Chapter 13 Card Game Revelations
I stayed quiet for a moment.
Fu Shuangyan, who loved drama, said, “Jiang Dai, do not be afraid. So many people are here.”
“Yeah, Jiang Dai, does Ji Mingxu have any fun stories from before?” Zhao Qianlin added.
Ji Mingxu’s eyes gradually turned pleading.
He clasped his hands and shook them at me.
The director’s voice came.
“Ji Mingxu, please do not interfere with other guests.”
“…”
I was not afraid of him.
I was just deciding which story to tell.
“In second grade we had a neighbor with a little German shepherd.
He really liked it and yelled that he wanted to marry the dog so they could be together forever.”
I could not stop smiling as I remembered.
Ji Mingxu gritted his teeth.
“Jiang Dai, if only you used this memory for studying.”
Everyone around burst out laughing.
“And then? Did the in-laws agree?”
“No. It was a male dog and only liked girls.”
In fact Ji Mingxu at that age was so energetic and annoying that even the dog feared him.
Next Xu Ying drew a red heart.
She talked about how her son once brought home a stray kitten.
The next day the mother cat came meowing loudly at the door.
In the end both cats stayed and grew fat.
It went around the circle.
Zhao Qianlin drew yellow and asked Su Jingyu how to tell the twins apart.
Fu Shuangyan drew red and told how Qin Ranran, tiny in high school, once princess-carried a fainted 1.7-meter classmate to the infirmary.
Qin Ranran drew green and spoke about Fu Shuangyan being scammed by a shady company when she debuted.
The Su brothers both drew yellow and asked the same question—confess one bad thing done under the other’s name.
Finally it was Ji Mingxu’s turn.
From his mischievous smile I knew he had spent the whole time recalling my embarrassing moments.
He drew a green heart.
“…”
Ji Mingxu went quiet.
He was probably searching hard for any real grievance I had suffered.
After a long pause he said, “A few years ago Jiang Dai joined an Idol Survival Show and withdrew midway.
She only said it was personal reasons.
Later online rumors stirred up all kinds of nonsense.
Actually it was because her leg injury flared up.
Her family would not let her continue high-intensity dancing, so she went home to recover.”
My smile froze.
The incident had not been that big back then.
I always felt there was no need to explain the withdrawal reason.
I had almost no fans at the time.
Later someone spread rumors that a third-party trainee existed in the show.
Marketing accounts shifted the blame to me.
Baseless accusations, and many believed them.
I was cyberbullied for a while.
The company wanted to ride the heat and told me not to clarify quickly.
I refused and sued several rumor-spreaders.
Later I learned the third party was real and in the same company.
The higher-ups dropped me to protect her.
Because I disobeyed, several resources were taken.
After I recovered there were no announcements left for me.
But the matter was already in the past for me.
Who knew Ji Mingxu still remembered?
This was really awkward.
Back then I had even said something cringey to the higher-ups about thirty years east and thirty years west.
Years later I was still obscure.
“…”