At the end of the day, when they were settling the bill, the boss came over with a menu and said that if they signed the bill, they could get a 40% discount. Qin Xizhen wrote his name on the paper, and the boss was overjoyed. "So it really is... I was sitting there just now and didn't dare to confirm it. I watched your performance today... It was broadcast on TV."
Qin Xizhen's concert on Nanzhou Satellite TV was just a report in the entertainment news, and the broadcast the boss was talking about was from Nanzhou TV's second channel.
At this time, the boss remembered something and added, "I didn't see anything just now!"
Qin Xizhen's ears were flushed, "It's not what you want."
Cheng Ran smiled at the boss and said, "I'm his younger brother."
The boss had an expression that said, "I understand."
The year 2000 was basically the glorious and peak period for paparazzi in Hong Kong, but this atmosphere was limited to Hong Kong. With so many independent journalists and various weekly media that made a living from gossip, it was easy to form a social ecology. At that time, a paparazzi who had become successful could earn an average of 20,000 Hong Kong dollars a month, which was twice that of other professional journalists. Notorious publications such as Apple Daily and Next Magazine, which were good at fabricating news, could bring their boss Jimmy Lai 300 million Hong Kong dollars in revenue every year.
But this set of ideas has no market in the mainland.
In fact, it doesn't matter if Qin Xizhen is recognized when walking on the streets of Nanzhou with no makeup on. At most, someone will come over and ask for his autograph. In this age without smartphones that can take photos and post them to WeChat Moments anytime and anywhere, many things are not that complicated.
So in the end, Qin Xizhen and Cheng Ran did not appear in the newspapers, and then Cheng Ran was exposed and known to the whole world.
Later, my second uncle dusted off his butt and went to get the car. Then he drove Cheng Ran back to school and left with Qin Xizhen.
Qin Xizhen will have the third and fourth shows of the tour, which will be in Shenzhen and Chengdu respectively. She will complete the performance plan she signed with others a year in advance, and then continue to expand her territory in the industry.
She called the ringback tone service "Xuanling".
Cheng Ran thought it was pretty good, a cool ringtone, which sounded even cooler than the color ringback tone.
Today's sudden emergency caught Cheng Ran off guard. Although he knew that he didn't have to worry about any explosive news in the mainland, there were still risks. Qin Xizhen's boldness in ignoring these risks made Cheng Ran feel that she was still the same Qin Xizhen, and had not lost her way in the complicated world. Although she was a big sister or even a female devil in the eyes of others... in fact, she was still walking in the world with her true nature, just like when she was in the mountains and seas.
It's just a moving hamster.
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However, during this period, first Qin Qian came, then Qin Xizhen came. Nanzhou was given to the two Qins and caused a lot of trouble. Cheng Ran often dreamed of the Guiyuan Expert Building of USTC in the middle of the night these days, with dense ivy and cracked walls. It seemed like a horror movie one moment, and was replaced by a magnificent scene the next, with a bunny costume, which was comparable to the Hong Kong movies that were not suitable for children in the video halls in the 1990s.
Cheng Ran is also a normal man, and he will inevitably think of the night he climbed Mount Emei with Jiang Hongshao, when the two of them sang "Tomorrow Will Be Better" in a weird voice, and finally hugged each other and felt each other's body temperature. Old Jiang, after all, I am a reborn person, and my soul in both lives is qualified to let go of myself anywhere, but in the end I still trapped you in a cage. The interest should accumulate day by day, and the next time we meet, it won't be so easy to escape from the clutches of the devil Cheng. I guess it will be Fei Yuqing's version of hehehe.
After Qin Xizhen's trip to Nanzhou, Yu Xiao, who was at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of Chengdu, called Cheng Ran and said that he had visited the Normal University not long ago and contacted Liu Ying. They went around their school and had a meal together. She also cheated him into paying the bill with her roommate. However, the girls in the Normal University were pretty good. It was said that there were many intellectual girls in Liu Ying's school. It depended on whether Liu Ying's old friend could give him a good performance. That meal was still rewarding. It was estimated that Yu Xiao's generous and generous appearance of treating Liu Ying made a good first impression on the girls who shared the same dormitory with Liu Ying. One of them even added Yu Xiao as a QQ friend. Recently, she chatted with a girl. The girl was very lively and had a good chat.
However, Yu Xiao is no easy target in HKUST either. He is good at playing games and enjoys great prestige in the department. Moreover, he is not a cold and cruel person but rather warm. Therefore, many girls in the department know him. In short, he has good popularity and lives a comfortable life.
Cheng Ran laughed and said, "Are you eager to show off your peach blossoms to me?"
"No, no, buddy, I saw that you were in Nanzhou and Lao Jiang was in the UK, so I was afraid that no one would chat with you, so I came here to comfort your heart. Why, it's very popular recently for girls to knit scarves for boys. I don't know which Taiwanese idol drama I saw this from. Did Lao Jiang knit a scarf for you? Did you use the scarf in places where it shouldn't be used... Yeah, hehe, or did you give me some thoughtful little things..."
"Now shut up and hang up the phone. We are still good friends."
Yu Xiao said in a cheesy voice, "No, we are best friends after all, how can you be so heartless!"
He added, "By the way, did you go to Teacher Qin's Nanzhou concert? We all agreed to go to the Chengdu concert. Come to think of it, when we were having an event at No. 1 Middle School, everyone was moving chairs and stools, and Qin Xizhen was moving them with us. Her music class was also the most popular. When she came into the classroom, even those who had slept on the desk in the previous class would be full of energy. After class, many people would go outside the door to look in. Thinking about it, it seems like it was just yesterday."
"Yes, it's the same as yesterday."
Yu Xiao said, "Hey, don't change the subject. Did you go to see it or not? You were not lazy and thought it was too hard to go or you had to fight for tickets, so you didn't go? After all, he was your teacher back then, and you had a good relationship with him back then, so you can't forget his kindness."
"How could that be possible... We had dinner together and chatted for a while after the concert."
There was a pause on the other end, and then there was a sound of stomping and jumping. It was Yu Xiao who was singing in a high octave, "Could it be... just the two of you?"
"It was during midnight snack time. Then she finished and asked the driver to take me back to school."
Yu Xiao, who had been living a relatively comfortable life in college, suddenly regretted making such a phone call.
Many years later, when someone asks you on a forum when you felt like you were pierced by thousands of arrows in your life.
He remained silent.
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In Tsinghua, I got up in the morning and rushed to class. The first class in the morning was geometry and algebra, followed by calculus. After the morning class, I hurried to the teacher to print the courseware, then had lunch, and took advantage of the self-study time after lunch to do some homework. Then I watched an experiment in the afternoon, had dinner, and took advantage of the self-study time to finish my homework. I returned to the dormitory to listen to CNN English for an hour. It was already eleven o'clock at this time. After memorizing words for half an hour, Yang Xia hurried to wash up. Before going to bed, I turned on the computer, connected to the campus network, and browsed the BBS. I looked at the valuable lectures and activities of the school in the future and chose the time to participate.
As a result, her hand trembled and she accidentally glanced at the familiar words. When she came back to look, it really said "Tianxing Tsinghua Society is recruiting talents!", and there was a small mark at the end showing that it was one of the posts with the most comments recently.
Yang Xia straightened her mind and planned to continue scrolling down to look at campus information, but after scrolling down two pages, the browsing speed gradually slowed down. She finally moved the mouse up and clicked on the post.
Sure enough, below the beautifully designed PPT promotional interface, she saw a contact name that made her eyes suddenly widen.
"Qin Qian."