My capital is quite large.

In the golden autumn of September, the fashion and film and television circles of the Chinese entertainment industry were ignited by two popular actresses under Haofeng Film and Television.

On giant LED screens throughout the streets and alleys and in the heart of the business district, a huge poster of Yang Mi wearing Dior's latest early autumn haute couture and holding a limited-edition bag visually and powerfully announced her achievement of the highest honor of becoming Dior's brand ambassador in China!

At the same time, Harper's Bazaar's September issue featured two covers, with Yang Mi's charming face shattering the stereotype that "TV actresses have no sense of fashion" and breaking into the fashion heartland dominated by veteran Beijing actresses!

This illogical and unfair allocation of resources stung Tang Yan, who had suffered greatly in the "Chinese Paladin 3" crew but hadn't even landed a minor endorsement deal with a big-name cosmetics brand.

Both are artists under Haofeng Entertainment, both have top-tier contracts with a 50/50 revenue split, so why is Yang Mi able to soar to great heights while I can only watch from the ground?!

Tang Yan, who was so eager to improve, could no longer suppress her intense desire.

On the night Yang Mi was officially announced as the cover girl for Bazaar, she canceled all her engagements and quietly booked a first-class ticket to Shenzhen.

There was no coyness, and no foreplay whatsoever.

That evening at the Waterside Villa, this sweetest candy displayed unprecedented madness and fawning in front of Li Feng.

She stripped away her dignity and reserve, along with that sweet wrapper, willingly turning herself into a pool of spring water at the mercy of capital.

Li Feng, on the other hand, has always been a player who clearly distinguishes between rewards and punishments.

He prefers women who are completely tamed by fame and fortune, and whose ambition is written all over their faces.

Just three days later.

Another earthquake in the Chinese entertainment industry!

Tang Yan makes a surprise appearance on the cover of Marie Claire magazine's October issue! And without any warning, she's also landed the title of Prada's brand ambassador for the entire Asia-Pacific region!

The entire entertainment industry fell silent.

Everyone gasped in astonishment. This Mr. Li from Haofeng Network was a veritable god of wealth with connections to the heavens! As long as a woman set his sights on him, he didn't care about her arrogance or her status as a member of a wealthy, noble family. He could shower her with money until foreigners knelt down and called him "Grandma"!

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Inside a high-end, single-level apartment in Yanjing.

Liu Yifei sat on the sofa, his face pale, looking at the two top fashion magazines on the coffee table, each featuring the stunning faces of Yang Mi and Tang Yan. He felt his breath catch in his throat.

Yang Mi got it, and Tang Yan got it too!

These two actresses, who were originally overshadowed by her "Fairy Sister" in terms of status, are now not only making waves on Weibo's trending topics, but have also left her, the former top star in the Chinese entertainment industry, behind!

In this battle for resources worth real money, her pride in her aloofness and reserve is like a worthless joke.

"Is... that really the only way forward?"

Liu Yifei covered his face with his hands, his inner defenses crumbling little by little.

Just as she was caught in a state of extreme inner turmoil and inner conflict, her phone, which was lying next to her, suddenly rang. It was her executive agent calling.

"Yifei, did you see the announcement that was just posted in the company's internal group?!" The agent's voice was filled with shock.

"What announcement?" Liu Yifei's heart skipped a beat.

"The company has signed a new employee! And it was Boss Li who personally approved it, sending a private jet to bring him back to the Shenzhen headquarters from Xinjiang!"

The agent gasped and said in a trembling voice, "I heard that the boss accidentally saw photos of two Xinjiang girls online a while ago and was immediately drawn to their looks!"

These two girls are named Gulnazar and Dilraba! They're only seventeen years old!

"The most outrageous thing is that they haven't even filmed a single scene, yet the boss had the legal department sign them to top-tier contracts with the exact same 50/50 split as yours! Moreover, in the years before they were admitted to film school, the company paid each of them a guaranteed base salary of one million NT dollars every year! Not only that, the boss also spent a lot of money to hire professors from the Beijing Film Academy to tutor them one-on-one for their art exams!"

A 17-year-old beauty from Xinjiang!

She's never even acted in a movie, yet she's being supported with a 50/50 split of profits and a million-dollar annual salary?!

"Yifei, I just got photos of those two newcomers through someone on the inside and sent them to your phone. Take a look! That exotic look, that bone structure... our boss has such a sharp eye! If they grow up like this, in a few years, where will we old-timers in the Chinese entertainment industry have any jobs left?"

With trembling hands, Liu Yifei opened the photo he had received on his phone.

When Liu Yifei saw the two faces in the photo, which had a strong exotic charm, exquisite features, and were full of youthful collagen, he felt an unprecedented sense of crisis.

So beautiful! And so young!

That kind of aggressive beauty is completely different from her own aloof "fairy sister" image!

Men are visual creatures who are prone to getting bored easily.

The boss is willing to lavish top-tier resources on Yang Mi and Tang Yan now, but what if, in two years, these two stunning beauties from Xinjiang enter the entertainment industry? Will Liu Yifei still have a place by the boss's side?

"No... we can't wait any longer..."

Liu Yifei's arrogance, which he had always maintained, was completely shattered under the threat of absolute capital and a young, fresh body!

However, the thought of flying alone to Shenzhen and knocking on that man's door still made her feel so ashamed she could hardly breathe.

She needed an excuse, a companion, to share the guilt of selling her soul.

Liu Yifei picked up the phone and scrolled to the contact list to find a name that was so clean it was almost invisible—Liu Shishi.

"Shishi, are you free now? Let's go out for a coffee..."

She had to see Liu Shishi, because in this vast reserve of Haofeng's harem, only Liu Shishi, like her, was still clinging to that ridiculous bottom line.

She wanted to talk to this "kindred spirit," even if it was just to huddle together for warmth, or even to face that bottomless abyss together...

......

Shenzhen, Nanshan Science and Technology Park, Haofeng Networks Headquarters.

Just as the leading ladies of the Chinese entertainment industry were caught in a cycle of infighting and competition over resources and survival, Li Feng, the instigator of all this, was quietly inspecting the [Bilibili] project team, which had recently been wholly acquired and merged into the group, accompanied by the technical director, Lao Chen.

At this time, Bilibili had moved from that dilapidated residential building in Hangzhou that was prone to downtime to a dedicated floor in the Haofeng Network Building.

Founder Xu Yi and several tech geeks are sitting excitedly in front of several high-end computers, reporting to their amazing boss who spent a million to buy them out and then spent a huge sum to buy them the official copyrights for anime.

"Mr. Li! This is amazing! Our company's underlying video transmission technology is practically alien technology!"

Xu Yi was beaming with excitement, "Ever since last week, after President Chen seamlessly applied iQiyi's P2P cloud acceleration technology and lossless image compression algorithm to Bilibili's backend, our website's playback buffering problem was quickly resolved!"

"Even during the evening rush hour at 8 PM, with millions of anime fans watching 'Naruto' and 'One Piece' online simultaneously, and the screen overflowing with comments, our highest quality video is still incredibly smooth! There's absolutely no buffering or loading!"

Li Feng nodded in satisfaction as he watched the screen fill with comments like "Fire tongs Liu Ming," "Boss Li is generous," and "Thank you Haofeng for buying the original."

The biggest pain points for video websites are broadband costs and buffering issues.

The streaming technology experts he poached from Silicon Valley and major companies at high salaries were not just sitting around doing nothing. Using the mature underlying technology honed at iQiyi to subvert and support Bilibili was a piece of cake for them.

"With the technical issues resolved, the next challenge is the ecosystem."