A grand feast for the Chinese entertainment industry

Chapter 119 Come True
"cheers!"

The three wine glasses clinked together, producing a pleasant, soft sound.

The date is Sunday, November 17th.

Chen Shuhua's mother is quite superstitious, so she had someone calculate it and said that today is an auspicious day, suitable for weddings, moving, marriage compatibility and engagement, buying clothes, making vows, setting up a bed, etc.

She agreed to let Chen Shuhua officially move out today.

Obviously, there was no wedding, and it even felt more like Su Huilun was just a casual fling, like a lover. Naturally, she didn't receive any blessings from her parents or elders, but her mother eventually relented.

Su Huilun didn't seem to care. She had moved out of her family home almost two years ago and had been living alone ever since. Lin Jianlu didn't know if she had reported it to her family, but she hadn't mentioned it herself, so she didn't ask.

She used to have a nanny at home, whom we call "Auntie Qinwu" here. After asking around, she said she was very willing to come to the big house and work as a live-in nanny, and her salary increased significantly.

Su Huilun originally wanted to hire a housekeeper through a labor agency, but just half a month ago, shortly after buying the house, Lin Jianlu had talked to Xue Zhongding about buying the house in the capital. It was just a casual chat, and he didn't hide anything from him. But Xue took it very seriously and quickly recommended a friend of his, a classmate from junior high school, who used to be a lobby manager at a star-rated hotel and was very willing to come and be his private housekeeper.

In Taiwan and Hong Kong, being a private butler for the wealthy is a very high-end profession.

He was in Taipei, so they arranged a time for him to come over. Su Huilun and Chen Shuhua met with him and found him to be a good person, both disciplined and shrewd. They then agreed on a salary and hired him.

He then took charge of recruitment, hiring a gardener and two assistants.

That's all there is to it; this kind of mansion barely manages to hold its own.

And so a small family of three can be considered to have finally settled down.

The plane landed after 2 p.m., and we arrived at our shared little home around 3 or 4 p.m. But the housekeeper was in charge, and everything was being prepared in an orderly manner. The two ladies of the house didn't have to do anything. Dinner was prepared in a lavish yet restrained manner. I simply took a walk around my new home, listened to the two ladies explain what was planned for this room and how that room was being prepared, and when I came back, the villa was brightly lit everywhere, and even the yard was lit up.

Everything was thriving and radiant.

According to some custom, the male head of the household accompanied the two female heads of the household to worship the Kitchen God and offer incense. This was considered the completion of the move-in ceremony. Lin Jianlu thought it was tedious and meaningless, but the two girls valued these things and were meticulous about them, so she just went along with their fuss and enjoyed themselves.

At that moment, he clinked glasses, tilted his head back, and drank it all in one gulp, thus settling down in his new home.

They were all from ordinary families and not used to having someone serve them meals. After the drink, Su Huilun asked the housekeeper to take everyone to eat. So, in the large dining room, only the three of them ate, drank, chatted, and laughed together. The only thing that spoiled the mood was that Lin Jianlu kept getting phone calls.

He has quite a few girlfriends.

And because he is always on the go, he can't stay with one person all the time. But his girlfriends are not stay-at-home and have nothing new happening every day. They are all busy, so he gets a lot of phone calls almost every day.

People were asking questions, seeking advice, acting coquettishly, or flirting... all sorts of people were there.

In fact, Su Huilun and Chen Shuhua were both familiar with this situation, having shared a bed with Lin Jianlu many times before. But today was different; Lin Jianlu didn't answer a single call, and after hanging up three times in a row, he simply turned off his phone.

This made the two girls very happy.

However, in reality, when the three of them get together, they don't talk much about love and romance. Perhaps it's because having a third person present makes it a little awkward. But when the two of them are having sex in private, they both love to talk. Chen Shuhua is gentle and affectionate, while Su Huilun is quite talkative.

The conversation mostly revolved around things within the record industry.

show.

For this Rolling Stones Superstars Tour, Lin Chien-lu originally received $50,000 per show, which is roughly equivalent to 1.5 to 1.6 million New Taiwan Dollars. Of course, that was the highest price.

Later, because they wanted to add backup dancers, they charged an extra $10,000 per show.

He was the only one who was priced in US dollars.

Chen Shuhua only received NT$50 per performance.

Su Huilun's album "Lemon-tree" was quite popular in the first half of this year. When she participated in the concert again, Lao Duan felt embarrassed to offer her a "small" price of 15 or 20 NTD, so he offered her 40 NTD.

When the conversation turned to performances, it inadvertently drifted to the topic of management contracts.

Sylvia Chang approached both of them, especially Chen Shuhua, whose management contract expires next year. Moreover, she has been an artist for many years, and the commission from her management contract is very small. In fact, before this, her mother had acted as her manager for many years. It was only when her mother started to get sick frequently and could no longer keep up with the intensity of her singing career that she signed with a management company—Starry Entertainment Management Company, which has a certain status in the Chinese music scene.

Once her management contract expired, Sylvia Chang wanted to sign her again, offering only 6%, the same as her current agency—but she promised to organize a concert tour for her if her new album sold over a million copies worldwide. Lin Jianlu didn't care; he knew Sylvia Chang was after him.

In the short term, she is naturally optimistic about the new album she helped Chen Shuhua produce. In the long term, please, following a talented man like Lin Jianlu, even as a lover, wouldn't she have a future?

“I’m considering it and want to agree to her request. But I don’t want to hold a concert next year. If you have no objections, I want to wait until this album is released, and then take a year to a year and a half off. I want to have a child.”

"Okay. Sure!"

“Look how big this house is! And the yard is huge too! The house I live in with my parents is actually a villa, but while the house itself is big enough, the yard is quite small. I really love seeing such a big yard, especially living with Huilun. I probably won't be scared anymore, and if you're home, I'll be even less scared. So I'm thinking, with such a big and beautiful yard, I really want to have a child, boy or girl, I'll love them all, I just want to watch them run around in this yard…”

"okay."

"Raise your hand, I want to have one too! ...Sister Shuhua, what you said is so true, you've spoken my mind. I've always disliked children, just thinking about how noisy they are, the kind that drives people crazy. But ever since we decided to move, especially since Alu actually bought such a big house, I don't know why, but I suddenly feel like I should have a child to play with!"

Well, that was just a side story.

Lin Jianlu wasn't sure how much money he would ultimately earn in his lifetime. He only knew that recently, his desires, mainly for money and women, were growing stronger and stronger. Or perhaps more accurately, as he achieved success step by step and accumulated more and more wealth, the impulse to conquer the world and women, a man's nature, began to constantly tempt him.

He gradually lost control of himself.

What he was certain of was that even if everything except his singing career ultimately failed—investing in movies and TV series, releasing an English album, getting loans in Thai baht and Japanese yen, and going to buy Yahoo in the US stock market, etc.—he wouldn't care if they all failed.

Because he's only in the Chinese music scene for about five to eight more years, and as long as he stays popular and doesn't lose his prestige, the various brand endorsements he can get will be enough to support many wives and children.

He wouldn't tell anyone, but he'd already figured it out in his mind.

Even if all investments and efforts in all other directions fail completely, leaving nothing behind, he can still clear out the combined loans of over 40 million US dollars from HSBC and Sumitomo Bank within one or two years.

A mainland Chinese person who has gained top-tier popularity in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia, coinciding with the massive rise of the mainland's commodity market—his commercial value is simply unmatched!
The underlying logic behind why so many major European and American brands, as well as emerging brands from mainland China, are so eager to have me as their spokesperson is this!
In this day and age, and even in the years to come, the only person who can stand firm in mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong and gain top-tier popularity is probably myself—I won't even have a real competitor!
If you want to have a child, then go ahead and have one. It's not like you can't afford to raise one.

Maybe having a baby will activate the "many children, many blessings" system again!
At worst, when I die, I'll just stage a farce of my sons fighting over the inheritance—I'm dead, why should I care about this? Let them beat me to a pulp!
As long as I live a long and happy life with loving parents, filial children, and a warm home, that's enough for me!

"Go ahead and have them! As long as you're willing, I can afford to raise as many as you want!"

…………

"Mmm...husband..."

In the early morning, as dawn broke, Su Huilun felt the movement beside her, stretched, and groaned. Not only did she come closer, but she also put her leg up on top of her.

Chen Shuhua on the other side also seemed to have woken up, but she did not make a sound. She turned over and her smooth thigh found a clever angle and slipped between Lin Jianlu's legs.

Yes, its four legs were intertwined, twisted into a strange pretzel shape.

Lin Jianlu sighed helplessly, "I need to get up and exercise!"

But they were squeezing in from both sides, so I had to raise my arms and put one on each side.

Su Huilun whimpered, "No, I want to hold you while I sleep."

Chen Shuhua didn't say anything, but she wrapped her legs tightly around him and held him tightly with her arms.

Ugh……

"If this continues, I'll be ruined!"

"in spite of!"

"Starting today, I will abstain from pornography!"

"Pfft... You can't quit!"

(End of this chapter)