Chapter 96: Nightmares
After Yan Changhui left, Su Jishi reflected on it for a long time by herself.
On the way back, Xiao Xia noticed how silent Su Jishi was, so she asked her what was wrong.
Su Jishi then repeated the reasoning Yan Changhui had given her. She asked Xiao Xia, “Are twins that unwelcome in the entertainment industry?”
“It’s because anyone likes to feel unique ah!” Xiao Xia stayed in the circle for a long time, and she could see more thoroughly than she could. “The reason star chasing is called star chasing is because stars are high in the sky, within sight but out of reach. For fans, a certain star can let them identify a direction in the dark. —— If there are two equally outstanding people, how can these two stars show them the way?”
Su Jishi said, “But with two stars shining side by side, isn’t that beautiful too?”
“That won’t do! Not to mention those twins, there are two male celebrities in the circle, who look especially alike. Since their debut, they began to compete for resources, compete for rankings. They also cooperated a few times at the beginning, but later on, the best disappeared…If one played martial arts, then the other must do mystery; if one played the domineering president, then the other must play a poisonous lawyer; if the one was nominated for the film, then the other must walk the international red carpet…Fans do three things on a daily basis, shower compliments, insult their opponents, and bang each other’s heads.” Xiao Xia sighed and took a trip down memory lane. “Back then, I also fanned the twos’ CP like crazy. When I was in school, I even wrote a small fanfiction about their passion. Sadly, it was only after I entered the circle did I know that they stabbed each other, and they each exposed each other’s black family history.”
Su Jishi fell silent.
She asked, “Aren’t there any real twins in the entertainment industry? Like Shi Yang and Shi Xing, who started out in the same field?”
When she asked Xiao Xia this question, Xiao Xia racked her brains for a while before she vaguely remembered a girl idol group in Hong Kong a few years ago. Also, the main theme at that time was ‘triplets’.
But that group eventually disbanded. The reason being that the youngest sister was always verbally abused by her two elder sisters. As a result, out of deep resentment, the three sisters fought over a dress backstage of an award ceremony…
Su Jishi was shocked: “They’re close sisters. Why were they at odds?”
Xiao Xia said, “If ten fans tell her ‘your sisters don’t treat you well’, she definitely won’t believe them; but what if a thousand people or ten thousand people say so? For another example, there was a mother fan who had waited for her for 20 days down at her house to see her. When she finally saw her, she cried, took her hand and said, Baby, your two sisters aren’t good people. They only scold you on the Internet. They don’t speak for you. You only have us, your fans, now…“
But Su Jishi disagreed with Xiao Xia’s argument.
Su Jishi thought that the triplets fell apart, not because of what the fans said in the end, but because they themselves weren’t solid enough. As long as they faltered once and were caught by others, their problem would have worsened —— If they had kept their hearts from the beginning to the end and believed in their loved ones who were connected to them by blood, she believed their ending would have been different.
But she didn’t utter this thought out.
Xiao Xia didn’t see that she had gone off on a tangent and tsked while commenting: “Not to mention the entertainment industry, I previously followed a pet online celebrity, raising two cats. The litter of two sisters, one was an odd-eyed cat, the other did not inherit anything. Both of its eyes were normal black. A fan sent a few small pieces of clothing to the cat owner, naming them for the odd-eyed one. As a result, on the next day of the broadcast, the cat owner put one of the little clothes on the black-eyed kitten! My, the hate speech at that time, it was pitch dark! Fans said that the black-eyed kitten was always running up and down and getting into trouble everywhere, not at all like the well-behaved odd-eyed kitten! —— Please, it was a cat. I just wanted to lick the screen and watch a cat video in peace. Why was all that hate speech in the comments, huh?!”
While at it, Xiao Xia went off topic. On the latter part of the journey, Xiao Xia tirelessly shared a lot of love-hate relationships in the pet online celebrity circles.
A certain orange cat so-and-so appeared out of nowhere, and attracted hundreds and thousands of fans in a month; a fake pure American shorthair breed so-and-so wasn’t so obvious because the owner actually dyed it; a pampered and rich Ragdoll so-and-so that used Evian((water company brand)) for bathing and an LV collar…
Su Jishi listened to this gossip level almost equal to the entertainment industry. It all could correspond to news such as newcomer C debuted, had plastic surgery, show his wealth off…
Su Jishi felt dizzy from listening. She was also compelled to appreciate the jade photos of dozens of famous Internet cats. Xiao Xia even asked her to choose the best looking cat among those that looked similar.
She was helpless and pointed —— “This one, with a black face and paws, it’s quite cute.”
“Hahahaha, this is a Siamese cat. The circle calls it ‘coal digging cat’.” Xiao Xia held up the photo and compared it to Su Jishi’s face. “At a glance, this cat looks just like you, Sister Su.”
Su Jishi asked, “What’s the resemblance?”
“Because you both love to dig, ah!”
“…”
Xiao Xia’s interruption, however, washed away the gloom in Su Jishi’s heart. Twins, Graduation Drama or whatnot, Su Jishi had worked hard for more than ten hours and really didn’t want to dwell on it.
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Peek-Aboo 
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