After the celebration banquet, I don’t know what Li Zhentao talked about with the company.
The next morning, before Wen Ying and the others boarded the plane, Li Mengjiao was taken to sign a contract. As Wen Ying had suggested, it was a single album contract with only two additional clauses:
First, Li Mengjiao has to participate in Mango TV's National Day Gala. This is her only "commercial performance" requirement besides album promotion. After all, it is the first collective appearance of the contestants after the competition. The champion and third place winner must be on stage, but the runner-up Li Mengjiao is missing, which makes the show incomplete.
The company will notify Li Mengjiao of any future performances, and whether she is willing to participate will be discussed later. Each performance is paid, and the specific price depends on the quotation from the commercial performance organizer. If Li Mengjiao accepts the performance, the company will charge a "brokerage fee" for each performance.
Wen Ying knew that the company would not suffer any loss. This was still a scattered agency contract that stipulated the commission ratio, but it did not impose any restrictions on Li Mengjiao herself. If she was willing to earn money from commercial performances, the company could also take the opportunity to make some money. If Li Mengjiao was determined not to make money, the company would have no way to deal with her.
Second, if Li Mengjiao changes her mind and wants to sign an agency contract, then under the same signing conditions, she must sign with this company first. Only if the company first states that it will not sign her can she sign with other agencies!
As soon as the boss makes a move, you can tell how powerful he is. The album contracts that Li Zhentao negotiated basically have terms that are favorable to Li Mengjiao.
Of course, Li Zhentao was able to finalize this album contract and made great concessions on the distribution of album revenue, but Li Zhentao himself felt it was worth it and the matter was temporarily resolved satisfactorily.
Li Zhentao was very grateful to Wen Ying: "Mengjiao is lucky to have a friend like you. You always think about Mengjiao. Uncle really doesn't know how to thank you."
"Look at what you said. Why should I be grateful for such a small thing? Meng Jiao was even willing to lend me money. Isn't it normal for friends to care about each other?"
Li Zhentao wanted to thank her, but Wen Ying didn't take it seriously. She cared about Li Mengjiao without expecting anything in return. Lawyer Wen was also utilitarian, though not entirely utilitarian. In her previous life, she couldn't save enough for the down payment on a riverside apartment in Shanghai, but she was a reborn person after all, and in this life, she had cheats. Wen Ying would fight for what she wanted, and she never considered targeting a few half-grown children to cheat.
Wen Ying became friends with people like Qin Jiao and Li Mengjiao because they were more to her liking. This was indeed influenced by their family backgrounds, making them more mature than their peers, including Li Mengjiao, who seemed the most naive. To say that Li Mengjiao was naive was to use Qin Jiao and Geng Xiao as a reference. If Li Mengjiao was placed among the group of high school students of the same age, she was definitely not naive.
Wen Ying didn't take it seriously, but Li Zhentao was actually very serious about what he said.
Qin Jiao, Wang Shuang and others also care about Li Mengjiao and support Li Mengjiao, and Li Zhentao keeps them in mind.
Li Zhentao didn't need to dwell on repaying Qin Jiao, Wang Shuang, and the other two. These children had become childhood friends because their parents were close. It could be said that Li Zhentao had a close relationship with Qin Xianming, Wang Jun, and the Tang and Geng families. Whenever someone needed help, the others would lend a hand. Everyone rallied around each other, benefiting from their mutual support and flourishing business and career.
Only Wen Ying, by chance, broke into the circle of the younger generations of these families. Her family background was ordinary, and Li Zhentao and others did not expect to gain any benefits from the Wen family. After confirming Wen Ying's character, Li Zhentao wanted to help the Wen family.
People like Li Zhentao believe in give-and-take when doing things. Wen Ying cares about Li Mengjiao and helps her, which shows the sincere friendship between the younger generations. Li Zhentao would like his daughter to make more friends like Wen Ying. As an adult, he cannot turn a deaf ear to anything that Li Mengjiao can't think of, and Li Zhentao will make up for it.
With a little compassion for the poor and the weak, Li Zhentao thought carefully for a long time and said to his wife, "Giving money directly as a token of gratitude will spoil the friendship between the children. Wen Ying is a very independent girl. As long as her family is willing to invest in her cultivation, she will definitely achieve great things in the future!"
Li Zhentao thought that as long as Wen Ying's parents were not too stupid, they would definitely cultivate such a wonderful daughter carefully.
The crux of the matter is that sometimes parents have put in 100% of their effort, but due to various practical reasons, they still do not enjoy as many resources as children whose parents only put in 50% of their effort.
Some of the things I said may not be pleasant to hear, but they are the truth. It has been more than 20 years since the reform and opening up. The post-80s generation of children are competing not only with their personal abilities, but also with the accumulation of one or two generations of their parents.
The Wen family is poor, but Wen Ying is not necessarily bad.
But if the Wen family is doing well, Wen Ying will definitely be even better.
Mother Li's heart moved, "This is easy to handle!"
He whispered a few words in Li Zhentao's ear, and Li Zhentao nodded frequently.
"That's a good suggestion!"
After signing the album contract and attending the press conference, Li Mengjiao flew back to Chengdu with Wen Ying and others that day.
Xu Mei was about to leave, but Fu Jing hinted to her to return to Shanghai a day later.
"It's rare for uncle and aunt to come to Hunan Province, why not take them for a walk?"
Xu Mei understood what he meant.
When they returned to the hotel at night, Fu Jing sneaked into Xu Mei's room and brought her an explosive news:
"Li Mengjiao has signed the contract, and her contract is different from yours!"
Pan Li is indeed capable and actually got a copy of the contract.
But Pan Li refused to give the photocopy to Fu Jing, so Fu Jing could only flip through it hastily, memorize the terms and conditions, and then relay them to Xu Mei.
The contract the company gave to Li Mengjiao is too generous!
Fu Jing advised Xu Mei not to be too angry, "Even if you know, you have to pretend you don't know. Just do as I said before, you don't have to worry about anything, and let me take care of the rest."
Xu Mei nodded absentmindedly.
After a while, he finally calmed down.
If the company treats people differently like this, then the assistants sent by the company are not completely trustworthy. They are paid by the company and will definitely be biased towards the company.
Without Fu Jing's help, Xu Mei felt very insecure.
It’s not that Fu Jing needs her, it’s that she needs Fu Jing.
Before she fully entered the entertainment industry, Xu Mei had already sensed the complexity of this circle. If she was still as simple-minded as she was in school, she would never be able to make it in the entertainment industry.
There were many things that Xu Mei should have discussed with her boyfriend Qin Yi, but she was afraid that it would affect her image in front of Qin Yi.
Let Fu Jing do it, Qin Yi doesn't know about it.
Xu Mei sincerely tried to persuade Fu Jing to stay, "If you go back to school, what will I do alone?"
Fu Jing laughed and said, "Are you stupid? I'm back at school and we can still contact each other by phone. Whatever happens to you, how can I ignore you?"
Xu Mei's heart immediately settled down.
"You've helped me so much, but I'm not able to repay you yet. Wait until I—"
"Shh, don't say such strange things between good friends!"
Fu Jing thought that Professor Fang's assistant must have bad intentions, but there was a saying that was true: the most frightening thing for a person is to have no value in existence. As long as her role in Xu Mei was irreplaceable, Qin Yi would never think of sending her away with just a plane ticket.
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