"Have you told your family about us?"
While eating lunch, Tao Mu was a little worried. It is not certain whether Chairman Li’s order was given out of consideration for their partnership or because of his and Li Xiaoheng’s identities.
"No." Li Xiaoheng answered without hesitation: "I won't talk to my family without your consent."
After a pause, Li Xiaoheng added, "But my family has always been concerned about my love life and knows my sexual orientation. I have lived for 26 years, and this is the first time I have been so close to someone. And you even brought back the gift you gave to my family. I guess they also have some guesses."
"Yeah." Tao Mu responded softly. I picked up the rice grains with chopsticks, but found it difficult to swallow.
"Not too worried." Li Xiaoheng advised gently, "My family is fine. They won't hurt you."
Li Xiaoheng picked up a piece of celery and water chestnuts with chopsticks and gave it to Tao Mu, and said with a smile: "It can clear away heat and reduce internal heat, reduce blood lipids and blood pressure."
"Are you laughing at me?" Tao Mu admitted that he was indeed a little worried. However, the Li family was a wealthy family, and Tao Mu had the impression that all the parents were very old-fashioned and focused on their offspring. Even an ordinary family like Zhuo Yan's cannot accept their child finding a same-sex partner, let alone a wealthy and prestigious family like the Li family?
"How can I bear to laugh at you?" Li Xiaoheng put down his chopsticks and looked at Tao Mu tenderly: "I am comforting you. My family is very good, and they are very satisfied with you."
Tao Mu raised his eyebrows, not quite believing it.
Li Xiaoheng smiled and said, "Think about it from another perspective. My family has always known about my sexual orientation, and they also know how chaotic the gay community is. Before, when I was busy with work and didn't find a partner, they were worried that I would find a same-sex partner with gender identity disorder or a same-sex partner with too many romantic history. Later, they found out that I might be with you - a business genius who is only 19 years old this year. In his freshman year, he created Feixun.com, which has more than 150 million registered users. The cooperation for a year helped me earn at least tens of billions of dollars, and I had never had a romantic history before."
"Such a great condition, even if I agree to a business marriage, I may not be able to find it. Why are they dissatisfied?"
"So they definitely won't object to us being together. On the contrary, my parents would probably be worried that since you are so young and still undecided, after a few years of being with me, you might get tired of me because I am old, old-fashioned and boring, and think that life with me is boring, so you dump me and go and support a younger, more handsome and interesting boy."
"How is that possible?" Tao Mu laughed dumbly: "Who said you are old-fashioned and boring? You are very stuffy, okay?"
Li Xiaoheng smiled: "You said she was shy. How could anyone know except you?"
Li Xiaoheng was very confident and he was not the kind of person who would flirt with others easily. Who else can he hang out with besides his lover?
Tao Mu chuckled and suddenly thought of something: "Are all your family members the same as you?"
"You mean you act like a decent person in front of outsiders, but act like a wild person in front of your family?" Li Xiaoheng raised his eyebrows, touched his chin with his hand and pondered for a moment, then said, "My dad would be more powerful, right?"
"Huh?" Tao Mu was a little surprised that Li Xiaoheng actually described his father like this.
"My dad is the kind of feudal patriarch who always has a stern face even in front of his children." Although he rarely reunites with his family, Li Xiaoheng can't help but smile when he mentions his family: "He is always very serious and reserved. But he is actually very gossipy. And he has a lot of thoughts in his heart."
"My mother is a very common stay-at-home wife. Her daily schedule is to play eight rounds of mahjong with her friends. During the game, she would exchange gossip about different families. She liked to pretend to be sick to trick me into going home for blind dates. The blind date candidates were both men and women. Because I was never interested, she was also worried that I was not even a lesbian, but asexual."
Li Xiaoheng paused for a moment and told Tao Mu, "You know what? The most outrageous thing my mother did was to bribe a boy to sneak into my hotel room and test whether I would react or not."
Tao Mu: "..."
Seeing Tao Mu's indescribable expression, Li Xiaoheng smiled slightly: "So you know how much my parents hate to marry me."
"My second oldest brother is only 22 years old this year. He just graduated from college. My mom dragged him to a round of blind dates. My twin brother and sister just graduated from high school, and my mom urged them to make friends in college. By the way, my twin brother and sister are still your die-hard fans. To use the terminology of your fan circle, my sister is probably a fan of your looks and fashion, and my brother is a fan of your skills and aesthetics."
Li Xiaoheng frowned when he said this, and couldn't help but complain: "It's really because I'm too old and there's a generation gap with them. I just don't understand why they are divided into different camps when they all like you. Can the fact that I like you be divided into different versions? I like everything about you."
I was confessed to unexpectedly. Tao Mu's hand that was picking up the food paused slightly, and he looked at Li Xiaoheng helplessly.
This was the first time Li Xiaoheng mentioned his family in front of Tao Mu. Perhaps it was because Li Xiaoheng's description was too lively, Tao Mu actually felt that the Li family didn't seem that scary. But he was still a little reluctant to meet the Li family. Li Xiaoheng didn't urge him either.
After lunch, Tao Mu said he wanted to go back to Feixun.com headquarters to take a look. Li Xiaoheng sent the people to the headquarters and returned to the company to handle his work. Before leaving, he did not forget to remind Tao Mu: "Wait for me to pick you up in the evening."
Tao Mu waved at Li Xiaoheng. He turned around and went into the company.
Because the number of registered users has exceeded 150 million, and the "National Male God and Goddess" talent show jointly organized by Feixun.com, Longteng Entertainment and Xiaxing Entertainment is also coming to an end, the entire headquarters is very busy.
Tao Mu first went to the executive president's office to find his father, Xiao Qi. As a result, Meng Qi was not in the office. The secretary told Tao Mu that President Meng was in the conference room, discussing with representatives from Longteng Entertainment and Xiaxing Entertainment the issue of all the contestants signing contracts after the talent show. There are also specific matters regarding gathering the top 20 contestants in the country to film an idol drama.
The script of the idol drama was still based on the outline of Tao Mu, and then a team of screenwriters was hired to expand and adapt it.
It mainly tells the story of a fashion editor who was deeply aware of the development trend of new media on the Internet and suggested that his magazine also develop an online APP. As a result, his proposal was rejected and he was laid off due to the economic crisis. The story of how he joined forces with several programmer friends to develop an online fashion app and online shopping platform in a fit of rage. The heroine of the story is a new model who has just entered the fashion circle. Because I don't want to succumb to the industry's unspoken rules and be beaten to a pulp by reality. In the end, she was chosen by the male protagonist because of her sweet image and humorous conversation. She became the spokesperson and new anchor of a fashion APP, and achieved success in both career and love.
——That's right. In order to promote his own Feixun.com and Danmu.com, Tao Mu also described in the script how Danmu.com promoted internet celebrities to do live broadcasts, and how the anchors brought goods to the online shopping platform.
Tao Mu learned from real cases in later generations and wrote several storylines of e-commerce wars in the script. It is mixed with all kinds of melodrama and conflicts. And because the background of the script is the fashion circle, a lot of gossip and secrets from the fashion circle are added. Tao Mu originally invited major international luxury brands to be sponsors of the idol drama. Because of Tao Mu's reputation in the fashion industry, most brands agreed.
In addition, with the strong support of Longteng Entertainment and Xiaxing Entertainment, their first- and second-tier artists were able to guest-star in the TV series. The production team of this drama is Wanwan Team, which is best at shooting idol dramas. The director is Ren Yating, who filmed the idol drama "King of Pop" which became popular all over Asia two years ago.
As for the fashion consultant of this idol drama, Tao Mu did not use anyone else but took charge himself. When he was writing the script, he also created the characters. The appearance of the male and female protagonists and important supporting characters every time they appeared had already been set in advance. Many of the clothes are seasonal catwalk styles from major international brands. Tao Mu communicated with major brands in advance and borrowed all of them.
All in all, Tao Mu really wants to make this idol drama into a business war classic. And in order to cooperate with the launch of the online shopping platform, Tao Mu also wants to make this drama into a weekly drama. It is broadcast on TV and on the barrage website at the same time. To mobilize the enthusiasm of netizens and audiences to the greatest extent possible.
However, there are relatively few weekly dramas in China. When purchasing TV series, TV stations are more inclined to package complete series. In addition, Tao Mu's Feixun.com had only been established for a year, and he didn't have any connections in the TV station. Therefore, the task of negotiating TV station purchases was directly given to Longteng Entertainment and Xiaxing Entertainment.
I don’t know how the two companies negotiated, but in the end they sold the first round broadcasting rights of this idol drama to Mango TV. The show is broadcast every Saturday at 10 o'clock in the evening, with two episodes a week.
Meng Qi was discussing matters with representatives of two companies in the conference room. Tao Mu wandered around outside for a while, then returned to Meng Qi's office and waited obediently.
More than an hour later, Meng Qi, who had sent the representatives of the two companies away, returned to the office and saw Tao Mu lying on the sofa without any image, answering the phone.
Meng Qi smiled and made Tao Mu a cup of milk tea. He waited for Tao Mu to hang up the phone before asking with a smile, "Who's calling?"
"Director Zhou Hong. The post-production of The Great Wall of Flesh and Blood has been completed and it has been sold to the national TV station. It will be broadcast on the evening of September 28th. It can be considered as a tribute to the National Day. Director Zhou discussed with me whether we should also do some publicity before the release."
As for the previous life, "The Great Wall of Flesh and Blood" was released without any publicity. After all, the crew of "The Great Wall of Flesh and Blood" at that time was still poor. The filming budget was so pitiful that they only had two war horses. They almost couldn't continue filming at the end. Even the money for post-production was squeezed out by the director from the salaries of several leading actors (the director asked several leading actors to help advance the money, and then paid it back with a share of the profits after the TV series was released). How could they have the energy to talk about publicity?
Besides, in the perception of Director Zhou’s generation, there is not much to promote for anti-Japanese war dramas. It’s not like those idol dramas where they can participate in a few variety shows before they are aired, or young people can play games or something. They are a bunch of middle-aged and elderly people in their 40s and 50s, and there is a generation gap even if they go to that kind of variety show. Besides, the audiences are of different ages, so even if we do promotion it may not be effective.
The national TV station’s promotional method is to show a trailer during the commercial breaks.
Relatively speaking, the means of publicity are simple and boring. But when it came to Tao Mu's hands, it was different. It was just a simple National Day gift, but Tao Mu was able to come up with something really special. Last year, Feixun.com’s military uniform photos celebrating National Day were very powerful in promoting the event. So after much deliberation, Zhou Hong decided to leave the promotion to Tao Mu.
After all, Tao Mu is also an investor in their crew!
Meng Qi was particularly interested when he heard that the TV series starring Tao Mu was about to be released: "Can you get the source of the film so we can take a look at it in advance?"
Meng Qi smiled and said, "Just watch the episodes you appear in."
Tao Mu smiled and said, "It just so happens that I'm going to ask Director Zhou to make a trailer for me first. I'll ask him for the source of the film then."
Speaking of pre-release publicity, Meng Qi remembered another thing and told Tao Mu as a joke: "Do you know that the martial arts movie shot by Shen Yu and Yan Sheng has been released?"
Before Tao Mu could speak, Meng Qi continued, "Before, when you were hanging out with those big names in Xiangcheng, didn't the fans of Shen Yu and Yan Sheng complain that you were deliberately excluding their idols? You sent another message about not playing with them. Shen Yu's fans got angry, saying that as the president of Feixun.com, you don't respect other fans, and they clamored to cancel their Feixun.com accounts. They moved to the next door. But after they went there, they found that the excitement and publicity there couldn't catch up with this side, so they moved back in disgrace."
Meng Qi didn't know about this at first. It was just that Shen Yu's fans couldn't bring themselves to do it, so they did something shameful again. For some unknown reason, the embarrassing incident of them deregistering and then returning to the account became a hot topic. As the movie is being released right at the peak of its popularity, Yan Sheng’s popularity and box office ability are beyond doubt. The movie has been at the top of the weekly box office charts for two weeks since its release. Shen Yu’s fans have started posting the topic “You ignored me yesterday, but you can’t afford me today” on Feixun.com again.
Meng Qi smiled and said, "I guess when you promote The Great Wall of Flesh and Blood and attend the launch conference of Fashion Storm, there will definitely be reporters asking you about related topics. You should prepare yourself."
Tao Mu wiped his face and didn't want to talk about someone. Said to Meng Qi: "It seems that the Li family knows that Li Xiaoheng and I are together?"
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