After divorce, I can hear the voice of the future

Chapter 402 Mutual Benefit is Cooperation
"Tomorrow, I'll go with you to Mahua to talk to Zhang Chen."

Lu Liang looked down and saw that her calves were trembling with tightness in her high heels. He felt refreshed for no reason.

The small space and special scene can indeed arouse people's desire and make them feel unprecedented excitement.

Afterwards, he picked up the white wine in the ice bucket, pulled out the cork, blew on it, and sighed, "It feels good."

"Ah Ba, I'm thirsty too."

Zhang Tianai’s big eyes are watery, just like the clear spring water.

The cherry-like mouth opened and closed, and the delicate lip makeup had turned into a passionate kissing lip makeup, with a little stain on the chin.

Lu Liang handed the bottle over to her. Zhang Tianai stretched her neck, and he took it back. This happened over and over again, causing her to complain.

Lu Liang laughed: "Drink it."

Zhang Tianai quietly observed Lu Liang, and suddenly pounced on her food like a hungry tiger. She took a gulp of wine, hooked a blanket from the bed with the tip of her shoe, and covered herself and Lu Liang with it.

Squinting his eyes: "I'm sleepy, go to sleep."

"Go to sleep." Lu Liang couldn't help laughing.

They had a bed but didn't sleep in it. Instead, they hugged each other in the small bay window, looking at the night view of the city and spending a wonderful time together.

The next morning, I was awakened by the sunshine and went back to bed for a nap.

Near noon, Lu Liang followed Zhang Tianai to the Mahua Theater.

"Tian Ai, please wait outside for a moment. I want to talk to Mr. Lu first."

Zhang Tianai was left outside the office. Inside the office, Zhang Chen stood in front of Lu Liang like a primary school student who had made a mistake.

"The Shameful Iron Fist" was taken off the screen very early, and as of its withdrawal, the cumulative box office had reached 13.75 billion yuan.

As a movie with an investment of 7000 million yuan and a publicity and promotion cost of 5000 million yuan, achieving this box office result is undoubtedly a huge success.

But it can be more.

If he had listened to Lu Liang and avoided Wolf Warrior 2 and delayed its release until the National Day, the box office would have been guaranteed to be 20 billion yuan.

In other words, their Mahua has a very strong reputation in the market. If it were any other movie, it would have been drained dry by Wolf Warrior 2 long ago.

There is no doubt that a good movie will affect the box office of movies released in the same period, otherwise it would not be called a collision.

Iron Fist was apparently the one that got killed.

If they had not received the news beforehand, they could only blame it on bad luck, but Lu Liang had already informed them in advance to try to avoid competition.

A car accident that could have been avoided.

But because of his arrogance, the car accident happened, so the responsibility lies with him.

"Mr. Zhang, the total cost of Iron Fist is 1.2 million. It's good as long as we make a profit. There's no point in saying more now."

Lu Liang smiled and said a simple and plain sentence, which immediately made Zhang Chen's heart fall to the bottom.

As long as there is profit, this statement only applies to small traders. For top VCs like Lu Liang, less profit is equal to loss, and human-caused losses can be avoided.

Zhang Chen wanted to explain, but Lu Liang didn't give him time to explain: "Xiao Ai's contract is about to expire, right?"

Zhang Chen nodded woodenly: "Tian Ai only signed a two-year contract with Mahua, which expires in mid-November of this year."

Lu Liang said directly: "Help her set up an independent studio, and you can look for her if there are suitable roles in the future."

"Okay, okay." Zhang Chen nodded repeatedly, and suddenly his face became excited, as if he had grabbed a life-saving straw.

Helping Zhang Tianai to set up a studio means that it is affiliated with Mahua, so their representative relationship is still there, it just takes time to slowly repair.

"Any thing else?"

Lu Liang brushed off the non-existent dust on his body. Zhang Tianai made him very happy, so he would naturally give her some support.

The second-tier actresses in the entertainment industry are already famous, and renewing their contracts with Mahua will only mean taking away the profits that they should have received.

Setting up a studio, operating it independently, and reducing the profit margins made by middlemen is a must for every star.

After much hesitation, Zhang Chen took out the second half project "Li Cha's Aunt" and reluctantly gave up 40% of his share.

Lu Liang was speechless: "Mr. Zhang, let's just do it the same as before. Tianxing can just invest 15%."

Mahua is just like him. Even though the box office performance of Iron Fist was a little bit disappointing, it still maintains an undefeated record to date.

The minimum profit for each movie is 200%.

Now, suffice it to say that they lack funds for filming, and there must be many investors waving banknotes and lining up to join.

But Mahua is different from Tianxing. After all, Mahua is just a filmmaker. It cannot afford to offend anyone and needs to take care of the emotions of theaters, distributors, etc. A long time ago, when Lu Liang just got involved in this industry, Wu Tianzheng of Haomeng Productions once said that for good film and television projects, investment shares will never flow out of the market because the cake has been divided up internally long ago.

Previously, Lu Liang’s investment accounted for 15%, and no one dared to touch his cake, but now it has suddenly skyrocketed to 40%.

His share is larger, which means someone else has less.

The previous project included Tianxing, as well as three other investors including Wanda Cinema Line, New Classics Media, and Maoyan Media.

The three of them account for 60% of the investment. Zhang Chen would never dare to take action against them. It is very likely that he would cut his own throat and give up the investment share belonging to Mahua to him.

Lu Liang saw this and decided not to take away what others loved. Mutual benefit is cooperation, while harming others for personal gain is called offering.

Just because you have no objection now doesn’t mean you won’t have any objection in the future. Besides, investing is not a guaranteed way to make money.

At least he didn't receive any news, and it is very likely that the Mahua Group has run out of ideas.

Li Cha's aunt invested 4000 million, accounting for 15%, which is only 600 million. It doesn't matter even if it goes down the drain.

"That's it, let's go."

"Thank you, Mr. Lu. Take care, Mr. Lu."

Zhang Chen was deeply moved and quickly opened the door and watched Lu Liang leave.

Lu Liang and Zhang Tianai left Mahua Theater. As they walked, he said, "In mid-November, your contract will expire. You can set up your own studio. If you have any questions, ask Zhang Chen. He will help you."

Zhang Tianai was shocked and widened her eyes: "Boss Zhang, are you really saying that?"

Lu Liang said unhappily: "Are you doubting me?"

"No, no~~" Zhang Tian'ai quickly crossed her arms and acted coquettishly, expressing her 1.2 million points of trust in Lu Liang.

It is normal for an artist to leave the company and set up a studio, but it is abnormal to ask the old company for help.

Like the recent incident between Yang Mi and Jiaxing Media, which was on the hot search every other day because of their lawsuit.

Since she has Lu Liang as her backer, Zhang Chen naturally won't make things difficult for her, but he wouldn't be so magnanimous, right?

It's a bit like the NTR plot in Neon Little Theater.

Moreover, this can also send a signal to the outside world that her background is extremely powerful, otherwise Zhang Chen would not have let her go and would have helped her set up a studio.

Lu Liang chuckled and said, "He feels guilty. No matter what he does in the future, you just have to bear with it."

"Yeah." Zhang Tianai said happily, holding Lu Liang's arm: "What are we going to eat?"

"It's okay, you can arrange it."

Lu Liang stayed in Beijing for two and a half days, and visited Ideal Auto and Douyin Technology to learn about their latest developments.

He did not ask about Didi's affairs again, as if nothing had happened. He would wait until Panda went public to decide everything.

At noon on the 16th, he returned to the Magic City.

When I met Xiao Wang's team at the airport, Xiao Wang looked puzzled and asked, "Why do you look so exhausted?"

"Is it obvious?" Lu Liang couldn't help but touch his cheek.

He has been living with Zhang Tianai these days, and their relationship is like a reunited one, so they have been having more fun.

I don’t know if it’s because he didn’t exercise enough or he had too much fun, but his waist felt a little sore when he woke up this morning.

"It's a bit obvious. I'm almost getting dark circles under my eyes." Xiao Wang suppressed his smile and introduced several of his anchors.

"Liu, Jiang Tao, Han Yingying..."

They are all big anchors with tens of millions of fans, but when they see Lu Liang, they are as excited as fans seeing their idols.

"Hello." Lu Liang nodded and smiled. He only knew Liu among the four people. The bully was too famous, so it would be hard not to know him.

"Hello, Mr. Lu. I've heard a lot about you." Liu shook hands with Lu Liang enthusiastically and squealed excitedly.

Long Fei arranged the itinerary: "Mr. Lu, they will leave before us later. We will meet at the New York airport then."

Lu Liang's Global 6000 has limited seats, and he also needs to bring some people with him, so there is no room for two groups of people.

Finally, it was decided that he and Xiao Wang would take Lu Liang's private plane, and the other team members would depart an hour in advance.

　There will be a chapter later.

　　Definitely, just a little late.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)