Fringe artists in the entertainment industry

Chapter 244 242. Having evil intentions

The film and television industry has never been a circle that abides by rules. There is a set of rules under the rules.

They have their own unique way of playing, using some of their small rights and some so-called rules within the circle to achieve some of their dark thoughts.

This is commonly known as the unspoken rules. The unspoken rules don’t just refer to sleeping with actors. There are many things in them.

It is also a common understanding among everyone that the film crew will try to steal some money from the producers, and the producers will try to steal some money from the investors.

Chen Li'an did not find it strange that Zhang Guoli wanted to invest more. He knew from the beginning that Zhang Guoli would do such a thing.

In his previous life, Chen Li'an had heard something about Zhang Guoli, which was that he made a lot of money out of Kangxi's TV series, and in the end, Kangxi's copyright was auctioned off.

Originally, Chen Li'an thought that with Mei Chen as the producer, there wouldn't be much of a problem. The most they could do was a dozen or two hundred thousand dollars.

But who would have thought that Chen Meiren was secretly pregnant, and now there is no supervision at all. The whole crew is in the hands of Leslie Cheung and Zhang Zien, so they can't be greedy as much as they want.

It is true that the crew has no funds now, but the money is not used for filming. At least 10% of the initial investment has been taken away by them in various ways.

These people are really greedy. If they were in Xiangjiang, they would probably have been reclaimed from the sea. That means the environment in the mainland is good, otherwise who would get used to their bad habits!

This incident also exposed the company's current problems, including imperfect management and lack of talent. Most of the things were handled by Chen Meiren herself.

Even the advertising business is mostly negotiated by Chen Meiren, so there is no way to make a company bigger.

Chen Li'an has never been a business person, nor does he understand management or accounting. His only advantage is that he has some memories of the future, but it is too difficult to turn these into wealth.

What he brought back after his rebirth was only some artistic talent, but no business talent at all.

Otherwise, whoever is reborn into the literary and art circles, wouldn't it be nice to go into business and make money?

Chen Li'an thought outside for a while before returning to Chen Meiren's office. By this time, Meiren Chen had calmed down.

It’s not like she’s never been on the set before, and she’s not unclear about these things. She’s just a little angry after her role changed.

In the past, I took money from other people's pockets, but now I have others taking money from my own pocket. It feels completely different.

Seeing Chen Li'an come in, Chen Meiren frowned and said, "You'd better not come forward in this matter. I'll handle it."

"I'll handle it. Don't get so angry." Chen Li'an said uneasily.

Chen Meiren shook her head and said, "I know you don't like this kind of thing. You don't have the experience like me, and I will be in charge of the company in the future, so I can't rely on you for everything."

Chen Li'an looked at Mei Chen's serious look, nodded slightly and said, "I'll go with you and sit in the rear for you. This time it's not a big deal, so just take it as a lesson."

"The question is, does the crew still have money to continue filming?" Chen Meiren said with some worry: "The six million invested earlier can't really go to waste."

"The money is definitely gone, but the crew's lack of money does not mean that Zhang Guoli and the others have no money. This cooperation has already yielded a lot of profits. He is a bit too greedy."

"You want Zhang Guoli to spit out the money?" Chen Meiren thought for a moment and shook her head: "It's unrealistic. How can you spit out what you have eaten?"

Chen Li'an smiled and said, "It's fine without vomiting. It depends on whether he can digest it!"

Seeing Mei Chen's irritable look, Chen Li'an held her hand and said: "The most important thing now is not whether Kangxi can continue filming, but the problems exposed by the company. It doesn't matter even if the millions are wasted, I It’s not like I don’t have money.”

Hearing Chen Li'an's words, Chen Meiren couldn't help but roll her eyes at him and said: "That's millions, not hundreds of dollars! That's my son's milk powder money, I have to make him spit it out!"

Hearing what Chen Meiren said, Chen Li'an couldn't help laughing. He didn't know if Chen Meiren was being strong as a mother.

Chen Li'an thought for a while and said to Chen Meiren: "Now send someone from the company to check the accounts. Don't come forward. Give Zhang Guoli and the others some time to make amends. If they really intend to eat without spitting it out, then we will come forward again."

"Are you still going to leave room for him?" Chen Meiren was a little angry and felt that this was too cheap for Zhang Guoli.

"Zhang Guoli is not that stupid. I will leave him room and he will catch it." Chen Li'an said with a smile: "And you also said that it was an investment of several million, not a few hundred yuan."

"It's good to know." Chen Meiren couldn't help but said angrily: "I thought you really didn't care about money."

Chen Li'an shook his head and did not explain to Meiren Chen that he really didn't care about the millions. What he cared about was that Zhang Guoli regarded him as the wrongdoer.

I really thought he had donated millions and everyone said he was a fool, so he really was a fool.

I'll knock your head off!

Chen Meiren sat on the boss's chair, subconsciously twirling on tiptoes, thinking for a while, looking at Chen Li'an and saying, "But I don't have anyone I can send over now."

Chen Li'an didn't know much about the company's situation. If there really wasn't a suitable person, he would have to let Li Dabai go temporarily.

She also has to give her a financial pretense. After all, it's not really a check, and there's no point in really checking it out.

After confirming that he sent Li Dabai to show off, Chen Li'an said to Chen Meiren: "You should recruit people first during this period. The company has too few talents."

"Yeah, I will."

Chen Meiren also felt that she had thought that starting a company was too simple before. If Chen Li'an hadn't made money by investing in two dramas with good vision, she would have turned the company into a dirty business long ago.

Chen Meiren went to recruit talents. She knew a lot of people in the industry in the past few years. In the past two years, several major film studios have been in recession, and there are many people who need jobs.

Li Dabai was ordered to put on a show when she was in danger, but she was a little nervous. A twenty-year-old girl was still a little panicked when encountering such a thing.

"Teacher Chen, I'm afraid I can't do it well. I haven't even checked the account." Li Dabai looked at Chen Li'an nervously.

Chen Li'an smiled and said, "It's okay. Don't say much after you go. Just keep a straight face and carry out financial audits every day. It's just to scare them."

"Scare them?" Li Dabai was stunned for a moment, then he came to his senses, looked at Chen Li'an and asked, "Don't you plan to actually check the accounts?"

"No, I won't let you go if we really investigate."

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Sure enough, he was just a tool. Li Dabai couldn't help but mutter in his heart, when can he stand up?

In Kangxi's crew, Chen Zihan and Jiang Qingqing sat together, muttering quietly, turning their heads to look at Zhang Zien and Zhang Guoli from time to time.

"Qingqing, how dare you say they defrauded Li'an of his money? They are too brave. It's still one million."

"You must be brave." After Jiang Qingqing finished speaking, she turned to look at Chen Zihan and said, "How many times have I told you, don't call me by my name!"

Chen Zihan shrank his neck, took Jiang Qingqing's hand and protested softly: "Didn't you say I can call you by your name outside?"

Seeing Chen Zihan's submission, Jiang Qingqing snorted proudly, gently squeezed her hand and said, "Forget it this time, I will punish you next time."

Thinking of Jiang Qingqing's punishments that she didn't know where she learned, Chen Zihan's face turned red and he lowered his head and said "Oh."

Zhang Guoli and Zhang Zien, who were not far away from them, were also annoyed at this time. The two had differences on this matter.

"Why should you give the money back?" Zhang Zien looked at Zhang Guoli and said, "I don't believe he is really willing to let the previous six million go to waste!"

Zhang Guoli looked at Zhang Zien, who was still holding on, and said speechlessly: "Then you said that the crew has no money now, how are you going to film the next scenes!"

"Ask him to invest more, at least a little." Zhang Zien felt his heart bleed at the thought of spitting out the embezzled hundreds of thousands.

"Do you think they will still give it to you?" Zhang Guoli sighed and said, "There aren't many scenes left in the future, so let's finish filming together."

Zhang Guoli is different from Zhang Zien. He has just established a foothold in the capital. He has just made a small splash with Liu Luoguo. If he offends Chen Li'an, it will be really difficult for him to get along in the future.

Chen Li'an is different from ordinary investors. He is not an outsider who only has money, otherwise Zhang Guoli could fool him.

It's a pity that Chen Li'an is a member of the circle, and he is well-known in the literary and art circles. He has been published in the agency's magazines many times. If you really want to embarrass him, his efforts in the past few years will really be in vain.

Zhang Zien knew about Zhang Guoli's situation. He was silent for a while, mentally calculated the funds needed later, and said with some distress: "At least 800,000 yuan is needed to complete the filming. I can't afford this much."

"How much can you take out?" Zhang Guoli asked immediately when he saw Zhang Zien relented.

Zhang Zien hesitated and said, "I can spend up to 100,000 yuan."

Zhang Guoli: "." You took more than 400,000 from the crew, and now you only spit out 100,000? !

Looking at Zhang Guoli's ugly face, Zhang Zien supplemented: "I have spent all the money. I really have no money! How about we stop talking to Chen Li'an and ask him to add another five hundred thousand."

Even if you have money, you won’t give it to me. When you two got the money, you were faster than anyone else. Now if something goes wrong, you should ask me to pay for it first, right?

Zhang Guoli couldn't afford 700,000, and even if he could, he wouldn't take it. How could he use his own money to top it up?

Seeing Zhang Zien's expression of being a dead pig who is not afraid of boiling water, Zhang Guoli sighed helplessly and said: "I'll give it a try, but it's probably useless to ask Chen Li'an. I can only try to see if Chen Meiren is willing to pay. .”

It's just that before Zhang Guoli called Meiren Chen, Li Dabai had already come to the crew with his finances.

Li Dabai kept Chen Li'an's instructions in mind. When he arrived at the set, he just said hello to Zhang Guoli and asked to take out all the accounts of the set and check them himself.

Zhang Guoli looked at Li Dabai's young appearance and was still a little girl, so he was not so wary. He vaguely guessed what Chen Li'an meant, so he cooperated and handed over all the accounts to the finance team brought by Li Dabai.

Anyway, there's nothing wrong with the accounts, but the prices of many things are just inflated. If I really want to find out the problems, it's really hard to find out without sending seven or eight people over.

After Li Dabai and the others left with their accounts, Zhang Guoli sighed softly and said to Zhang Zi'en: "It seems that Chen Li'an has no intention of going into details."

Zhang Zien's eyes lit up and he said, "That's not good. Let's ask him if he is willing to invest more."

Zhang Guoli glanced at him and said, "But I also plan to give him money, otherwise I wouldn't have sent a little girl to check the accounts."

Deng Jie said worriedly next to her: "What should we do?"

After saying that, Deng Jie glanced at Zhang Zien, feeling a little annoyed that he was only willing to pay 100,000 yuan if something happened. Do they have to pay for the remaining 700,000 yuan as a couple?

Zhang Zien turned his head away pretending to be stupid. He really had no money. All the previous money had been spent, and he only had 150,000 left.

Being willing to take out one hundred thousand is already the limit.

The most important thing is that Zhang Zien is not that afraid of Chen Li'an. He is not a member of the capital circle. The worst he can do is not cooperate with Chen Li'an in the future.

Seeing Zhang Zien's helpless appearance, Zhang Guoli made up his mind that he would never cooperate with him again in the future.

But now the crew really doesn't have enough money to continue filming, so they can only ask Meiren for money.

Zhang Guoli thought for a while and then said to Deng Jie: "Now we can only go to see Chen Meiren. You go back to the capital and ask for 500,000 yuan or 800,000 yuan back!"

"I'm going to ask for money?" Deng Jie was stunned for a moment, looking at Zhang Guoli's subtle eyes, he probably guessed what he meant, and then immediately changed his words: "That's the only way, I'll just go."

"Yes, it's best for Deng Jie to go. It's easier for women to talk to each other." Zhang Zien said with a smile.

Zhang Guoli put on an ugly smile and said nothing, thinking about how to remove himself this time.

Chen Li'an didn't know the little thoughts between Zhang Guoli and others, and he didn't bother to think about it. Although he was not a big shot in the industry, not a great director or a second-generation person, he could still manage someone if he really wanted to. .

There is someone above us! Even if no one still has money, it doesn’t take too much to think of ways to fix one person.

After all, the entertainment industry is still a circle. Zhang Guoli has just stepped into this circle, and there is no way to kick him out.

Chen Li'an, who was not panicking, didn't even think about it now. He was busy going to see Yu Feihong.

But this time it was not in a coffee shop, but in a private teahouse. Chen Li'an couldn't understand why Yu Feihong, who said she liked drinking coffee the day before yesterday, suddenly invited him to the teahouse.

The girl finished reading the novel that night and called Chen Li'an the next day, wanting to talk to him.

Yu Feihong herself didn't know what she was talking about, but after reading it, she felt like she had a lot of thoughts in her heart, and she had an inexplicable impulse.

Maybe it's the same as when I was in school and saw all the classmates in the class falling in love, and I wanted to fall in love too.

When Yu Feihong reads the novel, Chen Li'an's voice that day always echoes in his mind.

The slow and contagious voice tells the story of Ginkgo biloba in a particularly poignant and beautiful way, as if it is whispering from the bottom of my heart.

Yu Feihong always unconsciously substitutes the image of Chen Li'an into the male protagonist of the novel and himself into the heroine.

The protagonist in the novel had an instant image. When reading the entire novel, Yu Feihong felt as if she had had an unforgettable love affair with Chen Li'an in the book.

Although it was false, Yu Feihong couldn't help but have strange emotions in her eyes when she saw Chen Li'an.

Looking at Chen Li'an's good-looking face and melancholy temperament, Yu Feihong felt that he was really similar to the male protagonist in the novel. He was a scholar and scholar with a handsome appearance.

Literary young women have outstanding brain power and love to fantasize, especially when they are in their twenties, they are the easiest to get addicted to.

Chen Li'an looked at Yu Feihong's strange eyes and felt that they were full of affection, which made him feel a little flustered.

He had only seen such a look on Mr. Zhou, but Mr. Zhou's temperament and crazy love were obviously not the same as Yu Feihong's.

The most important thing is that he and Yu Feihong have only met twice!

Chen Li'an couldn't help but cough slightly, looked at the herbal tea in front of him, and subconsciously turned the cup around.

Yu Feihong looked at Chen Li'an's slender and beautiful fingers, looked at the cup of herbal tea and said mysteriously: "The tea is cold, I will give you a refill."

Hearing Yu Feihong's words, Chen Li'an immediately paused. Isn't this the most spoken sentence by the heroine to the hero in Ginkgo? !

Is this girl reading a book to see demons? !