Entertainment: 1990

Chapter 154 Revealing the secret
The TV station's main leaders approved of Zhang Yan's strategy of spending money on projects—most of the leadership team were newly appointed, and they should be able to hold out until the projects were implemented.

But Chen Zhipeng wasn't very happy. The reason he resisted being upgraded to a municipal enterprise was because he felt he would have more autonomy under the television station.

If the TV station wants to divert funds to large projects, the instant noodle factory's room for maneuver will inevitably shrink—since it's going to be squeezed anyway, it might as well be upgraded to a municipal-level entity.

What followed was the scene of a heated debate with the scholars.

Zhang Yan was only responsible for coming up with ideas and didn't want to get involved in their power struggle, so he chatted with Yan Xiaoming about the New Year's Eve concert.

Although this matter is mainly being promoted by Yuanmeng, it certainly requires the cooperation of the TV station.

However, compared to the New Year's Eve concert, Yan Xiaoming was clearly more interested in the crown that Zhang Yanxin had just mentioned, and kept asking him a lot of questions about the details, making Zhang Yanxin sweat profusely.

When others ask this, it's mostly out of envy that Zhang Yan is rich and knows how to enjoy life. But when Director Yan asks this, it's most likely because he wants to add some content to his "The Right Path in the World" series.

Zhang Yan dared not get involved in this matter. Just then, someone called, and he quickly took the opportunity to lie to Ma and slip away.

The call was from Wang Jinghua.

It was said that An Wen's husband, Su Yue, the boss of Pu An Records, had come, and he even made a suggestion regarding the New Year's Eve concert: to symbolically invite a few singers from Hong Kong and Taiwan to create a gimmick that would involve the two sides of the Taiwan Strait and Hong Kong.

Since the main purpose of holding the concert was to establish rules for charging top singers for commercial performances, Zhang Yan had never really thought about creating any gimmicks involving mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.

However, by using this gimmick, one can indeed gain many intangible benefits.

So after leaving the TV station, Zhang Yan drove to the filming location to talk to Su Yue about the matter in person.

"Mr. Zhang, you must be Mr. Zhang?!"

After parking his car nearby, Zhang Yan was about to walk inside when he was suddenly stopped by someone.

…………

On the set of the music video shoot.

Looking out the window at Wang Jinghua calmly directing the crew, Su Yue felt incredibly envious.

These days, shooting a music video costs at least 20,000 yuan. The cost might decrease if you shoot more, but it won't be less than 15,000 yuan.

According to the information he just found out, this is already the eighth music video he has filmed to fulfill his dream, and it is estimated that there will be no fewer than that number in the future.

This means that the company spent three to four hundred thousand yuan just on the MV shooting alone.

"They're really rich and powerful!"

Su Yue muttered sourly, a hint of regret creeping into his heart.

When he wrote "Yellow Earth Plateau", An Wen, as the original singer, originally had the opportunity to become a minor celebrity. However, because he was determined to study in Japan, An Wen gave up the opportunity to become famous and make money.

By the time the couple returned to China last year, Hu Yue's rendition of "Yellow Earth Plateau" had become deeply ingrained in people's minds, and few people remembered An Wen, the original singer.

Moreover, An Wen's skill level is indeed far inferior to Hu Yue's.

But it doesn't matter. As long as the Chu brothers can perform at the New Year's Eve concert, Puan Records will be in a better situation. I dare not say they will make a lot of money like the Dream Five Tigers, but earning two or three hundred thousand a year will not be a problem.

Then I'll use the money to keep Gao Feng in check and get him to write more good songs...

Just as he was enjoying his daydream, An Wen suddenly nudged his arm and nervously reminded him, "Old Su, President Zhang has arrived!"

Su Yue turned to look at the entrance and saw the young and handsome Zhang Yan walking upstairs with ease. Su Yue couldn't help but feel a pang of bitterness. Compared to the young and promising CEO Zhang, he felt like he had wasted his life all these years.

However, he quickly composed himself and greeted her with a beaming smile.

However, after taking only two steps, Su Yue's smile froze, because Zhang Yan did not come up alone; behind him was someone Su Yue knew very well—Gao Feng.

"Liars, you two liars!"

Upon seeing the couple, Gao Feng immediately questioned loudly, "Yuanmeng never mentioned changing the person, why did you lie to me?!" Caught off guard by this, Su Yue's face turned bright red, and An Wen also looked completely at a loss.

Gao Feng didn't care whether they could react or not. After accusing Su Yue and An Wen of being liars, he loudly announced, "I'm terminating my contract with Pu An. Don't even think about using my songs as stepping stones for the Chu brothers!"

Upon hearing this, Su Yue immediately became anxious. The plan he had painstakingly devised hadn't even been launched yet, how could it collapse halfway through?
So he quickly tried to clear himself up, saying, "Don't be impulsive. There must be some misunderstanding. Don't worry, let's sit down and talk it over..."

"No need!"

Gao Feng sneered, "Let's be frank. I do have thoughts of changing jobs, so it's not surprising that you're wary of me. But if you think you can fool me, you're underestimating me, Gao Feng!"

Hearing Gao Feng make his point completely clear, Su Yue's face grew even uglier. He clenched his fists and gritted his teeth, wishing he could punch Gao Feng to the ground.

But he knew that violence would not solve the problem at all, but would only exacerbate the conflict—especially in front of Mr. Zhang, who was trying to realize his dream.

In his haste, Su Yue couldn't think of a way to salvage the situation.

"This was all my idea!"

At this moment, An Wen suddenly said, "I realized you wanted to switch jobs, so I planned to replace you. This has nothing to do with Lao Su!"

Seeing his wife stand up for him, Su Yue was deeply moved, but he didn't think his words would have any effect.

As expected, Gao Feng sneered after hearing this: "If it has nothing to do with President Su, then why did he have to come to Tianjin yesterday of all times? Hmph, you two are clearly birds of a feather!"

"That's because...because..."

An Wen was speechless.

At this moment, Wang Jinghua also heard the commotion and came out, finding the standoff situation rather perplexing.

Her gaze swept over An Wen, Su Yue, and Gao Feng one by one, finally settling on Zhang Yan: "Mr. Zhang, what's wrong?"

“It has nothing to do with us; it’s an internal conflict at Puan Records.” Zhang Yan shrugged and walked directly past the three men toward Wang Jinghua.

"boss Zhang!"

Seeing Zhang Yan about to leave, Su Yue didn't care about anything else and hurriedly said, "Our Pu'an is a subsidiary of UFO Records in Taiwan. Some of their famous singers are staunch supporters of TY. If we can get them here, it will definitely make a big splash..."

This was the trump card that Su Yue had racked his brains to come up with: first, use the gimmick of cross-strait cooperation to attract Zhang Yan's attention, and then act as an intermediary to facilitate this cooperation.

The price that Dream Records had to pay was simply to include Puan's artists in the New Year's Eve concert, which was insignificant compared to the gains.

Therefore, Su Yue came full of confidence, feeling that he would definitely be able to reach a cooperation agreement.

However, Zhang Yan raised his hand to stop him, and said calmly, "President Su, let's solve the internal problems first - Tianjin is neither Beijing nor Fujian, so these things are not so urgent."

Su Yue's suggestion is quite attractive, mainly because the political climate on the other side of the strait has been rather strange in the past two years. If a well-known Taiwanese singer could make a public statement at the New Year's Eve concert, the effect would definitely be explosive.

But the more interested he was, the less he was prepared to show it, thus giving Puan more leverage in negotiations.

Seeing Zhang Yan and Wang Jinghua enter the house, Gao Feng sneered and turned to leave.

"Gao Feng, Gao Feng?!"

Su Yue called out twice, but seeing that Gao Feng didn't turn around, he hesitated for a moment and stopped. He turned to his wife and said, "Anwen, go after him and try to persuade him. Even if you can't persuade him, you should at least try to calm him down."

"Old Su, what are you trying to do?"

"Of course, we should go and have a good talk with General Manager Zhang."

Su Yue gritted his teeth and said, "I don't believe Yuanmeng will miss this good opportunity. As long as President Zhang agrees, even without Gao Feng's song, we can still squeeze the Chu brothers into the concert!"

(End of this chapter)