Group Pet Eldest Lady, She Just Wants To Be A Salted Fish

Chapter 18 – Boddhisattva Little Sister

Mary Sue City had a highly developed economy and attracted many entrepreneurial talents. The Economic Forum was an unofficial event. Every years, many investors and companies joined to share experiences. The organizer and host were both from the Qi family.

Ruan Yōu vaguely remembered that in the “Successor Idol Group” mentioned by Lu Ming, there was a female successor with the surname Qi.

She forgot the specific name.

After lurking in the group for a while, Ruan Yōu summarized a few useful pieces of information.

Not only did the group mention the Qi family, but also the four top wealthy families in Mary Sue City.

This year, Bozhan Group will send an executive from the head office to give a speech, which caused a stir in the group. Similarly, many successors of wealthy families from the top 500 companies will send corresponding talents to attend as a good opportunity for learning and communication.

The Economic Conference will be held in a certain five-star hotel. According to the rules of previous events, three entire floors of conference halls and banquet halls will be booked as a venue for the conference. Each small conference hall will have speakers, and learners and investors from different industries will go to different conference halls for learning.

Overall, it is a chance for industry insiders to meet each other and can be regarded as the year-end ceremony in the financial industry.

However, it is not easy to participate in the Economic Conference. One must be a big shot in the management of the four major families or the Qi family, a technical talent, an investor from various industries, or a wealthy second-generation capable of investing; or a start-up person with a project in hand that needs investment.

The organizers will screen the list of invitees one month before the start of the event and send invitations to the invited guests one week before the event.

Ruan Yōu is somewhat interested in this.

She has been to year-end ceremonies and award ceremonies in the entertainment industry many times, but not in the financial industry. Curiously, she also wants to see the investment projects, learn from other people’s experiences, and observe a financial ceremony she has never seen before.

Considering her current image in thr Gu family, Ruan Yōu could only temporarily set aside her curiosity.

Ruan Yōu logged out of her Initial User’s WeChat account and logged in to Ruanruan’s account.

As soon as she logged in, a flood of messages appeared on the screen.

There were scolding messages from her former agent, questioning messages from the superiors of the company, and inquiries from some directors and actors she had worked with before.

Ruan Yōu knew that she wouldn’t stay in the entertainment industry for long. After each shoot, she would immediately leave and had no intention of maintaining deep relationships. This circle was not suitable for her.

Ruan Yōu was a bit of a perfectionist and couldn’t stand seeing so many little red dots on the screen. So, she patiently deleted the messages from the people of the unscrupulous company one by one. When a director sent a message expressing concern, she replied with : [After quitting the industry a few days ago, I didn’t log in to WeChat. There’s nothing wrong. I just wanted to quit. I wish you all the best in the future.]

She copied and pasted this sentence politely to everyone who inquired about the reason.

It’s possible that they cared about her when they saw the news of her quitting the industry, but it wasn’t too much.

They were all ordinary colleagues.

As she copied and pasted, Ruan Yōu paused at the last message and deleted the copied text.

Director Pei Yinan : [It’s a waste of your talent to retire so early. You should consider carefully. If you want to come back, I can help you find resources.]

Pei Yinan was the director of the first movie in which Ruan Yōu starred. At that time, Ruan Yōu had just debuted and played the supporting role of the female lead’s friend in the movie, with only a few scenes as the fourth female lead.

At that time, her acting skills were still immature, but because of her hard work and willingness to learn in private, coupled with her high appearance and expressive ability, she also received a lot of recognition from her seniors.

Pei Yinan felt that she was a talented person and, out of a love for talent, invited her to play in another movie after the first movie wrapped up.

This time, she was not the dry fourth female lead who sat on the sidelines waiting for the main characters to finish their scenes before taking her turn, nor was she a negligible character whose role was arbitrarily cut by others.

Ruan Yōu played the female lead.

It was an art film with very low production costs, and Ruan Yōu almost played for free. Her most memorable scene was standing by the open window in a white dress in the middle of winter, waving and smiling at the person on the opposite balcony, a tear rolling down her cheek, shattered yet filled with positive and upward enthusiasm.

That was Pei Yinan’s favorite shot.

A fragile smile with fervor inside.

A hazy expression that could see through her whole life.

After filming, she suffered from a long illness and her agent scolded her for not taking good care of her health, causing her to have to cancel several business activities.

However, the movie, which came at a great cost to her, has yet to be released.

Once, Ruan Yōu had eagerly anticipated seeing the film on the big screen, but now she has no such desire.

She has already retired from the industry.

She doesn’t want to live a life where she’s constantly judged by others.

She is very satisfied with her current retirement life.

Ruan Yōu replied : [No need, I have already retired.]

She logged in to the WeChat account “Ruannuan” to find a director’s contact information.

For her second investment, Ruan Yōu plans to put it in the entertainment industry, a circle she is more familiar with.

Being a boss rather than an artist, wouldn’t that be better!

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Live variety shows have become very popular in the entertainment industry recently.

This preparation took a long time, but after airing, it quickly showed results, with a high return on investment and the ability to adjust the variety show games in real time based on live data. It places high demands on the team, but is beneficial for investors.

In the novel, there was a brief mention of a popular campus live variety show that started off poorly due to lack of funds, but unexpectedly gained a surge in online viewership after two days of broadcasting, becoming a dark horse among live variety shows that year.

The reason why this variety show was mentioned is because one of the tool characters who, like her, was a cannon fodder supporting actress in the original novel, appeared as a regular guest on the show. After becoming popular, she became the object of the male and female lead’s backlash.

As a background prop, the campus live variety show was not detailed in terms of its process. All that Ruan Yōu could do was to speculate the specifics based on limited information. She searched online and found many marketing materials for campus live variety shows, but she felt that none of them had the potential to become popular. After searching for a while, she finally found a campus live variety show that was being compared and belittled by others: <Just Study Hard Now!>

The director of the variety show team is named Wu Wei.

The marketing accounts heavily criticized this variety show, calling it inferior compared to another campus live variety show that had a higher level of public attention.

—Top stars like Cheng Guyuan and Yu Chi, along with their powerful family backgrounds, joined the campus live variety show <Our Youth> and laid the foundation for the show’s success. Meanwhile, <Just Study Hard Now!> had no advantages, with a cast of D-list actors and amateurs, a run-down classroom, and posters that failed to resonate with viewers. It is bound to fail. Some industry insiders said that the original plan for <Just Study Hard Now!> to be broadcasted in half a month had to be postponed due to lack of sponsors. The ones who need to study hard is not the D-list actors and amateurs, but this team and the people who planned this variety show. I don’t understand why such a boring variety show would even exist.

Ruan Yōu is very interested in the variety show theme of <Just Study Hard Now!>.

She came across a particularly interesting post on Wu Wei’s personal Weibo account.

@Wu Wei : [I had a bold idea and invited five stars in the entertainment industry who perform poorly in their studies and have bad tempers. Then, we let five high school students train them one-on-one in the variety show.]

Ruan Yōu didn’t understand.

How could this be boring!!

Who wants to see stars being praised and held up high? Entertainment is meant to entertain. What’s the point of stars if they don’t entertain (bushi?

She wants to see ordinary students teaching these bad-tempered stars a lesson, forcing them to memorize ancient poetry and enjoy being a student!

Ruan Yōu knows that the marketing plan was probably purchased by the <Our Youth> team, who bully Wu Wei for being inexperienced and lacking connections.

This kind of situation is common in the entertainment industry.

Ruan Yōu has never worked with this director before, so after thinking it over, she had to ask Pei Yinan, someone whom she trusted.

Ruanruan : [Director Pei, do you have contact information of the variety show director Wu Wei? I have a friend who wants to invest in his project.]

After sending the message, Ruan Yōu waited for a while but didn’t receive a reply. She logged out and switched back to her own WeChat account.

G : [Do you have time tomorrow?]

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G : [The designer will come to our house at 2 pm tomorrow to design your bike. You can tell him your ideas.]

Fat Cat : [Okay~]

She gave Brother Overlord a small potted plant, and in return, he gave her a bike. This business deal was a win-win situation.

After washing up, she went to bed and happily awaited the arrival of tomorrow.

At the same time, Gu Fuchen’s small group was particularly active.

Jiang Huai : [Did Chencen’s Sister buy three planes from our company?】

G : [Remove the word in front of sister.]

Jiang Huai : [When can I meet the Bodhisattva?]

Jiang Huai : [By the way, didn’t you say before that the Bodhisattva doesn’t love money? Why suddenly so crazy?]

G : [I forced her to buy.]

Jiang Huai : [ ????? ]

Lu : [Wuwuwu, Brother Chenchen, does the Gu family still need a little sister? Let me come wuwuwu]

Lu : […Lu Xuan just stole my phone, don’t mind her.]

Gu Fuchen didn’t want to deal with them.

Fu Jiazhan : [I heard she’s interested in investment? We can invite her to attend our class.]

Gu Fuchen’s expression froze.

At first, he did plan to invite Ruanruan to join their classes, but everything fell through when he found out that Lu Jin was crazily pursuing Ruan Yōu.

Ha.

If he let Lu Jin meet Ruanruan, then the next day, wouldn’t he come to the door his bag and shamelessly stayed at the Gu family’s mansion.

Pledging to not get married?

Nonsense.

Jiang Huai’s response was very enthusiastic.

Jiang Huai : [Hurry up and let the Bodhisattva sister come. She didn’t mind having a support with free skin and bought three planes from me. She’s a good Boddhisattva]

Fu Jiazhan : [Qi Zhiyan and Wen Juxi are also there.]

Fu Jiazhan’s seemingly irrelevant words made Gu Fuchen ponder.

Ruanruan couldn’t stay hidden at home forever without socializing.

The social network in this circle is both big and small. There are many people who want to make connections with the Gu family. Gu Fuchen can help his sister fend off most of the people who do not need to be connected, and introduce the people she needs to know, but he can only manage the men.

The girls’ afternoon tea time is not a time that he can interfere.

Qi Zhiyan is a goddess admired by many in the industry, and if she takes Ruan Yōu out to various fashion shows and evening events, it will be much smoother.

Lu : [? The previous generation made a rule not to add people midway. Besides, when did our classes become so casual that anyone can come for socializing?]

Jiang Huai : [If Bodhisattva little sister doesn’t come, we will be at odds.]

Lu : [Last night you swore that there is absolutely no one in this world who doesn’t love money, most likely it’s just a persona or an act.]

Jiang Huai : [I was blind to the fact that my sister is a Bodhisattva.]

Bodhisattvas don’t love money to begin with.

The two began their primary-school-level bickering.

Meanwhile, Gu Fu Chen is still worried about the investment course.

The next day, the designer invited by Gu Fu Chen arrived at the Gu family’s house.

Ruan Yōu and Gu Fuchen were sunbathing on the small pavilion in the backyard when they saw him.

The designer had served many wealthy families and presented three designs he thought were decent. “This bike will be covered in 24-karat pure gold and embellished with small gemstones and diamonds that will sparkle even in the dark. The specific quantity and gemstones will be tailored to your liking.

“The high-quality leather bike seat provides an exceptional experience and will be adjusted according to your height, ensuring an optimal experience.

“The cost is about two million.”

Ruan Yōu : ???

She just wanted a bike!

A bike that can be ridden on the road!!!

Ruan Yōu bit her lip, blinked her dark eyes, and rolled them twice.

“Can you ride this?”

The designer smiled confidently. “Of course.”

Ruan Yōu blinked her eyes, no longer hoping that the designer could understand her true intentions, and turned her gaze to Gu Fuchen.

Her watery eyes, full of natural agility, blinked pitifully twice, like a coquettish cat seeking attention.

Gu Fuchen was very happy and walked over to Ruan Yōu and asked in a low voice, “What don’t you like?”

“I just want a bike that costs a few hundred or a thousand yuan,” Ruan Yōu emphasized and repeated, “a bike that can be ridden on the road.”

Gu Fuchen : “This one can also be ridden.”

On Children’s Day, Lu Jin gave Lu Xuan a bike of the same quality.

It was even more expensive than this one.

On the matter of bike, his sister cannot be inferior to others.

Ruan Yōu pouted and pointed to the design drawing angrily, “This one can’t be ridden!

“Let’s imagine that scene.

“When riding, the gold is wearing off, and the gemstones and diamonds are falling off. Most people will say when they see me—

“‘Wow, the God of Wealth has come—'”

Yes, she is that petty. The first thought that came to her mind when she saw the golden bike was not “Wow, it’s so luxurious and cool,” but full of worries.

To avoid the crazy scene of “she rides in front, and a bunch of people follow and pick up diamonds” from happening, Ruan Yōu decided to fight for the dignity of a regular bike and strike a blow to her overlord brother’s arrogant attitude.

“Come on, let me take you on an expensive transportation tool that costs more than a billion yuan.”

Let’s blind her brother’s eyes!!