Chapter 94: Very Afraid

And the Qin Foundation happens to hold shares in an overseas film and television company.

Shares in a large global film and television company, no less.

Liu Yue could fully leverage the other party's strength to push domestic short dramas abroad.

In Liu Yue's experience, those foreign wolves are the type who truly never complain about having too little meat to eat.

What is "a goose leaving behind some feathers"?

They'd flip the ground over and eat it too.

For those hungry foreign wolves, every business big or small—we have to take a bite. There's absolutely no such thing as being too picky.

Of course, it has to make money.

The first project Liu Yue prepared to undertake after taking over the Qin Foundation was the integration of short drama resources for overseas distribution.

If successful, first, it would prove her abilities to the companies abroad that cooperate with the Qin Foundation.

Second, it would prove her abilities to the people of the Qin family.

Resource integration is an important part of group operations, after all.

Only large-scale resource integration can lower costs, expand profits, and successfully grow benefits.

To ensure the overseas trip half a month later went smoothly, Liu Yue drafted Shen Mo, making him help organize the short drama resources of Hao Ya Media and San Sheng Entertainment.

Of course, there were also short drama resources from some smaller companies.

Those smaller companies all lacked the ability to export overseas.

Shen Mo needed to visit them one by one to discuss this cooperation.

Negotiation was a skill Shen Mo hadn't practiced in recent years.

For this, Liu Yue personally taught him some negotiation techniques.

The main theme was ruthless.

In Liu Yue's words, for this short drama resource integration, we are the channel side, the Party A, the ones bringing money to the other party, so we absolutely cannot back down.

We must have the bearing of Party A.

The cost of this resource integration is not small, so we cannot afford to lose, and so on.

After going through it all, Shen Mo had just one feeling: truly exhausting.

Negotiating with various short drama companies and studios, hammering out prices, how many resources the other party could provide, and so on.

Really exhausting.

But the results were also very good. At the very least, Shen Mo felt he was terrifyingly strong now.

During this half month, Meng Bai filmed another short drama called "Flash Marriage Husband Is the Richest Man."

Meng Bai thought it was pretty wild—this big sister is hooked.

Time flew by, and the day to go abroad arrived.

At the airport, Shen Mo looked at Shen Jiajia chatting happily with Liu Yue, his expression full of confusion.

How did this young lady end up coming too?

【Not happy.】

【It was supposed to be a business trip alone with my wife, so why is there a young lady tagging along?】

【Sigh, this is rough.】

Liu Yue chatted with Shen Jiajia while casting an amused glance at Shen Mo. You guy, your thoughts are really something. Besides, we're going to Meili Guo, there's no way it could be just one person.

Shen Jiajia quickly noticed Shen Mo's sour expression and teased, "I'm going abroad on business. We have cooperation there, so I won't be traveling with you the whole time."

Shen Mo breathed a sigh of relief.

That's good then.

"But for the next few days, we'll be staying at the same hotel."

"So, dear little brother, you'll have to bear with me."

Shen Mo was instantly speechless and didn't want to say another word.

【I dare you to sleep with my wife.】

Liu Yue wanted to laugh.

But she held it in.

Because you can't use your phone, time on the plane is very boring. People usually can only choose to sleep.

After all, chatting would disturb others, which is not good.

Fortunately, Shen Mo picked up a book called Sea Fortress.

Shen Mo's assessment of this novel was that it was pretty good, much better than the movie adaptation. The reason Shen Mo knew about the movie adapted from this novel was because of Ms. Wenya.

This was Ms. Wenya's worst investment.

The fresh-faced male lead was also one of Ms. Wenya's subordinates.

To the point that "Sea Fortress" made Ms. Wenya lose a fortune.

The only upside was that Ms. Qin Hao, to comfort her, took her out to play for several days.

In Grandpa's words, she came back glowing with health.

Clearly having had a wonderful time.

Before he finished the book, the plane had landed. Shen Mo put the book down, hoping others could read it too.

After all, the book was still good.

One shouldn't judge the original work poorly just because of the movie.

When getting off the plane, Shen Mo finally realized what the extravagance of the rich looked like.

A modified luxury car, twenty-two male bodyguards, and two personal female bodyguards.

From the bulging pockets of these bodyguards, one could guess there might be other weapons inside.

They got into a luxury car and drove all the way to a six-star luxury hotel in the city center.

No sooner had they stepped out of the car than a manager came forward to greet them and took their luggage.

The two rooms were next to each other, already prepared in advance.

The moment they entered, Liu Yue had Shen Mo and the female bodyguards check the entire room.

Afterwards, the female bodyguards also brought in two cases.

They opened them — all real hardware.

"If it weren't for doing business, I really wouldn't want to go abroad."

Liu Yue said with a sigh.

Shen Mo was curious — what was going on?

At the dinner table, Liu Yue and Shen Jiajia began complaining about public safety abroad.

Liu Yue: "The first time I came to Meili Guo, I ran into a shooting."

"A man whose family went bankrupt and couldn't carry on with life started taking revenge on society — I almost got taken out by a stray bullet."

Shen Jiajia took a sip of water and complained outright: "What's that? The first time I came, I brought bodyguards to check out a distributor's store in the old district, and ended up running into a violent man rushing up to assault us."

"If the bodyguards hadn't been loyal, and I myself didn't know a bit of fighting, it would have been all over."

Liu Yue took a bite of steak and continued: "Honestly, it's hard to imagine this is the country that was once the world's beacon of light."

"Every time I've come here, I always run into some kind of accident."

"Transgenders, white-sugar addicts are everywhere, multi-gender ideology, homeless people on the streets — it's really hard to imagine."

Shen Jiajia shrugged helplessly: "Nothing we can do. Even so, this country's economy is still strong, and it's still the world's trade hub."

"So we still have to come here to do business."

"Even at the risk of our lives."

At night, as the lanterns first lit up, Shen Mo saw police cars patrolling nonstop below from the suite window.

Shen Mo asked in confusion: "Wife, with police cars patrolling at this frequency, would what you described still happen?"

Shen Mo found it a little hard to believe.

Liu Yue glanced down at the street: "It didn't used to be like this here. It's only after we invested in a hotel here and made extra donations to the nearby police station that it became this way."

"We, along with some other businesses nearby, donate an extra five million to the nearby police station every year."

Liu Yue thought for a moment, then added: "Have you seen the Hong Kong Island film Jinjian Diguo?"

"The police here are a lot like the ones in that movie — how much effort they put in depends on how much money you pay."

【This is truly insane.】

Shen Mo looked out at the neon-lit world and muttered in disbelief to himself.

He really couldn't imagine this was the same world as back home.

At the very least, back home Liu Yue rarely brought personal bodyguards.

Here, the bodyguards slept right next door, on call twenty-four hours a day.

It was clear that Liu Yue was very afraid.

(End of this chapter)