The world of film and television begins from childhood

In just this one afternoon, Zhou Chen gained a lot of knowledge, especially about quarreling couples. Many of them were over trivial matters, but sometimes these trivial matters may very well become the last straw that breaks the camel's back.

Zhou Chen packed up and prepared to go home from get off work. The good thing about working in a state-owned enterprise is that you can get off work on time.

But just as he was about to leave, a male colleague came over and shouted to Zhou Chen.

"Xiao Zhou, don't leave after get off work. Lao Zhang wants to treat everyone to a meal."

"okay, I get it."

As an important national department, the Civil Affairs Bureau does not have many staff, but it is definitely not few. Lao Zhang is one of the leaders of this department. When Lao Zhang celebrated his birthday last month, everyone discussed and gave gifts to each other, and Lao Zhang is preparing to return the gift.

For national administrative units with less personnel turnover, many people have been working together for many years, and this kind of personal connections is very normal. Some civil servants can stay in a department until retirement. After all, it is a national administrative unit. Normally, as long as they are admitted, the possibility of resigning is very low unless they are promoted and leave.

Of course, the things that everyone gave were all very ordinary things. They were all people from the state administrative units, so they had some standards in their minds about what could be given and what could not be given.

After get off work, Zhou Chen followed the group to the restaurant. This time, Lao Zhang invited more than a dozen people, just enough for one table.

During the meal, Zhou Chen deliberately sat next to Guo Ran, preparing to get some information while eating.

As expected, he looked to be in his thirties, with a medium build and average looks, but he looked quite friendly when he smiled. It was just that his hair on his forehead was sparse and shiny.

As a clerk at the Marriage Registration Office of the Civil Affairs Bureau, Guo Ran’s qualifications are much higher than Zhou Chen’s. He has worked here for many years and is considered a senior employee. He is also very popular.

Led by Lao Zhang, the atmosphere at the dinner table was very lively. Although Zhou Chen had memories, they were all given by the system. In fact, he didn't have much friendship with these people, so he didn't show much during the meal and seemed very dull.

"Xiao Zhou, let's drink. Although you have only been in our department for two years, you still need to spend more time with everyone. In a department like ours, table culture is also very important."

Before Zhou Chen had the chance to talk to Guoran, Guoran had already patted his shoulder enthusiastically, and told Zhou Chen his experience as if he were an experienced person.

"Understood, Brother Ran, thank you for your concern."

Although he agreed, Zhou Chen didn't take it too seriously. It's not that he doesn't like socializing, but because he knows that he won't stay in this world for long, so there's no need to spend too much time socializing with them, let alone think about currying favor with his superiors.

"Brother Ran, you have worked at the marriage registration office for so many years, when are you going to get married?"

"Why get married? I'm not married. Xiao Zhou, you're still young. If you stay in the divorce registration office for a few more years, I'm afraid you'll be like me."

As expected, he sighed with deep emotion. As a hurt man with a bad family environment and who often has to deal with divorces, it is normal for him to develop a fear of marriage.

Hearing Guoran's words, Zhou Chen was immediately delighted. This meant that Guoran was not married yet, but he still wanted to test it out.

"Who knows what will happen in the future? Anyway, I am not afraid of marriage now. But you, brother Ran, have not gotten married yet. Isn't your girlfriend pushing you to get married?"

"Why are you rushing me? I'm single now and I don't plan to find a girlfriend."

As expected, he looked disgusted, as if finding a girlfriend was a terrible thing.

After getting the answer he wanted, Zhou Chen was immediately satisfied. It was indeed best not to start talking to Yang Tao. This way he wouldn't have to wield a hoe to pry her away.

"Xiao Zhou, you are not young anymore, why are you in love?"

"No, I'm different from you, Brother Ran. I want to get married, but I haven't found the right person yet."

Sure enough, he shook his head after hearing this: "It's so comfortable and free to be alone. Xiao Zhou, you are just daydreaming."

Zhou Chen smiled. Being single has its advantages, and being married has its advantages. Being single feels good for a while, but when you get old, it's okay to have money so you can suffer less. But if you don't have much money, it's better to settle things yourself.

Since Yang Tao and Guo Ran haven't started dating yet, it means that the plot has not officially unfolded. In this case, it will be relatively easy to complete the task.

The group of people ate for three hours before finishing. After that, Zhou Chen rode an electric bike home.

Riding the electric scooter and feeling the breeze, my head, which was slightly tipsy from drinking, soon became sober.

My situation in this world is really miserable. I don’t even have a car to get around. I can only ride an electric scooter. Moreover, the house I bought last year is a two-bedroom, one-living-room house. After working for several years, I was able to barely pay the down payment. The location of the house is also very bad.

But when I think about my identity as a person with both parents dead and no relatives, everything can be explained.

Being alone and without any help from anyone, it is not easy to afford the down payment for a house in a big city like Yanjing at the age of 28, even in a remote area.

Seeing an ICBC on the side of the road, Zhou Chen rode his electric scooter over, stopped, and then walked into the self-service area.

When he was at work before, he found that he only had a few dozen yuan in cash. In this era when mobile payment is not yet popular, it is not possible to be without cash, so he prepared to go to the bank to withdraw some cash.

After taking out the bank card from his wallet, putting it into the machine and entering the password, Zhou Chen began to check the balance.

"Ok?"

When Zhou Chen saw the balance, he was stunned for a moment, and then began to count: "Ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, ten thousand, one hundred thousand, one million, ten million, fuck..."

He couldn't help but swear because the account balance was beyond his imagination. Wasn't he a poor bastard in this world? What the hell was this balance?

"Over 23 million. Why does this number sound so familiar?"

After seeing the balance in his bank account, Zhou Chen was shocked, but then he felt very familiar with it, because the balance number seemed inexplicably familiar to him. He thought about it for a while and suddenly realized why it seemed so familiar.

"But how is this possible?"

In the Xiaoshede world, the bank card that belongs to him has an account balance of more than 23 million. But this is simply impossible. How could the money from that world come to this world?

Just when he was shocked and confused, the system suddenly conveyed a message to him, letting him understand the origin of the money.

This money is indeed his savings in the Xiaoshede world, but it is not a common money in the two worlds. It is the reward he received after completing the task before, together with the attribute points and skills.

However, this reward can only be used in the film and television world, and it is not displayed on the system panel, so he did not know that he had received the reward and money before.

After learning about this situation, Zhou Chen felt a little regretful. It would be great if he could inherit the balance from the previous world every time he traveled through time. Unfortunately, this kind of thing is something he can only think about. It was already a great luck to be able to get this money by completing the task last time, but it might not be the case in the future.

But no matter what, this money is unexpected wealth for him. With this money, he will be more likely to complete the task.

There are three elements to chasing a woman: tall, rich and handsome.

He was not tall, two centimeters short of 1.80 meters, which was only considered average in this era.

He is handsome, or rather, a little handsome. After all, he has a pair of big eyes with double eyelids, a high nose bridge, and an oval face. The overall combination makes him a little handsome. But he is definitely far from being a real handsome man. He still has this self-awareness.

Before he saw this deposit, he was definitely not considered rich, but now with more than 20 million, in this era, even in Yanjing, he is definitely not poor, at least he is wealthy.

You can't rely on being tall and handsome, but as long as you have money, you can't say that you can definitely pursue Yang Tao, but you will have more options.

Therefore, for Zhou Chen, this money is really crucial.

"It's this damn system. They didn't notify me in advance when the reward was issued, and I had to find out by myself. If I hadn't come to withdraw the money, I don't know when I would have known."

Daily complaints about the dog system.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 72 Make a decision and act

Since he had money, Zhou Chen would not be stingy and directly took out 10,000 yuan.

Put away the card and leave.

"..."

I hummed and sang all the way. Now that I have money, I can ride an electric scooter as if I were riding a Harley motorcycle.

As for the source of the money, he was not worried at all because the system had told him that it was money earned from overseas investments and was reasonable and legal.

Zhou Chen naturally had no doubts about the capabilities of the system.

Twenty minutes later, Zhou Chen arrived at an old residential area. This was where he lived. It was a community with a history of more than 20 years, and the buildings in it looked very old.

There's no way. I only had that much money when I bought the house. It was not easy to buy one in the city, let alone a new community. It was already not easy to buy a two-bedroom, one-living-room apartment in this old community.

After parking the electric bike downstairs, Zhou Chen climbed the stairs to the sixth floor. The building has a total of six floors, no attic, and no elevator, so the sixth floor is the cheapest floor.

When he opened the door, he found the room to be fairly clean and without any peculiar smell, which made him very satisfied.

Thinking back to when he first started working in the real world, he lived in the factory dormitory building. There were eight people in one room, and the place was filled with all kinds of smells. But at that time he had just started making money, and he was excited, so he completely ignored those imperfections. But now if he were asked to live in that kind of environment again, he would definitely not be able to accept it.

After tidying up simply and lying on the bed, Zhou Chen began to recall what happened today.

This was his second time traveling through time, so he was not as shocked as the first time.

The task is to get married within a year. If it is someone Zhou Chen has never met or heard of, he really doesn’t have much confidence.

However, he had watched the TV series and had some understanding of Yang Tao. In the plot, Yang Tao was already in her early thirties and was actually very eager for marriage, otherwise she would not have been almost deceived by a scumbag.

Since Yang Tao also wants to get married, his chances are very high. However, if he wants to succeed within a year, he still needs a plan and tactics.

Thinking of this, Zhou Chen immediately turned over and sat up, found paper and pen in the room, and began to write and draw.

He certainly couldn't just go find Yang Tao and tell her that he wanted to marry her, or he would be scolded to death, so he had to have a plan.

Well, before that, we must first find Yang Tao.

He only knew that Yang Tao was the lobby manager of a hotel, but he didn't know which hotel it was. Yanjing is so big, and it would definitely take a lot of time and effort to find her based on this little information.

After experiencing a world, Zhou Chen has grown a lot and realized the importance of planning before taking action.

Since it was certain that Guo Ran didn't know Yang Tao, Zhou Chen was not too anxious, but prepared to solve his own problem first.

As a national administrative unit, the Civil Affairs Bureau is actually a very good job. If Zhou Chen had not suddenly gained more than 20 million yuan, he would definitely not have given up this job with good salary, benefits and other advantages.

But the problem is that he can't stay in this world for long. If he stays in this unit, it will hinder his actions.

After all, it is a national administrative unit. It is impossible for you to do whatever you want and take leave whenever you want. That's just acting in TV dramas. If he wants to get things done, he will definitely have to take leave frequently, which will naturally cause conflicts.

So Zhou Chen was thinking about whether he should quit this job first, but after thinking about it, he decided to wait and see until he knew more about the world.

In this way, Zhou Chen temporarily worked at the Civil Affairs Bureau, receiving all kinds of couples who wanted to divorce every day. Although it was sometimes very annoyed and embarrassing, he also gained some knowledge and heard many interesting stories. Until his term expired, he went to work as a registrar at the marriage registration office.

Compared to the divorce registry, the marriage registry is much more cheerful. All the people who come here are happy men and women with happy smiles on their faces.

He was indeed much happier, but the problem was that Zhou Chen didn't really like this kind of work. Compared to this job, he would rather go home and write novels.

Of course, this time when he traveled through time, he didn't plan to write novels again, because writing novels was too tiring, and it was only one or two years now, and the novel industry was not as developed as it was later. It was even more difficult for a newcomer to succeed. He only had one year, and he didn't have the energy to write novels.

The most important thing is that he now has more than 20 million in savings, which is enough for him for the time being, so there is no need to write novels anymore.

With this money, what kind of business can I start that won’t make money faster than writing novels?

During this period, in addition to working, Zhou Chen also did a lot of things. For example, he sold the house in the old community and rented a house in the city center.

In the previous world, he was used to living in a large house, and now he was rich, so he naturally would not let himself suffer. So he simply sold that house and rented a large flat of more than 200 square meters, with an annual rent of hundreds of thousands.

However, Zhou Chen didn't feel at a loss at all. Everything was ready in the rented house, and it was much more comfortable to live in than his previous house.

In addition to the house, Zhou Chen also went to the stock market for a few rounds, because before he traveled through time, he deliberately looked at the stock trends in previous years and memorized some of the stocks that exploded every year.

But what made him depressed was that only a few of the stocks he remembered appeared on the stock market, and he had never seen most of them. Moreover, the trends of those few stocks were very different from what he remembered, which made him dare not act easily.

If stocks didn't work, there were other ways to make money, so he bought lottery tickets, the ones on January 1st. Because of his limited memory, he only remembered the lottery tickets on January 1st every year.

For fear of attracting attention, he did not dare to buy more and only bought three tickets. But what made him depressed was that he did not win.

The successive blows made him realize how lucky he was in the first world he experienced. The trend of Bitcoin did not change. If everything changed like this world, he would be in trouble.

Zhou Chen didn’t know how to describe it, and he didn’t know if it was because it was his first time traveling through time, so the system lowered the difficulty for him, just like the novice gift package given in the game.

In addition to the house, I also bought a car, a BMW 5 Series, which cost less than 700,000 yuan in total.

The reason why he didn't buy a house or a more expensive car was because he wanted to save money. Who knows if after completing the mission in this world, he will get the reward again for carrying the balance to the next world? Although the probability is not high, he still has to be prepared.

Now that he had all the equipment, the next step was to spy on the "enemy situation". He remembered that Yang Tao was the lobby manager of a four-star hotel, so he would browse the websites of major four-star hotels in Yanjing when he had nothing to do.

Although there are many four-star hotels in Yanjing, as long as you take the time to look for them slowly, you will still get something. Just like Zhou Chen, he spent more than a month looking for them leisurely and finally found his target, Yang Tao.

"This is it. There's no lobby manager with the same name in a four-star hotel. This should be it."

Zhou Chen stood in front of a four-star hotel, raised his foot, and walked into the magnificently decorated hotel lobby.

After entering the hotel, Zhou Chen looked around and found several women wearing the same women's suits. They should be the hotel's waiters, receptionists, etc.

As the hotel's lobby manager, it was Yang Tao's duty to serve guests and maintain order in the lobby. She saw a man looking around in the lobby and thought he needed some service, so she walked over immediately.

"Sir, I am the lobby manager here. Is there anything I can help you with?"

Zhou Chen saw a tall woman walking up to him. He glanced at her name tag and clearly saw her name.

"Star fruit!"

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 73 Lonely Spring Festival

Happiness comes so suddenly!

After Zhou Chen came in, he was still thinking about how to find Yang Tao, but he didn't expect Yang Tao to come to him on her own.

After confirming her identity, he looked at Yang Tao and replied, "I'm looking at the environment of your hotel. If the environment is good, I plan to stay for a few days."

When Yang Tao heard this, he immediately smiled: "Sir, don't worry, our hotel is definitely the leader in the industry, our service staff are also strictly trained, and our facilities are complete... You will definitely not regret staying in our hotel."