Entertainment: From the Octagon to the big screen

Chapter 2 - An anxious journey across 6151 kilometers

The news media is like a rocket, the one without a guidance device is the most damn scary.

In the first-class cabin of Qatar Airways flight QR892 to Yanjing, Chen Yu carefully pondered Emmanuel's little words before departure.

At the same time, I was somewhat worried about this unknown journey. After all, Chen Yu, a native of Tianjin, had never returned to China since he was taken to the United States at the age of six.

Even Chen Yu can't even speak a word of Jinmen dialect due to the influence of his mother who was born in Northeast China.

Once again, I dug out the "Holiday Itinerary Plan" that Emmanuel had tailor-made for himself.

Chen Yu took a look at the various excerpts and original "methods to coax girls" and felt both headache and toothache.

Because he was eager to make a name for himself in the UFC and earn fame and fortune, he spent nearly 99% of his energy and time on rigorous training.

As a result, Chen Yu's understanding of girls before 2015 only stayed at the stage of "coming in at a moment's notice and leaving at a moment's notice".

Even after establishing a foothold in the UFC, Chen Yu had little time to play the little game of "pretending to be a family wine" with girls because he had to protect the gold belt he had fought so hard for from being taken away by others.

It was only after 2015 that Chen Yu began to face up to his personal emotional problems.

The vicious closed loop of "crazy training - life-threatening competition - defending honor - crazy training" not only quickly overdrafted Chen Yu's career life, but also left Chen Yu with only a girl's name on his "love manual".

Emmanuel asked Chen Yu to use this "Spring Festival holiday" to experience a normal life, and slowly get out and adapt to the world outside the "Octagonal Cage".

After all, even Cristiano Ronaldo admires Chen Yu's self-discipline.

"Chen only thinks about training and competition. The secret of his success is well known to everyone but difficult to imitate."

Chen Yu put down his "Holiday Itinerary Plan" and picked up the BMW promotional poster taken in June 2015 at the table.

It was filmed at the BMW headquarters in Munich after he defended his featherweight belt for the second time.

His expression and movements in the poster are a bit reserved and lack the aura of a fighting champion. According to the words of the girl around him, he is more like the boy next door.

The girl is indeed right. If calculated according to birthdays, Chen Yu is younger than her...

Chen Yu took a sip of cool soda water and began to study math problems.

"Well, it should be 211 days." Chen Yu looked at the long list of addition and subtraction formulas on the paper with satisfaction.

But in terms of global popularity, girls have just embarked on the "fast lane" of their careers in China in 2015.

At that time, Chen Yu had been ranked second in the "Lawrence World Sports Awards" Best Male Athlete vote for two consecutive years.

In 2014, he lost to Vettel by four votes;
In 2015, there were only four votes less and Djokovic could only watch the cup.

The girl's cheerful and lively personality in private made Chen Yu very happy to get along with her. During the filming of BMW's TV commercials and promotional posters specially for Europe and the United States, the girl invited Chen Yu to taste Tremella and Lotus Seed Soup, and then Chen Yu gave her a treat out of politeness. A first-row VIP ticket to his own game.

Chen Yu remembered that after the game, the girl sneaked into the locker room with an excited and rosy face.

For the first time, she appeared on the big screen "on an equal footing" with Schwarzenegger, Jason Statham, the Stallone family of five, Emilia Clark, Scarlett Johansson, Emma Roberts and other European and American stars.

The girl's delicate body trembled with excitement, and she kept talking and sighing to Chen Yu.

Until the annoying Emanuel knocked on the door and reminded the two that there would be an ESPN interview in fifteen minutes.

Previously, Chen Yu was not sure about the girl's specific position in his heart.

Although from that gorgeous and wonderful night in 2015 until yesterday, the two people had been in close contact very frequently.

But as mentioned before, Chen Yu devoted almost everything to his beloved fighting career and did not have much time to think about things other than training and competition.

To put it more bluntly, "Fighting" during this period was Chen Yu's "girlfriend".

In the past two years of dating, the girl would tell Chen Yu all kinds of trivial and interesting stories about work or life.

Chen Yu, who rarely comes into contact with anything other than the "octagonal cage", can only be a quiet listener.

So the girl gave Chen Yu a nickname: a personal and specially customized emotional trash can.

The girl can confide all kinds of "little secrets" to Chen Yu, perhaps because he is not in the entertainment industry and is far away from China.

Chen Yu looked out the window at the twinkling stars and the bright moonlight.

Qatar Airways flight QR892 is a direct flight from Doha to Yanjing, so it only takes hours and minutes.

It is exactly 3:00 pm on January 5, 2017, Yanjing time.

After Chen Yu took a group photo to say goodbye with all the crew members, he returned to his motherland after nearly 19 years of absence with a hint of uneasiness and confusion.

January in Yanjing is quite cold.

Chen Yu tightened the collar of his down coat and complained that he was negligent in not preparing a scarf in advance.

Carrying Armani's custom-made "Aviator" medium-sized travel bag, Chen Yu walked to the arrival area and pushed on his small round sunglasses and began to look around for familiar figures.

"Where are you looking? Don't you know how to turn around?"

The girl wearing a bright red fur ball cap and a Dior pure white stand-up collar, narrow-sleeved, knee-length down windbreaker with a waist, took off her long bright red scarf and tied up Chen Yu.

"Hey, was that Reba who just walked by?" the little girl holding coffee asked her sister who was packing her luggage, while pointing at a "couple" who was gradually disappearing from the crowd, laughing and playing and taking sweet selfies.

The elder sister shook her head when she heard this. If Reba dared to spread the scandal through word of mouth, it would greatly affect her career which was on a strong upward trend. Jiaxing's virtue would definitely give Reba a yellow card warning.

As a senior groupie, my younger sister smacked her lips.

If people who are also involved in the scandal can help Reba increase her popularity and attract traffic, it is estimated that Jiaxing will grant Reba a long vacation just for her to "fall in love".

"Hey, I said you can't do this, Chen Yu?" Reba turned her head and glanced at the holder of a certain gold belt in the passenger seat who was clutching the handle and tightening the seat belt with a serious look on his face.

Qianqiancong tapped the steering wheel with her finger. Reba said that if Chen Yu had a Chinese driver's license, she could "step aside and make way for someone else". Otherwise, just sit back and enjoy the "pick-up service" she provided.

The silver-white BMW X6M snorted, making Chen Yu tremble and then slowly drove out of the berth.

The hotel Reba booked for Chen Yu was the "Bulgari" at No. 8 Xinyuan South Road. It takes about thirty minutes to drive to the Third Ring Road, but only if the road conditions are good.

"Then...I'm not in a hurry." Chen Yu faced Reba and lowered his hands slightly, trying to calm down the beauty who was constantly cursing the car in front of her.

To be honest, no matter how dangerous Chen Yu was in the octagonal cage, he was never as nervous as he was right now.

He was afraid that Reba, who had been blocked for nearly forty minutes, would just use her ultimate move to rush out and kill everything instantly.

"I'm in a hurry!" Reba's vicious words immediately caused a strange ripple in the air in the car.

This caught Chen Yu somewhat off guard and he hesitated for a long time without being able to formulate a single sentence.

Reba covered her crimson lips with the back of her hand and coughed lightly, but the faint rose color quietly spread from her jade neck to her pretty face.

"Well... I just finished fighting for the gold belt a few days ago and I just experienced a long flight, so there may be some slight ups and downs in terms of status, if..."

Before Chen Yu could finish speaking, Reba threw the Winnie-the-Pooh waistrest hard at him.

"Can you think of something healthy in your mind? Has U.S. imperialism completely corrupted you from the inside out?" Reba gave Chen Yu her mobile phone. Above it was the official Weibo post she forwarded "In the Octagonal Cage" Young warriors of the new era.”

But when Chen Yu saw this Weibo, he pursed his thin lips with a complicated expression, because now he could no longer hold up the praise.

Seeing that Chen Yu suddenly became depressed, Reba thought that she had gone too far, or that she should satisfy Chen Yu's little expectation.

But after receiving a call from Chen Yu yesterday afternoon, Reba had already planned how to celebrate the reunion.

Even if Chen Yu wants to "reward" Chen Yu for winning the UFC lightweight gold belt and creating a new chapter in the history of Chinese sports, he still has to wait for the warm dinner to end.

At 5:10, after going through many twists and turns, Chen Yu and Reba finally arrived at the Bulgari Hotel.

After politely asking the exclusive housekeeper of the "City Skyline" suite to leave, Reba threw off her white Chelsea boots and jumped into Chen Yu's arms to give her a sweet kiss.

"Ask a question!" Reba put her arms around Chen Yu's neck like a koala and shouted loudly.

"Why do you call [Chen Yu] such a strange name?" Reba wanted to ask Chen Yu when she first met him in 2015, but she always felt that the relationship was not that close and she was too embarrassed to open her mouth.

It wasn't until after the long training period of nearly two years that someone took the initiative to point out or clarify the matter between them that she asked Chen Yu.

"[Birds nostalgic for the old forest, fish in the pond nostalgic for their old abyss], that's how my name came about."

Reba weighed the oranges in her hands. It seemed that the word "fish" in this poem really matched the word "Chen".

Moreover, "Chen Yu" and "Chen Yu" have the same pronunciation.

Maybe the uncle and aunt hope that Chen Yu will look good in the future.

But now, Reba pokes Chen Yu's cheek, pinches the tip of Chen Yu's nose, and pinches Chen Yu's earlobe.

Just this extremely cute baby face coupled with a very lethal figure is enough to fascinate all the young ladies so much that they forget to eat and sleep and drool and think wildly at the screen all day long.

"Really? If I enter the entertainment industry, will I be taken over by a rich woman?" Chen Yu patted Reba's "pear-shaped butt" and murmured with a hint of sadness.

"You can know the elegant meaning when you hear the sound of strings." Reba's success in the entertainment industry is by no means a "silly thing".

At this moment, she was keenly aware that Chen Yu had something on his mind, and it was something very serious.

Chen Yu did not hide anything from Reba, who sneaked out of the country to spend two days with him every six months, and confessed to her that his career was completely sentenced to death.

Reba, who had listened quietly to everything, looked at Chen Yu, who looked slightly confused.

"What are you afraid of? From being prosperous in 2011 to 2017, are you still not satisfied? If you are unemployed, you will be unemployed." Reba imitated Chen Yu's signature moves in the octagonal cage - quick jabs and light combos on his chest and abdomen.

"You support me if you don't have a job?" Chen Yu subconsciously tensed his muscles and held his breath.

"I'll support you! But all your little treasury must be at my disposal. What are you doing? Relax, this is not an octagonal cage. I'll beat you twice and you'll be good...well..." Reba patted Chen Yu's shoulder butt repeatedly. Soon it became mainly customers.

"Why didn't this damn girl answer the phone? I'm really in a hurry!" Zeng Jia cursed secretly, refreshed his Weibo, and then frowned and called Xue Dan, who was on vacation.

She was asked to contact Reba as soon as possible, otherwise Jiaxing's official blog would explode with fans' comments!

"Ding~~ding~~" The phone on the bedside table in the master bedroom of the suite kept vibrating and humming.

But soon a bra with body heat and body scent covered it.

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