The battle for traffic in Chinese entertainment

Chapter 1: The constraints of the original family that one has to experience on the road to struggle?

2014 10 Month 10 Day.

EXO's Chinese member Lu Han has filed a lawsuit with the Seoul District Court, requesting the annulment of his contract with SM Entertainment.

Looking at the news pushed to him on his mobile phone, Xu Xing couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

It has been two months since I was reborn. I can no longer be so ambitious or hesitate!

Without taking the first step, there will be no countless steps afterwards.

Lu Han and Chris Wu have been in the industry for two years and have accumulated a huge number of fans, which allowed them to take the step of terminating their contracts and easily stand at the forefront of the traffic era.

Xu Xing was just a trainee who was persuaded to leave SM Entertainment. Because of the deviation in the world line of his rebirth, his parents were confiscated. In fact, he did not have much confidence to bargain on the contract terms.

Children without umbrellas should run hard and run early!
In this era, wasting two months is already too luxurious.

If I hesitate any longer, I will lose the chance to star in "Go Princess Go".

Let’s just call it Le’s!

The sooner the contract is signed, the sooner the drama can start filming and be broadcast.

After Xu Xing made the decision in his mind, he opened the address book on his phone and found a number named Yu Murong.

She is Xu Xing's distant cousin and also Xu Xing's guardian before he came of age. She is currently working in a law firm in China, so any contract still needs her approval.

He reorganized the speech he had prepared for two months in his mind and was about to make the call.

Suddenly, a phone call came.

It happened to be Yu Murong.

Xu Xing answered the call directly.

A cold female voice came crashing down on him.

"Xu Xing! Where are you now?! A company like SM Entertainment actually terminated the contract with the trainees without notifying the guardians! If Director Chen hadn't called me, I wouldn't have known you had terminated your contract with the company on your own initiative two months ago and disappeared from South Korea!"

Xu Xing was caught off guard and almost dropped his phone.

She's not like this in my memory...

……

Two months ago, Xu Xing woke up and found that she had traveled to a parallel time and space in 2014 and became a trainee of South Korea's SM Entertainment.

In this time and space, Xu Xing's parents died in a car accident when he was five years old, so he went to live with his grandmother in the island province.

Six years later, when her grandmother passed away, it was Yu Murong, her cousin who was studying law in the United States, who followed her parents back to attend the funeral and argued for Xu Xing to keep the house that her grandmother left for her in the will. She then took Xu Xing to study in the United States.

Yu Murong's parents were quite dissatisfied with her "meddling in other people's affairs" and also disliked Xu Xing.

So from then on, Xu Xing only recognized Yu Murong as his relative.

The day I traveled through time was August 8th, the day when the top-tier Unit-14 Ke Zhendong died.

After searching for news in the SM Entertainment trainee dormitory and comparing the differences between the two time periods, Xu Xing set a goal for himself:
Become the top star in the entertainment industry!
Xu Xing also immediately decided to terminate the contract and return to China.

Because SM Entertainment just launched the boy group EXO in 2012, the next boy group NCT would not debut until two years later in 2016, and it became a complete obscurity after its debut.

There is absolutely no need to continue wasting time on SM Entertainment.

Of course, the more practical reason is that Xu Xing is at the bottom of the list among the trainees and has always been in Class B. He has no hope of debuting at all. Even the team leader just came to talk to him a few days ago and said that there is not much point in Xu Xing continuing to train.

In other words, I have been persuaded to withdraw...

Then terminate the contract.

The reason why when Yu Murong called to say hello after the contract was terminated, Xu Xing chose to lie and said that the company was in chaos but he was still concentrating on practicing.

It was because Xu Xing was still adapting to her current identity and hadn't figured out how to face her cousin. She wanted to achieve some results first so that when she told him that she had given up being a trainee, it would be easier for her to accept it.

After returning to Huaguohai City, Xu Xing soon learned that the island province was casting for the movie "My Girlhood".

Three years ago, the Taiwanese film "Those Years" officially launched the era of youth films in China. In the following years, a large number of melodramatic and idiotic youth films were made, riding on the sentimentality and being accepted by the market.

Although the movie "Our Girlhood" has been controversially accused of plagiarizing "A Little Thing Called First Love", it is relatively not particularly idiotic, so it can be considered quite successful.

The male protagonist who inexplicably falls in love with an ugly girl is also a character that can generate traffic.

Xu Xing's experience of studying in the island province gave him a chance to get the male lead in this movie. So Xu Xing rented a recording studio, asked someone to help him make a demo of the song "Little Lucky", and then volunteered to go to the island province to audition for the male lead.

On the day of the audition, director Chen Yushan was extremely satisfied with Xu Xing and said on the spot that Xu Xing was a gift from God to her.

A handsome face, a gilded resume as a South Korean trainee, awkward but barely acceptable acting skills, and a "destined" movie theme song called "Little Lucky"!
Amazing talent!
Not signed with any company!

Yes, Chen Yushan wants to sign Xu Xing.

She even canceled the auditions for subsequent cast members and directly invited Xu Xing to the dinner party.

A lot of praise, flattery and promises.

Xu Xing smiled, thanked, and said she would think about it again.

After the dinner, Xu Xing immediately contacted Huace, a mainland film and television company that had invested in this movie.

Because Xu Xing was unwilling to have his contract tied to the island province.

Xu Xing told Huace that he had impressed director Chen Yushan and would sign a contract with them if they could help him get the role of the male lead.

Huace's agent was surprised, delighted and agreed.

But a week later he asked Xu Xing if he could play the second male lead.
Xu Xing refused.

Before the film casting was completed, director Chen Yushan contacted Xu Xing for the last time.

On the phone, she expressed her understanding of Xu Xing's desire to develop in the mainland, and once again persuaded Xu Xing to sign a contract with her or Huace to take on the male lead or the second male lead. Xu Xing refused again. She then proposed to buy the song "Little Lucky" separately, but Xu Xing still refused.

She finally hung up the phone angrily.

After missing out on "Our Girlhood", Huace continued to maintain its interest in signing Xu Xing.

But Xu Xing did not sign a contract with them either.

Because Xu Xing used the vivid memories in his mind and the foundation of his failed career as a screenwriter in his previous life to dig out the script of the TV series "The Beginning".

Xu Xing believes that he can rely on his dual talents as a screenwriter and musician to strive for better contract terms, or sign with a better company.

However, it did not go very smoothly.

The current trend in the domestic film and television industry is to create IP. The scripts that Xu Xing dug out did not add any points for himself, and some companies questioned him for thinking too much and not concentrating on being an artist.

Huace and those companies all wanted to lower the price, and basically wanted Xu Xing to start from a supporting role - Xu Xing, who had never been in the debut reserve team in SM, had never even taken an acting class.

In fact, the contract given is quite good for newcomers.

But Xu Xing overestimated himself and kept delaying until October without deciding on a signing company.

The reason why Xu Xing finally preferred to sign a contract with Le's was because the resources offered by other companies were not as good as the male lead of Le's "Go Princess Go".

Leshi was also the only company that promised Xu Xing to start the project of "The Beginning" as soon as he signed the contract.

If he can finish filming "The Beginning" before 2016, with the two dramas as a foundation and releasing some songs, he should be able to get a ticket to becoming a top star.

Afterwards, he asked his cousin to help him with the lawsuit, found a big company as a new backer, and terminated the contract with Leshi, which went abroad to manufacture cars.

This was Xu Xing’s previous plan.

just now……

……

"Two months! You've been lying to me all the time on the phone! Where have you been these past two months? What have you been doing?! Do you still see me as your sister?! And you want to enter the entertainment industry, why don't you act in a movie if there's one?!"

In my memory, this cousin was very gentle in front of Xu Xing. She didn't talk much and her tone was always soft. This was one of the reasons why Xu Xing didn't confess to her for two months after the contract was terminated.

Originally, Xu Xing wanted to ask her out and tell her everything in person.

This director Chen Yushan... the casting has been completed for almost two months!
Instead of starting to shoot her movie, she suddenly called Yu Murong for no apparent reason.

Still want to take myself to the island province?
Xu Xing was also convinced!

"I--"

"What do you mean? Do you think you can do whatever you want?! Unscrupulous! Do whatever you want?! You..."

Hey!
In order to work hard, you have to experience the constraints of your original family, right?

(End of this chapter)