Chapter 37
"It's just the kids under my command who are having fun. I don't really care about it." Allen was not to be outdone. "Our company doesn't lack one or two new idols. But Guangying Entertainment, apart from Li Chu, only has the old, weak and disabled left."
Jianfeng hardly leads any film and television projects. This artist-focused company mostly invests and follows the artists. There are indeed many artists with high traffic.
His words were quite sarcastic, but at this time Shen Mingzheng stood in front of Su Ning and retorted.
"A few months ago, an artist that Jianfeng strongly promoted played a popular role, but his acting was poor and the audience criticized him for ruining the original work. Your company bought marketing but was tricked by Jiang Chenfeng who asked for a high price. You almost lost both your money and your people. You fled abroad to hide from the limelight. Now you come back after hearing that Jiang Chenfeng is finished. Why are you pretending to be so important here?"
The fake foreigner on the opposite side suddenly felt embarrassed.
"The old man is just giving you another chance out of nostalgia. Don't think you're that powerful," Shen Mingzheng pulled Su Ning closer, staring at him and said, "It's a happy day, don't bring bad luck to me."
Many people at the banquet were watching what was happening here all the time. Everyone wanted to know, now that Shen Ting's family had fallen, and Jiang Chenfeng was implicated, who had the final say in Haicheng.
"What do you know?" Allen glared at him. "You just took advantage of the situation and seized Jiang Chenfeng's weakness. Otherwise, you..."
"What else?" Shen Mingzheng asked, "Were you so tough when the Jiang family was playing tricks on you?"
The two sides eventually parted ways unhappily.
After Su Ning and Shen Mingzheng walked away, he asked again, "Have you seen him?"
Otherwise, how would you know it so clearly?
Shen Mingzheng had never seen this man in his life, but Chen Tao had mentioned him. This experienced assistant Chen had worked under him for a period of time. He knew that Allen's mother was from country Y and that he grew up abroad. On the surface, he looked like an English gentleman, but Chen Tao's evaluation of him was that he was a gentleman on the outside but arrogant on the inside.
This trait does indeed fit a certain type of "gentleman".
He is somewhat like an upgraded version of Shen Huai, but not exactly the same. He is very good at lying dormant, so much so that after Shen Huai, who had been in great glory for a few years in his previous life, was taken over by the crazy Li Chu, Allen became the person who took over Shen's Pictures, and was even more capable than Shen Huai.
However, in his previous life, Shen Mingzheng never saw who the Shen family had actually decided on as the heir to the family.
The old man was very strong. When Shen Mingzheng died, he was still able to go upstairs to receive the award with the help of a cane. He did not hand over the power in his hands to anyone. Perhaps in the end there will be no real winner.
This wedding banquet brought together most of the influential people in Haicheng, but the protagonists did not seem to be the newlyweds. After Allen came back, there were still many people surrounding him, like the moon surrounded by stars.
Although the popular artists at the top were criticized for a while, traffic is traffic after all, and their company's hype ability has always been online. It was just that they encountered an unreasonable person like Jiang Chenfeng and fell into a trap, and it was quiet for a while.
But after all, he is older and has been in the entertainment industry for longer than Su Ning and Shen Mingzheng, so it is normal for that group of people to surround him.
Allen got together with people he was familiar with and received a few compliments, which made him look better.
One of them took the opportunity to toast and came forward and asked, "How is it?"
These people glanced at Shen Mingzheng and Su Ning standing there from a distance. They seemed to know that the ambitious young Mr. Shen was not easy to mess with, so they all set their sights on Su Ning.
This Young Master Su has changed a lot. His previously unruly features now look much softer, and he seems quite versatile. Shen Mingzheng is always by his side, but it doesn't seem obvious how powerful this man is.
Old Master Shen did not say much to the outside world. Many of the things Su Ning did at that time could be easily misunderstood because of this marriage, and people would think that he had a backer behind him to give him the green light all the way.
Compared with the cold-hearted Shen Mingzheng, the reorganized Guangying Entertainment and Su Ning are like the soft persimmon that anyone can pinch.
"Let's try him," Allen put down his glass, "with the matter of...Glory."
The people around him quickly understood his meaning and clinked glasses with him.
Others may not know about Su Ning, but Liang Xiaoliang knew him. He was very happy to see that man being retorted by Shen Mingzheng, but he couldn't help but worry.
He just felt that the fight in Haicheng seemed inevitable.
He doesn't like Allen, but compared with Guangying Entertainment and Shen's Pictures, Jianfeng is indeed at a disadvantage. Needless to say, the difficulty of restructuring is that the key point is that there is no "people".
Allen just sarcastically said that Guangying Entertainment has old, weak and sick people, which is true to some extent. As a result, many people outside are unaware of the situation and think that Su Ning just relied on his face and the inheritance to climb up the high branch of Mr. Shen.
Generally speaking, the most important person in the entertainment industry's public image is the artist.
The reason why Jianfeng is able to get by is that it has exchanged a lot of resources with its artists. Shen's Pictures and Guangying Entertainment currently lack this. Having only one Li Chu is not enough, and Li Chu also needs to stay in the limited group, which is even more insufficient.
The second- and third-tier stars that Guangying Entertainment had previously been able to hire paid the penalty and ran away, because the conditions offered when they were poached were too generous, and now they are willing to pay the penalty. Two of them are said to have joined Jianfeng, and the only one that Shen's Pictures could hire before was Shen Huai.
It's not that Shen's Pictures has never signed other artists, but with Shen Huai's personality, other people are just sucked under his pressure and beaten. Anyone who wants to stand out and compete with him for resources can't make it. He wishes that the whole company were his tools.
This results in the fact that the shortcomings of Su Ning and Shen Mingzheng are indeed too obvious at present.
Shen's Pictures was much better, as it had a production team, capital injection and support from its own family, and Chen Tao had the ability and connections, and he also brought in a lot of new people. But after two years of turmoil at Guangying Entertainment, many people had left.
"Boss Su, don't worry," Liang Xiaoliang tried to comfort him, "Take your time. This is all a legacy of history. It's not easy to find an artist with the potential to be a big hit. It's not something that can be created with money. Many companies can't find one in several years."
"You may not be able to appreciate the group of people in Jianfeng. I don't think they can last long."
Su Ning agreed with what he said.
His eye for selecting people is unmatched, and he knows that this matter cannot be rushed.
Shen Mingzheng thought about it carefully and said, "I'll look for it again."
He was reborn, so he has natural advantages, but in his previous life,
After the burial of the fourth generation, there have indeed been no dark horse artists during this period. Even if there are any, they have been signed by the company and trained for several years, so it is not so easy to poach them.
When the banquet was over, Su Ning wanted to go back by himself, but was stopped by Shen Mingzheng.
"Where are you going?"
"I'm going home," Su Ning said, "What's wrong? Is there anything else you want to deal with?"
Shen Mingzheng reminded: "We are already married."
Married people are supposed to live together. How can they live separately after just getting their marriage certificate?
Su Ning stood there thinking for a while, and when he saw many people looking at him when the show was over, he quickly understood.
"Oh, yes, I didn't think enough," he suddenly realized, "If we don't go together today, I'm afraid they will think it's wrong if they see us."
Although many people know that this is a business marriage, if the two people are not in harmony with each other, it seems to outsiders that the cooperation is not stable enough. At this critical juncture, there are many groundless speculations.
"Then let's go," Su Ning said, "It looks like I'm going to bother you for a while."
Shen Mingzheng: "...You can keep interrupting me."
In other words, Su Ning should always "disturb" like this.
He felt that Su Ning's understanding of this marriage was a little strange sometimes, but since Su Ning was willing to go back with him anyway, there was no need for him to say anything more, which would be a bit superfluous.
In short, take the person home first.
When Su Ning came again this time, he found that Shen Mingzheng was well prepared. He told Su Ning the password to open the door, gave him the key, and recorded his fingerprint to open the door.
"The property management has recorded your license plate, and the housekeeper at the door also recognizes you, so it will be convenient for you to go home," Shen Mingzheng said, "I'm not used to having a live-in nanny at home. The cleaning worker hired by Chen Tao will come when we are at work. I can cook, although it's not as delicious as yours, but if we don't have time to cook, the property management can order food to be delivered."
"If there's anything missing, just tell me. But you can decide a lot of things on your own."
What a detailed arrangement.
It sounded as if the two of them would really live here together for a long time.
Su Ning didn't care much about where he lived, and he had to admit that the house itself did have many advantages. At least it was close to the company and convenient for work.
He still had the documents he brought from the car in his hand, so he placed them on the coffee table, and then went into the familiar bathroom of the guest room he stayed in last time to wash up.
The guest bedroom and the master bedroom have two pairs of doors. Shen Mingzheng watched him walk in and paused, as if he wanted to say something, but Su Ning had already gone in and closed the door, so he didn't say anything.
Okay, let’s just use the guest room.
Shen Mingzheng wanted to pour him a glass of water, but when he lowered his head, he saw the materials that Su Ning had casually placed on the coffee table.
Su Ning did not hide much about Guangying Entertainment's affairs from the other party. Shen Mingzheng did not intend to intervene because he was afraid that it would get wet. He picked up the paper resume that was already a little blurry on the top, but when he took a look at it, he was stunned.
this……
Why does he look a little strange?
The girl above is named Ji Xue, which is indeed an unknown name, because in Shen Mingzheng's memory, she debuted under a new stage name.
--snow.
The photo on the resume did not show off her beauty, so Shen Mingzheng did not recognize her at first. He only recognized her after taking it and looking at it carefully.
This person is really a very beautiful person, so much so that after being silenced for a while due to a false scandal about an affair with another woman, she was later praised again.
Her experience can be regarded as a legend in the entertainment industry. After her re-debut in her twenties, Ji Xue was known as the public's sweetheart. She had excellent acting skills and even won many awards later, but it is undeniable that she was more famous for her somewhat complicated emotional relationships.
Most traffic stars don’t dare to fall in love, but she is different. At her peak, she can change more than a dozen boyfriends a year, and she never hides the fact that she sometimes uses her boyfriend’s relationship to get ahead.
But she never cheated on her husband and never dated married women. She had someone behind her, and the rules of the industry couldn't do anything to her. After all, there was no rule that said you would be banned for having too many relationships, and those who supported her did so willingly.
Shen Mingzheng herself cannot judge whether such an experience is right or wrong, it is all personal choice, but the fact is that she is both popular and negative, and is very controversial. When she was popular, the streets were crowded with people, and when negative news about her came to light, she was even hit by rotten eggs at the airport by male fans.
This is an unavoidable cost in this industry.
Shen Mingzheng had not had much contact with her in his previous life. He only met her once during the casting of a movie. Shen Mingzheng played a supporting role in that movie. The director was a little famous and the script was very good. That supporting role was a small peak in Shen Mingzheng's career.
Jixue came that time because she wanted to play the second female role in the movie.
Considering her status, it was more than enough. Shen Mingzheng could see the efforts she made for this. In order to fit the role, she looked pale and thin during the interview, and she looked hungry. Even her hair was dry. She acted very well during the audition, but the director rejected her.
"Your acting is fine," the director said, "but we don't want to use an actor like you. I hope you understand. This will bring unnecessary negative impact to the film.
"It was your agent's repeated requests that led me to let you audition."
"But you've tried, so please leave."
Faced with such impolite words, Jixue didn't say anything. She even smiled slightly, nodded, thanked him, wished the movie all the best, and then left.
But when she left, many people of the opposite sex and even the same sex in the entire crew couldn't help but stare at her.
In the entertainment industry where there is no shortage of pretty faces, Ji Xue's facial features cannot be considered extremely perfect, but her temperament is very attractive. She is pure with a little charm, and she seems to be naturally popular with the opposite sex. But it is also a fact that she blatantly takes advantage of others' feelings, so many people in the circle nicknamed her the Medusa in the circle.
But Shen Mingzheng's most profound impression of this "Medusa" was the failed audition. He later encountered snow several times next to the crew that had already started filming.
The other person seemed to know him, and did not hide or cover up. Without makeup, he smiled at him and said, "Teacher Shen."
"Don't tell on me, I just, really like this character."
"I just wanted to take a look."
Shen Mingzheng knew that if she really wanted, her male friends might be able to do it, let alone the second female lead, even if it was the female lead. However, if capital intervened too much, the film production would change.
But she didn't do that.
She was different from Li Chu. When Shen Mingzheng died, she was still very popular. There were still many people around her. There were still fights between her haters and fans every day. Every time she appeared, there was a bloody storm. She also had a close friendship with some powerful people. Shen Mingzheng met her several times later.
But on the other hand, some small circles with resources still look down on her, and it is difficult for Ji Xue to be given a really good role in a movie with a high profile and good script.
But it has to be said that there are still many people who envy Ji Xue, an artist with a high degree of commercialization.
Now, Shen Mingzheng looked down at the resume.
Many of the words above were handwritten. In the column "Future Expectations", she wrote briefly and in beautiful handwriting.
——I want to be a good actor.
My teacher said that a good actor should be unknown, and the audience will remember the role she brings rather than herself. My dream is to be such an actor.
Her initial dream was really different from her final appearance. Shen Mingzheng couldn't tell whether her final successful appearance was really what she wanted.
...Has Jixue actually worked at Guangying Entertainment?
Shen Mingzheng didn't even know about this part.
He was a little stunned, and then he heard a sound coming from the guest bedroom. It was Su Ning coming out of the shower.
When walking from the bathroom to the living room, Su Ning was drying his hair. When he came over, Shen Mingzheng's attention was suddenly pulled away from the unpleasant events of his previous life, and then naturally focused on him.
“Are you watching this?”
Then Su Ning came forward. He had a refreshing scent of mint and lime on him, the same scent of shower gel as Shen Mingzheng. He sat next to him, his hair still half dry, dripping with water bit by bit.
Many things in the house were bought by the assistant. Shen Mingzheng had never paid attention to such small things as the scent of the shower gel before. The smell had always been faint before, but now that it was on Su Ning, it became obvious.
Shen Mingzheng didn't hear clearly what he asked for a moment, he just looked at him, then realized belatedly and replied: "...Yes."
"She is an artist of our company. It is said that she has been hidden. I want to find her and take a look. Maybe there is something unspeakable about what happened at that time."
Su Ning Road.
He thought that even if he had nothing to do with the protagonist, out of a responsible attitude, he should have a basic understanding of the contracted artist. He couldn't tell anything just by looking at the photos.
Shen Mingzheng: ...
It’s true that Su Ning’s vision is truly unique. He can always pick out the unique “top stars” in the entertainment industry.
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