191: Chapter 191 This little bastard can be quite cute sometimes!

Qin Xun held a stone and shielded Xia Ning behind him.

Xia Ning glanced at his back, smiled lightly, and quietly assumed a fighting stance.

The car door opened.

Two burly men in suits and sunglasses rushed out and stood on either side of the car door.

Qin Xun raised an eyebrow.

Immediately after, Ye Lan stepped out, carrying a small silver briefcase in her hand.

She walked up to Qin Xun, glanced at Xia Ning behind him, held the briefcase up with both hands, and bowed slowly toward Mr. Qin.

"I am sorry, Mr. Qin."

"I gave you a fright just now!"

"This is a little compensation for the emotional distress, I hope you can forgive me."

Qin Xun looked at Ye Lan, who was bent over in front of him, frowned slightly, and did not reach out to take it.

Ye Lan straightened up, her red and swollen eyes still appearing to have tear stains.

She placed the briefcase at Qin Xun's feet and reached backward.

Wang Cui handed her a marker.

Ye Lan smiled at Qin Xun, pulled off the cap, took a step toward him, and pointed the tip of the pen toward the white T-shirt on his chest.

But she saw Qin Xun widen his eyes, raise the stone in his hand, and step back.

"Hey! What the f***..."

"Are you trying to stab me with a pen?"

Ye Lan: "..."

This was the second time today she had been rendered this speechless.

The last time was just when she was being choked by Qin Xun.

Her status as a big star really didn't work in front of Qin Xun!

Ye Lan sighed, picked up the briefcase from the ground, and wrote a string of phone numbers on the case.

She looked at Qin Xun and bowed slightly again.

"Mr. Qin, to express my apologies to you once again."

"Please be sure to contact me, I will host a banquet to entertain you."

She paused and smiled.

"I have always been very generous."

Seeing Qin Xun remain unmoved, looking at her as if she were an idiot.

Ye Lan felt a bit awkward, and the smile on her face turned bitter.

"I have a movie to shoot, and I'm about to fly from Chengdu to Shian."

"I'm about to miss my flight."

She made a gesture to call.

"You must call me, we can chat on the phone."

Ye Lan looked back every few steps as she got into the car, seemingly reluctant to leave.

"You must remember to call!"

The car door closed.

A roar sounded, the pedal hit the floor, and the business van sped away.

Qin Xun watched the car drive away, feeling a bit puzzled.

Shian?

Going to Shian to shoot a movie?

Shian is my hometown!

Is she going to raid my home base?

...

In the business van.

Ye Lan covered her face and said in a muffled voice.

"A star offering to sign someone's clothes, and being shunned and dodged."

"How embarrassing!"

She lowered her hand and looked at the assistant in the passenger seat.

"Sister Wang, why didn't you show me Qin Xun's information earlier?"

"If you had shown it to me earlier, I would have personally invited him to dinner at the studio last night, and there wouldn't be so much trouble now!"

Wang Cui turned her head to look at Ye Lan, showing a bitter smile, but said nothing, feeling a bit aggrieved inside.

Was it that I didn't want to say it?

After you were rejected when inviting Qin Xun to dinner yesterday, your entire air pressure was terrifyingly low.

Who dared to mention him in front of you?

Wang Cui turned her head back, thinking of how Ye Lan had just been choked by Qin Xun, and after Qin Xun got out of the car.

Ye Lan cried for a while, cursing loudly.

"I want to see how many fans you have to be this arrogant!"

She searched for [Qin Xun] on her phone.

And saw his glorious deeds.

Kneeling to save his daughter.

Selling apples by the pool.

The leg-shaking girl, the Xiao Ying Doll, and "A Song of Lovesickness".

Singing "give to you" at the wedding.

And the soulful performance of "written for huang huai" at the opening ceremony of Dudu Tea.

And "Chengdu", which was sung just last night, has only been one day.

It already has 40 million views across the entire internet, far leaving her song from yesterday with 2 million views behind.

At this rate, it is destined to be a song that breaks many records.

Ye Lan pounded her legs in anxiety.

"He's already this popular, why haven't I scrolled past him on Douyin before?"

Wang Cui explained weakly.

"Sister Lan, whenever you scrolled past internet celebrities before, you would directly click 'not interested', especially the ones who sing, so maybe that's why..."

Ye Lan was speechless.

She looked down on internet celebrities from the bottom of her heart, and was even somewhat hostile toward them.

Actually, it couldn't entirely be blamed on Ye Lan.

At this time, Blue Star's Douyin and the TikTok from the previous life were similar in their early development stages.

The platform was filled with some trashy, vulgar content, such as suggestive material, acting ugly, or acting out.

The internet cleanup trend hadn't started yet.

Just like in the previous life, the Little Ah Giao who was catching earthworms in the woods and digging for food in a pig trough in '18, became the life mentor Mr. Zhan Yapeng in '23!

And in '23, on TikTok, let alone eating earthworms, even snot mixed with rice wouldn't get any traffic, and would even be banned.

Ye Lan had scrolled past some strange internet celebrities before and directly clicked 'not interested'.

She didn't expect that a figure like Qin Xun would suddenly appear out of nowhere.

One month.

Four songs, every single one a hit!

If this isn't a god, what is?

Only then did she understand why the boss of Orange Era had called her last night to ask her to send 3 million in protection money to Qin Xun.

Could she not pay this money?

Did she dare not pay it?!

Ye Lan immediately ordered the driver.

"Driver Wu, turn around and go back to Qin Xun!"

...

On the side of the road.

Under a landscaping tree.

Xia Ning picked up the briefcase from the ground.

Qin Xun took a look.

"Little Xia, do you think there might be a bomb inside?"

Xia Ning: "..."

She ignored him, turned the combination lock to the default 0000, and opened the case directly.

It was indeed money inside.

She felt a bit strange, looking at Qin Xun.

"There is about 1 million here, why would she give you so much money?"

"What did you promise her in the car?"

Qin Xun reached out and stroked the stacks of money, like caressing a baby, also puzzled.

Recalling the scene in the car.

"She told me in the car to go be a music consultant for her company, giving me 3 million a year, with almost no work to do."

"I hadn't decided yet!"

"Then I saw you chasing the car from behind, and even lost your shoe."

"I was a bit anxious, so I told her to stop the car."

"She was still there yapping away, and I was worried your foot injury would get worse, so I just choked her."

"Then I just got out of the car!"

Xia Ning was silent.

Hearing that Qin Xun had used force against an A-list star because he saw her lose her shoe, she felt a bit touched inside.

This little beast is actually quite cute sometimes!

Qin Xun patted the money in the case, feeling a bit puzzled.

"Little Xia, do you think Ye Lan has a masochistic tendency?"

"After leaving, she savored the feeling of me choking her, the more she tasted it the more intense it became, and then she couldn't help herself, and rushed back to give me 1 million."

He closed the combination lock and looked at the phone number on it.

"All to leave this string of phone numbers, wanting to ask me next time to abuse her?"

"To whip her fiercely?"

Seeing Qin Xun's gaze turn toward her, Xia Ning's face heated up, she quickly turned her head to look at the end of the road, and nodded slowly.

"That makes sense."

Qin Xun: "???"

He looked at Xia Ning, seeing her face full of seriousness, and found it somewhat funny.

"I was just saying nonsense, but you actually think... it makes sense?"

Xia Ning looked at Qin Xun, sighed, with a serious expression, and said in a deep voice.

"What I am about to say next, you might find a bit pretentious, but it is truly the truth."