【L: Didn’t Ji Zhaoxi say she doesn’t eat spicy food? Then who’s that eating spicy braised-beef noodles in Dining Hall Three at A University right now? Liar!】
A Weibo post mentioning Ji Zhaoxi by name suddenly appeared on Ji Zhaoxi’s feed.
Fans who had been diligently posting beautiful photos in her feed: ?
Before long, the fans started arguing with L.
【Ji Zhaoxi doesn’t eat spicy food in the first place. Stop spreading rumors!】
【Exactly! Xixi’s face turns all red whenever she eats spicy food. So adorable!】
【If you’ve got the guts, show us a picture. You’ve been spreading rumors for ages, but you don’t have a single photo!】
The person behind L’s account let out a cold laugh and began typing furiously.
【L: Is it fun pretending to be someone you’re not all day? If you can’t eat spicy food, why did you add two spoonfuls of chili? What a compulsive liar!】
【L: She ate a whole bowl in the cafeteria and even packed another serving to go. Didn’t she say she had a bird’s stomach?!】
They couldn’t be bothered to argue with those fans. Those people had no idea what Ji Zhaoxi was really like.
She was the ugliest person in the world on the inside, yet all those fans had been deceived by the persona she created!
The cafeteria was packed at that moment.
The braised-beef noodles at the second counter were especially popular, and the line had already stretched all the way to the entrance.
Wearing a hat, Ji Zhaoxi gazed at the long line by the door, thrilled. Luckily, she had arrived early enough to get in line!
The cook at the second counter, meanwhile, was so exhausted that her face had gone pale. Her hands wouldn’t stop trembling. She really wanted to take a break.
She glanced at the students waiting in line. The students at the front had even stopped playing on their phones and were simply staring at her expectantly.
Cook: …
All right, all right. She could keep going a little longer!
The line had reached Ji Zhaoxi’s table, and the students nearby kept sneaking glances at the bowl in front of her.
Ji Zhaoxi had almost finished eating. She had originally planned to take the extra portion back to her dorm.
But she decided to eat it now instead!
The moment she opened the container, a wave of envious murmurs rose around her.
Food really did taste better when other people looked on enviously.
Just then, a WeChat notification suddenly popped up. Her eldest sister had sent her a message.
【Stop eating and check Weibo!】
Ji Zhaoxi frowned at the message.
What could possibly be so urgent that it had prompted Big Sis to message her first?
After all, Big Sis was incredibly aloof.
Ji Zhaoxi wished her good morning and good night every day, and she thanked her after every livestream battle, but Big Sis never replied. Occasionally, when she was in a good mood, she might send back an ellipsis.
Ji Zhaoxi automatically interpreted that ellipsis as meaning that Big Sis’s love for her was endless.
She opened Weibo and immediately came across L’s post.
【L: Liar liar liar!】
【L: Even if Ji Zhaoxi’s fans have another meltdown, she’s still a liar!】
Ji Zhaoxi: …
With a solemn expression, Ji Zhaoxi scrolled through L’s posts. Sure enough, L was a student at the same university as her.
She cautiously looked around, trying to identify her anti-fan among the students nearby.
The student beside her who had been eyeing her noodles lowered their head guiltily when they met Ji Zhaoxi’s piercing gaze.
Staring at someone else’s bowl of noodles was indeed rude, but there was no need to look at them like they were a spy…
Just then, two girls were whispering to each other. Their faces were slightly flushed, and every so often, they glanced at Ji Zhaoxi.
Ji Zhaoxi caught their gaze with remarkable sensitivity and knitted her brows tightly.
The two girls jumped and quickly waved their hands.
“It wasn’t us, it wasn’t us…”
What a terrifyingly sharp gaze!
The two girls nudged each other as they approached. One of them said softly, “Excuse me, your hat is so cute. Could I add you on WeChat and have you send me the link?”
The girl beside her silently gave her a thumbs-up.
Ji Zhaoxi froze for a moment, then her eyes lit up.
They had such good taste! Even though it was just an ordinary hat, she had chosen it with great care.
She cleared her throat. “There’s no need to go to all that trouble. I’ll find it for you on Taobao.”
The girl’s face went blank for a moment before she nodded. “Oh, okay.”
Then she watched helplessly as Ji Zhaoxi searched for the brands of those hats on her phone.
“This hat is suitable for everyday wear, and your head shape would suit it really well…”
“This one is nice too. You could wear it while traveling, but you’d need to buy it through a purchasing agent. You can get it from this shop.”
“Do you like this style? This one would look great on you too!”
In less than ten minutes, the girl’s shopping cart contained more than a dozen hats.
The two girls exchanged a silent look.
Then they fell quiet.
Ji Zhaoxi finally finished recommending all the hats she liked. Reluctantly, she handed the phone back to the girl.
“Will you try some of these hats?”
Looking at Ji Zhaoxi’s hopeful expression, the girl nodded with difficulty. “I will. Thank you.”
She returned to the line and stared silently at the hats in her shopping cart.
How had things turned out like this? She had only wanted to add Ji Zhaoxi on WeChat…
Ji Zhaoxi continued eating her noodles. By now, her fan group was in complete chaos.
But Ji Zhaoxi couldn’t reply openly. The persona her company had created for her was that of an aloof, refined heiress.
Elegant and coldly beautiful, she was supposed to be the kind of person who never cared about negative comments and never responded or engaged with them.
In reality, she cared an awful lot!
Frowning, she scrolled through L’s posts. The more she read, the angrier she became. Then, as she continued scrolling, another new post from L appeared.
【L: She loves wearing hats so much. I have reasonable grounds to suspect she never washes her hair!】
Ji Zhaoxi could bear it no longer and immediately replied using her alternate account.
【Ji Chaoxi’s Little Fan: Stop making things up. She clearly washes her hair every day.】
Since so many people were insulting L, the comment from Ji Chaoxi’s Little Fan was quickly buried beneath the others.
Ji Zhaoxi’s fans were an extremely formidable fighting force. From Monday to Friday, it was generally her working fans who took shifts defending her, using their breaks to fight back against negative comments.
On Saturdays and Sundays, the students were off school, and their combat strength rose another level.
During summer and winter vacations, all the student fans were free, and their fighting power became absolutely unstoppable.
Even the company couldn’t figure out why Ji Zhaoxi had so many student fans. After all, the image she cultivated didn’t seem like something students would be drawn to.
When the company had first seen the age breakdown of Ji Zhaoxi’s followers, they had been terribly worried.
The threat of refunds from underage fans!
Fortunately, hardly anyone asked for a refund.
Ji Zhaoxi nervously scrolled through the fan group. The senior fans had already redirected the discussion to the promotional photos she had recently posted, and she finally let out a sigh of relief.
Her senior fans really were reliable. She sent one of them a message.
【Thank you, Sister Qinqin ❤️】
Qinqin immediately replied with two emojis: 【😘😘】
As soon as Qinqin replied, Ji Zhaoxi hurried back to the senior fan group. It was in an uproar too.
【Can someone tell her to stop eating those beef noodles? Has she forgotten that she once said she couldn’t eat spicy food? If she insists on eating them, couldn’t she take them back to the dorm?】
【Forgive Xixi. She’s created so many personas that she’s probably forgotten them herself. 💔】
【Can you all stop being so harsh? She’s just eating a bowl of noodles. Are you seriously treating her like a cow, making her eat grass every day?】
【Forget all that nonsense for now—report her alt account first. It’s as if she’s afraid everyone won’t know she washes her hair every day!】
