Chapter 40: Holy crap, are you the author?
Lin Qingwan suddenly remembered that on the night Xiao Xuan was picked up, he indeed took out this diary.
But what did Mom and Dad do back then? They said they were too busy to look, so they told him to put it away. Yet, they were all focused on checking Xiaoli’s homework…
After that, Xiao Xuan probably felt disappointed and never brought out the diary again. He must have hoped so much for his parents to see these writings, but everyone just ignored them completely…
Lin Qingwan’s eyes welled up with tears.
She continued flipping through the pages one by one.
[“I saw my little buddy get picked up by his parents again. I wonder if my parents are looking for me. Can I find my parents?”]
[“The Dean said that when I was just a few days old, he found me. I’ve never seen my parents… Was I kidnapped? Am I lost? Would they be worried about me?”]
[“I’m so hungry. I want to eat meat, but the Dean spent the money on our education, so there isn’t enough to buy much meat. It’s fine; if I tighten my stomach, I won’t feel hungry.”]
[“Today I saw a girl eating a lollipop, and I wanted one too… But snacks cost money, and the money for a lollipop could already buy me lots of rice.”]
Lin Qingwan’s vision blurred with tears.
So this is how Xiao Xuan suffered in the orphanage, enduring hunger—something she had never imagined…
Unconsciously, she flipped to Lin Xuan’s diary entries after being taken back to the Lin family.
[“Mom and Dad, along with the sisters and brother, all wear such clean and beautiful clothes, only mine are tattered. They seem like they don’t really like me.”]
[“Elder Sister looks so gentle. She’s so pretty and elegant. She seems to be studying at Harvard University! She’s so amazing.”]
[“Elder Sister seems to dislike my dirtiness. Whenever I touch her clothes, she pushes my hand away.”]
[“Elder Sister gets along well with the three sisters and the younger brother. Does Elder Sister not like me because I did something wrong?”]
[“Elder Sister graduated from university and came back to help Dad manage the company. She’s a workaholic and doesn’t eat on time. This isn’t good for her stomach, so I’ll bring her lunch at noon.”]
Bring lunch?
Lin Qingwan froze. Back when Lin Xuan was in high school, during summer break, he came to the company and brought home-cooked meals. He gave her food several times, but she has obsessive-compulsive disorder and thought Lin Xuan wasn’t clean or hygienic, so she threw away all the food. During the last time, because she was irritated by some company matters, she didn’t have an appetite, yet Lin Xuan kept pestering her.
In anger, she had the security guard kick him out and specifically instructed that Lin Xuan should never enter the company again.
She continued flipping.
[“Everything I brought were things Elder Sister likes the most, but why does she throw them away? Does she not like them? Or… does she dislike me?”]
Lin Qingwan covered her mouth as tears streamed down her face.
He knew everything, absolutely everything.
She’s his elder sister. They say an elder sister is like a mother, but what did she do?
He lived in a small and shabby room, and she didn’t know. His monthly allowance of three hundred yuan barely covered his living expenses, and she didn’t know. He didn’t sit at the dining table, and she didn’t care.
His concern for her, she never even acknowledged.
She failed miserably as his elder sister.
Lin Qingwan spent the entire day…
Looking at Lin Xuan’s notes, she realized that Lin Xuan seemed to become increasingly self-conscious and isolated within the family. Later, he stopped recording anything about the Lin family altogether. For the next three years, there were no records at all.
“Xiao Xuan, Elder Sister will surely make it up to you, and also let Mom, Dad, and the other sisters truly understand who you are,” Lin Qingwan murmured with red eyes.
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The next day.
Lin Xuan went to school. On the way, he uploaded another twenty thousand words to the website, then dived into the space to write more novels.
This space is freakin’ useful!!
After spending over ten hours inside the space and finishing another hundred thousand words, only thirteen minutes had passed in the real world!
“Holy crap, another twenty thousand words updated!” Lin Xuan heard a male student exclaim as soon as he entered the classroom.
“Are you reading that novel on Soaring Website called ‘Fawned Over by the Crazy Rich Girl’?!”
“Yeah, this book is insanely sweet and satisfying. It makes me want to meet a crazy rich girl.”
“Let me tell you, this author’s update speed is insane! Who else updates fifty to sixty thousand words just three days after starting their book? But damn, it’s so satisfying!”
“I used to love novels where the main character was super powerful and gathered a harem, but surprisingly, this kind of story where the protagonist is pampered by girls is also pretty thrilling!”
“Man, I want to live off a rich girlfriend too.”
Several boys discussed enthusiastically.
When other boys heard their high praise for the novel and the author’s impressive update speed, they became curious and started searching on the Soaring Novel app.
Lin Xuan casually sat down next to Wang Dahé and noticed that Wang Dahé was also reading his novel.
“Is this novel good?” Lin Xuan raised an eyebrow and asked.
“It’s definitely good!” Wang Dahé pointed at his phone, trying to recommend it, “Xuan, you gotta open this novel! You’ll fall in love with it.”
“Nah, I won’t read it,” Lin Xuan said slowly, “because I wrote it.”
“You wrote it?” Wang Dahé gave him a look like he was joking, “Do I know you? You’ve never written a novel before, and your first one turns out to be this amazing? Impossible!”
Wang Dahé snatched Lin Xuan’s phone and started recommending forcefully, “Xuan, let me help you search. Just read the first three chapters, you’ll definitely love it!”
Wang Dahé opened Lin Xuan’s Soaring Novel app and clicked inside.
Hmm?
Why does it show +999 under “My”?
Out of curiosity, Wang Dahé clicked to check, directly dropping his jaw, “Holy crap, eight hundred thousand fans! Xuan, you actually have eight hundred thousand fans!”
Other students in the class looked over curiously.
Eight hundred thousand fans?
“Xuan, where did all these followers on your novel app come from?” Wang Dahé stared at Lin Xuan in shock.
“Look yourself,” Lin Xuan said calmly.
Wang Dahé glanced at the name, Xuan? Isn’t this the author of ‘Fawned Over by the Crazy Rich Girl’?
Recalling what Lin Xuan said earlier, that he was the author of that novel, Wang Dahé’s hands trembled slightly. Could it be true…
Wang Dahé exited the Soaring Novel app and searched on his phone’s homepage, finding the Soaring Novel Author Assistant app!
Opening it, sure enough, it showed the author name Xuan, and the work page clearly listed ‘Fawned Over by the Crazy Rich Girl’.
Wang Dahé further verified by opening the content of the novel, and it was indeed the one he was reading!
Wang Dahé was so shocked his mouth could fit a whole duck egg!
“Holy crap, Xuan, you’re really the author of ‘Fawned Over by the Crazy Rich Girl’?” Wang Dahé swallowed hard.
