Li Momo rarely smiled at the weekly studio meeting. Since she became Ren Qingzhou's assistant, the frequency of her smiling had dropped significantly.
The pressure in this line of work was just too great. Every day she was on tenterhooks, afraid that something might go wrong.
"Generally speaking, after this episode of the show was aired, you gained nearly 200,000 followers on your Weibo overnight. After excluding the fake ones and passers - by, a considerable portion of these 200,000 followers should eventually turn into die - hard fans."
"The show has only aired one episode so far. The later development is still quite important. I'll go and communicate with the program team later to see what they're thinking. After all, this is a win - win situation."
"You're going to the program team later?" Ren Qingzhou had been a bit absent - minded. Hearing that she was going to the program team, he looked up at her and said, "Then you can just tell them about that CP thing. Don't do any more pink - tinted editing in the future."
"Okay, but I guess they'll still look at the subsequent reactions. After all, Chen Qiqi made it onto the hot search yesterday and the feedback was quite good. The proportion of praise was relatively high."
"If the marketing of your CP is relatively successful, they may still do the editing later."
Ren Qingzhou felt a bit of a headache when he heard this. Variety shows naturally had to create highlights. Nowadays, there were an endless stream of variety shows from various companies. Without some gimmicks, who would watch yours?
But it was a bit unreasonable to let a dating artist do CP marketing.
Especially when it came to publicly announcing a relationship in the future, if the timeline didn't match, it would be even easier to arouse dissatisfaction.
"You know, if I announce my relationship in the future and people find out that the CP - related parts were all fake and I was actually in a relationship at that time, it won't be good."
"Boss, what are you thinking? Even if you announce your relationship, you can't tell the real time when you started dating. We've been promoting that you two are just good friends. If you say so, aren't you just slapping the studio in the face?"
"You're right." He had been so focused on disassociating from the CP that he had forgotten about this.
"Alright, get ready to record the next two episodes." Li Momo started to tidy up the stack of forms in front of her. "And! And! After you finish recording *Youth Trainees*, you have to go to City C."
"What for in City C?"
"Fanny, the brand that has been cooperating with us, opened a new store there and invited you to attend their opening ceremony."
"Fanny? I remember their contract is about to expire this year, right?" Ren Qingzhou had been cooperating with Fanny for almost three years. If he remembered correctly, their contract should expire in September this year.
"It will expire in September this year, but Fanny wants to renew the contract."
"Okay, I got it."
Just as they were talking, Ren Qingzhou's phone rang. He glanced at it and saw that it was Lin Yujie calling.
When they were in the film crew before, he had a good relationship with Gu Xiaowei and Lin Yujie. But relatively speaking, he was closer to Gu Xiaowei.
Lin Yujie was a person with impeccable character and a great personality. But his attitude towards Ren Qingzhou always made Ren Qingzhou feel that he was a bit too polite.
Although Ren Qingzhou knew that it wasn't Lin Yujie's fault. The entertainment industry was a place that emphasized seniority. He and Gu Xiaowei were at a relatively similar level in terms of status. Compared with them, Lin Yujie might be a little bit inferior.
Although Ren Qingzhou really didn't care about these things, maybe to avoid being thought of as trying to get close, Lin Yujie always seemed a bit distant.
Thinking of this, Ren Qingzhou suddenly realized that after Gu Xiaowei won the award, their status in the industry might no longer be on the same level.
"I'll go answer the phone." He smiled apologetically and then walked out of the meeting room.
Lin Yujie called to ask for his help. He had taken on a singing variety show and now needed a duet guest.
For some reason, he thought of Ren Qingzhou and called him on a whim.
Ren Qingzhou readily agreed without hesitation: "Sure, send me the details. I'll take a look and I'll definitely go there then."
Since he was already in the studio, after answering the phone, he went back and reported the schedule to Li Momo: "I'm going to City S to record a variety show next Friday to be Lin Yujie's duet guest."
Li Momo flipped through his schedule: "Okay, I'll add this item to your schedule."
Su Tang had an appointment with Penguin on Monday morning to have a detailed discussion at the company. While Ren Qingzhou was in the meeting, she had already driven to Penguin.
To be honest, this was the first time she had come to Penguin's branch in Beijing.
As the leading enterprise in the industry, Penguin's headquarters was located in City S, and it had four branches across the country. The largest one was probably the one in Beijing.
She reported her appointment to the receptionist, and then a special receptionist took her to the relevant department.
The person in charge of discussing the project with her was a young lady who looked about 30 years old. She was gentle, but the conditions she put forward were really not kind at all.
Su Tang thought that these conditions were not much better than those of Luda.
After she had roughly finished talking about some of Penguin's requirements for the cooperation, she looked at Su Tang with a smile and said, "You can go back and discuss it carefully. I know it's really not easy for startup teams these days."
Su Tang replied politely: "Okay, I've roughly understood the requirements here. I'll go back and discuss it with the other partners and give you a reply as soon as possible."
The young lady then said, "I heard that you used to work for Penguin too."
"Yes, but I was always in the technical department before. I don't know much about cooperation and R & D." Su Tang realized that they had done their homework quite well.
"Penguin is a big company after all. It's normal that people don't know much about each other, not only between different departments but also between different project teams in the same department. But we're not new to online games. We've had some relatively successful cases before, and there's also some information about them. You can take a look."
"Okay." Su Tang took the document she handed over.
"On the other hand, if you cooperate with us, there are certain conditions regarding the IP adaptation. You can take a look at the specific contract. Since Penguin mainly focuses on the entertainment industry, and the adaptation of online games is quite common these days."
Penguin mainly wanted to buy the IP adaptation rights of *The Floating World Story*. They had taken a fancy to the benefits of game adaptation in the past two years and also wanted to get a share of the pie.
"It should be quite emotional to come back to Penguin after all these years. You can take a stroll around."
After finishing the business discussion, the young lady made some appropriate small talk.
Su Tang didn't know how to respond. In fact, she had always been in City S before and knew nothing about this place: "Okay, it's okay. You can go and do your work. I can manage on my own."
Su Tang really didn't have the interest to stroll around the company. After all, she had an appointment with another company in the afternoon and needed to make some preparations now.
She walked out of the meeting room and was going to go downstairs and head back.
Then, as expected, she got lost...
She had no choice but to stop a Penguin employee and ask for directions: "Excuse me, could you tell me how to get out?"
For some reason, the young girl looked a bit surprised the moment she saw Su Tang.
Then she said, "I'm just going downstairs to deliver some documents. I'll go down with you."
"Thank you so much. I'm sorry to trouble you."
"It's no trouble at all. It's just a piece of cake."
The young girl led her to turn two corners and then pressed the elevator button: "Take this elevator and you'll reach the first - floor lobby."
After she said that, she looked at Su Tang again and finally couldn't help asking, "You look so much like Ren Qingzhou's friend who was on the hot search some time ago."
Well, it's not like. I really am.
Su Tang neither admitted nor denied it.
"Could you be Ren Qingzhou's friend? I remember she used to work in our company, but then she left to start her own business."
You really do remember quite clearly...
It was no use pretending anymore at this point, so Su Tang had to nod.
The young girl immediately got excited: "So you're really friends, right? You're not in the kind of relationship that the marketing accounts guessed, are you?"
If Su Tang had only suspected that she might be Ren Qingzhou's fan before, now she was absolutely certain that she was.
Why did she keep running into his fans everywhere?
It was really a case of "it's a small world".
"No." What else could Su Tang say? She could only deny it.
Anyway, the girl had asked two questions, and she was answering the first one. Su Tang told herself this self - deceptively...
Although no normal person would understand it this way, at this moment, Su Tang felt as if she had returned to her hometown and met the neighbors.
A group of people would surround her and ask if she was dating someone.
Fortunately, although the young girl was excited, she was quite observant. She could tell that Su Tang didn't want to answer this question. After getting the answer she wanted, she didn't say anything else.
The elevator soon reached the first floor. Su Tang politely said goodbye to her: "Thank you for your help."
Then she left Penguin.
As soon as she left, the young girl excitedly shared this incident with her good friend: "Do you know who I met today? I met Zhouzhou's friend in our company today. Then I was really unwilling, so I asked her if they were dating. She said no!"
There was nothing that made fans happier than when both parties clarified this matter.
First, Ren Qingzhou responded to the previous scandal on the show, and then the heroine of the scandal clearly stated that they were not dating. Ren Qingzhou's fans felt as if it was a festival today. The cloud that had been hanging over their heads finally dissipated completely.