A group photo from Class Six, Senior Three, began to go viral online because of the sky-high snow boots on Liu Chen's feet. Students at Shifan High School knew Liu Chen's temper and didn't dare to post on Shifan High School's forum.
However, some busybodies saved a high-definition group photo from Liu Chen's QQ album and posted it on the Hupu forum.
Title: "Campus Beauty and Top Student"
Clicking it revealed the sweet smiling class photo of Liu Chen, along with a few pictures of her birthday gifts.
"Tsk, I don't know about her being a top student, but she's definitely pretty."
"She has a very pure aura."
"Eyeballing it, the total price of this campus beauty's outfit is over thirty thousand yuan. Here are the official website prices for her clothes and shoes."
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"Is it really okay for a high school student to dress so expensively?"
"This is my former high school classmate. She transferred to Shifan High School later. This time, she scored over seven hundred points in the city-wide joint exam. I heard she's the top student in her grade at Shifan High School."
"Seven hundred points isn't that great, right? Is Shifan High School in C City that bad?"
Even the poster himself didn't expect that this casual post would be at the top of the trending list three days later, even making it to Hupu's homepage, albeit with a small text recommendation.
For senior high school students, occasionally checking forums was already stealing leisure time, let alone major websites like Hupu.
This led to the post being popular, but other than the photos from Liu Chen's QQ space, no one knew anything about her.
No. 12 Middle School.
Hu Qian, wearing a pink and white down jacket bought last year and carrying a somewhat worn blue schoolbag, walked into the classroom with a dejected face. It wasn't that she wanted to look dejected; it was just that the thought of another day of cold treatment upon entering the classroom made her unable to be happy.
But today seemed a little different. As Hu Qian took off her schoolbag and placed it on the back of her chair, a boy sitting behind her handed her an unopened box of milk.
"Hu Qian, have some milk."
Looking at the milk handed to her, Hu Qian hesitated. She was worried there might be something wrong with the milk.
Perhaps Hu Qian's hesitation lasted too long. The boy behind her, Jiang Gao, was losing patience. He directly stated his purpose:
"Hu Qian, do you know any news about Liu Chen?"
Liu Chen?
Hearing this name, Hu Qian felt a surge of anger well up inside her. She was about to wave away the milk in her hand, but her peripheral vision caught sight of Jiang Gao's sturdy arm. The arm that had been about to move stiffened in mid-air.
She said stiffly:
"I don't know her well."
"Not well?" Jiang Gao was not satisfied with this answer. In fact, he had commented on that Hupu post saying he was Liu Chen's classmate, but people below laughed at him, saying that if he was a classmate, he should provide some concrete proof.
In reality, anyone with a bit of calm would know this was a simple taunt, but Jiang Gao was receiving so much attention for the first time. His strong vanity made him swear that he would find information about Liu Chen and post it to prove he really knew Liu Chen.
"Yes, not well."
Hu Qian sat down on her chair with a straight face, opened her Chinese textbook, covered her ears with her hands, and looked down at the book, appearing to be diligently memorizing the text.
But as Hu Qian looked, one text turned into the first class.
The first class was taught by Old Witch Yan Yan, and even Jiang Gao had to listen obediently.
However, after class, as soon as Yan Yan walked out the front door, Jiang Gao stuck his foot out to the front and kicked Hu Qian's stool.
Hu Qian pretended nothing had happened, picked up her pen, and worked on the paper Yan Yan had just assigned. Ever since Yan Yan became the homeroom teacher, she assigned a math worksheet as homework after every class. If anyone didn't finish it, they would get five slaps on the palm of their hand the next day.
Others could copy each other's homework, but Hu Qian couldn't find anyone to copy from, so she had to write it herself, racking her brain just to fill out the entire paper.
Jiang Gao, as his name suggested, was tall and burly. He stretched his neck and immediately saw the math paper Hu Qian was struggling with.
"Pfft! Hahahaha! You don't actually think that with your math score of a few tens, you can do this whole paper, do you?" Jiang Gao said, standing up from his seat and walking to Hu Qian's desk, grabbing one side of the math paper and pulling it out.
Worried that Jiang Gao would tear the paper, Hu Qian had no choice but to let go with her elbows, allowing Jiang Gao to pull the paper away.
"Tell me about Liu Chen, and I'll tell the boys in the class not to bully you."
Hu Qian suddenly looked up and stared at Jiang Gao.
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"After her mother divorced, she sold goods at the frozen food wholesale market in C City. I think it's called 'Sister Liu's Frozen Goods'."
"Her family moved a few years ago. I'm not really sure where they live now."
"I don't have her phone number either."
After a few sentences, Jiang Gao finally understood. It turned out that Hu Qian, Liu Chen's supposed half-sister, and Liu Chen were like strangers.
Having said all she knew, Hu Qian looked at Jiang Gao with expectant eyes. However, Jiang Gao was busy posting on Hupu with his phone and didn't notice her at all. Just as the class bell rang, Hu Qian reluctantly turned back to her seat for class.
Jiang Gao, with a hint of the future's clickbait style, thought hard about how to make his post interesting to the people on Hupu.
After much thought, he opened a thread:
"Shocking! It turns out the beautiful top student's family is in this business!"
As a classmate of the beautiful top student Liu Chen, to prove it, I can reveal a little bit. Liu Chen's family sells frozen goods at the frozen food wholesale market in C City. The shop's name is "Sister Liu's Frozen Goods"!
Because the name was catchy, the post received a decent number of clicks. However, when people excitedly clicked in, they found that it was completely different from the secret they had imagined.
Those with a better mindset left comments teasing, while those with a worse mindset started cursing in the comments.
Just like that, inexplicably, the post became popular again in two days.
In a total of one week, a post related to an ordinary person made it to Hupu's homepage twice.
It attracted quite a few idle people to be curious: Who exactly is this girl?
Netizens in 2008 were relatively innocent and never thought about marketing. Many netizens from C City decided to visit "Sister Liu's Frozen Goods" at the frozen food wholesale market to see if the poster was telling the truth.
Of course, most people's purpose was to prove the poster was bragging.
On Saturday, at six o'clock in the morning, over a dozen netizens met up and found "Sister Liu's Frozen Goods." One of them was Ge Long, a young editor from the local TV station, who came today just to join in the fun.
Upon arriving at the shop, Ge Long first showed his TV station work ID and said he was there to gather news about the top students from various schools in the city-wide joint exam.
Liu Fang checked and confirmed the ID was real. Then, she smiled and repeated her parenting advice. Of course, she also shared a few photos of herself with her daughter, and a solo photo of Liu Chen at Sister Yuan Ying's place during the Mid-Autumn Festival, in case the interview was used and published.