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30 minutes ago.
Qin Yinong walked in. She was the big boss of the studio, so naturally she didn't have to follow any notification rules.
An Ling was on the phone and nodded slightly when she came in, motioning for her to wait for a while.
Qin Yinong sat on the sofa and waited. Guan Han said to An Ling‘s assistant who was waiting by the side: "A glass of warm water please." The assistant went to the drinking fountain to collect water. She turned to Qin Yinong and noticed that the other party's sharp eyes had fallen on her, pricking her back.
She was just a little assistant!
Every time she poured water for Qin Yinong, she could feel those jet black eyes on her, and sometimes Guan Han would stare as well. Was it possible that she was afraid of being poisoned?!
The assistant thought, bewildered in her heart, but still politely put the warm water on the coffee table in front of Qin Yinong.
Qin Yinong's eyes curved up, and she smiled politely: "Thank you."
An Ling's assistant didn’t see Qin Yinong often, and wasn’t quite immune to her. For a moment, her face turned red, and she whispered shyly, "You’re welcome."
An Ling, who accidentally glanced over with the phone in her ear, "..."
There she goes flirting everywhere again!
She dismissively waved her assistant away so as to not cause a scene; playing out in front of her was a game of cat and mouse.
"I have something to tell you." An Ling finished the work at hand and sat on the single sofa by Qin Yinong's side, cleared her throat, and assumed a straight posture.
Qin Yinong showed respect: "Go ahead."
She and An Ling were in a cooperative partnership. Six years ago, Qin Yinong initially gained a firm foothold in the entertainment industry, and the lawsuit came to an end. Director Han Yuping, who brought her into the film industry, suggested that she should find an agent to share the workload that would otherwise make her distracted. So he introduced An Ling, who had just left a well-known media company at the time.
An Ling was a well-known gold medal broker in the circle. She was very unhappy with the original company because of some incidents. She even felt exhausted from the industry, and had been on vacation to recuperate. After meeting Qin Yinong, of course there was no such thing as good luck at first sight. Like businessmen, the two openly negotiated the terms to which they could both accept, and so they cooperated.
An Ling was responsible for negotiating resources for Qin Yinong, and Qin Yinong was responsible for making money from filming and giving An Ling a commission. Later, after the studio began signing new artists, An Ling became the head of the artist management department, in charge of coordinating the overall situation, and saving Qin Yinong a lot of attention in the rear.
"Your B&H endorsement is about to expire. The French side wants to renew the contract with you in the near future. I will need you to fly to Paris and shoot a new promotional video. They’ll put it on the official website, but the specific date hasn’t been settled yet." An Ling flipped through the folder in her hand and read the first one to her in the order.
Qin Yinong raised her eyebrows: "The contract terms are still the same as before? I remember their financial statements last year were particularly good-looking? BrandZ announced this year's top ten global retail brands. Are they sixth or fifth in the world?"
"Fifth, they went up two places," An Ling said. "So I re-negotiated terms for you."
Qin Yinong showed a small smile and motioned for her to continue.
An Ling continued reading.
In addition to filming movies in the crew, Qin Yinong mostly shoots magazines and advertising endorsements, attends commercial events, and participates in private banquets. These are the main things An Ling explained to her.
Although Qin Yinong was famous in the first few years of her debut, the resources were bloody. After all, no one would want to buy a product endorsed by a tainted artist.
After Qin Yinong entered the film industry, she won the Golden Laurel Award for her first literary film, "Hazy". It was said that she had an scandalous relationship with director Han Yuping who was already married, and even the judges had to give Han Yuping some face and gave her the reward. A more exaggerated rumor was that she had been to bed with all the members of the Golden Laurel Award judges, and she was called "the biggest scandal in the history of the Golden Laurel Award." What was more ridiculous was that while the public believed that the judges were bought out, Qin Yinong was the only one who took the blame.
However, shortly after the Golden Laurel Awards ceremony, "Hazy" was selected for the main competition of the Venice International Film Festival that year, while Qin Yinong was nominated as the best actress. All the entertainment media and the masses who previously ridiculed them all suddenly became amnesiac overnight, kept their mouths silent, or praised Chinese movies. "Hazy" unfortunately returned empty-handed, and the entertainment media once again turned around and criticized her.
Later, Qin Yinong swept the domestic awards ceremonies in a crushing manner, winning her second, third, and fourth awards… The cabinets were filled with golden trophies. At the age of twenty-four, Qin Yinong was on the podium of the Cannes International Film Festival and became the youngest Cannes film queen in the history of China Film industry.
The news spread back to China, and the whole country was in an uproar.
The domestic entertainment media went crazy. The airport was filled to the brim on the day she returned to China. Qin Yinong was tightly guarded by several bodyguards. Faced with the pursuit of the entertainment media, she kept silent and left in a hurry.
Even if Qin Yinong ignored it, the domestic entertainment media still sang praises for her achievements spontaneously, and listed her amazing progress in just two years. They didn’t hesitate to say good things. It seemed so sincere, as if Qin Yinong was the supreme muse in their hearts, rather than the slut who people were criticizing just a few days ago.
It was not until half a year later that she publicly accepted an interview with a highly regarded media outlet. The reporter asked her whether the public opinion questioning over the past few years had any impact on her. Qin Yinong kept smiling and responded generously: "I haven’t been impacted. I am an actor. I just want to do my job seriously." After that, she was silent for a while and added softly, "It is them who are wrong, not me.”
Qin Yinong’s resources were obtained from her building up her prestige with one movie after another movie and one trophy after another. From home and abroad, her name and huge posters are hung on the outer walls of commercial center buildings around the world, in the glass showcases embedded with pearls, known to everyone.
After An Ling finished speaking, she handed the folder to Guan Han, who was responsible for keeping Qin Yinong's itinerary.
Speaking of endorsements, Qin Yinong was reminded of one thing. She hissed softly, frowning slightly: "Do you think the title of that jewelry brand for Yaoyao can go up one more level?"
An Ling's eyes widened and looked at her with a shocked look of "You must be kidding me."
Qin Yinong pretended not to understand, and blinked, "Can you?"
An Ling endured her anger, and spoke angrily, "Do you know that R&D never finds a spokesperson from Huaxia? Do you know how much effort I spent fighting for this resource for her? Do you know that her current title is the spokesperson for the entire Huaxia District? She was already the first of her kind, how much further do you want her to rise? Do you want her to be the global spokesperson? Who do you think you are, Empress of the Movies, Qin?”
An Ling sneered, and laughed angrily: "Either you’re crazy, or I’m crazy, you choose."
"I'm crazy, I'm crazy." Qin Yinong touched her nose sheepishly. She smiled placatingly, "I'm just asking, I didn't mean that she must be promoted."
An Ling: "Humph."
Qin Yinong groaned, smiled again, and said in a negotiating tone: "The world isn’t a good place. Do you see any hope for the spokesperson of the Asia-Pacific region?"
An Ling pouted and turned away.
Qin Yinong grabbed her quickly: "I'll ask, I'll ask."
An Ling sat down again and sneered: "Okay, like I don't know you yet, but I’ll do it for her.”
Qin Yinong pretended to sigh: "After what I’ve been through, I don’t want to give her nothing."
"What do you mean you give her nothing? Beside her stupid manager letting her go out to drink and laugh, and playing minor roles, her movies, her endorsements, her advertisements, her magazines, were any of these not given to her by you?" An Ling sneered. She had been in the circle for so long and knew the unspoken rules so well. In terms of sponsors, Qin Yinong was the best of the best.
Qin Yinong chuckled and corrected her: "You gave them to me, it’s tough work being a broker. Are you tired? Should I rub your shoulders for you?"
An Ling tutted, "Stop flattering me, it's annoying." The corner of her lips curled up silently.
Qin Yinong’s eyes narrowed, and she stepped closer, striking the iron while it was hot: "Manager An, so about Yaoyao becoming the spokesperson for the Asia Pacific region..."
Tang Ruoyao had just taken home the Best Actress Award, so it was not completely impossible to negotiate terms. Of course, the main reason was that An Ling was capable. In recent years, her and Qin Yinong’s shared achievements had earned them a wider network than before.
An Ling glanced at her, then glanced at her again meaningfully.
Qin Yinong looked at her, and suddenly realized she had goosebumps.
An Ling asked with a smile, "You care about her so much—do you really only think of her as your little Canary?" (T/N: Canary金丝雀 is used here to mean the person receiving money from their sponsor金主)
An Ling had long suspected that since all of Qin Yinong's itineraries were arranged by herself, and there was so much personal time, if not to visit her family then it’s to meet her little lover, Tang Ruoyao. Everytime she opened her mouth, it’s all about Yaoyao, to the point where her ears were about to become cocooned. From her point of view, a sponsor who treated their canary in such a way was clearly rooted in love.
"Yes." Qin Yinong shrugged nonchalantly.
An Ling couldn’t care less, spreading her hands: "The spokesperson in the Asia-Pacific region is out of league. Anyway, since she’s just a little lover, she doesn't need such extravagant resources."
Qin Yinong's mouth twitched.
An Ling raised her eyebrows at her with her arms folded nonchalantly.
The careless smile on Qin Yinong's face slowly faded away, looking at her manager An Ling, and she said seriously, "She is the person I like."
An Ling was enlightened, and at the same time she was relieved. "I knew--"
"Manager An." Qin Yinong interrupted her gently. After she said this, she returned to her cynical look, her slender legs crossed casually and gracefully. One arm draped over the back of the sofa, lazily propping up her forehead, she yawned lightly, and chuckled, "Is this what you want to hear from me?"
An Ling: "..."
Indeed, it was. But seeing Qin Yinong like this made her wonder whether she was right or wrong in testing her.
"You already heard." Qin Yinong twitched the corners of her lips, but the smile did not reach her eyes, "So can we skip this topic?" After a pause, her eyelashes drooped, and she added tiredly, "I hope you will help Yaoyao fight for her endorsement."
An Ling suddenly felt regret.
She thought quickly, and when Qin Yinong's body's momentum was getting lower and lower, she finally had a flash of inspiration, that's right!
"Script!" An Ling said, "There have been a lot of scripts sent in for you recently. Would you like to check them?"
"Are there any types I haven't acted in?" When talking about scripts, Qin Yinong cheered up a little and asked casually.
Qin Yinong was notoriously high-yield, so over the years, she had played in countless types of movies. An Ling went through her memory and blurted out: "Yes, but..."
"But what?"
An Ling walked back to the desk, bent over and pulled out a stack of printed A4 paper from the drawer: "You can look at it yourself.”
Qin Yinong looked at her curiously and turned to the first page of the script.
After reading the character setting and relationship on the first page, Qin Yinong smiled immediately, and exclaimed: "I have never acted in such a film."
Putting the same sex theme aside, it was a taboo teacher-student relationship.
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The author has something to say:
So this movie is the movie that the two co-starring in our copywriter ~
Little theater:
Haruka: I have no role today [Life is not easy, Ah Li sigh. jpg]
Pomegranate: I see Is that same-sex teacher-student movie? It’s the
distance between you and your sister : ╰(*°▽°*)╯
Qin Yinong: Hello, I haven’t said I want to pick it up yet?
Pomegranate: The author wants you to pick it up, can you still not pick it up?
Qin Yinong: ...
ps: All the brands in the story are empty and characters. It’s a fictitious and non-prototype, please do not substitute it into reality.
Thank you for the little angels [a long list of readers]
Thank you very much for your support to me, I will continue to work hard!
edited by noba