Ch 218: Trust My Vision, This Young Girl Is Exceptional

Young Master Cao’s personality is like this.

He doesn’t necessarily care about money.

For example, he offers very favorable contracts to artists under his company, even allowing the artists to earn the lion’s share, but the prerequisite is that they have emotion value, or the potential for future emotion value.

Therefore,

Young Master Cao can take a loss to gain publicity, but he cannot be taken advantage of.

Any losses must be transparent.

Fourth Sister asked: “Young Girl, are we still signing her? If not, I’ll have Sister Li return from Beijing. New Year is coming soon, and the company still has a lot of things to handle.”

“Let Sister Li come back. Finally, tell the Young Girl’s mother to come to Zhonghai for a discussion. If she comes, I will personally meet her; if not, then forget it.”

“Also,”

Cao Cheng thought for a moment: “I saw a film before… a decent one.”

Fourth Sister looked askance: “If you don’t explain that sentence, I wouldn’t have thought of that.”

“…” Cao Cheng smirked: “Have you seen it?”

“Get lost!” Fourth Sister kicked him.

Cao Cheng took a step back, grabbed her foot, and rubbed it with a chuckle.

After a bit of playful scuffling, her leg was in his hand.

Cao Cheng continued: “There’s a young girl who’s quite spirited. I originally wanted to wait a while before approaching her, but since we can’t sign this one, let’s sign that one instead.”

“Who is it?” Fourth Sister was puzzled.

“Uh~~”

Cao Cheng, while kneading her calf, pondered: “What’s her name… The TV series’s name is something like ‘Not a Single One Can Be Missing’… No, no, it’s called ‘Can’t Be Without Mother!'”

Fourth Sister frowned.

She had never heard of that name.

She casually searched online.

She actually found it.

No wonder she hadn’t heard of it…

It’s a regionally-specific TV series, and the investor is… Clam Island Tourism Resort!

This shows that this TV series has no famous celebrities, no top-tier team, no publicity, nothing. It’s a small, insignificant thing.

In today’s terms, it’s a short drama.

However…

This thing doesn’t even have as many fans as a short drama; after all, this kind of plot is not appealing to even the most unrefined viewers!

“Who did you have in mind?”

Fourth Sister checked the cast list and asked: “This young lead actress? Zhaodi? The Mute Girl? Xiuxiu?”

According to the cast list, these are the top three actresses.

Cao Cheng shook his head and pointed: “This one.”

“Zhao Jinmai?”

She opened the cast list to check. There were very few photos, almost none to be seen.

Finally, she found one.

The young girl was dark-skinned.

Her eyebags were also dark.

So unrefined~~

Fourth Sister frowned: “Are you sure about this one?”

Cao Cheng laughed: “Trust my judgment, this girl is not bad.”

Fourth Sister didn’t understand, but she respected his decision.

“Okay, I’ll have someone inquire about her specific details, and then have Sister Li make a trip to bring her back directly.”

“Okay.”

The matter was thus settled.

Honestly,

Among the female artists of the future, only a few are worth cultivating.

Especially according to the industry’s discrimination chain, movies look down on TV series, and TV series look down on variety shows.

Even if this discrimination chain gradually fades in the future, it will still exist.

Therefore, the growth potential of young actresses who can act in movies is always higher.

As for appearance.

No one can compare to our four older sisters, so there’s no need to consider looks.

We only need to consider growth.

First, naturally, there’s Zhang Zifeng. She has a seemingly obedient personality, suitable for Cao Cheng to manipulate and harvest fan emotion value.

But since she is difficult to sign, finding Zhao Jinmai is also fine, she’s not bad at all.

With just a little adjustment, this girl will definitely be a goddess-level star in the future.

She didn’t look good when she was young, especially her eyebags.

But once those eyebags are gone, this girl will become more and more beautiful as she grows older, and her on-screen presence is genuinely good.

……

The next day.

Beijing.

Sister Li met Zhang Zifeng and her mother.

Sister Li quite liked this girl; she looked both well-behaved and cute.

These days, don’t talk about acting skills.

Because child stars are not lacking in acting skills. A child’s expressiveness, naturalness, and imitative abilities are difficult for adults to match.

That’s why you see many child stars with explosive acting skills.

But after growing up, most child stars basically can’t make it big.

Sister Li gently stroked the girl’s head, then looked at the middle-aged woman.

She was just an ordinary middle-aged woman.

“I’m going back to Zhonghai today, so I came to let you know.”

“I’m inclined to sign Zhang Zifeng, but the contract duration is a fixed rule, and I have no authority to change it, so I’m helpless.”

“Yesterday, Mr. Ren reported the situation here to Mr. Cao. Mr. Cao’s intention is: if you can come to Zhonghai, he will personally talk to you, meet you; but if you can’t come, then we can only wish Zhang Zifeng a bright future under Hua Xiong.”

“…”

Without much pleasantries, Sister Li finished speaking, waved to Zhang Zifeng, and then left with her bag.

Leaving the mother and daughter behind.

They had discussed the contract for a long time.

Logically, Sister Li doesn’t have such a good temper, after all, she is a well-known agent in the industry.

Sister Li has cultivated countless top stars, male and female.

She could have started her own company independently; she doesn’t lack connections or funds.

Why would she waste almost a month haggling over a young girl?

To put it bluntly,

This circle can function without anyone.

If you can use resources to promote one person, you can promote another. No one is indispensable.

Sister Li was also helpless.

She couldn’t understand why Young Master Cao insisted on signing a young girl, even though she had acted in Little Steel Cannon’s Great Earthquake and her acting was quite good, very infectious.

But that’s all.

Was it necessary to go to such lengths?

Cultivating child stars is a very troublesome matter.

Let’s not talk about anything else, just ask: how many child stars have you seen who were famous when young and still famous when they grew up?

Moreover, their personalities are not fixed when they are young, who knows what they will be like when they grow up?

What if they get involved with drugs, or their pants fall down and someone takes a picture?

Their future would be ruined.

……

“Mom.”

After Sister Li left, Zhang Zifeng looked at her mother pitifully.

She actually wanted to sign with Miracle Media in Zhonghai.

But her mother was bent on Hua Xiong.

After all, Hua Xiong is the leading entertainment company listed first on the Mainland, the leader of leaders.

You say Miracle Media is in its prime, but is it listed?

No, right?

How many artists does Miracle Media have?

Less than ten, right?

If you say Cao Cheng is the richest person, that’s fine, but how much does the richest person care about the entertainment industry?

You can’t just say that because Miracle Media is one of Cao Cheng’s companies, it’s the best in the industry, right?

It doesn’t work that way.

“Let’s sign with Hua Xiong,” the mother sighed, hugging her daughter.

“I want to sign with Miracle.”

“Daughter, listen to your mom, can your mom harm you? Hua Xiong’s resources and channels are the top in the industry. They’ve also promised to cultivate you. If you sign with them, you’ll be the company’s 100th artist, the youngest, and everyone’s junior martial sister.”

“Wouldn’t those top stars take care of you?”

“Right, daughter?”

“Besides, studying in Beijing is better than in Zhonghai. After all, this is the capital, and Hua Xiong’s head of the economics department also said that when you’re older, you can continue to act in movies.”

“Movies, Zifeng, not TV series.”

“Be clear-headed.”

“…”

The woman was right.

A normal child would probably agree.

But Zhang Zifeng shook her head: “We can go take a look, meet them, maybe you’ll change your mind? Let’s treat it as a trip to Zhonghai.”

“You little thing, why are you so stubborn? I don’t know who you take after.” The woman was helpless.

“Let’s go, let’s go, let’s go…”

“Alright, alright, let’s go, but you have to listen to me when we get there, Mom won’t harm you.”

“Okay.”

Then the woman picked up her phone and called Sister Li.

Sister Li bought them two plane tickets for two days later.

But Sister Li didn’t go back with them; she had to go to Northeast China.

……

Three days later.

Zhonghai.

Sister Li returned, and with her was a mother and daughter.

The young girl looked around in amazement.

The airport is truly luxurious.

Then they got into the company car.

Along the way, they gradually entered the city.

The girl was leaning against the train window, looking at everything outside.

She had never left Northeast China before. This was her first time, and she came straight to the entertainment capital, instantly dazzled.

Even though her mother was pulling her, she didn’t care about politeness, looking at the bustling streets and towering skyscrapers, exclaiming in surprise.

“Mai Zi, sit properly, I’ll beat you!”

“…”

“You have no posture, no manners! How did I teach you?”

“…”

“I’m talking to you, are you deaf?”

“…”

Sister Li had a black line on her face.

She had witnessed the fierceness of Northeast women.

However…

Upon closer contact, Sister Li actually liked this mother and daughter. They were very straightforward, and the girl was lively and cheerful, very unrestrained.

They were completely opposite to Zhang Zifeng and her mother.

The other side was very reserved.

Then they went to the office building where Miracle Media was located.

Miracle Media’s headquarters office is built in an eco-park, but usually, most of the work is done in the office building.

The second phase of the eco-park is still under construction.

Once the second phase is completed, everyone will move there.

Young Master Cao’s selfishness is heavy. He turned the eco-park into his private garden. He said it was for the company group to use, but the only people who could use it were some research departments; others couldn’t get in at all.

Of course,

There is also an excuse.

The research centers are all here, and security needs to be ensured. This is the future of the group, even the future of humanity.

After saying this, who would dare to go to the eco-park casually?

Only outsiders don’t know that Cao Cheng wasn’t lying.

There are eight research institutes here.

In the past half a year, they have applied for more than 10,000 patents.

Ninety-nine percent of them are confidential patents; that is, in the patents that don’t affect the overall patent, the specific details involving trade secrets are blurred and omitted.

The professional application requirement is “full disclosure,” not complete disclosure.

This is like “appropriate amount” in cooking.

Similar to the extract in cosmetics, a bottle of face cream contains patents for the content molecules, appearance patents, etc., which can all be made public.

Only the X extract will not be disclosed.

……

These eight research institutes are researching more and more things, faster and faster.

More and more patents are being filed.

Next year there will be even more, because the number of researchers will increase several times, and the number of unboxing sessions by Young Master Cao will also increase several times. These are the foundations for patents.