Chapter 589: Wait a Moment

Wait a Moment

The next day, when Lu Yan He had lunch with Jiang Yuqian, he also talked about the film *Someone Under the Bed*.

"Actually, this film is quite suitable for you to film, Sister Yuqian." Lu Yan He said with a smile.

Jiang Yuqian: "I think so too, but because I haven't filmed similar subjects before, basically no such scripts come to me. I found that the scripts in the film circle are even more single than those in the drama circle. I have hardly received any film scripts that make me feel excited."

"This type of film subject was not very popular before." Lu Yan He said, "Xu Yiren carried this subject."

Jiang Yuqian: "Her eye for picking scripts is better than mine."

Lu Yan He asked: "When will you enter the group next time?"

"I will enter the group next month. After attending the Hexi Film Festival, I will go to film *Mysterious Shadow*, but I don't have many scenes in this film, and it will take about a week to finish." Jiang Yuqian said, "Then there are no other arrangements, and I am still looking at scripts."

Lu Yan He asked: "Haven't seen a satisfactory script?"

"There are always some unsatisfactory places, and there is no one that is particularly suitable in all aspects." Jiang Yuqian was also very helpless and said: "Every time I look at the script, I always think a lot, have many distracting thoughts, this point is not good, but I seem to be unable to change it no matter how I change it."

Lu Yan He nodded in understanding.

Jiang Yuqian: "If you see any good scripts next time and have suitable roles for me, tell me, and I will go to the film party to fight for the role. I really have no confidence in my own eye for scripts now."

Lu Yan He nodded.

"Okay."

After the two had lunch and came out together, their bodyguards and assistants took them to their respective cars, ready to leave.

"Hmm, is that car opposite a paparazzi?" Jiang Yuqian pointed to the gray van across the road and said to Lu Yan He.

Lu Yan He looked over.

The gray van's windows were tightly closed, parked near this remote private restaurant, which was indeed a bit abrupt. This area doesn't look like a place where such a gray van would park.

And as Jiang Yuqian pointed, the van suddenly started and drove forward.

"Seems like it." Lu Yan He watched it run away and smiled.

Jiang Yuqian: "I guess they will be published in the news again."

Lu Yan He shook his head and shrugged.

Sure enough, without waiting for the next day, an hour later, the media published photos of Lu Yan He and Jiang Yuqian having a private dinner and being photographed when they left.

Jiang Yuqian was so angry that she posted on Weibo.

"Stealth photography is fine, can you take it better! Stealth photography is your rice bowl, image is my rice bowl!"

Jiang Yuqian immediately posted a selfie of herself.

"I look like this, not like that!"

With a rub, Jiang Yuqian's response exploded on the trending list.

At this time, Lu Yan He had already met with Chen Ziyan.

They were going to Linghe in the afternoon to have a meeting with Xu Tianming and Chen Yin.

Chen Ziyan looked at the trending list and said to Lu Yan He: "Yuqian is becoming more and more understanding of how to speak in the internet era."

Lu Yan He: "Sister Yuqian is now very clear about what route she wants to take. For this kind of topic delivered to the door for free, she discussed how to respond with Sister Heng for the first time."

"For the first time? What do you mean?"

"When the paparazzi were secretly photographing, we found out." Lu Yan He explained.

Chen Ziyan immediately looked at Lu Yan He with disgust.

"She told He Heng for the first time and discussed public relations countermeasures. What about you? Why didn't you think of telling me for the first time?"

Lu Yan He said: "Why should I tell you about such a small thing? Wang Biao is now my executive agent, and he was at the scene. This kind of thing doesn't need to be reported to you, right?"

Chen Ziyan said: "I am worried that there are those brainless people who will spread rumors about you and Jiang Yuqian."

"..." Lu Yan He said, "In the entire entertainment industry, who doesn't know the private friendship between me and Sister Yuqian, and will still have such a misunderstanding?"

"Even if you know it's a misunderstanding, you can spread rumors." Chen Ziyan said, "For traffic, paparazzi can do whatever it takes."

"Even if you spread rumors, you should be able to clarify immediately, right?"

"You can't stop a wave of black fans from kicking you while you're down at this time. Three people can make a tiger, what about three hundred, three thousand? You will be annoyed if there are too many flies."

The two talked while entering the company.

Xu Tianming and Chen Yin were standing at the door of the company waiting for them.

Under the leadership of the two of them, Linghe company is actually operating very well, from the initial copyright operation to the operation of the two main film and television projects *Co-renting Men and Women* and *Phone* this year, as well as the subsequent promotion of *Chinese Paladin*, all are proceeding in an orderly manner.

Just like Chen Ziyan's judgment of them at the beginning, Xu Tianming attacks the outside, and Chen Yin guards the inside. Over the past year, the most rare thing is that in such a tense starting period, Chen Yin built the frame of Linghe bit by bit. In fact, companies that are just starting out dare not expand rapidly, because once the external environment is bad and they cannot receive projects, the expanded human resources will directly drag down the company's operation—simply put, the company does not have enough projects and cannot afford so many people.

Chen Yin's powerful place is that in the first half of the year, he did not stick to the rules and directly replenished the ammunition of various departments, but he took several team leaders to use people flexibly by project system. Simply put, wherever there is a project, people go there, instead of being welded to a certain position or a certain department.

In this way, labor costs are effectively controlled, and the chaotic starting period is passed. This also gave Xu Tianming some time to attack the city and land outside, without having to rush to make quick money and pull projects as the primary purpose because the backyard was on fire. The cooperation between the two is tense and relaxed.

Now, Linghe is not a big company with all internal organs. The current department settings still retain the shadow of the project system. Except for the basic and business departments such as administration, finance, and legal affairs, other departments are still project-oriented, such as the copyright operation department that existed from the beginning, and the film and television production department established later.

Specific production personnel are not included in these administrative departments. They are another type of personnel management—at Linghe, Chen Yin not only divided the departments but also divided the types of personnel, mainly divided into creative personnel and administrative personnel. This not only facilitates the finance department to manage the salary distribution methods of different personnel but also facilitates the company's classified management.

After listening to the company's first-quarter report, Lu Yan He was quite surprised.

He has always known that the company is operating quite well, but he has not deeply understood how it is done.

Xu: "For the project *Co-renting Men and Women*, we plan to start filming in July. This drama is the first drama we have controlled and produced. We plan to film for one month. The production budget for the whole drama is 12 million. Currently, we have received advertising implantation from four brands, but because we refuse to read advertising slogans in the drama in the form of oral broadcast, only ensuring close-up shots and appearance time, the advertising implantation fee is much lower than the market price, with a total of 3.5 million in advertising implantation revenue."

Lu Yan He was a bit surprised.

"Does this drama still do advertising implantation?"

In the past, his dramas didn't have this point, like *Friends*, even if the implantation advertising fee was hundreds of millions, he didn't want it, just to ensure the continuity of the plot.

Chen Ziyan asked: "Is this contacted by Hu Siwei and Bai Jingnian?"

"Yes." Xu Tianming explained, "It is the brand that needs relevant props in the script and is contacted according to the plot. According to the script, we actually have 13 different categories of advertising implantation positions, but because this drama uses newcomer actors, we do not agree to use the traditional implantation method of inserting oral broadcast by characters in the drama, so only four brands reached cooperation."

Lu Yan He and Chen Ziyan looked at each other and nodded.

The development and production of this drama script are actually done by Hu Siwei and Bai Jingnian. Since it is their decision, he and Chen Ziyan have long decided not to interfere and intervene easily.

In fact, if Hu Siwei and Bai Jingnian can really make a sitcom series like *Friends*, it will be very good for Linghe. If a film and television production company wants to change from Lu Yan He's production company to a real production company recognized by the industry, it must have some film and television projects that have nothing to do with Lu Yan He.

Xu: "The web drama developed by *Lost in Thailand* is also coming out soon. This IP is still interested by many people. The travel agency that signed a cooperation with us before has proposed to renew the contract. The stage play of *Rouge* has also entered the rehearsal stage. There is also a film company in Thailand that wants to remake *Rouge*, but their remake idea is to want Ruhu to become a fierce ghost to find Twelve Young Masters for revenge, and film it into a real ghost film. I think it is not suitable for the original theme and will affect the brand image of *Rouge*, so I refused."

"Ghost film... really a bit nonsense." Lu Yan He nodded.

"*My Own Swordsman* built Qixia Town in Jiangzhi, and the cultural tourism revenue is very considerable. The settlement of the last quarter also came out, and we received a dividend of 3.27 million." Xu, "Next, we combined with the Hanfu brand 'Duxiu' to carry out the development of costume peripherals with the theme of *My Own Swordsman*."

Chen Ziyan asked: "Is the brand Duxiu reliable? This kind of peripheral development is most prone to problems. The quality is not up to standard, fooling people, pitting fans, pulling tiger skin to make a big flag, hanging sheep's head to sell dog meat, we must have a supervisor here to follow up on these peripheral things throughout the process."

Xu Tianming nodded and said: "I dug an old hand with eight years of experience in this kind of cultural and creative peripheral production from Jimlu Culture last month to be responsible for this business line. He will follow up throughout the process, and I will also stare at it. Copyright operation is the most stable and important source of income for Linghe Production now. Chen Yin is also preparing to establish a peripheral development supervision department, independent of the development market department, to ensure the cleanliness of the industrial chain."

Chen Ziyan: "Peripheral development, submit a detailed development progress and quality assessment report to me every month, I have to stare at this personally."

Xu Tianming nodded and said okay.

At 3 pm, they finished the meeting with Xu Tianming and Chen Yin and went to Pick Fire again.

Lu Qingzhen brought the newly appointed brand PR Ren Yanfei to meet Lu Yan He.

As Lu Yan He now has more and more partners to connect with, Lu Yan He's management affairs finally have a handler in this piece.

The work of brand PR is to help Lu Yan He connect with all brand business inquiries and cooperation. From Lu Yan He's endorsements to the sponsorship of Lu Yan He's daily travel food, clothing, housing, and transportation—

Maybe many people don't know that stars of Lu Yan He's level have brand sponsorship for their food, clothing, housing, and transportation. As long as Lu Yan He is willing to use it, willing to wear it, he doesn't even need Lu Yan He to specifically post an advertisement or something to do special publicity.

In addition to these small things and small aspects, Lu Yan He's appearance and appearance in every public activity, clothes, shoes, watches, etc., he needs these brands to provide sponsorship to maintain his top star image, and these brands also need him, a top star, to become their walking advertising space, among which there are many places where brand PR needs to thread the needle.

In the past, these things were all handled by Chen Ziyan and Wang Biao. They were not professional. After all, even for top stars, brand relationships need to be maintained. Second, their personal energy is limited. These docking matters are complicated and time-consuming. It is better to find a professional person to handle them.

Ren Yanfei was finally selected after Chen Ziyan and Lu Qingzhen examined several candidates.

Ren Yanfei herself is a gold medal PR, well-known in the industry, and is responsible for the brand PR work of several first-line artists.

This is the first time Lu Yan He has met Ren Yanfei.

Besides getting to know each other, there is also a main thing to discuss, which is what brand to wear for Lu Yan He's several styles at the Hexi Film Festival this time.

Male actors are not as good as female actors. In public activities and red carpets, the more top-tier male actors, the more conservative and error-free they will be in style.

This is because in this industry, in this market, the expectations and requirements for male actors and female actors are in two directions.

However, this does not mean that the male actor's style is not important. Their style is rarely as topical as female stars in the communication field.

Ren Yanfei said: "BAIMO sunglasses hope that you can wear their sunglasses in one of the styles. BAIMO itself is already a super first-line brand in the world in the field of sunglasses. Their senior management appreciates you very much, but their brand's domestic spokesperson has always been Chen Pinhe, and they have cooperated for many years. Therefore, unless their cooperation relationship with Chen Pinhe ends, it is unlikely that they will cooperate with us for endorsement."

When Lu Yan He heard the three words Chen Pinhe, he was slightly stunned and subconsciously looked at Chen Ziyan.

Chen Ziyan said: "Then we will not cooperate with BAIMO."

"The only sunglasses brand that can be at the same level as BAIMO and worthy of Lu Yan He's current status is DENPER. This brand has exploded before, and the political color is a bit heavy. I don't recommend that this brand's things be on Lu Yan He's body." Ren Yanfei said, "In fact, even if BAIMO cannot give Lu Yan He the status of spokesperson, it does not affect the cooperation between the two sides. If Lu Yan He is willing to wear BAIMO, they will also give cooperation remuneration, and will also give Lu Yan He support in other aspects."

Chen Ziyan: "I agree with this statement, but forget about the BAIMO brand. Chen Pinhe and Lu Yan He, besides the gap in age and qualifications, actually have a competitive relationship in other aspects. One has a spokesperson Title, the other does not, it is easy for people to seize this point to attack Lu Yan He, so this kind of cooperation cannot be accepted."

Ren Yanfei was a bit surprised—

She obviously didn't expect that in Chen Ziyan's judgment, Chen Pinhe and Lu Yan He were actually in a competitive relationship.

The two of them are almost twenty years apart.

No one would think so, right?

But in a broad sense, it is indeed the case. After all, among domestic male actors, the only three people who can represent the faces of Chinese male actors in the international film scene are Chen Pinhe, Shang Yongzhou, and Lu Yan He.

Ren Yanfei nodded and said: "Okay, I understand, then BAIMO will not be considered."

Ren Yanfei held a two-hour meeting with them about the outfit at the Hexi Film Festival this time. About which activity to wear which brand, it was all details, which made Lu Yan He listen drowsily. However, after listening, Lu Yan He was very moved. The work of artists is really seeing the truth in the details, and there are pits everywhere.

What is the positioning of different brands in the eyes of the media, what kind of signal Lu Yan He needs to release at the current stage, what is the nature and positioning of different occasions, what others in the industry will wear, the choice of each brand needs to be considered in combination with these things.

After the meeting, Lu Yan He was like running a marathon, his energy was almost exhausted.

He couldn't help but ask Chen Ziyan: "Why do I have to participate in this meeting and participate in the discussion of so many details?"

"One, this work is more important than you think. You have to understand what kind of workload is behind every style our team prepares for you, and what kind of considerations will be made. Two, still that sentence, you cannot stay in the information cocoon, you need to constantly understand new things. I am very sure that you definitely don't know the things we discussed in the meeting today."

Lu Yan He nodded: "Indeed don't know."

Chen Ziyan: "So you know why you were asked to participate in this discussion."

Lu Yan He: "Okay, learned a lot."

"Ren Yanfei is in place, and I will find a publicity director for you." Chen Ziyan said, "In the future, your external public relations and contact will also need a dedicated person to be responsible."

"Ah?"

"Don't ah, if you don't want me and Wang Biao to be exhausted, you should refine various tasks, and professional things should be done by professionals." Chen Ziyan said, "Do you know how much your publicity workload is? Pick Fire has a group of three people who are specifically responsible for full-time and full-time, but usually Wang Biao is communicating and docking with them, you don't know."

Chen Ziyan said, "I didn't equip you with these people before because your income didn't reach that level. Now you are not short of this income, and you can afford the team, so don't be stingy."

Lu Yan He had to nod.

He confirmed again: "However, Sister Ziyan, you won't ignore me after you build this team for me, right?" ===== CHAPTER 590 =====

Recommending an old book, "I Became the Scandalous Heroine Overnight."

There is one more chapter; I will write it and update later.