Become famous another day.

"Huai Qian quickly accepted the role of 'A Night Visit to Young Master Cheng'." Chen Siqi put a piece of lobster meat on Lu Yanhe's plate. "We originally thought he would hesitate because this play is more literary, with a lot of dialogues and not much plot conflict. It is an experimental play in the Jumping Theater, so the cost is controlled lower. The salary he was given was basically not much higher than that of 'The Whirlpool', so we thought he would refuse."

Lu Yanhe knew the story of "A Night Visit to Young Master Cheng", a short story written by the traditional literature writer Ma Chao for "Jump Up". It tells the story of a young writer who contacted a once-famous Peking Opera actress in order to get material for his next novel. As a result, he happened to run into the actress' former apprentice who also came to visit him. The two had a fierce dispute over the adaptation of a play, which involved old grudges and ended up parting unhappily.

In this play, Huaiqian was asked to play the role of a famous actress' apprentice.

This kind of play is all about the fight between two people. The performance of the actors is extremely important and also shows their skills.

However, its subject matter is destined to be difficult to become popular and be warmly liked by the audience, after all, it is too literary——

However, Chen Siqi and others also left room for this type of play in their design of the Jump Up Theater.

They all believe that although the threshold is a bit high, the stories are actually very good and they can produce at least two or three films every year.

"Maybe one of them will become popular and the audience will like it." Chen Siqi said, "No one can predict this. When we were making "China in Classics", who could have thought that such a cultural program would have a large number of loyal audiences?"

Lu Yanhe nodded.

"That's good," he said.

Chen Siqi: "Now it all depends on the performance of 'The Intern' next week. If the ratings can remain stable above 0.6%, Yuehu TV and Northern Lights Video will have enough confidence to ask for a price increase during the investment negotiations next week. In this way, we can also increase the production budget for each subsequent drama, and we don't have to split one dollar into two dollars like we do now."

"Yan Liang is the lead actor in 'The Intern', right?" Lu Yanhe asked.

"Yes." Chen Siqi nodded. "The actress who plays Yan Liang's female boss is called Yan Yuling. She was recommended by Liu Zi. She was a colleague of hers who acted in a play, but later returned to her family to raise her children. I have watched the play "The Intern" in advance. Her acting is very good, but she doesn't have an agency yet. I have recommended her to Sister Zi Yan. I also asked Jump Up Theater to sign three additional play contracts with her. It's a package deal, and the total salary is 100,000."

In order to save money for the Jump Up Theater, Chen Siqi and his team also thought of many ways. In the case of Yan Yuling, an actor with no fame at all, but good acting skills, Chen Siqi would directly sign several drama contracts at once, a package price, to save money on the actor's salary.

Chen Siqi didn't think that she was being unfair to him. The selling point of the show "The Intern" was Yan Liang. As the heroine of the show, Yan Yuling would receive a lot of attention once the show was aired. The potential income this would bring her was far beyond the tens of thousands of yuan in salary.

In the market, business is business.

Lu Yanhe understood what Chen Siqi meant.

Chen Siqi is talking to him now to inform him in advance.
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Lu Yanhe went to Yuehu and met with the leaders of Yuehutai to confirm the cooperation on several subsequent important projects.

One is the second season of "The Birth of the Actors", one is the drama "The Legend of Sword and Fairy", and the other is the Jump Up Theater.

Judging from the two dramas "Girl's Adventure" and "Whirlpool" that have been aired so far, this theater did not have a huge viewership ratings right from the start like "Friends" and "Wulin Waijia", but it also exceeded Yuehu TV's original performance in the same period.

The key point is that Yuehu Theater's investment cost in the Jumping Theater has been much lower than the investment cost in the corresponding period in the past.

The copyright of the plays in the Jumping Theater is owned by Linghe. However, because the exclusive window time for Yuehutai for the plays in this theater is only 24 hours, after 24 hours, they will be online on the Northern Lights Video, so in fact, the purchase price of Yuehutai is much lower than that of the Northern Lights Video.

Every time the Jumping Theater releases a new play, it will drive the audience to click on and watch the previous plays——

Traditional TV stations cannot achieve this.

It is also impossible to say that these plays are played in rotation 24 hours a day.

Yuehutai was very satisfied.

During the 24-hour window period, getting the first wave of audience ratings will be enough to help the theater boost the TV station's ratings.

Xu Senjin, the director of Yuehu TV, received Lu Yanhe very warmly. Not only did he personally invite him to dinner, but he also signed an agreement with him. The main purpose was to hire Lu Yanhe as a creative partner of Yuehu TV and provide program ideas for Yuehu TV. There were no substantive work requirements, the term was three years, and the annual salary was one million.

Lu Yanhe didn't want to sign at first.

There is no such thing as a free lunch.

Lu Yanhe also understood why Xu Senjin wanted to sign such an agreement with him. To put it bluntly, he wanted to bind Lu Yanhe to Yuehu Terrace for a long time and establish a friendly and cooperative relationship.

One million a year is a huge sum of money for ordinary people, but for a creator like Lu Yanhe who has made amazing achievements in movies, TV series and variety shows, it is actually too little.

If Lu Yanhe is willing, there are many platforms out there that are willing to add a zero at the end to cooperate with him.

But Lu Yanhe doesn't like to receive blank checks——

It is easy to repay money, but it is hard to repay favors.

In this matter, the one million that seemed to be given without any request and almost for free actually affected his normal business negotiations for many future projects.

However, Xu Senjin dispelled his concerns with a few words.

"Yanhe, we all know that such an agreement is not even the icing on the cake for you. However, from "Friends" to "Jump Up Theater", including the "The Birth of the Actors" which is about to air its last episode, in less than a year, you have injected fresh blood into our Yuehu TV, and also brought us huge growth in our declining ratings and advertising revenue." He said sincerely, "So, this is not about our future cooperation, but for the achievements you have brought to our Yuehu TV in the past six months, we all agree that we should express our gratitude." Lu Yanhe thought for a while and said, "Tai Xu, since the three million is used to pay for my creativity, how about this, in the name of me and Yuehu TV, use this three million to establish a screenwriter bonus project to subsidize young directors and screenwriters in this industry who may not have found jobs yet, how about it? Ten thousand yuan per person, a total of thirty people can be subsidized."

Xu Senjin was stunned.

Lu Yanhe said seriously, "Mr. Xu, I am very grateful for your kindness to me. However, please understand me. I will not sign this agreement. I am a person who cares about hard work and rewards. I will not give up any of the benefits I should fight for. But if I accept such a salary, I will not be able to sleep at night. Therefore, use it to subsidize the young directors and screenwriters in this industry who are still struggling. Maybe some of the future masters will be able to stay in this industry and have their opportunities because of this funding."

Xu Senjin smiled suddenly.

"Okay, since you said so, I won't persuade you. Anyway, this is our station's expression of our love for you. You can use it however you want."
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In the third week of May, after the first two dramas brought fame to the Jump Up Theater, "The Intern" finally welcomed its first drama starring currently popular actors.

Yan Liang has three TV series to his credit, namely "Friends", "The Gold Rush" and "The Mountain Top". In terms of actual status in the TV drama circle, he is at the absolute top position.

Given his popularity and ability to carry a drama, everyone has high expectations for the ratings of "The Internship".

At this time, the last episode of "The Birth of the Actors" was broadcast.

This actor competition variety show, which was aired for three months and sparked huge discussion and viewing craze across the country, achieved a good audience rating of 1.26% in its final episode.

The performance of variety shows is more reflected in the online video broadcasting platform. The 1.26% audience rating is the highest among all variety shows on local TV stations in the past two years.

In this episode, Peng Zhixing took half a minute to introduce the Jumping Theater, and also focused on introducing "The Intern" which will be broadcast on Sunday.

As a result, this episode became the one that received the most complaints from the audience since the launch of "The Birth of the Actors".

The main reason is that there are too many advertisements in this issue.

There are three trailers for other movies and TV series alone.

A thirty-second trailer for "The Intern," a one-minute trailer for "Love Letter," and a trailer for another upcoming TV series on Yuehu TV.

However, despite all the complaints, the effect is still very obvious.

The three dramas were trending on the Internet that night——

These are all natural trending searches, not bought.

Moreover, especially for "Love Letter", this is the first time that a trailer for this movie has been released in China. The long-awaited fans can finally get a glimpse of the real thing.

However, there are still no shots of Zhang Ruozhi in this version of the trailer.

Just like the "cold treatment" given to her at the Jose-La-Vie Film Festival, Wan Qingqing and her team had contacted the domestic media to downplay the reports on Zhang Ruozhi. The media had a good relationship with Linghe Company and Lu Yanhe, and when they heard that Zhang Ruozhi was about to take the college entrance examination, they also cooperated with their intentions. In this version of the trailer, there is not a single shot of Zhang Ruozhi.

It was already late May and the college entrance examination was approaching. At this time, Lu Yanhe and Chen Ziyan did not want anything to go wrong that would affect Zhang Ruozhi's college entrance examination.

The crew had previously released information that the male and female protagonists of this movie were Lu Yanhe and Chen Bige. Few people knew that "Love Letter" also had a hidden female protagonist.
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“The Intern” premieres on Sunday.

Yan Liang also fully demonstrated his current appeal as an actor in this play.

One minute after the show started, the real-time viewership reached 1.1%. Five minutes later, it dropped slightly to 0.8%. After that, the viewership stabilized and began to rise again.

"The Intern" tells a workplace story.

The style is light-hearted and comedic.

Even the part where Yan Liang and his female boss don't get along at first and have frequent conflicts and frictions with each other is filmed in a very comedic way.

Lu Yanhe and Chen Siqi basically kept laughing for the first half hour and never stopped.

"The Internship is the most watchable show in the current Jump Up Theater." Chen Siqi commented, "It's so funny."

Lu Yanhe also nodded and said, "Yan Liang is suitable for this play. I was a little worried because I thought that his previous roles were more serious and full of hatred. I didn't expect that his style would be inexplicably suitable for this young intern with a bit of sultry characteristics."

"In the past, if it was a young male intern, he would be young and handsome, and his young hormones would be attractive to his female boss, but this drama doesn't go in that direction." Chen Siqi said, "The funniest thing is that he has to endure everything in front of his boss and laugh along, and his hysterical and crazy state in private is so realistic, which will definitely resonate with workers."

Lu Yanhe searched the Internet for real-time updates.

"You're right."

"Ok?"

“Many people said that they felt empathy after watching The Intern,” said Lu Yanhe. “The discussion rate of The Intern was very high on my homepage. Many media people I follow seemed to be watching it.”
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Recommended old book "I Became the Scandal Heroine Overnight" (End of this chapter)