Liu Zhou naturally had no idea what was going on in Zhang Ziyi's mind, but he certainly caught the whiff of sour grapes she was giving off.
He could understand it, though. Zhang Ziyi was someone who cared a great deal about fame and fortune—otherwise, she wouldn't have stumbled so hard later on. Still, her character was decent enough, and since she was his classmate in this lifetime, he felt no aversion to her pursuit of ambition. Tell the Truth, in the entertainment industry, people like her and Fan Xiaopang were the ones who truly thrived.
At this moment, although Zeng Li had managed to overtake her on the inside track, come the second half of the year—with *Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon* setting a Chinese-language box office record in the United States and winning her the Best Actress award at the Hundred Flowers Awards with *The Road Home*—her fame would catch right up.
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