Financial freedom starts from graduation

Chapter 258 Xia Xiwei (Additional chapter for the leader of "Absolutely Free and Easy")
Ding!
[Host opens the golden orb and obtains the temporary item "Teemo's Intelligence Blind Box" (expires in 24 hours)]

[Teemo's Intelligence Blind Box - After opening, you will get three pieces of real-time intelligence at random, and one piece of intelligence will be refreshed every day, covering an area of ​​200 square kilometers]

[I'll go ahead and explore the way]

……

Zhou Wang felt that the item looked familiar, so he went to the system's mysterious store to take a look.

Well, among the many items in the system, the price is relatively expensive. The permanent version requires 8 million reputation points...

After the Night of No Merit, Zhou Wang’s reputation value once exceeded 20 points, but after purchasing [Planck’s Business Plan], it was almost emptied again.

But during this period, due to the subsequent popularity of Wuyou Night and the fact that Zhou Wang started to operate his own personal account, his reputation value increased at an equally terrifying rate.

[Reputation value: 412523 (Rising in fame)]

And basically every day, it is rising at a rate of 10,000 to 20,000 points.

An interesting detail is that after acquiring the Lishui Yunquan Hotel, Zhou Wang's reputation value also increased by 50,000 points at one time. When he opened the Wangzhou Youke Company, he once again gained 20,000 reputation points. It can be seen that the increase in industry can also bring considerable reputation value.

However, at this rate, Zhou Wang would need at least another year to get these awesome high-end props.

The "Golden Orb" is already a very rare reward. Zhou Wang has only seen it three times so far, so he estimates that this [Teemo's Intelligence Blind Box] should still be quite valuable.

After all, the golden orb is only a "temporary version" and will become invalid 24 hours after opening. It means that there is no refresh function and it can only provide Zhou Wang with three initial pieces of information...

However, even so, in the system rating, it can still match the reward strength of the "Golden Orb", so Zhou Wang is quite looking forward to it.

……

"By the way, Brother Gou, are you a fan?"

Ruan Jingwei's questioning voice came from the side, bringing Zhou Wang's mind back to reality.

They were now on the second floor of the restaurant, but apart from their table and a separate table for the sisters Miao Ying, Yun Rou and Yun Lan to eat, there were no other guests on the entire second floor.

Ma Yuan had considered this aspect very carefully. He directly booked the second floor of the restaurant to ensure the most comfortable dining environment.

At this time Ma Yuan went to pick someone up, and only Zhou Wang and Ruan Jingwei were sitting at the table.

After hearing Ruan Jingwei's question, Zhou Wang thought for a moment and answered, "There are some artists that I admire, but it's mostly because of the works that I admire. As for the stars themselves, I don't think I have such a complex..."

"I'm almost the same, but not as clear as you, Brother Gou."

Ruan Jingwei laughed and said, "When I was in school, I still had my favorite celebrities. Later, when I took over the family business, I came into contact with more so-called celebrities. I found that they were just ordinary people, with the same ugly side, and then I became numb..."

"I almost forgot that Yunnan Province likes to invite celebrities to attend local cultural and tourism activities, but the damn 'secrecy work' is always too good. I often watch short videos before I know who is coming."

Zhou Wang slapped his head, suddenly realizing what was going on, and couldn't help but complain.

"Hahaha, actually we can't blame the local authorities. The main reason is that the people in Yunnan Province don't really have a strong interest in chasing stars. We mostly just watch the fun..."

"Speaking of which, Brother Wei, which celebrities have you come into close contact with?"

Zhou Wang asked curiously.

After all, he himself has been a "capital" for too short a time. In time, the so-called "entertainment circle" should no longer be a mystery to him. But at this stage, except for the few he met on Wuyou Night, the group of celebrities is still shrouded in mystery to Zhou Wang.

And objectively speaking, the ones signed by Wuyou Media are indeed out of date and are not on the same level as the popular stars.

"There are so many. Some are from the 8090s and s, such as Hong Kong's King of Pop Liu. His work attitude is really impeccable and he is very kind... There are also new generation people, such as Liu Haocun, but they are generally not easy to get along with..."

Ruan Jingwei told Zhou Wang some gossips he had experienced, and Zhou Wang listened with great interest. At the end, he asked:
"Have you ever met Xia Xiwei before?"

"Not really, but I've watched some of her videos. It's rare to see a female celebrity with such a beautiful face and such a good figure. No wonder she's become so popular in the past two years...Hahaha, Brother Gou, Boss Ma said that she came here just for you. Shouldn't it be easy to win her over?"

Zhou Wang just shook his head and smiled at Ruan Jingwei's joke, although he was also a little confused as to why the other party told Ma Yuan that he came to see him...

Just now Zhou Wang made a special search. Among the popular young actresses recently voted by netizens, Xia Xiwei is one of the new "Four Beauties Born After 95". The other three are Zhang Ziyi, Meng Ruonan and Zhou Ye, who is touted by many as a goddess.

Among them, Xia Xiwei ranked first.

What is quite rare is that from the results of Zhou Wang's search, Xia Xiwei has hardly ever been involved in any scandals or any black material. Considering her popularity, this result surprised Zhou Wang.

After all, he only has more than 900,000 "fans" now, and there are already a lot of so-called "black materials" circulating on the Internet. It's just that because the impact is not great, Zhou Wang is too lazy to pay attention to it.

At this time, laughter and footsteps were heard from the entrance of the stairs. When Zhou Wang looked up, he happened to see Ma Yuan walking up with a tall girl wearing a baseball cap and a mask.

The girl was about 1 meters tall, with a single ponytail sticking out from the back of her hat. Although the mask covered most of her face, the pair of big eyes exposed were very smart and glowed with a black light.

Even if you ignore her celebrity halo, when you see her in a crowd, you will subconsciously think that she must be a great beauty.

She was wearing a lemon yellow knitted suspender. The difficult-to-control color contrasted with her exposed snow-white shoulders, making her look fashionable and energetic. However, the black wide-leg jeans she wore on the lower body concealed her "ordinary" figure.

But Zhou Wang knew that she actually had amazing breasts and a great figure. If he had not seen a short video of her wearing an evening dress, Zhou Wang, who did not pay attention to the entertainment industry, would not have known her name.

The fact that Zhou Wang had a deep memory of Xia Xiwei just by using a video shows that she has something.

Out of politeness, Zhou Wang and Ruan Jingwei stood up together. When Ma Yuan and Xia Xiwei walked over together, Zhou Wang noticed a detail and was startled.

"Come on, Xiao Xia, let me introduce you, this is..."

"Uncle Ma, no need."

When they got closer, Ma Yuan was about to speak, but Xia Xiwei beside him had already taken off her mask with a smile and took the initiative to extend her slender palm in front of Zhou Wang.

"Hello, Zhou Wang...Um, can I just call you by your name?"

Zhou Wang's eyes lit up at the girl's fresh face, and he secretly sighed that it was worthy of being a face tested on the big screen. Upon closer inspection, he could hardly find any flaws.

This can be said to be the most essential difference between many popular beauties, or so-called internet celebrity beauties, and celebrity beauties.

As a star, she faces high-definition cameras with no blind spots and no beauty filters. Unlike ordinary beauties, she can find the shooting angles by herself. Therefore, every female star who can become popular means that she has passed the 360-degree beauty certification...

Although there are always hidden beauties in real life, these unearthed popular young actresses are still a rare handful.

Zhou Wang was stunned for a moment, then he held the other person's smooth hand, nodded and said with a smile: "Of course, hello, Miss Xia."

"You can just call me Xiao Xia. Although I may be a little older than you, people around me who are familiar with me call me that."

Xia Xiwei smiled brightly, and a small dimple appeared at the right corner of her mouth, which made Zhou Wang inadvertently think of Hua Suisui.

That dimple girl is still waiting for him in the mountain city, but he probably doesn't have time to go there recently...

"Okay, but...have we met before?"

After coming back to his senses, Zhou Wang noticed Xia Xiwei's different attitude and asked with a little confusion.

After what Ma Yuan said before, he thought about it again. He was very sure that this was the first time he and Xia Xiwei met, but Xia Xiwei seemed to have a natural sense of closeness to him.

Or maybe it was something else, but anyway, the way Xia Xiwei looked at him definitely held some other meaning.

"No, this is the first time we meet, but I follow your Douyin account, you play the piano very well..."

Xia Xiwei was still holding Zhou Wang's hand while she was talking. She didn't let go of Zhou Wang until Ma Yuan beside her coughed lightly. However, she didn't look embarrassed at all.

Hearing Xia Xiwei's denial, Zhou Wang became more and more puzzled, but he was too lazy to worry about something he couldn't figure out the answer to. At this time, Ma Yuan introduced Ruan Jingwei to Xia Xiwei, and specifically pointed out the future cooperative relationship between the two parties.

What made Ruan Jingwei depressed was that although Xia Xiwei smiled brightly at him, she had no intention of extending her hand.

He wasn't such a loser that he had to shake someone's hand, but compared to Brother Gou, the difference in treatment was too obvious...

Anyway, after the greetings, Zhou Wang finally managed to have lunch... He was starving.

It's not that there was no food in the Coaster. At Chen Mei's suggestion, Yun Rou moved a lot of snacks and pre-prepared meals into the car. But Zhou Wang wanted to have a better meal, so he refrained from eating even though he was hungry on the way.

By the way, because Jiang Qingkui was busy helping Zhou Wang promote the Miao Village project, she stayed in Mingcheng temporarily.

In order to take care of Zhou Wang's daily life, it was Jiang Qingkui's suggestion to let Yun Rou and Yun Lan follow... This surprised Zhou Wang.

However, Jiang Qingkui's attitude at the time was more serious:
"As your family business grows, you will always need a life assistant. Originally, Wenxi and I could both take on this role, but it seems that we are already a little too busy. I think Yunrou and Yunlan are roles that can be trained. If they just act as bath attendants, it would be a waste of manpower... After all, how many times can you take a bath in a month?"

Of course Zhou Wang thought this made sense, so he followed her advice and began to train Yun Rou and Yun Lan in this direction.

Jiang Qingkui also talked to the two girls separately. They certainly had no objections. After all, their current jobs were too leisurely. However, their salaries did not change much, so the two girls were still a little worried.

They are very happy to do more other things.

But when Zhou Wang went to them to inquire about the matter afterwards, he always felt that they seemed to have a natural fear of Jiang Qingkui... although the reason was unclear.

The sea view restaurant has a natural bohemian vibe, and so does this lunch for four people.

Bai-style hot and sour fish, golden marigold pineapple shrimp balls, ham and porcini mushrooms, Thai Tom Yum Goong soup...

Exquisite dishes with exquisite presentation. Zhou Wang was hungry, so he just ate heartily. It was hard to comment on the quality of the dishes. But looking at the sea view outside the window, feeling the unique wind of Baicheng, and the pure and delicious smile of the girl opposite, the taste didn't seem to be that important.

Xia Xiwei made no secret of her interest in Zhou Wang and kept asking him questions that made Zhou Wang laugh and cry... as if he was the celebrity with a mysterious private life.

What is more evident is that when the meal was almost over, Xia Xiwei took the initiative to ask Zhou Wang to take a photo together, and asked Ma Yuan, who was a photographer, to help take the photo.

"Not bad, not bad. I'll edit it and send it to you."

Xia Xiwei took the phone, flipped through it, nodded with satisfaction, and then naturally added Zhou Wang on WeChat.

After adding WeChat, Xia Xiwei took the initiative to say goodbye. She had to catch a plane to Shanghai to attend a brand event, and then fly back tomorrow to attend the crew's opening ceremony.

Xia Xiwei waved to Zhou Wang and left in a hurry. Zhou Wang had the opportunity to find Ma Yuan to find out:
"Boss Ma, I think your attitude towards Xiao Xia seems a little unusual..."

"Hahaha, she is the company's current pillar. Without her, Daxia Film's valuation would at least shrink by half. Of course I have to be polite."

In response to Zhou Wang's test, Ma Yuan just laughed.

Zhou Wang felt that Ma Yuan was not telling the truth, but since Ma Yuan was unwilling to say more, Zhou Wang could not force him.

……

After dinner and a short rest, the group set off for Songlin Banshan Hotel, which is also the residence of the crew of "Chu Tianyao".

Zhou Wang got back into the Coaster and was about to light a cigarette with the lighter handed to him by Yun Rou when his cell phone rang.

He picked it up and was surprised to find that the person who sent him the message was Ding Yi.

In fact, the two of them rarely chat now. If they occasionally contact each other, it is because of trivial matters such as Jiang Mo's life and study in Beidu, which are more like some kind of business exchanges.

Zhou Wang couldn't figure out what she was thinking, so he was more cautious in his attitude towards Ding Yi, trying not to leave himself any room for criticism.

When Zhou Wang picked up the phone and looked at it, his face became stunned.

Ding Yiyi: [Zhou Wang, have you seen Xia Xiwei? ]

Ding Yi's: [Don't be so ridiculous.jpg]

Zhou Wang: [Do you know her? ]

Ding Yi's one: [Screenshot]

Zhou Wang clicked on the picture sent by Ding Yi. It turned out to be a screenshot of a circle of friends. It was exactly what Xia Xiwei had just posted. There were two photos, one of the food in the restaurant, and the other was a photo of her and Zhou Wang in the corridor of the restaurant. The text was:
"Life is short, why not eat one more bowl (*▽*)"

Zhou Wang was quite surprised. For a girl, posting a boy's photo on WeChat Moments was a major event. You know, many boyfriends don't have this treatment...

Especially since Xia Xiwei didn't take pictures of other people, it felt like she and Zhou Wang were having dinner alone.

This is somewhat ambiguous.

I just don’t know how widely visible her circle of friends is.

Or maybe, celebrities have different ways of thinking?

But this was obviously not the focus of Zhou Wang’s investigation at this time, he just typed a “???”.

Ding Yi obviously knew that he was not asking about the circle of friends.

Ding Yiyi: [We grew up in the same yard, what do you think]

After seeing Ding Yi's reply, Zhou Wang was stunned, and finally figured out a lot of things.

No wonder Ma Yuan's attitude towards Xia Xiwei was not like that of a boss and an employee. On the contrary, when the two of them first appeared, Ma Yuan was even slightly behind Xia Xiwei. This was the detail he noticed at the time.

"So Xia Xiwei's family is..."

In response to Zhou Wang's cryptic question, Ding Yi took a long while to reply:
"Then guess why Daxia Film and Television is called Daxia Film and Television?"

……

The residence of the crew of "Chu Tianyao".

Chen He, a man of iron will, is very anxious at this moment.

It was already lunch time. In the small restaurant that only a few people could enter, Chen He felt that he was enjoying the treatment that only directors had enjoyed in the past.

He was sitting alone at a table for four.

Everyone stayed away from him, and even spoke very carefully, as if they were afraid of disturbing him.

Two hours had passed since Shen Yutong made that call, but the crew... was calm.

It can't be said that everything was calm. Chen He still heard some rumors, such as that the director's and production staff were already drafting a notice and were planning to post a "regrettable" Weibo to officially remove him from the crew.

Chen He, who was a little panicked, quickly asked Shen Yutong again. When he learned that Zhou Wang's reply was "I know", he wanted to call Zhou Wang and ask:
What does "got it" mean?
Boss, please give me some definite advice!
But he didn't dare.

Although he had never experienced a similar experience, in Chen He's own mind, he could not take the initiative to contact Zhou Wang and could only wait for Zhou Wang to contact him.

Because that's how the big guys in the movies behave.

However, while Chen He was anxiously waiting, the news he wanted did not come yet, which made Chen He feel bored.

Could it be that because Shen Yutong was fine, Zhou Wang simply abandoned him?
Chen He couldn't help but let his mind run wild.

At this moment, footsteps were heard beside him. Chen He looked up and saw the second female lead of the crew, Yang Hongni, walking over. She pulled out a chair and sat down opposite him, sighing and seeming to want to say something but stopping herself.

"Sister Hongni, what's the matter?"

Chen He's heart skipped a beat, and he asked nonchalantly.

"Chen He, even though we've only known each other for a short time, I think you're a hard-working young man. Listen to my advice and go find Director Xu to admit your mistakes. It's not shameful to bow your head occasionally..."

Yang Hongni hesitated for a moment, but still said earnestly: "You are still young, and you will know in the future that right or wrong is not important for some things, and the result is more important."

"Thank you, sis. But for me, right and wrong are important, but the result is not that important."

Chen He smiled calmly.

"you……"

Seeing that Chen He was unmoved, Yang Hongni couldn't help but feel a little annoyed. "Okay, then you continue to insist on your right or wrong. I received news that President Ma and the investor's representatives are on their way. When Director Xu sees President Ma, no one can save you!"

Mr. Ma is here?
When Chen He heard this, he suddenly became panicked.

What he heard the most recently in the crew was how close the relationship between Director Xu and Boss Ma was. It seemed that a long time ago, when Boss Ma hadn't made his fortune, he had helped Director Xu...

But now that things have come to this, Chen He knows that he has no way out. He can only bite the bullet and believe that Zhou Wang will not sit idly by and watch him die.

Therefore, Chen He just continued to smile calmly:
"I still say that justice is in the hearts of the people. Even if it's Mr. Ma, he can't be unreasonable, right?"

"Why... Never mind. You can do whatever you want."

Yang Hongni was full of absurdity, but seeing that Chen He was unmoved, she gave up trying to persuade him. She shook her head and was about to leave when her cell phone rang.

The call was from Yang Hongni's assistant. When she picked up the phone, she heard the assistant's smiling voice:

"Sister, I saw Mr. Ma and the investor's representative in the parking lot. Director Xu went to greet them personally... Wow, this investor's representative is so handsome!"

"Has Mr. Ma arrived?"

Yang Hongni stood up subconsciously, and she automatically ignored the assistant's last infatuated words.

handsome?
How handsome can he be?

Are you more handsome than these young hunks in the crew?

"Yes, Director Xu and President Ma are hugging each other... Uh, President Ma rejected Director Xu's hug... Wait, sister, what's going on? President Ma looks very serious!"

"What's going on? With such a farce happening on the set, isn't it normal for President Ma to be in a bad mood?"

Yang Hongni answered nonchalantly, and sneered at Chen He who was eavesdropping at the side.

When Chen He heard this, his anus tightened. Finally unable to hold it back any longer, he was about to give a wry smile, but Yang Hongni had already retracted her gaze.

At this moment, there was a brief silence on the other end of the phone, followed by a friction sound, and then a faint scolding.

Just as Yang Hongni was about to ask with a frown, the assistant's hurried whisper finally rang out:
"Oh my god, I heard something... Sister, shocking news, Director Xu was fired by President Ma!"

"???"

(End of this chapter)