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

Chapter 313 It turns out to be Teacher Meng!

Meng Ziyi finally understood why Meng Bai said he was working.

Most people watch variety shows without interruption, and at most they will go back and watch again when there is a wonderful shot or a famous scene with a great effect.

But Meng Bai is different. He would pause while watching, study the barrage, read the comments, and then record them on the iPad beside him.

Others watch the show, he watches the review.

Although the viewing experience was not very good, Meng Ziyi was still attracted by this program with a somewhat novel format.

This is my first time watching this kind of mystery variety show, and the feeling is very different from watching a TV series or movie.

The only problem is that the more I read this story, the more I feel a chill down my spine.

"One, two, three little friends,

Four, five, six children,
Seven or eight cute kids,
Let’s hold hands and play snowballs together…”

The strange sound of nursery rhymes echoed in the room. Meng Ziyi clutched a pillow tightly in front of him and curled up into a ball.

The two white little feet were pressed under the body, afraid that they would be exposed outside the sofa, as if there was a monster lying in ambush.

Most of her face was hidden behind the pillow, with only a pair of eyes exposed, ready to block the horrifying camera at any time.

Meng Bai on the side glanced at her and said, "If you are really scared, just don't look at it."

"It's okay, it's okay. I still want to see who the murderer is."

Although he looked nervous, Meng Ziyi was actually addicted to watching it.

Many girls are like this. They are afraid of horror scenes, but they particularly like watching various horror movies.

In fact, in essence, they are all pursuing emotional stimulation.

It's similar to why good girls always fall in love with yellow-haired guys and scumbags.

Seeing that this girl looked "inexperienced and playful", Meng Bai ignored her and continued with his work.

What he recorded was not about the content of the program itself - He Chen and his production team were responsible for that - what he mainly looked at was the audience's evaluation and acceptance of the various plot elements.

As a content creator, the most common problem is being out of touch with the audience market.

This is also why many directors, writers and the like produce works of very high quality before they become famous, but as their careers grow, their standards gradually decline.

The same goes for Meng Bai. Although he has the blessing of fragments of inspiration, the final product still needs to be expressed by himself.

As his business grew, his energy was gradually occupied by various development plans and capital operations, and he was further and further away from the market.

Therefore, he needs to use this method of constant observation and recording to maintain his sensitivity to the audience market.

Each episode of "Who's the Detective" lasts an average of two hours. With Meng Bai's intermittent viewing method, it took him nearly three hours to finish watching it.

"Hey, how could the murderer be the postman?" Meng Ziyi frowned, "No matter how you look at it, the housekeeper has a better motive!"

"Reasoning is about evidence. It's useless to look at motives because everyone has a grudge."

Meng Bai stood up as he spoke and looked at the time. It was already eleven o'clock.

"Okay, don't worry about the story. If you can't figure it out, just rewatch it tomorrow and review it slowly. It can also increase the number of views for my show."

"Oh."

Meng Ziyi responded and was about to stand up, but before she could stand up straight, she sat down again.

"oops!"

Meng Bai looked at her: "What's wrong?"

"My legs have been sitting under my butt for too long and are a little numb." Meng Ziyi said pitifully.

"Girl, you are really awesome!"

Meng Bai gave her a thumbs up and gestured to her: "You recover here, I'll go up first."

"No, uncle!"

Meng Ziyi hurriedly called him: "I...I'm here alone, a little scared."

This courtyard villa is much larger than her home or dormitory, and it looks particularly empty at night.

It would have been fine if it was any other time, but the key point was that she had just finished reading a horror story and was still feeling scared, so how could she dare to stay here alone?

"Just say you can't do it, don't look at it, you must insist."

Meng Bai sighed and walked in front of her: "Stretch your legs straight."

"what?"

"Ah, what? I'll help you solve it quickly." Meng Bai said, moving his wrist.

Uncle, do you want me to give you a massage?
That doesn't mean he wants to touch...

Meng Ziyi blushed, and a sense of shyness inexplicably arose in her heart.

She lowered her head slightly, and stretched her two straight white legs forward. Her small feet were slightly tense, and her toes were curled up.

"Crack! Crack!"

"ah!"

Accompanied by two crisp slapping sounds, Meng Ziyi, who was caught off guard, let out a scream.

She thought Meng Bai would help her clear her blood vessels or something, and she had even made preparations, but she didn't expect him to come up and slap each of her legs hard.

"Meng Bai!"

Meng Ziyi shouted angrily, and was so excited that he directly called out the name.

"How do you feel?" Meng Bai didn't care and asked her calmly, "Is there an immediate effect?"

"How can this method possibly be good?"

"No?" Meng Bai frowned, "This is how I relieved myself when I was a kid."

"..."

Meng Ziyi turned away speechlessly, with two tears of pain in the corners of his eyes.

It was just numbness at first, but now it’s gone, and it hurts and is numb again.

Seeing that his own folk remedy didn't work, Meng Bai was at a loss as to what to do but help the other person to get up, and then slowly walk towards the room upstairs.

Because she couldn't use her legs and feet, the girl could only lean on Meng Bai.

To outsiders, it looks more like being held in arms.

The biggest advantage of Meng Ziyi is her broad mind.

Anger comes quickly and goes away quickly.

Because they were so close, she could clearly feel the aura lingering around her.

It's not the so-called "masculine smell" like sweat, but a unique pheromone mixed with a light perfume scent.

Meng Ziyi twitched his nose. It smelled quite good.

After arriving at the guest room and helping the girl sit down on the bed, Meng Bai finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"There is a bathroom in the room. The toiletries and bath towels are all new. Just use them directly." Meng Bai stood at the door. "If you are scared at night, just lock the door. Is there anything else you need?"

"No need." Meng Ziyi regained his smiling expression, "Thank you, uncle, for taking me in. Thank you for your help."

"You know you're bothering me. Hurry up and find a hotel or rent a house tomorrow." Meng Bai waved his hand, "Go to bed early and don't stay up late."

"Good night, uncle."

Watching Meng Bai close the door and leave, Meng Ziyi lay on his back on the bed.

"Hmm, so comfortable~" Touching the soft bed and the exquisite furnishings in the room, she couldn't help but sigh.

After lying down for a while and waiting for the numbness in her legs to subside, Meng Ziyi washed and tidied herself up. After finishing, she opened the door and looked towards the master bedroom, where the light was still on.

"Hmph, you still have the nerve to tell me not to stay up late, but you're still the same." Meng Ziyi snorted and laughed.

But think about it, "little uncle" is only less than five years older than me, and is also a young man of about twenty-six or twenty-seven years old.

Every time this happened, she couldn't help but feel a bit of admiration in her heart.

She lay in bed and watched short videos for a while until she felt sleepy, then she finally put down her phone and went to sleep.

I just tossed and turned for a while, and I couldn't help but think about the content of the program I just watched, and I felt an inexplicable creepy atmosphere.

Meng Ziyi shook his head and quickly changed his mind.

Changing the channel in her mind, she couldn't help but think about what happened tonight.

Come to think of it, not bringing money is not that "thrilling".

But she was still very moved when Meng Bai rushed to the bar without saying a word.

By the way, did the waiter at the bar’s front desk mistakenly think that he was my uncle’s girlfriend?

Xu Jiayu was the same, she thought the young uncle was her boyfriend.

Do they really look like a couple?
Forget it, just admit your mistake. It won’t hurt you anyway.

But think about it, if I could really find a boyfriend like my uncle, it would be pretty good.

Handsome, rich, and caring about himself.

Just like today, I rushed over without saying anything. I didn't know how excited I was when I saw him.

He is just a little fickle. He already has two "little aunts" that he knows.

I don’t know if there are more out there.

But then again, the uncle didn't seem to say that she was his girlfriend, so does this still count?
Uh, it seems even worse.

Forget it, what does it have to do with me?

Alas - why is he called "little uncle"?

But then again, my uncle and I are so far apart, can we really be considered relatives?
If you don't count...

In the dark night, Meng Ziyi's cheeks turned red.

No, no, I can’t think about it anymore!
Let’s go back to “children’s songs”.
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The next morning, Meng Bai got up first.

I knocked on the guest room door a few times, but there was no response. I guess the girl wasn't awake yet.

After leaving her a few words on WeChat, Meng Bai took a bus to Huguang.

As soon as he entered the company, he first talked to Liu Jun about the discussion he had with Cheng Wu last night.

"150 billion! Tencent is so generous!"

Even though he had thought that the other party was wealthy, Liu Jun was still surprised when he heard this number.

Of course, what surprised him even more was that Meng Bai refused without even thinking about it.

"It's not necessary. We are not short of money." Meng Bai shook his head. "Acquisition is different from financing. If Arc Light is really sold, it will sooner or later become a film-making machine for Yuewen."

Liu Jun also thought of another level: "It seems that the new Internet capital has passed the initial adaptation period and has begun to enter the mid-stage of acquisition and integration."

Tencent's acquisition of ArcLight Pictures was not sudden. In fact, since last year, the trend of various mergers and acquisitions in the film and television industry has intensified.

Whether it is the old brands such as Huayi, Perfect World, and Guangguang, or the new generation of New Classics Media and Lemon Studios, Tencent’s shadow can be seen in their current shareholder structure.

Another Internet giant, Alibaba, is not far behind. This year alone, it has made more than 40 investments in film and television companies.

Obviously, the film and television industry has also begun to enter a new round of "land grabbing" movement.

"By the way, I talked to Mr. Cheng yesterday. Although this acquisition cooperation did not go through, we can still release the news." Meng Bai said.

Liu Jun asked in confusion: "You are not raising funds, and you are not going public, so what is the point of releasing it?"

Meng Bai thought for a moment and said, "It sounds like it will make us look more awesome."

"……OK."

In fact, it is not completely useless.

ArcLight has never received any financing, so the market's valuation of the company has always been in a "black box" state.

This time with Tencent’s demonstration, even though it didn’t work out in the end, it still provided an anchor point.

Even without considering the premium, ArcLight's estimated valuation is at least around 10 billion.

This is brand value positioning.

After dealing with documents for a whole morning, Meng Bai took a break in the office at noon.

Why do many people always feel that being a boss gives them extra energy?

They arrive at the company early in the morning and go home late at night. They all look like workaholics.

It is not ruled out that there are people who are naturally energetic, but most of them are just illusions.

Workers work all morning and can only rest for a while at noon by lying on the table or on a narrow and uncomfortable folding bed.

I just took a nap and it’s time to go back to work in the afternoon.

Looking at the bosses, not only do they have a special lounge in the office, but also once the door is closed, they can rest as long as they want and no one dares to disturb them.

If you calculate the length of rest time every day, it is much longer than that of ordinary employees.

Having stayed up a little late last night, Meng Bai had a nice nap at noon.

When we got together, I checked my phone first and found that I had a missed call.

I looked at the caller's name and it was He Chen.

"What's the matter, Director He, is there any problem with the program?"

He Chen's excited voice came from the other side: "Mr. Meng, have you seen the trending searches? The two episodes of "Horror Nursery Rhymes" that we just aired have been very popular!"

"is it?"

Meng Bai opened the hot search page, and as expected, several terms such as #Celebrity Detective#, #Horror Nursery Rhymes#, #Treasure Variety Show#, etc. were at the top of the hot searches.

I clicked in and took a look, and saw that each topic had tens of millions of views.

The following Weibo posts and comments are all about the two episodes of "Horror Nursery Rhymes" that just aired.

Not only on Weibo, but also on video platforms such as Douyin and Bilibili, various sliced videos have emerged, and each of them has extremely high playback volume and likes.

Many fans who have been following "Who's the Detective" since the first season left comments saying, "Our Who's the Detective has finally made it."

As a new variety show, the performance of "Who's the Detective" is not bad.

Especially in the second quarter of this year, due to the increase in advertisers and sponsors, the platform's publicity and promotion efforts have also increased significantly.

However, the popularity has always been limited to the audience. Although the evaluation and score are very high, it has never been very popular.

The script of "Horror Nursery Rhymes" is not only Meng Bai's innovation, but also an attempt by the program team.

Compared to previous content that was mainly based on reality or film and television themes, this time it directly used a fantasy setting of "transcendental reasoning".

Unexpectedly, it actually became popular.

When He Chen saw the background playback data, he didn't dare to believe it at first.

It was not until I refreshed the page several times that I was sure that the statistics were not wrong.

Looking at the rapidly growing discussion volume and popularity on the entire network, He Chen couldn't help but sigh in his heart -

As expected, it has to be Teacher Meng!
(End of this chapter)