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"See? This is the influence of President Chen. Don't talk nonsense online anymore!"

On the last day of October, Sulli came over happily with the ratings of the first broadcast of "The Penthouse".

"How much?" Chen Chen lazily reached out to take the information. He had to ask about something that could be solved by just flipping through it. "When I was looking at the hot searches today, I did see a hot search about the ratings of The Penthouse, but I didn't have time to click in and take a closer look."

"Twenty o'clock?!"

Upon opening the first page, Chen Chen exclaimed in surprise.

In this day and age, is there still a TV series that can premiere at 20 o'clock? Even TVB can't do that!

The broadcasting platform is SBS, the weakest of the three major wireless TV stations in South Korea. The actors are not well-known actors with their own traffic, and the production team is even worse. Neither the director nor the writer are the kind that will make people's eyes light up when they hear their names.

In other words, at least half of the 20-point viewership ratings for the first episode of "The Penthouse" came from the name of C headquarters and the abstract idea that Chen Chen created on the Internet some time ago.

My dear friends, the Internet traffic password for 2020 is really abstract. I’m not lying to you!
"Young people nowadays have taken away the remote controls from their families?" Chen Chen exclaimed in amazement, "How did the ratings get to this point?"

"Don't say you don't understand. The TV station didn't understand either." Shirley just laughed. "The report announcing the data was written in a panic. When the TV station leader called me, he couldn't hide his shock."

"It's OK if the TV station doesn't know either. Just wait until they've investigated and notify us of the results." Chen Chen did his job of being a hands-off manager, which he was good at. "SBS TV station wants 'The Penthouse' to continue to be popular more than we do. Let them do the troublesome work!"

"No problem, I thought so too." Shirley thought of something else, "But we have achieved a good start, shouldn't we give the crew some rewards to encourage them to continue working hard?"

“What should be the reward?”

Chen Chen asked as soon as he opened his mouth. When Shirley asked this question, she had actually already found the answer and just wanted to seek consent.

"Let's bring those people from our C headquarters' physical therapy clinic directly to the set to provide services to everyone." Shirley turned her attention to the rehabilitation team that Chen Chen had prepared. "They've been quite free recently, so let's take advantage of them."

That's true. Those people did have a lot of free time after being invited by Chen Chen.

Because they have little sense of existence, people just want to go home after get off work and generally won't think of them unless they are feeling extremely uncomfortable.

"The idea is fine, but we can't send our people over there. We should send the crew over here. After all, the equipment is not easy to move, and the environment over there may not be suitable." Chen Chen thought about it and said, "Let's get a bus to go back and forth between the crew and C headquarters. Anyone who feels they need to come over to relieve fatigue can get on the bus."

"Then do as you say."

Shirley nodded and began to write a plan for her subordinates to carry out.

"Speaking of which," Sulli asked, her mouth still free, "Are you going to a meeting at Big Hit this afternoon?"

"Well, just sit there as a mascot and take some photos." Chen Chen responded.

"Take photos?" Shirley couldn't help but turn her head. "You guys are holding a shareholders' meeting and you want to take photos?"

"No one else took the photo, so I took it myself." Chen Chen stretched lazily, "It's for Dahei to publish news. Otherwise, how will others know that I am a major shareholder? Otherwise, how will the stock price rise?"

"Oh, by the way, when we were talking about stock prices, I suddenly remembered that you sold the stocks I asked you to buy when I was in China, right?" Chen Chen suddenly remembered this.

"I sold it a long time ago, when the price stopped going up." Shirley gestured with pocket money, "I made a small profit, about half a house."

"Can this be considered a small profit?" Chen Chen couldn't help but shook his head, "Your sights are getting higher and higher."

"It's mainly because I can't buy one. If I could buy unlimited houses, I would have several houses." Shirley stopped talking here. She was more interested in Dahei's affairs. "Is there a fixed agenda for today's shareholders' meeting?"

"Probably not. Anyway, I don't know." Chen Chen talked about the other side, "But I know about Big Hit's recent actions. They are in the process of acquiring KOZ, and it should be completed in no time."

"KOZ?"

Shirley frowned in confusion.

"The company that Zico is the boss of is not very large." Chen Chen explained: "It should be another operation by Dahei to increase the stock price, otherwise the acquisition could have been completed before the listing."

"I understand now." Shirley finished her work and turned around with a smile, "Dahei's target is KOZ, who is our next target at C headquarters?"

"Actually, I want High Up, which is the entertainment company that will launch a new girl group in two weeks, the one built by Heiyan Bisheng." Chen Chen drooled a little when he thought about it, but finally shook his head, "Unfortunately I can't get it. They don't want to give it to me."

"Why don't you want to?" Shirley asked curiously.

"She has already redeemed herself from CJ, how could she sell herself again?" Chen Chen spread his hands, "This sounds illogical, right?"

"Yeah, what about KEYEAST that you mentioned a while ago?" Shirley's information didn't match up. "There has been no news about this matter. You didn't update the follow-up status after you came back from SMART."

"Don't worry about that." Chen Chen waved his hand and said, "I've already got what I wanted most. I'm not really interested in its shell."

Chen Chen just wanted an actor agency that could do things for him, he was not interested in running an actor company himself.

The cost is high, the money is earned slowly, the cycle is long, and the actors he has trained have to be given to others most of the time. These are things that Chen Chen cannot accept.

"Then go back and fill out the form. The company's information must be kept up to date." Shirley reminded, "Don't let others know what resources the company has available except you. That will be troublesome when you get things done."

"The main reason is that SMART hasn't confirmed it for me yet. I will update the information after it is confirmed." Chen Chen looked at the time. "It will be about these two days. It's said to be a week, but in fact, no matter what KEYEAST discusses or does, it can be passed smoothly."

If Sha Mao said he wanted to transfer shares, the other shareholders of KEYEAST would be nervous and ask about the whole process, but if he said he wanted to transfer shares to C headquarters, the other shareholders would only say
"Awesome! How did you get C headquarters involved?"

A person's reputation is like a tree's shadow. It must be a great thing for KEYEAST that C headquarters has changed from a small shareholder to a major shareholder.

As for setting up some kind of "concession" within the company, it would certainly not be a problem for the major shareholder to play around with this authority.

"In fact, the next move of C headquarters is still to focus on Cube Entertainment." Chen Chen said: "I only defeated everyone in Cube Entertainment, but I haven't defeated them yet. We need to turn Cube Entertainment into what Starship is now, and turn President Hong into what President Jin is now."

"What are you going to do?"

In this matter, all Sulli can do is listen attentively. "We need to win over (G)I-DLE and make them lean more towards us instead of Cube Entertainment." Chen Chen first grasped a pain point, "Once we achieve this goal, the rest will become very simple."

"But this can only make Cube Entertainment have to rely on our C headquarters, which is somewhat forced."

"If we really want to win back Cube Entertainment, we still have to help them take back A Pink. We don't even have to take back A cube, we just have to take back A Pink."

"But A Pink's contract actually only has about half a year left. I personally would like to wait until the contract expires and then extend an olive branch to bring everyone back." Chen Chen was a little conflicted. "This would go quite smoothly, but it seems that our C headquarters is a little insincere."

"You've done a great deed by getting a ten-year-old group to renew their contract. Do you still need to consider the issue of sincerity?" Sulli rolled her eyes and complained, "In your eyes, do you think we have to fight with KakaoM to be sincere? You're crazy!"

"If that's what you mean, then I won't have any psychological pressure and will continue to wait until the contract expires." Chen Chen smiled happily, "I don't want to fight with KakaoM again. Fighting under this situation is a bit like asking for trouble."

"Then the question is, how can you make A Pink sign a contract with you?" Sulli asked, "Don't you take the artists too seriously? Or do you think too highly of the attractiveness of C headquarters?!"

"Don't we have Pu Mei? After working at C headquarters for so long, she must have said something good about C headquarters, right? She can be used as a half spy." Chen Chen glanced at her, "Besides, it's not C headquarters that signed it. I'm just acting as a bridge. The one who really wants to sign A Pink is Cube Entertainment itself."

"C headquarters will not sign A Pink, even if I can get it for free."

Chen Chen added a sentence at the end.

There is no doubt that A Pink is a very good idol group, but it is also an objective fact that it is not at the top level and it is a ten-year-old group.

This means that C headquarters will definitely not sign A Pink, as signing them would lower the status of their own idol department.

The current Integrate of the idol department of C headquarters and the new girl group to be launched later are all monsters from the moment they are born, with the status of a top company. Then Chen Chen signed back a senior, but he is not the most outstanding one.
It seems a bit difficult no matter how you look at it, right?
Moreover, inserting a ten-year-old senior into the idol department that is full of vitality and youthfulness may also affect the atmosphere.

It’s not A Pink’s fault, it’s just that time has always been so cruel.

"It's a little hard to understand, but after I understood it I felt that your words were harsh." Shirley couldn't help but sigh, "The truth always hurts so much!"

"Okay, as long as you understand it." Chen Chen teased, "I never saw you being sentimental when you were doing things. You started this without me having to do anything, right?"

“Can’t it be that I’m a little sad because I was an idol before?” Sulli retorted: “After all, I’m still an idol senior of A Pink!”

"Not anymore from now on." Chen Chen's expression suddenly became serious, "You have to get rid of all your idol elements. That will only drag you down now."

"I know." Shirley sighed slightly, "My actual status will be upgraded to the representative director of C headquarters."

Sulli has been in C headquarters for a long time, and everyone in the circle, including those who are familiar with the Korean entertainment circle, knows that she is second only to the first person in C headquarters.

But people don’t have much sense of reality about this identity, because Sulli does not appear in front of everyone very often with this identity. In the minds of ordinary people, the idol element still occupies the vast majority of the impression.

Since Sulli’s identity is not yet strong enough to make others ignore her idol label, she must take the initiative to erase the idol label and put the identity that she wants everyone to remember at the forefront.

In fact, there is no need to wait until the end of the year. By the end of this year, Sulli’s status as the representative director of C headquarters will override all her other symbols.

……

……

We drove all the way into Big Hit and there were people guiding us everywhere. It felt like Bang Si Hyuk had given us a heads-up in advance.

After getting off the car, the staff holding the camera took a few photos of him. Chen Chen had completed 90% of his mission today.

"Long time no see, President Chen. I'm really glad to see you here today."

Someone came over and greeted him with a smile. Chen Chen squinted and looked twice before realizing that it was the top bomber Ms. Min.

"Ah, hello." Chen Chen also greeted, "You are here today, it seems that Ms. Min is also one of the many shareholders!"

"I only took a small amount symbolically, so I can't be considered a real shareholder." Min Xizhen waved her hand politely, "Today I mainly came here to say hello and get to know my colleagues. Big Hit is such a big company with so many people, and this meeting is a good opportunity to get to know each other."

"Then please ask Ms. Min to introduce us to each other later. There are many people whose names I can't even match with their faces."

Chen Chen was also very polite, with a smile on his face all the time.

However, this request was somewhat wasted, because Chen Chen soon discovered that almost everyone here was an acquaintance, and there were almost no faces whose names he couldn't match.

The person I know best is naturally Han Sung-soo from P-company. We used to have a very good relationship, but then it gradually deteriorated.

Chen Chen did not intend to blame him. It was inevitable for a small company to go with the flow. But Chen Chen would not talk to him enthusiastically either. The grudge had always been there and had never disappeared.

"You came so early!"

When Fang Shihe saw Chen Chen, he hurried over to say hello.

He will be Chairman Fang when the meeting starts later. Now he is just the president of an entertainment company whose overall strength is similar to or even weaker than that of C headquarters.

"You have to come early to watch the fun, otherwise there might not be a seat." Chen Chen replied with a smile: "I have already taken photos, and today's task is completed. The rest depends on Chairman Fang's performance!"

"Thank you very much!" Bang Si Hyuk's smile instantly became more than five points stronger. "Actually, it's just for everyone to get to know each other. The meeting will only briefly discuss the acquisition of KOZ."

"It seems that I can sleep comfortably during the meeting!" Chen Chen joked.

Fang Shi Hyuk laughed out loud.

"Hahaha, I can even move a bed for you!"

...(End of chapter)