"Jinyi, you must have also bought a house in this city, when will you take us to visit your place?" the former class president, Chen Haisheng asked.
'Do I seem like someone who can afford a house?'
Yan Jinyi was thinking about the Huo family manor because that land was said to be so exclusive that it cannot be bought with money.
"I don't own a house."
As soon as she finished speaking, Ye Minran suddenly asked in surprise, "Why is that so? Don't you actresses earn lots of money? Jinyi, you don't have any parents or siblings to feed, why is it that you can't even afford a house?"
At this point, she seemed to have thought of something and said, "Oh, right, the property prices in the city are high and I heard that many celebrities live in rented apartments. That's understandable but Jinyi, your living standards are high so the location of your rented place should be good too."
"Miss Ye, you seem to be very interested in the lives of others, huh?"
Ye Minran said with a hypocritical smile, "I'm just concerned about you."
Leaning slightly against the backrest of her chair, Yan Jinyi picked at her nails nonchalantly and said, "Didn't you always set me up back when we were in school? Oh, and not to forget, you used to harm Sangsang too."
"You..."
Yan Jinyi interrupted, "I'll be frank with you, my main purpose of coming here today is to make all of you who had bullied Sangsang back in high school to apologize to her. Aren't they advocating against bullying on campus these days? The sooner you apologize, the sooner you can reincarnate."
'Apologize? She wants us to apologize to Tan Sangsang?'
Ye Minran thought to herself with a contemptuous gaze, 'She must be dreaming. Does she really think she can do whatever she wants just because she has become an actress?'
The rest of the crowed began to fall silent and they couldn't help but take a few more glances at Tan Sangsang who was seated beside Yan Jinyi.
To be honest, Tan Sangsang was quite pretty after she lost some weight.
In fact, all of the people in their high school class had bullied her, just that the extent to which they did so varied.
The reason that Tan Sangsang chose to transfer to another school was because Ye Minran had once led her clique to hang a bucket of ice on the door of the classroom during wintertime. Tan Sangsang was drenched in iced water the moment she pushed the door open to enter. Afterwards, she missed class for several days in a row.
Later, she even packed up her things in the classroom with her parents and never returned to school again.
The homeroom teacher told them that Tan Sangsang had transferred to another school and reprimanded the whole class, especially Ye Minran, whose parents were called to school too.
However, Ye Minran was a huge bully in their cohort at the tie and even after her parents were called to school, she continued bullying those who were weaker than her.
Seeing that the tension was making the atmosphere a little awkward and bizarre, Chen Haisheng immediately stepped forward to give everyone an out, "We're all former classmates, let's not bring up the past anymore. It's rare for us to get together like this, so let's talk about some happier things. I shall apologize to Sangsang on everyone's behalf. At that time, we were all young and foolish, I'm sure we all regret our actions then."
Recently, he wanted to jump ship to another company and get a better job in the city. Knowing that Ye Minran's husband had a wide network of connections, he wanted to ask her to help introduce some job opportunities to him.
Yan Jinyi was now a famous actress so he thought that he could take a photo with her and then post it to get some clout, in hopes that someone might try to get close to him then.
However, he didn't expect Yan Jinyi's personality to have changed so drastically as she was no longer as meek and compliant as she used to be.
"By the way, Sangsang, what are you working as now? You're close friends with Jinyi, now that she's a famous actress, your profession probably isn't much worse, right?"
Tan Sangsang suddenly felt that the former class president, who used to be quite amiable, was extremely detestable.
'Why are humans like this? Is it really that important to suck up to the rich and powerful?'
She answered gently, "I'm a reporter."
"That's impressive. Reporters are incredible," Chen Haisheng began to praise in an exaggerated manner.. "I didn't expect everyone in our class to be so competent. We have to help each other out often!"