The Cannon Fodder Alpha Who Made the Heroine Pregnant - Chapter 7

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Seeing the intimate embrace between Chu Zhao and the stranger, Zhou Lan wisely retreated.

Since she knew the other person, she shouldn’t meddle in other people’s business.

There was no cancel button on the security alarm. Once it was pressed, the security team would have to come and check it out. Since she was Chu Zhao’s friend, Chu Zhao should be able to handle it.

After all, Chu Zhao was the other owner of the villa. With her around, her friend should not be taken away by the security.

Zhou Lan saw the two people pulling and tugging at each other, talking about something. The thief… no, the suspected thief was struggling to get into the villa.

Zhou Lan was full of questions. She couldn’t understand what they were doing, so she lowered her body and went back to the room.

The novel portrayed Chu Zhao as solitary, with allies but no intimate connections. This development was unexpected.

Zhou Lan shook her head. Never mind. It was none of her business. What she had to do was to change her fate in the book and live well.

She had saved a life for nothing, so of course she had to cherish it.

Anyway, this incident is over. As long as she could provide Chu Zhao with assistance, she could leave Jiangning and move to another city or even abroad.

But even a penny can make a hero fall. No matter where you go, the most important thing is money. As long as you have money, you can leave at any time.

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The Music Gambit

Ling He’na had cut off her financial resources. Songwriting was her forte, but she also knew that whether a song would be discovered, whether she could become a famous musician, just like in her previous life. Her songs will be hard to find, not just because they were good, but because she had to become famous.

To have her talent discovered, submitting songs directly was obviously not an option. Not only would it fall through the cracks, but if someone stole them, it would be even worse.

Copyright control in this world is very strict, but even so, copyright theft is not uncommon.

Some people, unable to write songs, would hire someone to write for them, only to be tricked by the person who wrote them. The person will be the one to become famous, while Zhou Lan was out of luck.

Zhou Lan needed a way to make her songs popular, and then more people would come to her to write songs.

Participating in a talent show was clearly out of the question. She didn’t want to be a celebrity, nor a public figure. She clearly couldn’t escape the Zhou family, not to mention the fact that she disliked the public eye and the complexities of the entertainment industry.

She picked up the original host’s phone and unlocked it with her fingerprint. She first checked the apps found in this world, an app similar to Weibo called “The Hottest.”

This app provided a quick overview of what was trending in this world and the latest policies.

Her world was best known for short video apps, and while both worlds were similar, the hottest short video app at the time was “Shiyan,” meaning “visual feast.”

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Rebirth as “Ming Xiao Zhou”

Of course, Zhou Lan didn’t see anything wrong with being an internet celebrity. Any industry requires hard work, and internet celebrities have fixed livestreaming tasks. During livestreams, they can’t tolerate any negative comments from the commentary. The psychological burden alone is far greater than ordinary people can bear.

While internet celebrities are public figures, they can livestream without showing their faces.

Music apps allow artists to register and release songs directly, but there are copyright loopholes during registration.

Releasing a song implies the artist agrees to certain implicit terms.

After much deliberation, Zhou Lan finally decided to livestream on Shiyan, where she would simply wear a mask and a hat.

With the brim pulled down over her eyes, no one would recognize her.

First, she had to register an account. She remembered that her former self had just returned to China, and her lackeys had given her a bunch of fancy phone numbers to choose from. She could just pick and activate one.

Zhou Lan went to the study and found a number of new phones in the drawer.

The original host’s lackeys were truly dedicated. Besides them, the Zhou family’s housekeeper had also prepared a wealth of things for her.

Like phone numbers, there were also numerous different phone models in the drawer.

Seeing the drawer, she followed her original host’s memories and opened the cabinet next to the computer desk. Inside, there were over a dozen unopened laptops and tablets, all the latest models from various brands.

She had no shortage of money in her previous life, but seeing the insanely lavish lifestyle in the original host’s study, she couldn’t help but sigh: the original host truly didn’t value money.

As expected, one doesn’t feel bad about money they don’t earn.

Zhou Lan took out a copy of each of her laptops, phones, tablets, and SIM cards.

She first activated the SIM card in her phone. She could only use her own ID. As an author, she was very particular about her copyright and didn’t want any accidents.

She downloaded some common apps onto her new phone, including chat apps like “Zuire” and “Shiyan.”

From now on, these accounts would become her alternate identities, hidden aliases.

What should be her alias?

Zhou Lan pondered for a moment, and three words suddenly popped into her mind: Ming Xiao Zhou.

Tomorrow’s Xiao Zhou will be a new Xiao Zhou.

With that chosen name, her new identity was born:

Ming Xiao Zhou, Musician.

As a musician, each of her works represents her heart and soul. In her previous world, they were widely circulated, and they would continue to be so in this world.

Not only would she have previous works, but she would also be creating new ones.

For example, “Dark Light,” a half-finished song.

She wrote this song while reading about Chu Zhao’s life experiences. However, she felt that she didn’t understand Chu Zhao well enough and wanted to re-read the novel. While writing the lyrics, she traveled back in time.

After meeting Chu Zhao and briefly understanding her psychology, Zhou Lan realized that her previous lyrics were inadequate and needed to be rewritten.

Songwriting inspiration comes to her spontaneously, with a melody popping up anywhere and at any time.

For her, the most challenging part of a song is writing the lyrics.

When she’s in the zone, she can finish a song in ten minutes. When she’s not, writing lyrics is incredibly difficult and might take her a month to complete.

Of course, she’ll have other songs in the meantime; it’s not just this one song, “Dead Gang.”

She counted the songs she had written in her previous life, there’s over a hundred. Even if she couldn’t write a song from today on, she still had plenty of work to do.

But her love for music would never cease.

Just now, she had a sudden inspiration, a theme about rebirth.

Her arrival in this world was a rebirth, wasn’t it? Whatever the original host had done, from the moment she crossed over, it was over for the old host. Zhou Lan could only be her, she was Zhou Lan.

She would live well in this body, not just as a good person, but at least as someone who wouldn’t harm others.

Of course, since she had inherited this body, she also had to repay the debts owed by the original host, like treating Chu Zhao well.

She would do her best to help Chu Zhao escape the Zhou family. By that time, Chu Zhao would have already defeated the Zhou family and become powerful, making it a perfect time for her to retire.

In this novel with a strong female protagonist, the Zhou family only occupies the first thirty percent of the story. Later, more powerful families and individuals will appear to make Chu Zhao a heartless heroine; the entire book presents her with a multitude of challenges.

She remembered the general outlines of the novel, but some of the details were forgotten after reading, or perhaps even completely forgotten.

Besides, the novel was solely about finding Chu Zhao. In the real world, everyone is an independent individual, and their lives are subject to much more. It certainly couldn’t be based solely on the storyline of a novel.

Her special ability was the ability to hear Chu Zhao’s thoughts, which was only about her.

If Chu Zhao’s thoughts weren’t about her, she wouldn’t be able to hear them.

But knowing the general direction of things was far better than knowing nothing at all. As long as she could leave the Zhou family as soon as possible and help Chu Zhao defeat the Zhou family, then what happened next would have nothing to do with her.

Zhou Lan picked up the tablet she had just set up. She had downloaded an instrument app onto it, allowing her to play various instruments at any time.

There were no musical instruments in the villa. She had just searched for this software. She would know if it worked well after trying it. Generally speaking, it was not difficult to develop such software. With the technology in this world, there should be no problem.

Zhou Lan switched the software to piano mode. Her slender white fingers danced on the piano keys. A pleasant music erupted. During the pauses, she wrote down the melody she had just played on a paper.

In order to immerse herself in the music, she turned up the volume.

However, the comfortable atmosphere did not last long, and the door of her room was forcedly open.