Return to 2002: Freestyle Superstar

Chapter 145 The First Spring Festival (Transitional Chapter)

Chen Ran welcomed his first Spring Festival after his rebirth.

There is an ancient saying: Wealth that does not return to its hometown is like walking in brocade at night.

When Chen Ran returned to his hometown of Dongzhou City, he truly experienced what it means to return home with honor.

The first and second leaders in the city met Chen Ran directly and cordially, treated him well, and then hired Chen Ran as the tourism ambassador of Dongzhou City.

Because of Chen Ran's relationship, this third-tier small city in China frequently appeared in national-level media.

"Xiao Chen, you are now our biggest sign in Dongzhou City!" the leaders said with moving expressions.

The implication is that you must not change your household registration because you dislike the poor and love the rich.To take a step back, even if you want to transfer your household registration, it is best to go to Hangzhou in the province, and don't transfer to Shanghai or Yanjing.

Chen Ran was noncommittal about this. He had lived in this city in his past and present lives.

As for the unknown future in this life, he cannot guarantee it.

In order to create Chen Ran's business card, Dongzhou City also promised that many new public sports facilities will be equipped with a short tennis court and a huge poster of Chen Ran.

Short tennis courts occupy a small area and are low in cost, making them suitable for children to practice.

That night, the city government arranged a celebration banquet for Chen Ran.

However, Chen Ran still adhered to the principle of not drinking. Even if the first and second leaders in the city came to toast him, they would still respond with tea.

Anyway, he is an athlete and a minor, so the other party really can't find any fault with him.

The followers who worked for the leaders looked at Chen Ran with envy.

The drinking culture of this era is very popular. Far more than [-] years later, whether you are in the shopping mall or even in the entertainment industry, it is almost impossible for you not to drink.

This is not like in later generations, if someone drinks to death at the drinking table, then everyone present is responsible. At least it can curb the bad custom of persuading people to drink.

Athletes may be the only industry that can refuse alcohol with legitimate reasons, but there are many people in this industry who love drinking and cannot resist the temptation of alcohol.

"Goodbye, leaders... It's getting late, so I'll go home first." Chen Ran looked at these drunken leaders and felt quite helpless.

He was obviously the protagonist, but the group of people were in high spirits and drank enthusiastically. There was even a guy who just entered the toilet with a contorted look on his face, and then came out radiant after a while.

"Xiao Chen, walk slowly and pay attention to safety on the road."

"Well... the leaders will go slowly, I'll leave first."

When Chen Ran turned around, he shook his head slightly, and then the smile disappeared from his face.

After all, he and the other party are not from the same world, and he has no intention of doing business, so he has nothing to ask for from the other party.

There won’t be too many intersections in future lives.

"I will participate in activities from now on, and I can skip meals and other things if I can." Chen Ran had a firm idea in his heart.

Since such a meal made him feel uncomfortable, Chen Ran decided to follow his inner feelings.

Yao Ming may be unable to help himself, and so will Liu Xiang in the future, but Chen Ran, who is purely outside the system, will not have such worries.

Under the cover of night, Chen Ran got into a car.

"It will take more than a year to get a driver's license."

……

When IMG signed the contract with Chen Rangang, it had already begun to form a team for him.

However, because Chen Ran achieved results too quickly, the company had not yet completed the team building for Chen Ran, and he was already famous all over the world.

After the Spring Festival, Chen Ran's team added another person, a well-known physical therapist in the industry named Alex, a German who once worked for Sampras.

With a physical coach, a physical therapist, and Zhang Depei who will soon be in place, Chen Ran's team has been officially formed.

In addition, the brokerage company also equipped Chen Ran with a domestic full-time driver.

During the Spring Festival, Chen Ran took a short vacation for himself and also for his team.

During this period, he has been living at home, in a new duplex that his parents bought with money, and he even brought his grandparents over to live with him.

During the days when Chen Ran went home for vacation, relatives at home came to visit him in an endless stream.

It also corresponds to the sentence: When you are poor in the busy city, no one cares about you, but when you are rich in the mountains, you have distant relatives.

It is impossible for Chen Ran to cover the mouths of reporters and media. His advertising and endorsement fees are already all over the sky, and the bonuses for tennis matches are all transparent.

There are many people in China who cannot tell the difference between professional sports and professional sports.

They also don't understand why Chen Ran can have such a sensation just by playing tennis, and has not won a gold medal in the Olympics or World Championships, but just made it to the semi-finals of an "Australian Open".

Chen Ran's family conditions are actually very average among the relatives on both sides of his parents. Some of his relatives are small leaders in the system, and some are successful in business. However, his parents are both ordinary working-class people.

However, in just six months, everything turned upside down.

Like Chen Ran's cousin Zhu Xiaoli, who is now a junior and currently studying at East Zhejiang Normal University.

She would tell Chen Ran that classmates in school, especially boys, would always ask her for news about her cousin.

My cousin, whom I know very well at home and whom I see often, suddenly becomes a big star. This feeling is very confusing and very unreal.

Chen Ran stayed at home for a few days without leaving home. After the school opened, he went to register for a course and went through the process of making up for the missed exams, which still provided answers.

This also means that the first semester of his freshman year of high school is officially over.

The teachers have started to go to work, but the students have not yet started school, and the school still seems a little deserted.

The banner that he reached the semi-finals of the Australian Open still hangs in the most conspicuous place in the school.

The principal asked Chen Ran if he wanted to give a school-wide speech after school started, but Chen Ran declined because his schedule was full and he was about to leave Dongzhou City.

During this period, he also met his high school teacher Xu Jing, who joked that "I eliminated her idol Agassi, which made her dream of the Australian Open come to an end."

"Teacher, didn't you say that you hoped that I could play against Agassi as soon as possible?" "Now that we have played against each other, we can only push the waves ahead."

Chen Ran came to school quietly and left quietly.

Before he left Dongzhou City, he called out his junior high school friend Hu Jie and his high school classmate Sun Kai and treated them all to a meal.

But to Chen Ran's surprise, Hu Jie told him that he and the person he met online were very close to each other while playing games, and they even considered forming a team to participate in the competition.

"Only by constant competition among masters can we continue to improve." Hu Jie said thoughtfully.

Chen Ran also understands this very well. The reason why his strength has improved so quickly is because he constantly competes with masters.

Tennis and eSports are the same.

“My netizen had previously won a ranking in the Chinese Division of StarCraft, but now he has decided to specialize in Warcraft!”

"How old is he?" Chen Ran asked casually.

"In 85, he was one year older than me." Hu Jie remembered something and smiled, "I told him that Chen Ran, who defeated Agassi and reached the semi-finals of the Australian Open, was my buddy. Do not believe."

"It's a pity that I don't have any evidence in my hand."

"Have you met before?" Chen Ran asked again.

"Isn't that true, but the video has been passed, hehe... I didn't expect that the real person is quite handsome, and he looks fair and clean!"

In the video of two grown men, this guy also called each other fair and fair.When Chen Ran heard this, he always felt that something was strange and had goosebumps all over his body...

His heart moved, and he immediately asked: "What's the other person's name?"

Hu Jie said stupidly: "Forgot, I never asked his real name."

"Are you stupid..." Sun Kai on the side said: "I didn't ask the other person's name during the video. But if it were me... I wouldn't video chat with a male netizen!"

"But I know his online name is SKY!"

"Internet names have several uses!" Sun Kai retorted, "My online name is Leonardo!"

"Could it be that SKY Li Xiaofeng?" Chen Ran rubbed his forehead and took a deep breath, "What kind of shitty luck does this kid have?"

"Do you know him?" Hu Jie noticed that Chen Ran's expression was a little strange.

"How could I know him? I don't play games now, and I don't have much time to surf the Internet." Chen Ran immediately denied it.

Even during the Spring Festival, Chen Ran took all the time to practice on the clay court of the "simulation training ground".

Although the North American hard court season is about to begin, Chen Ran has reached an extremely high level on the hard court and there is not much room for improvement. It is better to spend more energy on the clay court.

Zhang Depei, Nadal, Alcaraz, and Djokovic are all clay court masters. Relatively speaking, Federer's clay court is slightly weaker.

Chen Ran is yearning for the clay court season.

Not only the French Open, one of the four Grand Slams, but also the Rome Masters, Monte Carlo Masters, Madrid Masters, and Hamburg Masters. (The Hamburg Masters was downgraded to a 2009 event in 500, and the qualification was replaced by the Shanghai Masters)

Chen Ran recovered his thoughts and asked again: "Does it cost money to form a team?"

"This is the most troublesome thing." Hu Jie replied.

Sun Kai interrupted again and said with a playful smile: "Big star, you make more money than my father, otherwise...?"

"Not necessarily in the future, but now it's definitely not as much as your father!"

Chen Ran glared at him and said: "My money is not brought by the strong wind, unlike your father who can get a loan from the bank and sell the house without even seeing the money on it. This money is brought by the strong wind. "

"I'm still a high school student and haven't studied the routines here..."

Chen Ran ignored him and thought about it in his mind.

Even if he has money, he can't give it casually. He knows the principle of favor and enmity.

So even if you want to borrow money, you have to be a little more careful and don't make it too easy for the other party.

This has two advantages. One is that the other party will thank you more, and the other is that the other party has a higher chance of repaying the money. In real life, it is generally the most difficult to get back the money that is generally borrowed "outrageously".

What if it’s a sponsorship fee?

Or you can also intervene in the name of an investor.

Today's Chinese competition is considered to be in its pioneering stage, and it is far less lively and prosperous than it was more than ten years ago, but there are many people paying attention to e-sports games.

SKY Li Xiaofeng is also considered the idol of many teenagers and an epoch-making figure in the history of Chinese e-sports.

"I can give you some sponsorship fees, and then I can consider investing in the team you will form in the future."

"Really?" Hu Jie was a little excited.

"But..." Chen Ran changed the subject, "I have to meet with that netizen of yours before making a decision. As for the time... maybe after the North American season."

In late March, the North American hard court season ends, and Chen Ran will return to China to rest for a while.

Chen Ran had to first confirm whether the "SKY" in Hu Jie's mouth was the Li Xiaofeng.

After all, there are many people with the same English name on the Internet. If you make a mistake and you commit to investing, you will be in trouble.

"Okay, I will answer this." Hu Jie immediately nodded excitedly, showing a look of anticipation.

That guy still didn't believe that Chen Ran was his buddy, but it turned out that he was ready to invest in their team. The other party would definitely be surprised.

After Chen Ran said goodbye to his high school friends, he boarded a plane back to Yanjing the next day.

He needs to meet with Sun Jifang, the director of the China Tennis Management Center, and Zhang Depei, who is leaving from the United States, is about to arrive in China.

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(End of this chapter)