Huayu: Starting by piggybacking on the fame of "Fairy Mom"

Chapter 121 Nepotism

Zhou Xiaobai didn't want to talk, so he could only swing on Fan Bingbing's lap to relieve his boredom.

"Little brother, don't worry, I'll support you when I'm in power," Fan Bingbing coaxed, licking his red ears.

As the oldest of the four, she believed she was quite capable of coaxing the younger brothers.

With her older sister's support, Zhou Xiaobai felt confident she could do it again, but seeing Liu Qianqian's arrogant demeanor, she lowered her head in annoyance: "Can we beat her?"

Over the past year, he has been constantly outmaneuvered by Liu Qianqian, and he has never won an argument with her. The key is that this idiot comes up with all sorts of unexpected tricks, always well-prepared, as if she is specifically targeting him.

He suspected that today's scene might be an alliance between the system's sixth brother and Liu Qianqian—however, he only thought about it in his mind and dared not ask, lest he alert them.

"Don't worry, Ya Ya will definitely be on our side." Fan Bingbing lowered his voice and exchanged a glance with Tong Liya, who was holding Liu Qianqian.

"Mmm!" Zhou Xiaobai nodded.

There is progress only through struggle; the goal is to collect popularity points; the ultimate aim is immortality.

Liu Qianqian did rise to a higher position at the meeting just now, but that was just playful banter and a normal position in the mundane world.

As the system master and the only male heir to the great cause of immortality, Zhou is the one who must take charge of this crucial matter that determines the future direction.

Even if Fan Bingbing and the others have the ability, they will never be recognized by the system—the members and the master are not on the same level at all.

They could only chat with the system and use some basic functions.

But identification, ability exchange, access to audio-visual resources, immortality... those are all the system master's business.

Just like subjects, no matter what brilliant ideas you come up with, you still have to obey the emperor's decree and the imperial seal.

So, Zhou Xiaobai didn't care whether the young ladies understood him or not: "This is what I'm thinking, from now on, we'll leave the film and television planning to Sister Li..."

He had his reasons for saying that.

In the original storyline, Liu Qianqian rose to fame with just four dramas after her debut.

Liu Xiaoli's ability to choose dramas is indeed extraordinary, but unfortunately, she later resorted to various underhanded tactics, causing Liu Qianqian to suffer setbacks for many years.

This isn't a matter of ability; it's just bad luck.

If the future is unknown, most people would do anything to make this choice.

Liu Qianqian nodded.

Although I didn't quite understand, I knew that Zhou Xiaobai was talking about something important.

We're young, so we shouldn't get involved in important matters; we should just nod in agreement.

However, she knew in her heart that with the system's cheat code, if her mother went astray again, she would have to sacrifice her own family and let her breastfeed the child.

Tong Liya and Liu Qianqian are similar, twelve or thirteen-year-old kids who can't do anything right. Let's study first, raise our hands more often, and one day we'll rise up from the serfs and become masters.

Fan Bingbing, on the other hand, has matured considerably, and today's press conference is the best proof of Liu Xiaoli's abilities.

Although I felt a little unwilling, even if the system could help me improve every day, knowledge is the foundation, experience is capital, and age is a hard condition—if you can't even walk steadily, how can you expect to fly?

Even if they want to establish their own independent faction, that's a matter for the future.

Thinking of this, she nodded in agreement.

The film and television section has been handed over to Liu Xiaoli, and that's settled.

Next up is Zhou Wenqiong.

This time, Zhou Xiaobai brought up a topic that some people love to discuss: "In the future, we need to organize film productions, we need cinemas, we need publicity platforms... Only in this way can we maximize the accumulation of popularity to achieve the goal of immortality, and the root of all this is capital—"

Sure enough, Liu Qianqian's money-grubbing nature immediately came to the fore; she understood that capital was linked to money.

In the struggle for power and profit, she couldn't let the enemy's sweet-coated bullets soften her. She slipped out of Tong Liya's embrace: "Is it going to be another big money-making opportunity?"

Tong Liya also perked up and eagerly asked, "Will it earn as much as Xixi's album?"

Fan Bingbing didn't say anything. Liu Qianqian and Tong Liya were young and inexperienced; they were thinking about numbers and using money as a mattress.

But she understood the key point—something big was about to happen.

"Xixi, you need to change this money-grubbing attitude. No matter how much you earn, it'll just go to waste if you leave it there. From now on, money will just be a number to us." Zhou Xiaobai sighed, her little one's thought process was indeed quite unique.

Tong Liya pulled Liu Qianqian back and kissed her cheek: "So what if she's greedy? What's the point of immortality? Is it to be celibate or to have people burn incense and worship you? Even the monks in the temple ask for incense offerings. Numbers are a matter for later."

There are many temples in western Xinjiang, that's what Aunt Tong told her when she went to worship Buddha before.

These words made Liu Qianqian overjoyed; she finally had a good sister on the same side.

Zhou Xiaobai gave a thumbs up, thinking that Tong Liya really had this awareness. He looked at Fan Bingbing, who hadn't said a word, but saw that she seemed thoughtful: "Sister Bingbing, from now on you'll be a big taxpayer. We'll get back up from where we fell down."

"Pfft!"

Tong Liya and Liu Qianqian burst into laughter, clearly knowing what Zhou Xiaobai was talking about.

Fan Bingbing pinched him, which meant she had admitted it.

Zhou Xiaobai practiced nepotism, explaining, "This capital operation is being handled by my sister. It's 95 this year, and there will be a financial crisis in two years. We need to get involved by the end of next year!"

Tong Liya and Liu Qianqian were young and looked confused, only thinking that what their younger brother said was quite intimidating.

Although Fan Bingbing didn't understand, she still had to ask: "What does financial crisis mean? What does it have to do with capital?" In this day and age, knowledge dissemination channels are narrow, and the term "financial crisis" is like a foreign language to them.

"Just assume we'll make a fortune in two years," Zhou Xiaobai said smugly, finally managing to intimidate them.

According to Zhou Xiaobai's knowledge from his previous life, immortality is achieved by cultivating a personality cult and building temples to collect incense offerings and prayers.

But in this new technological era, that approach won't work.

Ultimately, the system compromised by binding "Rising Stars" and relying on collecting popularity points to achieve its goal.

Therefore, the system can check entertainment works that can generate popularity.

The system can identify the capital supporting the operation of this content. But that's about all it can do.

The Asian financial crisis two years later was a reward from the system.

However, this requires the right person to manage it.

Therefore, it's essential for my older sister to manage the finances, to prevent outsiders from falsifying accounts or claiming they'll be back in China next week.

When it comes to something as important as money, Liu Qianqian has to fight for it regardless of whether she's capable or not: "I'm good at making money, but my aunt isn't."

"Can you do that?" Zhou Xiaobai looked down on her. He was wary of Liu taking public money and depositing it in the bank to earn interest as his private savings.

"So you mean, Auntie can do that?" Liu Qianqian protested.

"She's older!" After saying that, Zhou Xiaobai glanced at Liu Qianqian, who was being held by Tong Liya like a baby. "Besides, isn't there that identification function? Just have her come along."

Tong Liya chuckled to herself.

Thinking of herself, a tiny little thing, Liu Qianqian pouted and temporarily agreed.

Having convinced the dissenting voices, Zhou Xiaobai continued to explain, "Therefore, by the end of next year, we need to prepare a large amount of start-up capital."

Fan Bingbing understood the key point: "You mean, there's not enough money for Sissi's album? That's tens of millions!"

"Not enough." Zhou Xiaobai answered crisply.

Fan Bingbing's mouth dropped open.

Earning tens of millions from an album is an astronomical figure in her mind.

If even tens of millions aren't enough—

How much should we prepare?

How much can I earn?

She dared not think further. Those were numbers she wouldn't even dare to dream of.