Chapter 307

"Why did Yu Mo come here!"

"Could the rumors online be true, that he really has a thing with Big Mi?"

"Duh!"

But soon, someone was speechless!

"Yu Mo and Yang Mi are in the same studio; it would be weird if he didn't come!!!"

Uninformed gossipers: "？？？？！?"

……

What the hell, Yu Mo is actually in the same studio as Yang Mi!

"No way, you didn't know that!"

Someone saw their companion's shocked expression and was completely speechless.

This didn't seem like a secret!

……

Of course, Yang Mi, who was in the middle of her photo shoot, didn't care about all that.

In a short while, she had already changed into several outfits!

Finally, an hour later, the shoot ended.

Yu Mo was still playing games.

"Oh my, I'm exhausted!"

As soon as she sat down, Yang Mi, who hadn't changed out of her last outfit yet, sat down wearing that beautiful low-cut long dress with a large coat over it.

……

"Finished?"

Seeing Yang Mi sit down, Yu Mo put down his phone and asked curiously.

"Yes!"

Facing the question, Yang Mi replied with a smile, and didn't forget to take a sip of water before saying: "I heard you sent Cheng Xiao to Huang Bo's crew!"

"Yes!"

Yu Mo didn't hide it, nodding: "Cheng Xiao hadn't been assigned any work since she arrived, so I squeezed her into a spot in Huang Bo's crew. Plus, we have a 70% box office share in this film, so I went to check on it!"

"Oh? How is it?"

Yang Mi asked with interest upon hearing this.

"Mm, not bad!" Yu Mo nodded, answering truthfully.

……

"That's good!" Yang Mi breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this!

After all, this film was a money-maker!

Right now, besides *Aquaman* which Yu Mo hadn't finished yet, the studio had almost no new projects!

They were currently relying purely on investing in other films to maintain the studio's astonishing net profit!

Over ten billion!

Tsk tsk tsk, it was catching up to a large domestic super-enterprise!

Er, of course, those are sustainable, while theirs was just good luck.

But even so, it was still pretty badass, right!

……

Looking at the entire entertainment industry, even Huayi Brothers couldn't reach this level.

However.

"Also, I heard that the batch of resources negotiated yesterday—you gave them to Liu Liu Liu Yifei, Yang Chaoyue, Wu Wu Wu Xuanyi, and Zhao Zhao Zhao Liying? And there's one for me too!"

"Mm!" Yu Mo didn't hide this either, saying: "Liu Liu Liu Yifei definitely needs quite a few resources right now, and it's unlikely Adidas would consider other spokespeople. As for Yang Chaoyue and Wu Wu Wu Xuanyi, your traffic has already risen to the very top; even if you don't show your faces for a year, it still won't shake your positions in the entertainment industry!"

"But Wu Wu Wu Xuanyi and Yang Chaoyue are newcomers; they need this batch of resources! As for Zhao Zhao Liying, hmm... she basically hasn't been on variety shows, and her recent results in TV dramas haven't been great, so it's better to transition by doing some variety shows!"

"That's right..."

Yang Mi thought this made a lot of sense and nodded her cute head in agreement!

It was true; she, Watching Watching Reba, Tong Tong Tong Liya, and Liu Liu Liu Yifei were now truly the top traffic stars in the industry; there was no such thing as being "past their prime."

As long as they didn't disappear for two or three years at once, it wouldn't be a problem!

Er, of course, this was just their achievement on TV—being familiar faces!

But that was enough.

……

But Wu Wu Wu Xuanyi and Yang Chaoyue were different; they were newcomers in their rising phase, and they indeed needed more resource exposure!

"And by the way..." Yang Mi thought of something and couldn't help but say: "Recently, I learned through some friends that many studios have launched 'Star-Making Plans.' Do you know about that!"

"It's about creating young idols through an assembly-line method to help the company make money!"

"I know about that!"

Yu Mo was quite knowledgeable about this.

The so-called assembly-line method was to train a large group of trainees. The first step was that their looks had to be high, regardless of whether they were male or female!

Especially since it was almost 2019!

Star-making at this time was particularly terrifying!

For example, the ones who blew up, Xiao Zhan and Wang Wang Wang Yibo!

Talent or no talent!

It was just about being good-looking first, then filming a TV drama. It didn't matter how the drama was, as long as it was passable!

As soon as it aired, they would desperately buy hot searches, get on hot searches, and use exposure to achieve traffic data, then market it—saying how good this show was, how good it was!

Then find a large group of internet trolls to promote the young idol they wanted to push every day!

Act as shills, saying, "Oh, so handsome, so handsome, so handsome," to drive more people to pay attention.

In this way, some brain-dead women who only look at faces would fall for it, and then think, "Oh, everyone is chasing them, my taste isn't bad, I'll chase them too!"

……

Once the popularity was about right, spend money to get them on a variety show to get exposure and establish a persona!

Continue with troll promotion, buy hot searches, cast a wide net!

Even if one in ten people likes them!

As long as the base is large, the fans will be numerous enough.

For example, if a hundred million people know them, then there are ten million fans!

A billion, and there's a hundred million brain-dead fans!

……

Then, heh, the entertainment company harvests the money from these brain-dead fans, and uses the data to fool those investors and producers into letting these expressionless young idols with no acting skills be the leads! They get high pay, and as for how the TV drama ends up!

That's another story; anyway, there are brain-dead fans paying for it! No fear of losing money!

And even if it loses money!

Actually, a significant portion of so-called "investors" are money laundering!

Lose a little money, launder most of the money—it's a win-win for everyone.

……

Of course, Yu Mo was quite disdainful of this method!

"The traffic-based young idols cultivated by this method only have temporary popularity; in the end, you still have to rely on strength to win!"

Because he knew very clearly that by 2022, people would start to stop paying for those young idols who had nothing but their faces!

They would still have to lean toward strength!

"Oh? So you don't like this method?"

Hearing this, Yang Mi thought Yu Mo disagreed!

But unexpectedly, Yu Mo chuckled—just kidding.

Even if there was only three years of traffic, you still had to keep up.

— Author's Notes —

(Seeking flowers and evaluation tickets. I hope those reading can provide some data support. The author thanks everyone here!!)