Ch.136 Persevere, and Persevere More (4)

After all, a big star was here. She couldn’t afford to let idlers in. She had to take this opportunity to take a few pictures with Lin Yueqi and hang them up in the shop to advertise!

The owner returned to the counter and asked the quiet Jiang Mucheng, “What would you like, miss?”

After pausing for a few seconds, Jiang Mucheng said quietly, “Same as her.”

“Alright, please take a seat. It’ll be ready soon!”

Lin Yueqi pulled Jiang Mucheng to sit down by the window and rubbed her hands. “Wow, it’s warm in here.”

As soon as their food was served up, Lin Yueqi couldn’t wait to stuff her mouth. As if she was tasting something divine, she looked satisfied. “This is so good! It tastes exactly the same as the pork tenderloin back in my school’s snack shop!”

Jiang Mucheng was shocked. She never thought that a big star like Lin Yueqi would actually act like a high school student without any idol baggage.

As Lin Yueqi sucked on her milk tea, she asked despite already knowing the answer, “So, your name is Jiang Mucheng, right? I was watching the news between you and Zhao Yuan back then on Weibo when he infringed upon your content. Even though everyone called you a scammer and an idiot, I believed you. If I were an ordinary person, I would’ve reblogged it to help you. But you know how it is, as celebrities, our Weibos are controlled by a team. We couldn’t do as we pleased.”

Jiang Mucheng felt complicated. “You…know about me?”

Lin Yueqi nodded. “I do. But now I see you got over that and even got into Jiachen. I’m quite happy for you. The world is far, it won’t fail talented people.”

Jiang Mucheng felt like she was being stabbed in the heart with a knife.

She didn’t enter Jiachen because of her talent, she stole from other people with her system. That’s how she got in.

Lin Yueqi continued to say, “Don’t let what they write on the internet bother you. The internet may have brought people closer together, but that doesn’t mean those keyboard warriors have the right to start a crusade on you. For a person to become a hideous trash talker only means that they’re lacking in education. They’re vitriolic on the net and they’ll tell people to die with their keyboards. Their malice is bound to affect their lives. These people don’t live as well a life as they’d like so they harbor negative energy that they toss onto the internet in an attempt to make others like them. If you’re unhappy about it, or if you feel like you’re getting caught up in negativity, you’re just doing what they want.”

Each and every one of her words pierced through her without a pause, opening a bloody hole in Jiang Mucheng’s heart.

Those online keyboard warriors have gotten their way. The old her was dead.

The her right now had become what she once hated.

Jiang Mucheng clenched her fists and her eyes became bloodshot. In a quiet voice, she said, “What do you know…You don’t understand the pain of inferior people like us. You make it sound easy, but when you’re really in the same spot as us, do you think you can still say that? I don’t have parents. My rural grandmother put me into college and I wanted to give her a good future…But some people just want to take that away from me. You’re a big star, and you have a rich boyfriend, even a smart daughter. You have no want for money, you lack nothing. You wouldn’t understand…”

“Wow, that makes me sad, you know? Didn’t you see the news when they tried to dig up my past?” Lin Yueqi continued sucking on her milk tea. While chewing on the pearls, she said, “I’m an orphan. My aunt raised me. Since we were poor, I always felt very inferior in school. The other girls had pretty shoes, but I was wearing cloth shoes that my aunt patched up over and over again. In middle school, I had a change of heart. My classmates would go to the snack shop as soon as class was over, but I don’t have money. I always smelled those spicy snack sticks in class and I would think, it would be nice if I had money…When I graduated from junior high, I didn’t want to go to school anymore. I wanted to work in a factory so I could make the money, buy the snacks I wanted. My aunt beat me good so that I would never lose my way.”