Entertainment: I just want to be the boss behind the scenes

Chapter 529 The Little Elk Wants to Ride from Behind
After packing the boxes, Yang Chaoyue opened the door and walked out of the room. The assistant who had been waiting in the living room outside for a long time hurried over to help her with her things.

"Has the car arrived yet?"

"Just arrived, waiting downstairs."

"Okay, take your stuff down and go straight to the airport."

After instructing the assistant, she turned back to the kitchen and shouted, "Mom, I'm leaving now."

A middle-aged woman who looked a bit like Yang Chaoyue came out and asked with concern, "You're leaving now? How about eating first?"

"No, we have a plane to catch and we're not hungry anyway."

Yang Chaoyue put on her coat while admonishing, "My little sister will have her final exam soon. Tell her that if she doesn't do well in the exam, she should not ask me for New Year's money this year."

"She'll be miserable then."

"Just to let her know that life is not that simple."

After sending her daughter out, Mother Yang didn't let go until she saw the elevator door close. She closed the door and went back to her house. Standing at the door and looking at the house that was countless times more luxurious than her hometown, she couldn't help but feel deeply moved.

Mother Yang didn't know that the house was "lent" to Yang Chaoyue by Meng Bai, she just thought that her daughter bought it herself.

Although she didn't have much experience, she knew that such a house in Shanghai would definitely cost a lot. Even though her daughter had been a star, it had only been two or three years, so it must have been difficult for her to come up with so much money.

More importantly, the daughter did not live in the house by herself, but instead moved in with her half-blood-related sister, and the house was specially found for the younger daughter in Shanghai.

Whenever she thought of this, she felt happy and distressed.

Just like today, I just finished an event and stayed at home for only one night, but I have to rush to the next schedule.

Mother Yang sighed inwardly, hoping that her daughter’s work wouldn’t be too tiring this time!
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Blue Island, mid-mountain villa area.

As the iron-black gate slowly opened, a black business car slowly drove into the garage next to the courtyard.

The car door opened, and Meng Bai, wearing a coat, got out of the car. He glanced at the dark villa, smiled lightly, turned around and said to the car: "Lao Qi, go back and have a rest. You probably won't need the car much tomorrow, so I'll give you a day off."

"Thank you boss."

The steady middle-aged man smiled and said, "I'll be leaving first then. Merry Christmas."

"Merry Christmas!"

Watching the business car leave, Meng Bai turned back and walked to the front of the villa, grasped the handle and turned it gently, opening the heavy door.

The room was dark, and no one seemed to be there. Meng Bai smiled, but did not do anything special. After changing his shoes, he walked in.

Before he could take a few steps, a red figure suddenly jumped out from behind the entrance, followed by a loud "Ha!"

However, what surprised the "raider" was that Meng Bai was not frightened at all, but looked at him with interest.

"No big deal, you're not even afraid, boss."

Yang Chaoyue complained with a bored look on her face.

"Next time you want to scare people, don't be so obvious. I knew you were coming, but I didn't turn on any lights in the room. I can tell what you were going to do just by thinking about it." Meng Bai spread his hands.

"Okay, next time I'll remember to turn on the light."

Turning on the light, the room suddenly became brightly lit. Meng Bai looked at the girl standing in front of him and couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.

"Are you planning on cosplaying as a Santa deer?"

"Hey, it's Christmas Eve, there has to be some festive atmosphere, right?"

Yang Chaoyue, who was wearing a red short dress and a bunny-like headdress on her head, raised her hand and placed it in front of her chin, revealing a cool smile: "How is it, not bad, right?"

"It's good... I mean in every aspect."

Who can refuse a little Christmas elk on Christmas Eve? Thinking of this, Meng Bai had already walked in front of the "little elk", put his arms around the other's waist, and lowered his head to kiss it.

Although the "little elk" had experience, it was ultimately no match for the opponent. After a short while, it was hanging on the other party, panting, and letting him do whatever he wanted.

Meng Bai half supported and half held the girl to the sofa in the living room, then asked her to turn around and hold on.

As for the Christmas reindeer, you should definitely ride it from behind.
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Although Christmas has a big name, it actually doesn’t have much impact in the country.

There is no ritual or custom, nor an extra day off. It has no practical significance other than giving some scumbag men and women an excuse to check into a hotel.

The same is true for the crew of "The Wandering Earth 2". Although there are many foreign extras, they still have to work.

However, Guo Fan was also very creative. In addition to overtime pay, he also gave each person an apple, saying that this was a traditional custom of "Christmas Eve", which surprised the group of foreigners.

New Year's Day came in the blink of an eye. It was the last day of 2021. Meng Bai spent it with Li Qin to make up for the "mistake" of not being together on Christmas.

As for Boss Li, she went to attend Jiangsu Satellite TV's New Year's Eve concert, allowing Meng Bai to escape again.

Entering 2022, the first news in the film and television industry came from the newly renamed "Chinese Confucianism".

Ruyi officially issued a statement that the company's largest shareholder Meng Bai has resigned as chairman and will be replaced by another shareholder Ke Liming.

Of course, this news was expected by everyone. Although the "Arc Light" and "Confucianism" cooperate closely, they are each independent systems and there is no need to merge them together. Meng Bai's resignation is obviously also a statement of attitude.

Apart from stock investors, basically no one pays attention to this kind of executive changes within the company.

What really caught the attention of the industry was that Ruyi immediately announced that its horizontal video platform would join hands with Kuaishou to establish a new "Pumpkin Short Drama" to target this new market.

You know, although short dramas have become increasingly popular in the past two years, they are still made by small companies and teams, and are basically still dependent on a few short video platforms. The traffic is huge, but the monetization ability is limited.

But now it’s different. Ruyi is the real “regular army” and no one expected that they would be the first to try something new.

But soon after, another piece of news explained everyone's doubts.

The official Weibo account of Arclight Films stated that it has reached a cooperation with the new "Pumpkin Short Drama" and will test a series of high-quality short dramas in the next two years.

As soon as they saw the name "Arc Light", the criticism from the circle that Ruyi was "destroying the long drama market" suddenly became much smaller.

It’s not just that I’m afraid of Arc Light’s reputation, but more importantly, he has already done this kind of thing once.

According to the current mainstream "history books", when video websites were just beginning to develop, Mr. Meng of Arc Light broke out of the TV drama market with the TV series "Soul Ferry" and opened up a new "online drama system".

Over the past few years, the online drama market has become more and more mature and has gradually become the basic pillar of the film and television industry. Although it cannot be said that it is entirely due to Mr. Meng, he can indeed be called a "pioneer" in the entire market.

Now ArcLight is opening up the short drama market, who knows, maybe this will be the new trend in the next decade.

Thanks to ArcLight's accurate vision over the years, many companies have begun to research short dramas. There are even rumors that ByteDance also has plans to create its own short drama platform.

As for the team that had already started making skits, they were also overjoyed. After all, the emergence of "Pumpkin Skits" finally gave them a truly suitable platform. At the same time, the new traffic sharing system also gave them a stable way to monetize.

For a while, "short plays" became the hottest topic in the entertainment industry. Even the upcoming Spring Festival season was not well received.

“Can skits really make money?”

Behind the scenes of the premiere of "Detective Chinatown 3", Chen Sicheng asked curiously.

"Who can guarantee this? We are just trying."

Meng Bai did not hide it and said directly: "The platform and the production team should be fine, but whether the investors can make money is hard to say."

Compared with long dramas, short dramas are smaller in size and have a lower entry threshold, which will inevitably lead to a large influx of projects. Just like today's short videos, if you want to be seen, you have to spend money to buy traffic.

The platform has both advertising and traffic, so it basically won't lose money; the production team is paid for their work, so they will definitely make a profit.

Investors who invest in short plays are the only ones who need to worry about their returns.

After all, every time a similar "hot spot" appears, it will attract a large number of outsiders who want to make money. What they have in common is that they are "stupid and rich." And in the end, they are often the ones who pay the bill.

(End of this chapter)