After Father Zhou and Mother Zhou heard that Zhou Chenxi had gone home, instead of deliberately rushing back, they said: “Let him reflect on it at home.”, and continued to travel the world.
Zhou Chenxi said that this was definitely his father and mother, alright.
Zhou Mingxuan was really busy. After staying with Zhou Chenxi at home for a day, he continued to go back to work. Zhou Chenxi was very bored and planned to go to the mall to buy himself a few clothes.
During his time at TianWang Entertainment, not only was he poor, but this company was also really poor. There were very few artists under their banner and there were only a few who could get a shot. If Zhou Chenxi gave up, Tianwang might really not be able to find anyone in such a short time. No wonder Zhi Qi didn’t want him to terminate the contract. How could it be so easy to find new people? It’s not like the HuangTian Agency where Luo Xinghe was; just a little wave and newcomers would come one after another.
So today, Zhi Qi called Zhou Chenxi again.
This time, Zhi Qi’s attitude was different. He said forcefully: “Zhou Chenxi, come back to me quickly. It’s not easy to make money at a young age. Do you want to sleep on the road so bad?!”
If it was the previous Zhou Chenxi and he was not given a chance to fight for this opportunity, it would really be possible for him to sleep on the road.
But now it’s different.
Zhou Chenxi was tired from shopping in the mall and slowly found a place to rest on the side of the road outside the mall.
It was around noon, there were small vendors occupying the road with no line. Zhou Chenxi saw someone selling fruit pancake, so he went over and bought one. He hadn’t eaten fruit pancake for a long time and he deliberately asked the stall owner to add two more eggs, feeling very extravagant.
While waiting for the fragrant fruit pancake to come out of the pan, Zhou Chenxi said confidently: “How do you know that I won’t make money properly?”
He would definitely find a way to make money! At least he couldn’t just let his brother raise him.
Zhi Qi persuaded: “You come back first. Do you know how much the appearance fee for the show ‘I am an Actor’ is?” Zhi Qi said a number, “Even if you don’t get the ranking, the appearance fee alone is already very impressive. Didn’t you always say that you want to move to another house?”
The appearance fee for “I am an Actor” was indeed considerable. This made Zhou Chenxi’s situation even weirder. It was unknown how Zhou Chenxi messed up before, probably because the good resources were snatched by Luo Xinghe. He stayed in the entertainment industry for so long, yet he had no saving at all. Even when he died, he was wearing dozens of yuan worth of stall goods.
“I’m not going back…”
Zhou Chenxi was about to speak when he heard the small vendor next to him say, “Sir, your fruit pancake is ready.”
“Thank you.” Zhou Chenxi hurriedly took a bite, squinting his eyes happily.
It’s so fragrant, the fruit pancake was really delicious!
Zhou Chenxi continued: “Although the appearance fee for ‘I am an Actor’ is indeed considerable, it is still a loss for me. Think about it, ever since I participated in this show, how many accidents have happened and how many injuries have I suffered?”
The first time Zhou Chenxi recorded a program, he accidentally ate the spicy bento prepared by the program team. He was choked to the point where he couldn’t speak. He got a bad ranking. The second time he recorded a program, the stage light above his head accidentally fell off and almost hit Zhou Chenxi in the head. The third time he recorded a program, he simply fell under the stage and smashed his head.
Zhou Chenxi said while counting: “My life was threatened to record this show! What’s the use of the appearance fee? They should’ve bought me a huge amount of life insurance! The security measures for this show are too inadequate. I don’t want to participate anymore. I don’t want to work hard anymore!”
Zhou Chenxi took a bite of the fruit pancake, and said righteously: “Hard work may not necessarily lead to success, but not working hard will definitely be easy!”
Zhi Qi: “……”
He didn’t know where Zhou Chenxi’s salty words came from. He wanted to say something, but he was too stunned by his own anger and simply cut off the phone.
After sending Zhi Qi away, Zhou Chenxi was finally satisfied. He finished the last bite of the fruit pancake and got ready to go home.
On the other end, Lu Ji, the president of the Lu Group, happened to come down from the office building near the mall and was about to get in a business car that came to pick him up. Suddenly, he heard someone on the side of the road mention the variety show sponsored by his company and stopped on his track.
——“The security measures for this show are too inadequate…”
——“Hard work may not necessarily lead to success, but not working hard will definitely be easy!”
Lu Ji: “……”
The tall president glanced back and looked at the corner of the road not far away.
Diagonally across the street, a food stall selling fruit pancake was occupying the road. A young man with a tall figure like a model, big eyes, and short light flaxen hair was eating pancake fruit while talking about the program sponsored by his company.
Lu Ji turned his head and said to the assistant behind him: “Go and find out what’s going on with this show. If it’s really what they said, contact the program team immediately to request rectification, otherwise we will withdraw our capital immediately.”
“Yes!” The assistant hurriedly complied.
A few days later, “I am an Actor” started recording as usual.
Zhou Chenxi had submitted a withdrawal request and the program team had also gone through the process. After the approval, an announcement was routinely issued to notify viewers of the show that a contestant had withdrawn from the competition.
The show “I am an Actor” had actually been held once before, but the splash is not very big. This year it suddenly got a lot of attention, probably because of Luo Xinghe’s koi effect. The show was broadcasted while filming. It had been broadcasted several times before. Many viewers had an impression of Zhou Chenxi. Although his popularity was not high, some people still noticed him because of his good looks.
[Zhou Chenxi? Is it the tall little brother with big eyes?]
[His acting skills are too bad. He can’t compare to Luo Xinghe at all. He probably knows that he won’t be able to make it to the final later, so he is ashamed and withdraw from the competition.]
[I heard that it was because of an accident during the recording of the show and a contestant was injured. Is he the one who was injured?]
[Then there is no need to withdraw from the competition, right? Where is the professionalism?]
[Come on, it’s a show called acting variety show, but it’s actually a draft in disguise. Speaking of acting, how many people on the show are really capable and famous? I’m optimistic about Luo Xinghe a little bit, so let’s not talk about it. I wish the show a speedy finish!]
The rise of public opinion was never expected by the program team. Coupled with Lu’s pressure, they immediately sent an official blog saying that the program team would immediately rectify and strengthen various safety measures to prevent such accidents from happening again.
Zhou Chenxi didn’t even know about these online discussions, because he had already been dragged by his brother Zhou Mingxuan to work at the Zhou’s company.
Dragged all the way up to the 20th floor by Zhou Mingxuan, Zhou Chenxi laid on the spacious and soft sofa of the president’s office like a lazy egg. He spread himself out and said with interest: “If you let me sit in the office, you might as well kill me. It’s not that you don’t know that I’m not a fan of the company’s affairs. My head hurts when I see this pile of reports. Brother, give me a break. Next week at most, I will definitely go out to find a job and I will also pay you back for everything.”
“Where are you looking for a job?” Zhou Mingxuan raised his eyes, “Based on your education and diploma, if you weren’t my own brother, I wouldn’t want you to apply for HR in our company at all.”
ZhouXin company required an average master’s degree to apply.
Zhou Chenxi felt that he had been hit by an arrow on his knee. He rolled over on the sofa, covered his heart and said, “Anyway, I’m an art student. Don’t look down on people, okay? Do you understand art? Art is priceless!”
Zhou Mingxuan sat behind his two-meter-wide desk and nodded leisurely: “En, you can take a small rice bowl and sit on the street to see if anyone can understand your art.”
This is too much.
Zhou Chenxi became angry and sat up furiously.
He used to want to go to art school after high school and Zhou Mingxuan agreed without even thinking about it.
The two brothers were three years apart. When they were young, father Zhou and mother Zhou were busy with work and didn’t have time to take care of them. It could be said that Zhou Chenxi grew up little by little following Zhou Mingxuan. Later, Zhou Mingxuan, as the eldest son, inherited the family business after the death of his grandfather and helped father Zhou take care of the company. In Zhou Chenxi’s eyes, he had become a parent-like existence.
When he was a child, Zhou Chenxi liked to paint. No matter how ugly he painted, Zhou Mingxuan would keep his paintings intact. Later, Zhou Chenxi went to the Academy of Fine Arts and his painting skills became better and better, but he knew that he still had a dream, which was to be an actor.
At that time, Zhou Chenxi was still young, probably only five years old. Looking at him now, he was tall and thin. But when he was a child, he was short, ugly, and black. He was simply a black monkey.
Because of his ugliness, the children in the kindergarten didn’t like to play with Zhou Chenxi and he had no friends. Zhou Mingxuan also ran to the kindergarten to help him fight because someone bullied Zhou Chenxi. Later, Zhou Chenxi took the stage to perform a show. He performed a sketch. Although Zhou Chenxi at the time didn’t quite know what the sketch meant, the people in the audience applauded him one after another, saying that he performed well, and the parents who came to see the show asked the kindergarten teacher what his name was afterwards.
Since then, the attitude of the children towards him changed, the teacher liked him more, and he suddenly became popular.
Acting was an obsession of Zhou Chenxi and he had been working hard for this dream in his previous life.
Suddenly losing his dream, Zhou Chenxi really didn’t know what he should do.
Zhou Chenxi became a little frustrated. He stood up and said, “Let me think about it again, brother. When I decided what I’m going to do, I’ll tell you again, okay?”
Zhou Mingxuan realized that what he had just said was too much and reluctantly slowed down his tone: “Then you go, don’t be too stressed. Anyway, I can still support you alone.”
The phrase “I will raise you” said in such roundabout war, really worthy of Zhou Mingxuan.
Zhou Chenxi muttered “Who wants you to raise me”, feeling a lot more comfortable. He quietly withdrew from the president’s office.
Zhou Chenxi had felt that his mobile phone vibrating since just now. He went out and picked it up. It was Zhi Qi who called. Because he hadn’t answered for too long, the other party hung up automatically. In addition to the missed call reminder, there was also a message from Zhi Qi.：
[I asked around for you. Lu Group also recently invested in a drama called “Journey of the Immortals”. It is a costume drama. They are recruiting actors and pre-auditions are required. Are you interested in participating?]
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