While looking at the outrageous comments from netizens, Li Youzhi finished his breakfast.
Because of his recent weight loss, Li Youzhi's breakfast was quite simple: two eggs, a carton of milk, a few stalks of spinach, and a little sesame oil...
If a standard fat-loss meal like this wasn't accompanied by some form of entertainment, even a dog wouldn't touch it.
However, in order to complete the suggested task of losing thirty jin, Li Youzhi had already gotten used to it.
After eating, Li Youzhi got dressed and headed over to the delivery company. But today he wasn't here to work—he was here to resign.
He had been doing part-time deliveries for over half a month, during which Li Youzhi had earned a little over four thousand yuan. After deducting his normal living expenses for this period and the cost of some necessary daily necessities, he had a little over three thousand yuan left.
This three thousand plus yuan was enough to tide him over for a while.
Since his savings could resolve his immediate crisis, continuing to deliver food no longer held much significance for his weight loss.
The reason was that his current weight had reached a plateau. Weight loss isn't a matter of eating less and exercising more guaranteeing rapid weight loss; rather, it follows a set of rules and a specific process.
For example, suppose a person weighs two hundred jin, and their previous lifestyle habit was gorging themselves without any dietary control. By cutting back on food, they could lose twenty jin in a single month. But if they kept dieting the same way during the second month, the weight loss effect would drop drastically.
Why?
Because the body had already adapted to that month's energy intake level, and the body's metabolism had stabilized at its current rate, making it no longer effective at continuously burning body fat—at this point, it is called a plateau.
To break through this plateau, the only options are to eat even more sparingly or increase the amount of exercise, raise the body's muscle proportion, and enhance basal metabolism.
Although delivery work was tiring, strictly speaking, it counted as aerobic exercise. Li Youzhi's current body had already adapted to the workload of delivery running, so the recent weight-loss effects had begun to show a noticeable decline.
To reduce his weight to the target goal as quickly as possible, he had to increase anaerobic exercise and strength training; only then could he effectively boost his basal metabolism and break through this weight-loss plateau.
Therefore, when those netizens raised the stakes in the comment section today, telling him to do a set of five hundred squats and five hundred push-ups every day, although he thought it was absurd, he decisively accepted the task.
In a sense, even though the starting point of the suggestion made by the netizens was pure nonsense, it happened to match Li Youzhi's current situation.
Arriving at the delivery company and telling the manager about his desire to resign, Li Youzhi's manager was quite reluctant to let him go.
During these past few days while Li Youzhi worked part-time at the company, orders from the university dormitory area had increased by twenty to thirty percent—and they were all specific orders for him.
With Li Youzhi leaving, those orders would likely be lost.
After several attempts to persuade him were politely declined by Li Youzhi, the manager reluctantly settled his wages, gave Li Youzhi an extra one-hundred-yuan red envelope, and urged him that whenever he wanted to do part-time work again in the future, he could come back at any time.
Even though it was just a pure employment relationship, Li Youzhi still appreciated those who took care of him.
People, you see... if you're handsome, nothing matters, but if you're ugly, you still have to mind the basic etiquette of human relations.
After all, without good looks paving the way, the path of life is already narrow enough; most of the time, you have to learn to widen it yourself, right?
After promising the manager that if any classmates requested him for deliveries in the future, he would transfer the orders to the company, Li Youzhi returned to the school.
Having quit his delivery part-time job, Li Youzhi originally planned to go back to the dorm and finish today's "500" first, to get an F-class treasure chest and open it.
Yet just as he walked downstairs to the dormitory building, he saw a middle-aged man standing right at the entrance.
Seeing Li Youzhi walk over, the man took a direct step forward, blocking his path.
"Classmate Li Youzhi, right?"
Facing Li Youzhi's puzzled gaze, the man, who was around forty years old, properly dressed, and well-maintained but had ordinary looks, raised his chin and proactively extended his right hand.
Shaking hands lightly with the other man, Li Youzhi asked doubtfully, "May I ask who you are?"
"Zhou Jingyao's father."
Damn it...
Feeling the chill in the other man's gaze, Li Youzhi couldn't help twitching the corners of his mouth.
Will this never end?
He had just dealt with the daughter, and now the old man had shown up?
"Don't worry, I'm not here to trouble you—at least not today."
Glancing at Li Youzhi's flickering gaze, Zhou's father said coldly, "Last night I received a notice from the school saying that Yao Yao was in trouble, so I rushed back immediately from out of town. After looking into the situation today, I felt it necessary to see you."
Seeing that Li Youzhi remained silent, Zhou's father raised an eyebrow: "Yao Yao is young, so her actions might be childish and indeed inappropriate in some respects. Her reaching this point today is largely due to her own reasons. But young man, the role you played in this series of events makes it very hard for a father like me to let go. Don't think that the little tricks you pulled went unnoticed by others; you might think you're very clever, but in our eyes, these are just petty games. I heard you're a film and television literature major studying screenwriting—what a coincidence, I'm somewhat connected to this industry as well. I've noted down what happened with Yao Yao this time. If you enter this industry in the future, I will take good care of you."
Patting Li Youzhi heavily on the shoulder, Zhou's father turned around and left.
Looking at his retreating figure, Li Youzhi curled his lip.
Damn it.
Brother Zhi was raised on courage, not fear!
"Take good care of me," indeed... You have to actually get the chance to do so!
It was true that his original self majored in screenwriting, but Li Youzhi had never considered pursuing screenwriting in the future.
Abroad, during the production process of TV dramas and movies, screenwriters responsible for content held an extremely high say, and most of the production team's arrangements were made around the script. But domestically, producers, directors, lead actors, and even damn minor actors who brought their own funding all had the right to decide the script's content; a screenwriter's ranking in the production team was even behind the crew's broom.
With the way the domestic entertainment industry behaved, even if you had no enmity or grudges against anyone, being a screenwriter was just asking for trouble!
Now, watching the back of Zhou Jingyao's father, Li Youzhi shouted at the top of his lungs.
"Uncle! If you still have the energy, go back and practice playing a second character! Your daughter... doesn't look much like you!"
Hearing Li Youzhi's shout, Zhou's father stopped in his tracks.
Standing in place and blowing off steam for a long while, he finally clenched his fists and strode away.
Curling his lip, Li Youzhi also returned to the dormitory building.
"Huh? Brother Zhi, didn't you go do deliveries today?"
As soon as Li Youzhi went upstairs, he saw several boys running quickly downstairs.
"No, I quit the part-time job. I'm not doing deliveries anymore."
"Damn, that's perfect! The crew that was recruiting extras at our school a couple of days ago is starting production soon. If you're free, why don't we go together!"
"Yeah, yeah, Brother Zhi! They give internship certificates, pay wages by the day, and you can get familiar with the film and television shooting process along the way. The teachers in the department even suggested we go try it out. We've already decided to go, you should come too! It's better when everyone goes together as a company!"
[Received suggestion (go to the crew for an internship), difficulty 2 stars, completing it will yield an F-class reward treasure chest]
Huh?
Being an extra?
Seeing the new suggestion task refreshed by the system, Li Youzhi smacked his lips.
Listen to advice!
Let's do it!