234: Chapter 234 Your daughter is not worthy

"Teacher Young Master Ping, I'm sorry for the abrupt visit. I hope you don't mind."

"Teacher Huang, what wind blew you here? Sit, please sit, take the seat of honor!"

Chen Shaoping quickly walked out from behind his desk and shook Huang Shilei's hand with a beaming smile.

Teacher Huang had relaxed his physical maintenance over the past two years and had put on quite a bit of weight.

Shaking his hand, Chen Shaoping felt the back of it was very fleshy and soft.

With a large belly protruding, he looked at Chen Shaoping as if looking at a student, with a hint of scrutiny.

"Teacher Huang, you are a true teacher. My title is just something people call me randomly."

He said modestly.

Huang Shilei was deeply moved by his words; his eyes widened unconsciously as he sighed with emotion.

"I don't know when it started, but whenever you address someone, you have to add the word 'Teacher'. If you don't, it feels like you're not being respectful enough."

"Actually, I think this is a profanation of the word 'Teacher'. Not everyone is worthy of those two characters."

Huang Shilei paused, raised an eyebrow, and glanced at Chen Shaoping, who was fiddling with the tea set. Seeing no reaction, he continued.

"If any of the students I've taught dared to call themselves 'Teacher' in front of me, I would definitely give them a big slap across the face."

"Don't you agree, Teacher Young Master Ping?"

Chen Shaoping gave a half-smile and poured a cup of tea. "Drink some tea!"

Setting down the teacup, he said with a serious expression, "Teacher Huang, you can just call me Chen Shaoping or Young Master Ping. I don't deserve the title of 'Teacher'."

Huang Lei looked dissatisfied and retorted, "Teacher Young Master Ping, you write songs so well; you definitely deserve the title."

The "good girl" sitting next to him, Huang Duoduo, grew impatient. "Dad, let's get to the point! I have to go back and practice the piano soon."

"Alright, alright!" Huang Shilei looked at his daughter dotingly and said with a smile, "Teacher Young Master Ping, I've come to you today because I want to ask you to custom-make a song for my daughter, Huang Duoduo."

"To make her debut go more smoothly. Thank you!"

He laughed happily, his large belly shaking continuously with his laughter.

Chen Shaoping looked at Huang Duoduo and said with a smile, "Why don't you sing a snippet for me? That way, I'll know what you're good at."

Huang Shilei looked at his daughter with a bit of embarrassment and encouraged her, "Daughter, sing a few lines for Teacher Young Master Ping to hear."

Huang Duoduo looked formal and stiff, but under Huang Shilei's loving gaze, she still stood up.

"listening to the sea's cry..."

"Stop!"

After she sang a few lines, Chen Shaoping decisively called a halt and said, "How about we change to another song and try again?"

Huang Duoduo coughed a few times and cleared her throat.

Perhaps the howling just now had made her throat a bit uncomfortable.

After adjusting her state, she began to sing again.

"Ho baby, say a few more sweet words, look at me more if you miss me, show a little more so I can truly see..."

"Stop!!"

Chen Shaoping called a halt once more.

After Huang Duoduo stopped, Manager Cai, who was nearby, finally took his hands off his ears.

This one was sung slightly better than "listening to the sea" just now; she managed to 'sing' out a whole sentence of lyrics.

However, not a single word was in tune.

Only the duo of Meng and Xu could achieve this level.

He looked at Huang Shilei with an expression of helplessness on his face.

"Teacher Huang, with her like this, I don't think she should develop in the direction of singing. It would be much better to take the actor route."

"With your resources, making her famous as an actress would be easy and pleasant. Why go the long way around?"

Hearing this, Huang Duoduo's expression immediately changed. "I'm not going to act. Having to hug, hold, and kiss other male actors... I can't let go like that, and I can't accept it."

If he hadn't known her background, Chen Shaoping might have actually believed her nonsense.

He immediately performed a tactical lean back against the sofa and offered a suggestion.

"Teacher Huang, how about we don't go the celebrity artist route and do business instead?"

"Open a noodle shop and sell them for 8 a bowl; business will be booming just the same."

"Teacher Young Master Ping!" Seeing that he wanted to continue, Huang Shilei interrupted. "Singing is fine. Current pitch correction technology is more powerful than you can imagine."

"As long as you write two good songs for her, the sound engineer can complete the recording entirely."

"Then, she can take the variety show route. With her current persona, her fan count will definitely explode."

Chen Shaoping shook his head and refused. "Teacher Huang, you've already planned out her path. Whether she has my songs or not isn't important."

"Just find any two songs, and it'll be fine."

Huang Shilei withdrew the smile from his face and said coldly, "To tell you the truth, your songs are the most popular right now, Teacher Young Master Ping, which is why we came to you."

Chen Shaoping thought to himself, 'Wow, they're even trying to leech off my traffic.'

Once the netizens discovered that Huang Duoduo was a nobody, they could even make him the scapegoat.

What a clever calculation.

"Teacher Huang, I don't have any songs suitable for your daughter to sing. I'm sorry."

Chen Shaoping directly made a gesture for the two of them to leave.

Huang Shilei's face turned gloomy, and he said displeasurably, "Young Master Ping, you'd better think this through. Although I've rarely appeared on screen in the last two years, my former classmates are still around."

"Many of them have staggering influence. Are you sure you want to cross me?"

He directly tore off his final disguise; if talking nicely didn't work, he would resort to force.

Chen Shaoping's face also darkened as he downed the tea in his cup in one gulp. "Teacher Huang, your daughter isn't worthy of singing my songs at all. Why must you be so pushy?"

"If you were still a teacher, given your daughter's current situation, wouldn't you have the urge to kick her out?"

"Chen Shaoping, so what if you can write a few songs? What's the big deal? I'm even a returnee from studying abroad."

"Country bumpkin, idiot, you ignorant mutt."

Huang Duoduo was fuming with rage at Chen Shaoping. How dare he say she wasn't worthy of singing his songs?

She couldn't hold back any longer and began to swear at him.

"That's enough, Duoduo."

"No matter how angry you are, you shouldn't resort to insults."

"This isn't what you truly meant."

Huang Shilei acted very angry as he rebuked Huang Duoduo.

Watching this scene, Manager Cai stood up decisively and said loudly, "Teacher Huang, please take your daughter and leave."

"Requesting a song is supposed to be mutual. Do you really intend to use force?"

"Manager Cai, you think you're something special just because you changed companies? Do you remember how you begged me to introduce actors to you back then?"

"Now that your wings have grown, you dare to be disrespectful to me?"

Huang Shilei glared at Manager Cai.

Chen Shaoping was truly angry, and he began to speak without filtering his thoughts.

"Huang Shilei, you should know better than I do what kind of person your daughter is."

"Don't put on an act here. If you're not tired of it, I am."

"If I'm not mistaken, there are probably a lot of 'little umbrellas' in her backpack right now, aren't there?"

"How about we open it and see right now? If there aren't any, I'll give her two songs for free."

Huang Duoduo instinctively shrank back, her eyes darting away, not daring to look at Chen Shaoping.

Huang Shilei's face stiffened, and his expression became even uglier. He threatened, "Chen Shaoping, how dare you slander my daughter. We'll see about this."

After finishing his piece, he stood up abruptly, knocking the cup on the coffee table onto the floor, where it shattered into pieces.

Without even a glance, he pulled his daughter Huang Duoduo and left.

"I'm sorry, President Chen. I shouldn't have brought them here. Please, scold me!" Manager Cai bowed and apologized sincerely.

Chen Shaoping watched the backs of Huang Shilei and his daughter as they left, muttering to himself, "I hope you can see the reality and stop provoking me."