Chapter 127 Loser
If you had told Wang Mianmian seven years ago, when she had just graduated from high school, that she would be working in a small live broadcast room, she would never have believed it.
At that time, she was studying at the best university in the world. Although her parents and family’s power in China could not be used abroad due to the different countries, it is a globalized era after all. So although she was not very intelligent, she still went to the top university in the world and studied for a very poor degree in museum management.
This major was chosen for her by her mother. At that time, Wang Mianmian was still very unconvinced, because everyone knows why there is such a major in the world's top universities where one only needs to take one class a week and write the graduation thesis in two days to pass the exam if the required words are met.
Since its inception, the background of this major has been the shady exchange of power and degree interests. The faculty and staff are small-time people who cling to degrees, and the students are second-generation rich people who have nothing to offer except their family background.
This fact is clear to all discerning people.
In the adult world, if you show a diploma from a top 1 university, everyone will show awe and admiration. But if you take a closer look at the major, awe will turn into understanding, and admiration will turn into superficial compliments mixed with contempt.
Of course Wang Mianmian wouldn't like that.
What she really likes is mathematics.
In fact, her math level is very good. She won the third prize in the Mathematical Olympiad in high school. Her parents and elders all praised her for her math skills.
Her father is also a professor of mathematics, and he would tell her some math stories since she was a child.
So what she really wanted to study was mathematics.
She fought with her mother for a long time about this, but her mother just laughed it off and said that if she really liked math, she could attend classes as an auditor when she went to university.
Wang Mianmian thought what she said made sense, so in the first month of settling down in a foreign country after entering university, she went to the Department of Mathematics to audit courses.
Then she knew why her mother insisted on letting her study the water major.
She couldn't understand or keep up with the mathematics courses.
There is a joke on the Internet that says that anyone in this world can deceive you, but not math. If you can’t deceive math, you just can’t.
This joke was created for the purpose of being funny, but it will break the defenses of anyone who likes mathematics. When Wang Mianmian saw this joke for the first time, she curled up in her quilt, covered her head and cried for more than an hour.
She once really thought she was a genius, but in the mathematics department with less than a hundred students, she only understood the first class of the school year.
That class was the time when the professor introduced himself to everyone and asked all students to introduce themselves to each other.
The formal lectures only started in the second class.
It’s not that she didn’t try hard to keep up with the course. When other international students were partying and hanging out in bars, she hired a professor to give her private lessons at a high salary. The lessons lasted for three months. The professor felt sorry for her and comforted her, saying, “Ms. Alice, you don’t have to be so persistent. Sometimes the path God has arranged for you is not here.”
Alice is her English name.
She was angry, desperate and sad. She felt that she was completely denied. She was like a monkey in primitive society who was thrown into the community of modern Homo sapiens before she had completed her evolution and was laughed at by the crowd.
"Look, there's a monkey here, and it actually wants to be a human."
"Does she think she can become a human by wearing human clothes? A monkey is just a monkey. She will never become a human."
Wang Mianmian said to the professor, "You believe in God, but I don't. But if there really is a God in this world, he is too unfair."
Why is it that when faced with the same math problem, some people see an insurmountable mountain, while others see a mess that can be easily solved?
This world is really unfair.
Wang Mianmian complained with all her heart, but the professor sighed and said, "Alice, the total wealth that everyone in the mathematics department can earn in their lifetime is not as much as the trust fund you had when you were born. Isn't this also very unfair?"
Is it a person’s family bloodline that is more unfair, or the IQ endowment at birth?
Wang Mianmian couldn't answer this question.
She only knew that these two things had nothing to do with one's own efforts. Whether it was family background or intelligence, they were determined at the moment a person was born. To some extent, this was the unchangeable thing called fate that troubled countless people in this world.
God's arrangement.
Or maybe it's destiny.
After just one short semester, Wang Mianmian accepted her fate. She never sat in on math classes again, nor did she continue to ask the professor for extra lessons. Instead, she wandered around the bustling international metropolis, doing whatever she wanted, the things that a good-for-nothing second-generation rich kid would do according to the stereotype.
She was too lazy to attend classes for her own museum management major and only spared two hours a week to muddle through it, but it did not affect her in eventually getting a degree certificate from a top 1 university.
After fooling around for about two or three years, she graduated and returned home. Everyone praised her as an elite among people. People in the entire circle praised her. Even her parents and elders were very satisfied with her - she was indeed the one with the highest academic qualifications in the entire circle. Even with such a low-level major, there were still people who could not graduate.
She smiled at everyone and showed just the right amount of arrogance to convince them that she really was a genius.
Then I would go home and lie depressed on the sofa without saying a word, playing games, reading novels and watching TV series every day.
Not everyone can understand that feeling. Knowing clearly that you are an intellectually retarded idiot, you still have to admit frankly that you are worthy when people around you flatter you for various benefits.
But Wang Mianmian was not so stupid that she couldn't see why they were complimenting her.
For this reason alone, she felt that she was still smart.
But it's really just a little.
She lay in bed at home for several months. Everyone at home, from her parents to her grandparents, couldn't stand it anymore and tried their best to find her something to do, and even started arranging blind dates for her.
Wang Mianmian did not have the slightest desire to reproduce for the time being, and she really did not want to deal with those second-generation rich people in the circle who were not even as good as herself. She had no choice but to announce to everyone that she was going to start a business.
For her, starting a business is actually very simple.
In her family, if you pick someone over 30, their personal life may be a mess, but none of them is unsuccessful in their career.
Among the entire family of the previous generation, the core of the family with the highest status and the most power is her biological mother. She is her only daughter. Her parents are in politics and mathematics respectively, and their relationship is very harmonious.
Even if she opened a private restaurant and charged 200,000 yuan for a table of people to dine, she would still be crowded with customers and have a booming business, making a lot of money every day.
But to be honest, that kind of entrepreneurial model would only crush her self-esteem once again.
She felt that even if she was really a monkey, she should not have fallen to that level.
So she took the money and went to the film industry.
I thought the entertainment industry was full of leaky people, and it should be easier to get into than the mathematics department which gathered all the geniuses on the earth.
Well… turns out this was another mistake.
The entertainment industry may be full of leaky fish, but this industry is a meat grinder that is more cruel than the mathematics department. The mathematics department only needs talented people. Ordinary people are rejected from the beginning and will not even intend to set foot in it, so everyone lives in peace.
The entertainment industry welcomes everyone and uses all kinds of baits that can make you famous overnight to lure ordinary people into joining in.
In the end, it just becomes nutrients.
In fact, this industry is a Shura field that tests people's talents, luck, resources, background, emotional intelligence, courage and mentality.
Wang Mianmian finally made money because there were always people who wanted to give money to her mother, not because she could win from it.
In fact, she had no doubt that if it were not for the protection of her mother and family, she would have been completely eaten up by that Shura field. Everyone in this industry is a piranha who values fame and fortune above all else. If they can seize that opportunity to soar to the sky, no one cares how many people will be trampled to death under their feet.
Even on the set, she was slapped on the spot by a female star who didn't know her when she was helping a young assistant deliver something when things were chaotic.
Just half an hour later, the other party came to her humbly to apologize.
When she returned home that day, her mother held her in her arms and said distressedly, "Baby, you have suffered, and I will avenge you."
Wang Mianmian just said, "I really don't blame her. Don't bother her. The crew has been rushing to finish the work recently. She has only slept for a total of seven hours for three consecutive days. She has also been losing weight. She is so thin that she is just skin and bones. She is also very pitiful. There is nothing we can do about her bad temper."
How can a person maintain a stable personality and a mild temper when he weighs 80 kilograms, eats two heads of lettuce a day, and is severely sleep-deprived?
Wang Mianmian just thought it was ridiculous.
Even at this point where she is about to die, she still cares so much about her status and stardom. Is it really worth it?
The mother sighed and said, "Baby, you are so kind and noble. How are you going to live in society after I die?"
But aren’t kindness and nobleness good qualities?
Or, Mom, do you think I'm a waste who will drag you down?
Wang Mianmian looked away and said sullenly, "I am just like this. I can't change it. If you don't like me and think I can't take on the responsibility, you can just have another child."
I can't meet your expectations.
She felt her mother's body become very stiff, and she knew she had hurt her mother deeply.
She waited for her mother to explode in anger, but instead she just whispered, "Okay, baby, stop crying."
Then she realized that she was already in tears.
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