I Know Everything - Chapter 647
Chapter 647: A big comeback.
Ding Lun had been very busy these last few years.
He used to follow her senior sister Zhu Mei and only made a movie every year or two. His earning wasn’t much and was around 70k to 80k yuan per year, which was enough for his family. His accommodation and food was generally taken care of so all of that money could go to his family.
His friends tried to persuade him to get a job at a film company and with his experience and credentials, wouldn’t he get 10k to 20k per month?
It would be easy to get an extra 30k to 50k in movie box office shares or bonus every year.
Many people in Zhu Mei’s team left like that after getting their experiences.
But Ding Lun was different.
He admired his senior sister quite a lot and Zhu Mei was also very kind to him so Ding Lun already made up his mind that he would follow after Zhu Mei even if the salary was a bit lower unless he had another choice.
Maybe the kind would get rewarded as it paid off in the end.
After meeting Chen Huan, Chu Liuxiang to be precise, Zhu Mei’s career took off the ground.
The box office dividend of Love Letter was 112 million yuan and as Ding Lun didn’t take a single penny of salary and converted it to shares so he took 1.61 million in cash to his family.
Ding Lun’s wife, Wang Qiu, had never seen so much money in her life.
She went to sleep with the card but still couldn’t fall asleep and she wasn’t at ease until she went to retrieve 200k yuan from the bank early the next morning.
She felt it was no longer a dream but reality after seeing that pile of money.
During the Spring Festival, Wang Qiu had a huge banquet for the first time in the best hotel in their small town.
Each table averaged four thousands yuan in expenses, all types of meats were there and even Moutai!
That made Ding Lun’s family exalted and fulfilled as his family and relatives were stuffed themselves with food but also with envy.
But none of them thought this was just the beginning.
No more than a year later, ‘Miracle in Cell No.7’ was released globally and Zhu Mei’s team received 150 million yuan in dividend.
Ding Lun this time as the director of photography and Shi Liyou as the director of makeup and costume design, each received 10% of it.
It was 15 million!
This didn’t even include the 500k yuan of salary they received from Shanhai Streaming.
Of course, the 500k was nothing when compared to 15 million.
Wang Qiu got scared again after receiving that money and immediately asked Zhu Mei to find someone so they could buy a house in Huajin for 120k yuan a square meter and a total price of 9 million.
Her son Ding Xiaochuan would enter junior high this year and the schools in Huajin were better so she rather have them go to school there.
She didn’t think of it before but since their conditions of life were better now, she would give him a better environment.
Zhu Mei assembled everyone from her group that wanted to buy houses in Huajin and commissioned it in groups otherwise they wouldn’t be able to buy even if they had money.
Ding Lun didn’t feel any dissatisfaction at his wife spending half of the 15 million already and was instead quite satisfied.
Wasn’t it a prideful thing for a man to shelter his wife and son from the wind and rain as well as giving them better life conditions?
There were other core members from Zhu Mei’s team aside from Ding Lun.
Even Shi Liyou, who wanted to be single since he became a multi-millionaire, was forced by his mother to go on blind dates before he married a beautiful girl that just graduated from university.
Now, his wife was pregnant and he was calling everyone to brag about it.
Ding Lun’s house in Huajin was about 75 square meters with two bedrooms and one living room. It was from a housing community built 20 years ago but it was 500 meters from one of the best junior high schools in Huajin, which greatly satisfied Wang Qiu.
Due to school starting in June, Wang Qiu brought her children as early as June to Huajin so they could adapt to the environment.
Meanwhile, Ding Lun was running promotion for Zhu Mei’s new film Orphans and Widows.
In order to make it easier for their kid to integrate to school, Wang Qiu registered her son to play basketball after hearing that the school prepared a summer camp.
Ding Lun and Wang Qiu were both from the northeast so their son was also quite tall at 170 cm while only being 13 years old so he was perfect to play basketball.
Ding Xiaochuan was pretty good at basketball back at his hometown but after coming to Huajin where crouching tigers and hidden dragons were everywhere, he didn’t appear to be stellar anymore.
He was assigned as the third string small forward behind two other players after the most recent training.
He could play at most 10 minutes in a game.
Ding Xiaochuan, who had been a little depressed recently, rushed to the school’s gymnasium this morning with his bags.
Wang Qiu obviously knew why her son was so excited today.
Wasn’t that because of the gift he received from her husband?
Ding Xiaochuan was out of breath as he ran to the gymnasium and found that many people had already come.
He quickly changed to his sport’s clothes and after some warm-up, he started to do some basic dribbling drills.
Yang Yasen, a fellow student who was friendlier with him, was surprised when he saw him, “Hey, Xiaochuan, you’re using a new basketball? That’s neat!”
Regardless how young they were, they could still distinguish between good and bad basketball.
The color of Ding Xiaochuan’s basketball was browner and the grain-like surface was more apparent than the others.
“Hehe, of course, mine’s a74-880, directly imported from the US!” Ding Xiaochuan proudly said while dribbling.
“Wow, it cost one or two thousand yuan, right?” Yang Yasen said enviously, “Your mom is sure generous!”
“Tsk, as if people can’t afford a ball.” Zheng Zai, who was dribbling nearby, sneered, “Is one or two thousand a lot? What a country bumpkin. Taking such a little thing as a treasure!”
“What? Xiaochuan didn’t even say anything and just bought a new ball, why are you acting so salty for?” Yang Yasen retorted, “Or do we have to take into account your soft emotion and can’t even buy a new ball?”
“It’s one thing to buy a basketball but look at him, handling it with such care as if he was afraid of damaging it, isn’t he just showing off?” Zheng Zai didn’t back down, “Only people who want to show off even when they have no money would be so reluctant to dirty the ball.”
“Right.” Zheng Zai’s friend, Wang Chen, was of the same opinion, “If you’re afraid of dirtying your ball, put it in your room and put it on a case, don’t bring it here!”
Ding Xiaochuan wanted to show off today.
He had endured their words until now and he could finally fight back.
He stopped dribbling and took the ball into his arm, “It’s not me bragging but Zheng Zai and you Wang Chen wouldn’t be able to buy a ball like that even if you tried for all your life!”
“Ptuh!” Zheng Zai spat, “Isn’t it just Spalding? Even the limited editions are only worth a few thousand, who are you looking down on?”
“Hahaha!” Ding Xiaochuan laughed and then his expression suddenly shifted, “Ignorant!”
“What did you say?” Wang Chen pointed at him and said, “Say it again!”
Ding Xiaochuan ignored him and handed the ball to Yang Yasen, “Yasen, look at the signature on it.”
“Humph, there’s still a signature on it?” Zheng Zai still sneered, “What’s so great about it? You can still spend money to get them. You’re showing off like that, did you buy LBJ? Kobe’s? Iverson’s? Durant’s? Or is it Curry’s?”
Ding Xiaochuan just sneered and didn’t answer.
Yang Yasen exclaimed, “Chen Huan?! This is Chen Huan’s!? Am I reading it wrong, Xiaochuan? This is from Chen Huan…”
Yang Yasen’s voice was so loud he attracted the attention of everyone nearby.
The two starters of the team, PG Jiao Zhilong and center Zhao Ming were also nearby, those two didn’t intend to get involved at the beginning but they threw their ball away and came now.
“What? Chen Huan’s signature ball? Is this for real?”
They weren’t polite about it and grabbed the ball to see.
“This must be fake, right?” Wang Chen’s face was red so retorted loudly, “I have never heard of a ball signed by Chen Huan for sale! Even if there is, it’s in the hand of those American fans, which of those hardcore fans will sell it to you? How much would that be? You’re just making things up!”
“Right!” Zheng Zai followed up, “Where did you get it? Don’t tell me it’s Chen Huan who gifted it to you. It’ll be really funny. Haha…”
“How did you know?” Ding Xiaochuan pretended to be surprised, “Uncle Chen exactly gifted it to me!”
Uncle Chen?!
Zheng Zai and Wang Chen looked at each other and laughed again.
“Haha, this is too funny! You, a guy from a rural town in the northeast, can meet Lin’an who is in Lin’an? He also gifted you a basketball? Hahaha…”
The two laughed and mocked Ding Xiaochuan.
The people nearby also thought Ding Xiaochuan got exposed.
Ding Xiaochuan took his time going to his bag in the pile of bags, took out his phone and found a picture.
“Come everyone, this is a picture of my dad and Uncle Chen!”
Ding Xiaochuan showed his phone.
Everyone hurriedly came to take a look.
They saw a picture of Chen Huan with a middle aged man with a beard.
Then, Ding Xiaochuan showed more pictures of the two, all of which were taken at different times.
Finally, he showed a picture of him and his dad, and said with a laugh, “How is it? Isn’t my dad awesome?”
Zheng Zai’s face switched between red and pale but he was still doubling down, “Who doesn’t know how to photoshop these days? Maybe…”
“Scram…” Center Zhao Ming directly pushed him away, “Stop spitting farts here! You have no knowledge, no strength and no eyes, that’s right I’m talking about you! He already came up with proof and here you are mumbling like an idiot, want me to knock you?”
After that said, Zhao Ming immediately turned docile and said in a flattering tone, “Brother Chuan, can you tell us some stories about uncle Chen, please?”
“Yeah, count me in!” Jiao Zhilong patted Ding Xiaochuan’s shoulder, “Lord Huan is the god of us basketball players! He’s much better than Big Yao and since he’s your senior, you’ll be my brother from now! Don’t worry, with me on the team, nobody will dare to bully you!”
“Me too!”
“Brother Chuan, if you need anything in the future, just say the words!”
“You can get the starting position for small forwards! I’ll just take the third spot!”
“…”
Zheng Zai and Wang Chen felt burning pain on her face when they watched Ding Xiaochuan being swarmed by people.
He was originally a substitute in the team just like them and was unnoticed.
But now, he was now the most popular guy on the team, which was really envious!