Superstar's Development Diary
Chapter 401 - 402: Actually, I’ve Been Tired for a Long Time

Chapter 401: Chapter 402: Actually, I’ve Been Tired for a Long Time

Even though everyone in the team had different personalities, some being capricious and willful, others timid and unconfident, some selfish, and some highly envious... Meng Wan had already become accustomed to tolerating them and viewed them as her own sisters.

This is what a team is: everyone in the team is family, not just individual entities.

That’s why Meng Wan felt extremely guilty about what happened to He Jinxia. If she had known what Zhang Yingru and Li Zimu had done to He Jinxia, she would have definitely stepped in to stop them, unlike Wen Ningning who chose to ignore it.

He Jinxia gently patted Meng Wan, who was crying in her arms, her expression slightly changing before she calmly said as if nothing was wrong, "How did you find out?"

Meng Wan, choking with sobs, intermittently recounted how she had returned to the dormitory after recording the program and overheard a conversation between Zhang Yingru and Li Zimu in the corridor.

"I didn’t hear much. They didn’t talk very clearly, and some words were inaudible. I just vaguely felt that, while you were still in the team, Li Zimu and Zhang Yingru did something bad to you, like drugging you or something."

"That night, I thought about a lot of things, trying hard to figure out why you would leave the team. You previously told my parents that the current JY is not the JY it used to be. I didn’t believe it, but the truth told me I was wrong. It seems like the five years of effort was all just a dream..."

"I was very uneasy, I didn’t know what to do. I wanted to find you to clarify things, but you had already flown to the US, and I couldn’t get through to your phone. Then I, I called my brother."

Meng Wan talked a bit incoherently, her emotions unstable, sometimes repeating a sentence seven or eight times. After listening for a while, He Jinxia finally understood that her brother had investigated and found some issues after knowing about it.

Then her brother also checked the information of Li Zimu and Zhang Yingru, and found out that Li Zimu used to buy vitamins periodically, but he stopped buying them immediately after He Jinxia left the team.

This was very suspicious. Having taken vitamins for a full two years, it was too coincidental that he stopped precisely when He Jinxia left, wasn’t it?

Unfortunately, the vitamin bottles had already been thrown away by Li Zimu, none could be found back, and they couldn’t proceed from this point. So, her brother came up with a plan to test Wen Ningning, who lived with her.

Wen Ningning’s nature was typically of the type who bullied the weak but feared the strong. Meng Wan followed the method her brother suggested and successfully coaxed the truth out of Wen Ningning.

Turns out, Wen Ningning knew two years ago that Li Zimu had been regularly giving He Jinxia some pills, and those pills were not vitamins but a type of drug that caused uncontrollable weight gain.

Meng Wan was shocked when she found out and confronted Wen Ningning on why she did not stop it. Wen Ningning turned it around and began to pour out her grievances:

"I wanted to stop it, Wanwan. I really thought about stopping it, but He Jinxia’s temperament, ever since she gained weight, has been so unpredictable, like a ticking time bomb. Who knew when she might explode? Did you ever think whether she was suitable to continue staying in the team?"

"Li Zimu came to me, crying and saying that she also felt sorry for He Jinxia. What she did was to make He Jinxia face the difficulties and leave early by asking for a termination herself, wanting her to recognize her own status early."

When everything was exposed, Wen Ningning shifted all the responsibility onto Li Zimu:

"The team captain pleaded with me like that, what could I do? And the medication wasn’t administered continuously; the captain told me it only lasted for three months. When I discovered it, it was only the second month, and the captain also couldn’t bear to continue. Later on, He Jinxia’s increasing weight was entirely her own fault!"

"Look, didn’t she successfully lose weight later? That proves the medication didn’t really harm her, it’s not a big deal at all. She’s doing better since leaving us, we should all be happy for her leaving JY, shouldn’t we?"

Wen Ningning’s mouth, the more she talked, the more it seemed like He Jinxia should be thankful to them!

Every time Meng Wan recalled this, she trembled with anger.

He Jinxia gently patted her shoulder, whispering comfortingly, "Don’t think too much about it, I’m still fine now, aren’t I? That’s the greatest fortune amidst this misfortune."

As expected, Wen Ningning had issues. From her memories, there were several times when Li Zimu forgot to pass water to He Jinxia, and it was Wen Ningning who gave it to her. Because of this, the original owner actually had a quite positive impression of Wen Ningning.

Now, it seemed she was nothing but a snake dressed in a beauty’s skin!

Meng Wan gasped, "Jinxia, it would have been better if you had left the team earlier. I didn’t expect that they would do something so heartless just to make you leave the team, causing you harm."

He Jinxia seemed a bit dazed, Meng Wan’s voice still intermittently reaching her ears:

"If you had left the team earlier, you would not have encountered such dirty affairs. Thank goodness you’re unharmed..."

He Jinxia suddenly said, "I won’t leave the team."

Meng Wan stared at her blankly.

He Jinxia stared back, saying word by word, "Back then, no matter what, I would not have left the team. I loved that stage, even if my body kept getting worse, I absolutely would not have left the team."

Meng Wan’s lips parted slightly, at a loss for words.

It turned out that He Jinxia had eventually left the team, so why was she now saying she wouldn’t leave the team?

Another thing that puzzled Meng Wan was, if Li Zimu really looked down on Jinxia so much, why didn’t he just kick her out?

As long as Zhang Yingru agreed, He Jinxia, no matter how reluctant, would have to leave. The penalty for breach of contract was not high; kicking someone out was completely affordable.

Meng Wan’s mind was in chaos. All the information she had was told to her by Wen Ningning, and even Wen Ningning didn’t know many things. Meng Wan wanted to ask He Jinxia what had really happened back then, but the words just wouldn’t come out.

Jinxia, having a rebound in her career and having moved on from the past, might not want to remember those things. Why should Meng Wan keep peeling off her scars?

He Jinxia stood up, poured herself a cup of water, and calmed the tumultuous thoughts in her heart, "You’ve left the team, what are you going to do next? Has Zhang Yingru talked to you?"

Meng Wan was silent for a while, her voice very soft, "I’m thinking of leaving the entertainment circle."

He Jinxia was taken aback, "Are you sure?"

Meng Wan didn’t speak.

He Jinxia thought for a moment and then said, "Wanwan, I know your heart was hurt by the JY incident, but you can’t completely deny all the effort you’ve put in over the years because of it. There are people in the entertainment circle who are ruthless, but there are also many who are striving to improve. Ask your heart, do you still want to stand on stage?"

The atmosphere was quiet until, after a long time, Meng Wan’s voice finally filled the room—

"Jinxia, after struggling for so long, I thought I was happy, but I’ve realized that I’ve been tired for a long time."

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