The King of Soft Rice in Chinese Entertainment

Chapter 554 Lobbying
"So, Apple is working overtime?"

"At least that's what my sources say, and they also say that Jobs was furious."

"That's a real shame. Did you short Apple stock?"

"Do as much as you can, and don't always think about shorting. If you gamble too much, you'll lose it all at once sooner or later."

"That's true, but I don't know..."

"Don't worry, it will be done by the end of October at the latest, and it will meet your expectations."

"Thank you very much."

Xu Jiuyang hung up the phone, clicked his tongue, and decided not to think about these things. In any case, Samsung's Galaxy series phones could only be glorious for a short time. Given Lee Jae-yong's personality, he would never hand over such a large business to his sister. Moreover, Lee Yoon-hyung had made an agreement with her family before.

Without her support, there would naturally be no support from him, and given the capabilities of the Koreans, they would likely only be able to follow in Jobs' footsteps.

Steve Jobs has at least five more years to live, and maybe seeing Samsung get off to a bad start but finish late will put him in a good mood and allow him to live another year.

Then Lee Jae-yong will have to face the angry questions from the South Korean people: "We, the Korean people, developed smartphones, so why are we now lagging far behind others?!"

If Lee Yoon-hyung were to hire more online trolls to stir things up, her older brother would probably be in a real mess. After all, South Korea isn't part of Samsung, and the people on Lee Kun-hee's two older brothers' sides are all hoping for trouble on their end.

However, she probably has no interest in that. It seems that the longer she stays in China, the less she identifies with her family. If it weren't for Lee Boo-jin's concern, she probably would have already settled in mainland China and never returned.

So, should we let Fan and her classmates try investing in the mobile phone industry now? This thought popped into Xu Jiuyang's mind.

Anyway, Fan Bingbing keeps saying that once her two commissioned films are finished, she'll start to change careers, so she might as well just go into making mobile phones.

It doesn't need to be too big. It would be great if it could replace Oppo and Vivo. If not, it would be good to create Transsion and focus on the African market.

If all else fails, they could just create a brand, capitalize on the smartphone boom in the East, make a profit for five or six years, and then sell it. They could find an OEM manufacturer, and Li Yunxin would provide technical support—I forgot to mention, Fan Bingbing is still the spokesperson for Samsung Xinghe mobile phones.

Is this considered a powerful alliance?
Just as he was letting his thoughts wander, a soft cough sounded in his ear, and then he saw two girls sitting on the other side of the desk, holding their faces and looking at him.

"You guys haven't left yet..." Xu Jiuyang sighed.

"Brother Yang hasn't agreed yet, why should we leave?" Liu Shishi said angrily.

"Is this a question of whether I agree or not?" Xu Jiuyang rubbed his head, feeling a bit of a headache. "Jing Tian looks exactly like Li Xiaoyao? What are you expecting the audience to think?"

He wanted to complain about this when he watched Chinese Paladin and Chinese Paladin 3 in his past life, especially the scene where Tangren Media arranged for Li Xiaoyao to use the Dream Returning Immortal Technique to travel back from the future to warn Jing Tian, ​​which was just bullshit.

Of course, Tangren is a small workshop that only thinks about making big profits with small investments. It doesn't have many talents in reserve, so it's normal that they can only let Hu Ge fill in.

But Xu Jiuyang couldn't do it that way. After all, Legend of Sword and Fairy 2 had been made into a TV series, and post-production was currently underway. The feedback from the released clips was quite good. So he decided to talk to Sister Xiaoli and tell her to work on the Legend of Sword and Fairy series properly, since they should at least make Legend of Sword and Fairy 4.

In this situation, casting him as Jing Tian would be absurd, wouldn't it?
“That’s easy,” Tang Yan, who was also holding her face, raised her hand and said, “Just say that Jing Tian accidentally cheated on Li Sansi, so Li Xiaoyao is just like Jing Tian.”

No, don't you want to look at your naive and innocent face and think about what you're saying?!

Xu Jiuyang was glad he hadn't drunk any water, otherwise he would have spat it out. Was this really something Tang Yan would say?

But that wasn't all. After exchanging a glance, Tangtang and Shishi both got up and went around to the back of the desk, one on each side, and then took his arm together.

"Brother Yang, you don't want people to say that we, the great Tang Dynasty poets, belong to different people, right?" Tang Yan said, then gave him a quick kiss. "Brother Yang, you can't just focus on the immortals and the Tang and neglect the honey and the poems," Liu Shishi added, then also gave him a quick kiss.

"Brother Yang, you said back then that we, the great Tang Dynasty poets, would be together forever," Tang Yan said again, and continued to kiss him.

“Brother Yang, you must treat everyone equally and not favor one over the other,” Liu Shishi added, continuing to kiss him as well.

The two girls chatted away, quickly drooling, forcing someone to raise their hand to stop them.

"Alright, alright, I agree," Xu Jiuyang said.

He suddenly realized that Tangtang was right about one thing: since they were now a group of poets from the Tang Dynasty, separating them like this was indeed inappropriate. As for the appearance issue… they could just add some design elements to the plot; it's a fantasy drama after all…

"That's great! I knew it! Yang-ge likes us the most!" Shishi's eyes curved into crescents, and she immediately wanted to kiss him again.

Xu Jiuyang had to press down on her shoulder: "Don't be in such a hurry, we're in the office right now."

However, while they managed to guard against this, they couldn't guard against that. Tangtang's hand had now reached out to places it shouldn't have, making someone shudder.

But he still held them all down: "Listen to me, we'll fight again tonight."

Although many women have left their mark in this office, including but not limited to Dong Qing, Zhou Tao, Liu Tao, Zhang Junning, Chen Qiaoen, Liu Fangfei, and so on, they are who they are, they are who they are.

Of course, most importantly, he had already promised them one thing, and he couldn't possibly promise a second.

However, there is some compensation available.

"It's just the two of you tonight." That's what Xu Jiuyang said as he sent Tangtang and Shishi away.

Normally, the two great poets of the Tang Dynasty would go together, with only Yang Mi occasionally sneaking a bite. However, she would use the excuse of "Oh, help me take care of my physiological needs," and Xu Jiuyang couldn't very well refuse.

He wouldn't believe that Tangtang and Shishi came up with this coercive tactic today. If Qianqian had thought of it, she would have come and said it herself, instead of encouraging Tangtang and Shishi to do so. So it must have been Mimi.

Since that's the case, tonight we'll take good care of Tangtang and Shishi, and not give Mimi any chance.

Just as someone was feeling smug, Li Hong knocked on the door and came in: "President Xu, the Huayi information you requested is ready."

She froze as soon as she finished speaking, her expression a mixture of surprise and amusement.

"What's wrong?" Xu Jiuyang asked, puzzled.

"Hmm..." Li Hong hesitated for a few seconds, then pointed to her face and neck, and quickly left after putting down the documents.

Xu Jiuyang immediately understood. He went into the inner room's rest room and looked in the mirror. Sure enough, even though he had cleaned himself up before, there were still faint marks on his neck and around his face, and quite a lot of them.

He cleaned it again to make sure the marks were even fainter before returning outside and sighing as he looked at the empty doorway.

He could understand why Li Hong ran away, because whenever she came to report on her work, he would want to recreate the scene of bullying her in the office.

However, he had a very high affection for her, and he would give up on the plan if she begged him with teary eyes.

But the next time she comes, she gets itchy to try again, and over time she ends up like this.

(End of this chapter)