enjoyebooks Chapter 14 East Rise 1
Chapter 14 East Rise 1
In a high-end studio apartment.
Su Qing sat in front of the computer in silence for a long time.
Then, she dragged the mouse down the search results for "Huang Min" on Baidu Baike (Chinese Wikipedia), and after dragging for a while, she still couldn't find any information about Huang Min's experience in writing screenplays or directing.
"First, you need to help me register a company."
From the moment I answered the phone.
Huang Min knew that Su Qing had already made her choice.
Since that's the case, Huang Min didn't beat around the bush and directly stated his demands: "Secondly, help me recruit two people with tracking and counter-surveillance capabilities. Also, regarding your labor contract, you need to handle it yourself. Don't make it too long, because in six months or a year, I still won't be able to get out of my current predicament and will probably go bankrupt. If you make it that long, I can't afford the penalty for breach of contract."
"Hey, feed..."
Hearing the phone suddenly go silent, Su Qing instinctively called out twice.
She still has a few questions she hasn't asked yet!
After seeing that the call had been disconnected, Su Qing scratched her head hard. She hadn't even mentioned that she had agreed to be his employee, and the job assignment had already been given to her.
Su Qing stood up from her chair and walked out of the study.
It was mid-to-late April, and the afternoon sun was intense. A gentle breeze blew in through the window. Su Qing put down her hand that was holding her hair, sat on the sofa in the living room, and took a couple of sips of water.
Her thoughts were still a bit jumbled.
But undeniably, she was somewhat tempted by what Huang Min said that morning.
After returning, she searched for Huang Min's annual income before he was embroiled in so many negative news stories. It might not be very accurate, but it gave her a general idea.
The second tier is in a lower position.
The fee per episode is 200,000 yuan, and a 30-episode TV series is about 6 million yuan. At its peak, it took on four TV series in a year. Including endorsements and commercial performances, it exceeded 30 million yuan. Anyway, on average, it was more than 10 million yuan.
So in a sense, this is indeed a good opportunity. The key is that he immediately started a company, and as the first person to follow him at this stage, I will definitely have a place at the top when the company develops. But...
Originally, Su Qing thought that Huang Min had a way to get out of the current situation, judging from his demeanor. So she didn't hesitate. Unexpectedly, he started "writing a script" and "making a movie".
He transitioned directly from being a pure actor.
It's no wonder they say it will take "only six months to a year".
"This is a gamble."
After sitting for a while, Su Qing shook her head with a wry smile, finished the water in her glass, took a pair of slippers from the shoe rack, changed into them, picked up her car keys, and went out.
This was the first time she had encountered such a recruitment process since she stepped out of the gates of Nancheng University. The recruiter even had to draft his own employment contract. It was truly starting from scratch.
Su Qing is very efficient.
She spent three days finding the right people. Following the address her future boss had given her, Su Qing brought the two of them to her home on Chungmuro Road early in the morning.
"I need you to follow and film my ex-wife."
Huang Min handed the two men the information he had written down from memory: "I've prepared a used car for you. It's parked in the garage. You can drive this car out."
Huang Min pointed to the preparations on the table and said, "These are the equipment. I don't need to teach you how to use them, right?"
Seeing the two shake their heads, Huang Min nodded: "My ex-wife owns four cars, the license plate numbers are in the records. She also owns three apartments, but usually prefers to live in Sanshui Garden, not far from the park on the East Third Ring Road. The other two apartments are in Bihe Yayuan on Haixing Road, on the eighth floor near the eastern wall of the complex, and apartment 901 in building 16 of Fanyin Community. My ex-wife has installed security cameras at the entrances of all three apartments. She has a habit of checking the footage regularly, so you must be careful when you're filming her. Now, let me tell you your basic salary: eight thousand per month. If you capture any useful photos, I'll give each of you a bonus of one million. As for the daily reporting on your filming..."
Huang Min turned to Su Qing, who was standing to the side, and said with a smile, "Miss Su, I'll leave this to you."
After the two of them took their equipment and car keys downstairs to drive to work, Su Qing looked at Huang Min with a puzzled expression: "Are you suspecting...?"
"I have some ideas"
Huang Min laughed and said, "They're probably playing the time game, but these things need to be investigated slowly and can't be rushed. I think your most important thing right now is to come up with a better-sounding company name."
"You really want me to take it!?"
Su Qing asked uncertainly.
"Take it!"
Huang Min laughed and said, "If I go bankrupt in six months or a year and this company goes out of business, I can say it's because you didn't choose a good name. If we succeed, it's all due to my own efforts."
"..."
Su Qing, dressed in a women's business suit, was taken aback for a moment, then opened her rosy lips and let out two soft laughs: "You do have the potential to be a boss. You blame all the mistakes on your subordinates and take all the credit for yourself."
Feeling the morning light bathing her, Su Qing turned to look out the window. A vibrant sun was rising in the east. Seeing this, Su Qing's expression shifted, and she blurted out, "How about calling it Dongsheng (Eastern Rising Sun)?"
Huang Min also looked over.
"The rising sun, right? It has a very meaningful symbolism, let's go with this one!"
As he spoke, Huang Min formally extended his palm: "Ms. Su Qing, it's an honor to have a partner like you join us. I hope we can work together for a long time to come."
"I'd like to offer some feedback."
Su Qing smiled and shook hands with Huang Min: "The registered capital is six million. You can use a maximum of five and a half million for filming. It's best to find male actors with good acting skills who are also inexpensive, the more washed up the better. It's best to keep the actor's salary under three hundred thousand."
"Miss Su, what do you think of me?!"
Huang Min asked.
"..."
Su Qing's smile vanished, her eyes turned icy, and she said in a stiff tone, "If you choose to take this gamble just to see if any audience can accept you appearing on the big screen with so many stains on your record, then I'm sorry, I refuse to work for you."
I like your attitude.
Huang Min wasn't angry at all. Instead, he looked at Su Qing with approval and then asked, "But you forgot one thing. Even if I wrote and directed this play, and I can use pseudonyms, what will my ex-wife do when she finds out...?"
Huang Min smiled and said, "She will definitely hire some online trolls to expose me. She went to such lengths to slander me because she wanted to kill my hope of returning to the entertainment industry and make me live a miserable life bearing all the labels she put on me. Who knows, she might be very disappointed when she finds out about my suicide attempt a few days ago."