Chapter 155: Dingdang Takes the Stage

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Yu Lan looked at Su Bai and Yang Mengke in surprise. “You’re planning to buy a house here?”

Su Bai nodded. “Yes. Do you know anyone who’s selling?”

“Something spacious—two or three hundred square meters—with a good floor and a good location.”

Yu Lan agreed to keep an eye out. After that, they did not discuss the matter any further.

While Yang Mengke was chatting with Yu Lan, Yu Jingjing moved closer to Su Bai.

“Brother Su Bai, I call you that just like Tongtong does. You don’t mind, do you?”

Su Bai smiled and shook his head, indicating that he did not.

“Brother Su Bai, you don’t usually keep in touch with Liu Ruotong, do you?”

“She told me that although she has you on WeChat, she normally doesn’t dare contact you.”

“She’s afraid you’re too busy and that she might disturb you.”

“When you have some free time, send her a message. It would make her happy for ages!”

“She really likes you.”

“She told me that every time she looks at the photos of the two of you together, she feels especially happy.”

As Yu Jingjing chattered on and on, Su Bai was suddenly lost in memories.

Deep down, Su Bai did not want to have too much contact with Liu Ruotong.

It was not that he disliked her.

Rather, Liu Ruotong was still a minor and was still in school.

Su Bai was afraid that too much contact with him might affect her studies.

After all, girls of that age were prone to romantic fantasies.

And he was her idol.

It would be all too easy for him to give her unrealistic hopes.

But when he thought about how he had never once sent her even a simple greeting during all this time, he felt that he had indeed been somewhat neglectful.

After all, Liu Ruotong had helped him and Yang Mengke immensely at the beginning.

When he had first encountered his public-relations crisis, she had begged her mother to invite Yu Lan.

That was what had set off the entire chain of events that followed.

And before Liu Ruotong had made that decision, she had only met him once!

She had done him such a great favor, yet he had not even sent her a greeting. It truly was inappropriate.

“I have been a little careless. I’ll send her a message later.”

“Add me too!”

???

Su Bai looked at Yu Jingjing in confusion, unable to understand what she meant by asking him to add her too.

“Add me on WeChat. Don’t worry, I won’t bother you normally!”

“I know you’re a famous star and you’re very busy.”

“If I add you, I can show off to my classmates!”

...

Su Bai was speechless. Was that really her only reason for adding him—to show off to her classmates?

Judging by that, his presence in her life was pretty insignificant...

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In Shanghai, Zhou Yang watched as Liu Dan brought together the familiar original team once again.

He could not help feeling deeply nostalgic.

“Long time no see, everyone!”

Everyone greeted Zhou Yang in turn.

Liu Dan glanced around and noticed that Su Bai was nowhere to be seen. Uneasiness welled up inside her, accompanied by a trace of disappointment.

“Zhou Yang, where’s President Su? Why isn’t he here?”

As soon as Liu Dan finished speaking, everyone hurriedly chimed in.

“Exactly. Why isn’t President Su here? We all came for him. Surely he isn’t even going to show his face?”

“That’s right. We all came because of our old ties. We came to work for President Su!”

“Could it be that now President Su has become a famous star, he no longer wants to see us?”

“We were all people who helped him build his empire back then!”

“Now that he’s made it big, he can’t even be bothered to see us once?”

“Honestly...”

...

Zhou Yang had been in a fairly good mood, but as he listened to everyone making one sarcastic remark after another, anger suddenly flared within him.

When President Su urgently needed money and wanted to sell the company, where were you?

When you refused to let him sell the company, and President Su asked whether you could lend him some money first, where were you then?

If Zhou Yang had had his way, he would not have given this pack of ingrates the time of day.

People without the slightest compassion could betray you once, and they could betray you again.

Zhou Yang did not know what had motivated Su Bai to give these people another chance.

But in Zhou Yang’s view, since Su Bai had given them another opportunity, they should have been grateful instead of standing around making snide remarks.

“Everyone, be quiet for a moment. I have a few things to say.”

“First of all, President Su treated all of you fairly. Even when he was in such a difficult position, he never owed any of you a penny in wages.”

“When President Su was in trouble and wanted you to lend him a hand, none of you stepped forward, did you?”

“Still, President Su has no intention of holding that against you.”

“So when Liu Dan suggested coming here to work for President Su, he was willing to give everyone present another chance.”

“Now that he has invited you all back, shouldn’t you be grateful?”

“Listen to yourselves. What exactly are you saying?”

“Aren’t you ashamed of yourselves?”

As Zhou Yang’s voice rose steadily, everyone around him fell silent.

A few people seemed ready to say something, but seeing that no one else was speaking, they chose silence as well.

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“Now I’m going to tell you all one fact.”

“President Su will no longer be involved in the operations of this game company.”

“I will be responsible for the company’s affairs. President Su is merely an investor.”

“So if you want to see President Su, it will probably be very difficult.”

“Anyone who has a problem with that can leave right now.”

The moment Zhou Yang finished speaking, the room immediately filled with hushed whispers.

“What? Su Bai isn’t coming?”

“Then what’s the point of staying here?”

“Rather than work under Zhou Yang, we might as well move to another game company!”

“Exactly. Zhou Yang doesn’t understand the industry. We know more than he does!”

“Without the celebrity effect, there’s no point in staying here!”

Hearing the quiet discussions around her, Liu Dan’s expression darkened at once.

“What are you all doing?”

“Who was it that begged me to come and ask President Su to give you a chance at a job?”

“Now President Su has agreed to provide positions for all of you, and you’re wavering just because Su Bai won’t be coming in person?”

“If President Su doesn’t come, does that mean he no longer cares about any of you?”

“It’s a company invested in by President Su. Do you really think he won’t look after it?”

The moment Liu Dan finished speaking, the crowd, which had been whispering among themselves, fell silent.

In the end, no one said anything else.

One after another, they promised that they would have no more complaints.

Zhou Yang gave Liu Dan a deep look, then led everyone toward the rented office.

At the competition venue for The Voice of Great Xia, Dingdang took a deep breath.

She was about to go onstage.

Whether she could make one of the coaches turn around would directly determine the path ahead of her.

Dingdang knew that she first had to get through the opening round.

Only then would Su Bai seriously tailor a song for her according to her strengths.

That would be the moment when she could truly shine.

And the song she was about to sing had also been refined under Su Bai’s guidance.