[Showbiz] The Top-Tier Superstar Has Been My Online Friend for Ten Years

Chi Shu was a genius, the kind of child every parent wished they had.

She entered an international program for gifted children at three, got into Peking University Law School at fifteen, and went to Stanford at nineteen for a combined master's and PhD program. From childhood on, she'd been a mountain towering over her peers.

She shone brightly. The only out-of-the-ordinary thing in her well-ordered life was that she had been online friends with a boy for ten years.

They didn't know each other's names, had never seen each other's faces, and didn't know each other's nationalities. They shared their worries, comforted each other, and always sent their congratulations and encouragement at the important moments in each other's lives.

Later, she discovered that her online friend was a top-tier star famous throughout Asia, a fashion icon, and the “non-mainstream idol” she'd occasionally heard her friends mention and casually mocked a couple of times.

Then her celebrity friend confessed his feelings for her...

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Kwon Jiyong had an online friend of ten years. He mentioned her again and again on shows, but she remained a mystery. Fans pieced together a vague image of her from his scattered descriptions.

At first, they thought she was his younger sister, then they thought she was his older sister. It turned out she was born on the same day, month, and year as him.

She was accomplished, beautiful, and apparently came from a good family. She seemed to have plenty of admirers.

According to Kwon Jiyong, they had known each other for ages, shared plenty of interests, and were childhood friends.

Fans added: “Childhood friends” who didn't know each other's names and had never met.

Everyone could see his secret feelings. Whenever he mentioned her, his face lit up, and he looked completely smitten.

Netizens kept guessing when he'd confess and win her over. The “GD's Love Life Progress” thread grew to ten thousand pages.

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Then it became public: the hashtag [GD and Chi Shu's Relationship] topped trending lists around the world.

Heartbroken fans looked at the woman's impossibly impressive resume and quietly deleted the elegant long posts they'd been halfway through writing.

Fans: Bro, you never told us that the older sister's achievements were this “mythical.”

“There's no way I dare insult her. She could sue us until we're bankrupt, and we'd be lucky to land a stable government job in our next life.”

“With Chi's resume, intelligence, and job, could she really have been online friends with him for ten years? Did they actually have anything in common?”

“Of course they did. They could always talk about ‘love’!!!”

Theme: Love can overcome every hardship.