FCF 014

Former Cannon Fodder’s Self-Help Manual

Translator: Xiao Wentian

Editor: Kirishima Ririka

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　　Chapter 014: Marrying a Scum Man’s Mother (14)
　　
　　Jian Yixian walked to the window to look at far away, relaxing her exhausted spirit, and protected her poor eyesight.
　　
　　After she relaxed, she estimated the time, the Weibo fever has almost subsided, she walked to her desk, picked up the iPad, and registered a Weibo account.
　　
　　Jian Yixian had always declined using these social networking app, so it took Jian Yixian a long time to register her account.
　　
　　After registering, she passed her account to Cao Feng and asked him to authenticate it.
　　
　　Cao Feng was quick to contact Weibo’s head office, and when the top management of Weibo found out it was Jian Yixian who wanted to verify her account, they passed the verification process quickly.

　　Jian Yixian clicked the iPad, log-ed into her Weibo account, her goal was clear and headed straight to 《The Dawn is Coming》 official weibo.
　　
　　Jian Yixian’s thin, white fingers, as thin as a green onion root, pulled on the screen, typed a few words, and two words popped up on the interface, “Reposted successfully”.
　　
　　I’m looking forward to the new drama. I’m looking forward to the next cooperation[smile] / #Looking forward to Director Xia’s debut drama. The big boss personally signed the drama, the boss said, Director Xia used to be a good actress, she would definitely be a good director, I know I’m going to lick director Xia’s works from now on [distressed]#.
　　
　　This post came out. It was like stabbing a hornet’s nest. The popularity that has just gone down was being poured gasoline. Like a hula hoop, the popularity went burst again.
　　
　　Jian Yixian found Xia Changhan’s Weibo. She clicked follow, after doing this, she gently laughed, threw down the iPad, she’s done, hiding her credit and fame.[1]
　　
　　The next day, when Xia Changhan got up and opened Weibo, she was stunned.

Four out of the ten hot searches were related to her.

　　Xia Changhan was quite puzzled. It’s easy to get bored of buying too much hot searches, and it would be a huge turnoff to the netizen. Did Nianhua Media, a big company, doesn’t understand?[2]
　　
　　The system was quite interested, urging Xia Changhan to hurry up and click to see.
　　
　　Xia Changhan’s finger that was pinching at the screen paused, “Why are you so eager to join in the fun.”
　　
　　The system is quite wronged: “I’m concerned about you.”

　　’Oh my gosh. The system is getting smarter, could make false words better than me.’
　　
　　”Are you that idle?” Xia Changhan asked suspiciously.
　　
　　The system only followed one host, of course it was idle, but it wouldn’t admit it, it disappeared without a word, as usual.
　　
　　Xia Changhan didn’t care, clicked and browsed the hot search.
　　
　　She learned about the things about her on Weibo from beginning to the end, and couldn’t help but exclaim: “Jian Yixian is too interesting!”
　　
　　Even though she’s that scum Jian Ming’s mother! But she’s nothing like a treacherous son of a bitch Jian Ming Scum!

　　Her series of operations not only did she promote 《The Dawn is Coming》, but also showing her attitude towards Xia Changchun was a direct representative of Jian Group’s attitude towards Xia Changhan. All the previous unfavorable comments about Xia Changhan were swept away, and Jian Yixian showed with her actions that she took care of Xia Changhan. If someone wanted to bother her in the future, they would have to weigh her first.[3]

　　Xia Changhan thought Jian Yixian has been helping out so much. Should she invite her for a meal? There was no one else to consult, so she decided to ask the system.
　　
　　”System, should I invite Jian Yixian for a thank you meal?”
　　
　　The system that doesn’t understand the ways of the world: “Ah. She slept with you yet she didn’t invite you for a thank you meal.”
　　
　　Xia Changhan blushed, then she got angry at the system’s crude words conversion and replied sarcastically: “Bah, bah, bah, what do you mean a meal after one night’s sleep. How come I’m that cheap, indeed.”
　　
　　The system’s data was in chaos for a moment, it thought Xia Changhan wanted to calculate how much was a meal after one night’s sleep worth, as a result it deliberately explained, “Jian Yixian proposed 300 million to support you every year, a year is 365 days. This year is a leap year, so there’s an extra day, so it’s 300 million divided by 366, one night’s sleep is around 820 thousands[4]!”
　　
　　The system searched for this world’s support packages’ prices, and happily said to Xia Changhan, “The highest turnover in this world for one night is 300 thousand yuan[5], congratulations, you’re the most expensive!”
　　
　　Xia Changhan was nearly get mad at the system’s straightforwardness.
　　
　　After fighting with the system, she calmed down, remembering that she’s Jian Yixian’s firecracker friend, so eating together will definitely be awkward, but Jian Yixian was very busy. So she might not go if she mentioned it casually. Jian Yixian would definitely find a reason to refuse, so not only do they have no need to meet embarrassingly, but Xia Changhan would also has expressed her gratitude, it’s very perfect.[6]
　　
　　Xia Changhan wanted to do it right away. She searched Jian Yixian’s contact information on her phone. After deleting and removing many times, she finally finished editing a message inviting her to a meal, and as she thought about it, she added a sentence at the end: President Jian, can I add your QQ?
　　
　　Xia Changhan thought straightforwardly, the SMS’s cost was 10 cents, and she had invested all her money in web dramas, so it would be convenient and economical to contact her via QQ.
　　
　　It wasn’t long before Jian Yixian reply has come, only a very short two words: Ok, followed by her QQ ID.

　　Xia Changhan: “……..”
　　
　　Her original plan was good, but Jian Yixian didn’t play her cards according to the routine.
　　
　　And then, Xia Changhan received another message: No need to spend much, I’ll go to your home for a light meal.

　　‘Ah, now I’ll have to cook for her, too.’
　　
　　Xia Changhan simply wanted to wait for her to come and order a few takeaways. It was delicious and affordable, and there is no need to wash the dishes after eating, just throw it in the garbage.
　　
　　Xia Changhan entered the QQ ID sent by Jian Yixian. A nickname popped up after a search, “1Pillar, 1String, 1Person”[7], as she clicked on it, Xia Changhan almost laughed.
　　
　　Jian Yixian’s QQ was too plain. The avatar was still the original one when QQ was first released 21 years ago, and Xia Changhan finally felt the changing of era from Jian Yixian.[8]
　　
　　After requesting to add a friend, Xia Changhan was quickly approved, and Jian Yixian sent a smiley emoticon.
　　
　　Even the emoticon she used was so old-fashioned.
　　
　　【When will President Jian come to my humble abode?】
　　【How about tomorrow? (smiles)】
　　【I’m waiting for President Jian anytime.】
　　【(smiles) 】
　　
　　Xia Changhan is overjoyed, President Jian used the basic smiling emoticon a lot.[9]
　　
　　The next day, on the early morning, while Xia Changhan was applying the moisturizer, the doorbell suddenly rang.
　　
　　Xia Changhan has finished her basic morning routine[10], she opened the door to see Jian Yixian was standing at the door, holding a bottle of red wine.

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Footnotes:

[1] So FL followed MC, thinking that probably MC wouldn’t notice another +1 follower
[2] No, the hot search is for free
[3] You think with Jian Yixian’s obvious pampering attitude people wouldn’t be stupid to bother Xia Changhan? Well…
[4]Around 117k USD
[5] Around 43k USD
[6] Haha MC is too naive
[7] The explanation will be a bit too long, you can google “一弦一柱思 华年的人” the term comes from “锦瑟无端五十弦，一弦一柱思华年” basically Jian Yixian’s Yixian means 1 string, and 1person bit was Nian Hua if the characters are reversed.
[8] I added the tid bit. So QQ was first released around 21 years ago, and FL was currently nearly 36 years old. MC is around 23 years old, which mean highly likely FL installed QQ around 1999 on her teenager years (probably for class group chat since students have a lot of WA class group chat), MC who was barely older than QQ only knew old QQ by the old avatar.
[9] So yeah. Gap Moe/Contrast Meng, where Jian Yixian obviously doesn’t show much expression on face but uses emoticons at text. Kinda like Takimoto Hifumi from New Game!
[10] There’s 3 basic morning routine, Cleanser, Moisturizer, and Sunscreen.I thought it’s still dawn but it’s already in the morning, so it’s figure of speech of early.

Author: The word count is a bit low, so I’ll make it up tomorrow. To celebrate breaking a thousand bookmarks, the first fifty little angels to leave a comment will receive an internet pie filled with love! Although the comments never usually reach 50, but its the thought that matters!
Thank you little angels~
Thank you all so much for your support, I’ll keep trying!

Ririka: We’re 1/8 done with this series~

XWV: Let’s see if we can do double update of cannon fodder today~

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