"Invest in the entertainment industry? What do you mean?" The voice on the other end of the phone also turned serious.
Whenever it came to work, that man always became extremely earnest.
"Let me tell you about my situation here?"
"No need. I don't have time to listen. You just need to tell me what you want to do and the benefits it can bring me."
"Well, I've decided to invest in an entertainment agency. This company used to focus on streamers. I plan to diversify its development. I can double the company's value within two months."
"Fine. If you fail, face the consequences as per the military order."
With that, the phone was hung up.
Ji Siyue looked at the dead phone and sighed helplessly.
"Maybe no one else but that person can make you patient enough to listen?"
After returning to the company, Ji Siyue immediately started preparing for the acquisition. At midnight, she directly sent the contract to Liu Fanghua.
It seemed that Liu Fanghua was also troubled by the company's issues. At midnight, she could actually reply instantly.
[Fanghua: What's this?]
[Jiyueji: Isn't the name of my document big enough? I'm acquiring your company.]
[Fanghua: No, our company is on its last legs. I came to you just for a last - ditch effort. I didn't have much hope...]
[Jiyueji: I can understand your despair. But since I've sent it to you, if you can't sleep, get ready the things you need on your side and send them to me. Let's pick a time to sign the contract.]
[Jiyueji: I'm sleepy. I'm going to bed.]
[Jiyueji: Bye.]
After sending the messages, Ji Siyue logged onto Weibo and posted on her main account.
[Account hacked.]
After posting, she was even amused by herself. Then, with a sense of responsibility, she reluctantly fell into slumber.
While she was asleep, someone else on the other side couldn't sleep.
After [Red Bean] revealed herself, he had been waiting for [Jiyueji] to give an explanation. After waiting for a day, all he got was "account hacked"?
Was she still so timid? So cowardly?
He was extremely angry and directly posted on Weibo.
[I'll never eat red beans again.]
Ten minutes later in the comment section.
[Is the great master disappointed?]
[This melon is uninteresting, but surprisingly filling?]
[Jiyueji really is back. I just checked the Weibo online record!]
[She was only online for a minute. When she posted those two words, she really didn't think about anything and showed no nostalgia at all. She logged off right after. It's really ridiculous.]
[What on earth is Huangfeng's mood like...]
To be honest, Qin Chengyao didn't know what his mood was like either.
He felt that he was almost in a morbid state now.
He despised Ji Siyue's cowardice, but at the same time hoped that she would be even more cowardly and make more jokes, as if he wanted to keep getting entangled with her...
Qin Chengyao threw his phone away, lay down tiredly on one side, and sighed.
"Ji Siyue..."
He murmured this name softly. At a time when no one knew, a trace of water streaked across the corner of his eye.
...
When Ji Siyue woke up, she found that her email inbox was flooded.
There were many files in it, all the data of Liu Fanghua's company over the years, including cooperation contracts and quarterly reports. What made Ji Siyue feel most complicated was the current turnover report.
The top - ranked streamers should have been carefully selected. Their types were completely different. The only thing they had in common was relatively high turnover. As for the small streamers below, their situation was miserable.
This deliberate arrangement just showed the company's current plight.
So many detailed files. Did the people in the company not sleep and work overtime at night to make these reports for her?
Ji Siyue called Qing Ying. "I'm dealing with some official business at home. Help me punch in."
"Boss, this isn't good, is it?"
"I really have something to do. I'm going to acquire a company. I'll go to the company this afternoon and tell you the details. I'm busy now. You stay on standby. I may need your help!"
After hurriedly saying these words, Ji Siyue hung up the phone. She looked through the files sent by Liu Fanghua. Finding no major problems, she directly sent the contract negotiated by both sides to Qing Ying.
"Qing Ying, make two copies of this contract and come pick me up. We're going to sign the contract."
Qing Ying more or less understood what Ji Siyue had been doing all morning. Although she was puzzled as to why Ji Siyue wanted to invest in a dying agency, she still chose to unconditionally trust her decision. Nodding, she said, "I'll come pick you up after I've made the copies."
Two hours later, Ji Siyue appeared downstairs of the agency.
Looking at the building of the agency, Ji Siyue felt extremely emotional.
She still remembered the excited feeling when she first stepped into this place a few years ago. Now, she was going to become the boss of this company...
If she had told her former self about this, she probably wouldn't have believed it even if she was beaten to death, right?
Liu Fanghua ran out of the company and welcomed Ji Siyue in.
After entering the company, Ji Siyue found that there seemed to be fewer things in the company. Many live - streaming rooms were sealed, and only a few were still open with some streamers live - streaming inside.
"Why aren't these live - streaming rooms open?"
"Actually, the company just laid off some employees recently, leaving many live - streaming rooms empty. These are the ones with relatively good earnings. We directly brought them into the company to stream, which is more convenient for management." Liu Fanghua followed Ji Siyue and explained.
"Um... You did a good job."
"Huh?" Liu Fanghua didn't quite understand.
Ji Siyue explained, "The ones who were laid off should be those streamers with no income, right? Those streamers bring no revenue. It's better to lay them off and let them look for other opportunities. They're not suitable here anymore."
Liu Fanghua looked at Ji Siyue, was silent for a while, and then slowly said, "Siyue, you've really changed a lot."
Hearing this, Ji Siyue stopped and looked at Liu Fanghua. "In what way have I changed?"
"Do you remember that four years ago, not long after you first came to the company, when the company was going to lay off two streamers with very low income, those two streamers were crying downstairs of the company, saying that they would starve to death without income. You felt sorry for them and offered to take them under your wing. But now..."
In other words, she had become a bit cold - blooded.
How could Ji Siyue not understand what she meant?
However, she wasn't angry because it was the truth.