The Unexpected Rise Before My Exit from the Entertainment Industry

Chapter 167

Even with the pressure, fans didn't want to burden Qin Wei, feeling heartache for their Lu E themselves. The old fans might have given up on her, but the current fans had been through a lot with her, so they wouldn't.

Anyway, it didn't affect everyone's desire to celebrate Qin Wei's birthday. The various fan clubs started collecting opinions internally, allowing everyone to make suggestions on what gifts to get her.

Some suggested getting her the latest high-end handbags, since Lu E usually just carried a canvas bag when going out, certainly because she didn't have the money to buy designer bags.

They also said it had to be high-end limited edition.

Some also suggested name brand jewelry, because when the other celebrities secretly wore expensive jewels in private, their Lu E didn't even have a bracelet.

There was also talk of gold, saying that Qin Wei was money-minded and would definitely like it.

As well as expensive skincare products for all skin types - buy her the most expensive.

But after agonizing back and forth, no one could decide.

Finally everyone decided to go to Youyou's livestream in the evening to ask Qin Wei's opinion.

As a result, during the livestream that night, Youyou said that Qin Wei had already gone out that afternoon, because the show team no longer restricted free activities, so Youyou didn't know where Qin Wei went either.

Live chat comments:

[Lu E's birthday is coming up soon. What's a good gift for her?]

Youyou glanced at the bullet screen and thought for a moment:

"I've already decided what I want to give her. What about you, Qingqing?"

As she spoke, she looked towards Shen Qingqing, who was sitting on the sofa looking at her phone.

Shen Qingqing waved her phone at the camera.

"Sis Wei made a list, I'm buying stuff for her now."

Youyou said to the fans in the livestream room:

"This morning, Qingqing said she was going to buy some skincare products for Sis Wei, and told Sis Wei to just pick whatever she wanted. What Qingqing didn't expect was that Sis Wei specifically named a jar of Guerlain Orchidée Impériale Black Cream..."

When Youyou got to this point, she couldn't help laughing.

[A jar costs over 12,000 yuan. While that's still fine for ordinary people to scrape together if they really try, Shen Qingqing could definitely afford it.]

[I agree, but I guess we can cross skincare products off our gift list.]

After Youyou finished laughing, she continued: "A box full..."

Youyou asked Shen Qingqing again:

"How many jars in a box again?"

Shen Qingqing gave Youyou a look and sighed:

"Thirty."

[Holy crap! Isn't that a price even ordinary people couldn't afford even if they sold their teeth?]

[Must've been hard on Shen Qingqing's wallet too, hahaha!]

[Wasn't Shen Qingqing supposed to be kinda rich? Not just her own earnings but family money as well.]

[Qin Wei is so shameless squeezing Shen Qingqing!]

[Laughing to death, I wanna know what Shen Qingqing is thinking!]

Seeing the live chat comments, Youyou found it pretty amusing too. Earlier today, Qin Wei had asked her for a house and a car, but got rejected by Shen Qingqing. Yet she was stubborn about making Shen Qingqing buy her skincare products, and even told Shen Qingqing to just pick whatever she wanted.

As a result, Qin Wei immediately wrote "Guerlain Orchidée Impériale Black Cream x30" on the paper.

"Don't laugh! The official site only has 7 jars in stock, I ordered everything I could get from local stores, still missing over 10 jars! Come help me find the rest!"

After laughing enough, Youyou finally said to the camera:

"Fans probably shouldn't send gifts. Sis Wei explicitly rejected it. She also talked to the company about this - no cards or letters either, she won't read them even if you send them."

[Qin Wei the Ruthless!]

[The company said it once. She didn't want gifts from fans because she didn't want fans spending money. No cards or letters because Sis Wei's illiterate and can't read them!]

[Bullshit she's illiterate! It's a cease and desist letter!]

[Kidding! Hahaha! It's because she doesn't have the time or energy to read them, so she doesn't want fans wasting their time and effort writing.]

[Still feels a bit heartless though...]

Just as they were chatting, Qin Wei came back, looking extremely tired. She didn't even bother greeting them, just wanted to take a bath and sleep.

"Sis Wei!"

Youyou called out to her in time to get her to come over for a bit.

Only then did Qin Wei reluctantly walk over.

"Did you just come back from a battle? You look...weather-beaten?"

Qin Wei was too lazy to explain, just waved her hand:

"Hard to put in words, I'll tell you later..."

Youyou didn't push her and simply pointed at the screen:

"Your fan club wants to send you birthday presents and is asking what you want."

The screen was flooded with:

[No rejecting allowed!!]

Qin Wei thought for a bit, then unexpectedly obediently said:

"I can ask for anything?"

[She's not trying to set us up, is she?]

[There's a fat sheep still sitting on the sofa!]

[It's just her birthday once a year, what could she possibly want? There's so many of us fans, if she asks for an apartment in the capital city...it might be hard, but we couldn't scrape together 1.8 million yuan?]

[Anything goes! We'd give you our lives!!]

Qin Wei frowned at the live chat comments:

"Forget the life offer, I don't wanna spend the rest of my life in prison...

For my birthday, I just want everyone's good grades!

High school and college entrance exam scores, IELTS, TOEFL, all kinds of test scores count. Those working can also show me your achievements at work, post in the fan club super topic anytime, no deadline..."

[?]

[Qin Wei's nasty! Even if we get good grades, we can't give you the scores! Do you want us to mail you our admission letters?]

Qin Wei directly replied to this comment:

"This is demonstratively wrong. Just show in the super topic, don't mail me the originals. And remember to protect your privacy."

She took a look at the time,

"That's all for today, good night."

Then she hurried back to her room.

After getting locked out once, Qin Wei had prepared a spare key to carry. So Sun Tiantian gave up locking the door.

They saw Qin Wei come in and head straight for the bathroom. After her shower, she hurried out again to knock on the door of the next room over.

No idea what she did in there, but she came out half an hour later and went back to her room to sleep.

Sun Tiantian was burning with gossip.

In the days that followed, Qin Wei's life gradually fell into a routine——

Go to the practice room in the morning to take classes with everyone, have lunch after since she had no afternoon schedules, then leave the show team, destination unknown.

Come back at night looking like she just got off a battlefield, go back to her room to shower, then go find Qiao Sixiao. After a while she'd go back to her room to sleep.

It was the same every day, very busy every day.

Busy to the point that even Sun Tiantian, her teammate and roommate, didn't get a chance to talk to her at all.

After so many days, Sun Tiantian had started writing an "Observational Diary on Qin Wei", listing out all the clues she found, but was completely clueless.

"Morning training...

Goes out in the afternoon and evening, unknown, but looks tired when she gets back, clothes dirty too. Sometimes even injured, but nothing serious...

Showers when she gets back then goes to Qiao Sixiao's room, reason unknown. Comes back and just sleeps..."

Sun Tiantian lay in bed, biting on her pen and occasionally frowning in thought or smiling meaningfully.

She must be overthinking things...

Today Qin Wei came back relatively early and looked less haggard overall, seeming to be in a pretty good mood too.

"Wei Wei, what have you been up to these past few days? Is it a secret? Can you tell me?"

Sun Tiantian couldn't stand it anymore. Usually when Qin Wei was too tired to talk, Sun Tiantian held herself back from asking. But if Qin Wei didn't fess up today, Sun Tiantian was going to lose sleep over this.

Qin Wei nodded. She wasn't in a rush to shower today either: "No secrets. It's all work-related. Ask whatever you want, nothing I can't tell you."

Sun Tiantian immediately scooted over with her little notebook, going down the list of question marks and asking them one by one.