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

Chapter 20 It turns out that he is really the director

As a partner of the "Pendulum" project, Li Qin is now focusing all her attention on this drama.

She only stayed in Shanghai for a few days. When she heard that Meng Bai and Leshi.com had basically reached an agreement on the contract, she immediately flew back to northern Beijing.

Familiar teahouse, familiar location, familiar deserted atmosphere.

"Can this teahouse really make money?" Li Qin expressed his doubts as soon as he sat down.

Meng Bai poured her a cup of tea and said leisurely, "So when you came in, didn't you see the sign 'Lucky Shop Sublease' on the door?"

"Really?" Li Qin looked back and saw that there did seem to be a red note stuck on the transparent glass door.

Sure enough, I am definitely not the only one who cannot make money from investing.

Feeling inexplicably happy, Li Qin looked at Meng Bai and asked, "When will the contract with Heleshi be signed?"

"Next Monday." Meng Bai took out a brown paper bag from the seat beside him and said, "Come with me then and show up. This will also reassure our sponsor."

"Sure, no problem." Li Qin agreed without hesitation. Then she looked at the brown paper bag that Meng Bai pushed over and asked in confusion, "What is this?"

"Profit sharing agreement." Meng Bai said: "The profit sharing I negotiated with Leshi.com is 26%. According to our previous agreement, this 26% is our common profit and must be divided according to a certain ratio."

"One quarter of the profit, this ratio is quite high." Li Qin sighed. She originally thought that 20% was already a lot. After all, Leshi.com provided both money and platform, while she only had a "grassroots team".

"I wonder how much percentage Boss Meng is willing to give to a poor little actor like me?" Li Qin said jokingly with a teasing smile on her face.

Meng Bai's attitude was very serious. He introduced seriously: "I divided our income into four parts. One is the fees and taxes incurred by registering the company and the subsequent financial audit. This part needs to be determined based on the final income. A conservative estimate is about 2-3 percent."

"Then the other three parts are you, me, and the script, representing the three components of this project. Do you have any doubts about this?" Meng Bai looked at Li Qin and asked.

Li Qin's first reaction was to ask why Meng Bai and the script had to be divided into two parts. But then she thought about it and seemed to think that this division was correct.

Among these three parts, Li Qin represents the face of the project, Meng Bai represents the inside of the project, and the script is the foundation of the entire project.

After thinking silently for a while, Li Qin asked, "So how much will my share be in the end?"

"Seven percent, about one third." Meng Bai said: "Of course, if you are not satisfied, we can still talk about it."

"Seven percent..."

Li Qin thought for a while, then took out her mobile phone calculator and calculated for a long time, and finally nodded: "Okay, anyway, I just came up with a name, these are almost the same."

Seeing that Li Qin agreed without bargaining, Meng Bai also breathed a sigh of relief.

In fact, according to the bottom line he had expected, Li Qin's share could be 9%.

After all, as she said, without the signboard of "Rong Xinda Production Team" represented by Li Qin, the total profit share would hardly exceed 20%.

So strictly speaking, most of the extra proportion can actually be attributed to Li Qin.

However, since the girl is satisfied, Meng Bai will not rush to tell her that he can increase her share.

If she gets good grades, I'll give this girl a bigger bonus.

Li Qin didn't realize that she was going to lose money. She was still calculating how much profit she would need to make back the money she was cheated of.

Meng Bai saw that she had been calculating for a long time and was about to come up with a negative number. He couldn't help it, so he reached out and took her mobile phone, tapped a few times, and then raised his hand to put it in front of her.

"One, ten, hundred, thousand... million! It would take a profit of 10 million to make it back!" Li Qin said in surprise after clicking on the digits on the screen: "Can this really be done?"

Meng Bai was actually unsure, after all, this was his first drama.

However, he still comforted Li Qin, "It's not hopeless. The advertising fee for Youku's "Never Expected" series is more than 10 million per season, plus membership fees and traffic sharing, it's even more. As long as we can reach half of their popularity, it will be enough." "Besides, you are still paid for the film. 400,000, you are now the 'noble person' of our crew - the most expensive person."

Li Qin suddenly realized that, indeed, the profit sharing was a private agreement between her and Meng Bai. On the surface, she still received the film remuneration.

With this calculation, it shouldn't be a problem to make back the money.

After finishing the business, Li Qin wanted to leave, but when she saw Meng Bai didn't seem to be leaving, she couldn't help but ask curiously: "Who else are you waiting for?"

"I have an appointment with a director and plan to meet and talk."

"Are you the director of our drama?" Li Qin asked. Seeing Meng Bai nod, she immediately became curious: "Then is it convenient for me to join you?"

"It's up to you. You're the heroine anyway, so it's okay to meet her in advance." Meng Bai said indifferently, and raised his hand to ask Hua Yan, who was lying at the front desk and was bored, to change a pot of tea.

"Who is this director? What works have he produced before? Is he very good?" Li Qin turned into a "curious baby" and asked a series of questions.

"A friend in the industry introduced him to me. He used to make micro-films. I watched his films and felt that they were quite consistent with the subject matter and atmosphere of our drama," Meng Bai gave a brief introduction.

Li Qin took out her phone and opened the search engine: "What's your name? Let me search it too."

"five hundred."

"Wu Bai...ah? Are you sure?" Li Qin looked at the information on Baidu and said in confusion: "Isn't this a singer?"

"Tsk." Meng Bai grinned and laughed softly.

Sure enough, seeing others making the same stupid mistakes as you do will greatly reduce the embarrassment you once felt.

The director that Meng Bai is going to meet today is the one recommended to him by his senior brother Zhou You last time. His name is Wu Bai, which is the same pronunciation as the singer "Wu Bai" but with different characters.

After Meng Bai contacted him, he told him about his situation. The other party did not refuse just because he heard it was a web drama, but talked to Meng Bai about the plot and setting, and then asked for the script and said he would take a look first.

I don’t know if this guy finished reading the script overnight, but only a day later he told Meng Bai that he wanted to talk in person.

"Welcome, sir. How many people are you?"

At the entrance of the teahouse, a middle-aged man wearing a hat and a casual suit walked in. Hua Yan, who was lying at the front desk counting tea leaves boredly, thought it was a rare customer and immediately greeted him warmly.

"There is a table reserved by Mr. Meng." The man said.

"Mr. Meng?" Hua Yan was stunned for a moment, but then she reacted and immediately lost interest. She pointed in the direction of Meng Bai, indicating that the man was there.

The attitude of this shop assistant is just average. The man thought to himself as he walked in. No wonder this teahouse doesn't look very prosperous.

After walking a few steps, the man saw a young couple sitting at a table. The boy was tall and straight, with sharp eyebrows and bright eyes, and his manners were elegant; the girl next to him had a beautiful face and a cold look between her eyebrows, but she was looking at the boy and was talking about something with a sweet smile on her face.

What a well-matched young couple!

The man sighed subconsciously in his heart, and then continued to look for the person he had an appointment with.

But after looking for a long time, he found that there seemed to be no one else in the hall except the "couple".

Maybe she hasn't come yet. The man was thinking this in his heart, and then he saw the boy in the "couple" stand up, walk in front of him, extend his hand and say: "Hello, are you Director Wubai?"

"I am." Wu Bai nodded, then looked at the young boy in front of him hesitantly and said, "You are..."

"My name is Meng Bai, and I'm the main screenwriter of the script "Soul Ferry". We contacted each other yesterday."

(End of this chapter)