I Really Didn’t Want to Be Famous - Chapter 5
Chapter 5: Hurry Up And Open The Company!
Translator: Larbre Studio
Editor: Larbre Studio
Sunset.
The sunset glow gradually rose from the horizon.
Lu Yuan told a lie.
He said that his company had closed for the day and that he had left his key in the company. Also, the front desk girl had gone home as well.
After lying, he looked at Wang Jinxue sincerely.
When he told a lie, Lu Yuan’s face didn’t turn red and his heart didn’t beat fast. This made him have the illusion that he had told a perfect lie for the first time in his life.
If he could, he wanted to give himself a compliment.
The setting sun was beautiful.
Wang Jinxue also stared at Lu Yuan. She didn’t say anything else, nor did she have any other expressions. She just looked at Lu Yuan peacefully.
They maintained this stand-off for a long time…
After an unknown amount of time, a look flashed across Wang Jinxue’s eyes, and she smiled.
Lu Yuan was really a terrible liar.
Wang Jinxue naturally knew that Lu Yuan was lying.
However, she didn’t expose him.
She turned her head towards the sun, which was about to set.
This man is quite stubborn. At least, Wang Jinxue had never met such a stubborn man before.
She suddenly felt excited at what kind of surprise this man would bring her tomorrow.
“Well then, call me at nine o’clock tomorrow.”
Wang Jinxue stood up and left behind her phone number.
Lu Yuan looked at Wang Jinxue’s back and heaved a sigh of relief, noted down the number, and stored it on his mobile phone.
The sound of a Lamborghini leaving echoed from outside the compound. After the Lamborghini’s sound gradually faded into the distance, Lu Yuan finished his coffee and came down from the second floor at a pace that he thought was very elegant.
He was going to leave, but after a look at the cash register next to him, he suddenly stopped.
His breath froze for a moment.
He remembered that when Wang Jinxue left, she didn’t seem to have paid!
Yes, she didn’t pay!
This problem was not trivial.
Blue Mountain coffee was $300 a cup, Kopi Luwak was $600 a cup. Coupled with some snacks and desserts, a total of $1,200…
$1,200!
What a shocking number it was!
Lu Yuan believed that if he had a heart condition, he would have passed away immediately.
Was it really that the prettier a woman was, the better she would be at telling lies?
What happened to “treating coffee?”
Why did she not!
Lu Yuan felt cheated!
Wang Jinxue didn’t foot the bill, so Lu Yuan had to.
However…
“Hello, sir. What can I do for you?” The young girl at the cash register saw Lu Yuan walking back and forth nearby, and she asked softly with a smile on her face.
She had a very good impression of Lu Yuan.
After all, that song, Für Elise, had tugged at her heartstrings.
Some music could score bonus points. At least, Lu Yuan was a very artistic youth in the eyes of the young girl.
“I’ll foot the bill!” Lu Yuan almost squeezed these words out of his mouth. He felt very sad.
He wanted to cry if he could.
However, he couldn’t show that he was uncomfortable. He had to be elegant!
He finally took his credit card out of his pocket and gave an impression of a third-rate actor paying the bill in a TV series.
He was going to charge another $1,200 to his credit card.
Anyway, the bill would be due next month. It wouldn’t hurt.
“Foot the bill?” The young girl looked at Lu Yuan.
“Yes!” Lu Yuan nodded, “Swipe the card!”
“No need to, sir…”
“No need?”
“Yes, no need to foot the bill anymore.”
“Why?”
“A gentleman has paid for you and left a number, saying that he would like you to contact him if you are free,” the young girl took out a piece of paper and handed it to Lu Yuan.
“???” Lu Yuan received the piece of paper and looked at the numbers on it.
Contact him?
Was it a sex worker?
That was the first thought in Lu Yuan’s mind.
…
Summer nights were always lively.
The moon hung high in the sky, scattering its bright light on the earth.
There were many bars and restaurants playing music, on both sides of the street. Countless wandering singers made their livelihoods as they waited for dawn.
They were all men with dreams.
Lu Yuan also had dreams.
It was just that Lu Yuan’s dream…
Was to live in peace satisfactorily. He would sleep through the afternoon, and pass his time by eating and drinking.
Okay.
That was about it.
Was that considered a dream?
Maybe.
After all, Lu Yuan dreamt of this.
Lu Yuan wandered aimlessly with his hands in his pockets. He was seemingly calm, but in fact, he was in a panic.
He needed Wang Jinxue’s $1 million.
This $1 million was very important to him.
It would be the first bucket of gold that he earned since he time-traveled.
It could even be said that it was the first bucket of gold that changed his fate.
Lu Yuan bought a pack of ‘Red Orchid’ with his last $20, squatted on the continually busy crossroads, and smoked the cigarettes.
Lu Yuan felt lonely.
Only a cigarette could relieve this kind of loneliness.
He didn’t know what happened to this batch of Red Orchid cigarettes. He felt a bitter feeling, which caused him to choke!
It was not as comfortable as it used to be.
Did he buy a pack of fake cigarettes?
Lu Yuan shook his head and inexplicably felt a little melancholic.
When he felt unlucky, he felt that even water would get stuck in his teeth.
Where was he to find a company by himself?
Should he cave in? By taking out his mobile phone to make a deal with Wang Jinxue and admit that he didn’t have a film and television company? That he was a fake?
In addition, based on Wang Jinxue’s expressions and words beforehand, she could have doubted something. If he confessed, nothing much would change…
After hesitating for a long time, Lu Yuan stood up after stumping his cigarette butt.
How could he do that? Wouldn’t all his previous efforts be wasted then?
What happened to ‘changing’!
He had to persevere!
He realized that he was on the path of no return. He had boasted. How humiliating would it be if he took his words back now?
Lu Yuan was indignant.
Boasting was a bad habit.
Lu Yuan found that he couldn’t seem to change it…
He had made an appointment with Wang Jinxue at nine o’clock in the morning. Looking at the time, there were about 11 hours left.
What could he do in 11 hours?
Fuck!
Lu Yuan took out his credit card again, grit his teeth, and finally walked out towards the most remote corner of East Street.
In the most remote corner was a rental house. There was a board with words ‘Prosperous shop, for rent’ pasted on the door.
Prosperous shop?
When Lu Yuan saw these two words, he was speechless and felt it was very ironic.
However, the really good places had been rented, and the prices were very expensive. Being poor, he couldn’t afford to rent them at all.
As for this ‘prosperous shop’, it had been abandoned by someone else who had done finance beforehand. There were several computers with a fairly good configuration. If he rented this and cleaned the place up, it could count as an office.
He took out his mobile phone, contacted the landlord, and under the unbelievably bright smile of the landlord, swiped his credit card to pay for a month’s rent.
The landlord then left as he smiled brightly.
This place had not been rented out since forever. It was only a month, but it was a good thing for the landlord.
$3,500!
$3,500 a month! In addition, the place would not be revamped. It was just renting out the place for a month. Nothing would be taken away after a month!
Who would refuse this?
After all, this place hadn’t been rented out for a long time.
After the landlord left, Lu Yuan ran to the advertising company next door, made a billboard with the words ‘Distant Films’ at the cheapest price he could, and hung it above the house. He downloaded an agreement for the script as well. After looking at it a little, he found that there was no major problem with it, secured it in a file, and put it in the drawer.
After he finished this, it was already in the wee hours of the morning.
The moon was gradually phasing to the east.
It would be dawn in a few hours.
Seeing that he had become $4,000 poorer, Lu Yuan felt heartbroken.
He looked at the long street in the distance.
The noisy bars in the distance began to quiet gradually.
Night, quiet.
After he lit the last cigarette, he looked up at the so-called ‘company’, Lu Yuan suddenly felt a sense of desolation and loneliness.
He had finally established a company out of his own capital!
There was now a company. Now, he had to find employees.
A company surely couldn’t have just a boss, right?
What a sight this would be.
However, at this point, where could he go and find employees?
Finally, Lu Yuan looked at the production group for ‘Capital’ in the distance. They seemed to be shooting a night scene.
Countless mass actors were huddled there waiting to be noticed.
They looked forward to becoming famous overnight!
They looked forward to success.
They looked forward to making a name for themselves!
Lu Yuan suddenly thought of a scheme.
…
“Hey beautiful, do you want to be a big star?”
“???”
“Hello, I’m a director. At the same time, I have a good script, but I’m short of good actors. Oh, by the way, I have a branch office in Hengdian, which is not far away… If you are interested, we can talk.”
“??”
“Well, it’s like this. I think you would be quite suitable for a role in my play. I have been observing you for a long time. You are the only one that gave off the right vibe among all these mass actors. I don’t know what your acting skills are like, so I wanted to have a look. In fact, I wanted to understand you better. After all, everyone has their own unique characteristics…”
“Someone help! Liar! Big liar!”
“Fuck, I’m not a liar!”
