I am a Big Player
Chapter 613 - 604, Advanced Version of Yang Xi (Large - )_2

Chapter 613: 604, Advanced Version of Yang Xi (Large Chapter)_2

When it was Ren He’s turn to perform in Dorm 313, Ren He was baffled. Right now, Li Shuaizhen, Zhang Jinglin, and Yang Runrun were attending roadshows with Chen Da. A roadshow is where you go to a major city, find a cinema, and after the movie ends, you hold a fan meet-and-greet to boost popularity.

At such times, when making one’s presence felt is key, Chen Da took these three students along.

Now that left Ren He alone in Dorm 313, meaning he had to come up with a performance... wasn’t this a setup? Others in the dorm had some choices, but here he was, the only one left in his dorm room. Ren He opted for an escape; he was "sick" and wouldn’t perform. In truth, Yang Xi had called him to play Dota.

Perform during such times? Is the girlfriend not attractive? Or is Dota not fun?

Sun Yu was a bit unhappy about it—everyone else was earnestly performing, so why was Ren He the exception? But Ren He couldn’t care less; a fellow Central Academy of Drama classmate couldn’t exert any real influence over the others in Chinese schools, let alone Ren He, who even had Chen Da in his pocket.

Sun Yu didn’t know, he’d even quietly laughed at Ren He before: despite how favorably Chen Da seemed to view Ren He, when it came time to film Crazy Stone, he still didn’t take Ren He along, did he?

Ren He almost burst into laughter when he overheard this at lunch in school the day before yesterday. They didn’t realize that he was in fact the investor of the movie. Honestly, they were also a bit puzzled—usually, they hadn’t seen Chen Da treat the three from Li Shuaizhen any differently, so why did he suddenly take them for the film?

Now that Crazy Stone was such a hit, nearly all the main actors, including the three classmates beside them, had become famous!

Li Shuaizhen, Zhang Jinglin, and Yang Runrun now had millions of Weibo followers each. Sun Yu, with just a few hundred followers, couldn’t help but feel envious; after all, he was the one who frequented Chen Da’s office most.

Everyone was now witnessing the economic power of Weibo followers. It was said that people with millions of followers could make tens or even hundreds of thousands from a single advertisement, more than any wealthy student could get from home.

Even if they could get that much, it wouldn’t be as satisfying as earning it themselves.

Originally, everyone had mocked Dorm 313 for playing games all day and not being serious, but they were the first to make it big, becoming instantly famous, which was hard to accept. Could it be that some people were really favored by fate, becoming stars just by messing around...

They saw Chen Da, Li Shuaizhen, Zhang Jinglin, and Yang Runrun appear in the production team together and instinctively thought the three had just been lucky to curry favor with Chen Da, not realizing that Chen Da himself didn’t have much say in the beginning.

Jealous as they were, there was one thing that gave them some comfort: Ren He, the one who joined Chen Da’s troupe, hadn’t made it into the Crazy Stone production either.

When Ren He went with the troupe to perform in the Netherlands, many classmates were jealous—it was an opportunity to be seen internationally and to get closer to the department head.

They heard that Ren He’s group had won the championship and that Ren He himself had been awarded Best Actor, but what good did that do? He still didn’t make it into the production team for Crazy Stone, right?

Some began to speculate whether Ren He had done something to anger Chen Da during the theatrical performance; otherwise, why would Chen Da not include his previously favored student in the film, instead taking his three dormmates...

This was indeed a very likely possibility!

The classmates were delighted by this thought; after all, they weren’t the most unfortunate ones. The real tragedy was for the one who used to be Chen Da’s favorite but now was out in the cold.

Ren He had no intention of adding his producer title in the film’s crew. If he did, he wondered how these peers would react.

After all, the truth was that none in the class had any real connections in the entertainment industry. Otherwise, they would have already known about the affairs between Qinghe and Hua Ge long ago, and Ren He’s name was no secret in this dispute, known to anyone with a bit of status.

So the so-called media company with 100 million in assets belonging to Sun Yu’s family is probably a marginal one. After all, these days, even a random celebrity’s studio is worth several hundred million, and an unknown little star can save up 20 million in two years.

It really was because Ren He was too low-profile at school and to the outside world. The media hardly ever mentioned Ren He’s name. Under the deliberate control of Qinghe Group, he was practically invisible, lacking any exposure. No one at school even associated him with the big Qinghe boss.

It was at this moment that Ren He realized he was late in acquiring media equity. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have had to waste a dose of Emetic Water outside Liu Yinghai’s window...

There was no need to pay attention to what Sun Yu and his group might say after their mood exploded, Ren He felt he might have minded that before, but now he only felt like he was watching a clown perform.

How does that saying go again? A play exhausts the clown but leaves the audience in stitches.

...

The morning of the piano competition arrived, and Yang Xi forced Ren He to attend her contest. Ren He was sound asleep when he felt a draft as Yang Xi pushed the door open. That was the one downside to the Courtyard House; while it was warm inside, opening the door exposed you to barren fields and biting winds.

"Get up, the competition starts at 10 am. I’m heading out now. If you’re not there when it starts, I’m sure to choke and not place. Then you’ll have to think about how to make it up to me!" Yang Xi instructed seriously and in detail.

Ren He opened his eyes, feeling a bit annoyed: "So you’re planning to blame me if you don’t get a place? What if I go and you still don’t place?"

"Then it’s because I got too excited seeing you there, causing me to underperform," Yang Xi said cheerfully.

Hey... is it really okay to be so unreasonable?

Sure enough, the longer you’re with someone, the more life returns to its true form... This change probably started after they began living together. This girl had none of the airs of an international superstar. She was like any ordinary girl in life and love; she could act coquettishly, shift blame, be lazy, be aggressive, but also caring, and occasionally let her affection for Ren He slip through without noticing.

But honestly, Ren He preferred this side of Yang Xi after they started their intimate cohabitation; it was more real and more adorable.

"Okay, I’ll take the blame," Ren He rolled over, "Don’t worry, I promise I’ll be there before 10. Tell Fang to call me again at 9."

Yang Xi left happily after hearing Ren He’s promise. In her mind, Ren He was someone who would always fulfill his promises to her. He had made the same commitment through the monkey before, asking her to wait for him in China, and hadn’t he made it happen?

At 9 o’clock, Fang leaned in through the window, "Boss, boss, time to get up; your wife’s competition is about to start!"

Ren He really didn’t want to get up, but Fang, leaning against the window, repeated like a broken record, "Boss, boss, time to get up; your wife’s competition is about to start!"

Ren He gave in and sat up, "Fang, what did you eat to become like this?"

"No, Xi told me to do this," Fang said, and they all called Yang Xi by the nickname Xi. Seeing Ren He get up, Fang finally relaxed and went to heat up breakfast for him, muttering with a chuckle as he left, "It’s Xi who knows the boss best."

Ren He was utterly speechless; Yang Xi was indeed full of tricks now. A sudden worry about his kid back in Luo City crept in—he wasn’t sure what fate would befall that little terror when facing off with Yang Xi...