Chapter 11. Advertisement and Express Delivery
TN I changed the previous chapter’s Bai Mei Tai to Old Lady Bai Mei, since I made an error and missed out on one word in the raw text. That’s all the changes done this time around. Cheers!
A promotional photo for a television series.
Lord Jellyfish looked at the photo. On the photo was two people, one in black and one in red; one standing in front, one standing further back. One of them…… he did not recognise, but the other was Hua Ji.
Lord Jellyfish tossed aside the textbook he was holding, two tentacles typing away at the keyboard. One tentacle began tapping at his phone, another two tentacles on his iPad. He began looking into this photo.
Not a while later, everything became clear.
"The Outstanding, Charming Maiden? A photo for a television series? Acting?"
Lord Jellyfish mumbled to himself, "That's right, the little fox was in acting…… ah, the way of promoting things in the past was through word of mouth. Now, there's this thing called the internet, you can indeed do promotion through the internet."
Lord Jellyfish stared fixedly at the laptop in front of him, clicking his tongue and saying, "The internet, huh? Maybe I should choose something related to this as my major."
The tentacle using the phone was still searching up news and photographs about 'The Outstanding, Charming Maiden', the tentacles using the laptop had already started looking up jobs related to the internet. As for the ones on the iPad…
"Hm? Citizen Four?"
When Lord Jellyfish was scouring the internet for the latest technology, he came across a documentary film. Lord Jellyfish instantly started watching with great interest. Afterwards……
"Edward Snowden? Monitoring the entire world's internet networks?" Lord Jellyfish's umbrella flickered with uncountable bright dots. Except for two of these dots left in front of the laptop and one in front of the phone, the rest were all congregated in front of the iPad.
These dots of light closely stared at that one English word: Hacker!
"Hacker? Hacker[1]?"
During the period that Miss He Bai was struggling under Old Lady Bai Mei's hands, Hua Ji didn't need to show up at the set. Boss Wu accepted a print advertisement for him. Actually, to a spirit like him, shooting a commercial was much easier than a show or movie. Furthermore, the time spent on them was short, and the money came in fast. There was also no need to do multiple retakes.
It was just a pity that these manufacturers wouldn't hire a nameless person to shoot a commercial. =v=
This was why Hua Ji still had to maintain a certain level of exposure every year.
Hua Ji saw the Butterfly Yan that he had not seen in a long time.
Butterfly Yan smilingly looked at him and said, "In light of that time in Hawaii when you showed off those little, glossy red hairs on your body, I've recommended you to the boss. I believe you'll definitely like it."
Hua Ji had a bad feeling about this. When he received the details of the commercial and took a look, he nearly spat out a mouthful of blood.
Butterfly Yan accepted an underwear commercial for him = =
Hua Ji coldly smiled and said, "You still dare to talk about me? I have red hair, while you have multi-coloured hair!!"
Butterfly Yan drawled, "What a pity. I'm a manager, not an actor, the other party would not let me shoot this."
Hua Ji: "……"
Seeing that Hua Ji was about to explode with anger, Butterfly Yan slowly took away the commercial's details, switching it with another one.
"That's that brand's current season's new underwear. Although you will also be modelling underwear, you won't be modelling this one, but rather…… swim trunks.
That's right, it's one of the umbrella brands under the same main brand.
Only after hearing this did Hua Ji calm down somewhat. He gave Butterfly Yan a ferocious glare before flipping open the details of the swim trunks commercial to look over them.
A few pages of advertisements, as well as a roughly ten-second long video. The setting was also very simple. That is, to go to the ocean for a swim, and running into a…… wait, wait, what the hell? Running into a jellyfish!?
The jellyfish's tentacles had potent venom, when other people's important bits were stung by the jellyfish, they would become shrunken!! Yet, seemingly because the swim trunks that Hua Ji wore were amazing, the highly venomous box jellyfish was powerless!
In the end, the entire beach's men were all admitted into the hospital, only Hua Ji alone was able to stroll around the beach, meeting with different beautiful ladies, spending a wonderful vacation day…… what the hell was this?!
Deep breaths…… deep breaths. Hua Ji calmed himself for a few minutes before managing to keep his calm. He asked Butterfly Yan, "What kind of broken setting is this? It somehow managed to f*cking get greenlighted?"
Butterfly Yan leisurely said, "I feel that it's very good though? It was that one sentence, your experience in Hawaii brought me a great inspiration. Although the commercial is somewhat ridiculous and the majority would turn up their nose at it, what about the minority?"
"What kind of guy would relax their defences for their most important part? Even if there's no jellyfish, being pinched by a crab when swimming in the ocean would bring about disastrous consequences!"
Hua Ji: He said it so accurately I have no way to refute it!
Butterfly Yan said in a meaningful tone, "That's why when I first suggested this setting, the boss of the manufacturing company instantly decided to use this one.
Hua Ji speechlessly pointed at Butterfly Yan and said, "It was actually written by you?"
Butterfly Yan smiled but did not say anything.
Hua Ji helplessly said, "Lord Jellyfish is preparing to sit for the College Entrance Examinations, you best not have any thoughts about asking him for help."
Butterfly Yan shrugged, "Just like I wrote in that document, crabs or shellfish, anything will do. Of course, if Lord Jellyfish was willing to act on account of friendship, that would be safest.
He beamed at Hua Ji, "You also don't wish to be pinched down there by a crab during filming, right?"
Hua Ji: "……"
Lord Jellyfish picked up Hua Ji's call.
"Lord Jellyfish, are you very busy recently?"
Lord Jellyfish said, "Somewhat. Why?"
At that moment, Hua Ji shrunk into himself. Lord Jellyfish, this kind of amazing person, when faced with the College Entrance Examinations would still say he was somewhat busy. He'd better not bother him?"
He hurriedly said, "There's nothing wrong. Lord Jellyfish, you should focus on preparing for the exams. Best wishes for you to succeed in the examinations!"
Lord Jellyfish said, "I saw your promotional photo."
Hua Ji: !!!
Lord Jellyfish said, "It looks quite nice, but judging from the photo, you need to lower yourself to other people?"
Hua Ji instantly knew which photo Lord Jellyfish was looking at. It should be the picture of the Devil Sect duo.
"There's no issue, Lord Jellyfish. The one acting alongside me is a senior with a lot of experience. I can learn many things from him. Some more, in the context of the show, the senior is my immediate superior!"
Lord Jellyfish said, "So it's like that. Are you currently filming?"
"No, it hasn't reached my parts yet, there's still roughly a week before then."
"Then what are you doing?"
Hua Ji blanked, just why did Lord Jellyfish ask this question?
"I'm filming a commercial……"
Lord Jellyfish nonchalantly said, "You need my help to film a commercial?"
"Yes…… uh I mean no!" The corner of Hua Ji's lips twitched. He wanted to continue denying when he heard Lord Jellyfish say, "You're very foolish, do you know that?"
In his heart, tears streamed down Hua Ji's face, "Yes, Lord Jellyfish, I have a commercial here that I hoped you could use your original form to star in for a bit. However, I later thought that since you were preparing for the Entrance Examinations, you would be very busy, so……"
"Oh, using my original form, that's simple." Lord Jellyfish blandly said, "Wait for an express delivery."
…… Huh?
In the early morning, the very next day, Hua Ji received a message from Lord Jellyfish. It told him to receive an express package by the side of the Huangpu River.
Hua Ji obediently headed to the riverbank, following Lord Jellyfish's instruction, tossing a transparent plastic bag into the river. A rope was attached to the ends of the plastic bag.
Very quickly, he felt the bag moving and hauled the bag up to take a look. What he saw was an additional palm-sized jellyfish in that plastic bag.
He calmly asked Lord Jellyfish, "Great one, how did you send this express package?"
Lord Jellyfish unperturbedly said, "I split off a part and tossed it into the protected river by Two Ring road[2]. Along the way, I swam to Tianjin Riverfront and entered from the Bohai Sea. Just nicely, I reached where you are. It's very convenient.
Hua Ji: "……"
After considering that he still needed to take the train back, Hua Ji first headed to the Aquaculture Store[3] to purchase a fish tank. He then put the palm-sized jellyfish inside. The little jellyfish was completely transparent, one could barely see any colour; only the two dots of light on the little umbrella were light yellow.
One brain controlled four tentacles…… Hua Ji observed for a while; the little jellyfish had eight tentacles, which meant this small jellyfish had two brains?
He hugged the fish tank. The train attendants had prevented him from entering.
One of the attendants pointed at the 'No pets allowed' sign pasted on the wall, smiling at him.
Hua Ji's mouth twitched, "The sign prohibits dogs, but doesn't prohibit jellyfish?!"
Now it was the train attendant's mouth that started twitching. The other party chillingly said, "Then please pass through the safety check!"
…… Let Lord Jellyfish's small jellyfish sit in the tank to pass through the safety check?
Hua Ji brought the fish tank with him and silently left. He'd better just take a taxi.
After hanging up, Lord Jellyfish continued to research on hackers. Finally, he concluded, he wanted to become a hacker so he definitely needed to study computer skills. After compiling all the information he'd searched up, he made his decision…… Zhejiang University!
That's right, although according to the computer, Zhong Hua country's best academy was B city's Tsinghua, that would be too far away from the little fox. Rather than studying in B city and having to cross the Bohai Sea daily, it'd be better if he just studied in S city's Zhejiang as a day student.
En, then it's happily decided. As for the major, he'll just choose Computer Science and Technology.
After confirming the university he wanted to enrol in, Lord Jellyfish began to study in earnest.
The College Entrance Examination were not at all difficult to him. It was much easier than the Imperial Examinations back then, even if one memorised everything, they would still manage to get a decent score, much less the Lord Jellyfish that mobilised six brains.
At the same time, Hua Ji sat in front of a woman.
She had a head of long, chestnut-coloured hair, looking alluringly beautiful. Yet, between her eyebrows, there was a feeling of being anti-social. Her whole body emanated an air of cold severity.
"I heard you wanted to find me to create background music?"
Hua Ji carefully took out a crystal ball, "That's correct. I need the best music!"
[1] Lord Jellyfish says ‘hacker’ here in two different ways.
[2] A highway/road in Beijing, which is what authors refer to when they write B city in their novels.
[3] It’s the kind of store you go to buy fish tanks and accessories from. Not sure what the actual name for it is.