Chapter 128: Opening Ceremony

After Xu Heng moved out of the Dormitory, the already quiet Dormitory became even more desolate.

Cheng Huaiyu had his own goals and ran off-campus every other day; Zhao Gaoyang was still fixated on the stock market, and it was said that to catch a big fish, he even went to borrow money from venture capital firms for leverage—although the multiplier wasn't high, he still dumped twenty or thirty thousand into it.

Sheng Bo, on the other hand, lost a few hundred yuan in the stock market and then quit, refusing to touch it anymore.

This was because Xu Heng had warned him earlier that the stock market had been fluctuating quite a bit recently and he shouldn't easily invest too much money.

He was still someone who could listen to advice, so he didn't continue sending more money into the stock market.

Meanwhile, Xu Heng's cohabitation life with Jiang Mengyuan had officially begun.

Jiang Mengyuan was a rather solitary person; ever since she got together with Xu Heng, she had even forgotten about her roommates, staying in the small apartment almost all the time except for when she was in class.

Even when Xu Heng wasn't there, she stayed happily by herself and never felt bored.

Occasionally, when he was free, Xu Heng would take her to the supermarket to let her have more contact with the outside world.

Sometimes he would also teach her how to cook hand-in-hand; the little girl was unwilling to learn at first, as she quite liked the snacks Xu Heng brought her from outside.

But after Xu Heng told her how unhygienic those things outside were, she was too scared to eat them anymore.

As for learning to cook, that wasn't something that could be learned in a short time; simple vegetable dishes were easy to learn, but complex meat dishes required both a grasp of the heat and a test of seasoning amounts.

After learning for ten days or so, Jiang Mengyuan could barely make one or two meat dishes that were "edible."

However, she was already very satisfied just being able to produce the dishes.

For the rest of the time, the two of them were basically stuck together, and most of the time Jiang Mengyuan would have Xu Heng watch anime with her.

To be honest, Xu Heng had already seen the anime from the early 2000s, and he even knew the endings of long-running series like Naruto, but to look after Jiang Mengyuan's experience, he held back and didn't spoil anything.

At this time, Naruto only had two hundred-something episodes, Orochimaru was still a very formidable villain, and the Akatsuki organization was just beginning to show its edge.

Every time she watched, Jiang Mengyuan would sigh at how powerful the members of Akatsuki were and wonder how Naruto and the others could possibly win, especially that Hidan who couldn't be killed—it was just too unsolvable.

Xu Heng said it was fine; usually, after an unbeatable enemy appeared in the plot, the author would give the protagonist a cheat, then an even stronger villain would emerge, the protagonist would continue to use cheats, and it would go on in a cycle all the way to the finale.

"Isn't the Nine-Tails invincible?"

"The Rasengan is invincible; the Nine-Tails is not."

"Oh."

At this moment, Jiang Mengyuan had no idea what kind of absurd operations would happen in the later stages of Naruto; she just felt that Xu Heng was guessing blindly.

The Nine-Tails was so powerful, how could it not be invincible?

Besides watching anime, the rest of Xu Heng's time was spent accompanying her to play games.

At first, the games they played were limited to CS, but later Xu Heng took her to play World of Warcraft, which led to the little girl now being addicted to farming the Temple every day, repeatedly whipping the corpse of Illidan.

At this time, the status of World of Warcraft in the world was unquestionable; as an MMORPG that swept the globe, it once allowed Blizzard to sit on a divine throne.

Nowadays, if you grabbed any internet-addicted teenager off the street, they would be a "Blizzard fan."

It was a pity that more than a decade later, World of Warcraft declined, and Blizzard also became a piece of trash.

Especially since Xu Heng had started playing Hearthstone in 2017 and had spent tens of thousands of yuan over the years, only for his account to be wiped out directly because of Blizzard's moronic operations.

This made him, already over thirty at the time, almost curse out loud.

In this life, having been reborn, and since it just happened to involve the card game industry, perhaps he could cooperate with Blizzard in advance, buy the game creation rights related to World of Warcraft, and produce Hearthstone ahead of time.

This way, he wouldn't need to look at the foreigners' faces, and he could also earn money and fame through Hearthstone.

As for Blizzard? Who cared about its life or death; without Hearthstone, which later became Blizzard's biggest financial pillar, it was a question of how many years the arrogant Blizzard could even jump around.

Of course, Xu Heng didn't have the capital to negotiate with Blizzard yet, nor did he have the ability to produce an online game; this matter would have to wait a year or a year and a half.

Late November.

The cast and crew of Love is Not Blind gathered in Jinling.

Looking around, one couldn't even find a single famous actor.

Inside, there was even a whole bunch of students like Dan Yuyue and Sheng Bo who had never acted before.

Fortunately, from another perspective, their presence also greatly reduced the production costs of Love is Not Blind; the original estimated filming cost was around eight million, leaving two million for post-production and promotion, but these nameless actors compressed the filming cost to four million.

That is to say, Xu Heng and Ren Man had a full six million in surplus funds for post-production and promotion, and could even solve the theater chain issue along the way; overall, there were pros and cons.

The opening ceremony was held at a hotel by the Qinhuai River.

The crew members, represented by Xu Heng and Ren Man, stood neatly in front of the cameras.

Ying Ziyun and Liu Yiyan stood on their sides as the leads.

Both of them were sizing each other up across Xu Heng; Ying Ziyun felt that Liu Yiyan looked a bit familiar, but couldn't recognize who she was.

Although they were in the same school in high school, they were not classmates in the same class.

She just purely felt that this "friend" of Xu Heng was quite pretty, and since Liu Yiyan was the singer of "The Wind Has Risen" and also the only "big shot" in the crew, everyone paid more attention to her to some extent.

Liu Yiyan, however, recognized Ying Ziyun; after all, Ying Ziyun was still somewhat famous in that small place, Tongcheng No. 1 High School.

At the same time, she also knew that Ying Ziyun was Xu Heng's ex-girlfriend, and when she saw her today, she even asked Xu Heng why he had asked her to act.

Xu Heng helplessly spread his hands and said it was Senior Ren Man's idea and had nothing to do with him.

At the time, Liu Yiyan believed him, but now, seeing the way Ying Ziyun looked at her as if she were a thief, Liu Yiyan didn't believe it so much anymore.

She thought to herself, could Xu Heng have gotten back together with this woman? Being so guarded.

Likewise, because of her own awkward status, Liu Yiyan could only keep these words to herself.

The two beauties who had had physical relations with Xu Heng but were not his official girlfriend stared at each other across the air, sparks almost flying from their eyes, until the photographer asked them to look at the camera, at which point they reluctantly looked away.

At this time, at the back of the line, Cheng Huaiyu shamelessly squeezed from the staff line to the side of Dan Yuyue in the supporting actor row.

"Yueyue." He scratched his head and greeted her with a silly smile.

Seeing Cheng Huaiyu get close, Dan Yuyue's brows clearly furrowed, and she pulled Sheng Bo, who was on her left, between herself and Cheng Huaiyu.

"Sheng Bo, you stand here."

"Huh?"

Sheng Bo turned his head and saw Cheng Huaiyu constantly signaling to him with his eyes, knowing that he meant for him to move further to the side so he could stand with Dan Yuyue.

But on his left side, Dan Yuyue had already placed her hand on his waist, threatening in a low voice, "If you dare move, I'll cut out your kidneys."

"..."

With his roommate on one side and his kidneys on the other, Sheng Bo felt like crying but had no tears.

No, what does you two messing around have to do with me?

Why make things difficult for an honest person!

"Please, Director Ren and President Xu, cut the ribbon."

Fortunately, the cameraman's words interrupted the two's secret struggle.

Standing together at the very front of the line, Xu Heng and Ren Man smiled while holding scissors, cutting the red ribbon.

Love is Not Blind, start of filming.