小作精 (Xiǎozuòjīng) was originally used to describe someone whose behavior was deliberate, unnatural, and artificial, with a derogatory connotation.
However, as of May 2021, the term has become more broadly applied, particularly in online variety shows, to those who engage in exaggerated and flamboyant behavior to attract attention.
Core Meaning: Artificial, deliberately unnatural. This was the original meaning of the term, referring to someone’s behavior or speech being unrealistic, unnatural, and deliberately posturing.
Internet Slang: With the development of internet culture, the meaning of ‘xiǎozuòjīng’ has evolved, particularly in online variety shows, to describe artists or individuals who engage in flamboyant, attention-grabbing performances.
Summary:
Xiǎozuòjīng was originally a derogatory term, meaning ‘someone who behaves in a contrived manner’, but now also refers to those who use exaggerated words and actions online to attract attention.
The city lights tear apart the gloomy night, and the returning young people make the quiet community even more lively.
The wind in August nights is always hot and humid, and you can feel the temperature when it blows on your face.
Shutong stood on the terrace on the eighth floor, and the hot wind blew her hair.
Her hair rose and fell, and even stuck to the delicate skin that was drenched in sweat, making Shutong feel unbearable.
She clenched her fists tightly, and with every step she took, she seemed to feel two forces pulling at her: one pushing her forward and the other holding her back.
Shutong stared at the front and continued to move forward slowly, but at this moment, her heart was in her throat, and she was tense.
The guardrail was only half a person’s height, and in the blink of an eye, she was already standing outside the railing.
She didn’t want to jump off the building, but she couldn’t control her body at all!
“System! System!”
Shutong screamed in her heart.
As Shutong cried out, a cold, mechanical voice in her head responded.
[Host, please wait. The world is buffering, so you cannot immediately control your body.]
Shutong cursed softly, clutching the railing behind her tightly, biting her lips until blood oozed out.
Not long ago, she had lost control in the same way and plummeted to her death from this very place.
However, she wasn’t truly dead. A quick-travel system appeared in her mind.
The system told her that she was actually a tool person in the world of novels. Her existence was only to fulfill the love and career of the hero and heroine and to promote the development of the novel’s plot.
It was the system that captured her awakened consciousness in this world and thus bound itself to her.
Shutong also saw in her own sea of memories that she had indeed had many short lives. She traveled through one world after another, but then died again and again.
Now, she is bound to the system in order to return to the world she once stayed in and change her predetermined fate.
But she never expected that as soon as she returned to this world, she would involuntarily walk onto the terrace and still be unable to control her behavior like a tool.
At this moment, two voices were tearing at each other in Shutong’s mind.
Jump!
Can’t jump!
The next second, there was a sound of a wooden door violently colliding against the wall behind her!
When Shutong was sweating profusely and her hands and feet were so weak that she was about to fall down the stairs, an arm as hard and hot as steel wrapped around her waist.
[Destiny modification progress 5%!]
Shutong heard the system’s notification.
At the same time, the man behind her forcefully carried her down from outside the guardrail and then threw her to the ground!
Shutong sat on the wooden floor with her buttocks, her back facing the solid wall. Her mind was still a mess, and the man’s heavy breathing echoed in her ears.
“Shen Shutong.”
Ji Chu glared at the petite woman, speaking each word clearly, his eyes filled with terrifying bloodshot.
“As you wish, we will divorce.”
Shutong stared at him blankly.
Her mind was filled with the main plot of this novel world that the system had just transmitted to her, which made her memory even more confused.
In this novel world, her name is Shen Shutong, and the man in front of her is Ji Chu, her childhood sweetheart and her husband.
It had been exactly twenty years since the two met. As soon as they graduated from university this year, they got married.
But not long ago, Shutong began to fall uncontrollably in love with a man named Qu Yiming, the young president of the company where she was interning and the hero of this world.
Ever since their first meeting, Shutong had been completely obsessed with him. Her legs were weakened at the mere sight of him, and her eyes were sparkling with pink hearts. She was completely obsessed with him, banging her head against the wall for him. She even resorted to unscrupulous means to harm those who admire Qu Yiming, including the heroine, Gu Qingqing.
Qu Yiming knew Shutong’s feelings. He clearly didn’t have her in his heart and even despised her. Yet, he still asked her out for dinner, gave her expensive gifts, took her to banquets, and introduced her to his friends, because this would stimulate Gu Qingqing.
At that time, Shutong had already awakened her consciousness. While her heart fervently resisted such behavior, her body seemed to have its own opinions.
She was obsessed with Qu Yiming and even frequently asked Ji Chu to divorce her.
Ji Chu, deeply in love with her, naturally refused to comply.
The two of them quarreled for more than half a month.
And today, the reason why Shutong jumped off the building was to threaten Ji Chu to divorce.
In the novel, Shutong slipped and fell and eventually died.
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