Rebirth: An Outlier in the Entertainment Industry

Chapter 94 The More You Practice, the Better (Bonus Chapter, Please Vote)

While Huang Yiliang was stirring up the Chinese music scene, he was holed up in an arcade playing "The King of Fighters".

"Da da da, ah da—!"

Huang Yiliang frantically shook the joystick with his left hand, the ball head of which had been worn smooth and shiny, while his right hand's fingers frantically jabbed at the move button as if stabbing an enemy.

If the boss hadn't seen that he bought two hundred dollars worth of coins, he would have come over and yelled at him long ago.

Damn it, this kid's skills are terrible and he's loud. Anyway, he played ten games with that girl and didn't win a single one.

"Big brother, you need to defend! You're not defending at all, you're definitely going to die!"

A fat, Hokkien-accented audience member offered his hindsight advice.

Huang Yiliang turned around and glared at the fat man.

"Lion, didn't you say you rarely play video games?" Huang Yiliang asked irritably.

The little girl, Shishi, counted on her fingers earnestly: "I played here once during the Chinese New Year two years ago, twice during summer vacation, and twice last year."

"Five times in total!" Lion extended her fair little palm.

Huang Yiliang glanced at the disdainful looks around him and became even more speechless.

"Let's find someone else. I mainly don't like bullying young girls. Holding back would affect my performance too much," Huang Yiliang said, waving his hand.

"Big brother, I'll do it!" the fat man immediately raised his hand.

He had wanted to beat up Huang Yiliang for a long time.

He's not exactly handsome, and his skills are worse than a fifth grader's, yet he has such a beautiful and well-behaved girlfriend. Who the hell can he complain to about this?

If I lost 60 pounds, I'd be two or three times more handsome than him.

Huang Yiliang's opponent has changed to Fatty.

Then, it was K0 in just one minute.

Huang Yiliang was knocked out, while Fatty was still at full health.

"Ahem—!" The fat man smoothed his middle-parted hair with an arrogant expression.

"Again!"

Huang Yiliang was still defeated even after another round.

He didn't have a masochistic streak, so he pulled a handful of game coins from his pocket and stuffed them into the fat man's hand.

"What do you mean, brother?" The fat man was taken aback.

"This round, you die!" Huang Yiliang said solemnly.

The fat man understood immediately.

"Understood, brother. Watch my performance; I'll definitely die a particularly heroic death!"

That fatso really meant what he said. Every time Huang Yiliang unleashed a combo attack, he would seize the opportunity to deliberately run into him, letting Huang Yiliang beat him to a pulp and feel thoroughly satisfied.

Huang Yiliang achieved a perfect KO against the fat guy for three consecutive rounds.

"How about that? Impressive, right?" Huang Yiliang raised an eyebrow at Shishi.

"It's really great!" Shishi said, linking arms with Huang Yiliang and holding the milk tea straw to his lips.

Fatty: "???"

This girl has such a pretty face, what a waste! Is she blind?

"I'm done playing, Fatty. You can have them all. You're too bad at the game, you need to practice more." Huang Yiliang took all the game coins out of his pocket and gave them to the fat guy.

"Ah, right, right, you're absolutely right, big brother. I'm such a noob!" the fat man exclaimed with delight.

Huang Yiliang and Liu Shishi walked out of the arcade.

"How's it going? What else do you want to play?" Huang Yiliang asked.

Today is Sunday, and Huang Yiliang promised little Shishi that he would play with her all day.

The main problem is that Lion is in a bad mood.

She argued with her mother again, this time because of Huang Yiliang. Shishi's mother didn't like Shishi having anything to do with Huang Yiliang, but Shishi was a rebellious girl and started arguing with her mother.

"I'm fine with going anywhere, I just don't want to go home." Lion pouted and sulked.

"So stingy!" Huang Yiliang ruffled the little girl's hair.

"I didn't!" Lion said somewhat embarrassedly.

"Alright! How about we go to the amusement park?" Huang Yiliang suggested.

"I don't want to!" Lion shook his head.

Huang Yiliang thought for a moment and realized that Shishi was indeed not suitable to go to the amusement park in her white dress.

"You don't actually want to go shopping, do you?" Huang Yiliang's eyes twitched.

"Is that okay?" Lion asked immediately, full of interest.

"Uh—! It should be possible!" Huang Yiliang replied, forcing a smile.

Like most men, Huang Yiliang doesn't like shopping with women.

He would even rather go shopping with a man, since they share similar interests—either looking at beautiful women or looking at beautiful women, and importantly, it doesn't cost any money.

Wait a minute—! Something's not right. I think I'm a bit rich now, so I can spend some money.

Wangfujing Street.

"Yi Liang, what do you think of this?"

"Great, buy it!" Huang Yiliang waved his hand.

Although he hasn't yet reached the point where he can buy something he likes without even looking at the price.

But he can still afford to be extravagant, even if it's something under 100 yuan.

Because this guy made another killing.

Huang Liangmeng Music's two albums have shipped as many as 140,000 copies, especially the November album, which was not favored by the company, but its shipment volume is twice that of the December album.

Indeed, standing with the people is the only true way to succeed.

There's no need to pay attention to the opinions of those gurus and experts. Whether the product is good or not, they won't buy it. They might even try to get you to pay for their recommendations.

Of course, one of the important reasons for such booming sales is Huang Yiliang's low-price strategy.

The price of Huang Liangmeng's music album was so low that even pirates were moved to tears.

Pirates can reduce the cost of burning CDs of similar quality to around 15 yuan. However, they still need to package, transport, and bribe various shady characters. By the time the goods are delivered to the small vendors who buy pirated CDs, the cost has reached around 23 yuan.

But the small vendors also needed to make money, so the final price came to 28 yuan.

The official Huang Liang Meng music album by Diaomao only costs 29.9 yuan.

If you are a new user of Youpin Shopping Network, you can also get a 2 yuan coupon.

You can get it for 27.9 yuan.

In this situation, who would still buy pirated copies?

The pirates only stole Huang Liangmeng Music once before vowing never to steal their music again.

That's fucking bullying.

"We don't need to buy this, do we?" Huang Yiliang said awkwardly.

The little girl, Shishi, is holding two albums from Huangliangmeng Music, priced at 39 yuan each.

The Huang Liang Meng music album actually had no offline distribution channels, but its sales were so popular that some shrewd merchants would place orders online, stock up on the album, and resell it at a higher price in their own stores.

After all, not many people owned computers at that time, let alone knew how to shop online.

These middlemen also contributed significantly to the sales of Huang Liangmeng's music album.

"Hmm—! I won't buy it!" Little Lion nodded obediently.

"Boss, it only sells for 29 yuan online, why are you selling it for 39 yuan?" the little girl asked.

"Go away, go away. If you're not going to buy anything, don't cause trouble. I run such a big store, don't I have to pay rent? And what about utilities and labor? Everything costs money. If you're so capable, go buy it online yourself." The boss directly chased him away.

At that time, there was no concept of consumer rights protection; it was basically a seller's market.

The little girl, Lion, slunk out of the store.

"You're not helping me at all!" Little Lion pouted.

Huang Yiliang glanced around and, seeing that there weren't many people, quickly kissed the little girl's lips. She was so cute.

The little girl blushed instantly and forgot about whether she should help or not.

The two continued strolling hand in hand.

"Is Yi Liang pretty?"

Lion is trying on a pair of red high heels.

"It looks good, but it doesn't suit you. It's too flashy." Huang Yiliang almost said "too slutty."

However, these shoes are definitely not suitable for little Shishi's style; she usually wears flat shoes.

Moreover, the little girl Shishi usually dresses quite plainly.

"No problem, we have other colors too. How about white? It goes perfectly with your clothes," the sales clerk immediately offered enthusiastically.

"Okay!" Little Lion tried on the white one again.

She didn't care about trying on shoes; she especially liked asking Huang Yiliang for his opinion. Huang Yiliang now regrets accompanying her shopping.

"Sister Chen!"

Huang Yiliang was pleasantly surprised to find that Yan Danchen was also in the store.

Yan Danchen was startled when she heard Huang Yiliang's voice. She had been avoiding Huang Yiliang for the past few days and had not answered his calls.

"Heh, she took advantage of you and doesn't intend to take responsibility, you scumbag!" Huang Yiliang jogged over to Yan Danchen's side and whispered.

Yan Danchen stared wide-eyed in disbelief.

What are you saying? Do you dare agree to me taking responsibility? I'm eight years older than you.

"I told you so!"

Huang Yiliang said with a stern face, "Open the door for me tonight, or I'll come to your film set to find you."

"I'm busy!"

Yan Danchen refused outright. Although her role as Chang'e was a major one, it wasn't very big, and filming had already finished. She wasn't afraid of Huang Yiliang's threats.

Wait, what if he goes to the film set and says something inappropriate?

"Yi Liang, we're really not a good match yet," Yan Danchen said softly.

"How do you know it doesn't fit if you don't try it on? It's like buying shoes; you have to try them on to know if they fit!" Huang Yiliang argued.

"Didn't we try it once?" Yan Danchen blushed and whispered in defense.

This time it was Huang Yiliang's turn to widen his eyes.

"You already know it's not suitable after just one try? That's too hasty. Why don't you try it a few more times?" Huang Yiliang said pitifully, his face scrunched up.

Yan Danchen rolled her eyes.

This guy's spouting dirty jokes again.

Huang Yiliang frequently sent Yan Danchen flirtatious or funny text messages.

Yan Danchen has now developed a certain resistance to his flirtatious remarks.

"Yi Liang, how do you think these shoes are?" Shi Shi changed into a new pair of shoes.

"Hurry up and go! Your girlfriend is calling you." Yan Danchen snorted coldly.

"Ah, haha!" Huang Yiliang scratched his head awkwardly.

This was the first time he had encountered such a collision between Mars and Earth; it seems he lacked experience.

Zhou Shuren was right, you have to practice cooking a lot!

Huh—!

Huang Yiliang suddenly realized something was wrong; Sister Chen had already spotted him and Shishi in the store.

But she didn't leave?

"Leave the door open for me tonight, understand?" Huang Yiliang said, holding Yan Danchen's small hand, disregarding the possibility that Shishi would find out.

"Oh dear! You should go quickly!" Yan Danchen nervously slapped Huang Yiliang's hand away.

"It looks great, let's buy it!" Huang Yiliang said as he turned around.

Lion glanced suspiciously in Yan Danchen's direction.

"What were you doing over there just now?"

"Oh! I saw a really pretty woman, so I went over to chat her up," Huang Yiliang said honestly.

"Nonsense!" Lion rolled her eyes playfully, the little girl's eyesight as sharp as ever.

Huang Yiliang was distracted while accompanying Shishi shopping, thinking about what would happen that evening.

Perhaps out of a desire to make amends for his mistake, Huang Yiliang bought whatever little Shishi wanted without hesitation, only to find out when he got home that he had spent over 50,000 yuan.

"Liu Shishi, you've really gotten to it, spending so much money."

When Lioness's mother saw the bill, Huang Yiliang could hear her yelling even downstairs.

"My boyfriend bought it for me, what's it to you?" Little Shishi was as brave as ever in front of her family.

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