On the eighth day after the Lunar New Year, the design team sent over the office building design plan after returning to work. Shi Jing made slight adjustments based on her own ideas and Zhang Sumu's suggestions. After finalizing the plan, the decoration was handed over to Zhang Sumu.

Besides Zhang Sumu, the company has also appointed a finance manager and a project manager, so they won't be too busy.

Besides the renovation, Shi Jing also entrusted Zhang Sumu with handling Rongyu's contract matters. Since he was in Dingdu, it would be convenient for him to find a lawyer to coordinate.

Shortly after the start of the semester, Shi Jing received another call from Zhang Ningyuan, this time about the profit-sharing from her investment in that workplace drama. She had only invested in two TV series last year, and now that one had aired and was doing very well, she was finally seeing a return on her investment.

Although Shi Jing didn't finish watching the TV series, she had to admit it was a great show. The streaming platform, advertisers, and merchandise sales were booming, and Shi Jing finally saw a return on her investment. Her first investment yielded a considerable profit. She had invested 15 million yuan initially, and in just one year, she had not only recouped her costs but also earned an additional 10 million yuan.

The collaboration went well; Shi Jing never interfered in film and television production, so Zhang Ningyuan quite enjoyed working with her. He even invited her over the phone to continue working together should the opportunity arise.

Investing in anything is an investment, and besides, Zhang Ningyuan's projects are all fairly reliable, so Shi Jing readily agreed.

Not long after, Shi Jing invested in another TV series with Zhang Ningyuan.

After turning eighteen, she immediately applied to establish a charitable foundation, and within a year, she successfully completed the fundraising task, raising 500 million yuan in charitable funds.

When the foundation was first established, Zhang Sumu and his staff were mainly responsible for donations to welfare homes, including Xing'an Welfare Home.

Apart from that, she devoted almost all her time to studying.

Since Shi Jing came of age, many things have become much easier for her to handle.

After the summer vacation, to facilitate her film and television investments, she formed a small team to help her vet projects. She invested in projects she deemed suitable. Most were short-term projects, with varying degrees of profit and loss, but overall the returns were quite good.

She didn't let anyone else handle her collaboration with Zhang Ningyuan; she always contacted him directly herself.

During the holiday, the campus drama she invested in, starring Qi Shuang, was successfully broadcast and became a minor hit. Although this drama wasn't as popular as the workplace drama, its investment was smaller, so the return was still quite considerable.

Qi Shuang, who had been relatively quiet for a year, regained some popularity thanks to this drama. During the holidays, she received numerous offers for supporting roles in various projects or scripts with similar characters. However, because she was about to enter her final year of high school and was in a period of intense academic pressure, her family, after consulting with her, rejected all the offers.

Besides scripts, numerous talent agencies approached them. Shi Jing and Qi Shuang interacted frequently, and she even discovered Rong Yu's agent, Brother Meng, during one of their meetings. It was through this encounter that Shi Jing did some research and gained some understanding of the agency Brother Meng belonged to.

This talent agency is called Tianxing, and it's located in Tianyuan City. It primarily focuses on idol groups, while also handling a small number of film and television projects.

This company isn't large and doesn't have much recognition in the industry. Most of its artists are also relatively unknown; many of the idols from the same era as Yong-hwa have faded into obscurity, with only one or two still active on screen. They've since transitioned to other roles, occasionally taking on minor supporting characters in films and television dramas.

Apart from that, the only thing that keeps the company running smoothly is that the younger generation of idols still have some fame.

To maintain the company's normal operation, it is essential to bring in fresh talent, which is one of the reasons why Brother Meng rushed to poach Qi Shuang after she gained some fame.

Qi's parents had been in business for many years. Although they were not familiar with the film and television industry, they had connections and social experience, so they would not easily believe the promises made by the other party and quickly rejected the company.

Besides this company, Shi Jing also saw a very familiar management company. It was none other than Leyu Management Company, the company with which Shi Jing had a conflict during the summer vacation of his first year of high school.

Shi Jing still remembered the arrogance of Le Yu's heir, Lin Youmei, and even more so, Zhang Ningyuan's displeasure when he mentioned the company. She didn't think it was a suitable company for Qi Shuang to sign with and develop her career.

Qi Shuang's parents were not the type to make decisions for their daughter directly; they respected her opinion quite a bit. Knowing that Qi Shuang wanted to take the college entrance exam first and then consider other things, they quickly declined the company's offer.

Qi Shuang is only moderately famous now, with little star power and influence. She is not a top artist that many companies are vying for, and most agencies give up on her after she is rejected.

However, there were also companies that were furious and felt that Qi Shuang was ungrateful. Leyu Entertainment was one of them.

When Jing heard the news from Zhang Ningyuan, she was speechless and almost laughed.

This company is quite interesting. After learning that Qi Shuang had declined their offer, they actually thought that Qi Shuang was an ungrateful artist and wanted to blacklist her in the industry.

This behavior was nothing short of a joke to Shi Jing.

Qi Shuang had no time to pay attention to her at that moment.

Qi Shuang has made up her mind to become a professional actress. So no matter how far she goes in the entertainment industry, she's not in a hurry; she wants to master her professional skills first.

This is one of the reasons why she decided to reject these agencies from the very beginning.

A talent agency isn't a charity. Once an artist signs with a company, they are obligated to generate profits for the company. She didn't want to waste her precious university study time by rushing into the entertainment industry.

Now that Qi Shuang has decided on her future career path, she naturally has no time to deal with anything else and has been focusing on preparing for the art college entrance exam.

As for the so-called ban, by the time she returned to acting during her junior or senior year of college, several years would have passed, and who would remember such a childish ban?

In my senior year of high school, all my friends were very busy.

Qi Shuang is preparing for the art exam, and Qi Yan is also preparing for the IELTS exam.

Although she plans to study abroad after the college entrance examination, she still needs to start the preparations.

Comparatively speaking, Shi Jing was the most relaxed of the three. All she had to do was study diligently and prepare for the college entrance examination a year from now.

After the start of the senior year of high school, the system, which hadn't issued any tasks for a long time, issued tasks again.

"Ding! Mission activated: Please take the National College Entrance Examination (Gaokao) one year from now and achieve excellent results, with a minimum standard of a 985 or 211 university in this country. Mission reward: 50 million yuan in cash. Advanced rewards (advanced rewards can be stacked): Top scorer in the city will receive a reward of 200 million yuan in cash; top scorer in the province will receive a reward of 500 million yuan in cash. Mission penalty: Failure in the Gaokao, please retake the exam!"

"Beep! Attention, host: This is a non-cancellable mission and will affect your subsequent missions. Please proceed with caution!"

Since the little god of wealth had made such a serious suggestion, Shi Jing quickly abandoned his indifferent attitude.

She was confident about the college entrance exam, but it was better to be cautious and not falter at the crucial moment. Not getting the prize money was secondary; having to retake the exam would be a waste of time and a loss of face!