Behind the scenes of the entertainment industry

"Brother Cen, I'll take you away. I'll make time to meet you for a drink next time." Zhou Cheng asked Lin Shan to wait outside with his girlfriend Fang Qianqian, while he stayed to go through the formalities. While signing, Zhou Cheng spoke to Xinjiekou

Cen Dong, deputy director of the police station in charge of security work, came to express his thanks.

Xinjiekou Police Station is responsible for managing the security work in the entire Shichahai area and Xinjiekou Street. Houhai Bar Street is a little further away and is also within its jurisdiction.

"Forget it about drinking. As long as I am still wearing this police uniform, I will basically have nothing to do with drinking." Cen Donglai watched Zhou Cheng finish signing, handed the mediation agreement to other police officers, and personally escorted him out.

"Okay, we won't drink." Zhou Cheng looked at Cen Donglai and smiled: "I'll send you two boxes of tea in two days. I got it from my sister."

In his last life, Cen Donglai almost didn't drink. Zhou Cheng just tried it a little bit, and it seems that he hasn't changed much in this life.

"Daya's tea?" Hearing Zhou Cheng mention his sister Zhou Ya, Cen Donglai's eyes suddenly lit up: "Then I want to taste it."

"Brother Cen, please don't call my sister Daya in front of her, because she has told me about this in secret several times. I'm afraid if this continues, your hope will be even slimmer."

"Isn't this a smooth saying? After all, I have been called here like this since I was a child." Cen Donglai smiled a little embarrassedly.

Cen Donglai escorted Zhou Cheng to the door of the police station. Looking at Lin Shan who was waiting for Zhou Cheng not far away, he still explained a few words to Zhou Cheng: "Xiao Cheng, this friend of yours has caused trouble many times and has been registered in our police station.

.You'd better advise him. If the superiors ask for severe punishment, he may be arrested as a model, and then he won't be able to be released so easily."

"I understand this. This kid has been unlucky recently. He performed well in the competitions he participated in, but he was still kicked out. That's why he has a temper. I'll talk about him later."

"That's good." After hearing Zhou Cheng's assurance, Cen Donglai nodded.

After waving goodbye to Cen Donglai, Zhou Cheng walked up to Lin Shan and Fang Qianqian. When Lin Shan saw Zhou Cheng, he snorted slightly unconvinced and turned his head to look away.

"You are a loser now. You drink alcohol and get into fights. If you really have nothing to do with me, buy out your contract and get the hell out of me as far as you want. Don't fucking disgust me here."

"What did you say? Say it again!" Zhou Cheng must have never spoken to him in such a tone before. Lin Shan was stunned for a moment, then became angry and glared at Zhou Cheng.

"I said you are just trash. You can't do anything, why don't you just cause trouble for me." Zhou Cheng looked at Lin Shan clenching his fists tightly hugged by Fang Qianqian, and couldn't help but coldly snorted: "You reach out and try.

Try, believe it or not, I’m letting them take you in.”

Perhaps because he just saw the director escorting Zhou Cheng out, the auxiliary police officer on duty at the door of the police station came over and asked, "What's going on? Do you need help?"

"No, no, they are joking." Fang Qianqian stood in front of Lin Shan and looked at Zhou Cheng with a look of prayer in her eyes.

"Thank you. It's nothing, so I'll just say a few words to him." Zhou Cheng took out a cigarette and handed one to the other party to express his gratitude.

"Okay, if you need anything, just say hello." The auxiliary police officer took the cigarette and turned to leave.

Zhou Cheng saw some fear in Lin Shan's eyes, and knew that he must have understood that he was not threatening him, but was still trying not to admit his mistake. Zhou Cheng shook his head and continued: "I will give Qianqian face this time. If there is another

Next time, see if I don't deal with you."

Upon hearing Zhou Cheng's threat, Lin Shan turned and left without saying a word.

Fang Qianqian stretched out her hand again, but did not hold Lin Shan, so she had to apologize to Zhou Cheng on his behalf: "Brother Cheng, don't blame Dashan. He is mainly annoyed recently. He was ridiculed in the bar last night, and that's why he had another conflict with others.

I will definitely keep an eye on him from now on, and you must not leave him alone."

"It's okay, I know that. I just wanted to give him a few warnings." Zhou Cheng looked at Fang Qianqian who looked anxious and comforted: "You should follow him quickly and tell him that I have been contacting him with an announcement these days.

We already have a clue, so he doesn’t have to worry."

"Is there a new announcement?" After hearing Zhou Cheng's words, Fang Qianqian's eyes lit up, and then she bowed to Zhou Cheng: "Thank you, Brother Cheng, for your trouble. I'll tell Dashan right away."

----------------The dividing line between being unpopular and unpopular---------------------

Zhou Cheng in this world is a low-level agent.

This is something that originally happened to another self. Now, as a bystander, Zhou Cheng has a more comprehensive understanding of the experience of more than a year, and even knows the whole story better than his original self.

What is a broker?

According to the explanation of "Chinese Chinese Dictionary", an intermediary who introduces transactions between buyers and sellers in order to obtain commissions. For example, real estate brokers, car brokers, securities brokers, financial brokers, etc.

However, for the entertainment industry, what agents use to make money is no longer products, but artists.

An agent in the entertainment industry is a businessman who makes an artist famous, and then relies on the artist's fame to contact performances, participate in announcements, and endorse brands, thereby earning commissions.

The most important point among them is that all brokers are essentially the same, they are all businessmen, and businessmen want to pursue profits.

It's just that the artist in Zhou Cheng's hands has not only failed to help him make money for more than a year, but instead allowed Zhou Cheng to keep adding money to it.

Lin Shan is a folk singer, 23 years old this year. After graduating from high school, he has been working as a Beipiao drifter.

Before becoming an artist in Zhou Chengshou, he sang in a bar on the shore of Houhai. With his thin figure, slightly melancholy temperament, and clear voice, he also attracted the attention of many girls. In Houhai, a folk-oriented folk club,

Bar Street is somewhat famous.

In this world, Zhou Cheng met Lin Shan several times while drinking and clubbing with Chu Ran and others. Later, at an underground music festival, Zhou Cheng heard Lin Shan sing an original song "Summer Mountains"

》.

"We look at the distant mountains in summer, walk hand in hand in the maple forest in autumn, and walk on the beach in winter..."

These slightly poetic lyrics echoed the graduation work that Zhou Cheng and others were creating, so they proposed to purchase the copyright of this song as an interlude for their graduation work. Over time, they became good friends.

"Since you don't want to follow the path arranged for you by your family, why don't you consider your career. This guy Lin Shan has some talent, maybe you can train a famous singer?" This was Chu Ran's suggestion.

Perhaps because Chu Ran was a girl in the previous life, Zhou Cheng didn't have much contact with her in school, so he followed his father's arrangements step by step and joined the TV station. In this life, Zhou Cheng's choice was also due to an accidental encounter by Chu Ran.

suggestions, and a change occurred.

For a signing fee of 100,000 yuan, Zhou Cheng obtained Lin Shan's five-year brokerage contract. This was originally the money Zhou's father gave Zhou Cheng to buy a car. In another world, he used the money to buy a Jetta and drove it all the time.

By 2012.

After signing Lin Shan, the smug Zhou Cheng began to make career plans for Lin Shan.

As a rookie agent, Zhou Cheng also learned some partial news in the entertainment industry through his school and alumni, and also knew the general operation process of an agent. He thought that with Nortel's brand name and large alumni base, he could

Taking care of an artist. What Zhou Cheng didn't expect was that he still thought of the manager's job as simple.

The first notice Zhou Cheng contacted Lin Shan was the "National Young Singers Championship", which is a professional singer competition co-organized by the Chinese Ministry of Culture and CCTV. Many singers who are now called "Kings" and "Queens" have

It was only after this competition that it became really known to the general audience.

Zhou Cheng thought that with Lin Shan's strength, he would be able to advance to the main competition even if he was in trouble, and then he would be somewhat famous and receive some small announcements. Therefore, Zhou Cheng, who had just fallen out with his father, did not even really inquire about this game.

For details, he directly took Lin Shan to register for the competition. But he didn't expect that Lin Shan would be eliminated in the preliminaries.

Several professional judges hired for this competition made very sharp comments about Lin Shan. Although Lin Shan is a good bar singer, he is a bit amateur compared to professional singers. Several judges agreed that Lin Shan has some talent, but he relies too much on himself.

His talent, knowledge of music theory, and singing skills can only be considered average.