star of the peninsula

"It's not like there isn't one." Chen Chen said jokingly, "Isn't there a kid from Cube in Wanna One? He's the only one."

Apart from this, from Beast and HyunA who left Cube to the newly debuted girl group, not a single artist from Cube Entertainment showed up.

No one is targeting it, the block just pulls it by itself.

"The situation of Cube Entertainment is a bit sad." Park Jin-young sighed, "It was almost one of the top four entertainment companies, but suddenly an illness ruined everything."

"No one wants to get sick, but there's nothing we can do about it." Chen Chen sneered, "Based on the way those people at Cube Entertainment acted, do you believe that even if Boss Hong wasn't ill, something like that would happen?"

"I believe it." Park Jin-young thought about himself. "The soy sauce bottle did nothing wrong from his perspective, but there was the shameful incident of the stock price not being as good as Frappuccino. This kind of thing is not up to me."

"So you guys have never planned to go public?" Park Jin Young asked curiously.

"There is no reason for C headquarters to go public. We have no shortage of money and have top backers. I already have what going public can bring me. Going public again will only bring harm." Chen Chen spread his hands. "If you are talking about using stock market manipulation techniques to reap profits, then let's not talk about it. C headquarters has many ways to make money, and this one is not needed for the time being."

"It's a good idea to improve employees' sense of belonging." Park Jin-young gave an example, "If employees hold company shares, they will naturally work hard to make the company better, so that they can also benefit from it."

"Just give bonuses. What's the point of doing so many fancy things? The benefits that employees get in the end are still too low." Chen Chen expressed his views. "Artists and other important staff have contracts as a restraint. It doesn't matter if ordinary employees run away. So if it weren't for the situation where the company would die if it didn't go public, C headquarters would never go public."

"And Tik Tok doesn't want C headquarters to go public at all." Chen Chen added a particularly important point, "If I tell them that I'm short of money and want to go public to get some financing, they will just transfer the money to me instead of letting me act on my own."

"Right."

Park Jin Young nodded and said nothing more.

"Speaking of which, the new year is coming. Has Soy Sauce Bottle ever considered renewing the relationship with C Headquarters?"

Chen Chen took the initiative to bring up this slightly sensitive topic.

"Update the relationship?" Park Jin-young was a little confused. "We are already the closest alliance, how can we update it?"

"Let's temporarily create another front." Chen Chen licked his lips, "I have an entertainment company I want to take over."

"Cube?" Park Jin-young was stunned for a moment, "Aren't you already doing it? And there shouldn't be any need for any extra external force over there."

"It's not the cube. Why do you always think about the cube? Are you still upset about the breakup?" Chen Chen looked at him speechlessly, "It's the starship! The starship!"

"Starship is not easy to take over. KakaoM holds more than 70% of the shares. If you want to take over Starship, you want to take over KakaoM." Park Jin-young shook his head. "They are different from iHQ of Cube Entertainment. iHQ is declining, while KakaoM is thriving. It's not a big deal."

"You think too highly of Starship. You dare to equate it with KakaoM!" Chen Chen glanced at him. "KakaoM has so many subsidiaries, and it's not even the most competitive one."

"But I do know that it's not that difficult to compete with Cube Entertainment. I don't even have an admission ticket. But if 70% of the shares are in the hands of others, my admission ticket will be useless." Chen Chen thought clearly, "If we want to take over the starship, we can only sink it and force KakaoM to sell its shares to recover its investment before a greater loss comes." "And C headquarters alone can never achieve this level. I need external help."

"Soy Sauce Bottle is a very good foreign aid." Chen Chen looked at Park Jin-young with a smile, "You have such a big grudge against Loen Company, now that I'm the leader, don't you want to follow me to fight him?! Don't forget who did the Frappuccino stock price!"

"It's true that there is a grudge, and it's also true that it's very big, but it's not so easy to make a decision to put the whole soy sauce bottle on the line." Park Jin-young smiled brightly, "How about you write a detailed report and we'll study it and decide whether to go with you."

"No." Chen Chen refused. "If you want to follow me, then follow me. If you don't want to follow me, forget it. I can't force you to do this. I don't really need another ally."

"You mean you already have other allies?" Park Jin-young stopped laughing. "Can you reveal a little bit?"

"What are you thinking? Of course not." Chen Chen narrowed his eyes and began to deceive, "The main attack will always be C headquarters. No matter how many allies there are, they are just following behind to take advantage of the situation. There is no need for you to know who each other is."

"I'll think about this after I get back." Park Jin-young's attitude suddenly changed. "Whether it can be done in the end depends on the decision of the board of directors."

"OK, I'll wait for your good news."

Chen Chen nodded, agreeing with his approach.

……

Where do allies come from? Chen Chen has just started looking for allies, and the soy sauce bottle is the first one.

But as Chen Chen said, the allies don’t need to know who is who among each other, as long as they are willing to cooperate with C headquarters, they will definitely get the benefits.

Go home and lie down to rest, continue to perfect the plan in your mind, and check emails.

The mailbox notification sound has never stopped in the past few days, and all the emails from various places are collected and sent to Chen Chen.

"SBS TV is really too much." Chen Chen smiled and showed Pei Zhuxuan the newly received email, "'Model Taxi' didn't even get a nomination, but they dared to invite people from our crew to go there, and even invited me to be the guest of honor to present the award to others."

"It's always been like this." Bae Joo Hyun has long been accustomed to it. "The year-end events of the three major TV stations are not very valuable. They invite you, but you don't have to go. You can accept invitations from Blue Dragon and Baeksang again if you get them."

"Not this year. Integrate will debut next year, and I have to save some favors for them at the TV station." Chen Chen smacked his lips. "Hiss~ I'll probably have to go next year too, because I'm sure they'll win an award, so I have to extend the favor a little bit."

"You're so thoughtful. You really spare no effort for your girls." Pei Zhuxuan sat down next to Chen Chen and said casually, "The girl group is done. Will you consider forming a boy group in the future?"

"It depends on whether the girl group makes money. If it makes a lot, we'll form a boy group. If it doesn't give me a satisfactory rate of return, we won't do it." Chen Chen's attitude was very casual. "If you put in a lot of effort, but the rate of return is not as good as other projects, you can cut it from the idol side."

...(End of chapter)