Chapter Sixty-Two: What You Fear Comes to pass.

Sheng Jiaoyang, who had thrown someone to the ground, quickly received a complaint.

She was called into a small, dark room for a talk.

"Why did you suddenly start this?" Yu Jing asked.

"He started it," Sheng Jiaoyang said calmly.

There were no cameras in that room, so it was impossible to verify who struck first.

In any case, the one who almost broke a bone was the manager.

"Do you know what the consequences of doing this will be?"

"Being blacklisted?" Sheng Jiaoyang raised an eyebrow.

"You knew and still acted so impulsively?" Yu Jing suddenly felt a headache coming on.

Sheng Jiaoyang leaned back in her chair like an old man, raised her chin, and lazily replied, "Let him blacklist me if he wants."

"Are you planning to go back to your studies after the competition?"

"Probably."

Yu Jing thought to herself that if she had a daughter like this who didn't seem to care about anything, she would definitely send her to the mountains to exchange lives with poor children, to let her experience the hardships of life.

A perfectly good opportunity was right in front of her, and she didn't seize it. If she really wanted to study, why did she even bother participating in a competition? Was she out of her mind?

"Forget it, let's go, let's go!" Yu Jing waved her hands repeatedly, as if shooing away flies. Sheng Jiaoyang

got up and walked away leisurely.

When she returned to the apartment next door, she saw Luo Yi and Xiao Yang clinking glasses. Xiao Yang had a smile on her face, as if some happy event had happened.

"So happy?" Sheng Jiaoyang walked over.

"Jiaojiao, come and have a drink to celebrate Xiao Yang. She just signed with an agency, and today is her official debut." Luo Yi waved to Sheng Jiaoyang.

"Is it that Supermodel Agency?"

"You know it? He invited you to sign with them too?" Xiao Yang suddenly felt less happy. She thought only she had signed.

"I didn't sign."

Luo Yi asked curiously, "Why didn't you sign? Signing with an agency has its advantages. It's hard to get good work if you're a freelance model."

Xiao Yang also looked at Sheng Jiaoyang.

"I'm starting school in September." Sheng Jiaoyang shrugged, looking indifferent.

Oh~ the two of them suddenly realized.

"Actually, studying and signing with an agency don't conflict. You can ask the company to assign you less work." Luo Yi said.

“What if there’s a conflict? Will you still have a choice?” Sheng Jiaoyang shook her head, then turned to Xiao Yang. “How long did you sign?”

Xiao Yang hesitated for a moment, then said, “Five years.”

“Do you know anything about this company?”

“I asked Teacher Zhuo, and he said it’s one of the larger model agencies in China,” Xiao Yang replied.

Sheng Jiaoyang nodded and didn’t ask any more questions. She had a terrible feeling about the agent surnamed Tan from the first meeting, and since she was wearing contact lenses, she had seen all the expressions on the other person’s face. Besides, she had never intended to sign with any model agency in the first place.

That evening, Yu Jing told the contestants that she had booked a flight back to China early the day after tomorrow and asked them what places they wanted to go, saying she could take them there the next day.

“Tower Bridge!”

“Big Ben!”

“Madame Tussauds!”

“Buckingham Palace!”

“Wait, we can only go to three places at most,” Yu Jing interrupted the two who were talking enthusiastically.

“I most want to go to Tower Bridge,” Luo Yi said.

"I want to go to both. Since Luo Yi chose one, I'll choose Madame Tussauds!" Xiao Yang said.

"What about you?" Everyone looked at Sheng Jiaoyang.

Did they expect her to say she'd been to both? "Can I choose not to go anywhere?"

"No!"

"Then let's listen to them."

The next morning, Sheng Jiaoyang revisited Tower Bridge with the group, even standing for a while on the glass walkway above the bridge, before heading to Madame Tussauds together.

When they arrived, the museum was holding an unveiling ceremony for a new wax figure.

"I wonder who she is. She looks old enough to be a grandmother." Luo Yi exclaimed in amazement when she saw the unveiling guest. The

woman with a kind smile was a lady with graying temples, but her hair and clothing were impeccably styled. Judging from her well-maintained but undeniably aged skin, she was probably quite old, at least seventy.

Why did that back view look so familiar? Sheng Jiaoyang's eyebrows twitched.

She wanted to get a better look at who it was, but the area around her was packed with people, making it impossible to move.

Just then, the curtain over the wax figure was lifted.

"Grandma Andy?" Sheng Jiaoyang exclaimed in surprise.

"You know her?" Luo Yi, who was standing closest, looked at her curiously.

Sheng Jiaoyang composed herself and explained in a knowledgeable tone, "Her name is Andy Freylin. She's the founder and chief designer of the jewelry brand Freylin, and she even designed jewelry for the Queen. She's also done a lot of charity work over the decades."

“Jiaojiao, where did you learn all this?” Luo Yi exclaimed.

Sheng Jiaoyang didn’t answer. She looked inside, where Ms. Freylin was talking to the wax museum manager.

It wasn’t surprising that she knew Grandma Andy. Almost every year, she would accompany her grandfather to celebrate the birthday of his old friend, Grandpa Shen, who was Grandma Andy’s German wife. Although Grandma Andy was of pure German descent, she was also a true China enthusiast, loving Chinese culture since childhood, and later marrying the self-made Grandpa Shen.

Putting aside this nepotism, Andy Freylin was one of the women she admired most, and she had always wanted to be as independent and strong as Andy.

No one’s success comes from nowhere. To achieve anything, one must first put in equivalent hard work and perseverance. Take Linna, for example. Her current fame in her twenties wasn’t due to luck; she set goals for herself in her youth and worked hard towards them.

So, to achieve success early, one must start working hard even earlier.

Hard work doesn’t guarantee success, but without hard work, success is impossible.

"Let's go!" Luo Yi pulled Sheng Jiaoyang, who was lost in thought.

"You guys go in first, I want to take a picture with Grandma Andy," Sheng Jiaoyang said.

"Okay, then come find us when you come in later."

Sheng Jiaoyang pushed her way through the crowd, and after being stopped by the bodyguard, she waved to Ms. Freylin like a little fan.

"Grandma Andy, I like you very much, can I take a picture with you?" She called out in Mandarin, and for a true China enthusiast, understanding Mandarin was not difficult.

Ms. Freylin turned to look at the short-haired girl not far away, and seeing the genuine affection in the girl's eyes, she smiled and waved to the bodyguard, signaling him to let the girl come over. Sheng

Jiaoyang's eyes crinkled with joy. Apart from the time she recognized the pretty girl, this was the happiest time of her life. Grandma Andy used to be very kind to her, designing a set of jewelry for her every year and sending it to her as a birthday gift. Uh, the person sent was usually Grandma Andy's grandson—Shen Zhining.

This was arguably her most conflicted moment. On one hand, she was overjoyed to receive the jewelry designed by Grandma Andy, but on the other hand, she really didn't want to see the person who delivered the gift. "

Grandma Andy is here, will Shen the Demon King show up? "

A thought flashed through her mind, but Sheng Jiaoyang didn't dwell on it and happily ran to Ms. Freylin.

"Grandma Andy, I want to stand between you and the wax figure, is that alright?" The little fan's eyes sparkled with anticipation.

Freylin nodded kindly and called her assistant to take a picture of them.

Sheng Jiaoyang was genuinely happy while taking the picture; she was the first person to take a photo with both the wax figure and Andy herself.

"Little girl, what's your name?" Freylin asked kindly.

"My name is Jiaojiao."

Freylin paused for a moment, then smiled and said, "What a coincidence, I have a granddaughter also named Jiaojiao."

This time, it was Sheng Jiaoyang who was stunned. Without guessing, she knew that the granddaughter Grandma Andy was referring to was her. Honestly, she was deeply moved at that moment.

She was organizing her thoughts, trying to subtly get information about her grandfather through Andy's grandmother, when suddenly she saw Freylin smiling and waving behind her.

"Ah Ning, come here."

Sheng Jiaoyang instinctively turned her head, and saw someone walking in through the passage separated by bodyguards.

Just what I feared most...