The Birth of Shanghai's First Conglomerate

Summer, August.

Because he owned a house paid for in full, Chen Fan quickly found a suitable partner in the matchmaking market.

The girl was twenty-five years old; her looks were neither bad nor particularly good.

My job is ordinary; I'm just a regular mall sales clerk.

They can get married soon, but she wants a dowry of 300,000 yuan, and another 400,000 yuan for having a child.

Moreover, we have to buy her a car worth no less than 200,000 yuan.

The last rule is that she should give her parents three thousand yuan every month.

Once the terms are agreed upon, let's get started.

All the expenses added up to about one million, including the cost of childbirth.

Third Aunt's family definitely doesn't have that kind of money. Chen Fan's situation is special; he can't find a wife without money.

What normal woman would be interested in him? This reflects just how realistic the current matchmaking market is.

You can buy a wife for a million.

Chen Pingsheng didn't pay any more attention to this matter; he simply found him a normal wife and considered his mission complete.

Auntie San herself was satisfied. It was good enough to have a daughter-in-law to carry on the family line, so why would she be picky?
When Chen Pingsheng went to Tencent Entertainment again on August 3rd.

He originally planned to invest in two suitable scripts, but after looking at the current TV series synopses, he found them to be utterly absurd.

For example, a TV series about the rise of modern women.

The wife stays at home and doesn't need to work, and the husband takes good care of her. However, the wife's family can't afford to pay for her mother's treatment because her mother is seriously ill.

The woman turned around and began to complain about her husband, a section-level cadre in a central government agency.

They called him useless.

That's not even the most outrageous part. The most outrageous thing is a divorced woman in her thirties. Even if she's not a virgin, she's not exactly a rare find.

She has absolutely no skills, and after not working for ten years, she goes back to work at a company and suddenly a domineering CEO falls in love with her.

Then he pursued her relentlessly.

Then she went to her ex-husband, a mid-level official in the central government, and made sarcastic remarks.

This guy probably couldn't have written such a stupid plot without ten years of brain thrombosis.

This is even more outrageous than hiding a grenade in a horse's crotch.

Did the screenwriter even know that the director of a bureau, including the deputy county head, was only at the level of a section chief?

Which so-called idiot CEO would dare to go up to this kind of person and openly say that he wants to steal his wife and even ask him to name a price?

You probably don't know what power is, do you?
The anti-Japanese war drama was at least labeled a "miracle drama," but this one reflects the rise of modern women.

Is this all there is to rising to prominence?

Does she look down on her husband, a section-level official in Beijing?

At work, I encounter a domineering CEO who falls in love with a divorced young woman.

Chen Pingsheng pinched the tip of his nose, feeling utterly astonished.

It just so happens that Chief Secretary Bai Xin is here, so he can ask her.

"Bai Xin, this kind of script can be approved by our group. Can it get any more outrageous?"

Bai Xin, being a woman, is more familiar with current trends in the drama industry, and explained:
"Uncle, don't be fooled by how outrageous this kind of drama is written. A lot of women love watching it, especially those women who stay at home as housewives!"

What do housewives like?

Chen Pingsheng did not refute her for the time being, but continued reading. The next script was not going to be any more outrageous.

But it's definitely mind-blowing.

A woman who has been a stay-at-home mom for years and never lifts a finger after her husband cheated on her with his secretary wants a divorce.

This is quite normal.

The key point is that after her divorce, it was her best friend who helped her find a job and settle down again.

She turned around and stole her best friend's CEO boyfriend.

They even proclaimed that this is love.

He's a CEO, and he has nothing better to do than love a divorced woman who can't do anything, and he's head over heels in love with her.

The key point is that her best friend is not only beautiful, but also a super career woman.

Even so, he still got his man stolen by a divorced middle-aged woman who needed someone to help her put on her shoes and couldn't do anything else.

Could this be any more outrageous?

"People actually like 'The First Half of My Life'?"

“Uncle, there are indeed people who like this,” Bai Xin said. “Women these days love to watch this. Not only do their husbands have to go out and earn money, but they also have to take good care of them. If anything goes wrong, they’ll divorce them and then stage a ‘domineering CEO falls in love with me’ drama.”

"This is the kind of show that women who stay at home love to watch."

"Has the toxic motivational content of today become so distorted?"

Chen Pingsheng felt this was a bit outrageous. He looked at Bai Xin and asked her seriously, "You didn't do that, did you?"

"How could I!"

Bai Xin explained speechlessly, "These are the kinds of things that only middle-aged women who stay at home and don't work would like to watch. They like to fantasize that after a divorce, a domineering CEO will fall in love with them. I'm not stupid enough to have such fantasies."

Chen Pingsheng nodded and threw the scripts directly into the trash can.

“If any more dramas like this are sent to us in the future, we will refuse them directly. Nowadays, men have to earn money to support their families and pay mortgages and car loans, which is already very difficult. If we keep making these kinds of toxic and morally questionable dramas for middle-aged women to watch, it would be a real sin.”

Fine...regardless of whether the boss is right or wrong.

Bai Xin will definitely listen to everything, but these so-called "toxic chicken soup" quotes are indeed rampant online these days.

I don't know how many people have gotten divorced because of it.

It can only be said that the TV station bears some responsibility for allowing him to do it this way.

Based on my cousin Chen Fan's blind date and some information that we often talk about back in our hometown...

Chen Pingsheng felt that the population would definitely drop significantly in the future, mainly because marriage would be difficult and the inability to get married would become a common situation for countless middle-aged men.

Putting everything else aside, the bride price has already started at 15 yuan, and you also have to buy a house and a car.

Cars are relatively easy to obtain, but mortgages can be a burden that lasts for thirty years.

In addition, there are the three gold pieces and various other wedding expenses.

Getting a marriage certificate costs at least 500,000 to 600,000 yuan.

That's not even the most outrageous thing. What's truly outrageous is that women who have been married twice, even three or four times, and have children, can pick and choose as they please.

The marriage and dating market is already so outrageous and distorted.

If these entertainment giants are still on this issue, advocating that if you don't spend money on women without hesitation, it's not love.

This will absolutely make one a sinner in history.

The impact may not be immediately apparent, but in the long run, it will be extremely severe.

Chen Pingsheng was shocked to find out that Tencent Entertainment had invested in quite a few TV series like this in the past two years.

The key point is that this kind of drama actually has a lot of appeal to middle-aged women who stay at home.

The viewership ratings were pretty good.

Besides the TV drama sector, the short video field is also overrun with content.

Xin Teng Live, including Tengyou Media, has seen a large number of so-called emotional mentors emerge.

For example, a man who truly loves you will still take you to buy an iPhone on Valentine's Day with a smile, even if his mother is dying.

For example: If a man is very tired but doesn't know how to take care of you when he gets home, then he doesn't love you.

Such shocking remarks have surprisingly garnered widespread approval online.

Surprisingly, all the people who liked the post were women who waited for their husbands to get their paychecks before asking for money.

This kind of woman still loves watching dramas where a domineering CEO falls in love with her after a divorce.

Chen Pingsheng immediately summoned Chang Fu from Xinteng Live and Zhang Wanyi, the female president of Tengyou Media.

The influence of ideology is a silent war.

Tengying Group must never build its profit model on the suffering of ordinary families.

This is an invisible crime, and even more so, a dereliction of duty by a large corporation.

He convened the meeting directly at the group headquarters.

Completely ban emotional anchors in related fields, and refuse to invest in any TV dramas featuring domineering CEOs falling in love with divorced mothers or experiencing menopause.

Furthermore, the promotion of such toxic motivational quotes must be strictly prohibited.

These are precisely the things that have the greatest impact on the lives of ordinary people.

It can only be said that the company is so large that it is like Tencent Group.

They control a large number of ideological propaganda tools.

Examples include Tencent Entertainment, Tencent Media, and Xinteng Live.

If it continues to publicly promote those inflammatory values ​​online, it will inevitably be a disaster in the long run.

Ultimately, it will surely backfire on itself.

(End of this chapter)