Which top celebrity doesn't support a few female stars?

Li Zhou was indeed busy this morning, and if nothing unexpected happens, he will be even busier in the coming days.

It's like this...

At 8 a.m., Li Zhou had just finished breakfast when his assistant Yang Sisi reported that he might need to personally select several endorsement deals.

Considering that these were all high-paying jobs, Li Zhou quickly packed up and headed to Shengshi Entertainment.

It was a bit early, but Mr. Li didn't need to worry about the company being empty or the person responsible for business not being there.

After all, the only core product of Shengshi Entertainment to date is—

『Li Zhou』

In a sense, Shengshi Entertainment was mainly supported by Li Zhou.

Specifically, Li Zhou contributed 75% of the company's revenue, while the other 25 signed artists contributed about 21% combined.

And a very small amount of revenue from general entertainment.

Therefore, Shengshi Entertainment is both a place for work and leisure.

They can work like oxen and horses, 365 days a year without a break, and they even wish there were people on duty 24 hours a day.

It's also possible to relax so much that, in just over two and a half years since its founding, there's a record of almost all employees taking three consecutive months off while still receiving their salaries...

As soon as Li Zhou got out of the car and entered the company lobby, a strange man in his thirties who looked very elite immediately walked up to him.

Looking at Li Zhou, Zhang Qiming took the initiative to greet him: "Hello, President Li. I'm Zhang Qiming, the newly transferred vice president of the company..."

"As per Mr. Xu's arrangement, I will be in charge of company operations and other related matters from now on..."

After listening patiently, Li Zhou gestured: "Let's talk as we walk, shall we go to my office?"

Zhang Qiming replied repeatedly, "I'll follow General Manager Li's arrangements..."

Li Zhou, who had already stepped into the elevator, turned back to look at Zhang Qiming: "President Li?"

In response, Zhang Qiming frankly stated, "Regarding the specifics of this matter, you, Mr. Li, need to contact Mr. Xu."

Li Zhou: "..."

Having inexplicably acquired a title, he naturally wanted to figure it out first.

As soon as he reached the 7th floor, Li Zhou took out his phone from his pocket and made a call.

Zhang Qiming and Yang Sisi were both adept at navigating the workplace and proactively kept their distance from each other.

Xu Qingyi's voice quickly came through the phone: "You're at the company so early?"

She didn't mince words and got straight to the point: "Recently, I've fully appreciated your foresight, vision, and perspective, so..."

"Yesterday afternoon, we made a last-minute decision to appoint you as the company's honorary executive vice president, which will also give you the authority to intervene in the company's management."

"If you don't mind, the company will pay you an additional after-tax annual salary of 100 million."

Having been poor since childhood, Li Zhou instantly grasped the key point he wanted to focus on: "You won't even give me a monthly salary of 100,000? Boss, you're really stingy."

Xu Qingyi wasn't a stingy person: "An annual salary that's only paid once a year sounds much better when it's a round number like 100 million."

"Are you trying to fool me like a two-year-old?" Li Zhou chuckled. "Fine. 100 it is..."

He couldn't resist muttering a few words in a seemingly serious tone: "I'm doing work worth hundreds of millions or billions, but I'm getting paid so little that I can't even afford cabbage."

Xu Qingyi: "..."

She really couldn't refute that.

The TV series project she'd only watched a few episodes of already had a starting budget of one or two hundred million.

Shengshi Entertainment will not only provide personnel but also financial resources, demonstrating a deep involvement.

...

Putting aside the trivial matter of being promoted to honorary executive vice president of the company, after arriving at the office, Li Zhou drank tea and listened to Zhang Qiming explain the situation...

Judging from Boss Xu's past work style, it is not hard to see that she is very efficient.

After our conversation in Li Zhou's office yesterday morning, I immediately made a series of arrangements.

This includes endorsements.

Of course, Boss Xu already made it very clear yesterday that she is a person who focuses on business.

It's not so exaggerated as to directly use the family's business resources to handle such a small matter; it's just that someone was assigned to coordinate and handle it.

This person is Zhang Qiming, who was recently recruited.

He was originally the vice president of the interactive entertainment business under a certain group, and he had a corresponding network of contacts, so he quickly obtained multiple endorsement opportunities.

Moreover, they are all relatively high-quality companies in the industry, and the competition is quite fierce... or rather, there are many people openly and secretly vying for them.

After listening, Li Zhou asked with some curiosity, "Since these endorsement deals already have pre-selected partners, why did President Zhang still push them to me for selection?"

Zhang Qiming replied matter-of-factly, "From a business endorsement perspective, no one would refuse to cooperate with you, Mr. Li."

"For example, for this Coca-Cola product endorsement, the brand would be very willing to replace you with Mr. Li."

Li Zhou: "..."

He could see the annotations on the document that Shen Junyi's team was the initial prospective partner due to their multiple proactive contacts.

Zhang Qiming is very experienced in handling affairs, and he even specified that the intended endorsement fee is 1400 million yuan per year.

After replacing Li Zhou, the brand was willing to pay up to 2000 million yuan a year for the endorsement.

In fact, the main endorsements that Zhang Qiming is now offering to Li Zhou for selection can all be said to have been "snatched".

The brands do indeed have initial partners in mind.

However, after the series of entertainment news events in the past few days, I would prefer to choose Li Zhou.

Because, through a series of continuous public opinion risks, it can be seen that Li Zhou has an unimaginable upper limit to negative pressure.

How could the brand not give priority to Li Zhou?

So Li Zhou didn't linger and listened to Zhang Qiming explain the pros and cons while he made his selection.

After careful consideration, he selected only three endorsements.

1. A single endorsement deal for a certain brand of cola costs 2000 million yuan per year.

2. A snack brand endorsement deal, with an endorsement fee of 2100 million yuan per year.

3. A paper industry brand ambassador, with an endorsement fee of 800 million yuan per year.

Among them, the endorsement of paper industry brands is the simplest, requiring only a set of simple promotional photos and authorization of the portrait and name.

This means that brands are allowed to use titles like "Li Zhou's style" in their advertising, which is the simplest type of endorsement.

The first two are considered standard endorsements, requiring full-coverage portraits, shooting promotional videos, and distribution of in-store materials.

Afterwards, Li Zhou, together with Zhang Qiming, reached a cooperation memorandum directly online with the brand.

The rest is just going through the GG shooting process.

...

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At noon, Li Zhou ate lunch in the open-plan tea room next to his office.

I also chatted with Yang Sisi and listened to her talk about public opinion.

"Currently, the top trending topic on Weibo is the one you wanted, Brother Li..."

Yang Sisi briefly discussed a micro-essay by a certain ILI.

"Judging from the main comments from netizens, they mostly think you are nostalgic and haven't forgotten your original aspirations..."

"Furthermore, countless ili were moved to tears..."

As he listened, Li Zhou frowned deeply.

He didn't understand how such an interpretation could come about.

Putting aside the fact that he really does have 69 ex-girlfriends, he still has that much memory, okay!

Immediately, Li Zhou asked directly, "Who did this? It's easy to crash like this."

Meeting Li Zhou's gaze, Yang Sisi almost froze, but fortunately she reacted quickly: "It's true, there were indeed only 69 followers at the time."

Li Zhou: "..."

6!

After skipping over that, Yang Sisi continued talking about some insider information.

As if overnight, the post-00s generation, poised to explode, are now in a rather bleak situation.

After all, besides celebrities' Weibo backend showing the increase or decrease in followers, some third-party paid agencies can also collect this kind of data.

They also claimed that they could remove fake data, but the algorithm had accuracy issues.

Noticing that Li Zhou's expression was becoming increasingly calm, Yang Sisi couldn't help but drift off into a little distraction: "Why did you two provoke him in the first place..."

"They haven't even taken any direct action, yet their active fan base is steadily declining, and they've lost their commercial value recognition..."

"You don't think that being categorized as part of the top Gen Z group means you're really on the same level, do you?"