Chapter 66: Interview Scene

The other students nearby subconsciously fell silent, watching this scene with varied expressions, and more and more people began to gather around.

Cao Sheng looked at the smiling school leaders and Lu Xiangwei and the others before him, unable to help but be speechless for a moment.

He had just reflected on himself last night, deciding that from now on he would be low-key, low-key, and even more low-key, and that he would put more time and thought into his own work.

As it turned out... people from the television station came to interview him today?

The tree wants to be still, but the wind will not cease, right?

He stood up with mixed feelings and nodded to the people in front of him.

"Good morning, leaders, Miss Cai!"

Cao Sheng offered a greeting.

Department Head Wu Chengping was also there, nodding with a smile at this moment, and the other school leaders also nodded with smiles.

One of the school leaders spoke up: "Cao Sheng, is it? This Miss Cai is a popular host from our city's television station. She usually doesn't do off-site interviews, but she came specifically to interview you today. You must carry forward our school's fine traditions and cooperate actively!"

Cao Sheng looked at this leader.

He thought to himself: What fine traditions does our school have?

At this moment, the tall Miss Cai stepped forward with a radiant smile and extended a slender hand, "Hello, Central Plains Little Grey! It is a pleasure to meet you. My surname is Cai, Cai Yuhua. Nice to meet you, nice to meet you!"

Cao Sheng reached out to shake her hand, then withdrew it, "Hello, Miss Cai!"

Another school leader interjected: "Miss Cai, there are too many eyes and ears here. Why don't we go to the office building ahead for the interview?"

Cai Yuhua nodded and asked Cao Sheng with a smile, "Do you think that is alright?"

Cao Sheng scanned the other alumni nearby; quite a few people had already gathered around to watch the spectacle.

He did not want to be interviewed in front of a crowd either.

So he nodded in agreement.

Thus, the group chatted and laughed as they arrived at the nearby office building.

At Cai Yuhua's request, the school leaders approved the use of a small conference room.

The several school leaders also tactfully did not continue to follow.

Cao Sheng followed Cai Yuhua toward the conference room, with a staff member leading the way in front.

Soon, Cai Yuhua, the cameraman, the makeup artist, and Cao Sheng entered a conference room on the second floor.

Someone brought in a few bottles of mineral water.

Cai Yuhua apologized to Cao Sheng, stating that she needed to touch up her makeup first and asked Cao Sheng to wait a moment.

Then Cao Sheng saw the young makeup artist touching up Cai Yuhua's makeup not far away, while the cameraman was testing the equipment.

Cao Sheng lowered his head, opened his mineral water, and sipped it bit by bit.

He was not in a hurry.

In any case, his original task today was to welcome new students; sitting here was not comfortable at all.

He just felt a bit emotional: those who write novels are truly contradictory. When they aren't famous, they hope to be famous; once they are truly famous, they complain about being disturbed by book fans and the media, worrying that it will affect their state of mind and be detrimental to their writing.

He thought of that phrase again: wanting to fall in love, yet fearing being screwed.

When this phrase flashed through his mind, he couldn't help but show a self-deprecating smile.

Cai Yuhua, who was touching up her makeup not far away, had actually been keeping an eye on Cao Sheng.

As a popular host for the city television station, although she usually did not go out for interviews, she would occasionally do so.

It just depended on whether the interviewee was of enough status for her to show up in person.

And every time she went out for an interview, she would use the time spent touching up her makeup to observe the interviewee calmly, thereby judging the interviewee's mood, personality, and other details.

At this moment, she noticed that Cao Sheng had a self-deprecating smile on his face, not knowing what he was thinking of. She blinked, and curiosity arose in her heart.

Therefore, after the interview officially began, the first question she asked was: "Hello, Central Plains Little Grey. Just now, while I was touching up my makeup over there, I noticed that you seemed to have a bitter smile. Could you share with me why you had a bitter smile at that time? Was it because you thought of something unpleasant?"

Her pair of bright, large eyes stared at Cao Sheng without blinking.

Cao Sheng: "Did I?"

Cai Yuhua nodded, "Yes, you might not have noticed it yourself, but I saw it. At the time, I felt it was very strange. Logically speaking, you are now enjoying both fame and fortune, and you achieved success at a young age, so you should be in the prime of your life. Under normal circumstances, your mood recently should be quite good. So! I am very curious about what caused you to have that bitter smile just now?"

Cao Sheng: "..."

After a moment of silence, Cao Sheng looked at her in surprise, feeling that this woman did not play by the rules at all; this first question was completely outside his expectations.

"It's nothing. Whatever you want to ask today, we can officially begin now."

He skipped over her question.

Cai Yuhua frowned slightly, then returned to a smile and asked into the microphone: "Alright! Since that's the case, let's talk about what happened yesterday! I heard that when you were welcoming new students at your school yesterday, you seemed to have been recognized by a new student, which then led to hundreds of people at the scene asking you for autographs. Is that true?"

After asking, she immediately pointed the microphone at Cao Sheng.

Cao Sheng nodded, "Yes, that's right! That happened."

Cai Yuhua asked again: "Then can you share your feelings at that time? Was it more happiness, or more annoyance?"

Cao Sheng pondered for a few seconds, "Half and half, I suppose!"

Cai Yuhua's eyes lit up, her upper body subconsciously leaned forward slightly, and she pressed on: "So, you are saying that you have already felt the troubles of fame, is that right?"

Cao Sheng nodded and made a sound of agreement.

The smile on Cai Yuhua's face became radiant, and she continued to press: "Oh? If that's the case, can I infer that you are usually an introverted person? Because you are usually introverted, you are not used to being surrounded by too many book fans asking for autographs after suddenly becoming famous? Because you are not used to it, that is why you feel both happy and annoyed, half and half?"

What kind of questions are these?

You came specifically to interview me today just to ask about my feelings regarding being asked for autographs by book fans yesterday?

Cao Sheng frowned.

If he met a reporter outside of school who kept asking these types of questions, he would definitely be too lazy to answer and might have turned around and left long ago.

But now he was at school.

Moreover, several school leaders and counselors had just come forward, so he could only patiently continue to answer, "Pretty much! I don't talk much usually."

Cai Yuhua nodded repeatedly with a face full of smiles, "Understood! You people who do creative work are usually thinking about creative matters in your heads, right? And I think it must be difficult for you and the classmates around you to find many common topics, right? After all, your interests and hobbies are all different!"

Cao Sheng shook his head.

He did not want to admit in front of the media that he had no common topics with his classmates; this would affect his future interpersonal relationships.

"That's not it! I just want to save the things I want to say for my novels, to turn my desire for expression into text. Do you understand?"

Cai Yuhua was very surprised.

She frowned slightly, tilted her head to look at Cao Sheng for a while, then nodded slowly and smiled: "Understood! I really didn't expect you to be so young and yet have such thoughts. Saving the things you want to say to write into your novels... that is truly a very unique idea!"

As she spoke, she even gave Cao Sheng a thumbs up.

Perhaps it was because these words of Cao Sheng's had an effect, but for the rest of the interview, her attitude became much more formal.

The questions she raised also became much more formal.

Such as: "When did you start trying to write novels?"

"Is 'Days Living with a Flight Attendant' your first work? Besides this book and 'I Wish to Become an Immortal', have you published any other works?"

"Is 'Days Living with a Flight Attendant' based on your real experiences? Or is it purely just a fictional story?"

"How did you think of writing a story like 'I Wish to Become an Immortal'? When writing this book, were those cultivation levels, magical treasures, and heavenly materials and earthly treasures in the book made up by yourself? Or did you refer to any ancient texts?"

And so on.

On the evening of that day, the footage of Cai Yuhua interviewing Cao Sheng appeared on the "Huizhou Evening News".