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by UntamedSShi Fei had just gotten off the plane and opened his mobile phone when he saw a call from Shen Qingran on it.
There was also an unread message from him.
Shen Qingran: [Master, there is something I need your help with].
Shen Qingran wasn’t the unorthodox simpleton that Jiang Yu was; he usually said one thing at a time.
Xu Zeming followed at his side and said, “Shi Fei, you need to sit here for a while; I’ll go get the luggage. I’ve already arranged for a car at the airport exit.”
“Okay, go ahead.” Originally, he wanted to go get the luggage with him, but when he saw Shen Qingran’s message, he decided to go back to him first.
Shi Fei: [What happened?]
The other quickly replied.
Shen Qingran: [Master, for my concert tomorrow, the original guest singer can’t come, so I want to ask you to be the guest of honor for the concert.]
Shi Fei: “With your connections and status, there are many people who want to sing in your concert, so it’s possible to find a replacement.
Shen Qingran: I know it’s not difficult to find a replacement, but not many people can match my rhythm.
Shi Fei: Don’t bullshi-t me; tell me the truth.
Shen Qingran: [Master, I’m a bit tired; I miss you].
Shi Fei stood there; his body froze, as if he saw that stubborn boy in the rainy night back then.
Shi Fei: “Okay, I will come to you tonight.”
Shen Qingran: “I will give you some money and arrange the air tickets and hotel for you.”
At this time, Xu Zeming came back with his suitcase and said, “Shi Fei, I’ve booked a car outside; we can just go out.”
Shi Fei took the suitcase and said, “No, we’re not going back.”
Xu Zeming was puzzled: “Not going back?”
He nodded. “We need to go to Lin City.”
He called Song Yiyuan and asked him to postpone tomorrow’s job, adding that he would pay for the loss.
Song Yiyuan was so angry that he was about to jump. “What did you say? You want to cancel a good job; don’t you know that this will offend the other side? This isn’t good; can’t it be arranged later? You’re making it difficult for me as an agent.”
Shi Fei responded, “Shen Qingran invited me to be the guest of honor at his concert.”
“Alright, go at ease; I’ll take care of this side of things for you.” Song Yiyuan’s attitude immediately changed, and he responded very quickly.
“Didn’t you just say that you would have a hard time doing it?” Shi Fei asked.
“What’s so hard to do? We will bear the loss, and I will invite the other party to have a good meal and apologize.” Fortunately, Shi Fei wasn’t here; otherwise, he would have seen Song Yiyuan smile happily. “So, how did you get to know Shen Qingran?”
Who was Shen Qingran? China’s only musician to have won a Grammy Award; he also won three times. To be able to go to his concert as a singing guest was a dream to many artists.
Shi Fei carried his suitcase towards the lounge as he responded, “He called and invited me.”
Song Yiyuan: “…”
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When Shi Fei was on the plane, he met Wang Yuanzhi again. It had been almost half a month since the last time he saw him at the design competition.
Both of them were wearing a white jumper today. As soon as the two of them met in the cabin, Wang Yuanzhi’s face didn’t look too good; he was instantly reminded of the humiliating incident during the previous Oriental Charm design competition.
“Teacher Wang, what a coincidence.” Shi Fei rushed at him and greeted him.
“What coincidence? I don’t know you; don’t talk to me.” Wang Yuanzhi said with a slightly unhappy expression, “What bad luck! How come I’m on the same flight as you? Don’t just sit next to me.”
“Don’t worry, I’ll be in first class and won’t be in a neighboring seat.” His air ticket was arranged by Shen Qingran, who bought him the best first class, and with a quick glance, Shi Fei saw that the air ticket in Wang Yuanzhi’s hand was for economy class.
Wang Yuanzhi’s face changed, and there was a flash of embarrassment on his face.
After sitting down, Wang Yuanzhi asked his assistant, “Why did Shi Fei take this flight? What does he want to do in Lin city?”
The last time his stage performance was filled with fans of Shi Fei, it left a deep impression on him. His greatest shame in history was exactly that moment.
The assistant checked the Star Chaser app and said, “It should be a private trip; I haven’t seen him make arrangements for the trip.”
Wang Yuanzhi slightly frowned, then he uneasily asked, “He will not come to cut off my endorsement, right?”
In the last two days, Wang Yuanzhi had been negotiating with a brand for an endorsement, but the other party was still hesitating between him and another person. He came over today because he wanted to finalize this matter.
The assistant shook his head: ”It shouldn’t be. As far as I know, he should have just finished recording ‘The Sims’ today and is going to shoot the ‘Men’s Fashion’ magazine tomorrow. It’s probably something urgent that’s making come over here.”
That brand could only be described as a third-tier endorsement, and the assistant actually wanted to say that such an endorsement wouldn’t be wanted by Shi Fei due to his popularity.
Wang Yuanzhi nodded, relieved: “That’s good, the things that I asked you to do before are all arranged, right?”
The assistant affirmed, “It’s all arranged.”
…………
The plane crossed the clouds in the sky.
It was still dark when they boarded the plane.
Xu Zeming was a bit excited to be sitting in the first class for the first time in his life, and he was taking photos with his mobile phone to commemorate the occasion.
Shi Fei looked at his energetic appearance and felt really good.
Although he now had the body of an eighteen-year-old, he had aged psychologically, but in the past two years, he had gradually started to open up a lot.
Grabbing a blanket to cover his body, he put the chair down and laid on his side to find a comfortable position to prepare for a nap.
In his drowsy sleep, Shi Fei remembered many things again.
Thinking about the tragic death in his previous life, thinking about the things that happened to him after he was reborn five years ago.
Shi Fei grew up inside an orphanage; he was reborn and came back to when he was 13 years old, and he was facing the imminent demolition of the orphanage.
He could do a lot of things, and it wasn’t hard to make money, but he was only 13 at the time, and there were many things that his age restricted him from doing.
Finally, he chose to write a net article under the pen name ‘The Bird That Couldn’t Fly’ and started his first suspenseful and brain-burning novel, ‘Fatal Me’.
After the novel hit the shelves, the results were much better than expected, and he jumped to first place on the sales list.
With the money and the copyright he sold, he was able to save the orphanage. At that time, he was too young, and he would have been suspected if he suddenly took out so much money, so he donated to the orphanage in an anonymous way.
It was a year after his return that he met Shen Qingran.
When he went out to buy something, it wasn’t raining yet, but when he went back, it was pouring with rain.
In order to get home faster, Shi Fei took a shortcut back to his house, and when he passed by a rubbish bin, his foot was grabbed by someone.
At that time, Shi Fei was only fourteen years old, not even close to one meter seven, and he was wearing a white jumper with the jumper hat tied to his head; the rain had long been drenched through him.
And the person on the ground tightly grabbed Shi Fei’s trouser leg, and blo-od was obviously all over his body. Even if it was pouring rain, Shi Fei saw the strong will to survive in his eyes.
Before passing out, Shen Qingran kept mumbling, “Save me, save me…”.
Shen Qingran back then was eighteen years old; his height had long scampered up to one meter eight, and his whole body was injured. Just taking him away from that ghost place was a lot of effort for Shi Fei.
A lot of things in the past weren’t happy, so Shi Fei was rarely willing to go back to think about the past.
Probably because he recalled a lot of things from the past, Shi Fei slept particularly uneventfully, and when he woke up, he saw that the sky outside was completely dark.
The plane was also slowly descending, and through the window of the plane, he saw the lights of ten thousand homes outside.
The color of the night was vast, and the lights on the ground were brilliant, creating a very beautiful night scene.
Time was really fast; in the blink of an eye, he had been back for five years.
The rumbling sound of an airplane landing sounded.
Shi Fei put on his hat and took his luggage out.
Xu Zeming was very reluctant to touch the chair and said, “I’m leaving, baby; I’ll be back again.”
The two walked out together.
Lin City was a first-tier city, and the airport also belonged to the international airport, which was very large.
Shi Fei had temporarily changed his itinerary, so basically no one would know about it, but after picking up his luggage, he saw a lot of fans surrounding him outside the airport.
Xu Zeming wondered: “Did the news leak again? Did the scalpers find out so quickly?”
They had changed their schedule temporarily.
Shi Fei glanced over there and saw that there were quite a few fans holding hand banners with ‘Wang Yuanzhi, I love you’ written on them.
“It should be Wang Yuanzhi’s fans; it’s written on the hand banners.” Shi Fei pointed at the handbills and said,.
Xu Zeming laughed after reading it: “The fans that were paid to come are also too many, right? There is such a big difference between his popularity and fan base, it is easy to be seen through.”
Shi Fei looked at him sideways and asked: “Your eyes are quite sharp, you know about this kind of thing?”
Xu Zeming said: “I can tell from this, there are almost two hundred paid fans in the scene, Wang Yuanzhi’s popularity is not that high. It’s probably to build up his popularity, maybe he needs it to get resources in the latter stages.”
Shi Fei put on his glasses and said, “You know quite a lot.”
Xu Zeming said: “I’m not lying, I used to be a part-time fan, one hundred to three hundred yuan, it mainly depended on whether they needed to scream or need to offer flowers and fake fighting, and so on, if the market was a little bit better, in one day, I could run three or four games.”
Shi Fei: “Your business skills aren’t bad.”
Xu Zeming shrugged and responded, “It’s all about paying tuition fees.”
Shi Fei: “Then why did you come to be my assistant? The salary of an assistant is not that high.”
Xu Zeming: “At first, I was just pretending to be someone’s fan, but I don’t think it’s a big deal. Celebrities need fans to make them look good and achieve some effects, and we also need to make money, so it’s mutually beneficial. But, some of them arm a bit over the top; they will specifically pay fans to act as private fans, to snipe at some stars who just suddenly became popular, and do all sorts of over-the-top things.”
“Such as groping people at the airport to take advantage of them or stalking them to the hotel and lying in front of the star’s hotel room in the middle of the night. Or knowing that the star had to catch up with his schedule, they’d deliberately send a bunch of people to delay them and take ugly face shots and such.” Xu Zeming said with a slightly saddened voice, “I felt that doing these would be a bit of a violation of my bottom line, so I quit.”
Shi Fei nodded and praised him: “It’s good to have a correct outlook. It is easy to get lost in the world of adults, but it is rare that you are still able to stay awake.”
Xu Zeming, who was praised, smiled and scratched his head in embarrassment as he spoke: “Shi Fei, you’re younger than me; why do you always talk like an old man who has gone through decades of vicissitudes?”
SHI Fei: “It means I am more mature than you. Let’s go.”
Shi Fei put on his glasses and prepared to leave quickly while everyone’s attention was on that side.
On the other side of the fan club, some people were holding flowers, and some were holding molds.
Every now and then, someone asked, “Is he out yet? Didn’t you say the flight was at 8:40 p.m.? It’s already past eight o’clock; why haven’t we seen him yet?”
“Let’s wait a little longer; maybe the luggage is late.”
“I was planning to finish this order earlier and go back to do my homework.”
“Everyone, be in good spirits; he’s wearing a white jersey, black cap, black face mask, and sunglasses; don’t get mistaken.”
Everyone waited anxiously when someone saw Shi Fei and looked up and down.
White jersey, black duck-tongue cap, mask, and black sunglasses, plus that look of a deliberately lowered hat.
They excitedly pointed: “Over there, that’s the side; he’s out.”
Hearing the shouts, everyone rushed over in one brain, holding up a banner and screaming loudly: “Wang Yuanzhi, Wang Yuanzhi… I love you, Wang Yuanzhi, I love you…”.
When he heard the screams, he wasn’t too worried; these were all paid fans, and he had nothing to do with them.
Even when he saw them rushing in his direction, he thought that it was Wang Yuanzhi, who also happened to be in his direction, and very politely took two steps aside.
As a result, he was surrounded by the group.
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