The sweetest in the entertainment industry

Chapter 74 Details
My home and Gu Lanxi's home are only one street apart. We were in the same class from kindergarten to junior high school. I know her past quite well!
She is absolutely the most remarkable person I have ever met, and at the same time, the most pitiful and heartbreaking person I have ever met.

In my memory, besides being beautiful and academically excellent, the most memorable thing about Gu Lanxi is that she was very poor, extremely poor, poorer than you can imagine.

She was exceptionally beautiful from a young age. In kindergarten, she was even more beautiful than a doll. She was so beautiful that even boys from other classes would run up to her and pull her hair. You can probably imagine.

When we walked home from school, I often saw her crying and telling her grandma about this, but her grandma always scolded her.

You might not understand the dialect, but the general idea is: Why don't those people go after others? Why are they targeting you? You're always so vain; isn't the point of wearing braids to get pulled?

Not long after, her grandmother took scissors and cut her hair, leaving it all bruised and uneven, like it had been chewed by a dog. Her classmates made fun of her every day.

But she never cried again.

If someone laughs at her, she will beat them up.

Then they were ganged up on.

Despite being badly injured, she wasn't afraid and would fight back resolutely next time.

Stubborn and fierce, like a stray dog ​​that nobody cares about and doesn't care about anyone.

Gradually, others stopped bullying her, but no one dared to be her friend anymore.

However, she didn't seem to be interested in making friends with anyone.

I can't understand why this is happening. I feel it's wrong. My mother told me it's because she's too beautiful, but her family doesn't love her and doesn't want to protect her.

That's why she gets bullied.

In order to protect herself, she had no choice but to become like this.

You might not believe it, but the Gu family is a super-large family in our area. They have a dragon boat that has been passed down for hundreds of years, and there is a huge helipad outside their ancestral home. Most of their relatives are extremely wealthy.

Her grandfather ran a herbal tea shop, her father did business outside, and her grandmother bought a jade pendant for tens of thousands of yuan...

However, her school uniform was too short, exposing her legs and arms, and her family never changed it for her.

Unable to bear it any longer, the homeroom teacher called her grandmother to the school, told her about the incident, and advised her to pay more attention to her granddaughter.

As a result, her grandmother caused a scene at the school, saying that the homeroom teacher had insulted her and threatened to jump off a building.

That time, the firefighters came, the police came, and the ambulance came. In the end, the principal promised to buy Gu Lanxi a new school uniform out of his own pocket. It wasn't until she graduated that her grandmother climbed down from the rooftop.

At that time, all the students in our school were watching from the corridor, but Gu Lanxi was the only one sitting in the classroom.

I stared at an open book, not turning a single page all day.

From then on, no one ever bullied her again.

To be honest, many people feel sorry for her, but she is too cold. She usually ignores everyone and refuses anything offered to her.

It's getting cold, and we've all changed into thicker clothes, but she still only has a few thin clothes.

When I was in fifth grade, I sat behind her and saw her wearing seven or eight layers of clothing, like an onion, even in the dead of winter. She would pull out different collars every day to create the illusion that she changed clothes every day, afraid that others would laugh at her.

Once, someone deliberately bullied her by splashing water on her, and she spent the whole day in wet clothes.

She was still wearing those clothes the next day.

Then, because of a cold and fever, she fainted.

The math teacher rushed her to the hospital and even paid her medical expenses in advance. However, her grandmother came to the school and made a scene, refusing to pay and verbally abusing the math teacher, accusing him of meddling in other people's business. This angered the teacher so much that he suffered a high blood pressure attack and collapsed on the spot. He was rushed to the hospital but unfortunately could not be saved.

Gu Lanxi had a fever and squatted outside her math teacher's ward for several days, but her grandmother never came to visit.

From then on, apart from her homeroom teacher, no one dared to interfere in her affairs.

Because my house is very close to hers, I overheard my mother and grandmother talking about her family. That's when I found out that her father had a mistress who had given birth to a son.

Her grandparents treated her so badly simply because her mother refused to get a divorce.

Not only did he refuse to divorce, he also caused the mistress's son to develop depression, and he almost jumped off a building.

I heard my grandma say that once she overheard Gu Lanxi's grandma complaining to someone that her mother had a difficult childbirth and had her uterus removed, so she could never have a son again.

It was during the summer vacation of fifth grade, I think. Something happened to her family, and it caused quite a stir in our area at the time.

Her mother committed suicide in their Gu family ancestral hall. It is said that the scene was particularly gruesome. We were all kept at home by our elders and were not allowed to go out to join in the commotion. It was not until several days later that we were allowed to go out.

Within just a few days, her grandparents died of anger, and her father was expelled from the clan.

To this day, I still can't understand her father's thought process. His wife had already broken off all ties with him, and not only did she ignore him, but she also neglected his parents' funeral arrangements, selling off all the family's assets and leaving.

Gu Lanxi single-handedly handled the funerals of three elders, and it is said that all the expenses were raised for her by her clansmen.

She had nowhere to live, so she could only set up a makeshift bed under the stairs in front of her house.

Her father wrapped all her belongings in bed sheets and took them to a recycling center to sell. What he couldn't sell, he threw away in the landfill.

I watched with my own eyes as she cried and retrieved her belongings from the garbage dump.

When school started, she had no money to pay the tuition, so she ran to the ancestral hall and cried to her ancestors.

The ancestral hall was locked, so she climbed over the wall to get in.

In the middle of the night, we, the people who live nearby, all listened to her cry from our balconies.

No one knows where she got the loudspeaker, but everyone in the surrounding neighborhood could hear it clearly.

Later, when some classmates teased her and asked her where she got the money to pay her tuition, she beat them up.

Well, the Gu family must be furious when they see this.

You can go to a lawyer and sue me for spreading rumors; I'm not afraid.

Everyone in our area knows about these things, and they've been laughing at the Gu family behind their backs for years.

When this is mentioned, everyone just says—"Tsk~"

They are all incredibly wealthy, yet they let their own children live in stairwells, where they are always hungry and cold.

It was fine when her family was still alive, but later, when she was practically an orphan, they stopped caring for her.

I said Gu Lanxi is amazing and I admire her a lot. You might think, she's just an actress, what's so admirable about her?
You'll know how amazing she is once you hear about her past.

After her mother committed suicide, she was left without anyone to care for her. She was only twelve at the time, but she quickly found a way to make a living.

She learned to play the suona from somewhere.

When others have weddings or funerals, she goes there to get a meal, and sometimes she even gets a red envelope (cash gift).

The Gu family patriarch was so angry he almost fainted. Later, he arranged a job for her: collecting rent for the family and then taking a commission based on the rent.

When I was in sixth grade, my favorite thing to watch after school every day was Gu Lanxi collecting rent from street to street with a knife tucked into his waistband.

She really lives a cool life.

So I feel sorry for her and pity her, but I would never look down on her.

I probably won't meet anyone in my life who lives more earnestly than her.

Speaking of which, you might be curious about her going to university at the age of fourteen?
To put it simply, she was smart from a young age. As far as I can remember, she never got a score other than perfect.

I heard that the reason she took the entrance exam for the gifted youth program was initially just to save on tuition fees and graduate early to earn money.

The reason she has a nickname, Manman, is simply because her name sounds like an insult in the local dialect.

And because her life was so hard, some of the elders in the Gu family gave her this nickname.

Perhaps he just wanted to tell her, "Why worry so much about profits and losses? In the end, Lesser Fullness (小满) is the best-case scenario."

At 2 a.m., the short article was posted and instantly received over a thousand comments.

I only knew that Gu Lanxi was beautiful and had an impressive academic background, but I didn't know that she had lived such a life when she was a child.

Gu Lanxi's fans were heartbroken and cried, but at the same time, they couldn't help but admire her.

Afterwards, he kept wailing in the comments section, begging that person to tell more about Gu Lanxi's past.

Many people don't understand the meaning of idol worship and think it's a brainless act, but for many, having such a wonderful person in their lives is enough to illuminate their youth.

As long as the house doesn't collapse, they can love this person for a lifetime!

I mentioned making a phone call before, and many friends were interested and asked me how to participate in this activity.

Because there aren't many people willing to participate, there won't be a random selection this time. You just need to join the reader group listed in the introduction on QQ, and send me your phone number to schedule a time when I notify you when the event starts.

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