She dialed a no. And made the call.
The ring went on for some time before someone picked up, "You! Ignorant! Did you finally remember to call me? What do you think of yourself? Do u refer yourself as a queen or some thing? Huh? You..."
THE scolding went on. Xia Yao Xing couldn't bear to hear her so called manager Cheng Rui and put the phone away from her ear for at least 2 minutes before putting it back onto her ear.
"You... Are you listing?" Manager Cheng asked.
"Yes Sister Cheng. I'm listing. You can continue." Xia Yao Xing said without any expressions on her face.
Xia Yao Xing knew that this scolding was never ending. So she didn't want to make any move to stop her manager from scolding.
It has been two months since Xia Yao Xing returned to Country 'C' from her 6 years long overseas stay.
Two months ago...
As soon as she returned, her life line Jang Man Wol dragged her to "Splendid Star Entertainment" to go through an audition to be selected as a trainee. It was originally Jang Man Wol's dream but she was too nervous.
When Jang Man Wol got the call from Xia Yao Xing, Man Wol immediately Rushed to the airport, grabbed Xia Yao Xing's hand and dragged a her while saying, "It's urgent! Thank God! You got back just at time. Let's go the audition is starting."
Xia Yao Xing - "_"...
Jang Man Wol -" Taxi...!!! " she shouted and a long line of taxies queued in from of them. Xia Yao Xing was shocked dead seeing this scene in front of her.
They both got into the taxi and Xia Yao Xing looked straight into Jang Man Wol's eyes and Jang Man Wol shivered.
Xia Yao Xing asked, "Can you explain?" Her expression while asking was so intense that Jang Man Wol nearly shed tears.
Jang Man Wol made her best effort to bring out her puppy dog expression with tear filled eyes she replied, "Xiao Xing, I-It's.. It's.. ."she stutter hanging her head low and couldn't answer when confronting her best friend who is 3 years younger than her.
Xia Yao Xing couldn't bear to see her best friend in this pitiful state, hence controlled herself and said gently, "Xiao Wol, be good and say what's the matter." while saying this she patted Jang Man Wol's back.
Jang Man Wol looked up, saw the gentleness in Xia Yao Xing's eyes and felt very comfortable. She said, "It's.. Just that... Please Help Me..."
Xia Yao Xing asked with a gentle voice, "What's the matter? Just say it."
Jang Man Wol said, "You know that I recently got back with the arts degree right?"
Xia Yao Xing nodded and added "Humm... What about it?"
Jang Man Wol looked at her and said with teary eyes, "Mom is ill. I need to get a job but, I don't know anything other than acting and every where I go... They would fire me saying that I'm not doing it perfectly." She paused for a while seeing that Xia Yao Xing is listening with all her concentration, she started again, "I know it's all because I never did those jobs. But, now I only got this audition as my hope. If I pass they will take me as a trainee and they will pay a monthly package until we debut and when we debut they'll deduct it from our pay."
While Jang Man Wol was talking, her expression turned from being sorrowful to hope at the end of the sentence.
When Xia Yao Xing noticed this small change she knew that this was something her best friend needed this right now.
Jang Man Wol was originally from Korea as her father was a Korean. But after her mother and father got into a conflict and divorced, she followed her mother back to country 'C'. They meet each other when They were both in overseas, studying.
Jang Man Wol was a scholarship student back then, with arts as major. Although Xia Yao Xing was a Business major student she was still very interested toward theatres. They got to know each other more when they started taking part in theatre programmes more.
After listening Jang Man Wol, Xia Yao Xing asked Jang Man Wol about what is it that she need help in. Jang Man Wol again bring out her puppy expression and said, "I'm... Very nervous Xiao Ling." She sighed and continued, "Please come and audition with me."
Xia Yao Xing was confused hearing her words but, Jang Man Wol said again, "You know that your my inspiration. Right? Every time I perform in front of you, I would bring my best."
Jang Man Wol then went solent for a while and said, "I need to do my best this time. Please think about it. " The determination and hope for success was clear from her every word.
Xia Yao Xing couldn't refuse her friend's only hope and followed her to the audition.
The audition went swiftly and they both got selected as trainees.
This is how she ended up in Entertainment industry.
Back to present...
Manager Cheng said arrogantly, "Don't go to the audition. I'm busy following Xing_er. I can't follow you as well." With this she hung up.
Xia Yao Xing stared at the phone for a while and thought Back to the day she was selected as a trainee in "Splendid Star Entertainment." She was originally only interested in acting but was not really interested in being an actress. Now that she could at least work with her best friend and also with her dear sister, Xia Xiang, Whom she didn't meet for over 6 years but still loved her very much, she was happy.
Xia Yao Xing went to look for her sister to tell her this news. She asked a near by person, "Hello... Can you help me find my sister... I mean sister Xiang. Actually I wanted to meet her."
The person thought she must be an stalker fan and chided her, "Don't you fans have any limits." Then the person left the place.
Seeing his reaction, Xia Yao Xing thought it's useless asking anyone and decided to search for her sister all by herself. She went on searching half of the building when she heard some thing shattering and followed the direction of sound.