OSTF - 14

Su Mian’s serious tone made Chi Suisui feel a little unreal. She repeated, “My Weibo?”

“Yes, it’s being pushed on my browser.”

It was probably because the popularity was too high. After all, current browsers liked to create fake news to generate traffic. A real piece of news like this was naturally welcome.

Su Mian lowered her voice again, “The headline is very eye-catching.”

Otherwise, she wouldn’t have been attracted to it at first glance.

Chi Suisui nodded. “I know.”

“President Sui, how can you be so calm?” Su Mian asked curiously. “If my Weibo was discovered, my first reaction would definitely be to delete all the cursing I’d done in the past. But then again, no one would ever find my Weibo.”

“Do you think my Weibo would have cursing?” Chi Suisui asked amusingly.

“I’ve never heard you curse anyone,” Su Mian recalled carefully. In her impression, those sharp retorts didn’t count as cursing.

“My Weibo only has a few dozen posts in total, nothing to worry about,” Chi Suisui reassured her.

Now was the internet age, and privacy was easily exposed. As a reporter, she understood the importance of this even more, so she always took care to protect herself on social media.

The location authorization for photo shooting had long been turned off by her.

Plus, her captions were always just one or two sentences. At most, people might find out which city she was from. There were no other details, so she wouldn’t be discovered.

However, Chi Suisui still logged into Weibo.

The background was a sea of red, all 99+. Even the private messages were rows and rows of them.

Chi Suisui first went to the trending topics.

Although it was said to be the browser’s headline, it was only in seventh place on the trending topics, still with her individual name. This time, she wasn’t riding anyone’s popularity.

The popular Weibo post had a nine-grid photo layout.

The nine photos completely encompassed her forty-odd Weibo posts. The one in the very center had only one Weibo post—

Add a dish to the family meal.

How could they even find her Weibo with this?

Chi Suisui looked suspiciously at her Weibo username. It was a very ordinary, common name. Her profile picture was even more simple, a golden stalk of rice, full of rice ears.

Could it be that the rice ears recognized Chi Suisui?

Chi Suisui’s evaluation of the netizens’ sharp eyes went up another level. With complicated feelings, she clicked on the comments.

【Is this Weibo definitely the real person? I don’t think it looks like it?】

【Have you seen anyone else on the entire internet using rice ears as their profile picture? I actually think this is the real person, and the fingernails accidentally shown in the photos are the same.】

【Add a dish to the family meal... does the family only eat one fish?】

【This fish looks so ugly and so small, I could eat it in a few bites. The family definitely won’t have enough, right...】

【I thought I would see a new cello performance. Blogger, please come online! You haven’t posted on Weibo for almost a month!】

【The blogger looks so poor...】

【Look at what Su Mian posted, even a loofah has to be photographed.】

【Is there a donation channel? I’ll add two fish for you. Don’t mistreat yourself like this. A fairy can’t be ugly!】

Chi Suisui saw that the comment “The blogger looks so poor” had ten thousand likes.

She went back to her Weibo. The latest post on her homepage was the last one she had posted, the fish she had made for He Xingwang.

The top comment.

——【How poor must this family be?】

——【Oh my god, I feel so sorry for her!!!】

Combining these, similar conclusions were drawn from that small, ugly clownfish in the “add a dish” post, and they began to feel sorry for her.

Just a few dozen comments had allowed them to imagine so much.

A girl from a mountain village, saving every penny to study at the prestigious S University, finally adding a dish to the meal, and it was just a palm-sized clownfish.

Perhaps even the cello lessons were paid for by part-time jobs. No wonder she couldn’t find the brand of that dress.

It was truly too tragic.

While they were enjoying life, there were still people living such poor but hardworking lives, and now she was even working as a news reporter.

“Suisui, you—”

A colleague who had also sneaked a peek at the trending topics looked over with a suspicious gaze.

“Online news isn’t always true,” Chi Suisui explained calmly to them. “Don’t take it to heart.”

How could they not take it to heart!

“Suisui, the things online—the car you take to work, is it real or...?” The colleague suspected if she was driving a fake car.

“It’s real,” Chi Suisui said.

Seeing her indifferent tone, the colleague became uncertain again. Maybe the luxury car was a gift from a wealthy admirer, and the bag was probably fake.

“Suisui, if you have any difficulties at home, you can tell us, but you can’t go astray. In the end, such things won’t do you any good.”

“You’re overthinking it,” Chi Suisui glanced at her.

The colleague shook her head without saying anything more, a look of pity for Chi Suisui’s stubbornness in her eyes.

“...”

Chi Suisui thought it was better not to say anything.

Most of her colleagues came from wealthy families. They usually saw Chi Suisui wearing non-branded clothes, which, although beautiful, they now attributed to cheap online stores.

But what about that luxury car?

Several colleagues started a small group chat: “Did you guys notice the car she usually drives to work? Is it real or fake?”

“It’s real, right? I feel like it is.”

“I don’t know much about cars, but it doesn’t look fake—look at Chi Suisui’s bag, a Birkin.”

“But I’ve never seen a Birkin in that color.”

“Didn’t she trend online a few days ago? Is she planning to become an internet celebrity? Otherwise, how would her Weibo have been exposed?”

This explanation received some agreement.

Last time, Chi Suisui had gotten a big scoop, and the director had praised her for a long time, while they had been scolded for being incompetent.

Although being scolded was a frequent occurrence, being compared to a newcomer made them very unconvinced.

Now that her Weibo had been exposed, the truth about whether she was a real or fake wealthy person was about to be revealed.

The following afternoon until the entire day of Friday, takeout deliveries kept arriving at the TV station.

Most of them were from netizens who knew where she worked, after all, someone had mentioned it in the trending topics a few days ago.

Chi Suisui couldn’t even decline.

Before getting off work on Thursday evening, a netizen ordered a whole fried chicken, causing the entire department office area to be filled with the aroma. In the end, as soon as they got off work, all the colleagues ordered fried chicken.

There was also a bucket of lively fish delivered.

Probably because they thought the fish on her Weibo was too small and ugly, they couldn’t stand it and ordered a bucket of fish from the seafood market.

Everyone in the entire office area came over to watch.

The space under Chi Suisui’s desk was almost overflowing.

She could only call someone to come and take the things home. She didn’t know who to send them back to, so she could only take them home herself.

Close to the end of work hours, Su Mian on the opposite desk was almost dying from holding it in. “President Sui, this is really the first time I’ve known things could be like this.”

Were netizens all this adorable?

Chi Suisui, having received a large pile of snacks and fruits, rubbed her temples. “I think they might have some misunderstanding about my Weibo.”

Not might, definitely.

In their eyes, every one of her Weibo posts exuded poverty.

However, Chi Suisui had never once said she was poor, nor had she deliberately pretended to be poor.

Su Mian nodded thoughtfully. “By the way, President Sui, the trending topic is still up. Do you want to clarify?”

Chi Suisui glanced at her. “What would I say now? Say I’m not poor, say I’m very rich? There are richer people than the rich.”

“......”

Su Mian didn’t know what to say.

It was exactly quitting time.

Chi Suisui was going home this weekend, so she said goodbye to Su Mian and left first.

It wasn’t dark yet when she got home. Her parents were still at the company and hadn’t returned. Chi Suisui changed her shoes and went inside, seeing no one.

Soup was simmering in the kitchen, but no one was there.

Chi Suisui looked out the kitchen window and saw someone in the vegetable garden downstairs. “Aunt Song, is no one home?”

“Madam and Sir haven’t returned yet,” Aunt Song stood up, carrying a few loofahs and some vegetables as she walked out.

Chi Suisui nodded, her gaze involuntarily falling on the loofahs.

Her feelings were complicated.

The family’s vegetable garden was specially cultivated, next to the greenhouse flower garden, one belonging to Aunt Song and the other to her mother.

Chi Suisui had posted a picture of a loofah last year. It was the first one she had personally grown, in a corner of the vegetable garden.

However, because she was away at school for most of the year, she had Aunt Song take care of it. Aunt Song, wanting her to be happy when she returned, took especially good care of it.

So, that loofah had grown beyond recognition.

It was fat and had a very good appearance.

Then, yesterday, it was discovered by netizens. Chi Suisui still remembered one of the comments.

——【Even this kind of loofah has to be shown off, sob sob sob, what kind of hard life does our little fairy Suisui usually live!】

Chi Suisui’s feelings were very complicated. She chatted with Aunt Song for a while and then returned to her room.

Although she didn’t live at home often, her room was still kept, and a servant cleaned it every day, so it remained as clean as ever.

On the bedside table lay a small wooden carved bow.

This was a birthday gift Chi Suisui had received when she was seven years old, from He Xingwang. He had spent a month carving it himself.

At that time, they were both still young, and He Xingwang himself was still a boy who hadn’t grown up. He had put a lot of thought into such a delicate gift.

Looking at it now, it was indeed a bit rough.

But Chi Suisui liked this gift very much, so she had kept it. Not long after moving into the Bayside Manor, she returned home for the first time, and late at night, feeling sentimental, she took a picture of this small bow and posted it on Weibo.

A public social media platform, with no acquaintances, was the best place for her to let go of her feelings.

However, it was also discovered by netizens.

Chi Suisui opened her phone, logged into Weibo, clicked away some of the latest comments and mentions, and accepted the Weibo red envelopes that some people had sent.

Scrolling down her homepage, she saw a Weibo post from a few years ago: “A hard-earned gift.”

It was indeed hard-earned, because He Xingwang had ruined one while carving it and had also cut his finger. He had carefully worked on this one for a whole month before it was successful.

Chi Suisui herself was very clear about this and had witnessed the whole month.

Countless comments below the Weibo post.

【Suisui go go go! You will get a real bow!】

【I’m watching with tears of heartache. The blogger’s language details are full of the poverty of life, but she’s always positive.】

【When is your birthday? I can sponsor a little for your gift. Your birthday this year will definitely be better than before.】

Of course, there were also skeptical netizens.

【Real poor or fake poor? Which poor person goes to learn the cello...】

【Are there still people setting up a poor persona these days?】

【Slipping away, only you guys would believe it.】

【I feel like the clothes she wears aren’t cheap at all. Go check, did she deliberately apply for a poor student scholarship and buy things randomly??】

The arguments here were a mess, and Chi Suisui ignored them.

Although it was often said that netizens were indiscriminate and things would always reverse, most people actually lived their lives seriously.

Chi Suisui felt warm in her heart at such concern from strangers.

Even though it was a misunderstanding.

Actually, she didn’t remember posting many of the Weibo posts back then, but being dug up like this made her feel that her past self was quite amusing.

The netizen who had been scolded was furious and posted on their Weibo homepage: “Which word of mine was wrong? There’s plenty of evidence for this kind of thing!”

There were many people watching the drama and urging him to release the evidence.

If someone who wasn’t poor used a poor student scholarship, they would definitely be scolded.

Chi Suisui ignored this Weibo post and changed her Weibo name to her real name, since she had already been discovered to be the real person.

After changing it, she took photos of the gifts she had received today, added a filter, and posted them on Weibo.

【Chi Suisui: Thank you everyone for the gifts, no need to send anything else. Actually, I’m really not poor.】

After posting, Chi Suisui closed Weibo, pondering if she could do a giveaway to thank everyone.

She sat on the bed, playing with the small bow in her hand. Her phone rang; it was a call from Su Mian.

“President Sui, did you see my WeChat message?” Su Mian asked.

“I wasn’t on WeChat just now.”

“Then go take a look quickly,” Su Mian urged, and then asked, “Do you think my list can beat theirs in seconds?”

She had sent a screenshot on WeChat five minutes ago.

The screenshot wasn’t the two names the director had mentioned, but the swimming champion from the previous Olympics, and it was for the relay race.

Chi Suisui was amused. “That’s four people.”

If she remembered correctly, the director had said two candidates.

Su Mian said, “But it’s one event hahahaha. When I go to work on Monday, I’m going to argue with the director.”

She laughed on her bed for a long time. This idea had suddenly popped into her head after getting off work tonight, so she searched for information and wrote it down.

She asked again, “President Sui, who do you want to interview?”

Chi Suisui said, “Haven’t thought about it yet.”

There were still several days, no need to rush now.

Su Mian sighed. “If only I could interview God He. People have to have dreams. I need to become a great reporter quickly, maybe I’ll have a chance in the future.”

As she spoke, she also sent a panda head emoji hitting the keyboard on WeChat.

She had seen He Xingwang in person at the graduation ceremony last time, but didn’t get a chance to get his autograph. This had become her current regret.

After sending it, Su Mian excitedly said, “I’ll dream about it tonight. Even if I can’t do it, it’s good if President Sui interviews him! My sister’s interview is mine!”

“......”

Chi Suisui looked at the small bow in her hand. Her beautiful eyes blinked, with a faint shimmer of light passing through them.

She swiped the screen with one hand and found He Xingwang’s WeChat.

Chi Suisui sent a message: 【He Xingwang, I plan to interview you. Do you agree?】

At this time, she didn’t know if he was training.

Chi Suisui also thought of the Weibo incident. It was all because of that clownfish that she had been certified as a poor girl by the entire internet.

“President Sui, what are you going to do about your Weibo?” Su Mian changed the subject again, asking curiously, “They all think you’re poor.”

“What do you think about a giveaway?” Chi Suisui asked.

A giveaway from a rich and beautiful woman.

Su Mian imagined the scene. The things President Sui would use for a giveaway would definitely not be small items. She seemed to see the golden light of wealth.

Just as Chi Suisui finished speaking, a new message popped up on WeChat.

He Xingwang: 【Okay.】