Chapter 481

Don't even talk about whether his gunnery is accurate or not.

Bai Liang's father was initially a little proud, but his expression soon turned strange.

Mainly because his son was interacting with Dili Reba through the screen, so sweet it was.

Maybe he's just not trendy enough—yeah, too feudal?

He couldn't help glancing at Li Yitong beside him.

He'd known this Miss for a long time—after all, she'd filmed a TV drama with his son early on; those crescent-shaped eyes when she smiled had been lavishly praised by Bai Liang's mother while they watched TV together, and she'd loved her dearly.

As a result, Bai's father also held an extremely strong impression of her.

But now, not only had his son brought two girls at once, he was now sweet-talking another girl across the screen.

Li Yitong seemed to sense something, turned her head toward Bai's father, and tilted her head at him with a smile.

That adorable little expression made him feel a little embarrassed.

So then.

You brat!

Bai Liang:???

His back suddenly grew cold.

That doesn't make sense. Why would he feel this way?

Usually, if someone had ill intentions toward him—or plotted some scheme—it was the person with those thoughts who ended up getting the short end of the stick.

Of course, Bai Liang had experienced this before; as a child, though rarely beaten, he wasn't entirely spared.

When he and the rich little girl in his class ran away together, he got beaten after being dragged back.

Of course, Brother Liang never took losses—he'd been beaten by his father, so he cursed his father would never catch a single fish in his lifetime.

Instantly, he understood!

He turned to look at his father and indeed spotted the "murderous intent" in his eyes—he guessed his father was already plotting how to beat him.

No wonder his back felt cold~

When his own father wanted to get him, even the heavens, his stepfather, couldn't help or interfere.

Fortunately, as Erlang Shen, he had Xiaotianquan under his command.

"Sister, when our drama airs, it'll be like this too, right?" Dou Xiao Tian whispered.

Her voice was so soft, just loud enough for Li Yitong and Bai's father to hear.

"Yes~" Li Yitong nodded decisively.

She'd already started imagining it—when she and Bai Liang did their drama promotion, it had to be even sweeter than this!

Hmph! She was naturally sweeter-looking than Dili Reba!

Add Dou Xiao Tian, the sweet girl, and it'd be sweetness piled on sweetness—sweetness oozing from every grin.

Thinking of this, Li Yitong couldn't help but feel delighted—in another year or so, it'd be her turn.

"Your drama? Are you two filming together recently?" Bai's father asked curiously.

"Yes, Uncle—the title is 'The Son-in-Law,' you absolutely must watch it."

"'The Son-in-Law'? That title…"

"It's the story of Brother Dou Xiao Bai marrying into Sister's family."

Hearing this, Bai's father couldn't help rubbing his chin. "So the child won't take the Bai surname?"

This made Li Yitong and Dou Xiao Tian barely hold back their laughter—Uncle is so adorable!

No wonder he's Bai Liang's father—the way he rubbed his chin, it was identical!

Li Yitong stifled her laughter and quickly explained, "In the drama, his character's surname isn't Bai—it's Ning."

"Then no problem—let him take the child's surname too."

Bai's father quickly waved his hands—he'd almost said something like, "Can they have two kids, one with the Bai surname?"

As for marrying in or not, he didn't care.

After all, this kid Bai Liang had shown exceptional talent for living off women since childhood; the family had long been mentally prepared.

God damn it, let him take the child's surname

Li Yitong and Dou Xiao Tian finally lost all composure, shaking with laughter.

But after this interruption, Bai's father's original plan to beat his son gradually faded.

TV dramas really are like this—today being sweet with one girl, tomorrow engaged to another.

His wife, Bai Liang's real mother, had grown fond of different girls because of his dramas—sometimes she liked this one, sometimes that one, convinced each was perfectly suited to her son.

Forget it~ He was never controllable as a child; now he's grown up—let him be.

Bai Liang: Huh?!

Suddenly, he felt he'd earned an epic achievement: his father's approval!

Unfortunately, only his father approved.

Outside, there were probably many other "fathers" itching to get him.

Like Dili's own father—he still wants to take him down.

Earlier, Mango TV proposed a show called "Daughters' Love," centered on "fathers openly watching their daughters date," capturing the most representative dating attitudes of today's youth and portraying the subtle stories between fathers, daughters, and their boyfriends.

This invitation was the fastest one Bai Liang had ever declined.

Even when Mango TV said he could pick any female guest—he could choose anyone, they'd handle the rest.

Yeah—even married female guests!

Of course, that was just talk—she said it only to show determination.

But Bai Liang felt zero temptation and refused outright.

Just like how the heavens, that stepdad of his, wouldn't protect him from a beating by his real dad, the dads of the girls close to him also carry a bit of this buff — they might really end up catching a beating.

Besides Reba's dad wanting to deal with him, now Meng Jie's dad also looks at him pretty unfavorably.

Because Meng Jie really is a heroine among women!

Last year she ran her mouth saying she'd sneak some of her dad's cigarettes and alcohol for him during New Year's.

Turns out the facts proved she wasn't just running her mouth.

Right now the "criminal evidence" is sitting in Bai Liang's RV.

But Meng Jie's first time as a "thief" wasn't very experienced — she didn't actually take that much.

She said first time's a stranger, second time's an acquaintance — next time she can haul over even more!

And her dad naturally wouldn't blame his leaky little padded jacket too much, but as for Bai Liang, the little bastard who "egged her on" to do this sort of thing — he's really got it in for him! —

The livestream of Bai Liang and Reba connecting at Game Science's office sweep didn't actually last very long.

But the amount of information packed inside was truly not small.

Originally, a sweep like this kind of ground-pushing activity, the main play was all the secondary spread afterward.

And in this livestream, the fandom focused on the sweet interactions between the two, but the gaming circle focused on something else.

The core creative team of "Black Myth: Wukong" is quite famous — at least very well-known within the gaming circle.

They were the core members of Tencent's "Asura" project team back in the day.

How to put it — Feng Ji's so-called metaphysical idea actually does have a bit of scientific basis.

The word-of-mouth effect.

Bai Liang's path has been too smooth — no matter what he joins, that thing just succeeds.

The nickname "Daxian" rolls off netizens' tongues more and more easily.

To a certain extent, he's almost on par with an auspicious omen.

At least Mango TV, the most superstitious of them all, truly treats him as an "auspicious omen" — otherwise they wouldn't ask Bai Liang about every single project.

Can Chinese people actually make a proper AAA masterpiece?

Before, the internet was generally pessimistic — the gaming circle, while hopeful about Feng Ji's team, was still pessimistic in its thinking.

So much so that many gamers said things like "I'll buy it to support them later, consider it a contribution to domestic games."

That kind of talk sounds pretty face-giving, but at its core it's still not optimistic.

But now — do you believe in metaphysics?

Some takes started flooding the comment sections under related topics:

"Holy crap, Bai Daxian got involved? Suddenly my confidence in Feng Ji's team shot way up!"

"Honestly, even though I don't follow stars, I've heard of Bai Liang's freaky luck — looking forward to it~"

"Daxian, Daxian, boundless magic power! The gaming circle's savior has arrived!"

"I still remember Bai Liang stepping into a rainstorm and the dark clouds parting a path for him — and it wasn't photoshopped. This guy definitely has something going on!"

"It's been said, if you swapped Wang Mang for Daxian, who would win between him and Liu Xiu is really hard to say~"

"."

So~ who says mascots are useless?

This is the biggest use of all!

Two years ago when Yang Chaoyue blew up, a bunch of people were praying to koi fish.

And compared to her, Bai Liang is the bigger koi — from not long after his debut, people have been "praying" to him nonstop.

It was those highly educated college kids who started it.

Daxian comes, confidence comes; Daxian comes, hearts unite!

The fandom next door watched and found it rather baffling — what are these gaming circle folks so hyped about?

They just thought, hey, hooking up with a game company kind of hits the theme of "You Are My Glory."

Many fangirls actually can't quite tell the essential difference between "Honor of Kings" and "Black Myth: Wukong" — aren't they all just games?

Of course, some of them actually knew a bit more — there were even people worrying that since the game in the drama is "Honor of Kings," shouldn't they be sweeping Tencent's offices? Running off to another game company, would Tencent be unhappy about that?

Fans really are kind of adorable — they actually thought of this, as if Tencent would suppress Bai Liang and "You Are My Glory" over it. Internet giants apparently have to follow the female-channel logic too~ getting jealous?

Tencent Video: We're not idiots either~

Besides, Bai Liang is still the spokesperson for League of Legends right now — his cooperation with Tencent is still pretty close.

"Boss Bai, your son is badass!"

Watching Bai Liang come by for one visit and generate this much attention, Feng Ji's mouth had been crooked from smiling for two days — when Bai Da was about to head off fishing again, he couldn't help but toss out a line.

"What, your Weibo gained followers again?"

"Gained several hundred thousand! Estimated to gain at least over a million later~"

"That's not that many either — my son has tens of millions of fans." Bai Da waved his hand.

Just as the two were chatting, Bai Da's phone suddenly rang.

He was currently packing up to head out fishing, so he simply hit speakerphone.

"Boss Bai~ is Bai Liang really your son?"

"No, do you want me to get you a paternity certificate?"

"Hey, saw your Moments yesterday and just found out — you never posted before. Get him to voice a character in our game, would that work?"

"He's really busy right now..." Bai Da scratched his head, thinking he couldn't keep bossing his son around like this — young people have their own careers too.

But those three youngsters on the other end, while individually not as thick-skinned as Feng Ji, the three of them combined... weren't exactly ordinary people either.

After relentless pestering, they prepared to first "lure" Bai Da to Shanghai to talk in detail.

Hearing this, Feng Ji started feeling a bit sour.

After Old Bai hung up the phone, he couldn't help but add, "Whatever second-dimension mobile game they made—how could it compare with our game? Boss Bai, don't let these kids fool you."

"It's one thing for gamers to have a鄙视链, but you, a game developer, have one too?"

"Hey, I was just saying it off the cuff. Their game is supposed to start open beta this year, right?"

"Should be. But they're pretty impressive—I remember we invested back in '12." So much time had passed that Old Bai honestly couldn't remember clearly anymore, exactly how he'd invested in this company called miHoYo. He himself wasn't even sure.

Seemed like it had something to do with his own son. Back then, Bai Liang had just started college or was in his third year of high school—he couldn't quite recall.

Forget it, must've been his own sharp eye! A genius at investing! Whatever he touched turned to profit!

And miHoYo had only done one public angel-round funding; because the second-dimension theme wasn't favored, Old Bai had joined in with the greatest of ease.

"Alright, alright, I'm off to Shanghai to check things out. Xiao Feng, keep at it. When it's ready for testing, I'll be the first one to come beat up my son."

"Absolutely."

Feng Ji saw Old Bai off with some disappointment, but it didn't take long before he wasn't disappointed anymore.

The crazy surge of followers on Weibo was only the beginning—Bai Liang's power actually had a sequel. Have these female celebrities lost their minds?

The Spider-Spirit family was quickly filled to the brim. Feng Ji, who'd originally just wanted to use Bai Liang to trick a few free celebrity cameos, suddenly felt like his game's female characters were a bit too few. There simply weren't enough to go around among Bai Liang's "lady friends"!

In the end he couldn't help exclaiming once more: "Boss Bai's aim is fucking too accurate!"

——

Old Bai's aim was accurate, but Bai Liang's aim, on the other hand, was exceptionally... inaccurate.

This point, quite a few young ladies had given their reviews on.

Generally, whoever's turn it was would mutter about it.

Case in point—Li Yitong had recently been unable to resist muttering about it.

Actually, when she'd come back from Hangzhou she was still pretty happy, because Old Bai had generously hosted her and Dou Xiao Tian, and had taken Bai Liang along for a super expensive meal.

How much that meal cost didn't really matter, but that kind of attitude—any girl would feel really comfortable in her heart receiving it.

A sense of being valued!

Of course, Old Bai really had no choice either—he couldn't figure out at all which of these girls was the real deal in the end, so he could only treat each and every one of them as a daughter-in-law.

Running off from Feng Ji's place was also partly to hide from some things.

He'd already anticipated that more people would come later.

But for the few he'd met so far, he'd at least managed to treat them all equally, keeping the bowl perfectly level.

As for Li Yitong, after interacting with Old Bai, naturally she had more thoughts.

The sisters were back on the same starting line—so how does one overtake on the curve?

There was one rather risky method.

It's just a pity that her little belly stayed perfectly flat, and her little waist was positively slim.

"Sister, are you hungry? I'll go find you something to eat."

Seeing Li Yitong rubbing her belly, Dou Xiao Tian got the wrong idea, but this display was enough to make Li Yitong pull her into her arms for a bout of affection.

"Xiao Tian~ you're still the best to me! Stinky men can't be relied on, let's just live together from now on!"

"Okay! I want to stay with sister too~"

After their sisterly bond was further升华, Li Yitong couldn't help sighing—she'd only managed to land one chance to play the male and female leads with Bai Liang, was she really doomed to suffer "divine punishment"?

All sorts of tough characters took turns "serving" her.

Sister Tian Tian has arrived!

Special appearance as Lou Shuwan.

If the other party had just stuck close to Bai Liang after joining the crew and guarded against Li Yitong, that would have been fine—she'd long been mentally prepared for that.

But the result was, after Sister Tian Tian arrived, she actually wanted to steal Dou Xiao Tian from her.

At first Li Yitong thought she'd gotten the wrong idea, or was hallucinating.

But she quickly realized that was exactly it!

The moment Sister Tian Tian arrived on set, she fussed over Dou Xiao Tian with warm concern, and held her hand acting like she especially liked her.

This enthusiasm caught even Dou Xiao Tian herself somewhat off guard.

You have to understand, originally she'd also come prepared to help Sister Tong Tong win another defensive battle.

But Sister Tian Tian played dirty—instead of going for the main target, she went for her, the defender.

Dou Xiao Tian, this young sweet girl, facing Sister Tian Tian, this veteran ditzy-sweet girl, really was a bit "completely unable to fight back."

After all, the older sister liked her and was good to her—she couldn't exactly bare her teeth and show her claws at her, could she?

A good puppy wouldn't do that.

Sister Tian Tian: I just love Dou Xiao Tian so much! This little sister actually dared to bare her teeth at Dilireba and Gulnazar!

Please, please come be her little sister!

Li Yitong: No way!

When Bai Liang was being snatched away, she hadn't shown such strong aggression or petty streak, but when Dou Xiao Tian was being snatched she truly couldn't stand it for even a second.

She went straight at Sister Tian Tian on set, daggers drawn!

She called Dou Xiao Tian over, Li Yitong would pull Dou Xiao Tian away—the two of them just had to compete like that!

And Dou Xiao Tian, caught in the middle, was helpless like a man~

Ah... so this is the legendary Shura field?

So scary!

She didn't know why, but she suddenly felt a bit of admiration for Bai Liang. Just two sisters expressing enthusiasm and fighting over her, and she was already struggling to cope—Bai Liang had so many young ladies fighting over him, so why could he still be cheerful all day, with zero psychological pressure?

Bai Liang: Want to learn? I'll teach you~

When it came to counseling little sisters, he still had plenty of insights.

Speaking of which, the college entrance exam is coming up soon, and Bai Liang recently took time out to check on Zhao Jinmai's pre-exam mental state.

According to her mother, classmate Student Mai Mai has actually been quite irritable and depressed lately.

And after Bai Liang's "diagnosis," the basic verdict was: she's faking it.

Zhao Jinmai is actually quite confident about the college entrance exam, but she's really grown up — she's actually learned to use this kind of method to trick Bai Liang into paying attention to her.

Still, Bai Liang didn't expose her. A little girl of that age, while being clever and mischievous, is actually quite fragile too.

If he really laid bare all her little schemes, it might genuinely affect her mindset, and her actually getting depressed at that point wouldn't be impossible.

As for Dou Xiao Tian's predicament, that was actually easier to resolve.

"Little Watermelon~"

"Here!"

"Come over to me."

No need to scramble — Master Bai Da graciously "accepted."

(End of chapter)