Chapter 495

Leung Ka-fai popped up at this moment: "With this extra reward, our campus selection will definitely receive more attention. Thank you, thank you!"

Liu Liu Rulong introduced: "Now A-Fai is the deputy editor-in-chief of our *Yes! *."

"Oh, Editor-in-Chief Leung, excuse my ignorance."

"Director Wei, not at all, not at all."

After the two old acquaintances joked for a few sentences, Leung Ka-fai talked to him about some serious business.

"We want to invite Miss Zhou Zhou Huimin to be the cover person for the inaugural issue of *Yes! *, so we were thinking of having you help us communicate with her." Leung Ka-fai rubbed his hands. He felt that with a young diva involved, at least the middle school student consumer market could be directly penetrated.

Logically, Wei Ming should help; after all, this was also his own business, and Mao Mao Amin wanted to develop in the music scene, so shooting a magazine cover was also part of the work. However, if he invited her, she would agree regardless of whether she wanted to or not.

So Wei Ming said: "Since it's official business, it shouldn't be mixed with personal feelings. You should invite her yourselves; I believe in your ability."

Next, Wei Ming went into his office with A-Long; he had something to say to Wei Ming.

"The Shangguan brothers have already left Jade International. Shangguan Wei Xiaobao still wants to continue creating and use our channels to distribute his manga volumes, and I want to invite Shangguan Ma Xiaowei to serve as the manga instructor for Madman. Many of our young manga artists' basic skills still have a gap compared to the old seniors, and many of their experiences are worth us learning."

Wei Ming nodded: "It's very necessary. Among the manga artists in the company, except for you, Ma Wing-shing, and Ngau Lo, whose levels are enough to compete with Japanese manga, and Li Chi-ching who draws *The Legend of the Condor Heroes* and has formed his own style, the manga styles of the others are still lacking. After all, they are just young people in their teens or early twenties and haven't formed their own styles yet."

"Liangzi is also not bad recently. Now *The Legend of Qin* is supported independently by him, and it doesn't carry my name anymore. Take a look." He took Long Long Aotian's recent drawings to show Wei Ming.

"Hmm, it has your charm. I hope he can walk his own path."

Currently, the only Madman Comics that have a market internationally are *Dragon Ball*, *Transformers*, *Fung Wan*, and *The Legend of Qin*, among which *Dragon Ball*, released the latest, has the strongest response.

Wei Ming had already seen Zhao Rude's *City Hunter* before; the story was written very well and was full of highlights, but the manga level of the young man still had a gap compared to the genius Tsukasa Hojo.

Actually, Tsukasa Hojo wasn't old either, only 24 years old, but he had already become popular all over Japan with *Cat's Eye*, and recently it was introduced to Hong Kong by Wong Yuk-long's *Yuk-long Manga*, setting off a reading craze.

A-Long took an invitation out of his drawer again: "For you."

Wei Ming took it and saw it was from ATV, inviting him to be a judge for the first Miss Asia Pageant.

"Ho, this is about to get started."

A-Long said: "Your fame is known abroad. If the Miss Hong Kong pageant hadn't ended in June, Mr. Shaw would probably have invited you too."

Actually, it should have been held long ago. ATV was also trying to tie the competition results to world beauty pageants, which delayed it for some time.

Now, participating in ATV's Miss Asia Pageant, as long as one wins the championship, one can directly advance to participate in the Miss Universe pageant. Currently, this pageant hasn't been bought by Trump yet.

"Then are there any beauties in this year's Miss Hong Kong?" Wei Ming accepted the invitation and couldn't help but ask about Michelle Reis.

At this time, Nina Li Chi knocked on the door and walked in. The office door was open, and she had been listening outside for a while: "Miss Hong Kong is just so-so. I think that champion, Maggie Cheung, is far worse than me."

Maggie Cheung? Never heard of her.

Liu Liu Rulong flipped through the bookshelf behind him: "Oh, I have the *Ming Pao* from the last two months here. Here, I really found it. Judge for yourself, Sister Li."

Wei Ming laughed: "Sister Li, she's half a year younger than you."

All three of them were born in the Year of the Ox in '61. By month, A-Long was the oldest. In terms of height, Wei Ming was first. In terms of bust size, well, she was indeed Sister Li.

Wei Ming took a glance. The champion really didn't have any distinctive features, even worse than Nina Li Chi's weakest face, let alone Nina Li Chi's figure and fair skin, which were absolute kills.

Nina Li Chi herself was also the champion of the second Miss Asia Pageant. If she had participated this year, there would be nothing for anyone else.

The runner-up of this year's Miss Hong Kong did make Wei Ming's eyes light up. It wasn't because she was pretty—although she won the Miss Photogenic award, she wasn't considered very pretty in Wei Ming's eyes—but her acting skills were super divine.

Because her name was Maggie Cheung.

Right now, there was no talk of acting skills. She was just a little girl with buck teeth who had some yearning for the entertainment industry. She was only 19 and had mainly lived in the UK before, only returning to Hong Kong to develop last year.

Wei Ming felt he could call her over to play a small role. Later, when looking at this *Home Alone*, he could say that every character was a star.

Wei Ming accepted ATV's invitation and replied to them using A-Long's phone, but he would only attend the finals. After all, he was quite busy. The subsequent plots of several manga from Madman Comics still needed him to create independently or together with the screenwriter, especially the several head manga; they must not go off track.

ATV accepted happily. Immediately after, the day after Wei Ming had dinner with Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung, TVB's invitation also came. They invited Wei Ming to serve as a judge for the second New Talent Singing Awards.

As a master of balancing, Wei Ming was not only like this to women but also to television stations. So, after confirming that the finals of the two programs didn't clash, he agreed to serve as a judge for the finals of the New Talent Singing Awards.

This invitation was also sent to Zhou Zhou Huimin and Anita Mui, the two most famous contestants from the first session. Anita Mui couldn't not participate, and Mao Mao Amin, after being persuaded by Anita Mui, also agreed to participate, as a warm-up for her new album.

As for the cover person and interview invitation for *Yes! *, she hesitated a bit at first.

However, when Leung Ka-fai said that their magazine was a sister publication of *Madman Comics*, Mao Mao Amin didn't hesitate at all.

"Thank you, Miss Vivian. Then when shall we take the photos? The inaugural issue will be released in early August. It's best to take them within this week. We need to take a set of photos."

"Then let's make it this Friday."

Because Mao Mao Amin had to take photos on Friday, Wei Ming and Sister Xue finally had time to watch *Five Lucky Stars* together. Wei Ming had to pretend it was his first time; in reality, counting his past life, it had already been six or seven times.

Now the box office of this film had easily exceeded 10 million. Raymond Chow asked the screenwriter to get the script for the second *Five Lucky Stars* right now, and they would continue filming as soon as Sammo Hung and the others returned from Europe.

Oh, no, Jackie Chan still had to film that Hollywood blockbuster, so let's slow down a bit. Hopefully, it can catch up for next year's Spring Festival.

Afterward, he asked Leonard Ho beside him: "A-Cheung, when will Wei Ming's *Home Alone* be released?"

"They say Christmas."

"Oh, Christmas." For some reason, Raymond Chow instinctively breathed a sigh of relief. That shouldn't be right. He heard the male lead was just a little boy from the mainland, not Jet Li. Why was he afraid?

Although it wasn't Jet Li, Xizi now often claimed to be Jet Li's junior brother and could pose in a decent way.

After Gong Xue and Wei Ming finished watching the movie, she also cared about Xizi's situation.

"My grandfather is taking him around. He likes him so much. I saw that my step-grandmother is still so young, so I advised them to have another one, but he scolded me."

Gong Xue covered her mouth and chuckled: "He scolded you right. How can you joke with your elders like that? And he's of the grandfather generation."

Wei Ming didn't say one thing: he felt that his grandfather was too good to Xizi. He heard from Xiao Hong that he even took him to work and said something about cultivating Xizi's Hong Kong middle-class child temperament for the sake of their film.

He felt Xiao Hong was jealous, probably thinking: Am I the biological one or is he the biological one?

When resting at home, Gong Xue also asked about Wei Hong's stock trading.

"Oh, I lost over 100,000 yesterday."

"Ah?!"

"Don't worry, 100,000 US dollars relative to her 4 million US dollar principal won't hurt her bones." And besides the 4 million principal, there was also 8 million in leverage, equivalent to Wei Hong controlling a huge sum of 12 million US dollars. A loss of over 100,000 was just a fluctuation of one percent.

There was also a TV in the bedroom of their home, so after being intimate, Wei Ming turned on the TV and switched to ATV, just in time to see the live broadcast of the Miss Asia Pageant preliminaries.

Seeing that Wei Ming didn't move after switching to this channel and was watching very seriously, Sister Xue's little feet under the quilt kicked Wei Ming's leg restlessly.

"So many beauties, are they good-looking?"

Wei Ming said without blinking: "They are all mediocre and vulgar, far worse than my two sisters. I'm also doing this for work."

"Work? What kind of work?"

Then Wei Ming told her about being a judge for the beauty pageant.

Gong Xue crossed her arms: "How come you're asked to be a judge for this kind of thing too?"

"Haven't you seen that Wong Jim and Chua Lam are also on the judging panel? Writers are the profession most capable of discovering beauty, so it's very normal to ask writers to be judges. What's more, I have a lot of cooperation with ATV, and our relationship is quite good."