Chapter 151 Water Boiler News
Su Yun's university trip this time was quite peaceful.
After all, he has been "retired" for two years. In Hollywood, where there is new news every moment, and he has experienced two years of growth, if he does not want to cause trouble when he shows up again, he can basically do it silently.
Ovitz really wanted to drive Su Yun there himself, but unfortunately he was busy contacting a very famous lawyer recently, intending to use this lawyer's relationship to sign a superstar-level figure; therefore, Su Yun asked him to focus on the company's business and just asked him to help contact the car, intending to go there alone.
As for the others, Zhuang Long and Bowen were both busy with their work in the troupe and couldn't leave, so in the end they just called to say a few words of blessing; Tom really wanted to send Su Yun to school, but unfortunately not only were his parents busy, but he also hadn't learned to drive yet, so he had to give up.
In the end, Su Yun still followed the original plan and came to St. Clair alone with a suitcase.
Su Yun has grown very fast in the past two years, and has quickly reached 1.61 meters tall, which is enough to be considered an adult female in Hong Kong in this era when people are not tall. But unfortunately, now that she has come to a foreign country with tall people and relatively abundant nutrition, she has been relegated to the ranks of minors because of her oriental face and height.
Fortunately, the school had already made arrangements, and since it was hot now, many young people who followed fashion liked to wear sunglasses, so nothing happened.
After registering at the registration desk and getting the key, Su Yun walked towards the dormitory area with his suitcase, wearing a pair of sunglasses that made him look so cool that no one would like him.
Freshmen are required to live in double dormitories in their first year of school, and the conditions for off-campus living are relaxed in the second year. Except for big students like Su Yun, this rule is actually beneficial to ordinary foreign students who have just arrived.
After all, it is difficult to find a place to live that meets all your ideal requirements and guarantees maximum safety in a foreign country where you are unfamiliar with the environment. School dormitories are relatively a good choice.
If you go to other schools with tight dormitory conditions, you may need to apply for a dormitory in the first year in advance. The result will be a typical case of "the early bird catches the worm". If you fail to grab a safe and convenient school dormitory, you will have to spend time and energy looking for another place to rent.
There are countless students from St. Paul's High School who go abroad to study. Su Yun did her homework in advance and had the guidance of both schools. She filled out a lot of forms to apply for a dormitory early on, so since she already had a place to go, she had the confidence to come here alone.
However, the daily discipline in foreign countries is obviously not as good as when she was studying. The corridors are full of chaos. It can be seen that most of them are young people who have just finished high school life and feel that they have finally arrived at university, so they are fearless and let themselves go. They are full of energy.
Su Yun endured the slight pain in her ears from the noise and dragged her suitcase through the crowds of people. It took her fifteen minutes and she finally reached the door of her dormitory.
As soon as she opened the door, Su Yun immediately saw her roommate who had already arrived.
He also has an oriental face and looks two or three years older than her. He has elegant features and looks like a lady from a good family. The intellectual and cool charm between his features overwhelms the cuteness of his short hair, adding a calm aura to his young appearance.
Although in terms of facial features, she may not be as beautiful as those actresses who became the mark of the era during Hong Kong's golden age, but in Hong Kong and Macau, no actress dares to compete with her.
Ho Ping-si, the ultimate heir of the Ho family of Macau in the future, is also the most admired descendant of Macau gambling king Ho even now.
A true daughter of a wealthy family cannot be compared to a celebrity who relies on her looks to change her destiny or wants to cross the class ladder by relying on a wealthy family - their birthplace may already be the final goal of many people.
Su Yun closed the door, took off her sunglasses and introduced herself: "Hello, I'm Su Yun, you can call me by my English name, Mary."
"Hello, Mary, I've seen your movies, they're pretty good." He Pingsi didn't stop packing her things, and nodded slightly as a response, "My name is He Pingsi, and my English name is Pansy."
After a few casual conversations, Su Yun began to pack her things. At this time, He Pingsi had already started to make the bed.
"Your major is marketing and international business management?" Su Yun asked casually when he saw the books He Pingsi took out.
"I thought a genius like you would just feel that I haven't learned enough." Hearing the pain in Su Yun's words, He Pingsi raised her head with a meaningful look in her eyes, "I also minored in literature and art. There are many famous schools nearby. If you want to learn, you can go to attend classes everywhere - just don't disturb the normal classes."
He Pingsi actually had very complicated feelings towards the girl in front of her who was two years younger than her.
She had many brothers and sisters in her family, and her mother, Lan Qiying, who was the second wife, was particularly strict with her children. As she was especially favored by her father, the gambling king He Yongxin, because she had "good feet" and "wealthy destiny" since she was a child, there were many things that she had no control over.
Others said that she was born on a lucky day, as it happened to be the day when her father, the gambling king Ho Yung Sun, won the Macau City Gaming franchise. Therefore, she was especially loved by Ho Yung Sun, who believed in feng shui. She was a typical lucky person who was born with a silver spoon in her mouth.
But in fact, apart from receiving more attention than her younger brothers and sisters, she did not have many special privileges.
Her parents even thought she had a good fate and placed high hopes on her. When Su Yun emerged, her mother, Lan Qiying, intensified her training and said frankly that the conditions of the two parties were very different. As a daughter of a wealthy family, she absolutely could not lose to a poor girl who was not only born in a housing estate but also younger than her.
With great difficulty, while Su Yun was busy with various jobs, she worked very hard and skipped a grade at the age of sixteen to be admitted to the world's top Vassar College, where she was ready to enter her favorite art major and study English literature.
But her father, He Yongxin, directly rejected her dream, saying that she was more suitable for business school and would not allow her to study art. So she had no choice but to come to St. Clair to study business management, which she had never expected.
Because her father is He Yongxin, it is natural for her to do well in her work, to have good grades, and to give up her artistic dream and switch to studying business...
Unfortunately, perhaps this world really is like "if you have Yu, why don't you have Liang?". Soon after, Su Yun, who was only a month away from turning 14, also skipped a grade and came to St. Clair, aiming to study another ace major in this school.
But to be honest, she didn't dislike Su Yun: considering Su Yun's age and background, it was a miracle that she could get to this point. If the two of them switched positions, she didn't think she would be able to achieve what Su Yun has now.
However, it is definitely not the case that they like her - after all, it is because of the enchanting genius Su Yun that is standing in front of them that not only her, but also her brothers and sisters, friends, and opponents of similar age feel as if they are suffocated by the pressure even if they try their best to move forward.
A monstrous genius whose talent far exceeds that of his time can most easily bring a complex mixture of admiration and helplessness to his peers.
Wanting to be like her or on par with her, yet unwilling to be just like her and being suppressed by her, the name Mary Sue is the fantasy dream and real nightmare of all people of the same age at this time.
Due to various factors and complex emotions, He Pingsi just tried her best to show the friendliness of an ordinary roommate when facing Su Yun.
In contrast, Su Yun is a person who takes things as they come. If it is difficult to make close friends with her on the surface but she is not officially hostile to him, then just maintain superficial harmony... that's enough.
Before, she mostly treated newly-acquainted SSRs who were still in their infancy as equals or superiors, so there was a natural foundation for her to develop deeper friendships with them, which was why she worked hard to make friends with them. Now, the target she has to deal with is a rich girl who is naturally several levels higher than her, so it is better to do less than to make more mistakes.
Finally, these two roommates who admired each other but were also wary of each other maintained a calm and peaceful friendship with this tacit understanding.
During the period of studying, Su Yun was busy with studies and work and had basically no time to visit friends. The people she saw the most, besides the technical personnel of Industrial Light & Magic and Ovitz of her own company, was her roommate He Pingsi.
Everyone is busy with their studies or careers, and sometimes you can't meet anyone on the phone. Even if you finally meet someone, you just say a few quick greetings, confirm that the other person is doing well, and then hang up.
The only one who was willing, wealthy, and able to act coquettishly enough to get his agent to take a few days off and fly over to visit her was Chen Baiyang.
"It's not that I don't want to come with others, but unfortunately they are all so busy..." Some were busy filming movies and TV shows, some were busy hosting shows and making records. After asking around, in the end, only he, the first person to propose a visit, was able to board the plane.
"How did you get the vacation?" Su Yun was very curious when she thought of her busy friends and relatives in Hong Kong, and then looked at Chen Boyan who even brought a suitcase to buy records and clothes and looked as leisurely as if he was here for a vacation.
"I used to fly to San Francisco or New York several times a year. In addition to my studies, I could buy everything I wanted in such an international metropolis." He looked like a young master who didn't know the sufferings of the world. "Besides, if you always locked me in the house to practice and write songs, I would collapse!"
"How can I get the inspiration and feeling to write and record songs like this?"
"Okay, I understand." Su Yun waved her hands: it turned out that this guy didn't come to visit her specifically, but just had a routine vacation, so he came here "on the way".
However, it is okay for Chen Baiyang to come from time to time. Her studies and work schedules are tight. Except for the New Year holidays when she has to go back to Hong Kong to celebrate the New Year, most of the time she has to fly to Japan to handle Japanese affairs and shoot the second and third seasons of "The Thousand Faces of Girl".
With Chen Baiyang, the "diligent" bluebird, she can also regularly learn about the developments in Hong Kong in the current era of slow information transmission: for example, after Jiayi went bankrupt, TBB and Liying each brought back a large amount of high-quality and low-cost human resources and various physical resources from machines to buildings, which wrote the prelude to the golden age of the two stations competing for supremacy in the Hong Kong television industry for the next 30 years.
Unfortunately, although Su Yun had a good plan, the Hong Kong paparazzi's tracking ability is not to be underestimated. After several visits, Chen Baiyang was targeted.
In an apartment on the Hong Kong side, agent Tan Guoxi was holding a newly published newspaper. The bold headline "Chen Bai and Yang have a lover outside during regular visits to the United States" deeply stung his eyes like a sharp arrow.
"According to the reporter's tracking and verification, Chen Baiyang currently has a very close girlfriend studying in California. The two cannot see each other often, so Chen Baiyang had to take his works there to meet her when he had free time..."
"In Chen Boyang's mind, she is a little angel who is a few years younger than him and looks very beautiful and lovely..."
"The path I designed for you is the path of the campus prince! Look at what you have become now?!" Seeing Chen Boyang carrying a lot of bags back home, Tan Guoxi angrily threw the newspaper into his arms.
Chen Boyang glanced at the newspaper in confusion, and immediately blushed at the fabricated content in it: "It's not like that..."
"Of course I know that this is a piece of fake news made up by paparazzi, but did you know that the girl who lived in the same dormitory with Mary Sue was from the Ho family? After the Ho family saw the news, they secretly negotiated with the media. Otherwise, do you think there was only this one report?" The so-called "fake news" is a synonym for fake news, which means that a large amount of smoke is emitted when boiling water.
Tan Guoxi felt deeply tired when he looked at his free-spirited artist.
"Ah? I didn't pay any attention to what Mary's roommate looks like..." Chen Boyang widened his eyes in confusion.
"The problem now is, no matter whether that 'little angel' is Marie Sue or Miss Ho, you can no longer have contact with her!" Tan Guoxi stared at Chen Baiyang with a smile on his face. "From today on, you must stay in Hong Kong to write, practice and record songs. You are not allowed to go anywhere else! You are not allowed to see anyone again!"
Chen Boyang, knowing that he was in trouble, responded aggrievedly.
If we don’t see each other, then we won’t see each other. It’s only been less than two years. We know each other so well, won’t we recognize each other when we meet again?
Having just gone through adolescence, a period of great change in life, Chen Boyang had completely forgotten how huge the impact and changes could be on a person during this period of time.