“Su Jin, why did you mention your mother’s death? Are you trying to win the sympathy of your fans?”
“Have you thought about what the fans and investors will think after you admitted everything today?”
“Su Jin, are you really sick? There is speculation on the internet that you actually went abroad to give birth. May I ask how you plan to explain? Why did your sister or sisters, who left her studies behind, come back to help you?”
“Su Jin…”
“Su Jin…”
“Su Jin…”
The reporters threw one question after another, some of which they had expected beforehand and were able to deal with with ease. But there were more questions that were extremely tricky, as if to deliberately provoke the sisters.
But the always grumpy Su Jishi did not get angry. She took out full patience to answer the reporters’ questions, because she knew that countless fans and netizens were watching the live broadcast, and these were the questions they desperately wanted to know.
As she expected, the internet has exploded.
It was like a dynamite was thrown into the water, blowing up countless startled fish. Weibo collapsed under this traffic onslaught early on. Everyone was discussing the matter, and the hot search list was completely butchered by the sisters. Within Su Jin’s official forum and webcast, the administrators expanded the speaking interval to 1000 seconds, but countless new discussion threads still topped up every second.
[Is she crazy?]
[I feel like I fell in love with the wrong person. I liked her different image, and now I’m told there’s actually two people?]
[This is outright deception!!]
[Su Jin is also very poor, okay? As a depression patient, I really understand! The mother Jinjin depended on died. Her motivation to enter the entertainment industry disappeared, and her sister replaced her. I can accept it.]
[As a fan of Wilderness Winner, this got me confused.]
[Let’s discuss rationally. Su Jin, who survived in the wild, is 10000 times more popular than little white flower Su Jin?]
[Some haters shouldn’t fish in troubled waters lest you step on a crab.]
[I want to review all of Su Jin’s videos for the last year and slowly watch them all over again. Will Sherlock Holmes join me??]
Just as the online network was getting out of hand, a piercing cry of woe cut through the air in the flower room.
——”Why???? Why on earth would you admit that??”
A girl sitting in the front row stood up and before she could speak, tears fell in bunches.
Many fans here knew her —— She was a famous stan in Su Jin’s fan club, with more than a hundred thousand Weibo fans. She was proficient in Photoshop, and she was a benchmark figure in the fan club. She could shower compliments one after another. Many small fans joked privately that this stan must be the New Chinese dictionary reincarnated as a spirit that was why she could dig countless exquisite sentences to describe Su Jin’s beauty.
And now, she was crying and trembling all over. She tried to open her mouth several times, but she couldn’t sob.
The large flower room quieted down, and no one rushed her. The staff quietly leaned over and tried to hand her a tissue, but she pushed it away.
With red eyes, she looked in the direction of the stage.
On the stage, the black dressed one and the white dressed one reflected each other; but off the stage, she was stabbed by the two identical faces.
“Su Jin … you …” Along with tears, she questioned, “Why did you have to admit it?? I’d rather you guys lied to me for the rest of my life!!!”
She inhaled heavily, just like a stranded fish: “Su Jin, I’ve liked you for so many years! I have been following you since you first became famous, and I have watched all your films ten times. I bought all your endorsed products with my own money, and those that I couldn’t consume, I sent them to my relatives. I have never believed in those black materials of yours and spared no effort to purify your Chaohua. Every time you had activities, I held my camera in the forefront, and fixed them at home at night, just because I wanted to catch your most beautiful light…But now you’re telling me! The person I like the most in this world is actually a liar!!”
“You are sick. I understand. If you want to leave the circle to recuperate, I absolutely would have fasted and prayed for you every day —— But why did you let a fake Su Jin replace you? Even if you did, why did you have to admit it? I’d rather be kept in the dark by you forever and be a blind man chasing a star forever!”
Her words weren’t bigoted, but an outburst of true feelings.
The relationship between fans and stars was sometimes extremely distant and sometimes extremely close.
This cheated feeling was akin to a person rushing through the desert and finally found an oasis. She ran towards the oasis and finally made it out of the desert. Every day in her life, she regarded the oasis as her spiritual salvation —— but suddenly one day, she learned that the oasis dried up, and the ugly stone pit left by the dry up oasis was filled with other liquids
This instant collapse of faith made her unable to bear crying out in pain.
With her lead, the originally silent fan group burst out crying, one after the other.
They were mourning, mourning a piece of their heart.
The fans who were able to receive the invitation all valued this birthday party. With the thought of meeting their idol today, each dressed up, wearing their best clothes and the most exquisite makeup … But now, everyone cried and their makeup turned unsightly.
The fans embarrassed Su Jin to her face, and all the media held their breath, wanting to see how Su Jin would answer.
A camera slowly moved, and a photographer wanted to capture the fan’s broken and crying figures, but as soon as his lense moved, Su Jishi on stage suddenly spoke up.
“Don’t take pictures of their front faces, only the backs.” She stopped the reporters in the audience. “You can take pictures of us, sisters, and write whatever you want, but you should not focus the camera on the fans.”
The sadness and pain and grief of the fans shouldn’t be the pastime of others after tea time.
When she rebuked, that photographer’s hand shook, and he didn’t dare to move anymore. As for the other reporters present, they didn’t dare to move a bit more —— This black-dressed Su Jin looked too intimidating!
When everything was at a stalemate, Su Jinqing lifted her skirt and unexpectedly walked down from the stage!
A commotion stirred among the audience uncontrollably, especially the female fan who was crying so badly that she couldn’t catch her breath. She stared at her goddess with a pair of rotten peach-like eyes, looking at her in confusion as she approached step by step.
The spotlight followed her. With every step taken, Su Jinqing’s back became even taller. Sadness covered her eyebrows, but there was firmness in her eyes. Step by step, she finally stopped in front of the fan.
Unlike the dressed up Su Jinqing in front of her, the fan looked so ordinary; but her uniform, the ‘Cannon’ hanging around her neck, and the banner wrapped around her wrist showed how unusual she was.
Su Jinqing looked at the fan, as if to imprint her appearance in her heart.
She opened her red lips and spoke slowly, “I’m very sorry —— I know these three words seem too sparingly at this time, but this is an apology I owe to you and to all the fans who love me. In fact, I can’t think of anything to compensate you other than this apology, because the energy you put into me is infinite. Compared to the love you have bet on me, a ‘sorry’ is indeed too light.”
Su Jinqing continued, “You asked me why I didn’t choose to cheat to the end, and instead told you the truth? That’s because I think you have the right to know what kind of person you like. I know how you praise me online, saying I’m a Fairy who descended to earth, that I’m a Genius Beauty and Pipa Prodigy… But in fact, I’m far from perfect as in the lens. I’ll be tired and irritable; I’m not a barrel of laughs like in variety shows, someone who can pick up any topic…”
“I’m just a very ordinary girl who has been playing Su Jin —— the most perfect role that exists in your fantasies and my own.”
The original Su Jin was kind and gentle, but at the same time, also had some weakness and melancholy. It was Su Jishi’s arrival that added bravery and decisiveness to Su Jin’s image. She made Su Jin more three-dimensional, more lovable.
No matter which sister was missing, Su Jin wouldn’t be complete.
“I lied to you, and you have good reasons not to accept my apology. But I want you to know that in my heart, you’re not just fans, but friends who support me along the way… Between friends, there should be no lies, right?”
When Su Jinqing finished her words, that fan wept and sobbed uncontrollably.
Su Jinqing was also teary. She looked at her frankly and calmly, waiting for her verdict.
She never craved the understanding of all her fans.
Peek-Aboo 
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