[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-reborn-in-huayu-they-re-forcing-me-to-be-a-jerk-":3,"chapter-reborn-in-huayu-they-re-forcing-me-to-be-a-jerk--reborn-in-huayu-they-re-forcing-me-to-be-a-jerk--chapter-36":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Reborn in Huayu: They're Forcing Me to Be a Jerk Again?",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2347779,4588,"Chapter 36: Lunar New Year","reborn-in-huayu-they-re-forcing-me-to-be-a-jerk--chapter-36",36,"\u003Cp>Returning from the 4S dealership, their family of three spent the Lunar New Year in a hotel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Bi had ordered the most high-end set menu. By 7 o'clock, the living room of their suite was already filled with a table full of dishes. It was far more sumptuous than the New Year's Eve dinner Pan Chengrong usually cooked, featuring sea cucumber, abalone, lobster, and everything else. Yet, Pan Chengrong still looked quite dissatisfied, saying that Chen Bi didn't know how to order food and was being extravagant and wasteful; it would have been better for the family to just have a lively hot pot meal together.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this era, Uncle Benshan had not yet retired, and the Spring Festival Gala was still a necessity. After eating, the family of three stayed together to watch television. Though they said they were watching TV, the three of them couldn't sit quietly together for even five minutes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Bi's New Year greeting calls hadn't stopped since past six o'clock; the key was that it wasn't just others greeting him, he also had to greet others. As for Pan Chengrong, after 8 o'clock, her housewife friends finished their New Year's Eve dinners and began calling each other to gossip.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Relatively speaking, Chen Nuo was not that busy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He first made a call to Zhang Yi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the other party's phone was already turned off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Nuo suddenly remembered that during the days he was practicing dance the hardest, Zhang Yi had called him to say that the post-production for his film was all finished, and that after finding a few distributors to view it, the prices offered were not ideal, and they all suggested he enter it into international film festivals.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the time, he was exhausted every day, and after finishing that call, he had put the matter to the back of his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking about it now, it had been nearly two weeks since Zhang Yi and the others left, and he didn't know how things were going. This was an era without WeChat, and international long-distance call rates were sky-high; once people went abroad, it was very inconvenient to stay in touch. Chen Nuo could only silently wish them good luck.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Zhang Yi, it was Li Er.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The situation with Li Er was quite complicated; Chen Nuo first exchanged New Year's greetings with Li Er himself, then Chen Bi and Pan Chengrong had to greet Master Li, and after that, Qi Yuntian had to speak with him, and once finished, Qi Yuntian also had to exchange New Year's greetings with Chen Bi and Pan Chengrong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By the time the call was over, Chen Nuo's Nokia 3100 only had one bar of battery left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After these two most important calls were made, the rest could be handled via text message. Chen Nuo swapped in a fresh phone battery and began replying to the messages one by one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Zhihan's: \"May your destiny be like peach blossoms, your wealth like sea spray, your life like a flower of happiness, your dating life like morning glories, and your career like climbing vines. Don't be too fickle once you have love, don't spend recklessly once you have money, and share some of your windfall with me. Happy New Year.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Nuo replied: \"May all good things come in pairs, may you be the most glorious when you go out, may you be king of the world, surpassing Qin Shi Huang; may everyone support you, may you eat the meat while others drink the broth, may banknotes fill your pockets, Happy New Year.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Surprisingly, Ma Yanran had also sent him a text. He didn't even click on it and deleted it directly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he saw one from Yang Mi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The Year of the Rooster is here; may your life be as vibrant as a rooster's comb, your career as high-spirited as a rooster's crow, and your love life as colorful as a rooster's tail. Happy New Year, and may the Year of the Rooster be auspicious!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He replied: \"Happy New Year, I hope we can both pass the exam.\" After a while, while Chen Nuo was still replying to other messages, Yang Mi called him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Happy New Year, are you back in Jingcheng?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Happy New Year. I am. How about you?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I'm a local of Jingcheng, I'm at home wrapping dumplings. Seeing that you were so sincere in writing me a text, I decided to give you a call. How is your preparation going?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What preparation are you talking about?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The exam, of course.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Oh, oh, it's about ready, how about you?\" Chen Nuo felt a wave of shame. He hadn't prepared a thing; since graduating from the training class, he had been busy dancing and filming for the past month.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I don't know, I feel like everything is up to fate now. Although they are recruiting 30 people this year, I heard that there are many more applicants than before, so the competition is even more intense. So, we are competitors too.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How could I compete with you? You're so pretty, you'll definitely PK me out.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There are too many beauties, what am I? I've been suffering from insomnia these past few days; every time I wash my hair, it falls out in clumps, I'm scared to death. Tell me about yourself, how does it feel to go to Shanghai to film with big stars and big directors? Did you meet Jin Chengwu and Zhang Xue?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I met them, it didn't feel like much, they're all quite normal.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yang Mi sighed faintly, \"When will I ever have a day like that? Someone asks me, 'Yang Mi, how is it filming with Jin Chengwu and Zhang Xue?' and I'll say, 'It's nothing, everyone is quite normal.'\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Nuo laughed: \"I think it's more likely that one day in the future, someone will ask me, 'Chen Nuo, what's it like renting a place with Yang Mi?' and I'll say, 'It's nothing, she's quite normal.'\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hahahaha, I'll take your word for it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After finishing the call with Yang Mi, Chen Nuo thought for a moment and realized there was actually one more person. But he decided to let it go; after all, since the other person said they had forgotten, he shouldn't go and disturb them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But after Chen Nuo finished the New Year's vigil and got into bed at 1 o'clock to sleep, his phone beeped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Nuo opened the text and saw it was actually Xia Yehe; the content was just three words: \"Happy New Year.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Heh, quite aloof. Well, I'll be even more aloof than you, he replied with two words: \"You too.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1113,"2026-06-21T01:34:38.888Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","991c1d5fa81988c9ea971a63d6d2659f9f217e1900b1867ebebba3a9ebc859c9","reborn-in-huayu-they-re-forcing-me-to-be-a-jerk--chapter-37","reborn-in-huayu-they-re-forcing-me-to-be-a-jerk--chapter-35",491,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Freborn-in-huayu-they-re-forcing-me-to-be-a-jerk--cover.jpg"]