Chapter 292: Unknown
As the future queen of the music world, and the person people were optimistic about to take over the Mandopop scene, Zhou Shilan was actually just a girl from an ordinary family. Before she became famous, her family’s situation was not particularly good. Now that she was getting on in years, almost 26, it was normal for her family to rush her to get married.
But she didn’t want to bother with these things. She just wanted to develop well in the entertainment industry and not bother with matters of love.
“Sister, you haven’t released an album recently. Didn’t you use to release one every three months? It’s been half a year now.”
When her younger sister happened to mention this to her, Zhou Shilan rubbed her temples, thinking about how to answer this question.
“I also want to take a vacation.”
She didn’t even believe this excuse herself. Anyone who knew her knew she was a workaholic. Vacations basically didn’t exist.
But her younger sister didn’t ask her anything else.
“Sister, my vacation is also coming up soon. Shall we go somewhere to play together?”
“Alright, where do you want to go? I’ll take you.”
“To Huazhong?”
“…Ahem, that’s fine.”
Zhou Shilan was thinking, in Guangnan, could she still find Yu Linna? She kind of wanted to find some inspiration from her.
If she didn’t squeeze out an album soon, she felt that her popularity would slowly be worn away. Although she wouldn’t be unknown in a few years, in the long run, there would come a day when her popularity would be completely consumed. If she wanted to stay in the audience’s hearts for a long time, she could only increase her exposure.
…
Tang Yumeng was also busy. She was busy filming every day, running around on the set. In the past, Tang Yulong could still see her at home, but now he almost never saw her. His sister had really become a busybody, not even coming home, just like the day a few years ago when she had a fight with her family and was kicked out by her father, who told her not to come back. Although his sister also had a backbone, saying she wouldn’t come back and really filming outside, making her own money to support herself.
Tang Yulong missed a certain blonde a little. He wondered what that girl was doing now. Could he go out and play with her again? Tang Yulong really thought so.
…
What was Yu Linna doing?
She was, of course, on vacation.
Putting other things aside, the hot springs in Meihui were really great. She was starting to like this place. Besides not bathing with her roommates, she always acted together with everyone else. As winter approached, although the weather in the south was different from the north, it was still a bit cold. Lan Ranyan let out a hot breath. It turned out that people saying the south wasn’t cold was a lie. Wasn’t this quite cold? She put her two hands in her pockets, a scarf around her neck, and wore thermal stockings, but still felt cold. When she lived in Beijing, it was much colder than here, but the cold air in the south was not to be underestimated. And the weather in the south had been too cold these past few years. Could it be that the earth’s climate was in chaos?
“Linna, let’s go watch TV.”
“I have to work.”
“That’s so boring. Let’s go, let’s go watch TV.”
From a distance, you could see Fang Jiangning pulling Yu Linna’s hand to her room to watch TV. In this cold weather, no one seemed to have the idea of going out. And the main reason they had come to this place was for the hot springs. They hadn’t thought much about other plans. At most, they would just look for nearby attractions to visit. But clearly, after walking for a whole day yesterday, they had no energy to walk again today.
Fang Jiangning and Yu Linna seemed to have known each other for a long time. According to Fang Jiangning, they had known each other since their third year of high school and were even deskmates. And they could even get into the same university and live in the same dorm. Such a fate was probably something no one could be envious of. Many of her good friends from before had either stayed in Beijing or gone abroad to study. How many were like her, specially running to the south for university?
She had also sometimes thought about what would have happened if she had chosen to study abroad at that time, but that was a thought from the past.
“Ranran, how does the weather in Huazhong compare to your Beijing?”
Xiao Yanhan ran over, wanting to poke her waist, but her fingers were caught and hurt by Lan Ranyan.
“If you guys come to Beijing, I’ll take you to the Great Wall, and I can also take you to have a snowball fight. Of course, the premise is that there’s snow.”
Lan Ranyan said faintly.
“By the way, I don’t even know what your family does. You’ve never said. What kind of work do your family members do?”
Xiao Yanhan rubbed her aching fingers and asked.
Among the people in the dorm, no one seemed to be an ordinary university student. Lan Ranyan herself also knew this. A great author, a big-time streamer, and a flop manga artist formed the strangest combination in dorm 383. Any one of them could be talked about for three days and three nights. Not to mention Xiao Yanhan, this flop, who still had a long way to go to become famous. And the stories about Yu Linna were quite numerous.
After all, a person who had once thought of committing suicide, who had climbed up continuously with her own perseverance, and finally wore the crown. This story sounded very inspirational, and also made people feel that it was not like reality, but more like a fairy tale.
And Lan Ranyan…
She seemed to have never talked about her family’s affairs.
“It’s just very ordinary, just doing business. We Beijingers are more practical and kind, so our business has always been very good. I guess I’m a young miss.”
Clearly, she didn’t want to make things clear. She said her family was in business, but Xiao Yanhan was still not very willing to believe it. After all, Lan Ranyan looked like someone with a background no matter how you looked at her. How could a simple “doing business” be so simple?
Of course, Xiao Yanhan didn’t press the issue.
After that, Lan Ranyan went for a walk outside alone, looking at the southern scenery and feeling the cold wind. Then she called home to check on her family.
“Ranran, is Guangnan fun?”
“It’s quite fun. Mom, where are you?”
“I’m still in England. I should be home before the New Year.”
“Is it just the housekeeper at home?”
“Yes, so you can only play by yourself when you go back, my good daughter~”
“…”
This old mom is definitely my biological one.
She paced in the courtyard, walking everywhere, talking to her mom on the phone, chatting, and clearing her head.
“Ranran, when I heard you were going to Guangnan University, I thought you were joking. After all, you have many other choices, right? To put it bluntly, if you’re not satisfied with your score, you can go abroad to study. You have plenty of opportunities.”
“At that time, I really didn’t get my ideal score, and then I wanted to change my mood and came here. But Mom, I don’t regret doing so. In fact, she is very glad I did.”
Lan Ranyan smiled faintly.
She stood in the cold wind, her tall figure even more conspicuous in the courtyard.
Coming to Guangnan University, meeting the friends in her dorm, everyone was so outstanding. She understood that she hadn’t come here because she didn’t do well on her exams. It was precisely because she had gotten such a score that she had the opportunity to meet everyone.
Everyone was very outstanding, and everyone was so good. Besides her, everyone in the dorm was a local, but they didn’t exclude her and even pushed her to be the big sister of the dorm. She knew that everyone still liked her.
“Because I quite like it here.”
On the other end of the phone, Mama Lan smiled.
She had originally thought that her daughter would not be used to the south and might even become negative. Now it seemed that everything was developing in a good direction, and she was relieved.
“Then your dad and I will continue to play outside~ Daughter, you have to take care of yourself~”
Hanging up the phone, Lan Ranyan put away her phone. She was thinking, maybe she should find something to do after she went back for the winter break, for example, just go to a couple of companies and play around.
…
When Lan Ranyan returned to the room, Yu Linna was still typing on her keyboard. She remembered that Fang Jiangning had invited her to watch TV not long ago, and seeing her like this, she must have refused.
“Linna, since we’re already here, why don’t the few of us in the dorm go see a movie? We haven’t gone to see a movie together yet.”
Yu Linna was clearly not particularly interested. She had wanted to refuse, but was stopped by Lan Ranyan.
“It’s rare to come out and play. It’s boring to stay in the room. And the few of us are rarely all together, right?”
Yu Linna obediently shut her mouth. In the past semester, the dorm had gone out to play together, had skewers, barbecue, hot pot, and hiking, but she had been absent for almost all of them. The only time she was willing to show up on time was for the four-person dorm gatherings. Only then was she willing to appear. Most of the time, she didn’t appear at all.
A semester had passed, and she hadn’t gotten to know anyone, only the few in her dorm were a little familiar with her. Come to think of it, it was a huge failure.
Now that Lan Ranyan had spoken, she also wanted Yu Linna to come out and play with everyone in the dorm. How could Yu Linna say no?
If it were before, she might have really refused, but now, she felt she couldn’t.
“Alright, big sister, you can buy the movie tickets first. I’ll transfer you the money.”
“What did you call me?”
“Big sister.”
“…”
“Ranran.”
“Be good.”
Lan Ranyan flicked her forehead, opened the room door to find Fang Jiangning and Xiao Yanhan, and pulled them to see a movie. For some reason, Lan Ranyan didn’t seem to like people calling her big sister. Although this title was very domineering, she didn’t seem to like it very much.
Hearing that they had pulled Yu Linna along, Xiao Yanhan immediately climbed out of bed and was the first to say she wanted to go. Fang Jiangning had originally wanted to stay in, but helpless, she could only go out with the main group.
When they were buying tickets, Xiao Yanhan repeatedly told Lan Ranyan that she wanted to sit next to Yu Linna, which annoyed Lan Ranyan to no end, so she could only give her the seat next to her. Xiao Yanhan was so happy to have the chance to get close to Yu Linna that she almost flew up. She wanted to use this opportunity to get closer to her idol.
The person she liked the most in her heart, now she had the chance to watch a movie with her. She wanted to use this opportunity to deepen their relationship, and then slowly develop with her, to bend her.
“Yanhan, you keep looking at me with those eyes. I’ll think you have some ulterior motives.”
“There’s no such thing! Shion-sensei, you have to believe me! Am I that kind of person! I’m your die-hard fan!”
“I don’t care if you’re that kind of person or not. In any case, you stay away from me. Jiangning, sit next to me.”
“Noooooo!!!”
Xiao Yanhan was on the verge of tears. The opportunity she had fought so hard for was snatched away just like that. How could she be like this? They were all girls. She couldn’t do this to her!
“Alright, is it so unwilling to sit with me, Yan?”
Lan Ranyan pressed her shoulder and said faintly. And Xiao Yanhan really wanted to cry. She wanted so badly to develop a closer relationship with her dear Shion-sensei. Dammit! Why was this opportunity gone!
In short, Xiao Yanhan was very unhappy, very unhappy. It caused her to not understand anything throughout the whole movie.
