November, Beijing.
"What did you promise me? How many years will it take to buy a house? How many years will it take to buy a car? I don't even want my parents anymore. I followed you to this damn place. Look at what your classmates have become, and then look at you! What have you become? Are you a man?"
After the class reunion, Alexis Xiao endured the nagging, put his hands in his pockets, and walked with his head down, his girlfriend stopped behind him, but Alexis Xiao didn't notice, just kept walking, walking, and walking...
"I'm sorry." Alexis Xiao threw away the cigarette and said helplessly, "Wife, I also want to survive. I have tried very hard. Give me some more time..."
Alexis Xiao turned around and found that there was no one behind him.
An autumn breeze blew by, and the cell phone rang. It was a text message from my "wife".
[Alexis Xiao, let's break up. ]
The phone rang again.
Alexis Xiao answered the phone, it was from home.
"Alexis Xiao." Alexis Xiao's mother said over there, "Why don't you answer the phone? When will you come home?"
"I..." Alexis Xiao said tiredly, "What's wrong? Did something happen at home?"
"Your father just asked on the news, if we buy a house for marriage, is 80,000 enough for the down payment?"
"I don't need your money. I'm going to the subway. I'll talk to you tomorrow. I'll call you. Mom, go to bed early and don't let Dad borrow money."
At twelve o'clock in the night, Alexis Xiao returned to the rental house drunk, kicked the door open, and fell on the sofa, gasping for breath.
"Waste waste... waste snack..." Alexis Xiao said tiredly, "You might as well die."
Alexis Xiao staggered to the balcony, facing the night view on the 18th floor, climbed up the railing, climbed down, climbed up, and climbed down again. After repeating the action more than ten times, he knelt on the balcony and burst into tears.
Alexis Xiao: "Oh my god---"
"Cry me a lot!" Someone on the balcony next door pulled open the French window and yelled at him, "What time is it! Call the police if you get drunk again!"
In this evil materialistic society, even crying is not allowed. Alexis Xiao crawled back to the room. The cold wind was blowing. He struggled to crawl to the kitchen and turned on the gas. The phone kept ringing. Alexis Xiao took a look and found that it was a classmate who came out for a party tonight.
Alexis Xiao looked at the gas stove and decided to cook a bowl of noodles and eat it before thinking about committing suicide.
Alexis Xiao slurped up instant noodles while calling his girlfriend, but turned off the phone. After finishing the noodles, he lay down and closed his eyes tiredly.
Rent is 2,000 yuan, water, electricity, gas and phone bills are 400 yuan, meals, supermarkets and shopping with my girlfriend are 1,000 yuan, credit card debt is 2,000 yuan, transportation is 400 yuan... I earn 5,000 yuan a month, minus taxes, and I live on credit cards every month, with the minimum payment every month... A square meter of house costs 80,000 yuan, and Tongzhou costs 25,000 to 30,000 yuan...
If you don’t eat or drink for three hundred years, you will be able to buy a house and get married?
Alexis Xiao thought about going home several times, but a house in a third-tier city costs twelve thousand yuan. If he found a job and earned three thousand yuan a month, he would only starve to death on the road.
Alexis Xiao turned off the light weakly. The phone rang again and the screen flickered.
The next morning, after seven missed calls, Alexis Xiao tiredly called back. The person on the other end was obviously hungover as well, and asked in a daze, "Who is it?"
"Me." Alexis Xiao replied, "What are you doing? You called me several times in the middle of the night."
The person who called was Du Ma, Alexis Xiao's college classmate who shared the same dormitory with him. He had slept in the same bunk bed with Alexis Xiao back then and had often asked Alexis Xiao for money to pick up girls. He was the one who mocked Alexis Xiao the most vigorously last night. After graduation, Du Ma established himself in Beijing in just three years and had amassed a fortune of tens of millions. He modestly drove his Lexus to attend the class reunion, and was quite surprised to run into Alexis Xiao.
Alexis Xiao and Duma were used to making fun of each other, and they had been doing so for many years. Now that Duma was doing so well, Alexis Xiao was just genuinely happy for him.
"Last night..." Duma said, "I went out drinking with my aunt and some celebrities. We drank a lot. I'm old and can't take it anymore. I hope I didn't get you drunk, so I called to ask."
Alexis Xiao came back last night and ate instant noodles, and replied: "It's okay."
Duma laughed and said, "Your wife punished you to kneel on the washboard?"
"No." Alexis Xiao said with a smile, "How dare she?"
There was a sound of water coming from Duma's side. He had obviously gotten up. Wearing a Bluetooth headset, he said to Alexis Xiao: "I called my aunt, and she asked you to go to the China World Trade Center on Da Wang Road today."
Alexis Xiao: "???"
Alexis Xiao struggled to get up and hit his head on the door.
Alexis Xiao: "What are you going to do on Dawang Road?"
Duma was puzzled: "Don't you want to change jobs? You must be drunk!"
Alexis Xiao: "!!!"
Alexis Xiao remembered that he had mentioned this matter last night when they were drinking. He poked the toothbrush into his mouth and said vaguely, "Okay, if it works, I'll treat you to a barbecue."
Duma said: "I'll send you the address, and you can just call my aunt when you get there."
Duma hung up the phone. Alexis Xiao was quite grateful. Duma called him several times last night. It should be when the second game started. Duma was having supper with his aunt and was about to call Alexis Xiao over.
At eight o'clock in the morning, Alexis Xiao was squeezed into the subway with his feet dangling in the air. When he arrived at the station, he was squeezed out by the crowd again. He followed the address given by Duma and was in a daze all the way. He couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat when he entered the elevator.
This is the place with the highest concentration of brokerage companies in Beijing. You never know where you might run into a big star.
When Alexis Xiao arrived at the floor, he went to the bathroom to tidy up first. He thought he came too hastily and needed to be tidied up. Now he stood in front of the mirror and tidied his hair a little. His short hair was slightly lowered, and his earlobes were clearly visible. He was much thinner than before, and had obvious dark circles under his eyes.
Getting old... Alexis Xiao thought.
When I was in school, I was also a schoolboy. I could play guitar and compose music. I didn't expect that I would become like this after entering the society. Alexis Xiao sighed and went inside to pee.
A moment later, footsteps sounded quickly, and a tall man wearing sunglasses came over.
The man walked quickly into the bathroom, unzipped his pants, took a long breath, and urinated with great force. Alexis Xiao glanced at him, his eyes slightly moved upwards, the man tilted his head slightly, and the two looked at each other.
Alexis Xiao: "!!!!"
Alexis Xiao immediately turned around and said: "You you you...you are..."
"What are you doing!" the man roared and dodged instantly. Alexis Xiao almost peed on the man's sneakers. He immediately apologized, turned back in a hurry, unzipped his pants, and wished he could crawl into the ground.
A minute later, the man washed his hands in front of the mirror with a sullen look on his face.
The man was about 1.80 meters tall, had neat short hair, a resolute and handsome face, and was wearing casual clothes.
Alexis Xiao never thought that he would go to the toilet with his idol! He was dumbfounded, and then he reacted instantly, trembling and said: "My idol!"
The man shook his hands, Alexis Xiao took out a pen and paper from his bag and said, "Can you sign an autograph for my girlfriend? She likes you very much."
The man took a deep breath, pretended he heard nothing, quickly washed his hands with hand sanitizer, wiped them dry, and couldn't wait to leave here.
"Lu...Lu..." Alexis Xiao said, "You are Adrian Lu, right? My girlfriend is your die-hard fan, can you please sign an autograph for me?"
Alexis Xiao held the paper and pen, his heart pounding. Adrian Lu completely ignored him and turned away.
Alexis Xiao followed behind and begged, "My male god, my girlfriend just scolded me and wants to break up with me..."
"Someone come here!" Adrian Lu strode out of the bathroom and shouted angrily.
Someone came out of the corridor, Alexis Xiao stepped back subconsciously, thinking, forget it. The security guard came over, and Adrian Lu was like he had eaten dynamite, shouting: "How did this person get in! How did they let anyone in! Get out of here!"
The security guard came over to fork Alexis Xiao out, but Adrian Lu took the opportunity to run away. When both sides were in chaos, the door of an office opened and a female voice asked, "Is that Alexis Xiao?"
"Yes." Alexis Xiao finally found his savior, and the voice inside said, "Come in."
Alexis Xiao was finally able to get out of the predicament. He went in and sat in the office, letting out a long sigh of relief.
"Just now someone called downstairs." The woman, wearing a short skirt and a suit, was well-maintained even though she was over 40. She introduced herself, "I'm Duma's aunt. You can just call me Aunt Du."
Alexis Xiao smiled hurriedly. Knowing that her name was Veronica, he saw that she wanted to pour water for him personally, and hurriedly said, "I'll do it myself."
"Please introduce yourself." said another man.
"My name is Alexis Xiao, hello." Alexis Xiao took the water and sat down, saying seriously, "I majored in music editing and production. I have been drifting in Beijing for four years. I am 25 this year and started studying a year earlier."
Alexis Xiao handed over his information and said, "I am unmarried, my parents are not in Beijing, my dream is to be a musician, and before Duma introduced me, I worked as a video editor for a website under Sina."
Veronica casually flipped through Alexis Xiao's personal information and handed it to her assistant. After the two of them looked at it once, Alexis Xiao said, "I have won several small awards for original music in China. I personally prefer Chinese style music... and ancient music. I listened to it a lot in the past, on the Internet..."
"Do you have a favorite male star?" Veronica asked again.
"Yes." Alexis Xiao smiled, "Brother Tom Cruise, actor Li Changzheng, Adrian Lu, and... Uncle Daoming, those tough guy types, I like them all. I'm a fan of Xifan, Zhoufen, and Adrian Lu, and my girlfriend has also liked him because of me, but... hey."
Alexis Xiao remembered that he had just met his idol in the bathroom, and he must have left a bad impression on him.
"Can you cook?" asked the male vice president at the side.
"Ah?" Alexis Xiao said.
"Just chat casually." Veronica said with a smile, "Don't be nervous."
Alexis Xiao nodded and said, "I can cook a little bit of Hubei cuisine."
"What about Sichuan and Cantonese cuisine?" Veronica asked again.
Alexis Xiao said: "I can... a little, but I use a rice cooker to make it."
Alexis Xiao was thinking, why ask about cooking? There was a vague sense of foreboding, and Veronica asked again: "Besides music, what other hobbies do you have?"
"Running." Alexis Xiao said, "Surfing the Internet, listening to music, reading... watching movies."
"Do you have a girlfriend?" asked the vice president.
Alexis Xiao nodded and said, "We just...broke up."
Veronica smiled and said, "Whose reason?"
"Mine." Alexis Xiao replied.
Alexis Xiao was a little embarrassed, but when he thought about it, since the other party was his elder, it didn't matter.
Veronica asked: "Can you drive?"
Alexis Xiao: "Yes."
"He's a handsome guy." The vice president said, "He has dark circles under his eyes. He must have stayed up late a lot."
"My work and rest schedule is not very regular." Alexis Xiao said, "I will pay attention to it, thank you."
Veronica said: "He is very patient and has a good temper..." Veronica glanced at the assistant, who said nothing and flipped through Alexis Xiao's information again.
"To be honest," Veronica explained, "we are looking for a life assistant for the artists under our company. It's up to you."
Alexis Xiao: ...
"Which artist?" Alexis Xiao said.
Veronica smiled and said, "Of course I can't tell you now. You need to sign a confidentiality agreement first. You need to be patient and willing to do this job for a long time before we can hire you. Food and accommodation are all included, and the monthly salary is 8,000 yuan, before tax, with five insurances and one fund."
Alexis Xiao: "!!!"
"The work can be very arduous," the vice president said. "When a star goes to a production crew to shoot a movie or take an advertisement, you have to accompany him throughout his daily life. You live in the same house with him and occasionally need to drive him when he goes out. The driver is sometimes too busy to handle the situation, and sometimes he has to go out to buy things in the middle of the night."
"You have to control what you should and shouldn't say. Try to talk less and do more. No matter what an artist does or says, it is not allowed to be announced to the public, let alone posted online. You can't tell your family or parents. In short, you can't tell anyone about your profession. Think about it."
Alexis Xiao knew that this kind of job allowed him to get close to celebrities, and it was a job that countless people could not get. However, this kind of job could not be given to any applicant casually. They had to sign a confidentiality agreement, which included compensation, and they had to make sure that the applicant was a suitable person recommended by a friend.
Most celebrities will appoint relatives or friends who they think are reliable as their personal assistants. There are only two possibilities for hiring them through an economic company: one is that the other party is not famous; the other is that celebrities are difficult to serve... No matter how you look at it, this job is not very reliable.
But food and accommodation are provided, and you don't have to spend a penny. You can save all your salary. In addition to subsidizing your parents, you can buy a square meter of house a year. If the price does not rise, you can save enough money to buy a house in Beijing if you work hard for about a hundred years. Occasionally, you can follow the stars to get in touch with the legendary upper class...
Alexis Xiao came out, smoked a cigarette in the corridor, and called his girlfriend, but her phone was turned off.
"I've made up my mind." Alexis Xiao returned to the office and said, "Sister Du, I'm willing to give it a try."
Veronica hummed and said, "Xiao Ma said you are a very nice person, warm to everyone and never angry. Let's try it for a while."
Alexis Xiao smiled bitterly and nodded. Veronica prepared the contract. Alexis Xiao asked cautiously, "Which star is it?"
"Oh." The vice president came over and put the contract on the table, saying, "Adrian Lu, he's in the office next door."
Alexis Xiao: ...
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