Chapter 13: I’m Famous

Time ticked by, minute by minute, yet the stream of customers never lessened in the slightest.

Just then, a familiar figure appeared among the crowd—it was the very person he had been thinking about, Mikael!

The instant everyone saw the CP appear together, their interest was instantly piqued.

After all, this pair of CPs was rare enough in real life, let alone the chance to see both in the same place at once.

“Mikael!”

Seeing Mikael, Lin Guanqi immediately knew it must be the makeup artist, Liu Ruxue.

“Ruxue, you’re here!”

“Hurry, have a seat—I’ll treat you to some coffee right away!”

Liu Ruxue hadn’t expected Lin Guanqi to be this popular, drawing such a huge crowd of onlookers.

At this moment, an idea suddenly popped into Chen Xi’s mind—to sell photos of Lin Guanqi. Of course, not those private photos, but group photos.

However, it wouldn’t just be simply selling photos.

You’d buy a limited-edition coffee, and get a photo with Lin Guanqi as a bonus. Naturally, this idea was met with instant opposition from Lin Guanqi. But, there might be a way to get her on board without her refusing.

Chen Xi pulled Lin Guanqi, who was in the middle of making coffee for Liu Ruxue, aside and said, “Here’s the thing, I’ve got this new coffee, but it’s not selling well. How about letting people take a photo with you if they buy it?”

Before he finished speaking, Lin Guanqi already knew what he was getting at.

She immediately rejected the idea. Wasn’t that just piling more work on her? She was already barely keeping up as it was, and now he wanted her to double up on work—wasn’t that going to be the death of her?

Refuse. She had to refuse!

“No way. This is just going to add to my stress. Whoever wants to do it, you go find them.”

Chen Xi quickly held onto Lin Guanqi and, with a look of utter seriousness, said, “If you’re willing to do it, I’ll give you an 80% commission!”

“Tch, just eighty. Whoever wants to do it can go do it.”

“It’s an 80 percent commission, you know?”

Eighty percent commission?

When Lin Guanqi heard those words, she immediately turned around and grabbed Chen Xi’s hands. “Really, 80? Are you tricking me? You’re not going to turn around and say I never agreed, and then tell me to get lost after it’s done, are you?”

Chen Xi immediately denied it—how could he possibly do something so underhanded?

No, no, no, I would never do such a thing.

“That kind of thing is what only scoundrels would do. Do I look like a scoundrel to you? I never do things like that!”

As the boss, he instantly started guaranteeing his own reputation. After all, if things soured between Liu Gong and the boss, half of this movie business would be finished, not to mention employees of this caliber.

He really didn’t want to lose this money tree; she was making him more in a month than he could earn on his own.

If he lost her, he’d regret it for the rest of his life.

“For real? If you’re putting it that way, then I’m motivated. Not to mention group photos, I’ll do it!”

She really was short on cash these days, so with a new way to earn money, of course she wouldn’t let it slip by.

“Of course it’s true. My word is my bond, a gentleman’s promise is worth four horses—impossible to take back!” Seeing Chen Xi give such a firm guarantee, Lin Guanqi couldn’t keep doubting him. After all, she was just an employee, and the boss was willing to split profits with her, which was actually really decent—a rare, conscientious boss.

Anyone else might not give you any commission and still force you to do it, and if you refused, you’d be fired on the spot, all your hard work wasted.

“Since there’s no problem, I’m going to start advertising. I bet this product is going to sell like crazy today!”

Chen Xi was already fantasizing about counting wads of cash until his hands went numb.

Actually, this so-called new coffee wasn’t new at all, just something he’d thrown together last minute.

It was only because of the bonus group photo that this coffee suddenly seemed so high-class.

But nobody cared about that. All they knew was that if they bought this coffee, they could get a group photo, and as soon as it hit the shelves, it was snatched up like crazy.

“Damn, I’ve already had my coffee, but who wouldn’t want that photo?”

“Exactly, I’m willing to buy another coffee, no, I’m willing to drink another coffee just to get that photo!”

“Bullshit, I’m the real fan here. You guys are just tiring her out by drinking coffee—I’m not even drinking, I just want the photo, that’s true love! You’re all just wannabes!”

Everyone began to argue endlessly, but did anyone really care about how Lin Guanqi felt?

Her hands were nearly falling off from shaking up coffee nonstop, yet nobody came to help. They just kept discussing among themselves, leaving her, a lone woman, to make coffee for everyone—was that fair? Was that right?

“Manager, if you don’t come help soon, my hands are going to be ruined! I’ll be taking at least a year off on sick leave!”

Chen Xi immediately panicked. He absolutely didn’t want to lose his money tree. She brought in so much profit—if she left, the customer flow would follow her out the door.

As the boss, he understood perfectly: today’s flood of customers was all thanks to Lin Guanqi.

“Right away, right away! I’ll make the coffee with her. You go take the photos with the customers!”

The very first photo, of course, was with Liu Ruxue! After all, she was cosplaying Krul’s CP, Mikael.

She was really looking forward to this photo.

Lin Guanqi grabbed her phone and found Liu Ruxue, saying, “I think my first photo should be a ‘stamp collection’ with you!”

“Of course!”

With that, the two struck a pose. Oddly enough, Liu Ruxue was taller than Lin Guanqi, but that actually fit the characters, since in the original, Mikael was indeed taller than Krul.

“Damn, these two teachers look just like the original characters! I’m seriously smitten.”

“Who isn’t? They match so well. If I could meet a girlfriend like that, I’d give her my whole heart!”

“Your whole heart? For real, or just saying it?”

“I mean it! If I had such a beautiful girlfriend, I’d let her stab me in the back, not just take my heart.”

After finishing her photo with Liu Ruxue, Lin Guanqi started taking pictures with all the customers who bought the limited-edition coffee. Of course, there were a few perverts—every now and then someone would touch Lin Guanqi’s waist, but since he was originally a guy, maybe he wasn’t as bothered by it.

“Take your filthy hands off.”

That sharp, all-too-familiar voice—could it be?

Turning around, sure enough, it was Bai Ningbing!

“Who the hell are you? I’m taking a picture with my goddess, what gives you the right to tell me to take my hand away? Who do you think you are?”

Lin Guanqi quietly edged away from this guy, because she knew he was about to get what was coming to him.

Bai Ningbing grabbed the guy’s wrist, his tone cold as ice, his grip tightening bit by bit.

“Say that again? Oh, right—this was the hand you touched her with, wasn’t it?”