183: Dad: I'm going to be surrounded by colleagues at work, right?

Tang Chen was so happy he felt like he could fly.

In a public opinion monitoring room at Tianji Entertainment.

He sat around the central circular conference table with the head of publicity, data analysts, legal specialists, and others.

The six screens in front of them displayed social media trending topics, public sentiment, keyword cloud situations, real-time discussion data changes on community websites like Douban, book sales data on e-commerce platforms, live stream bullet screen analysis data, and other public opinion information, as well as factual public opinion reports generated by third-party tools.

Tang Chen saw that the overall public sentiment on various platforms was good within 20 minutes of Chen Fang announcing his identity, so he also breathed a sigh of relief and stood up to stretch his legs.

Just then, a message popped up on his phone from the head of the Music Production Department—

“Tang Chen, I saw the online discussion. His original profession is a singer, so don’t be blinded by money and let him develop in multiple fields simultaneously now. Let him focus on developing well in the music industry first and break through one industry!”

Tang Chen smiled helplessly. Of course, he knew that.

“Don’t worry, if he’s free on Monday, I’ll persuade him to attend your qin dynasty storm soundtrack production meeting.”

…

Meanwhile, the live interview continued.

He Xing glanced at the bullet screen outside the camera and asked Chen Fang with a smile, “Teacher Chen, some viewers are curious as to why you have such strong literary talent. Would you mind telling us how you cultivated such literary literacy?”

Chen Fang nodded, “My parents work in this field, and I grew up immersed in this environment from a young age. It’s just that later I became very interested in music, which led me down my current path.”

Other celebrities also mention their families on shows; generally, such vague expressions do not lead to privacy leaks.

But to prevent his parents from being harassed because of this, Chen Fang decided to say a few more words.

“However,” Chen Fang’s expression became serious, and the smile in his eyes faded a bit, “I hope everyone focuses on the novel and myself only, and does not overly focus on my family.”

He Xing echoed with a smile, “Of course not. We all know that the right to know has boundaries, and prying into, leaking, and disclosing others’ privacy is illegal.”

Chen Fang smiled at He Xing. Old He is very reliable; he said what he found inconvenient to say.

…

In the neighborhood of Chen Fang’s old home.

His father, Chen Heng, was in his study, excitedly talking on the phone with his cousin.

“I also didn’t expect him to be Dongfang.”

“It’s really not that I don’t care about him; if he doesn’t actively say it, who would have thought?”

“Brother, don’t you know him? He’s especially good at keeping secrets.”

“Speaking of which, back then, I should have persuaded him to take the literary path.”

“Work matters at the company? Then you be busy. Hanging up, hanging up.”

Chen Heng hung up the phone, his face flushed with excitement, and walked into the living room, where he saw his wife sitting on the sofa, eating fruit while watching the live stream with a smile in her eyes.

Chen Heng sat next to her, “What do you think he would be like now if I had persuaded him to take the literary path back then?”

Qi Shuya patted him, “Don’t think about it. People always tend to over-beautify the path they didn’t take. Isn’t it pretty good now?”

Chen Heng snorted, “Why are you acting like a master?”

“Hahahaha,” Qi Shuya couldn’t hold back and burst out laughing, “Oh, but even if he followed your advice, he would have taken the path of literary research. Research and writing are two different things, so let him follow hisHobby.”

“Indeed, but going to school tomorrow, tsk, I feel like I’ll be surrounded by colleagues, truly troublesome.”

“Why are you pretending? Tomorrow is Sunday, and you don’t have classes.”

Chen Heng was slightly stunned, a hint of regret and eagerness flashing in his eyes.

Qi Shuya hugged her arms, proudly crossing her legs, “I’m going to the college next Monday, and I’m going to show off too!”

Chen Heng tilted his head in confusion. His wife was usually quite low-key; what was she doing?

“Why are you going on Monday if you don’t have class?”

“I must stroll past Hu Bin’s office door.” Qi Shuya raised an eyebrow.

She was just petty; why should her good son be used by Hu Bin as a negative example to educate students? He apologized, but then said, “He still has some ~ taste.”

Only he has taste, he truly has too much taste!

He had been studying ghost blows out the light for the past two months and even guided students to use it as research material. How truly tasteful! It’s truly laughable.

…

“Hahahahaha!”

Hu Tingting had just finished her homework according to her father’s rule of “only 1 hour of live stream after finishing homework,” and entered the live stream room of the adventures.

She stood in front of the refrigerator, her brain frozen for a minute before she understood the current situation, and immediately laughed until her stomach hurt.

Hu Bin pushed open the study door, “What are you making noise about? Can’t you be more ladylike?”

Hu Tingting clutched her stomach, laughing so hard that tears were almost coming out, and pulled out a chair next to the dining table to sit down, “Do you know who Dongfang is?”

“Isn’t he the author of ghost blows out the light?”

“I mean his real identity.”

Hu Bin looked up at the clock on the wall and realized it was already half past seven.

He knew Dongfang was holding a fan meeting, but he didn’t plan to watch it directly. Instead, he paid students to record it, and he would read the text later to extract useful information.

“No matter who it is, you can’t laugh like that. Can you be more ladylike?”

“Hahahahaha, do you know who it is?”

“Who?”

“It’s Chen Fang!”

Hu Bin froze in place, his raised hand slowly lowered, and after a moment of stunned silence, he chuckled, “What nonsense are you talking about?”

“Search online yourself. This news is in the top five of several trending topics; you’ll definitely find it.”

Hu Bin stood frozen for a moment, his lips trembling, then quickly walked back to his study, opened the browser, and typed with slightly trembling fingers. But before he could finish typing, his peripheral vision caught sight of a hot news item below the search bar—

【Shocking! The author of ghost blows out the light and Chen Fang actually live in the same room!】

Hu Bin had no time to lament how ridiculous the title was. He quickly clicked on it, and what greeted him were interview photos from tonight’s live stream and the news that Chen Fang was Dongfang.

Hu Bin’s mind buzzed, and he felt a little dizzy.

Oh no… his reputation in front of his students was going to be completely ruined now.

When he was complaining back then, he really shouldn’t have casually used such an example!

He wasn’t trying to target Chen Fang back then. He just felt that teachers diligently doing research didn’t earn much money, and had to fill out various administrative forms at every turn, delaying their research. Whereas celebrities made so much money just by posing. It was truly a decline in public morals!

As a result, a colleague’s child actually entered the entertainment industry. Seeing them earn so much, his disdain and sour feelings grew more and more in his heart.

When educating students, he just blurted it out.

But then… this guy actually turned out to be Dongfang, the Dongfang he had praised for two months.

Those students must be talking about him behind his back now, right?

How was he going to get through Monday?

The students must definitely be laughing at him behind his back now, right?

Sigh! From now on, he really needed to control his leaky, broken mouth.