Chapter 47
Wang Zhixie is the purchasing manager of the film and television department at Brown Bear Video.
He's been very exhausted lately. The summer movie season is approaching, and the company has been holding meetings to discuss and decide on the films and TV series for the summer season. But while they say they're discussing, everyone has their own interests behind the scenes, and the meetings always end in heated arguments.
Both sides have their own reasons.
He, who was in charge of procurement, was pulled in and forced to listen to their arguments all day long. He also faced the constant risk of being forced to take sides. It was obviously something that would offend people, and he was not willing to do it.
He always brushed it off, trying not to offend either side.
No matter how smart he is, he can't withstand this happening every few days!
After another two-hour meeting, Wang Zhixie returned to his office looking dejected. As soon as he arrived, he heard from his subordinates that the summer drama series from Xilaiduo Video had been confirmed.
"What?!"
Wang Zhixie was startled.
The four video platforms, Brown Bear, Cool Cat, Kaishan, and Xiduolai, cooperate with each other while also being competitors. They have been keeping a close eye on each other's movements behind the scenes.
For example, he knew that Xilaiduo was in a bad situation recently.
I heard that a senior executive of the company donated money and ran away, causing the company's finances to fall into crisis. As a result, many managers chose to resign, leaving a large number of positions vacant at Xilaiduo. That Jiang Manni was appointed to the position of purchasing department manager in a time of crisis.
Otherwise, wouldn't it be better for her to simply be a pampered young lady and inherit her father's position as chairman of the board?
Do you know which TV series it is?
That shouldn't be the case. Even Coolcat and Kaishan haven't confirmed anything yet. With Xilaiduo in such a chaotic state internally, how could they possibly have decided on the summer release schedule so early?
"I heard it's a drama called 'Wu Zetian'."
"Wu Zetian"... Wang Zhixie felt the name sounded familiar. After thinking for a while, he finally remembered that it was a drama produced by the daughter of the CEO of Lucky Film and Television Media Co., Ltd.
He was approached for this role back then.
He originally had no complaints about the show, after all, it was backed by Lucky Film & Media Co., Ltd.
But when he later found out that the CEO hadn't been involved at all and had completely given his daughter free rein to do whatever she wanted, he knew the show was over.
To put it bluntly, Zhou Xingyun is an outsider, and a young girl at that. What good drama can she produce with a bunch of newcomers?!
He simply doesn't believe it.
He was only able to see her because of her family's influence; it's impossible for him to spend a lot of money to buy the show, and their platform wouldn't agree to it either.
So after he met Zhou Xingyun once, the matter was over.
Unexpectedly, in just over half a month, the show was signed by Xilaiduo and transformed into a summer blockbuster to compete with the three major platforms.
This is ridiculous!
Wang Zhixie shook his head.
He had thought Jiang Manni had some extraordinary abilities, but it turned out she had just bought an obscure TV series to get by.
"It seems that Xilaiduo is really going downhill this time."
Don't really think you'll be this lucky every time, and that you can always find a hit drama to change your fate. Young people really shouldn't be too arrogant.
While Wang Zhixie shook his head and sighed, the other two companies also received the news around the same time. Their views were similar to Wang Zhixie's; they all felt that President Jiang's decision to place his daughter in the purchasing department was a bad move.
However, this was a bad move for Sheraton, but not for the other three companies. They were secretly happy to have one less competitor.
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Half a month passed in the blink of an eye.
During this period, Jiang Manni has been coordinating with everyone in the company and finally decided to schedule "Wu Zetian" for the summer season this year. However, many people within the company were negative about the summer season.
However, despite the pessimistic attitude, no one strongly opposed it.
After all, everyone has eyes. Even if the future of this drama is uncertain, it is still much better than the old dramas that have been piling up in Xilaidu Film and Television's inventory for many years.
Those old dramas are outdated due to years of stockpiling, and their costumes, props, and sets are also clichéd and melodramatic. If these dramas were actually put on the summer season, they would undoubtedly be runners-up.
At least this "Empress Wu Zetian" has exquisite costumes and props, and the plot is dramatic enough, so there might still be a sliver of a chance for a comeback, though of course no one dares to say it out loud.
That's too far-fetched, I can't even imagine it.
On the other hand, Zhou Xingyun was overjoyed to receive the notification that Xilaiduo would be released on the same day.
Is "Empress Wu Zetian" scheduled for release during the summer vacation?!
Summer vacation is a prime time slot that countless TV dramas and movies vie for, and yet it just fell into their hands. It's like a windfall.
Zhou Xingyun couldn't contain his excitement. As soon as he disconnected from Xilaiduo, he started contacting the main members of the production team one by one: Luo Ying, Xu Ying, the director, Tang Ningshuang, Du Jing... Such a great thing had to be communicated to everyone.
Thus, Xu Ying, who was writing in her hometown, had the good fortune to become the first listener.
"Xu Ying, ahhhhhh, there's something you'll never guess..." Zhou Xingyun practically screamed as he delivered the good news.
Xu Ying stood up from her seat and walked around the living room with her phone in hand.
She was also very happy: "Really? Then we really caught a good time."
It may be unethical, but that's the truth.
If it weren't for internal problems at Xilaiduo, their little-known drama "Wu Zetian" would never have been able to dominate the summer TV season.
“Yeah, we got a great deal. We’ve made plans to have dinner with the director and the others tonight,” Zhou Xingyun sighed, then added regretfully, “Look at you, I told you not to leave but you insisted. If you hadn’t left, we could have celebrated together tonight!”
Xu Ying left Shanghai with peace of mind after watching the complete version of "Wu Zetian".
Zhou Xingyun was reluctant to let her go, and even offered to pay for her to rent a house in Shanghai, but she did not agree, so he gave up.
"I have nothing to do in Shanghai, why should I waste that money?"
Xu Ying wasn't exactly broke, so why would she ask someone else to pay for her rent? She simply felt there was no need to stay in Shanghai.
Zhou Xingyun also knew her temper.
At the time, Xu Ying was willing to live in her villa in Beijing because she was busy writing scripts and had important things to do. Later, after the filming was completed, she naturally became unwilling to accept her unconditional help anymore.
"Alright, then you should hurry up and start writing to make money. Once you've made some money, buy a house in Beijing or Shanghai so we can see each other more often."
Xu Ying: "Actually, I have more faith in Kangcheng."
Cannes was the first city she liked after arriving here.
"Kangcheng?"
Zhou Xingyun was somewhat surprised: "Kangcheng is quite nice, but there aren't many film and television bases there, so it might not be very convenient for you to live there in the future..."
Film and television bases are mostly concentrated in the vicinity of Shanghai, Wuhan, and Yunnan.
With Xu Ying's abilities, it's only a matter of time before she becomes a screenwriter. If she lives in Cannes, wouldn't she have to fly around every time there's a filming opportunity?
Xu Ying hadn't thought that far ahead yet: "What you said makes sense, I'll think about it some more."
Since she hasn't bought a house yet, she can always back out.
......
The two chatted for a while longer before finally hanging up the phone.
Xu Ying returned to her bedroom with her phone in hand and sat back down at her computer to type. The smile from before still lingered on her face, and typing became much easier than before.
Her first TV series since coming into this world is about to be broadcast on one of the four major platforms during the summer season. Everything is going so smoothly, how could she not be happy!
As she pondered this, her gaze gradually focused on the computer screen in front of her.
She is writing "Legend of the Qing Dynasty Palace," a novel that has currently been serialized up to the point where the female protagonist is favored by the emperor and becomes pregnant.
Because Malu was a palace maid with slave status, and because there was a rule in the early Qing Dynasty that birth mothers could not raise their own children, she was not qualified to raise the child even if she became pregnant.
This plot point was met with criticism from many readers as soon as it was released.
The female lead had just become pregnant and was enjoying the novel, and since the author only mentioned the child being sent away briefly in the text and it wasn't finalized, most people didn't take it seriously.
They assumed things would work themselves out and that the female protagonist would have her own way of dealing with it.
Who knew the author would be so cruel? She actually wrote that right after the female lead gave birth, the child was sent away by the palace servants, and this child, who was named Yinzhen by the emperor, was eventually given to the then Imperial Noble Consort Tongjia to raise.
After this chapter was updated, Er Yue Tian was bombarded with angry comments from readers.
Speechless.
The female protagonist went through a lot of hardship to give birth, only to have someone else steal her child's place. And when the child grows up, she calls that person "Mom." Oh my god, just thinking about it makes me so angry!
I'm going to abandon this story.
I thought I was free of any taboos and could read anything that would offend me, but now I know I am. My child, which I find offensive, is being raised by someone else.
-Hehe, you have such a niche sense of disgust that you're even entering the Kingdom of Yu...
Please, author, just delete this chapter and rewrite it. I'll pretend I didn't see it.
--My heart aches for the female lead. She didn't even have a chance to see her child before he was taken away. The emperor is so cruel!
-Did you hear that, February Sky? The readers are clamoring so loudly. If you still want to make money, you'd better honestly change the plot. Otherwise, you deserve to be abandoned and receive bad reviews.
-I'm so upset, Malu is so pitiful.
-Actually, the author wrote it quite well. She had already mentioned that the birth mother was not allowed to raise her own child, and the female lead was a bondservant. It felt like the groundwork was laid quite well, and the plot seemed reasonable to me.
- It's not reasonable at all. The premise that the birth mother cannot raise her own child is just absurd and was simply made up for the sake of plot development.
-The logic in this article is completely gone. There has never been a case of not allowing a mother to see her child. This is outrageous.
......
The fact that the female lead's child was raised by another concubine is indeed infuriating. Xu Ying can understand the readers' feelings, but she has to write this plot.
Of course, she wouldn't be foolish enough to simply copy history verbatim.
This is, after all, a palace intrigue novel with a focus on power and excitement. The female protagonist's child is temporarily raised by the Tongjia clan so that he can be associated with the family power behind the Tongjia clan in the future, thus gaining more support on his path to the throne.
Tongjia died young, so this child will eventually return to the female lead's side.
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