Chapter 17: Just a Little Frost and Wind (Please Follow and Read)

Looking at Huang Jingyu's miserable face, Bai Liang offered a word of comfort. "Such a big sacrifice—you're bound to get famous."

"Thanks a lot..." Huang Jingyu waved a hand. Things were already like this, what else could he do? But then something suddenly occurred to him. "Oh right, do you have an agent now?"

"Nope~ Do you?"

"I have a friend who does this. How about you use her as your agent too? She's a pretty good person."

Bai Liang wasn't very interested in the topic—god knew whether he'd still be acting later—but he did add Huang Jingyu's agent on WeChat.

She was a girl called Sister Yanzi.

Though she clearly wasn't in the same league as that Sister Yang he'd met before, she suited the current situation of Bai Liang and Huang Jingyu quite well.

They were all small-time nobodies.

After adding her and exchanging greetings, he turned off the lights and went to sleep.

He was leaving first thing tomorrow morning! No one could stop him!

Earlier, Lin and Xin had been so shameless trying to get under his skin without success, but now he really was starting to feel a bit shaken.

When he was getting ready to sleep, Bai Liang initially had his back to Huang Jingyu.

But after thinking it over, he turned his body around anyway.

Back to the wall.

A huge boost in security!

"Bro, that's not necessary... I'll find a girlfriend in minutes just to show you!"

The next day, when Bai Liang was about to make his escape, Huang Jingyu anxiously started explaining himself.

To this, Bai Liang tactfully said, "When the time comes I'll find a rich pretty girlfriend, and we'll watch your drama together, okay?"

"Then forget it... A girlfriend? The one you posted on your Moments? She really is good-looking!"

Switching from helpless to gossipy in one second—the optimism of a Northeasterner was on full display on Huang Jingyu's mug.

"You mean that one? Nope~"

Bai Liang pulled out that photo with Mencius, then waved his hand in denial.

"She didn't fancy you?"

"No, she just hasn't confessed to me yet. Maybe she will later—who can say for sure about love?"

"Damn..."

Huang Jingyu felt deeply wounded. Bai Liang met pretty girls at another crew, while he was kissing guys at his own crew... the gap was way too damn huge!

Given his current mental state...

Bai Liang thought it over and still didn't tell him about becoming the lead.

Besides, Huang Jingyu was the male lead after all—much better than his own supporting role as Lü Bu.

Just act well. All this absurdity now—what else is it fighting for but fame and success?

It's just a little frost and wind, bro.

Outta here, outta here!

On the road leaving Yanjing, Bai Liang was already planning to work out more, and also pick up some fighting skills or the like.

After all, Huang Jingyu's Brazilian jiu-jitsu was the real deal~

Gotta guard against him!

After all, the odds of this guy getting turned were small, but not zero.

Shanghai.

Where dreams begin.

Bai Liang's return this time happened to coincide with their apartment's lease ending.

The landlord, whose place had been "blessed" by models of every description, wasn't renting it out anymore—his son was getting married, and he was going to renovate it as a wedding room.

Moving wasn't complicated. Bai Liang barely had any stuff to begin with, and Huang Jingyu had taken all his belongings to Yanjing. The rest could be left behind.

But their other roommate, Xiao Liu, who had always been pulling "night shifts," also showed up today.

It had been a while since they'd seen him, and his makeup was so androgynous that Bai Liang almost didn't recognize him.

Hmm... a kind of handsome in its own way, I guess. After all, his job does rely on looks.

The moment they met, Xiao Liu dropped a pretty explosive piece of news: "Hey, I'm heading to Japan to make it big."

Bai Liang:???

"What's with that look? Bro isn't going to dive in as an AV actor—I'm going to Japan to be a host!"

Hearing this, Bai Liang couldn't help scratching his head. "Is there a difference?"

"Huge difference! One relies on the body, the other on eloquence and emotional connection—how could they be the same?"

"I get the logic, but do you even know Japanese?"

Xiao Liu waved his hand breezily. "Bro majored in Japanese in college."

Bai Liang was stunned. "Then how come you..."

"Ha! I searched online for a college-grad employment guide—guess what popped up? But it's fine, how much can a regular job pay? And modeling's hard to break through in. Hope we bros meet at the top someday. If you ever travel to Japan, I'll buy you drinks."

What a college-grad employment guide...

Bai Liang instinctively muttered "praise the sugar mamas," figuring Xiao Liu was perfectly fine!

Wishing him the best of luck becoming Japan's top host!

Before leaving the complex, Bai Liang took one last look at that little three-bedroom place.

This ordinary little apartment had produced three talents like them—the feng shui must be something special.

With their original nest "busted," Bai Liang suddenly felt a bit like he had nowhere to go.

He had no family in Shanghai either, and he didn't really want to go back to his hometown, because his parents had recently set off on a trip around the world.

Yes, Bai Liang was not an orphan.

Both his parents were alive and well, the family harmonious and full of joy.

His good fortune practically began at the fertilized egg stage, because in an era when arranged marriages were still the norm, his parents had actually fallen in love freely—the family atmosphere was so good it was practically heaven-sent.

Even the family's money was just right—not short on cash, not short on love—so Bai Liang truly had never tasted hardship from childhood on.

Likewise, the two elders clearly had nothing to worry about regarding their son.

His various "miraculous" feats from childhood on made them feel that even if they tossed the kid into the middle of the Sahara Desert, he probably wouldn't starve to death.

So they let their freshly graduated Bai Liang do whatever he wanted, without even asking what job he wanted to do.

If it really came down to it, there were still the pretty, wealthy female classmates at home to back him up~

In fact, Bai Liang did have this kind of thought, he just felt that his relationship with that classmate Zhā hadn't reached that level yet.

Switch to an ordinary person—suddenly finding themselves in a "homeless" situation, they'd probably be very anxious inside.

But Bai Liang instead first searched for a gym that fit his needs, locked in his target, and then checked into a nearby hotel.

When it came to spending money, he had always been rather casual, or rather, had gone through a process of change.

At one stage he loved spending lavishly; now he just spent however much he had in his pocket, no picking and choosing.

As for what to do when the money on him ran out?

Same old saying: when the boat reaches the bridge, it'll naturally straighten out.

"Mr., hello, let me walk you through our membership system here..."

The gym Bai Liang found was quite upscale—membership cards started in the five-figure range.

But they gave him a steep discount, apparently saying he was the however-many-th member to sign up or something like that.

Bai Liang had long since gotten used to picking up these little bargains and didn't find them strange.

And it wasn't just the discount—when Bai Liang came to work out the next day, the gym's female owner came straight over, having caught wind of him, wanting to give him money!

Don't misunderstand—it's nothing shady like being kept.

She just wanted to ask him to take a few photos, which would later be made into posters and hung in the gym as advertisements.

This left Bai Liang a bit puzzled—weren't gym posters always covered with a bunch of muscle-bound beasts? His physique hadn't reached that level, and he had no plans to develop in that direction.

The thirty-something, still-charming female owner in yoga pants smiled slightly. "Half our members here are women."

Oh hey, male model work—picked it right back up again!

Transitional chapter; the next chapter will immediately kick off a new plotline. Please keep reading.