Rebirth of Chinese Entertainment, the Diary of a 95 Flower

The mother smiled when she realized her eldest daughter would stay home a little longer.

She's always been forgetful and absent-minded. When she forgot to bring her red scarf to school, her mother would chase after her to bring it to her.

Now that she's on TV and earning money, she still has to help her pick out hair ties.

I realize my daughter is successful.

I also understand that my daughter will come home less and less in the future, and will be further and further away from me.

I couldn't understand anything Xiwei had just said about the production crew, reshoots, or not passing censorship.

All I know is that my daughter is getting more and more amazing.

I felt both proud and unsure of what I could do.

I'm afraid that if I talk too much, my daughter will get annoyed.

But I couldn't help wanting to keep my daughter here for a few more days, even if it meant just one more day.

Sometimes she would rather her eldest daughter be as forgetful as she was when she was little than have her fly too far away, so far that she would have to wait a long time to cook her a hot meal.

The door closed again.

Tian Xiwei heard her mother yelling in the living room, saying that her younger sister's face was dry and that she should put some moisturizer on her before bed. It was actually just a cheap bottle of Dabao lotion that cost only a few yuan.

Tian Xiwei saw right through her mother's little scheme.

My younger sister has even better skin than me; she can sleep without applying moisturizer. To be honest, Mom just wanted to give her a little more advice.

Just like when she was in high school at home, her mother would always say, "Dry your hair before you go to sleep."

I just left her room and reminded her not to look at her phone, as it's bad for her eyes.

It is both a reminder and an instruction.

I also wanted to talk to her more.

When we talked about studying, Mom could understand some of it, but when we talked about future work, she really couldn't understand any of it. We could only talk about everyday life.

I could hear familiar sounds outside.

It's a bit noisy, but very cozy.

It's a feeling you can't hear on set, a feeling of home.

Especially when I heard my mother laugh loudly before she went back to her room, I don't know what she was talking about with my father.

Tian Xiwei also laughed.

Suddenly, I realized that no matter how glamorous she is on TV or how much she is called "teacher" on set, when she gets home, she is still the child who needs her mother to find her hair tie and waits for her mother to cook.

Seeing the red envelope Jiang Yang had sent on her phone, she didn't accept it. Instead, she typed: ["Just kidding, I won't accept it. Do you think I'm as greedy for money as Yang Chaoyue? Let me know in advance if you're going to Hengdian. I need to tell my parents. They'll be sad if I leave suddenly. Goodnight, my boss."]
Turn off the lights.

I thought of the kiss I shared with Jiang Yang on the hill behind the library after the college entrance exam.

The scent of fresh grass in the summer evening breeze.

Jiang Yang's body temperature.

And her heart was racing at the time.

Tian Xiwei had a slight smile on her lips.

Staring at Jiang Yang's message box, she hesitated for a long time before finally clicking the kiss emoji to send it.

I've sent this emoji to other people before, but it's always to my best friends. This is the first time I've sent it to a guy.

Fearing that Jiang Yang wouldn't understand, and also afraid that she was being too proactive, she quickly covered her phone after sending the emoji.

No wonder when I listened to Sister Meng talk about her high school romance in Hengdian, she said that secretly passing notes to someone would make her ears burn.

I didn't understand at the time.

Tian Xiwei understands now.

I noticed that my ears felt a little hot, which was strange.

Jiang Yang should understand what she means.

Should I send her a kiss emoji in return?

You absolutely have to reply, otherwise it will be really embarrassing. She's a girl, I'd never take the initiative again.

I heard a message notification sound.

Tian Xiwei turned on her phone screen, and sure enough, it was a message from Jiang Yang.

Click to take a look.

Jiang Yang didn't send her an emoji, only a single line: ["If you don't want it, give it back to me; I'm short on cash."]
Tian Xiwei was furious, her fingertips clenching as she typed: ["No refund! I insist on taking it, I want all two hundred yuan, I'm even greedier than Chaoyue!"]
Open the red envelope.

0.01 yuan.

Tian Xiwei was stunned. She pressed the voice message button and, in a Chongqing accent, angrily sent a voice message: "Jiang Yang, are you out of your mind?!"
The phone vibrates.

I received an emoji from Jiang Yang.

It's a kiss.

Tian Xiwei kept a straight face and ignored her.

Jiang Yang sent another kiss.

Then came the second, the third... and seven or eight in a row, all of them kisses.

Tian Xiwei gradually smiled.

The dog boss isn't ignorant.

I was just teasing her.

Edited text: [“Okay, okay, oh dear, you're so mean.”]
Then she sent a kissing emoji in response.

After talking with Jiang Yang, I couldn't sleep.

I know the production team will seize the opportunity to promote it.

I might as well browse the trending topics.

Clicking on the trending topics list, many of them are related to the college entrance examination.

The list features a string of familiar celebrity names.

The top-ranked hashtag is Guan Xiaotong's: #GuanXiaotong, College Entrance Exam Interview#
She met Guan Xiaotong once.

I have Xiaotong's WeChat, but we've never chatted.

She's a big star, she's been famous for a long time, the nation's sweetheart, the gap between them is too big.

She had to rush out of the exam hall after finishing the college entrance exam to steal the spotlight.

Guan Xiaotong was interviewed by reporters who staked out the location.

Click on the entry.

What we saw was Guan Xiaotong being interviewed by reporters in Beiping.

He was wearing a loose-fitting jacket, a black baseball cap, and a regular backpack, with a red T-shirt underneath.

Many parents were watching.

Many people were taking pictures of Guan Xiaotong with their phones.

When asked by reporters how she did on the exam, Guan Xiaotong faced the camera with confidence and composure and said:

"I did alright on the exam, but I completely forgot the classical Chinese texts that I used to know so well. However, the Chinese composition topic was a bit unexpected, and I didn't need to use the materials I had prepared in advance, but I was still able to write and it went quite smoothly. Actually, I studied until midnight the night before the exam, and I was a little nervous when I left home, but I was still confident. Right now, all I want to do is go out and have fun with my classmates. At least I don't have to study now. I plan to not look at any words for a month. Also, I gave up reading novels and I stopped playing the piano. I hope I can slowly pick them up again in college..."

Watching Guan Xiaotong talk on and on in front of the camera.

No nonsense.

These are all things the audience wants to know.

They behaved naturally and appropriately.

Thinking back to her awkwardness during the interview, and how she rudely tugged at Jiang Yang's sleeve... she was far worse than Guan Xiaotong.

Millions of test takers.

Many of them also become actors.

There are only so many spots on the trending topics list, will she really be there?

Knowing the chances were slim, but still clinging to a sliver of hope, I swiped my finger across the screen, then suddenly paused.

Then I saw her name.

#Tian Xiwei, College Entrance Examination Interview#
"I'm really trending on Weibo! Wow, that happened so fast!"

Tian Xiwei suddenly perked up. She sat up and leaned her back against the headboard.

Take a look at the trending search terms.

They found some belonging to her, some to Yang Chaoyue, and some to Jiang Yang.

All of this is understandable.

However, Zhou Ye and Liu Haochun were also trending on social media.

"Zhou Ye hasn't filmed any movies or TV series, and Liu Haochun didn't even get to be interviewed, so how come they're trending on social media?"

Tian Xi exited the page and then reopened the trending topics list, afraid that she was seeing things. (End of Chapter)