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

Chapter 188 Others are afraid but I am greedy

In the small pavilion in the backyard of Arclight Film and Television, Liu Jun took a sip of tea, then closed his eyes comfortably, feeling the breeze blowing.

"Don't mention it, your place is really nice except that it's a little small."

Meng Bai was pouring tea. Hearing this, he smiled and said, "I remember there is a rest floor in the Leshi Building. Isn't it quite comfortable?"

"Hey, how can the artificial one and the natural one feel the same?" Liu Jun said.

Glancing at the bushes and lawns that had just been trimmed by the property workers, Meng Bai nodded: "That makes sense."

After that, he changed the subject: "Brother Jun, how come you suddenly have time to come here today? I thought you guys should be the busiest these two days."

"I was on a business trip and attended a meeting. On the way back, I thought that we have been working together for so long, but I haven't come to see you yet. I stopped by to visit you." Liu Jun said, "Besides, we don't have anything to do. The boss is not here. Who would I be busy for?"

"Boss Jia is going abroad for inspection again?" Meng Bai wanted to laugh whenever he mentioned this.

Liu Jun shook his head: "He didn't go abroad. He said he was in Hong Kong, discussing the financing of FF smart cars."

Ever since he was questioned about "wanting to run away" last year, Boss Jia has been traveling around the continent for more than a year.

"So..." Meng Bai leaned closer and asked, "Did Leshi.com really commit financial fraud?"

"Good question." Liu Jun smiled bitterly, "We want to know that too."

Boss Jia was an accountant by profession, and most of the accounts of Leshi.com were checked personally by him and his relatives.

To the outside world, it is just a black box. No one knows what is inside unless the "box" is opened.

"Who is in charge now?"

"Each department has its own business. The business of each department is already defined. Just follow the process."

After Liu Jun finished speaking, he remembered something else: "By the way, Gan Wei is back and is currently taking over the Copyright Operation Center. It is said that he has taken a fancy to a novel and plans to be the producer himself to adapt it."

"What novel?"

"It seems to be called 'Crown Princess' or something like that. Judging from the name, it should be an ancient puppet show." Liu Jun said.

"Ancient idol dramas have been quite popular in the past two years." Meng Bai said.

"That requires the support of popular actors." Liu Jun laughed at himself, "I'm afraid we don't have that much money to hire popular actors now."

Meng Bai’s opinion is a little different. Traffic actors are indeed the “magic medicine” for many projects of average quality, but that doesn’t mean that they can’t do without traffic.

The current tastes of online drama viewers still seek novelty and weirdness, the more explosive the better.

If there are really some attractive highlights, coupled with adequate marketing and publicity, the effect will be no worse than the traffic.

Liu Jun thought about it and it did make sense. That’s how “Soul Ferry” became a hit.

It’s just an ancient idol theme, what’s the hot topic?

"I just heard the news too. I'll go back and find out."

Gan Wei's new business has little impact on Arc Light Films. After all, Meng Bai is no longer the new screenwriter who had to rely on personal connections to get opportunities.

But for Liu Jun, the impact is still quite big.

At least when facing his own "boss lady", he really didn't dare to grab all the benefits for himself like he did with other people.

Having said that, the fact that Leshi.com is still in the mood to launch a new drama at this time seems to indicate that its financial situation is normal.

Despite the outside world's doubts, Leshi.com only made a general rebuttal to Liu Shuwei's previous article.

Although nothing seems to be going on on the surface, there are undercurrents behind the scenes.

Just within a week after Liu Shuwei published his "anti-counterfeiting" article, Boss Jia, in his personal capacity, reduced his holdings of Leshi.com shares by 2 percentage points, directly cashing out 25 billion yuan.

The external explanation is that the money will be "lent" to Leshi.com for its operation and development in the form of an interest-free loan.

The bosses of listed companies spend their own money to develop their businesses, which sounds like the conscience of the "capital market".

However, anyone with an IQ over 50 who has not bought Leshi.com stock knows that this is complete nonsense. Sure enough, after the news of Boss Jia's reduction of holdings came out, Liu Shuwei published another article.

It points out that from last year to now, Boss Jia has cashed out more than 5 billion through his sister and uncle who also work at Leshi.com.

Adding this recent transaction, it is equivalent to cashing out 80 billion.

But what is surprising is that despite the constant doubts here, in the secondary market, the stock price of Leshi.com has been rising rapidly as if it had eaten a golden peony.

Liu Shuwei published his first article at the end of May, and by the beginning of June, Leshi.com’s stock price had risen to more than 170, with a total market value of more than 1600 billion.

With this scale, it has become the fourth largest Internet company after BAT.

Like Leshi.com, the Shanghai Composite Index of the entire A-share market has also reached an outrageous 5000 points.

The entire market is almost entirely filled with the myth of "getting rich overnight" and a lively and impetuous atmosphere.

Even during the post-production break of "Forensic Qin Ming", Wang Wei could be heard chatting with Wu Bai about stock investment.

"How much did you two invest?" Meng Bai asked.

"My money is a little less, about 200,000." Wang Wei said with a smile, "Director Wu has more. Didn't he cash out the money from Leshi Films? Now he probably has invested more than 2 million."

"You made a lot of money, didn't you?"

Speaking of this, Wang Wei said cheerfully: "Fortunately, we entered the market a little late, and we didn't encounter those 'magic stocks' that kept rising, so the gains were only a dozen points."

A dozen points is indeed not a lot considering the current market conditions, but the problem is that they have only been in the market for half a month at most.

"Let's quit while we're ahead." Meng Bai advised casually.

"Why, do you think it's going to collapse?"

Meng Bai said: "I don't know, I just think that if there is a trend that even laymen can make money without doing anything, then the next step is to land."

Wang Wei thought about it and felt that it made sense: "Then I'll talk to Director Five about it. If it doesn't work, we'll withdraw some of them."

"You guys can watch it for yourselves." Meng Bai was generally reluctant to get involved in matters involving personal interests. "Anyway, I don't want to lose money later. I'm not in the mood to do the post-production."

"That can't be possible. If we really lose money, we have to work hard to make up for it." Wang Wei said jokingly.

"Well, if you say so, then I'm kind of looking forward to the collapse."

"Don't say this if you get out of your house. You'll get beaten easily."

"I know, so I'm telling you. You can't beat me anyway."

"Hey, I really am... Tsk, we are civilized people, we don't do these action movies, I'm going to go edit the video."

Meng Bai didn’t know whether Wang Wei and Wu Bai listened to the advice or not. Anyway, he was now holding the cash and waiting for the market to collapse, and then see if there were any cheap assets to invest in.

And the market didn't make him wait too long.

Just after the beginning of June, doubts about Leshi.com were still rising one after another, but then quickly no one cared about it.

Last Friday, the A-share Shanghai Composite Index reached 5178 points, and everyone believed that this bull market could exceed 6000.

After a weekend, many investors opened their stock software with good wishes.

Then it was directly broken through by a huge drop in volume.

In less than half a month, the index turned downward and plunged to 4000. Countless small retail investors were cheated and lost their fortunes and became bankrupt.

But crisis is also opportunity. Meng Bai, who had been prepared, immediately asked Chen Jing to start collecting information on the financing situation of the companies he had previously identified.

Others fear me and I am greedy.

Finally it was his turn to enter.

(End of this chapter)