Return to 2002: Freestyle Superstar

Chapter 478: Wake up and go to hell with “suffocating on your dreams” (4K)

PS: This chapter will make a patch for the previously invested LeTV, and the protagonist will withdraw the investment. Thank you readers for reminding me!
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After defending the Australian Open, Chen Ran's reputation reached a peak.

News reports about him have continued to appear on the front pages of major media in China, and he has almost become a household name.

A five-time Grand Slam winner and a gold medalist at the Athens Olympics, Chen Ran is already a living legend, breaking the monopoly of Western athletes in this event.

But when Chen Ran was surrounded by countless flowers and praises, he kept reminding himself that he should calm down.

For some reason, Chen Ran felt a sense of crisis in his heart.

He didn't know where this sense of crisis came from, but when faced with all the laughter and laughter in the spotlight, the vigilance in his body kept rising.

How is this going?

What's wrong?
With some doubts, Chen Ran declined some activities on the grounds of "physical fatigue" and returned to the hotel where he was staying.

After taking a bath, the fatigue swept away. Chen Ran stood on the balcony, facing the cool night breeze in Melbourne's summer. He could already feel a faint sense of uneasiness in his body.

Strange, what is going on?
Chen Ran rubbed his head. It was obviously a happy day to win the championship, so why did he have such an unpleasant feeling in his heart.

With his head a little groggy, he returned to the room and fell asleep slowly.

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"Chen Ran, pay back the money!"

"I invested in LeTV because of your star power."

"Yes, yes, we invested because we trust you."

"That guy surnamed Jia used you as a sign to attract investors. How much commission did you get?"

"You are already so rich, why do you still need to earn these ill-gotten gains?"

"You liar!"

The man surnamed Jia had already fled to the beautiful country and never returned, while the unlucky Chen Ran was blocked in a hotel in Shanghai by angry investors and could not get out.

"Please give in, I'm going to compete soon."

Chen Ran looked up at the time and said anxiously.

In half an hour, the Magic City year-end finals are about to begin.

The year-end championship is the only heavyweight honor that Chen Ran has yet to win, and now he is only one step away from it.

From the group stage to the semi-finals, Chen Ran swept the other top players in the world 2 to 9 and entered the finals at the end of the year.

At this moment, the whole world is optimistic that Chen Ran will easily defeat his number one manservant Federer in the year-end finals and win the last year-end championship that he has yet to win.

But unfortunately, at the critical moment, Accountant Jia, who was exposed, ran away, and vowed: Believe me, I will return to China next week, and world-class sports superstar Chen Ran will testify for me.

This shameless guy ran away without forgetting to dig a hole for Chen Ran.

As a result, angry investors surrounded Chen Ran's hotel.

Regardless of whether they usually pay attention to tennis or whether they are fans of Chen Ran, they all insist at this moment that they invested in LeTV because of your relationship with Chen Ran.

Now that the real owner has escaped, you, the big star, must bear all the responsibilities.

What is a celebrity?

While enjoying the huge dividends brought by popularity, you must also bear the pressure brought by popularity.

At this moment, Chen Ran fell into endless confusion, and his ears were filled with endless "sounds of paying back money".

Where's the security guard?
Where have they all died?
Chen Ran wanted to shout, but saw the security guard staring at him with hatred, and then said: "Because of you, I also voted for LeTV... Hehe, we deliberately revealed your itinerary."

Seeing the vengeful smile on the corner of the security guard's mouth, Chen Rang was just about to curse when he suddenly felt a huge crowd, and countless people were squeezing towards him.

For a moment, he even felt it was difficult to breathe...

Call ~
Chen Ran woke up from his sleep and sat up with his whole body, breathing heavily.

So this is a dream?

No wonder……

The strange thing about the dream just now is that Accountant Jia's escape happened in 2017, and the last year-end held by the Magic City was in 2008, a full 9 years apart.

But in the dream, these two events happened at the same time, and it was before his year-end finals.

Therefore, human dreams are very wonderful, and they can often connect many unrelated things.

After Chen Ran came to his senses, he seemed to realize something.

It turned out that the uneasiness and irritability he felt before were actually related to LeTV.

Indeed, as the butterfly effect caused by oneself becomes larger and larger, many things become uncontrollable.

I was thinking about using the failed case of "investing in LeTV" to cover up my victorious situation in investment, but I ignored that Accountant Jia, a big liar, was very likely to use his reputation to make money.

Today, Chen Ran is not only a world-renowned sports superstar, but also an outstanding investor with a well-known reputation.

From the starting point to "World of Warcraft", this has brought Chen Ran great reputation.

It may also mislead the public into thinking that his investments are unique.

Many people have missed the starting point and "World of Warcraft", so they are likely to follow him and invest in LeTV.

As for whether LeTV can change the fate of its previous life and come back to life?

At this point, Chen Ran had no expectations at all.

Accountant Jia is just like his boss in his previous life, he is not a hard worker, he may even be a white glove guy.

Laundering money and running away are his inevitable destination.

"I can't help the tyrants do evil!"

"Otherwise, the positive image that we have built so hard will collapse overnight."

As the proverb goes, Rome was not built in a day, but it fell in a matter of days.

Chen Ran finally realized that investing in LeTV was not a simple investment, but would trigger a series of unpredictable effects, even if they were not as exaggerated as those encountered in his sleep.

The year is now 2005.

I will maintain an excellent competitive state for a long time to come.

This also gave Accounting Jia a huge advertising effect.

With his virtue, he would naturally take advantage of the subversive period of his career to desperately use his advertising effect to make money.

How much money can this old scammer make in ten years?
Even if the total amount reaches the top 10 of the Forbes rich list, it is not impossible that I will eventually make the wedding dress for this guy, and I will bear all the blame.

Chen Ran took a deep breath and felt his heart pounding.

I shudder just thinking about it. correct!

Chen Ran immediately got out of bed, turned on the computer in the room, and then checked some information about himself and LeTV.

At this moment, the most exciting news on the entire Chinese Internet is nothing more than his glorious achievement of defending the "Centennial Australian Open".

Netizens are naturally happy to regard him as a national hero.

At this time, Accountant Jia, who had always had a keen sense of smell, discovered an opportunity and began to spread the word that Chen Ran was optimistic about the prospects of LeTV and invested tens of millions of yuan.

In fact, Chen Ran only invested a few million yuan, and the rest was invested by Nike and IMG brokerage companies. Of course, Accounting Jia's operation was all on Chen Ran's head.

"Let's suffocate for our dreams!" This guy shouted this slogan again.

it has started……

Therefore, taking advantage of Chen Ran's victory, Accounting Jia and LeTV's exposure on the Internet continued to increase, and Baidu's search volume also continued to increase, attracting the attention of many people.

Due to Chen Ran's previous investment starting point and the success of "World of Warcraft", everyone naturally believes that investing in LeTV is a business that is sure to make money without losing money.

After all, this was still in 2005. China's stock market was booming, and the common people were not like later generations who had experienced the collapse of private lending and P2P and witnessed the collapse of Hengx. They were already well-informed and able to distinguish Various pig-killing plates.

Today's ordinary people may not even be able to see through ordinary "Ponzi schemes".

So they would naturally believe Chen Ran or other public figures.

"Yes, I have ignored the simplicity of people in this era, at least it cannot be compared with that of 2023."

Chen Ran suddenly woke up.

He almost caused a disaster.

It was past 3 a.m. in Melbourne time, but Chen Ran was not sleepy at all, and he completely lost the joy of winning the "Centennial Australian Open".

He just lay on the bed blankly, feeling the passage of time bit by bit and suffering.

There is a 2 hour difference between Australian time and China time.

When the local time in Melbourne reached 7 o'clock in the morning, Chen Ran couldn't wait to call the domestic brokerage company.

"Hey, I have something important to tell you!"

My agent is still sleepy.

While Chen Ran was defending his Australian Open title, IMG's China branch held a celebration last night, and everyone went to bed very late.

However, Chen Ran couldn't control that much.

What's more, he did have the capital to do so. Even if he called the other party at five o'clock in the morning to wake him up, the other party would not dare to complain.

"What's the matter? Don't worry, there will be many celebrations when you return to China. We have already arranged them!" the agent, who didn't know the details, said. He thought the other party was asking about the celebration of returning to China.

"That's not what I'm talking about!"

Chen Ran raised the decibel level and said word for word: "I saw LeTV and its founder taking advantage of my victory and started hyping it up, which made me very disgusted."

"Isn't this a good thing? Taking the opportunity to increase our reputation can attract more investment, and the shares in our hands will also appreciate in value." The broker may have been woken up from his sleep by Chen Ran, and he said drowsily said.

"Listen up!" Chen Ran said very firmly, "Withdraw capital! I don't care about you and Nike, but I will divest my personal investment immediately, even if I lose money!"

"Chen Ran...are you kidding? It's only been more than two months since I invested."

"Do you think I'm joking?" Chen Ran said very seriously.

Hearing Chen Ran's serious tone, agent Xue Peng finally sobered up and realized the seriousness of the matter.

"Really want to divest? What's the reason? Weren't you very optimistic about it before?"

"First of all, I don't like them using my defense of the Australian Open title as an advertisement and using me as a bargaining chip to attract investment."

Chen Ran said very seriously, "Besides...that person named Jia always likes to say 'let's suffocate for our dreams together'. I don't like this kind of words. I'm living well, why should I suffocate for our dreams?" ?”

"I don't like this slogan."

"It reminds me of some really bad things, like...pyramid schemes."

Go fuck yourself suffocating on your dreams, who fucks you on suffocating your dreams.

"Uh... is it because of this advertising slogan?" The agent was a little unwilling and tried again, "I'm sure I want to withdraw my investment."

"I don't care whether you withdraw your investment, but I will withdraw your investment immediately and report it to the public through the media." Chen Ran said firmly.

"Okay...just do what you want." The manager didn't know what made Chen Ran lose his temper, but he could only do what the other party wanted.

If the other party is dissatisfied, Chen Ran can change agents at any time.

Agents in the sports industry often have strong players, while agents are relatively weak. This is completely opposite to the situation in the entertainment industry.

"Also, I will notify a press conference in Australia. It will be in two hours. You can make arrangements."

Chen Ran paused and added: "All Chinese media still in Australia can be notified."

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Two hours later, Chen Ran held his first press conference after "defending the Australian Open", but the content of the press conference exceeded everyone's expectations.

"I paid attention to some news on the domestic Internet."

"LeTV and its founders have recently taken advantage of my victory and hyped up my investment in LeTV, and also compared my previous investment in Qidian and my agency for "Warcraft"."

"They said this was Chen Ran's third investment with outstanding vision."

“I don’t like this rhetorical approach, it’s too impractical.”

"Especially the sentence 'Let us suffocate for our dreams' made me even more uncomfortable. It was like a pyramid scheme."

"I announce that I will divest from LeTV starting immediately."

"If you lose money, I admit it! If you make money, I only want the principal part."

"But I am determined to withdraw my investment. From now on, I will never have any relationship with LeTV. I hope Mr. Jia will not use me for advertising in the future."

Chen Ran spoke very decisively, which also stunned the Chinese media present.

The day after he defended his Australian Open title, he made another big news.

Looking at everyone's reactions, Chen Ran finally breathed a sigh of relief, and the string hanging in his heart could finally be let go.

He was very lucky.

When he aspired to win the "Centennial Australian Open", when his reputation and honor were at their peak, he discovered this potential crisis and could use this to uproot this crisis.

A few years later, when the man surnamed Jia fled the country, people would not blame Chen Ran, but would praise him for "being a good judge of people."

This person named Jia is indeed a pyramid schemer.

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(End of this chapter)