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

Chapter 52 Enjoying Childhood

A moment of silence.

Zhou Xiaobai changed the subject: "You're talking about filming, is that easy to learn?"

Speaking of this, it's Zhou Wenqiong's specialty: "It's very easy to learn. As long as you're decent-looking and have some unique features, that's enough. Of course, if you want to become famous, you need acting skills, resources, and someone to support you."

"Can I learn it?" Zhou Xiaobai's true intentions were revealed.

Zhou Wenqiong's heart skipped a beat. Did this little brother want to act?

She asked urgently, "You really want to be an actress? You should focus on your studies now and get into Tsinghua or Peking University later."

She had this idea before: if he really became a poor student, she would bring him into this industry.

She even teased Zhou Xiaobai about this, saying that boys don't suffer losses in the entertainment industry anyway. Besides, most male actors in this industry are a bit unattractive, so your looks will definitely be a plus.

But now that Zhou Xiaobai has become a top student, she really doesn't want to drag him into this mess.

These days, actors may look glamorous, but their income isn't that high. For example, she only makes ten or twenty thousand yuan for a movie, and she has to rely on gigs to earn extra money.

As the great man said, there is no distinction between noble and lowly labor.

But this amount of 10,000 or 20,000 is far more than that of an ordinary worker.

Zhou Xiaobai once laughed at her for this. But she only received a sarcastic remark in return – “You eat my food, sleep in my bed, and you dare to tease me?”

"No, I just wanted to see how you guys film," Zhou Xiaobai said casually. His true purpose remained unsaid.

"hehe!"

Zhou Wenqiong didn't believe it.

After spending the last few months together, she finally understood what kind of person Zhou Xiaobai was. What seemed like insignificant words were actually carefully planned and had a specific purpose.

"Sister, I'm not lying to you." To show that she was telling the truth, Zhou Xiaobai blew up a balloon to indicate that she was serious.

"Mmm!" Zhou Wenqiong felt physically good, but she didn't believe it at all. In order not to alert the enemy, she didn't ask any further questions.

"Sister, where do you film your movies?" Zhou Xiaobai probed again.

Zhou Wenqiong narrowed her eyes, sensing a hidden meaning in his words. She teased, "Aren't you omniscient? Can't you do some divination yourself?"

Last time, Zhou Xiaobai made a fool of himself, using that system's appraisal skill to boast that he knew everything from astronomy to geography.

The system detected a risk of data leakage and almost killed him, but he later pretended to be dead.

Zhou Wenqiong often teased him about this.

"That was just to tease... to make you happy." Zhou Xiaobai chuckled sheepishly, almost making a fool of himself again.

"Trying to fool me?" Zhou Wenqiong rolled her eyes at him. "Ningxia, Zhuozhou, Wuxi, and the film studio's own shooting base." They are all publicly available, so there's no harm in mentioning them.

She paused, then teased him, "I filmed this in OCT (Overseas Chinese Town) in Guangdong Province. Want to go?"

Zhou Xiaobai's eyes lit up. He wondered if he should go and take a look at them all.

However, traveling by car or plane is a hassle, with four kids... But Fan Bingbing is tall enough to look like an adult by summer vacation, right?

Could we get a fake document? We could hide the three of us in a spatial dimension and have her take it with us?

This idea works, let's do it.

Thinking of this, Zhou Xiaobai couldn't help but burst into laughter.

The laughter startled Zhou Wenqiong. Could this little brat still be up to his old tricks? She had to be careful! She asked casually, "What are you laughing at?"

"Seeing my sister smile makes me happy too," Zhou Xiaobai replied matter-of-factly.

Zhou Wenqiong chuckled twice and continued to probe, "What have you been doing at home these past two days while Qianqian's been gone?"

She found it strange; the two were inseparable, but Liu Xiaoli told her that An Qianqian had been staying at home for the past two days. She thought the two little brats had a fight! She made several phone calls to question her.

"Sigh!" Zhou Xiaobai sighed, pouting at the winter vacation homework on his desk.

"Behave yourself now?" Zhou Wenqiong didn't believe it.

"It's all Qianqian's." Zhou Xiaobai gritted his teeth in anger. Yesterday, An Qianqian came by, handed over her schoolbag without saying a word, and said, "Little brother, I used to do it for you, now you do it for me." Then she ran away.

Zhou Wenqiong knew that the two of them were good at studying, so it wouldn't matter if they didn't do the homework: "Aren't you pretty good? What's a little homework?"

Zhou Xiaobai grew angrier the more he thought about it. He had already finished his own work, but there was nothing he could do when he encountered a lazybones like An Qianqian. He didn't even think about how An Qianqian had helped him with his work in the first place.

Thinking back to how I promised to skip a grade to get revenge on An Qianqian for calling me a bad student, isn't this just the right time?

Ever since I redeemed the "One-Click Learning" feature from the system, my learning progress has been like a rocket.

The homeroom teacher said he was learning too fast and his classmates couldn't keep up, so he gave him several books from older students to study on his own.

After self-studying, Zhou Xiaobai set himself a small goal—to find a systematic paper and publish it in Nature or Science, the key being to see if he could gain some popularity.

The deeper reason is that one should become famous as early as possible. By raising one's status from a young age, one can become a well-known cultured person when entering the entertainment industry!

The idea was immediately shut down by the system. They say he's courting death? Do you think a little kid like him can get published in a research journal? Besides, popularity points can only be gained through entertainment works.

Zhou Xiaobai felt that with his abilities, it would be embarrassing to hang out with first-graders.

However, he did lose face, especially as a time traveler—at the end of the semester, Teacher Ma actually awarded him a little red flower…

Thinking of this, his expression turned serious: "Sister, I have something to tell you."

"What is it?"

"I want to skip a grade."

"Hmm!" Zhou Wenqiong thought for a moment. She knew exactly how Zhou Xiaobai was doing in her studies. "When school starts, I'll ask the teacher if she can be in the same class as Qianqian?"

"No, sixth grade." Zhou Xiaobai's goal was to distance himself from An Qianqian and go directly to junior high next year. If he weren't so young and afraid of being a guinea pig, he would have already taken the high school entrance exam.

Zhou Wenqiong chuckled. She still vividly remembered how her cousin's affair had almost escalated into a bloodbath: "Aren't you afraid Qianqian will punish you?"

Zhou Xiaobai continued to fawn, "Sister, isn't this something I wanted to discuss with you? Could you secretly help me sort it out? Let's get this over with quickly and decisively. Let's read it first."

"Little brother, are you dreaming?" Zhou Wenqiong was quite pleased with this flattery and decided to amuse him. "Do you want me to help you get into junior high school? You can go straight in next semester?" That's what she said, but whether she actually did it was another matter.

"Oh my, sister, please stop teasing me." Zhou Xiaobai rolled her eyes. "At my age, in middle school? Aren't you afraid people will think I'm a monster?"

Zhou Wenqiong couldn't help but laugh out loud: "You know you'll be treated like a monster? At most, I'll help you skip a grade to Xixi's. Don't think about those things." She became a little serious, "Little brother, you're still young. You need to enjoy your childhood and not miss out on this wonderful age."

Zhou Xiaobai fell into deep thought, recalling the lyrics of the song "Youth" from Xixi's album—"I am still the same youth I used to be, without the slightest change..."

After a long while, he suddenly hugged Zhou Wenqiong tightly and then nodded emphatically.