Chapter 732

Zhang Guang was stunned for a moment. "How could it be spread like this?"

He said in confusion, "Logically speaking, the public should be more interested in the romantic gossip of artists."

"If the paparazzi took photos of me going to the set to see them and having dinner together, it should tend to mean that Jin Li has already gained my approval. How could it suddenly spread to Jin Li wanting to jump ship?"

Sui Lingfang corrected him first, "It's not that Jin Li wants to jump ship, it's that your Guangyue Media wants to poach her."

"The treatment Chenxi Entertainment offers Jin Li is the best in the industry. Jin Li cannot take the initiative to jump ship from Chenxi, but if someone comes to poach her, that's hard to say."

"If Jin Li and Gu Cheng really have a romance, and you are Gu Cheng's manager, then you would have more reasons and opportunities to contact Jin Li and then poach her."

Zhang Guang was speechless.

He thought about it carefully, and according to Sui Lingfang's logic, it actually held up.

"Maybe it's because there are too many celebrities who have recently exposed their romances. The public now doesn't have high click rates when they see someone's emotional problems, so they thought about hyping up the matter of poaching people."

"I'll go and issue a clarification statement later to ensure it won't affect you."

Seeing that Zhang Guang clearly stated that this was a misunderstanding and claimed that he was just having a simple meal with Jin Li to care about the recent situation of the two artists and had no other meaning, Sui Lingfang felt completely relieved.

"When I saw this news, my first reaction was also that it was impossible."

"Guangyue Media currently only manages four artists from Three Month Sky, and the individual schedules of artists are much more cumbersome and complicated than team schedules."

"I have several artists under my hand, all of whom are A-list. When dealing with their contracts, even if it's simple, it takes a lot of effort."

"Not to mention the four people you lead, whose popularity in the industry is currently top-notch. They need to re-plan their personal development routes and haven't found a suitable style, which is even more troublesome."

"If you want to poach Jin Li at this time, you definitely won't have the time."

"Even if you really had the thought of poaching someone, you would at least have to wait a few years until the personal development routes of those four people are planned and they have a firm foothold before thinking about expanding outward."

She analyzed it calmly and rationally.

Zhang Guang quickly said, "Hey, stop. When I worked at Tianding before, I did have the thought of poaching Jin Li."

"She is very excellent and also very worry-free. She doesn't need the company to cultivate her at all. Just by relying on herself, she can get the resources moving."

"But now that I have founded a new company, I just want to develop the four people of Three Month Sky and make them long-lasting classics. I have no other thoughts."

"And Jin Li has calculated for me, saying that I am not suitable to be a decision-maker or management of a company; I am suitable for professions that deal with people."

"So poaching people and such is not something I should do. I'll just manage my own artists well. Don't worry."

Sui Lingfang's expression changed. "She actually even read your physiognomy. It seems Jin Li really likes you."

Originally, she didn't have any sense of crisis.

Now she suddenly had a little sense of crisis.

Zhang Guang "tsk"ed. "Alright, stop being jealous. Don't you know the character of the artists under your hand?"

"She must have calculated for you too, and she tells you about life matters every day. Jin Li must regard you as family."

Zhang Guang said this last sentence very affirmatively.

From his limited contact with Jin Li, he discovered that Jin Li was a very kind person and also grateful.

She wanted to reciprocate the kindness of everyone who was good to her.

He had investigated Jin Li's information; Sui Lingfang had not given up on her even when Jin Li's popularity had declined to the point of almost becoming a third-rate small star.

She even insisted on visiting her every month and cooking for her.

This was no longer something a manager would do.

Sui Lingfang was good to Jin Li, and with Jin Li's nature, she must have kept it in mind.

So Zhang Guang was very sure that as long as Sui Lingfang didn't do anything illegal or undisciplined in the future, as long as she wanted to be Jin Li's manager, Jin Li would let her be.

Even if Jin Li no longer needed her.

Zhang Guang parked the car on the side of the road and said with a stern expression:

"By the way, I have one thing to ask you. What do you think about Yakun Watch?"

Sui Lingfang didn't understand. "What do you mean what do I think? Gu Cheng's cooperation with Yakun Watch has nothing to do with us, right?"

Zhang Guang: "How can it have nothing to do with it? Yakun just took a fancy to the fact that Jin Li and Gu Cheng have an extraordinary relationship and wanted to hype up the heat of the two."

"That's why they upgraded Gu Cheng's endorsement level to an Asia-Pacific spokesperson. If something goes wrong with Jin Li, Gu Cheng's endorsement will also fall through."

Sui Lingfang asked in confusion: "So what? Nothing will go wrong with Jin Li."

Zhang Guang said seriously: "No, Yakun Watch feels that you have had some problems."

Sui Lingfang: ?

He pondered for a while and said: "I won't beat around the bush. To be honest, Yakun asked me for some information, which is actually wanting me to ask you."

"Why don't you choose a profit-sharing contract, but choose to take the endorsement fee directly?"

Sui Lingfang was stunned for a while before she realized which matter he was referring to.

She thought about it and said: "Yakun Watch wants to invite Jin Li to be the global spokesperson for its women's watches, and isn't it a very normal thing for a spokesperson to only take an endorsement fee?"

"It is a top luxury brand. For every luxury brand, what they give artists is basically just an endorsement fee, but the fee may be very generous or just average."

"After all, everyone understands that the brand wants to borrow the artist's influence, and the artist also wants to borrow the brand to improve their own status. Both sides are mutually beneficial."

Zhang Guang said pointedly: "If it were placed on other artists, I would believe it, but placed on Jin Li, it is not normal."

"Especially since Jin Li just made a huge profit from the co-branded profit-sharing from Yakun Watch not long ago, even I couldn't help but be jealous."

"This is not tens of millions, hundreds of millions, or over a billion, but nearly three billion."

Zhang Guang felt that the real profit-sharing was probably even more terrifying than what he had heard.

The data released should have been restrained.

The data he heard was 2 billion, and this time he specifically said it on the high side.

As a result, Sui Lingfang actually didn't deny it!

Zhang Guang's heart was pounding. Oh my god, she actually didn't deny it!

That is to say, the profit-sharing Jin Li actually received must be 3 billion.

Since participating in product sales profit-sharing is so profitable, Jin Li refused to participate in sales profit-sharing this time and chose to take a fixed endorsement fee.

Not to mention what Yakun Watch would think, even he, an outsider, felt that there must be something wrong with it just by hearing it.

Did Jin Li notice something and didn't want to participate in profit-sharing anymore, or did she feel that Yakun's operating model had problems, and participating in profit-sharing was not as good as taking a high endorsement fee, or were there other problems?

In short, Yakun had a lot of thoughts.

They were embarrassed to ask Jin Li directly. After all, her not choosing sales profit-sharing was actually a good thing for Yakun, as they didn't need to spend so much cost.

Compared with directly participating in sales profit-sharing, the artist's endorsement fee was still very cost-effective.

But they also felt it was wrong, so they entrusted someone to inquire about it here, and by the way, they also sent him a piece of cake.

If Zhang Guang wanted to eat this piece of cake, he first had to find out why Chenxi Entertainment refused a contract that was obviously more generous.

Sui Lingfang was silent for a long time this time.

After a few minutes, she said: "Actually, I also discussed this matter with Jin Li and raised my doubts."

"I also hope she can choose sales profit-sharing. After all, this can obviously make more money, but Jin Li said a few words to me, and I think it makes a lot of sense, that is, people cannot be greedy."

Zhang Guang couldn't help but be stunned.

This angle was quite novel.

Sui Lingfang: "Before, Jin Li chose to take the sales profit-sharing of the co-branded models because Yakun needed her popularity to open up the relatively unpopular women's watch market."

"But now this market has been developed, and the potential is great. Yakun can make this market bigger by operating it slowly by itself."

"Whether Jin Li endorses it or not is no longer a decisive factor, so Jin Li is no longer suitable to take sales profit-sharing."

"She feels that if she takes it, it's a bit of virtue not matching the position. Do you understand?"

Zhang Guang understood a little.

In doing anything, one must know when to stop and not be too greedy.

Sui Lingfang: "Another point is very important. She is just an artist and does not participate in the research and development and production of Yakun Watch. If she takes a few points from others for no reason, won't others have opinions?"

As she spoke, she cleared her thoughts and understood Jin Li's thoughts even more, feeling heartfelt admiration.

Not everyone can refuse the benefits of billions.

But Jin Li did it.

Sui Lingfang said calmly: "I think Yakun was just dazzled by the hit of the Chinese Zodiac and thought that the products they launched later could replicate the brilliance of the Chinese Zodiac again and again."

"If they can launch multiple hit series, giving Jin Li such a little profit-sharing is definitely no problem, but what if they can't reach it?"

"Then wouldn't they complain about why Jin Li took so much profit-sharing? This is human nature."

"Jin Li doesn't want to gamble on human nature and also believes that hit products are not available every year, but have cycles, so she chose to only take the endorsement fee for five years."

"What's more, the endorsement fee given by Yakun is also very generous, and she won't suffer a loss by taking it."

Zhang Guang sighed for a long time and said in a low voice: "Jin Li's vision is still far-sighted."

He said with some envy: "I have never met such an artist who can make the most correct choice at every critical moment."

"When it's time to gamble, she gambles, and when it's time to let go, she lets go decisively."

Zhang Guang suddenly thought of something and asked curiously: "Eh, has Jin Li participated in the investment industry?"

"What projects has she invested in? Is it convenient to reveal it? I'll go and follow the investment."

"I think with her vision, her investment must be very remarkable, and I want to go and invest with her."

Sui Lingfang thought to herself, she had been investing years ago.

Now there is an account of investment returns every month, and even if she doesn't work, there is a good income every month.

However, she didn't say this.

If Jin Li really invested, could it be cheap for an outsider?

There is no time for internal division.

What good projects lack is not money, but vision.

Any one that Jin Li takes a fancy to, which one doesn't quickly pull in the funds? Others pray to gods and Buddhas to enter the venue, and it's useless even if the Heavenly King comes.

"Alright, alright, hurry up and issue a clarification statement. My boss is sitting outside the office waiting." Sui Lingfang urged.

Zhang Guang: "Issuing it now."

Not long after, Guangyue Media's clarification came out.

Sui Lingfang showed the hot search to her boss, and only then was she allowed to finish work and go home.

On the set of "Desperate Counterattack."

Jin Li didn't know about the private communication between the two managers, and didn't even know that she was on the hot search for job-hopping.

Because after she and Gu Cheng finished dinner and came back, she was called to film two night scenes.

These two night scenes didn't have Gu Cheng's scenes, so he could go to rest, but he still chose to stay in the film crew to watch Jin Li perform.

But in these two night scenes, Xiao Yue, played by Jin Li, although not the protagonist, played a key role.

These two scenes were the scenes where everyone discovered Xiao Yue, and also the scenes where Xiao Yue decided to end her wandering and enter the base.

Xiao Yue had known since she was a child that her ability was special and very powerful at night.

If the world fell into eternal night, then she would be the god in charge of the night.

But the problem was, she was too weak during the day.

For her, the attack during the day was far more dangerous than at night.

And every time night fell, she spent most of her time preparing to survive the crisis of the day, which took up a lot of her energy, making her unable to explore the resource area well.

Even if she used her ability to explore the resource area, it was somewhat difficult without a team.

She had never dared to go deep into dangerous areas.

She was afraid that if she was not careful and had an accident, she would only have time to shake off the danger, but not have time to prepare for the day.

Because her ability at night was too powerful, and the mutated animals and plants hidden in the dark seemed to have discovered her weakness—being extremely weak during the day.

So every time night came, the mutated animals and plants would quietly restrain themselves, and when day came, they would launch fierce attacks on her hiding place.

This made Xiao Yue often on the verge of life and death crises.

So she decided to save herself.

The way to save herself was to let the base's expedition team discover her and then take her back.

Xiao Yue had always known about the base, and even understood many of the base's dirty and dark sides.

This was thanks to her perception ability at night, which always allowed her to hear the conversations of those exploration teams and hear about many times of killing people and seizing treasures.

Before, she had been slow to go to the base because she felt that human hearts were complex and she might not be able to survive.

This time, if it weren't for being besieged by strange animals and plants for many consecutive days and facing several death crises, she wouldn't have thought about entering the base to seek self-protection.

Since she decided to enter the base, Xiao Yue planned a set of plans.

Compared to taking the initiative to go to the base to be discovered, it would be better to be discovered by the exploration team and then brought in, which could make the base attach more importance to her.

So when an expedition team came to the resource area to explore, Xiao Yue appeared.

She initially disguised herself as a survivor with no ability, weak and thin.

Later, when she encountered the attack of strange animals and plants, because she was frightened, she temporarily opened her ability awakening and awakened a super strong perception ability.

With the help of Xiao Yue's perception, the exploration team successfully repelled this group of strange animals and plants and brought her into the base.

What needed to be filmed on the spot—

was the scene where Xiao Yue was discovered, then frightened, awakened perception, and helped others survive the crisis through perception.

So in this scene, Xiao Yue was not the absolute protagonist; she joined the battle as an assistant, but she was also extremely important.

"3, 2, 1, Action!"

"Captain, I heard a sound!"

The exploration team had just finished organizing a batch of supplies when suddenly, someone's ears moved, and he said with a solemn expression.

Everyone else lightened their movements and breathing.

That person heard the movement in the distance and immediately turned his head to the southeast.

"It's right there. I heard another breathing sound that wasn't our team member's, and a slight sound of iron sheets scraping. It seems like a person... someone is hiding there!"