Chapter 303
What is it like to go back to your hometown for the New Year (daily)
Because of work reasons, Ling Suisui has lost track of how long it has been since he went home for the New Year.
Being able to go home this time, Zhang Wen also asked her if she wanted to give her family a surprise. They could cooperate with the performance because "she will be busy outside again this year". In this way, they will definitely be very happy when Ling Suisui suddenly appears at the doorstep.
Ling Sui declined. If she did so, what would greet her would not be a warm New Year's Eve dinner, but an empty house.
"I'm not the only one busy in this family," she told Zhang Wen. "If they want to have a reunion year, they also have to make reservations in advance."
Zhang Wen: …
No wonder Ling Suisui is so career-oriented, it turns out it’s “family inheritance”.
Celebrity studios always send gift boxes during festivals, and Ling Suisui’s team is no exception. The contents of her gift boxes are also known as "Business Selections", which are products that are most suitable for gift giving from the brands she endorses.
This year's Spring Festival gift boxes are still the same. Some new employees suggested that they could get some cotton dolls or other items that can highlight Ling Sui's personal characteristics.
"no."
This kind of thing didn't even need to go through Ling Suisui himself, Kang Le from the publicity post denied it.
Kang Le explained to her: "We did this a few years ago, but if we did this, the studio gift boxes would be bought by fans at a high price."
Not only were the gift boxes that were given away resold, but some people also made and sold counterfeit goods, taking the opportunity to defraud people and making Suisi the scapegoat.
From then on, Ling Sui's gift boxes only contained purely business products, not even a postcard from her.
Although there are still fans who spend money to buy this outer packaging box, the studio is completely helpless in this situation, but at least the number of people who do so is small, and the price is not as outrageous as before.
The new employee came in after hiding her history of chasing stars (actually she didn't hide it but no one cared). After hearing this, she had only one feeling: if she had been chasing after Ling Suisui before, she would have been so happy.
Damn it, her career is already so successful, yet she doesn't date, doesn't have a side job, and isn't willing to let her fans waste their money. How come all the excellent qualities of a good idol are concentrated in her alone?
Anyone who has ever chased a star understands that if the top stars are willing to lower themselves to do some side business, such as starting a trendy brand selling milk tea or opening a few hot pot restaurants, they can easily make a quick buck from their fans, regardless of whether passers-by are interested.
But Ling Suisui has never done any of these things. She would even take the initiative to avoid making her fans spend more money. On the other hand, some celebrities have the nerve to hold concerts despite being tone-deaf, and their ticket prices are more expensive than those of top singers. It’s just as if the words “cheating leeks” were written on their faces.
Really, no wonder silk is so sticky. In addition to continuously producing good works, she really cares about her fans.
Well... although Fengshou Media does not recruit 24-year-old fans as employees, those who become fans after joining the company should not be counted, right?
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This year, Ling Sui flew back to Guangdong Province, and then took a few hours' drive from the airport in a big city to the county town.
Before she came back, Ling Fei told her that because their family went to the Ling family when they returned to their hometown for the New Year last time, they would go to the Hao family this year.
Hao Ren even specifically asked for her opinion, saying that it was okay if she didn't want to come, after all, she wasn't familiar with the Hao family's relatives.
Ling Sui thought about it for a while, and her first reaction was to simply not go, as she didn't like this kind of occasion. But on second thought, she felt this was a good opportunity.
A few days ago, she told Yin Lerong that being an actor is a profession that requires accumulation. One must listen, see, and feel more in life, and must have the courage to break through one's own circle and see the outside world. When it comes to herself, she also understands the unity of knowledge and action.
So Ling Sui came with this belief - she had anticipated many occasions where she would be the center of conversation among relatives, but she didn't expect that as soon as she entered the door and before she even put down the gift bag in her hand, she would be surrounded by a group of children.
"Look, this is Ling Suisui!" A child even took a photo of her with his phone, as if recording a video. "I'm not lying to you, my aunt is really Ling Suisui!"
Oh, turns out he was making a video call.
Ling Sui knew that she was very popular, but this was the first time she felt so intuitively how popular she was among the people.
From the elderly in their eighties or nineties who sit on chairs with crutches in their hands, to the three-year-old children who have just started kindergarten and may not even be able to write her name, everyone keeps repeating "Ling Suisui".
Ever since she moved to her grandfather's house, the door of the house has never been closed, and there are guests coming and going. Relatives who she was not very familiar with all came to visit, and friends and classmates of her peers and younger relatives also came to visit. Even the vegetable market and breakfast shop that her grandparents usually went to, people came to the door under the pretext of delivering some New Year's goods, and talked about Ling Sui with relish.
All in all, the Hao family has become a "Ling Sui photo check-in point", and the six-person rule has been fully applied in this small county. To exaggerate a little, she felt that the entire county's permanent population was concentrated here, and the street office could save the trouble of conducting a door-to-door census by just coming here.
Surrounded by the crowd, Ling Sui felt hopeless but still had to keep smiling.
Hao Ren said that he only told his grandparents that Ling Sui would come back, but the two old people were both big leaks and wanted to make everyone know...
Have you got a meal yet? What? How do you know my granddaughter Ling Sui is coming back to celebrate the New Year? That’s Ling Suisui on TV!
The visit lasted for more than an hour until the road near the Hao family was blocked and a large crowd gathered, attracting the police, and the Hao family was able to close its doors to visitors.
Ling Suisui didn’t realize until after it was over that there was someone broadcasting live to her. She was saying, why did someone keep asking her to sing a song or perform something? Fortunately, she thought the scene was too chaotic and ignored them.
The person doing the live broadcast was none other than her uncle, Hao Ren's younger brother, Hao Jian. In order to increase traffic in his live broadcast room and attract fans to give him tips and gifts, he even disclosed his home address in detail.
Ling Sui was too tired to complain. After not seeing this uncle for many years, he was still as handsome as his name suggested. He doesn't live here usually and thinks it's okay to say it out, but why doesn't he consider whether his grandparents will be harassed?
She pointed this out bluntly and asked Hao Jian to use the proceeds from the live broadcast to buy a new house for his grandparents in the county town, including decoration and furniture.
Hao Jian naturally refused and even argued about how much money he could make from live streaming. Some older relatives also felt that although he was wrong, he should not pay such a high price because they had no idea about the revenue from live streaming at that time.
They don’t understand, but the younger relatives are very aware of how popular Ling Sui is. A cousin took the lead and suggested that Hao Jian show everyone the backend income. If it is really not enough, everyone can just pool money to make up for it. After all, today's incident has caused such a big fuss, and strictly speaking everyone is responsible.
Hao Jian tried to refuse at first, but the more he refused, the more everyone realized that there was something wrong with him. When someone took a photo of the income page and sent it to the group, the relatives were shocked. It was more than one million! This is the profit after sharing with the platform!
Needless to say, after paying taxes, this money is more than enough to buy a house in the county town, and it can also save some money for the pension accounts of two elderly people.
Anyway, after looking at the returns, Ling Suisui used a calculator to calculate exactly how to spend the more than one million yuan, and guaranteed that he would not leave a penny for Hao Jian. Why would he do that?
If Hao Jian really made money from her in this way, she would not be able to live a peaceful life for the next few days and would have to be on guard against live broadcast cameras wherever she went.
In order to prevent Hao Jian from turning against him after she left, Ling Suisui also shared some legal stories around her, focusing on the team of lawyers with whom she had worked for a long time.
This behavior is certainly a legal way to protect rights, but it also makes many relatives stay away from her.
Some people who are usually close to Hao Jian dislike her, and some people think she is too aggressive. No matter what, Hao Jian is her elder, so even if she has something to say, she can just say it nicely.
Ling Suisui doesn't want to pay attention to the above two categories. Even if today's incident was exposed, she was still the righteous and victimized party. She did not ask Hao Jian to bow and apologize to her because she was giving face to the two elderly people.
He wanted to make money through live streaming, and it was her team that had to deal with the aftermath. She also had to pay her employees overtime pay during the Spring Festival holiday.
Hao Ren felt ashamed that his own brother had done such a thing. He promised Ling Suisui that he would choose his own time to come back to visit the two elderly people in the future, and would never let Ling Suisui face those annoying relatives again.
Ling Suisui shook his head: "Not all of them, but many people kept silent and didn't want to get involved."
Are there any other good people in the Hao family? Some do, such as her cousin Hao Xuan who just took the lead in supporting her.
Hao Xuan is thirty years old this year, only one year older than Ling Sui, but she already has a four-year-old daughter, Qinqin.
Ling Suisui gave Qinqin a red envelope and also gave her a toy, a Halloween Qibao doll from the Dilande Amusement Park. These models are very popular. If Ling Sui hadn't used his connections, they wouldn't be available for purchase.
Qinqin's eyes lit up, she liked it very much. She changed into Princess Belle's dress in her room and took a photo with Ling Suisui.
This behavior is imitated by many little girls. Ling Sui doesn't mind taking photos with children, but not everyone has this princess dress.
Someone said he wanted to borrow Qinqin's clothes, but Qinqin didn't want to. The two had a little argument and the child started crying.
In this situation, it was hard for Ling Suisui not to have some premonitions in his heart -
Sure enough, the parents of these children pulled their children away in embarrassment and scolded her for being ignorant. Qinqin stood behind Hao Xuan at a loss. Just when Ling Suisui was worried that Hao Xuan might ask her to change her clothes, Hao Xuan spoke:
"If you like this dress, I'll send your parents a link. It's not expensive, the genuine Dilande version is only over 200 yuan."
Hao Xuan was very good at speaking. She successfully shifted the conflict between the child and Qinqin to the side of the child and her parents.
Later, Ling Suisui vaguely heard a few words saying that Hao Xuan was too doting on Qinqin. This kind of dress is easy to be damaged, and children will grow out of it quickly, etc. Anyway, there are hundreds of reasons not to buy it.
Ling Suisui doesn't think a princess dress is a necessity, but she also doesn't understand other people's possessiveness of Hao Xuan's wallet. What does it have to do with other people how she raises her children?
Ling Sui soon understood why all the relatives cared so much about Hao Xuan.
Because Hao Xuan's marital status is single, Qinqin and her surname are Hao, and her biological father is unknown.
But some gossipy relatives gossiped to Ling Suisui, saying that Hao Xuan’s previous boyfriend seemed to be a celebrity!
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