“Get out!” But the fans didn’t stop. “You two big liars!!! The entertainment industry doesn’t need twins!!!”
And then…?
Then, Su Jishi woke up.
She jerked her eyes open and stared at the ceiling in disorientation.
The focus of her eyes gradually became clear. It was already sunset outside the window, and the afterglow of the sunlight spilled onto the floor, warming the house in the sun. Su Jishi rubbed her temples with a headache, and her brain was still in a state of confusion.
It was said that you’d dream about your thoughts during the day…She was so confused, mixing the words she heard before into her dreams.
She rubbed her long hair in frustration. She never thought that her self-confident self would one day look ahead and back.
She slept until dusk, but when she woke up, Su Jinqing still hadn’t returned.
Su Jishi got up from the double bed in a daze and first reached for her phone on the bedside table, only to find a man’s watch instead of her phone.
Su Jishi: “…”
She got out of bed to wash up, and she ended up finding a pair of electric toothbrushes and razors on the sink in the master bathroom.
Su Jishi: “…”
She concluded that even if her sister didn’t live with Lin Yan, they were definitely sleeping together!
She didn’t come back to be a light bulb. After ruminating about it, she thought she’d better move out. It happened that Mu Xiulun also had several houses in the same community. She would just ask Gao Ling for a door card later and just pick a house close by.
Su Jishi planned to make do with another night tonight, chat with her sister, and move out tomorrow.
……
She walked a few times around a big empty house alone, and when she felt bored from idleness, she turned on the TV to watch a program.
As it turned out, Channel A was playing Su Jin’s commercials; Channel B was showing a prime time hit TV series starring Su Jin; and Channel C was reviewing popular starlets… Su Jishi took the remote control and chose a round, getting a fuller idea of how famous Su Jin really was.
Su Jishi scrolled the Internet again and found that Su Jin’s Chaohua was discussing a list of awards that had been announced a while ago. Su Jin was nominated for Queen of Views for a drama with ratings breaking 2% on three networks. This was the first time she had been nominated for such a prestigious award. Whether she could win or not, the fact that she could step on the red carpet as a nominee was enough to make her fans happy.
At the same time, the rights to Su Jin’s variety show, Wilderness Winner, was also snapped up by several overseas TV stations. In fact, there was an international award in the variety industry, known as the Variety Oscars, and only South Korean variety shows in Asia had been nominated every year. But this year, Wilderness Winner came out on top and beat Korean variety shows in the online voting stage.
At this juncture, any little bit of black information that popped about Su Jin on the internet would be quickly extinguished by the PR team,and fans would spontaneously control the comments.
Su Jishi did not turn on the lights. She sat in the increasingly dark living room, quietly scrolling down the computer screen.
So far, she hadn’t discussed with her sister and manager about her decision to take off her vest((reveal one’s true identity)) and apologize to her fans.
Su Jishi returned home on impulse. Everyone thought she was returning for a vacation, and only Mu Xiulun knew about her decision.
But now she was stumped again —— Revealing her identity would allow her to appear in the sun once and for all, without the fear of being stabbed one day; but on the other hand, she couldn’t predict what Su Jin’s fans would think, what the public would think, what her sponsors would think.
The worst outcome would be drastic plunging of her reputation and exorbitant claims from brands she advertised.
When Su Jishi talked to Mu Xiulun on the phone, she told him about her concerns.
Mu Xiulun reassured her, “If you really want to pay for it, I’ll pay for it.”
“Mr. Mu is so generous, that’s three billion,” Su Jishi said helplessly.
Mu Xiulun laughed: “When did I not give you enough three billion?”
Su Jishi thought to herself: since being together, how does this guy always find strange positions to drive the shock source of a car?
……
It was getting darker and darker.
Su Jishi sat in her empty home with the TV on mute. She hugged her legs and silently watched the Graduation Drama recorded last week.
As she expected, the program deliberately devalued Shi Xing and gave him only minimal screen time. He spent most of the time in the background, and the rest of the time with Shi Yang, as a foil to Shi Yang, highlighting the cloud and mud difference between the two brothers.
Su Jishi was so distracted that when the end credits came out, she snapped off the TV.
Twilight had come. The capital was heavily hazy, and everywhere was gray and dreary.
Su Jishi couldn’t help but think of the vast sea of stars like waves in the wilderness.
Seeing that the clock was approaching ten o’clock, and seeing that her sister was not yet home, she moved to give her a call…
Coincidentally, her phone rang at the same time.
It was just that the name on the phone wasn’t Su Jinqing, but Fang Xie
Su Jishi picked up the phone. She just said, “Hello”, but then the rest were swallowed back.
“——Sister Su, I’m outside the TV station with Sister Jinqing. Your father is blocking us.”
The phone in Su Jishi’s hand fell to the sofa with a thud.
Her head swam, and she subconsciously pinched her thigh.
Could it be that she was still trapped in the nightmare and hadn’t broken free?
Peek-Aboo 
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