Chapter 17

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Chapter 17 – Shocked by Her Own Acting

Although Xia Teng’s starting point in acting as a village girl was the same as Xu Lang’s previous life, but in this life nobody said that that was her true character.

After continuously complimenting her that her acting skill was good, the people then also saw Xia Teng’s unbelievable college entrance examination results. Whether it was the media or the onlookers, they couldn’t help but come up and compliment her.

Xia Teng’s aspiration was a direct copy and paste of Xu Lang’s.

[*aspiration: the paper you need to fill when on senior high school, usually asking for university choice and major]

The majors picked were the same.

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At the end of July, the movie finally finished filming.

Xia Teng returned to Xu Lang’s side. At this time, she had been nominated for the Golden Flower Award as Best Supporting Actress.

In the past life, Xia Teng got this nomination and was scolded with a torrent of abuse by Mo Yan’s fans, but in this life, it was very unlikely to happen.

Xu Lang had been very busy recently, and he didn’t go home very often.

Xia Teng couldn’t say anything about it, but she always felt that her heart was a little choked.

During this time, another director invited her. After thinking about it, earning money was still important, so she simply went again.

Xu Lang actually paid attention to all kinds of news about Xia Teng.

The days continued just like this until they entered university.

After the military education and training ended, the two continued to live off-campus without any discussion, just as how they lived together before.

[*military education and training: compulsory subject for university students]

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In October, the movie was released.

Xu Lang took Xia Teng to watch the movie together. This time, Xu Lang specially bought a pack of tissues.

On the day the movie was released, the seats were rather empty.

Xia Teng was a little ashamed. “It’s over, the movie might be a flop.”

Xu Lang patted Xia Teng soothingly. “No way.”

It was obviously only two words, but Xia Teng felt much more settled.

The movie started.

[***Trigger warning: sexual assault, suicide. If you want to skip, immediately jump to the last section by searching “end of trigger warning”***]

The movie started with the male lead acting as a police officer inquiring the parents of a victim.

The father was silent while the mother kept shedding her tears. “You guys must catch that bastard!!”

The male protagonist asked a few more questions, and then returned to the police station with a blank face.

This was a vicious case of rape.

The eighteen-year-old girl was knocked out on her way home. When she regained her consciousness, she had already been violated, and was thrown naked at the school gate.

[*It wasn’t explicitly stated in the raw, but I assume it was the corpse already]

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Meanwhile on the other side, the gentle lady boss of a milk tea shop carried two cups of milk tea to two students.

The two female students took the milk tea, and later on chatted among themselves.

“Have you heard? Someone’s something’s picture was circulating in the web forum~”

At this time, the male protagonist walked in. “Su Rong, how’s business today?”

“It’s alright.” The lady boss’s voice was gentle and soft, in her eyes was a gloominess that couldn’t be dissolved.

“Why did you come here suddenly?” The lady boss said softly.

“Something happened again.” The male protagonist frowned. “I just remembered that you opened a shop here, so I wanted to ask if you have heard anything related to Tang Yiyao.”

“I’m thinking”—the lady boss sighed with sorrow—”does she have a nickname? The students here wouldn’t say her real name directly when they chat.”

“I didn’t pay attention to this either. I’ll ask about it later.”

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The movie was in a gloomy gray tone, slowly showing the female protagonist living as the lady boss to search for clues.

From the surrounding people, it could be concluded that the lady boss was originally a doctor and lived together only with her seventeen-year-old daughter.

One day, the daughter committed suicide. The lady boss quitted her job and opened a milk tea shop near her daughter’s school gate.

The police officer male protagonist once again looked for the lady boss. The police had tested the DNA and determined that the murderer was also a male student from this school.

Not only that, but this male student was also the boyfriend of the female student who got raped.

But at this time the male student had been missing since morning. It was during the time they just found out who the murderer was.

The boy’s father was the school’s principal. He tried to suppress the matter, but it was too late. When the female student who was raped and left without any clothes on her was found in front of the school gate, this matter had already caused a huge sensation.

Now that the murderer turned out to be a male student from the same school, in addition to him being the principal’s son, the matter attracted even more attention.

The lady boss of the milk tea shop was still gentle and soft as before. She never really laughed nor did she like to talk, but she was very kind to every female student who came to her shop.

The female students all liked her very much.

This case was put on hold because the boy was never found.

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Several months later, the final exam was approaching quickly. When the security guard came to open the school gate, he saw a puddle of red in front of the school building.

After the police came, they discovered that a girl in red dress had committed suicide by jumping off the building.

Nobody at school knew this girl.

When the police were at their wits’ end, a shocking news came from the forensic investigator. This was not a young lady, but a young man. The person had undergone a sex change surgery, and there were traces of long-term injection of estrogen in the body. There was also trace of being violated before committing suicide.

And what was more important, this young man was the person they were looking for initially.

The police were stunned, but they also informed the principal.

After the principal came over, he collapsed as he looked at the remains of his “son”.

The principal’s wife screamed in fright.

At this point, the case had completely entered a dead end.

They couldn’t find any more clues from the social circles.

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At this time, the police male protagonist heard a colleague complained that the school was fishy. Within a year, two female students jumped off the building while wearing red dresses. The male protagonist asked, “Who is the other one?”

He wouldn’t know if he didn’t check. Once he investigated about it, he found that the female student who jumped off the building was actually the daughter of the milk tea shop’s lady boss. Not only that, but the lady boss was previously a doctor!

The male protagonist didn’t believe in such a coincidence, and began to tail the lady boss.

Although at this time, he already had deep-rooted feelings for the lady boss.

Once the lady boss went to the store, the male protagonist snuck into the lady boss’s house.

Only then did he discover that the entire room was filled with pictures of the female student who was raped and the male student who committed suicide.

In the end, the male protagonist saw a piece of suicide note. “My dearest Mama, forgive me for leaving without saying goodbye. This world is too dirty, I don’t want to stay here anymore.”

The male protagonist also saw a video that was left behind.

Right at the start, an unfamiliar girl was being molested. The person who filmed the video was the girl who was raped at first, and the perpetrator was the boy who committed suicide later.

He rushed to the milk tea shop only to find that the it was closed.

Feeling that a major event that was far from good was about to happen, he rushed to the school. Then he saw a woman jumping from the top floor.

[***end of trigger warning***]

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The cinematography was very exquisite.

With the clues that were incorporated into the details, coupled with the gloomy temperament yet pure gaze of the lady boss, people were unable to get out from this movie.

They could only feel a stifling anxiety in their hearts.

Xia Teng cried until she was gasping for air.

Inside the movie theater, there was only sobbing sound left.

Xu Lang couldn’t help but sigh in his heart. By changing the actors, the whole movie changed all of a sudden.

In his previous life, the female lead was a flower vase who could only stare and pout. This life, it was changed into Xia Teng, whose every gaze was full of drama.

Instead, the male lead was overshadowed by Xia Teng.

Xu Lang glanced at Xia Teng who was crying until she was gasping for air next to him. Her fans were right, this person was born for acting.

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The author had something to say:

When I have time, I will write this so-called movie into a short story, because there are many details that I did not mention.

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