Reborn With a Money-Making System: Ruined Actress to Nation's Treasure-Chapter 109: He Only Wanted to See Me

My phone almost slipped out of my hand when that sudden video call popped up. I caught it just in time and quickly answered.

"Hi! What’s wrong?"

I asked him the moment I picked up. For a few seconds, the only thing I saw was a black screen and Lando didn’t say anything either, so I thought maybe he accidentally pressed the video call button.

"Okay, I’m going to hang up—"

I stopped mid-sentence when he suddenly turned on his camera, but he pointed it upward, so all I could see was his forehead and hair.

"I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to video call you," he said.

Even though he didn’t show his face, I still noticed something interesting. The ceiling in his room looked really fancy, and behind him there was a shelf full of expensive-looking art pieces.

I wanted to facepalm so badly because he was truly terrible at hiding his real identity, or maybe... he actually wanted me to find out little by little?

"It’s okay! I can end the call now!"

"No, wait," he quickly said, making me stop my finger from hitting the end button. "I want to talk about something."

I raised one eyebrow since I didn’t know what he wanted to talk about. "We can switch to a normal call then."

He cleared his throat, then said, "Talking while seeing someone’s face feels better."

"Then where’s your face? I can’t see anything," I said, half-joking, half-serious, "Right now all I see is your forehead."

I noticed the camera wobble a little, like he was unsure about showing his face. Why was he acting like that? He looked handsome all the time, so he really had no reason to be shy.

But once his face finally appeared on the screen, I blinked because now he had brought the camera too close to his face. Mentally, we were only three years apart, but somehow he managed to act like a true middle-aged uncle trying to figure out technology.

"What do you want to talk about?" I asked. "You haven’t even answered my question. Which photo looks prettiest?"

"It’s hard to choose," Lando said. His blue eyes shifted to the side, like he was trying to avoid my gaze. "You look good in all of them."

There he was again... using every word except beautiful. But since Penny didn’t suddenly drop another ridiculous quest forcing him to compliment me, I decided to let it go.

"But I only need one for my cover video," I sighed.

I showed him a few options, and suddenly I started ranting about everything I had just done, and sometimes complained because I still had to edit the videos and take a few more short clips.

Basically, I rambled non-stop.

It was kind of ridiculous though. His job was probably ten times more exhausting than mine, but he never made me feel small. He just listened patiently, like my dramatic complaints were the most important thing in the world.

We talked for almost fifteen minutes before I heard someone calling him, probably his secretary. He looked apologetic as he said, "Helcia, I’m sorry, but I need to attend a meeting now." Then he added, "And I like the third photo."

"Oh... okay," I replied. "See you later!"

He then hung up, and that was when I realized he never said anything about the ’something’ he claimed he wanted to discuss.

I thought he wanted to talk about the price I sent him for the makeup artist and stylist, but... he didn’t say anything at all. Was it because I talked too much?

But I remembered that I did ask him midway about what he wanted to say, but he always replied, "It’s not that important. Go on."

Now I realized that he probably just wanted to see me and used a fake excuse! He... he even took advantage of my blabbering mouth so he could look at me longer without having to come up with a reason!

Damn it! He was adorable!

He could’ve just said it if he only wanted to see me through a video call. I would’ve happily let him stare at me longer, as long as he wasn’t busy.

Aside from that, for some reason, I felt more energized after ranting my problems to him. I stretched my arms upward and set my phone on the tripod again.

"Alright! Let’s do this!" I cheered, full of energy. Lingo jumped in surprise, woke up for a second, then flopped right back to sleep like nothing happened.

I already had a list of trending songs I wanted to try, so I didn’t have to waste time thinking of ideas. Even though I was only recording short clips, I still spent two hours filming.

It was my fault because I kept re-doing the takes over and over because nothing ever felt good enough. But no matter how tired I got, once I checked the results, I couldn’t help but feel so satisfied.

The only thing left to do now was edit the videos, but first, I needed to eat again and feed Lingo and the other cats too.

After such a long day of filming, I finally lay down inside the cat room, letting all my cats circle around me and purr. I let out a relieved sigh because they always healed my soul and body.

Sadly, all that peace disappeared fast because I still had to edit until midnight. But at least when I woke up the next morning, the two videos I uploaded were doing great, and had lots of views already.

Rosélle Beauty had also sent me the down payment, even though it was already cut by 5% for Marissa.

[You just received $28,500 into your account.]

[Remaining Balance: $300,976]

At least my balance was back in the three-hundred-thousand range again. Still far from one million, but hey, progress is progress.

However, I felt like I could reach one million soon. All I needed was patience.

[Host, reminder: your makeup artist and hair stylist will arrive at noon.]