193 The finale (two)
—End of Flashback—-
Xiao Xinyi looked at the people and then at the judges once again and placed a mike before her mouth, “Good everyone. I’m Xiao Xinyi. You all know me by the nickname Twinkle. I would like to tell women of all ages to always love themselves. Our real beauty lies in their hearts and souls. We should always ignore the comments that say too skinny, too fat, too tall, too thin thighs, too thick things, too light complexion or too dark complexion. To others, we might always be too extra or never enough. However, all we need is to be enough for ourselves. We must be kind and caring to ourselves. Let’s not sacrifice our mental health to get that so-called perfect body figure.”
Her ears were deafened by the noise of the clapping that rang around her. Her words were not fancy, they were raw and touching. She was not talking about other women, at this moment she was only talking about herself.
On the internet…
@Mrs China—- [Where are you f*cking haters? You called her ugly. You wished her to be disqualified because of her skin condition! Do you even know what she might be going through? Don’t you get bumps, boils or acne? People like you are the reason why people are not comfortable in their own skin! They have to hide behind beauty filters on the pictures and videos because people expect perfectness that is not even real.]
This comment got several likes, and replies and some began posting it everywhere as tweets. Many women who had been quiet initially began coming out supporting twinkle. They all were touched by their reply.
@Insidernews—[The attached photographs are clicked by the paparazzi hidden in the hotel. Some people were saying that they heard An Xiulan loudly scolding Xinyi before the event.]
@ThisYoungMaster—[I am pretty sure my glitter queen is not a shallow person. There must be some reason if she scolded someone. Look at her, can you believe that her innocent face is capable of causing harm to anyone?]
@Insidernews–[ @ThisYoungMaster I heard from them that Xinyi was going to leave the show and they were going to disqualify her for her poor emotional health but @An_Xiulan scolded her until she was ready to come with her to the stage.]
@ThisYoungMaster—[Sound like something my Glitter queen would do.]
@Userdead—[I don’t know about anything but my Goddess Yaoyao is going to win. Just look at her scores, higher than anyone in the contest.”
@Useralive—[Goddess Yaoyao is the ultimate winner.]
@Userhalfbalive—[My fairy Chen Jia is the best. She will for sure.] ρꪖꪕᦔꪖꪕꪫꪣꫀꪶ
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It was time for the judges to ask the question to another contestant. The crowd screamed in excitement as the host announced that the second contestant to be asked the question would be Jiang Yao.
Jiang Yao stepped ahead, her timeless beauty mesmerizing everyone. She was wearing a nude silver high-slit gown. Her style was bolder than other contestants but it didn’t look gaudy on her, quite the opposite.
As per the custom, she greeted the people and the judges and waited for the judges to ask her the question.
Since Jiang Yao was quite close to An Xiulan, the former’s attention was on her. An Xiulan was happy for her friend that had reached the five. It was not an easy feat. Her eyes were on her friend all the time while the judges asked Jiang Yao the question. There was a happy smile on her face but the smile disappeared the moment she looked at Jiang Yao whose face mask cracked at that moment.
No, An Xiulan was not talking about the mask in a literal sense but metaphorically. The look on Jiang Yao’s face screamed that she was not expecting this. If An Xiulan were to ask to describe the look on Jiang Yao’s face, her answer would be something like this.
Do you know the look one person carries when the teacher announces a surprise test in the class on Monday? You spent the weekend in the happiness that there is no test but when you go to school on Monday, the teacher suddenly decided to announce a surprise test.
Or when you study the entire syllabus for exams but leave one question from each chapter because you think it was not important and the next day when you are sitting in an exam and given a question paper, the entire question paper carries the topics you left?
Or when the questions you crammed all night never came to the exam.
This was what Jiang Yao’s face was carrying at this time.
When the judges asked the question, Jiang Yao’s lips parted in utter shock. She couldn’t understand just what happened to her. She took more than two minutes to recover from the shock and when she answered the question, her voice was shaky and not confident at all. Her answer was paradoxical. The first line of her question was critical to the second line. The people and the judges couldn’t understand what she was trying to say.
An Xiulan closed her eyes for a second. She was so devastated at this moment that she could feel tears threatening to fall down her cheeks but she still maintained the smile on her face. Her eye fell on Ji Mao’er who gracefully walked when the host called out her name.
It could be a coincidence that the question asked to Ji Mao’er was very simple and her answer put a smile on judges’ and people’s faces. An Xiulan wouldn’t say that the question they asked Jiang Yao was tough but it was a tricky question that could have gotten her top marks had she succeeded to answer the question well.
But Jiang Yao failed and no one better than An Xiulan knew at this moment why the girl failed.
On the internet, people were praying for Jiang Yao to win because she was the contestant whose points were higher than others by one or two points.