Who taught you to be a celebrity like this?

Chapter 150 Another Apocalypse and Acquaintances

Since Li Ye released another new song, Kong Lingxiao has completely lost the will to compete and no longer makes things difficult for himself.

From that day on, he did only one thing every day—observe Li Ye.

Li Ye has a habit of waking up early, so he also wakes up early. Afraid that Li Ye won't wake him up, he even sets his own alarm clock every morning.

Throughout the day, he never looked away from Li Ye for more than ten minutes at a time, and he only felt at ease to sleep after Li Ye had fallen asleep at night.

Kong Lingxiao wanted to see if Li Ye could come up with another new song right under his nose.

Just three days ago, the tour group was at an art museum in Venice, where the tour guide was recounting the museum's past history of being robbed by the Mafia.

At that moment, Kong Lingxiao noticed that Li Ye suddenly stopped, his brows furrowed slightly, and he looked regretful, occasionally asking the tour guide about things related to the Mafia.

When Tu Shan wanted to see an opera, Li Ye was the first to respond.

Kong Lingxiao also went that time. He clearly remembered that Li Ye fell asleep less than twenty minutes into the show. This time he was so enthusiastic. Something must be wrong!

He gripped Li Ye's arm tightly, staring intently at him.

"Really, no. Writing songs isn't like buying cabbage, it doesn't happen that quickly," Li Ye said sincerely.

Kong Lingxiao didn't believe it and released his grip on Li Ye's arm: "I'll go too."

"Sister Manyue, are you going?" Li Ye looked at Zhong Manyue across from him.

Zhong Manyue nodded gently.

Yu Caiwei, who was about to reject the trip, glanced at Li Ye, pursed her lips, and said nothing.

Two hours later, the group bought their tickets and entered La Scala.

Li Ye sat down in his seat with anticipation.

Kong Lingxiao was right; his divine inspiration had returned, but he just couldn't trigger it.

He wasn't sure if the opera would trigger an apocalypse; he figured he might as well try his luck, since he could fall asleep anytime, anywhere.

Before long, the theater lights dimmed, and slow, mournful orchestral music began, with a very pure Italian flavor, as if you were in a church.

There's movement in Apocalypse!

Li Ye perked up and quickly sat up straighter.

Sitting next to him, Kong Lingxiao, who had been silently observing, shuddered; his bad feeling grew stronger.

The actors on stage spoke Italian, but the interactive tablets in the seats had a simplified Chinese translation option.

The story of this opera takes place in Sicily, where a boy witnesses his father being murdered by the local gang leader when he is very young.

As he grew up, he painstakingly made contact with the daughter of a mob boss, who is also the female lead.

The male and female protagonists fall in love and quickly gain the favor of the gang leader, successfully finding an opportunity to kill him.

After learning the whole truth, the female protagonist shot and killed the male protagonist, who was confessing to Mary, in the church.

On stage, after the female lead finished singing an aria, she pulled the trigger on herself.

With a bang.

Li Ye closed his eyes.

The story ends with the music, and the stage curtain falls.

Before long, the curtain rose again on the stage, and the actors began to take their bows.

Upon noticing that Li Ye had not yet opened his eyes, Kong Lingxiao also closed his eyes.

Oh no, he's going to write another song!

After leaving the opera house, Kong Lingxiao pressed Li Ye for an answer: "Did you write another song? What song?"

Li Ye felt that Xiao Ge wasn't a bad person, just a bit childish, and didn't want to discourage him, so he kept denying it.

"I don't believe it. You must have written it. I've been watching you. You closed your eyes for several minutes, which is the length of a song." Kong Lingxiao was not giving up and kept muttering to himself.

"So what if I wrote it?"

Yu Caiwei found him annoying: "So many days have passed, what's the big deal about Li Ye writing a new song? Why are you making such a fuss?"

Kong Lingxiao was too lazy to argue with this ignorant and crazy woman, so he pretended not to hear her and didn't even look at her, but he calmed down.

Yu Caiwei felt utterly bored, wondering when it had started, no one had been arguing with her anymore.

This seems like a good thing for her, as it means no one dares to confront her directly, but she can't vent her negative emotions, and sometimes she feels suffocated.

Li Ye slowed his pace, still savoring the book "In the Name of the Father" that he had obtained from Tianqi.

Suddenly, Zhong Manyue's gentle voice came from beside him: "You really have another inspiration?"

Li Ye smiled and winked at her.

Zhong Manyue looked at Kong Lingxiao's somewhat desolate figure and chuckled softly, covering her mouth: "You dealt a big blow to him this time on the show."

Li Ye shook his head helplessly. He didn't want to discourage Xiao Ge, but Xiao Ge was just too perceptive.

The following evening, including a layover, the tour group arrived in Cape Town after nearly twenty hours.

There is no time difference between Italy and Cape Town during winter time. After a night's rest, the group continued their sightseeing tour.

On their third and final day in Cape Town, the Flower Group had time to rest and relax, and went surfing at Hout Bay.

"Li Ye, is someone calling you?"

"I think I heard it too."

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As soon as they arrived at the beach, the group of flowers seemed to hear someone calling Li Ye's name, and they all looked around.

Li Ye also heard it and shouted "YE", which means he was a foreigner. How could anyone in South Africa possibly recognize him?

His gaze was fixed on a group of people dozens of meters away, about a dozen people, many of whom were also holding filming equipment.

The group of people were walking this way. Li Ye noticed that their clothes and equipment had Red Bull logos on them, and he even recognized some of them.

Li Ye stepped forward and shook hands and bumped fists with a white foreigner: "Jamie, it's amazing to see you here!"

It's not Jamie who skis, but Jamie Sterling who participated in surfing the Qiantang River. He once successfully challenged a 20-meter wave, which is incredibly impressive.

Besides Jamie, there was also his teammate from last time.

"YE, you're as handsome as ever, so I can recognize you from afar." A handshake and fist bump weren't enough; Jamie Sterling gave Li Ye a warm hug.

The photographers around him also pointed their lenses at Li Ye.

Li Ye introduced everyone to the members of the Prosperous Flowers Group and asked curiously, "What are you all doing here?"

"There will be huge waves here today. I'm making a video with Red Bull."

Jamie Sterling raised an eyebrow at Li Ye: "So, are you interested?"

Li Ye was certainly interested, but he still shook his head knowingly.

Even if he were to appear on a TV show, he wouldn't do anything reckless, let alone do so in private.

He's never even been able to ride a wave taller than five meters. Trying to challenge giant waves without proper training is practically tantamount to suicide.

"You might have misunderstood me. I'm not inviting you to join the challenge. Are you and your friends interested in taking a ride on our speedboat out to sea to watch?" Jamie Sterling said with a smile.

When Jamie Sterling was training in the Qiantang River area, he filmed a lot of videos of himself training with Li Ye and posted them on his personal YouTube account, which surprisingly gained him a lot of female fans.

Even today, many people still ask who this handsome Chinese man is.

Of course, the main reason was that the Red Bull team asked him to invite Li Ye.

"Now?"

"That's right, we can leave immediately."

Li Ye was tempted and looked at the other members of the Prosperous Flower Group.

"I can!" Kong Lingxiao was the first to support him.

Chen Wanwan and Yu Caiwei, who were not very good at English, nodded and said they had no problem after listening to Zhong Manyue's translation.

Tu Shan and Gao Yalan also agreed.

After all, watching others challenge giant waves is thrilling just to think about it.

Li Ye gestured for Jamie Sterling to wait a moment, then jogged over to negotiate with Wang Fu. Upon returning, he asked, "Besides the seven of us, could you provide another speedboat for the filming crew?"

Before Jamie Sterling could speak, a white man who looked to be in his forties or fifties next to him said, "Of course, no problem."

The white man extended his hand to Li Ye: "My name is Martin Sawyer, and I am the Vice President of Sports Marketing at Red Bull. YE, I have been in contact with your agent before, and I didn't expect to run into you here."

Had he contacted his aunt? Li Ye had never heard of this before, but after a moment's thought, he knew why. He quickly extended his hand and shook hers: "Hello, Mr. Sawyer, this is what we Chinese call 'fate brings people together even from a thousand miles away'."

"That's right, I also think you and Red Bull have a special connection." Martin Sawyer smiled.

Li Ye chuckled twice. It was impossible for him to risk his life, but he did have other ideas for cooperation.

Of course, now was not the time to talk about these things, and Martin Sawyer did not continue the conversation. Instead, he began to discuss the ship arrangements with Wang Fu.

Half an hour later, the group of people from the Prosperous Flowers Group put on life jackets and boarded a speedboat to go out to sea.

After about half an hour of sailing, we arrived at our destination.

It wasn't just Red Bull's speedboats that were there; many people had come out to watch after hearing the news, and the sea was filled with speedboats and jet skis, including some with children.

Jamie Sterling and his teammates weren't the only ones preparing to challenge the giant waves; several other surfers were also involved.

"Damn, is this wave really safe?" Yu Caiwei couldn't help but swear.

At this moment, a huge wave, estimated to be seven or eight meters high, surged in from several dozen meters to their side. Like a wall, it roared down and collapsed with a crash.

Not to mention Yu Caiwei, even Li Ye was incredibly shocked when he saw it. The feeling of seeing it with his own eyes was completely different from seeing it in the video.

In comparison, his previous experience of playing on three- or four-meter-high waves was practically no different from children playing house.

If waves less than ten meters high are like this, how terrifying must the twenty-meter giant waves that Jamie Sterling challenged be?

Li Ye felt ashamed.

After finishing surfing on the Qiantang River, he heard that Jamie Sterling encountered a tube wave as soon as he entered the water but failed to catch it. He was somewhat smug about this, feeling that the gap between him and these masters was not too big.

Looking back now, I realize I was too narrow-minded and had a limited perspective.

At the same time, he began to feel a stirring in his mind, imagining how he would deal with the wave if it were him.

Suddenly a voice pulled him back to reality.

"Li Ye, don't even think about going into the water."

Li Ye turned his head and saw Zhong Manyue looking at him seriously.

"How could that be!" Li Ye laughed, but in his heart he was still confident that he could complete the challenge of waves seven or eight meters high.

"Yes, that's too dangerous."

"Ah Ye, I know you like these sports, but you absolutely can't do anything so exciting."

At this moment, the two older sisters, Tu Shan and Gao Yalan, also gave serious advice.

"I know, I know, we came here to watch, why did you all think I would go into the water?" Li Ye said speechlessly.

But his words only drew amused glances from everyone.

People didn't see what he was like skiing off-piste, but they did see him skiing at almost flying speeds on advanced slopes. In short, he was incredibly wild.

"Look, they've all gone into the water." Li Ye chuckled awkwardly, changing the subject.

After a large wave subsided, several motorboats carried the surfers to the wave spot.

What followed was witnessing surfing masters surging and speeding on the huge waves, or being swept away and swallowed by them.

Some waves were over ten meters high, and according to the Red Bull team, the highest wave reached thirteen meters.

The scene was filled with screams; just watching it made my adrenaline surge and gave me goosebumps.

Li Ye was thrilled by what he saw, and he wished he could take the place of those who were at the forefront of the wave.

However, he ultimately restrained himself and obediently remained a spectator.

More than two hours later, the big waves subsided, and people at sea gradually returned to shore, including the group of flowers who had returned to the beach.

"Great job, guys! Are you hurt?" After getting off the speedboat, Li Ye found Jamie Sterling and his teammates.

"No, I'm just a little dizzy," Jamie Sterling said, rubbing his temples with a slightly unfocused look in his eyes.

His teammate pointed to his ear, indicating that his eardrum was injured and he couldn't hear very well.

Li Ye:

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Are you all really okay?

Martin Sawyer walked over: "Alright, you two should go get checked out now."

Before leaving, Jamie Sterling shouted to Li Ye, "YE, you can't imagine this feeling unless you experience it. It's better than sleeping with a woman. You have to try it!"

Li Ye gave a polite smile.

"YE, shall we exchange contact information?" Martin Sawyer said.

Li Ye did not refuse. After exchanging phone numbers, he said, "Mr. Sawyer, I have a preliminary idea for cooperation, but we can discuss it after I finish recording the program."

Martin Sawyer was surprised by his reaction; wasn't that exactly what he wanted?

A celebrity who appeals to both Eastern and Western aesthetics, combined with extreme sports, and backed by a huge Chinese market—it couldn't be more appealing.

Ever since the Qiantang River surfing exhibition, Red Bull has been very interested in Li Ye, but unfortunately, he has been rejected by his cold-hearted manager every time.

What a coincidence! We ran into each other in Cape Town, and Li Ye even took the initiative to ask for a collaboration. What a coincidence!

"Of course, no problem, you're very welcome! I'll be waiting for your call anytime!" Martin Sawyer said with a smile, shaking hands firmly with Li Ye.

After they parted ways, Yu Caiwei immediately asked curiously, "What are you going to collaborate on with Red Bull for? Extreme sports?"

The others had also heard it and looked over curiously.

Li Ye gently shook his head: "Not entirely."

"Then what exactly is it?" Yu Caiwei pressed.

Li Ye said helplessly, "It's just an idea for now."

Yu Caiwei was a little angry, but she also knew that she couldn't just talk about the collaboration, so she didn't press the matter further.

Li Ye ignored her. It wouldn't be Yu Caiwei if she didn't get angry every day. Only she was so tactless, asking about everything and wanting to know everything.