Love Guide for Childhood Sweethearts

"Ding Dong... Ding Dong..." The doorbell rang.

"Let's stop chatting. Someone's here." Lin Jingzhe sat up straight and said, "Call me if you need anything."

"Okay! Bye." Lin Xingzhi hung up the phone and patted his hot cheeks. "Why is your face so red?" He took a sip of ice water and let out a long sigh. "I'm hungry. I don't want to go down. I'll call room service."

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Lin Jingzhe put down his phone, stood up, opened the door, looked at Qi Na and the other two standing in front of the door and said, "Why are you here?"

"Let's go inside and talk." Ye Zhenzhen pointed her chin towards the room and said.

"Okay!" Lin Jingzhe stepped aside, "Zhenzhen is out playing with her boyfriend."

"I played billiards for an hour." Ye Zhenzhen sat on the sofa and looked at her and said, "Is there any water?"

"Yes! I'll get it for you." Lin Jingzhe closed the door and went to the kitchen. "Qina and Ximei, would you like some water?"

"We're not thirsty." Zina and Lian Ximei said in unison.

Lin Jingzhe took two bottles of purified water from the refrigerator and walked over. He unscrewed the lids and placed them on the coffee table in front of Ye Zhenzhen and said, "Here." Then he sat on the single sofa, unscrewed the lids of the purified water, and took two sips to moisten his throat. His mouth was dry from talking on the phone just now.

It turns out I have been on the phone for such a long time. Time flies.

"What are you doing here together? Is there something wrong?" Lin Jingzhe said to them while holding a bottle of purified water in his hand.

"Jingzhe, you are still hiding it from us!" Ye Zhenzhen looked at her without blinking.

"What am I hiding from you?" Lin Jingzhe looked at her in confusion and said, "You're being so nonsensical that I don't understand."

"The brand came with a box of money to ask you to endorse their product, but you refused." Ye Zhenzhen stared at her with fox eyes and said sourly.

"Wow...really?" Zina looked at her with her eyes wide open.

"A box of money!" Lian Ximei's eyes almost popped out of her window as she stammered, "You...you...why did you refuse?"

"I already have five endorsements. If there are more, I will have to refuse them." Lin Jingzhe looked at her honestly with eyes like glass beads.

"Is there a limit? If there's no limit, why don't you take on more?" Ye Zhenzhen looked at her anxiously and said, "Sports stars are so overwhelmed with endorsements. Seven or eight isn't too much, ten or so is fine too. The more the better."

"Too much of it affects your training, causing your performance to decline and your commercial value to drop to zero." Lin Jingzhe looked at her with clear eyes and said seriously.

"Uh..." Ye Zhenzhen was speechless and looked at her hesitantly, wanting to say something.

"Besides, some of these brands don't produce quality assurance products. No matter how much money they offer, I wouldn't dare take it!" Lin Jingzhe looked at them with deep, penetrating eyes and said, "Violating the Advertising Law will be punished."

"Ah!" Zina looked at her in disbelief and said, "Is it illegal to be a spokesperson?"

"That's right! We must bear joint responsibility." Lin Jingzhe looked at them with eyes as dark as black jade and said, "We can't lose the big picture for the sake of small things."

"Their quality is good, but they're not well-known." Ye Zhenzhen was silent for a while before speaking.

"Do you believe this?" Lin Jingzhe asked sharply with his clear eyes.

"Uh..." Ye Zhenzhen couldn't understand why she didn't want to make money. "During the competition, you refused the company's bonus. This endorsement is legitimate, but you also refused it."

"I'm only eighteen this year. If nothing goes wrong, I can still participate in three or four Olympics. It's a long-term plan, isn't it?" Lin Jingzhe looked at her with his glazed eyes and said, "Only good results can reflect commercial value."

"You refused it yourself." Zina said, looking at her curiously.

"Of course!" Lin Jingzhe raised the corners of his lips and looked at her with a smile, "What do you think?"

"The team is not allowed to take private jobs. I heard that the diving queen was criticized for earning extra money." Zina said in a low voice with her round eyes.

"I heard about it too. The money has been handed over and a self-criticism has been written." Lian Ximei's eyes widened as she spoke.

"I accept endorsements, variety shows, and some activities with the approval of my superiors. I don't want to take private work." Lin Jingzhe said to them with pure eyes.

"Does the team take a lot of commission?" Ye Zhenzhen stared at her intently, "I heard they take a lot, so I took on some private work."

"It's within my acceptable range." Lin Jingzhe looked at her with his radiant peach blossom eyes and said, "It's all based on the old rules."

"Alas... compared to this, foreign professional sports stars are extremely free." Ye Zhenzhen stared at them with envy in her fox eyes.

"It has to be a sport with a good mass base. It's difficult to endorse a niche sport." Lin Jingzhe looked at her with his deep brown eyes.

"Football is good, and it has to be men's football." Zina looked at her with round eyes and said, "Women's football hasn't even made a splash."

"Women's tennis, those black sisters, Serena Williams and Venus Williams, are making a killing," Ye Zhenzhen said, looking at them enviously. "Tournament prize money, endorsement fees, and sponsorship fees."

"You only see how much they make, but do you know how much they've invested?" Lin Jingzhe glared at her unhappily, then gulped down a sip. "Let me put it this way! They have a professional team to take care of them, allowing them to focus on improving their skills and physical and mental fitness." He spoke seriously, "You could say a tennis player is the boss of a company, building themselves into a brand. They use tournament prize money and advertising sponsorships to pay their employees' salaries, travel expenses, venue fees, food, and other expenses. After taxes, they still have to keep development funds to mitigate risks, and finally, their net profit." He looked at them with dark eyes and said, "For professional sports stars, this is entrepreneurship." He added with a smile, "So many startups fail. We can't just focus on the successes."

"We don't have to pay for the competition expenses, including flights, hotel accommodation, and meals." Zina looked at her with round eyes and said, "There are no employees to pay."

"Someone paid for us." Lian Ximei looked at Ye Zhenzhen with her big, bright eyes.

"Professional sports stars not only have to improve their skills, but they also have to manage their team's personnel, finances, and business planning." Lin Jingzhe looked at them with dark brown eyes and said, "We can't even understand business contracts. What if you sign an endorsement contract and the brand tries to rip you off?"

"Did Jingzhe sign it himself?" Zina looked at her with concern and asked.