After getting acquainted with the directors, Luo Ming went to meet up with the Chen sisters.
“Sister Wen, how much are we donating later?” Chen Sichu asked.
“That should depend on your status in the industry, right?” Luo Ming thought for a moment and said.
“That’s right. sister Shan told us before she left—Director Zhu is one of the organizers of this dinner, and Director Zhu’s side is donating 5 million.
Everyone else can at most match Director Zhu. As for you, sister Wen, donating 500,000 should be about right,” Chen Junmiao said.
Luo Ming nodded, took out her phone from her bag, and sent Lin Shuwen a message: “This charity dinner requires a 500,000 donation.”
“Damn! This stupid dinner wants a 500,000 donation? That’s way too much, isn’t it?” Lin Shuwen replied in seconds.
“No choice. sister Shan arranged it.”
“Ugh! I’ve been running gigs and taking commercial performances during this time—the money I saved from work has been stripped clean in one go! ╰_╯!”
“Commercial performances—are those all you? At least half of them were run by me, and I had a share of the gigs too!”
“Then you should be feeling the pain with me even more! If this money could actually be put to real use and help people who need help, then fine, donate it. The problem is—forget it, I won’t say it. Just donate!”
“Uh, you don’t have to be this heartbroken. Won’t you get your share from ‘Beyond the Light Years’ this month? You shouldn’t be so broke you have nothing to spend. Donating a bit now is like doing good deeds and building karma.”
On the other end of the phone, Lin Shuwen replied with a pained “Mm.”
After getting Lin Shuwen’s approval, Luo Ming handed her bank card to Chen Junmiao and told her to make the donation later.
According to the schedule, the charity dinner donations happen before everyone leaves, and this time slot is for everyone to get to know each other.
Luo Ming had just been introduced to those directors by Director Zhu, so now was the moment to go toast them and deepen their impressions.
Luo Ming wasn’t afraid of drinking. Lin Shuwen’s alcohol tolerance was decent too—half a jin of 53° baijiu wouldn’t get her drunk, though it would cause a headache the next day.
Fortunately, today it wasn’t baijiu but champagne. Champagne’s alcohol content is around 12%–13%, just slightly higher than regular wine.
However, champagne, like beer, has lots of bubbles. If you drink too much champagne at once, the bubbles make alcohol enter the bloodstream quickly, so it’s also pretty easy to get drunk.
So Luo Ming’s strategy was to just go through the motions. She wasn’t worried about others getting upset—everyone knows “Lin Shuwen” suffers from migraines.
Just like that, Luo Ming made one glass of champagne last through toasting three people before finishing it.
After a full round, Luo Ming had only drunk three glasses, about one or two liang each, and wasn’t tipsy at all.
But by now “Lin Shuwen’s” face was already red. Luo Ming simply pretended to be drunk—he leaned sideways against the chair, his face slightly flushed, his gaze a bit unfocused.
“I’ve long heard that Miss Lin is even more beautiful in person than on screen. Seeing you today, it’s truly well-deserved! Let me toast Miss Lin.” A director whose name she couldn’t recall came over and said.
Following the principle of not slapping a smiling face, Luo Ming picked up a glass of champagne.
Luo Ming steadied herself on the chair as she stood up, her body swaying slightly, the glass swaying gently along with it. The liquid in the glass shimmered temptingly under the lights.
The two glasses clinked. Luo Ming brought the glass to her lips, took a gentle sip, then put on an uncomfortable look and closed her eyes.
After seeing that director off, Luo Ming let her body sway slightly before sitting back down in the chair.
Anyone with eyes could tell—”Lin Shuwen” was drunk.
The people at this kind of event were all big names in the industry, so naturally they wouldn’t cling to a drunk young girl.
Of course, some people genuinely wanted to get to know Lin Shuwen—after all, her popularity was soaring lately.
She had just won Best New Artist and Best Song at the Golden Melody Awards not long ago, and then consecutively released two high-quality original songs, “Beyond the Light Years” and “Snail.”
Last week’s suddenly viral “Plants vs. Zombies” was also connected to Lin Shuwen.
The more discussion the game got, the more frequently Lin Shuwen was mentioned.
Getting to know Lin Shuwen at this point definitely couldn’t hurt.
So from time to time, people would come over to chat with “Lin Shuwen.” “Lin Shuwen’s” attitude wasn’t overly enthusiastic—she only occasionally exchanged a few words with people nearby, her speech carrying a faint hint of drunkenness, but her bearing remained elegant and poised.
“Sister Wen’s acting is getting better and better,” Chen Junmiao remarked as she watched “Lin Shuwen.”
“Huh? Is sister Wen faking it?” Chen Sichu, who had been focused on demolishing the tuna slices and little cakes at the charity dinner, swallowed what was in her mouth and asked.
“Sister Wen occasionally drinks with us—half a jin of baijiu won’t get her drunk at all, her face just turns red.
I just counted— sister Wen had four glasses of champagne total, and the fourth isn’t even finished. How could she possibly be drunk!”
“Uh, so that’s how it is. I was worried sister Wen would have a headache on the way home! Now it seems my worry was unnecessary. Good, now I can relax and eat freely!”
Chen Junmiao’s mouth twitched at that. So you weren’t eating freely just now?
You’ve already eaten a dozen-plus slices of sashimi in a little while, and who knows how many little cakes—and that’s not eating freely? Impressive.
“Sister, there’s so much good food here—how come none of them are eating?” Chen Sichu asked after swallowing another slice of sashimi.
“Because the clothes they’re wearing are all tailored to fit perfectly—especially the female celebrities. They need to highlight their figure curves. If they eat a bit too much, their lower belly might bulge out, and that wouldn’t look good.”
“So that’s how it is. sister Wen is so pitiful—she can’t eat to look good. She’s even swallowing her saliva.”
Chen Junmiao turned around at that—”Lin Shuwen” was staring at a little cake, swallowing her saliva from time to time.
Chen Junmiao covered her face, not knowing how to react for a moment.
Luo Ming was genuinely hungry. Today she’d only eaten a little in the morning, hadn’t even had a vegetable salad at noon, and being able to hold out until now before swallowing saliva was already pretty impressive!
She finally endured until the dinner ended at 12 o’clock. Chen Sichu drove sister Shan’s car to take Luo Ming home.
Passing by Burger King, Luo Ming had Chen Junmiao get out and buy two burgers. Only after eating them did she feel like she’d come back to life.
The next day, the moment Luo Ming opened her eyes, she felt like little needles were poking her head again and again.
Drinking last night plus staying up late—sure enough, Lin Shuwen’s migraine had acted up.
This was the first time Luo Ming had a migraine since the two of them swapped bodies.
How should I put it? This little bit of pain was nothing compared to period cramps.
Luo Ming went about doing whatever she needed to do, barely affected at all.
But Lin Shuwen’s side was miserable.
Her bank card was also linked to Luo Ming’s phone. When she woke up this morning and saw the balance in her bank account was only 137.26 yuan, Lin Shuwen nearly blacked out and fainted.
Her hard-earned money—gone in a flash!
The money being gone put Lin Shuwen in a very low mood.
A little after 9 in the morning, Rong Mu came to Lin Shuwen’s home. Lin Shuwen opened the door for him with a dark face.
Rong Mu was startled by “Luo Ming’s” expression and quickly asked, “Er Ming, what’s wrong with you? Looking all gloomy—did something go wrong with the game data?”
“Nothing like that. Don’t talk nonsense.”
“Really nothing?”
“Nothing. You’re the one who probably has something to discuss with me, right?”
Rong Mu nodded and handed a folder to Luo Ming.
Luo Ming took the folder and quickly skimmed through it.
The documents in the folder were related to servers.
Lin Shuwen knew Luo Ming had plans to purchase servers, but she hadn’t expected the two of them to move so fast—they’d already listed the server procurement companies.
Tencent, Alibaba, 21Vianet, Huawei…
Lin Shuwen had been cramming knowledge in this area recently and had some understanding of server providers.
Among the companies Rong Mu sent over, the top choices were definitely the four: Tencent, Alibaba, 21Vianet, and Huawei.
These four companies’ servers each had their own characteristics.
Lin Shuwen personally favored Tencent. Tencent hadn’t actually been in this business for very long—Tencent Cloud was still in its early stages—but its development speed was very fast.
This was mainly because Tencent itself had extremely high requirements for servers. Tencent was one of the most influential game development and operations companies in China. If their servers were unreliable, it would harm not only players’ interests but also their own.
Therefore, Tencent’s servers adopted self-developed “Scorpio” technology, which significantly improved server performance and stability.
And this technology was also open to the public—you could directly purchase and use it. Zhuoguang’s upcoming “Plants vs. Zombies Mobile” and the new “Clash of Clans” folder on Luo Ming’s computer both needed fairly stable server support. Tencent was professionally matched in this regard and was relatively trustworthy.
The folder Rong Mu sent over, however, highlighted 21Vianet.
Clearly, he favored this company more.
“Mu Tou, can you tell me your reasons for choosing 21Vianet?” Lin Shuwen asked.
“The reason is they’re very professional! I think when it comes to basic network infrastructure services in China, 21Vianet is the strongest.
First, their data center services—21Vianet, as the largest third-party neutral data center operator in China, has been providing customers with industry-leading server and network equipment hosting services, managed network services, and content delivery network services for years.
I specifically asked some friends about it—their services have almost no negative reviews.
Their server technology even reaches the point of running underwater—sounds very high-end just hearing about it.
Then from the user experience perspective, 21Vianet’s servers have very stable overall performance—there’s almost no difference in CPU, memory, or disk performance.
Although SQLite performance might be slightly weaker, overall it won’t cause much impact.
Our company’s current situation is exactly that we need this kind of server company where you can choose CPU, memory, hard drive, and bandwidth configurations according to your own needs—meeting personalized customization requirements.”
Hearing this, Lin Shuwen understood. Rong Mu chose 21Vianet because of the high stability of 21Vianet’s large-scale servers and the flexibility to meet users’ personalized needs.
Last was Luo Ming’s opinion.
