Chapter 9
Xu Baijing had no idea how he got through the day. In his smooth-sailing life, he had never encountered such a great humiliation.
He was ‘escorted’ out by the security in front of everyone. Just when he was in a state of embarrassment, he happened to run into a paparazzi who was squatting outside to take his picture. The experiences that followed were bitter and sweet. Xu Baijing really didn’t want to recall them. Fortunately, his CEO father paid to suppress the matter.
That night, Xu Baijing printed a hundred copies of Wen Xingze’s ‘the harder you work, the luckier you get’ meme. He tore each one into pieces, still unable to vent his anger.
He was just a minor character, how dare he oppress the protagonist? Has he forgotten who rules this world?!
Yes, Xu Baijing knew that this world was a book called “The Wealthy Koi and His Lavish Life”, and he was the protagonist who was the center of attention in the book.
He has the luck of a koi, and also has five wealthy fathers. Each father was born prominent and achieved great success in various fields. It was only natural for him to become the winner in life!
The luck of a koi, as the name suggests, means that everything Xu Baijing does will go very smoothly, and his wishes will come true. The scripts he likes will definitely become popular, he will debut in the center position if he participates in a talent show, and even if he closes his eyes and answers the college entrance examination, he can score high by luck.
But the truth is known only to him. After all, this world conserves energy, where would there be luck out of thin air? This luck is all robbed from these minor characters led by Wen Xingze.
The luckier he is, the more unlucky the minor characters are.
Therefore, he lives in a mansion while Wen Xingze lives in a basement. He becomes a popular star while Wen Xingze’s mother doesn’t even recognize him when he’s smeared. But what does this have to do with him?
“It’s natural for cannon fodder to sacrifice for the protagonist.” Xu Baijing tore Wen Xingze’s meme with resentment, muttering.
But this morning, when he met Wen Xingze, his koi luck was suppressed for the first time in his life. He rushed to ask the Feng Shui master, and got the latter’s doubtful answer:
“Mr. Xu, it seems that you encountered… a dragon this morning!”
How dare a koi in the river compete with a dragon for glory? Moreover, the koi originally got a little bit of good luck by borrowing the light of the dragon. When it meets a real dragon, of course, it is beaten and hammered!
“Have you ever angered a dragon before?” the Feng Shui master was apprehensive, “It’s okay for you to rob luck from others, but if you anger a dragon, the sins you made in the past will double back.”
Xu Baijing: “Damn it, this is impossible! You must have made a mistake!”
He walked out of the door angrily, but as soon as he took a step, he fell flat on his face.
The Feng Shui master: “... Amitabha.”
Xu Baijing: “…” Damn it!!!
After Xu Baijing came out, he called one of his wealthy fathers, who had a stake in Manli. His name was Xu Bianzhou.
“Dad,” Xu Baijing said with a crying tone, “Wen Xingze and Zheng Xiao teamed up to bully me. They not only want to snatch the role in ‘Encounter with the Dragon’, but also drove me out of Manli.”
“Can you help me get back at them, like when I was young? I really want to act in Encounter with the Dragon!”
The phrase ‘like when I was young’ was like the magic charm to win Xu Bianzhou over.
Sure enough, Xu Bianzhou couldn’t resist, his voice suppressed with anger: “Who dares to kick my baby out of Manli?!”
Xu Baijing: “It’s that Wen Xingze. The manager even said he was the one who booked Manli. I don’t believe it, he must be lying.”
“…”
Hearing the word ‘booked’, Xu Bianzhou suddenly fell silent.
Xu Baijing had a bad feeling. “Dad? You will help me get back at them, right?”
Xu Bianzhou was silent for a long time, then said:
“I’m sorry, Baijing, this is my fault, but we really can’t afford to offend that person.” Xu Bianzhou lit a cigarette, “Just pretend he doesn’t exist, this will soon pass, I can find someone to write a script for you, Encounter with the Dragon is just——”
“You call yourself my dad?!” Xu Baijing said incredulously.
Xu Bianzhou’s face darkened, just about to say something.
Click. The phone was abruptly hung up.
Xu Baijing held in his anger all day, went out to drink with his friends, and played with a wild model, but still couldn’t vent his anger.
What made him even angrier was what happened in the evening.
The local variety show “Treasure Adventure”, which no one paid attention to, went online. Because of the popularity of Wen Xingze’s memes, and the content of this episode indeed seemed very fun…
At eight o’clock in the evening, the ratings of “Treasure Adventure” exploded!
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That night.
[Inoshita_ Learning Chinese: Very good! (Great!) Mr. Wen has a great taste in music! //@Treasure Adventure Program Group: The latest episode can also be watched on the Network 23 platform tonight~ (Link)]
[Brother, you are also watching Treasure Adventure! Is it the leading track of classical music (doge) magic cooling is really xsbsp;] (Note: xsbsp is written as it is, in English characters. I'm guessing the commenter is trying to curse???)
[Brother, can you arrange a rap remix version of the Great Compassion Mantra? Waiting for your new album (doge)]
[This No.8 Wen Xingze is really a treasure idol, good looking and a sense of humor, I laughed so hard that my neighbors called the police hahaha]
[? I’m going to watch it quickly]
Inoshita Ryunosuke’s music style is very distinctive and fashionable, and he was the music director of many popular animations in Japan. Although he has not been developing in China for a long time, he already has many fans.
Xiao Zhang is one of them.
Inoshita Ryunosuke usually has a very strange style of doing things and likes performance art. It’s the first time he has praised someone so bluntly for their ‘good taste in music’.
Xiao Zhang clicked on the link curiously, thinking it would be some high-end music review program, who knew—
“A cheesy adventure variety show?!” Xiao Zhang was shocked, could it be that Inoshita Ryunosuke was hacked by a low-end marketing account, “No way, I can’t watch this IQ-lowering stuff…”
Although he said so, Xiao Zhang couldn’t resist his curiosity and clicked play.
He soon saw the ‘Mr. Wen’ that Inoshita Ryunosuke praised, who was the No.8 contestant. His good looks made Xiao Zhang, a straight man, gasp. Godly looks, a face that appeals to men, women, old and young, he even made the fluorescent green death aesthetic sportswear look pretty good.
He continued to watch.
During the pre-game preparation, Wen Xingze opened the cap and surprisingly won the grand prize of a romantic seven-day trip to France. Like most of the audience, Xiao Zhang couldn’t help but laugh.
It wasn’t because winning the prize was funny, but because Wen Xingze and the staff’s reactions were too funny — Wen Xingze’s face was full of ‘no way, is this arranged by the program group? It’s a bit too fake’, and the staff’s face was full of ‘no way, does our program group have so much money?!’
Hahaha.
Suddenly interested in the cheesy adventure variety show.
Xiao Zhang never expected that there would be a second time to win the prize by opening the cap, and it was also that romantic seven-day tour in France. If the first time opening the cap seemed like it was deliberately arranged, the second time completely dispelled Xiao Zhang’s thoughts.
Which program group would arrange such a fake plant. Besides, the reactions of the entire director group were too real. The director’s shocked expression was exactly the same as the audience in front of the TV!
There were also many people in the bullet screen saying:
[Iconic scene!]
[why is this No. 8 Wen Xingze, who is obviously a beauty, so suitable for memes??]
[Memes are being made!]
While finding it interesting, people were also shocked by Wen Xingze’s good luck.
Looking further down, Xiao Zhang quickly understood the reason for Inoshita Ryunosuke’s comment.
When a female contestant complained about the heat, and Wen Xingze handed her the headphones, playing the ‘Great Compassion Mantra’ for ‘magic cooling’, Xiao Zhang couldn’t help but burst into laughter!
It turns out that Inoshita Ryunosuke wasn't joking, his taste in music is really quite good.
After a while, the content officially entered the competition. If the previous content made Xiao Zhang feel like a fun sand sculpture, the content that followed completely shocked him.
The first half was actually quite boring.
Because there were three contestants who were obviously insiders, the program group was so lenient that they practically let out the Pacific Ocean. For example, the arithmetic problem for other contestants was to calculate “212365 divided by 5423”, while the problem for those three contestants was “24 divided by 6”. The difficulty level was not the same at all, do they think the audience are fools?
Until Wen Xingze appeared.
When Wen Xingze appeared, the style of the bullet screen suddenly changed, from the original “they are all insiders, so boring” “boring” “fooling the audience”, it became:
[High energy ahead!!!]
[Really high energy ahead!!! I’m rewatching after finishing, now all I have left in my heart is: ‘this is also possible’]
[I feel that the koi luck can no longer summarize Zeze, I suggest calling him the real dragon luck… Those who have been marketing having koi luck before @XuBaijing are not comparable at all]
After watching the entire two-minute championship process, all Xiao Zhang had left in his heart was ‘this is also possible’.
Wen Xingze is obviously not an insider, because his questions are super hard — if you say that the arithmetic question still has room for cheating, then the 'Find the difference' segment, closing his eyes and just happening to point out the difference of less than one centimeter, can only be explained by luck!
Not to mention the final puzzle.
Although the question group intentionally set up “I don’t know”, but other expressions like “I don’t know” “I can’t” “It’s too hard, I can’t” are all wrong, and Wen Xingze just happened to pick the only correct expression.
In the middle and late stages, both the program group and Wen Xingze himself were obviously desperate. Wen Xingze was even desperate when he received the final award: the tall and slender young man holding the ‘Romantic Seven-Day Trip to France’ sign, his light brown pupils were slightly open with some timidity, his skin was snow-white, his hair tips were wet, and his face was full of displeasure.
The program group directly put the caption: "forced to do business’ next to it.
“Hahahaha! Awesome!”
While laughing and slapping the table, Xiao Zhang also remembered that Wen Xingze had already won two trips to France before the competition, he should be the contestant who least wants to win this grand prize.
I really don’t know whether to say it’s good luck or bad luck.
After the whole program, although it was a cheesy adventure that he once looked down upon, Xiao Zhang watched it with some interest.
The main reason for this is Wen Xingze.
The program itself is actually quite fake, but Wen Xingze is very real.
This beauty is too real, not pretentious at all, and his luck is against the sky — isn’t it too likable?!
Although the number of followers on Wen Xingze’s Weibo is growing rapidly, it hasn’t broken ten thousand yet. Doesn’t the company buy some zombie fans or something?
Xiao Zhang was very surprised. After following, he also checked in at the super topic. Finally, he opened WeChat and started editing a Moments post to promote the treasure idol…
Xiao Zhang’s reaction was a reflection of many young people that night.
With the heat of yesterday’s memes as a foundation, coupled with the increasingly widespread spontaneous promotion by the audience, the ratings of Treasure Adventure kept rising. Finally, around nine o’clock, it exploded!
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Xu Baijing was so angry that his teeth itched. He had a premonition that if he couldn’t stop Wen Xingze now, he wouldn’t be able to stop him later, and he would become more and more popular.
“While he doesn’t have many die-hard fans yet, and all he has attracted are casual fans, hurry up and fabricate some black material!” Xu Baijing thought, “Just insist that Wen Xingze is the biggest insider of Treasure Adventure, being kept by an uncle or something…”
This is their team’s usual routine, and they have already framed several competitors this way.
However, things didn’t go as planned.
On the way to find the marketing number, Xu Baijing inexplicably encountered many obstacles. Before he could find the right person here, Jiang Ye’s team had already taken the field!
After all, Jiang Ye is the ace of Shengtian, and her capacity in the business is unquestionable. The rhythm here hasn’t started yet, and it has been completely extinguished over there. Xu Baijing’s team is no match for Jiang Ye, this is the only certainty.
Moreover, the original direction of Treasure Adventure was favorable to Wen Xingze.
In addition to Jiang Ye’s ability and network, a timely and natural press release, without the need for deliberate marketing, harvested a wave of heat at the time when the discussion of Treasure Adventure was the hottest…
Overnight, Wen Xingze gained a hundred thousand fans.
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Manli Hotel, top floor, presidential suite.
Wen Xingze himself knew nothing about what was happening online.
Because he didn’t have time to go online at all, but spent the whole afternoon learning about the situation from the Dragon Clan.
It turns out that in the past three years, everything that happened in the game “Desolation” he played exists in a parallel universe. The Muse Empire he established is not fake, even the citizens… are real.
And yesterday’s update of the reverse raising function reversed the roles of the game.
In Desolation, Wen Xingze is the player, and the citizens of the empire are the ‘cubs’ being raised. But in yesterday’s Cub Raising Program launched by the Light Tower, the citizens are the players, and Wen Xingze has become the ‘cub’ being raised.
They are each other’s paper people. (Note: 紙片人 [Zhǐpiàn rén] = paper people, 2D characters)
Of course, Wen Xingze cannot see the content of Cub Raising Program. In the reverse raising mode, he can’t even log in to the game, and he doesn’t know how to remove this mode yet… maybe wait for the game to clear? Isn’t that too long?
Desolation and Cub Raising Program connect the two parallel universes. Wen Xingze wondered who this Light Tower was, and how it could do such a magical thing.
But the citizens don’t know this, most citizens still think Wen Xingze is just a virtual model, just like Wen Xingze thought Desolation was just a game before, little did they know that Cub Raising Program is also a real parallel universe.
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