20 years of restarting life

Chapter 3492 Zhao Chang'an's Invitation

Upon hearing Ke Yaqing's words, Zhao Chang'an knew that she would most likely have a 'but' moment.

"However, these girls were not in the dance troupe from the beginning. They were the best of the best from all over the province who were selected through a series of competitions. The troupe also has strict age requirements, requiring them to be over eighteen years old. But in reality, unless they are very talented or have connections, most of these girls join the troupe after they are twenty years old, and then they have a few golden years when they are in their prime."

As she said this, Ke Yaqing couldn't help but show a hint of melancholy and sigh.

When she joined the troupe, she was just twenty years old. Although she has been supported by benefactors step by step to get to where she is today, she is the head of the troupe that manages multiple genres such as traditional drama and modern dance.

However, she still prefers to return to and cherish her youthful days. If she could go back and choose again, she would not choose to enter this industry.

"From your perspective, getting a dancer in might be as simple as saying a word. But in reality, for ordinary people, unless they've won national or international awards, it's very difficult for girls from ordinary families to get in, even if they're good-looking and talented. The city's dance troupe is already the pinnacle they can reach with their own efforts and the support of their ordinary families. Unless they receive help from a benefactor, they can't make a further leap, like jumping in twice from the district or county dance troupes."

Ke Yaqing picked up her coffee cup, took a small sip like a dragonfly skimming the water, and continued, "Working in this kind of art requires us to abandon some of the shyness of women and openly show our physical beauty to the audience. At the same time, we are also quite mature in our thinking and are pursued very hard. How many young girls who are inexperienced and have come to work alone in an unfamiliar city can resist the sugar-coated bullets of money, flattery, power, and flowers for years to come? As far as I know, all the girls in the troupe have boyfriends. Even if some of them have broken up and are single now, they have deep entanglements in the past."

Zhao Chang'an didn't know if Zou Xiaojun understood, but he did.

In other words, Ke Yaqing knows which girl Zou Xiaojun likes and is in love with now. It's just that the girl comes from an ordinary family. She used to work in a district and county theater troupe. She had a powerful boyfriend, and through connections and her own good abilities, she got into the current theater troupe.

However, after joining this theater troupe, I have broken up with my boyfriend, but he is unwilling to accept it and keeps pestering me.

Given a woman like that, Zhao Chang'an estimated that Zou Huanan would rather whip Zou Xiaojun to death with a belt than agree to let him bring that woman into his home.

Zhao Chang'an hadn't expected the matter to be so complicated, so he simply didn't understand anything at all.

Zou Xiaojun felt like he had a nail in his butt. After sitting for a few minutes and seeing that Ke Yaqing wasn't responding to the girl's story, he got bored and took a big gulp of Coca-Cola.

He said he was going out to discuss the important matter of recruiting more people with his deputy general manager, Yu Chaofei, implying that sitting here was simply delaying his chance to make money.

As the door was closed, the small room, which was only three square meters in size, fell silent.

"Finally out of here! It was so awkward and uncomfortable to be with that silly boy!"

Ke Yaqing raised her hands and stretched. Just as Zou Xiaojun said, dancing girls are naturally poor. Even with Liang Lian stretching like this, you can still see a very pleasing figure.

Ke Yaqing never expected that the well-behaved young man sitting opposite her had such filthy thoughts hidden in his clear eyes.

She took out a pack of cigarettes from her bag on the sofa next to her. It wasn't the slim kind that Shan Qiang smoked, but rather the strong-tasting Changbai Mountain brand.

"I have to be mindful of my image, so I can't smoke too much. That's why I only smoke the strong stuff, it lasts a long time. Want one?"

Ke Yaqing asked Zhao Chang'an, "These cigarettes are cheap, five yuan a pack, I don't smoke much." "They're not cheap anymore. In our mountain city, hot dry noodles are only one yuan a bowl, and stinky tofu, stone jelly, and rice noodles are all the same price. Tea eggs are five mao, and tofu pudding, soy milk, and eight-treasure porridge are also five mao."

Zhao Chang'an did not accept Ke Yaqing's cigarette. Instead, he took out half a pack of Huazi cigarettes and placed it on the foldable coffee table between the two of them.

"Mr. Zhao, thank you for these past few days. Please feel free to say anything you want to say, as long as it doesn't violate the law or principles and is within my power. However, you should also know that I am actually a person without any official position or power. Although I hold the title and position of the troupe leader, if you want to arrange for any acquaintances to join the troupe, I can try to find a way to do so."

Looking at Ke Yaqing staring at him with a serious expression, Zhao Chang'an thought to himself, how many fools are there in this world? If someone were truly a fool, they wouldn't be in her position.

"Sister Ke, you're overthinking it. Don't think that you're taking advantage of One Nano on this trip. In fact, One Nano is a large and powerful company. Having someone as outstanding as you accompany us on this trip abroad is a positive form of publicity for our company. We're not losing out."

Zhao Chang'an kept his mouth shut, denying it with a smile.

"Did not say?"

"Not really."

Ke Yaqing laughed: "Actually, even if you hadn't said it, I would have guessed it."

For no apparent reason, Zhao Chang'an warmly invited the mother and daughter to the mountain city. Their chance encounter halfway up the mountain on New Year's Eve was unexpected. These past few days, she had been watching TV, but the local television station hadn't interviewed Zhao Chang'an about his return to his hometown.

And what Zhao Chang'an just said, 'So you used the word "fat" to describe Feng Caiwei.'

This means that even if Zou Xiaojun is faking a relationship with Feng Caiwei, he won't actually pursue it.

Upon hearing this, Zhao Chang'an smiled at Ke Yaqing and asked, "Sister Ke, are you interested in doing cultural exchange abroad to promote our profound Central Plains folk art culture?"

"Cultural export?"

Ke Yaqing's eyes lit up when she heard this, and she looked at Zhao Chang'an with bright and clear eyes. Zhao Chang'an could see his handsome and masculine face reflected in her eyes.

"It involves OneNano International assembling a large team in China, bringing together outstanding inheritors of traditional Chinese culture, to visit various countries and conduct performances. The goal is to let people around the world know the profoundness and excellence of traditional culture of China, one of the four ancient civilizations and the only one that has been preserved."

Zhao Chang'an had this idea before, but the timing wasn't right. If it weren't for his brilliant investment last September that made him famous, he wouldn't have had the confidence or qualifications to organize this overseas performance.

Since Zhao Chang'an was going to do it, he planned to build a high-profile team of veteran artists going abroad, with explicit document support from relevant national departments, rather than a small-scale, self-deceiving gimmick.

If this behavior is not handled properly, it will not only fail to enhance our national prestige, but may even cause harm.