Return to 2002: Freestyle Superstar

Chapter 554: Public Opinion Sensation (4K)

"Hello, cousin!" Ivanovich greeted her in somewhat awkward and broken Chinese.

"Hello, welcome to China." Chen Ran's cousin Zhu Xiaoli also greeted Ivanovich.

She secretly observed the famous female tennis player and looked at her figure.

She has a very slim figure and is about 1 meters tall.

I don’t know if my cousin can grasp it?
But Chen Ran is also an athlete, so there must be no problem with his physical fitness.

But will having such a charming girlfriend affect my performance in the future?

"Aunt, does my uncle know..." Zhu Xiaoli wanted to speak, but then she stopped talking.

For someone like Chen Ran, his parents simply can't do much about him.

In comparison, parents of people like Yao Ming and Liu Xiang are more controlling. For example, they have to report to their parents when they find a girlfriend, and the girlfriend must be a local of Shanghai, etc.

"By the way, you haven't made this matter public yet, right?" Zhu Xiaoli asked again.

Chen Ran's eyelids jumped again, and he said directly: "Sister. How about I drive? If this continues, I'm really worried about a car accident."

"..." Zhu Xiaoli was speechless, "I should have brought the company driver with me."

After Chen Ran's "warning", she finally put away her curiosity and concentrated on driving.

Women are really gossipy!
……

Half an hour later, Chen Ran's Golden Slam Co., Ltd. caused a commotion.

Their boss actually brought back his rumored girlfriend, Ivanovic, one of the golden flowers in WTA women's tennis, and even asked her to visit his company.

Is this the future boss lady?

But when they thought that the future boss lady was a foreign woman, a thought came to their mind: Is this foreign girl reliable?

The Chinese young men of this era were still very simple in their thinking, and were far from opening their eyes to the world like the later generations.

A very obvious example is when Chen Ran was in college in his previous life, his English teacher asked three girls and three boys respectively what they hoped their future significant other would do and where they were from.

As for the other half's occupation, the answers vary, so there's no need to delve into it.

But when asked where they hope their significant other will be from, the three boys gave a very consistent answer: "China", and the three girls also gave a very consistent answer: the world including China.

They can accept people from any country in the world, including China.

In 2006, girls were clearly ahead of boys, while boys only cared about their own little piece of land.

But if the same question is asked in 2024, the boys' answers will definitely be very different: I want to learn foreign languages, and I also want to make progress.

"It's nothing. It's just that as a reborn person, I am a few versions ahead of you. You will understand it in the future." Chen Ran was very calm about this.

From France to Russia, and then to Serbia, they are all foreign horses.

The difference is that this time he is ready to go public.

As for what the future holds, it doesn't matter.

As the saying goes, drink while you can, and don't worry about eternity, you only care about day by day and night by night.

In fact, from his perspective, he really doesn't understand the blind date methods in China.

We met, knew each other for a few days, didn't even sleep together... and then gave each other hundreds of thousands of dollars in betrothal gifts and spent a lot of money on the wedding. Can you really live your whole life like this?
Why do we still hold such naive and simple ideas in 2023 and 2024?

To be precise, you are still using the ideas and etiquette of feudal society to deal with marriages in 2024. You cannot say that it will fail %, but there is a to percent chance that you will end up bruised and battered and your gold coins will explode.

Bang bang bang~
Chen Ran clapped his hands to all the employees and shouted, "Everyone put down your work first, I will introduce..."

"Ahem..." He paused, "I'm sure you've heard of this beautiful lady, Ivanovic from Serbia. A few days ago, we officially confirmed our relationship and became boyfriend and girlfriend."

This group of programmer geeks suddenly howled.

"welcome!"

"Ouch... Boss lady!"

The applause was very enthusiastic.

This was a bit overwhelming for the Serbian girl who had just arrived, and she even blushed with embarrassment.

Are all Chinese people so passionate and unrestrained in character?

Only Chen Ran understood this group of people, a bunch of introverted men who usually couldn't hold back a word in front of girls, especially pretty girls, but liked to join in the fun and make a fuss when there were many people around.

There were even some idiots shouting: "Boss, when are you getting married? We are waiting to drink at your wedding!"

marry?

Why think so far ahead?

"Sit down, kid, and type your code!" Chen Ran shouted angrily.

Hey.

As the boss, Chen Ran can naturally use public resources for personal gain.

So the girl in the office came to ask if they should book a nearby hotel for Ms. Ivanovich.

Is it necessary to waste this money?

Chen Ran directly said that it was unnecessary and said that he would let Ivanovich live in his house in Shanghai. It would be a little tiring, but it was no big deal. There were no games recently anyway.

Even Ivanovich himself stated firmly: When in Sydney, Australia, Chen Ran lived in my house. Now that she has come to China, she naturally has to live in Chen Ran's house.

???

Is this an open-minded foreign girl?
They're already living together after only knowing each other for a few days!

Both the female employees in the company's office and the male programmers in the game development department were shocked.

Especially those programmers, they think about how they have been dating their girlfriends for several years, and they don’t know how much they have spent on the relationship, but the other party is unwilling to live with them, and even recently used cold violence against them.

It's really annoying to compare people to each other.

Chen Ran called the media public relations again.

He decided to take the initiative to expose the news and spark public opinion before the media found out.

This news must not be taken advantage of by the paparazzi.

After all, there was no social media in that era, so he planned to announce the matter through the company's media public relations.

Huh, wait a minute!
Chen Ran seemed to remember something.

By the way, his Sina blog.

Ever since he opened his Sina-certified blog, he has not had the time to update his blog, although he has agreed with Sina on a price of 10,000 yuan per thousand words.

So, why didn't he announce his relationship through Sina Blog?

This can also drive traffic to your blog.

Simply kill two birds with one stone.

So Chen Ran took Ivanovich directly to his chairman's office.

However, when the girl saw that the chairman's huge office had a sofa, a bed, and a bathroom, she smiled slightly, rolled her eyes, and started to think of something.

Chen Ran did not notice Ivanovich's expression, otherwise she would know at a glance what this foreign girl was planning.

Da Da Da~
After turning on the computer, he logged into Sina Blog and prepared to publish his first diary ever.

Good guy!
I haven't logged into my Sina blog for half a month, and my private messages are almost flooded. A group of netizens shouted, urging Chen Ran to write his diary quickly.

The number of fans on his Sina blog has now exceeded 300 million.

You should know that Chen Ran has not purchased any water army so far. These are all real fans. Without publishing any diary, he has this number of fans, which is enough to show his popularity.

"I'm sure Sina will be grateful to me when they find out about this."

Chen Ran remembered that he had chosen journalism as his major in college, so he could use this to gradually control online public opinion.

As I said, if you don’t occupy the position of public opinion, it will be occupied by others.

Da Da Da~
Chen Ran typed quickly and finished typing soon.

"Hello everyone, I am very happy to share something with you netizens. This is me, this is my girlfriend, Ivanovic, a professional female tennis player from Serbia."

"By the way, we officially chose to be together after the Australian Open this year."

"By the way, let us both wish you all a happy old age."

Then, Chen Ran also specially added a photo.

In the photo, the two of them were hugging each other, standing on the balcony of an elegant villa, with Ivanovich's little head resting on Chen Ran's shoulder.

Behind them is a blue ocean.

If you have sharp eyes, you will definitely recognize that this is a sea view villa in Sydney, Australia.

Once this blog post was published, it immediately set off the Chinese Internet.

The pictures and texts in the blog spread like crazy on the Internet.

At the same time, the comments under Chen Ran’s blog increased at a geometric rate. In just a few minutes, the number of comments from netizens exceeded 1.

The New Year of 2006 had just passed, and the enthusiasm of the entire Internet was completely ignited by Chen Ran.

"Oh my god, he actually took the initiative to announce his relationship!"

"It's really her, the tennis goddess Ivanovic from Serbia!"

“Aaaaaaah…this is driving me crazy!”

"But why didn't he announce the previous Alice?"

"Maybe it's because they are both professional tennis players."

"Why are you looking for foreign girls? Why not our Chinese girls? How can the good things go to outsiders? Protest, strongly protest!"

"Hey man, Ivanovic is 1 meters tall, can you handle it? Well, you are also an athlete, and you are also known for your excellent physical fitness, so you should be able to handle it."

"There are only tired cows, but no plowed land. Chen Ran still needs to be more restrained and not let it affect his performance in the competition."

In short, there are all kinds of comments on the Internet.

Of course, some Chen Ran fans said sourly: "Oh my god, this slap in the face came too quickly."

A few days ago, they vowed: Chen Ran must remain single until he surpasses Sampras' Grand Slam record, and then consider finding a girlfriend.

The reason why Chen Ran can maintain such a good condition is because he is a single dog.

However, the slap in the face came too quickly.

As soon as this group of people said that Chen Ran would definitely remain a single guy, this guy immediately announced his relationship, which set the Internet on fire.

Is he targeting us on purpose?
"Where did you take this photo? The background looks like it's at the beach in Sydney?" a netizen asked.

Who owns this house?

Could it be that Chen Ran bought it and gave it to Ivanovich?

Then, everyone started to dig to the bottom of the matter like detectives.

Chinese people are indeed spread all over the world, and Chen Ran is indeed one of China's top figures.

Soon, the Chinese living in Sydney received accurate information from the housing authority there: Ivanovich himself bought the house last year.

This also means that during the New Year and Spring Festival, Chen Ran has been living in Ivanovic's home in Sydney.

So they started living together right after they got together, which is really cool.

Fuck, why am I so envious.

There are even employees of Chen Ran's company who anonymously said on the Internet: "Don't be fooled by our boss's wealth, he is very stingy. He stayed at his girlfriend's house during the Chinese New Year and saved the hotel room fees."

Ahhh, Chen Ran is truly a hero of our generation!

Of course, there are also fans who flatly said: "They are fans of Chen Ran and Sharapova and cannot accept the relationship between Chen Ran and Ivanovic."

"Who do you think you are? They are a handsome couple and a beautiful woman, and you, a monster, are the ones to object?"

……

At this moment, in the chairman's office.

Ivanovich was sitting on Chen Ran's legs, her hands covering her mouth, looking in shock at the comments under the blog, which were rushing in at an incredible speed.

At this moment, the number of comments below has exceeded 1.

At the same time, the number of followers of Chen Ran’s blog has exceeded 500 million.

"My God, what a terrifying speed."

"Your blog already has more followers than the population of our country."

In fact, there are already social software like blogs in foreign countries nowadays, so Ivanovich is not unfamiliar with it.

But she was surprised by the number of fans and the speed of comments on Chen Ran's blog.

"Oh my God, will many Chinese people know me now?" Ivanovich said with some surprise.

"Well... I think most people who use the Internet will know you." Chen Ran said with a smile, "Perhaps you are now the most famous foreign female athlete in China, and your fame may be no less than those Hollywood female stars."

"This is too exaggerated!" Ivanovich said in disbelief, "But when I think about the fact that China has 1.3 billion people, it seems normal."

Chen Ran shrugged and said calmly: "You know, there are more than 1000 million people in Shanghai alone, nearly 2000 million people, more than three times the population of your country."

Ivanovich looked down from the French window and saw the densely packed crowd, and nodded involuntarily.

The Demon City is too developed, more developed than she had imagined.

In her impression, the only place that can compare to it is probably New York.

But if we compare the cleanliness of the cities, Shanghai is obviously far better than New York.

The sanitation in New York is so terrible, especially the subway there, it is really unbearable to recall.

Living in Shanghai in the future seems to be a very desirable thing.

"List……"

"Ok?"

"Your office is so big, and the facilities are so complete. There is a bathroom, a sofa, a bed..." As she spoke, her eyes were already seductive.

"You little devil!" Chen Ran slapped her on the buttocks with a "slap".

……

(End of this chapter)