Chapter 126: Trackside Spook, Phoenix of the Circuit (Extra Chapter, Begging for Monthly Tickets)

"White T-shirt, gray pants, white sneakers, and a hat in his hand."

"Sis, what are you doing?"

"Shh~ don't make a fuss, don't make a fuss, our company has a big handsome guy! Look over there~"

"I see him, but he's not from our company. He noticed you, want to go chat him up?"

"I don't dare~"

While speaking, Zhu Xudan peeked over again, and saw Bai Liang smile at her, then wave goodbye.

"Brother Dou Xiao Bai, who are you waving at?"

"That little thief in the corner, hopping around like a rabbit just now." Bai Liang said cheerfully.

Sister Yanzi shook her head speechlessly, thinking this Jiaxing company really is something else, full of characters!

But she had to admit, it did look a bit like a little rabbit.

Bouncing around on the spot, kinda cute~

However, just as they were about to get in the car and leave, a girl who looked like a staff member came jogging over, holding a bottle of water in her hand.

"For me?" Bai Liang asked curiously.

"Yep, still sealed."

While speaking, the other girl's eyes were fixed on the white T-shirt under Bai Liang's jacket.

A few minutes later, this girl ran over to "report" to Zhu Xudan: "It's pure cotton fabric, sis, you're so bored. Why do you care so much about someone else's clothing fabric?"

"I'm just curious! Who is he?"

Zhu Xudan scratched her head awkwardly; the things she cared about really were a bit different from other people's.

Clothing fabric is very important!

"I just asked around, he's Bai Liang, pretty popular lately, just finished filming a drama with Sister Reba, he's here today to discuss the contract for 'Eternal Love'."

"Huh? Then wouldn't that mean..."

"Sister Reba~"

Hearing the voice, Zhu Xudan turned her head, threw her arms around Dilireba in a hug, "I just saw a big handsome guy! You know him~"

Dilireba looked at her bestie, puzzled, "Bai Liang? What's up?"

"He's really good at styling!"

Hearing this, Dilireba was completely baffled—styling? Bai Liang's styling had always been pretty simple and clean, hadn't it?

The kind without too much flashy stuff.

Hardly a fashion icon, so how is he "really good at styling"?

So Zhu Xudan started counting on her fingers, going on about "white T-shirt," "gray pants," "white sneakers."

She even emphasized "pure cotton fabric" twice!

Oh right, didn't forget the hat either.

"There has to be a hat, but you can't wear it on your head, you can only hold it in your hand." Zhu Xudan emphasized seriously.

"I didn't really pay attention to that angle when we were filming."

Looking at Zhu Xudan, who was completely serious and clearly not joking, Dilireba really couldn't hold it in anymore, and added: "That hat is mine~"

"Whose it is doesn't matter!"

"Whose it is matters a lot~" Dilireba repeated.

After saying that she checked the time, but she really didn't have time to keep chatting with Zhu Xudan, this tipsy funny girl.

As she left, she also felt a bit taken aback.

She felt she might have gotten one thing wrong—the charm of the capybara seemed to be an AOE with no dead zones!

She had previously thought it was precision-targeted.

Fortunately, her schedule was tight, and she couldn't spare the time or energy to think about this stuff for now.

The top priority was to catch up on sleep.

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After the deals for "Princess Agents" and "Eternal Love" were both settled, Bai Liang only had two jobs left before the new year.

One was a brand endorsement Sister Yanzi had negotiated, 2.8 million a year, signed for two years.

Originally there was more than just this one, but Sister Yanzi "got ahead of herself"—after asking Lin Yufen about the approximate broadcast time of "Love O2O," she decided to hold off.

Wait it out for a year or so and then jack up the price!

Otherwise, signing a two- or three-year endorsement now, she'd kick herself later for the loss.

This current endorsement didn't seem to pay more than filming a drama, but it only took two days to shoot an ad and some photos, and that was it.

After that, just one brand event a year and a few Weibo posts—the workload was practically nothing.

It was Bai Liang's favorite kind of job: lots of money, little work. Too bad his "pursuits" had changed now.

Acting brought him other kinds of joy that you couldn't get from cashing in on ads.

He'd watched "Cloud" three times already.

This New Year, his house was definitely going to loop his dramas on repeat—Bai Liang was going to "force" everyone at home to watch with him.

Enjoying multiplied happiness!

One job was a fashion magazine cover shoot that Old Zhou had arranged.

Old Zhou really wasn't bluffing—he did have connections in the fashion circle.

After he landed it, even Sister Yanzi couldn't help but call him "Brother Zhou" a few times, after all, fashion resources were really important for an artist.

If Bai Liang was lacking in this area, getting access to some of the higher-end brand endorsements would be much harder.

For his first ad shoot, Bai Liang was quite interested and arrived early.

Then a few interesting little episodes happened. "Brother Xiao Bai, we absolutely must not contact them. You'd better not save a single one of these numbers."

Sister Yanzi watched with some worry as Bai Liang held the little notes or business cards in his hand—most of them had been slipped over by the actresses participating in the shoot.

The makeup of this group of people was very complicated.

There were eighteen-tier minor actresses, unknown internet celebrities, and some fresh models.

Bai Liang certainly hadn't reached the top-tier level yet; he hadn't even starred as the male lead in a single breakout drama, but he was already a hot commodity in the eyes of plenty of "dream-chasing" Misses.

If he wanted, tonight there would surely be someone washing themselves clean and waiting for him to do as he pleased.

The temptation in this area was long-term; some male artists really couldn't hold out.

The matter between the legs could sometimes truly destroy an artist on the rise.

Sister Yanzi added another line: "Brother Xiao Bai, if you can't hold back, go find Sister Nazha or Reba—either is fine—but you absolutely mustn't touch any of these!"

Bai Liang:???

"I'm not that desperate."

"Then hurry up and throw those notes away."

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But Bai Liang shook his head, looked toward the group of Misses not far away who had already changed into their outfits, and said, "How could I throw them away right in front of them? Even if some of them are pretty open about it, they still have their dignity. I'll hold onto them for now and deal with it later."

Not only did he not throw them away, Bai Liang even smiled and waved at the Misses, drawing a chorus of shrieks and cheers.

They were all pretty Misses working hard upward for their dreams; Bai Liang was willing to show them his gentle side.

The reason today's shoot had so many young Misses was mainly because the subject of the shoot was quite interesting.

Racing.

Bai Liang would play a race car driver, speeding around the track, then stopping to deliver a few lines, holding up chewing gum for a display—and that would be it.

Those Misses were all just background props.

Oh right, what Bai Liang was endorsing certainly wasn't a car, nor helmets, clothes, or anything like that.

What he was endorsing was chewing gum.

Phew, that was close—almost got fooled by the ad shoot content.

What he was endorsing actually didn't matter, but driving a race car was really fun!

He'd been itching to get his hands on it for ages.

Once he'd changed into the professional racing suit and sat down, he started fiddling around, while the ad director was right beside him briefing him on what was coming up.

Like how many times to chew the gum, how many teeth to show when smiling, that sort of thing.

Bai Liang absorbed the information at top speed and said OK.

"Alright, Teacher Bai can come down now, let's—"

"Vroom!"

The car engine roared, and a floor of the accelerator sent it shooting out like mad.

The director's expression froze on the spot. Beside him was a professional driver, also dressed in a racing suit, specially hired as a stunt double.

The two of them stared dumbfounded at the race car tearing around the venue, their minds blank for the moment.

"Um, director, should I still go on?"

"Holy shit, did the camera start rolling?! Did we get the shot?!"

The ad director panicked. After instinctively doing his job and urging the shoot to continue, he began praying in his heart: Please, please don't let anything happen!

Something happening was of course unlikely—Bai Liang had played with these things in his past life.

Playing with cars was a rather expensive sport; naturally he liked it a lot.

And unlike ordinary people, he wasn't afraid of dying.

Anyone who's driven knows—whether on a track or on the road, once one lunatic who doesn't fear death shows up, everyone else starts fearing death~

Relying on this move, Bai Liang had made quite a name for himself in his past life.

The track's ghost-slayer, the circuit's undying bird.

No one ever dared to race him for the latest braking point—if it came to it, he'd just flip the car; it wasn't like anything bad would happen anyway.

On the ad set, the professional race driver stunt double they'd hired seemed to have figured something out.

"Director, if he's got this level, what did you hire me for?"

"Is he really that good?"

"The car isn't great, so I can't tell completely, but he's definitely way better than the average person driving a family car—probably someone who's done it before."

The director breathed a sigh of relief and said the stunt double's driving fee would still be paid in full.

As long as nothing went wrong, everyone would be happy.

It was certainly a good thing that Bai Liang had this level of skill himself, but unfortunately this ad was a chewing gum ad—otherwise the director's grand ambitions would have caught fire, and he'd have insisted on a few awesome long takes.

Who here wasn't a top graduate from the directing department?

After running a few laps and getting his fill, Bai Liang finally remembered he was still filming an ad.

One stylish, flowing drift-stop right in front of the camera, helmet off, deliver the lines, chew, display the chewing gum—all in one smooth flow.

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Today's five updates, sixteen thousand characters complete, begging for monthly tickets!

(End of chapter)