Chapter 1: Little Meat Bun
“Sister… don’t die… sob… don’t die… sob sob sob…”
Falling from a wire suspended more than twenty meters high, it would be better to just die! Qiao Rubai, you’re something else. The entertainment company with the most integrity in the industry, who never fakes anything and never lets actors use stunt doubles, how about making the wires a little sturdier! Mi Hongdou felt sore all over, her internal organs felt displaced, and her chest felt like it had a huge rolling stone pressing on it. Was there not a single kind soul on this set? Could someone please move the equipment that was crushing her after she fell!
Struggling to open her eyes amidst the wailing cries that sounded like someone calling back a soul, Mi Hongdou’s plea for help got stuck in her throat, leaving only a stunned expression with her mouth half open.
A noisy and bustling shopping mall, with onlookers forming a circle around Mi Hongdou who was lying on the ground, whispering and pointing, but no one came forward to help. The bright incandescent light shone on Mi Hongdou’s face, making her feel a little dizzy. This scene was so familiar. Shifting her gaze away from the strangers around her, Mi Hongdou looked at the culprit who was squirming on top of her, almost crushing her.
Dressed in a fluffy white rabbit onesie, crying so hard she was about to run out of breath, was Yang Miemie, who had just turned three months old a few months ago…
What the hell is going on! Mi Hongdou gritted her teeth and moved her aching limbs. It seemed the situation wasn’t as bad as she felt. She grabbed the little meat bun who was crying and rolling on top of her, completely unaware that she had woken up, and placed her on the ground beside her. Mi Hongdou finally caught her breath and sat up. Ignoring the onlookers who were still surrounding her, Mi Hongdou grabbed Yang Miemie, who had stopped crying and was now looking dazed. She pulled off her little rabbit hat, looked left and right, and pinched her. Okay, it wasn’t fake.
So, could someone please tell her why, after falling from the wires, she didn’t land on the film set but landed ten years in the past, at such a mortifying point in time! And she almost got crushed to death by a little meat bun again!
“When I was in the restroom, I heard a child crying in the stall next to me. It sounded like they were crying really hard, so I knocked on the stall door and asked if they needed any help. As soon as I asked, the crying stopped. Although an adult answered and said no, I felt the crying stopped too suddenly. I was a bit suspicious, so after I came out, I stood outside the restroom for a while longer. Not long after, I saw a woman dressed in dark clothes, wearing a baseball cap, carrying a child dressed in a rabbit costume. The child was wriggling in her arms and making strange muffled sounds. After she came out, she kept her head down and ran forward. The child’s face was completely covered. I thought she was the person who was in the stall next to me earlier. It’s also thanks to this child’s own efforts. I was watching them and thought maybe it was just a child having a tantrum with their parent, and I was just being overly suspicious. I was about to leave when the child started wriggling more violently. I happened to be walking behind the woman at that time, and I saw the child’s face was full of tears, and it seemed like something was stuffed in their mouth. That’s when I realized something was wrong and went up to stop her.” It was a good thing that this incident had a profound impact on Mi Hongdou. Even after ten years, she could still recall the situation at that time and recount it to the security guard who arrived late, helped her up, and took her to the security room. She would have to tell the story again when the police arrived later…
“And then?” A woman’s voice suddenly came from the door of the security room. It was calm and unhurried, with a hint of allure, not at all like a parent who had just lost and found their child.
Mi Hongdou rubbed her temples and slowly turned around. She saw a woman leaning against the doorframe, dressed in a leather jacket and long boots, with waist-length chestnut hair curled in large waves. She wore light makeup, but it couldn’t hide her natural charm, except, of course, for the one thing that broke the harmony of the picture: a lollipop sticking out of her mouth.
“Then, then I went to stop her and said the child didn’t seem well, could I take a look. She didn’t say anything, just tried to push me away. I couldn’t be completely sure if she had kidnapped the child, but I felt more and more that something was wrong, so I wanted to pull down the child’s hood to let the people around see what was going on. But she got anxious and pushed me several times.
More and more people were gathering around to watch. I guess she saw that the situation wasn’t in her favor and she couldn’t push me away, so she just threw the child at me and ran away.” At this point, Mi Hongdou paused and finally said what she wanted to say ten years ago but didn’t: “I don’t know how the parents raised her, this child is so fat. I think even if I hadn’t exposed her, she wouldn’t have been able to carry her very far. And a child who is too fat isn’t easy to sell, they eat too much.”
Just as Mi Hongdou expected, the woman who had been standing leisurely by the door earlier was now like a cat whose tail had been stepped on. She grabbed Yang Miemie, who had been standing behind the door, lifted her up, took three steps in two to reach Mi Hongdou, and shook the little meat bun in her hand, angrily saying: “This isn’t fat! This is cute! Cute, do you understand?”
The small and round Yang Miemie, with her fair skin and chubby face, her eyes red from crying, dressed in a little rabbit onesie, looked just like a confused little white rabbit. Okay, it was cute… but if she kept growing like this, did she know how much effort the little girl would have to put in to lose weight in the future! Mi Hongdou felt sorry for Yang Miemie ten years later and didn’t want to engage with Yang Lianyi’s words.
Yang Lianyi kneaded the adorable Yang Miemie all over. Seeing that Mi Hongdou was surprisingly one of the rare creatures not instantly charmed by Yang Miemie’s cuteness, she couldn’t help but feel a little more interested in her. Looking closer, the girl who saved her niece had fair skin, delicate features, a ponytail, and a slender, tall figure. She looked like a student, but she also had a subtle air of resilience… Yang Lianyi suddenly thought of something the company had been considering recently. Her mind turned, and she no longer cared about Mi Hongdou’s earlier criticism of her.
“Hello, my name is Yang Lianyi, I work in the entertainment industry. This is my business card.” Yang Lianyi put down the little meat bun, took out a business card from her pocket, and handed it over. “Thank you for saving my niece today. By the way, my company has a TV script on hand recently, and there’s a role in it that I think would be quite suitable for you. How about we find a place to talk?” The transition between personal and business matters was so natural and seamless!
Mi Hongdou stared at the business card in front of her that read “Yang Lianyi, General Manager of Mengguan Agency” for a long time before finally reaching out to take it. Just a second ago, she was worried that her criticism of Yang Lianyi’s weak spot might have displeased her and changed the course of her previous life. The next second, looking at the business card, she felt a little hesitant about whether she should still walk that path. A difficult, but brilliant path to stardom…
In her previous life, as Mi Hongdou gradually ascended towards the position of film queen, she had also wondered, if on that day, she hadn’t gone shopping at the mall, hadn’t rashly saved Yang Miemie, hadn’t been noticed by Yang Lianyi, hadn’t signed with Mengguan, what would her life have been like? Perhaps, after graduating, she would have found a stable job, gotten married, and although she wouldn’t have had the glory of a star-studded career, she also wouldn’t have had the many frustrations of being a public figure. That kind of life might have had a different kind of charm.
However, when life really returned to the crucial node where she could make a choice again, Mi Hongdou found that she involuntarily chose the same path. Because of her love for acting, and also because of that inexplicable obsession in her heart, a thread that even experiencing death and returning to ten years ago couldn’t break.
“Recently learned to make ice cream flavored cream cake, not greasy nor cold. When it’s noon, someone will appear to visit the set~”
That was the last text message Mi Hongdou received on her thirtieth birthday, before she was hoisted up on the wires. It was from Ji Junxin, who had already retired from acting for four years. Then… she fell from the wires, so what happened after that?
Ji Junxin, she’s already quite famous now… Mi Hongdou took Yang Lianyi’s business card. Indeed, if she wanted to meet her again, she had to walk this path again. But, she absolutely couldn’t fall from the wires again!
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