Chapter 407 Seizing the Initiative

The two nodded slightly to indicate their understanding, and greeted him with just the right amount of smiles.

"Miss Xia, we finally have a chance to meet again."

Xia Yu'ai raised an eyebrow. "Why call me Miss Xia? I already told you, just call me Yu'ai."

Shen Xuewei readily called out, "Yu'ai".

Xia Yu'ai raised her chin slightly and introduced the two people beside her.

"Zheng Huaishu and Hong Shutong are my childhood friends. Let's get to know each other."

After introducing themselves, the two took their seats. Xia Yu'ai's gaze fell on Xu Yue with a hint of scrutiny, seemingly casual.

Xu Yue's smile was composed and appropriate, and she made no mistakes in any aspect.

However, from the moment Xia Yu'ai began to scrutinize him, his back began to stiffen.

The group chatted happily, and the scrutinizing gaze was withdrawn from Xu Yue.

After dinner, Yunli took out a mahjong set and invited everyone to play together.

Xu Yue had a bad run of luck, losing more than she won, making her the unluckiest person tonight.

After a game of mahjong, Xia Yu'ai and her two friends had all won a considerable amount of money, and their expressions relaxed considerably.

She pushed the mahjong tiles aside, got up, and stretched.

"Alright, let's stop here. This resort is owned by a relative of mine; I heard the hot springs are really nice, let's go soak in them."

Shen Xuewei felt much more at ease.

It wasn't until after 11 p.m. that Shen Xuewei and the others watched them go and saw Yun Li off before finally relaxing.

Xu Yue stood beside her and let out a long sigh of relief.

"It's finally over. Vivi, do you think I have any hope?"

Shen Xuewei walked outside, saying, "What's yours will always be yours. If you don't get this role, there will always be other opportunities later."

Judging from Xu Yue's performance today, she still has a chance.

Qi Yue will also recommend her, Yun Li will also put in a good word for her, and with Xia Yu'ai being a fan of Shen Xuewei's books, Xu Yue's chances of getting the role are already much higher than others.

If she can't win him over even with these methods, then Shen Xuewei is out of options.

"Go back and rest. It's late, I'm sleepy, and you have to catch an early flight tomorrow."

"Okay, let's go back then."

The two got into the car and left the hot spring resort.

Xu Yue flew back to the film set early in the morning to continue filming the current drama.

Two weeks later, with news from the company, Xu Yue knew that her next leading role was secured.

Even before joining the cast of "Give You a Heart Full of Joy", Xu Yue was still complaining to Shen Xuewei.

"Weiwei, you have no idea how outrageous my agent is. She actually tried to steal this role from that person."

"If the other side hadn't specifically requested me and said they didn't want anyone else, this role might have been snatched up by someone else."

"Sigh, if I hadn't signed an eight-year contract with the company, I would have terminated the contract and left."

Shen Xuewei waved and signed the document. Gan Shengnan, who was standing by, took the document with a keen eye and handed it to Shi Qian.

She threw her pen on the table, listened to Xu Yue's accusations, and echoed her sentiments by cursing the agent.

Hearing Xu Yue say that everything went smoothly with joining the crew, she was about to hang up the phone when she remembered something and lowered her voice slightly.

"The male lead of this film—try to keep some distance from him off-screen. He has a close relationship with the investor; don't provoke him..."

Xia Yu'ai's family is wealthy and powerful, and she has everything, except for her relationship with her husband, which is just so-so.

After having a child, the two of them went about their own business outside.

The smallest role You Lingyu has ever played was the third male lead; all the others have unsurprisingly been the first or second male lead.

Through various roles, he went from an unknown newcomer to a second-tier artist in the entertainment industry in just three or four years.

Xia Yu'ai put in a lot of effort behind the scenes.

Xu Yue got the role, but she has to keep her distance from him, for fear of being targeted...

Xu Yue understood what Shen Xuewei meant. "Weiwei, don't worry, I know what I'm doing. I won't have any contact with him outside of work."

She wasn't foolish, and with Shen Xuewei's reminders, she kept her distance from You Lingyu off-screen.

The two communicated directly on set, with absolutely no possibility of private contact.

So much so that even after filming for nearly a hundred days, until the crew wrapped up, the two hadn't even added each other on WeChat.

After waiting for nearly half a year and testing every part of the space with a formaldehyde detector, Shen Xuewei finally moved into her villa.

Sister Zou followed her from Guangzhou to Shanghai, and Shen Xuewei also arranged for Peng Zhiyun's wife and children to stay in an apartment near the First Hospital.

As June began, Shen Xuewei had a premonition that this bull market was nearing its end.

She withdrew her investment in batches, selling off all her stocks except for a few that she held for the long term.

In this bull market, she invested 200 million yuan.

After selling the stocks, her initial 200 million yuan had grown into 1 billion yuan, resulting in a dramatic increase in her net worth.

In June of 2015, Shen Xuewei's net worth saw another breakthrough.

With a large amount of capital at her disposal, Shen Xuewei accelerated her entrepreneurial endeavors.

This time, she's focusing on influencer incubation and live-streaming e-commerce, preparing to establish her own live-streaming e-commerce company.

In her previous life, Shen Xuewei and her friends had done live-streaming e-commerce, so she knew how popular this industry could be.

However, when they started selling goods via live streaming, the industry was already saturated and there was little competition.

However, just a few years ago, anyone who went online could see how profitable live-streaming e-commerce was.

One top livestreamer evaded taxes totaling 700 million yuan in just one or two years, which is enough to demonstrate how lucrative this industry is.

Shen Xuewei doesn't like to expose herself in front of the camera all day long to promote all sorts of different things.

But she has money, a lot of money.

Since she can't do it herself, she can spend money to create such a person to make more money for her.

By early next year, Taobao Live will be launched, and more and more streamers will join and start their live-streaming sales journey.

She doesn't have much time left; she must recruit people and build up her live-streaming company in the meantime.

The best location for a live streaming company would be in Yunqi City.

This area boasts a strong e-commerce foundation and a well-developed supply chain, and is currently home to the headquarters of the largest e-commerce platform in China.

The booming e-commerce industry has also brought together a wide range of talents here, including those specializing in product selection, copywriting, and design.

Almost anything you can think of can be found here.

To make it more convenient for her to work here, Shen Xuewei simply bought a house nearby.

She registered a live streaming company called Chuangying Juli and spent money to buy two floors of office building as the company's office address.

Then we started recruiting people one after another.

If you want a certain talent, just pay to poach them.

As long as the compensation is good, there's no worry about not being able to find the people you want.

For ordinary candidates, they simply conduct interviews and recruit themselves.

If you interview several people, you're bound to find a good one.

In just two months, the staff from various departments, including copywriting, design, operations, administration, and finance, have basically all arrived. Even the live streamers have been interviewed, and several have already joined the company.

She hired a specialist to provide targeted training for the livestreamers, hoping to seize the opportunity when livestreaming takes off.

It's important to understand that the effort of a well-prepared and mature team is far greater than the effort of a few individuals.