Chapter 1238: Chapter 1229: Wind Filling the Building (1)
Xia Siyu was quite composed: “As they say, when you go to the malls in Yancheng and Shangcheng, eight out of ten people look like me.”
She had been popular for seven years, so it’s only natural for some online influencers to undergo surgery using her as a template. Even when Li Yiru first debuted, she pulled herself up by stepping on her.
The male senior shook his head: “No, it’s like an actress… from a long time ago. What’s her name?”
When he said this, Qin Baizhou’s gaze flickered slightly, but he always had the nickname “smiling tiger.” Though cautious in his heart, he maintained a smile on his face. Zhou Weiwei glanced at Xia Siyu, then at Qin Baizhou, and said nothing, just smiled.
Back then, when Wen Qunxiao was pregnant with Xia Siyu, she married Xia Youbiao and retired, which was exactly twenty-eight years ago.
At twenty-five, Wen Qunxiao won a gold award, left the song and dance troupe for acting, and only after three years, she had won two best actress awards, becoming very prominent.
This male senior was just over forty now; he was ten when Wen Qunxiao just started filming, and thirteen when she retired.
A boy of that age could already remember things.
Her mother, being a dancer, had a slender figure and a rather hard facial contour. She inherited her mother’s features but also her father’s softer lines. When she first debuted at twenty, she still had baby fat, so the resemblance wasn’t very apparent then.
But now, as her baby fat faded and her features matured, some artists’ faces widen, noses enlarge, and cheeks droop after twenty-five. Xia Siyu, however, was lucky to inherit her mother’s good genes; she looked even more beautiful after slimming down, her features becoming more prominent, harmonized by Xia Youbiao’s softness, looking even better than when she first debuted.
However, at this moment, she did indeed look more and more like Wen Qunxiao. Bo Yan could see it, Shang Feifei could see it, naturally, so could others who were attentive.
Because when Wen Qunxiao quit the industry, she was influenced by an “photo scandal” with her ex-boyfriend, which made the Xia Family feel ashamed. They spent a fortune to buy her film negatives and have not rereleased them ever since. Over the years, they also deliberately suppressed discussions about her, gradually reducing her exposure.
Time is the most ruthless; nearly thirty years have passed. Films were originally the best tools for capturing past images, but if they can’t be rereleased, or shown on TV or big screens, they are just reels of film. People who watched it back then will gradually grow up, age, forget, and in the end, nothing will remain.
Yet just as a goose leaves its sound, water flows with a trace, no matter how much it’s covered up, Wen Qunxiao’s emergence back then was like a rising star, and there will always be someone who remembers her, even if it’s not many.
Xia Siyu wasn’t flustered. She smiled: “That’s quite common, right? After all, there are still people debuting under the title of ‘Little Hepburn,’ ‘Little Menglu.’
Indeed, the entertainment industry is never short of celebrity faces. Sometimes, you wonder if two unrelated people looking alike means your dad had an affair.
The male star sighed, “You really resemble her, especially when you were just dancing.”
Of course, she did; Xia Siyu’s dancing style was a true inheritance from her mother. Now, thinking back, she felt a bit regretful for not continuing down the dance path; it’s now impossible to pick it back up and she can only focus on acting.
This time, Xia Siyu didn’t want to deny it. She lifted her chin and smiled: “Then she must have also been a great beauty.”