Chapter 937: Charity Night (Part 2)

"Just kidding, I'm not to the point where I can't take out this bit of money." Wen Xia said to Luo Quan with a grin.

Participating in a charity gala, donating money is certain, but in fact, the amount donated usually won't be particularly large, 1 or 2 million is the limit, and few people will donate more than 5 million.

For Wen Xia, 1 or 2 million is nothing, spending money to buy a reputation is also quite cost-effective.

As for Luo Quan, how much she donates this time depends on the specific situation.

Although she is keen on charity, she has always been distrustful of other people's charity projects.

For example, a star's charity organization a while ago claimed to be completely public, but it became very difficult to see the specific destination of every amount after netizens wanted to see it.

Not to mention who it was donated to, some procurement bills inside this organization looked quite outrageous.

Such as notebooks worth tens of thousands, computer disks, video equipment worth hundreds of thousands, etc.

Netizens don't know what brand these things are, why they have to buy such expensive ones.

But the bill is written like this, and it must have been reported like this at the time.

This is only a small part of the procurement list. I believe there are many similar procurement items in the list.

Spending so much money on maintaining the organization's daily expenses, how much is left to do real charity? I am afraid only the founder of the organization knows this matter.

Since then, Luo Quan has known that among these people who do charity, eight out of ten are unreliable, so she rarely participates, and every time she participates, she holds extra purposes.

Like this time, she went for traffic.

Of course, most stars are actually similar to her, but even if they are accompanied by donations, this behavior is worthy of praise.

Looking through the mailbox, Luo Quan really found an email from Bazaar Fashion editor-in-chief Shu Mang, which was an invitation for her to attend the Bazaar Charity Night held in Shanghai tomorrow night.

"Sister, I also got an invitation." Gao Liang heard Luo Quan and Wen Xia discussing, and he also looked at the mailbox, and didn't expect there to be one.

Many people know that he has lived in China for almost a year. During this period, he has been on variety shows twice, and his fans have exceeded 10 million.

It can be said that in China, he is also an internet celebrity with considerable heat.

However, missing the Hundred Flowers Award last time made Gao Liang think that his status was not big enough, and he couldn't participate in such entertainment industry grand events.

Didn't expect that only half a year later, Bazaar Charity Night threw an olive branch to him. This improvement in status still made Gao Liang quite happy.

"Is there a possibility that people invited you because of your sister's face?" Mi Ya suddenly poured cold water.

"Not possible."

Gao Liang learned his sister's Sichuan dialect accent, and his right hand swung fiercely: "This must be because of my popularity in China. After all, the two variety shows I was the main guest this year were explosive, okay?"

The variety shows Gao Liang mentioned, one is *The Rap of China*, and the other is *Street Dance of China*.

Both are skills he relied on for survival in the early days. Being a mentor is no problem.

"Hahahaha." Mi Ya laughed again, "I don't know about street dance, but isn't *The Rap of China* as outrageous as *Peking Opera in the United States*?"

Gao Liang immediately retorted: "I don't agree with your point of view. Rap is a kind of music. You can sing in any language. Mastering rhythm and rhyme is the key.

As for Peking Opera, tone and singing skills are the most important. If it can really be popular abroad, isn't it impossible to compile an English Peking Opera?

Just like singing Italian opera in Chinese, is English Peking Opera necessarily very rotten?

I see people abroad using Peking Opera to sing *Hamlet*, and the response is quite good."

"Fine, your tongue is sharp, I can't win against you."

Mi Ya very decisively chose to admit defeat. Against Gao Liang's old profession, she had no chance of winning, so she planned to change the angle:

"But I have to ask you a question, and that is, are you wrong?"

"Wrong about what?" Gao Liang looked puzzled.

"Arguing with me, are you wrong?" Mi Ya asked with a smile.

"Is this also called arguing?" Gao Liang jumped up from the sofa anxiously, spread his hands, and his eyebrows were almost squeezed together.

"You don't love me anymore, you even learned to roar at me." Mi Ya stroked her belly, looking aggrieved.

But in Gao Liang's view, it looked like "holding the emperor to command the princes."

Thinking for a few seconds, he squatted down: "Sorry wife, I was wrong.

Although I don't know where I was wrong, since you think I was wrong, then I was wrong."

Luo Quan stood on the side with her hands in her pockets, shaking her head and laughing: "Tsk tsk tsk, our 'fearless' rap little king finally has a day of being smoothed out."

Hearing this, Mi Ya finally couldn't pretend anymore, and hurriedly hugged Gao Liang: "I was just joking with you. I didn't expect you to really spoil me so much.

Actually, I still like your unruly appearance more."

Gao Liang also breathed a sigh of relief and smiled: "I just said you are usually quite rational, why did you suddenly become unreasonable? I thought it was because of pregnancy that made your mood change greatly." 【937

"No, I just browse Weibo and Xiaohongshu often," Mia shook her head gently. "I saw on there that you have to train your husband like this to make them obedient."

Gao Liang said angrily, "Stop looking at that stuff from now on. It's not even certain if those idiots themselves have ever been in a relationship."

"I'm just running an experiment," Mia said softly. "And I also think the remarks of many of those people are quite outrageous."

Speaking of this, the two looked at each other and smiled, and seeing them leaning closer and closer, they were about to kiss.

"Ahem!"

At the critical moment, Luo Quan coughed heavily twice, interrupting their pre-kissing ritual: "If you want to be affectionate, go back to your room. Don't shower us with your PDA here."

"Let's go." Gao Liang pulled Mia up, laughing as they went back to their own room.

"What a deeply affectionate couple," Wen Xia shook her head with a sigh.

"I only smell the sour stench of love," Luo Quan replied sourly.

"Are you jealous?"

"Bullshit, if I were jealous, couldn't I just find one myself? If I shouted it online, the people responding could crash the Bilibili servers!"

This wasn't a lie; after all, sometimes when she releases a new song, she can crash the Tencent servers.

If she really posted a marriage advertisement, I'm afraid the Bilibili servers might not be able to handle it.

Of course, these words were just jokes, and no one would take them seriously.

The Bazaar Charity Night will be held tomorrow night; it's unknown who was invited, but there will definitely be many celebrities.

In such an occasion where big names gather, and it's related to fashion elements, both men and women will definitely dress themselves up to be more eye-catching.

However, compared to those foreign red-carpet actresses, the domestic actresses' styling is too conventional; eight out of ten choose evening gowns.

The few who are more unconventional are just wearing women's suits, which are standard operations abroad.

Foreign actresses, in order to attract attention, can really wear any bizarre clothing imaginable.

Some, for the sake of a gimmick, directly made clothes out of waste plastic bottles and walked into the camera lens; those who didn't know would have thought it was ocean trash salvaged from somewhere.

Others directly strung CDs together to use as a skirt; that radiant appearance could simply rival a camera flash.

And these bizarre outfits are usually products from some fashion show.

In the words of the fashion circle, this kind of design that ordinary people can't understand is called avant-garde.

Perhaps it can't be popular now, but who knows if it won't become a hit years later?

It looks like trash, and ordinary people can't understand it, but that doesn't mean it really is trash.

Different professions are like different mountains; the beauty in these designs is hard to explain clearly to outsiders in a few words.

However, Luo Quan used to think these people were just being pretentious, using niche or experimental excuses to come up with designs that insulted people's intelligence.

Even now, she holds the same view; true fashion is what the public loves and has a certain degree of practicality.

Without practicality, how can one talk about popularity? Wouldn't it just become something that is purely self-indulgent?

The best example is silk stockings; when they were born, they were meant for men to wear, and they were only popular among European nobles.

In the words of the fashion circle, this is a relatively avant-garde and niche design, and only dignitaries could use it, which is quite high-class.

And hundreds of years have passed, and silk stockings have flown into the homes of ordinary people, and have changed from being exclusive to men to being exclusive to women.

What's even more rare is that although most men no longer wear this stuff, it remains one of the most popular items of clothing among men.

This is the best example of going from niche to mainstream.

Good things are good things; they won't go bad because of changes in region or time.

This is Luo Quan's view on some people in the fashion circle, but she doesn't mix in this circle, so she never says such things that easily attract hate.

As for the Bazaar Charity Night, dressing up nicely is a given.

As for makeup and styling, it's better to be cautious.

Although she has the earrings given by Bai Bai Xingwei to conceal her aura, if she looks too good after putting on makeup, it's still easy to cause problems; she can't be too indulgent.

Wen Xia and the others certainly don't have this worry; they just go for whatever looks beautiful.

This time, there are five of them going to attend the Bazaar Charity Night: Gao Liang and Mia as a pair, plus her, Wen Xia, and Su Yu.

The three of them are considered the ones with the highest popularity in the country for the company; Lin Lin Ruoli was also qualified, but she went traveling and didn't have time to come back to attend.

After the plane tickets were bought, everyone went to bed early to rest, preparing to take the morning flight back to Shanghai.

Although the Bazaar Charity Night is held at night, they certainly can't just go and show up like that.

Finding clothes, doing makeup, designing styling—these are all very time-consuming.

In order to avoid unexpected situations that lead to not having enough time, everyone decided to go early.

"Little brother, which brand of clothes do you plan to wear?" After getting off the plane, Luo Quan asked Gao Liang.

The few of them all have collaborations with Chanel, so they can borrow clothes at will; besides, she and Wen Xia both have many limited-edition Chanel haute couture pieces at home, so they don't have to worry about clothes to wear at all.

But Gao Liang seems to have never signed an endorsement with any brand... She remembered, Gao Liang did endorse underwear for CK.

"I'll just wear Baleno." Gao Liang's answer took Luo Quan by surprise, because this brand is the most niche of the niche in the country.

Actually, in the early years, Baleno was actually quite good in the country.

But ever since a movie was released, sales started to be half-dead, and by now it's already on its last legs.

Speaking of which, this matter is also quite funny.

The director who made this movie was once sponsored by a superstar, and he received the precious start-up capital for the movie.

In order to repay this superstar, the director let the clothing brand Baleno, which this superstar endorsed, appear in the movie.

But because the brand appeared in the mouth of a thief who was both tacky and silly, the Baleno brand also seemed very low.

So even though that thief once said "Baleno, a brand," it couldn't save the brand's sales.

This can truly be called returning kindness with enmity.

Gao Liang doesn't know much about the ins and outs of this meme, but when he was livestreaming, he chatted with netizens about the topic of clothing brands.

Everyone unanimously agreed that Baleno is the true "brand-name" goods.

Gao Liang knows everyone is playing with memes and joking, but he just likes this kind of atmosphere, so he plans to pull a stunt at the Bazaar Charity Night.

As for why he doesn't endorse luxury brands.

He said it's because he feels that most of the girls who are fans of him don't have that good of an economic situation; if they see the luxury goods he endorses and engage in unnecessary advance consumption, then he would be a very failed idol.

So he turned down these endorsements that could make a lot of money; his values can be said to be quite upright.

"Baleno, huh." Luo Quan chuckled, also not expecting her little brother to be so down-to-earth.

But considering his personality of liking to pull stunts, it's probably entirely for the sake of the show's effect.

When livestreaming later, he can show off to the fans again: Look how awesome I am, wearing this at the Bazaar Charity Night.

Of course, it's not to say that doing this is wrong.

In this day and age, when capable people are unconventional, it's called having personality and being full of personal charm.

When incapable people follow the crowd, they are also criticized for having no opinions and not knowing how to think independently.

Fortunately, Gao Liang belongs to the more capable type of person.

Compared to his sister, he is certainly far behind, but if compared to his peers, he surpasses them by too much.

As a singer, he has won a Grammy; as an actor, he has won an Oscar.

Five years since his debut, he has experienced so many storms.

Looking back, he realized he wasn't even twenty-two years old yet.

Of course, compared to a certain child star who debuted at thirteen, his life hasn't been that full of ups and downs.

After all, that person had been to jail and was criticized by the entire internet.

Relatively speaking, his life has had more smooth times.

So he likes to pull stunts.

The reason is also very simple: it's just to make everyone happy, and he's happy too.

As for whether the host of the Bazaar Charity Night will be happy, that's unknown.

Anyway, he's already at his level of fame; does it make a difference what he wears?

A true emperor, even in plain clothes, can exude the feeling of a dragon robe!