Fate Trading System – Chapter 171

Plan A

Spirit Alliance 12

Phone Call

《The Charmer》 was an extremely popular variety show, as evident from the degree of Su Xin’s Weibo being overwhelmed.

That morning when Su Xin woke up and went on Weibo, upon opening her phone and entering the app, she discovered she had gained several thousand followers.

Overnight.

Chu Qiu was sleeping beside her and was awakened by her movement.

“Why are you up so early, playing with your phone before even washing up?”

Chu Qiu leaned over, looking at Su Xin’s phone screen.

Are you my parent? Being so controlling.

Su Xin had even briefly trended.

#WhoIsSuXin#

The fans flooding her Weibo included appearance fans, spectators, those who liked her personality setting, and troublemakers.

Last night, Zhang Lin also posted a Weibo, tagging Su Xin.

@ZhangLinV: Going on the show with my disciple @SuXin 【Picture】

This Weibo post was reposted many times, creating buzz for Su Xin.

@CircleGossip: #WhoIsSuXin#

Just last night, a new face appeared on Star TV’s hit variety show 《The Charmer》. This face is truly brand new – we haven’t seen it on any public platform before, indicating she’s just a complete newcomer. We can’t find any information about her; she seems to have parachuted [空降 | kōng jiàng | sudden appearance] into the entertainment circle and appeared on a hit show. To say she has no backing is impossible. From her Weibo followers, we can see her backing is very strong – she’s an artist under Ling Tian, whom many of you might not know, but in the industry, he’s a very famous gold-medal manager, a big-shot level figure.

Her other followers include the CEO of Tianyu Entertainment, the CEO’s special assistant, veteran actor Zhang Lin, and the CEO of a certain famous cosmetics brand company.

From this, we can see this newcomer might be Tianyu’s next heavily promoted artist. You’ll likely see her active on screen soon – remember this name, Su Xin.

Let’s look at her variety show performance. Let Brother Circle say something off-topic – her face is really cute, especially during the barbecue segment, where happiness seemed to bubble around her. Back to our topic – how was her variety show performance? During the hour-plus show, she displayed great energy, probably because she’s young. Her performance was noteworthy without being awkward. The episode’s spotlight wasn’t on her but on another young idol. She was quite clever, not speaking when she shouldn’t, creating a big twist at the end which tested her acting skills, since nobody present was foolish. She made one particularly good move, taking a small step back behind Zhang Lin.

In short, this actress… well, “actress” isn’t quite appropriate since she doesn’t have any works to show yet. Through reliable channels-

Brother Circle knows she’ll be appearing in several upcoming TV drama productions, and everyone will see her soon.

Brother Circle is cautiously optimistic about this newcomer, but we’ll have to wait and see about her future.

Circle Gossip counts as a famous big V [大v | dà V | influential social media account], whose gossip and entertainment news are usually accurate, with many followers who tend to believe what he says.

Sometimes falling for someone is very simple – perhaps just because of an idol’s smile, their singing voice, a single phrase, or one gesture.

Su Xin glanced a few times then disinterestedly turned off her phone. After all, she never planned to become extremely successful, she would go as far as she could go. She would try her best but wouldn’t scheme excessively, outside comments didn’t have much impact on her.

Chu Qiu, while staring at her screen, also saw many malicious comments.

@Clueless: Tsk-tsk-tsk, with such big backing, could it be she’s latched onto a powerful thigh, like being favored by the CEO or something?

@HuoQuBingBingBing: Are you sick?? Tianyu’s CEO is female, thank you very much, a 1.8-meter tall queen. It just shows our Xinxin has talent, so what if she’s pretty, so what if she has backing, always being so sour.

@1199: Why are you so worked up? The original poster was just guessing. You defending her so much is suspicious. Are you a water army [水軍 | shuǐ jūn | paid commenter]? Why else would someone defend a newcomer?

@HuoQuBingBingBing: @1199: Big brother actually thinks others’ disgusting guesses are right? I wouldn’t say anything if they just mentioned backing, but they had to guess about being kept, how filthy. I just think our Xinxin is cute so I became a fan, what’s wrong with defending her? If they’re hiring water army, why just me alone?

“Our relationship isn’t some improper keeping arrangement. There will definitely be more comments like this in the future. Don’t take them too much to heart, and don’t personally engage in fights with those people online, understand?”

Chu Qiu spoke righteously while withdrawing her hand from inside Su Xin’s clothes, acting very proper indeed.

“I know, I won’t do those things.”

Super obedient.

“You’re going to the film crew to shoot in half a month, right?”

“Mm, and after that I’ll take other roles too. I expect to be moving between film crews constantly. Brother Ling said to let me take two dramas first, then do some variety shows, and I can also show my face in web dramas.”

What needs to be done now isn’t directly taking female lead roles and heavyweight parts. First, become familiar to the audience, then take those well-produced quality works. If she’s not a high-traffic star, even with Ling Tian’s resources, those better productions wouldn’t be enough – she still needs more practice.

“Then won’t we be unable to see each other for a long time? How will I sleep?”

“That’s a good question. I believe you, the brilliant and mighty boss, can certainly solve it yourself.”

In short, how you sleep is none of my business.

Chu Qiu looked a bit troubled, after all, her current position doesn’t allow her to run around carelessly. Her company has many things waiting for her to handle every day, occasionally there are emergencies, daily meetings, busy discussing this and that, plus business negotiations with others.

Chu Qiu’s business isn’t just the entertainment company, it involves some other industries too. In short, she’s a workaholic busy person. Because in earlier years, Chu Qiu couldn’t sleep well every night, so she thought, rather than being unable to sleep, might as well use that time to work. It was this day-and-night exhaustion that led to her current achievements.

“This is indeed a problem, because once you’re in the acting industry, there will be plenty of days flying around, running east and west across places. Then we’ll surely meet rarely and part often, what can be done about this…”

Chu Qiu was very troubled, in her private heart she really didn’t want her large human-shaped pillow to leave her, after all, once the person leaves, she would have to return to that previous tormented life.

“Boss, think slowly, tell me when you come up with a solution. I’m going to wash up first.”

Su Xin nimbly took off her pajamas, changed into today’s clothes, then walked into the bathroom to wash up.

This looked like an unsolvable problem, Chu Qiu could only endure it like before. Nothing could be done – who made her become her new money tree? She couldn’t keep her locked up here, not letting her go out. The situation was already set up, calling cut midway [喊卡 | hǎn kǎ | stop filming] was not allowed behavior.

Until afternoon, Chu Qiu still hadn’t thought of a perfect solution.

Su Xin was about to fly to another place to film, saying goodbye to that perverted boss who had to put her hand inside her clothes every night while sleeping.

The boss hadn’t figured out a solution before Su Xin’s departure. This was really too difficult – she couldn’t leave here, and that person definitely wouldn’t stay here for her. This was inevitable, everyone was adults, there was no room for irrationality.

Chu Qiu melancholically watched the person leave, deciding to give herself double workload tonight.

“Rabbit, I’m staying at the company tonight, remember to bring me breakfast tomorrow morning.”

“Boss, you’re starting to self-torture again?”

Rabbit was completely confused, wasn’t she sleeping well at home a few days ago? No, wasn’t she sleeping well at little hamster’s home? Why is she acting like life-and-death now that little helper mouse is gone?

Could it be…

Rabbit got a shiver from her own mental fabrication, it seemed impossible no matter how she thought about it.

“Yes, boss.”

Su Xin flew to the film crew, with Bai Qianqian accompanying her.

Chu Qiu naturally gave her trading partner the best treatment – after all, they had shared a bed and pillow. So they flew first class, with Bai Qianqian enjoying the benefits beside her.

Su Xin sighed that where else could one find such a good person as this boss. In the end, Chu Qiu was actually at a loss in this deal, because meeting rarely and parting often meant she wouldn’t have much time to fulfill her part of the transaction.

“I really can’t believe it, feels like a dream.”

Moving out from the rental house to a very comfortable place, not having to worry about water and electricity bills, she just needed to act well.

Bai Qianqian finally understood why so many artists were breaking their heads trying to join this company and why current artists were unwilling to leave – the benefits were too good, and the human relationships were too hard to cut off.

“This is just the first step, we’ll keep getting better.”

“You seem very confident in me.”

“Of course, I hope you won’t disappoint my expectations.”

“Pfft… you talk like an elder…”

“Let’s work hard together.”

“Mm-mm!”

After arriving at the film crew, the assistant first helped move their luggage to the hotel. When the plane landed it was already evening. Ling Tian took them to have dinner with the director and assistant director, the atmosphere appeared quite harmonious.

They returned very late after dinner. When Su Xin came out after showering, she saw a video call request on her phone.

What did Chu Qiu want to do?

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