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Even the beauty’s voice was so nice.
Wei Jinsheng was an unrestrained dandy. If someone made a fuss like this, he would immediately get angry. But that was no way to treat a beauty. No matter what she did, it was right in his opinion.
After all, she’s a beauty, and whatever she does was beautiful.
“I’m sorry.” Wei Jinsheng showed a bright smile. “The traffic is too heavy!”
“Forget it.” Chacha stated and didn’t bother about it anymore.
“Hehe.” Wei Jinsheng couldn’t help but be happy. The little beauty was so forgiving.
He walked over and sat down on the couch next to Chen Cha’s. Although he was lustful, he wouldn’t act too abrupt. He was still about two feet away from Chen Cha.
Chacha said, “No need for idle talk, let’s get down to business.”
“Okay.” Wei Jinsheng nodded obediently and said, “I heard that you want to invest in my movie.”
“Yes.” Chacha added, “But there’s one condition. I want one of my people to be one of the leading roles.”
《The Road to the Sky》 was a movie with two female leads. It tells the story of two sisters from a single-parent family. One day, they suddenly decided to go together to find their father. They worked part-time to save money and finally, after the college entrance examination, they embarked on the road to find their father.
When talking about his movie, Wei Jinsheng became more serious. He raised his eyebrows and asked, “That person won’t be yourself, won’t it?”
Chacha shook her head and kept a business smile on her face. “It’s a girl named Ning An. You can search for her if you go online. Of course, before that, you can interview her first. If you’re not satisfied, then forget it. I will still invest.”
“Alright.” The condition wasn’t a must and he could obtain an investment, so why not spare some time and give it a try?
“I will invest 40 million.” Chacha continued, “Let’s make an appointment and you can see if Ning An is suitable for the role first. You can prepare the dividend agreement and we can sign it by then.”
Wei Jinsheng was a little surprised. The other party looks like she’s only 17 or 18 years old, yet she wants to invest in his unknown movie. What’s more, it’s 40 million in one go. He wouldn’t feel any surprise if she’s a second generation rich kid, but he had never heard of Chen Cha before.
Moreover, her tone was very casual, like investing 40 million yuan was like throwing ten yuan into the water for her, and she didn’t seem as if she would be distressed at all if she lost it.
Wei Jinsheng originally wanted to be impolite, but now he no longer had such thoughts.
Although he’s a rich second generation with an older brother who doted on him, he didn’t get support for his dream to be a director. He took out all of his money and managed to scrape together 50 million, part of which came from a bank loan. He thought he could only finish his debut film in poverty, but now it seemed that he wouldn’t be so poor anymore.
But a mere 90 million, in terms of filming, was still quite poor.
This stuff costs a lot of money.
Chacha and Wei Jinsheng agreed to meet at Yusong Club for Ning An’s interview at two o’clock on Wednesday afternoon.
After discussing some more details with Wei Jinsheng, Chacha bid farewell.
When she went out, she met Shi Qian and the two of them chatted in the hall for a while.
Chacha said, “I have something else to do so I’ll be leaving first.”
Shi Qian stopped her, “Hey, wait, my birthday is in a few days, do you want to come?”
Chacha answered, “I’ll go, just message me a day in advance.”
Shi Qian said, “It’s a promise. You can’t break it.”
Chacha smiled. “How can that be?”
She said goodbye to Shi Qian and returned to the company, where Liao Boyi brought her the expansion and activity plans.
Liao Boyi had a big appetite and his proposed expansion plan was to create their own app and get all the traffic from their people over there. As for the activities, it was merchandise launched by various bloggers, fan meetings, and so on.
After reading the document, Chacha said, “Let’s create a live stream platform.”
“Live stream platform?”
“En.” Chacha said, “When the time comes, let the bloggers under our company do live streams. We can also sign some beauties and let them sing, dance and so on. Later on, other projects can also be launched there. There are a lot of things that can be live streamed in this world.”
“Okay.” Liao Boyi added, “But the initial capital for this investment will be huge.”
“I’ll take care of the money issue.”
“Okay, I’ll get right to it.”
———pr
Wednesday afternoon at two o’clock.
Chacha, with Ning An in tow, arrived at Yusong on time. Having learned a lesson from Wei Jinsheng’s lateness last time, she deliberately didn’t come early this time.
The beautiful woman who had been receiving Chacha saw her coming, so she came up to her and said, “Ms. Chen, Mr. Wei is already waiting for you in his lounge, should we head there right away?”
“En.” Chacha nodded but added, “But there’s no need to take us, we’ll just go there by ourselves.”
“Okay.”
Chacha led Ning An to Wei Jinsheng’s lounge. Ning An looked around and gushed about the famous paintings hanging on the wall.
Chacha told her, “They’re fakes.”
Ning An said, “Huh? This place looks so high-end but they hang fake paintings too?”
Chacha answered, “I’m just teasing you.”
Ning An: “……”
Arriving at their destination, Chacha pushed the door open and entered after knocking.
When Wei Jinsheng saw Chen Cha, he realized more deeply that she’s truly beautiful. Her beauty wasn’t the type that would make people stunned at first glance and then gradually think she’s average, but the type that would amaze one every time they saw her.
Then Wei Jinsheng’s eyes turned to the girl following Chen Cha, who looked very pure.
This kind of clear innocent girl was also his type.
“You’re here. Come in, come in, come in, sit here.” Wei Jinsheng greeted them enthusiastically and asked, “Have you eaten?”
“We have.” Chacha avoided his paws, walked towards the sofa and sat down. “This is Ning An. You can have her act a part to see if she’s suitable.”
Ning An was about to sit down, but upon hearing that, she was embarrassed to do so and remained standing.
After Wei Jinsheng and Chen Cha parted ways last time, he went back and searched for news about Ning An. It would be fine if he didn’t search. He was shocked. What kind of stupid web drama had she filmed? Calling it irritating to the eyes was already being too gentle.
It’s simply sh*tty.
Then, through Ning An, he also learned that Chen Cha was very popular on the Internet and was dubbed the most beautiful provincial top scorer.
Wei Jinsheng wasn’t satisfied with Ning An’s acting skills, but since she was already there, he had to let her give it a try so that he could find an excuse to reject her. Although he didn’t have much money on hand and couldn’t afford to hire big-name actors and actresses with superb acting skills, he could spend time looking for satisfactory newcomers.
He’d been busy with that for a while and already had several backups.
“Read the script and act the first scene.” Wei Jinsheng didn’t hold out hope, but the other party looked cute so his tone was very good.
“Okay.” Ning An was so nervous that her hands were shaking as she picked up the script and read the first scene.
The part was of the two sisters sitting on the floor of their small home, watching TV and chatting. Suddenly the older sister mentioned their father who left home when they were very young and never came back. As the two talked, they decided to go find their father and made a plan for it.
After Ning An recited the lines in her head. She put down the script, sat down on the ground and glanced around for a while. Her eyes finally landed on the laptop on the table. Just as she was about to speak, she got stuck again.
Wei Jinsheng frowned and asked, “What’s wrong?”
Ning An asked, “Do I play the older sister or the younger sister?”
Wei Jinsheng told her, “It’s up to you.”
Ning An nodded. She refocused her eyes at the laptop and said, “I suddenly remembered that Dad would fry eggs for us when we were little. The edges were crispy and if you poke it open in the middle with chopsticks, the half-cooked egg yolk would flow out—”
“Stop!” Wei Jinsheng said, “When you’re talking about this, your expression should be wistful and supressed. After all, you haven’t seen your father for many years and he has abandoned your family. Don’t grin foolishly.”
Ning An instantly panicked. “I’m sorry……”
When she was filming the web drama, because everyone was bad, the director never scolded her, so when she was suddenly treated like this, she didn’t know how to react and could only apologize endlessly.
Wei Jinsheng turned to Chen Cha and said helplessly, “Look, it’s really not that I don’t want to give the role to Ning An. She still has a lot of room to grow when it comes to her acting skills, however, what I need are mature tree, not saplings.”
Ning An felt sad at first, but when she heard his later words, she felt a little better. After all, she wasn’t too bad, her acting skills just hadn’t been developed yet.
It could be seen that when Wei Jinsheng speaks human words, he could still put on airs.
Chacha nodded but said, “Ning An hasn’t studied acting systematically after all. However, I still hope that she can play the female lead in this movie.”
Wei Jinsheng appeared to be in a dilemma. “We had talked about it before. I don’t agree so let’s just leave it at that.”
Chacha smiled. “What if I can convince Gu Fanghua to act in this movie?”
Wei Jinsheng was stunned for a moment, then laughed. “Ai, stop joking anymore. That’s Gu Fanghua. She’s someone who can’t be persuaded to do any work she doesn’t like. I’ve sent her the script through my connections before and she has already rejected it. Everyone knows that it’s absolutely impossible for her to take on something she’s rejected.”
Chacha said, “And if I manage to convince her?”
Wei Jinsheng laughed joyfully. “If you can convince her, let alone one Ning An, you can stuff in ten more Ning An in this movie without any problem. I would even count my own investment as yours.”
Chacha raised an eyebrow. “Then you’d better make a new agreement within the next few days.”
“Sure.” Wei Jinsheng didn’t believe she could convince Gu Fanghua, so he casually agreed.
“I’ll call you one of these days.”
With that, Chacha took Ning An away.
After returning home, Chacha opened Weibo and sent a private message to An Ordinary Passerby.
【Chacha Loves Drinking Tea: Good afternoon. Do you have time to meet?】
【An Ordinary Passerby: Eh? How come you want to see me?! [Shy expression]】
【Chacha Loves Drinking Tea: You’ll know it once we meet.】
【An Ordinary Passerby: Sorry, I don’t like uncertain words. Please directly state why you’re looking for me and I’ll decide whether to see you or not.】
The other person’s style changed so fast.
【Chacha Loves Drinking Tea: Can’t we have an afternoon tea and chat for a while?】
【An Ordinary Passerby: You’re a busy person. Don’t you have nothing better to do than chat with me?】
Chacha only guessed that the other person was Gu Fanghua, but now, seeing her being so cautious about meeting people and giving off a feeling of ‘my time is precious and I don’t have time to meet just anyone’, Chacha felt that she was more likely to be Gu Fanghua. Even if she wasn’t, having a cup of tea wouldn’t be a problem.
【Chacha Loves Drinking Tea: I like your prudence very much. Then I’ll be frank with you, I’m indeed looking for you for something and I also want to introduce someone to you. Other matters are confidential for the time being and can only be discussed in person.】
About ten minutes later, An Ordinary Passerby replied, 【Alright. Come to Guangrong Hotel near Chengda University. I’m staying at room 2101. Come over tonight, the hotel just happens to bring in a batch of fresh truffles. We can eat together.】
【Chacha Loves Drinking Tea: Okay. I’ll be there at six.】
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