"Starlight accompanies me"

Author: Cai Huifang
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: Accidentally knocking over a memory box of a Shanghai girl named Xiao Cai, a decade's worth of fan writings instantly scattered onto the (Chinese:, original text retained) under the autumn afternoon sun. The dazzling names of stars like Lin Qingxia, Mi Xue, Xu Xiaofeng, Luo Dayou, Huang Jiaju, and more left the author unable to look away. Impulsively approaching Xiao Cai and patting her shoulder, he asked about her profession. She wasn’t a journalist from a newspaper’s entertainment section, no wonder her writings had so little content (Chinese: , original text retained). It wasn’t about who was (Chinese: , original text retained), but whose songs, whose performances, whose star words, and whose wishes could touch Xiao Cai’s soft nerve. Music, art, film, photography—none of these were her primary fields of study. Yet it was this very group of people, coming from the ends of the earth, who transcended certain professional barriers, devoted themselves wholeheartedly to a dream, lived with humility and gratitude, and wrote with an independent and unrestrained spirit. Some friends insisted on sticking the label of the “trendy ‘petite bourgeoisie’” onto them, but they all turned away in unison, shouting loudly, “NO, petite bourgeoisie, please!”