First Kiss Diary - Chapter 55

After Ji Ning finished handing out the nougat cookies, she happened to run into Ji Shiyan.

Her hands were now empty, but she was still maintaining the motion of giving things away. She wondered if it would seem inappropriate to stop right when she got to him.

Searching through her pocket, she fished out a lollipop and handed it over.

The man looked at her fingertips, smiling with lowered eyes: “Just giving me this?”

She pretended to take it back: “Don’t want it? Then forget it.”

Before her hand could withdraw, the lollipop was taken from her grasp.

“Your scene isn’t until tomorrow, why are you here so early?” Ji Shiyan asked her.

Ji Ning looked up and gestured: “Just happened to be passing by, so I came down to take a look.”

She was sensitive to cold and tucked her hands in her pockets as she sat down on the long bench in the film crew area, waiting for Nuonuo to finish her chat and return.

The man also sat down beside her.

After a while, Ji Ning heard him ask, “Was the show fun?”

The girl looked at him with her almond-shaped eyes for a moment, then shook her head, pouting half in jest and half in complaint: “Having to wake up at 3 AM, going to bed late, having to do all kinds of work, and having to drive to the supermarket every day. One time, the car even broke down halfway.”

Just like a child complaining after returning home from a fake summer camp.

Ji Shiyan looked at her for a moment and discovered that he actually quite enjoyed seeing her relaxed and unguarded in front of him.

They hadn’t chatted for long when Ji Ning’s phone vibrated. She took it out and saw a message from Zhuo Gong:

[I heard you’re back in the country! Congratulations on finishing the variety show! I also received the food truck support you arranged, it’s very cute. Waiting for my post with photos!]

Followed by several photos of the food truck support.

Ji Ning had almost forgotten about this. She had promised Zhuo Gong the food truck support earlier, and after selecting the items, she had handed it over to Nuonuo to arrange. She didn’t expect it to be scheduled for today.

She looked at the picture for a while, thinking about what would be best to reply.

The person beside her probably saw something too and read out the words on the support vehicle: “‘Twin Births’ smooth start, Zhuo Gong’s future looks promising. Signed… Ji Ning?”

“Ah, when my account was taken and used to make trouble, he helped me find a voice to speak out,” Ji Ning said, “His drama started filming, so I made a support food truck to return the favor.”

The food truck was mostly filled with water and food to be distributed to the staff.

Ji Shiyan said, “Why look for him? I have accounts too.”

“I asked several people at the time, you know, many hands make light work,” she felt that this man’s pride was really strong on certain matters, “but your accounts do have the most followers.”

The man paused, then said, “Let’s also run a food truck when the time comes.”

“For the fans?”

“Mm.”

Food trucks for fans are also called counter-support. When fans visit the set to bring gifts, that’s support; when artists return gifts to fans, that’s counter-support.

Let’s discuss the food truck issue when the production opens the set for visits. Currently, everything about the production is kept secret, and artists are not allowed to leak any information.

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After two weeks of filming, the first episode of “Breakfast Shop” aired.

The TV ratings and online streaming numbers for the premiere were quite good, the word-of-mouth was decent, and Ji Ning even trended on social media due to her etiquette on the show.

Someone captured some clips of her from the show: “I didn’t know this girl originally, but she has really good manners. She doesn’t point at people; when her roommate is sleeping, she turns off her flashlight and adapts to the darkness before entering; when a store clerk falls asleep, she quietly turns down the music in the store; when a pipe wasn’t fixed properly and a place was leaking, she was afraid people might slip, so she often went there to mop… The camera didn’t deliberately capture these things, and I wouldn’t have noticed these details at all if I hadn’t been observing closely.”

The Weibo post was shared over 10,000 times, and people even started a discussion about “how to be a gentle person.”

There was a comment about Ji Ning below:

My friend is a minor artist from Taiwan, and once had to interact with her for work. Every message she sent to my friend was in traditional characters, and my friend actually thought she was from Taiwan too. Although converting simplified to traditional characters only requires one button, I have to say, Ji Ning is really an incredibly thoughtful and considerate girl!

Every time she finishes signing, she turns the pen tip toward herself when returning it.

Also, when brushing her teeth in the morning, while Liu Shengsheng next door was still lazing in bed, she quietly went to the bathroom downstairs to use her electric toothbrush so as not to disturb Liu Shengsheng. Wow, that really touched me at the time. She’s such a good person. I don’t understand why so many people were criticizing her recently when she’s clearly such a wonderful girl?

For a moment, I felt like crying, probably because the precious treasure I’ve cherished has finally been discovered and acknowledged by everyone. She’s truly wonderful, always smiling and looking at you when talking to you. After meeting her in person once, I decided I would never stop being a fan.

The show’s popularity gradually grew, and someone even compiled a summary of Ji Ning’s various moments during the press conference on the trending searches.

Host: What do you have two of? Others: Hands, feet, eyes. Ji Ning: Double chin.

Hahahahahahaha the host said no female idol would say that, so Ning said “Alright then, twin ponytails.” The host asked, “Do you often wear twin ponytails?” Ning: “Not really.”

Today’s Ning Ning’s words are so funny, I’m dying of laughter.

As a result, before the trending search could last long, she got her second trending search of the night.

This time it wasn’t just a regular trending search, but an explosive one.

The reason was that during a segment at the press conference when privacy matters were brought up, someone asked Ji Ning if she had any tattoos, and Ji Ning said she didn’t. Soon after, an account posted screenshots of Sun He with a man in front of a hotel, digging up the incident where Ji Ning had taken the blame once again.

Sun He had a tattoo, and it was in a hidden spot near her groin. That day she was wearing shorts, and the tattoo could be vaguely seen in the photo.

These accounts soon posted comments like “Getting a tattoo there and still selling the pure image—who doesn’t know what this implies?” Sun He didn’t know if it was a slip of the finger or what, but she liked the post.

But what trended on social media wasn’t Ji Ning’s tattoo, nor Sun He’s like, but—

[Ji Ning: The Scapegoat]

Among the Weibo comments liked by Sun He, there was one that said: [Has she gone crazy with selling her persona?]

An account named Rouwu replied: [How do you know she’s selling a persona?]

Rou Wu was no ordinary netizen; she used to be the admin of a major fan site for Sun He, and this was her alternate account, which quite a few people probably knew about.

When Sun He did those things to Ji Ning underwater, Rou Wu’s fan site account had gone dark, and this alternate account had also been inactive. Who would have thought that when she reappeared, she would actually be defending Ji Ning.

Quite a few of Sun He’s fans were following Rou Wu’s alternate account. The fans, of course, knew how sensitive a topic Ji Ning was for Sun He. Many people rushed to send private messages to Rou Wu, and some even started cursing directly in her comment section.

Rou Wu couldn’t take it anymore: [I originally stopped being a fan without badmouthing her because I wanted to leave with some dignity. Even though I was blind and misjudged her, I never complained once. This account is now private, so please, some of Sun He’s brainless fans, stop harassing me.]

The fans got angry when they saw Roum’s comment, and both sides started arguing. Many people directly asked Roum: [If she did something that made you misunderstand, just post it!]

After being bombarded for half an hour, Roum posted on her blog and bought a trending spot: [Previously, it was rumored online that Ji Ning was soliciting prostitution, but the main character was actually Sun He, and it was covered up by PR. Every picture I have here is crystal clear and obvious, anyone with eyes can understand it. I don’t know how I was blinded to keep secrets for her, but the fact is this isn’t the only thing I’ve kept secret for her. I admit I loved the wrong person, but don’t use me as a tool to whitewash Sun He. Besides being scheming, she has nothing left.]

[And for those asking why I’m exposing her now, you’d understand if you encountered an idol like this. I still have a high fever, and waking up to see that like literally made me sick to my stomach. I’ve never seen such a shameless attempt to drag someone down. May I ask, Sun He, do you even know you’re a female artist? Do you know how to manage your image? Have you ever considered your fans?]

[You fans were the ones who demanded proof, so don’t push me anymore. What I have in my hands is more than you can imagine.]

Rou Wu’s photos were all high-definition, each one devastating, and the last picture even included Ji Ning’s schedule for that day—Ji Ning was indeed in another place at that time.

However, the topic was suppressed at the time, and Ji Ning never allowed her fans to speak out about it, but many of her long-time fans knew that it was fake.

But many people only follow the public opinion trend when watching drama unfold—whoever controls the narrative wins, while the truth doesn’t matter at all.

The company probably never expected that after PR handled everything, it would be a trusted fan site admin who exposed the full story.

The topic was trending within half an hour and exploded an hour later, with nearly 30,000 comments in the comment section.

Can this kind of thing be handled by PR?? Is the entertainment industry really this chaotic???

[So Ji Ning has been taking the fall for this idiot for so long?]

[Shocked the hell out of me]

I was just saying yesterday that what was keeping me from becoming a Ji Ning fan was the previous negative rumors, and today they’re telling me it’s all fake. Great! Ji Ning, wait for me! Your big sister is here!!

So was this done by the company or by Sun He?

Can’t you tell? Sun He loves to subtly and overtly undermine Ji Ning. Everyone in the industry knows she starts acting up whenever she sees Ji Ning. I really can’t figure out why.

Sun He’s father is the boss of Andong Century, so whether she did it or the company did it makes no difference. Fucking Andong Century, you’re going down tonight!!!

【???? Sun He, come out and face your doom!】

【A dog-like company can only do dog-like things. No wonder Sun Andong managed to run down such a previously successful company.】

【No wonder her fiancé would rather study abroad than stay in the country. Someone like this is truly disgusting to even look at.】

The trending topic stayed up for twenty minutes. Just as netizens were enjoying the drama with great interest, the trending topic was taken down.

Five minutes later, the trending topic disappeared.

The people still on the search page suddenly realized—

Sun He’s team had started to remove the trending topic.

Just as everyone was preparing to spontaneously bring the topic back up, the trending topic reappeared, as if someone had paid to put it back on the list.

But passersby don’t care about these things. They have once again happily flooded Sun He’s Weibo, and the comments on her latest post are already approaching twenty thousand.

Meanwhile, Jiang Sheng stared intently at the trending topics page: “Her team seems to be preparing to remove it again. They’re going to remove the trending topic about the ‘White Lotus’ that’s ranked eighth.”

“Want me to continue?”

Ji Shiyan tapped his fingers on the desk and replied quickly.

“Of course I’ll continue. What, you think I’m afraid of her?”

Author has something to say: Ugh, what is this domineering CEO in person? I’m having heart palpitations a thousand times over.