Chapter 292: Studio’s “second” Artist, The Renowned Sister Shang
Zhu Yao Lin is a typical conservative personality, his character is quite different from Yu Yan, Peng Chen and others, otherwise he wouldn’t have relied on the BL adaptation explosion back then, then turned around and plunged into the acting skills track, rather than the traffic track that everyone yearns for.
This is not because he loves this track so much, but because his personality determines that when facing such a choice, he will subconsciously choose the safest path.
So, his success is an “accident” within an “accident”. On the night he won the Golden Rooster Movie Emperor, the shock in the industry was no less than Chi Ye’s ascension after Xing Ni broadcast.
With such a personality, asking him to take the initiative to attack is actually a bit hard on him.
But after “personally experiencing” this moment, he couldn’t help but have this idea—
Chi Ye is really too terrifying, how long has he been popular? He already has such influence.
Ling Bingbing softly expressed her desire to cooperate with him, Hong Kong Circle Prince and Young Master of the Beijing Circle fought inseparably just to cooperate with him once.
Perhaps it’s not just him, after seeing this farce-like hot search, Si Zi and other teams in the industry will have this idea in their hearts.
Even their actions should be much faster than his…
Ling Bingbing glanced sideways here, while Sister Shang was still secretly “instigating”: “Don’t you want to get involved? We’re buddies, are you just going to watch them fight?”
Chi Ye put away his mobile phone: “If I remember correctly, there was you in that variety show too, right?”
Sister Shang was stunned.
“I don’t have as much face as you, go persuade them.”
Chi Ye said it casually, but after hearing it, Sister Shang furrowed her brows, thought carefully for a few seconds, then shook her head: “No no, if I go, won’t that confirm the scandal between me and you? Then my lifelong reputation…”
At this point, she hesitated for a moment.
Lifelong reputation…
What lifelong reputation does she have…
“Wallace’s glory.”
Chi Ye reminded: “The food provided by Beijing Film Academy today is a bit cold, be sure to watch your image.”
Shang Youshu: “……Thanks for the reminder.”
“You’re welcome, and thanks for reminding me about the hot search.”
Sister Shang stopped talking, she felt that Xiao Chi now has a lot of “bias” against her, so… so she planned to let this bias continue.
After all, if there was no such bias, with her beauty, could Xiao Chi hold back?
Anyway, Shang Youshu felt she couldn’t hold back!
……
The entire Beijing Film Academy Festival lasted nearly four or five hours. Unlike other film festivals, since it was held on campus, the scale was smaller, so there was no live broadcast process here, at most on-site media would shoot some videos and photos.
But because of Chi Ye’s arrival, this Beijing Film Academy Festival still couldn’t avoid the “fate” of making the hot search.
No need to explain—Beijing Film Academy side wanted exactly this effect.
Who in the industry doesn’t know that Chi Ye is now a walking hot search machine, as long as you get a little bit related to him… look at Jiang Cheng and Xiang You still hanging high on the hot search list.
This is the “iron proof”!
No matter whether Chi Ye himself responds actively or not, the popularity has been rubbed off by Arthur and Xiang You.
After the film festival ended, during the dinner, Chi Ye finally had a chance to “talk” to Ran Qiao.
Earlier he arrived too late, and after arriving the activity had already started, his seat was in the front, while Ran Qiao was in the back, so there wasn’t much time to communicate.
“Kid Sister.”
He called out from behind.
Ran Qiao, who was chatting with a producer from Ku Ying, was startled, then turned around, blinking her eyes: “Chi Ge.”
Her voice carried a bit of excitement.
Hmm… as expected, no guess wrong, in the circle, who calls her “Kid Sister” so openly? Besides Chi Ge, no one else.
Isn’t this also a kind of “friendship”?
“You go ahead with your business, talk later.”
Chi Ye noticed the Ku Ying producer who immediately stopped talking upon seeing him approach, and seeing it was an unfamiliar face, signaled Ran Qiao to handle her own matters first.
“……Then let’s leave it at that for now. Since Teacher Chi is here, Ran Qiao, you go catch up with Teacher Chi first, we’ll talk about the Hence Garden project later.”
Chi Ye didn’t know the Ku Ying producer, but the Ku Ying producer knew Chi Ye.
Not only knew him, but in a strict sense, he had a “grudge” with Chi Ye.
Because he was a key member brought over by New Handsome who had just joined not long ago.
Previously, because of the Ghost exclusive broadcasting rights issue, Ku Ying had confidently assembled a new team to negotiate with Chi Ye Studio, but unexpectedly, Chi Ye Studio ultimately chose to cooperate with Kiwifruit.
As a result, although New Handsome talked tough on the surface, anyone who’s not a fool knows that Ku Ying had good cooperation with Chi Ye before the change, and right after the change this happened—isn’t it a problem with your ability?
New Handsome felt frustrated inside, and the new team responsible for contacting Chi Ye Studio naturally had to share the blame.
This producer was one of those who shared the blame.
So, after seeing Chi Ye, he was “angry but dared not speak”, very unhappy, wishing the other would disappear immediately.
Even his cooperation with Ran Qiao was met with resistance.
Just a traffic star who’s about to fade, Hence Garden is an ancient idol drama adapted from a popular female-oriented IP, one of Ku Ying’s largest upcoming investments, with Ran Qiao’s star power, she seems a bit unqualified for this project.
Ran Qiao was delighted that Chi Ye came to catch up with her and didn’t notice this, but her team were all sharp, like her aunt at this moment who felt a thud in her heart and hurriedly chased over whispering something.
But it seemed the exchange didn’t go well, and soon she frowned and returned.
Here, Chi Ye had briefly exchanged pleasantries with Kid Sister and got straight to the point: “Your contract is about to expire, right?”
“Um… soon, what’s up? Hey, Chi Ge, how do you know about my contract… you… have been paying attention to me?”
Chi Ye said frankly: “Yes, I’m paying attention to you hoping you can learn more useful skills, don’t always think about your fishing.”
Ran Qiao: “……”
“It’s like this.”
Chi Ye crossed his legs: “I just mentioned to you too, recently my studio is going to sign a few artists, interested in coming to play?”
Ran Qiao wasn’t a newcomer, so he didn’t need to say too much, just mention it briefly, if she had no intention, he wouldn’t say more.
As for sincerity…
Him personally coming face-to-face to ask her about this was the greatest sincerity.
He believed Ran Qiao and her team could feel it.
They felt it.
Ran Qiao’s aunt had just sat down, and upon hearing this news, she jumped up again with a “flap”, looking over here in shock and astonishment: “Uh… sign… sign contract?”
Chi Ye glanced at her.
Ran Qiao frowned, saying maturely: “Aunt, be steady, how old are you, why still so fidgety……”
“Yes, yes, aunt is too young.”
The aunt routinely “admitted fault”.
Ran Qiao smacked her lips, sat on the sofa silently for a full ten seconds before reacting, surprised: “Chi Ge, you’re signing me?! Fuck… um… cough cough, I… I’ll treat you to kiwifruit.”
Everyone: “……”
Chi Ye gave her a sideways glance: “Um, the studio is preparing to transform, short on artists to promote, if you’re interested…”
“I… I…”
Ran Qiao said “I” twice, suddenly thinking of her family workshop, and that her aunt was right beside her, looked over.
At this moment, Ran Qiao’s aunt had also fully reacted, for a moment, unable to say if it was excitement or hesitation.
That’s right.
Ran Qiao’s company is indeed a family workshop, the legal representative is her mother, agent + assistant all personally handled by her own aunt, even the makeup and styling marketing team are all from seven aunts and eight uncles.
To be honest… this kind of artist is not uncommon in the industry, mostly second- and third-tier small stars who debuted as child stars.
As for why they are small stars… because this family approach, in the internal entertainment circle that increasingly values marketing, has extremely limited ceiling and survival space.
Take the simplest example, Ran Qiao’s previous development in internal entertainment was basically hit-or-miss, whatever traffic green robe acting faction, purely depending on whether aunt had a flash of inspiration today or uncle had a sudden idea.
If she hadn’t encountered Circulation, perhaps Ran Qiao would have faded into obscurity by now.
So, luck is very important.
The advantage of family workshop is that she basically makes profit for her own family, but the disadvantage is obvious… luck can’t always be good, when luck is bad, that’s when she fades, even to the point of no trace.
For example, after Circulation, bravely entering the ancient idol track, then consecutively flopping Kid Sister.
Ran Qiao’s aunt had a moment of hesitation in her heart, after all… Ran Qiao is earning money for the family, if she switches to Chi Ye’s company……
“No rush on this, think it over these few days and tell me, I’ll reject you then and make you regret it.”
Ran Qiao dumbfounded: “……”
Chi Ye was just joking, he didn’t make Kid Sister decide on the spot, actually… Kid Sister probably didn’t need to decide either, from her eager and shining eyes, Chi Ye could read her emotion: Sure, I want to progress so much.
—Who in the circle doesn’t want to cooperate with Chi Ye now?
It can be foreseen that once signing with Chi Ye’s company, Chi Ye will definitely “bring her along”.
The reason for not agreeing immediately was mainly considering other family members’ thoughts, but hearing Chi Ye say this, Kid Sister felt a bit guilty and hurriedly said: “Chi Ge… wait a bit, let me… discuss with my family, I’ll give you a reply today.”
Chi Ye looked at Ran Qiao’s aunt who had also reacted, smiling: “No rush, it’s fine.”
“……”
You’re even going to make me regret it, how can I not rush?
Chi Ge’s mouth is as bad as ever!
Kid Sister wanted to say more, but on the other side, several Beijing Film Academy leaders who had been “aiming” at Chi Ye since the activity ended came over, pulling Chi Ye aside to talk.
—They all had their own students they wanted to recommend to Chi Ye.
“……Aunt, I want to go to Chi Ge’s studio.”
Seeing Chi Ye walk away, Kid Sister turned around, excitedly saying: “He didn’t mention it and I didn’t have this idea, but now…”
“Ran Ran.”
Aunt’s face was awkward: “This… you need to think it through, he just said it, maybe we should think carefully again?”
“Aunt, look at you, can you hesitate on something like this? One more second of hesitation is disrespect to my career!”
Aunt: “……”
Ran Qiao knew what she was thinking, paused, then said: “If we continue staying in our company it’s fine too, but going on like this… my income might get less and less, the next big payday might have to wait for another Circulation.”
Aunt gritted her teeth: “Sigh… actually I know, it’s the family holding you back…”
“Aunt, don’t say that, I know mom and dad are worried about me being young in this circle… but you should know Chi Ge, he probably won’t ‘look down on me’.”
Kid Sister glanced at Shang Youshu who was trotting to Chi Ye’s side, pointing occasionally, and asked maturely: “What do you think?”
Aunt was silent for two seconds, nodded: “No wonder you’re mature, I won’t argue with you.”
“Then it’s settled… we’ll discuss properly later… I really think this is an opportunity, you know how hot Chi Ge is now, if we don’t fight for it this time, I might regret it for life.”
“……Okay, aunt knows, let’s go tell your parents together.”
Aunt nodded, then sighed again, suspiciously glanced at Shang Youshu and Chi Ye a few times, muttering in her heart: With top beauties like Jin Xia and Shang Youshu around him, he probably won’t have ideas about Ran Ran this “kid”, right?
Probably not… She’s interacted with Chi Ye for a while, this person is sly and mean, likes little schemes, but in terms of private morals, he should be pretty good.
That Shi Daifu is developing better and better now, and hasn’t heard of her punching Chi Ye to death.
This proves—Chi Ye is not a lustful fiend!
……
“What were you chatting about with them just now?”
Not far away, after Chi Ye briefly talked with several school leaders and they left, Sister Shang immediately asked curiously: “Is it unspoken rules? When does it start, can I watch…”
“What, you want to help push, get some participation?”
“……No, can you maintain some image in front of me, opening mouth on this topic makes me very embarrassed, you know.”
Sister Shang was a bit displeased: “Why do I feel like you don’t see me as a woman at all.”
Chi Ye said sincerely: “Indeed very hard.”
Shang Youshu slightly angry: “Chi Ye, you’re too much, if you keep this up, from now on I’ll… stop sharing big gossip and messages with you.”
Chi Ye: “……”
That’s serious.
“Is your studio really going to expand? Planning to develop towards entertainment group direction?”
Seeing Chi Ye silent, Sister Shang immediately selectively forgot the previous matter, excitedly saying: “Who are you going to sign? Besides Ran Qiao… right, can Ran Qiao act in Mars Rescue? Tell me, I promise not to tell others.”
Chi Ye gave her a sideways glance: “Sign with me and I’ll tell you.”
“……You want to sign me that much?”
“Want.”
“Um……” Sister Shang hesitated and conflicted: “I… I’m fine, but will Xia Xia really have no opinion?”
This time Chi Ye was stunned: “What opinion would she have?”
Sister Shang blinked wildly: “No opinion?”
Chi Ye scanned her abdomen and hips, frowning: “What, can you even clog the company toilet?”
