Chapter 144: They Start Fighting Right Upon Meeting
Teacher Shi’s almond eyes looked toward the agent, without saying anything.
Sister Wang first nodded in greeting to Chi Ye, then pulled Teacher Shi to the side, lowering her voice to ask: “You have to record a song at noon, when will you finish?”
Teacher Shi turned back to glance at Chi Ye, thought for a moment, and said: “Can it be pushed to tomorrow?”
Sister Wang was stunned, also glanced at Chi Ye, and nodded: “Okay… I’ll go communicate.”
“……Mm.”
The two walked back.
Chi Ye didn’t hear this, but after thinking a bit, he understood: “You have work today?”
Shi Daifu shook her head.
Chi Ye realized that he had been a bit too hasty this time, not considering Teacher Shi’s schedule.
“Then you go back to work first, I’ll come another day.”
“It’s fine.”
“Yes, it’s fine, no problem, I pushed it to tomorrow.”
The agent also smiled.
Chi Ye glanced at her, always feeling that this agent’s smile was a bit off… this woman wouldn’t have a crush on me, right?
“Let’s head back first.”
Teacher Shi squatted down to pack her things, then untied the sandbag hanging from the tree, easily picking it up with one hand, and looked at the two.
“Then… let’s go.”
Seeing this, Chi Ye politely offered: “Let me carry that for you.”
Shi Daifu indeed showed “progress” this time, pretending not to hear and continuing to carry the things as she walked.
Chi Ye’s expression unchanged, he walked beside her.
Sister Wang opened her mouth, a bit dumbfounded.
Why didn’t Shi Shi give him the things this time?
That shouldn’t be, every time she politely offered to Shi Shi, Shi Shi would take it seriously…
The group returned to Shi Daifu’s home, where Sister-in-law had already prepared dinner, plus the four or five portions of takeout ordered by Chi Ye, and everyone simply took a bite.
It really was just a simple bite.
Because perhaps Chi Ye wasn’t familiar with them, plus the “star” halo, Teacher Shi’s Big Brother and Sister-in-law were both a bit reserved.
Throughout, besides saying “Don’t stand on ceremony, treat this like your own home” at the very beginning, they didn’t say anything else.
So, after eating, the agent found an opening, pulled Teacher Shi aside, and lowered her voice: “Did you mention it to him?”
“Ah?” Teacher Shi was stunned, puzzled: “Mention what?”
“……The signing matter, are you dumb!” Sister Wang was anxious: “You haven’t said it yet, have you?”
“When did I agree to say it?”
Sister Wang: “……”
“His drama requires action scenes, let me eat something… I still need to practice more this afternoon.”
Teacher Shi stood up to leave.
“Hey, wait.”
The agent pulled her back, speechless: “Wait until I finish speaking.”
Teacher Shi stopped, her almond eyes looking at her.
The agent paused her lips, then said dejectedly: “Ji Hemming’s new drama OST fell through.”
“Oh.”
“It was almost settled, but for some reason, the film producer doesn’t want us anymore.”
“Mm.”
Sister Wang: “?”
She looked at Shi Daifu, who seemed to be thinking about other things, and laughed in anger: “Hey, no, are you even listening to me?”
“I’m listening.”
“……Okay, one more piece of good news.” Sister Wang said: “Ji Hemming’s new drama is gone, but we negotiated Yu Yan’s, our own lyric writing and composition OST.”
“Put some effort into it, these two resources are the best I’ve gotten for you recently, you must take them seriously.”
“Okay, I’m taking it seriously.”
“……Alright then, you go ahead, interact more with President Chi, that’s pretty good too.”
Sister Wang conceded defeat, feeling she didn’t need to say these things to Shi Daifu at all, because she seemed unwilling to voice her own opinions.
Is this my career alone?
Sister Wang was puzzled.
……
In the afternoon, Chi Ye trained with Teacher Shi for a few more hours.
Afterward, confirming the basics were about right, he started drawing.
With over fifty million favorability left, he first tried drawing two Master-level skills.
【You obtained『Shi Daifu』’s Straight Kick（Master-level）】
【Shi Daifu’s leg skills, sharp as wind, powerful and heavy, this is the leg kung fu she honed day after day for ten years.】
【You obtained『Shi Daifu』’s Body Flexibility（Master-level）】
【Shi Daifu’s body flexibility is unimaginable, allowing various high-difficulty martial arts moves impossible for ordinary people.】
Chi Ye didn’t draw any more.
Because he discovered and realized a problem.
To be precise, this problem was something he had guessed long ago, just now confirmed.
That is, drawing skills like acting skills or singing skill is fine, he can almost instantly “master them”.
But for something like martial arts, although he can “master” it through the system, there’s an awkward fact—his strength and stamina aren’t enough.
For example, Teacher Shi’s leg skills, he knows them now, but can’t produce the same effect as her.
Because his strength isn’t enough, at most he has the technique, impossible to copy Shi Daifu’s stamina.
When copying singing skill before, he copied voice, but that was just called voice, fundamentally it’s talent.
In other words, unless he can directly copy Shi Daifu’s strength talent, martial power can’t instantly max out, and he’s tried before, “talents” outside entertainment have extremely low copy probability, almost zero.
Of course, Chi Ye never planned to max out “martial arts”.
What he’s considering now is, instead of copying “flowery poses” like this, better to copy some useful “flowery poses”.
So he needs to implement his second plan—as he thought earlier, utilize Teacher Shi’s “universal container” trait for “directed learning”.
With an idea in mind, he started drawing with Intermediate and Advanced scrolls.
【You obtained『Shi Daifu』’s Whiplash Kick flowery poses（Intermediate）】
【One of the most handsome leg moves.】
【You obtained『Shi Daifu』’s sweeping leg flowery poses（Intermediate）】
【Cool martial arts performance leg technique.】
【You obtained『Shi Daifu』’s Wing Chun flowery poses（Intermediate）】
【Fist technique like wind, visually stunning “violent fist technique”.】
【……】
Chi Ye smiled in relief.
Flowery poses, flowery poses.
Who says flowery poses aren’t martial arts?
As long as stamina keeps up, strengthening the body, he too can become Boxing King level!
Mm…
Becoming Boxing King starts with exercising the body!
“You… are you okay?”
Shi Daifu stood opposite, looking at the mysterious smile on Chi Ye’s face, a bit dumbfounded.
Did she really hit too hard, fist wind too strong, giving him a cold?
Not so “delicate”…
Then if she really wants to punch him later, how should she do it…
“Ah?” Chi Ye came back to his senses, smiled: “I’m fine, just thought of something happy.”
“Mm… let’s end it here for today.”
He checked the time, realized he needed to head back.
Overall, this trip was quite rewarding.
Of course, if he could get Teacher Shi to continue “teaching”, he’d be even more satisfied.
But this was hard to say outright, even with his thick skin, he couldn’t voice it, just made an appointment with Teacher Shi to come “consult” next time, then hurriedly returned to the film crew.
That evening.
Shi Daifu returned home, instead of going to bed early as usual, she turned on the computer, searched in the search bar for【most handsome martial arts moves】, thought for a moment, added “boys” after “most handsome”.
【Most handsome boys martial arts moves】
Clicked search, viewed, then took out her notebook, recording the “qualified” moves in the notebook.
She wasn’t just “learning” these moves simply, but combining them with her own “martial arts”, gradually producing sets of novel yet exceptionally sharp and handsome “martial arts moves”.
“Is this it?”
“Looks good, but not practical.”
“Mm… this move is too feminine… needs adjustment, not suitable for boys…”
That night, in her room, she practiced them, both novel and puzzled.
She was waiting for Chi Ye to come back for “consultation”.
But Chi Ye didn’t come, instead she got another bouquet of flowers.
……
Chi Ye didn’t return.
That day after returning to《Xing Ni》film crew, he gradually got busy again.
《Xing Ni》filming had entered the latter half, and he couldn’t disappear from the public eye forever, needed to show up occasionally to maintain presence.
That day, after finishing filming, Chi Ye carried the suitcase that Empress Dowager had “messed up” over three days, and boarded the airplane to《Actors Please Take Place》.
On the way.
He leaned back, eyes closed, asking: “Heard Ji Hemming said it’s me or him?”
“Yes, he made the statement, lots of people in the industry know.”
Xiao Liu nodded.
“What’s his reaction now?”
“……No reaction.”
Chi Ye sneered.
Ji Hemming had recently planned to join《Actors Please Take Place》, with high popularity.
And in the industry, it spread that one of the Four Great Young Actors, Ji Hemming, during communication with《Actors Please Take Place》program team, bluntly said: kick out Chi Ye, doesn’t want to share stage with such a person.
But… minimal effect.
Mainly,《Actors Please Take Place》program team wasn’t too willing.
Though Ji Hemming had much higher star power and popularity than Chi Ye, the issue was, Chi Ye had great program effect!
Moreover, there was a deeper reason—Ji Hemming came this time because of Li Qian.
But Li Qian hates Ji Hemming, thus strongly backed Chi Ye.
Plus guests mentors like Shang Youshu, Teacher Wu passing messages, Ji Hemming’s show-off remarks got slapped down.
“No problem, these few days will give him some ‘reaction’.”
Chi Ye thought of something, smiled again.
Xiao Liu knew what he meant.
Because Chi Ge already got Ji Hemming’s little video, plus Master Zhuang intermittently gave him many other Yue Na “videos” recently.
—Chi Ge was going to mess with Yue Na again.
Xiao Liu could only silently mourn Yue Na in his heart, wishing it would die soon.
The two chatted no more, boarded the plane, landed in Hangzhou after two and a half hours, and arrived again at《Actors Please Take Place》program team.
Just entering the studio, Chi Ye sensed the atmosphere was off.
The contestants around were craning their necks, looking toward backstage.
Faintly hearing Ji Hemming’s cursing from inside.
“Teacher Chi?”
Shang Youshu also poked her head, itching to dive in for gossip, happened to glimpse Chi Ye, eyes lit up, immediately beckoning: “Come quick, come quick!”
“What’s up?”
Chi Ye first greeted the mentors like Teacher Wu seated above, then asked curiously.
“Ji Hemming is acting like a diva!”
Sister Shang was excited: “Very skillfully!”
Chi Ye: “Ah?”
“Li Qian isn’t here this episode… he only found out after arriving, feels the program team tricked him… um, the program team did trick him.”
Sister Shang added: “That’s all I know for now, want more, go in and see.”
“Not interested in this, forget it.”
Chi Ye shook his head.
Click.
At that moment, the door opened on its own.
Ji Hemming walked out with a gloomy face, spotted Chi Ye at once, cursed: “Fuck, you eavesdropping?”
Chi Ye: “?”
“Are you a retard? Biting randomly?”
Ji Hemming: “?!”
He seemed unable to believe Chi Ye dared “curse” him publicly, pointing: “Say that again?”
Chi Ye: “You’re a retard.”
Ji Hemming: “Fuck!”
He turned back shouting at the program team director: “You all heard, right? I still say it, it’s me or him! If he’s here today, I won’t record!”
Program team: “……”
Assistant behind asked director: “Not recording yet, but I phone-recorded it, release it?”
Director: “……”
“Are you a retard too? Can this air? Not warned enough last time?”
Assistant: “……”
“P our program team LOGO on both their heads, then release.”
Assistant: “Ah?”
Over here.
Seeing Chi Ye and Ji Hemming go full firepower on sight, everyone around was stunned, then dumbfounded, Shang Youshu even opened her little mouth: “That… happiness came too suddenly…”
Sure enough, wherever Chi Ye is, big gossip is produced!
Chi Ye: “?”
Ji Hemming: “?”
“Aiya, all friends, don’t ruin the harmony.”
At this time, Teacher Wu came over, hurriedly pulled Chi Ye, then looked at Ji Hemming: “All here to record the program, don’t keep arguing.”
Ji Hemming glanced at Chi Ye, then Teacher Wu, sneered, said nothing.
“Why don’t you two go outside and fight?”
Sheng Ning, who had been watching the fun, arms crossed, thin lips hooked in a smile: “Just arguing is meaningless.”
Ji Hemming stunned, attitude suddenly “milder”, turned to Sheng Ning with a bitter smile: “Sister Ning, am I unlucky or what, really, now he’s not just leeching off women, even men.”
Hearing this, Sheng Ning’s face suddenly changed, phoenix eyes staring at Ji Hemming: “Say your thing, why mention me?!”
Ji Hemming dazed, not understanding what was up with Sheng Ning, but he really didn’t want to offend her, felt a bit stifled.
Chi Ye, hearing this, wasn’t surprised at all, because Sheng Ning was just such a somewhat neurotic woman.
Can’t judge by common sense.
He also looked at Ji Hemming: “Leech off you? I don’t like flattering.”
Paused, he looked at Sheng Ning: “You, when you have an episode, have it, don’t scare Ji Hemming.”
Sheng Ning: “?!”
Ji Hemming: “?!”
Buddy, you dare say that straight to Sheng Ning?!
Everyone: Done, you spare no one.
