194. Credit Points

Li Zheyu’s battle was in a sorry state, but he would not die easily as his public relations team reacted quickly.

They didn’t hesitate to rescind the contract with the movie company, and paid sky-high penalty for terminating the contract. They announced in a righteous manner that they would never cooperate with someone who undermined the national unity! Li Zheyu made a statement and admitted his mistakes. He said that he did not investigate the funding company thoroughly before taking the movie, and he thanked the netizens for finding out the truth for him.

In the statement, it was said that after Li Zheyu understood the funding company’s background in detail, he expressed that he would never cooperate with such a film company even if they had to pay the penalty. They could never endure something like this. The unity of the nation must always come before any personal considerations.

His firm attitude to rescinding the contract saved his popularity a little bit.

Who could make no mistakes in work? It seemed that Li Zheyu was the only one who made up for the mistakes with such a resolute attitude after noticing the negligence.

Many netizens said that they were in favour of Li Zheyu like this!

While Qi Le’an and Emma were recording, Li Zheyu was taking his vacation. Li Zheyu wanted to quietly withdraw from public attention for a period of time, but he didn’t expect someone to push him in front of people again.

Qi Le’an’s fans believed that Li Zheyu could not be separated from the fact that their idol was forced to leave China. They would take every chance to smear Li Zheyu!

Oddly enough, Qi Le’an had not produced any work in the past few years, not even a post on Weibo . But there was such a group of people who had been following him all the time, no matter where he was. Is this the so-called charisma?

“Le’an!” Chen Shan called, “This time Li Zheyu is in terrible shape! He probably won’t come out for a long time!

Qi Le’an had been focusing on Wei Sama and his family so he didn’t know anything about it at all. He felt so happy after hearing what Chen Shan had said.

“How much did he pay?” Qi Le’an asked curiously.

“A conservative estimate of tens of millions of RMB. They count the penalty in US dollars after all.” Chen Shan said with sarcasm, “By the way, how have you been lately?  Didn’t Wei Changfeng go back to New York City with you?”

“I didn’t let Wei Sama come back,” Qi Le’an pretended to be generous and said, “I’m fine on my own! I assume I would be able to finish the music recording of “Lala Land” before the school starts. ”

“I didn’t expected that one day, Le’an would be able to become a singer,” Chen Shan said with pride.

Qi Le’an leaned against the sofa and chuckled, “Singer… I was beaten by Emma by miles! If it was not the audio mixer, my voice might be intolerable to the ear…”

He wasn’t exaggerating at all. Actually, his original singing wasn’t that bad. But without comparison, there would be no harm. Singing beside Emma would make his song a fiasco.

In response, Damien comforted him, “Be at ease. It’s normal to feel like this.”

Qi Le’an didn’t know if he should cry or laugh.

“Have you been busy with your school work?” Chen Shan started to care about Qi Le’an’s life again, “Is everything OK without Wei Changfeng there? Would you like me to find a housekeeper for you?”

“Please don’t!” Qi Le’an said, “I’m alright a university student! Remember it’s me who took care of Wei Sama before I entered university! Why do you treat me as a puny guy who can’t live without Wei Sama?!”

Chen Shan thought to himself, ‘You are definitely puny due to your dependent personality, haha.’

However, Brother Chen held back his words and told Qi Le’an something else.

“I feel like the domestic media has been more tolerant with you in the past six months,” Chen Shan said.

Qi Le’an was stunned and asked, “Tolerant? What do you mean?”

“Two years ago, your news definitely couldn’t be sent out. But now, it’s time to come back.”

When Qi Le’an heard this, he was in a daze.

Could he prepare to go back? Could he really go home?

“You’re not going to come back, are you?” Seeing that Qi Le’an had not spoken for a long time, Chen Shan asked worriedly.

“Of course I’m going back!” Qi Le’an said, “I must go back! When is a good time?”

There were still fans waiting for him at home, so he would definitely go back to China.

“Of course not now,” Chen Shan said with a glimmer of smile, “The domestic media are only focusing on your new musical movie “Lala Land”. We need to wait for an better chance. It might take three months or three years, but we have to prepare in advance.”

Chen Shan’s words were reasonable. He was no longer the evil childe who acted unscrupulously in the past.

After hearing his explanation, Qi Le’an realized that he didn’t have to to return to China for the time being. Somehow he felt relieved.

“Okay, Brother Chen, tell me if you need to prepare anything,” Qi Le’an said.

Chen Shan stated his plan, “For now, you still attend your school in New York. By the way, do you still remember the advertisement with Coolrunning?”

How could Qi Le’an not remember that this was the advertisement that caused him the big trouble. After being banned, Coolrunning didn’t claim his violation of the contract and unexpectedly extended the advertisement contract indefinitely.

Qi Le’an was very grateful to Li Che.

“Coolrunning is going to be on the market,” Chen Shan told him the stunning news, “They will send a team to New York City. We’re discussing that you’ll shoot the commercial ads directly over there.”

Qi Le’an asked surprisedly, “This… is this practicable?”

Chen Shan asked, “Why not? You now have a lot of fans in Europe. Coolrunning wants to open the US market first, so you are suitable than anyone else.”

Qi Le’an thought about it. He was suitable indeed!

So he asked, “Alright, is Li Che coming?”

Chen Shan reflexively glanced at the person sitting on his chair playing with a pen and he murmured, “Mm… he haven’t decided yet.”

Qi Le’an added, “Brother Chen will talk to them, right? Please take my gratitude to him after you see President Li Che.”

Chen Shan rolled his eyes.

After hanging up, Li Che looked at Chen Shan with a pair of goo-goo eyes, misteriously. Chen Shan asked, “Why?”

Li Che beckoned him to come over.

Chen Shan couldn’t help stroding over in the end, and pressed his hands on the desk. “What for?”

Li Che grasped Chen Shan’s tie at a draught and stood up, speaking seductively “Your good brother asked you to thank me…”

When Chen Shan heard this voice, he suddenly became erotic. He cooled himself down and said, “Don’t frolic! We are in the company!”

There was no one in the company. Aside from Mr. Chen’s office, the rest of the company was all in dark.

Li Che grabbed the tie and undid Chen Shan’s buttons on his shirt one by one.

Qi Le’an didn’t know that Chen Shan was “tortured to death” by Li Che because of his words. After he hung up the phone, he couldn’t help but tell Wei Changfeng the good news.

In this regard, Wei Changfeng did not want to expose Chen Shan. He smiled and said that he agreed with anything his wife said.

At the beginning of February, Qi Le’an completed the recording of “Lala Land” and Tisch chose to start school on Valentine’s day. Qi Le’an didn’t stay in school for the whole semester last year, so he had to hand in many forms for the course practice. For this reason, he visited Professor John before the start of school and asked the professor to have a meal together.

At Chinatown, the white-bearded professor and the little boy were just like the first time they had seen each other. Professor John was drinking cold water while eating spicy boiled fish. He said, “So delicious! A true delicacy!”

Qi Le’an’s lips twitched with amusement. He served himself some stir-fried beans.

After Professor John was full, he sighed, “I can’t sleep well if I don’t eat a fish for a week !”

Qi Le’an secretly said, “Actually, Fynn can cook spicy boiled fish better than this one. When he comes back, you must come to our home and have a try!”

Professor John’s eyes lit up.

“I really didn’t expect that in the end, it is you that advised Fynn to stay with Director Spear…”

Qi Le’an sneered and didn’t say anything.

“Fynn makes ten calls a week to ask me to take care of you.” Professor John complained, “When do you guys get married? Make sure you ask me to be the marriage witness then.”

Qi Le’an thought of Wei Changfeng with sweetness and promised, “That’s for sure. You must come to our wedding.”

Professor John looked at the young man in front of him and sighed. Qi Le’an was like a beautiful and fragile vase when he first met this boy three years ago. But in just three years, the confidence and charm of this child could rival Fynn.

“I’ve applied for the procedures at the school,” Professor John said, “I heard you wanted to finish your credit in advance?”

Qi Le’an nodded. He went to see Professor John for he wanted to graduate earlier.

In principle, there wasn’t a regulated studying year in Tisch. If a student finished his credit points and passed the graduation assessment, he could graduate.

This year was the third year of Qi Le’an at Tisch. He had been taking more classes for more credits in the previous semesters. Last year’s Filming Practicing course made up a large part of his credit points as well. If in this year he could manage to choose more courses, early graduation would not be a dream.

“I checked this year’s schedule,” Qi Le’an said, “If I finish my courses, I can get enough credit points to graduate.”

The class of Tisch was stressful. Professor John was surprised when he heard that Qi Le’an wanted to stuff up his schedule with courses. “Can you take it? You know, Fynn did not fight like this back then.”

“I believe I can.”

This was not a whim of Qi Le’an. It was his decision after careful consideration. If Wei Changfeng wasn’t around, he could also immerse himself in learning. Every day, he could spend time studying these classes in the library to complete all the credit requirements.

Seeing how certain Qi Le’an was, Professor John thought for a moment and asked, “Okay, is there anything I can help you?”

Qi Le’an smiled. “I want Professor John to be my instructor.”

Professor John shrugged and smiled. “Of course, it is my honor. But An, I won’t give you any extra privilege. If your graduation work is not qualified, you still can’t graduate in advance.”

Qi Le’an also smiled and said, “Professor, don’t worry. If it isn’t qualified, I’ll be ashamed to hand it over to you.”

“May I ask you a question?” Professor John added, “Why are you so hurried to graduate? You’re only in your twenties, still very young.”

Qi Le’an smiled, “I have a little secret.”

It was 2016, the fifth year after Qi Le’an’s rebirth.

It was also the year he died in his previous life.

He had a strong sense of fear. In this year, he would definitely return to his home.