Trillionaire's Slice of Life

Chapter 379: Chapter 266: The Future Star of the Entertainment Industry

At four in the afternoon, Rolls-Royces and Bentleys slowly came to a stop in the underground parking garage.

This was a luxurious mansion by the Huangpu River, worth 190 million RMB.

The luxury home, situated in the heart of the magical city, was on the top floor of the tallest residential buildings in Puxi, spanning a total of 518 square meters, including four bedrooms, two living rooms, and five bathrooms.

In this neighborhood, the neighbors were either red-hot first-line celebrities or top-tier business magnates, and the only way to get to their buildings was from the underground parking garage.

When Chu Mo and Ding Xiaoni stepped out of the Phantom, they were surrounded by luxury cars.

The underground garage was so full of luxury cars that it resembled an exhibition. Chu Mo’s ten-million Phantom and Bentley seemed as commonplace here as electric scooters in a vegetable market.

Tall and burly Fang Lihu, with several bodyguards in tow, followed behind. Chu Mo caught sight of a Bugatti Veyron and paused; the always cautious Ding Xiaoni, following his gaze, said with a slightly complex expression,

“Mr. Chu, is that Bugatti Chairman Qin Zixuan’s car? I remember Chairman Qin also has a Bugatti!”

Chu Mo shifted his gaze and, walking towards the elevator, shook his head slightly,

“It’s not Qin Zixuan’s, that Bugatti belongs to Ding Qian.”

Upon hearing this, Ding Xiaoni’s eyes flashed with a hint of intrigue.

Ding Xiaoni was a super A-list star in Hua Country whose car was a mere million-RMB BMW, while Ding Qian was just a trainee at Shi Yuan Entertainment with a luxury car worth tens of millions.

She cast a complicated look at the young man walking ahead, feeling an undertone of resentment…

The two arrived at the elevator where the deputy chief of the bodyguards, Fang Lihu, had already pressed the call button.

The elevator setup one per floor consisted of two households and four lifts, including one dedicated service elevator, virtually eliminating any wait time. Moments later, the elevator door slid open.

Chu Mo and his party took the elevator straight to the top floor, where upon exiting, an opulent front door met their eyes.

Standing before it, he calmly keyed in the password. The discreet fingerprint scanner in front of him was actually worth 180,000 RMB.

This lock, in fact, was made by a century-old Swiss brand, KABA. The price of this mere door lock was equivalent to the cost of a car for an average citizen!

With a soft click, the door opened, revealing a huge and luxurious living room that could rival the space of Emperor’s Mansion Villa Number One.

It was Chu Mo’s second visit here.

The first time he had come over was a month ago when he purchased the house.

This 190-million-RMB mansion was on par with Tomson Yipin, and most importantly, it was very close to the Shi Yuan Entertainment headquarters. Living here made commuting to Shi Yuan Entertainment very convenient, and even walking wouldn’t take more than ten minutes.

That was why Chu Mo had bought this place.

Although Chu Mo didn’t live here, the door lock was recorded with his fingerprint, and the password was even simpler—his birthday.

He walked into the living room as if he were at home, slightly missing, however, the absence of a maid to help him change shoes, which he wasn’t quite used to.

After taking off his leather shoes and slipping on comfortable cotton slippers, he entered the living room and instructed Fang Lihu at the door,

“I might dine here this evening. Tell the housekeeper not to prepare dinner for me at home. You and the others can wait for me in the parking garage below. Arrange your own dinner. If I need something, I’ll call you!”

Fang Lihu bowed respectfully without question and then led the four bodyguards back to the underground parking garage via the elevator.

Meanwhile, Ding Xiaoni, having also changed shoes, casually closed the door behind her. Noticing three pairs of pink slippers in the shoe cabinet, the perceptive Ding Xiaoni started to speculate and then said softly,

“Mr. Chu, since this place is so close to Shi Yuan Entertainment headquarters, it must be very convenient for Ding Qian, Zhao Shuangshuang, and Chu Wen to live here. You’ve really gone to great lengths for these three girls!”

Chu Mo settled onto the sofa in the living room. Having picked the house himself, he was quite familiar with it and casually turned on the TV in front of him. Just this 100-inch Sony flat-screen TV alone cost 50,000 RMB.

He held the three books he had chosen from the bookstore, placed them on the coffee table, and seeing Ding Xiaoni’s curiosity as she toured for the first time, began to introduce,

“The interior of this house is actually designed in modern Italian style, with nearly every detail perfected to near perfection. This sofa I’m seated on is imported from Italy and is worth over a million, about the full price for a large house in a third or fourth-tier city!

My favorite part is the 260-square-meter master bedroom, which is even one hundred and ten square meters larger than my master bedroom in Emperor’s Mansion.”

Chu Mo made a casual introduction, and seeing Ding Xiaoni’s face aglow with novelty as she explored around, he let her roam freely.

He turned the television volume down to its lowest. It wasn’t to watch TV; turning it on was solely to add a little liveliness, otherwise, the vast house felt too quiet.

She casually picked up a book and started to read by herself.

The house was purchased by Chu Mo a month ago, right after Prince Ben Hesed’s incident at the Dubai racetrack, when Ding Qian and Qin Zixuan drove a Bugatti to the race circuit in Shanghai to cheer for him.

At that time, Chu Mo had instructed Qin Zixuan to end the punishment of Ding Qian and to start refocusing resources on her.

This house was specially chosen for Ding Qian, Chu Wen, and Zhao Shuangshuang, the three strongest trainees of Shi Yuan Entertainment.

The three girls had been living there for a month already.

After nearly half a year of training, the original hundred-plus trainees at Shi Yuan Entertainment had been whittled down to just nine, and those who remained were the strongest. They had already started attempting to debut, appearing on various channels.

After buying this house for the three girls, Chu Mo had never come over until that day. On a whim, he wanted the artists from his company to help promote his new book, so he thought of the three girls, and that’s why he took the initiative to visit.

Otherwise, with Chu Mo’s personality, if there was no particular reason, he might not set foot here for three or even five years.

It was still early, and as trainees, Ding Qian and the others wouldn’t be able to return until at least seven in the evening. Chu Mo sat quietly in the living room, reading his book, and the idle Ding Xiaoni started to casually explore the more than 500-square-meter house.

She entered an exorbitantly luxurious, oversized bedroom and immediately fell in love with the super king-size bed. The soft bed was really big and rolling around on it, you wouldn’t fall off.

The mirrors in the bedroom’s bathroom covered an entire wall, and there was a separate space partitioned off for the toilet—a display of unrestrained luxury due to the spaciousness.

Inside the 260-square-meter master bedroom was a private gym, complete with its own bathroom. Although it was just a few steps away from the master bathroom, having a separate one here took luxury to the extreme.

Envy filled Ding Xiaoni’s heart as she walked through the master bedroom to the more than 40-square-meter large balcony, where uniform, plump pebbles lay scattered, giving the impression of walking in nature at its finest.

Despite being a top-tier superstar and the lead actress of Shi Yuan Entertainment, Ding Xiaoni had found fame just two months ago. When it comes to heritage, she still fell short compared to those long-time top-tier superstars.

Most notably, in the company, a couple of top-tier superstars like Sun Qing and Lin Wanqiu lived in villas on Greenery Avenue, each with properties spanning over a thousand square meters and no less than four or five servants.

Even though the other two top-tier superstars were slightly less affluent, both owned mansions worth over a hundred million. Only Ding Xiaoni, who had just risen to fame, hadn’t saved up much.

As a first-tier actress before, her income was decent, but she could only afford to buy a 180-square-meter duplex in the center of Shanghai worth no more than 16 million RMB. Compared to this top-tier mansion costing 190 million RMB under her feet, the difference was more than significant!

She was not content.

Why could she, as the lead actress of the company, only live in a hundred-square-meter house, while three minor trainees could live in a mansion worth over a hundred million?@@novelbin@@

Yet she was helpless.

Ding Xiaoni knew that she had almost no connection with the Mr. Chu in the living room, unlike those three trainees. Her current success could be said to be a stroke of enormous luck.

By borrowing momentum, she could trample Lin Wanqiu, the former lead actress of Shi Yuan Entertainment, underfoot. With the support of the Mr. Chu in the living room, it wouldn’t take a year before Ding Qian could similarly trample over her current position.

She didn’t want to be trampled underfoot by a mere trainee. The only way to avoid that was to become an international superstar as soon as possible and to become the only international female star in Hua Country at present.

The entertainment industry in Hua Country was not short of international male stars. For instance, the four male kings of Hua Country were all international-level actors, but there was a lack of international-level female stars.

Decades ago, there were indeed several international-level female stars in the entertainment circle, like Zhang Man and Yang Qiong.

However, inevitably, as time went by, these once world-famous Hua Country female stars had aged, and they had disappeared from the big screen for many years.

The absence of female stars with sufficient weight to replace them has led to a gap in the entertainment circle.

In Hua Country, with more than thirty top-tier female stars, one could say it was a scene of bustling activity.

Yet not one qualified as an international-level female star.

Ding Xiaoni was the top-tier actress with the most hope of achieving this goal in the past ten years.

Similarly, Ding Xiaoni was clear that if she wanted to achieve this goal, she absolutely needed the approval of the man in the living room.

With just a word from him, she could have the possibility of soaring high again.

Standing by the balcony, Ding Xiaoni gazed at the sprawling supercity in front of her, her eyes slightly misty, as if she wanted to trample the whole of Shanghai underfoot.

When night fell and she sat on the balcony looking at the scenery by the Huangpu River, she could raise her head to see the vast starry sky and lower it to see the city lights beginning to glow.

Such a life was what she desired.

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