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Chapter 1
Media insider, I got a great scoop for you to expose. My senior high school was z in x city and I was classmate with a very popular current female celebrity, very easy to guess who. In fact, she was simply not pretty in high school. Okay, she cannot be said not pretty, but much worse than now, probably had done plastic surgery. Anyway, she was not the prettiest girl in the class or in the school at that time, it was another beautiful top student. I will abbreviate the female celebrity’s name to q. She was very vain, behaving like a rich girl all the time. Later, we learned that her dad was merely a tradesman. The whole class was laughing their head off, probably because most of the female students also strongly disliked her.
At that time, there was a godly level student in our key class (from hearsay, q paid her way into our school and her grades were very poor). The godly level student in my class was certainly number one in the whole school, he was the man of the moment, coming in first in all kinds of competitions. Also, very handsome and very good at basketball as well as football. Just like that kind of male lead widely portrayed in the current idol drama, but I felt that no matter how handsome the tv male star chosen was, he will not be as good as him. After all, the educational level of an actor won’t do and he also lost out on temperament. How to compare with the real thing?
Q confessed her feelings to him, but tragically their exchange was seen by someone. Ha ha, the outcome was that she was mercilessly rejected by the godly level student, saying that he also has his standard on IQ. Later, the godly level student and the beautiful top student were both admitted to Tsinghua University (one of the top university in China) and dated each other, a real golden couple. Q is very popular now but I do not know how she did it hee hee….after all, she lacks talent. Thus media insider, do you dare to publish this?
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Qiao Jing Jing dressed in splendid clothes and attended a cake distribution award ceremony (where nearly all the attendees will get an award/a slice of the cake). After the ceremony ended, she got into the artist management company’s car and was slapped in the face by the “bad, dissing piece of press” handed to her by the agent.
“Look here, your senior high school classmate exposed this to the media: “Qiao Jing Jing was humiliated trying to win a boy’s heart” —— Jing Jing why do you have haters even in your high school classmates?
Qiao Jing Jing handed the award to her assistant who followed after her into the car, kicked off her high heels, took the mobile phone and sat on the seat reserve for her. Lowering her head, after glancing three lines, she lost interest and closed the webpage. Instead she searched Weibo for review of her style on the red carpet.
Seeing the response from every major marketing companies was basically positive, more over the fans praising her as a fairy, only then Qiao Jing Jing heaved a sigh of relief and started to feel cheerful.
At least she had not practiced in vain for three months in the gym!
In the first half of this year, she filmed a drama about food and ended up eating too much of the food used as props. She only put on three or four jin (1 jin = 0.5 kg), but a poisonous tongue fashion blogger went so far as to say that she was going to burst the tv screen. Of course, that blogger was ripped apart by her fans. On one hand, Qiao Jing Jing’s spirit went along with her fans to go after that blogger. On the other hand, she had to magnanimously post a Weibo message to express her intention to exercise, exercise, exercise, and lose weight, lose weight, lose weight.
“Post some of my exercise photos after some time. Cannot sweat and exercise in vain, have to show them off la."
“Okay. Have you read the post that gives the dirty inside scoop on you?” Big sister Ling poked her head forward from the back seat, with a gossipy look.
Qiao Jing Jing gave her a disdainful look and went back to glance through that post again. After finished reading, she scrolled down and the comment section was already in the control of her fans.
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Da Qiao I am Zhou Yu ah (Da Qiao Wo Zhou Yu ah): If it is true, then thank you dear for telling everyone that in senior high school, my Qiao was a key class student. By the way, my Qiao’s score was 211, such a bad mark? Impossible (10,260 Likes) (Da Qiao and Zhou Yu are in reference to the historical characters from the Three Kingdoms Period. It’s also a play on Qiao Jing Jing’s surname.)
Qiao Family Courtyard (Qiao Jia Da Yuan): This is a group photo taken by my Qiao as a bridesmaid when she attended her senior high school’s good friend’s wedding. Her good friend posted this on Weibo, so how can you say my Qiao did not have friend in senior high school? Hee, hee you take a look. (Photo.jpg) (9,765 Likes)
Big Qiao Battle Group (Da Qiao Zhan Dui): You hate my idol to death, but in the end there is nothing shady you can expose. My idol is really a good girl. (8,876 Likes)
Tiny Grass (Xiao Cao): I come to watch the action, did you misunderstand what you’ve read from the inside scoop??? (7,689 Likes)
(Feng Yao Yi Wo): I come to watch the action +1. But it turns out my favorite actress gets shot out of nowhere. What? Actresses have eaten all the food in your house or something so that you are just spouting shit? Only you are cultured, have inner quality and went to school before? (5,870 Likes)
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Big sister Ling maintained her forward neck posture and gave Qiao Jing Jing a push, “What she wrote is true or false ah?”
“Some truth and falsehood.”
Everyone in the car pricked up their ears.
“It is false to say that I was not pretty as I’ve always been very pretty. Also, he did not reject me so mercilessly, but very courteous.”
Big sister Ling was shocked: “Did you really make a love confession and got rejected?”
“It is natural for me to do so because that guy is really handsome.” Qiao Jing Jing reminisced about her youth for three seconds, “Is this your alternate account?”
“Yes, is that female top student really look better than you?”
After thinking through, big sister Ling still felt it was unbelievable, not that she wanted to brag about her own artistes but Qiao Jing Jing’s appearance and figure can be considered top notch among the female stars in the entertainment industry. From head to toe, one cannot find any obvious flaw. Can there be two such people in a class?
“Of course not!” Qiao Jing Jing was typing away while replying firmly.
“What are you doing?” Big sister Ling’s heart has an ominous foreboding, took a closer look and just happened to see Qiao Jing Jing posting a comment —— this is jealousy through time and space ah! Hope that you are not mad.
Assistant Xiao Zhu laughed out loud and big sister Ling felt helpless: “Take care of business first, quickly post a Weibo message to thank everyone.”
“I’ve already posted one just a moment ago when we were first on the road, didn’t you see it?”
Big sister Ling was at a loss for words as she cannot say that she has been paying attention to gossipy news, but did not pay attention to updates of her own artistes. She quickly picked up another mobile phone, used the office Weibo to forward the post and muttered in a concern voice: “Why don’t let me see before you post it?”
Qiao Jing Jing cannot be bothered with her, took a screenshot of the inside scoop post on her and forwarded it to her own mobile phone. Then she forwarded it to Pei Pei, her desk-mate in the third year of senior high school —— that one who she served as her bridesmaid.
When Pei Pei saw her appearing online, she sent a few exclamation marks first —— !!! Jing Jing, the most popular actress of the year! I just watched tv, congratulations!
Jing Jing: Take a look at the screenshot I just sent you.
After a while.
Pei Pei: WTF, which ** talked nonsense? You obviously have always been good-looking!
Close friend really knew how to focus on the main point, Qiao Jing Jing was very pleased.
Pei Pei: At most, you were just a little out of fashion and lame-looking.
Jing Jing: ……
Pei Pei: But hairstyle and clothes similar to Qiao Jing Jing are everywhere now!
Qiao Jing Jing cannot be bothered to reply and instead said: Who do you think reveal the inside scoop to the media?
Pei Pei: I don’t know, ah. There were a lot of discussions about you in the senior high school group chat a while ago because your drama was very popular resulting in your increased popularity. Probably, someone is very green with envy?
Qiao Jing Jing also did not expect Pei Pei to be able to guess the culprit, so after casually discussing a few sentences, she put this behind her.
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While she was changing out of her evening gown in preparation to rest, Pei Pei sent another message.
Pei Pei: Oh, by the way, some time in the past, I heard Li Ming said Yu Tu and Xia Qing broke up a few years ago when they were in the fourth year of university, so they were only together for a little more than a year. Do you still remember Li Ming whose family and Yu Tu’s family were living in the same district and know each other? I heard that Yu Tu is also in Shanghai now.
Qiao Jing Jing raised her eyebrows and looked at the long time no see name on the mobile phone.
They actually broke up? During that time, she was in a different university and heard the news about them getting together but ……
Forget it!
Don’t look back at the dark history.
Pei Pei: Hey, do you think Yu Tu will feel regret when he thinks about you?
Jing Jing: Don’t be so naive.
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The artist management company’s car moved steadily on the north-south highway. Qiao Jing Jing who was not naïve, winded down the car window and the breeze drifted in. She happily yy (fantasizing) about Yu Tu looking regretful for a long time.
She recalled her love confession in the second year of senior high school. From the very beginning, that person only said sorry but she was full of confident and insisted on knowing the reason. She remembered him saying, “I’m sorry, I want to find someone who can strive hard together with me.”
Why did he think that she would not be able to struggle and strive hard together with him? Anyway, in the end, the person he found, also did not strive hard together with him until the very end.
Qiao Jing Jing started to feel a little better, but the heart still felt a little regretful and some unfathomable feeling.
… Wasn’t her girly’s heart too long-lasting?
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Wonder what he was doing now.
But …
She looked out of the window, at the streets passing by, full of bustling cityscape. And she has already become part of the most flourishing part of this bustling world.
She lifted her chin slightly and thought, no matter what he was doing now, he must have been left far behind by her.
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“It’s almost ten o’clock, so we’ll stay in Shanghai for the night.” Big sister Ling said, “We’ll leave tomorrow morning and arrive in Hengdian (film studio) in the afternoon. I’ll ask them to move the filming of your part in the drama to the afternoon.”
Qiao Jing Jing regained her concentration, “No, I got ten filming sessions tomorrow, so we’ll go to Hengdian now. I’ll take a nap in the car, just ask the driver to drive a little steadily, I ……”
“Stop!” Big sister Ling hurriedly interrupted her.
Since a certain director praised Qiao Jing Jing to be dedicated to her work and hardworking and she took the opportunity to help her to project a dedicated image, Qiao Jing Jing became an actress with the word dedicated plastered on her body, her favorite line was …..
“As someone who is dedicated to her work, I cannot collapse.” Qiao Jing Jing staunchly finished saying her favorite line.
“Okay, okay, quickly go to sleep la.” Big sister Ling reluctantly lowered the partition and told the driver to go to Hengdian after all.
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Qiao Jing Jing reclined the chair to a fully flat sleeping position and began to sleep. All these years, she has been running all over the place, so she has long mastered the ability to sleep well on any type of transport. However, she did not know why she cannot sleep well today, drowsy, half-asleep and half-awake. She seemed like arriving at a classroom. In the dream, she quickly realized that this was a classroom in her senior high school. In a flash, she was taking an exam and looking at the exam question, asking how many calories in a bunch of strawberries.
This question was too difficult, probably all the students also will not know the answer. Qiao Jing Jing who cannot answer the question, experienced fear of failure. At this moment, suddenly the classroom started to shake with a voice shouting:
“Jing Jing, Jing Jing, do you play King of Glory?”