Chapter 161 "Ah? Me?"

Such a serious and profound question was suddenly thrown at Chen Guo, and she panicked. She had thought about this question before. She had been working hard to enrich herself, wanting to share Ye Xiu's affairs, and to manage the team well even when Ye Xiu wasn't around. But to be asked to answer this question now, she was completely unprepared.

But now, she had no time.

She realized the key to this question, realizing that Fang Rui was asking about the future of Happy. And how Happy's future turned out would ultimately determine whether he would entrust himself to this team.

If even she, the boss, didn't have a firm belief, how could she make the players in the team feel at ease?

It was time to be firm, Chen Guo took a deep breath.

"Ye Xiu is gone, but Happy will continue to move forward," she said.

"Oh? How will you move forward?" Fang Rui asked.

"If he's willing, we will certainly continue to hire him as a technical consultant, or any position he's interested in," Chen Guo first made arrangements for Ye Xiu.

"As for the others, I believe that by then they will have completely matured, enough to support our team," Chen Guo said.

"Oh? Then how can you guarantee that they won't leave?" Fang Rui, the master of the dirty playstyle, suddenly became very sharp and shrewd at this moment. "There are many temptations in the professional circle. I know you've already been contacted with some invitations, and you've all refused. But after all, your identities are still just rookies. If you grow for another year or two, become all-star players, and win a championship, your value will reach its peak. The temptations you will face at that time will be unimaginable. Money, status, and even some other things, are you sure you won't be tempted?"

Fang Rui felt that his words were hitting people deep in their souls, and probably no one would dare to respond easily. But just as he thought so, he heard someone at the table say very confidently, "No."

Fang Rui looked, it was Tang Rou.

Such a beautiful girl, but at this moment, in Fang Rui's eyes, she was full of hypocrisy, or naivety. Without thinking, she opened her mouth and said "no." Wasn't that overestimating herself too much?

"Beauty, you're really confident." Fang Rui laughed, his tone full of disdain. He was prepared to let this proud beauty understand the real world. "Do you know..."

"That's enough!"

As a result, Fang Rui was just about to give an example, but Chen Guo immediately interrupted him. Chen Guo certainly knew that Fang Rui wanted to slap someone in the face, and at the same time, she also knew that he would definitely fail and be slapped back. To avoid Fang Rui being too embarrassed at that time, it was better to explain in advance.

"She really won't be tempted, really," Chen Guo said.

"Oh?"

"Her father is called Tang Shusen. If you don't know, Baidu it," Chen Guo patted Fang Rui, who was sitting next to her.

Such business celebrities were obviously not particularly well-known. Fang Rui really didn't know. However, he had at least heard that this was probably a significant background, so he didn't continue to hold on. He decisively hid his hand under the table and searched on his phone. Not long after, he sat up straight again, raised his head, his expression unchanged, and just picked up his chopsticks. "Everyone, eat! Why hasn't anyone touched the two new dishes?"

Everyone laughed, but didn't point it out.

Talking about money and status in front of Tang Rou was like showing off Glory skills in front of Ye Xiu. Wasn't that just hitting yourself against a rock? It was rare that Fang Rui could still be so calm at this time, so let him be calm for a while!

Everyone ate silently, not saying much. Fang Rui, who had previously said he was full and stopped eating, was now clearly eating the most. He seemed to need food energy to digest this information. He had already realized that this beauty's background was probably not simple when he was searching, but when he finally saw the final answer, his eyeballs almost popped out.

"Eat, eat."

Fang Rui wanted to eat the plate along with the food when he said this.

So after that, Fang Rui couldn't continue talking about any topics related to temptation. What if this Miss Tang waved her hand and bought the entire Glory Alliance? By then, each team's prize money would be paid by her. You'd still be talking about the players' treatment as a temptation. Temptation your sister!

"Ahem, Happy is really... too promising, haha..." Fang Rui said.

Chen Guo knew as soon as she heard it that this person was also misunderstanding, obviously equating Tang Rou's background with Happy's background, but in fact, this was not the same thing at all. Tang Rou, like ordinary players, signed a player contract here and received a salary. She had not exerted any effort in fields other than being a player.

However, this feeling of showing off someone else's power was still pretty good!

Chen Guo glanced at Tang Rou, and Tang Rou was also winking at her. Chen Guo smiled. This was one of the things she liked most about Tang Rou. Her background was very powerful. After the people at Happy knew about it, there was inevitably some distance between them. Even Chen Guo, who had the closest relationship with her, felt a little uncomfortable for a while.

But Tang Rou faced this kind of strangeness very calmly. Regarding her identity, she certainly wasn't arrogant, but she never deliberately avoided it, nor did she insist that others treat her like an ordinary person like many pretentious young ladies. She was still her, the Tang Rou she had always been, never avoiding anything. So gradually, the barrier brought about by her identity disappeared. Everyone saw it in their eyes. Tang Rou was still Tang Rou, she hadn't changed! The barrier was just from everyone's imagination. When everyone didn't overthink, everything was still the same.

So, on the contrary, those around her were looking forward to and loved to see her suddenly exposing her identity and scaring people. For example, when Fang Rui buried his head in eating and didn't hum anything for a long time, everyone felt so great.

However, in the spirit of being responsible, Chen Guo still explained it to him.

"Little Tang is just an ordinary player here, there's not much difference," Chen Guo said.

"Mm." Fang Rui nodded. This time, he didn't say it directly, he hid his words. Tang Rou was an ordinary player with no difference? How could that be possible. It seemed that this Boss Chen hadn't figured it out. This person's identity and background meant that she was a player that no team could control or influence. That included Happy.

Money, status, and so on couldn't tempt her, which meant that she couldn't be controlled. She only belonged to herself. When she was willing to play, she could keep playing here at Happy. When she didn't want to play at all one day, who could keep her? What could be used to keep her? A contract? Forcibly terminating the contract was just paying money, wasn't that a problem for her?

A powerful identity background was above the spirit of contract in this society. This was somewhat unfair and somewhat helpless. Tang Rou, one could only hope for her own character, so Fang Rui didn't continue to speak.

So Ye Xiu spoke at this time.

"How Happy's future will be is something that needs to be created hand-in-hand! You just want to be an outsider, take advantage of the situation and hitch a ride, too dirty, too cunning! Do you dare to create the future together? Do you dare to experience the unimaginable temptations of money and status in your so-called professional circle?" Ye Xiu said.

Fang Rui was silent.

Yes, he was just worried that Happy wouldn't be able to keep people in the future. But what about himself? If he himself became a part of Happy, would he waver when that day came? Before doubting others, shouldn't he first strengthen his own beliefs? If everyone worked together to create a perfect team, why worry so much? If someone left, someone else would come to fill the position.

Yes, that's how it should be.

Fang Rui slammed the table. "I'm coming to Happy!"

"Great, welcome." Chen Guo was extremely excited.

"With me, the championship is guaranteed!" The dirty playstyle guys seemed to have a sense of confidence that they were slapping their faces to look swollen.

"Okay, then let's talk about the contract," Ye Xiu said.

"Damn, can't everyone be moved for three to five seconds first?" Fang Rui was depressed. The atmosphere was so good right now, talking about money would ruin it somewhat.

"Moved by what? Are you a newbie?" Ye Xiu said.

"What does the contract say?" Fang Rui asked.

"You see, we're very poor now, a dozen people eating only ten dishes, not even soup..."

As he was speaking, the door to the private room was knocked. "Excuse me, open the door, the soup is here!"

Qiao Yifan, who was sitting next to the door, quickly went over and opened it. The waiter came in with the soup, covered in sweat. "The door was locked, did I disturb you?"

"It's okay, it's okay," Chen Guo greeted. The waiter put down the soup and quickly slipped away. Fang Rui looked at Ye Xiu. "Shameless!"

"Anyway, we just don't have money!" Ye Xiu slammed the table. "A 6.5 million contract is impossible, how about 650,000!"

"Damn, don't go too far! I'm still an all-star, okay? If I say this contract, how can I keep face?"

"You can say 65 million to the outside world!" Ye Xiu said.

"Do you think everyone is stupid?"

"Then how much do you want!"

"Reducing it a bit is no problem, but it has to be 5 million, right?" Fang Rui said.

"5 million, do you have any shame? Being an all-star is so great? The number of times I've been an all-star is piled up on the bone plate in front of you! If you take out all the honors, you'd be buried alive! With my identity and status, I'm crying outside the boss's door every day at Happy for a contract, almost going to lick her boots! What identity do you have to say 5 million in front of me!" Ye Xiu said.

Fang Rui was speechless for a moment, and after a long while, he said with a sad face, "Don't be like this!"

"Young man, don't always calculate money, money, money. Why don't you think about how many honors you'll win coming to Happy? That's something that no amount of money can buy," Ye Xiu said.

Fang Rui was speechless again. How could this person be so shameless, saying that winning a championship was as easy as getting a red bean bun from a stall outside the door. If he could say that he could win a championship one hundred percent, Fang Rui wouldn't want a penny, but the problem was that there was no guarantee with championships.

After fooling around enough, Chen Guo finally came out to say something serious and truthful. "Currently, our funds are indeed relatively tight. Besides your contract, there's also the transfer fee with Excellent Era. We don't know how much that will be negotiated. For this first year, how about 3 million?"

"Compared to that guy, the boss is really a good person... but this..."

"This is indeed too much of a reduction, but the first year will be difficult. If the situation improves next year, we'll raise it again. If you're not at ease, we can write it into the contract," Chen Guo said.

"This... okay!" Fang Rui finally nodded. He didn't want a big contract when he came to Happy. He was psychologically prepared for this. What he wanted in the end was a brand new future.