749 Methods on Dealing with the Media (1/2)
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Famous felt a sudden jerk in its body like it had missed its step and fallen off a cliff. Thinking that it was a landslide caused by the rain, Famous instinctively stood up; it woke up in a shock and had planned to give its last struggle.
As a result, it knocked its head on the roof of the cage.
As it stood up with a lot of force, the impact knocked the stars out from its eyes.
Before its eyes was no longer the mountain village in the rain, but the cabin of a plane and the jerk from earlier was from the plane landing.
Shaking its head, Famous seemed to have recalled something as it hurriedly looked down to the lower half of its body.
Famous had heard that one would wet their bed if they dreamt of a rain… but it dreamt of a rainstorm, so shouldn't it be flooded now?
Fortunately, the inside of the dog cage was still dry, and not like the image of the flood it had in its mind…
Moments later, Famous heard a slight hiss. It was the sound caused by the internal and external pressure balance of the airplane from opening the cabin door.
Soon, the ground crew pushed its cage off the plane, indicating the end of the long flight journey.
Zhang Zian dragged his heavy suitcase, completed the pet consignment procedures, and retrieved Famous.
”Did I sleep for very long?” Famous asked and yawned. ”Where are we now?”
”We're already back in the Binhai City Airport. I had planned to ask if you would like to eat something during the transfer of flights, but you were sleeping very soundly, so I didn't wake you up,” Zhang Zian answered.
Famous didn't know that it had slept so hard. It had even slept through the transfer of flights, and slept all the way till they reached Binhai City.
The sky was already dark outside. The long flight journey and the entire process of waiting and transferring flights took up almost an entire day, so being able to sleep through it was actually not a bad thing.
There were reporters waiting at the exit of the airport and immediately surrounded Zhang Zian the moment they saw him—or more accurately, the moment they saw Famous. Since there weren't many dogs in the airport, Famous was easily recognized.
Zhang Zian answered a few simple questions to satisfy the reporter's curiosity. He then let the reporters take a few pictures of Famous before he rejected further questions and interview requests using the excuse that they were exhausted from their long journey.
On the bus to the Berlin Airport, Director Feng Xuan gave Zian some advice as a person with experience––he reminded Zian not to sour his relationship with the media, but at the same time, not to satisfy all their interview requests. Too much exposure in such a short time would leave Famous completely exposed under public attention, and too much was never good as the public would soon lose interest in it. Instead, it was better to maintain a certain sense of mystery and appear in front of the camera with a slightly cool attitude to keep them interested.
Zhang Zian was now enlightened and was really grateful to Feng Xuan for his guidance. Otherwise, he really wouldn't know how to deal with the media.
Zian called for a taxi outside the airport and made his way back to the Amazing Fate Pet Shop.
Although he had only been away for twelve days, Zian felt as though he had been away for much longer.
Lu Yiyun, Wang Qian, and Li Kun had already clocked out of work and the shop door was locked, but there were still reporters waiting outside by the door.
The reporters were mainly the local media reporters. Zhang Zian repeated what he did earlier––he answered a few simple questions and told them to come back again another day. He also warned them to not block the entrance of his shop or it would influence his business, and anyone who did not heed his warning could forget about getting an interview.
After sending off the reporters, he pulled open the shutter door and brought Famous into the shop that they had been away from for some time and closed the shop door again.
There were a lot of gifts at the entrance of the shop; there were also two flower baskets sent by the neighborhood committee, and the four treasures of the study from Binhai Studio. The gifts had filled up the area around the cashier counter and on the name cards on those gifts had names that Zian was not familiar with––he had never seen them before.