star of the peninsula

Chen Chen could press the elevator to the right floor from the underground garage with his eyes closed.

"Aren't you going back to the dormitory directly?" Chen Chen looked at the girls who followed him one by one and asked curiously, "Are you not going to have other things to do in the company?"

"There are still many things that need to be returned to the company. If I accidentally lose them when I bring them to the dormitory, I will have to pay for them." Pei Zhuxuan glanced at the floor that Chen Chen pressed and found that it was two floors higher than hers, so she asked, "Have you made an appointment?"

"Yes, I told him over the phone. Otherwise, your teacher Lee Soo Man wouldn't be waiting for me in the office at this time." Chen Chen replied.

"What do you want to talk about today?" Pei Zhuxuan sighed as soon as she asked, "Forget it, you don't have to tell me. It's better to wait until there is a result before telling me, so that I don't understand."

"Okay." Chen Chen smiled and rubbed her head as a comfort. "I'll contact you when I'm done."

……

After leaving the elevator and turning left and walking a few steps, Lee Soo Man's office door was wide open, as if he was waiting for Chen Chen to come over.

"The door is open so wide that the heat inside is escaping. President Li is wasting resources."

When Chen Chen stepped inside, Lee Soo Man had already prepared tea for him.

"Have some tea. I made it based on the time you'd arrive. It's perfect for drinking now." Lee Soo Man didn't stand up to greet him. He pointed at the cup on the table and said, "We'll talk about it later. Let's have some tea first."

"..."

Chen Chen smacked his lips helplessly, reached out to pick up a teacup and drank it all in one gulp while standing.

"Is it fun to use these useless psychological pressures every day?" Chen Chen said with a hint of disdain: "We have met and talked about so many things. You should also realize that this trick has no effect on me!"

"It's not a big deal, so just do it." Lee Soo Man drank his cup of tea with a smile, "If it works once, I can get an unexpected reward, and I won't regret not doing it one day in the future."

"An experienced and patient hunter." Chen Chen shook his head, "Don't let your own tricks fool you one day."

"Young, strong and wise little fox, don't let your confidence blind you or you'll fall into a trap." Lee Soo Man fought back slightly, then folded his hands and looked at Chen Chen steadily, "SMART is willing to participate in what you want to do. As for the compensation, we will choose the second option."

"OK, deal."

Chen Chen nodded at him, put down the cup, turned around and was about to leave.

"Wait a moment." Lee Soo Man stopped him. "It's a rare opportunity for you to come to SMART. It would be a shame to leave after saying just these two sentences. Sit down and have a couple more cups of tea. We can talk about something else."

"Is there anything else that C Headquarters and SMART Company can discuss?" Chen Chen just stood there motionless, with no intention of sitting down. "We should have settled our accounts."

"Boss Chen paid a little more, and SMART feels guilty about accepting it, so we want to compensate him a little." Lee Soo-man's words were a little unbelievable.

It's not that there's something wrong with what he said, but it's very problematic when it comes from the mouth of Chairman Li of SMART.

"Which business did I overpay for?"

Chen Chen became interested and pulled out a chair to sit down opposite him.

"It's about the Arlene Canteen." Lee Soo Man said as a matter of course: "SMART received one song "Psycho" plus two programs "Queendom" and "Street Warrior". Of course, we received too much."

"..."

"seriously?"

Chen Chen tilted his head and couldn't help but narrow one eye slightly.

"Of course I'm serious." Lee Soo Man said slowly, "No company doesn't want to take advantage of others, but SMART knows very well who can take advantage of and who can't. We don't dare to take advantage of C headquarters."

"Is this true? Is this still the SMART company I know?" The expression on Chen Chen's face was a little exaggerated and a little embarrassing.

Lee Soo Man remained calm.

"The Stupid Company will always be the Stupid Company, but every month at C Headquarters is different from the previous C Headquarters."

Okay, now Chen Chen understood. It was SMART that panicked when it saw that C headquarters had the ability to produce three TV series.

Having the ability to produce a TV series independently is nothing. Big companies can just transfer some resources and do it easily.

The two TV series are a bit exaggerated, which means that the production company has strong resources and connections, as well as a deep enough financial foundation.

To an entertainment company, producing three TV series is a bit of a fantasy. The resources invested are almost equal to the value of selling the entire company. Once they fail, there will be no recovery.

Take Headquarter C for example. When the three TV series were launched at the same time, the entire company did not have any surplus at all. Even Chen Chen's personal income had to be invested in the set without hesitation. If any of the projects was hidden a little bit, the delicate balance that had been built would immediately collapse.

But who let Chen Chen know that he would definitely not fail? ! That's why he dared to throw things in like this.

In addition, the C headquarters is a bit tricky.

The three-opening promotion was so loud that it even bought several hot searches for itself, but in fact, "Sky Castle" only had two episodes left before it ended, and the actual three-opening period was only one week.

But people outside don’t know. They only know that C headquarters is like a bottomless pit, sucking resources out of its own body and pouring them into the TV series, as if any failure would be just a drizzle.

Chen Chen even invested in two movies from CJ.

What a terrifying amount of resource storage this is. Are companies of this level really on the same level as me?
This is what Lee Soo Man was thinking, so he didn't mind giving back some of the benefits he had in exchange for a closer relationship with C headquarters.

"Well, since President Li feels that he has taken advantage of me and wants to make amends with action, how about Stupid Hat Company do me a favor?"

Chen Chen didn't bother to be polite and asked him to help directly.

"What kind of help? Well, what kind of help?"

The first sentence seemed a little anxious, so Lee Soo-man slowed down and asked again.

"Goo Hara's contract is about to expire. KEYEAST should transfer the contract to our C headquarters before it expires."

Chen Chen put forward the conditions.

"No, this won't work." Lee Soo Man refused. "Not to mention that Goo Hara is not in the sphere of influence controlled by SM Entertainment, even if she was, this won't work. This approach is not allowed by the public!"

"What if we terminate the contract early if both parties are willing?" Chen Chen changed the condition.

"That's no problem, as long as you can convince Gu Hara." Li Xiuman looked at Chen Chen doubtfully, "But the contract is only a few months away. Do you really need to be so anxious?"

"Ah? I'm not in a hurry." Chen Chen's answer surprised Li Xiuman, "I haven't even contacted her, and we haven't agreed that she will choose C headquarters for her next contract. I'm just idle and want to make SMART do something to pay back the advantage I took before."

"..."

Li Xiuman couldn't help but twitch his eyebrows twice, and his expression was a little unsettled.

"You do seem to have some free time."

...(End of chapter)