Huayu: Starting from the top talent show

Chapter 12 Obtaining Resources
"When the world is ready to abandon me, like a wounded soldier left in the lonely wilderness~"

Shen Juan, who was awakened, squinted his eyes and touched the phone next to the pillow. The screen was lit and it was ringing.

"Hello?" The voice was low and hoarse from the one who had just woken up.

"Xiao Juan, you haven't gotten up yet? Don't forget that you still have work to do in the afternoon." The person who called was Shen Juan's agent.

"It's Sister Zhuoma, what time is it now?"

"It's almost twelve o'clock, it's time to get up. I sent you a few WeChat messages and saw that you didn't reply. I thought you might not be asleep yet, so I called you."

"Hmm." Shen Juan was sleepy and confused.

"You've been very busy at work recently. Are you tired?" Yangjin Zhuoma felt that Shen Juan's current state seemed to be a little strange. It seemed like he had played games all night and was woken up just after falling asleep in the morning.

However, Shen Juan denied this: "It's okay. If it's just work, it's not too tiring."

"That's good. Although society now generally believes that young people should work hard for their careers, good health is the most important thing. I don't want to push you." Just after I finished speaking, I heard a "click" from the other end of the phone.

"What's going on?" Yangjin Zhuoma asked puzzledly.

"It's okay, I just slapped a mosquito to death." Shen Juan's voice was very calm, as if nothing had happened just now.

"Well, then hurry up and get up. I'll pick you up downstairs at the hotel later. We have a photo shoot at 2pm."

"Okay sis, I got it."

"Okay, then I'll hang up if nothing else."

"Well, see you later."

Shen Juan pretended to be calm and hung up the phone. Then he threw the phone casually next to the pillow, lifted the quilt and looked speechlessly at Song Zuer who was playing a "prank".

What would Song Zuer say at this time?

If you talk about embarrassing things too much, you will be banned.

All he could say was that the pure white holy light enveloped her entire body, causing Shen Juan to wonder if this sister had the habit of sleeping naked.

"What are you doing?"

Song Zuer raised his eyes as if it was a matter of course, and winked at Shen Juan playfully: "Eat breakfast~"

After a while of silence, Shen Juan spoke again: "Do you know what the biggest difference between you and a mosquito is?"

"Where?" Song Zuer replied vaguely.

"Even if I slap you, you will still continue to suck." Shen Juan looked straight into the girl's eyes and raised the corners of his mouth.

Song Zuer blushed a little when he heard this.

"Hiss~" Shen Juan took a breath of cold air.

"You'd better figure out who is the weaker party now." Song Zuer said proudly.

"what?"

"You'll find out later."

At 1:30 p.m., Yangjin Zhuoma met Shen Juan, who was wearing a mask, sunglasses and a baseball cap, downstairs of the hotel.

On the way to the filming location.

“Why do you look so haggard today? Xiaojuan, you didn’t really not sleep all night, did you?” Yangjin Zhuoma was very surprised.

"I was inspired last night and wrote songs all night long."

"You are still young and there is still a lot of time. There is no need to force yourself into overloading or pushing yourself too hard." Yangjin Zhuoma felt distressed. She had also been an artist for a period of time, so she could naturally put herself in their shoes and empathize with them.

"Don't worry, sister. I know what's going on." Shen Juan could feel that his agent cared about him from the bottom of his heart, and his eyes and tone softened.

"It's good that you know. Let's talk about the specific work arrangements for the next period of time."

"Yeah, I'm listening."

"Let's talk about business first." Yangjin Zhuoma took out a stack of documents from her briefcase and handed them to Shen Juan, motioning him to open them. "Two brand manufacturers have invited you to be their brand spokesperson, Metersbonwe from China and Papa Recipe Chunyu Mask from South Korea."

When it comes to Metersbonwe, many people may think of the Chinese pop star Zhou Milk Tea first. Indeed, from Zhou Milk Tea to Zhang Shaohan, Pan Weibo and Li Yifeng, Zhou Milk Tea is undoubtedly the most famous brand spokesperson of Metersbonwe.

But now, as economic benefits continue to decline, the brand is in urgent need of transformation, so the top management of Metersbonwe has set their sights on the young group. Shen Juan, who has a good influence among the young group and has a decent price-performance ratio, has become one of the candidates they intend to invite for cooperation.

No matter where, artists who start out as idols naturally have much lower endorsement fees and industry status than actors.

As for that South Korean Chunyu mask?
It's simply because they saw his huge popularity in South Korea and wanted to make a fortune before his traffic flopped.

I would like to briefly mention here that Lehua has not yet fully counted the specific popularity and traffic in South Korea.

But in the domestic entertainment industry, let’s compare the number of daily check-ins on Weibo Super Topic with other male stars:
(Because there were too many charts that needed data in the early years, super topic sign-ins probably started to become an important means for fan circles to count real active fans in 18)

Shen Juan’s current check-in number is around 2.

The top streamer Lu Han has the most with 30w+, the three from TFB are probably in the range of 15w-20w, then Zhang Yixing has 15w, Li Yifeng has 13w, Wu Jiaheng and Yang Yang have 8w, Xue Zhiqian and Wang Kai have 5w, Hua Chenyu and Chen Weiting have 4w, and Wu Sehun still has 8w after the winter restriction order.

It can be seen that although Shen Juan is still a long way from the standard of being the top-tier or second-tier star, his 2w active fans are enough to carve out a small niche in the domestic entertainment industry.

"Sure, how much?" Shen Juan, who came from an ordinary family, was actually more concerned about the endorsement fee.

"Metersbonwe is talking about 100 million yuan, and Chunyu Mask is small in scale so the price is only 70 yuan."

"That's okay." Shen Juan was quite satisfied. At least it was twice as much as the RIO cocktail that Yang Yang endorsed in 15.

"So we have to take a few days off in the next period of time to complete the advertising shoot."

"no problem."

"Then there's the magazine part. We have to shoot the cover of the July issue of OK Wonderful in BJ in early June."

It is more advanced than the previous "So Cool", but it is still a third-tier magazine and often covers obscure articles.

"To be honest, our company has never had very good fashion resources, but the fashion circle seems to favor you. We have received invitations to Tiffany's midnight party on the 8th and Dior's Blues Night on the 10th."

"Maybe it's because I'm handsome and fit their aesthetic?" Shen Juan joked in a relaxed tone.

"Then you have to be careful not to be ambushed by them."

Shen Juan couldn't help laughing. He never thought that something like "unspoken rules" might actually happen to him one day. It seemed a little unreal and magical.

But to put it bluntly, the fact that an artist is targeted by unspoken rules is enough to show that he or she is good-looking and valuable in the eyes of capital.

However, as to whether or not to accept this somewhat special exchange of interests, that is another matter.

"Are there any other arrangements?" Shen Juan asked.

"Indeed, I have, but I don't know whether I should tell you, because Sister Du Hua has directly rejected it."

"Can you tell me what it is?" Shen Juan was very curious.

"A drama crew has invited you to be their male lead." Yangjin Zhuoma found that she was still leaning towards Shen Juan in her heart, so she replied with a slightly complicated tone.

"What show? What genre?"

"This is a campus drama directed by a new director named Mao Deshu. He used to make short videos. In February of this year, he directed his first feature drama, 'The Light-Year Distance Between You and Me.'" Yangjin Zhuoma explained.

Shen Juan perked up instantly.

He originally thought that the film and television drama invitation rejected by Du Hua was a shoddy, low-budget web drama.

But now it seems that is not the case.

After all, Mao Deshu is very good at shooting sweet campus dramas, and there are several outstanding works in his directorial resume.

And if I remember correctly, they seemed to have worked together before recording Star Asia 2 last year.

In fact, before signing with Wai's Entertainment, Mao De Shu had collaborated with many well-known celebrities who emerged later to shoot sweet short films, including Bai Lu, Song Weilong, Chen Duling, Hu Yitian, Xu Kai and Zhang Yuxi.

"So what's the title of the show?"

"It seems to be called such a lovely us?"

　Thanks to Shusheng Jianxian for the monthly ticket and reward!
　　Thanks to Jayc3 for the monthly ticket!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)