Chapter 190: Even Duan Zhengchun Never Pulled This Off (Begging for Monthly Tickets)

"Quick, the phone."

"Sis, no need to rush. Xiao Bai just contacted me. He told you to wait a little while."

Hearing this, Nazha, who had rushed out in a hurry, let out a breath of relief, tidied her gown, and only then asked: "What did he say?"

"He said to wait a bit, don't rush off. You still have a gift to pick up." The little assistant giggled, seeming even more eager than Nazha herself to find out what the gift was.

Nazha was delighted at first, but her expression immediately changed. "Hmph! I still need to settle the score with him!"

"Sis~ stop being stubborn, your lips are already pouting."

"Aiya, you're so annoying!"

After bickering with her little assistant for a couple of lines, Nazha added: "I've had a really rough day today. If the gift isn't satisfactory, I'm smashing this trophy of his!"

"Okay okay okay~"

The little assistant humored Nazha like soothing a child, chatting along with her for a few lines, but seeing how the other girl treasured it, she knew there was no way she'd actually smash it.

At this moment, Bai Liang was searching everywhere for Sister Yanzi while on the phone with Reba.

"You're already heading to the airport?"

"Yeah, Da Bai, I'm so tired. I can't spend New Year's with my family again this year."

Over the phone, Reba had lost the high spirits she'd shown at the Weibo Night ceremony; the weariness and grievance in her words poured out all at once.

She's actually quite sensitive about this sort of thing.

She'd even asked Bai Liang before whether dumping her negative emotions on him like this would make him dislike her.

After all, she'd thought it through from the other side—if someone kept pouring out the frustrations and exhaustion of their life at her every now and then, she definitely wouldn't be able to stand it.

Fortunately, Bai Liang is a capybara "impervious to all things"—a little negative emotion is nothing to him.

"It's fine. When I get home for the New Year's Eve dinner, I'll take a few extra photos for you."

"You're so mean!"

Reba laughed and scolded him a few times, then suddenly said softly: "Thank you for today. I really didn't expect you to do that. When I saw you walking over on stage, do you know how fast my heart was beating?"

"I was pretty nervous too. If you'd ignored me then, I'd have turned into a clown on the spot."

In fact, Bai Liang had only just thought of that possibility himself.

Just thinking about it is so awkward—total social death!

"How could I possibly ignore you!"

"When you were talking to Nazha, you ignored me."

"And now you're acting wronged?!"

"Yep~"

Hearing Bai Liang's matter-of-fact tone, Reba went silent for two seconds, then said, as if making a promise: "I will never, at any time, ignore you!"

"Get a good sleep on the plane. Good night."

"Good night."

Putting down the phone, Bai Liang wondered why he'd been so busy tonight.

Because Sister Yanzi was rushing toward him in a fury. "Xiao Bai-ge, I've been looking for you forever. I've been so busy tonight I could die."

"Where's the stuff?"

"Right here." Sister Yanzi showed off the box in her hand, wiping the sweat off her forehead as she did.

While Bai Liang was "enjoying" his shuraba at Weibo Night tonight, Sister Yanzi outside the venue had been running off her feet too.

First, in a rush following Bai Liang's instructions, she went to pick out a gift for Yang Mi.

Sister Yanzi had been cursing the whole time she shopped—her own Xiao Bai-ge was just too kind-hearted, why bother with that old woman's sentimentality~ She's a nasty one!

Curse as she might, she still carried out Bai Liang's instructions.

After that, she rushed nonstop to another location to "make contact" on Bai Liang's behalf and got the thing in her hand.

Yanjing City was just too big! Most of the time had been spent on the road.

Ten minutes later, inside the car.

Nazha confidently stretched out her little hand toward Bai Liang. "Where's the gift~ Let me tell you, if I'm not satisfied, you can forget about getting that trophy back!"

"If you like it, feel free to give it away."

Sister Yanzi:???

Wasn't it agreed that it would be displayed in the studio as decoration? She'd taken a dislike to that flower pot ages ago and was just waiting to swap it out with the trophy.

Just at this moment.

"Meow~"

"Oh my god!" Nazha shrieked on the spot.

Seeing the gift could no longer be hidden, Bai Liang lifted his clothes and revealed the little Dou Xiao Nai cat tucked against his chest.

This was the gift Sister Yanzi had fetched through the night.

It wasn't bought, either—it was something Uncle Yu had lost in a bet on the set of Wolf Warrior 2.

Nazha couldn't wait to carefully cradle the little Dou Xiao Nai cat in her arms; the delight in her big eyes was practically spilling over.

"Where were you hiding it? You've been carrying it on you this whole time?"

"Uh, I don't have the skills to hide this little thing on me all night either."

Sister Yanzi couldn't hold it in. "Sis Nazha, is there any chance it was with me?"

Nazha stuck out her little tongue, feeling silly.

She leaned right into Bai Liang's chest, with a little kitty cradled in her own arms, and suddenly felt that it would be perfect if they were home right now.

Just imagining the scene feels so happy!

Although the kitten was for Nazha, she really couldn't take it home tonight.

Besides, in her view, this kitten was something she and Bai Liang had raised together — wherever it stayed made no difference.

"You have to take good care of it, okay~"

Before leaving, Na Zha said reluctantly.

Just now, the number of times she kissed the kitten was more than the times she kissed Bai Liang.

"Don't worry, whatever I raise, I raise it well." Bai Liang said, quite full of himself.

"Just keeping it alive isn't enough — you have to raise it well. Next time I see it, it has to be chubby, with a round little face."

Bai Liang glanced at the kitten: "You hear that? Grow exactly the way she described."

Kitten:???

Watching Na Zha's car drive off, Sister Yanzi finally breathed a sigh of relief. "Little Bai-ge, is it over for tonight?"

"Ah, not yet."

"Not yet?!"

"I still have two dates." Bai Liang looked at the messages on his phone and felt something seemed a bit off.

The hotel name Li Xin had sent him — how was it the same one as Meng Jie's?

So he corrected himself: "One date."

Sister Yanzi also breathed a sigh of relief and signaled the driver to set off.

But she was actually quite puzzled too. Before Bai Liang came out, she had run into Lin Genxin.

According to what the other party said, her own Little Bai-ge's situation inside should have been very… perilous.

But looking at him now, it seemed like nothing had happened at all~

Just a little busy, that's all.

Originally, Sister Yanzi had even prepared for the worst — that all the girls connected to her Little Bai-ge would show up at once and start a war off-camera.

They might even pull each other's hair; that's just how girls fight — grabbing and tearing at each other's clothes.

She had even wondered to herself: who should she actually side with?

As Bai Liang's manager, she was on good terms with all those older and younger sisters.

Na Zha, Reba, Meng Jie, including Li Xin and Chen Yao — they had all given her gifts and treated her to meals.

Sister Yanzi had all of them added as friends on her phone too; they liked every single one of her Moments posts.

If she really had to take one side, she'd feel like she was letting down all the other sisters.

Fortunately, that whole thing actually didn't happen at all.

Even though they were all sitting together, in the end they actually came out one by one.

Her own Little Bai-ge even had time to "pick them off one by one" — that was just too outrageous!

It felt as if these girls were deliberately cooperating with him… but how could that be?!

Sister Yanzi couldn't be bothered to ask Bai Liang either, because she knew the answer she'd get would definitely be: Did you hear it? The echo of overwhelming luck.

Using luck in this way was honestly a bit of a waste.

"Oh my god, you actually came?! What the hell"

Li Xin, who had already been getting ready for bed, the expression on her face when she opened the door and saw Bai Liang really was like she'd seen a ghost.

She even circled him twice, as if trying to spot any slapped handprints on him.

"Huh? Weird — nobody beat you up?"

Bai Liang was even more puzzled: "Why would anyone beat me up?"

"It'd be a miracle if nobody beat you! I don't believe you really were just doing it for the CP hype. You got Dilireba all worked up like that — wouldn't you normally spend a wonderful night together? And yet you actually came to me."

This young lady's mouth analyzed things perfectly logically, but her expression was actually still a little sour.

So Bai Liang didn't tell her that Dilireba was extremely busy and her plane had probably already taken off by now.

"You sent me a message — if I didn't come…"

"Afraid I'd be upset?" Li Xin didn't wait for Bai Liang to answer, reached out and patted his chest, sighed, and said, "You're not allowed to be like this!" "What's wrong?"

The young lady's gaze was especially complicated. "Girls are very easy to move — even though I know you're a scumbag."

Li Xin felt her head really was a bit of a mess.

She realized that she was actually happy because Bai Liang hadn't gone to find other girls, but had come to her instead.

What the hell was there to be happy about? She must be out of her mind!

The very fact that he could still go find other girls should be struck by lightning!

Scumbag scumbag scumbag scumbag!

"Go take a shower, scumbag!"

Li Xin, who was usually gentle, was honestly a bit irritable today — she even lifted her leg and kicked Bai Liang's butt.

After he obediently went in to shower, Li Xin, who was pacing outside, still couldn't help it — she stripped off her clothes and squeezed into the bathroom too.

Bai Liang offered criticism of such behavior.

!. Read

Because on the way here, he had bought a bottle of champagne — where does hot water have the kick of champagne?

Two hours later, Miss Li drifted off into a baby-like sleep, thoroughly content.

The quality of that sleep was incredibly good — no one could wake her no matter how they tried.

Bai Liang checked the time: 2 a. m.

The benefit of abundant energy finally showed its proper value at this moment.

He suddenly had a sudden sense of enlightenment — so this special talent wasn't actually for letting him skip his daily iron-pumping and running, was it?

He tucked the blanket properly around Li Xin, smoothed out her somewhat disheveled hair, and even helped wipe away some unidentified liquid.

Only then did he get up, get dressed, and head next door.

Meng Jie was young, after all — she could stay up much more easily.

"Respect the old, love the young" — and "respect the old" comes first.

Even at two in the morning, she wasn't sleepy at all, a pair of big eyes bright and full of spirit!

"Little hedgehog, you finally came~ I just knew you'd definitely come!"

Clearly, she was far more resolute than the utterly astonished Li Xin.

The younger a girl is, the more she loves that feeling of crossing mountains and seas to be by your side.

Luckily Bai Liang really did pull it off — if the two Misses' hotel tonight had been any farther away, under the circumstances of being unable to teleport, he probably couldn't have managed it.

Praise be to good fortune.

—

"Brother Dou Xiao Bai, you're amazing."

"What's up?"

Bai Liang, who was playing with the kitten, looked at Sister Yanzi — what brings this on?

Sister Yanzi hesitated, "How did you get Meng Jie and Li Xin to agree?"

"Huh? Agree to what?"

"Agree to do it together — are they out of their minds?"

Bai Liang gave Sister Yanzi a look of utter speechlessness. "I think you're the one who's lost it."

"No way?"

"Of course not."

That doesn't add up!

Sister Yanzi racked her brains and still couldn't figure it out — today at the hotel lobby, she had seen with her own eyes Li Xin and Meng Jie leave, one right after the other.

Both of them even came over to pet the kitten.

And both Misses had come out bare-faced, yet their complexions were so rosy, as if they'd put on blush — at a glance, they'd clearly been intimate that morning too.

At the time she'd been muttering to herself that if her own Brother Dou Xiao Bai ever stacked Nazha and Reba together, that would really be the bomb!

But for those two to let him stack them is already a pretty terrifying thing.

Maybe Li Yitong really hit the nail on the head — a male succubus, a public fox spirit.

Bai Liang: Three people, or three or more, is illegal — pack away those weird thoughts in your head.

Besides, that would be far too disrespectful to the girls; he's not the sort who runs in those weird circles.

Even Duan Zhengchun never did anything like that.

Still, this wasn't something easy to explain to Sister Yanzi either — "master of time management" isn't exactly a flattering title.

Bai Liang felt he'd changed himself, and it was all that great dyeing vat of the entertainment industry!

Or rather, the original culprit might have been Meng Jie wanting to just go ahead and get married back then — otherwise Bai Liang wouldn't have had to "broaden his horizons."

Now he really had switched to a different way of living, and it felt absolutely fantastic!

Having gotten the better end of the deal, Bai Liang didn't play coy — the Misses had temporarily vanished from his world, so of course he had to do something proper.

Go home for New Year.

Ahem, no — first go home and have a meal with the family, tell them he couldn't spend New Year at home this year, that at most he could only make it for New Year's Eve.

So collecting all the red envelope money on New Year's Eve itself was perfectly reasonable.

He even made a special trip to both sides — one to Grandpa and Grandma's, the other to Maternal Grandpa and Grandma's.

Still, even though he'd collected red envelope money until his hand went numb, Bai Liang didn't reveal to his younger brothers and sisters exactly who he was dating.

He hadn't expected, though, that his little brothers and sisters were actually shipping CP too.

On New Year's Eve they almost came to blows.

All over arguing whether their big brother was dating Reba or Nazha.

Strangely enough, the little brothers all liked Nazha, the little sisters all liked Reba.

In the end the Reba faction won it all, because the little sisters could physically beat up the little brothers, while the boys didn't dare hit back.

The moment they hit back, they'd invite a higher-dimensional, merciless crackdown.

Oh right, there was also one "heretic" among them — he liked Meng Jie.

He really did like her!

Because the little rascal actually asked Bai Liang, if he wasn't dating Meng Jie, could he have her contact info — on New Year's Eve itself, Bai Liang used the wrestling he'd learned to teach this fifteen-year-old little punk a lesson.

The methods were extremely brutal; he never dared think about Meng Jie again.

Of course, Bai Liang also didn't forget the celebrity signed photos he'd promised them last year.

He even deliberately tucked them inside the red envelopes.

Compared to the red envelope money, the little brothers and sisters liked this stuff more.

But after Bai Liang left home, when they opened them up, they found that damn thing inside was all Bai Liang's own signed photos.

"Cousin-bro is so mean — he must be dating both of them!"

The little brothers and sisters' muttering, Bai Liang couldn't hear — he was already in Yanjing.

*Riding the Wind and Breaking the Waves* hit theaters on the first day of the New Year, joining the Spring Festival slaughterhouse.

Opponents included *Journey to the West: Demon Chaser*, jointly crafted by Zhou Xingchi and Xu Ke.

The action-comedy *Kung Fu Yoga*, starring Da Ge Cheng.

Wang Baoqiang's self-directed, self-starring new work *Da Nao Tian Zhu*.

*The Village of Forgetting*, led by Shu Qi and Wang Qianyuan.

The "New Year's Eve Dinner" co-cooked by Grandpa Ge and Xie Tingfeng, *The God of Cookery Showdown*.

Nazha's *The Game Rules*.

And the evergreen of the Spring Festival slot, *Boonie Bears*.

Bai Liang figured *Boonie Bears* was probably the best one to watch among these — he was even planning to find time to go support it.

Oh right, there's something rather curious about this batch of Spring Festival films.

Of the four returnees Bai Liang had previously "picked on," aside from Lu Han having no film releasing this Spring Festival, the other three would all be showing up.

*Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons* has Wu Yifan, *Kung Fu Yoga* has Zhang Yixing, and *The Game Rules* has Huang Zitao.

And although Lu Han has no film, he's performing a song on this year's Spring Festival Gala, so the subsequent battle for the trending searches will surely have him in it too.

At first Bai Liang hadn't actually thought of this angle — why would he bother paying attention to which people were in which films?

At most he'd only been keeping an eye on the Nazha-starring *The Game Rules*, even though Nazha herself had said it was destined to flop.

But Sister Yanzi had done her homework thoroughly, and had even prepared for a "defensive counterattack."

What if — and she meant what if — those four suddenly teamed up to bully their own Little Bai?

Bai Liang, on the other hand, was rather easygoing about it. "It probably won't come to that. They wouldn't even need all four to team up — *Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons* alone we probably can't beat."

Wu Yifan definitely doesn't have that kind of ability, but the names Zhou Xingchi and Xu Ke carry are just too resounding.

Sister Yanzi refused to accept that — whether you can beat them or not, you only know after you fight!

What if Han Han's film suddenly rockets to one or two billion at the box office and squashes them all flat~

Bai Liang hadn't even taken a stance yet, and Han Han was already moved to tears.

You think that highly of me?

He felt that if the film could crack one billion, he'd be burning high incense already — that would absolutely count as a super huge success.

Sister Yanzi opens her mouth and it's at least one or two billion. If that really happens, he'd have to give her a big red envelope, no matter what.

Bai Liang was rummaging through his memory — he couldn't quite recall what the original box office of *Duckweed* had been.

Unlike TV drama data, movie box office is a more straightforward thing.

Even if there are some weird manipulations that can be played with the box office, most of it can still serve as a reference.

He just wanted to know how big a storm this butterfly of his could whip up.

——

Three updates, fifteen thousand words done, muah~

Begging for monthly tickets.

(End of chapter)