Chapter 96
Apart from Ye Qiuxin, who benefited the most from the bonuses, the actor with the highest attention is naturally Ji Xue, whose popularity can almost be compared with that of the female lead, followed by Shu Miao, who played Zhao Zhenyue.
Shu Miao is from Jianfeng. Although her agent is Zhu Lan, she is still Shen Mingzheng's subordinate.
The ancient puppet drama that Zhu Lan arranged for her to star in was not very popular, which was a big blow to her career. But after this drama was released, the situation was different. In a big hit drama, even the income of a supporting role can crush the main role of an ordinary drama.
There was a role replacement during the previous filming, but during the promotion and publicity on the variety show, Ji Xue and Shu Miao seemed to have a good relationship, and the entire crew was harmonious.
No matter how you calculate it, Su'ning still has the highest profit.
Even Ye Qiuxin, who was not from his company, came to him. This was the external aid he specially invited.
When the play was first aired, Ye Qiuxin, as the lead actress, had communicated with Su Ning. To some extent, her personality is somewhat similar to that of the female lead Luo Suyan. She is calm, thoughtful, and has high emotional intelligence, so she was able to act so well.
After the play became a hit, she became busy, but she still came to congratulate Su Ning in person before the Spring Festival.
And she didn't come alone, she brought other people with her, including director Guo Baomu and another one who was the head of her previous cooperation company.
Most of the period dramas and historical dramas that Ye Qiuxin had acted in before were produced by a company, Chenhuang Film and Television. This company came to visit specially, of course not just to congratulate, Ye Qiuxin brought people up to discuss business.
Chenhuang Film and Television is also an old company in the industry, but it is not as profitable as Gaoshan Film and Television. Although period dramas and historical dramas have fixed sales channels, and some of them have good ratings, the filming costs of these dramas are not low. Most of the dramas are silent and are criticized by many viewers for being too boring.
Director Guo Baomu also came out of this company and later set up his own business. This old company can make some money, but not much. After this cooperation with Su Ning, it has achieved such a great success, so the other party also wants to test whether Su Ning has the idea of continuing the cooperation.
Every film and television company hopes to make a real hit.
Su Ning has seen the works of Chen Huang Film and Television. Maybe they are not so "fashionable", but they are of high quality. This company has always been rather aloof. This time they are willing to establish a connection with Ye Qiuxin. He feels quite surprised, or even pleasantly surprised.
When it comes to period dramas and historical dramas, Su Ning is not as professional as them. This requires accumulation and is definitely not a work that can be produced in just a few years.
Even if some of them were not profitable, he did not change the other party's mind, but the cooperation between the two sides might spark off something new, so Su Ning was willing to invest.
"Of course we can cooperate. Teacher Ye is so outstanding, and Director Guo Baomu is so capable. They were all trained by your company," Su Ning said. "I want to make a series of entrepreneurial dramas with a historical background. We can discuss this project in detail."
If you need to study the modern or ancient background, Chen Huang would be the most appropriate person to look for. It was not easy to find such a relationship in the past.
But when Su Ning got to this point, he changed the subject again: "I am very willing to give you money. I hope your company can continue to make this kind of serious and sophisticated drama. If necessary, you can make a documentary."
"If the income is not enough, just come and find me."
Whether a work is popular with the audience is not the only criterion for evaluating the quality of a work.
As far as Ye Qiuxin is concerned, if she hadn't polished those works, she would definitely not be where she is today.
Hearing this, the person in charge from Chenhuang Film and Television went over to shake hands with him again, and this time his gesture was much more sincere than at the beginning. When Ye Qiuxin came here, he originally thought that things would not be so smooth as this kind of investment was not small, but Su Ning agreed immediately.
He just has a lot of money now. Unlike Su Ning and Zhu Lan, he is not just after making money.
After finishing the discussion smoothly, Ye Qiuxin obviously had something else to say, so Su Ning poured her another cup of tea: "So, Teacher Ye, do you have any other suggestions?"
"Of course, this is for myself," Ye Qiu thought, "I want to ask Mr. Su, are you willing to sign me?"
Su Ning was stunned for a moment.
He didn't react immediately and said, "I thought you signed with Chenhuang Films, this..."
Ye Qiuxin shook his head and said, "I haven't explained my situation to Mr. Su in detail yet. In fact, I haven't officially signed with the company yet."
After listening to this, Su Ning realized that this girl joined the Provincial Repertory Theatre after graduation and is still a formal actor in the troupe. She will perform on stage from time to time according to the requirements of the troupe, but the troupe does not care about her in terms of film and television.
Ye Qiuxin had not signed a contract with Chenhuang Film and Television before. Chenhuang was a pure production company and did not have an artist management department. It had only helped her with some processes before and she had signed a simple contract, which was almost due to expire now.
In fact, Ye Qiuxin’s film and television contracts and commercial contracts had not been formally signed, and most of the things were decided by herself, so when Shen Mingzheng went to invite people, he had to go to her house in person to negotiate the deal.
Ye Qiuxin originally wanted to continue living like this, because her previous business and cooperation were relatively simple and pure. Apart from a few dramas, there was almost no commercial cooperation. She herself plus the occasional help provided by Chen Huang were enough to cope with it.
But now that the drama has become a hit, she has been approached by some very good resources, and she also needs commercial cooperation. There is no need to refuse like before. The business has become more complicated, and she really needs an artist management team right now.
In fact, before coming to find Su Ning, many companies received the news in advance and wanted to rush to sign her, and the signing fee alone was easily tens of millions, but Ye Qiu didn't trust them, so after thinking about it, she still found Su Ning.
In the entertainment industry, agents and companies are very important, otherwise no matter how big the career is, it will collapse.
Ye Qiuxin has met many people in the messy entertainment industry. She can judge Su Ning's character, especially after seeing Ji Xue's development in recent times, she is more certain. And she is even more confident after the conversation just now.
So she brought this up at this time.
Su Ning said, "Of course you can. Guangying Entertainment is honored. If Mr. Ye has any requests after signing the contract, you can tell me."
Ye Qiuxin's signing with Guangying Entertainment was a big surprise to him. The company was no longer the mess it was before, and he could match Ye Qiuxin with the best management team.
After the conversation this morning, he reached out and shook hands with each of the visitors, saying, "I hope we can have pleasant cooperation in the future."
The TV series "The Hands That Cover the Sky" was a hit from beginning to end. When the finale was broadcast in mid-February, the ratings had reached around 4. It can be said that it is already a candidate for this year's annual championship. Even if compared with the past decade, this result is very impressive.
In addition to various visits, Su Ning's phone calls were almost blown up during this period. Except for the more important ones, he handed over most of the matters to his subordinates. Even a workaholic like him could not handle these things that came to his mind when he heard the smell of a big explosion.
But even when he was so busy, he still kept an eye on the TV series itself. Judging from the ratings curve of this drama, the highest point of the whole drama was the final confrontation between Luo Suyan and Xia Houjin.
Xiahou Jin was originally a purely annoying villain, but during the production, Su Ning adjusted the scene for her to explode, and coupled with Ji Xue's performance, every detail between these two women was beautiful.
In the original novel, this scene was about Xiahou Jin's despair after his defeat, but the character of the queen in the drama is somewhat different from the original novel, and Ji Xue made her much more complicated.
The queen here did accept her defeat and knew she was powerless to turn the tide, so when she was forced to kneel by Luo Suyan's men and asked if she regretted it, she sneered: "What do I have to regret?"
Luo Suyan felt that the person in front of her would never repent, so she didn't have the last bit of pity, but she was still puzzled by her change in her heart, and asked: "Am I not good enough to you? Haven't I saved you and helped you? You like Zhao Yinting, I let you marry him as you wished, and you also became the queen, what else are you not satisfied with?"
She couldn't figure out when this man turned bad.
Xiahou Jin smiled.
Luo Suyan was indeed good to her. Even at this time, he only gave her poisoned wine and left her body intact. She did not struggle at this time and drank the poisoned wine in front of her, but it did not mean that she gave in.
"Aunt."
She hadn't called her by this name for a long time. The two families were somewhat related. Xiahou Jin called her like this when he first appeared: "I have always envied you. You are good at everything, and now you have everything. I am just one step behind."
"Whether you believe it or not, I didn't want this to happen in the beginning. How could I dare to argue with you in the beginning?"
When the poison took effect, she couldn't help but feel the pain. She stretched her neck and looked up. The square and magnificent palace on top trapped her here. She leaned forward and spat out a mouthful of blood, looking at Luo Suyan in the severe pain. The queen mother who held great power no longer wore a phoenix hairpin on her head. Her hairpin was in the style of a double dragon playing with a pearl. The huge oriental pearl shone on her, making her look noble and beautiful.
"But I'm not wrong!"
Xiahou Jin kept saying this until he died of the poison.
"It's not my fault, little aunt, Queen Mother, Luo Suyan! You don't have to judge me from a high position. If nothing had happened at that time, and you had married His Majesty and become the queen as you wished, you would have become like me! Because this is a hellhole, and everyone who enters this hellhole will become like me!"
“I’m not wrong!”
When she reached this point, she vomited mouthfuls of blood. The rest of her words could no longer be heard clearly. She gradually lost her breath and lay on the ground with her eyes open.
Luo Suyan's men were afraid that she would offend the Empress Dowager, so they quickly dragged her away.
As a queen, she had so many crimes that it was impossible for her to enjoy honors after her death. Xiahou Jin could not enter the imperial mausoleum. The Xiahou family could not bear it, so they asked for mercy and let her be buried in her hometown like a commoner, as if she had never come to the imperial city from the small town.
Russell agreed.
Thinking back to that time, if it weren’t for the words of the distant relative Luo family, the Xiahou family would not have brought her here from thousands of miles away, and perhaps there wouldn’t have been so many things afterwards.
But things are unpredictable, who can predict these things?
The next shot is Xiahou Jin's two-year-old child, not yet three years old, stepping over the replaced carpet and coming to Luo Suyan. After all, she rose to power from the harem and holds the military power of the Luo family. But there are still civil officials in the court, and she is still a little stubborn.
If there is too much resistance to changing the flag now, the child is not grown up yet and still needs this stepping stone to let her take the last step. When he grows up and Luo Suyan's power penetrates, he will be completely unnecessary at that time.
Anyone who wants to ascend the throne must naturally have a heart of stone.
The child's face was never shown in the drama. Just like everyone else in the palace, he was led by his wet nurse, wearing a dragon robe that didn't fit him well, and kneeling obediently in front of her, just like all the stairs she had walked up before.
This drama was very popular and was aired for more than a month, with a total of 68 episodes. It almost dominated all major hot lists during this period, and the average viewership rating was over 3.
Moreover, the news of Ye Qiuxin’s signing was announced on the day of the finale, but although the drama was finished, this year’s work at Guangying Entertainment was not finished.
January has passed, and February is still dominated by Su Ning, and it is even hotter.
Because this month, the limited group Glory, which has been operating for a year and a half, expires and is preparing to say goodbye to everyone.
February is the farewell month for this truly top-tier group.
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