What greeted them was Chi Yining's exquisite, utterly flawless face. For an instant, the viewers in the livestream felt as though their breathing had stopped.
[Holy shit... I admit Nougat's looks blew me away. I don't think he needs to wear that kind of makeup to grab attention at all...]
[What do I do? With a face like that, I'm starting to believe his agency forced him into it...]
[Yan Guiyun next door, too... How can these two be this handsome?]
[Can someone tell me this isn't real...]
[No! This has to be Chi Yining's trick to lure people in. I absolutely won't fall for it!]
Ma Ling, who was watching the livestream, was also stunned by his looks. She had thought the company was going under... So many people had left over the past few days, but unexpectedly, the job listing she had posted on a recruitment site a few days earlier had suddenly drawn a flood of applicants, all saying they would work as Chi Yining's assistant even without pay.
Ma Ling had no idea what to do. These several hundred applicants had caught her completely off guard.
Now she was like an ancient emperor choosing consorts, unable to tell which one was best. She might as well choose the one whose résumé and looks appealed to her the very, very, very most.
Of course, she would still pay them. Wouldn't refusing to pay just create trouble down the line?
They arrived downtown.
With his many fans, Gu Chengyuan found a job right away. The owner was also a fan of his and offered him 200 an hour.
He soon took on the job of waiting tables, while Chen Shiyu treasured his hands too much to choose that work.
Instead, he went out to look again.
He found an upscale restaurant and noticed a violin inside, so he went in and asked, "Excuse me, do you need a violinist here?"
Seeing the cameraman following him, the server figured he was filming a show. Perhaps he could even give their restaurant some publicity.
The waitress looked at him and replied with a smile, "One moment."
She quickly called the manager over on her pager.
The male manager, who was in his thirties, looked at the young man before him, with his rosy lips and pearly teeth. "We don't really need violin performances during the day. There aren't many customers..."
Not wanting to let this opportunity slip away, Chen Shiyu felt a little anxious. "I can play at the entrance, too."
The manager frowned slightly. They presented themselves as an upscale restaurant; having someone play at the entrance would be undignified, and upper-class patrons would feel that dining there lowered their status.
But looking at the young man, he let it go. There were still a few customers inside.
"All right, you can just play inside. It's 300 an hour. Is that acceptable?"
Evening violin performances started at 1,000 an hour.
Chen Shiyu felt that finding a job at all was good enough and gladly accepted.
Hu Bing and Jia Mingchuan's work was even simpler. Hu Bing hung a large cardboard sign on himself: "Professional photography, satisfaction guaranteed! 20 for one photo, 30 for two. Using your own phone."
Most of the tourists here were middle-aged women. Seeing how handsome Hu Bing and Jia Mingchuan were, and with the prices so low, they flocked over and lined up, all wanting two photos.
And so Jia Mingchuan, a renowned photographer, resigned himself to taking photos for the women, while Hu Bing collected the money and suppressed his laughter.
Was it really all right for him to put a renowned photographer to work like this? They had no equipment to take photos and produce prints, so they could only use the women's own phones. That was why the price was a little lower; there was nothing they could do about it.
Meanwhile, Li Qingmi and Shao Chongsi were selling their liangfen outside a university gate for eight a bowl.
All 100 bowls sold out in just half an hour.
They had bought the utensils and liangfen ingredients at the supermarket earlier, then taken them to a breakfast shop and paid the owner a little money to cook it up quickly. While it chilled, the two had even had time to play on their phones.
It was still early after they packed up their stall, so they went to find somewhere to have dinner.