Chapter 123: Variety Show Strategy System (41)

#Xie Yang is specially recruited by the National Beach Volleyball Team#

Xie Junyi and a group of shareholders clicked into the Weibo trending list and saw this trending topic hanging at the very top, with a deep red "Explosive" tag already attached to the end.

Clicking in to look, the pinned post was the latest announcement posted by the General Administration of Sport of China at 8:30.

The content of the announcement was condensed into a single sentence, which was the trending topic title itself.

This was the result of Coach Guo getting up early in the morning.

Don't look at how calm he sounded on the phone last night; his heart was actually not at peace, worried that if the promising talent he had finally unearthed didn't want to come because of this incident, what would he do!

So, he spent the whole morning making calls one by one, watching over the relevant departments to complete all the procedures, and absorbed Xie Yang as an official member of the National Beach Volleyball Team in the form of a special case and special recruitment.

Xie Yang's account was also stamped with the certification badge of a national beach volleyball athlete.

Below the pinned announcement were announcements reposted with comments by multiple marketing accounts, and a few even uploaded videos of the friendly match between Xie Yang and the National Beach Volleyball Team.

The comment section had long since boiled over.

【Sister Xie is mighty!】

【Worship Sister Xie!】

【Honestly, the first time Sister Xie played a friendly match with the men's and women's beach volleyball players, I guessed there would be a day like this!】

【Go Sister Xie! Break into the top eight at next year's Olympic Games!】

【Is it the same name and surname? That illegitimate daughter of the Xie family from last night seems to have this name too.】

【No, it's the same person.】

【So what? Can't an illegitimate daughter bring glory to the country?】

【Holy crap! It really is the same person? Ahhh! Then I have to go buy Xie Group's stock again!】

【Xie Group hit the limit down, won't I lose money if I buy in now?】

【If you don't buy when it hits the limit down, when will you buy?】

Xie Junyi hadn't yet recovered from the shock of "Is this talking about my daughter?", when he heard his secretary shout excitedly: "It's up, it's up! The stock price is rallying!"

The shareholders also came back to their senses one after another:

"That's right, how is the stock doing?"

"Yo! It really went up!"

"Good heavens! It's climbing in a straight line!"

"Lao Xie, you've raised a good daughter!"

"Lao Xie, this is where you're in the wrong. With such a capable daughter, why hide it? You should have brought her out to introduce her to us all earlier. As uncles, we might not be able to help with anything else, but we definitely have time to go cheer for her when she plays matches."

"..."

Xie Junyi: Don't talk about you all, even I just found out.

He had never cared about this daughter before; let alone beach volleyball, he hadn't even seen her play Bobo Ball.

The mood of this day was simply like riding a roller coaster.

But regardless, the stock price of Xie Group finally rose back as hoped.

Not only did it rise back, but it also hit the limit up and closed at the ceiling before the market closed at noon.

In just half a day, having first experienced the freezing cold of a limit down and then rising to an unprecedented height, the shareholders were all smiles.

They put their arms around Xie Junyi's shoulders, indicating they wanted to treat him to a meal, and couldn't go three sentences without mentioning that he had raised a capable, good daughter.

Xie Group's partners and suppliers also called one after another to offer their congratulations.

#Xie Group# caught the favorable wind and made it onto the trending list once.

For three consecutive days, Xie Group's stock index was floating high in red, hanging at the top of the limit-up closing page.

This kept the corners of Xie Junyi's mouth from ever going down.

Learning that Xie Yang was still recording the program and couldn't come back, he deposited 20 million into her pocket money card as a reward for her joining the National Team and a thank-you gift for rallying the company's stock price.

If not for her joining the beach volleyball team, the entire Xie Group's market value of 200 billion in assets might have evaporated.

Xie Junyi gave this money willingly.

Upon receiving the huge sum, Xie Yang raised an eyebrow and didn't stubbornly return it.

This could be considered something she earned with her own strength, so why not take it?

Not only would she take it, she would spend it.

She backhanded 16 million to Gu Qiaoxi.

The home-buying funds in Gu Qiaoxi's hands suddenly rose from 4 million to 20 million; now, let alone the small two-bedroom apartment Xie Yang required, even a three, four, or five-bedroom place in the Third Ring Road would be enough!

With the remaining 4 million, Xie Yang invested in the stock market.

The system didn't say when the next Task world would open; if it were like the Tycoon Plane and she had to stay until she was fifty or so, wouldn't she need to earn some retirement money for herself?

Director Cen saw Xie Yang recording the program with consistent calmness and couldn't help but admire her composure.

Ever since the announcement from the General Administration of Sport of China came out, the voices online weren't all supporting her or optimistic about her; there were plenty of abusive voices questioning her and suspecting her of hype.

Quite a few haters even swarmed under the National Team's official account to collectively denounce her, saying all sorts of nasty things.

As a grown man, he almost broke down just seeing these comments, let alone a young girl in her early twenties who wouldn't even receive her university diploma until next month.

He worried several times that she would be angered to tears.

So he would take time to counsel her a few times, but unexpectedly, Xie Yang smiled and said: "Thank you, Director Cen, but I have always liked to let facts do the talking."

What facts?

Oh, next year is the Olympic Games, held every four years.

Could she really do it?

Leading the National Team to break into the top eight and giving the haters a powerful counterattack?

At the end of April, after the recording of Romantic Cabin concluded, Xie Yang went to report to the Shazhou Island Training Base.

Through news online, the school already knew she had joined the National Beach Volleyball Team and would be undergoing closed-off training at Shazhou Island next.

For the series of procedures before graduation, they naturally gave the green light wherever possible; for those that truly required her personal presence, they were postponed for a period, and it would not be too late to handle them after the training ended.

A second-tier arts college had produced an official member specially recruited by a national sports team; from the principal down to the logistics and cleaning staff, everyone was incredibly happy and couldn't wait to bask in the reflected glory, so how could they intentionally make things difficult for her?

Classmates who knew Xie Yang also felt a sense of honor, telling everyone they met—

"Have you checked the trending searches lately? Xie Yang, who was recently specially recruited by the National Team, is my classmate; we're in the same department."

"Xie Yang is my roommate! It shouldn't be hard to get an autograph from her when the time comes, right?"

"Oh, so it's her? I know her! One time during a stage play performance, she played a maid and I played a nanny."

"..."

The saying "Ten years of cold study go unnoticed, but one success makes the world know" is likely just like this.

Watching the steadily climbing ratings of Romantic Cabin and seeing the company's stock market situation looking excellent, Xie Danni felt a complex mix of emotions.

Her original intention in planning this program was not to make money, but to earn Resentment Value from Xie Yang.

As it turned out, she hadn't earned any Resentment Value, the Strategy System had run off halfway through, but she had instead made Xie Yang's career—

Not only did she stand out from this program and become the popular "Sister Xie" whom netizens nationwide were familiar with, but she also entered the National Beach Volleyball Team and became an official member highly valued by the coaches.

A lump was stuck in her throat, unable to go up or down.

It was truly damn frustrating!

Yet the current Xie Yang was no longer the illegitimate daughter and amateur she could knead and flatten at will, who dared not resist.

She had entered the National Beach Volleyball Team and become a Spiker who could stand on her own;

She was revered by company shareholders as a savior of the market, and every time they met her father, they praised her to the skies, making her father grin like a fool.

The stain of the first half of her life had unexpectedly become the glory of the second half.

It really was... ironic!