Shadow of Chinese Entertainment

Chapter 331 Invitation

Because they had worked with too many people, at Hu Xiaobei's suggestion, An Xiaoqian simply categorized and listed them.

First, there are friends you meet through work. This can be categorized and counted by time, such as movies, TV series, music, awards, magazines, etc.

Although there are many people in this field, listing them is not difficult.

After all, ever since the TV series "The Return of the Condor Heroes," Hu Xiaobei has been able to fill in any gaps in her knowledge.

As for before filming The Return of the Condor Heroes, Liu Xiaoli could also help her.

Then there are all sorts of non-work-related friends, classmates, teachers, etc., whom I've known since childhood.

Hu Xiaobei saw a name in her childhood friend list that she vaguely remembered but didn't really know.

To be honest, he didn't even know what this person looked like. He had only seen snippets of her name in some novels because he was interested in An Xiaoqian.

If he remembered correctly, An Xiaoxi's childhood friend was a singer who apparently had breast cancer or something and died young.

It was early 2010. Although Yao Beina had participated in song talent shows and sung theme songs for some films and TV dramas, she was still young at the time.

However, these works are more recognized within the industry or specific audiences, and her popularity has not yet spread widely beyond the mainstream.

It wasn't until 2013, when she participated in some very popular shows, that she became known to audiences across the country for her powerful singing and truly entered the public eye.

In reality, Yao Beina was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2011.

Although she actively received treatment and her condition was once under control, she unfortunately passed away in January 2015 due to a recurrence of cancer.

During Yao Beina's illness, An Xiaoqian visited her many times and offered her encouragement and support in various ways.

Immediately after her passing, An Xiaoqian posted a message of condolence on Weibo, expressing her grief and saying that Yao Beina and her songs will forever remain in her heart.

Afterwards, An Xiaoqian also shared her memories of Yao Beina on social media many times.

They also launched the "Yao Beina Memorial Day" event to encourage everyone to pay attention to and support breast cancer research, so that Yao Beina's spirit can continue.

Most importantly, after becoming famous, Yao Beina spoke up for An Xiaoqian, indirectly clarifying the rumors about An Xiaoqian's age and gender being falsified.

In light of this, Hu Xiaobei decided to pay special attention to this girl.

With his current understanding of bodily evolution and the various biological abilities he can transform and enhance, although he cannot regenerate from a drop of blood for the time being, things like limb regeneration are not difficult for him.

Although cancer is considered a terminal illness, this definition is actually limited to the Western medical system.

Traditional Chinese medicine does not simply classify cancer as "incurable." Instead, it adheres to a holistic approach, using personalized treatment plans to improve patients' living conditions, alleviate symptoms, control disease progression, enhance quality of life, and even enable patients to live with cancer.

(PS: On a side note, if cancer is in its early stages, it's easier to deal with. But if it's in the middle or late stages, I suggest that ordinary people come quietly and leave quietly, without causing trouble for themselves and their families.)

If you really don't want to give up treatment, you can also try traditional Chinese medicine, provided you find the right TCM practitioner.

Moreover, Hu Xiaobei possesses many amazing abilities through his shadow. These abilities can not only help people easily embark on the path of evolution, but also have a great chance of granting them immortality in the future.

Solving the problem for a patient who is most likely in the early stages of breast cancer should not be a problem or difficult.

Hu Xiaobei was lost in thought for a moment and didn't know how much time had passed.

Unbeknownst to her, An Xiaoqian had already compiled a guest list that included guests from her university years.

She also had many university classmates, such as Liu Jing, Li Danni, Wang Jia, Sun Meijing, Zhou Yang, Dai Xiaoying, Xu Wenxuan, Lu Xiner, Wang Liwen, Tang Xiaoxiao, Wen Guiyu, Chen Shu, Ma Jing, and female classmates from Jiangnan University's architecture program.

Other male classmates include Zhu Yawen, Luo Jin, Zhang Lu, Qi Kui, Ma Wenlong, Lu Fangsheng, Yin Jian, Yang Jiayin, Cao Zheng, and Zhang Yi.

In addition, there were her homeroom teacher and acting instructors, Wang Jinsong and Ge Wenyi, among others.

As for well-known alumni of Beijing Film Academy like Zhou Xiaowen, and Principal Zhang, there's no need to elaborate; anyone who has had contact with them is on the invitation list.

(PS: In early interview programs, Ge Wenyi appeared as one of Xixi's examiners for the Beijing Film Academy entrance exam, her homeroom teacher, and her acting instructor. For example, he mentioned Xixi's dance performance during the Beijing Film Academy entrance exam, and her role as a girl with a disability in both legs sitting in a wheelchair in "The Story of One Yuan"—there is a photo of this, with Zhu Yawen pushing the wheelchair and Xixi sitting in it.)

For more details, you can search for "Film and Television Club," which contains videos of programs related to Sissi, if I remember correctly.

During this period, Sisi also had a lack of common sense and loved to ask "why", which earned her a nickname from her classmates - known as "Ten Thousand Whys"!
Chapter 14 indirectly touches on this "100,000 Whys" through other characters, but it seems to be hidden too well, and no one has noticed it yet.

Chapter 112 also contains an indirect description of An Xiaoqian's "100,000 Whys".

Well, no one noticed, or maybe they did, but no one bothered to comment.

Not only students and teachers say this, but even Huang Xiaoming, who worked with the Condor Heroes, said the same thing in a phone interview for "Behind the Story"...

Even the host indirectly expressed his agreement with this view.

This shows that she didn't understand many common-sense things at the time, but she had a strong thirst for knowledge.

This is one of the reasons why I described Sisi in the way I did after I got involved in her life in early 02 in my previous book.

Many people may not understand this, but you can think of it as a boarding student in a school.

They live at school year-round, and most of them don't know much about the outside world, which makes them significantly different from ordinary day students.

I attended a boarding school for a year, and during that year I felt completely disconnected from society.

The effects are even more pronounced in children who go abroad to study at the age of ten.

Because they have less contact with people and things, and because they don't speak the language in the early stages, they are basically immersed in their family and past memories.

Even if you adapt quickly, it still takes one or two years to gradually integrate into the new environment.

I've met several kids like this, ranging from ten to fourteen or fifteen years old, and they're really adorably silly.

In terms of cognition and common sense, they seem to be at least three to five years more immature than children of the same age in China.

Back then, the internet wasn't as developed, and people had very limited ways to access information. For children, they basically only got their information through television and their limited social circles.

And what can you expect a ten-year-old child to read all kinds of news?
Back then, watching cartoons was probably the only thing we could do and enjoyed.

This is also why, when Sisi was rehearsing "The Story of One Yuan" at the Beijing Film Academy, she didn't even understand what a neighborhood committee was and had to ask her teachers and classmates.

Because within her social circle and the information she was exposed to, there was no such knowledge.

Wang Jinsong, on the other hand, was interviewed primarily in his capacity as the head of the performing arts department and a class advisor.

However, many interviews and materials directly state that Wang Jinsong was the homeroom teacher of Xixi's class, without specifying that Ge Wenyi was Xixi's homeroom teacher.

Actually, based on various interview materials, the earliest homeroom teacher of Xixi's performance class should be Ge Wenyi.

Later, the homeroom teacher was changed to Wang Jinsong, whom everyone is familiar with.

Therefore, I still wrote it according to the mainstream sources.

Uh... I've gone off-topic.

Okay, I went off-topic on purpose.

If it weren't for the inability to write emotional interaction, and the need to reach a word count, cancer and these explanations wouldn't have appeared at all!!!

If possible, Hu Xiaobei really doesn't want to have a wedding.

But for An Xiaoqian's sake, there are no "what ifs"!

(End of this chapter)