120. (1) Decoration
The house given by the eldest brother of the Zhong family was uniformly decorated. The floor, wall, partition, stairs, etc. were all decorated, and even the furniture and lamps were installed, which was just for living with your bag. However, the overall style is European, and it looks magnificent, but lacks a bit of warmth and comfort.
Zhong Yibin took Chu Qin to visit the new house. As soon as he entered the door, he was dazzled by the gorgeous decoration style.
The smooth and visible marble floor, the rich and elegant leather sofa, and the rigorous and sturdy stone staircase look like the royal palace in Europe.
Chu Qin twitched the corner of his mouth: "Who designed this decoration?"
"It is said that it is the famous Nordic interior designer Oscar." Zhong Yibin looked at the promotional page.
Everyone knows that real estate publicity is usually unreliable, and the Zhong family is not very scammed. However, hearing what Zhong Yibin said, there must be another mystery. Chu Qin raised his eyebrows slightly: "What about it?"
"Oscar is the dog we raised before..." Zhong Yibin said honestly.
"..." Chu Qin twitched the corners of his mouth. This false propaganda is too much!
In fact, this community was designed by the Zhong family’s own decoration company and used good materials, but it is not as generous as the publicity. Many people will decorate it again after they move in.
Chu Qin doesn’t like this gorgeous style very much, and he has the illusion of staying in a hotel. Since he wants to treat this place as home, he should look like home.
Thinking of Chu Qin's comfortable apartment and looking at the magnificence in front of him, Zhong Yibin deeply agreed: "Then let's replace these and find someone to redecorate them."
"Okay, I'll pay for the renovation." Chu Qin stood on the second floor and looked down, starting to plan the appearance of this home in his mind.
Zhong Yibin originally wanted to object, but then he thought that many people spent money to buy a wedding house and his wife spent money to decorate it, which was considered as common property. After thinking about it, Zhong Yibin became happy again and agreed immediately.
Fortunately, it was my own business, and these furniture and lamps were not wasted. They were moved back to the warehouse and used in the next fine decoration community. Zhong Yibin asked the company's people to clean up, and in a few days the house was emptied. Even the lamps and decorations were taken away, leaving only a gorgeous empty house.
Chu Qin looked at the empty house and touched his chin: "Zhong Xiaoji, I will give you a glorious and arduous task."
"Please give me instructions!" Zhong Yibin, who was wandering around the house, quickly appeared in the living room and stood attentively.
"I'll leave the decoration design drawings to you. I want a fresh and natural style." Chu Qin raised his chin slightly.
"Okay sir!" Zhong Yibin saluted, then stepped forward, hugged Chu Qin and kissed him.
"How can I kiss the chief? You are violating discipline!" Chu Qin pushed away his big head that was coming over.
"If you violate discipline, you can punish me as much as you like." Zhong Yibin laughed and bit Chu Qin's ear.
I handed over this task to Zhong Yibin because Chu Qin was a little busy during this period. After returning from the Golden Luo Award, their relationship was spread in front of the Chinese people, and their careers would naturally be impacted.
Chu Qin's main sources of income are: First, Shengshi TV's annual salary and program subsidies; Second, commercial performances are all kinds of scenes; Third, brand endorsement. Among them, the most income is brand endorsement. There are two fixed endorsements, one is a certain brand of domestic mobile phones, and the other is men's clothing that takes the young people's route.
The boss of the domestic mobile phone brand is a very conservative person. After hearing this, he slapped the table and wanted to terminate the contract with Chu Qin: "If I knew it was a homosexual endorsement, who would dare to buy it in the future? If a man bought it, he would be ridiculed as a gay man!"
So, Chu Qin just came back and received a letter of termination from this company. Not only did he lose his endorsement fee this year, but he also asked him to compensate him for three million in loss of brand image.
Chu Qin's agent Zhao Bai was so angry that he jumped up and called over and scolded the other party.
"You said these are useless. Now our mobile phones are unsold. Isn't it caused by Chu Qin?" The manager of the other party's marketing department replied coldly.
"Your mobile phone functions are so poor. You will crash if you use them for a few strokes. You will still be poisoned. If it weren't for our Chu Qin's fans' charity, you would have gone bankrupt long ago!" Zhao Bai was not a good man, and he wouldn't have continued to cooperate anyway, so he simply scolded them.
The other party was so angry that he sniffed a few breaths: "Haha, you should take care of yourself. Chu Qin will be banned by the state station in two days. Let's see what you do."
Chu Qin finished reading the termination letter word by word, and found the advertising contract he signed before. There were detailed instructions on the termination, but no one said that if the artist had any problems with his nature, he would terminate the contract. He signaled Zhao Bai not to argue again: "Let's go to a lawsuit, with this contract, they can't win, and they will pay us money."
This matter was handed over to Shengshi Legal Affairs Department, and the two companies quickly proposed to Bo Gongtang. Chu Qin wanted to conduct a public trial and invited the media to watch it. The other party's mobile phone company actually agreed happily. Perhaps in their opinion, this is a good opportunity to become famous, and it can increase the popularity of mobile phones.
The lawsuit is about to be filed, and Chu Qin has no time to take care of the decoration for the time being, so he first handed it to Zhong Yibin to do the design plan and come back to show it to him.
On the day of the trial, Chu Qin sat in the hearing seat and did not sit in the plaintiff's seat. Because the contract was signed by Shengshi Entertainment and Mobile Company, the plaintiff was naturally Shengshi Entertainment Company, and the company representative and agent Zhao Bai sat on the seat.
"The contract states that if Party B's reputation is damaged due to personal reasons of the artist, Party B has the right to terminate the contract." The lawyer of the mobile phone company stated his views.
"I would like to ask the defendant's lawyer, where did Chu Qin cause your company's reputation to be damaged? There is only one thing in the contract, which means that if the artist's morality is corrupt, such as drug abuse, scandal, or violation of laws and regulations, it will be determined that it caused Party B's reputation to be damaged." Shengshi's lawyer requested retorted with a righteous expression.
"We all know that Chu Qin publicly admitted at the Golden Luo Awards ceremony recently that he was a homosexual..." said the other lawyer arrogantly.
"So do you think that homosexuality is moral corruption?" Shengshi's lawyer pressed step by step.
"According to the current cultural atmosphere in our country, this is moral corruption." The other lawyer said it along.
The audience was in an uproar, and the scene was broadcast live to the audience across the country through the camera, and many young people were angry.
[Is homosexuality moral corruption? Is heterosexuality illegal and criminal? After all, heterosexuality can easily cause death!]
The court did not pronounce the verdict and would be held in a few days. In the past few days, young people from all over the country spontaneously organized activities to boycott the company, raising signs at the entrance of the mall to demonstrate, demanding that the mobile phone company apologize and compensate Chu Qin for his losses. There were also boycotts on the Internet, and everyone ran to the official Weibo of the mobile phone to leave messages.
[I used to buy it because I like Qin Qin, otherwise who would know what kind of broken phone you have!]
[This phone is not easy to use at all. I didn't say anything before to earn more endorsement fee for Chu Qin. Now I can complain, I laughed at the brackets.]
During the days when they were waiting for the verdict, the mobile phone company received countless complaints and large-scale returns appeared in online sales channels. The mobile phone company was panicked. Things seemed different from what they imagined. They quickly called Chu Qin to settle, but were rejected by Shengshi Entertainment.
In the end, the court ruled that homosexuality was not a moral issue, and Chu Qin's personal popularity in China did not decline. Mobile phone companies unilaterally terminated the contract based on personal prejudice was deemed to be a breach of contract, and they must compensate Chu Qin for the endorsement fee of 10 million and the liquidated damages of 3 million.
Chu Qin received a huge compensation and was very happy. He went home to show off to Zhong Yibin in the evening: "I made money in decoration! Where is the design plan?"
Zhong Yibin smiled mysteriously, took out three design drawings from the drawer, and held them in front of Chu Qin like a treasure: "I found a very creative designer and said my ideas. He made these three copies, which I think are all very good."
Chu Qin took the design drawings and looked at them.
The first one is called "Jihad". The renderings show that the entire house will be decorated in an ancient temple style, paving stairs with raw stones, and pillars of Greek temples as railings, making the appearance of Saint Seiya challenging the Golden Twelve Palaces.
"...Don't you feel tired when living in battle every day?" Chu Qin twitched the corners of his mouth.
"No, this is so exciting," Zhong Yibin pointed to the stone staircase and was excited. "Every time I go upstairs, I can shout 'Burn the little universe, for Athena, rush to the twelve palaces', how cool!"
Chu Qin: "..." I don't know where the pleasure is, and this plan is not passed.
The second one is called "Interstellar". It looks pretty beautiful. The roof is painted like a cosmic starry sky, the floor is paved with potholes in the moon landform, sofas, tables and chairs are all made into planetary shapes in the solar system, but... what's the matter with the Ultraman-shaped lamppost? There is also the monster-shaped big bed and the fighter-shaped toilet. Do you live in the universe every day?
"This is natural enough, but sleeping in this kind of room will cause nightmares." Chu Qin tried to persuade.
"Well, if you don't like it, there is one more." Zhong Yibin took out the third one.
The third part is called "primitive". This is really based on Chu Qin's requirements, especially primitive and natural. The floor is covered with blue bricks and pebbles, the tables and chairs are made of stones and wood, with animal skin blankets on them, and the bed is surrounded by a circle of stones and cushions like hay in the middle. Even the stove is made into a large pot like a rural area...
"You don't have to be so primitive..." Chu Qin was completely convinced. The designer's idea was too big. He decorated his home into a primitive society. Every day when he went home, he had the illusion that he was a savage.
"Actually, I don't like the third one very much, it's not romantic at all." Zhong Yibin took out the first one with bright eyes and strongly recommended the Saint Seiya-style one.
Chu Qin rubbed his forehead: "Forget it, I'll talk to this designer."
The design style finally returned to the right path, but it still retained some places that Zhong Yibin liked. The stairs were made of wooden hollowed-out and linked with transparent materials, which looked like they were floating in the air from a distance.
"It's like the steps leading to the Athena Temple, full of holy light, isn't it cool?" Chu Qin pinched Zhong Yibin's pouting chick's mouth.
When Zhong Yibin, who was not very happy to say this, had his eyes lit up when he thought about it. When he thought about it, it seemed to be cooler than a stone staircase, and he nodded immediately.
The roof in front of the floor-to-ceiling window retained the starry sky shape, but the two had a dispute over what lounge chairs to place here.
Zhong Yibin couldn't walk when he looked at a pair of recliners in the shape of a space capsule. He wanted to buy it but couldn't even pull it away.
"This chair has a ceiling, and you can't see the starry sky on the roof if you look up. How frustrating," Chu Qin squatted with him, studying the magnesium-aluminum alloy chair. "Look there, the log recliner is so beautiful, and it's brighter to lie on it. And if you want to do something on the recliner, you won't touch your head."
Zhong Yibin was stunned for a moment, looking at the space capsule with a narrow space, and then the spacious, comfortable recliner with natural curvature. Chu Qin lying naked on it automatically appeared in front of him. As long as he pounced over, he could do something ashamed as he wanted. He nodded and agreed: "Then buy that!"
"Be good." Chu Qin touched Erbing's head and took his hand to continue walking.
In the end, the style of the new house was basically the simple and natural style that Chu Qin liked. The living room was covered with wood grain floors and gray wool carpets in the middle. The low sofa was spacious and comfortable, with many cushions of different sizes and shapes.
In front of the floor-to-ceiling glass window, there is a circle of pebbles, and some green moss is planted. Where the pebbles are circled, two wooden lounge chairs are placed, plus a large transparent umbrella. Through the umbrella, you can see the roof of the starry sky pattern.
When the eldest brother of the Zhong family came to visit, he was very surprised. The younger brother showed off the three designs before, but he didn't expect that Chu Qin could actually make Zhong Yibin change his mind, and there was no strange thing at home.
"How did you do it?" Zhong Jiabin asked Chu Qin.
"Just coax it." Chu Qin shrugged.
Before he finished speaking, he heard Zhong Yibin's voice coming from the upper floor: "Qinqin, where is my golden sacred sword?"
"It's hanging on the divine pillar." Chu Qin responded, and then realized that the eldest brother of the Zhong family was there, and he couldn't help but blush.
Chapter completed!