My Mr. Mermaid

Untitled Part 23

Chapter 23 by ryuxenji

When Yun Duo left home, her mum gave her ten thousand dollars. Yun Duo declined. "I'm already earning my own money."

Her mum scoffed, "What's that little amount of pay good for? Didn't you say you wanted to move to a new place? Are you planning to live in a basement? Or maybe share rent with a bunch of people and have to line up just to use the bathroom?"

"... it's not that dramatic." Honestly, she was already prepared to live frugally after renting a new place.

"I'm giving it to you so just take it. Your dad's and my money will all be yours sooner or later anyway."

Yun Duo was very touched. "Mum, I'll definitely take it seriously when you set up more blind dates for me next time!"

"Haven't you been taking it seriously these last few days?"

"Erm ..."

And so, Yun Duo boarded the flight back to City-B with rental money sponsored by her mother.

When she returned to the office, she was very quickly pulled back into her work. Yun Duo went looking for Director Liu to find out what was the verdict regarding Tang Yi-Bai's interview, and his answer did not fall outside her expectations. "We intend to wait until the championship is over before making a decision." After a slight pause he added, "You can go ahead and make contact with Tang Yi-Bai first."

Yun Duo was a little unhappy. She said, "Who am I to just go and ask him to reserve an exclusive interview for me?"

Director Liu was left at a loss for words. Yun Duo was right. Those in the news industry were all clamouring for hot topics, and there were not many who could hone in on a hot topic before it even sprouted. If Tang Yi-Bai truly started showing signs of being a fruitful seed, the media would flock to him — it would be almost impossible for Yun Duo to obtain an exclusive interview with him considering her rather junior status in the field.

That said, the 'Sports Weekly' was a large agency which had reporters other than Yun Duo.

Thus, Director Liu very quickly reinforced his previous conservative choice. Keep an eye on the situation — at worst, they could just jump in later and compete with the others.

When Lin Zi learned of this, he sighed, "Is everyone in the media all so short-sighted?"

As usual, this fellow slammed an entire population with his general large-scale attack. Teacher Sun was dismissive, "Well, that's not quite accurate. Working with news is not like investing after all. What we pay attention to are the events of the greatest concern at the current moment, not things of the future."

Yun Duo nodded. Teacher Sun's explanation made sense, so she very quickly accepted it. Who knows if she would get a chance for an exclusive interview with Tang Yi-Bai? The prospects looked dim ...

On February 28th, the results for the Level 4 to 6 English exams were released. Tang Yi-Bai had spent the whole day training, so he only managed to send in a text inquiry that night. When he received the reply text, he immediately called Yun Duo.

"Yun Duo, I've passed level 4."

"Really? That's great!" Yun Duo was very happy for him.

Her voice was brimming with sincere joy — Tang Yi-Bai could almost imagine her ecstatic appearance right now: her small white teeth peeking through her smile and her two bright black eyes curved up into little crescent moons.

He could not help but dip his head and smile, replying with a soft sound of agreement.

Yun Duo then asked, "Tang Yi-Bai, how much did you score?"