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When Chai Zhiping brought people to Wu Zongxian's company to discuss Feng Zheng's contract, it was about a month after "Meteor Garden" aired. It was a Tuesday, the weather was great, and Chai Zhiping thought things would go as smoothly as the weather...

Unfortunately, it backfired.

Wu Zong began by giving her a polite reception, exchanging pleasantries and congratulating her on the success of "Meteor Garden." However, when they got to the serious topic, he immediately rejected her request to transfer part of Feng Zheng's contract to form F4 and promote him.

"Why, Brother Xian?"

Chai Zhiping was somewhat puzzled and couldn't help but say, "You know how popular 'Meteor Garden' is right now. The four of them are currently in the prime of their careers. If you hand Feng Zheng over to us, we will devote all our resources to promoting him. It's a win-win situation for us!"

Chai Zhiping doesn't need to elaborate on how many gigs, sponsorships, endorsements, tours, and other opportunities have come to her through "Meteor Garden." She had already explained this to Feng Zheng and Yan Chengxu's companies when she first brought up the idea of ​​"forming a group to debut."

Yes, indeed, most of the huge "commercial value" was earned by them during the "group debut" process. But if these four people can be promoted to superstars like the "Four Heavenly Kings", when their contracts expire, the group ends, and they officially announce their solo careers, Wu Zongxian's company will be able to obtain a very mature and stable "cash cow"!

As someone in the industry, Chai Zhiping didn't believe Wu Zongxian was unaware of this principle.

"Hehe, this..."

Wu Zongxian crossed his legs, a troubled expression on his face. After thinking for a moment, he said, "The main thing is that Feng Zheng is also releasing an album soon, and our company attaches great importance to him."

Old Wu is a typical smiling tiger. Because he has been doing variety shows for many years, he has almost no airs. In addition, Chai Zhiping in front of him is a "rising star in the industry", so his attitude is very good.

Even so, he refused to back down an inch!

"Then he'll release an album..."

Chai Zhiping was so angry that she almost blurted out her inner thoughts.

Although Taiwan is currently promoting new artists everywhere, and new artists are releasing albums all the time, if you go to a record store, you'll see how many trashy records are released that nobody buys.

Yes!

Chai Zhiping does not deny that Feng Zheng is very talented!

He wrote the two OSTs for "Meteor Rain" and "Can't Help Falling in Love" from the TV series "Meteor Garden"...

But so far, Feng Zheng's most popular role is still Ximen, one of the F4 from "Meteor Garden"!

To put it bluntly, even if the title track of his new album had the quality of two songs, "Meteor Shower" and "Can't Help Falling in Love," it would still be impossible for him to be more popular than the characters in "Meteor Garden"!

Its commercial value is even less likely to be comparable to that of "Meteor Garden"!

Doesn't Wu Zongxian understand these things?!

Why is he so insistent on clinging to Feng Zheng's contract?!

"Could it be because of my attitude?"

After much thought, Chai Zhiping even considered that Wu Zongxian was a veteran in the industry, and as a newcomer, she shouldn't put on airs in front of him. She had no doubt that Feng Zheng's first album was of very high quality.

Unfortunately, even if she lowered her stance, Wu Zongxian remained as ruthless as a vicious dog, refusing to back down.

If it weren't for the fact that she would have to appear on Wu Zongxian's show later and that she would need his help in many other ways, Chai Zhiping would have really lost her temper.

In short, the conversation was very unpleasant and made no progress. Wu Zongxian's side only said one thing: "We welcome you to bring Feng Zheng along, but we can't do anything if you don't. However, we will not budge on the contract."

On her way out of the office, Chai Zhiping ran into Feng Zheng. That old devil Feng Zheng had been eavesdropping on Wu Zongxian and Chai Zhiping's conversation outside the office the whole time. He was quite pleased with Wu Zongxian's attitude, but now he was pretending to be a good guy with Chai Zhiping, even asking her questions:

"Sister Chai, how did the chat go?"

"well……"

Chai Zhiping sighed silently and said, "Feng Zheng, you'd better talk to Brother Xian properly. This is the golden period for your career development. If you can give up a portion of your contract, I can make you stand on par with the Four Heavenly Kings!"

She wasn't just making empty promises; you have to understand that F4's influence at their peak was no less than that of the Four Heavenly Kings!

If you can resolve your contract issues, I'll take you to new heights!

The subtext is: I can't solve this, there's nothing I can do to help.

Upon hearing this, Feng Zheng looked deeply moved and exclaimed, "I will definitely persuade Brother Xian on your behalf!"

To put it bluntly, this guy is just acting...

What's the point of trying to persuade me?

Feng Zhengcai has no desire to go to Chai Zhiping's place!

Although for Feng Zheng, whether it was "Meteor Garden" or Wu Zongxian, whether it was F4 or the new album, the money that ended up in his hands was about the same, it was all income after they had taken a cut. But Chai Zhiping's company was a newly established company with a serious lack of management experience, and she simply didn't have the ability to manage such a popular group as F4.

Disputes over brokerage contracts, resource allocation, and so on will inevitably follow sooner or later.

Moreover, while they will definitely do their best to promote Feng Zheng and his team during the contract period, they will also do their best to "exploit" their "value"!

Given F4's immense popularity, is it really that rare for them to be doing three or five gigs a day?

Feng Zheng has always regarded the saying "Health is the foundation of everything" as a top golden rule. If you ruin your health when you're young, no matter how much money you earn, you'll have to be alive to enjoy it!

He didn't want to work himself to the bone, running around trying to earn a little money, only to end up throwing it all away in the hospital.

As for why he told Chai Zhiping that he would help persuade Wu Zongxian?

Ha, are we not even allowed to be socially savvy anymore?

Since Wu Zongxian has already played the bad guy for him, he doesn't need to play the bad guy anymore. He might as well pretend to be a good guy in front of Chai Zhiping and give her face. Maybe she will find Feng Zheng again when she has a new project.

There's a real knack to it all!

Poor Wu Zongxian! He stood up for Feng Zheng, but was betrayed and used as a pawn!

……

After leaving Wu Zongxian's company, Chai Zhiping sat in the car on her way back. Even though Feng Zheng's good attitude made her feel a little better, the more she thought about Wu Zongxian, the angrier she became...

The assistant beside her seemed to sense Chai Zhiping's resentment and offered words of comfort:

"Sister Chai, I think you shouldn't take this too seriously. Brother Xian disagrees now, but can he stay disagreeing forever?"

These words puzzled Chai Zhiping, who frowned and looked over: "What do you mean by that?"

This assistant was recently hired by Chai Zhiping. She had a lot of clever ideas, so Chai Zhiping was happy to listen to what she had to say.

The assistant grinned and said something that made Feng Zheng want to slap her with a taser...

she says:

"Of the four members of F4, all except Feng Zheng have signed contracts. So it's reasonable for us to promote the other three instead of Feng Zheng, right?"

Upon hearing this...

Chai Zhiping's eyes lit up!

……