When Xie Yunjing came out, his hair was dripping with water.
Gu Xian whistled: "Awesome, taking a cold shower in this weather!"
Xie Yunjing approached the bed with a gloomy expression: "Lie down."
"Hmm?" Gu Xian was surprised and said mischievously, "No way, you still want to press me?"
"Stop talking nonsense." Xie Yunjing, who had just taken a cold shower, was not calm at all. Seeing Gu Xian hesitating, he impatiently reached out and knocked him over.
"Fuck!——" Gu Xian's face was twisted in pain, but he still didn't want to stay idle. He bared his teeth and wanted to tease Xie Yunjing, "Ha! Aren't you afraid that you will call me Shi Geng again? Young man, taking too many cold showers is bad for your health~"
“Ah!——”
Xie Yunjing coldly held down Gu Xian's body as he tried to curl up: "I think you should worry about yourself."
"Hmph!" Gu Xianzhenfeng taunted, "Would I be afraid of you? Do you have the guts to do that?"
Xie Yunjing looked at him for a moment, then suddenly raised a cold smile: "I don't mind dying with you."
Gu Xian: “…”
A man can bend and stretch.
Gu Xian hugged the pillow and pretended nothing had happened.
All the messy contract disputes were finally settled, and the mess that Wei Wenxian left for Guangyao was over, but Gu Xian, lying on his folding table, still looked tired and sad.
Guangyao's various partnerships had been largely cancelled. A few remained, but they were largely unprofitable. With Guangyao's current reputation, the industry shunned it like the plague, and hoping for a good partnership was practically impossible.
Without good cooperation, you can't make money. The only way out is for Guangyao to produce good works and earn a good reputation.
But first of all, good works and good reputation are not so easy to achieve. Don’t you see that there are so many people entering the entertainment industry, but only a few can finally gain fame and reputation.
Secondly, if Guangyao produces the work himself, it would require a huge investment.
Gu Xian is not without the awareness of investment, but even a good cook needs rice to cook.
In recent years, the pursuit of capital and profit has driven the rapid development of the entertainment industry. Excellent IP and works on the market have long been divided up. Now he really can't find suitable works to invest in, and just picking a random script to make a film or TV show will only lose money.
Gu Xian picked up a document and suddenly punched the table hard.
Guangyao wasn't without good IPs. "Legend of Songshan," a phenomenal work at the dawn of online literature, still has a loyal following. Its plot was also excellent, but its outdated language meant it was gradually lost amidst the exploding number of online novels.
If it could be adapted into a film or TV series, the language flaws would certainly be eliminated. And if only the essential plot was retained, even if it didn't necessarily become a hit, it wouldn't be a huge loss.
I don’t know where Guangyao got the vision from at the time, but he bought all the film and television rights to "Legend of Songshan" before the trend of online literature IP adaptation emerged.
Unfortunately, the copyright of "Legend of Songshan" was sold by Wei Wenxian at a high price to Fengxing Media, a leading company in the entertainment industry, three months before Gu Xian entered Guangyao. If he wanted to get it back, he would have to pay a penalty of up to 70 million yuan.
Gu Xian was aware of investment and had a small stash of funds, but that didn't mean he had unlimited funds to squander. Spending 70 million for a single copyright would leave him with limited funds to fund the subsequent production crew.
So no matter how regrettable it was, he could only give up.
It was also thanks to the prison bars that Wei Wenxian was saved, otherwise Gu Xian would have torn him to pieces or at least beaten him up severely.
Gu Xian was racking his brains over Guangyao's future. Money talks. Investing in other companies' films, TV shows, and variety shows—as long as the price was right—could certainly get them hired, but that was doomed to be a loss-making venture, and whether or not the publicity would actually pay off was uncertain.
If he wanted a way out, he had to be self-reliant and strong. Gu Xian searched for popular novels day and night, trying to find any fish that had slipped through the net. He looked so haggard that even Xie Yunjing felt a little more sympathetic towards him.
"Is it necessary to care so much about Guangyao Company?"
Gu Xian couldn't take his eyes off the novel on his phone: "The second generation of capitalists who don't know the suffering of the world!"
Xie Yunjing turned sideways and supported his head with his hands: "Are you busier than me now?"
"Shut up!" Gu Xian was too lazy to argue with him.
Xie Yunjing didn't mean to make him unhappy, but every day when he went to sleep, there was a bright light next to him that lasted for a long time, and it was hard for him not to care.
"Are you short of money?"
Gu Xian didn't answer, but just frowned slightly.
Xie Yunjing understood: "If you are short of money, I can lend you some."
Gu Xian raised his eyes suddenly: "Who are you looking down on! Who needs your little money? If you have nothing to do, just go to sleep and stop bothering me."
Xie Yunjing sighed and suddenly took his phone away: "I'm sleeping over there, and you're here with the lights on. Who's annoying whom?"
"Give me back my phone!"
Gu Xian reached out to grab it, but Xie Yunjing turned around and put the phone on the bedside table on his side, then held Gu Xian down: "As your fitness coach, I need to urge you to maintain a good work and rest schedule. Now close your eyes and go to sleep."
Gu Xian has been staying up late these days. In order to prevent him from suddenly dying during exercise, he has stopped fitness training for several days.
Although he went to bed early last night under Xie Yunjing's coercion, the fatigue from several consecutive days was not so easy to eliminate. Gu Xian was still yawning when he walked into Guangyao's gate.
"Mr. Gu!"
It was only when the girl at the front desk called him that he realized there was a strange woman in the lobby.
Before he could ask, the woman came forward eagerly, "Hello, Mr. Gu. I'm Mei Zhiya, the author of The Legend of Mount Song. I'd like to discuss buying back the copyright of The Legend of Mount Song from Fengxing."
Gu Xian blinked and said, "Buy back the copyright of "Legend of Songshan"?"
"Right!" Mei Zhiya took a deep breath as if to encourage herself, "Fengxing is unwilling to sell the copyright of "Legend of Songshan". The only way to get the copyright back is for Guangyao to breach the contract."
"The penalty for breach of contract is 70 million."
Mei Zhiya bit her lower lip: "I know."
"You're the eldest son of the Gu Group, so you should be able to come up with 70 million. I... I want to borrow this money from you so that Guangyao can get back the copyright of 'Legend of Songshan'. In short, don't let the copyright fall into Fengxing's hands." She took out a bank card from her bag. "I only have 7 million right now. The rest... I can repay it in installments. I will definitely pay it back in full!"
Asking to borrow 70 million from a stranger you'd just met was truly rude. But seeing Mei Zhiya's fingers gripping the bank card so hard they were turning pale, Gu Xian asked, "Why?"
"I..." Mei Zhiya couldn't hold back her expression and replied with a forced smile, "I know my request is unreasonable, but, but I really have no other choice... Master Gu, you are a good person, I beg you to help me..."
"That's not what I'm asking." Gu Xian interrupted her, "Why would you pay 70 million and not want the copyright to fall into Feng Xing's hands?"
Mei Zhiya was stunned for a moment, her feigned strength shattered as she revealed a deep sense of sadness. "Fengxing has purchased the copyright to 'Leshan Legend' and has already begun planning a TV series. 'Leshan Legend' plagiarized my 'Songshan Legend'. If the copyright to 'Songshan Legend' falls into Fengxing's hands, 'Songshan Legend' will become a stepping stone for 'Leshan Legend', and there will be no chance to fight against the plagiarized 'Leshan Legend' as the legitimate copyright."
Mei Zhiya's face was filled with helpless pain and humiliation.
Gu Xian was silent for a moment, scratched his hair, turned around and said, "Okay, come with me to the office to discuss how to write the contract."
Mei Zhiya was stunned, and it was the girl at the front desk who pushed her: "What are you still standing there for! Mr. Gu has agreed to your request!"
Mei Zhiya's seven million was raised by selling her car and house, emptying all her family savings. After asking, Gu Xian only took three million and asked her to pay the rest in installments.
Guangyao's attempt to reclaim the copyright was clearly intended to undermine the "Leshan Legend," and Fengxing was naturally less than pleased. However, business is driven by profit, and with the Gu family's eldest son's status and 70 million in cash as bargaining chips, Fengxing's people ultimately accepted the breach of contract.
Mei Zhiya expressed her gratitude profusely, but Gu Xian felt both happy and worried.
What made him happy was that he finally got back the copyright of "Legend of Songshan" that he had been longing for, and he no longer had to worry about how Guangyao would become self-reliant.
What he was worried about, of course, was that after paying out 67 million, his small treasury was already in jeopardy, and where would the large amount of funds for subsequent preparations for the crew come from?
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