After driving into the street, the Lincoln vehicle had clearly slowed down. The windows were rolled down and Cheng Mu and Ning Ruoxuan sat in the car like a resplendent pair of golden boy and jade girl. Through the opened window, they kept waving and nodding at the crowds outside of the car. Tang Xiaoxiao and the assistant Ning Ruoxuan had brought were sitting in the shadows in the car. They had their heads down as they needed to minimize their existence in such situations, in case they stole Cheng Mu and Ning Ruoxuan’s spotlight.
Soon after, the car stopped right beside the red carpet. Ning Ruoxuan wrapped a hand around Cheng Mu’s arm as the two walked out of the car leisurely. When they stepped on the red carpet, countless exclamations filled the area and the spotlight was fully on them.
Just as the atmosphere of the area rose to a small highlight with the pair’s appearance, another luxurious sedan had quietly stopped in front of the red carpet as well. A beautiful woman as alluring as a flower was out of the car with a hand on the arm of a handsome man. Their appearance attracted the exclamations of the audience once again.
“It’s actually Yang Shan and Du Qisheng!”
Tang Xiaoxiao, who was still sitting in the car, almost gritted her teeth in hatred. If she didn’t hate that brainless Ning Ruoxuan too much, then she really hated this couple before her so much that her teeth felt itchy from the hatred!
Du Qisheng was one of the instigators in betraying Ye Yuxin back then, while Yang Shan, the little ant that she never respected in this lifetime, had actually found the backer, Zhao Zhigang and came back to play with her.
As if sensing Tang Xiaoxiao’s unhappiness, Ning Ruoxuan’s assistant, Sun Yao nudged Tang Xiaoxiao. “Miss Tang, are you alright?”
With a shake of her head, Tang Xiaoxiao finally regained her senses. “I’m fine.”
“Alright, Miss Tang, let’s get off quickly then,” Sun Yao reminded her with a chuckle, “People like us only came to look after them. Once they enter the banquet hall, we don’t have the right to eat in the hall and can only eat simply at the two tables placed outside of the banquet hall…”
Tang Xiaoxiao furrowed her eyebrows. “Even a manager has to eat outside?”
Sun Yao froze for a moment before he laughed awkwardly, “Ah, I forgot that and thought that Miss Tang was an assistant like me. A manager can naturally go in with their celebrities.”
Tang Xiaoxiao pursed her lips with a cold smirk. Sun Yao naturally couldn’t hide his thoughts from her. Wasn’t he just jealous that she was a manager and wanted to bully a newbie? He really played with her, thinking that she was a newbie in this industry.
Of course, what she didn’t see was that after she had left, Yang Shan, who was dressed in a luxurious and sexy black evening gown, had walked to the corner and put out a kind and friendly demeanor. She posed in all the sexy poses to let the reporters take as many photos they wanted…
The reporters did not hold back at all as they pushed their microphones in front of Yang Shan. “Miss Yang, may I ask if you can give your stance about the rumor of you kicking your manager away after you rose to fame?”
“Miss Yang, can I ask what you think about your previous manager? We’ve interviewed the other cast members of ‘On the Bank of Qing River’ and with Director Cao Hao and Assistant Director Wang Meng included, all of them gave extremely high regards for your previous manager. But why did you fire your previous manager one-sidedly after you rose to fame?”
“We’ve received news that your previous manager, Miss Tang, had become the manager of the main lead of ‘On the Bank of Qing River’, Cheng Mu. May I know about your thoughts on such a dramatic change?”
“Miss Yang, I heard that you had fallen out with your previous manager. May I know if there are other reasons behind this?”
“Miss Yang, there’s a rumor online that this isn’t your first time breaking one’s faith. Back when Director Cao Hao chose you as his female lead, you broke up with your ex-boyfriend immediately and now…”
“Please give a direct statement, Miss Yang. There are people who have compared your voice when singing the theme song of ‘On the Bank of Qing River’ and your usual speaking voice online, and some are suspecting that you were lip-syncing, that you were not the one who sang the movie theme song… Do you have any explanations regarding this?”
“Miss Yang…”
“Miss Yang…”
Hoards of questions seemed to rain down on her like a torrential flood and Yang Shan stood there with a tense expression, looking as if she badly wanted to strangle these reporters to death. It’s already been so many days, why can’t these darn nosy reporters forget about these stupid things already? Also, why would the news about her cutting things off with her ex-boyfriend and the lip-syncing be revealed suddenly?
“I’m sorry, it’s not too convenient for me to accept an interview now.” Yang Shan suppressed her anger as she turned around arrogantly, about to walk towards the end of the red carpet.
However, before she managed to turn around, a blurry item was suddenly thrown out from amongst the crowd, flung straight towards Yang Shan’s face. All everyone heard was a loud crack and a smelly, spoiled egg was dripping down her face. There was even brown liquid dripping from it…
“Pft! Disgusting woman!” Some people from the crowds started to shout, “Do you think we’re idiots? You ungrateful wench, you have no right to stand here and boast about yourself! Scram the hell away!”
Since someone started the whole commotion, the others started to chant in unison soon after. Cries of ‘scram’ filled the entire crowd very quickly, ringing in the air surrounding the red carpet…
Here was tomorrow’s headlines!
The reporters all started to get excited. Even the reporters who were standing some distance away were starting to squeeze towards this direction, and they almost knocked down the safety barriers. Flashlights went off like crazy as everyone recorded Yang Shan’s current state of ugliness to the point of perfection!
“Ah!!!” Yang Shan screamed out suddenly. She wanted to use her hands to wipe the spoiled egg off her face, but she was scared that it would stick to her hands and smell even worse as time passed. In the end, she could only remain standing on her spot in distraught, completely clueless as to what to do.
Du Qisheng furrowed his eyebrows in disgust as he silently cursed her. Why was she such a stupid thing, only knowing how to cause trouble? He turned and walked towards the hotel coldly, ignoring the helpless Yang Shan completely.
“I…” Hearing the curses and humiliating allegations surrounding her, and all the smiling faces filled with ridicule, her thoughts returned to her torture by those men in the past few days. As if her entire world had distorted, Yang Shan couldn’t hold back anymore as her pitiful tears flowed down her cheeks. She only wanted to be famous and step over Tang Xiaoxiao. She only wanted to have a better life and be an existence that made others envy and idolize her. Was she wrong?
No! She wasn’t wrong! What’s wrong is the unfairness of this world!
Why would all of them like Tang Xiaoxiao so much? Why did she have such a good life? Why would no one point Tang Xiaoxiao out for her arrogance and willfulness, yet single her out for wanting to fulfill her dreams?
Wasn’t Tang Xiaoxiao just prettier and smarter than her? So what?
Meanwhile, Tang Xiaoxiao, who was dressed in her casual outfit, snuck into the charity banquet hall just like that. Today’s charity dinner utilized a Western buffet-style format. The banquet hall that was nearly a thousand square meters large was filled with only nobles and those who were rich and affluent. Countless elite young masters were dressed to the nines as they congregated with glasses of wine in their hands. They chatted and laughed as even more celebrities weaved in and out of this vanity fair with their own glasses of wine in their hands as well. There was a bevy of young girls and it was the ultimate scene of grandeur.