Old Chen, busy chopping ribs, replied without even looking up, "Sister, you like Miss Liu, but I'm more interested in Miss Zhu. She's got a sweet smile, is polite, and graceful. She's approachable, like a daughter of one of us ordinary people. Miss Liu is beautiful, but she's too high and mighty, like a fairy in the sky. We ordinary people can't even reach her..."
The old man selling fruit on the other side came over and said, "If you ask me, TVB loves to surprise people with unexpected hits. How can it be so easy for you to guess? How can we know who the boss behind the scenes wants to promote?"
On the other side, in front of an old tenement building in Sham Shui Po.
The unusual bustle disrupted the neighborhood's usual rhythm. The narrow stairwell was packed with familiar faces from the neighborhood. "Mrs. Lu! Congratulations! Ah Rong has really fought so hard for this building! Everyone in the building is waiting to watch Ah Rong's performance on TV tonight!"
"Yes! I watched Rong grow up. She was very outstanding when she was young! Now she is even more capable. She will definitely get a good ranking!"
"Mr. and Mrs. Lu are so lucky to have such a promising daughter! Don't forget to take care of your neighbors when you become successful, haha!"
These neighbors, who might have quarreled over sharing water and electricity bills or competing for sunbathing spots, now had smiles on their faces, some sincere and some flattering.
Most of the common people are like this. If a star or a famous person appears in someone's family, they will come over to share in the congratulations, regardless of whether there is any benefit to be gained or not.
Lu Ruirong's parents were surrounded, their faces flushed. They kept bowing and saying, "Thank you so much! Thank you all for your advice! Arong has relied on her own efforts... Thank you all for your concern!"
"That's just polite! Actually, you've raised your daughter well! Ah Rong herself is sensible and thoughtful!"
The crowd echoed in unison. Those who didn't know would have thought that these neighbors had always been in harmony with the Lu family!
Lu Ruirong stood at the back of the crowd, maintaining an impeccable standard smile that was engraved in the TVB training camp.
This sudden "glory" and the neighbors' sudden change in enthusiasm, which was almost flattering, made her feel a huge mixture of ice and fire in her heart.
In fact, everyone is very likely to encounter a situation like Lu Ruirong due to sudden success in their life.
As she watched her parents' hunched backs straighten a little in response to the compliments, her mother's rough hands twisted the corners of her clothes awkwardly.
And the familiar yet dilapidated corridor in front of me is filled with the strong smell of urban life.
The exquisite and luxurious study at Repulse Bay No. 3, and Kobayashi Tianwang's calm and composed manner in turning the tide of love.
Even Liu Rumeng's naturally elegant and cold temperament created a huge and unrealistic gap in Lu Ruirong's mind.
"Poor...just because I'm poor."
A cold voice came from the bottom of her heart.
She thought this way, not because she blamed her parents, nor because she despised her neighbors, but because she had a thorough understanding of the rules of this money-oriented society.
This may be one of the advantages of being born in a poor family!
At many moments, we can feel the special role and significance of money in this society.
This experience is very profound!
This is also something that all rich people cannot feel.
In Lu Ruirong's view, the dignity and composure of those rich people are because they don't have to struggle in the quagmire of this oily livelihood at all?
Now look at your own family, which is now “prospering”.
If she hadn't made it to the Miss Hong Kong finals, if it hadn't been for the one million Hong Kong dollar check that Xiao Linsheng casually handed over, how could the Lu family have such a prestigious status today?
How could these faces that we see each other day and night suddenly become filled with only awe and flattery?
A strong sense of relief instantly overwhelmed the sadness of her previous enlightenment. Fortunately, she grabbed the golden rope hanging from the clouds.
Yes! For Lv Ruirong, wasn't Xiaolin Tianwang's favor and favor to her just like a golden rope dropped from the sky?
For Lu Ruirong at this moment, only by clinging to this rope tightly can she step into the golden upper class, which is also the only golden road in her life.
A taxi honked downstairs.
Lu Ruirong took a deep breath, his smile faded, and he adopted a professional demeanor more similar to the one he used to greet the staff at the training camp. "Dad, Mom, everyone, TVB's been urging me to go, so I'm going to prepare for the finals first. Remember to watch TV tonight."
Finally, amid the eager gazes of the crowd and the chaotic blessings, she opened the car door and got in.
The car drove away and merged into the crowded road.
Lü Ruirong's eyes swept out the window: the old lady setting up a stall to supplement her family income, the migrant worker hurrying along with a briefcase under his arm, the coolie sweating profusely at the dock, the gangster gazing sideways at the street corner with a cigarette in his mouth...
The scenes of people struggling for survival in Sham Shui Po and even Hong Kong Island passed silently before her eyes.
All of this was once her entire world.
From childhood to adulthood, she always felt that when she grew up, at most she would be like her mother, working hard as a handyman in a small shop, bowing and scraping to rich people in exchange for a job that could barely make a living.
But now…
The immense relief and the determination to break away from the entire unbearable past intertwined together and instantly overwhelmed her.
Lu Ruirong leaned heavily on the back of the taxi chair, smiled and closed his eyes.
Xiao Linsheng's figure, Liu Rumeng's beauty, and the glamorous and respected upper-class life that was within reach...
She was glad that she had opened the only door to the world in the clouds.
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