Chapter 24 - Resources of the Opponent
Chapter 24 - Resources of the Opponent
Ning Fei and Duan Yunhong established a long-term relationship, which was not much different from before.
Apart from meeting more frequently in private, the two of them continue to do what they are supposed to do at work and compete with each other as usual. Ning Fei even had a feeling that Duan Yunhong was trying even harder to snatch Su Cenxi's work. The evidence is that ST's models have actually started to publicly do some "tearing X" work to attract traffic!
——Why do you have to learn how to create a famous topic?
Ning Fei knew that he could not influence ST's operations, but he could not help but send a message to Duan Yunhong: [Plagiarist! 】
Duan Yunhong: [What? 】
Ning Fei ignored him.
After a while, Duan Yunhong sent another message: [I will be back to S City after a business trip tomorrow night. Will you come to my house? 】
Ning Fei replied this time: [Tomorrow night? I made an appointment to go to the 4S store to look at cars. 】
Duan Yunhong: [Want to change the car? You can come back after you finish watching it. 】
Ning Fei: [I guess not. The work ended at least at 10 o'clock. I made an appointment with the salesperson to go later, and I don't know what time it will end. 】
Duan Yunhong: [Why do you make such a fuss about this kind of thing? Can’t Gu Hechen just make a phone call to help you get everything done? 】
Ning Fei: [I'm not Su Cenxi, how could he possibly control me? If my original car wasn't in bad shape and it would be expensive and time-consuming to repair, I wouldn't bother to change it. 】
Duan Yunhong: [Doesn’t it take time to pick up a new car? So what do you do during this time? 】
Ning Fei: [I’ll just buy a cheap vehicle for transportation. It won’t take a few months, maybe a week or two. 】
Ning Fei: [Oh yes, you reminded me. I don't have a car at the moment. If you want me to go there, you have to give me travel expenses, Mr. Duan. 】
As soon as this message was sent from the secondary phone, a call came from the primary phone. The phone call lasted for a long time. Ning Fei even used his tablet to check his itinerary while talking. After more than half an hour, he finally hung up.
But after hanging up this one, Ning Fei fired three more in a row. Even when Jaslin came to talk to him, he raised his hand to signal to wait a moment. The three calls took less than twenty minutes in total. Afterwards, Ning Fei called the first one back, and everything was over.
From the few words he just said, Jaslin had guessed the situation: "Are you going to have a temporary job?"
"Well, you know that M TV has a designer competition, right? For the next recording, each judge must have a so-called 'friend in the industry' to serve as an advisor, that is, a flying guest. Lin Man is also a judge of that show, and her original flying guest could not go at the last minute, so the TV station wants to find Su Cenxi to save the day." Ning Fei explained the whole story in a few words, "The show will be recorded the day after tomorrow, and I have already postponed my work for the day after tomorrow. Go and finalize transportation and accommodation with others, leave tomorrow night, and return the day after tomorrow. The program team asked us to bring private clothes to the show, but they have to review the brands that are exposed first. Ask the stylist to prepare a list of items and send it to me."
Jaslin nodded: "Okay. I just wanted to tell you that K's new jewelry has arrived. Do you want to match it?"
Ning Fei replied, "If you can match them, then match them, but don't make them too high-profile. If you are going to be a guest, don't think of yourself as the protagonist. Also, go check out Lin Man's profile, including her classic events as a model, actress, and on variety shows, and show them to Su Cenxi. Don't try to be her friend when you don't even know her experience."
Jaslin took the order and left.
Ning Fei then took out his secondary cell phone again. It had vibrated three times just now, and he had no idea what Duan Yunhong was talking about.
As a result, there were two messages. One was that Duan Yunhong transferred 500 yuan to him with the postscript "See you the day after tomorrow night". The other was that Duan Yunhong asked after 20 minutes: "Don't you want to accept it? 】
"Pfft..." Ning Fei was really amused. Is it that this guy's money is too easy to cheat, or is it that my skills in cheating people have become even better? If this continues, when I go to work in another world, I'd better find a man who can sleep with me and give me a place to sleep, so I don't have to find a house and a car for myself.
Ning Fei was thinking casually while replying quickly: [I won’t accept it. I have to go on a business trip directly tomorrow night and won't be able to even look at the new car. I don’t know what time I’ll be back the day after tomorrow evening, let’s make an appointment when we’re free. 】
Duan Yunhong replied, "OK, let's contact each other later," and the messaging conversation between the two was paused.
***
Su Cenxi seemed to be accustomed to pretending to be an expert in fashion variety shows. She put on a stern face and went through the entire program smoothly.
The sponsoring brands of this program are all domestic light luxury brands. Ning Fei contacted all the brands in one day, but the results were somewhat unsatisfactory. These brands mainly focus on urban women's clothing, and tend to choose actresses and singers as their spokespeople. Even female models are unlikely to be able to take on their endorsements. However, these brands are quite interested in Su Cenxi and would like him to participate in their own brand activities. Ning Fei took everyone's business cards with a smile, and immediately decided not to attend the daily activities of these brands, but could discuss magazine promotional photos and large-scale events later.
However, Su Cenxi brought Ning Fei a piece of gossip after recording a show.
"N streaming media companies are going to hold a new model competition in the country, and there is a high probability that they will hold it together with ST?"
Ning Fei was very surprised when he heard the news: "I haven't heard of this at all. Did Lin Man tell you? Are you sure it's really going to happen?"
"Lin Man said that when she went to N's house to record other programs, the director took the opportunity to chat with her. The chat was not very formal, probably just to ask about her intentions, and then she asked me if I was going too." Su Cenxi thought for a while, "And she didn't seem to be going to be a judge, just a guest who watched from the side and commented..."
"'Observer'? I think, although Lin Man is popular, her modeling experience is not enough to be selected as a judge." Ning Fei thought for a while, "This is a competition jointly organized by N and ST. Don't let Duan Yunhong be the judge himself. Judging from his increasingly high-profile operations after returning to China, this competition will definitely attract some heavy sponsorship, and top luxury brands and fashion magazines will definitely have a share. As for the judges, there is a high probability that Theresa, the editor-in-chief of V magazine, will also be on the list..."
"It sounds very luxurious." Su Cenxi sighed, "But ST is targeting me so much, I guess they won't invite me. Besides, other brokerage companies can at least recruit the winning newcomers to work for them if they co-organize competitions, but our studio won't recruit newcomers, and it seems that we can't provide any resources worth cooperating with..."
"Lin Man can't provide any cooperation resources, but isn't she on the program team's wish list? This means that 'Observers' don't need any resources. As long as they are related to the fashion circle and have enough popularity, there will be opportunities." Ning Fei turned the phone in his hand around, and gradually formed a plan in his mind, "Okay, I'll go find out about this matter."
"Really?" Su Cenxi blinked, "Are you going to ask N family?"
"Don't worry about it." Ning Fei thought to himself that my method of snooping would scare you to death if I told you. "Anyway, if you can enter this program, income and popularity are not important. What's important is to get familiar with the fashion resources in it. Can you get a global spokesperson for a luxury brand this year? Even if you can't make it into the top ten, can you bring me back the Money Boy who makes the most money?"
Su Cenxi opened her mouth, but could only utter a sentence with a little grievance: "It's not that I don't want to..."
"Hey!" Ning Fei poked his forehead with his index finger in disappointment, then turned and left.
***
That night when returning to S City, Ning Fei actively sent a message to Duan Yunhong before boarding the plane.
[Mr. Duan, the plane landed at ten o'clock. Recharge and receive fresh Ningfei, delivered directly to your door! 】
Duan Yunhong actually understood this unconventional message and replied: [You came directly from the airport? Your studio car won’t take you? 】
When Ning Fei received this message, he happened to be connected to the wifi on the plane, so he replied: [Your home and my home are in two directions. If you take me in, I’m too lazy to go around in circles. 】
Duan Yunhong: [East Airport? Got it. I’ll call a car to pick you up. 】
Ning Fei: [Really? That would be best, but don’t get too close to my studio car. I’ll send you the location of my studio car when the time comes. Ask the person who is picking up the car to stay away and just send me the location. I will go there by myself. 】
Duan Yunhong: [Is it so shameful to be picked up by my car? 】
Ning Fei: [Gu Hechen will interrogate me again about this matter later. It’s annoying. Or you can just send me the driver's contact information and I will talk to him directly. 】
Duan Yunhong: [No need, I’ll say it. 】
After he said that, Ning Fei really didn't care and just let him be an information transfer station. The team from Chenxi Studio quickly landed in S City and left the East Airport in a low-key manner. The lack of any airport pick-up activities made Ning Fei feel much more relaxed. He watched Su Cenxi and other assistants walk towards the airport pickup car outside, then turned and walked towards the airport's underground parking lot.
On the basement floor, Ning Fei saw the familiar black car.
I even saw someone familiar in the driver's seat.
He laughed, walked to the window next to the driver's seat and knocked. The car window was lowered, and Ning Fei leaned out of the window and asked, "Brother, do you want to play?"
"What era are you talking about?" Duan Yunhong looked at him speechlessly, "Do you have any luggage to put in the trunk?"
"No, just for one day, I just picked up a bag and ran away." Ning Fei replied, then turned to the passenger seat, got in the car, put the bag down, and fastened the seat belt. On the way, he asked, "Why did you come in person?"
Duan Yunhong started the car and turned on the music: "Didn't you ask for confidentiality? That's why I didn't dare to assign the job to the driver."
Ning Fei said happily: "Mr. Duan is really humorous. If you hadn't told me, I would have thought that you came here in person just to please me."
"I got home late today and was too lazy to ask the driver to make this trip alone." Duan Yunhong replied indifferently, but Ning Fei still smiled and said, "Yes, yes, Mr. Duan, please come and pick me up. I also thank Mr. Duan for his kindness."
Duan Yunhong didn't respond to his joke. He just turned around and looked at him, then asked, "You're back today, so why don't we go look at the car tomorrow?"
"I won't watch it tomorrow. I don't know how long I have to work, so it's hard to make an appointment." Ning Fei didn't feel it on the plane, but after sitting in the car, he yawned unconsciously, "Let's talk about it when we have time."
Duan Yunhong said, "Can't you spare this little time? Su Cenxi has so many assistants around her, there's no need for you to be present every time she works."
Ning Feile said: "How dare you say that to me? Aren't you often there too..."
The two of them chatted intermittently until Ning Fei stopped answering.
Duan Yunhong tilted his head and found that he had fallen asleep.
Seeing this, Duan Yunhong lowered the volume of the car audio. The light music flowed slowly, and the atmosphere in the car was quiet and warm.
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