A week passed and Zohara already settled the papers and bid her goodbye with her friends as she arrived at her residence in the Hills two days ago. She has already adjusted and Secretary Luke, who is his father's secretary, already hired two maids while Nanny Vi, who took care of her since young, has already retired.
Her house in the hills is quite huge, it's a two story house and has numerous rooms, such as art, dance, music and game rooms. It's good that she has a maid because she can't maintain this by herself. It's also been a week since she saw her father, who flew to Country A because of a business trip and would probably be back next week. For the past few days she has been spending her time adjusting to her new home.
The result of the National Entrance Exam was just released two weeks ago and she just graduated a week ago. She received countless offers from the Universities. In the end, upon consultation with her father she chooses Biology in University A.
As the national examination topnotcher' she didn't need to be interviewed by the University A, she was automatically accepted. She still has at least 3 months before the start of the new academic year. So, Zohara was quite bored.
When she was in High School and lower years, she spent her time in various hobbies such as art, dancing, violin and piano. She was also the Club Head of Journalism Club and competed in the Chemistry and Physics Olympiad so her time was quite constrained. On the bright side, she enjoyed it, winning, receiving awards, eyes of envy and recognition. She loved being recognized for the talent she has. She loves the feeling of being loved and adored but she doesn't care if someone hates her, Zohara's mind was quite simple.
Do you like me? As you should
You hate me? Who the fuck cares?
Her father also contributed to her declining attitude and self centeredness. Basically, her father spoiled her a lot and she knew that her father would always answer her calls.
But Zohara never crossed the line
She was sober enough to know the line she shouldn't cross and the life she needed to thread.
Zohara looked at her social media account, the most used social media in Country C is called L-Line which was owned by Linx Conglomerate. Linx Family thrived in technology, most well used apps are owned by them like L-Line, L-Video for uploading short videos and L-Rest. L-Rest was a recent launch website for people who love to do live streaming, it was quite famous because e-sport players live stream there, together with famous celebrities. Basically anyone can do a live there while the viewers can donate gifts, the edge of the app is the real time translator in top 10 used languages. It's beneficial especially for the artist and fans that reached global scale. That's why in just 2 years of its launch, it began to be a well used live streaming platform.
The Linx family also develops cellphones, laptops and games. The Linx family was quite famous on that side and had many branches so it's not a question that her father was always busy.
Zohara has been using L-Line since she was in High School. Her ID was 'Ohara' and she usually posts academic notes and daily life. She has 1.2 million followers.
It's not an easy feat, most people that have 20k-50k followers deemed themselves as influencers and sometimes it's really hard to garner people's attention Zohara did it easily because of various reasons.
Her academic notes are actually useful, many people also message her to buy her whole notes or get tutored by her.
She won many Olympiads.
She posted photos of violin, piano and art she had made.
She's beautiful and seems to be upper class.
Her internet persona was quite a mystery.
Her last photo that she posted just a week ago also became viral. It's a photo of her at her graduation holding a bunch of medals in her hand close to her face, seemingly kissing it while the banner behind her was her face and congratulatory message of the school.
'We sincerely congratulate Zohara Nix for being the topnotcher of this year's National Examination with a score of 729. G. School is deeply proud of you!'
Her score, face and background became viral immediately. A score of 729, a 1 point mistake in Language and perfect score in science comprehensive ensue chaos for the citizens. Especially this year's examination which was too hard. People who were curious about her began to stalk her account and the envy they felt shifts to admiration in the long run.
Envy and jealousy can only be felt when you know you have a chance in competing , but for some people, seeing that great feat, they fell in awe. Many comments were about her talent, mind, face and begging for her notes.
Zohara took a picture of some corner of her new home and posted 4 photos.
@Ohara
My new home…
She logged out of her account and went downstairs. It was already midnight and the maid was already asleep. She didn't wake them up and just prepared her midnight snack. She just prepares spicy carbonara noodles, coke and chocolate before settling in the living room and turning on the T.V.
She selected a new horror movie, covered her shoulder with a blanket on the sofa and ate her food while watching intently.
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Zohara woke up by small nudging. When she opened her eyes she saw Auntie Lara, who is one of the maids and cooks.
"Ma'am it's already 9AM, we received a call from Secretary Luke to wake you up by 9AM." Auntie Lara said politely, Zohara nodded and sat on the sofa. She ended up falling asleep in the living room.
She reaches for her phone and it has 2 missed calls from her father and 5 missed calls from Secretary Luke. She called back to her father.
"Hmmm?" She asked with a sleepy voice once it was connected
"Have you seen your account? Your account was the center of the storm right now. So I wanted to ask you if you want to lessen the attention or let it be? Being famous is a hassle darling." Her father said with a hint of worry. Zohara was stunned for a moment, she logged into her account and her followers grew to 2 million. She scrolled in her post and the photo she posted last night already has 2 million likes and 300k comments.
The comments were able to decipher that she was living in Hills Residence, and the rich kid persona was fully attached to her after her post. Before, people just theorized about it because of how she handled herself, but her post was mostly academic, scenery or food. The people knew she must be rich, but not rich where she can live in Hills Residence. That's why it garners attention, together with her face, and brain. It naturally attracts attention.
Zohara laugh lightly
"It's alright father, people seem to love me." She answer
Even if people didn't, her father would most probably delete all the extreme comments so she wouldn't see it.
"Alright, just be careful outside. Carry pepper spray and protective weapons, Secretary Luke already talked to your maid. Also, an earring will arrive in your house later, remember to wear it. I installed a GPS tracker there."
"Got it, thank you father, remember to rest."
"Hmmm"
Zohara didn't dwell that much on that information and just replied to Nicht's message before closing her phone. She stretched her body and went to her room to take a bath.
When afternoon arrived, Auntie Paula, the other maid, knocked on her room and gave her a tiny box.
"Thank you" She uttered and got the box and jumped in her bed again.
It's a black box and inside it was just circular black earrings. Zohara raises her eyebrow, it must be made from Carbonado, a natural black diamond. She removed her previous earrings and wore the new one.
She doesn't really know what she should do, she's bored. The new instrument doesn't interest her at all, she also doesn't like shopping because it's tiring. She's thinking if she should go on a vacation and spend her 3 months roaming around, which she couldn't do in the past few years.
She ends up opening her L-Line account to get some interest and read some comments.
:Ohara is really living my life! How could someone be as lucky as you!
:We need a house tour!
:Can you post more photos of you
:Do live streaming! I want to hear your voice.
Zohara raised her eyebrow, livestreaming? She immediately messaged her father.
Father! Can I do live streaming?!
She felt quite excited
Use the L-Rest, just be careful and don't leak any private information that can harm you.
Zohara can already see her father's helpless face. Zohara knows her father didn't want her in the spotlight like this because it's prone to danger but in the end, he'll end up giving it a go because it's what Zohara's wanted.
As for Zohara, once she aced the National Examination she began to let go of some constraint around her. She just wants to do the things that interest her. She'll probably fix her broken schedules again once college starts. As for now, she's quite free, she just needed to do a day of weekly reading to maintain her mind.
She got her Ipad and downloaded the L-Rest. She created an account with the same username, linked her bank account, and designed her profile. She copies the link and posts it in her L-Line.
@Ohara
This is my L-Rest account (link), I'll do livestreaming later around 8PM. See ya!
:OMG
:I'm excited!
Ohara L-Rest account grew in number in just a few minutes. She closed it and planned to sleep after setting an alarm at 8PM.
At 8PM, Zohara woke up and washed her face first before jumping back to her bed. She opened her L-Rest account that has a million followers. She started live streaming.
The viewer who first entered the live stream first saw the zoom face of Zohara who was looking in some settings. Their eyes couldn't help but to widen, seeing her face that close, her face was too smooth and white. Then they saw where she was. She was sitting in her enormous bed, its red velvet color and light color fabric acting as a canopy above her. She was sitting and leaning in her head rest while looking at her phone as the tablet was stationed quite near her.
"Im using my phone to see the comments" She uttered softly, her voice was soft with a hint of coldness. Her long black hair was half in the middle showing her small face and beautiful features.
"Yes, I just woke up, is it obvious?" She asked as she got a mirror and checked her face.
"Hmm my eyes are quite puffy, I don't do anything these days. I mostly slept and watched horror movies." She answered and placed her mirror back on the side table.
The viewers reached 1 million after a few minutes which was unprecedented and shocking. Even though people are famous in L-Line but once they do live streaming, it's still hard to gather viewers but netizens right now are quite curious about Zohara who ranked 1 in National Examination and her mysterious background. Continuous gifts rain down on her life and comments.
"Yeah, I already chose my major and school. Guess?" She said with a slight smile and tilt head
"No, it's not physics. To tell you the truth, I'm quite fed up with physics. I always compete in that department."
"Yes, it's interesting, but it becomes boring after a while."
"I sound arrogant? I'am" She answers to some comments while laughing.
"Study tips? Study progressively and aim small goals. Don't study in bulk because it's only strained your mind and it'll end up as failure. Some people thrive in that kind of study environment but most people don't. So, I learned how to know how to pace yourself."
"The National Examination this year is quite hard for normal students, but I usually compete in academic competitions and I get used to that kind of questions. Especially in Science comprehensive."
"Study notes? I can share it but some people pretend they own it so I get irritated."
"Yeah, I hate people who don't give proper credit. Help me think of a way where deserving people could hold the notes I have and filter irritating people."
"I don't need payment, some students can't pay but they still need it."
"I think of something, I'll just create an online library of my previous notes then to enter you need a code from me. First, I'll select the 1st round of 5 people whom I'll give my code to. Once they enter the library they'll have their own code where they can give it to the second round of people after 3 days. It's like a cycle, so it wouldn't be hard to determine where the problem and leakage occur. I want everyone to log and the other would be guilty of leaking it because their whole group will be banned."
"I wouldn't say who will own the code, they might get threatened, also if I hear the code was sold for money, I'll delete the library."
"I've never been in a relationship."
"I was busy before and I'm not that interested. I might try it now I'm in college but it depends. I already got my father's approval so if I want, I can."
"House tour? Next time, let's do a room tour first then I'll end the live show after this."
The viewer saw Ohara reaching her Ipad, they saw that she was wearing a white satin pajama set. As she left her bed and switched to the back camera and aimed it at her bed.
"This is my bed, I love color red"
"Beside it is my side table, it has a mirror and my reading glasses."
"Oh this box? It's a new gift from my father."
"Of course, who doesn't love their daughter?"
Then the view shifts to dividers with horror figurines.
"I love horror, this one is a limited edition figurine of Nanako"
"Then a T.V. and music player. In the corner is the walk-in closet."
The view shows a short hallway surrounded with mirrors and a circular room with luxurious clothing, bags and shoes.
"These are my clothing section, I don't usually wear this because I frequently use my school uniform."
"Yeah, I don't like leaving the house."
"That's all, hmmm am I not scared of being kidnapped?"
"Dont jest Im being guarded 24/7, well, you can try, bye-bye."