Chapter 54: Am I Going on a Blind Date?
Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations

“What?!” Dad’s eyes popped out. “Hao is dating a superstar?”

It was no wonder that Dad was so surprised. After all, they were only an ordinary family. A superstar and their family were like two parallel lines that would never intersect with each other in their entire lives. Right now, Mom wasn’t just telling him that Wang Hao was dating someone, but it was even the most beautiful starlet in the country, which he found really strange.

“Listen to yourself,” Mom said. “I’m certain about the woman’s identity, but do you really think she’s Hao’s girlfriend? It seems weird to me. I’m not worried about anything else. The most important thing is, after becoming friends with this starlet, wouldn’t Hao’s standards for a wife skyrocket?!”

Dad asked curiously, “What do you mean?”

“I’m saying,” Mom explained, “that it’s impossible for the superstar to become our daughter-in-law, right? But if meeting her makes Hao raise his standards, how is he going to find another girl in the future?”

“You’re right.” Dad touched his chin and pondered. “If he’s so used to seeing beautiful girls, he won’t even glance at an average one. Besides, our family’s situation isn’t very good. It’ll indeed be a problem. What should we do, then?”

“I’ve been thinking about it for a long time, but I still don’t have any ideas,” Mom said. “I think we should talk to him…”

“That’s easy for you to say.” Dad shook his head and said, “I know that at his age, the more we take issue with him, the more likely he’ll defy us. It won’t work. We better think of another solution.”

“Then think!” Mom said anxiously, “We can’t just wait around, right? I’m telling you, even if the starlet wants to marry him, we can’t afford to give her a good life! Where is she from? I’ve checked already. She’s the only daughter of Bai Corporation’s CEO, and their family has over 300 billion yuan of assets! They spend a few hundred thousand yuan a year just on maintaining their cars. Her background aside, is there anyone in her social circle who is an ordinary person?”

“Okay, okay, you think I don’t know that?” Dad said, “You have to give me some time…”

They pondered for a while, and Dad suddenly had an idea. “Hey, look, I’ll see if my colleagues know any girls of a suitable age, and we can ask Hao to meet her.”

“Huh? Well…” Mom hesitated, then said, “I don’t think that’s a good idea. We haven’t figured out Hao’s relationship with the starlet…”

“Silly,” Dad said, “it’s not like they’ll definitely get married. It’s just to feel him out to see what he’s thinking. Look, if he’s willing to go, that means that there’s nothing between him and the starlet, and at the very least, that’ll be a weight off our minds. On the other hand, if he doesn’t agree to go, he might have other thoughts, and we must be more aware of it.”

What Dad said indeed made sense, so Mom nodded right away and said, “Hm, that might work. Just to feel him out, right?”

“Yeah, just to feel him out.” Since they had made a decision, they immediately felt relieved and didn’t talk about it again.

…

At midnight, Wang Hao finally returned home.

The dinner had lasted three hours. Everyone enjoyed themselves, and Moon Zheng finally got the part she wanted. It hadn’t been easy at all.

Was that social networking? I drank five bottles of beer. It’s a good thing I can drink a lot, so I didn’t fall down back there…

Dad was watching TV and Mom was playing with Snowy. Wang Hao went straight back to his room and turned on the computer.

“I wonder how much progress I made today…” Wang Hao went to the page for “Battle Through the Heavens” and looked at the data. “Ah, not bad. There’s 200 more recommendations and almost 1000 views. That’s awesome, haha!”

He quickly went to the author management page to check the number of bookmarks he had. Suddenly, a message popped up!

“Hello, the Team 6 chief editor has offered a contract for your work. Please kindly accept the editor’s friend request on QQ to negotiate the contract details. When you accept the request, please tell the editor your name and the novel title. During the process, please maintain regular updates.”

What the hell? I’ve been offered a contract? Awesome! Ahahahaha!

He read the message a few more times, then immediately added the editor’s QQ account. Hm, he must have gotten off by now. Let’s see what happens tomorrow, hehe.

After settling everything, he looked at the number of bookmarks — 116, pretty good!

“Hao.” Dad’s voice then came from outside. “Are you back? Come out, there’s something I need to talk to you about.”

Huh? Dad has something to say to me?

“Coming.” Wang Hao immediately walked out of his room. “What’s wrong?”

“Sit.” Dad told Wang Hao to sit down, then smiled and continued, “Hao, here’s the deal. I think you’re not a small child anymore, and you have a job now. It might be a temporary job, and it’s only for the time being, but I’m sure you’ll be able to find a permanent job afterward. So, I’m thinking of asking my colleagues to see if they can introduce a girl to you.”

Huh? Am I going on a blind date?

I don’t think it’s a good idea. I still chat with a starlet on WeChat sometimes…

“Okay.” Wang Hao nodded. “I’ll do it if you want me to. I don’t have any opinion on it.”

“That’s great. We’ll wait for their reply, then.” It was such a weight off Dad’s mind. He took a deep breath and got up. “I’m going to sleep. Don’t stay up late, and go to bed early.”

“Hm, okay.” Wang Hao looked at Dad’s back and whispered bemusedly, “A blind date? What’s going on? I’ve only just started working…”

Wang Hao still couldn’t figure it out after a long while. He lay in bed and was about to sleep, then he thought…

“No, I can’t just go to bed.” He got up and sat in front of the computer. “I don’t have the ability to retain everything I see, and the memories about things I read before I transmigrated will fade over time, so I must make some notes while I still remember them. If not, I’ll regret it in the future.”

Wang Hao definitely wasn’t a genius, but the good thing was that he understood his limitations.

The memories of a normal person would become blurry as time passed. After all, the Fortune Dice could only change his fortune, but not improve his memory. It wouldn’t do any harm to prepare ahead.

“Looks like I’ll need to categorize everything systematically.” Wang Hao thought for a while, then began to create folders on the hard drive. “Novels… Music… Film and television… Games… Hm, just these four categories will do. For the time being, the novel industry is the easiest to start with, and I’ve also stepped into the film and television industry. As for the music industry, I still haven’t found a way to get in. In fact, the biggest prospect for development is in the game industry, but I’m not capable of starting a company yet…”

Wang Hao created a folder for each category and started filling them.

At the moment, the most familiar and most urgent one was the novel category, so Wang Hao quickly created a dozen documents in the folder.

“‘Shrouding the Heavens’… ‘Eternal Life’… ‘Doula Continent’…” Wang Hao wrote down all the popular novels he remembered, then had a look again and said happily, “All these are basically the most popular novels in the previous world. Hehe, I’ll work on the titles and introductions first, then the settings and plots. Ah, it’s a lot to do even if I’m not writing the main body.”

When Wang Hao finished writing the introductions for all the novels based on what he remembered, it was already 10:30pm. He looked at everything he had done today and gave a contented sigh. “Alright, hahaha. Let’s call it a day. Off to bed!”