Greg Dyke left old Royce's luxury yacht with satisfaction and returned to London in his Rolls-Royce.

Spending the night on the boat, the shaking was too severe...

Greg subconsciously supported his old waist, a smile of aftertaste appeared on the corner of his mouth.

After the driver started the car, Greg slowly took out his mobile phone and called Manchester United head coach Ferguson.

"Hi, good morning! Alex, am I disturbing you?"

Ferguson's steady voice came from the other end of the phone: "Good morning, Greg. I'm at the Carrington training base now. I have a youth team match to watch later - what's the matter? Is there anything?"

Greg smiled and said, "That's true. I was invited to watch a high school tournament yesterday and I found a very good young player. I think he is very suitable for Manchester United."

"Oh? Really? The chances of a good seedling emerging from a high school competition are not high!" Ferguson immediately became interested. "But, if a big shot like you says he's a good seedling, then he must be very good."

Greg introduced: "He is a Chinese man named Gu Ran. He currently plays as a left back, but I believe his position is definitely not just left back."

"Chinese?" Ferguson was very surprised. "Manchester United once had a Chinese player named Dong Fangzhuo. I had a very good impression of Dong, but unfortunately..."

Greg said, "Listen Alex, this Gu is different from Dong. He is better than Dong! He has the speed of Gareth Bale's wing breakthroughs, and Frank Lampard's organizational skills and through passes. What's more amazing is that he has a crescent-shaped kick that looks like David Beckham's! What's even more amazing is that his football IQ is so high that he can deal with any complex situation and quickly take control of the overall situation! He is a natural ruler on the green field!"

Ferguson on the other end of the phone paused for a long time, "Greg, you are kidding me, right?"

Greg smiled and said, "No, Alex, that kid is a real treasure! Otherwise, why would I call you in person? The only regret is... this kid has been signed by Southampton Club, and Southampton Club is applying for a work permit for him, so if Manchester United wants to get him, they have to wait until this winter transfer window. My suggestion is that you send a scout to keep an eye on his performance. As long as he plays well in League One, Manchester United should buy him at all costs."

Ferguson immediately said: "Thank you for your advice Greg, if this kid is really like what you said, then Manchester United will definitely go all out to sign him and train him well."

"Okay, that's it, bye, Alex."

"Have a nice day, Greg."

In the Manchester United manager's office, Ferguson put down the phone and said to himself with a suspicious look on his face: "A Chinese who has the characteristics of Bale, Lampard and Beckham? And he is still playing in the amateur league? How is this possible? If this is true, he should have been discovered long ago? Greg must be drunk, right?"

Ferguson thought about it, then picked up the phone and called Manchester United's sports director Ed Woodward.

To be honest, Ferguson doesn't like Ed Woodward at all. Ed Woodward was parachuted in from the Glazer family, the owner of Manchester United, and is full of the aura of a businessman.

Even though he didn't like it, the club really needed to discuss the matter of buying players with this "San Dezi".

After the call was connected, Ferguson said politely, "Hi, Ed."

"Hi, Alex!" Woodward's voice was a little excited on the other end of the phone. "I'm glad you took the initiative to call me. Is there anything I can do for you?"

"Yes, there is indeed such a little thing..."

Ferguson omitted Greg's "exaggerated" description and only told Woodward that there was a Chinese kid to watch out for in the high school national competition.

After listening to this, Woodward immediately laughed and said, "Why not? China is a market with extremely huge potential. If we can sign a Chinese player, even if his performance is not so good, we can also take the opportunity to open up the sales market in China. Alex, this is great, I agree! Let's send a scout who is familiar with China to keep an eye on him!"

Ferguson nodded and said, "Then recall our chief scout for Asia, Jim Lawler. He once discovered Dong Fangzhuo. I believe he can communicate well with Gu Ran."

Woodward said, "Okay, that's settled. Just let me take care of this little thing!"

Ferguson said, "Okay, bye."

Woodward quickly said, "Goodbye, have a nice day."

After Ferguson hung up the phone, he didn’t think about it anymore and continued to check the game data of a player named “Paul Pogba” in Manchester United’s youth team…

12 noon.

Gu Ran woke up from the messy big bed, his stomach growling with hunger.

Looking at the mess on the floor and Annie sleeping beside him, Gu Ran couldn't help but grin happily.

Gu Ran gently pulled his hand out of Annie's arms, got off the bed and stretched himself comfortably.

As your physical fitness and physical fitness improve, your body will feel younger and recover faster.

At the same time, demand has also increased.

If this continues... what will happen when Annie leaves? Gu Ran sighed, turned around and walked into the bathroom to take a shower, and then had a set of liquid nitrogen freezing space capsule and sauna steam room therapy to recover.

When he walked out of the bathroom, he was full of energy again.

Although today is a holiday, there are still many things to do.

The first thing was... eating! Gu Ran was too lazy to make a big meal, so he randomly found two steaks and fried them on the iron plate. Then he made himself a bucket of instant noodles, added two poached eggs, two pieces of broccoli, and heated a large bowl of milk.

The school team has no information about the finals today - the other set of semi-final matches will be held this afternoon, so the earliest we will know who our opponent in the finals will be is tomorrow morning.

In short, no matter who it is, just do it!

After dinner, Gu Ran returned to his bedroom and began to hand-draw the ending of "Batman 3: The Dark Knight Rises".

After hand-drawing for more than three hours, Gu Ran finally completed the final ending.

Gu Ran stood up and faced the sea outside the window. He stretched himself and thought about how to complete the 10 pickups for today.

He definitely couldn't go to the Grop Gym, especially during this time period - Gu Ran was well aware of the enthusiasm of the local fans.

You can drive to Southampton Club to watch the training of the youth team. This way, you can not only get a professional football training bubble, but also adapt yourself to the transition to professional training as soon as possible.

Okay, it’s decided!

Light~ At this moment, a system prompt sounded in Gu Ran's mind.

Annie wakes up!

It must be that as soon as I woke up and found that he was not around, I started to have negative emotions again.

The output of big stars like Annie is really stable. A big mood swing is just a talent point bubble...

Gu Ran picked up the end of the hand-drawn script, walked downstairs calmly, and pushed the door into Annie's room.

"Gu! Don't leave me..."

As soon as Annie saw Gu Ran coming in, she immediately threw herself into Gu Ran's arms coquettishly.

Gu Ran smiled and ruffled Annie's hair. "I'm going to draw the ending for you. Aren't you anxious to see it?"

Annie immediately became happy, "Wow! Gu! You are awesome! Give it to me now, I want to see it!"

"Okay, okay." Gu Ran then handed the hand-drawn ending of "Batman 3: The Dark Knight Rises" to Annie, and at the same time concentrated his mind to collect the talent point bubble dropped by Annie through the air.

——This talent point will be stored for the time being.

Gu Ran asked lovingly, "Are you hungry? I'll go make you some food."

"Well, thank you!" Annie didn't even raise her head, just reading the ending with great interest.

Gu Ran smiled helplessly, turned around and went to the kitchen to make Annie a bowl of her favorite "Scottish noodles".

By the time the noodles were ready, Annie had just finished reading the ending of the hand-drawn script.

Anne, wearing black silk pajamas and barefoot, ran into the kitchen with an excited look on her face.

The shaking look made Gu Ran's young body a little out of control.

Annie jumped into Gu Ran's arms, hooked her hands tightly around Gu Ran's neck, and praised him eagerly: "Gu! You are so great! You really should be a screenwriter! A director! Your ending is so wonderful! The character of Catwoman is so well designed, so special, and so unique! I like it so much!"

Gu Ran smiled and explained, "The role of Catwoman is an anti-hero. What an anti-hero means is that she is not an ordinary stereotypical hero image, but a character with flesh and blood, both good and evil, and with strong personal charm. When you play the role of Catwoman in the future, you must show your most charming side."

Annie said coquettishly, "I can't do that."

Gu Ran smiled evilly and said, "It's okay. I'll talk to you tonight and you'll know how to act."

Annie blushed and said, "Hate it... I want to eat noodles!"

Gu Ran said: "Then get off me first."

Annie said coquettishly: "No, I want you to carry me to the restaurant~"

"Okay, okay." Gu Ran held Annie's slender waist with one hand and walked to the restaurant with a bowl of hot noodles in the other.

Annie took a deep breath happily, "Ah~ It smells so good! I dare say that the most delicious noodles in the world are the ones you make, Gu Ran!"

Gu Ran: ...

No problem! Gu Ran smiled and said, "Hurry up and eat. We still need to communicate in the evening."

Annie was indeed very hungry, so she picked up the bowl and started eating in big mouthfuls. In the end, she licked every drop of the tomato soup in the bowl.

This scene reminded Gu Ran of a scene from last night...

After Annie finished eating, Gu Ran said, "Annie, you can rest at home. I have something to do at the club's training base, and I probably won't be back until dinner time."

Anne asked pitifully, "Can't you take me with you?"

Gu Ran smiled and said, "You've been exposed. Aren't you afraid of causing more trouble if you go out now?"

Annie pouted. "Well, I just happened to ask my assistant for a poster of the White Queen, and I also need to read your hand-drawn script again. Go ahead and do your work. I'll wait for you to come back."

Gu Ran said with satisfaction: "Well, I will come back to make you something delicious in the evening."

"Yeah! OK!"

After saying goodbye to Annie, Gu Ran drove away from the villa.

Annie cleaned up the battlefield from last night...

After everything was packed up, Annie sat on the sofa, took out her cell phone, and prepared to call her female assistant.

It was not until she took out her cell phone that Annie suddenly remembered that someone seemed to have called her yesterday, and called more than once, but the battle was too intense at the time and she couldn't answer the call, so she turned off the phone.

Annie quickly turned on her phone and checked—there were more than 30 messages in her voicemail!

Moreover, all the calls were from the famous director Christopher Nolan! Anne was a little panicked. When she was thinking about how to deal with it, Nolan called again.

Annie quickly answered the call and asked cautiously, "Hello?"

On the other end of the phone, Nolan said in a hoarse and trembling voice: "Thank God! Annie! You finally answered my call! You don't know how I got through the past twenty hours! I haven't closed my eyes until now, and I'm even worried that you met with an accident! So what were you doing last night? Why did you turn off your phone!"

Anne blushed, "I was...well, too tired last night, and fell asleep. I'm so sorry, Mr. Nolan."

Nolan said anxiously, "It's okay! You don't need to apologize to me! In fact, I don't really care what you were doing last night. What I care about is this hand-drawn script! I must know if quantum entanglement really happened to me!"

Anne asked in astonishment: "What is...quantum entanglement?"

Nolan said: "Quantum entanglement is... you won't understand even if I explain it to you. Anyway, tell me quickly, does that Gu Ran really exist?"

Nolan on the other end of the phone breathed a sigh of relief. "Fortunately, it seems that I am not crazy yet! Annie, this script is so great that I think it was hand-drawn by my future self. Anyway, I really want to know everything about the playwright Gu Ran. I really want to meet him! To talk to him in person!"

Annie immediately said, "Mr. Nolan, I'm glad you like the script. As for Gu Ran... he's not with me right now, so I'm not sure if he wants to meet you. You have to wait until he comes back in the evening."

Nolan said, "It doesn't matter! Where are you now? The UK? I'll take the nearest flight to the UK right now, so as long as he agrees to meet, we can meet tomorrow morning."

"Uh... okay then." Annie had no choice but to agree.

Nolan asked anxiously again, "By the way, do you have the ending of the hand-drawn script? Can you send it to me to take a look?"

Annie smiled and said, "Yes, he just finished hand-drawing it today. I'll scan it for you right away."

Nolan said excitedly, "Great! Annie! Thank you so much! I'll hang up first. I'll go find my assistant to buy me a plane ticket. Please send me the ending as soon as possible."

"Okay, okay."

Just as Annie hung up the phone, her cell phone rang again.

This time, it was her female assistant who called.

As soon as the call was connected, the female assistant shouted anxiously: "Annie! Why did you turn off your phone? I have been calling you all morning! If I can't get through again, I will go to the Dune Villa to pick you up!"

Annie quickly smiled and said, "Sorry, I was...too tired last night. What's the matter that made you want to see me so urgently?"

The female assistant said anxiously, "Annie, the fact that you went to Cardiff to watch the game yesterday has been exposed by the tabloid reporters! Now is the Internet age, news spreads very quickly! Now many entertainment reporters have come to Cardiff to wait for you!"

Annie smiled and said, "Then let them wait there."

"You can still laugh? Did you know that your agent and the company already knew about this scandal last night? Your agent Rachel is going crazy! She couldn't get through to you on the phone, and she's on a plane to Southampton now! She'll be there tonight!"

"No way?" Annie was stunned.

Her agent, Rachel Furness, is a very strict middle-aged woman who absolutely does not allow her to have any scandals.

Rachel's arrival means that Anne is really leaving.

This was going to happen much faster than she thought.

Annie thought for a moment, then said, "Do me a favor and try to keep her away tonight. Tomorrow morning, I will meet her and invite her to dinner."

"But Annie! I'm just a little assistant. How can I possibly hold back your agent?"

"It's time to test whether you are a qualified assistant." Annie also learned PUA, "You can take her to the Ritz Hotel and buy her a drink. If that doesn't work, put some sleeping pills in her wine. Anyway, I only need one last night!"

The female assistant on the other end of the phone was a little shocked, "Annie...you have changed so much."

Anne smiled and said, "This is the real me."

The female assistant paused, "...Well, I'm glad to see you regain yourself. I'll do my best, but tomorrow, you must show up!"

Anne smiled and said, "Don't worry. Oh, by the way, forget about it tonight. Tomorrow, remember to bring me a poster of the White Queen."

"……OK."

After hanging up the phone, Annie sighed softly.

...Tonight may be the last night I stay with Gu Ran.

So, today I must try my best to leave the most profound impression on Gu Ran.

Annie found the maid outfit and began to dress up carefully.

The other side.

Gu Ran drove to the Staplewood training base.

The security guard at the door had already recognized Gu Ran's car and immediately opened the door for Gu Ran to pass.

Gu Ran successfully parked the car in the first row of parking spaces, and then walked along the path into the training ground of the U18 youth training team.

At this time, in the U18 training ground, young players were playing a competition on the field.

As Gu Ran walked to the sidelines, his eyes were slightly fixed——

He saw that among the young players on the field, there was an oriental player with the same black hair as himself! This young player looked to be about 17 or 18 years old, and he dribbled the ball very quickly.

What the hell?

Who is this? Gu Ran tried hard to search his memories of his past life, but he had no impression of an Asian player playing for Southampton U18...

Maybe he is here for a tryout? Tryouts are very normal. Before the season starts, many young players will have tryouts. The tryout period is generally about ten days to half a month. If you pass the tryout, you will be retained. If you fail the practical training, you will leave.

Gu Ran had never seen this Oriental guy before, so this person was most likely here to participate in the pre-season tryout.

The young oriental player on the field saw Gu Ran looking at him, and then glanced at Gu Ran with arrogance, and then he worked harder and faster to fight for the ball on the field, as if he wanted to show off his strength to Gu Ran.

The moment their eyes met, Gu Ran was probably certain in his heart:

This guy is not one of us, most likely he is living a pretty good life...

To be honest, the technical basics of Japanese players are still very solid. After all, the Japanese Football Association imitated the British Football Association and also took the route of national competition selection, so their football talents have been in a blowout state in the past ten to twenty years.

However, this still does not prevent Gu Ran from hating them.

I don't need a reason, I just hate it from the bottom of my heart.

At this moment, Gu Ran heard a very charming Japanese cheer coming from the sidelines not far away: "Ganbaru! Yuichi!"

Gu Ran was attracted by the melodious sound like a nightingale's chirping, and couldn't help but look sideways -

He saw that about 20 to 30 meters away from him, there stood a mature woman who looked to be in her early 30s and whose profile was almost perfect.

This mature woman was wearing a valuable beige suit, and just standing there she exuded elegance and intellectuality.

She is not tall, and even with high heels she is only about 165cm tall. She looks particularly petite on the green field full of strong men.

She has a plump figure, but she is not fat at all. Instead, she has a perfect sense of maturity and beauty.

She was wearing a sun hat and big sunglasses, which almost covered most of her white jade-like face.

But Gu Ran could still feel the soft and mature charm like the white moonlight.

Gu Ran couldn't help but feel a slight movement in his heart: This sister... looks a little familiar!

It’s like... a big star.

Gu Ran has a special sixth sense about creatures like "celebrity" and he believes that he will not make a wrong judgment.

However, Gu Ran couldn’t remember who she was for a moment.

The woman also noticed Gu Ran's gaze, and then smiled and nodded politely to Gu Ran - just like a Japanese housewife.

She takes very good care of herself. Not only does she have girlish facial skin, but she also has a mature charm in her bones.

Gu Ran was stunned for a moment, then nodded calmly in response, and then turned his attention back to the court.

The confrontation on the training ground is becoming more and more intense.

The player named "Yuichi" really performed brilliantly. His shot was very powerful and his movements were exaggerated, somewhat like the tiger-like shot in "Captain Tsubasa".

Gu Ran stood on the sidelines and watched for a while, then successfully picked up 9 white training bubbles from the air, and automatically exchanged them for 1 new talent point.

Today's pickup mission is completed.

At this time, the U18 players' training match also came to an end.

"Xiongyi, are you thirsty? Have some water!" The mature woman ran up to greet him in small steps.

Xiong Yi pushed the woman away, walked up to Gu Ran with a cold and arrogant look on his face, and said in stiff English: "You, a Chinese, are the rising star of Southampton Football Club, right?"

Gu Ran frowned, crossed his arms over his chest, and said coldly, "That's right."

"Remember my name, my name is Kawai Yuichi!"

Kawai Yuichi raised his head proudly and said contemptuously: "I am a player and the top scorer of the champion team of this year's Japan National Tournament! I came here for a two-week trial! I heard that you are very strong, but how strong can a Chinese be? I don't accept it! I want to challenge you!"

Kawai Yuichi?

There is no such person among the future stars...

Are you challenging me? Are you so immature? You are a player who came to try out, and you want to step on me to get to the top?

Xiong Yi... Look at the name you gave him! Gu Ran frowned and said coldly, "There are many people who don't accept me. Who do you think you are? Do I need to prove anything to you? I don't want to bother with you. Go wherever it's cool. Don't disgust me."

"What did you say!" Kawai Yuichi had never been insulted like this before. He immediately clenched his fists and looked like he wanted to fight.

The mature woman quickly ran over and stood in front of Kawai Yuichi, nodding and bowing to Gu Ran to apologize, "I'm sorry! I'm sorry! Yuichi! You can't fight here! Apologize now!"

Kawai Yuichi gritted his teeth and yelled, "Go away! This is a matter between men!"

Gu Ran said coldly: "Look at you, you are not as polite as your sister."

Kawai Yuichi became even more ashamed and angry: "This is my mother!"

Holy shit…

Mother???

No way? Such a young mother? Gu Ran was completely stunned.

But the mature woman nodded awkwardly and helplessly, confirming what Kawai Yuichi said.

It’s really his mother!

Based on Yuichi Kawai's age, as a mother she must be at least 40, right?

But she looks like she is only in her early 30s !

I have to say that we Oriental women have a long blooming period, and the more mature we become, the more charming we become.

A Japanese celebrity in his 40s...

Gu Ran couldn't help but ask Kawai Yuichi: "What's your mother's last name?"

(End of this chapter)