The sweetest in the entertainment industry

Chapter 4 The Gentle Lion

Perhaps the stimulation I experienced before going to sleep was too great, because my dreams tonight were not peaceful.

This applies to both Gu Yinghou on the 18th floor and Lu Dingliu on the 19th floor.

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The rebellious boy sat on a high stool in front of the bar, casually strumming the guitar in his hand.

However, despite the beautiful melody, he was not satisfied.

I always feel like something is missing.

The spotlights overhead cast a white, translucent light, leaving a deep shadow on one side of his high, straight nose.

The boy sat with his back to the light, one leg on the ground and the other bent, stepping on the metal circle on the high stool.

Cargo pants, Doc Martens, a tight-fitting short-sleeved black T-shirt paired with a camouflage jacket, and a freshly cut buzz cut—cool and wild.

Lu Nanting lowered his head slightly, his heavy gaze occasionally sweeping towards the entrance, clearly indicating that he was in a bad mood.

As the youngest son of the Lu family, he was pampered and cherished by his family since childhood.

The Lu family was a harmonious couple, and they had three sons. Unlike other families in their social circle, their home was always chaotic, with infidelity and illegitimate children.

As the youngest son, he had two outstanding older brothers from the same parents, even though his second brother was eight years older than him. Therefore, he did not have the pressure of shouldering the responsibility of running a business empire and keeping the livelihoods of tens of thousands of people.

From childhood to adulthood, his family's only requirement for him was to live a healthy and happy life.

As long as he doesn't get addicted to entrepreneurship, stays away from gambling, drugs, and prostitution, and tries his best to abide by the law, he will always be the apple of his family's eye.

Furthermore, whatever he likes is fine with him, whatever he wants to do, his family will support him.

But some things are difficult to resolve even with money and power.

For example, he was a poor student.

It was fine before, he was good-looking and his family was rich, so he was sought after wherever he went and didn't think that being bad at studying was a big mistake.

After all, he doesn't need to get into a good university, nor does he need to rely on his degree to find a good job after graduation.

Until he was seventeen, when he faced the hurdle of the college entrance examination.

I passed the art exam, but my academic scores were far below average.

What's even more frightening is that there are only six months left until the college entrance examination.

The Lu family has strict family rules, and when it comes to their children's studies, they never allow any crooked or unethical practices.

If he doesn't hurry up and improve his grades, he'll probably miss out on his dream music academy because of this.

This was the first time he had experienced the frustration of wanting something but not getting it.

Since he decided to take the entrance exam for this university, his family has hired more than a dozen tutors for him.

Unfortunately, the young master was used to doing whatever he wanted and genuinely disliked those things, so he couldn't learn them at all. In addition, given his family's financial situation, even the best tutor couldn't force him to study.

After several months of effort, the results were not entirely without improvement, but rather minimal.

My mom just called and said that the sixteenth tutor she found for him has arrived, and she wants him to go home and try it out to see if it works.

He was somewhat self-destructive and wanted to give up entirely, so he applied to some low-quality foreign university with lenient admission requirements.

He didn't particularly crave going to university. The main problem was that without a university degree, he felt like he would lose if he even showed up at a casual banquet in his social circle.

The proud young master couldn't tolerate this.

Since one path is blocked, we have no choice but to settle for another.

Although he was far from home and would miss his family, he felt he could overcome it.

Even if the school isn't good, there are plenty of kids in our circle who go to foreign diploma mills to get a prestigious degree, so no one should laugh at anyone else.

So he refused to meet and went directly to a bar owned by a friend, intending to have some fun and vent his frustrations.

Life is full of disappointments, and even someone born with a silver spoon in their mouth will understand early on that "money isn't everything."

Then he received a call from his mother, saying that his tutor wanted to have a face-to-face meeting with him to see if there was any hope for him. She had agreed and hoped that he, as her son, would cooperate fully.

Lu Nanting had no choice but to agree.

Then, he saw Gu Lanxi.

A girl with fair skin, her long, straight, glossy black hair reaching her waist, wearing a black turtleneck sweater and a white sleeveless wool skirt, carrying a canvas bag, walked towards him with steady and powerful steps along the dark passage.

Her calves were faintly visible beneath the hem of her skirt; they were fair, smooth, and firm.

She looks like a fairy, possessing an inviolable ethereal aura.

Her bare face made her look very gentle, but her movements revealed a decisiveness, clearly showing that her personality was not consistent with her appearance.

The new tutor is a beautiful girl who exudes a sense of tranquility at first glance.

Lu Nanting seemed to have lost all perception of the world.

He forgot about the guitar in his hands and ignored his friends' teasing glances, only clearly hearing his own heartbeat, each beat stronger than the last—

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

……

It's often the case that young people are like this; the budding of love often begins with physical attraction.

The seventeen-year-old boy understood for the first time what love at first sight meant.

He sat there blankly until Gu Lanxi stopped in front of him, checked the photo on her phone to confirm his identity, and said those cold and ruthless words in her soft, sweet voice—"It's you, who didn't even get 100 on the combined science exam?"

Perhaps she was naturally quiet, but she was a very expressive person. She looked at him as if he were some strange creature, her face full of incomprehension.

The tone was just like some mischievous male classmates teasing girls—"If you weigh less than 100 pounds, you're either flat-chested or short, hehehe."

Feeling a faint, mocking humiliation, he should have been angry, should have stood up with raised eyebrows and yelled at her, but he just sat steadily on the bar stool, gripping the guitar tightly in his hand, and then slowly lowered his gaze from her face to her feet.

She was wearing a pair of faded white sneakers, and when he stared intently at her, she unconsciously shrank back.

He must have been really short of money to have managed to get a meeting with him after he had clearly refused. After all, his mother would pay him 30,000 yuan a month for tutoring, and the tutor would even receive a 500,000 yuan bonus if he got his way.

Lu Nanting was born into wealth, but he was not someone who was detached from worldly affairs.

He knew that the national per capita disposable income in urban areas last year was only over 40,000 yuan.

He also knew that there were countless people in the country who struggled to make ends meet...

This job must be a great opportunity for her.

He wanted to use this job to get closer to the girl whose baby fat hadn't completely disappeared, but because of what she said, his young pride got the better of him, and he remained silent for a long time.

This is a very contradictory situation.

He unconsciously plucked the strings, frankly describing his inner feelings.

Compared to his clumsiness in academics, he possessed extraordinary talent in music.

Like peacocks courting their mates, they can't help but spread their tails at crucial moments.

Unfortunately, it backfired.

Inspiration is fleeting.

He was so engrossed in the world of music that he forgot about the new tutor and simply sat there, playing the melody in his heart without even noticing when the tutor left.

That night, he put down his pen and wrote five wild words at the top of the sheet music: "Gentle Lion".

When I came to my senses, I remembered to contact her, apologize for my rudeness, and express my willingness to accept her tutoring.

He had looked at her resume.

A fourteen-year-old college student with a photographic memory and an exceptional sensitivity to numbers—a true prodigy.

That statement was probably just out of curiosity, not an insult.

Just like a giant who comes to Lilliput and can't help but exclaim, "How can there be such tiny people in the world?"

There has probably never been anyone around her who could score less than 100 on the combined science exam.

She thought the matter was over, but unexpectedly, things took a turn for the better. The Lu family not only signed a labor contract with her according to the promised treatment, but also offered to issue her an internship certificate as a senior in college.

Gu Lanxi gladly accepted the job, and during that winter vacation, she would appear at the Lu family's door on time almost every day.

She is very good at organizing knowledge; it's as if every course is three-dimensional in her mind.

The knowledge points are systematic, and there is overlap between different disciplines.

She speaks gently, is emotionally stable, and is extremely patient. In just one week, she won the favor of everyone in the Lu family.

This includes the young master of the Lu family, who is extremely resistant to studying.

In order to see Gu Lanxi every day, he developed an unparalleled passion for studying that winter vacation.

The knowledge points that used to give him a huge headache were all successfully stuffed into his brain with Gu Lanxi's help.

His grades improved rapidly, and his mother cried tears of joy several times. His two sisters-in-law also kept their nephews and nieces from bothering him.

It's difficult for a slacker to maintain enthusiasm for learning in the long run, but Lu Nanting managed to stick with it.

All because he confessed his feelings to Gu Lanxi, and Gu Lanxi did not reject him.

Just like those couples who can't get along anymore, but pretend to be loving for the sake of their child's college entrance exam.

Faced with the young master's confession, Gu Lanxi did not directly refuse because of the reward. Instead, she told him not to talk about these things now and to wait until he finished his college entrance examination.

The tutoring went smoothly, and six months later, Lu Nanting successfully got into his desired university. Gu Lanxi also successfully obtained 880,000 yuan from Lu's mother.

Yes, because Mrs. Lu was so satisfied with her, she waved her hand and the 500,000 became 880,000.

With this money, plus her savings from over the years and her previous salary, Gu Lanxi invested it all in a classmate who was good at making empty promises and had high emotional intelligence.

My classmate opened a coffee shop. Because he was good at storytelling, he raised funds continuously in just a few years and eventually went public. He then ran rampant in the stock market, reaping profits from one group of investors after another.

Gu Lanxi made hundreds of millions of RMB with her first successful step.

In the following years, they took countless successful steps and smoothly amassed a considerable fortune.

From a poor, genius girl to the award-winning actress Gu Lanxi who can wake up peacefully in a mansion.

It was all because she met Lu Nanting when she was seventeen.

"I congratulate you on getting rich

I congratulate you on your wonderful
The best please come

bad please go away
......"

At six o'clock in the morning, Gu Lanxi sat up.

Turn off the alarm.

I sat on the edge of the bed and paused for a moment.

I get up, wash up, and put on makeup.

The nanny had already prepared breakfast. When she saw her come out, she greeted her with a smile, "Miss Gu."

Gu Lanxi nodded and sat down at the dining table.

Turning my head slightly, I saw the red sun high in the east.

The female protagonist lives on the 18th floor. Her home is decorated with money trees and lucky bamboo. In the tea room, she keeps two tea pets: a Pixiu with shiny black claws and a golden toad holding a copper coin in its mouth. Her alarm clock displays the message "Wishing you prosperity," and the Spring Festival couplets are full of good wishes for a thriving career.

The male protagonist lives on the 19th floor, sings the song "Gu Lanxi" in his mouth, and dreams of Gu Lanxi.

One needs to be launched quickly, the other needs to last.

You probably understand what kind of persona they have, right?
This is the foundation of sweetness.

I'm as thoughtful as ever.

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