully cleaned her hands and headed towards the nanny van.
Tang Xi: "!"
The warmth of Bao Ruanruan's touch still lingered on her arm.
At the tip of her nose, that soothing scent of ginseng tea remained.
And in her ears… that soft, gentle voice echoed.
—Kid.
—Who was she calling kid?
Ten seconds later, Tang Xi let out a small yelp and clapped her hands over her now bright-red ears.
If, if Bao Ruanruan really were a good person… then Sister Yuxin wouldn't mind having a fan who was a multi-fan, would she?
Switching fandoms to Bao Ruanruan actually seemed… kind of nice?
#BaoRuanruanMightActuallyBeAGoodPerson#
Half an hour later, an anonymous short post appeared on Tang Yuxin's fan forum.
[A friend of mine took this photo. I'm posting it on her behalf.
This is Bao Ruanruan on the street. See for yourself.
Also, my friend wasn't paying attention when she was walking and almost ran into a rubbish bin—Bao Ruanruan caught her.
She even picked up rubbish from the ground and threw it back into the bin.
For reference, my friend said there was no one else around.
So, the chances of Bao Ruanruan doing this just for show are pretty slim.
My friend is starting to think… she might actually be a good person.]
One hour later.
#BaoRuanruanPicksUpTrashAndDoesGoodDeeds#
#BaoRuanruanWearsAMaskLikeAPro#
Both hashtags shot up to the 43rd and 50th trending positions.
The photos circulating on Tang Yuxin's fan forum had been re-posted several times before finally catching the attention of the general public.
In these pictures, Bao Ruanruan's beauty was secondary—what stood out the most were her precise, step-by-step actions, almost like a surgeon demonstrating the proper way to put on a mask.
[Her hands could be a hand model material—so elegant! But… is this sister a doctor?]
[Impressive! This is the first time I've seen a celebrity so meticulous.]
[Hahaha, when I first saw the trending hashtag, I thought she was wearing a mask to avoid being recognised. But after looking at the photos—sorry, she's clearly serious about virus prevention!]
The final photo even captured her carefully disinfecting her fingers with alcohol wipes, making sure every detail - even the creases of her knuckles - was sanitised.
[I think I’m falling for her. As someone with severe OCD, I can't stand those messy, unkempt celebrity candids. I'd rather die than chase them.
But finally, there's a fellow clean freak in the entertainment industry. Sis, I want in!]
[Someone should cast her in a medical drama right away! How come Bao Ruanruan has never played a doctor before? This is insane!]
As the topic gained more traction, the buzz continued to grow.
The biggest surprise came when Battle of Jiangxiang director Zhu Chao suddenly jumped into the discussion.
[ZhuChaoV: She's honestly one of the most fitting actors I've ever seen for the role of the doctor. @BaoRuanruan, I look forward to the final cut.]
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