Arriving in a parallel world where idols are in decline,
With no connections, no resources, and not much capital,
Want to open an entertainment company and create idol stars?
It a...
Inside the Xingyao Entertainment building, the agent was having a serious conversation with Yin Li, his top Xingyao employee.
"Yin Li, this isn't the first time I've said this, can't you just listen to me? Can't you give me some face, and give the company some face?"
God knows, he was devastated when he saw Yin Li using her own personal account to express her love and praise to the mysterious girl directly on the social platform!
And that's not all! Some even expressed their desire to meet these women in person in their posts and comments, to learn from them about dance and stage presence, and even to collaborate with them!
The agent was truly overwhelmed! He knew that if Yin Li didn't hand over her social media accounts, he would never have peace of mind!
Not long ago, the boss got angry and scolded all his subordinates.
"You're all trash! We agreed to select the best talent from all over the country to launch our own group. It's definitely going to be a big hit, right? It was okay a while ago. Even though we were a step behind Star Entertainment, at least the group had some kind of name. But now, look what happened! Ever since Yuexiang Entertainment launched this new girl group, we don't even have a name. How come the people in that company are so awesome? You guys are just trash! Trash!"
In the company, a bunch of agents and department heads have been keeping a low profile lately, carefully trying to avoid the boss's wrath. No one dared to run into trouble at this time.
Everyone felt unfairly accused. They were trash, but Star Entertainment wasn't, right? They were a truly reputable company in the industry. Their supposedly meticulously crafted, painstakingly crafted production, Mint Girls, had already struggled mightily against the trainees from Joyful Entertainment, and its popularity had plummeted.
Since their debut, Mysterious Girls not only made it difficult for Mint Girls to breathe, but also made the situation even worse for other idol groups whose already average fame and popularity were even worse.
The Mysterious Girl is being discussed everywhere, and when people mention the idol girl group, the first thing that comes to mind is the Mysterious Girl's name.
A combination of other companies?
Not interested.
Xingyao Entertainment also spent almost two years to build it, but not only did it not make any money for the company, it also failed to recover any costs.
At this time, everyone knew to stay out of the spotlight. Only she! Yin Li, the most famous woman in his company! She actually went so far as to directly flirt with the mysterious girl on social media, actively hitting on her.
The agent is absolutely mad! You're stabbing our boss right in the heart! Not only do your own family members not help your own family, but you're also helping their biggest competitor...
No, the manager mentally reworded his words. Their company's group wasn't even worthy of competing with the Mysterious Girls right now. This was just a way of boosting their own company. It should be like cheering on the big tiger that ate their little kitten.
Yin Li waved her hand impatiently at him, telling him to stop bothering her. "That's my personal account. I can say whatever I want. Let me save some face for the company. Don't you guys know how to do that?"
The agent was so bluntly confronted by her that he felt like vomiting blood. Although Yin Li always spoke the truth, he really didn't know how many times he had helped the company's top lady and how much his life had been shortened! He still wanted to live a few more years!
Yin Li calmly continued reading the unfinished novel in her hand, knowing that the company was just giving her a few words and couldn't really do anything to her. She said slowly, "If you don't have the ability, don't envy others for being liked. Instead of getting angry, you might as well learn from others how to improve your business skills."
Out of the corner of his eye, he saw his agent taking deep breaths, and he just found it funny.
Having been in the entertainment industry for so many years, although Yin Li has a straightforward personality and speaks harshly, she has relied on her strong singing skills and upright way of dealing with people to stumble and come to where she is today in the entertainment industry for more than ten years. Her position has long been consolidated, and the company can only support her. She also knows that her agent is afraid that she will offend the company's top management.
If I offend her, then I offend her. Anyway, I dare not scold her, let alone give her a warning, so it doesn't matter.
What if I want to teach her a lesson? Sure, I can just focus on making my album slowly and peacefully. I'll make it for a year or two, since I have the money anyway. Yin Li crossed her legs and thought nonchalantly.
Suddenly, with a "ding" sound, a special message reminder from the social platform on her mobile phone made Yin Li immediately put down the novel in her hand, quickly opened the phone, and saw that the mysterious girl who she had set as a special reminder had replied to her.
Mysterious Girls Group: Ahhh, we're so happy that Sister Yin Li likes us! We're all your little fans! We'd love to work with you and ask you for advice on singing! If you don't mind, our agent will give you our contact information shortly, so we can meet in private!
Below are various comments and exclamations from a group of fans!
Want to eat peaches: my favorite girl and my favorite woman!
Xianyu Pandao: Excellent people really appreciate each other!
Typing is so tiring: I’m already waiting! Waiting for the day when you guys officially start working together!
Try to cheer up: Both sides are so straightforward, so cute!
Yin Li looked at the mysterious girl's reply with satisfaction, and reminded her agent, "Wait a minute, when Yuexiang Entertainment calls, tell me immediately. Don't try to hide it. Also, help me check their schedule for the next two months. I said I want to work with them, and I wasn't kidding."
The agent had no choice but to quickly leave this room that was making him suffer every minute, as he had once again brought shame upon himself.
Back in his office, the agent stared helplessly at his email and mobile phone, while searching on his computer for the opinions of ordinary netizens on the social media of Yin Li, who had actively expressed her affection and made an invitation.
Generally search, and pray nervously: I pray that everyone does not think that Yin Li from their family is giving her away and losing face!
Fortunately, over the years, everyone had become accustomed to Yin Li's direct personality and uninhibited speaking style. Regarding the interaction between the two parties, not only was there not much ridicule, but instead, there was praise and anticipation.
After all, the Mysterious Girls are not just popular after their debut, but are also recognized by the public for their strength and style. Even if there are people who don't like them, they rarely criticize their professional ability.
As time went on, the agent's mood began to improve. This was especially true when many of Yin Li's less active fans started to joke about her stiff dancing style, suggesting she could really use some training. Many ordinary netizens were also discussing how Yin Li's appearances had become increasingly rare in the past two years, and how they were eager to see her sing and collaborate to see if they could create something good.
The agent's mood immediately improved.
Wonderful! Yin Li's comments had suddenly boosted her popularity, which had fallen over the past two years due to her laziness and constant turning down of various programs and activities. He also saw that Yin Li's trending search rankings were climbing at a visible rate!
Isn't Yin Li's album in the works? We can use "Mysterious Girl" to hype it up! With all this buzz, it doesn't seem like we're losing out.
While Yin Li's talent is undeniable and her position in the music industry is secure, her popularity outside of her loyal fans and the period of her hit songs hasn't been particularly high. That's why her manager is so pleased. He hasn't seen Yin Li trending in a while, and for some reason, he's still a little moved.
As a result, the agent's thoughts completely changed. Yin Li was his artist, and he didn't manage his idol group, so what was his business? The boss could scold him, but if Yin Li did collaborate with the mysterious girl, he wouldn't dare turn it down, seeing how popular it was!
Now, agent Yin Li is very happy after reading the comments online and Yin Li's statement.
In a good mood, he couldn't help but search for various information about the mysterious girl to see if she could help him think of how to cooperate better.
Yuexiang Entertainment is truly impressive. They're undoubtedly more captivating than the group they released. Not only are the artists incredibly talented, but the quality of the songs on their debut album is also truly exceptional. No wonder it's such a hit. Upon further investigation, it turns out the songs on this album were all written by lyricists and composers contracted by their company.
The agent was more and more shocked the more he looked at it.
While the popularity of Mystery Girl is largely due to their own strength, this album is definitely a major contributor. The songs are catchy and engaging, and the exploration of realistic themes from a young girl's perspective fits the current positioning of Mystery Girl and is truly impressive.
Suddenly, the agent saw a piece of news that the first variety show created by Yuexiang Entertainment Company for the mysterious girl was about to be launched.
According to insiders, the show has been fully recorded and is currently in intense post-production. It will soon be released simultaneously on TV and video platforms, so stay tuned! The show maintains its exceptionally high production standards, boasts engaging content, and offers a truly revealing look at the mysterious girl. Fans of the show, and general variety show enthusiasts, should definitely not miss it!
As soon as the agent saw the tone, he felt like someone inside Yuexiang Entertainment Company had deliberately released it to whet people's appetite and hype up the news in advance.
However, this Yuexiang Entertainment really has a lot of tricks. The agent couldn't help but feel a little sad for his boss. Idols who copied the trend couldn't compare to the original creators in every way. The original creators also had a lot of tricks. How could this be compared?
Sure enough, within two days, the variety show "Mysterious Adventure" with a total of twelve episodes officially began large-scale online and offline promotion. Starting from next week, it will be broadcast regularly every Saturday night at 9:30 pm on Kangle TV and will be broadcast on Guangming Video at the same time.
This news delighted fans who had been looking forward to the mysterious girl's participation in the variety show. It also gave fans who hadn't seen a new variety show from Yuexiang Entertainment a boost of anticipation, even though it was definitely a variety show created to promote a new girl group.
However, products produced by Yuexiang must be of high quality!
On the day the program was broadcast, Li Nan, deputy director of the variety show department of Grape Video, and several other key members of the variety show department sat in the department meeting room to discuss the first episode of Yuexiang Entertainment's "Mysterious Adventure".
Over the past two years, it's not as if Yuexiang Entertainment and Grape Video have completely ceased cooperation. However, anyone with a discerning eye can see that Yuexiang Entertainment is no longer a small player solely reliant on the Grape Video platform. While there is still considerable collaboration between the two companies, the situation is completely different from the initial period when Grape Video monopolized all of Yuexiang Entertainment's video output.
Last year, Yuexiang Entertainment Company produced the second season of "Who is Yu-Gi-Oh?". Grape Video tried to obtain the exclusive broadcasting rights for the video platform but failed. Finally, it compromised and jointly broadcast it with Guangming Video and M Station.
This year's "Mysterious Adventure", Yuexiang Entertainment Company directly bypassed Grape Video and chose Guangming Video for exclusive broadcast.
Ever since Su Yin of Yuexiang Entertainment became a major shareholder of Guangming Video, Guangming Video seems to have begun to explore and transform its style and direction. The platform's positioning has also gradually become clearer, focusing on two main groups: young audiences and fans of classic films.
The company has added many comedy and creative videos, bought many low-budget romantic dramas and comedies, and added a host of entertainment news and short variety shows. This has significantly boosted Guangming Video's reputation and popularity among young people over the past two years. However, due to the company's decision to drop some high-priced dramas and blockbuster movies, Guangming Video's overall spending remained stable last year, yet its market share has quietly increased.
Many within Grape Video, upon hearing the news, secretly resented Yuexiang Entertainment. "When you started out, it was all thanks to our Grape Video platform that you expanded your influence and achieved your current success." You, Su Yin, have become a shareholder in the Grape platform, albeit a small one. But you're one of us, after all. Why are you helping them attack us?
While minor scrambles on other smaller platforms might be fine, Guangming Video, while not one of the top three, has always had ambitions to become one of the new four. The fact that Yuexiang Entertainment granted Guangming Video exclusive broadcast rights itself strikes many as a more serious issue than a lack of cooperation between the two parties.
On the other hand, some people are secretly complaining that we have nothing to blame. We're all aware of the unfair things some people on the platform have done to us in the past. It's just a business decision, and it's normal for the other party to choose whichever side they think is more suitable for business reasons. Instead of feeling resentful, let's just focus on our own business.
Li Nan from the Variety Show Department also felt a little regretful. The several hit variety shows produced by Yuexiang Entertainment had increased the year-end bonuses of the entire variety show department a lot. Li Nan, who strongly supported Yuexiang Entertainment's "Peach Blossom Spring" to increase its exposure and publicity, naturally also gained a lot of benefits.
Personally, Li Nan admires Su Yin of Yuexiang Entertainment and her company's variety show production team. In the later stages, he has also been leading Grape Video's own variety show production team to study Yuexiang Entertainment's variety shows, learning from their strengths and highlights.
Today, they also have the same purpose and want to see whether this new variety show, which is completely separated from Grape Video and which they can only watch on the broadcast day, can continue to maintain the level of enjoyable entertainment and even bring more surprises.
The broadcast time has arrived, and the first episode has begun. Li Nan noticed that the number of views displayed below Guangming Video was increasing rapidly. He couldn't help but sigh inwardly, and then continued to watch carefully.
The shot begins with the exquisitely written title "Adventure to Solve the Puzzle", which has become a trademark of Yuexiang Entertainment. Probably to match the image of the new girl group, the style of these four words is more gorgeous, and is also matched with various eye-catching embellishments and floral decorations.
Then there was an overhead shot of the large outdoor lawn, where a group of people were already in position, greeting the camera and shouting the name of "The Adventure of Solving Puzzles".
This name is indeed a variety show specially created for mysterious girls.
However, Li Nan and the others were still somewhat surprised; the number of guests was much larger than they had originally imagined. The camera panned down, revealing Zhang Zhaoyang, the already renowned host of Yuexiang Entertainment. To his left stood the five members of Mysterious Girl, and to his right stood the other five variety show guests.
Li Nan recognized two of the actors from Yuexiang Entertainment's previous comedy short videos. He didn't recognize the other three, so he had his staff quickly research them and found them to be variety show hosts and comedians Yuexiang Entertainment had discovered over the past two years. Li Nan and the others immediately understood: this variety show would be funny and lighthearted, and would definitely include a competitive segment.
I just don’t know if these five variety show guests can play their roles in this variety show, enhance the funny atmosphere of the whole show, and leave the roles they deserve to the five girl group members to achieve a harmonious integration.
But everyone, including Li Nan, has undoubtedly raised their expectations for the following content. These five people will definitely add a lot of unexpected content to this variety show, and let them take a look at Yuexiang Entertainment's new setting - a host plus five special variety show guests and five idol girls. Will the configuration be good?
The opening pace started quickly. Zhang Zhaoyang introduced the two sides directly and simply. In fact, they were all from the same company, but the two teams of guests pretended to meet for the first time and shook hands with each other and greeted each other warmly.
At this point, the comedic talents of another group of variety show guests immediately came in handy. While pretending to exchange pleasantries with the members of Mysterious Girl, they also made obvious and deliberate gestures and slips of the tongue, filling the show with a hilarious atmosphere from the start.
These five guests are indeed well chosen. They are funny but not awkward, and they are talented.
Next, Zhang Zhaoyang announced the theme of this episode: Chasing Dreams!
Several of Li Nan's colleagues immediately realized that this seemed to be the content of the first song on the Mysterious Girls album. Seeing that the other colleagues seemed to have no idea, they lowered their heads, pretending to be ignorant. Ahem, it was best not to tell anyone in the company that they were fans and had bought their album.
The first episode of the program also officially revolves around the content of "chasing dreams"!
First up was the "What's Your Dream?" segment! Each team of guests wrote down their childhood dreams on slips of paper and presented them individually to the camera. Some of the pieces were blurred out later, clearly allowing the audience to participate in the guessing game. The guests then dropped their completed slips into a box.
Next, each team sends a member to take turns drawing from the dream box. Each member must guess which guest's dream the drawn dream belongs to and try to convince everyone to assign that dream to a member of their team.
The dream that is recognized by the most people will be assigned to the guest.
Finally, the results are revealed. The team with the most correctly guessed dreams wins!
From the beginning of the official session, everyone came up with all sorts of bizarre and even nonsensical reasons in order to guess and win the dream note. Some of the reasons were particularly funny yet seemed to make sense, which made the game full of laughter.
The performance of the five members of the group was also better than Li Nan and his team had initially imagined. The girls were open and outspoken, not shying away from their own opinions. Their struggles, guesses, and rebuttals with the other team also provided many laughs.
While this first game already produced a wealth of laughs and highlights, Li Nan and others also saw the importance of Yuexiang Entertainment's preparatory work and the familiarity between the guests throughout the variety show. Imagine if the two teams' guests were unfamiliar with each other or completely unprepared. The game would have been incredibly awkward and awkward.
But in fact, the show turned out very well. The two pairs of guests obviously knew each other's personalities and characteristics very well. The various events, reasons and jokes they speculated made the game scene full of things to talk about, and the audience who might not have been familiar with these guests before immediately had a general impression of the two guests.
At the same time, in the later stage of the program, when each guest was speaking, subtitles and explanations of the person involved were provided on the side of the screen, so that the audience could react to the reasons and funny points immediately.
The five mouths and members have five different personalities and characters. The other team of guests have their own characteristics in appearance, personality, and funny way. They are easy to impress people and are more likely to create different sparks.
Li Nan and others also recorded these key points and methods one by one. This variety show format is indeed good, and the level of Yuexiang Entertainment's variety show production is really becoming more and more mature.
By the first game of the first episode of the variety show, he had already memorized all the guests present.
It's really scary.
With the first game over, host Zhang Zhaoyang announced the second round. In the pursuit of dreams, one is bound to encounter various setbacks and difficulties. Let's see how the two teams and guests overcome these obstacles and reach the finish line.
It's a clear sports-style competition game. While this type of game isn't new, the production team clearly put a lot of effort into it, creating various obstacles to overcome.
What Li Nan and the others didn't anticipate was that they had initially assumed the show was a promotional event for a new girl group. As an idol group comprised of five young girls, the game shouldn't be too difficult or embarrass them.
As it turned out, YueXiang Entertainment really didn't let up at all. The five group members and another team of guests played the game very seriously and absolutely put their best efforts!
Li Nan and the others watched this episode, starting with their initial research and analysis, and then becoming completely captivated by the end! It was so entertaining! They hadn't imagined watching these beautiful girl group members tumble on foam mats, wade through mud, shoot water guns, and even get knocked off their feet in inflatable costumes would be so hilarious!
Moreover, even when I saw them make fools of themselves, I didn't feel it ruined their image at all. Instead, I thought their hard work and dedication were so charming! Especially when the five members were playing games diligently and were bullied by the other team's guests, the girls' confused eyes, messy hair, and slightly dirty faces made them look even prettier! Why did it make them look even prettier?
Li Nan quickly came back to his senses and reminded others to change their mindset from that of an ordinary audience member and analyze the situation carefully!
The third part is a puzzle competition game.
The rules of the entire program are also very clear. The team that wins the first three rounds can get the work of carrying props, spreading dry ice, spreading colored plastic paper, and even dancing for another team of guests during their performance. The losing team needs to donate the labor fees of this period as charity expenditure.
This gave Li Nan and the others another unexpected surprise. In the first episode, the Mysterious Girls lost the game. Watching them frantically servicing another group of comedic guests, coupled with their hilarious looks and goofy dance routines, Li Nan and the others struggled to contain their laughter in the conference room.
At the end of the show, the comedy group guests and various stage staff left the stage, and the five members of Mysterious Girl stood on the stage without props or background for their final performance. The members once again displayed a completely different image from the previous segment, and with absolute confidence, powerful skills and aura, they once again perfectly performed the first song of their debut album, "Dreams Must Keep Chasing."
The first episode has officially ended.
Watching the mysterious girls perform their incredible singing and dancing skills, and as the finale ended, the ending subtitles gradually appeared. Everyone in the conference room couldn't help but be silent for a while, and everyone in their hearts exclaimed: This show is really amazing.
Not only Li Nan had a premonition again, but others also had a strong premonition.
This variety show is going to be a hit again!