Reboot the heyday

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Very good, Snowball has learned to apply what it has learned to other situations.

The current Xueqiu (a Chinese investment platform) is a very clear-headed person with a clear understanding of the rules of this industry. In fact, this kind of growth may not necessarily be a good thing.

Now Wang Taika finally understands why some adults tell younger generations that there are some things it's better if you don't know them.

By the time you truly understand certain truths, you've definitely already suffered losses. Thinking about it this way, life really is quite absurd.

However, this is also a rare shining point of Wang Taika. Just as Xueqiu said, he is worldly-wise but not cynical.

This bastard knows all the darkness, yet he can still live simply as if he doesn't know it. This is not just a matter of experience, but also a kind of charm.

The price I paid was that all the stupid things I did along the way would suddenly come back to me when my mind was blank, and then I'd want to slap myself.

The car slowly came to a stop near the radio station building.

Snowball unbuckled his seatbelt, looked at Wang Taika, and said with clear eyes, "Teacher, I understand. It's already very lucky to have met a capitalist like you who still has some conscience in this system."

Wang Taika was amused by her and ruffled her hair: "Go to work quickly, don't be late."

Snowball pointed: "I have an unreasonable request: escort me to the front door."

“This request isn’t unreasonable.” Wang Taika went to park the car and then drove Xueqiu to work.

Of course, there were many fans waiting outside the radio station, so Wang Taika maintained a distance like a manager during the escort.

They were taken directly to the door. Xueqiu and Wang Taika waved without saying a word.

Wang Taika nodded and turned to leave.

The people in the building didn't know who Wang Taika was, and they were all in a hurry. Occasionally, someone would recognize Wang Taika and give him a sidelong glance.

Not surprising; this is what Xueqiu wanted to see anyway. Given this kind of relationship, it can't be considered a case of someone using another's influence for personal gain, right?
Don't think of Snowball as too innocent. Even without experiencing those dark times, Snowball is definitely not a well-behaved child in the conventional sense.

We shouldn't idealize or diminish Snowball's character because of the harm she suffered. It's just that the darkness she encountered was too powerful, which makes her appear weak.

Back then, Xueqiu went through those things and almost quit the team, but no one ever voiced these thoughts. If they had actually quit, the function would have been ruined. But at the time, Xueqiu never even considered that.

The hardships I experienced are real, but so is the fact that I almost ruined someone else's efforts. There is no question of offsetting merits and demerits.

But Wang Taika didn't care.

There is no such thing as perfection in this world. Snowball's good and bad are simply her unique feelings. Since she is unique, there is no need to weigh her merits.

With a smile, Wang Taika turned and left.

In a daze, he vaguely felt a gaze fixed upon him for a long time. Wang Taika wasn't actually a very perceptive person, so when he had this feeling, it was usually not a hallucination.

This thing is a bit mysterious. Wang Taika looked around but didn't see any strange people. He scratched his head and left.

Inside the radio station building.

Elbow Girl instinctively shrank back around the corner, her heart inexplicably tightening. Just now.

She saw a bright, slightly smug smile on Snowball's face. Even while waiting for the elevator, she made a cute face at the door in a good mood before walking briskly towards it.

Elbow Girl could also clearly see that when Wang Taika brought her over, he had a smile on his face that she rarely saw, a completely relaxed smile, which could even be described as doting.

A strange, indescribable bittersweet feeling welled up in Elbow Girl's heart, like an effervescent tablet thrown into water, bubbling and fizzing.

Elbow Girl isn't stupid. She knows that Wang Taika is never short of people around him, and she also knows that Xueqiu is close to him. But seeing the two of them interact so naturally and intimately, as if they were in their own little world, still shocked her beyond her expectations.

In fact, before this, Elbow Girl had almost never seen Wang Taika interacting with other girls in private.

Imagination is one thing, but seeing it with your own eyes is another.

Elbow Girl didn't show up, didn't rush out to question like in the TV series, and didn't even let Wang Taika discover her presence.

She simply stood silently in the shadows, watching Wang Taika turn and leave, glancing around suspiciously before finally departing.

Elbow Girl lowered her head, clenched her fist, and then let it fall limply. She turned around, silently pressed the elevator button, her mood completely different from when she was happily going to work.

The elevator slowly ascended, and the metal wall reflected Elbow Girl's somewhat absent-minded face.

She tried hard to force a smile that she had practiced a thousand times, a smile that belonged to an idol, but found that her lips felt as heavy as if they were weighed down by lead.

With a "ding," the elevator arrived at the floor.

The door opened, revealing busy radio staff and several other artists who had also come to appear on the show.

Elbow Girl took a deep breath, instantly switched modes, and put on a perfectly sweet smile. She politely greeted the people she knew and walked briskly towards the waiting room.

Everything was as usual, and the professionalism was impeccable.

Only Elbow Girl herself knew that the ripples on the lake in her heart, where a stone had been thrown, had not yet subsided. Just like a pot of Sichuan peppercorn hotpot boiling, the sour and astringent feeling of "bubbling" did not dissipate when she stepped into the work environment, but instead fermented and swelled silently in her chest.

"Tzuyu, come and sit down first."

In the waiting room, the makeup artist and agent were already waiting.

Elbow Girl obediently sat down, closed her eyes, and let the makeup artist work on her face.

Normally at this time, she might chat with her manager about the day's schedule or joke around with her makeup artist, but today, she was unusually silent.

The scene from just now started replaying uncontrollably in my mind.

What she had just seen was Wang Taika's unguarded, indulgent, and warm smile as he looked at Xueqiu. It was an expression she had almost never seen on Wang Taika's face before.

Even during the period when Wang Taika made amends to her and treated her very well, his eyes always contained a mixture of guilt, remorse, and perhaps a hint of weariness, never as pure as the morning sun as they were this morning.

But before this, Elbow Girl had no idea. Because she went to South Korea to become a trainee when she was underage, she had never been in a relationship. She thought that feeling was what it was all along, but now she realized that it didn't seem to be.

Long ago, when she was used as a pawn by Wang Taika, what was he thinking? What did he feel? Although Wang Taika later realized his mistake and tried desperately to make amends, that scar, like a crack on porcelain, remained there forever.

Elbow Girl thought she had moved on and even developed feelings for Wang Taika that went beyond dependence, but at this moment, the fear and grievances that had been deliberately buried seemed to be brought back up by the scene from this morning.

"It turns out I was just deceiving myself." (End of Chapter)