Chapter 109 After all, it's not the first time to act like a hooligan

"Hey~ Mr. Liu! It's me, Xiao Zhou."

"It's not that I regret it. How could I regret it? No matter if it's me or Brother Lou, we both take it seriously. Brother Lou is not just talking, he really cares about this matter."

"Why don't you believe it? Brother Lou has put a lot of effort into this program. I'll send it to you later and you'll see."

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Old Zhou, who has always been used to being embarrassed by Bai Youlou, feels so happy when he can use Bai Youlou's ability to "embarrass" others!
The dating variety show that Manli Entertainment is planning to launch has actually just been launched.

At present, there is actually no plan as to how to do it and in what form.

In this situation, Liu Manli felt that as long as the most important thing could be finalized, everything else would be trivial.

The most important thing is of course the selection of guests.

This is one of the characteristics of the entertainment industry. Not only variety shows can be done this way, but even movies can do this.

Even if there is not even a complete script, as long as a very famous actor is cast and he has high box office appeal, in this case, it will be easy to set up the subsequent stall.

The reason why Bai Youlou had such a hard time putting together a crew with Lao Zhou was mainly because of his own bad reputation.

If he was in his perfect idol form and made a low-budget movie like this, he could really raise investment with his eyes closed and put together a complete crew in minutes, even if he was an idol turned director.

The same is true for the variety show that Manli Entertainment wants to promote.

The most important thing is the selection of guests.

Jiang Yuanchu's name actually means a guarantee for attracting investment and ratings. As long as Bai Youlou can be dealt with, the show is almost more than half done.

With these two as the focus, the subsequent resources and strength will easily make it to the top of the circle.

However, Lao Zhou's phone call and the things he sent seemed to tell Liu Manli that even for variety shows, there is another way to play.

There is actually not much content in the "Love in Trilogy" written by Bai Youlou. If you read it quickly, you can finish it in less than two minutes.

But he managed to control Liu Manli for nearly half an hour.

Love.
She's a woman in her thirties who's still unmarried. What's the point of doing this kind of thing to her?
Looking at the sunset outside the window, Liu Manli felt inexplicably sad.

Although she can seamlessly transition between being a female star and a female boss, she is essentially a woman. Damn it. I already have a feeling that I won't be able to sleep tonight.

I guess I'll need to drink some wine.

But drinking alone makes me feel lonely.
Liu Manli thought for a while, picked up her phone and flipped through the address book. At a glance, there seemed to be a lot of "good friends".

But no matter how hard I looked, I couldn't find anyone I could call out for a drink at night.

Regardless of men and women.

After thinking about it, Liu Manli was lost in thought at the name Bai Youlou.

How about looking for this guy?

But as an older woman, asking a young man out at night seemed a little inappropriate, as if she was a she-wolf who wanted to devour the young hunk.

Liu Manli showed a hint of self-mockery on her face. She felt that she was really old and still had such thoughts.

In the past, if she had a date with someone of the opposite sex, she would have to think carefully about whether to give the other person face during the day, let alone at night.

He stood up, walked to the floor-length mirror not far away and looked at himself.

The curves are graceful and the figure is charming.

The years have not brought her aging and loss of shape, but have added mature charm.

Even compared with those female artists in their twenties in the circle, she still outshines them!
So Liu Manli called Bai Youlou confidently.

"Hello~Who is this?"

Bai Youlou's somewhat impolite voice came from the other end of the phone.

This made Liu Manli a little confused. Why did this kid have two faces?

"You didn't save my number?"

"Hey? Mom~"

"What did you say?!"

"Ahem, I messed up. Sister Liu, I haven't had time to save your contact information yet. I thought it was Lu Wenyuan, that psychopath, calling me to harass me again."

Bai Youlou patted his forehead and decided to throw away the "stepmother literature" in his hand.

How the hell is there such meaningless reading material in the airport's waiting room?

This thing is really poisonous!

He couldn't help but imagine Liu Manli's image in the scene.

A strong and beautiful stepmother with a great figure, and the occasional bit of tenderness she releases is just... cough cough.

Receive!
Liu Manli on the other end of the phone felt the blue veins on his forehead twitch.

At this time, I can feel my age.

Easily irritated.

Bai You's subconscious words "stepmother" when he came upstairs made her head buzz.

You little bastard! You spoke your mind?
what? !

Is she that old?!

At this time, Liu Manli didn't care at all that Bai Youlou didn't save her contact information. She didn't even pay attention to why Lu Wenyuan called Bai Youlou to harass her. Her whole mind was occupied by the word "stepmother".

The tone suddenly became resentful, "Ah, at my age, I can indeed be your stepmother. I'm old~"

"Sister Liu, you are mistaken. This word is actually a dressing style and has nothing to do with age."

"Hmm~"

Liu Manli: I'm listening, please continue to quibble.

Bai Youlou was not panicked at all. After all, this was not the first time he acted like a hooligan.

Without him, only familiar with Seoul.

Although it was unintentional this time, it may have hurt the fragile heart of the older beauty opposite.
"A kind of outfit, sexy, gentle and pure. Sister Liu, you are really suitable. You have that kind of suspender style."

After listening to Bai Youlou's nonsense, Liu Manli's expression became better.

No matter whether he is quibbling or not, as long as you can convince yourself, it's fine.

"I do have a few pieces of clothing in the style you mentioned. Would you like to see them?"

"Hey? Is that okay?"

"Come drink with me tonight and I'll show you what I'm wearing."

"It doesn't matter if you look at my skirt or not. I just want to drink with you, Sister Liu."

Bai Youlou's words made Liu Manli smile.
But this guy followed up with another sentence: "It's just that drinking requires three conditions, a place, an opponent, and a reason. The reason and the opponent are there, but the place is not right."

There are so many samples!

Liu Manli's smile was already very bright without her noticing. She leaned against the desk to make herself more comfortable while making the call. "You choose the place."

"No, that's not what I meant, listen"

Bai Youlou seemed to have turned on the speakerphone.

"Attention, passengers going to Kunming, your flight XXXX is now boarding. Please take your belongings with you, show your boarding pass, and check in at Gate 5. I wish you a pleasant journey."

Liu Manli: ???

Pretty!

How dare you, kid, make fun of me?

After hanging up the phone, Liu Manli was indeed very angry and felt that she was being teased again!

This kid Bai Youlou is so bold.

However, looking at the "Love in Trilogy" sent by Lao Zhou, she really couldn't hate him in her heart.

Before hanging up the phone, she even said, "I wish you a safe arrival."

As an older sister, she is so gentle to her "little brother" Bai Youlou.

What can I do? I am annoyed by people who rely on their talents to do whatever they want, but I can only "spoil him".

However, just because she can't get angry at Bai Youlou doesn't mean Liu Manli can't vent her anger.

"Notice, meeting."

"Boss Liu, it's already past the end of get off work time."

"Leave work? I'm not notifying the lower-level employees to attend a meeting. Company executives are paid so much, why would they be so motivated to leave work?!"

It turns out that executives don’t leave work that early.

After all, they like to drag things out so that employees don't feel comfortable leaving too early.
Liu Manli was looking for someone to vent her anger on, but she inexplicably gave the company's employees a wave of benefits. Without those leaders "setting an example", the employees happily clocked out on time.

At the same time, in the conference room, the smile on her face was gone, as it was when she was talking to Bai Youlou on the phone.

Liu Manli displayed the "Love Trilogy" that Lao Zhou sent her on the projector and felt relieved when she saw the expressions of the executives.

Yes, that’s the expression, wow!
She herself couldn't hold it in, so naturally she wanted to shock others as well.

After venting two waves of emotions, Liu Manli felt much more comfortable. She crossed her legs and leaned back in her chair. She seemed to have transformed from the expressionless and domineering female president back into the charming female star.

"Tell me about it~"

As soon as she said this, the director of the company's artist department jumped out first, with a look of pity on his face, "Boss Liu, can we still get Bai Youlou back?"

Liu Manli:
If you can get it back, why am I talking to you about this?
"No way, forget it."

"Let's give it a try. We can play the emotional card. The company has done nothing wrong to him."

It can be seen that this director really "values ​​talent" and his mind is full of how to get Bai Youlou back.

But the fact that he could only make requests but not provide solutions made Liu Manli a little angry.

Still playing the emotional card? How? Can I go to sleep with him?!
Taking a deep breath, "Stop thinking about these useless things. I didn't call you here today to discuss this kind of thing. Even if you want to do it, it will be a matter for later. Now focus on this variety show."

"Boss Liu, this is what Bai Youlou wrote. It's a bit like the outline of a movie script."

Liu Manli's eyes lit up, "Yes, that's a little bit true."

"But variety shows are not movies. If reality shows rely entirely on acting, the audience will lose the most important thing about reality shows, and Jiang Yuanchu doesn't have much experience in acting."

"These three love stories are very interesting. If it were me, I would never be willing to use this idea in a variety show. I would make three movies with the same heroine. It would be best if the three movies span more than ten years. In the field of romance movies, he can be directly enshrined as a god!"

Manli Entertainment does have talented people in film and television production. These talents actually have little to do with the idol Jiang Yuanchu, and the main business is with Liu Manli.

But Liu Manli waved her hand and said, "Okay, don't look so regretful. Now that they have taken it out, we can only choose to use it or not. There is no other choice."

"It's a great idea. It can be made into a variety show in the form of a unit drama. But here comes the question. Mr. Liu, did Bai Youlou come up with this idea simply to repay a favor, or did he want to participate more in the production of the show?"

Well said! Liu Manli nodded.

The meeting is not to praise Bai Youlou or discuss the format of the show.

The real focus of this meeting is whether or not to get a share of Bai Youlou's company.

Originally, to invite him as a guest, you only needed to pay him a notice fee.

No matter how high the announcement fee is, I can afford it.

But now it seems that their intention is probably more than that.
Big appetite!

Liu Manli had said before that she wanted to have a drink with Bai Youlou, and she also meant to talk to him directly about this.

She wasn't really lonely and had to find Bai Youlou, this little puppy, to keep her company.

But Bai Youlou's reaction made her feel something was wrong
I was blinded by anger before, but now I think about it carefully, is this guy really at the airport?

Could it be that he is deliberately avoiding me and trying to show off?

At this time, an executive told the "truth", "We actually have no choice. If we don't have to, Bai Youlou might not even participate in the show. If we have to have him as a guest, we can only compromise."

"Yes, he is no longer just an artist. Mr. Liu, what did he say? Do we have to follow his words? If we want to use him, how will he participate?"

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To be honest, Liu Manli felt a little numb after listening to it.

Up to now, she has not actually mentioned Bai Youlou's desire to accomplish the feat of "one to three".

How greedy is this kid?

This posture clearly intends to make all the money from this show.
He wants to earn the artist's announcement fee, and he doesn't want to let other male artists participate. He wants to take care of it all by himself, and also wants to take part in the profits of the program itself.
There was a lot of buzz before about Bai Youlou making more than 300 million from a movie.

Even if he didn't have that much, based on the minimum, Liu Manli felt that he could easily take out more than 100 million.

With this capital, you can't just put the money in the bank and earn interest, you must take some action.

There is no clue about Bai Youlou's new movie yet, which shows that she and her Manli Entertainment are going to make a big move in the variety show industry.

The key point is that this guy seems to want the connections and resources of Baipiao Manli Entertainment and other things that Bai Youlou himself lacks.
Because it would not be easy for him to make a show on his own even if he had an idea.

But when working with Liu Manli, these things are not a problem at all. He only needs to spend some money to solve some creative and technical problems, such as post-production editing.

It goes without saying that a director whose debut film can make it to Cannes would give up the final editing rights.

impossible!

This feeling of using a chicken to lay eggs is really too strong.

Liu Manli was really worried that she would feed the "wolf cub".

After the meeting, everyone dispersed, and in the end no conclusion was reached.

Liu Manli thought about it and called Lao Zhou.

"Boss Liu, what do you think?"

"How long have you been waiting for my call?" Liu Manli suddenly asked out of nowhere.

Lao Zhou was stunned for a moment, put down the game controller in his hand, and said decisively: "I have been waiting until now."

While saying this, he winked at Long Ziqiang who had just returned, asking him to keep quiet and turn off the game.

His words made Liu Manli feel depressed.

By now, you know that she will definitely call today, right? Are these two brats sure they will take advantage of her?
"As for further cooperation, we have to wait until Bai Youlou comes back to discuss it."

"this."

Lao Zhou actually didn't know what to say. He had no plan in his mind at all.

Who knew Liu Manli would call to talk about such a thing so late at night? He was already preparing to go drinking with Long Ziqiang.

This woman... No wonder she is so imposing. She is still busy working so late at night. It seems that she has no nightlife and no sex life.

But his hesitation and pause made Liu Manli feel even more tired.

Why are young people nowadays so naughty?

"Tell me the truth, between you and Bai Youlou, who made the decision?"

"Of course it's Brother Lou, Mr. Liu, I'm just an employee. Do you want me to send you my salary slip?"

"I see."

very good!

The image of Bai Youlou in Liu Manli's mind has undergone another "evolution".

What a big appetite! What a big ambition!
As soon as he achieved some success, he immediately wanted to surpass his old boss.

After the call was hung up, Lao Zhou looked confused.

Hey~ What did this phone call say?

He looked at Long Ziqiang, who had an excited look on his face, "Brother Lou is really going to be on the show with three people? Haha! That's awesome! I can go on this show to have fun with Brother Zhou."

Lao Zhou glared at him with disdain, "With your image, you're still on a dating show? Don't embarrass yourself. Are you even one-tenth as handsome as Brother Lou? Which female star would date you?"

Long Ziqiang rubbed his big bald head, but he didn't feel much about this blow to his appearance.

After all, he has also been cyber-bullied. Compared with the online bullying, Lao Zhou's offensive power is nothing.

"Hey, I met a female college student, the campus beauty!"

"Fuck! Are you a human too? Are you really the school beauty? Show me the photo."

"No, I won't give it to you until I'm sure I've got you. I'm not like Brother Lou. I really want to date and get married."

Yo ho!

Today's theme is really shrouded in "love"?

Old Zhou was just about to remind Long Ziqiang to be more careful or something like that.

But then I thought that Long Ziqiang had been hanging around in bars for so many years, he couldn't be fooled by some little girl.

So I just didn’t say anything that would create a bad atmosphere.

"Let's drink, let's celebrate. By the way, how's your performance of the black boss going? Is there a lot of scenes?"

"It's OK. I thought he was a villain at first, but later I found out he wasn't. However, the pay is not bad, so it's good."

"I heard that you changed the lyrics yourself during filming? That's great!"

"You can change the lines yourself, Brother Lou taught me. That day was the first scene, and I was a little nervous so I made a video call with Brother Lou. He took a look at the script and asked me to add a line myself. Luckily, the director had no objection during the performance and even praised me for adding a line."

"What's the word?"

"Does your melon stay ripe?"

(End of this chapter)