The next day, the only mobile phone store in the village had quietly changed hands. All of the store’s mobile phones had been replaced with the Dragon Eye mobile phones. Although the store employee was still the same as before, there was an addition of a saleswoman.
Sophia wore a rustic floral dress for work. She had come over very early in the morning and even ate breakfast in the store. Her face was bare without any makeup, and there were even dark circles under her eyes. While eating, her eyes swiveled around as she took in her surroundings.
The village was not that huge, so the film crew wouldn’t be far away. Sophia heard that they would be filming on this street later.
Dimon came in holding a rustic signboard. He had someone change the store’s signboard to the new signboard with Dragon Eye’s logo on it. With this, the store instantly became a distributor of Dragon Eye mobile phones.
By nine, there were more and more people on the street. Sophia heard everyone discussing the five kids on ‘Where Are We Going, Dad?’
The five fathers in this season were all popular superstars. There were Harry Winston and Taylor Murray, and as for the remaining three fathers, they were either rising stars or retired celebrities. So, there were all types of dads and all kinds of cute kids for the viewers to enjoy watching.
The villagers were not hardcore fans as they didn’t know much about those celebrities. Even if the fathers were standing in front of them, they could barely recognize them, so they didn’t even know who was present.
However, even if they did not recognize the man himself, they could still recognize a face. Among those five fathers, there was a very familiar face that stood out to them.
“Huh? Didn’t Miles die a few years ago?”
“He’s not dead! He’s just retired.”
“Miles’ daughter is extremely smart. She’s living with the uncle of my sister-in-law! Most kids like her are very arrogant, but she’s one sweet girl!”
“This is Miles’ break! If he’s on such a big show, he’s going to rise to the top, right? I heard that everyone who is appearing on this show will make it big!”
“Hey, Miles is already a big star! He’s the winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor! Also, he’s been on the New Year Dinner Gala, and he’s been in a lot of movies! For example, he acted in the movie ‘War Dragon’ in which he fought in the war and stole the Imperial Jade Seal! All of you should stop talking nonsense; you don’t know what you’re talking about! He is very much popular!”
“What award?”
“Excuse me, are you sure it’s about the Imperial Jade Seal? The ‘War Dragon’ movie was about fighting human traffickers in Africa! ‘The National Treasury Action’ is the one that was about stealing the Imperial Jade Seal!”
Although the villagers did not know much about the celebrities, the village had a small cineplex where people usually went to watch dramas and movies. They just couldn’t remember the actors’ names and only knew some of the main characters in TV dramas, such as Miles.
Soon, they started moving the topic from the actor ‘Miles’ to the character Miles.
“Say, May was so beautiful, yet why didn’t Miles want to live with her in the countryside? It’s a pity that the contractor took advantage of the situation and got her instead.”
“What do you know? The contractor was wealthy! If I were May, I would choose the contractor too.”
“Miles was just sour grapes! He looked down on us villagers! Yuck, he was an ungrateful one.”
In ‘I Am The Village Chief’, Miles was Michael’s cameo as the heroine’s ex-boyfriend. He only appeared in a few episodes in the first and second part of the series, but his superb acting had literally brought the series to never-before-seen fame, especially in the rural parts of the country where its popularity was extremely high.
Now that there was a third part to the series, the filmmakers strongly requested Michael to go back and make a guest appearance.
After the filming of ‘Where Are We Going, Dad?’, he still needed to take Carmen to the ‘I Am The Village Chief 3’ set.
As ‘I Am The Village Chief 2’ was currently being aired, the ratings had shot up, and the rerun rate was strikingly high. Previously, the crew was just a grass-roots team where the actors were either from the local drama troupe or students who had just graduated from art colleges. After the film’s popularity soared, the director became full of himself and even dared to invite popular big-name stars to make a cameo. What was even more important was that a large number of celebrities couldn’t join even if they wanted to.
Listening to everyone discussing the plot of ‘I Am The Village Chief 2’, Sophia couldn’t help but interject, “How could you say he’s sour grapes? Miles’ family did not agree to him moving to the countryside, and May did not want to move to the city, so it is not their fault! Besides, when May asked him to come back to help, he came back too! So how could you criticize him?”
A pair of villagers sat on benches with Sophia in front of the mobile phone store and started to discuss the plot of the film while snacking at the same time.
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