Chapter 440: Value Rise Yet Again
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Fang Zhao was very worried.
After learning how to cry from Thornhead, Curly Hair had mastered making an unreasonable scene from the outstanding undergraduates of HuangArt.
On his return from Fiery Bird’s All-star Match, Fang Zhao first went to apologize to the relevant HuangArt personnel as Curly Hair had indeed interfered with their session.
Afterwards, Fang Zhao brought Curly Hair over to be taught a lesson.
Curly Hair needed to explain himself. “I wasn’t acting!”
“I heard you did an improv session with some of HuangArt’s graduating students?”
“I didn’t improv!”
Curly Hair had really been influenced by the performance of the HuangArt graduating students. He had also learned how to cry before. Thus, with Fang Zhao away, Curly Hair’s emotions were finally released in that mental state.
The moment he remembered his test paper with a score of 59 and missing out on secondary school graduation by one mark, tears started to flow from his dog eyes.
Fang Zhao frowned.
This habit of crying at the drop of a hat was no good. Bad habits needed to be eliminated!
“Cry again and you will go to Muzhou to look after sheep,” Fang Zhao said.
Curly Hair immediately forced his tears back.
He couldn’t go tend sheep! He still needed to work hard to earn his own gaming helmet! He had to get his own personal terminal with the freedom to access the Internet!
While Fang Zhao was disciplining his dog, the news outside didn’t cease.
News of Fang Zhao attending the All-star Match hadn’t yet cooled when a discussions about “Dog Displays Acting Skills” went viral on the Internet. Actors lacking acting skills received a barrage of online attacks.
The evaluation of “acting skills inferior to a dog’s” was not an insult but an a.s.sertive fact. Anyone that objected would be faced with this clip of Curly Hair crying.
HuangArt didn’t have anything to be ashamed about. Firstly, the ability of their graduating students was solid enough. Secondly, it was both the graduating season and the recruitment season. Many schools were fighting to s.n.a.t.c.h talents at this time. This incident had been of great a.s.sistance to HuangArt. Look! After advanced studies at HuangArt, even a dog can produce such impressive acting skills.
It wasn’t just limited to the relevant schools and students. Some businessmen started to have ideas and wanted to source out Curly Hair to act.
Curly Hair had received invitations to act back when everyone knew him as the “Golden Compet.i.tion Dog”. However, back then it had just been a small deal, whereas now, this was known globally. Also, Fang Zhao was the dog’s owner, so naturally the dog would also be more valuable.
Back when Curly Hair’s outstanding performances in Muzhou had given him the name of “Golden Compet.i.tion Dog”, he had been valued at 210 million and was ranked fifth on the most valuable pets chart. Now, the global authoritative magazine PET’s group of experts once again gave Curly Hair a new valuation.
In the latest edition of PET’s digital magazine, Curly Hair’s valuation rose by 50 million. His new value of 260 million meant he was now the third most valuable pet.
A true stray dog’s comeback!
The black street where Fang Zhao had found Curly Hair was once again mentioned and became a popular spot.
What, there’s nothing much worth seeing at that black street? It’s dirty and disorderly?
Don’t care! As long as I can have half… no, a tenth of Fang Zhao’s luck, I would be willing to walk all over that street!!
There were netizens who started to dream.
“How great would it be if I could get a dog like Curly Hair?!”
“Stop dreaming! Ever since Fang Zhao picked up this dog on the black streets back then, you can no longer see dogs on black streets. It would be extremely rare to see a dog on the black streets anywhere in the world, let alone the black streets of Qi’an City. You can forget it now that the black streets are trending again! I’m certain you won’t even find dog fur there!”
“However, there are indeed some people who secretly toss them back out after keeping them for awhile. Then, they are rapidly picked up by others.”
People of Muzhou who loved dogs reacted to this. “Those that pick up then abandon aren’t worthy to have dogs!”
Muzhou people were proud of themselves. Take a look at our Muzhou. There isn’t a single stray dog here. Look at other continents. Before that dog of Fang Zhao’s was unearthed, there would practically be all sorts of news regarding stray dogs biting people every other week.
However, whenever there was news that touched upon that curly-haired dog, people of Muzhou would feel conflicted.
Love and hate!
There were even many who secretly wondered if they could buy this dog back. Once that dog was entered into the Muzhou records, Curly Hair would be a Muzhou dog!
With the pa.s.sing of time, the Golden Compet.i.tion Dog of the past had gradually faded to the back of people’s minds. There were now less people willing to fork over huge sums to purchase Curly Hair. After all, a dog’s lifespan was limited, and its value would depreciate. Who could have expected that this curly-haired dog’s value didn’t just drop but rose instead?!
Some people started to have ideas.
Upon seeing all the news online, Nanfeng became even more wary. Everyone looked like they wanted to steal the dog.
All the other pets on the rankings were served like kings at home and had entire entourages following them when they went out. Only Curly Hair was like an ordinary dog wandering about at the school everyday. What a miserable existence!
“Boss, should we do something? Recently, I keep seeing suspicious people loitering near the advanced students’ dormitory. The inside of HuangArt campus has been rather restless lately,” Nanfeng said.
“Well, graduation season is much more lively.”
However, Fang Zhao also knew that the recent headlines caused by him and Curly Hair had instigated many entertainment reporters to come over and camp.
“This has to be avoided indeed.”
Fortunately, Fang Zhao received a call from the s.p.a.ce port authorities. After explaining the situation to Mo Lang, Fang Zhao brought Curly Hair for a one week a.s.signment at the s.p.a.ce port’s anti-smuggling team and let things cool down before returning.
Of course, Fang Zhao didn’t neglect his graduation concert preparation. Mo Lang was still keeping a close eye on him.
The old master had been watching Fang Zhao closely in this crucial year of advanced studies. Mo Lang had already felt that Fang Zhao caused trouble very easily. However, he never imagined that even the dog Fang Zhao kept could be so good at causing trouble.
This was a headache for Huangzhou entertainment reporters. There were many people wanting to buy information about Fang Zhao. Regardless of whether it was watching Fang Zhao or his dog, people expected the reporters to at least know Fang Zhao’s movements. However, Fang Zhao was just too good at hiding!
He had suddenly gone missing while so many people had their eyes on him.
Entertainment reporters camping inside and outside HuangArt’s campus couldn’t find him.
However, with so much news in the entertainment circle, everyone who couldn’t dig up news about Fang Zhao naturally changed targets as the days pa.s.sed.
When Fang Zhao was about to return back to school after the one week a.s.signment at the s.p.a.ce port, Huangzhou s.p.a.ce Port didn’t want to release him… No, Fang Zhao could leave as he pleased, but they absolutely weren’t willing to let the dog go!
As for that global pet valuation chart, they saw it as a joke.
Was this a pet?
A waste!!!
Fang Zhao still brought the dog back. Curly Hair was content with his lot during his one week a.s.signment at the s.p.a.ce port. He also no longer behaved unreasonably and just worked much harder on practice questions. Fortunately, the language test wasn’t entirely on reading comprehension. Memorization was practically free marks for Curly Hair; otherwise, perhaps Curly Hair couldn’t even get 30 marks out of 100.
As the days pa.s.sed, Fang Zhao’s graduation concert drew closer.
As Fang Zhao was considered a popular superstar, there would surely be many people interested. There was limited capacity at the graduation concert venue, and HuangArt had dedicated personnel to issue the invites. Whether those invited showed up was another matter. After all, they had already sent out the invitations. No one could fault them.
Fang Zhao was also allocated some spots. He sent invites to Great-grandfather Fang and Great-grandmother Fang as agreed upon. Fang Zhao also asked Great-grandfather Fang whether he needed to send invites to other close relatives, which Great-grandfather Fang rejected.
“Don’t waste spots on them. They wouldn’t understand!”
Great-grandfather Fang was thinking, Tickets are limited, and I can represent the Fang Family. Fang Zhao can use the remaining to build his social relations.h.i.+ps.
Great-grandfather Fang had already started preparations for Fang Zhao’s graduation concert a long time ago. He wasn’t going to let Fang Zhao send anyone over to pick him up and happily booked plane tickets to Huangzhou. He turned around and realized Great-grandmother Fang was trying on newly bought clothes.
Great-grandmother Fang had recently gotten a new haircut and had bought a new dress and hat.
Great-grandfather Fang remarked with a stiff face, “Trying to dress up at this age?!”
After returning to his room, Great-grandfather Fang opened up his cabinet and brought out the two sets of artsy clothes he had yet to wear. When he was done with that, Great-grandfather Fang opened yet another cabinet. In it were five neatly arranged walking sticks. Some had been purchased in bulk with other residents of the facility, while others had been purchased after being swayed by advertis.e.m.e.nts.
Great-grandfather Fang picked up a popular new generation walking sticks with many functions, tested the grip and even swung it a few times before putting it back in the cabinet out of dislike.
He then picked up another one and checked himself out in the mirror.
“Tsk!”
Great-grandfather Fang placed the second walking stick back in. He disliked the gaudy color. It didn’t go well with his inner grace and artistic vibe.
The newly bought walking sticks in the cabinet were either too flashy or had an unsuitable color. None of them were suitable in his hands.
“Viral products really won’t do!”
As he went about nit-picking and comparing, Great-grandfather Fang finally settled on one reluctantly.
Great-grandfather Fang was finally satisfied with his appearance in the mirror and smiled.