I swapped bodies with the prince of the Su Circle.
On the variety show, he stared at my face and went crazy, scolding the green tea girls and tearing apart the white lotus girls。
I had even thought about how to handle my own funeral arrangements.
Right in front of everyone, he suddenly turned his head and said to me, “Honey, say something!”
Me: “?”
1
I was the canary of the prince of the Su Circle.
There were thirteen princes in the Su Circle, and none of them would yield to the others.
He had twelve competitors, and with great work pressure, he needed someone who could be scolded at any time.
I was the canary he hired with a monthly salary of one million.
Because I was a controversial female star with both fame and infamy, I had a strong ability to withstand pressure.
I felt like I was an emotional trash can.
But people in the circle called this being a canary.
The person who made the connection said that I couldn’t call him the prince of the Su Circle, but the prince of the Qinhuai Circle.
There was no need to be precise about the street because he needed to protect his personal privacy.
2
The prince of the Qinhuai Circle was very busy.
The first time I met him was late at night.
He was having an online meeting in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows, wearing a well-tailored suit, with an air of nobility that was beyond compare.
His thin lips parted slightly, and he was full of words like “shit” and “fuck”:
“This meat that can’t be sold in the dog days of summer — it’s stinking garbage.”
“This person is like a container that doesn’t flow water even when the plug is pulled out — a stubborn fool.”
He was like holding an online concert of a rapper, and even the mosquitoes passing by would get a couple of scoldings.
I stepped into the door with my left foot.
He lifted his eyelids:
“Left means being biased. Are you saying my words and deeds are inappropriate?”
I withdrew my left foot and stepped in with my right foot.
He gave me a cold glance:
“Unrivaled. Do you want to ride on my head?”
Me: “…”
His resentment was even greater than that of an evil ghost.
That day, I hopped into the door.
Because he hadn’t figured out how to scold someone who was hopping yet.
3
I entered the entertainment industry to pay off debts.
My family’s leather factory went bankrupt, and my father ran away with the money along with my aunt, owing 350 million yuan.
I tearfully sold wallets in the live stream:
“The bastard Li He, Li He is a bastard. He owed 350 million yuan and ran away with my aunt. We had no choice but to use the wallets to offset our salaries…”
Unexpectedly, I didn’t sell any wallets, but I made it onto the trending searches.
#The Beauty of the Leather Factory#
The director took a fancy to me at that time.
He said that I had a kind of broken feeling, and my face was full of the words “Hug me quickly, I’m about to break.”
Nonsense.
No matter who it was, owing 350 million yuan would make them break down.
With my unique broken feeling, as soon as I entered the circle, I landed the role of the second female lead who was the white moonlight in someone’s heart.
After becoming popular, my identity was also revealed.
I suffered a huge wave of online violence. They demanded repayment from me on behalf of the workers in my family’s factory, asking me to pay back the money as soon as possible.
I couldn’t sleep all night long, crying my eyes out, and all I could think about was earning enough money to pay off the debts as soon as possible and then quitting the entertainment industry.
I took the bad movies that my agent gave me.
I endured the scolding from the prince of the Qinhuai Circle.
Until the company, for the sake of popularity, asked me to go on a romance variety show together with my rival.
4
I had already anticipated another wave of online violence.
I was in a daze all day long, crawling around in the darkness.
When the media interviewed me, I said, “Mm-hmm.”
When the prince of the Qinhuai Circle scolded me, I said, “Ah, right, right.”
Triple affirmation means negation, and I successfully caught his attention.
His curved fingers tapped on the table, and it made me feel like I was listening to the tolling of a death knell.
He said, “Li Ting, I’m your employer. You’re really looking for death, like carrying a lantern in a latrine.”
I still needed this job of being scolded.
I burst into tears and apologized to him.
He furrowed his brows: “What’s wrong with you?”
When the emotions were in place, I told him everything that had happened to me.
He said that I was just so-so, and that he had almost ended up in prison and become the prince of the prison.
I said that he was standing and talking without feeling the pain, that the interest of his company in one day was enough for me to earn in a whole year.
We compared our misfortunes back and forth, and even opened a few bottles of wine in the middle.
Drunk out of our minds, he gave a devilish smile: “Stop talking about these things. If you think you can do it, then go ahead.”
I sneered and refused to show weakness: “Do you think I’m simple? If you think you can do it, then go ahead.”
After a hangover, I found that I had become him.
5
In the morning, I stood by the floor-to-ceiling windows, breathing in the air at a height of 1.88 meters, trying to calm down.
I couldn’t calm down.
I was on the verge of a breakdown.
I still had to go and record the variety show today.
How could the prince possibly condescend to endure humiliation and go on that romance variety show?
This liquidated damages would be enough for me to film ten bad movies.
The more I thought about it, the more pessimistic I became, and I even wanted to jump out of the window.
The wind on the high floor was so strong.
My life was so bitter.
I was feeling sentimental, and secretly shed tears.
The prince hugged my strong waist and held me back:
“Stay calm. We can discuss things, right?”
I sobbed: “I’m about to go on the romance variety show soon…”
The prince gritted his teeth: “I’ll go.”
I cried: “I still have a drama to film…”
The prince continued to grit his teeth: “I’ll film it.”
I looked down and picked at my fingers: “Then what should I do?”
He was almost grinding his back molars: “Take a paid vacation.”
I immediately became cheerful and sunny.
6
The prince ran the announcements day and night for me.
And I woke up every day from the 800-square-meter big bed and had a video call with him.
He had a long face every day, and he had a kind of broken feeling.
The kind of “broken feeling” that could break others with one punch.
“I’m having my makeup done backstage now. The makeup artist’s technique is like painting a wall. Fuck, I don’t know how she found this job.”
The foundation’s color was too yellow, and it was also very cakey.
He watched helplessly as the makeup artist performed the disappearing beauty trick, and his brows were furrowed so tightly that they could crush a fly.
He slapped the table and stood up, and started to curse with “fuck” and “shit”:
“You might as well find a construction site and mix cement.”
I was startled and shouted at him desperately in the video:
“Don’t be angry! This is also part of the variety show.”
He took a breath and was about to calm down when my rival Jiang Ming appeared.
She had a flawless bare-faced makeup, and looked at him with her watery deer eyes:
“Sister Li, why are you being so mean to the makeup artist? She’s also not easy.”
My eyelids twitched, and I was about to persuade him.
He anticipated my anticipation and directly cut off the video.
That afternoon, I saw my name on the trending searches:
#What Li Ting’s Green Tea Behavior Looks Like, You’re Just the Same#
In the video, the prince sneered:
“When the east is not bright, the west is bright. You’re just like what a green tea girl looks like.”
“If your little sister’s blush isn’t enough, big sister’s slap will make up for it.”
I wanted to cry but had no tears, and cold sweat was pouring down my face.
7
Surprisingly, the comments below weren’t all scolding me.
The top comments were:
“Well scold, a rising star in the rapper world.”
“I’ve long thought that the way she talks is so green tea-like. Finally, someone has the courage to say it.”
“Don’t people on the Internet have memories? How much money does her family owe? Why are there still people speaking for her?”
“She’s already paying it back! What does what her father owes have to do with her?”
I was moved to tears.
There is still true love in the world.
There were actually so many people willing to speak up for me.
Until the prince showed me the bill.
The public relations of his company had intervened, hired internet trolls, and asked bloggers to lead the public opinion, spending one million yuan.
I understood. This was the power of money.
He completely let himself go.
My agent said that he didn’t know what was good for him, and he rolled his eyes: “Cut the crap. If you’re really not good at your job, then find a regular job.”
The company warned him about liquidated damages, and he put his hands in his pockets, not knowing who his opponent was: “I won’t say a word until my lawyer comes.”
He had a great time talking on the phone.
On WeChat, I got a good scolding from the company:
“Your wings have grown strong? Have you paid off your debts? You have half a day to think about it.”
I wanted to cry but had no tears and sent him a message: “Can you be more restrained, bro?”
He said: “Staying in the entertainment industry is so interesting. There are so many people asking to be scolded. I’m fine. Don’t worry about me.”
Me: “…”
I’m not feeling so good.
After all, that was my body.
8
On the morning of the official recording of the variety show, the prince sent me a voice message in a fit of anger: “Why does this shitty variety show want me to have an ambiguous relationship with a man?”
“Guess why it’s called a romance variety show?”
“I’ve already asked my secretary to deal with the director. In three minutes, I want to see you here and have an ambiguous relationship with me.”
So domineering.
I jumped up from the bed like a carp and packed myself up as quickly as a high school student.
The butler who handed me the wristwatch said: “This is the first time the president has been in such a hurry for a woman.”
I was silent for a while:
“Although, it’s for a man.”
The butler’s eyes widened in shock.
Halfway through packing, the prince called me again in a fit of anger:
“Come dressed expensively.”
High EQ: Dress expensively.
Low EQ: He’s cursed at others again outside and needs a very wealthy big shot to support him.
I was wearing a wristwatch worth tens of millions on my hand and a big jade Buddha around my neck.
If my pants hadn’t covered my ankles, I would have even added a diamond ankle bracelet.
The driver arranged by the prince was already waiting at the door.
He was driving the most expensive car in the prince’s garage today, and it was almost like there were diamonds inlaid on the tires.
I was shining brightly all over, and my face was full of the words “silly and rich”.
With a loud bang in the sky, the prince made a dazzling entrance.
9
I was wearing precious sunglasses, shining with gold all over, and swaggered into the venue.
The prince was pulling each other’s hair with Jiang Ming.
The moment he saw me, time seemed to stand still.
Their gazes were very complicated, with three parts of entanglement, three parts of helplessness, and four parts of being unable to bear to look directly.
Jiang Ming secretly cursed: “Look, your husband.”
The prince refused to show weakness: “Fuck, that’s your husband.”
Why are you still scolding me?
My heart was filled with mixed feelings for a moment.
The director told me that they were pulling each other’s hair to compete for a guest.
There was only one off-circles guest in this episode of the romance variety show — a programmer who had been single for nearly thirty years and had participated in many brain-burning variety shows.
Jiang Ming said that she didn’t want to be exploited for attention by men in the industry, and she wanted to reserve that off-circles guest for herself.
The prince was very interested in the resume of the off-circles high-achiever. He said that he wanted to have an in-depth communication with the programmer.
The two of them had a fierce argument and scolded each other for an hour.
I cleared my throat and whispered to the prince:
“Listen, I know you’ve always been a very competitive person.”
The prince: “?”
“But now you don’t need to be so competitive.”
The prince frowned tightly: “?”
“Your strong one has come.”
Him: “…”
He gritted his teeth: “If you can’t speak like a man, then don’t say anything.”
I was a bit sad and left the scene feeling disappointed.
10
I lived in a hotel, waiting at any time to support the prince.
Although he didn’t seem to want me to appear again very much.
But an hour later, he still called me again:
“Take off the jade Buddha, take off the sunglasses, and don’t keep the big gold chain on your clothes either.”
I guessed that he had lost the scolding battle.
Jiang Ming was always good at being sarcastic.
But I didn’t dare to say anything about him.
Because I was afraid that he would scold me, and I couldn’t scold him back.
I was at the bottom of the scolding food chain.
I said: “My father used to like dressing like this.”
“I don’t want to be your father. Thank you.”
It was rare for him to say thank you to me.
My face as a middle-aged rich man was greatly satisfied.
After I took off the sunglasses and the big gold chain, I entered the venue again.
This time, the NPCs around all let out exclamations of “So handsome”.
I imitated the prince’s sitting posture and sat there, not making a sound.
The people around were whispering, all guessing who I had come for:
“Is it for Bai Nian? I heard that the prince and she were childhood sweethearts…”
I leaned my head over there.
I’ve never heard of it.
What kind of gossip are they talking about? Let me listen too.
They shut up again.
I was a bit sad. I was isolated.
11
Recording the first episode.
As expected, the prince started arguing with someone.
The link designed by the director was for the female guests to choose the gifts given by the male guests to complete the matching game.
I gave a big gold chain.
The programmer took out a bouquet of big red roses.
The third-tier male star took out a necklace he was endorsing.
The prince took the lead and preemptively snatched my big gold chain.
Bai Nian’s outstretched hand hung in the air.
She awkwardly withdrew her hand, looking full of disappointment, with tears in her eyes.
The prince clenched the big gold chain in his hand and asked her: “Do you also want this?”
Bai Nian’s cheeks turned red, and she nodded somewhat shyly.
The prince disdained: “A gold digger.”
Bai Nian: “?”
Jiang Ming smiled and launched an attack on the prince: “Sister Li, it’s a bit too much for you to speak like this, isn’t it?”
The prince glanced at the big bouquet of red roses in her arms and launched an indiscriminate attack: “You’re the same. You’re tacky.”
Jiang Ming: “?”
Me: “…”
He successfully offended three people with two sentences.
I couldn’t even imagine how I would live when we swapped our bodies back.
Bai Nian looked at me outside the camera with red eyes.
I looked down and picked at my fingers, pretending not to see.
The prince pressed on with the attack: “Why didn’t you take this necklace? Do you have any dissatisfaction with that male guest?”
I felt that Bai Nian was really about to cry.
The prince seemed to have a telepathic connection with me.
He leaned over and stared at her face: “Are you really crying?”
She burst into tears with a “wow”.
Okay, now she was really crying.
Jiang Ming was in a hurry to comfort Bai Nian, and the prince calmly continued to fan the flames.
After she finished crying, she sobbed and picked up the remaining necklace on the table.
The face of the third-tier male star was darker than the bottom of a pot.
12
The first episode, with some added advertisements and the host’s nonsense, passed just like that.
As soon as it was broadcast, I was unsurprisingly scolded and made it onto the trending searches.
The prince even spent money to buy me two more trending searches.
He was really nice. He even took care of the after-sales service.
#Li Ting’s Words Are So Funny#
##Li Ting, Are You Really Crying?#
#Li Ting and Bai Nian’s Primary School Student-like Argument#
The fans of Jiang Ming and Bai Nian cursed under the topics:
“I’m a pure bystander. Who doesn’t know that Bai Nian and the prince were childhood sweethearts? What’s she interfering for?”
“She just wants to cling to the prince, doesn’t she?”
“How can there still be people who take rudeness as genuine temperament nowadays?”
The prince opened a small account and personally joined the battle:
“Yo yo yo, are you really angry?”
This comment was scolded tens of thousands of times because it was so annoying and made people lose their temper.
The popularity was fully boosted.
The prince also got three trending searches:
#The Prince of the Su Circle Makes a Surprise Appearance on the Romance Variety Show#
#The Thirteen Princes of the Su Circle#
#Shi Xu, the Prince of the Qinhuai Circle#
Under these topics, netizens once again played with the stereotype of regional stereotypes.
“I can’t leave the Su Circle. You can take a set of test papers with you.”
“People in our Lu Circle have to give gifts to the nurses as soon as they are born.”
13
In the second episode, everyone was going to start having an ambiguous relationship.
The prince and I carried out the word “unfamiliar” to the fullest.
The first dating location was a coffee shop.
The prince and I sat at the same table.
We didn’t say a word and chatted on our phones with our heads down.
The prince: “Do you know how to be ambiguous?”
Me: “A little bit. Why?”
He said: “Let’s try it.”
I scratched my head and thought hard, and sent him a message: “Your cup of coffee costs 230.”
“…”
The prince moved his gaze away from the phone screen.
He looked up at me and his thin lips parted slightly:
“Well said. Don’t say it next time.”
As expected, it was my voice.
He said such a cold and heartless sentence so nicely.
I nodded: “Mm-hmm. Your voice is really nice.”
“You’re so greasy.”
I was a bit sad and my heart was broken again.
The table where Jiang Ming was sitting wasn’t harmonious either.
She had a plain makeup and was sipping coffee with her head down shyly.
The programmer hesitated to speak, and then wanted to speak again.
She brushed the stray hair beside her ear: “Just say it…”
“Your lipstick is stuck on your teeth.”
Jiang Ming: “…”
At Jiang Ming’s strong request, the part about “lipstick stuck on the teeth” was cut out when it was broadcast.
Bai Nian and her CP couldn’t stand each other and buried their heads in drinking.
And the prince and I almost communicated entirely through our phones.
The bullet comments said: “I haven’t seen such a randomly paired variety show for a long time. Everyone is unfamiliar with each other, and there’s a kind of aesthetic feeling of disorder.”
“The sense of substitution is very strong. It feels like being forced to go on a blind date in my hometown.”
“It’s like a coffee shop promotional video.”
“Why is Bai Nian always drinking with her head down? Is it really that delicious?”
“You guys should at least act a bit.”
14
Everyone was very obedient.
In the third episode, we started acting.
The content we acted was a bit complicated, but the focus was on sincerity and full of emotions.
Bai Nian was affectionate towards me, the prince was pressing the programmer step by step, and the third-tier male star had some feelings for the prince.
The complex character relationships needed a whole page of a mind map to figure out.
We all sat on the lawn for a picnic, each with our own thoughts.
Bai Nian leaned over and whispered to me:
“Brother Shi, do you really like Li Ting?”
Although I was usually quite narcissistic and always liked myself.
For the sake of the prince’s reputation, I denied it: “Not really.”
Bai Nian was satisfied and said a lot of bad things about me right in front of me.
Bai Nian’s CP, the third-tier male star, also leaned over and whispered to the prince.
The prince’s face turned pale.
His eyes widened in shock, and swear words were about to come out.
I asked him what was wrong.
He let out his first “fuck” of the day:
“He asked me if I wanted to go to that restaurant for dinner tonight. Do I look gay?”
I said sincerely: “You look like a really beautiful woman.”
He showed a look of disgust: “You’re so greasy.”
Me: “Fuck.”
“Why did he invite me to dinner? How many surprises do you have that I don’t know about?”
I thought carefully.
This third-tier male star seemed to be my partner in the previous drama, and I was going to create a CP with him later.
I said: “Sorry. He will be your rumored partner in the future.”
The prince said: “Sorry. I just scolded him.”
Me: “…”
I looked at the third-tier male star.
He was shrinking in the corner, feeling gloomy and withdrawn.
After the prince finished talking to me, he turned around and started chatting up the programmer:
“Have you considered changing to work in another company?”
The two of them talked as if no one else was around.
Jiang Ming moved her lips but couldn’t get a word in.
She shrank in the corner and also started to feel withdrawn.
After this episode was broadcast, the bullet comments went crazy:
“I believe it now. Among these six people, it seems that only Li Ting has been in a relationship.”
“I like watching this kind of messy relationship. Bring more of it.”
“The relationship isn’t completely without progress. At least a love triangle has emerged.”
“What is Li Ting doing? Stepping on three boats?”
“It is recommended to change the name to: The Story of the Female Casanova.”
15
During the breaks of filming the romance variety show, I accompanied the prince to run the announcements.
He was in charge of scolding people, scolding everything he couldn’t stand.
I followed behind to clean up the mess for him:
“Yes, that’s right. I’m the prince of the Qinhuai Circle. The person who was scolding before has a close relationship with me… Mm-hmm, it’s just as you think.”
He scolded people all the way without any obstacles.
The greasy production company tried to persuade him to drink some wine, and he blurted out: “A turtle eating coal — a black-hearted little turtle.”
The agent who only thought about making money bossed around his schedule, and he never indulged it: “A bat with chicken feathers stuck on it — what kind of bird are you?”
After receiving the liquidated damages warning from the company, he directly asked me to sign a check.
I waved my hands again and again and shouted: “Brother, there’s no need for that.”
16
Everyone had an ineffective love relationship for eight episodes.
In the ninth episode, the director said that it would be in the form of a live broadcast.
Backstage, the director specifically greeted me: “Li Ting’s behavior of ruining the show’s effect like this has made many people dissatisfied.”
I understood.
So everyone was going to teach the prince a lesson. Who asked him to always scold people?
I waved my hand: “It’s all okay. Whatever.”
Anyway, the prince would crash into everyone without discrimination.
The content of the live broadcast was that the male guests used someone else’s phone to call the female guests.
The purpose was to see their most authentic side.
Jiang Ming and Bai Nian both knew the news in advance.
Only the prince was still in the dark.
I used the third-tier male star’s phone to call the prince.
He refused to answer.
Bullet comments: “Hahahahaha, why is she ignoring people?”
“It’s so funny. She just doesn’t answer.”
He didn’t answer until I made the third call.
I asked: “Do you want to do it today?”
He said: “Do we know each other? Although I’m single, I’ve lived here for many years. As the saying goes, there are many rumors around a widow’s door, and good news never goes out while bad news spreads far and wide. So I can only live in a thatched cottage, observe the whole world, step on the mud, and have the whole world in my heart. Am I right?”
What he said was all a mess.
I paused for a moment before saying: “Do you want to do the live broadcast?”
The prince was stunned: “I don’t know. Sorry. I’m sorry.”
The bullet comments were laughing like crazy:
“Help. My toes are curling.”
“I thought she was a female casanova, but it turns out she’s quite chaste.”
“They are playing with memes! They have such a good tacit understanding. I’m shipping them.”
The other two pairs performed mediocrely and without any mistakes because they had received the script in advance.
Until, near the end, Bai Nian came out and started speaking.
She was fresh, innocent, and natural, holding the microphone:
“I’m very grateful to Brother Ye for taking care of me during this time, but I found that I have more affection for someone…”
My heart skipped a beat.
The bullet comments were excited and loved to watch the drama:
“Who is it? Hurry up and say it.”
“Is there anything that I, a noble VIP, can’t hear?”
“It’s me. Thank you. She told me it in my ear yesterday.”
“I’m shipping the childhood sweethearts.”
The Brother Ye she mentioned rubbed his forehead and smiled bitterly, and secretly cursed something.
Looking at his lip movement, it seemed to be: “Bai Nian’s mother is really something.”
Her gaze drifted towards me.
I was as stiff as if I was standing at attention.
I was even stiffer than when I had been dead for three days.
At this moment, I hoped to be buried in the ground more than to be on camera.
She pursed her lips and smiled: “It’s Shi…”
The prince spoke in a timely manner: “That’s a very familiar surname. My CP seems to have this surname too.”
I nodded.
Yes, my surname is Shi.
It’s worth it to meet you at any time.
My surname is Shi, and writing with a pen is like a steed galloping.
The word “CP” made Bai Nian unable to speak for a moment.
Jiang Ming gritted her teeth and forced a smile to smooth things over: “Hahaha, it’s just a CP on the variety show. They’re not officially together yet. Who knows what will happen in the future?”
My heart skipped a beat again.
I predicted that the prince was going to show his skills again:
“Are you unhappy in life or have no fun in your life? You’re always picking a fight here. You might as well go to a factory. You always argue with me, and I’ll give you a blow on the head.”
The internet trolls arranged by the prince also cooperated with him to divert the public opinion:
“Hahaha, I actually sang along.”
“Is Li Ting a rapper?”
Bai Nian’s eyes turned red again, and she said in a low voice: “Sister Li, what you said is really mean.”
The prince’s rebellious spirit flared up, and he pursed his lips and looked at me with an innocent face:
“Honey, say something.”
17
I couldn’t say anything.
The bullet comments exploded.
I was also in a state of shock.
The number of people in the live broadcast room increased exponentially:
“Damn! It turns out to be true.”
“Ah? Then what is Bai Nian? My CPU is burning.”
“She’s the pillar in the Joker, the biggest number in the playing cards.”
The prince covered his mouth, looking surprised: “What’s wrong? Is this something that can’t be said?”
I took a deep breath and said slowly: “It can be said. You said it very well.”
Bai Nian was as if struck by lightning, and she was even stiffer than I was at that time.
Although the live broadcast was very dramatic and the popularity was fully boosted.
But because of the prince and Bai Nian’s backgrounds, the director still chose to end the live broadcast.
Backstage was completely silent.
I don’t know who asked first: “Aren’t you and the prince not familiar with each other?”
He gave a devilish smile: “We have a very good relationship. Thank you. You’re also part of our game.”
“…”
That night, the trending searches exploded:
#Li Ting, Honey, Say Something#
#The Romance between Shi Xu and Li Ting Is Exposed#
18
I even received a call from the prince’s mother:
“I heard that you’re with a disreputable female star?”
I gave the prince a meaningful look.
The prince lowered his head and pretended to be dead.
Anyway, it wasn’t his own body and not his own mother.
I said a lot of nonsense: “Potential.”
“What do you mean?”
“Just be together briefly.”
“Hahahahaha, I’m talking to you about serious matters. Don’t make me laugh…”
Well then.
I decided to make another fortune:
“Five million. Let her leave me.”
She left a sentence “Don’t make me laugh” and then hung up the phone.
I said: “Your mother is quite interesting.”
“Thank you. Your mother is too.”
Me: “?”
This was very sudden. We actually already knew each other’s mothers.
19
After the romance variety show ended, I had a long period of free time.
The prince asked me: “Have you got nothing to do?”
Huh? Did he get addicted to being in the entertainment industry?
“I’m waiting for the final payment from the romance variety show, and then I’ll pack up and prepare to quit the entertainment industry.”
Just thinking about it made me happy.
The prince and I opened a few more bottles of wine and chatted incoherently:
“Everyone says that you and Bai Nian were childhood sweethearts. Is there any story that I can gossip about?”
“This is ridiculous. We’re not even from the same place. How can we be called childhood sweethearts?”
I was stunned for a moment: “Aren’t you from the same district?”
“We’re not on the same street.”
I was silent.
He divided it so precisely.
“Being a prince is really interesting. Everyone lets me have my way.”
“Being a star is really interesting. Everyone watches me scold people.”
He was stunned for a while, and then suddenly remembered something and shouted: “If you think you can do it, then go ahead.”
Okay, we swapped back again.
The prince was still drunk, and as soon as he swapped back, he got up to work.
I thought of my father who didn’t know where he had run off to, and I thought that owing 350 million yuan was what he deserved.
20
I announced my withdrawal from the entertainment industry when I was at the peak of my popularity.
When everyone thought that I was going to marry into a wealthy family, I went back to clean up the mess of the leather factory.
The paparazzi followed me and the prince all day, hoping to take some interesting photos.
As a result, the prince sat in the office building for a whole day.
And I entered the factory.
I repeatedly invited the paparazzi to come in and take pictures of my leather factory. He repeatedly declined, but was finally dragged in by the enthusiastic workers.
I introduced the products in the factory to him:
“These are all genuine leather! They’re waterproof. Touch this texture!”
The paparazzi touched it:
“It’s really good indeed.”
“This is our new product! I’ll give it to you at the factory price. It’s only 300 yuan!”
The supervisor behind me whispered: “Sister, if we sell it at 200 yuan for this material, we’ll lose money.”
“Even if we lose money! In order to promote our wallets and give back to everyone, what’s wrong with us paying out of our own pockets?”
The paparazzi tearfully bought five wallets.
I was lying to him.
The cost was only 100 yuan.
That night, I saw the paparazzi’s exposé:
“Is the Second-tier Female Star Suspected to Marry into a Wealthy Family? The Truth Is…”
The truth was that this second-tier female star entered the leather factory and led the workers to achieve common prosperity.
“She really went back to inherit the leather factory?”
“The black words seem to be getting redder and redder.”
“Where can I buy the sister’s leather bag?”
“The link is here!”
I was busy with the affairs of the leather factory every day and used my original popularity to sign big orders.
The prince sent me a voice message, and I refused to answer.
He said: “You’re really a busy person now.”
His tone was quite resentful.
I said: “You can scold me. Remember to transfer the money after you’re done scolding.”
“…”
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The next time I met the prince was to discuss business.
He said that he was going to do foreign trade.
I was on high alert: “Don’t take a share of the cake in our Zhe Circle.”
Him: “?”
I could see that he really wanted to scold me, but he held back.
He said: “You only have your career in your eyes now.”
I affirmed: “Ah, right, right.”
This time he couldn’t hold back, and a “fuck” blurted out:
“My idea is that we can cooperate.”
I talked with him for a long time, and we scolded each other for two hours.
Finally, we reached a cooperation: to do e-commerce on foreign websites.
In the live broadcast room, the professional host held up the wallet and shouted: “30 dollars, we can give you two!”
The person in charge of the live broadcast room waved his arms and shouted: “Yes!”
“40 dollars, we can give you four!”
“No problem!”
It mainly focused on seemingly giving discounts but actually cheating people out of their money.
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When my leather factory was thriving, my father came back.
He was very dissatisfied with my life plan and kept giving his opinions on my sales strategy:
“If you married Shi Xu, you would have everything. You’re so stupid!”
I gave him the middle finger:
“You’re an asshole.”
Even for me, I wouldn’t want to marry a vase who was in debt of 350 million yuan.
He was very unhappy with my behavior, but under the watch of the bodyguards, he could only swallow his anger.
“Did you come back alone? Where’s your mistress?”
He scratched his head awkwardly.
I suspected that this time, his mistress had run away with the money.
He stammered for a long time before saying: “We broke up. She has no intention of coming back to the country.”
I said to the secretary: “Okay. Let the lawyer only write Li He as the defendant.”
Him: “?”
He was so angry that he jumped up and down, and was dragged out by the security guards.
23
My leather factory grew bigger and bigger.
At a social dinner party, I met Bai Nian again.
She was wearing a pure white evening dress, and as soon as she saw me, she was about to explode:
“What are you going to do again?”
The words from many years ago hit me right in the heart.
The bad words that the prince had said eventually fell on me.
I said awkwardly: “I want to talk to your father about the co-branded IP matter.”
She was very surprised: “You’ve changed.”
“Ah?” I was stunned for a moment. “What has changed?”
“Your mouth.”
Okay, it was reasonable and well-founded, and convincing.
She said: “I don’t agree. You ask Brother Shi to come and talk.”
I turned around and left: “Well, then I’ll find another partner.”
She was stunned for a while, and then chased after me in small steps holding up her skirt:
“It’s okay, it’s okay! I’ll talk to my father for you later!”
She was a bit silly, and quite easy to deceive.
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Shi Xu was wearing a silver-gray suit and was chatting with someone.
Under the silver-white light, his features were delicate, and he looked quite decent.
The other person saw me and his eyes lit up: “Is this Miss Shi’s fiancée?”
Don’t believe rumors, and don’t spread rumors.
You people who believe the entertainment news are really ridiculous.
Shi Xu smiled and shook his head, saying: “Not yet.”
“Those entertainment news…” The other person looked confused.
He smiled and replied: “The media loves to make groundless speculations.”
“It’s not that. It’s that sentence: Honey, say something.”
Shi Xu’s smile froze, and he couldn’t make up any more excuses.
He saw me passing by and said another wise saying:
“Say something.”
I said: “Something.”
Okay, it made the person who was insisting on asking laugh so much that he couldn’t remember what he was going to ask.
The plan worked.
After the person left, Shi Xu whispered and secretly cursed: “Low emotional intelligence.”
I said: “What’s the high emotional intelligence way of doing it?”
He said: “Nod for yes, shake your head for no, and say love you when you see Li Ting.”
I laughed out loud: “You’re so greasy. Are you also not good at being a man?”
He looked a bit sad.
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I felt that there was a strange ambiguity between me and Shi Xu.
He didn’t scold me anymore, and he was quite gentle with me.
When discussing the marketing strategy for the next season with him, his phone rang:
“My mother is calling. I have to answer it.”
If he was going to answer it, why did he put it on speakerphone?
I clearly heard his mother shouting on the other end of the phone:
“Didn’t you have a girlfriend three years ago? Why haven’t you asked me for the household register to get married yet?”
He looked up at me.
His eyes were shining with light, reflecting the sunset outside the window.
“Seaweed knot.”
His mother was stunned: “What do you mean? Are you going to eat this tonight?”
He explained unhurriedly: “It still needs to wait for a while to get married.”
“Damn it.”
His mother was so tough that she even cursed herself.
I buried my head in eating.
As a result, I dug out a dazzling big diamond ring in the ice cream.
He was really good at designing surprises.
I looked up at him.
I didn’t ask, and he didn’t say. As soon as I said something, he was surprised.
“What is this…”
He was greatly shocked: “This is a diamond ring! We’re really a match made in heaven.”
I inappropriately remembered a sentence he had once said:
“If you can’t speak like a man, then don’t say anything.”
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I accepted his proposal on that evening with a sky full of sunset.
The headline of the news about my marriage to Shi Xu was “The Powerful Combination of the Princess of the Leather Factory and the Young Master of Electronic Information”.
I thought of the previous headline “Marrying into a Wealthy Family”, and my heart was filled with mixed feelings.
At that time, I was a “disreputable female star” in other people’s mouths, but now I was a young entrepreneur.
Looking back, I was really amazing.
Extra Story
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Three years after marriage, Shi Xu and I had a son.
He studied in the Hu Circle and was also known as the prince of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Shanghai.
At school, his nickname was “Free Shipping Zone”.
Shi Li was a smart kid from a young age.
When the company’s employees were doing a live broadcast, they said: “So many babies like our products! Come on, assistant, increase the inventory.”
He shouted beside them: “No need to increase it! Sister, no need to increase it! We can’t sell any at all!”
“Although our products are newly developed, they are outstanding in this field!”
He said: “I haven’t heard of that either.”
Shi Xu gave him a beating.
He then promised to never talk nonsense in the company’s live broadcast room again.
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However, the title of “Honest Person in Charge of the Live Broadcast” also made the live broadcast room gain a lot of popularity.
People who newly entered the live broadcast room all asked to see Shi Li.
They all firmly believed that children don’t lie.
But the truth was, they were going to be disappointed.
Shi Li established the persona of “Children Don’t Lie”, and then lied a lot in the live broadcast room:
“It used to cost 998 yuan! While my parents are not here, I secretly changed the price to 398 yuan.”
“My parents are out. Let’s see what we’re selling today.”
In this month, the sales volume increased crazily like during the Double Eleven shopping festival.
Bullet comments: “Is this the innate talent for live streaming sales?”
“I don’t want to buy it either, but he called me sister.”
“Call me sister, and I’ll give you my wallet.”
He also played with the old meme between me and Shi Xu:
“Sister, say something. Do you want to buy it? I’ll secretly change the price for you.”
Shi Xu and I looked at the sales volume and were moved to tears.
He was a reliable rich second generation.
We could retire with peace of mind in the future.
— The End —
