284: Short drama release, test results

Wang Kui didn't expect Xu Yao to ask this.

"Who told you that?"

Wang Kui's expression was serious. "Did Wen Zhicheng say that?"

Xu Yao nodded, and Wang Kui walked around the office with his hands behind his back. "To be honest, I don't know how much money your father lost. He likes to invest in multiple lines of business and often needs to borrow funds. So when he first asked me to borrow money to make ends meet, I didn't think much of it. By the time I got wind of it and realized something was wrong, it was too late. I tried to persuade him to stop, but he said he couldn't turn back. I had no choice but to remind your mother to pay attention to your father's financial movements. At that time, the Xu family was on the verge of collapse. I thought it would be okay for your mother to keep some assets in advance, but she didn't understand what I meant at all. She thought I was saying your father had another woman outside. But since I contacted your mother, your father has been honest for a while and tried various ways to save the Xu family's business. Before he got into trouble, he told me that he was optimistic about a new project and needed a deposit, and asked me to borrow some money... If I had known he was going to use it for gambling, I would not have lent him the money!"

Wang Kui felt very sad. Without that last madness, Xu Qinghua might still be alive.

Wang Kui hated Xu Qinghua for being addicted to gambling, and also hated Xu Qinghua for taking a gamble and choosing to commit suicide. Before he became addicted to gambling, Xu Qinghua was really a good friend.

If Xu Qinghua hadn't died, Wang Kui would have been willing to help him make a comeback, as long as Xu Qinghua agreed to quit gambling.

Wang Kui stopped pacing and looked at Xu Yao, then gritted his teeth and made a decision: "Now that we've talked about it, you know what's going on with the money your father owes us. Your father didn't leave any inheritance for you and your daughter, so I can't make decisions about other people's money. You don't have to pay me back!"

Xu Yao's eyes felt sore.

Xu Qinghua's friends are still thinking about him, so how could Xu Yao, as his daughter, be so cruel as to ignore them?

Xu Qinghua's father is different from Li Lanyi's father. Li Lanyi's father owed gambling debts and wanted to pass the high-interest loans to his daughter, while Xu Qinghua chose to pay off the debt with his own life.

Xu Yao tried hard to blink back her tears. "Uncle Wang, you and Aunt Yu each earned your money through hard work. You don't run a casino or engage in loan sharking. Those debts have been transferred to my name, and I will definitely continue to repay them."

Li Lanyi said it was a good thing Xu Qinghua died.

Xu Yao didn't think so.

If Xu Qinghua could come back to life after paying off the 300 million foreign debt, Xu Yao would still be willing.

Wang Kui and Wen Zhicheng were on the same page, and he also envied Xu Qinghua for having a daughter like Xu Yao.

Before Xu Yao left, Wang Kui reminded her, "You have to be careful about Wen Zhicheng. He was probably the first person to know about your father's gambling. He has always been close to your family, but he knew about this and didn't even tell your mother a word. He's a very scheming man. I don't know how long your mother can be happy if she remarries him."

happiness?

Xu Yao now doesn’t think that Lin Meixian and Wen Zhicheng’s marriage is happy at all.

"Thank you, Uncle Wang. I will pay attention to it."

Xu Yao was not disappointed even though she didn't get much useful information from Wang Kui.

At least, it confirmed that some of Xu Yao's guesses were not groundless fantasies, and there was indeed something wrong with Wen Zhicheng.

Something is wrong with Wen Zhicheng, and Lin Meixian married Wen Zhicheng. Xu Yao is very worried about Lin Meixian.

She wanted to talk to Lin Meixian again, but Lin Meixian either said that she had an appointment with the beauty salon or was going to meet Mrs. Shen Er, and she was a little avoiding Xu Yao, so Xu Yao was a little at a loss for a while.

Xu Yao went to the bank to check and found that there was more than 10 million yuan in the bank card given by Lin Meixian.

Is this how you make money by connecting people?

Xu Yao did not touch the money in Lin Meixian's bank card for the time being.

On the one hand, Lin Meixian avoided meeting Xu Yao, and on the other hand, there was the matter of the short play waiting for Xu Yao to push forward. She did not fool Li Lanyi. Xu Yao personally went to talk to the vice president of Orca about several finished products produced by the short play company.

Xu Yao's earthy short dramas on the Orca account have been updated for free to more than 50 episodes. The vice president is very interested in several new short dramas released by Orange, but when it comes to the profit sharing between the two parties, the conditions offered by Orca are indeed not as good as those offered by Huahu.

"Only with a platform can there be traffic, don't you agree?"

Tian Cheng glanced at Xu Yao, smiled and nodded: "You are right, only with a platform can there be traffic, and the support of the platform is the most important!"

Although he said this, Tiancheng had already given up on choosing Killer Whale as the preferred delivery platform.

The concepts of Orca and Huahu are very different.

Killer Whale believes that the platform is above everything else, so the platform should get a higher share.

Huahu does not care about the profits from short dramas. It wants to retain users with novel content, so it does not care about the producers of short dramas getting a bigger share of the money.

Tiancheng sided with Huahu and had no intention of offending Killer Whale.

The company also has internal ratings for short dramas. Tiancheng plans to give priority to short dramas with high ratings to Huahu, and short dramas with lower ratings to Orca. At the same time, they will also be released on Xiyou, so as not to offend any of the three major platforms.

It was Xu Yao who contacted Huahu about the priority cooperation. Logically, Xu Yao should have been the one to connect with Huahu. However, Xu Yao said that she had signed an exclusive contract with Orca and it would not be appropriate to get too close to Huahu. Tiancheng thought it was right and came forward to finalize the release of the short drama with Huahu.

After returning from Huahu, Tiancheng was both excited and nervous: "Huahu has approached more than just our company for cooperation, but the others are still unsure whether the short drama can make money, so the filming progress is much slower."

Tiancheng was excited when he found out about the progress of his competitors.

By the time our competitors have figured out the ropes of short dramas, many finished dramas have already been released. The first batch has already been consumed, so it doesn't matter if we leave some leftovers to feed our competitors.

What worries me is that once the short drama is on the platform, the real money will start to be spent.

Got to buy volume!

Only with volume can there be broadcasts, and only with broadcasts can there be profits. Compared with the huge expenses of buying volume, the cost of scripts and filming is simply not worth mentioning.

Tiancheng was talented and capable, but she had never run a business this big. Xu Yao and the other two provided the majority of the funding for the short play company. They never questioned Tiancheng's creative abilities, never interfering with her scripts or her casting decisions. With such high trust, if her short plays didn't make any money, how could she face the people of Jiangdong?

Xu Yao was more open-minded: "Try it out first, and if it doesn't work, try another style. I have confidence in you."

There is no business in the world that is guaranteed to make a profit, and Xu Yao is prepared to bear losses.

Tian Cheng clenched his fist and said, "If it doesn't go as planned, I'll adjust the script for the next one to be filmed, and it will definitely make our company profitable."

Xu Yao thought that Tiancheng had already reached an agreement with Huahu and she didn't have to worry about the rest of the matters. However, she didn't expect to receive a call from Gu Jun that night.

"Yaoyao, can I see you?"

Xu Yao was about to refuse when Gu Jun added on the other end of the phone, "I'm not trying to pester you. I just have something to say but I don't know who to talk to. The DNA test Jason and I did revealed that we are actually brothers from the same father and mother."