Chapter 1: The boat will naturally straighten when it reaches the bridge

"Praise the rich woman!"

After his daily prayer, Bai Liang got up full of energy, finished washing up, and went out for a morning run.

After returning drenched in sweat and washing up again, he started preparing his own breakfast.

50 grams of oats, 200 milliliters of milk, a handful of blueberries, and a sprinkle of nuts.

Boil the oats and milk while stirring until thick, then add the blueberries and nuts.

A nutritious breakfast rich in fiber, protein, and healthy fats was done.

After finishing breakfast, he picked up a book and went to the balcony.

A comfortable lazy sofa had already been set up there.

The morning sun was just right, hitting him with a warm glow. Bai Liang adjusted to his most comfortable sitting posture and entered a focused reading mode.

As a reborn person, Bai Liang was clearly a bit too relaxed.

It was hard to imagine that he only had a little over three thousand yuan in his pocket at the moment, and he had absolutely no sense of urgency about having to pay rent next week.

Instead, he had a sense of relaxation that radiated from the inside out.

There was no helping it; having lived a life almost entirely without hardship, it was difficult for Bai Liang to feel that kind of urgency.

"The boat will naturally straighten when it reaches the bridge" might be just an old saying to others, but for Bai Liang, it was almost an inevitable law.

In fact, he didn't even understand why he had received the opportunity to be reborn.

Before his rebirth, although he couldn't be considered to have achieved much, every one of his girlfriends had been a wealthy beauty.

Later, he even married a super wealthy beauty, reaching the pinnacle in one step.

At the same time, there were no such things as being a live-in son-in-law or suffering grievances; his life had been nothing but happy.

With such a life of cheating, what was the need for a rebirth?

He didn't have any regrets either; wasn't this a waste of a spot?

However, one of Bai Liang's mottos was... since I'm already here~

He accepted his rebirth with almost no hesitation, and then... of course, he would just live his life well.

Even though he didn't have much money now, Bai Liang wasn't very worried.

According to his experience, money was the kind of thing that would soon come to him in various ways.

In fact, if it weren't for the fact that he didn't want to repeat the trajectory of his previous life, Bai Liang wouldn't have rejected the pursuit of that local wealthy beauty from Shanghai who had fallen for him at first sight a few days ago.

As for the standard tropes of rebirth novels like seizing future information to create a business empire, Bai Liang had zero interest in them.

However, his roommate clearly didn't think so.

"Damn you, Bai Liang! Did you drink my protein powder again yesterday?!"

Hearing this "roar," Bai Liang, who had been engrossed in his book, seemed to be startled awake and leaned over.

A rugged, three-dimensional face with distinct lines came into view.

But at this moment, the other person suddenly smiled, revealing prominent canine teeth, which instantly added a bit of honesty and stupidity...

This smile looked honest, but in reality, the owner of the smile wanted to perform Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu on Bai Liang!

He was currently pondering where to choke him.

This person was Bai Liang's roommate, Huang Jingyu.

His profession was also a print model. Rent in Shanghai was so expensive, so of course, young people like them who were still struggling chose to share an apartment.

Choosing to share an apartment meant that everyone wasn't doing very well.

The apartment Bai Liang and Huang Jingyu rented was an eighty-plus square meter three-bedroom, one-living room unit. Besides them, there was another male model living there.

This apartment had been rented to people in the male modeling industry for several years, and the turnover was extremely high.

Mainly because those who were doing well would move out, and the others would continue to look for roommates, who were basically all in the same industry.

Those who couldn't make it would also move out after a period of time to seek other paths.

Currently, the one who had lived in their apartment the longest was Huang Jingyu; this guy had been a "nail householder" for over a year, while Bai Liang had moved in less than two months ago.

Compared to Huang Jingyu, who often encountered cancelled jobs, delayed payments, and deductions in the modeling industry, Bai Liang was much better off and almost never lacked work.

However, the gears of Huang Jingyu's fate had already begun to turn; he was about to enter the entertainment industry to become a star!

Bai Liang's memory was like this; it should be this year, right?

Huang Jingyu entered the entertainment industry to become a star, and Bai Liang found a wealthy beauty to marry, reaching the pinnacle in one step. As for the other roommate... he seemed to have gone into the sex industry, and it seemed he was doing quite well.

Everyone had a bright future!

"That jar of wild protein powder was yours?" Bai Liang asked with some surprise.

Wild protein powder?

Huang Jingyu felt a "well" symbol pop up on his forehead. "Does your protein powder grow on trees?!"

"Sorry, I just happened to order two jars, I'll compensate you~"

Bai Liang was genuinely feeling a bit sorry; it was mainly because he was used to picking up things and money.

Sometimes, if he didn't pick up something after going out, he felt like he had lost something.

He just didn't expect that this time, his "foraging" would hit his roommate.

Huang Jingyu waved his hand; actually, he didn't care much about that bit of protein powder, but was more worried about Bai Liang's mental state.

"You haven't gone out to work for over a week!"

Bai Liang covered half his face with the book and thought for a moment. "Are you afraid I'll borrow money from you?"

"Cough, cough... how could that be!" Huang Jingyu clearly had this concern; otherwise, since they weren't related and their relationship was just okay, he wouldn't need to be so meddlesome.

It was just that Bai Liang's consumption had clearly increased a lot recently, yet he wasn't going out to work.

If he really opened his mouth to borrow money later, as a generous Northeasterner, Huang Jingyu would really be embarrassed to refuse.

"As the prince of part-time jobs, I have a few good gigs here. Do you want to do them together?"

"Sure."

"Uh... then get ready. We're going to the first gig soon. It's a part-time job, 150 for two hours."

It seemed he hadn't expected Bai Liang to agree so readily. Huang Jingyu, who had originally wanted to persuade him a bit more, felt that the rhetoric he had organized had become useless.

They were both in the print modeling industry, but as a senior, Huang Jingyu clearly had wider connections.

Or rather, his methods were a bit wilder.

Of the two gigs he had received, one was in the evening and required a male print model, which was professionally relevant.

The other one, which they were about to leave for, was quite magical: pretending to be fans to pick someone up at the airport.

Bai Liang didn't resist too much. After changing his clothes and coming out, he saw Huang Jingyu preening and fixing his hair in front of the mirror, and he reminded him:

"You can't wear that outfit! Change into a hoodie..."

Pretending to be fans at the airport wasn't like being a model for a photoshoot; there was no need to dress too handsomely.

This was just like how if an extra at Hengdian was too handsome, they might be disliked because they would steal the protagonist's spotlight.

No matter what you do, you have to find your own positioning~

Bai Liang, who had often lived off women in his previous life, had a lot of insight into this; it all belonged to the realm of human relationships.

"That makes sense!"

Huang Jingyu, in addition to being surprised, felt that Bai Liang seemed a bit different from before.

But with his carefree personality, he didn't think too much about it, feeling that if it made sense, he should just listen. ===== CHAPTER 2 =====