Chapter 190: Ordinary People in the Wizard World
Just like the other actors in the theater, their attitude towards ordinary people in the same cast, while not arrogant, was quite indifferent.
Just like Xiuka-Boge, Liji-Xiaosi, Freya—these actor colleagues who seemed extremely warm and friendly from Jia Na's perspective, when facing other ordinary people, the difference in attitude could be described as 'heaven and earth'.
For example, Anna-Moonshadow, a popular actress, made it clear when recruiting assistants that the candidate must be an extraordinary person who had awakened knight's battle energy or had mercenary experience.
It was precisely for this reason that Julie-Ann, despite having excellent professional skills, remained unknown. Approaching thirty this year, she was still doing basic odd jobs and had not entered management.
This invisible workplace discrimination was not only present in the Nightingale Opera House, but also throughout Turin, and even in all Wizard Gathering Places, sharing similar common issues.
Even though the order in the Wizard World was relatively stable, Wizard laws clearly stipulated that extraordinary people were not allowed to attack ordinary people without reason.
However, this class discrimination stemming from power levels could not be simply eliminated by law. Therefore, for ordinary people like Julie-Ann, to break free from this class predicament caused by strength, apart from returning to the Lower City, the only way was to accumulate wealth.
Accumulate enough wealth.
Accumulate wealth that even extraordinary people would need to look up to.
And earning money was the primary reason Julie-Ann came to the Wizard Gathering Place from the Lower City.
Compared to the Lower City, where nobles and big capitalists controlled most resources, the Wizard Gathering Place, led by Wizards as the primary force of order, was more likely to offer ordinary people like Julie-Ann a chance to become rich overnight.
After all, the discrimination of extraordinary people towards ordinary people was more like 'ignoring' and 'not caring'.
In the Lower City, where mortals gathered, the forms of discrimination were simply bizarre.
Bloodline, skin color, background, appearance, gender—these could all become absurd reasons for ordinary people to be stuck at the bottom for a lifetime, unable to climb up.
Therefore, compared to the two, to some extent, for ordinary people in the Wizard Gathering Place, besides '
ignoring', there were actually fewer restrictions.
And compared to earning money, merely experiencing a bit of 'discrimination' was not something Julie-Ann found completely unacceptable. After all, she had long been accustomed to the differential treatment of ordinary people by extraordinary people, except for her—.
Except for Jia Na-Luo Lan.
Having lived in Turin for so long, Julie-Ann had also met Wizard Apprentices with good tempers.
People like David-Berg and Liji-Xiaosi were already considered to have very good tempers among the Wizard group Julie-Ann had interacted with.
Although they also had the common issue of 'discriminating' against ordinary people, fortunately, they never made things difficult for Julie-Ann in their daily work.
However, ever since Julie-Ann became Jia Na's assistant, she found that Jia Na was truly different from other Wizard Apprentices.
Besides her appearance, which was comparable to a divine masterpiece, Jia Na's kind attitude towards ordinary people like Julie-Ann,
sometimes made Julie-Ann forget that the other party was a powerful Wizard Apprentice.
Having been in the workplace for many years, Julie-Ann could naturally see that Jia Na also wore a facade during her daily social interactions. While being friendly, she would also maintain a certain social distance from everyone.
However, behind this facade was not an uncomfortable hypocrisy, but more like a habit of self-protection.
Even if Jia Na's every smile was 'deliberate', and getting along well with everyone was just 'acting'—none of this mattered to Julie-Ann, who came to Turin alone with no one to rely on.
After all, during the most difficult period, she had also walked through it cautiously like this.
'Acting' in life, sometimes, is actually a helpless life choice.
Behind this choice, there might be a certain purpose, but Julie-Ann knew that the original intention of these purposes, as long as they were not deliberately harming the interests of others, was a kind expression of 'respect'.
From Jia Na, Julie-Ann could feel this respect!
No matter what Jia Na was thinking inside, what Julie-Ann saw from her perspective was that she treated everyone equally.
Always so kind, always so—respectful of others.
It's just that for such an excellent person, given Julie-Ann's status as an ordinary person, the theater couldn't possibly let her be responsible for Jia Na's work long-term.
"We have arrived, Miss Jia Na."
Slightly distracted, Julie-Ann immediately pulled aside the carriage curtain and looked outside after hearing Weini's voice.
"Hiss—there are too many people this time—can the Purple Hibiscus Auction House accommodate so many people?"
The crowd surged, the noise was deafening.
Outside the carriage, besides the cheers that almost seemed to overturn the venue, there were countless camera flashes, constantly flickering on both sides of the Purple Hibiscus Auction House entrance.
"Quite a lot of people came."
Under the scan of 【Plant Vision】, Jia Na roughly counted that there were nearly a thousand people gathered outside.
Among them, there were more than a hundred reporters holding cameras.
"Are there this many newspapers in Turin?"
Looking at the work badges hanging on each reporter's chest, Jia Na had an intuitive understanding of Turin's newspapers for the first time.
"There are only a few large newspapers; the rest are just small tabloids from street stalls—"
Watching the guests continuously entering ahead, somehow, Julie-Ann's heart pounded even more nervously than Jia Na, the main person.
"Relax, Zhu Li, there will be many such occasions in the future; you need to slowly get used to it."
"Slowly get used to it—but, the director said I'm just your temporary assistant. You're so excellent, perhaps the troupe has already assigned you a more outstanding assistant, I—"
"You are my exclusive assistant, so you must get used to it."
Slightly startled, upon hearing Jia Na's words, at this moment, Julie-Ann suddenly felt all the noise in her ears,
instantly quiet down.
And what was reflected in her eyes was only the serene face in front of her, constantly blinking at her—
"Miss Jia Na, it's our turn to enter."
Weini's reminder, at the right moment, pulled back Julie-Ann's attention.
Without any hesitation, Julie-Ann, with her rich work experience, suppressed the turmoil in her heart and quickly switched to work mode.
"Jia Na, let's get out of the carriage."
Taking off her shawl, taking a deep breath, and readjusting her facial expression to the best state, Jia Na nodded gently at Julie-Ann.
"Let's go down."
Time rewinds, three hours ago, Purple Hibiscus Auction House.
As one of the first intern reporters to arrive at the entrance of the Purple Hibiscus Auction House, Xi Lin had already secured the best shooting spot nearby early on.
And her only goal this time was to capture the most eye-catching photo to snatch tomorrow's headline—