star of the peninsula

Chen Chen thought he was quite good at coaxing girls.

So after getting enough information from Miyawaki Sakura, Chen Chen walked into the practice room with confidence.

"Girls, what are you doing?"

The moment Chen Chen said this, his confidence disappeared because he found that he had made a cliché and boring opening.

"I'm practicing."

The honest man Jin Qiu gave an honest answer.

"Oppa, what's the matter with you coming here?" Zhao Yuli wiped the sweat off her face and took the initiative to come forward.

"I have something to discuss with you." Chen Chen pointed to the corner where the heater was on. "Shall we sit down and talk?"

There was no reason for the girls to refuse, so they formed a semicircle around the heater.

"You must have heard of or seen family concerts before. After all, our C headquarters has held such events before." Chen Chen presented the matter to the few people bit by bit. "It's just that because of the epidemic, it has become difficult or even impossible to hold a family concert. It's a pity."

"Oppa has been staying at SM Entertainment for a while, so he discussed with the current SM Entertainment to hold a joint charity concert."

"Don't worry about the alliance and charity. That's something the company has to consider."

"What I want to say is that you will have a chance to step onto a really, really big stage at the beginning of next year, that's all."

"The company will help you plan the stage. If you have your own ideas, you can also communicate with the company." Chen Chen clapped his hands to indicate that he had finished speaking. "In short, in addition to daily activities during this period, I would like to trouble you to prepare an extra stage."

"A joint concert with SM Entertainment?" Jin Zhiyuan was very excited. "It means we will have the chance to see those famous seniors, right?!"

"Almost." Chen Chen nodded and said, "What is supposed to come will come."

"Wow, that's great!" Jin Zhiyuan cheered, "I must greet them properly when the time comes. They are all legendary seniors!"

"What do you mean by the legendary senior? It's no big deal for you guys... uh." Chen Chen calculated the ages of those people and suddenly changed the subject, "Make sure you don't make any mistakes in your understanding, because if this gets out in the news, your future will be very difficult."

The main thing is that Chen Chen suddenly calculated the ages of TVXQ and the driver group, and found that they were almost 20 years older than his own girls. He really couldn't say that they were only a few years older.

"Don't worry, Oppa, I will take good care of it." Zhao Yuli came out and took the responsibility.

"Okay, just watch out for each other." Chen Chen nodded. "Apart from being polite, nothing else matters. Talk when necessary and joke when necessary. You can also ask for an autograph or a recommendation on a show. With my face here, you should be able to have a comfortable life."

"Thank you, Oppa." Cho Yoo-ri said with a smile, "Besides anything else, the seniors in the driver group have become very familiar with each other because they often meet on the show."

"Well, connections are also part of a career, and it's a good thing to be familiar with them." Chen Chen continued with this topic, "Are you familiar with LE SSERAFIM? You've performed together so many times, and you've been on shows almost at the same time, so you should have a very good relationship, right?"

"The relationship is average." Shen Xiaoting whispered, "After all, there is a certain degree of competition. Neither side can pretend not to know."

"Hahaha, that's where you're wrong!" Chen Chen laughed. "The competition is between the two companies, between the operations planning teams. It has nothing to do with you!"

"Apart from fulfilling the obligations given to you by being an idol, have you done anything else? No, you are just working hard on promoting your songs, appearing on TV shows, and serving your fans. You don't do anything else."

"The same is true for LE SSERAFIM. They are the same as you."

"So if you need to make friends, feel free to do so. If you don't make friends now at this age, it will be hard to make real friends in the future."

"Do we have to be like Oppa?" Chen Chen joked, "At a glance, they are all business partners, no one else."

"How is that possible? Oppa must be joking." Jin Zhiyuan stroked his hair slowly, "But those words do seem to make sense. The competition outside really has nothing to do with us."

"Come on, I'll take you to a higher level." Chen Chen raised the dimension, "The artists released by those big companies are always guaranteed to be very strong. At the very least, they will make it to the first-tier. Have you ever thought about why?"

"It is true that the quality of the trainees is higher, but is it really so high that it transcends levels? Everyone has almost the same environment and training principles, so it can't be that exaggerated."

"In fact, it is the crushing of operational advantages. Large companies have more abundant operational resources and more mature strategies. As long as they appear, they have an advantage."

“That’s why I said that the competition between idol groups is actually competition between companies.” Chen Chen felt that this was a bit too absolute, so he added, “At least 70% of it is between companies.”

"..."

After the girls digested the information for a while, Chen Chen spoke again.

"But we are a little behind this time. We lost to you Integrate seniors!"

"Lost to Integrate-senpai? That doesn't make sense!"

The girls reacted enthusiastically, and even Naoi Rei, who had been silent, spoke up.

"Because your seniors from Integrate are from a girl group." Chen Chen spread his hands, "The top seniors from other LE SSERAFIM are from a boy group."

"why?"

Zhao Rouli asked curiously.

"It's a very simple and realistic answer." Chen Chen explained: "As a girl group, your fans of Integrate will definitely not be able to give their whole heart to you."

"Because pursuing you will affect Integrate. Unless you jump the fence, the fraternity fans will always have to make choices and will not stand completely on their side."

"But LE SSERAFIM is different. BTS is a boy band, and their fans can follow this girl band without worrying about it, because no matter what happens, it will not affect BTS itself."

"There are differences between men and women, and between men's and women's groups." Chen Chen curled his lips deliberately, "And this difference makes C headquarters one step behind Hybe when doing things, which makes me a little uncomfortable."

"But this matter has passed!" Chen Chen suddenly changed his attitude, "From now on, it will depend on your true ability to decide the outcome between us. The initial accumulation has been used up!"

"We almost tied even though the other team had more resources. I am confident that we will win in the future." Chen Chen stretched out the back of his hand and placed it in the middle of the crowd. "I hope you can have this confidence, too. Come on, one, two, three, come on."

The girls looked at each other, and one by one they placed their hands on the back of Chen Chen's hand. "One, two, three, come on!"

……

Sulli had already finished finding a venue, and even bypassed Chen Chen to synchronize with Lee Sung-soo.

"Well done." Chen Chen praised: "You saved me the trouble of communication. It's so hard to talk to that person!"

"The question is, can we really get all the artists from Starship and Cube Entertainment to the concert?"

Shirley was a little worried and her brows were furrowed.

"Humph!" Chen Chen snorted coldly and said, "They are almost all our wholly-owned subsidiaries. Do they have the right to resist?!"

"Power is power, and people's hearts are people's hearts. Forcing them to do things will lose their hearts." Shirley rolled her eyes at him. "Why do you have to tell such an unfunny joke? You still need me to pretend to explain it to you, but you obviously know it all!"

"It seems that you are a little too worried, so you should relax." Chen Chen laughed, "I have made an appointment with Jin Shidai and Hong Shengcheng, they will be here soon. I don't think they will refuse such a good thing, so you can put your mind at ease."

"I know that anyone with a business sense would not refuse a large-scale joint concert that has attracted so much attention during the epidemic." Shirley paused, "I'm just worried that finishing the work first and then notifying them will cause estrangement."

"As long as the final result is good and there is money to be made, there will be no estrangement." Chen Chen pointed out the cold rule incisively, "If you mess it up, then estrangement and people's instability will arise."

"I'm just worried about screwing up." Shirley sighed, "If our C headquarters were to run it ourselves, I would be confident that the success rate would be 100%, but it's not like that after all."

"It was a concert co-hosted with S.H.I.P., a collaboration with an outsider."

"It's okay if he's just an outsider, but he's an unstable outsider, and he's determined to cause trouble!" Shirley became more and more excited. "If something goes wrong at this concert, our C headquarters will be in trouble!"

"What trouble?"

Chen Chen blinked and asked innocently.

"Uh"

Shirley seemed to be stumped by the question. She opened and closed her mouth but couldn't say anything.

"We are not listed, so there is almost no pressure from the outside world. We are a solid team internally, so the probability of problems is even lower." Shirley pinched her fingers awkwardly, "It seems that even if there is a problem, the impact on us will only be a little bit of reputation. I miscalculated."

Reputation can be said to be the most abundant thing C headquarters has. During this period of the epidemic, C headquarters has already gained enough favorability from the public through various anti-epidemic measures.

Not to mention the people in the industry, who hasn’t taken things from C headquarters when anti-epidemic supplies were in short supply? !
"Well, as long as we don't have any major problems, we really don't have to worry about other people's problems." Shirley suddenly felt a little confused. "But the situation has been confirmed to be like this, do you still need to call those two people over to talk?"

"Of course, we don't just talk about this issue. The main reason is that I want to hear about their experience in fighting." Chen Chen explained: "When I was fighting with KakaoM to start Starship and iHQ to start Cube Entertainment, I didn't think I would lose. But I was unsure about fighting against SM Entertainment. I needed these two people with rich experience in fighting to help me."

"It would be even better if you could give me some advice." Chen Chen began to fantasize, "It would be best if I could kill the fool with one shot."

"Don't dream. If we can kill Shamao directly, our teacher Lee Soo Man will be in big trouble." Shirley smiled, "But you are right to be cautious. Shamao is much stronger than many people think."

"You'll understand after reading the information. With so many subsidiaries or holding companies, it's impossible to handle it easily." Chen Chen shook his head. "People who have a cursory understanding of it will think that Shamiao is just an entertainment company run by idols. People who know it in detail will know that it is a complex entertainment industry tree."

Idols, models, comedians, singers, actors; production, manufacturing, distribution, promotion, S.A.I.P. has all kinds of businesses for all kinds of artists.

"If there was a chaebol behind SM Entertainment, it would basically be like KakaoM." Chen Chen joked, "It's a pity that it doesn't have one, but fortunately it doesn't."

"Why not say little CJ?" Shirley asked curiously.

"Tsk, CJ is not something that can be created just by having money. It is a higher level existence than KakaoM." Chen Chen smacked his lips, "It's just a little low-key. In addition, the impact of the Internet in recent years has indeed made it very uncomfortable, causing many people to gradually underestimate it."

"Take a look at their cinema chains, their production capabilities, and learn about the achievements of the various big directors they employ. If you have nothing to do, pay attention to M-net's talent shows, music shows, and MAMA, and enjoy TVN's TV dramas."

"What I've said are things that anyone who knows a little bit about the entertainment industry and CJ will know. There are still many things hidden underwater."

"Oh, by the way," Chen Chen turned abruptly, "Any news about M-net's next talent show?"

"It's a boy band audition, but the production won't start until next year. If they debut," Sulli thought about it and said, "it might be in two or three years."

"You know it so clearly." Chen Chen turned his head and looked at Shirley, "Did M-net TV contact us?"

"I contacted the I Division, and the I Division reported to the C Headquarters." Sulli replied: "I replied that there is no rush, and we will consider it after M-net has completely confirmed the program."

"You want others to fix it before you consider it. Ha, that's a bit arrogant."

Chen Chen said cheerfully.

"Once the trainees from C headquarters participate in the M-net talent show, they will definitely be used as a gimmick from the first performance to the last one." Sulli raised her chin proudly. "Since we know this will happen, of course we have to be arrogant. After all, they are begging us!"

"Okay, you can only be arrogant this once." Chen Chen reminded softly, "Because there is a high probability that we won't go, so we can't treat them like this."

"I think we can go." Shirley and Chen Chen disagreed, "This M-net talent show is a good opportunity for us to take advantage of."

"Appreciate further details."

Chen Chen humbly asked for advice.

"We will only have three candidates, but these three candidates will be selected through internal auditions." Shirley said these cruel words calmly from her gentle little mouth. "We will follow the internal audition process like a talent show, and the main purpose is to eliminate a large number of people."

"We have already eliminated a large number of candidates through regular screening, and we will eliminate another group later. Then we will use this program to eliminate a large number of the remaining candidates." Chen Chen roughly calculated, "In other words, in the end, we will probably have two or three groups of debut candidates?"

"The best case scenario is this." Sulli's eyes flickered, "We can manipulate the internal auditions behind the scenes, send the worse people to the show, and keep the best ones. The boy group we get will be even better!"

"Sure!" Chen Chen was excited. "Talk to MODHAUS Zheng Bingji about this. If you two think it's okay, find a time to do it."

...(End of chapter)