The Native Flower

Yuan Sheng is sweet and well-behaved, the sort of girl who makes people want to protect her. She was blessed with a beautiful face and skin so pale it seemed to glow, so pale it almost dazzled the eye. More eye-catching than her complexion were her unrivaled grades. If her mother had not fallen ill and her father had not cheated, she would have earned the top score in the district and gotten into Yajun with ease, then gone on to her dream school, Tsinghua University, before heading overseas for further study. She would have become a role model for every rich second-generation kid. But there are no what-ifs. In a fit of pique, she came to Yuanhai, the worst middle school in the district. She wanted to become a bad girl, but instead she met Jiang Yuan, who was even worse. One day during PE class, Yuan Sheng returned to the classroom to fetch something. She had only just reached the doorway when someone suddenly spoke loudly in the quiet room. "Is that even a question? Brother Yuan likes good girls, gentle and obedient ones like Yuan Sheng." Yuan Sheng froze in her tracks. In the corner of the classroom, a group of truants had gathered, brazenly puffing away on cigarettes. Yuan Sheng held on to the doorframe, caught between going in and turning back. Just then, a cocky, carefree voice drawled, "Get lost. I'd rather like a guy." The room erupted in laughter. Yuan Sheng stood rooted to the spot, biting her lip. She had never hated anyone so much. After Jiang Yuan spoke, he caught a glimpse of a hem disappearing past the front door. He stubbed out his cigarette and narrowed his eyes at once. That evening, after school, Yuan Sheng was followed all the way home. By the time she reached her front gate, the courtyard door had opened, and the housekeeper had already come out to greet her. Just then, a hand seemed to reach out of nowhere and grab her arm, clamping over her mouth. Right under the servant's nose, she was dragged into the vines outside the courtyard. "Are you mad? Hmm?" The boy's eyes were bloodshot as he stared into her frightened eyes and demanded, each word deliberate. Coming soon: Entertainment Circle's Belle of the World [The most passionate love, for the most dangerous man] Fu Yixin was a child star, but gradually became known as a sex symbol. It wasn't that she had appeared in anything particularly explicit. It was simply that, as she grew older, she became so dazzlingly seductive and gorgeous, so alluring and sexy, like a flower in full bloom, that she was severely typecast. So from the age of eighteen, the roles she was offered were more or less set: beautiful but evil second female leads, sexy but brainless mistresses, and the kept women of formerly poor bosses who got rich, got greedy, and changed their ways... their mistresses. Every time she was dragged onto the trending topics and flamed, it came with a storm of bloodshed. The keywords associated with her on Weibo were: stupid, evil, brainless, bitch, Fu the Freak, Fu the Round One, gorgeous, boobs, peach-shaped butt, and Zhou Shi'an. Zhou Shi'an was a top superstar. In Fu Yixin's latest drama, she played a beautiful, vulgar second female lead who tried to seduce him, only to be despised by him. Off-screen, the company had finally managed to separate Fu Yixin's image from that of a homewrecker, and had finally landed her a top superstar to work with. Naturally, they tied the two together and pushed the pairing every which way. They promoted it so aggressively that it backfired, drawing scorn from the entire internet. Even the female lead came out to diss her in person. Then, on the day she was being savaged the most, when people across the internet were lighting candles for her, Zhou Shi'an suddenly posted a rare Weibo update: "My childhood idol." The picture was from an obscure film Fu Yixin had acted in as a child. The entire internet exploded. Later, a paparazzo secretly photographed Fu Yixin arguing with a man in the garage beneath her apartment building. Fu Yixin picked up her handbag and smacked him in the face. The man snapped, hoisted her over his shoulder, and carried her off. Fu Yixin kicked and struggled, and he gave her a hard smack on the butt. As they entered the elevator, the man looked around warily, then suddenly narrowed his eyes and scanned the garage. The face beneath his baseball cap was revealed, and a photo that took the world by storm appeared out of nowhere. The man's handsome, restrained face and the woman's sexy, seductive figure made for a powerful visual contrast, hitting viewers right in the eye. The woman was Fu Yixin. The man was none other than Zhou Shi'an, the international superstar whose fame was currently soaring. Weibo crashed for three days and three nights. Theme: Everyone must learn to make peace with themselves.