Lin Hai Ting Tao
Chapter 430 Wall of Honor
It's not difficult to see that the main clue is actually one thing – the hatred between Chen Yingxiong and Ibrahimović.
Yes, it's "hatred." Before last night, the media felt that using the word "hatred" to describe the relationship between the two was a bit excessive. They thought the two were just in a competitive relationship…
But after the awards ceremony, everyone changed their minds. They believed that there was "hatred" between Chen Yingxiong and Ibrahimović. They looked down on each other, hated each other, and even loathed each other…
Before Napoli's home game against Inter Milan last season, the two sides engaged in a war of words and psychological warfare, with saliva flying everywhere. It was from that time that Ibrahimović was inexplicably dragged into the battle and became the object of frequent comparison with Chen Yingxiong by the media.
But at that time, Ibrahimović felt quite innocent. He didn't know anything about Chen Yingxiong, but he was put together for comparison by the media.
That was just the beginning of the feud between the two, the only significance of which was that they got to know each other.
Then, until the last round of last season, Ibrahimović and Chen Yingxiong fought tooth and nail for the title of league top scorer, and it had reached a fever pitch.
Before that game, Ibrahimović scored twenty-six goals, three ahead of Chen Yingxiong, ranking first in the league scorer list. That gap in the final round almost allowed Ibrahimović to announce in advance that he had won the league's Golden Boot. Almost no one could complete such a reversal in the last game, because in addition to scoring at least three goals himself, he also had to hope that his opponent would not score. But how could a world-class shooter like Ibrahimović not score?
Who would have thought that Chen Yingxiong was more ferocious than he imagined!
In the last game, he was like he had a cheat code activated, scoring four goals and performing a hat-trick! He went from being three goals behind to one goal ahead! He snatched the league's Golden Boot from Ibrahimović.
When Ibrahimović heard the news, he almost spat out a mouthful of blood, and he wanted to die!
After the game, Chen Yingxiong was selected to undergo a urine test, and the results showed that he had not taken any banned drugs. This result was true and reliable, and it made Ibrahimović even more unhappy…
The meat that was already in his mouth was directly snatched away by the other party. Losing the fight for the Golden Boot in such a way made it really hard for Ibrahimović to swallow this breath.
But what made him even more unhappy was still to come…
After he accepted Barcelona's invitation and left Inter Milan, rumors spread in Italy that "the Swede went there because he was afraid of continuing to compete with Yingxiong. Because in the last season's top scorer competition, he lost to Chen Yingxiong even when he was three goals ahead, which gave him a great blow…"
This was completely a rumor – when he went to Barcelona, he didn't consider Chen Yingxiong at all. He just felt that staying at Inter Milan was certainly not as promising as going to a team like Barcelona. After all, Barcelona was the strongest team in world football at the time, and was even called the "Universe Team" by many media outlets, meaning that this team no longer belonged to Earth. They had just won an unprecedented sextuple crown in 2009, taking all the championships last year. Joining such a powerful team should be able to fulfill his desire to win the European Champions League.
Going to a team that was sure to win a championship was certainly better than going to a team that didn't know what the future held.
So he resolutely abandoned Inter Milan and chose to go to Barcelona.
He just didn't expect that this originally ordinary transfer would be misinterpreted by some malicious media as him escaping Chen Yingxiong… I am a world-class football star, why would I escape from a rookie?
After that, Ibrahimović couldn't stand Chen Yingxiong, who was in the limelight in Serie A after he left.
If he were Chinese, he would probably find the most appropriate saying to send to Chen Yingxiong: "When the cat's away, the mice will play. What are you going crazy about?"
It must be said that the media played a role in fueling the hatred between these two people, but the decisive factor was themselves.
Ibrahimović and Chen Yingxiong are two people with similar personalities. Generally speaking, people with similar personalities may get along better, but if two people who are equally arrogant, arrogant, and think they are geniuses and the most awesome people in the world get together, then it's hard to say…
Chen Yingxiong didn't like Ibrahimović, and Ibrahimović didn't like Chen Yingxiong either.
It's that simple.
But it provided the media with countless topics and space for hype.
In addition to hyping up their relationship, Chen Yingxiong's arrogance was naturally also the focus of attention for many people. They looked at the parts related to Chen Yingxiong in the awards ceremony with a magnifying glass, and then analyzed word by word how inappropriate Chen Yingxiong's behavior was.
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Chen Yingxiong didn't care how the media hyped him up and criticized him – he had been in professional football for several years, and he was no longer the rookie who couldn't wait for the media to interview him and make him famous. Now, even if the media didn't interview him, he was famous, so he wouldn't beg the media to hype him up and interview him.
Therefore, his attitude towards the media was no longer what it used to be.
Carrying two golden figurines, Chen Yingxiong returned to Naples.
In a good mood, he even joked with Cabrilla after seeing her: "Did you miss me after not seeing me for a day, Christine?"
What answered him was Cabrilla's helpless voice: "Mr. Chen…"
Chen Yingxiong laughed loudly.
In the past, if he teased his bodyguard like this, the response he would get would definitely be a cold and lifeless face.
The current Cabrilla really had more vitality than before – that's how Chen Yingxiong felt.
He put the two golden figurines on the table, and then suddenly stopped talking while looking at the TV wall in the living room.
Seeing that he didn't say a word, and just stared at the TV wall in a daze, Cabrilla didn't know what was wrong with him. But she didn't ask, and just waited quietly beside him.
After a while, Chen Yingxiong asked: "Christine, what do you think… about building a wall of honor here?" He pointed to the TV wall. "My goal is to turn all the rooms in my house into walls of honor in the future, and put all the trophies and honors I've won in them. When you open the door, you can see them, how cool!"
"Only the nouveau riche would do that," Cabrilla said.
Chen Yingxiong laughed loudly: "You're right, I'm a nouveau riche!"
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Chen Yingxiong later really went to find someone to help him with this wall of honor plan. He planned to push the TV wall out a little further and make a glass cabinet that was integrated with the wall to put all the honors and trophies he had won since entering professional football. The grids with trophies would be lit up, and the grids without honors would be temporarily dark, waiting for the day when the lights would come on.
The person who specifically handled this matter was not Cabrilla. After all, she was just a bodyguard, and it was also a last resort to work part-time as a nanny and driver. If she was asked to be a renovation project contractor and supervisor, it would be too inappropriate…
The person who came to help Chen Yingxiong with this matter was Vera, which surprised Chen Yingxiong a little.
"Aren't you in Russia?"
"The lawsuit is going through legal procedures. I don't have anything to do now, so Mr. Dekula asked me to come over." Although she had been with Dekula for a long time, Vera had always maintained her respect for Dekula, regarding him as her teacher, and never used intimate terms such as "Vlad" to address Dekula.
"Uh… to have my press spokesman and an important figure in my agent team do the renovation…" Chen Yingxiong grinned. "Well, where do you live? Why don't you live in my house? My house has big rooms…"
Vera frowned: "Boss. A female bodyguard has already caused the media to hype up your history of philandering. I don't want to become your 'rumored girlfriend' too!"
She was very respectful to Dekula, but she lacked respect for her philandering boss…
Faced with Vera, because he had the high ground in terms of his identity as "boss," Chen Yingxiong would tease her whenever he could, never missing an opportunity. He wasn't as afraid of Vera as he was of Cabrilla in the beginning.
So after hearing what Vera said, he wasn't angry at all, but said with a smile: "I don't mind you removing the word 'rumored,' Vera."
"Let's talk about your… wall of honor plan, boss." Vera could only express helplessness at her boss's open flirting, and she changed the subject.
After Vera found out about Chen Yingxiong's wall of honor, she had one comment – a nouveau riche who was flaunting his wealth!
This coincided with Cabrilla. It seemed that after being with Chen Yingxiong for a long time, the women still knew their clients very well.
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In the end, Vera didn't live in Chen Yingxiong's house, but lived in a hotel by herself. There were some things she didn't say, but she always thought that the boss must have had ulterior motives when he arranged for the bodyguard to live with him. Maybe the two of them were already… doing that.
Using the name of a bodyguard to cover up, so that reporters couldn't hype it up.
She didn't want to join in the fun…
After Chen Yingxiong told her his ideas, she went to a professional design company and asked them to come up with a design based on the boss's requirements.
As a result, these designs made Chen Yingxiong very angry – those "designers" always habitually imposed their so-called design concepts on the client's works, and the final effect was nondescript, making the client very dissatisfied.
"I just want to make a grid that can hold a lot of trophies, and then put some spotlights or something in it. The lights in each grid can be controlled individually, and they can also be controlled together… it's that simple!" After looking at those design drawings, he roared at Vera on the phone angrily, "But look, what are those bastards designing? I'm not an alien, what are you doing with a space capsule? And that one, number three… I just want to make a wall, I don't want to build a new house!"
After being scolded by Chen Yingxiong, Vera went to find trouble with the design company again…
After tossing and turning like this, they finally came up with a work that Chen Yingxiong was satisfied with – on a brightly lit wall, there were all grids, some dark and some bright. The bright ones had trophies, and the dark ones were still empty.
After the renderings came out, Vera had to admit that although it was very flashy, it was… very visually shocking. It didn't look like an ordinary living room, but like a museum…
After the design was finalized, the construction team began to move into Chen Yingxiong's villa. And Chen Yingxiong? He took Cabrilla to the Paradise Hotel to open a room, a business suite. He and Cabrilla lived in two separate bedrooms. Before the house was finished, they had to live here temporarily.
Seeing this behavior of going to a hotel with complete security measures and still bringing a bodyguard, Vera had more reason to suspect that the relationship between Chen Yingxiong and the bodyguard was not pure…
That damn pervert!
Chen Yingxiong was shot again.
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If you have them, don't be stingy!
Now is the double monthly ticket period, one ticket is worth two ordinary tickets!