Chapter 18: Strange Luck

Fatty Gao asked Qi Yan because he thought that this young man was capable but did not have much reputation in the Capital City. Such a person would definitely be eager to enter the market and would be willing to sign the non-disclosure agreement.

He didn’t expect him to act like a big-shot even though he didn’t have a reputation. He did not even save him any face. No wonder he was not famous.

Fatty Gao’s face turned red from anger. When he walked down the stairs, he twisted his leg. He glared at the stairs. What a dilapidated place, not only was the elevator broken, even the corridor was so narrow.

“Master my ass, he is so poor to be living in this place!”

 He scolded bitterly, and turned his head to see two aunts who were carrying vegetables squinting at him. Before he could speak, the two aunts snorted, opened the elevator door and walked in.

“Crazy man.”

The words were uttered just as the elevator door closed.

 Gao Fatty was speechless. After getting in the car, he remembered to call Lu Xuan and exaggerated the incident to her. Lu Xuan didn’t say anything, but asked him to come back first.

After hanging up, Fatty Gao cursed softly as he was not satisfied with Lu Xuan’s attitude.

As Lu Xuan’s manager, he knew better than anyone that Lu Xuan was not rich and beautiful. It was all just a show. Now that the Sun family knew the real situation of the Lu family, they were unwilling to let the two get married, so many things had happened.

The Sun family might not be regarded as a very wealthy family, but for many artists who were desperate for resources and endorsements, the Sun family could serve that purpose. After the Sun family knew the truth, they were unwilling to let Lu Xuan into the family. Sun Xiang had already guessed it.

In order to be able to marry into the Sun family, Lu Xuan had tried everything including prayers and using public opinion to pressure the Sun family. But the Sun family was unmoved. Sun Xiang’s mother’s attitude towards Lu Xuan was also very cold. Even if she married Sun Xiang, her life would be hard.

 He already had two potential newcomers in his hands. If he didn’t want Lu Xuan to help increase their popularity, he wouldn’t deal with her problems. Now that the competition in the industry was so fierce, there was not much work, and no beauty to trump other actresses. There wasn’t even any hot topic about them, how would their popularity rise?

Having been in the entertainment industry for so long, Lu Xuan was not improving but deteriorating. She couldn’t get a good script, and there was not one quality endorsement. A strong start ended up like this. What a nuisance.

Seeing that Fatty Gao hung up hurriedly, Lu Xuan stared at the phone screen for a long time. Finally, she gritted her teeth and called some friends in the industry.

“Boss, you look a lot better today,” Liang Feng talked about other things after reporting about work, “Do you want tea?”

“No need. Thanks.” Cen Baihe put down the pen in his hand and clasped his hands together on the desk, “Do you know Master Qi?”

Liang Feng smiled awkwardly when he heard this, “Yes, I met Master Qi not long ago.” At that time, he wanted to ask Master Qi to tell the boss’ fortune. He didn’t expect that the boss would meet Master Qi the next day, so he didn’t mention it anymore.

 Cen Baihe nodded. No wonder Liang Feng looked at Qi Yan strangely when he went to the ancestral house a few days ago.

 Cen Baihe spread out his palm. At the end of the short lifeline, there seemed to be an inconspicuous branch that continued on.

“Are you familiar with Master Qi?”

 “What?” Liang Feng was stunned for a moment. When he heard the boss asking calmly about an irrelevant person, he couldn’t respond quickly, “No, we just met a few days ago.” 

“Hmm.” Cen Baihe nodded, saying nothing more.

Liang Feng thought that he heard a little disappointment in his tone. He took out Master Qi’s business card, “I have Master Qi’s contact information here. Boss, if you need something, you can call this number.”

Taking the business card, Cen Baihe looked at the design of the business card with a white background and black lettering in his hand, and put it in the card holder on the table, “I see.”

 Liang Feng couldn’t understand what the boss was thinking, so he simply said, “Master Qi… is very powerful. Boss, if you have time, you could meet him in private.”

Cen Baihe opened a file and nodded at Liang Feng, “I’ll consider it.”

After Liang Feng left the office, he thought that it was rare for his boss to show interest in Master Qi.

He thought for a while and wanted to tell the boss that Master Qi was good at everything, but he liked to act according to fate. Was there fate between the boss andMaster Qi?

 The business of a roast duck restaurant near Qi Yan’s apartment was particularly good, and they didn’t take delivery orders. Whoever wanted to eat their food, they had to wait in line. Qi Yan had lined up for half an hour, but there were still many people ahead of him.

When he was bored, he began to look at the faces of people. The face of a tattooed man who had just left with a pack of ducks was fierce enough to stop a child from crying at night, but he was actually a very caring man with a hint of golden light exuding from his body..

 The gentleman with glasses behind him was walking and talking to his wife on the phone, but his face showed romantic calamities. He might have cheated in his marriage.

Then he looked at a few more people. All of them had their own shortcomings and merits, but none of them were villainous. Finally, when he finally bought the duck, he heard some noise coming from the side. He turned his head to see that a young man was holding a bouquet of flowers and proposing to a pretty girl.

Passers-by applauded, and some people even urged the girl to agree to the young man, but the girl looked embarrassed, not moved.

　 Seeing that the pretty girl hadn’t agreed, someone next to her started gossiping. Some said that If this man drove a luxury car and proposed with a big diamond ring, maybe the girl would agree. Some said that this young man deliberately proposed in front of so many people, so that the girl could not say no.

 The onlookers had different opinions, but one thing was similar, that was, no one actually knew the truth.

“Stand up first, stop kneeling.” The girl wanted to pull the young man up but he refused.

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“If you don’t agree, I’m not getting up.” The young man raised the bouquet of flowers and his face was filled with affection.

The crowd who was watching started to cheer, “Say yes, say yes!”

 Being cheered on by so many people, the girl couldn’t help but say, “If you want to kneel, then kneel!” After that, she turned around and left.

The young man seemed to have expected the girl’s reaction. He grabbed her arm and held her tightly to prevent her from leaving, “Linlin, why are you unwilling to marry me? Is it because I don’t have a car and a house? Am I not handsome enough?”

 “Let go! Don’t bother me anymore, okay?!” The young man was so strong that the girl named Linlin couldn’t get away at all. She frowned because of the pain, “Let go!”

 “No, I won’t let go!” The young man’s face looked dull, his tone became tough, “You really don’t want to marry me?!”

“No! Let go of me!”

The young man was irritated by the girl’s words, his eyes were red, and he fumbled in his trouser pocket, and took out a knife. He put it against Linlin’s neck and yelled like a madman, “You made me do this!”

 The crowd could barely react. They didn’t expect a marriage proposal to turn into a sharp confrontation. After a while, everyone screamed and ran away. Some called the police and  some persuaded the young man not to be impulsive. The scene was chaotic.

Qi Yan felt that he had weird luck as he was prone to encounter events with small probability, such as a marriage proposal that became a life-threatening event. This was the type of event that would be published in major newspapers, like the last headline “Two Men Quarreled, One of Them Threw a Child in Anger”. If luck could be rated, his would be rated E.

Giving the roast duck to a waitress at the restaurant and asking her to take care of it for him, he looked at his watch. The police should have about five minutes to rush over. However, given this young man’s emotional state, if he didn’t control it well, there might be a bloodshed.

“Handsome man, what can’t be discussed nicely?” Qi Yan squeezed through the crowd and walked to the front. “There are plenty of fish in the sea. I think you are handsome, why would you like such a woman? She doesn’t deserve you!”

Judging from the face of this young man, his family was poor and he had such extreme low self-esteem that he became narcissistic, so he liked to be complimented by others. But when someone hurt his ego, he would become very extreme and take revenge on society.

Sure enough, after Qi Yan said this, the young man finally stopped yelling unreasonably, but stared at Qi Yan, “Are you serious?” 

“Of course it’s true. You are too infatuated with this girl and look down on other women. Otherwise a lot of women would be hitting on you,” Qi Yan put his hands in his trouser pockets and approached him subtly. “Brother, you are young and handsome, yet you are obsessed with such a woman with heavy make-up. Isn’t she just a woman, if she doesn’t know what’s good, why don’t you just find another? How silly is it to be hung up on one person?”

Maybe it’s because there were too few people who would compliment him. When he heard what Qi Yan said, he no longer cared about Linlin, who had her neck held by him. He kept fishing for more compliments from Qi Yan.

“Why would I lie to you?” Qi Yan looked at the young man with a look of admiration, “Looking at your face, you will be rich in the future. Did anyone tell you when you were a child that you must be blessed when you grow up? “

“How did you know?” The young man thought for a while and asked him, “Do you know how to tell fortune?”

 “Yes,” Qi Yan said with a smile, “It’s a pity that I’m not good at it, I can only tell who will have a good or bad life. For example, I can tell that from your face.”

 After saying that, he said with envy, “I rarely see a person like you who has such a rich life. But… do you have a mole on your ear?”

The young man shook his head blankly, and began to think about whether there was a mole on his ear. Linlin, who was held hostage by him, turned pale in fright, but the knife was resting on her neck, and the cold touch made her afraid to move.

 Qi Yan approached step by step, and stopped at a distance of three steps away from the young man. “Brother, when you are still in school, do female classmates often watch you secretly?”

The young man thought for a while and said, “Yes.” Many of the memories of his student days were not clear, but after the baby-faced young man in front of him reminded him, he really felt that many female classmates had secretly looked at him.

 “How many sins have you committed by breaking the girls’ hearts?” Qi Yan picked his chin, “You’re the enemy of all men!”

For this kind of person, satisfying his male ego was very important. Some people liked to boast about the number of people who liked them, although the fact was that no one was interested in them at all.

This young man with a knife belonged to the kind with extremely low self-esteem, otherwise he would not be so interested in his flattery under such circumstances.

Since no one ever complimented him, it was precious when someone did that.

As the man was distracted by his compliments, Qi Yan grabbed his hand and pushed the girl in his arms out. Then, he knocked the knife out of his hand.

The girl who was pushed away by Qi Yan was also perceptive. She picked up the knife and ran to a crowded place. She ran like never before, and was soon a dozen steps away from Qi Yan and the young man.