“Won’t your friend from the TV station be angry if you go to the party?” Ning Yumei teased.
Zhang Jiajia was only averagely pretty, with no standout features, and her singing and dancing were ordinary. But her friend who worked in post-production always amplified her strengths, giving her personas like “tomboy” and “foodie” in the program’s daily videos, helping her maintain a decent audience base.
“Would he dare to be angry?” Zhang Jiajia said proudly.
Just as Ning Yumei was about to speak, her phone rang – it was her agent calling.
“Quick, check Weibo. What’s the story behind the video?” her agent’s voice was very anxious.
Uneasy, Ning Yumei separated from Zhang Jiajia and returned to the makeup room to check Weibo.
A small Weibo account suddenly released a video of Ning Yumei smashing things in the dressing room, accompanied by the caption “Persona collapse?” It was instantly reposted over ten thousand times and became a Weibo hot topic.
Some people even made a meme video of the smashing scene, repeatedly playing it with her sharp “Ah!” instantly becoming the top meme.
Ning Yumei looked at her enlarged, ferocious face and angrily threw her phone to the ground. Recalling some particularly disgusting comments, she couldn’t swallow her anger and wanted to pick up her phone to curse back, only to find it was broken.
Irritated, she tossed the phone onto the sofa, opened a drawer filled with unopened phones, and casually took one out, switching her SIM card.
As soon as it turned on, she received a text message – “Someone has hired a marketing company for Lin Xiaoman.”
Ning Yumei gripped her phone tightly. She knew this wasn’t just luck – Lin Xiaoman’s ability to enter the semi-finals must have been manipulated behind the scenes.
“Who did it?” she immediately sent a text.
They’re keeping it very quiet.”
Ning Yumei frowned. Could she have found a sponsor?
Her family would never help her, and there’s no such thing as a selfless benefactor. There’s only one possibility: she found a sponsor and climbed up the social ladder.
Who could it be?
Ning Yumei forgot about her own matters and hurried to find Lin Xiaoman.
Indeed, not finding Lin Xiaoman in the dormitory, Ning Yumei inquired around and learned she had gone to the stairwell.
