This celebrity became even more popular after being exposed of having multiple girlfriends-Chapter 57 - Becoming a Security Guard at the

Chapter 57: Chapter 57: Becoming a Security Guard at the Singer-Songwriter Stage

Chapter 57 -57: Becoming a Security Guard at the Singer-Songwriter Stage

Wu Mu’s approach was, of course…

He took out his cell phone, opened Weibo, and began rapidly typing out his message.

Lin Qingyue approached with her camera to take a look.

Wu Mu, the “Evolved”: “Looking for a job as a security guard in Shen City that entails lying down without doing anything, with room and board included, paid daily, and a daily wage higher than five hundred. Contact me…”

Lin Qingyue: “…”

Watching Wu Mu edit and get ready to send the post, she quickly intervened, “Mr. Wu Mu, this constitutes taking advantage of your celebrity status for personal gain, which is against the rules.”

Wu Mu looked at her in confusion, “I know it’s against the rules, but can’t you just deduct ten percent from my salary?”

With a daily salary of five hundred, even after a fifty yuan deduction, that would still leave four hundred fifty, securing a victory over the others.

Lin Qingyue was speechless, “Mr. Wu Mu, the penalties set by the production team are for unintended instances where you might accidentally benefit from your celebrity status, not for you to deliberately exploit those rules. If you’re allowed to do this, then Wang Xiaotian might just collude with friends to set him up with a job that pays tens of thousands daily, and no one would be able to compete.”

Wu Mu had a comeback, “But I’m not tailoring a job for myself. There are quite a few security jobs in the market paying a daily salary of five hundred, like at fancy clubs and bars which are for image positions.”

Although those high-end clubs were offering that kind of money because they were paying a premium for the image of the applicants, those positions were still security jobs after all.

Lin Qingyue shook her head, “The first stage of the show’s mission is to have the guests engage in the most basic, hard-labor jobs. If you take on such a job, even if in name it is security work, it fundamentally deviates from the theme of the program.”

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Not only would it deviate from the theme, but it would also kill the competition too early, leaving no suspense for the later episodes.

After all, they were filming a reality show, not actually competing in a job-hunting race; everything had to be done with the show’s impact in mind.

After some thought, Lin Qingyue decided to add a new rule on the spot, “The jobs found by the guests have to align with the general perception of their labels; neither the treatment nor the salary can exceed the average by too much.”

Wu Mu clicked his tongue, “Fine then.”

After all, the production team had the final say.

Wu Mu deleted the message he had prepared on his phone but didn’t put the phone down; instead, he continued to fiddle with it.

Lin Qingyue leaned in again and discovered he was searching on Douyin for “Shen City daily paid security part-time job, Shen City daily paid part-time group” and such.

Huh?

Lin Qingyue was momentarily surprised.

Using Douyin to find a job?

She had not anticipated this at all, having expected the guests would look for job vacancy flyers around the city, or simply go directly to places of employment to ask if they needed people, or at most through offline employment agencies.

But Wu Mu had come up with this method.

Seeing Lin Qingyue’s surprise, Wu Mu said with a smile, “Director Lin, at first glance I can tell you haven’t had much contact with the lower classes. People from the lower classes looking for daily work used to go to a specific place in the morning and wait for employers to come and hire. That’s still the way for some older workers, but younger people have already started using online methods to find jobs.”

Lin Qingyue admitted frankly, “I indeed haven’t understood much about this aspect.”

It seemed Wu Mu was quite knowledgeable about these things; before becoming a celebrity, he must have been in frequent contact with them.

Lin Qingyue thought to herself.

Although she had heard that before becoming a celebrity, Wu Mu was entirely part of the lowest social echelons, because Wu Mu seldom discussed his past on various shows, and because of his overly handsome face,

it was hard for people to subconsciously link him with the kind of work that involved looking for day jobs.

As she pondered this, Wu Mu had already added several intermediaries and part-time job groups on Douyin.

For those recruitment ads that requested deposits or medical exam fees for health certificates, he skipped them entirely, knowing that a large portion of these job ads were scams to con people out of their deposits and medical fees.

He was only looking for jobs where you could start immediately and get paid immediately after the work was done.

“Binjiang Amusement Park in Jianghai District is looking for six security staff members. Work hours from 10 am to 10 pm, 120 yuan per day, with two meals and water included. Requirements: under forty years old, at least 1.7 meters tall.”

“Songhua Electronics Factory needs a night shift security guard from 8 pm to 6 am, 150 yuan per day, including two meals.”

Wu Mu’s finger glided across the screen, searching for suitable work.

As he was scrolling, a new message popped up.

“Urgent! Shen City Olympic Sports Center needs twenty people! From 9 am to 11 pm, 160 yuan per day, with meals and water included!”

From nine in the morning to eleven at night?

That’s too long a time, Wu Mu thought, about to swipe past.

However, mid-swipe, he stopped.

After a moment of contemplation, he asked Director Lin, who was beside him, “Director Lin, it’s the singer-songwriter semifinals today, right?”

Lin Qingyue glanced at him curiously, not understanding why he suddenly brought up another show in the middle of this program, but she nodded, “It’s today.”

Wu Mu further inquired, “And it’s taking place at Shen City Olympic Sports Center?”

Lin Qingyue thought for a moment and then nodded, “Yes.”

Wu Mu showed the message on his phone to Lin Qingyue.

After a half-second of slight astonishment, she fell into deep thought.

Obviously, the semi-finals of the singer-songwriter competition that evening were hiring security guards.

If Wu Mu really went there, the impact on the program would undoubtedly be explosive.

A star who got banned from the show and excluded from competing, now working as a security guard on the site of another show.

That would send the topic trending like wild.

But… to go there without notifying their production team first…

After thinking it over for a while, Lin Qingyue nodded, “Mr. Wu Mu, you can go have a look. I’ll communicate with Star City TV Station later.”

Wu Mu responded with a slight laugh, “Alright, then I’ll take that job. I’ll get to listen to a free concert in the evening.”

He contacted the intermediary to register, sending over his name and ID card.

Thankfully, his ID card photo was taken quite a while ago and didn’t resemble his current looks very much.

So the intermediary didn’t recognize him.

And it would be quite unlikely for anyone to suspect that a major star would apply for such a short-term, part-time job.

So Wu Mu successfully blended in.

The job intermediary sent him an address, asking him to hurry over as they were in dire need of people.

But how to get there was the problem.

The address was dozens of kilometers away from his current location, and he couldn’t use any of his own money, so he surely couldn’t just walk there.

Lin Qingyue was curious about how Wu Mu would solve this.

But Wu Mu wasn’t in any rush at all; he simply headed to a nearby subway station.

After surveying the situation in the subway station for a while, he approached a middle-aged man who was decently dressed, perhaps in his forties or fifties.

Wu Mu looked at the man with a sincere expression, “Excuse me, sir, my phone’s dead and I can’t pay. Could you lend me five yuan for a subway ticket?”

Borrowing money for a subway ticket?

The middle-aged man stared at Wu Mu for several moments.

If it had been someone average-looking and poorly dressed, he might have suspected he was dealing with a scamming beggar.

But someone as handsome as Wu Mu, whose attire didn’t seem to indicate a lack of funds, the likelihood of him being a scammer or beggar wasn’t high.