Chapter 452: Node

Twenty is a node, especially for girls.

Before twenty, every year that passed meant being one year older.

After twenty, every year that passed meant being one year older.

Boys can be said to be in their prime until thirty-five. If they exercise diligently, they can maintain themselves quite well even at forty.

But girls can't. A girl's beautiful years cannot be as lasting as a boy's. The best time is only a few years in total. After twenty-seven, they basically start to go downhill.

If it's just an ordinary girl, it's fine, but for girls in the entertainment industry, once their appearance starts to go downhill, it almost equals their career starting to go downhill.

Now plastic surgery is a trend in the entertainment industry. More than half of the female stars have had minor repairs and major supplements to their faces, and some have even changed their heads directly, looking like two different people before and after the surgery.

Let's not talk about the public's view on plastic surgery. In fact, plastic surgery itself is very overdrafting for a female star's beauty life.

The few years after the surgery must be fair-skinned and beautiful, but once the time is up, the speed at which the face sags is several times that of normal aging. At this time, even if you perform repairs, the effect is minimal.

But if you don't repair it, it's equivalent to giving up your acting career. Forced by helplessness, you can only perform larger repairs.

And in this way, it falls into a vicious cycle.

So for plastic surgery, Wen Xia has always kept a distance. Even though the place where she debuted was in South Korea, she didn't choose to have this kind of surgery that overdrafts the future.

Unknowingly, Miss Luo Quan had reached the age of twenty, and her birthday was actually only a month away from Miss Luo Quan's birthday.

Miss Luo Quan is twenty, will she be far behind?

"What are you thinking about? Why do you look so melancholy?" Miss Luo Quan walked over with a smile. Today was her birthday, and she had been in a pretty good mood since she woke up in the morning. But seeing her friend sitting alone by the window, she thought she had encountered some trouble.

Wen Xia pouted: "I'm lamenting that human youth passes too quickly. From now on, our birthdays won't be about growing up, but getting old."

"Now that you mention it, it really is." Miss Luo Quan heard this and suddenly had some feelings.

In the blink of an eye, she had been in this world for almost two years, but everything in the past felt like it happened yesterday.

Time really passed quickly. At twenty, she really should think about her future life.

"But if anyone is going to get old, it'll be me first." Miss Luo Quan suddenly remembered, "I heard that white women generally age quickly. Around thirty, their figure and appearance start to go out of shape rapidly. Many great beauties can't escape this fate after they get older."

"Really!" Wen Xia's eyes lit up, and her mood suddenly improved by more than half.

People are like this. When they hear that others are more miserable than themselves, then it doesn't matter how miserable they are, because they are not the most miserable one.

"You seem very happy." Miss Luo Quan was speechless, "You wouldn't be thinking of waiting until you're thirty to laugh at me when I'm no longer in my prime, would you?"

"How could that be!" Wen Xia quickly hugged Miss Luo Quan's arm, "Am I that kind of person in your heart? I wouldn't laugh at anyone, but I wouldn't laugh at you!"

"Heh..." Miss Luo Quan gave a soft laugh, noncommittal.

At this time, Lin Zheyuan, who had been sleeping on the sofa, also walked over. While stretching, he held a thermos cup in his hand: "Up so early? Don't you girls take beauty sleep?"

"What kind of thing is beauty sleep?" Miss Luo Quan indicated that with her appearance, was there any need to rely on these things to maintain it?

"Just make the most of it while you're young. You'll know in two years." Lin Zheyuan said, twisting open the lid of the thermos. Inside was honey soaked with goji berries. He stretched his lips and took a small sip, then made a satisfied sound: "Cough-ha—"

"How old are you that you've started drinking goji berries?" Miss Luo Quan looked at Lin Zheyuan's old-fashioned appearance and thought, how could boys age faster than girls?

"You don't understand." Lin Zheyuan said and took another sip, "The pace of society is too fast now. Staying up late, working overtime, and pressure fill life. Once people are free, they just want to lie down and play with their phones. There is no exercise or sports at all.

Ever since I started college, my body has been getting worse by the day. Staying up all night in high school was just a common occurrence, but now staying up all night is like taking half my life!

So don't look at how young we are, but in fact, the wear and tear of the body has already begun, and the situation is more serious than we imagined!"

"Yeah, yeah, I had a period of time when I was listless, feeling like I had no energy to do anything!" Before Miss Luo Quan could say anything, Wen Xia nodded quickly.

The two "old people" ravaged by time immediately exchanged health tips, discussing what to eat and drink to alleviate the sub-health condition of the body.

Miss Luo Quan listened for a while and then walked away with a smile.

The so-called sub-health is actually more of a psychological reason.

The so-called health preservation is even more of a joke. There are few health experts on TV who talk eloquently who really live a long life. Many of them are gone by the age of fifty or sixty.

Compared to health preservation, Miss Luo Quan prefers to seize the day.

While young, eat and drink as you should. In short, you can't treat yourself badly.

Just like today's birthday party, she bought dozens of pounds of chicken, duck, pork, beef, and mutton from the supermarket, just to have a barbecue party in the courtyard behind the house. Today there is no weight loss or health preservation. She has only one goal, and that is to eat meat until she can't eat anymore!

Because the lunch later will be very rich, Miss Luo Quan just dealt with breakfast casually, a glass of milk and an egg.

After about half an hour, the younger brothers and sisters arrived, and Seyfert and Fred also came together.

"Happy birthday, my old sister." Gao Liang's first sentence made Miss Luo Quan's face turn black.

"What does 'old sister' mean? Am I very old? Do you think I'm very old?" Miss Luo Quan asked a life-threatening question directly.

Don't look at how free she was when talking about age with Wen Xia just now, but how could she really be so insensitive to age.

Gao Liang, who had a hot face pressed against a cold butt, felt aggrieved. He originally wanted to give a warm greeting.

"Gao Liang, you are too rude. How can you say the word 'old' to a girl!" Seyfert angrily accused Gao Liang, who had made a slip of the tongue. As he spoke, he took a box out of his suitcase and stuffed it into Miss Luo Quan's hand: "Happy birthday, Miss Luo Quan. This is a new product from my dad's friend's company, made from natural plant extracts. Apply it from time to time, it can resist oxidation and aging, and there are no side effects!"

"What kind of fairy water is this!" A group of girls heard that this thing was so effective, their eyes went straight, and they all surrounded them and started discussing.

"Is it really that powerful?" Miss Luo Quan had never trusted these so-called anti-aging drugs.

Seyfert laughed: "Haha, anyway, this is food-grade skincare. It's fine to eat it in your stomach, and it certainly won't go wrong if you apply it on your face. As for whether it can resist aging, that will have to be proven by time."

You said that as if you didn't say it!

Miss Luo Quan complained in her heart, but she was still quite happy with the birthday gift Seyfert gave her.

Immediately after, Gao Liang and Fred also gave her a gift each. Gao Liang knew his old sister's hobby and directly gave her a necklace inlaid with shiny diamonds.

It was truly vulgar, but it was also truly beautiful.

"I count you as having a little conscience." Miss Luo Quan showed a satisfied smile.

And Fred also gave Miss Luo Quan a pair of gemstone earrings. Unfortunately, Miss Luo Quan didn't have pierced ears, so she probably could only put them in the cabinet as decorations.

After receiving the gifts from the three boys, Miss Luo Quan set her eyes on Angela.

The younger sister took a box out of her suitcase, took out a music box from it, and gave it a gentle twist. The song played was Miss Luo Quan's "Canon."

"This is a music box I made myself, and the song is your 'Canon', sister." Angela put this small and exquisite music box into Miss Luo Quan's hand.

Miss Luo Quan didn't expect her sister to have such craftsmanship. She was both surprised and happy. After playing with it in her hand for a while, she quickly packed it carefully into the box and put it away.

"By the way, Grandpa also prepared a gift for you this time." Gao Liang started to find a land deed in his suitcase: "This is the property certificate of a manor he has in England. Besides the manor, there is also a castle and a very, very large piece of land. Now they all belong to you."

"Oh... a castle, wow..." The girls next to them all showed surprised expressions, sighing in their hearts that it was worthy of being a big family, the birthday gift was actually a manor and a castle.

To be honest, this gift was a bit beyond Miss Luo Quan's expectations, and it was quite unique.

After returning from Grandpa's manor last time, she had a very deep impression of the cherry orchard, the violet flower garden, and the ancient castle there. In her heart, she actually fantasized about owning such a manor.

However, doing these things in China would inevitably be labeled as summoning the soul for feudalism, and it didn't conform to the simple and frugal values of socialism, so Miss Luo Quan only fantasized about it and had no plans to take action.

But she didn't expect Grandpa to realize her dream in the form of a birthday gift. Speaking of which, she didn't remember mentioning this to the old man.

But no matter what, she liked this birthday gift very much.

Not long after, Senior Yun Jingxiao and the others also came from Japan, each bringing Miss Luo Quan birthday blessings and carefully prepared birthday gifts.

The band members who hadn't seen each other for a long time also had a good catch-up.

Ever since they became popular last year, everyone in Lovemusic had spent almost the entire first half of the year touring around the world, while the second half was spent entirely on tutoring at school.

Compared to the last time they held a concert together, everyone's appearance had changed quite a bit.

Senior Yun Jingxiao had become steady, Amuro Yu had matured a lot, and Lingyin and Xia Zi's makeup techniques had improved too much compared to before, and their appearance had directly risen to a level.

With all the relatives and friends present, Miss Luo Quan took everyone to the courtyard behind and started today's barbecue party.

The barbecue rack had already been set up, and now the first step began—starting the fire.

Before starting the fire, Miss Luo Quan first opened the livestream. Today's birthday party had been agreed upon with the fans, to share this joyful day together.

As early as before Miss Luo Quan started the stream, tens of thousands of fans had already gathered in the livestream room, and the popularity had reached more than one million.

And after Miss Luo Quan started the stream, the popularity directly soared to eight million. Just a simple start of the stream, Bilibili also directly arranged a hot search: "Miss Luo Quan's birthday stream is on!"

"Happy birthday!"

"Happy birthday!"

As soon as Miss Luo Quan's face appeared in the livestream room, the fans' blessings occupied the entire screen.

It is worth mentioning that Bilibili also specially changed the gifts in Miss Luo Quan's livestream room to birthday cakes this time. This is the only treatment since the site was built!

At such a festive moment, Miss Luo Quan's wealthy fans also began to show their magical powers. The royal big cakes worth 1000 RMB started to jump one by one in the livestream room as if they were spicy strips that didn't cost money.

Among them, one account rushed to the first place from the beginning of the livestream. The system showed that he sent two hundred royal big cakes at once. His name in the lower left corner of the livestream room dominated the screen for more than three minutes!

"Thank you, thank you for everyone's gifts, but minors should not send gifts." Miss Luo Quan said with a smile, and then aimed the camera at a pile of smokeless charcoal in front of her: "We are having a barbecue party at noon today, and there will be a big cake to cut later,"

"Barbecue, barbecue is what I like most."

"I thought I could see you make a few new dishes."

"I want to see you make the Golden Open Mouth Smile again. Except for you, the ones made by others don't feel like this taste."

"I don't know if there are any similar peculiar dishes. I really want to see them."

Seeing these comments, Miss Luo Quan replied uniformly: "I will definitely make them for everyone to appreciate in the future, but today it will be simpler. When it comes to eating happily, nothing is better than barbecue."

While speaking, the charcoal fire had already risen. After fiddling for a while, Miss Luo Quan moved the camera to the various chicken legs and steaks marinated on the table.

At this time, Angela walked over: "Sister, do you need help?"

Angela's sudden appearance in the camera made the chat immediately excited:

"Oh, where did this beautiful young lady come from!"

"Idiot, this is Miss Luo Quan's younger sister, didn't you recognize her?"

"I said how come she looks a bit like Miss Luo Quan."

"Both sisters are so beautiful. The genes of this family are really against the sky."

"Where is Gao Liang? Come out and fence with me quickly!"

"Good heavens, where did this male fan come from?"

"Gao Liang: Don't come over!"

………………

"Are you livestreaming?" Angela asked, seeing the comments scrolling constantly in the livestream room.

Angela used Chinese, although there was an accent, it wasn't very heavy.

"Yes, I'm livestreaming on Bilibili. This is the largest same-sex dating website in China, and it's full of gentlemen inside." Miss Luo Quan replied in Chinese.

"Yes, these are all old gentlemen here."

"Bilibili welcomes you!"

Everyone in the chat started to reply the same, and a few of them were mixed with a few comments praising Angela's appearance, and also said: Miss Luo Quan, don't call me again in the future, I'm afraid your sister will misunderstand.

Miss Luo Quan saw this and was directly angry and laughed. ===== CHAPTER 453 =====