Chapter 149: Charity Walk
After completing filming "Mermaid Romance" on time, Li Sishi began to focus on her studies and recording.
Unless the crew of "Mermaid Romance" or "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" notified her to go back and reshoot some scenes, Li Sishi rarely paid attention to anything else, as she finally had a little free time.
After recording the Mandarin and Cantonese versions of "If I Were a Myth", Lu Yiting began to arrange for the Cantonese version of "If I Were a Myth" to be released on the radio for charting. As for the Mandarin version "The Girl Who Flies with Dreams", it was postponed and will be released to compete in Mandarin regions at a later appropriate time.
This album contains a total of ten songs. Apart from "Love Myth" and "May This World Be Like a Fairy Tale," which are film and television soundtracks and therefore do not require music videos, Li Sishi had to film music videos for all the other songs. Zhuang Menghua and Lu Yiting both valued Li Sishi's first solo album very much. In addition, Zhuang Menghua is now managing Huasheng, so the production budget allocated to Li Sishi for this album was naturally quite generous.
Taking advantage of the Saturday holiday, Li Sishi quickly made the most of her time, spending a day with the filming crew assigned to her on the mountain to film the music video for "If I Were a Myth". Then, after sunset, she rushed back to the recording studio to continue recording other songs.
However, considering that tomorrow is the "Charity Walk" fundraising event, Li Sishi did not record until late at night as usual. Instead, she ended her recording work early at 11 p.m. and went back to her apartment to rest and recharge for tomorrow's early morning walk.
The temperature was pleasantly cool on a weekend morning in early summer. Li Sishi, who had a rare good night's sleep, sat up in bed, pulled back a corner of the curtains to feel the warm morning light, and then quickly got up to wash and get ready.
After having breakfast and putting on some light makeup, Li Sishi changed into a tracksuit and put on a baseball cap. The van was already waiting downstairs, ready to depart at any time.
After politely declining Zuo Lili's offer to carry her bag as an assistant, Li Sishi easily carried the small backpack downstairs herself. After getting into the van, she took out the activity map for the day again to check it.
The charity fundraising event that Li Sishi will be participating in during the day is called "Million Walk," which is a walking event that requires participants to walk from one location to another. In addition to doing good deeds, participants can also exercise. Therefore, every year when this event is held, in addition to the social celebrities and artists who appear, it also receives a large number of enthusiastic participants and support from the public.
Its main focus is on the themes of "charity, health, and green".
They called on people from all walks of life who are enthusiastic about public welfare to seek the well-being of those in need.
In addition, walking is an activity that is not limited by time and place and can maintain health and relax the mind and body. Therefore, since the 1970s, the "Million Walk" has accompanied Hong Kong people through a generation.
Of course, such a large-scale event must be prepared in advance—so the walking route for this event is either set on some sections of road that are not usually frequented, or on newly built highways, tunnels, etc.
Although Li Sishi knew that a large number of people would gather and head towards the destination, she still took a map along the way to be cautious and memorize the route of the event in advance, in order to avoid any funny or embarrassing situations that might occur during the process.
After all, it's not uncommon to hear about the ridiculous incidents in marathons and other events where the person in the lead takes the wrong route, causing everyone behind them to follow suit and also take the wrong route...
After picking up her younger cousins at the Lucky Tea Restaurant, Li Sishi remarked with a touch of emotion, "It's been a while since I've seen you, and you seem to have grown even taller."
"Really?!" Zhou Huichang, who had always been dissatisfied with her height, was pleasantly surprised and stretched her arms and legs. "It seems that exercising more really does have an effect!"
"Tsk, what do you call exercising? You're just sitting there watching me run!" Zhou Huiguang clicked his tongue.
"I occasionally go for a run to exercise!" Zhou Huichang playfully punched her brother who was trying to ruin her mood, then grabbed Li Sishi's hand and shook it back and forth. "Cousin, cousin, I've recently drawn some design drafts..."
Listening to Zhou Huichang rambling on about how she would study hard in Hong Kong and become an excellent designer, Li Sishi suddenly felt a little confused: "I remember...didn't you tell me before that you wanted to study in England?"
"Uh... Now that I think about it, England is still too far away. Actually, the universities in our port city are not bad either," Zhou Huichang explained somewhat awkwardly.
Li Sishi glanced at her thoughtfully, then slowly smiled and said, "That's fine. Staying in Hong Kong isn't so bad. The moon in foreign countries isn't necessarily brighter than ours."
“That’s right, that’s right.” Zhou Huichang nodded repeatedly.
"And what about you, Guangzai? What are your plans for college or something else?" Li Sishi turned to look at Zhou Huiguang.
My cousin's grades are good, so there's not much to worry about whether she studies abroad or stays in Hong Kong; she can just follow her own ideas and preferences. My cousin's grades, on the other hand, show that he's clearly trying, but hasn't been very effective.
This put Li Sishi in a rather difficult position.
"Well..." Zhou Huiguang scratched his head in a bit of a daze. "Cousin, you know my grades. I'm only able to go to preparatory school now because you encouraged me to develop my athletic talent. But I'm not one of those 'childhood training' types who started practicing at a very young age, so even if I work hard these past few years, I probably won't be able to make it into the track and field team and become a professional athlete..."
“And my grades aren’t very good…” Zhou Huiguang sighed with frustration, thinking about how his academic performance was far behind that of his older sister and cousin.
Li Sishi nodded solemnly: Although she was busy with work and couldn't pay as much attention to her younger cousins as before, she still habitually inquired about their studies when she regularly called her uncle's house. Therefore, she knew that it was really difficult for her younger cousin Zhou Huiguang to get into university.
Universities have higher requirements for athletic talent than high schools. Even if my younger cousin, who started halfway through his studies, has some talent for running, he can't compare to students who have been training since childhood and are truly talented... If there's no other way, then he'll probably have to finish his preparatory course and prepare to enter the workforce.
Li Sishi had mentioned to her aunt and uncle the idea of sending her younger cousins to study abroad to enhance their resumes, but apart from her cousin Zhou Huichang, who had previously expressed some longing for studying abroad, the other three seemed rather reluctant.
After repeatedly confirming that her uncle and aunt were not afraid of troubling her, but simply didn't like having both children so far from home, Li Sishi gave up the idea and started thinking of other solutions for her younger cousin.
Although a pre-university diploma is considered acceptable in this era where secondary school education is still common, it's not enough to find a job. She's neither good enough for high-end jobs nor good enough for low-end ones. In addition, Li Sishi still has some lingering regret about not being able to help her uncle's family in her past life, so she still can't make up her mind about her cousin Zhou Huiguang's future plans.
Li Sishi even considered spending money to pull strings to send her cousin to learn martial arts or bodyguarding skills so he could become her bodyguard and assistant. She was naturally confident in her cousin's character, but while it would certainly be beneficial in the long run, it wouldn't look very good on the surface.
Furthermore, her uncle's family are all stubborn types who like to help others but don't really like being helped. This led to Li Sishi's idea of having her cousin be her assistant.
There's no guarantee we'll be able to convince my uncle and aunt by then.
Furthermore, Li Sishi herself also wanted her younger cousins, who had been implicated in her previous life, to have a better life in this life because of her second chance at life.
The starting point of this event was at the entrance of the stadium, where Li Sishi was thinking...
Looking out the car window, one could see many citizens, whose clothes clearly indicated they were also going to participate in the Million Walk event, walking in groups of three or five to the starting point.
They drove in through a specially reserved passage, and after parking, Li Sishi took her cousins to stand number 52, which they had arranged to meet at dawn.
"You're here." Ling Chen arrived even earlier than her and was already sitting in the stands doing some stretching exercises.
Li Sishi greeted him and then introduced her cousins.
“I remember, the first time I filmed a music video with you, your cousins came to visit you on set.” Ling Chen smiled gently at the two little ones who could very well affect his score.
"It's been so long, and you still remember?" Li Sishi clicked her tongue in amazement.
"I remember everything about you." Ling Chen raised his hand, tapped his temple, and said with a smile. His confident little appearance was actually quite cute.
He's just a bit silly, like a three-year-old at most...
Ignoring Zhou Huichang's starry-eyed CP fans who were gushing over the sweet moments, Li Sishi put on a stern face and feigned anger, saying, "We don't need you to film now, yet you're still putting on such a show. Don't wait until you're too tired to climb the stairs! There are over a thousand steps on this route!"
"Don't doubt my body, okay? Believe me or not, I can carry you up there!" Ling Chen suddenly changed to a serious face, and even bent his forearm to show off the strong muscles he had built up recently while practicing singing and lifting weights. "Look, not worse than the football players in the stands next door!"
Amused by his bodybuilder pose, Li Sishi waved her hands repeatedly, "Alright, alright, I won't tease you anymore. I'll go get ready and we'll be leaving here soon."
Li Sishi wanted to turn around and tell her younger cousins, but when she turned back, she found Zhou Huichang and Zhou Huiguang talking to someone next door.
The stands next to them were where several football teams from the port city gathered. The person speaking to the Zhou siblings at that moment was a young man wearing a jersey with the logo of the Qizhi Football Club.
Football club?
Before Li Sishi could think further, Zhou Huichang, who had just finished talking with Li Sishi in the early hours of the morning, immediately waved and greeted her: "Cousin!"
"This is Shenglin. He used to live near our house with Grandpa Lei, but then he went to study in England and only came back to Gangcheng to play football last year." Zhou Huichang introduced the young man, and then happily added, "As soon as Shenglin came back last year, he won the Best Newcomer of the Year award!"
This name... sounds somewhat familiar.
Li Sishi searched her mind for a moment, and then, seeing Zhou Huichang's happy expression, she remembered something: Oh right, her little cousin had a treasured photo album.
In this album, besides various photos with her family, there is also a photo of Zhou Huichang as a child with a boy, which she treasures and places on the page covered with stickers.
Then think about this young man named Lei Shenglin, he just returned from England last year...
No wonder she stopped watching her idol's videos and shipping couples at midnight; it turns out she was thinking about her beloved idol coming back.
"Hello." Thinking that the young man before her might be able to resolve two major issues on her mind at once, Li Sishi immediately gave him a friendly smile and shook his hand.
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