Chapter 262 The Chosen Tree
Chapter 270 The selected tree
The official announcement was made at 4:30 in the morning, so I guess I can’t wait.
Chen Duling only vaguely knew about the possibility of being confirmed as the female lead from Li Zhuo.
At 12 o'clock in the middle of the night, she suddenly received a call from the assistant director of the crew, saying that she had been confirmed as the female lead, and asked her to prepare and free up enough filming schedules.
When she heard the news, her heart beat faster with excitement. While she was happy, she also wondered why he called her in the middle of the night.
She sent a message to Li Zhuo, carefully choosing her words to express her gratitude. She knew very well that without Li Zhuo's help, this role would not have fallen to her.
After Li Zhuo knew that she hadn't rested yet, he called:
"You haven't slept yet? I thought I was the only one who slept late. Congratulations, the crew has informed you, and the matter has been settled."
"Yes, I was quite surprised when you called me after 12 o'clock in the middle of the night."
Li Zhuo smiled and said:
"It's quite understandable. We talked with Happy Blue Ocean about the investment and profit sharing issues from the afternoon until 11 o'clock in the evening before reaching a consensus, which made it quite troublesome. But the crew knew it quickly and responded quickly.
That’s good, you can feel at ease soon.”
"Thank you, did you pay a big price for this?" Chen Duling was a little worried.
Li Zhuo replied:
"It's okay, there's no big problem. I invested 20% of the entire drama to get you to be the female lead. It should be said that your image, audition performance and other aspects are very good, and you are also suitable for this Republic of China drama. Otherwise,
Happy Blue Ocean will not agree to it."
Chen Duling expressed his gratitude and felt warm in his heart. He didn't know what to say for a while.
Although Li Zhuo invested in this drama with the intention of helping her, he actually also wanted to find a way for himself to spend money in the future.
After all, his money will only increase in the future. He has to take precautions to expand and enrich his industry, so as to give the outside world the impression that he can make money.
Without various investments and few companies under its control, it is difficult to explain where so much money came from.
Now he owns two companies in China, one is an entertainment company specializing in investment in film and television, and a photography company. He controls a jewelry company abroad and is the largest shareholder of a model company.
But this is not enough. In the future, he will successively set up several companies engaged in other businesses.
Chen Duling naturally didn't know this, but she knew that it was because of Li Zhuo's investment that she became the female lead in this drama.
At this moment, she felt that she had accepted Li Zhuo's affection, and saying thank you casually seemed a bit disrespectful, but repaying her in return seemed too heavy, and it also gave people the wrong impression of being committed to each other, but she herself did not have this idea.
Li Zhuo didn't know what she was thinking, but he continued:
"This drama is produced by Happy Blue Ocean, and this company is controlled by Suzhou Satellite TV, so there is no problem in broadcasting it on the provincial satellite TV. It is inherently better than other dramas. As long as you shoot the drama well,
It's enough for me to make money."
Chen Duling was very happy. She really saw his character correctly. He didn't mean to take credit, nor did he make any excessive demands.
"Okay, I will definitely spend more time preparing, carefully pondering the lines, and make sure to film the scene well."
"Well, that's right," Li Zhuo said, and was about to hang up the phone, "It's getting late, so you have a good rest... Oh, by the way, I almost forgot to say, we requested this drama
Increase your role as appropriate. It is estimated that your role will be a little more, but not too much. After all, we are only a small investor..."
After hearing this, Chen Duling felt warmer in her heart.
Li Zhuo added:
"...You should also pay attention when you arrive on the set. The director and screenwriter may be a little unhappy. After all, I have actually affected their work, but they will not show it easily. You just need to be modest and take the film seriously.
, then that’s no problem.”
"Yeah," Chen Duling felt a little embarrassed after hearing this. She didn't like the connections of the crew, but now she became such a person in the eyes of others, "I know, I will pay attention to it."
Li Zhuo also felt that this girl could not be the type who would not listen to the director's requests during filming, or be the type to be domineering, so he said a few more words and then hung up the phone.
The next morning, he once again visited an industry insider named Liu Chun in the Imperial Capital. Li Zhuo had met him before on the recommendation of others, and Liu Chun later helped Li Zhuo secure the investment for "Lone Boat".
During this process, Liu Chun had a lot of help, and he easily resolved some contract traps and some twists and turns that fooled laymen.
Given that Liu Chun had served as an executive at the listed company Zhongnan Culture Film and Television Company and had strong business and management capabilities, Li Zhuo finally successfully invited him to serve as the general manager of Wanxiang Entertainment Culture Co., Ltd. with an annual salary of 700,000 as a performance bonus.
Li Zhuo is relatively unfamiliar with the entertainment industry. He is worried that he will be deceived and abducted after entering. Hiring a professional manager to handle this aspect of the business is the best way to deal with it.
Of course, monitoring financial expenditures is what he must do as a boss.
He has already called Ding Yunyi, the general manager of Hangcheng Meishang Photography, and asked her to arrange for reliable financial personnel to come to the Imperial Capital to take charge of the financial work.
From leasing the company's office space to poaching and recruiting, it all requires funds. Li Zhuo spent nearly 800,000 yuan one after another to finally set up Wanxiang Entertainment.
The company is located in an office building on the Fourth Ring Road in Haidian, with an office area of about 300 square meters. There are only about ten employees in total, which can barely support this small entertainment company that currently has no production capabilities.
After the company was formed, Vientiane Entertainment began to inject capital into the "Lone Boat" project team and sent co-producers to coordinate and monitor the crew's operations and financial expenditures.
After everything was on track, Li Zhuo started to work as the shopkeeper.
He has a total of just over 6 million left on hand, and he has to spend some of the money to maintain the normal operation of this entertainment company. The amount that can be used for his normal use will not exceed 5 million.
In other words, he has no money.
On the morning of the fourth day, my parents and sister went to Imperial Courtyard No. 1 with great joy. Bedding and kitchen supplies were all ready, and they planned to move in from today on.
Li Zhuo stayed alone at the Four Seasons Hotel.
He quickly summoned the incense burner, lit a stick of incense and threw it into the incense burner. After waiting for more than ten seconds, as the cloud patterns on the wall of the incense burner rotated rapidly, the cigarette shot up from the incense burner, quickly flew into the clouds, and soon
Quickly enter the huge virtual map of Asia.
After that, the bright flashing light spot representing the cigarette quickly moved southwest from the imperial capital.
Seven or eight seconds later, it had moved to the southwest. After a few seconds, it left the southwest and entered India.
Li Zhuo lamented: The incense burner finally took action against the third brother.
It flew to India and landed in a place called Meghalaya in eastern India.
This is close to Bangladesh, which is the territory where India and Southeast Asia meet.
Li Zhuoneng could see that the alpine forests here were thickly covered, and villages occasionally appeared on the plains and mountains.
The cigarette lingered in a mountain forest, and finally fell quickly, locking on a big tree on the side of a mountain stream.
Is it the wish of a tree this time?
Soon the incense burner prompt message came:
"The host is requested to go to the Ripay area of Meghalaya, India as soon as possible, find the banyan tree locked by cigarettes, help it realize its wish, and obtain corresponding rewards."
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Chapter completed!