Chapter 738

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

He said puzzledly: "Logically speaking, the public would be more interested in the artists' romantic gossip.

If the paparazzi took photos of me visiting them on set and having dinner together, it should tend toward Jin Li having already gained my approval; how could it suddenly spread to Jin Li wanting to jump ship?"

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

The treatment Chenxi Entertainment offers Jin Li is the best in the industry; Jin Li couldn't possibly jump ship from Chenxi on her own initiative, but if someone comes to poach, that's hard to say.

If Jin Li and Gu Cheng really have a romance, and you are Gu Cheng's agent, 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 whose romances have been exposed recently; the public doesn't have high click rates when they see someone's relationship issues now, so they thought about hyping up the poaching matter.

I'll go issue a clarification statement in a moment, guaranteeing it won't affect you."

Seeing Zhang Guang clearly state that this was a misunderstanding, claiming he was just having a simple meal with Jin Li and caring about the two artists' recent situations with 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, Sanyuetian; an artist's individual schedule is much more cumbersome and complex than a team schedule.

I have several artists under my hand, all first-tier, and when dealing with their announcements, no matter how simple, it takes a lot of effort.

Not to mention the four people you manage, who are currently top-tier in popularity in the industry, and they need to re-plan their individual development paths without finding a suitable style, which is even more troublesome.

If you want to poach Jin Li at this time, you would definitely be stretched too thin.

Even if you really had the thought of poaching, you would at least have to wait a few years, plan the individual development paths for those four people, and stand firm before thinking about expanding outward."

She analyzed calmly and rationally.

Zhang Guang hurriedly said: "Hey, stop, 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, and just by relying on herself, she can get resources moving.

But now that I have founded a new company, I only think about developing the four people of Sanyuetian and making them classics that last forever; I have no other thoughts.

And Jin Li calculated for me, saying I'm not suitable for being a company decision-maker or management, and I'm suitable for doing some professions that deal with people.

So poaching people or whatever is not something I should do; I'll just manage my own artists well, don't worry."

Sui Lingfang's expression shifted, "She actually read your face; it seems Jin Li really likes you."

Originally, she had no sense of crisis.

Now she suddenly had a little bit of a sense of crisis.

Zhang Guang clicked his tongue, "Alright, stop being jealous; you know what kind of character the artists under your hand have, don't you?

She must have calculated for you too, and she talks to 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 is a very kind person who repays kindness.

She wants to reciprocate the kindness of everyone who is good to her.

He investigated Jin Li's background; Sui Lingfang didn't give up on her even when Jin Li's popularity declined to the point of almost becoming a third-rate small star.

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

This is not something an agent would do.

Sui Lingfang is good to Jin Li, and with Jin Li's personality, she definitely keeps it in mind.

So Zhang Guang is very sure that as long as Sui Lingfang doesn't do anything illegal or undisciplined in the future, as long as she wants to be Jin Li's agent for a day, Jin Li will let her be.

Even if Jin Li doesn't need her anymore.

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

"By the way, I have one thing to ask you; regarding Yajun Watches, what are your thoughts?"

Sui Lingfang didn't understand, "What thoughts? Gu Cheng cooperating with Yajun Watches has nothing to do with us, right?"

Zhang Guang: "How can it have nothing to do with it? Yajun just took a fancy to the fact that Jin Li and Gu Cheng have an unusual relationship and wants to hype up the two's popularity.

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

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

Zhang Guang's expression was serious: "No, Yajun Watches feels that you have some problems."

Sui Lingfang:?

He pondered for a while and said: "I won't beat around the bush; to tell the truth, Yajun probed me for some news, which is actually wanting me to ask you.

Why didn't you choose a revenue-sharing contract, but chose to take the endorsement fee directly?"

Sui Lingfang was stunned for a moment, and it took a long while before she reacted to which matter he was referring to.

She thought about it and said: "Yajun Watches wants to invite Jin Li to become 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; every luxury brand basically only gives artists an endorsement fee, but the fee might 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 status; both sides are mutually beneficial."

Zhang Guang said pointedly: "If it were any other artist, I would believe it, but for Jin Li, it's not normal.

Especially since Jin Li just earned a huge amount of co-branding share from Yajun Watches not long ago; even I couldn't help but be jealous.

This isn't tens of millions, hundreds of millions, or over a billion, but nearly 3 billion."

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

The released data should have been restrained.

The data he heard was 2 billion, and this time he specifically exaggerated it.

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

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

In other words, the share Jin Li actually received definitely reached 3 billion.

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

Not to mention what Yajun Watches would think, even he, an outsider, felt that something must be wrong just by hearing it.

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

In short, Yajun has many thoughts.

They were embarrassed to ask Jin Li directly; after all, her not choosing sales dividends is actually a good thing for Yajun, as they don't need to spend so much cost.

Compared to participating directly in sales dividends, an artist's endorsement fee is still very cost-effective.

But they felt something was wrong, so they used connections to inquire with him and even offered him a piece of cake while they were at it.

If Zhang Guang wants to eat this cake, he must first find out clearly 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 discussed this matter with Jin Li and raised my doubts.

I also hoped she could choose sales dividends, as it obviously could earn more money, but Jin Li said a few words to me, and I think it makes a lot of sense, which is that people shouldn't be greedy."

Zhang Guang couldn't help but be startled.

This perspective was novel.

Sui Lingfang: "Before, Jin Li chose to take the sales dividend of the co-branded model because Yajun needed her popularity to open up the relatively niche women's watch market.

But now this market has been developed, and the potential is great; Yajun can make this market bigger by operating it slowly on its own.

Whether Jin Li endorses it or not is no longer a decisive factor, so it's not suitable for Jin Li to take sales dividends anymore.

She feels that if she takes it, it's a bit undeserved; do you understand?"

Zhang Guang understood a little.

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

Sui Lingfang: "There is another point that is very important; she is just an artist and doesn't participate in the research, development, and production of Yajun Watches, so if she takes a few points from others for no reason, wouldn't others have opinions?"

As she spoke, she cleared her thoughts, understood Jin Li's ideas even more, and felt sincere admiration.

Not everyone can refuse billions in benefits.

But Jin Li did it.

Sui Lingfang said calmly: "I think Yajun was just blinded by the hit Zodiac series and thought that the products they launched later could replicate the glory of the Zodiac series again and again.

If they could launch multiple hit series, giving Jin Li such a small dividend would definitely be no problem, but what if they can't reach it?

Then wouldn't they blame Jin Li for why she took so many dividends? This is human nature.

Jin Li doesn't want to gamble on human nature and also believes that hit products aren't available every year but have cycles, so she chose to only take a five-year endorsement fee.

What's more, the endorsement fee Yajun gave is also very generous, so she doesn't lose out by taking it."

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

He said enviously: "I have never met such an artist who can make the most correct choice every time at a critical moment.

When it's time to gamble, she gambles; 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? I'll go follow the investment.

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

Sui Lingfang thought to herself, she started investing years ago.

Now there is income from investment returns every month; even if she doesn't work, she has a good income every month.

However, she didn't say this.

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

Internal division wouldn't be fast enough.

What good projects lack isn't money, but vision.

Any project Jin Li takes a fancy to, which one hasn't pulled in funds rapidly? Others pray to gods and Buddhas to get in, but it's useless even if the Heavenly King himself comes.

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

Zhang Guang: "I'll issue it now."

Before long, 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 "Desperate Counterattack" set.

Jin Li didn't know about the private exchange between the two agents, and didn't even know 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 parts, and he could go rest, but he still chose to stay on set to watch Jin Li perform.

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

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

Xiaoyue had known since she was a child that her ability was special and she was 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, attacks during the day were 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 with her ability to explore the resource area, it was somewhat difficult without a team.

She had always been afraid to go deep into dangerous areas.

She was afraid that if she 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 mutant animals and plants hiding in the dark seemed to have discovered her weakness—being extremely weak during the day.

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

This made Xiaoyue often be 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 exploration team discover her and then take her back.

Xiaoyue 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 many instances of killing for treasure.

Before, she delayed going to the base because she felt that human hearts were complex and she might not necessarily survive.

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

Since she decided to enter the base, Xiaoyue planned a set of schemes.

Compared to taking the initiative to go to the base and having her ability discovered, it would be better to be discovered by the exploration team and brought in, which would make the base value her more.

So when an exploration team came to the resource area to explore, Xiaoyue appeared.

At first, she disguised herself as a survivor with no ability, frail and thin.

Later, when encountering an attack by strange animals and plants, because she was frightened, she temporarily activated her ability awakening, awakening super-strong perception.

With the help of Xiaoyue'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 set—

Was the scene where Xiaoyue was discovered, then frightened, awakened her perception, and helped others survive the crisis through perception.

So in this scene, Xiaoyue wasn't the absolute protagonist; she joined the battle as an assistant, but she was also incredibly 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 they said with a solemn expression.

Everyone else lightened their movements and breathing.

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

"It's right there; I heard another sound of breathing that isn't from our team members, and a slight sound of metal scraping; it seems to be a person... someone is hiding there!"