Chapter 300: Beautiful Master

Less than two minutes after Liu Liu Yifei sent the blog, Yang Yang Siwei sent a video pop-up window.

It is 9 o'clock in the evening in Beijing, and the background of Yang Yang Siwei in the video is the lights of ten thousand homes.

This is her new house just renovated in the south of the Second Ring Road in Beijing, Fuzhuo Garden, about 300 meters south of Xuanwu Sect Subway Station.

"What's wrong? Miss me?"

Liu Liu Yifei smiled and looked at the slightly fat...

No, now it is the small fat agent, who may continue to develop into medium fat, big fat, giant fat.

Yang Yang Siwei wondered in her heart that she could still laugh, whether she was too angry by some news.

"I miss you. The blog post just now is very good. Send more in the future!"

Yang Yang Siwei didn't delay time, and turned to talk about business: "There are a few things. Although I probably know your answer, I still have to report it."

"Hmm?"

"There are several mainland entertainment companies that want to cooperate with us, let you sign, or invest in our studio."

"Don't rush to refuse. I feel that some terms are not impossible to discuss. At least you listen to them first."

Seeing Liu Liu Yifei opposite the video nodding expressionlessly, Yang Yang Siwei communicated with the documents in her hand one by one.

"Yanda Huayi offered a signing fee of 20 million, plus a 3% share quota of the company, and signed with you."

"Guarantee at least one star TV series every year, and a big production of co-produced films, and the terms on portrait rights and artist sharing are relatively generous, so I won't list them one by one."

She took another copy from her side: "And Cheng Tian."

"Cheng Tian? Which Cheng Tian?"

"Cheng Tian International Entertainment, it is the one that Wang Wang Jinhua took people to jump to."

"Oh by the way, your classmate Jiang Jiang Yiyan, who is about to disappear, is now hot with their boss."

Liu Liu Yifei didn't commit, and listened to her continue to speak.

"50 million signing fee, 'Red Cliff' heroine role, ensure at least one movie with a budget of over 100 million and two star TV series every year."

"At the same time, if you are willing, you can help open up the Japanese market, such as cooperation with Sony Music."

Liu Liu Yifei has been looking at massacre materials for the past few months, and is more sensitive to the topic of the Japanese: "Are they Japanese-funded?"

"Not Japanese-funded, just the boss has a Japanese-funded background."

"Refuse them all."

Liu Liu Yifei turned her head as if responding to something. Yang Yang Siwei estimated that the shooting team had arrived, and then said goodbye and hung up.

Among the many strong ones in the mainland entertainment circle, at least in the eyes of Liu Liu Yifei, who knows Lu Kuan well, none of them can fight.

If there is really a suitable opportunity and resources, she is not opposed to maintaining limited cooperation, so that the washing machine can taste the saltiness of the marinade.

It's just that she is already the person who knows Boss Lu best in this world.

From inside to outside, from surface to inside, no one else is thought of in this world.

Even Zhuang Xu cannot reach Liu Liu Yifei's cognition of him.

The more she understands, the more she knows that companies like Yanda Huayi and Cheng Tian are not his opponents at all in a normal state, unless there are some means and assistance hidden under the water.

Liu Liu Yifei locked the room door and changed her clothes, simply holding her hair with a hairband. Today, the main style is a home casual style.

There are already many Hollywood star bloggers on Mytube, but she still insists on this kind of friendly girl-next-door route, which can form a contrast with the characters on the screen.

Liu Liu Yifei walked out of the room, and the 60-square-meter living room had been arranged properly.

Traditional red tablecloths, Chinese tableware, Chinese landscape paintings hanging on the wall, creating a strong Oriental cultural atmosphere.

Emil is directing the arrangement of the camera position.

A high-quality camera is used to shoot the main picture, placed in the center of the living room, shooting the entire cooking process at a fixed angle;

Prepare another small handheld camera to shoot close-up shots, such as details of ingredients, cooking techniques, etc.

In terms of lighting, soft warm lights are used to provide uniform lighting for the main scene, and a bright white chandelier is set above the kitchen operation area to ensure that the cooking process is clearly visible.

"Oh, Crystal, long time no see!"

Liu Liu Yifei smiled and shook hands with the furry Emil. Before the Spring Festival in 2002, he followed Lu Kuan to Sundance to participate in the non-competition unit of "Whiplash." That was the first time they met.

"I brought you several versions of 'Paranormal Activity' and other movie DVDs, as promised."

Liu Liu Yifei happily took the gift. She has a small hobby of watching horror movies, the more she watches, the more afraid she is, and the more afraid she is, the more she watches.

"Thank you very much, is there anything I need to prepare?"

Emil looked around, everyone was doing their own duties, and then smiled: "Don't put too much chili later, I want to have a full meal after shooting the video!"

"And me!"

Chen Chen Shijun walked into the house with a smile, greeted Liu Liu Xiaoli and others, and walked over: "Blue Moon, I am from Modu, is there any dish I am interested in?"

"Most of the dishes I can make now are Huaiyang cuisine, but they can be fine-tuned according to your tastes."

Video, it's all for watching. Today, I also found some group performers of different ethnicities in the community.

Photography and lighting are still preparing intensively, Liu Liu Yifei simply pulled Chen Chen Shijun to chat about Mytube in the garden.

The group discussion hosted by Xi Xi Kaiyuan recently is getting deeper and deeper.

"Do you really want to sell Mytube?"

"This is Lu's arrangement, but as the copyright library gets bigger and bigger, our advertising revenue is indeed almost unable to support it."

Mytube has been burning money since its inception. Because of the cash flow generated by the "Paranormal Activity" and "Insidious" series, as well as the derivatives of "Exotic," the account of American Wenjie has been continuously supplying blood.

Liu Liu Yifei asked: "I noticed that you are binding hype with 'Twilight' recently? Many new bloggers have emerged on the website."

This kind of marketing is not unfamiliar to Liu Liu Yifei. From "Whiplash," almost every movie of Lu Kuan has traces to follow in online promotion.

For example, the crying challenge launched by "Shoplifters" at that time, the cultural activities themed on "Classic of Mountains and Seas" carried out by "Exotic," and the lottery to invite movie fans to Cannes to watch the premiere.

In her view, they are all the same event marketing routine.

"You also watch 'Twilight'?"

"This is an traffic-driving activity arranged by Boss Lu. We have to make the data look better before selling."

Chen Chen Shijun just regarded her as having a close relationship with the boss, and there was not much defense in his words. Last time in Los Angeles, he also chatted about things in front of her.

Not to mention that as time goes by, Mytube is determined to wait for a price to sell, which has become an industry consensus, and there is no need to avoid talking about it.

Liu Liu Yifei nodded: "Speaking of data, I have to hand in a paper recently. If there is non-sensitive data, please provide me with some."

"Completely no problem, I will not refuse, even if I am blamed by Boss Lu."

"After all, I haven't eaten authentic Chinese cuisine for a long time! I hope this group of group performers can leave a little more today."

Liu Liu Yifei hadn't answered yet. Chen Chen Shijun's mobile phone rang suddenly.

He looked at the number, made a gesture of answering the phone to Liu Liu Yifei, and then answered excitedly: "Jimmy?"

"Really? You agreed! That's great!"

"I tell you, my genius boss told us that blogs are destined to be eliminated. Hurry up and get out of that company that has one foot in the grave!"

This is Chen Chen Shijun executing Boss Lu's deployment, poaching more technical talent before the sale, for the next step.

Chen Chen Shijun walked away with the phone, Liu Liu Yifei looked at his back and thought deeply.

Blogs are destined to be eliminated?

The past Liu Liu Yifei would not be too interested in these, unless she followed Lu Kuan to see how he participated in these commercial activities.

Before coming to Booth School of Business, Liu Liu Yifei, even if she was interested, would not have extra doubts about this sentence Chen Chen Shijun revealed unintentionally.

It is precisely because she has been studying and analyzing Mytube from its start with Xi Xi Kaiyuan until now that she has some deep cognition of related Internet industries.

For example, the questions Xi Xi Kaiyuan guided everyone to discuss in class:

Where will Mytube go after being sold?

Where is the reason for the entrepreneurs in this video track to be eager to sell the assets in their hands?

These are all questions that Liu Liu Yifei studied, judged, and thought carefully about in class and group discussions.

Therefore, after unintentionally hearing that sentence from Chen Chen Shijun that blogs are destined to be eliminated, she fell into deep thought.

Blogs are destined to be eliminated?

Then his blog in the country, I haven't seen him have any movements.

Maybe there is, but I don't know it for the time being.

Emil's greeting in the house interrupted her brainstorming: "Crystal, ready to shoot, go and put on simple makeup!"

"Oh, good."

Liu Liu Yifei put aside her worries for the time being, but always felt that there was a feeling that the clouds were about to open and see the moon.

This high-standard food-themed video started soon.

Emil has had rich filming practice experience since the USC period. After two years of tempering in "Paranormal Activity," he is more handy in ordinary camera techniques and picture layout.

In fact, there is a certain commonality between such food videos and horror movie shooting.

For example, in atmosphere creation, camera application, and sound effect cooperation, including suspense setting and rhythm control, these are the contents that excellent horror movie directors are good at.

The three-hour shooting ended smoothly. The embarrassing thing is that the last dishes were not enough to eat.

The group performers of various ethnicities brought by Emil refused to get off work, and launched an attack on the delicious food that was not convenient to eat heartily under the lens just now.

Chen Chen Shijun and Emil also couldn't care about being reserved, and went down to grab it themselves.

As if the "Boxer Protocol" of a hundred years ago reappeared, in the villa restaurant of Hyde Park, Chicago, a group of great powers of different skin colors divided up again...

Chinese cuisine.

It's just that this time, they became slaves under Liu Liu Yifei's kitchen knife.

Especially Emil and Chen Chen Shijun.

Liu Liu Yifei had no choice, took a few pieces of toast left over from breakfast for them, and the two dipped the soup in the plate clean.

Liu Liu Xiaoli was stunned: "My mother, it's really like the Eight-Nation Alliance!"

Liu Liu Yifei giggled, and it took a lot of effort to send away this group of foreign devils who had never seen the world.

In the afternoon, Liu Liu Yifei sat by the window of the study.

Through the window lattice, the fallen leaves on the ground of Hyde Park in autumn are layered, like an overturned palette.

Orange, scarlet, and ochre colors are intertwined and collided, forming an impressionist painting with delicate brushstrokes, spreading quietly in the passage of time.

Liu Liu Yifei is a bit obsessed, and several keywords about blogs have been circling in her mind.

In fact, the sentence she heard from Chen Chen Shijun unintentionally in the morning was like a stone thrown into her mood, hitting ripples.

The little girl who had never had any startup experience was a bit confused in her thinking, as if there were thousands of threads, but when she lowered her head to grope carefully, she couldn't find the key thread.

She opened the computer and began to browse the currently popular Internet products in North America one by one.

MySpace, one of the largest youth communities in the world;

Mytube, the video dark horse website she participated in and witnessed;

Flickr, the image website acquired by Yahoo in March 2005;

Reddit, the hottest SNS platform forum in North America;

Facebook, which has not yet walked out of campus, and whose customers are limited to American and Canadian student groups and some companies.

Of course, there is also Blogger, which was sentenced to death by Lu Kuan in the future in Chen Chen Shijun's mouth.

The little girl suddenly remembered something, and turned out the folded note from her bag.

On it is the contact information of IT guy Dorsey, and the conversation in the University of Chicago restaurant yesterday.

She began to consider problems according to Xi Xi Kaiyuan's leadership course and thinking mode. Does this Twttr, which is born from a blog, have any value?

Sending and updating blog posts directly through text messages is a unique selling point at present.

Compared to the semi-closed community Facebook, Twttr is an open platform where anyone can follow and browse.

Compared to traditional blogs, you can perform impromptu writing that doesn't take too much time and brainpower.

But it also limits bloggers who want to write long articles, which is one of the shortcomings.

But if...

Add Flickr's image function?

The information volume of slightly more complex images is enough to be equivalent to a description of hundreds of words.

Liu Liu Yifei drove her thinking in her mind, trying to consider the user experience of this product from the perspective of an ordinary user.

Convenient publishing, timely information dissemination, just need a mobile phone to send information.

The content is short and easy to read, the creation threshold is low, and it is very suitable for her life-oriented and grounded blog style.

Coupled with the image function, for users to operate on the computer side, you can completely add the functions of liking, forwarding, and commenting on mainland blogs!

Learn the skills of the dog to control the dog!

It seems...

A bit interesting?

In fact, Twitter first became popular in the United States, which has a great relationship with the lack of a product similar to Penguin Group in the United States.

The text messaging business in the United States is not very developed, and IM is also concentrated in point-to-point communication between two people or very few people. Everyone almost had no habit of group chat in the past, even on Facebook.

In fact, Twitter is to some extent making up for the lessons of Penguin Group, so it popularized very quickly.

Therefore, Dorsey's "no identity restriction information flow" function is very popular.

But time has changed, and Liu Liu Yifei in this life has drawn lessons from the gameplay of mainland blogs, thinking about adding image functions to the product, which seems to look more interesting.

She has strong execution, took out her mobile phone to compare the note, and dialed the programmer Dorsey's phone.

"Crystal? I hope I can hear good news."

Dorsey's voice was very low. He had completely become a minority in Odeo.

The Dorsey of later generations was only known for his technology, and he was at a disadvantage in several internal fights of Twitter, and it was difficult to call him a qualified enterprise leader.

"How much money do you need?"

Dorsey was silent for a few seconds, and his emotions became obviously high: "300... No! 2 million US dollars!"

"But this is just initial capital!"

"We need to purchase the most basic 3 to 5 servers, Cisco switches, and other office equipment, etc."

"In terms of software, there must be at least one set of JetBrains' IntelliJ IDEA, and there may be other integrated development environments later."

"There are also version control programs, database management tools, and test servers..."

Liu Liu Yifei couldn't help interrupting him: "Stop!"

"List these things you said and send them to my mailbox. I will find professionals to verify them."

"In addition, 2 million US dollars is fine, I want 95% of the shares, can you accept it?"

Dorsey's excited mood and tone came to an abrupt end, as if he had been poured a basin of cold water in the middle of winter.

The angel investor on the other end of the phone gave him a warning not to be fraudulent;

Another sentence directly pushed himself into the abyss of IT black labor, listening to Dorsey until he was dumbfounded.

Angel investor?

You are a devil investor!

"No! Crystal! This is an unreasonable proportion!"

"Do you know Facebook? The main technical personnel Zuckerberg took 65% of the shares! The other two entrepreneurs Saverin took 30%, and Moskovitz took 5%!"

Liu Liu Yifei didn't answer: "Listen to me, don't use Facebook as an example. Your Twitter is not a technology-led website, and the construction is very simple."

"If you want to hear examples, I can give you the example of Mytube. Their Vice President Chen Chen Shijun just left my house this morning."

"The genius architect Mike Suoluomen, who has risen to fame in your North American architect circle, only took 6% of the equity in Mytube."

Of course, you don't look at who went to talk. If Boss Lu was ruthless, he might not even have this number.

However, Lu Kuan was to recruit Mike Suoluomen for his own use, and even the Wenjie Video in the country was written by him. Talent is hard to come by.

Dorsey pondered for two seconds. Because programmers are not very developed in trivial matters, he couldn't think of a good excuse to fight back.

But he was also too unwilling!

"Crystal, listen to me, you can just be responsible for investment, I will write a good structure and do a good job of management and operation."

"I think my contribution is worth more original equity, I hope you consider it carefully, otherwise I would rather go find other collaborators."

The other end of the phone was silent for two seconds.

"Hehe."

The female voice, which sounded pleasant and crisp to the IT guy, seemed to be given more emotional factors in the two chuckles.

It seemed a bit deep.

Dorsey, who was holding a hot dog on a park bench to fill his hunger, suddenly felt that the warmth of the sun shining directly on his back decreased slightly, and he couldn't help but concentrate on waiting for the answer of this Asian actress.

"Honestly, Chen Chen Shijun and I are very familiar. If I ask him to find Mike Suoluomen, according to your idea to write a structure, it will only take a day or two."

She still underestimated it. When this genius architect wrote Mytube, it took half a day.

"I..." Dorsey was almost anxious!

Is this still the harmless little girl?

Liu Liu Yifei's coquettish female voice seemed to be more steady and powerful, interrupting him with strong confidence: "Don't be anxious, I am not threatening you."

"I am just telling you a dangerous fact, my programmer friend."

"I have completely mastered your ideas and thoughts, and it is easy to intercept."

"But I still want to reason with you last. Why do I want 95% of the equity? Do you think you have the patience to listen to me?" On the park bench, Dorsey's newly emerged resistance idea was interrupted, and was suppressed by Liu Liu Yifei's seemingly polite but irresistible rhetoric.

He was a bit stuttering and couldn't speak, quite similar to the situation when he was kicked out of the chairman position by his startup partner in later generations.

"Good... Alright, I'm listening."

He looked up at the gentle sunlight, wrapped his body slightly, and felt that his body temperature had been decreasing.

"In my plan, you only need to be responsible for technology."

"I will find professional talent for the operation of the website. I already have ideas for marketing. In terms of traffic, I will persuade Leonardo and others who are about to join the crew to participate."

"In addition, I have a very good personal relationship with Chen Chen Shijun and Huang Anna of Mytube. They also need me, a top Asian blogger, and can conduct resource exchange."

"It can be said that you, Dorsey, only need to spend one or two days to give me a complete structure, and you can realize your startup dream without paying attention to the trivial matters you don't seem to be good at."

"Your technology is not irreplaceable, but my funds and resources, especially my interest, are hard to come by for you."

Liu Liu Yifei listed the irrefutable reasons one by one, and every word hit the most fragile heart defense of the programmer.

It seemed that she wanted to give him some time to react and think. The female master's student of Booth School of Business paused for two seconds and gave him an ultimatum.

"5%, agree, come to Vancouver tomorrow to talk to me about the details, I will find someone to draft the contract."

"Disagree."

The voice on the other end of the phone paused. The image of the angel girl turning into a female devil broke into Dorsey's mind again. He couldn't help but hold the phone tightly.

"Disagree, then I can only wish you a pleasant afternoon."

"Agree! Agree! Give me the address! I agree!"

In the study of the Hyde Park big house, Liu Liu Yifei, who was far from being as confident and strong as she looked on the phone, covered the microphone and let out a long sigh of relief.

"Good, see you again."

She threw away the phone and ran out of the room like crazy!

"Mom! Mom!"

Liu Liu Xiaoli was cleaning up in the kitchen and was startled by her daughter's scream. When she turned her head, she was "thrown into the forest by a swallow."

It's just that this swallow is a bit big now.

"What's wrong?"

Liu Liu Xiaoli, who was a bit startled by her daughter, held Liu Liu Yifei's shoulder and looked at the excited flush on her face.

"Hehe, it's nothing!"

This was the first unofficial business negotiation success. The little girl was extremely excited, kissed Liu Liu Xiaoli on the face, and then ran back to the room in a slip.

She opened the computer and forced herself to calm down, reviewing several conversations in the phone just now.

Did she negotiate like Xi Xi Kaiyuan's guidance and teaching content, like the way she usually discusses in groups with elite students from different industries?

It seems so, but it doesn't seem to have systematically used these techniques.

Looking back at the whole process.

The opening directly set the tone, giving a strong proportion of 95%.

Cited the shareholding ratio of Mytube programmer Mike Suoluomen as a comparison.

Pulled out industry rising star Chen Chen Shijun as a banner, and forcibly interrupted Dorsey's questioning, hitting the opponent's negotiation momentum, and outputting her own point of view.

Frequently silent in key issues of negotiation, creating psychological pressure for the opponent.

Naturally, she thought of her "enlightenment teacher" far away in the East.

What would he do?

He wouldn't throw out his bottom line of 95% at once, right? He would definitely wait for the stupid programmer to bargain!

Dorsey refused him for the first time. According to his habit, he should hang up the phone immediately and arrange for Mike Suoluomen to intercept, right?

And she threw out so many resources and advantages, it seems that all the hole cards were exposed to the opponent, which is also very unwise. He shouldn't do this.

Liu Liu Yifei remembered the whole process of Zhang Nara being pitted.

First, intercept her "Diao Man Gong Zhu" resource and wait for the other party's reaction.

When Zhou Jun found something wrong, he immediately released the second card, releasing the video of Zhu Zhu Husheng making money in the Korean variety show.

Zhou Jun was exhausted, busy planning charity and cultural activities to wash her white, and when she was on TV and Sina, he gave a fatal blow.

Linked Zhang Nara with the humiliated Korean star Lee Eun-ju in public opinion, completely erasing her last hope in the mainland entertainment circle.

The little girl frowned, thinking deeply, pushing the grass and snakes in his way of dealing with people, hoping that she could do better next time.

People teach people, they can't learn, and Boss Lu didn't deliberately teach her this.

But Liu Liu Yifei, who broke into North America alone, unconsciously began to imitate him when she handled affairs herself.

This is things teaching people, once through, seven or eight out of ten.

It's just that because of her nature, she is far from being as ruthless as Lu Kuan, and she can't play with people's hearts like him.

No matter how well she learns, she might just be a beautiful female master's student who came out of Booth School of Business.

Unless she is strongly stimulated and her personality changes greatly later, it is difficult to become an Oriental Medusa who is treacherous and profit-oriented.

It's just that the gears of fate turn, and on this piece of land full of "American dreams," Liu Liu Yifei did encounter some encounters that might change the world line.

Big professor Xi Xi Kaiyuan, Uncle Ao who walks the dog in Hyde Park in later generations, and Dorsey, the founder of Twitter who is struggling.

It's like in certain eras, young men and women in the country squeezed their heads to break into Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen.

It is indeed easy to meet people or things that change fate in such a place, it's just a matter of probability.

After asking for leave from school for more than two months, the next day, Liu Liu Xiaoli and her daughter rushed to the set of "Exotic 2" in Vancouver accompanied by female bodyguard Mia.

The shooting cycle of "Exotic 2" is very short. In this sequel, the scenes of the male and female leads have been fine-tuned, but Leonardo is definitely the main force carrying the box office.

The first day is mainly the preparation work before shooting, the simple script reading of the male and female leads, and the adjustment of physical state.

Leonardo will enter the group the next day. Liu Liu Yifei followed Yuan Yuan Heping's team to go through the martial arts routines in this work.

"Liu Yifei, your physical fitness has improved again, and the ornamental value of the routines is higher."

He Guoliang, the eldest apprentice of Yuan Yuan Heping, just finished playing with her, smiled and shook his wrist: "Where is the ornamental value, Master, the strength has improved a lot."

"Hehe, I've been practicing boxing recently, and I go to the gym a lot." Liu Liu Yifei smiled embarrassedly.

"Exotic 2" has higher requirements for her weight and body shape. There will be many extremely tight shapes, requiring the embodiment of the heroine's sense of strength and body curves.

In this month

During this month in Hyde Park, she had begun anaerobic strength training with Mia, which had proven quite effective.

Yuen Woo-ping looked at the young girl with a smile; he had thought highly of Liu Liu Yifei ever since the 2002 film "The Forbidden Kingdom."

She possessed a focus and professionalism rarely seen in old-school Hong Kong actors like Sammo Hung, and she wasn't the least bit delicate.

"Liu Yifei, there's a casting call for the female lead in 'Fearless' next year. Are you interested? It's a scene opposite Li Lianjie, playing a blind girl."

This character, Yue Ci, was a pure, kind-hearted image with a simple smile, played by Sun Li in the later version.

Yuen Woo-ping was the action director for "Fearless" and thought highly of Liu Liu Yifei, feeling that for a young actress like her, acting alongside Li Lianjie would be a great opportunity.

"Thank you, Director Yuen, but I already have arrangements for my next film."

"Oh? Is it convenient to disclose?"

Little Liu smiled: "It's a historical film, and Lu Kuan is the director."

"Oh! Well, that's a good opportunity then." Yuen Woo-ping smiled helplessly; he should have thought of that sooner, he was worrying for nothing.

Yuen Woo-ping could only stay with the "The Forbidden Kingdom 2" crew for one week this time; he still had to rush back to the country to handle the mess of Feng Feng Xiaogang's "The Banquet."

The first day of adaptive rehearsals ended quickly.

That evening, in their hotel room, Liu Liu Yifei prepared to talk to her mother about the Twitter project.

She sat in front of the computer writing a business plan: "Mom, how much money do we have now?"

"Huh?"

Liu Liu Xiaoli was by the sink washing an apple for her daughter and poked her head out upon hearing this: "What do you mean?"

"I've gotten myself into something!"

"What?"

Her mother was startled and came out of the bathroom suspiciously: "Tell me quickly!"

She scanned her daughter from head to toe; she was under her nose every day, what could she have gotten into?

"A good thing! A good thing! I want to start a company, and I need your help!"

Liu Liu Xiaoli wasn't too surprised; after all, she was already studying at the Booth School of Business, so having some ideas was normal, and besides, she was already running a studio.

"Listen to me, Mom. I want to start a company in the United States, and I want to register it using your identity."

Little Liu had transferred her nationality back to China as early as 2002, but Liu Liu Xiaoli's status as a green card holder offered many conveniences.

Seeing that this wasn't a trivial matter for her daughter, Liu Liu Xiaoli patiently listened to her entrepreneurial idea.

She was completely bewildered.

What was her daughter talking about? Information streams, stranger social networking, mobile blogs...

"Isn't that a bit risky, Sister Xixi?"

Liu Liu Xiaoli instinctively wanted to advise her against it: "And your work is so busy, do you have time to manage all that?"

"But Lu..."

Little Liu blurted out, then didn't want to mention that name in front of her mother: "Doesn't Inquiry Realm operate the same way? And it's on such a large scale."

"Professional people do professional things. I'm just providing the initial idea; I don't know how to handle the operations either!"

Liu Liu Xiaoli was somewhat hesitant, but thinking of the news from the Hu Run Rich List back home, Little Lu's net worth was already nearly 10 billion, which was truly staggering.

Moreover, it didn't seem to hinder him from making movies.

"Mom, I'm telling you, this idea was inspired by Blog Network and Mytube, and I think it will work."

"Tell me quickly how much money we have, I need to plan!"

"The advance payment for 'The Forbidden Kingdom 2' is 20%, about 800,000 US dollars, plus your previous endorsement income in China is all in the studio account. I need to check the exact amount."

"How much do you need?"

Liu Liu Yifei pursed her lips: "I only need about 2 million US dollars for now, we'll see about the rest later."

She wasn't entirely sure herself; judging by the way Mytube was burning through cash, the day of success would likely be the day they sold themselves to venture capital.

But the young girl was currently in the excitement of thinking she was "doing big things," and only wanted to get this project off the ground quickly.

The number Little Liu revealed startled Liu Liu Xiaoli, but she couldn't resist her daughter's pestering and eventually agreed.

To tell the truth, she had long since lost control over her daughter in the last two years.

Because of her broader experiences and knowledge, this Liu Liu Yifei had long possessed a maturity and independence far beyond her peers, and it was too late for her to stop her now.

If time could be reversed, perhaps the only way would be to go back to that day in 2001 and sweep a certain little immortal she first met out the door with a broom.

The night was deep, and Little Liu was burning the midnight oil in her hotel room, conceptualizing the marketing strategy for this internet product startup.

Nothing else, she didn't understand anything else.

She didn't understand law, and she didn't understand website UI.

She could imitate Mytube and Inquiry Realm for company operations; as a boss, her only advantage was having witnessed the rise of blogs and Mytube.

Celebrity traffic, topic marketing...

That's it!

Liu Liu Yifei's thoughts were suddenly struck, and she typed the four characters "Twilight" onto her computer with lightning speed.

This was the hottest book in North America recently, and its target audience was young girls like herself; even Mytube was relying on "Twilight" topics to build its user base for a sale.

There was no reason for Twitter not to ride this wave of popularity.

After thinking it over, she decided to focus on "Twilight"; she was a big blogger on Mytube anyway, so she could totally contact the author for mutual promotion.

She would package herself as a die-hard "Twilight" fan and have the author guide topics and interactions on Twitter.

The hardest part was celebrity resources; she was at best a small-timer who had shown her face in North America, and the only A-lister she knew was Leonardo.

Whether he would be willing to help her was uncertain; Hollywood stars looked easygoing, but when it came to interests, they were all strictly business.

If it were Harvey doing it, it would certainly be convenient; a wingman like Harvey would be enough for him to command.

Liu Liu Yifei bit her finger and pondered deeply, the desk lamp in the room not extinguished until very late.

——

At 11:00 PM Vancouver time, Little Liu, who had been brainstorming all day, fell into a deep sleep.

On the other side of the globe, Boss Lu had just gotten out of the car to attend a luncheon invited by Han Han Shanping.

Last night, he had just had dinner with Old Han and Dong Dong Shuangqiang to celebrate the expected hit of the Tourism Satellite TV program "The Voice," and the advertising naming rights had also been successfully auctioned off today.

Among them, the Uni-President Group, which had just invested 500 million in Wandashan this July, successfully won the bid.

That same year, they also invested 30 million US dollars to acquire 5% of Huiyuan Holdings, just as they were expanding their reach.

The naming rights for "The Voice" were sold for a total of 80 million RMB, and with the advertisements before and after, they had completed the advertising revenue plan set by the station for this year ahead of schedule.

Old Han, who had been dead drunk, had called him to eat again at noon, acting mysterious and not saying why.

Boss Lu's confusion didn't last long; the moment he pushed open the door to the VIP room at the Beijing Club, he understood Old Han's intention.

"Teacher Lu!"

The young director felt a bit of toothache hearing this address, feeling as if he had been made to sound a dozen years older.

"Golden Rose" was dressed much more modestly today, in a light-colored cardigan short-sleeved sweater paired with a fish-scale plaid light blue skirt, full of the gentle freshness of a girl next door.

"Ruan Jingtian, hello."

Lu Zheng at the table also stood up with a smile; after much painstaking effort, he had finally managed to invite this big Buddha out.

Ever since the Bazaar Charity Night, Lu Kuan had repeatedly declined invitations, so it wasn't appropriate to bother him too much; he had only managed to set up this meeting through the head of China Film Group.

It was just that he owed Han Zong another favor.

"Sorry, there was a car accident on the way, I'm late."

Han Han Shanping smiled: "You are working for the country now, a busy person, we wouldn't dare to rush you!"

In early December, the second round of the shortlist for the Beijing Olympics opening and closing ceremony proposals was about to be released; if Inquiry Realm was successfully shortlisted, Boss Lu would have to prepare properly.

The Inquiry Realm team, which had managed to supplement all the materials this time, was determined to win and would bring all their strength to participate in this top-tier artistic event.

Lu Zheng stood up very politely and invited him to the main seat.

"Hey, that's not the right etiquette, Han Zong is here!"

Han Han Shanping waved his hand while sipping tea: "I'm just a guest today; they invited you, so sit down quickly."

"If I weren't afraid you'd have an opinion, I'd be out the door and home by now; your sister-in-law was just scolding me."

Lu Zheng couldn't let that remark fall to the ground and busily refilled Old Han's water: "Han Zong, how can you say that? It's not easy to get you to grace us with your presence for a meal, we can't give up halfway!"

He gave a wink to Ruan Jingtian, who was looking at Lu Kuan with a smile on the side, thinking to himself, why is this girl giggling the moment she sees someone!

"Da Da Tiantian, hurry and ask Boss Lu to sit down?"

Ruan Jingtian stood behind Boss Lu to the side, watching his free and easy demeanor in every gesture, feeling something indescribable.

It wasn't entirely a young girl's secret crush or liking.

She just felt he was quite different from the so-called elite celebrities she had met, which made her particularly curious.

"Da Da Tiantian?"

Ruan Jingtian was brought back to her senses by Lu Zheng; without too much shyness, she generously offered to pull out the chair for Lu Kuan.

Boss Lu reached out to hold it, signaling he would do it himself: "I'm not that lacking in gentlemanly manners, am I?"

"Haha, Director Lu is too polite."

Lu Zheng smoothed things over very familiarly, taking care of everyone in the room in his words, and then went out to order the dishes.

After three rounds of drinks at the luncheon, Lu Zheng saw that Han Han Shanping had made up his mind to have an attitude of "none of my business," so it was clearly up to him to speak up.

Old Han knew Boss Lu better than anyone; he wasn't someone who listened to persuasion.

If you want to ask someone to do something, you, Lu Zheng, just need to bring out the real goods; he certainly wouldn't oppose an exchange of interests.

It's just that there weren't many resources left that could interest him.

Unless he threw this pretty little girl in front of him into the mix, but thinking of her background, that was clearly impossible.

"Director Lu, I'll bring Da Da Tiantian to toast you, drink as you please, okay?"

Lu Zheng's posture was very low; the two clinked glasses, and he drank his down immediately.

Boss Lu smiled: "Boss Lu, our surnames have the same sound, don't be a stranger, just say what you have to say."

Lu Zheng wiped his hands with a wet towel in a leisurely manner; he had been paving the way since the Bazaar Charity Night, and now, under the expectant gaze of Ruan Jingtian on the side, he finally expressed his request.

"Director Lu, we want to ask you to teach Da Da Tiantian acting."

(End of chapter)