Chapter 289 Tom Sue

“This isn’t an easy problem for you…” Zhao Lizhong said with a bitter face: the last four people in the second group are all our own people, and Patrick Tam is not difficult to invite; but except for the relatively young and talented Lin Chiyang, the rest of the first group are basically symbolic figures.

Seriously speaking, Luo Yun and Zhen Li have occasionally collaborated with their TV station, singing some martial arts film theme songs. For example, the previously popular theme song of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", "Iron Blood and Loyalty", was sung by the two of them. If they are invited again, it should be possible to negotiate.

The only thing is that Xu Yanmeng and Xu Gujie from Kangyi were poached by Kangyi Records, which was only established in 1982, at a huge price. I heard that Kangyi Records wanted to promote these two people to become superstars in the music industry, and invested a lot of money in the production of new albums, and they are just waiting to choose the right time to release them...

"If we can't hire them, then we can use our resources to exchange with Kang Yi. If Kang Yi wants to become big, he will definitely do promotion. Sooner or later, he will come to our TV station to negotiate with GG to do the promotion. Then we can get them to participate in the production of this song." Su Yun was very calm. "Let me negotiate with Sister Yanmeng and my adopted father. You can handle the rest. OK?"

Since Su Yun had already taken on the two most difficult jobs, Zhao Lizhong could no longer hesitate, so he nodded to indicate that he accepted the assignment, and then reminded: "However, you still have to mention it in the meeting. The production cost will definitely be high, and we have to go through a process."

"Okay, I got it." Su Yun waved her hands and asked casually, "How is the promotion of "Grave Robbers" going recently?"

"What do you think? Any talk show or newspaper or magazine with Zhuang Long's name on it will definitely have a higher ratings or sales than the neighboring issues in recent times. He really relies on his face to make a living." Although it is a happy thing to see the ratings of his own program increase, after all, like repels like, and an overly handsome face will more or less attract the jealousy or covetousness of people of the same age.

"Very good, keep up the enthusiasm, and we will release the first part of "Grave Robbers" by the end of the year." Su Yun nodded with satisfaction.

"This is a huge investment made by our father, hoping to make a comeback in the North American market. My elder brother, Liying and I will definitely keep a close eye on it for you - even if we want to slack off, there will definitely be someone who will beat our laziness away with a cane..." When Zhao Lizhong said this, he slowly began to show a tired but excited look, "But one thing I don't understand is how you managed to coax Er Dongxing to join "Exorcist Sister". He has been notoriously difficult to invite in the past two years."

"He's short of money to make a movie. When he was at the Miss Hong Kong finals, his brother Jiang Dawei secretly told me about it. He also said that if I could help Xiaobao solve the problem of filming funds, he would ask Ti Lung to guest-star in the movie - of course I agreed, didn't I?" Su Yun replied.

The so-called "哷饭应" means to spit out the rice in your mouth immediately to agree. It is mostly used when negotiating conditions. Basically, when you encounter a great benefit during the negotiation, you agree to make the agreement as quickly as possible to avoid the other party changing his mind.

Ti Lung and Jiang Dawei, the twin stars who once overshadowed the female protagonists in the movies, have been developing separately for unknown reasons since a few years ago. No matter who invites them, they have refused to work with each other again - the gimmick of "Ti and Jiang" reunion is inherently able to attract attention.

"Jiang Dawei really loves Xiaobao..." In order to support his younger brother in making movies, the older brother used connections and "sold himself"; then compared it with the fact that after he finally had Su Yun, the youngest sister, he was still at the bottom of the Zhao family's food chain... Zhao Lizhong was filled with sadness and his words were filled with sourness.

"You were already at a destination that many people would risk their lives to reach when you were born, and you still have the nerve to be jealous of others?" Su Yun was speechless when she saw him like this.

"I know, I just sighed a little. It turns out that you can't have both money and love." Zhao Lizhong sighed again.

"You're not as good as me!" Su Yun said to her second brother, who had a more bizarre and silly style, with a smile on her face. Then she said, "Please drop me off in front. I'll just pull the luggage over there. You don't have to turn around and reverse the car."

"A pick-up and drop-off, of course, means sending the Buddha to the west." Zhao Lizhong kept driving and turned the steering wheel twice to the house on Barker Road that Su Yun bought. "It just so happens that my mother asked me to send some supplements to Grandma Su to help her recover."

After the car drove into the garden, the two got out of the car chatting and laughing, and immediately saw Grandma Su pruning flowers in the flowerbed not far away.

"Grandma! I'm back!" The originally scheduled date for returning home was postponed for a while. Su Yun felt that she was wronged, so she quickly put on the most enthusiastic attitude and rushed to Grandma Su.

With Zhao Lizhong by her side, Grandma Su would definitely not "punish" her too harshly.

As Su Yun expected, when she saw Zhao Lizhong pulling a suitcase behind Su Yun, Grandma Su scratched Su Yun's nose in an angry and amused way, and then smiled to welcome guests: "You must have had a hard time on the road, come in and sit down!"

Zhao Lizhong hurriedly handed over the gift box of supplements he had brought, and immediately received a barrage of praise and gratitude from Grandma Su.

Because today is Sunday, all their friends in the film and television industry will be busy as hell, so in the entire living room, only Keanu, who is still practicing Chinese, is sitting alone on the single sofa by the window.

"Hey, Keanu!" Su Yun greeted him, and then quickly stopped him from running away. "I have guests to entertain today, so I won't check your practice. Sit down."

"By the way, did John say when he will be back?" Su Yun asked again after comforting Keanu who was tortured by learning Chinese.

"It's about time," Keanu replied, glancing at his watch.

Speak of the devil and he shall appear. Just as Keanu had answered Su Yun's question, the sound of a car driving into the garage was heard outside.

"Are you back?" After parking the car, Zhuang Long walked quickly into the living room. As he said this, he sat down very naturally next to the sofa where Su Yun was sitting.

Seeing this guy sitting next to his sister in front of his brother, acting like a host and being very affectionate, Zhao Lizhong immediately went on the first psychological alarm of his brother-in-law...

Seeing Zhao Lizhong sitting up straight like a cat with its fur standing on end, the smile on Zhuang Long's face faded immediately. He warned himself in his heart that he could not control his excitement after not seeing him for many days, and that he would surely be targeted by some people with ulterior motives.

However, Zhao Lizhong, a newbie who has never seen the sinisterness of the world, is definitely much easier to fool than his older brother and cousin.

So Zhuang Long changed his concern for Su Yun and started talking about Zhao Lizhong's favorite martial arts. During this period, he was doing a program on TV and inevitably heard gossip from the gossipers in the TV station that the second son of the Zhao family was a crazy Kung Fu fan.

He studied acting in his early years, and had previously learned a lot of moves from the stuntmen in the filming of "The Lost Tomb", so sword dancing and footwork were not a problem at all.

"Are all people with 'long' in their names particularly good at martial arts?" Zhao Lizhong was successfully attracted by Zhuang Long's performance. He forgot his previous psychological warnings and instead talked to Su Yun while watching the performance with great joy.

"Probably." Su Yun thought about it and could only respond vaguely: Lu Shaolong, Chen Xuanlong, Zhuang Long, Dillon, etc., this series of people with the word "long" in their names, are indeed all extraordinary in skills.

But...why did he work so hard to perform in front of people?

In common parlance, "落力" means to work hard and exert one's strength. When watching Zhuang Long dancing with the sword, with his clothes flying in the air, Su Yun would never doubt his dedication.

Thinking back to the instant he withdrew his affectionate attitude, Su Yun suddenly felt like she got something.

So when everyone was sitting at the table eating dinner, Su Yun took the initiative to bring up the topic of the new clothing brand she had come up with: "...I plan to call the women's clothing brand 'Mary Sue', and the men's clothing brand will be called 'Tom Sue'."

"Tom Sue?" Zhao Lizhong repeated the name with a somewhat unhappy expression, and then spoke directly, "Isn't this name a bit..."

Compared to Zhao Lizhong, who showed his emotions clearly on his face, Zhuang Long thought the same thing as him, but was much more calm in his response: "Does your name have any meaning?"

Seeing that there was something else behind his words but he remained calm, Su Yun smiled in her heart and then gave the explanation she had given to the national team before.

"But there are many other English names starting with the letter 'T'. You don't have to use this one..." Zhao Lizhong felt uncomfortable, but he didn't want to directly discourage Su Yun's eager expression.

"But which name is more popular, more common, and more catchy than 'Tom'?" Su Yun clapped her hands. "And if we call it Tom, maybe we can take advantage of the popularity of Tom the Cat - I love this cartoon so much!"

Seeing Su Yun's stubborn attitude, Zhuang Long sighed and finally said, "You should know that many people in foreign countries change their surnames after marriage in order to show that they are a family. When it comes to changing surnames, the custom is to choose to take the man's surname..."

"However, some people choose to take the woman's surname."

Compared to the Chinese people's support and encouragement for the name "TS" because of its meaning and its connection with the reconstruction of Tang City, people abroad, especially in North America, may have different views on the name of the men's clothing brand "TS".

The performance of Su Yun and Tom in "The Fault in Our Stars" is the best representation of childhood sweethearts in the hearts of a generation!

If the full name of the women's clothing is Mary Sue, then that's not a problem, but if the full name of the men's clothing is Tom Sue...

It’s hard not to think about this!

He could even foresee that in the future some media outlets determined to stir up trouble would use this full name to tease both Su Yun and Tom. Even the topic would be so easy to come up with: Tom, if you can't make Mary Sue become Mary Cruise, why don't you work harder to become Tom Sue?