“How did it feel holding your first concert?” Sister Nan asked.
Xia Wan replied without hesitation, “Apart from being a bit tired, everything else was great. I really enjoyed it.”
Hearing her answer, Sister Nan immediately suggested, “How about arranging a tour for you then?”
Xia Wan rejected the idea without a second thought. “No. Although it was enjoyable, it was genuinely exhausting. If we schedule a tour, I definitely won’t be able to face the fans who come to the concerts in my best condition. That would be disrespectful to them.”
Sister Nan saw right through Xia Wan’s main motive. “I think you’re just feeling lazy.”
But what she said made some sense. A single concert does consume a lot of energy and can be very tiring.
Xia Wan didn’t deny it. “Half and half.”
Compared to constantly holding concerts, she still preferred to focus on creating new works, writing good songs to share with everyone. She didn’t want to keep singing her old songs at concerts.
Sister Nan pressed, “Then how often do you plan to hold concerts? At least once a year, right?”
For the past two years, she hadn’t let Xia Wan hold concerts because she wanted her to write more songs first—only then could she perform. Now, with enough songs, she was ready.
Xia Wan couldn’t make any promises at the moment. “We’ll talk about it when the time comes. But it definitely won’t be longer than two years. There will definitely be one every two years.”
Sister Nan looked at the person beside her who was “pushing her luck.” She hadn’t even asked for two concerts a year, and here Xia Wan was suggesting one every two years.
Just as Sister Nan was about to speak, Xia Wan’s phone rang.
Seeing the caller ID, she quickly answered.
Before she could say anything, a voice came from the other end. “Wanbao, why didn’t you tell us about your concert? If we hadn’t seen the news online, we wouldn’t have known.”
The callers were none other than her parents, who were currently traveling abroad.
Xia Wan cooed, “It’s just that I saw you and Dad were traveling. There was no need to come back specially for such a small thing.”
Hearing this, the person on the other end grew anxious. “This isn’t a small thing! It’s your first concert. How could your dad and I not be there to watch it in person?”
Xia’s father and mother, far away abroad, deeply regretted choosing this time to travel.
They rarely checked their phones while on vacation, and with the time difference, they had only just found out.
Xia Wan gently reassured them, “It’s not like I’ll only hold one concert. Next time, I’ll definitely tell you in advance.”
“But it’s not the same,” her parents replied, still not entirely pleased.
They had to find out about it online.
Just as Xia Wan was thinking of how to explain, her father’s voice came through. “Did your brother go to your concert?”
Xia Wan answered quickly, “No.”
As long as her parents stopped dwelling on the previous issue, that was fine.
The elderly couple on the other end grew completely agitated. “What was Xia Lin doing? He didn’t even go to his own sister’s first concert? I’m calling him right now to ask.”
Before Xia Wan could say anything, they hung up.
Staring at her phone, Xia Wan muttered, “They’ll call me again in less than twenty seconds.”
Just as she counted to thirteen in her head, her phone rang again.
“Wanbao, I called your brother, but his phone is turned off. What is he up to?” Xia’s father asked, sounding somewhat angry.Of course, he wasn’t angry at Xia Wan, but at the person who wasn’t answering his calls.
Xia Wan slowly spoke up, explaining on behalf of her brother, “Brother went on a business trip. Originally, he had arranged time to come to the concert, but his flight was delayed by a few hours. He probably just boarded the plane not long ago.”
After hearing this, Xia’s father became even angrier. “Why didn’t he go a day earlier? Besides, we have a private jet at home. Doesn’t he know he could have taken the private jet to get there?”
“And he actually didn’t tell us about your concert.”
Xia Wan silently broke into a sweat for her brother. It was she who had asked him to keep it from them.
Her parents had just gone abroad not long ago, and she didn’t want to interrupt their travel plans because of her.
Xia’s mother snatched the phone. “Wanbao, have you returned to the hotel yet?”
Xia Wan adjusted her seat and leaned back. “Not yet, I’m still on the way.”
Xia’s mother: “How many hours was the concert?”
Xia Wan: “Two hours.”
Hearing this duration, Xia’s mother said with concern, “That’s too long. You must be very tired. Don’t do it again in the future.”
Xia’s father also disapproved. “Right, why did they schedule you for so long? Was it arranged by Xia Lin?”
Xia Wan quickly spoke up for her brother. “It wasn’t arranged by Brother. Concerts are usually this long.”
“Really?” Xia’s father was still a bit skeptical. “If he assigns you too much work and tires you out, I’ll hold him accountable.”
“Don’t worry, Brother wouldn’t do that,” Xia Wan assured.
Her brother was very good to her.
The owner of the company Xia Wan was currently signed to was her brother.
Originally, her family’s company wasn’t involved in the entertainment industry, but when her family heard she wanted to enter the entertainment world, her brother immediately established an entertainment company without a second thought.
Her parents knew how deep and murky the waters of the entertainment industry could be, so they fully supported her brother’s decision.
Only by signing with their own company would they feel at ease about her entering the entertainment industry.
Xia Wan also didn’t want her family to worry, so she agreed to their suggestion.
But in the company, aside from her agent Sister Nan and her assistant Xiao Xiao, no one knew she was the company president’s sister.
This was something Xia Wan deliberately kept hidden. The entertainment industry was very realistic. If others knew her identity, they would definitely try to flatter and curry favor with her.
She didn’t like that—she didn’t want to face insincere people or waste her time on useless social interactions.
Sister Nan looked at Xia Wan, who seemed relieved after hanging up the phone, and laughed. “I told you not to keep it a secret. Now that you’ve been scolded, do you feel better?”
Xia Wan looked innocent. “I meant well. I didn’t want to disturb their trip.”
“I’m fine, but my brother is in trouble now. He got dragged into this because of me and will probably be bombarded with calls from my parents.”
She could already imagine the expression on her brother’s face when he turned on his phone after getting off the plane and saw all those missed calls.
“I’d really like to see President Xia getting scolded,” Xiao Xiao said gleefully.
Xia Wan: “Even if you could see it, you probably wouldn’t dare to watch.”
With her assistant’s level of courage, whenever her brother came to see her, she would immediately leave as soon as she spotted him.
She said she didn’t dare to be around the big boss—it felt oppressive and made her uncomfortable all over.
A classic case of being afraid of teachers in school and afraid of bosses at work.
Xiao Xiao coughed lightly. “Don’t expose me like that.”The only downside to being Sister Wan Wan’s assistant is having to see the boss more often than other assistants.