Chapter 694: China Entertainment Truth System (10)

Looking at the Film and Television City across the road, which was still brightly lit even in the middle of the night, Lou Yiling gritted her teeth, picked up her phone, and made a call home:

"Mom, can you send me some money? I've thought about it carefully, and I've decided to study for a postgraduate degree."

"Why have you changed your mind again?" Lou Mu said unhappily on the other end of the line. "You're almost graduating, why study for a postgraduate degree now! Didn't your eldest uncle already entrust someone to find you an internship? It's at a bank, too! Isn't that great? Be sharp when you get there, and try to stay on after graduation..."

Lou Yiling was full of impatience: "Bank, bank, it's not even a Formal Worker position, I'd just be a gofer if I went..."

"What does it matter if it's not a Formal Worker position? It's not like the bank won't be hiring in the future. You go in, get familiar with everyone, and when they hire one day, won't you have a chance?"

Hearing this, Lou Yiling curled her lip, thinking to herself that a Formal Worker position at a bank wasn't that easy to get. They wouldn't even take graduates from 985 or 211 universities, let alone her, a graduate from an ordinary provincial second-tier university? Don't joke!

"Mom, the requirements for Formal Worker positions at banks are very high! For someone like me from an ordinary second-tier university, they won't take me unless I'm a postgraduate."

She wheedled and pestered for a long time, but still couldn't get Lou Mu to budge.

Lou Mu still held the views of the older generation: Why do girls need to study so much! They'll get married sooner or later; the maiden family spends money to raise them, and once they start working and earning money, they become someone else's daughter-in-law and earn money for their husband's family—what benefit is that to the maiden family? It's better to save it for the son! The son is the one who belongs to the family; daughters all belong to other people's families.

Lou Yiling gritted her teeth: "Just treat it as me borrowing it from home, okay? I'll pay you back once I start earning money!"

Only then did Lou Mu loosen up, but she was only willing to transfer her five thousand.

Even for this five thousand, she gave it reluctantly: "Five thousand is enough! How much money could studying for a postgraduate degree cost? Business at our store hasn't been great lately; the gross profit for a whole month isn't even five thousand..."

Lou Yiling, however, felt her mother was making excuses. If business wasn't good, why sign her younger brother up for this interest class and that tutoring class? Any one of those classes cost more than five thousand. To put it bluntly, she just loved her son more.

Whenever this happened, she disliked Xie Meini even more. She felt that Xie Meini was just there to contrast with how miserable her own life was. She gritted her teeth and swore that once she made it big, she would definitely trample Xie Meini underfoot and make her taste the bitterness of misery too!

"Mom, I can't stay in the dormitory after graduation, and I have to rent a place to study full-time. Rent is at least one thousand a month, so transfer another five thousand to make it Wanyi! I'll pay interest, is that okay?"

Lou Yiling finally managed to get Wanyi from home and used the money to rent a hotel-style apartment next to the Film and Television City.

This was the peak season for move-ins, and the rent for hotel-style apartments was not cheap.

But cheap youth hostels were not within her consideration.

This place had a complicated mix of people and a noisy environment, especially since her facial injury hadn't healed yet. If she were photographed or left behind some ugly video, and she happened to become famous one day in the future, wouldn't that become her dark history?

Therefore, she would rather go hungry and eat less than stay in a cheap hostel. The urban village where self-built houses were clustered was even further outside her range of choices.

Just like that, she moved into the hotel apartment.

Before her facial injury healed, she didn't dare to go out, relying entirely on takeout for all three meals a day.

"Boss, why don't you offer takeout?"

Xie Yang's snack stall business was getting better every day, and the queue of customers was growing longer by the day. Some customers were truly impatient with waiting and suggested that Xie Yang offer takeout.

Xie Yang firmly refused: she was already busy as a dog without takeout; if she opened for takeout, would that even be manageable?

Fortunately, the ten-day trial period was already counting down.

For the last two days, she was actually under no pressure at all—the snack stall's profits had long exceeded the wages of an extra, so even if she were so idle that she didn't have a single customer for these two days, she could just sit there swatting flies and cracking melon seeds.

Yet things went contrary to her wishes, and the queue of customers grew longer and longer.

The film crew where Liu Jie worked ordered meals from her every day, growing from seven portions on the first day to thirty-seven portions now. Even Director Fu and the leads followed the trend and ordered the stir-fried noodles and rice from her stall.

Hearing this, Xie Yang was left between laughter and tears, and gave a friendly warning: "Don't blame me if you gain weight!"

"Hey, you don't say, you know the female lead of our crew, right? The ratings-guaranteed Best Actress Qu. She said that in the past, every time she ate food from a snack stall, she would break out in acne, her face would be puffy the next morning, and her weight would shoot up. Only after eating your stir-fried food did she not only stop breaking out, but the acne that had already appeared actually faded away, and her face wasn't puffy, nor did her weight increase. It made her so happy."

Xie Yang: "..."

The Spirit Spring Water was so diluted that even its mother (the max-level Spirit Spring) wouldn't recognize it, and after being boiled into a spicy sauce, only a tiny bit was put into each portion of stir-fried noodles or rice, yet it could still have such an obvious beautifying effect? This was something she hadn't expected!

If she went to open a skincare company producing beauty and skin-care products, such effective acne-clearing cream and beauty cream could at least sell for over a thousand per set, right? Compared to 15-yuan portions of fried rice, that was truly a profiteering industry!

【Ding! Experience setting up a street stall to sell skincare products in the Film and Television City Walking Street for ten days, with profits exceeding the wages of an extra. Reward: 200 points, 60 seconds of Truth Duration.】

Xie Yang: "..."

Is this thing a "China Entertainment Truth System" or a "Stall-Setting Experience System"? Why is it so keen on making her set up stalls?

The first Task hadn't even ended, and it was already assigning her a second one?

And they were two completely unrelated Tasks!

How was she supposed to tell the customers?

—Sorry! I suddenly discovered I have a bit of a talent for skincare, I'm tired of selling snacks and am switching to selling skincare products, everyone feel free to come and support me!

Is that appropriate?

I ask you, is that appropriate?

The Novice Sub-system blinked: 【Wasn't it you, the Host, who wanted to sell skincare products? I'm helping you! This way you can do the Task while enjoying your personal hobby!】

Xie Yang: "..."

I really thank you!

【You're welcome! Satisfying the Host within my capabilities is what I should do.】

"..."

【Ding! Experience setting up a stall to sell snacks in the Film and Television City Snack Street successful! Reward: 100 points, 30 seconds of Truth Duration! The reward has been credited, please check, Host!】

When she finished work on the evening of the tenth day of setting up the stall, an electronic voice from the Novice Sub-system rang in Xie Yang's ears.

She glanced at the Sub-system backend and found that the personal information column had changed slightly: available points had changed from 0 to 100, and available Truth Duration had changed from 00:00:00 to 00:00:30.

She flipped through the Mall and found that there weren't many Props that could be exchanged for 100 points. Besides the 10 seconds of Truth Duration which were still somewhat useful, there were things like ten seconds of loud farts, ten seconds of alcoholic burps, ten seconds of marmot screams...

What kind of devilish Props are these! They were simply unwatchable!

Xie Yang twitched the corner of her mouth and quickly exited.

If she didn't exit, she was worried she might accidentally use the points to redeem a ten-second loud fart for herself, which would be embarrassing.

As for the second Task... could it wait until she had rested for two days?