star of the peninsula

A good script is not something you can get just by looking for it. While Chen Chen is trying to find gold in shit, he also has to think of other ways.

"You know that Sister Yi wants help from the company, right?"

Chen Chen called Ma Benzhang to his office.

"I know." Ma Benzhang sat down opposite Chen Chen and replied, "Xiuzhi came to me a few days ago to tell me her thoughts."

"What do you think?" Chen Chen looked at him quietly. "According to your thoughts, what kind of response do you plan to give?"

"No response." Ma Benzhang adjusted his glasses. "An artist who has just received top resources like the Samjin Group English TOEIC Class is not qualified to ask the company for resources so soon. At least an actor of Suzy's level is not qualified."

"If her demands are easily met, it may encourage her ambitions, which will be detrimental to the company's subsequent control over her."

"Artists have their own standpoints, and the company naturally has its own standpoints." Ma Benzhang said with a hint of loyalty, "I work for the company, I sit on the company's side, so my standpoint is naturally the same."

"Got it." Chen Chen didn't say much. "Go contact your old colleagues at MBC TV station and see if you can get some good resources from them to supplement the C headquarters resource library. I'll go to TVN and Netflix to see if there's anything suitable for Suzy."

"Okay." Ma Benzhang had no objection, but was a little curious about the second half of the sentence. After hesitating for a while, he couldn't help but ask, "Does our C headquarters have a good relationship with Netflix?"

"Not bad. Strictly speaking, it may be better than CJ." Chen Chen nodded and said, "The relationship with CJ is mainly reflected in TVN and M-net. With Netflix, we are business partners who have done business many times."

"That's great news. These days, being able to maintain a good relationship with Netflix is ​​a big advantage among peers." Ma Benzhang was delighted, but soon froze. "But why didn't anyone tell me such important news? Why didn't anyone even leave any information?"

"Because I was the one who was in charge of this work before." Chen Chen looked at him without any shame. "Minister Ma, just think of it as starting from scratch for the C Headquarters Actors Department. Thank you for your hard work."

Ma Benzhang was speechless. This man's self-righteous attitude was a bit too shameless.

But he happened to be the boss, and no one in C headquarters could ask him to do anything.

"Please give me permission. I want to review all the files related to film and television in the C headquarters from the beginning." Ma Benzhang was annoyed. "You accidentally omitted a lot of information in the summary you gave me."

"Okay, I'll have Zhiyan pick it up and send it to you later." Chen Chen leaned back, looking like he was seeing someone off. "Do you have anything else to say?"

"I still insist that we should not give Suzy a chance to go further, but should suppress her and tame her." Ma Benzhang brought the topic back to the beginning, "A good actor who can be held in hand is an excellent helper. If she flies away, there will be nothing left."

"Only if she can fly away." Chen Chen tapped the table twice. "Do you think that even if she is given the best resources, her development speed can exceed that of C headquarters?"

Suzy has been in the industry for ten years but C headquarters has only been established for four years. No matter how you look at it, she won't be able to escape the clutches of this young boss. This worry is indeed unfounded.

"My horizons are a little narrow." Ma Benzhang stood up, "Then I won't waste your time any more. Goodbye."

He bowed slightly and left quickly. He was very polite.

However, when Minister Ma stepped onto the sturdy corridor of the C headquarters building, new questions arose in his mind.

"Why doesn't an entertainment company that has grown to this size after only four years of existence feel like a nouveau riche?"

He was actually wrong about this. If he asked Chen Chen, Chen Chen would tell him that Headquarters C had cursed the nouveau riche many times.

It was fine when they took down the Starship. Everyone treated it as a counterattack drama in which C headquarters bravely challenged the industry giant KakaoM, and some were even happy for the success of C headquarters.

The period when we were fighting with Cube Entertainment was when we were criticized the most. We were blocked by a group of people and scolded because what C headquarters did at that time could be described as bullying the weak.

However, after Bit Hit went public, the title of nouveau riche was immediately snatched away by it. There was no reason for it, it’s just that everyone realized what the real nouveau riche looks like.

Compared with Dahei, C Benbu is a cultured gentleman!

The reason why C Headquarters did not give Ma Benzhang, the newcomer, a sense of upstart is very simple. Although C Headquarters was established not long ago, most of the people working there are old hands.

The initial team of this company was brought over by Chen Chen from Soy Sauce Bottle, and in the middle, some people were recruited from SMART, and later some were obtained from Starship and Cube Entertainment. These employees all have traces of time on them.

Let’s put it this way, if the helmsman Chen Chen and his deputy Shirley were not two enterprising young people, C Headquarters would have been an entertainment company that was a bit old-fashioned and filled with cunning and slippery old foxes.

……

I told Jiyeon to notify the archives to sort out the information and send it to the actor department, and then I went to the office myself.

"You need me for something?"

Park Ji-yeon came to the president's office with a nervous mood.

"Don't be so nervous, it's a good thing." Chen Chen smiled and poured her a cup of tea. "You have been working for me at C headquarters for a while. I came here today to discuss the issue of salary with you."

"According to the remuneration we agreed on, I should pay you for a TV drama now." Chen Chen handed him another apple, "But I will definitely continue to trouble you in the future, so I will pay you for at least one more. That's two for now, is that okay?"

"Yes." Park Ji-yeon held the apple in both hands and nervously placed it on her thigh. "This is indeed the reward we agreed on."

"But you know that this TV drama resource is not a female lead-level resource, right?"

Chen Chen talked about a more important point.

"If I can get a leading role in a TV drama with just a little bit of work, then the world must be crazy." Park Ji-yeon joked, "I wouldn't take it even if you dared to give it to me!"

"Do you have any requirements in terms of resources?" Chen Chen asked, "What type of role do you want to challenge, or what type of script do you want to try?"

"Well, I can't say it for a while." Park Ji-yeon made up her mind, "You decide. No matter what role you give me, I will cherish it."

"If I were to decide, things would be a little troublesome." Chen Chen couldn't help but laugh. "If I were to choose for you, I would only look at the quality of the script and wouldn't care whether you are suitable for the role."

"That was the script you picked yourself." Park Ji-yeon seemed to have thought about it long ago. "The script that Mr. Chen Chen from the C headquarters picked himself must be good. If I can't do it well, that's my problem!"

"OK, I understand what you mean." Chen Chen nodded, "Go back and wait, I'll let you know when there's news."

Anyway, he had to ask TVN and Netflix for some scripts to read, so it was convenient to watch Jiyeon's script as well. That's why Chen Chen called her over to ask a few questions.

…………

"Hey, is anyone there?" Shirley pulled Chen Chen out from the pile of scripts and handed him a document. "Please take a look at all the data of the girl group's comeback this time, President."

"There's nothing interesting to see. I've seen them all before when I was watching videos." Chen Chen raised his head from the pile of scripts. "How many are there? I remember there were more than ten, right?"

“If you count both big and small ones, there are more than ten. If you only count the three big ones, there are only a handful of them,” Shirley replied.

"Five, three and one?" Chen Chen raised his head a little higher and said in surprise: "The main song is so popular?!"

"Humph, they ranked first in three charts out of nowhere, what do you think? This is a unique achievement for a new generation girl group!" Shirley was proud for just half a second before she discovered the loophole and quickly patched it up, "Except for Integrate, people generally don't include girls in discussions about new generation girl groups."

"Okay, you did a good job." Chen Chen praised perfunctorily. Just as he was about to lower his head and continue working, he suddenly remembered something and asked, "Did you buy the list?"

"No." Shirley glanced at Chen Chen's face and said carefully, "The only competitor who can put pressure on us at the same time is Red Velvet. If SM Entertainment doesn't do anything, we won't do anything either."

"How many first places did Red Velvet take?"

Chen Chen asked casually, he forgot to ask Pei Zhuxuan before.

“Since they only had one month to promote their songs and didn’t even attend any small promotional stages, Red Velvet only got two first places during their comeback promotion this time.” Sulli replied.

"This will also allow Red Velvet to get two of the top three. They are so strong." Chen Chen smiled and shook his head, "These fans are really amazing."

"The fans' love for artists is very deep." Sulli responded casually, "Of course, Red Velvet also deserves the fans."

"Then can you tell me why Red Velvet, which has always been in the lead, has now fallen to the bottom of the three?" Chen Chen threw a test question over.

"It must be the company's problem. Look at the treatment of the other two companies." Shirley said indignantly: "Tuwas has full offline schedules, and the popularity of facial recognition has increased dramatically."

"Blackpink has a full schedule online, collaborating with overseas celebrities and doing extensive online marketing."

"Compared to them, Red Velvet's online and offline performances are lame, so how can you win over them?"

"Originally, the competition between idol groups is a competition of company operations. If the company loses, then there is no way it can win." Sulli snorted coldly, "The drama of a small company's counterattack will never happen to a big company."

"And I think you have a problem too." Sulli pointed the finger at Chen Chen again, "If SM Entertainment can successfully suppress Irene's popularity to the same level as her teammates through We Got Married, they will be bold enough to invest resources!"

"I didn't expect that not only did their popularity increase, but they also got to know you, a golden thigh. If SM Entertainment invests resources in Red Velvet, most of their popularity will be eaten up by Irene, so they are even more afraid to invest!"

"If you smash it down, a new Xiuzhi will definitely appear. Which entertainment company dares to do this now?" Shirley tapped his face fiercely with her fingers a few times, "So you have to take responsibility, too, understand?!"

"Hearing you say that, it seems like I do have a big problem." Chen Chen touched his chin and frowned, skipping the conversation that was not in his favor. "Let's change the subject. Let's not talk about this today."

"Then take a look at the data here." Shirley took the file from Chen Chen's hand and replaced it with a new one. "This is the performance of the first three days of promotion of Shine Grocery Store. Take a look."

"I won't watch it." Chen Chen waved his hands repeatedly, "What's so good about this? I only look at the final ratings!"

"Without ratings, how can the online platform provide you with ratings?" Shirley rolled her eyes at him, "So you still have to talk to the production team about the compensation again."

"Hiss~" Chen Chen took a deep breath, "This is really a problem."

"How about this, how about we calculate the number of 4minute employees?" Chen Chen came up with a good idea. "If we double the salary for each employee, the total salary for ten employees will be eleven times!"

"So generous?" Shirley was surprised at Chen Chen's generosity. "Although we can afford it, I don't think they can get as much as ten people, but even if it's only doubled or tripled, I will still feel bad when it comes time to pay."

"No!" Shirley realized the problem as soon as she finished speaking, "They can't even get a place!"

"Integrate will be back in early April, and the dates and schedules of the two girls are exactly the same. How can 4minute take the first place from the girls?"

"Oh, you bad guy, you don't plan to increase the salary at all, right?" Shirley asked for justice for the production team, "They have been working very hard during this period, and they need to be rewarded with some bonus."

"Then just double it." Chen Chen waved his hand, "I know how hard they work, and I also think they need a reward."

"Thank you, President Chen."

Shirley happily thanked Chen Chen on behalf of the production team.

……

"Mr. President, Minister Ma wants to see you."

Chen Chen was still immersed in the pile of scripts until he raised his head when he heard Zhiyan's notification.

"Let him come to the president's office."

Chen Chen replied and simply tidied up the scripts on the desk that might be in the way.

"I've read all the information about C Headquarters' film and television business. The strength of our C Headquarters is beyond my expectation!" Ma Benzhang walked in with a beaming face. "The resources in all aspects are deeper than some old companies, and the breadth is also frightening. TVN and JTBC are also in our communication range. It's really great!"

"In other words, the only thing C headquarters lacks now is its own actors." Ma Benzhang said happily.

"So how do we solve this problem?" Chen Chen lazily lay in the boss chair, "It will take too long to train him myself. I can't wait."

"Cultivating our own talents is one thing, but we can also keep an eye on those famous actors outside." Ma Benzhang took out a list, "These are the actors we may get this year."

Chen Chen suddenly perked up and reached out to carefully take the list.

Shin Se Kyung.

Wow, the first name almost made Chen Chen tremble.

...(End of chapter)