Entertainment: I just want to be the boss behind the scenes

Chapter 177 Strange English letters added

In front of other people, Meng Bai and Li Yitong looked at each other and tacitly began to pretend to have a serious conversation.

"Hello, Mr. Meng."

"Well, how was the shoot these past two days?"

“It was good, I feel like I learned a lot of experience.”

"It's good to see progress. By the way, I heard that the filming is finished today?"

"Yes, there is only one scene left. We have to go back after filming. We have to go to school tomorrow."

"Study hard and improve your acting skills. The company team will have some adjustments in a few days, and we will have new arrangements for you then. Okay, get busy."

"Well, thank you, Mr. Meng."

Both of them spoke in the standard tone of "company boss and artist", and seemed very normal.

The only flaw was that Li Yitong's eyes were indeed a little too hot.

It was not until Meng Bai and Zhu Zhenhua went to the director's lounge together that the girl finally withdrew her gaze.

"Tongtong, are you signed with Producer Meng's company?" Tan Songyun asked curiously.

"Yes." Li Yitong nodded and said casually, "I knew him before, and he joined the company directly after filming started."

"Well, no wonder you two seem to know each other well, not just like a boss and an artist."

"Ah... Actually, we are friends." Li Yitong explained in a panic, and then emphasized, "Just ordinary friends."

"Ordinary friends..."

Tan Songyun grinned and said, "Girl, the look in your eyes just now looked like it was about to break out. How dare you say that we are just "ordinary friends"?"
Fortunately, director Liu Chang asked everyone to start filming, so she didn't tease her anymore, which made Li Yitong feel relieved.

On the other side, Meng Bai and Zhu Zhenhua talked about the situation of the copyright market.

"It's actually a bit late to enter the market now." Zhu Zhenhua said: "In the past two years, film and television companies and copyright companies of all sizes have been scrambling for IP, making the entire market a bit inflated. If the rights to the 'Zhenhua Series' were released this year, the copyright price would at least triple."

Meng Bai said nonchalantly: "I didn't intend to grab those big IPs. I just wanted to find out if there are any small projects that are good value for money. The main purpose is to make up for the shortcomings of our Arc Light. After all, you know that we are all about suspense here."

"It's enough to have a basic base. Now we are focusing on field segmentation. It's not like ten years ago when we could do a big and comprehensive job." Zhu Zhenhua said: "As for small projects, there are quite a few good ones, but we have to spend more effort to select them."

After thinking for a while, he continued, "Or, if you're not in a hurry, you can wait another two years."

Meng Bai became interested after hearing this: "What do you mean?"

"The copyright market is full of mixed bag, many of them are speculators who have no production capabilities and just want to make a quick buck. When this wave of popularity subsides, I estimate that there will be a lot of people left with it, and the price will naturally return to where it should be at that time."

Most film and television adaptation copyrights have a time limit, and often a "maximum adaptation period" is added. If the adaptation project is not completed within the time limit, the copyright holder can revoke the adaptation rights.

For companies that have their own production capabilities, this condition is nothing. At most, they can just treat it as content reserve.

However, for those companies operating copyrights, if they fail to take action as soon as possible while taking advantage of this wave of popularity, the project will be in vain.

This IP craze cannot last forever, so as long as you are patient, there will be a large number of "eliminated" projects in the copyright market in a few years.

Zhu Zhenhua thought to himself that if it were him, he would definitely continue to consolidate the existing base first, and then wait until the IP craze subsided before considering expanding the scope.

However, Mr. Meng is a young man. Although he is more mature and stable than his peers, he is definitely more motivated than middle-aged people like me, and he probably won't be willing to just wait.

There is no right or wrong in this matter. We can only say that each company has its own style.

What's more, they already have first-class original content capabilities, and copyright adaptation can only be regarded as icing on the cake. Whether it is done or not will not affect their normal development.

Thinking of this, Zhu Zhenhua looked at Meng Bai with some envy.

People like us still have to work hard to get excellent content, but ArcLight is born as a top content creator. Who can compare with him?

The two chatted for a while, and seeing that it was almost noon, Zhu Zhenhua said, "Let's go, Mr. Meng, let's have lunch together at noon?"

As soon as they finished speaking, they heard a commotion outside. They stood up and opened the door to see that the crew had finished filming their scenes.

"Forget it, brother. I have something to do today. Maybe next time when we have a chance. Anyway, we still have to stay in Blue Island for a while."

Meng Bai declined with a smile. Seeing this, Zhu Zhenhua did not force him to stay. He said goodbye and watched him leave.

When he arrived at the door of the laboratory building where the crew was filming, Meng Bai did not leave in a hurry, but stopped where he was.

After waiting for a long time, he heard footsteps behind him. He looked back and saw a smile on his face. It was obvious that the person he was waiting for came.

"Boss Meng, what a coincidence, you haven't left yet." Li Yitong curved her crescent eyes and said politely, "I just happened to be going back to the hotel, could you please take me for a while?"

Meng Bai raised his eyebrows, and seeing her mischievous expression, he smiled and said, "Okay, I'm on my way anyway."

Although no one mentioned where the hotel was, it was just "on the way".

The two walked side by side on the green road of the campus, neither of them spoke, as if they were "unfamiliar". But if you look closely, you will find that the distance between them is as thin as a cicada's wing, and there is no distance at all.

After walking for a while, he finally arrived in front of the car. He opened the door and got in. As soon as Meng Bai closed the driver's door, he felt a gust of fragrant wind blowing on his face.

The next second, he felt himself being hugged tightly.

"Why didn't you look for me for so long?"

Li Yitong rested her chin on Meng Bai's shoulder, tilted her little face up and said to him "wronged".

I haven't seen this guy since New Year's Day except for that signing.

Not only do we not meet in person, we also rarely contact each other by phone. We only talk about once a week, and most of the time I am the one who calls first.

In response to this, Meng Bai said, girl, you should be content. He and Meng's mother only call each other once every ten days or so. You are already being treated like a "real mother".

"I've been busy in the past few months and haven't had much time." Meng Bai raised his hand and put his arm around the girl's shoulders. "Except for the review meeting last month and some other trips that I had scheduled long ago, I hardly ever went back to Beijing."

"Really?"

"Of course." Meng Bai said confidently.

Seeing that he was "sincere", Li Yitong believed his words: "Okay, I forgive you."

After saying that, she returned to her smiling state.

"Fasten your seatbelt. I'll take you back to the hotel to pack up and then go down to eat."

"Help me tie it."

Meng Bai glanced at her and saw that the girl was staring at him with watery eyes. He said helplessly: "Okay, Miss, please sit down and I will do it."

After saying that, Meng Bai unbuckled his belt, then leaned towards the passenger seat and reached out to pull the seat belt.

Seeing him approaching her with a serious expression on his face, Li Yitong smiled with a look of success, and then quickly kissed him on the face.

"Ah——" Meng Bai suddenly realized, "So this is what you want to do. You should have said so earlier. Here, kiss me as you like."

"Hey, it's boring if I tell you. It's fun to trick you." Li Yitong said, "I learned this while watching Korean dramas recently. I've always wanted to try it."

"Hey, what's so good about kimchi?" Meng Bai raised his eyebrows. "Next time, take a look at the things next door, like JUFD, IPX, SSNI, etc. We should learn something serious and useful."

"...Do you think I'm stupid?" Li Yitong rolled her eyes at him.

Although I can't tell what these "strange English" are specifically, they are still the same things after all.

"By the way, I've always been curious..." Li Yitong said, "How do you men do it? You can always find those porn movies so easily. Is it a special talent?"

"Girl, in this age of advanced Internet, if a man cannot find the resources he needs, it means that one of his big head or small head is not working."

"So, you watch it often?"

"I used to watch it occasionally, but now I don't watch it much."

“Why don’t you watch it?”

"Nowadays people usually play for real." Meng Bai said in a joking tone.

Li Yitong muttered quietly, "You'll say that even though it's right in front of you, you didn't even come to play?"

"What do you say?"

"Nothing." Li Yitong smiled sweetly: "I was wondering how long it would take to get to the hotel."

He sighed. Actually, today was a good opportunity. They were all in Blue Island, just the two of them. There wouldn't be any irrelevant people.

Unfortunately I have classes tomorrow and my flight for today has already been booked, so I really don’t have time.

Counting the days, it will be more than three months before graduation.

It was almost September, so I could use my birthday as an excuse to take this guy down.

In addition, we must not make the same mistake we made last New Year’s Day this time!

After returning to the hotel, Li Yitong packed up the things in the room.

Fortunately, since she knew she would only stay for a few days when she came, she didn't bring much with her and could pack everything in one suitcase.

After packing, Li Yitong looked around the room and saw that there was nothing left: "Okay, let's go."

"No, girl..." Meng Bai touched his eyebrows, with a "are you kidding me" expression on his face, "Why are you still wearing this school uniform when you don't want to change your clothes?"

(End of this chapter)