Chapter 581: No Singing in the Rain

"Sir, our business is booming!!"

Kong Baosheng said excitedly, the frustration of being blocked by the two door gods a few days ago swept away instantly.

On the stairs opposite, Li Qingshan, who had just been woken up, also walked down in a daze, not knowing what had happened. After hearing Kong Baosheng’s description, his eyes lit up.

"Brother Lin, this is a good thing!"

"...Maybe."

Chen Ling’s expression was extremely strange.

In Chen Ling’s original plan, performing at the birthday banquet was to clear his "Lin Yan" identity. Appearing at the same time as [Heart 6] would ensure he would never be suspected, and he could leave a deep impression on the Mortal high-level officials, making it easier to continue completing other tasks in the future as an opera performer, such as using the invitation to perform as an opportunity to secretly infiltrate a consortium or government...

But he seemed to have underestimated the entertainment media of the Mortal Realm, and also underestimated the fanatical pursuit of entertainment by the residents of the Mortal Realm. Overnight, he was inexplicably pushed to the forefront of the entire Mortal world, becoming a red-hot famous actor.

In this way, wanting to keep a low profile was definitely impossible... He didn't know how many people or media would be watching him, paying attention to his every move.

"Actually, it might not be a bad thing..." Chen Ling pondered, comforting himself.

As the saying goes, the most dangerous place is the safest place. Now that he had become a famous actor in the spotlight and had just cleared his name, no one would suspect or pay attention to him in the short term. Having status and identity would make doing many things more convenient.

And although the police personnel around the casino had been withdrawn, there were still suspicions left behind. To be safe, it was best to change the stronghold for the Twilight Society people... And now that he was a famous actor with huge traffic, Jinghong House could completely replace the casino as a better alternative stronghold.

It’s reasonable for a popular famous actor like him to have a "professional" management team, right?

But the problem now is, how to transfer the Twilight Society stronghold here without attracting suspicion? And meet up with Jian Changsheng and the others?

"What bad thing?" Kong Baosheng asked in confusion. "Isn't it a good thing that our opera house has more customers? Are you worried that there will be too many customers and the opera house won't have enough seats?"

Li Qingshan thought thoughtfully, "This problem is actually easy to solve. Just control the number of seats released every day, preferably by reservation or invitation... Anyway, in my opinion, the audience’s viewing experience is the most important thing. At least the opera house shouldn't be too crowded."

"Invitation system..."

Hearing these three words, Chen Ling’s eyes lit up slightly.

"Like this." Chen Ling pondered for a moment. "Today is our opera house’s first day of business. Baosheng, make a few invitations and send them to other shops on the street, inviting them to come to Jinghong House to listen to the opera tonight... As for these customers outside, arrange them in order, and try to seat as many as possible tonight."

"Inviting neighbors on the opening day... I think this suggestion is good." Li Qingshan nodded. "As the saying goes, a distant relative is not as good as a close neighbor. If we perform on the first day, the setup should be lively. Since everyone is so close in the future, we can take care of each other."

"Understood! I’ll go prepare the invitations right away! I’ll deliver them to them one by one."

Kong Baosheng nodded heavily and turned to leave.

"Wait."

Kong Baosheng turned to look at Chen Ling in confusion, only to see the latter staring at the closed opera house door, thinking for a long time, and then speaking again.

"From now on, Jinghong House must have a rule."

"What rule?"

"Jinghong House won't have opera every day. If it rains, we won't be open to the public."

"No singing in the rain?" Kong Baosheng scratched his head. "Although I can understand it, won't it be too willful for us? It rains here every three days."

Chen Ling smiled helplessly. "Did you forget that the roof of the opera house is broken? If it’s windy and rainy, even if there are customers sitting here, they will get wet. Since that’s the case, it’s better not to perform... Let’s talk about performing on rainy days after I earn back the money to repair the roof."

Kong Baosheng finally remembered this. Although not singing in the rain would lose a lot of performance revenue, there was really no other way. He nodded and went to arrange these things.

The leaking roof was naturally just Chen Ling’s excuse.

Although Jinghong House’s accidental popularity had become a foregone conclusion, Chen Ling couldn't perform here every day. There would always be Twilight Society matters to attend to, and frequently closing without performing would not only cause public conflict, but if someone with a heart connected the closing time with major events that happened recently, it would easily arouse unnecessary suspicion.

But if he set the rule of "no singing in the rain" in advance with the broken roof as a reason, even if he closed often in the future, it wouldn't arouse suspicion.

When it comes down to it, whether it rains or not, isn't it just a matter of Director Chen writing the script?

"The performance starts tonight... Then I have to prepare well." Li Qingshan’s expression was full of seriousness. "By the way, Brother Lin, what are we performing tonight?"

Chen Ling thought for a while and said:

"Let’s perform... The Butterfly Lovers."

……

Casino.

Jian Changsheng, who hadn't seen the light of day for a long time, finally pulled open the curtains and opened the window. The moment he was bathed in the sun again, he was moved to the point of almost crying.

"How long has it been since I breathed the air of freedom..." Jian Changsheng couldn't help but sigh. "Tonight, I can finally have a good sleep."

Square 10 also looked down at the casino entrance from the window and asked in confusion:

"Is it because those plainclothes officers have withdrawn? Why do I feel that there are extra few customers in the casino today..."

"There are indeed a lot fewer. Logically speaking, since that dance hall was sealed, the traffic here should have increased instead." Heart 9 thought thoughtfully. "Where did these people go?"

"Hey, why are there so many people over there?"

Jian Changsheng saw a large group of figures gathering together on the street not far away, seemingly queuing to receive something, blocking most of the road.

"I don't know... I remember there used to be an abandoned opera house there. It should have reopened."

"No wonder..."

As they were talking, a knock on the door came from outside. Jian Changsheng’s face tightened, and he looked at the other three Twilight Society members, moving silently to the door.

"What is it?"

"Supervisor, a kid came downstairs, saying he’s from the newly opened opera house across the street."

"A kid?" Jian Changsheng paused. "What is he here for?"

"He said their opera house is officially open today, and they are inviting neighbors on the street to listen to the opera... And he sent an invitation." As he spoke, the figure outside the door inserted a piece of paper through the crack in the door.

Jian Changsheng took it and found that it was indeed an invitation, but the materials were very rough, and it should have been made in a hurry.

"...Jinghong House?" Jian Changsheng read the signature on the invitation.