Chapter 62: Each Takes What He Needs

"Yes, you're very popular now, good enough to be the lead, but the company might arrange for you to play minor supporting roles, using your popularity to support the drama and promote other artists. Slowly, your popularity will be completely consumed in one drama after another."

Hu Xiaoxiao nodded and said, "I've actually considered this issue a long time ago. After all, the artists who have signed management contracts are my biological children. Those with other contracts are a level above me. It's understandable that the company won't promote me too much. They run a company, not a charity. Of course, their goal is to make money and gain profit."

"You are at the peak of your popularity now. Are you willing to be a supporting role?" Song Tianrui asked her.

"I have my own considerations. I've never acted before and don't have any experience. They assign me various supporting roles. Isn't that letting me try different roles and hone my acting skills?" Hu Xiaoxiao smiled casually. "They use me as a supporting role, and I use them to practice. We each get what we need. It's fair."

Song Tianrui took out another contract and said, "Don't forget, you also gave up the advertising revenue. You paid such a huge price, are you willing to do that?"

Hu Xiaoxiao's ambitious response was: "I'm willing. Because I want something greater."

In the end, after Hu Xiaoxiao and Song Tianrui discussed the terms of the contract, in order to maximize their own interests, they needed to add a clause to the contract: the right to choose the drama.

Since she is practicing with roles, she cannot play any role, nor can she play whatever the company assigns her to play. Hu Xiaoxiao has to decide whether the role is challenging for her before considering whether to play it.

She has to have the final say.

She can be a supporting role and give up her interests, but in return she must get something of equal value.

The same is true for advertising agency contracts. She can receive commissions from the company, but she must have the final say on what specific commercials to shoot. She cannot just shoot any random commercial assigned to her.

With the contract, Hu Xiaoxiao returned to the TV station, found Charlie again, and added her requirements.

The contract hadn't been significantly altered, except for this one requirement, which allowed Charlie to make his own decision. This was because other artists also had the right to choose their own shows under their unit contracts.

The same applies to advertising agency contracts. Aside from completely new artists who have no choice, the company will respect the opinions of any artist who has made a name for themselves. Having said that, no new artist has ever gotten as many ads as Hu Xiaoxiao, and they're from major companies at once.

Since Hu Xiaoxiao has discovered it, he will just add it.

Charlie knew Hu Xiaoxiao was not easy to fool, so to prevent Hu Xiaoxiao from feeling resentful and becoming passive in the future, he simply said generously, "Your main task this year is to do the activities. I'll give you some leeway regarding the number of episodes. You can film as many as you can. Even if you don't complete the task, it won't be considered a breach of contract."

Hu Xiaoxiao naturally agreed and said, "Add this clause to the contract."

After this interaction, she realized that verbal statements were useless and only things written down in black and white would have legal effect.

After the contract was negotiated, Charlie asked the HR manager to meet with Hu Xiaoxiao to reprint the contract and sign the contract.

After checking, Hu Xiaoxiao signed his name.

From now on, Hu Xiaoxiao officially signed with Baogang Television.

As soon as Lu Sheng got the news, he immediately contacted candy magnate Luo Gui. Luo Gui was in a hurry and, rather than hastily scramble for time, he directly commissioned the TV station's advertising department to produce a Luo Ji wafer ad, demanding a plan for his review within three days.

As for money, that's not a problem.

After hearing this, Lu Sheng's previous frustration was swept away and his face was full of smiles.

After negotiating this advertising deal, I not only received an advertising fee, but also an advertising production fee. I received two payments at once, which is like getting something for free.

No, it’s not just two cents, it’s three cents.

After the advertisement is made, Luo Ji will also place advertisements on TV stations, which is a big deal!

Lu Sheng was cheered up and immediately called the director of the advertising department, asking the entire advertising department to work overtime to come up with the plan as soon as possible.

The relevant staff were also asked to come up with a plan on how Hu Xiaoxiao should be charged for endorsing Luo Ji and shooting commercials.

After hanging up the phone, Lu Sheng called Pan Rou and Hong Yulan one after another to discuss the advertising.

The advertising department worked overtime to come up with the plan and personally delivered it to Luo Ji. After Luo Gui asked them to revise it several times, although he felt that there were still some shortcomings, he didn't complain because time was running out.

So, Hu Xiaoxiao was notified to shoot an advertisement for Luo Ji Wafers before he had even had a few days of rest.

Because she is also a spokesperson, she also has to take flat photos for promotional purposes.

Luo Ji’s wafer advertisements need to be made in two sets, one for regular promotional content and the other for a New Year special.

The creative concept for this routine revolves around Hu Xiaoxiao's fan dance in the semi-finals. This dance left a lasting impression on the audience, was a highlight, and also served to better identify Hu Xiaoxiao, leveraging her popularity as the new Miss Hong Kong winner.

The venue for the advertisement was also chosen on the semi-final performance stage.

Hu Xiaoxiao changed into the sportswear she wore for that day's performance, took the fan given to her by the staff, and performed it several times for the director.

After watching it, the director was still not satisfied and asked, "Xiaoxiao, besides the ones you performed on stage, do you have any other moves?"

"Yes." Hu Xiaoxiao had put a lot of effort into the stage effects. She learned many sword techniques from film and television dramas and turned them into fan techniques. However, due to the limited performance time allotted to her and in order to adapt to the background music, she had to cut out a lot of it.

"Perform it for me right now. Show me everything you know."

"no problem."

The two fans were spinning in Hu Xiaoxiao's hands in a variety of ways, which was dazzling to watch. The movement changed to an inward rotation, and then as they were spinning, she used her skill to throw the two fans into the air, which made a beautiful circle and landed steadily in her hands.

It closed neatly with a whoosh, and opened neatly with a whoosh, opening and closing.

The movements of spinning, throwing and swinging are astonishing.

"Good! That's great!" Luo Gui didn't know when he arrived or how long he had been watching. After Hu Xiaoxiao's performance, he was the first to applaud.

He had always felt that the proposal given to him by the advertising department was not perfect, but he couldn't pinpoint what it was. Furthermore, time was tight, so he had thought of just making do with it.

Now, after seeing Hu Xiaoxiao's brilliant performance, Luo Gui felt that if this were applied to an advertisement, how could there be any flaws? It was clearly perfect.

The director was also amazed, "That's it! Yes, wait a minute, you do this first, then this, and then this..."

Hu Xiaoxiao understood and performed step by step according to the director's requirements.