Rebirth of Xiangjiang - 1978

The next day, Stephen Chow handed the signed contract to Fang Jinsheng.

"Congratulations Mr. Zhou, as for the contract issue between you and Wireless, we will be fully responsible for it."

"Thank you so much, Brother Sheng."

Stephen Chow looked at Fang Jinsheng with a grateful expression.

Yesterday, he didn't know Fang Jinsheng very well. He only knew that he was Lin Daoqiu's assistant.

But judging from what Tony Leung heard last night and what he himself inquired about, this assistant named Fang Jinsheng has quite a lot of background.

It is no exaggeration to say that he is Lin Daoqiu's closest confidant. Those big directors and big producers have to respectfully call him Brother Sheng when they see him.

So when I met with Fang Jinsheng today, Stephen Chow's attitude obviously changed significantly from yesterday, and he became more humble and cautious in front of Fang Jinsheng.

"You're welcome. If you work hard in the future, I believe you will be able to get ahead."

Fang Jinsheng briefly chatted with Stephen Chow for a while and then left. He was going to deal with the contract between Stephen Chow and Wireless.

Unlike those popular stars, employees like Stephen Chow who are not very valued have not yet signed a new contract with TVB.

If it were other popular actors, poaching them at this time would not just be a matter of hundreds of thousands to millions.

At this time, most of the TVB actors that Lin Daoqiu wanted most have been poached by Dongshi.

Lin Daoqiu didn't intend to touch the remaining potential talents. He wanted to let them stay at TVB temporarily to hone their acting skills.

Lok Yiling, who has replaced Tsang Lizhen as TVB artist manager, has not encountered any trouble recently.

Zeng Lizhen resigned only after Zhao Yazhi left TVB. Since then, Lin Daoqiu has not continued to take action against TVB. It can be said that the situation has been calm for several months.

Slowly building up her prestige in wireless, it can be said that Le Yiling has been living a prosperous life in the past few months.

But gradually, there began to be some friction between her and Liang Jiashu, the director of the drama department. The two parties often quarreled over the scheduling of artists.

"Dong dong dong..."

At this moment, there was a sudden knock on the door. After Le Yiling responded, her assistant opened the door and walked in.

"Manager Le, Director Liu has something urgent to see you."

Hearing the word "urgency", Le Yiling immediately frowned.

Director Liu is a manager in the Artist Department responsible for handling artist contracts. He said that there is an emergency, and it must be related to the artist contract.

"Invite him in quickly."

Le Yiling did not expect that what she was most worried about would happen.

Not long after, Director Liu was invited into Le Yiling's office.

Before he could speak, Le Yiling asked first.

"Who wants to terminate the contract?"

If there was just a problem with the renewal, Director Liu wouldn't say it was an emergency. Since it was an emergency, there must be an artist who wanted to terminate the contract.

"Stephen Chow wants to terminate the contract, and the lawyers from East TV have already come to the door with the contract."

"Stephen Chow?"

Le Yiling was actually not very familiar with this name. She couldn't even remember who Stephen Chow was.

"Did he renew his contract?"

Director Liu shook his head.

The most important job of the artist department now is to renew contracts with popular or potential artists.

For a little-known host like Stephen Chow, the contract renewal may have to wait until the end before it is his turn.

When Lok Yiling heard that Stephen Chow's contract had not been renewed, she probably guessed that he was in TVB, the kind of guy who was not favored and had no future.

"The liquidated damages of 500,000 yuan won't matter even a dime less. This is how you respond to them."

Since he is a guy with no future, I believe Fang Yihua will not feel anything wrong with using him in exchange for half a million.

"I know Manager Le, I'll take care of it right away."

Even Lok Yiling said this, and the Stephen Chow matter was settled like this. Even Director Liu didn't think there was anything wrong with exchanging Stephen Chow for 500,000.

I am afraid that what Le Yiling never expected was that her decision would be severely reprimanded by Fang Yihua in the future, and even she herself would regret it.

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The next day is New Year's Eve, and Oriental TV seems to be very lively that day.

There are many festive decorations hung inside and outside, most of which are red as the main color.

Even many places on TV stations have red carpets.

Today is the last rehearsal of the lively New Year's Eve Gala. Except for some filming plans that cannot be changed, almost all the artists have been called back to the stage to participate in the rehearsal.

In the renovated studio of Dongshi, a group of artists were laughing and joking, most of them chatting and amusing themselves.

What they didn't notice was that under the stage, a woman was crossing her arms with her chest and looking at the situation on the stage with cold eyes.

"Have you had enough trouble?"

Suddenly, an angry voice of a woman came from the microphone, and Zeng Lizhen walked onto the stage holding the microphone with an angry look on her face.

"Today is the last day of rehearsal. Look at how you look. Are you sitting or standing? You are all smiling and chatting. What do you think this is? Is it a vegetable market?"

The more Zeng Lizhen talked, the angrier she became. She pointed at the big-name artists on the stage, her eyes almost bursting with fire.

The artists who were laughing and joking before quickly put away their smiles, and no one dared to continue chatting.

"If someone dares to violate the rules, then he does not need to attend this party."

After Zeng Lizhen finished speaking, she turned around and walked off the stage, then returned to where she was standing before.

Those artists immediately became much better behaved after being reprimanded by Zeng Lizhen, and no one dared to continue having fun as before.

Before Zeng Lizhen came to DongTV, DongTV's management basically continued the relaxed style of ATV.

But since Lizhen Zeng came to DongTV as an artist manager, she immediately dealt with all the typhoons on and off the stage.

Originally, everyone thought that since the Spring Festival was approaching, Zeng Lizhen would not be so strict, so they would relax.

But it's a pity that they underestimated Zeng Lizhen's professional attitude, so they were scolded by the other party.

It didn't take long for this matter to reach Lin Daoqiu's ears.

"People below say that Miss Zeng seems to be a little too strict."

Fang Jinsheng reported all the rumors he heard to Lin Daoqiu.

But Lin Daoqiu didn't care about this, he didn't even raise his head.

"ATV's previous management style was too lax, and it is right for Zeng Lizhen to rectify it."

Fang Jinsheng knew as soon as he heard that Lin Daoqiu had absolute support for Zeng Lizhen. At least on this matter, Lin Daoqiu was on Zeng Lizhen's side.