Chapter 296

Sisters' conversation on rest day (more daily)

After working non-stop for half a month, Ling Suisui got a short day off.

She usually lives in a large flat in the city, but she also has a holiday villa in the suburbs. That piece of land was Ai Tianming's family property. Before the sale began, they reserved a house with the best view and the quietest atmosphere for her.

The villa has four floors in total. When decorating and designing it, Ling Suisui only left two bedrooms and made the rest of the space into functional areas. There is a constant temperature swimming pool and a hot spring pool on the second underground floor. The first underground floor is equipped with a steam room, a spa room and a gym, and is jokingly called a "family spa center" by friends who come here.

"That was exactly what we planned when we were renovating the house," Ling Suisui said as she lay in the hot spring pool. "I'm so famous that it's hard not to be disturbed when I go on vacation."

Ji Zhaoying clicked her tongue, but what she said was indeed true.

It was only inconvenient in the country before, but now it should be inconvenient when going abroad as well. Dozens of countries around the world are fascinated by Princess Belle, and the box office of over one billion US dollars is the best proof of this.

And then calculate the box office dividends that Ling Suisui can get... Ji Zhaoying feels that if she were Ling Suisui, she would not have the desire to strive at all. Being able to make a movie every three years shows that she is ambitious.

However, this is probably why she is not Ling Suisui.

Ji Zhaoying lay on the massage bed and asked her, "Why are Ai Tianming and his family so nice to you? The location of this villa is so good. I came here before, but they didn't recommend this villa to me. I really can't buy it even if I have money."

"They believe in feudal superstition and think that I am Ai Tianming's destined benefactor."

Ling Suisui: "The investment he made in me paid off."

I won’t talk about my previous business, let’s just talk about the recent “Beauty and the Beast”. Although Diland's movie did not require his investment, he acquired a trendy toy brand and obtained the IP authorization from Diland before the movie was released.

The licensing fee is very expensive, and his behavior of going all in on producing Belle-related peripherals is also risky. Because if the movie doesn’t become a hit, it will take a long time for these things to sell out. Even if trendy toys have no shelf life, storage costs are still a cost!

At that time, many people were not optimistic about Ai Tianming's behavior of putting all his eggs in one basket, and they all advised him to calm down and not to be overly superstitious about Ling Sui's influence. Investment is about strategy, not recklessness.

——But the facts have proved that the best strategy may not necessarily make money, but blindly believing in Ling Suisui can really make money.

After the movie became a big hit, Dilande's official peripheral products were sold out. Children's princess dresses that originally cost a few hundred yuan were sold to several thousand yuan by scalpers. Ai Tianming's trendy toy brand also ushered in a wave of sales surge, earning double the cost in profit in less than a month, and quickly increased brand awareness.

As for the businesses that still want to follow suit and make this money? The price increase of Diland's licensing fee is particularly severe, and few serious brands dare to challenge the most powerful legal department on the earth.

Ai Tianming was very proud. Can you imagine the power of the Emperor Sui? A bunch of stupid mortals!

Therefore, the Ai family sold this villa to Ling Sui at a super low price. They also directly arranged for her to decorate the house, prepared all the home appliances and furniture for her, and assigned a dedicated property manager, so that she could truly move in with just her luggage.

Ling Sui sometimes really wants to explain that you should believe in science and not engage in personality cult, but given her overly brilliant record, these words seem very unconvincing.

Ji Zhaoying was convinced after hearing this. She turned over and asked Ling Suisui for an autographed photo.

What she wanted was not just one signed copy for one person, but a signed copy by Ling Suisui and James. It would be best if there were more copies, the more the better.

Ling Suisui laughed: "Why, have you fallen so low that you have to make money by selling autographed photos?"

"Hmph, I do want to." Ji Zhaoying said helplessly, "Didn't I ask you for one last week? It's for my niece. Her birthday is this month."

Good news, her niece is a loyal fan of "Beauty and the Beast" and has pestered her parents to go to the cinema to watch it three times. She was almost crazy with joy after receiving the photos. Her mother, Ji Zhaoying's aunt, even customized a photo frame for her. The child was not satisfied with just putting it on the bedside table, but wanted to hold it while sleeping.

The bad news is, this isn't the only kid who likes it. The younger generations of the relatives were very envious when they saw her, so their parents all went to find Ji Zhaoying. They were all relatives, so she couldn't favor one over the other, right?

Moreover, the number of autographed photos they want is far greater than the number of children in the family. Even adults want to collect one! Princess Belle's charm must be appealing to people of all ages.

Therefore, it is impossible to use the money earned to make more money. Just supplying the quantity that this group of relatives want makes Ji Zhaoying feel embarrassed.

Ling Suisui was very understanding. It was just signing her name, which was nothing to her.

"You've made it in time. I'm flying to the United States tomorrow to shoot a magazine cover with James. I'll have him sign it and send it to you after I return home."

Ji Zhaoying touched her nose and said, "How is your relationship with James? Letting him sign so many contracts won't cost you any favors, right?"

"It's okay." Ling Suisui answered calmly, "He asked me to sign more. He also asked me to help him record a birthday blessing video for his cousin yesterday."

In that case, Ji Zhaoying felt relieved.

She was not the first person to come to Ling Suisui to ask for an autographed photo. Before this, Ling Suisui had already given out countless favors. Ji Zhaoying has a good relationship with her, so she can cut in line. As for other friends who want autographs, they currently have to wait in line for at least two months.

It is said that the influence of movies is gradually declining, but the fact is that good works will never lack a market.

Ji Zhaoying mentioned that the box office of "Beauty and the Beast" has boosted some confidence in the film and television industry, but Ling Suisui feels that if the purpose is to extract key tags and combine them to try to replicate the creation of a hit, then such confidence is worse than having none.

"Movies and TV series that chase popularity and trends are all courting their own demise."

Ling Suisui's view is the same: "Because they are not as fast as short dramas, especially vertical screen short dramas. Short dramas can fully take advantage of their efficiency and launch a large amount of homogeneous content in the shortest time, quickly consuming the audience's interest. By the time the project starts filming, the boom may have passed."

"You're right. The trend of long video platforms switching tracks is becoming more and more obvious."

Ji Zhaoying sighed: "They are currently developing high-quality horizontal screen short dramas and have also invested in many vertical screen short drama platforms. The only ones still developing long dramas are the top large projects. But this way of dividing the top projects is sometimes simply and crudely looking at the investment cost."

"By the way, which platform did you sell Ru Meng Ling to?"

"Antenna." Ling Suisui replied, "Actually, all platforms are the same to me, but they offer the best conditions, the highest price, and promise the most publicity and promotional resources."

In fact, the area of ​​publicity and promotion is the easiest to be exploited, but Ling Suisui is not very worried.

Sister Tong will arrange someone to keep an eye on him, and if Tiantian dares to be perfunctory with her, there will be no chance of cooperation next time. Her focus now is on movies. As for long-form dramas, she only shoots one at a time, and I believe the platform also has a scale in mind.

"You may become an exception in shooting long dramas in Hengdian." Ji Zhaoying said, "Horizontal and vertical short dramas are being filmed in clusters. I have joined the crews of two horizontal short dramas in a row. The average shooting time for each drama is no more than two months."

Ling Sui-sui said: "The script of Ru Meng Ling is not long, only 36 episodes. At that time, some actors were worried about splitting it into two parts. In fact, we didn't even shoot the full 40 episodes."

"Ah? Aren't you guys doing a group portrait, with a lot of characters? I heard that even the script reading is divided into groups."

“There are a lot of characters, but our episodes are about sixty minutes long.”

Ling Suisui explained: "Also, there is no love line in the whole drama. I don't mean that all the characters have no sexual relationship, but there is no love push and pull plot. Cutting these out, 36 episodes are enough to tell a very long story. Journey to the West has 81 difficulties, but only 25 episodes."

Ji Zhaoying calculated in her mind and felt that she was right.

If there were no slow-motion eye contact, with people's psychological activities beating wildly; if there were no deliberate coincidences that lowered one's intelligence; if there were no you misunderstanding me and I misunderstanding you, and the mouth was on the face without waiting for the plot, the length of many TV dramas would be cut in half at least.

The scripts for several horizontal screen short drama crews she had joined before were basically like this. Although there are fewer episodes, she didn't feel that the story was incomplete at all. The relationship between the male and female protagonists was still very sweet, and the script read more smoothly and coherently.

Ling Sui said a few years ago that many long dramas that are produced on assembly lines and rely on marketing, actor traffic, and CP hype will be replaced by short dramas, and long dramas can only develop in the direction of high-quality content. Now it seems that she was indeed far-sighted.

Ji Zhaoying continued chatting with her and suddenly remembered something.

"The next drama I'm going to join is also a short drama. The original male lead was Yu Jiaxing, but his team wanted to take my place. I firmly disagreed, so the crew changed the actor."

If Ji Zhaoying hadn't mentioned this name, Ling Sui would have almost forgotten this person.

"Has Yu Jiaxing ever been in any other crew?" She stretched her body in the hot tub. "When he was broadcasting variety shows, he was quite famous, but he seems to have lost his voice in the past few months."

Strictly speaking, Yu Jiaxing is just a newcomer who has become popular for a few months. It is really a pipe dream for him to want to overshadow Ji Zhaoying, who has been in the industry for more than ten years and has a strong background.

Although Ji Zhaoying is now acting in short dramas, the ones she acts in are high-quality short dramas that the platform wants to change its track and invest in, which are different from vertical screen short dramas.

Ji Zhaoying snorted, "He deserves not to be included in the group. His fans have high standards. In May, someone offered him a role in an idol drama. At that time, it was an A-level long drama project, which was quite good for a newcomer. But guess what, his fans tore it down and cursed the studio for not accepting it."

In the industry's view, for a newcomer like Yu Jiaxing with zero works, being the protagonist of an A-level drama is already a good starting point. However, his fans have a high opinion of themselves and think that they are a rare top actor in the entertainment industry and absolutely cannot act in such inferior works.

It is one thing to worry about Yu Jiaxing’s acting skills being wasted, but what is more important is the vanity of the fans. Yu fans look down on traffic, but Yu Jiaxing got promoted to star in an idol drama. So what’s the difference between him and traffic? His status is even lower than theirs! This will make the rival Prince fans who are always clinging to him laugh to death!

Ling Suisui thought for a moment and said, "Then go act in a serious drama, a period drama or something like that. If I can't be the protagonist, it's not shameful to be a supporting role for my seniors."

With his acting skills (after using cheats), there are still many crews willing to accept him.

Ji Zhaoying shrugged. "Yeah, that's what his fans suggested. I heard that he was approached by several good candidates, but he turned them all down. He really wants to be famous and a top star, so he's focused on starring in idol dramas that his fans look down on."

He acts in idol dramas just to gain traffic, but he does not consider the feelings of his fans at all. No one understands what Yu Jiaxing is trying to do.

Ling Sui has another guess about this behavior that is so weird that it cannot be deduced by normal logic. Maybe it's the system in his body that restricts him.

She didn't think about this matter for too long. As long as it didn't affect her, Ling Suisui was not that curious about other people's affairs.

She got up from the hot spring pool, picked up the tablet and lay on another massage bed.

Ji Zhaoying: "No way, you still want to read the script at this time, isn't that a bit too much?"

"No." Ling Suisui showed her the tablet, "I'm watching a comedy variety show."

Oh, I see.

But... I could make myself assume that she was reading a script. It turns out that this girl is just too arrogant!

The author has something to say:

Ji Zhaoying: The impression of the King of Volumes is deeply rooted in people's hearts.jpg