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Chapter 291, page 290: Senior Sister's Birthday, Cunzi Gets Cyberbullied (4K)

"Yeah, like what my mom would say."

"Ha ha……"

"It's been a long time since I've seen my mother. I'm planning to go home in a while."

Zhou Ye carefully held the gift Lin Shaobai had given him in his arms.

"By the way, so you only invited me this time?"

"Yes, I already told you from the beginning."

"I thought you called someone else." Zhou Ye looked around the empty office again.

Even though there were only the two of them, they still wanted to take another look.

"Why……"

"Because you usually bring several people with you, right? This time you only invited me, which feels a bit strange."

Zhou Ye touched his chin.

"Um……"

Lin Shaobai thought about it carefully and realized that he had indeed used to be called that.

There are relatively few instances of people calling alone, but it's not like what my senior sister said, that there are none at all.

"But it's alright, I'm actually in a pretty good mood since you called me here alone."

Zhou Ye smiled.

Lin Shaobai didn't speak; he simply watched Zhou Shijie's expression as she sat opposite him.

Don't look at me like this.

Zhou Ye made a gun gesture with his hand and pointed it at Lin Shaobai's face.

Actually, she regretted it a little after she finished arranging it; it should have been facing her heart.

"Actually, I'm also the type to get jealous very easily."

"Ok?"

"Could it be that, dear President Lin, you didn't notice?"

Zhou Ye smiled brightly.

When she talked about this, she didn't use a accusing tone; it sounded more like playful banter between lovers.

She also subtly revealed that she can get jealous.

It's very common to get jealous when you like someone.

"Of course I am—"

"You should have noticed by now, right? If you haven't noticed after all this time we've known each other... that really makes me sad."

He said he was heartbroken, but the smile on his face was so bright.

"so."

Zhou Ye has been talking very frequently and very fast since the beginning.

Although it didn't all come out like a machine gun.

Zhou Ye placed her hands on the table, smiling as she looked at Lin Shaobai. Her mouth was slightly open, clearly indicating that she had something to say.

But even after going over those words in my head three or four times, I still couldn't bring myself to say them.

After chatting about some work-related issues, the senior colleague walked towards the door with her birthday present.

As if she had suddenly remembered something, her pace slowed down, until finally she stopped completely in front of the door.

Lin Shaobai found it strange.

I wondered if I was going to say something again if I stopped.
Or did you forget something?
He subconsciously looked around the table and chairs, but found nothing.

"Sister?"

Zhou Ye stood motionless at the door without saying a word, which seemed strange.

Lin Shaobai couldn't help but ask her.

"Oh, I suddenly remembered something." Zhou Ye turned his head and looked at the ceiling in the office.

Lin Shaobai followed her gaze and said, "You remembered there were bugs on the ceiling?"

Zhou Ye: "Haha, of course not. I was thinking, it seems that when I'm angry with you, you never get angry with me."

So that's why she was looking up – she was thinking.

His focused expression made it seem as if he could dig up and describe even the smallest things from years ago.

Lin Shaobai was stunned when she said it.

So, after thinking about it for so long, is this what you meant?

“Sometimes I get angry with you.” Zhou Ye turned around, his voice a little more serious than before: “I’m sorry.”

Lin Shaobai: "Why are you suddenly bringing this up?"

Zhou Ye: "I just felt... I don't know, maybe I suddenly remembered it and just said it."

Yes.

Even she herself didn't know why she was bringing this up at this time.

It's not some kind of self-reflection meeting where you need to summarize your shortcomings.

Perhaps he got carried away by the summary? Zhou Ye's face turned slightly red.

This red color is the red of embarrassment.

Because of her past unreasonable outbursts and temper tantrums.

"If this happens again..."

"Hope I'm not angry?"

"No. It would be abnormal not to get angry in this situation. I made the mistake first, and then I'm asking you not to be angry. That doesn't make any sense."

"Hmm." Lin Shaobai frowned, pretending to be deep in thought. "That makes perfect sense."

"I just hope you won't stay angry for too long, and that you won't get really angry. That's all."

"that's it?"

"that's it."

Zhou Ye repeated himself.

"Oh, this is really difficult."

Lin Shaobai said this on purpose, just to tease his senior sister.

However, when I looked up again, I found that her expression hadn't changed much; it was still as determined as ever.

"Ok."

He held firm for a few seconds, then lowered his head slightly, sighing as if accepting the truth.

Lin Shaobai quickly stood up, put his hands behind his back, and then went to his senior sister and looked down at her.

"Sister."

"Ok?"

"you are very cute."

"……ah???"

Zhou Ye was stunned, his eyes wide open, clearly at a loss.

Does this statement have anything to do with what just happened?

Why did the art style suddenly change so quickly?

Or is it because I suddenly felt like saying something romantic to liven things up?

Zhou Ye's mind was a little off, and his face was getting redder and redder.

Thinking about it this way, it seems like I'm really pathetic!

Your face turned red just because of those four words?

No, no, no, it's not that I'm spineless, it's just that I like Lin Shaobai so much that I have these feelings.

Well, that must be the case.

Why did you suddenly say I'm cute?

"It's not exactly sudden, is it? Didn't you talk about this? Well, I'll tell you then."

"...But I still don't quite understand the connection between these two things?"

"You're so cute. The things you say are cute, the things you do are cute, so much so that when you get angry with me, I think you're just being affectionate, cutely affectionate."

"Ok?"

Zhou Ye finally understood!

If you still don't understand after all this, there might be something wrong with your head.

"Um... it's... um... that..."

A sudden confession is most likely to disrupt a person's emotions.

What's more, it's a sudden confession from someone you like.

"Actually, you're always like this. I'm telling you this seriously, and you just have to... um?"

In his panic, Zhou Ye could barely speak.

Most people are probably like this; when they're shy, they get nervous and at a loss.

Most importantly, Lin Shaobai kissed her while she was talking. Now, she was just stuttering, but she couldn't speak at all.

Zhou Ye touched his chest, then pinched Lin Shaobai's face with his hand.

Lin Shaobai was still smiling: "Happy birthday!"

Zhou Ye: "Thank you."

……

May 20th is also a female celebrity's birthday.

That is, Cunzi, who has just begun to make a name for himself in the entertainment industry.

Unfortunately, 2023 was a tough year for her.

It could even be said that her acting career was constantly criticized by netizens from the very beginning, and it wasn't until 2024 that things started to improve slightly.

Good acting skills can indeed improve an actor's public image.

This is also a time when cyberbullying is extremely serious.

Cunzi hasn't been in a good mental state lately.

No matter how generous she is, she's still just a girl in her early twenties.

Many people say they don't care about what's said online, but often the people who say that are the ones who care the most.

It's hard for anyone not to care, right?
Those who truly don't care are those who have been in this industry for a long time, achieved both fame and fortune, and whose opinions from netizens have become insignificant to them.

After all, a few words of insult are nothing to them.

Cunzi has hardly gone out lately.

I just stay at home.

Her family issues had already put her in the spotlight, and later, some of her comments, such as "Why doesn't it count?", made netizens have even more negative opinions about her.

Actually, there's not much of a problem with what she said, and she was telling the truth.

He has a great talent for acting.

It's because everyone dislikes him during this period that some of her words are deliberately amplified.

She didn't mean anything by it, but after being interpreted in various ways by netizens, it came to mean something different from her original intention.

I don't dare go online at all, because the comment sections for any news about her are absolutely horrific!
[She's just a resource-driven actress, are you guys only just realizing that?]

[To be able to land such a great movie role right from her debut, if she's not a "resource-backed" star, who is? She's way more resource-backed than any other star I know.]

There's no way to clear up her family's mess.

Did you guys see that interview? She was so manipulative and scheming during the interview; I hated it.

[It seems like she's deliberately pretending to be innocent.]

[Yes, yes, I felt she was faking it on purpose; her smile was fake too.]

[Most importantly, her team is constantly buying marketing and trending topics to claim she's better than those famous post-95 actresses. I think she should just give up now.]

[Is she born in the 00s?]

[Haha, she changed her age; she was originally born in 98.]

What? She was born in the 90s? I thought she was born in the 2000s, but the information says she was born in the 2000s.

Wasn't the issue of falsifying one's age a huge scandal? You guys didn't just find out now, did you?

[Fans, stop trying to defend him. Just look at how bad his public image is in the comments section. It's pointless to try and defend him now.]

[Um, although I don't particularly like her, some people's insults are really going too far.]

I also think it's unnecessary to hurl insults at someone in the comments section like that.

Ultimately, she's just a young girl.

Yes, and it's a family matter, not her business.

[Isn't her family situation her problem? Isn't she living in that house? Didn't she spend her mother's money? The fans are pretending to be bystanders again, aren't they?]

But I know for sure that I don't owe that money...

Yes, I don't think it's necessary to keep dwelling on this.

Sometimes, Cunzi would pitifully find one or two comments out of so many that encouraged, supported, and loved her.

It’s not easy either.

After all, to find these kind comments, you have to see those who criticize her.

This is an unavoidable fact.

Cunzi understood that she couldn't let her fans down because of these people.

On her birthday, Cunzi's family prepared a big birthday cake for her.

Everyone uses the internet, and there's a tacit understanding that people don't want to talk about things that happen online.

At 8 p.m. on May 20, Cunzi sat at her family's dining table, looking at the large cake placed in the center.

Her eyes were red; she had just been crying.

It's so painful, it's really so painful.

Later, someone compiled statistics, and netizens thought that the male celebrity was the one who was cyberbullied the most. In fact, the celebrity who was cyberbullied the most, according to the data, was Cunzi.

Liu Haocun reflected that this year's birthday was truly a sad one.

It's supposed to be my birthday, but I just can't feel happy. I have to smile.

If you have to look gloomy on your birthday, you'll probably have to look gloomy for the whole year to come.

No, life should start anew from now on!

Cunzi encouraged himself in his heart, but when he actually straightened his back, he slowly hunched over again.

How come it's brand new?
It feels like this situation will never end.

It felt like stepping into darkness, with no light to see the way forward.

In the end, she simply ate a piece of cake and didn't say anything more.

After finishing the cake, I went back to my room and lay down on my bed.

Her phone was right next to her; she wanted to look at it, but she didn't want to.

Occasionally, even in my hazy mind, I'll still think about how it's my birthday today.

Will Lin Shaobai remember his birthday?

She harbored this little hope in her heart.

Turning around, I crushed this small hope deep in my heart.

Lin Shaobai is a big star, a top-tier celebrity with an unparalleled popularity. The two are just friends.

There's no need to specifically remember the birthday of this kind of friendship.

If she were my girlfriend, I would definitely remember. Right now, we're just friends...

Cunzi's feelings for Lin Shaobai are not those of ordinary friends.

"what……"

Cunzi scratched his hair.

Perhaps because she was feeling too depressed, her eyelids became increasingly heavy.

This year's birthday is different from all the previous ones.

This year's birthday was a bit sad...

Cunzi's vision gradually darkened until she finally fell into a deep sleep.

When I regained consciousness, my phone rang.

Cunzi woke up immediately upon hearing the sound, and groggily grabbed her phone and turned it on.

Her eyes, which were half-open, widened instantly when she saw that the message was from Lin Shaobai.

Looking at the time again, it was 11:40 PM.

My heart races just from reading the message.

【Happy birthday. 】

How are you doing lately?

Cunzi stared at the two messages in disbelief, her gaze gradually softening from surprise.

Her hair was a little messy from sleeping, making her look somewhat tired.

"It really is him..."

"Brother Shaobai."

"He knows all of that."

Ah, that's true. With this matter causing such a big stir, how could we not know about it?

Cunzi sat up in bed and inexplicably tidied her long hair.

Even though nobody's watching.

Is it a kind of ritual before chatting?

【Well enough.】

Liu Haocun thought for a moment and then sent out those three words.

Then, as if deliberately changing the subject, she smiled and said in a voice message, "Thank you for remembering my birthday."

(End of this chapter)