Chapter 50. Forgot

     After turning down some businesses that wanted to make promotional videos for her, Lin Qitong hurried back to the office, picked up the water on Zheng Xuan’s desk and took a big sip.

 

     Zheng Xuan’s eyes moved from the digital tablet to her face and asked, “What are you doing? Are there ghosts chasing you?”

 

     Lin Qitong said, “I never thought that being famous was such a troublesome thing before.”

 

     Zheng Xuan suppressed her laughter and said, “This is just the beginning. I heard from Sanniang that Ku.com has a travel program and is preparing for the third season recently. The theme is coastal and island tourism. Look, they want to choose Xingzhou Island as their first stop, so they came to discuss cooperation with Sanniang. If it works out, you will be responsible for leaving the country at that time.”

 

     Lin Qitong suddenly became energetic: “Is it “Date with Nature” 》? The theme of the first season is the desert forest, the second season is the mountains and rivers, and the third season is being promoted recently. The theme seems to be called the vast sea and sky…”

 

     Zheng Xuan nodded: “Hmm.”

 

     “That’s great. It seems that in addition to the host, this program will invite a star as a flying guest in each episode. I don’t know which star will come to us at that time!”

 

     “It’s not confirmed yet! After all, filming a program also requires sponsorship. With Sanniang’s personality, she may not necessarily do it if she spends a lot of money to buy sponsorship and promotion.”

 

     Lin Qitong: “…”

 

     You’re right. Li Yaolin is crying poor every day now. She doesn’t blink an eye when she is engaged in infrastructure construction, and she cries poor again after the infrastructure is completed…

 

     After talking about work, Lin Qitong suddenly asked: “Has anyone contacted you recently?”

 

     “You want to ask if Sun Fen has contacted me? After all, his classmates and colleagues know that he has received a court summons.” Zheng Xuan’s expression was indifferent.

 

     Sun Fen also didn’t expect Li Yaolin to sue him. When Li Yaolin posted a lawyer’s letter on WeChat Moments, his classmates took a screenshot and told him. He calmly said that Li Yaolin had no evidence and was just trying to scare him.

 

     But now many alumni and classmates know that he slandered Li Yaolin and angered Li Yaolin. In order to save face, he said that what he stated was true and that Li Yaolin wanted to shut him up.

 

     The day before yesterday, he went to work as usual, but the front desk told him that there was an email from the court. He opened it and found out that it was a subpoena from the court, summoning him to appear in court on time. His boss also talked to him and asked him to deal with his personal affairs and not to affect the company.

 

     Only then did he realize that Li Yaolin was serious!

 

     He was completely panicked and wanted to apologize and mediate privately with Li Yaolin, but Li Yaolin had blocked him long ago. He looked for others, but no one was willing to be the lobbyist. In desperation, he had to bite the bullet and look for Zheng Xuan.

 

     “You ignored him, didn’t you?” Lin Qitong asked.

 

     “Am I such a fool? I will never forgive what he did, and I will testify in court to prove that he did spread rumors and slander Sanniang.”

 

     Lin Qitong gave her a thumbs up.

 

     Zheng Xuan frowned and said, “He can’t find me or Sanniang, so he will probably come here to bother her.”

 

     “Don’t worry about that. Sanniang said he has been on the blacklist of Xingzhou Island for a long time. Unless he sneaks in, he can’t come to Xingzhou Island.”

 

     Zheng Xuan’s frown loosened.

 

     At this time, Lin Qitong received another call from Manager Qi, saying that she needed to go abroad for an interview, and asked her to prepare quickly and touch up her makeup.

 

     Lin Qitong hurried out again.

 

     Zheng Xuan thought about it and chose to make her divorce public in the circle of friends.

 

     Originally, she didn’t want to put these private and embarrassing things on the table for people to comment and point out. But if Sun Fen couldn’t find Li Yaolin to reconcile before the trial, given his personality, he would definitely speak ill of Li Yaolin everywhere. In order to prevent him from using their divorce as an excuse to attack Li Yaolin, she chose to take the initiative to expose this bloody scar.

 

     Not long after she posted on WeChat Moments, Li Yaolin came over with her thermos cup to pour water and said, “It’s nice outside, why don’t you go out for a walk? You’re facing the computer every day, be careful of myopia.”

 

     “After I came here, I eat and drink well every day, and sleep very well. I feel that my body is getting healthier day by day.” Zheng Xuan paused, “By the way, tell the cooking lady not to make nourishing soup for me, I’ve gained two pounds recently!”

 

     Li Yaolin nodded, looking like she didn’t care. Zheng Xuan knew she was perfunctory and didn’t care. She said, “I designed several models, come and take a look.”

 

     Li Yaolin leaned over, and Zheng Xuan opened a folder with more than a dozen long pictures on it. One long picture was a 3D model, with pictures of the front, back, 45° side, plane and bottom.

 

     There are seagulls holding small fish and resting on the deck, and there are seagulls diving into the sea to hunt. The former are honest and cute, and the latter are slightly handsome.

 

     There are green turtles laying eggs, and harmonious scenes of mothers and children hunting in the sea with their baby turtles. Each turtle has a model, and Zheng Xuan carefully draws out the differences between them.

 

     There are also models of Xingzhou Island and the surrounding seas, with a summer-style gate, a pier with passenger ships, a fishing platform, a ring road around the island, as well as wooden houses, convenience stores and diving centers. It is almost a replica of Xingzhou Island.

 

     Zheng Xuan explained: “For this model, I plan to make a special model that can add seaweed. Just press the switch to automatically project the recorded video onto the cover, perfectly restoring Xingzhou Island…”

 

     “Wow, it’s great!” Li Yaolin plans to collect a set of models after they come out.

 

     “Let’s first determine its material. After we contact the manufacturer, we can start promotion and pre-sale.”

 

    BLi Yaolin nodded: “Recently, I asked the HR department to recruit an art student. When the time comes, you can take them and work together to improve the cultural and creative products!”

 

     Suddenly, Zheng Xuan took out a paper ticket and asked Li Yaolin: “Sanniang, is this your painting?”

 

     This ticket is the first edition ticket, only one thousand copies were printed, and the subsequent paper tickets were printed by Li Yaolin using photos as the background.

 

     “Yes, you also know that I am an amateur, and my paintings are a bit ugly…”

 

     Zheng Xuan smiled and said: “Recently, someone has been speculating on this version of tickets, and it has been speculated to fifty yuan per ticket.”

 

     Li Yaolin: “???”

 

     I have heard of speculation in stocks, houses, and stamps, but I have never heard of speculation in tourist attraction tickets.

 

     “Because this is the first edition ticket, and it was designed by the island owner herself, it is of great commemorative value. However, the initial tourists did not cherish it and threw many of them away as garbage. Currently, there are only about 200 tickets left. As Xingzhou Island becomes more and more famous and popular, the ticket has been hyped up. Now it is 50 yuan, and it is expected to be even higher in the future.”

 

     The main reason is that the identity of the island owner is mysterious, and everyone has a yearning for mysterious people and things, so they began to consciously collect and treasure the first edition tickets designed by the island owner.

 

     Li Yaolin did not understand and was greatly shocked.

 

     She asked: “I still have the original manuscript. Do you want to reprint it?”

 

     Zheng Xuan said: “It’s better not to. Reprints will be worthless.”

 

    “That’s right.”

 

     “But you can treat the original manuscript as a treasure and hang it in the hall for display.”

 

     Li Yaolin was a little embarrassed: “It would be embarrassing to let professionals see it.”

 

     “You told me to be confident. You should also have confidence in yourself.” 

 

     Li Yaolin: “Okay… right!”

 

     Zheng Xuan asked: “How is the travel program going?”

 

     Speaking of this, Li Yaolin was a little helpless. There are now two programs that want to choose Xingzhou Island as the filming location. One program is the travel program called “Date with Nature”. This program is self-made by the video website and the cost is relatively low. I hope Xingzhou Island can give some sponsorship appropriately.

 

     There is also a very popular celebrity love variety show. Their director heard about the name of Xingzhou Island as the “holy land of love” and specially chose an episode to be recorded on Xingzhou Island, hoping that Xingzhou Island can cooperate with their program and provide some places for dating and playing games, preferably without being disturbed by tourists…

 

     Li Yaolin said: “It’s not me who is begging them to come to shoot the program to help promote it. Where do so many requirements come from? I didn’t ask for tickets, which is already a face.”

 

     Zheng Xuan said: “After all, the former is a self-made program with limited funds; the latter is a big variety show. I didn’t ask you for promotion fees, but just hoped that you could provide a venue, which is already very cost-effective.”

 

     Li Yaolin waved her hand: “Forget it, the passenger ship has limited passenger capacity now. No matter how high the popularity is, it will be in vain if it can’t carry so many tourists.”

 

     Compared to unlimitedly expanding the capacity of tourists to madly attract boat tickets and ticket revenue, it is better to deal with the current projects and facilities first.

 

     Li Yaolin rejected the two programs.

 

     Not long after, a director of the Love Variety Show posted a blog post in a sarcastic tone, saying that some popular online attractions are not even A-level scenic spots. After a few waves of hype and a little bit of popularity, they start to look down on people.

 

     Netizens found out that the popular online attraction mentioned by the director is Xingzhou Island, which has been frequently searched and shown on TV recently. They checked and found that Xingzhou Island really has no rating!

 

     Fans of the Love Variety Show immediately started to mock: “No way, a small attraction that doesn’t even have a rating dares to be so arrogant?”

 

     “The small ditch in our town is cleaner and more beautiful than the sea water there, garbage island!”

 

     “You are marketing every day, why don’t you spend money to provide better service?”

 

 

 

…

 

 

     Not to mention the employees of Xingzhou Island, even the cultural and tourism department of Youshi knew that Xingzhou Island had no rating. The leader called Li Yaolin to ask what was going on.

 

     Li Yaolin told the truth: “I forgot.”

 

     The leader of the cultural and tourism department: “…”

 

     You can forget such an important thing? !

 

     You don’t care about the level of the scenic spot at all, right?

 

     Li Yaolin really forgot about it. After all, she has so many things to worry about every day, and the scenic spot rating seems to be of no use to her except for face.

 

     Besides, many infrastructures of Xingzhou Island are not well built, and even if she applies for rating, she can’t get a high rating, so she has not applied for it for the time being.

 

     Manager Qi asked how to respond to the love variety show team, and Li Yaolin said: “Our temple is small and can’t afford to support the big Buddha.”

 

     The employee used the last lucky draw experience diving V blog to respond: “The island owner said that Xingzhou Island is small and there is no place to support the big Buddha. [Picture]”

 

     The attached picture is a photoshopped picture, with Xingzhou Island, which is as small as an ant, and a golden Buddha statue on top.

 

     Stupid netizens: “Sarcastic and indirect, is this the confidence of a small tourist attraction? I love it!”

 

     “Private attractions are fearless, I like it!”

 

    “The island owner’s temper is definitely a post-00s!”

 

     “You guessed it right, there have been rumors that the owner of Xingzhou Island is a second-generation rich. Her father is a domestic billionaire named Li, who gave the island owner several hundred million to start a business, so the island owner is not short of money…”

 

     “Is the island owner married? Does she have a partner? Look at me, I have other advantages No, I’m just very thick-skinned and very good at flattering others.”

 

     “Does the island owner still need a son? The kind who is 30 years old and has healthy hands and feet and just wants to rely on his parents.”

 

     “Mom, do you know about painless motherhood? You don’t have to give birth, but you can have a filial son, isn’t it great? Mom, my son doesn’t ask for much, just 10,000 pocket money a month is enough.”

 

     “Isn’t the price above too high? Mom, my daughter’s pocket money only needs 8,000… No, 5,000 is enough!”

 

     Lin Qitong almost fainted from laughing when she saw these comments. She said to Li Yaolin: “The son of the richest man is the husband of the nation, how come you are the mother of the nation? Interview the mother of the nation, how do you feel at this moment?”

 

     Li Yaolin: “…”

 

     There are also users who won the prize online: “Ahhh, I won, I won!”

 

     “I have filled in the information, just waiting to pack my luggage and leave!”

 

     The popular science blogger who had previously questioned the fraud of Xingzhou Island also won the prize, and his black fans started to scold: “Dark box, absolutely dark box, why did you participate in the lottery so late but won?!”

 

     The popular science blogger sent an emoji wearing sunglasses: “Let me help you find out the truth first!”

 

 

 

…

 

 

     The netizens laughed and laughed, no one cared that Xingzhou Island was not even an A-level scenic spot, but it aroused the sympathy of many netizens, who believed that Xingzhou Island had the right to refuse to provide a venue for the program group to shoot. What’s wrong with this? Why did the program group want moral kidnapping?

 

     In order to support Xingzhou Island, they even decided to travel to Xingzhou Island during the National Day!

 

     These comments made the director of the dating variety show very angry.

 

     Which newly emerging tourist attraction doesn’t actively invite popular variety shows to film and help advertise there? But Xingzhou Island doesn’t give this face! They didn’t ask Xingzhou Island for sponsorship, they just wanted them to cooperate with them in filming. Does Xingzhou Island still want to increase its popularity?

 

     Seeing that more and more netizens began to criticize them for moral kidnapping, the program team immediately asked the director to delete the blog, and then came out to explain that they were not talking about Xingzhou Island but a foreign Internet celebrity attraction.

 

     Under the deliberate manipulation of the program team, the heat of this public opinion storm was quickly suppressed.

 

   

 

    Li Yaolin didn’t have time to pay attention to the follow-up. The seafood buffet restaurant has been built recently. When the chef team she hired from the talent market is in place, she can set the dishes and prices first.

 

     I don’t know if the invisible chef team will scare the employees…

 

     Li Yaolin waited anxiously for three… robots? !