Chapter 21
Perhaps because Ji Shuyi stayed overnight, Liang Yue had exceptional difficulty falling asleep. He tossed and turned, unable to sleep, yawning repeatedly, but his mind was clearer than the water in the fish tank downstairs that had just been changed.
Before entering the bedroom, Liang Yue patiently "brainwashed" Ji Shuyi, saying that no one who had ever been in contact with him disliked him, except for Jiang Ying.
Liang Yue worries that the pain from one's family of origin can leave psychological scars that are difficult to heal.
Ji Shuyi said he knew.
Now, Ji Shuyi has figured things out clearly. But Liang Yue doesn't know what she's thinking or hoping for at this moment.
Could it be...?
Does she really have feelings for Ji Shuyi?!
'smack'
Liang Yue turned on the bedside lamp.
She took out her phone, searched for 'characteristics of liking someone' on social media, and then compared them one by one.
The final conclusion was reached.
broken.
How could she possibly like Ji Shuyi?!
wrong!
How could she fall for Ji Shuyi first!
As she herself said, it was perfectly normal for someone at the age when she was just beginning to experience romantic feelings to like Ji Shuyi, who was good at academics, good-looking, and had a reserved personality.
The problem is that she fell in love with the other one first, which is terrible.
It was exceptionally bad.
I feel like someone has something on me that I can't hide.
"bite--"
Two messages popped up on the phone screen.
Ji Shuyi: [Can't sleep? Want some milk?]
Ji Shuyi: [Is your shoulder hurting?]
Oh, I forgot. Ji Shuyi was sleeping in the guest room, which faced Liang Yue's bedroom.
Liang Yue held his phone and scratched his head.
With a 'snap', the light was turned off.
"I'm going to sleep, and it's all your fault." Liang Yue deleted the second half of the message just before sending it.
A tree named Liang: [I'm going to sleep.]
Ji Shuyi: [Okay, good night.]
Looking at the last two words, Liang Yue really wanted to kneel down and beg Ji Shuyi if his personality could be any more indifferent, and if he could also compare himself to the characteristics of someone who likes him, and restrain his unwarranted "concern". Did he even understand the simple truth that "what is said without intention may be taken to heart"?
In short, Liang Yue appeared at the dinner table the next day with two panda eyes.
Then, in the evening, I received a basketful of sleep-aiding items sent by Ji Shuyi.
Liang Yue was furious. He was serious, wasn't he?
If it weren't for his 'kindness' of handing out flyers everywhere he went, I would have fallen asleep long ago.
hateful!
But this wasn't the most devastating thing for Liang Yue.
After nearly a week of insomnia and overthinking, she made up her mind to explain her unclear feelings to Ji Shuyi.
So, Liang Yue wrote a long note, solemnly expressing his feelings: 'If you, like me, feel confused, hopeful, and helpless about this, please meet with me at the corner teahouse at 2 PM on weekends.'
She slipped the paper into one of Ji Shuyi's most frequently read extracurricular books.
Just as Liang Yue was filled with trepidation and anticipation as he waited for the weekend to arrive.
But she did not wait for Ji Shuyi at the agreed time and place.
The next day, she was dejected to hear that Ji Shuyi had transferred schools.
It moved away without any warning.
She wanted to question Ji Shuyi immediately.
However, they discovered that their WeChat account had been maliciously reported and permanently banned.
Let's rewind to Saturday evening.
Liang Yue received a request for help from her junior high school classmate. She said that her best friend had been in a car accident in another city and had no other relatives or friends around her. The person who was in the car accident said that she did not want her parents to worry and planned to keep it a secret.
Liang Yue: [So how can I help you?]
Middle school classmate: [There's a problem with my bank card, so I can't make payments directly. Could I transfer the money to you via WeChat first, and you can pay for me after you receive the money?]
A payment QR code is attached.
This classmate and Liang Yue were very close in junior high school, even going to the bathroom together. They drifted apart because they didn't attend the same high school.
Moreover, her tone was too urgent and worried, causing Liang Yue to subconsciously neglect his vigilance under her urging.
Furthermore, her request was too simple, just a matter of moving her fingers, and she didn't even need Liang Yue to help pay for it.
This makes it easy for people to fall into a trap.
Liang Yue helped her.
Although the recipient of the QR code was not XX Hospital, but a bathhouse.
Liang Yue, still bewitched, helped her with this favor.
The result was a permanent ban on WeChat.
She later learned that this was an illegal money laundering method. The junior high school classmate she was chatting with had had her account hacked.
I wanted to cry but couldn't.
However, misfortunes never come singly.
Grandma's phone was stolen while she was shopping at the market.
...
At this point, Liang Yue and Ji Shuyi lost contact.
I heard that Ji Shuyi's half-brother was shot and killed while studying at university abroad.
His brother's mother was devastated and wanted to follow her son in death; she developed mental health issues.
Life is unpredictable.
Ji Shuyi's biological father, Ji Mingyu, was forced to acknowledge Ji Shuyi as his son. In short, Ji Shuyi suddenly became the only son of the city's richest man and no longer had to live a life of financial hardship.
When Liang Yue was close to taking the college entrance examination, his parents took him to live with them, and his grandparents were also taken there to reunite with him.
Five years have passed in the blink of an eye.
When Liang Yue occasionally wakes up in the middle of the night, she comforts herself that everything is preordained, and that her fate with Ji Shuyi had been severed five years ago.
Of course, she was definitely angry with Ji Shuyi.
From her perspective, Ji Shuyi must have read that ridiculous 'love letter,' and his silence was a veiled rejection.
Liang Yue was angry at Ji Shuyi, and also angry at himself for being presumptuous.
This anger reached its peak when Ji Shuyi disappeared without a word.
Moreover, for a long time afterward, this abruptly ended relationship did cause Liang Yue considerable disruption.
Her insomnia is getting worse.
However, Liang Yue threw away all the sleep aids Ji Shuyi had given her and carefully selected and bought a whole bunch of new sleep products based on recommendations on social media.
However, the items she bought largely overlapped with the items she threw away.
Before moving out of her original residence, Liang Yue realized that Ji Shuyi had a multifaceted influence on her.
She admitted that Ji Shuyi was unforgettable.
But so what? Life is only a few decades long, and who can truly never forget whom?
-
Senior year, second semester.
Liang Yue's major in college was the highly sought-after media studies. Although she was from a non-elite university, she managed to find a job that she could make ends meet by leveraging her four years of internship experience.
We provide a one-stop service for online influencers, including scriptwriting, filming, and editing.
The company is a newly established company with only about twenty employees, and the most popular online influencers it has cultivated have only a million or so followers.
Liang Yue was in charge of one of them; her name was Yu Xuan, and her online ID was "Little Fish Not Sad."
Yu Xuan is a beauty blogger, dance blogger, food blogger, and comedy blogger.
A jack of all trades, master of none.
The intention is to achieve widespread success, but in reality, it's about using different numbers to promote products and services.
Liang Yue's job was to help her come up with scripts, plan, shoot, edit, and release the film, and finally act as a friendly force by flooding her with comments like "Little Yu baby, so beautiful," truly embodying the service principle of "from cradle to grave."
As a popular influencer with millions of followers and a top anchor in the company, Yu Xuan embodies the ultimate in being bossy and domineering. Relying on her minor fame, she considers herself a "public figure," requiring Liang Yue not only to brainstorm ideas and create buzz for her, but also to occasionally act as her personal assistant, buying her coffee and holding an umbrella for her.
After all, the company only has a small number of people, so it's perfectly normal for one person to do the work of several.
As a recent college graduate with a less-than-remarkable undergraduate institution, Liang Yue is unlikely to find a better job anytime soon.
Although this job is a bit tough, the salary is quite good.
If you have a blockbuster product, you can earn 40,000 to 50,000 yuan a month.
Of course, this is only a small part of Yu Xuan's income. She has a fixed monthly income of two to three hundred thousand yuan, and the shop window is part of that.
Advertisements make up the majority of the cost: 12,000 for a 12-second ad, 24,000 for a 30-second ad, and 60,000 for a minute.
She operates several accounts simultaneously and markets on several different social media platforms, averaging one or two ads per day, easily earning tens of thousands of yuan a day.
In addition, Yu Xuan does live streaming, and after the platform takes a cut of the tips received in one night, she can earn as much as 100,000 to 200,000 yuan, or at least 40,000 to 50,000 yuan.
Yu Wei was envious, so she suggested to Liang Yue that they should do the same thing.
Earn enough money for a lifetime in four or five years, then go all out and have fun.
I have social anxiety.
"Bullshit," Yu Wei rolled her eyes at her, "You're socially awkward? Last weekend night, who was it that got drunk and dragged a young male college student along, insisting on looking at his abs?"
"..." Liang Yue blushed, but stubbornly retorted, "Who? Who is so rude?"
"..."
Having been suppressed for too long in high school, Liang Yue, Yu Wei, and Shen Zhuo have been living very casually these past few years. They often hang out in various bars, claiming it's to relax their minds and bodies. They either go for massages or simply sleep in the shop and go to work early the next day feeling refreshed.
"Shall we go out for some fun tonight?"
Yu Wei failed her college entrance exam and didn't get into her desired school. She repeated a year and became an arts and sports student, studying fine arts. Now she is studying fashion design and has met many handsome, upright, broad-shouldered, narrow-waisted models who are over 1.8 meters tall.
Shen Zhuo didn't go to university, nor did he choose to retake the exam. He admitted that he wasn't cut out for studying, so he just randomly chose a decent major in college. After graduation, he and a few good friends opened a high-end bar.
The word spread throughout their small town that Shen Zhuo was an uneducated good-for-nothing, but fortunately, his family was wealthy and he could squander his money.
“No,” Liang Yue was about to agree, but then she remembered that Yu Xuan had a party tonight and she would be going with her. “No, I have to work overtime tonight. How about this weekend? I’ll come over directly after get off work on Friday.”
“Okay,” Yu Wei understood that as a working adult, she really had to prioritize work. “Hey, ever since you started your senior year, you’ve been different from us.”
“I’ll wait until next year and do the same,” Liang Yue retorted, then hurriedly picked up his bag, planted a kiss on Yu Wei’s ear, and said, “I’m leaving.”
-
Yu Xuan, an internet celebrity, was invited to attend a new product launch event.
She was just one of dozens of invited bloggers and was not highly regarded by the organizers. However, participating in such events would enhance her commercial value and popularity. Therefore, Yu Xuan attached great importance to this event and hoped to attract some business tycoons to invest in her personally.
Liang Yue scoffed at her desire to take shortcuts and avoid any hardship.
"Xiao Liang."
"Eh."
Yu Xuan pointed to a man in the room who looked to be around forty years old and asked, "What do you think of him?"
"Excellent!"
Unfortunately, Liang Yue occasionally scoffed at his own behavior, but work is work.
Liang Yue's job today is to take some promotional photos for Yu Xuan, edit them, and post them on Weibo and Xiaohongshu. He also needs to shoot some transformation videos and post them on Douyin, and shoot a vlog edit and post it on a certain website.
Hmm... how can it not be a lot?
Anyway, Liang Yue's canvas bag is filled with a fully charged camera, instant camera, DJI D and other equipment, showing his determination to take great photos at any time.
The photos and transformation videos will be released tonight with related topics to attract a wave of fans.
The vlog needs to be posted by tomorrow night at the latest.
“You don’t need to come to work tomorrow,” Yu Xuan said, her shiny nails framing her already meticulously styled hair. “Finish editing the video at home and send it to me for review, then upload it to the platform. Remember to upload it at noon or 9 pm.”
That was when the data traffic was at its best.
"knew."
"Alright, let's go."
Yu Xuan doesn't have enough fans, so she can only sit in the back and doesn't even have the chance to go on stage. Those who get to go on stage and show their talent are real celebrities or internet celebrities with millions of followers.
She is not qualified yet.
However, a dozen or so fans who had heard the news sent letters and gifts to Yu Xuan before she entered the venue.
She accepted it all.
“Sister Xuan,” Liang Yue said, looking at the envelope she had casually tossed into her arms, “you can keep these things at home and let them show unintentionally when taking candid photos to help maintain your popularity.”
“That makes sense,” Yu Xuan thought for a moment, then took the envelope back and put it in her bag. “Do you need anything from this gift?”
Liang Yue gave her advice, and when she was in a good mood, she would give her some gifts, although most of these gifts were from her fans.
Liang Yue doesn't accept these things. She's seen too many unlucky people being pushed out by celebrities and internet influencers to take the blame, and she doesn't dare to get involved in any trouble.
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