I became financially independent right after entering college.

Chapter 126 The honeymoon period is over

It's an ordinary sentence, maybe it has a hidden meaning, but it's definitely not too presumptuous.

Unexpectedly, Tan Xuan reacted extremely strongly to this statement and was stunned on the spot, because a few months ago, she met a "rich first" who wanted to make her rich.

The price was one she could bear but was absolutely unwilling to bear.

"It seems that there is really someone who is willing to help you, Sister Xuan, get rich first." Bai Chou teased with a smile. He was not surprised by this. It would be really outrageous to say that no one is pursuing such a beautiful woman.

"lets change a topic."

Tan Xuan came back to her senses, her expression slightly dejected but without a trace of hesitation or regret. She sorted out the documents on the table and said, "After all, we had an agreement beforehand, and I agreed to your living away from home.

However, I need to visit your house first to make sure your living environment off campus is safe. Don't look at me like that, this is the school's policy.

The security in high-end residential communities may not be really safe, but it is definitely safer than most ordinary residential communities.

If possible, Tan Xuan didn't want to visit Bai Chou's home, but this was the school's rule and she had to go. There was nothing she could do about it.

"Just tell me in advance when you're going, and I'll make sure to welcome you." Bai Chou asked Tan Xuan. This must be confirmed, otherwise it would be very embarrassing if Tan Xuan met Li Xue at the villa.

"Let's wait a few days. I'm quite busy these days since school just started and don't have much time." Tan Xuan put the matter off.

Bai Chou nodded slightly, understanding it.

After discussing the first matter, Bai Chou took out a stack of documents and pushed them onto the table in front of him. "The second thing is, I recently started two companies and I need the school's help with something."

"You, starting a business?"

Tan Xuan was slightly stunned and looked at Bai Chou repeatedly, as if she couldn't believe that these two words could be related to Bai Chou.

“Is there any problem with me starting a business?”

"What kind of business do you, a second-generation rich kid, start?"

"What you said is true. Prince Yida is much richer than me. He started a business called Pusi Investment."

That's true. After all, there are some second-generation people who can't sit still and want to do something to prove their abilities.

"Tell me, how much is your startup capital, 300 million or 500 million?" Tan Xuan teased.

"I don't have as much as Prince Wang, so I just want to use a few million to test the waters. I don't have any plans to achieve anything extraordinary or build a company that will change the world. I simply want to hone my abilities..."

Bai Chou briefly told Tan Xuan about his two projects: a hifi headphone company and a film and television entertainment company. Compared with Prince Wang, they were all small-scale projects.

"To make headphones, don't you young people usually choose industries like the Internet and gaming to start your own business?" Tan Xuan was surprised at Bai Chou's entrepreneurial path.

"I can't possibly know nothing. I'll just dive into an industry with more cases of low investment and high returns..." Bai Chou spread his hands.

The internet is great. With a few tens of thousands of dollars invested in a product, you can get through angel, first, and second rounds in a few months. Within three years, a company listed on the Hong Kong or Nasdaq stock market can reach a market value of tens or hundreds of billions...

Such cases have been common in the past decade or so. Logically speaking, Bai Chou should have chosen the Internet industry.

But Bai Chou knew nothing about this. People cannot make money beyond their cognitive ability. Even if they make money by luck, they will lose it because of their strength.

On the contrary, if it is a familiar field, even if it is a sunset industry, there is still a lot of room for operation. At least the probability of losing money is very small, and stable profits can be achieved.

"That's true. I didn't expect you to be so down-to-earth." Tan Xuan nodded slightly and had a new understanding of Bai Chou. She didn't expect that this second-generation entrepreneur would be so cautious in his entrepreneurial choice.

After a pause, Tan Xuan asked again, "Which of your two companies needs help from the school?"

"The one that does film and television."

Bai Chou briefly described his ideas and needs: "I plan to shoot a short play. Zhang Junjie is already working on the script. I can direct it myself and I can also arrange the shooting location and production staff myself. Now I just need actors and equipment.

I hope to be allocated one or two rooms on campus to serve as my permanent office and interview space. If possible, it would be best if I could ask a teacher from the acting department to help me contact a few special actors.

As for equipment, if the school has any second-hand machines they want to dispose of, they can sell me a set. If they can't sell them, they can rent them out..."

Although he was going to shoot a melodramatic short drama about the return of the Dragon King, Bai Chou did not intend to fool around with the actors; the acting skills had to be acceptable.

The same is true of the vicious wife and mean mother-in-law. Some people are so hateful when they play them, and they are so vivid. The script is so bloody and illogical, but the actors' acting skills must be online!
Besides, professional actors with qualified acting skills don’t cost much money. You can find a lot of qualified actors for a few hundred yuan a day plus two meals. The ones who really cost money are the young and handsome actors and popular artists.

Bai Chou’s problem was that he had no connections, and this was Jinling, not Hengdian.

It doesn't matter if you don't have any connections in Hengdian. You can set up a stand and a loud speaker outside the film and television city and recruit on the spot, but there are not so many permanent film and television practitioners in Jinling.

If you go to Hengdian to recruit, the round trip, plus the actors' travel and accommodation expenses, will be an additional expense.

"You drive a Lamborghini, but you are not even willing to pay for the actors' travel expenses, and you want to use second-hand equipment?" Tan Xuan widened her eyes. Do you need these two dollars? Shouldn't you just wave your hand and recruit nationwide?

"This is business, I have to control costs, Sister Xuan." Bai Chou takes business very seriously.

Tan Xuan was finally convinced that Bai Chou wasn't kidding. Although the initial capital was small and looked like a small undertaking, Bai Chou was truly serious about starting a business, not just playing around.

"I understand."

Tan Xuan nodded seriously and said, "As for an office, that's no problem. Our school supports college students' entrepreneurship, and we have many vacant classrooms and conference rooms. I can help you apply for one to be your office.

As for actors, I can help you contact the instructors and teachers at the Film and Television Academy to see if they can help you find some special actors currently in Jinling."

"Thank you, Sister Xuan."

"Is there anything else I can help you with?"

"No, Sister Xuan, you go ahead and do your work." After finishing the two things that required Tan Xuan's help, Bai Chou said goodbye without much nagging. He was so ruthless that even Tan Xuan was a little surprised.

The male class assistants and monitors from each class came to her office and couldn't wait to say a few more words to her, their wolfish ambitions were obvious.

Bai Chou was better. After he finished speaking, he patted his butt and left immediately.

Tan Xuan was a bit dazed by his decisiveness. She couldn't tell which was the real Bai Chou: the one who looked so literary and headstrong and rejected Haidie a while ago, or the one who was so decisive and got things done now. "By the way, Sister Xuan."

Bai Chou had just opened the door, but before he even took a step, he suddenly turned around, startling Tan Xuan: "Your left leg stocking is torn."

Tan Xuan was slightly startled and subconsciously lowered her head, discovering that there were indeed two obvious snags on the flesh-colored stockings on her left thigh that was crossed over her right leg. They were probably accidentally snagged when she was moving things this afternoon.

"Boom."

When Tan Xuan raised her head, Bai Chou had already closed the door and left, as if he really just wanted to remind her to change into a new pair of stockings.

"Little brat..." Tan Xuan muttered.

In terms of appearance, it made no sense for Tan Xuan to call Bai Chou, as the two looked almost the same age. However, in Tan Xuan's eyes, Bai Chou was just a little brat.

When she was in college, Bai Chou might have just been in junior high school, and the two were five or six years apart in age.

After leaving Tan Xuan's office, Bai Chou returned to the dormitory and asked about the progress of Zhang Junjie's script, but the answer he received was not ideal.

The outlines and detailed outlines of those novels such as Urban Son-in-law and Urban Dragon King were already drawn up early, and Zhang Junjie also listed the main plots and exciting points.

The problem Zhang Junjie faces now is that he needs to do subtraction and arrange the plot according to a certain rhythm.

Bai Chou's plan is that each episode will be 1 to 2 minutes long, and each episode will have a relatively important plot that can retain the audience.

This was actually a very difficult task. Zhang Junjie not only had to remove the water from the online articles and screen out the effective lines, but when writing the plot and arranging the lines, he also had to go through the shots in his mind and calculate how long each shot and each scene would take to be filmed...

This is very difficult for Zhang Junjie, a young online novel writer, as it involves some screenwriting work.

Zhang Junjie was happy with the idea, though. Bai Chou offered him a monthly salary of 8,000 yuan, double what he earned as a part-time novelist. If this thing worked out, he could keep doing it and never run out of money throughout his college years.

After asking Zhang Junjie, Bai Chou called the outsourcing company that undertook the development of the app and WeChat mini-program to urge them on the progress.

Bai Chou envisioned the company's initial profit model as continuously shooting short dramas and putting them on apps and mini-programs, and then directing traffic on video live streaming sites such as Douyin, Bilibili, and Kuaishou to guide users to pay in the short drama app.

In essence, this is still a company that produces film and television content, but its profit model is highly dependent on short video platforms with traffic.

Once the company is on the right track, it will be enough to hire one or two programmers to maintain the website platform on a daily basis, and even the maintenance can be outsourced.

In this case, it is not cost-effective to find programmers to develop apps and mini-programs by yourself in the early stage. The progress is slow with few people and the salary expenditure is high with many people, so it is better to outsource.

After urging the software development company to make progress, Bai Chou posted several recruitment information on the recruitment website to form a team for the headphone company.

He himself serves as an acoustic engineer, product manager, and marketer. In addition, he needs to recruit at least structural engineers, electronic engineers, supply chain, and channels to form a core team of about 5 to 7 people.

Even if it is a small workshop in the studio model, it is impossible for Bai Chou to be so core that he can take on all the responsibilities alone.

After finishing all the work, it was already past seven o'clock in the evening. Kim Hyo-joo called and asked Bai Chou if he wanted to have dinner together, but Bai Chou refused.

He has been really busy these days, and he also has to deal with Li Xue at night, so he really has no time to accompany Kim Hyo Joo.

Girls' dormitory.

After chatting with Bai Chou for about a few minutes, Kim Hyo-joo hung up the phone.

Chen Rongrong, who was sitting on the side waiting for Jin Xiaozhou, asked hurriedly: "What did Bai Chou say?"

"He said he didn't have time, so just let me accompany you to dinner." Kim Hyo-joo said expressionlessly.

"No matter how busy you are, you can't be so busy that you don't even have time to have dinner with your girlfriend?"

Chen Rongrong mumbled to herself, then suddenly thought of something. She glanced at Jin Xiaozhou, then at Shan Meng who was sitting nearby watching Jin Xiaozhou's performance, and guessed, "Could it be that he's already tired of you?

If you ask me, you shouldn't be so nice to him and give your body to him so easily. These men don't care about you once they get you."

"He's really just busy. You can't expect a man to be ambitious and driven and at the same time be a perfect boyfriend who takes everything seriously!"

Kim Hyo-joo loudly defended Bai Chou and herself.

As the saying goes, human energy is limited, and if you focus on one thing, you will lose sight of another. The so-called "taking everything into account" is just trying to keep everything under control within a range that will not get out of control.

Simply put, how many times a day does a couple in the honeymoon period miss each other, and how long do they miss each other every day?

The answer is countless times. Maybe in the next second, maybe in the next minute, when you are doing something important, your mind will suddenly wander and your thoughts will drift to the other person.

Before, whenever Bai Chou and Jin Xiaozhou missed each other and wanted to date or have dinner with each other, whenever either of them made a date request at any time, the other party would definitely respond.

The two are 100% lovers, and their love experience with each other is 100%.

It is impossible now. Bai Chou has devoted a large part of his energy to starting a business. Although he is not so busy that he has no time to accompany Kim Hyo Joo all day long, he certainly can't respond at any time like before.

the most important is……

Kim Hyo-joo actually knew that Bai Chou was not as concerned about her as when they first got together.

In scientific terms, the two have passed the passionate love period when hormones such as dopamine are secreted in large quantities. The relationship has entered a stable period with fewer and fewer surprises. Both parties have gradually adapted to everything about each other and to this rhythm.

Bai Chou started his own business and his honeymoon period ended, and the two situations overlapped at the same time, resulting in a huge gap.

Jin Xiaozhou knew this very well, and Shan Meng knew it very well too.

Looking at Shan Meng, who seemed to be busy doing homework but was actually listening intently to watch his show, Jin Xiaozhou cheered up: "In short, there is no problem with the relationship between Bai Chou and me. It can't be penetrated by a needle or splashed by water.

Those who want to take advantage of me can give up in advance. The relationship between us is as solid as a rock.

I'm also currently taking accounting courses to help Bai Chou with some simple financial issues. Once his company is officially established, I'll be able to help him as well.

Then we’ll have more time to spend together.”

(End of this chapter)