Chapter 113: Chapter 113: Do You Regret It?

Hot topics thrive on controversy.

Amidst a sea of praiseworthy threads, a contradictory post naturally drew everyone’s attention.

After a round of mindless flaming, the Jiang Fans said:

[Brothers and sisters, stop flaming! Don’t give them the attention. Just report and move on.]

[Reported. +1.]

[Reported…]

[No matter what, it’s a fact that Jiang Qin won the championship, and it’s also a fact that our Federation’s purchasable energy quota will increase by ten percent next year.]

[I can’t be bothered with your entertainment industry drama, but the increased energy quota benefits me, so I support her. Reported.]

[Same. Reported…]

Soon, these threads questioning Jiang Qin were taken down.

Only the good news remained.

Inside the New Moon Color Bar on the Main Star’s central street, Zhu Yongkang directly addressed the staff:

“To celebrate Miss Jiang Qin winning the championship, all Inhibitors tonight are on the boss! Drink as much as you want!

Let’s toast to Miss Jiang!”

“Awesome! Miss Jiang won the championship!”

“I just knew she could do it! WAAAH~” This came from a more emotional male Beastman.

They were all long-time employees of the Moonlight Bar, and everyone remembered what Jiang Qin looked like when she first arrived.

An 18-year-old female who looked like she was 15.

She was thin and frail, and she spoke in a soft, gentle voice.

But in just over two months, the Miss Jiang of today was doing much better than before.

Although she was still pitifully frail, at least there was much more color in her face, and her voice had grown stronger.

They had watched her transformation, so they felt it more deeply and sincerely wished for her to soar to greater heights.

Let the ones who abandoned her regret it forever!

And at this moment, were the members of the Jiang Family truly regretting their actions?

Jiang Ruming, for one, was certainly feeling some regret. She regretted how she’d been possessed to frame Jiang Qin back then.

If she hadn’t framed her, she wouldn’t have left the Jiang Family, wouldn’t have gone to work at the bar, and certainly wouldn’t have become so dazzlingly brilliant!

Lately, more and more people had been comparing the two of them.

Even now that she was home for the holidays, her classmates still called her to ask all about Jiang Qin.

She truly regretted it.

She regretted pushing too hard and snapping the string she held in her hand.

The more she thought about it, the more annoyed she became, until she irritably shut down her Light Computer, not wanting to see any of the messages that kept mentioning her.

She didn’t even have to look to know they were either mocking her or asking about Jiang Qin.

Also filled with regret were Jiang Yulian’s current partners. After all, the industries they were involved in were fundamentally inseparable from the energy sector.

And energy was controlled by the government.

If they had known earlier that Jiang Qin had such capabilities, they would have done anything to win her over and persuade their partner to do the same.

Then, they probably could have used their connection to her to climb even higher.

Unfortunately, back when they learned that Jiang Qin was merely a C-level female, they had stopped paying her any attention.

After all, with her qualifications, she couldn’t even attract a good male for a marriage alliance; she simply had very little value to them.

Besides, they still had Jiang Ruming at home.

There was no need to alienate the meticulously groomed female of the house from the Jiang Family over some uneducated, low-ranked female.

Thus, their indifference was, in its own way, a form of favoritism.

…

In a room a few doors down from them, Jiang Ruhai was being pestered by his two younger brothers.

“Brother, is that female really the daughter our mother lost?”

“Brother, my classmates are all saying she isn’t a child of our Jiang Family anymore. Is that true?”

Jiang Rufeng and Jiang Ruixing hadn’t been home when Jiang Qin was first brought back. After school let out for the holidays, they went to a training camp and had only recently returned.

At school, they had been worried that Jiang Ruming would be bullied by the new little female.

Or that she would steal the affection of their mother and fathers.

But when they got back, they discovered there was no extra person in the house at all, and they hadn’t even had a chance to ask about it.

Then, their classmates told them that their biological older sister had participated in the show *Interstellar Composer*.

And she had even placed first in every single episode!

And today, she had won the whole championship!

But before the two of them could even begin to enjoy their classmates’ flattery and envy, they were getting cursed out.

Or rather, their entire family was getting cursed out!

Only after asking around did the two learn that their biological sister had long been driven away by the family and had even officially cut all ties.

In other words, none of the honors Jiang Qin had earned had anything to do with them!

Jiang Ruhai, thoroughly annoyed at being pestered, said impatiently, “That’s right. It’s just like they said. Jiang Qin has nothing to do with our family anymore.

You two better not mention her at home either, unless you want to make Mother and our sister unhappy.”

Jiang Rufeng and Jiang Ruixing looked at each other, speechless.

They really couldn’t understand why their mother would drive away the daughter she had spent more than a decade searching for.

’Is it because that Jiang Qin was unlikable?’

But seeing Jiang Ruhai looking like he was about to lose his patience and beat up his younger brothers, they didn’t dare ask any more questions.

They just felt a little miserable inside.

Just when they were about to accept this biological sister, they learned that they were no longer related.

The psychological whiplash was too much.

As for whether Jiang Yulian felt any regret, no one knew.

After all, she hadn’t left the house recently, and mentioning Jiang Qin was forbidden in the Jiang Family, so no one knew if she had even seen the trending topics.

Jiang Ruming guessed that she must have.

If she weren’t afraid of people bringing it up, why would Jiang Yulian, who loved attending all sorts of banquets, possibly stay cooped up at home?

She had probably been mocked by quite a few people, just like her.

***

Although it was very late, many people had no intention of sleeping tonight.

Lan Yuyan’s Light Computer was constantly buzzing with incoming calls. Even though he was only selectively answering them, he still couldn’t keep up.

These people were all after the government’s reward, and it was getting on his last nerve.

Even if there was a reward, it wasn’t his to give. He was just the lowly head of the composition department.

’When it comes to distributing the reward, they should go find my old man, alright?!’

These people didn’t dare bother his father, so they could only pester him. The problem was, he couldn’t just reject all the calls.

“Yes, that’s right…”

“We don’t know when Miss Jiang will be returning yet, correct…”

“The energy purchasing rights need to be decided at a shareholders’ meeting. I’m only in charge of the composition department; I’m not involved in that part.”

“If you want to purchase the copyrights to her songs, you’ll have to wait until Miss Jiang returns from the Empire to discuss it. I will notify you then.”

“Hm? Mentor a rookie?

Sorry, Miss Jiang is quite busy. She probably doesn’t have time to help mentor anyone. She has her regular work and also needs to attend online classes, so she doesn’t have much free time.”

“Yes… not at the moment…”

Lan Yuyan wasn’t the only one who was busy; the admins of the Jiang Tang fan group were busy as well.

Wen Jiaqi, in particular, was constantly creating new group chats, accepting new fans, and tagging what level of fan they were.

She also had to educate them on the group rules, the Jiang Fan code of conduct, and so on.

It was a painful sort of happiness.

She was exhausted, but this was proof that Jiang Qin had made it big!

And she herself had managed to snag the position of fan club president.

It was mainly because everyone else had been very modest and deferred to her.

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