Chapter 57: Vampire Agent

"You want a raise?" Yesenin put down the newspaper and looked at Chen Yingxiong who was sitting opposite him.

Chen Yingxiong nodded. "Only 500 euros a week, I think it's too little."

Yesenin nodded in agreement. He also felt that 500 euros a week was too little for Chen Yingxiong. 

He also knew that Chen Yingxiong was still sending money home to help pay off his debts.

He admired Chen Yingxiong for this, and it was one of the reasons why he was willing to help Chen Yingxiong. There were not many young people like him who had become famous but had not forgotten their origins and would rather spend less so they could help their family pay off their debts.

"But you need an agent first," Yesenin said. "You didn't have an agent when you signed with Zenit, right?"

"No, I signed it myself. Where can I find an agent now? I don't know anyone..." Chen Yingxiong felt strange. Wasn't it said that once you became famous, a large number of agents would come to you in hopes that you would sign a contract with them?

When he came back to his senses, he found that the person sitting opposite was not Yesenin, but a middle-aged man in a neat suit, with sharp eyes and a resolute expression. His face looked like it had been carved with a knife, with sharp edges and corners, and his deep sea-blue eyes seemed to have a breathtaking power. His straight nose and sexy lips were slightly upturned, and he seemed to always have a faint smile, like a charming gentleman. This middle-aged man was completely different from the slightly wretched Yesenin before. If he walked on the street, he would definitely dazzlemake many young women.

"Well..."

"What do you think of this agent's image?" the handsome uncle spoke.

Chen Yingxiong then realized that the person sitting opposite him was indeed Yesenin, but he just changed his appearance - this guy could transform at will and it really gave him "constant surprises".

"No!" Chen Yingxiong shook his head and refused firmly.

"Why?"

"If you're so handsome, how can I survive?" Chen Yingxiong didn't want to finally get a girl, only to have her dump him after seeing his agent...

Yesenin curled his lips. "You shouldn't be so jealous..."

"I am the protagonist, okay?" Chen Yingxiong rolled his eyes.

"Okay..." Yesenin raised his hands in surrender. "So what kind of person do you want?"

"If I were looking for a beautiful agent, I wouldn't look for you." It's not bad to develop a love relationship with a beautiful agent, but it's definitely not with a hermaphrodite who can change from male to female at any time... "Oh, just an ordinary one will do, an ordinary one... but not too disgusting." Chen Yingxiong actually didn't know what kind of agent he should look like.

"Ordinary? What is considered ordinary?" Yesenin was also confused. This request was as good as nothing. He thought about it. "Why don't I just let you choose?"

Then, in front of Chen Yingxiong, Yesenin began to change his appearance rapidly.

Chen Yingxiong has developed immunity, otherwise he would be scared to death seeing the person in front of him constantly changing his appearance.

"How about this? How about this? How about this? And this?" Yesenin kept changing and then asked Chen Yingxiong.

Chen Yingxiong just shook his head. "Change!"

He felt like he was choosing a character before playing a game, but he couldn't combine them himself and could only choose randomly. If he wasn't satisfied, he had to keep changing it...

After changing dozens of them, Chen Yingxiong was dazzled by the choices, but he still couldn't find one that satisfied him. In the end, he got annoyed and said, "Why don't you just change quickly, and then I'll close my eyes and say stop, and you stop, and whatever is shown is what you want!"

He was playing the lottery!

Yesenin also thought this was better. "If you say start, I'll start. If you say stop, I'll stop."

"start!"

Yesenin's face was reassembled and disassembled at a very fast speed, and countless faces appeared on his face in a very short time.

Chen Yingxiong closed his eyes and shouted. "Stop!"

When he opened his eyes, he saw a bald man with a face full of flesh and fierce eyes...

"Are you a skinhead? It would be even better if you had some tattoos..."

Sure enough, a lizard tattoo appeared on Yesenin's neck. "You mean like this?"

Chen Yingxiong didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "I'm being sarcastic! Satirical! Can't you hear that? Change it! Try again!"

After several attempts, the image of Chen Yingxiong's agent was finally finalized. A middle-aged man with a pale face, a straight nose, thin lips, high cheekbones, and deep eye sockets appeared in front of Chen Yingxiong.

Chen Yingxiong was satisfied.

"This is not ordinary at all." Yesenin looked in the mirror.

"But I like it!"

Yesenin had no idea what to do with Chen Yingxiong's unconventional thinking.

"So you are my agent? But your name is Yesenin?"

"Of course not." Yesenin replied. "Yesenin, as your Russian teacher and translator, will disappear from your side after completing the task and will not have any contact with you again. As your agent, my name is..."

"Dracula! Your name is Dracula!" Chen Yingxiong gave Yesenin a name.

Yesenin thought for a moment and accepted it. "Okay, I'll be called Vlad Dracula."

Yesenin - oh no, Dracula now - said. "When do you want me to talk to the club?"

"The sooner the better."

Dracula nodded. "Very good, but in order to make the other party believe that I am your agent, we must sign a contract first."

"Of course."

So Dracula took out a stack of papers from the inside of his jacket and opened it to reveal a prepared contract!

Chen Yingxiong was very interested in what dimension of space was inside his clothes, so he opened Dracula's suit - there was nothing inside, only a white shirt. However, he did not give up, and put his hand into the inner pocket of the suit, but his hand did not enter the void, and half of his palm reached the bottom.

"This pocket has nothing to do with the one on Doraemon's belly." Dracula looked down at Chen Yingxiong doing this and did not try to stop him. He just explained.

"Uh..." Chen Yingxiong withdrew his hand angrily.

"Just sign your name." Dracula pointed to the place where he signed, "and then put your fingerprint."

"Don't you need to see it?"

"You can read it if you want."

Chen Yingxiong gave up after reading only two lines - the legal provisions were written in English, and his English level was definitely not enough to understand the difficult legal terms. Not to mention English, even if it was written in Chinese, he might not be able to understand it...

"Okay, I'll sign." He turned to the last page, signed his name with the pen Yesenin handed him, then dipped his pen in the ink pad Yesenin handed him and pressed the red handprint on his name.

When he raised his thumb, a burst of colorful light flashed, even making the unprepared Chen Yingxiong tilt his head and squint.

"What was that?" When he came to his senses again, everything was normal, as if nothing had happened.

"Would you believe me if I said it was a soul contract?" Dracula said seriously.

"No one would believe that!"

Dracula nodded, "Very good. It's just a fancy trick, really. Adds to the fun."

Chen Yingxiong didn't think much about it and returned the contract to Dracula.

He watched Dracula put the contract directly into the inner pocket of his suit. The inner pocket definitely couldn't hold such a large contract. So Chen Yingxiong would never believe that the pocket was normal...

"Do you have any salary requirements, hero?" Dracula asked after putting away the contract.

"The higher the better!" Chen Yingxiong was going crazy because of poverty. If he could make a lot of money sooner, he could free himself and his parents. They wouldn't have to run any business anymore, and he could live a carefree life.

Dracula nodded again, "I understand. Leave it to me."

…

Konstantin Sarsania received a call from someone claiming to be Chen Yingxiong's agent.

The agent on the phone, named Vlad Dracula, said his player wanted to renegotiate the contract with the club.

Sasania knew who Chen Yingxiong was. He was the hottest striker in the team's first team. In fact, after Chen Yingxiong scored a hat trick, he, the general manager of Zenit, also looked up Chen Yingxiong's information, including the contract he signed with the team.

When he saw that the weekly salary of Chen Yingxiong's contract was 500 euros, he had this hunch - the player would definitely take this opportunity to ask the club for a pay raise.

He has been a scout, a coach, and a sports manager, and he knows exactly what players think.

So he was not surprised.

He then told Advocaat the news.

Advocat was not surprised at all by the salary increase. What surprised him was... since when did Chen Yingxiong have an agent? Chen Yingxiong worked very hard in training every day, and even practiced more after training. He had never seen him contact any agent...

Could it be that he really found the agent himself?

A pay raise was a legitimate request, and Advocaat also felt that Chen Yingxiong's previous salary was too low.

He agreed with this.

Since no one had an objection. Sasania and Dracula agreed on a time and both sides decided to start negotiations.

Originally, when Zenit learned that Chen Yingxiong's agent wanted to talk to them, they had already prepared a contract in advance to increase Chen Yingxiong's weekly salary to 100,000 rubles, which is approximately equivalent to 2,800 euros.

Compared with Chen Yingxiong's previous salary, it has increased several times.

They think this salary is enough to satisfy Chen Yingxiong, right?

But they were wrong.

The agent Vlad Dracula, who also looked a bit like a vampire, asked for a very high price.

The weekly salary he wanted was 40,000 euros, and the bonus benefits were greatly increased, with an appearance bonus of 4,000 euros, a goal bonus of 4,000 euros, and a game-winning bonus of 10,000 euros.

These conditions were the highest in the entire team!

Even Arshavin couldn't compare.