NOVEL SIMPLE
Chapter 172
[Disclaimer: This chapter is written by Qin Wei and can be skipped without reading. Proceed at your own risk.]
Night, gloomy sky.
A woman stands on the rooftop of a tall building. As the city lights up, the sleepless city awakens under her overlooking gaze.
Behind her stand one hundred bodyguards in black, uniformly kneeling on one knee before her.
[Qiao Sixiao: With so many people, aren't you afraid you'll get pushed off?]
[Qin Wei: Shhh!]
The men in black bow their heads and shout loudly:
"Welcome back, Madam Chairwoman! The Eight Great Families of the Capital City await your command!"
The woman turns around, the moonlight falling on her beautiful face.
[Qiao Sixiao: Wasn't it a cloudy night?]
[Qin Wei: Shhh!]
This woman is none other than Qin Wei. Two years ago, she was framed and forced to leave the entertainment industry and flee far away. Only heaven knows what she's gone through these past two years.
But that's all in the past. Today, she is a Silicon Valley elite and Wall Street tycoon, the helmsman of a global empire! She has returned to reclaim what is hers and regain her place at the pinnacle of fame!
[Sun Tiantian: So the villain is Teacher Qiao?]
[Qin Wei: No spoilers!]
[Qiao Sixiao: ......]
"Do not reveal my identity unless absolutely necessary!"
"Yes ma'am!"
The woman boards a helicopter, looking at the familiar bright lights below:
"Capital City, I, Qin Wei, have returned."
...
A grand party is being held at the Capital City Luxury Hotel, truly a star-studded event!
The star of tonight's party is none other than today's top celebrity—
Qiao! Si! Xiao!
[Qiao Sixiao: Why are you yelling my name so loudly?]
[Qin Wei: Are you going to listen or not?]
She stands in the center of the banquet hall in a gorgeous dress, surrounded by adoring crowds.
Raising a glass to each guest, the doors of the hall open at that moment!
[Sun Tiantian: Sis Qin, can you please lower your voice a bit? Viewers say their ears hurt.]
The doors open...
A woman walks in, wearing a blue helmet and carrying a takeout thermal box.
All eyes turn to look at her.
"Who ordered the takeout? Over here to get your spicy crayfish."
[Shen Qingqing, Sun Tiantian: Who orders crayfish at a formal party?!]
As she speaks, she takes off her helmet, revealing a breathtakingly beautiful face.
Her presence makes the banquet hall even more dazzling!
[Qiao Sixiao: Is your head a lightbulb?]
"Qin Wei?!"
Many people recognize her, including those who looked down on her during her fall from grace.
Shen Qingqing walks over with a wine glass in hand, raising her voice deliberately:
"Well, well! If it isn't Qin Wei? What's up? Started delivering takeout now?"
[Shen Qingqing: Wow, I'm in here too...!]
[Sun Tiantian: Why do you look so happy about it?]
Sun Tiantian also comes over and shoots Qin Wei a contemptuous glance:
"If I were once a top celebrity, I would starve to death rather than show my face doing such menial work—that's just lowering your own value!"
[Sun Tiantian: Would I dare roll my eyes at you...?]
"That's right! Anyway, the current top celebrity is Big Sis Qiao. Qin Wei, what are you even doing here?"
Youyou chimes in flatteringly.
[Youyou: Senior Sis, am I the sycophant?]
Qiao Sixiao looks down at her from the stairs above, asking:
"Qin Wei, where have you been these last two years?"
[Qiao Sixiao: Don't let that trash script have my name in it again!]
"Wandering all over, earning hard-won money."
Qin Wei looks completely nonchalant.
Shen Qingqing laughs. "More like wandering all over delivering takeout! Gotta know those roads well! Hahahaha!"
Everyone in the banquet hall laughs.
Youyou goes to Qiao Sixiao's side:
"Our Big Sis Qiao just took on another blockbuster film as the lead actress. Hey Qin Wei, want to get a bit role as an extra with our Big Sis Qiao?"
Just then, the big shot director arrives.
Qiao Sixiao fawns over him as he approaches.
[Qiao Sixiao: Keep your trash script away from my name!]
The director brushes Qiao Sixiao aside and bows deeply three times to Qin Wei.
"Two years ago I was blind! Today I beg you to be the lead actress in my next blockbuster! No, from now on all my films will star you! Every lead role and supporting role!"
[Sun Tiantian: Wow, just wow!]
[Youyou: Can you handle it, Senior Sis?]
Qiao Sixiao, stunned, can't believe what's happening. She points at Qin Wei and yells loudly:
"Do you know my backer is the Eight Great Families of the Capital City! If you bully me, the families won't let you off!"
[Qiao Sixiao: Qin Wei, just shut your mouth!]
"The Eight Great Families, come forth!"
The doors of the banquet hall fly open as eight figures stride in shoulder to shoulder, men and women alike, the sole common trait being diamond-and-gold encrusted clothes!
[Shen Qingqing: Whoa, not too shabby huh...]
As they enter, Qiao Sixiao...mmmph mmm mmph...! Qiao Sixiao are you covering my mouth??
[Youyou: Hurry and keep going, Senior Sis!]
Qiao Top Celebrity looks at them ingratiatingly.
The Eight Families ignore her and uniformly kneel before Qin Wei!
"From this day forth, the Eight Great Families will be led by Chairwoman Qin Wei! We serve at the chairwoman's command!"
Qin Wei takes off her takeout rider vest, revealing a bejeweled ballgown encrusted with one carat diamonds underneath that no one noticed due to the ordinary vest on top.
The only one of its kind globally!
[Qiao, Sun, Youyou, Shen: Thank goodness only one in existence, no one else could pull it off...]
[Shen Qingqing: Also Sis Qin how did your vest hide the entire ballgown?!]
Qiao Top Celebrity is stunned, unable to believe this turn of events. She says to Li Ruyi, one of the patriarchs of the Eight Families:
"You've got the wrong person! She's Qin Wei! Not the chairwoman!"
[Sun Tiantian: Ruyi probably isn't too happy to know she's a patriarch...]
Li Ruyi glares at Qiao Top Celebrity. "The family head is here! Who do you think you are lecturing! Hurry and scram!"
[Sun Tiantian: Wait, wasn't it chairwoman earlier? Now it's family head?]
Another patriarch, Yan Jinyu, also says:
"Betray the family head, die without mercy!"
[Shen Qingqing: Gaining more and more enemies now...]
Another patriarch...Qiao Sixiao stop pinching my face, or my arm...!
Sun Tiantian:
"Okay folks...the kid's been taken back to her room and is getting a lecturing...the celebrities and fans mentioned please don't take it to heart with an unlucky kid, purely fictional...you know how active imaginations can be at that age..."
The streaming chat is asking for an ending.
Youyou picks up Qin Wei's phone left at the scene and hands it to Sun Tiantian. Sun Tiantian takes a deep breath and scrolls down, reading aloud:
"Qiao Sixiao finally faces reality and collapses to the ground. Shen Qingqing, Youyou, and I also faint from shock. Qin Wei smiles crookedly.
With vengeance fulfilled, from now on she reigns as the sole global top celebrity.
She has a new title—Empress Qin!
Having accomplished her mission, she disappears into the night sky in her helicopter."
Streaming chat:
[Lit!!]
[A coward's power fantasy!]
[Still wanna know who ordered that crayfish...]