Chapter 15 Level Up

Chen Hero leveled up again. While Dracula and Vera were in the living room outside, negotiating the terms of his personal contract, Chen Hero was in his bedroom, and after an hour of special training, he finally made up the last bit of experience he needed to level up. Just like that, he reached level fifteen.

After leveling up, he definitely had to continue adding points to the "Air Acrobat" talent. Just one level of Air Acrobat wasn't having a very noticeable effect.

When Chen Hero came out of the training instance, Vera had already left, and Dracula was clearly waiting for him.

He told Chen Hero the specifics of the situation, including Vera's salary, since Chen Hero was the one paying for it.

In the future, all the daily expenses and salaries of the agent team would rely on Chen Hero.

To support such a large group of people, they naturally had to try every possible way to make money, and diversifying income streams was a very good method. Currently, commercial development related to Chen Hero wasn't enough. His salary was already the highest in Zenit, and there wasn't much more profit to be made from that unless he transferred to another team.

Currently, they had to consider starting from other angles.

Previously, Chen Hero had seen those cute Russian nesting dolls with his face on them being sold in small booths on the street, and he had even bought some to send to his parents. But now he couldn't look at things that way anymore. Dracula planned to start by going after those small vendors, either they obediently paid the image rights fees, or they would have to stop producing these roughly made products. Then he would sell the image rights to those enterprises that were both willing and capable.

But these were all things that Dracula would be busy with, and they had nothing to do with Chen Hero.

Vera's workplace wasn't at Chen Hero's place either, but with Dracula.

Dracula rented an office space in an office building, which was where the Hero agent team worked.

Chen Hero didn't care about any of that. But Vera would definitely have to communicate with Chen Hero more in the future. For example, if the media discovered that Chen Hero had caused some trouble again, Vera would have to communicate with Chen Hero as soon as possible to discuss how to deal with the media.

In fact, after talking with Vera, Dracula was full of confidence in this capable woman. He even felt that it was a waste of her talent to only let Vera be Chen Hero's spokesperson. It was a bit of an underutilization of her abilities.

He felt that Vera could be responsible for many things. The courses taught in her major included information analysis, communication techniques, advertising affairs, and image design.

These could all help Chen Hero.

Currently, Chen Hero was taking a wild, unsystematic approach to shaping his personal image, lacking the support of systematic theory. He was feeling his way across the river by touching the stones.

Vera could make up for this shortcoming. With her, they could analyze which news was beneficial to Chen Hero and should be hyped up and utilized, and which was harmful and should be avoided. She could help him design his personal image—in fact, successful stars all had a distinct characteristic that fans remembered, and these were the accomplishments of image design.

In terms of advertising, she would also be more professional and effective than Dracula.

Dracula planned to train Vera well so that she could take on major responsibilities as soon as possible—he felt that once Vera was well-trained, she would occupy a very important position in Chen Hero's future agent team and play an extremely important role.

Chen Hero didn't care about any of this. He only needed to train to improve himself, level up and add points, and then play his part in the game.

In short, it was to score goals, score goals, and score more goals. Besides scoring goals, it was still scoring goals.

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But now his pace of scoring goals had to slow down, because he was automatically suspended from the weekend's game.

Chen Hero watched the game live on television at his home. He watched his team being held to a 1:1 draw at home by Lokomotiv Moscow, which was ranked fifth in the league.

While watching the game, the commentator, Sergeyevski, mentioned his name more than once.

"If Hero were here, this ball might have gone in..."

"If Hero had headed that ball, it would have gone in eight or nine times out of ten!"

"It's a pity Hero isn't here, otherwise the score wouldn't be like this..."

Anyway, it was something like that.

Although he regretted that the team didn't win the game in the end, Chen Hero also admitted that he felt very good when he heard such commentary—I'm still very important, things can't be done without me...

Using this weekend without a game, Chen Hero went to learn how to drive. He discovered that he had a talent for mechanical things. Since returning to St. Petersburg after the vacation, he had signed up and then went to learn intermittently, and he had actually learned quite a bit. But he also experienced the Russian attitude towards driving—it was so fierce!

New drivers dared to step on the gas pedal all the way!

Chen Hero was particularly tough on the soccer field, but his attitude towards driving was not good... He was cautious and careful, which was a strong contrast to his usual personality.

If Denisov and the others knew about this, their jaws would definitely drop in shock.

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In general, Chen Hero's life was actually quite ordinary, and it was no different from before. Although he had a spokesperson, it had nothing to do with him for the time being—a spokesperson was just someone who came out to clean up messes. If you caused trouble, the spokesperson would come out and say a bunch of nonsense, and then everyone would continue doing what they were doing.

Chen Hero was still thinking about when to organize another eat, drink, and have fun event.

At this moment, he received a call from Sharapova.

When he saw the phone number, he was stunned for a while.

Because he had almost never thought that Sharapova would contact him again.

Although the number was saved in his phone, in reality, after that incident gradually subsided, he had gradually forgotten about that woman.

So when the name "Woman" appeared on the phone screen, he was stunned for a long time before he remembered that this should be Sharapova.

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Sharapova didn't know why she would call that damn Hero again. After that incident, she returned to the United States and, under the guidance of her coach and doctor, restarted her rehabilitation training in order to be able to return to competition in the next season. She worked very hard.

This fulfilling life made her forget the story in St. Petersburg, and naturally she also forgot the man who had once made her laugh non-stop, made her furious, and left her speechless.

But when her rehabilitation training was not going smoothly, when she encountered difficulties, and when the pressure on her became heavier and heavier, the first person who popped into her mind was that man...

Yes, the man.

On her phone, the name she saved for Chen Hero's number was... "Man."

She had actually wanted to save it as "Bastard" at first... but she softened a little. At that time, the conflict between them was gone, so in the end, she saved a very neutral "Man."

Two days ago, the doctor told her that because she had overexerted herself in rehabilitation training, she had been too competitive and worked too hard, resulting in a recurrence of her shoulder injury. This meant that her original plan to return to competition early in the second half of the year had completely become wishful thinking.

Not only could she not train, but she also had to rest again—everything seemed to have returned to the painful days of two months ago.

She couldn't see what was ahead at all. It was pitch black in front of her, and she didn't even know if there was a road.

She was only twenty years old, and her career had suffered such a major setback. Suddenly, she felt dizzy and didn't know what to do.

The media's sarcastic remarks and the expectations of her enthusiastic fans made her feel very uncomfortable. Not to mention the media's rumors, the more enthusiastic the fans were, the greater her guilt. Because she didn't know if she could still repay these enthusiastic fans...

This situation made her feel terrified.

That's right, terrified.

She couldn't imagine what she would become if one day she could no longer win victories and championships on the tennis court. How would the media evaluate her? Would the fans abandon her?

Sharapova realized that she had become accustomed to being a celebrity who received attention, even though this attention sometimes gave her a headache. But if she were to go back to being an ordinary tennis player, she might really not be able to adapt.

In the anxiety of worrying about losing everything in front of her, her temper became very irritable, but in order not to worry her father, not to worry her coach, and not to give those pervasive media an opportunity, she had to try to remain calm—even if it was only on the surface.

She felt very tired and almost couldn't bear it anymore.

At this moment, she thought of Chen Hero.

She didn't know what was wrong, but she dialed Chen Hero's phone number.

Man.

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The call from "Woman" surprised Chen Hero, but he had no reason to refuse to answer the call. He answered it.

But he didn't say anything after he answered, because he didn't know what to say as an opening remark.

Should he say a very enthusiastic "Hi"?

Should he say coldly: "What is it you?"

Should he say a conventional "Hello"?

It seemed that none of them were good, so he simply remained silent.

Sharapova had already become uneasy while waiting for the call to connect. She could hang up the phone at any moment. Just as she had made up her mind for the fifth time to hang up the phone, the phone connected.

Then... then there was no sound.

She didn't hear Chen Hero's voice, not even a cold "Oh, it's you?"

Silence, as if her call had gone into the void.

What's wrong with this person? What do you mean by answering the phone and not saying anything? Making a girl wait, do you have any gentlemanly manners?

After Sharapova complained in her heart, she realized that "gentlemanly manners" didn't seem to exist in the person she knew...

For some reason, when facing Chen Hero, Sharapova would occasionally act a little petty, and this time was no different.

Okay, since you're not saying anything, then I won't say anything either!

She pouted and thought resentfully.

At this moment, she heard the voice she wanted to hear most at this moment.

Even though the voice had a hint of impatience.

"I say, even if you're rich, you can't waste phone bills like this, right? Calling over and not saying anything, are you pretending to be a ghost to scare people?"

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ps, I'm going out temporarily tonight, so this chapter is released in advance~

Anyway, there's no difference between being ten votes short and reaching the goal.

In addition, the recruitment of deputy moderators has reached the quota, sorry to those friends who were not selected~

I'm going out tomorrow to meet with readers in Chengdu. If there are any additional updates in the afternoon, I'll have to wait until I get home at night to update...