Chapter 673 "Your Name"
Penguin Group.
After a certain senior executive received a call from Fan Wumian personally, he immediately called the department head who was responsible for hosting the 2005 National School Beauty Contest and asked him to start planning the specific activities for the second session as soon as possible.
Zhang Yuqi also won the runner-up in the first Penguin Cup National School Beauty Contest. At that time, the event was planned mainly to promote Personal Space. Later, the Personal Space project became completely popular and no additional promotion was needed at all. Almost all young netizens who had access to the Internet would take the initiative to open an account, making the School Beauty Contest suddenly dispensable.
In addition, hosting such an event is a thankless task and is likely to lead to criticisms about "delaying students' learning" and "focusing too much on appearance rather than inner beauty", so we had originally decided not to continue holding it.
But since Fan Wumian, the largest shareholder, had personally taken charge of it, the priority of the entire project was immediately raised to the highest level. A vice president of the group held a special meeting to focus on this task and emphasized that there must be no mistakes.
After several hours of discussion, based on the first Penguin Cup National School Beauty Contest in 2005, they optimized each item one by one and came up with a plan overnight. A vice president of the group worked overtime late at night to review it before forwarding it to Fan Wumian for review.
When some people are close to power, they easily mistakenly think that they are superior to others and start to become complacent and act like a bully.
On the other hand, Fan Wumian, whose wealth has soared and who has already stepped onto the Forbes Global Billionaires List, now truly possesses enough power. His several companies employ a total of more than 19 employees, and he can get people to help him run around just by opening his mouth.
I called and said, "I want to hold the second campus beauty contest as soon as possible," and immediately dozens of people, from planners to artists, copywriters and department heads, got involved and were busy from the afternoon until nearly 10 o'clock in the evening.
There is also Da Qiangzi. Fan Wumian has just finished visiting the headquarters of Jingdong Mall. Da Qiangzi immediately looked through the key points recorded by his assistant, summarized them, and then thoroughly understood the core content. He then held a meeting to discuss the key points of the new development strategy plan.
Putting aside how miserable the workers are, the work efficiency of private enterprises in the mainland is obviously quite impressive, which makes people sigh that with more than one billion people moving forward in unison, it is hard for the economic development not to be fast.
I'm not sleepy late at night.
After reading the planning proposal for the second school beauty contest, Fan Wumian felt that he could not find any major problems with it.
He casually replied to an email, writing only "OK, very good", then sat back in front of the computer and continued playing the online game "Cross Fire" which was currently in beta testing.
There is nothing much to say about this new game itself. The South Korean development company has been acquired by Penguin Group, and the product created is still the familiar formula and familiar taste. The "Cross Fire" game itself is free of charge, and it mainly makes money by players recharging and paying to purchase virtual products such as gun skins and special sprays.
Some special virtual products can only be obtained through lotteries. Even though it’s just a lottery, Fan Wumian spent a lot of money on it in his previous life. He played it for a whole summer before he got bored and quit completely.
As for why he targeted Milk Tea Sister, it was not entirely to satisfy his evil taste of stealing Da Qiangzi's girl. The more important reason was that Fan Wumian was conceiving a Japanese manga adaptation of "Your Name", and he happened to need a pure heroine who was full of girlishness and pitiful.
Compared to building an animation company from scratch, filming a live-action version of "Your Name" is much easier, and as long as it is done well, it can also be outstanding.
Shenghuo Miaomiao Agency just signed Ou Hao some time ago. Coincidentally, many netizens used Ou Hao's photo as their avatar. Because Ou Hao was so popular, Fan Wumian saw it and sent someone to a vocational high school in Guangdong Province to pick up this little guy who is only 15 years old.
He was going to let Ou Hao play the male lead in the movie version of "Your Name", but the female lead had not been chosen yet. He considered Yang Mi and Liu Shishi, but gave up both because they did not fit the image of the heroine in Fan Wumian's mind.
As for Liu Yifei, she is too famous and it is too easy for her to give up the role. It would be better to give it to a newcomer, so that it will be easier to capture the feeling that Fan Wumian wants.
I was playing until almost midnight when I suddenly thought of something.
Fan Wumian searched the Internet for Jinling Foreign Languages School again, using the keyword "school beauty" to try to find any clues about Milk Tea Sister.
Thanks to countless self-media, who have been crazy about how good Milk Tea Sister's family conditions are and how good her academic performance is, otherwise how could he remember this girl's alma mater. Sure enough.
A group of boys and girls actually discussed who was the prettiest girl in the school in the Jinling Foreign Languages School forum, and mentioned Zhang Zetian's name, as well as a photo of her winning the runner-up in the national aerobics competition last year.
Different from the impression of a socialite and noble lady, she now looks very girlish, with some baby fat. One can vaguely see the shadow of Liu Yifei and her mother in her eyes and eyebrows.
I thought that after the news of the school beauty contest was announced, I would go back to the Jinling Foreign Languages School forum to add fuel to the fire and ask those students to help take some beautiful photos of Milk Tea Sister and post them on the platform to attract netizens to vote.
Fan Wumian turned off the computer and went to bed.
As for whether "Your Name" will really be given to Zhang Zetian to play, we still have to wait and see the audition results of the school beauty contest. If other beautiful girls emerge and have greater acting talent, of course it is possible to replace her.
The filming opportunities that other actors dream of are not considered scarce resources in Fan Wumian's eyes. If the mainland box office market is not too small, even if he plans 20 to 30 movies a year, it will not be too much pressure for him. He will only be troubled by the lack of good scripts and good directors. Funding is no longer a problem at all.
Wake up from sleep.
Pu Jiajing, who had been busy day and night recently, helped him pack his luggage, and then they went to the airport together.
After a thorough security check beforehand and a police dog sniffing around several times, Fan Wumian finally felt at ease boarding his own Falcon 7X private jet.
This should have been something to be happy about, but after experiencing the Dubai royal family's Boeing 747 some time ago, I now feel that my own small plane is so simple and shabby that it is really a bit pitiful.
This made him think helplessly that many people hope to broaden their horizons and gain more knowledge, but in fact the level they are exposed to is too high. It seems that this is not a good thing, because after all they have to return to their own lives, and it is inevitable that there will be a huge sense of gap.
For example, many people are very happy to go out to take a shower, have a pedicure, or have their back rubbed. But one day, they are suddenly taken to the third or fourth floor by their friends and see different scenes. Then they become restless and it is difficult for them to live their original lives steadily. Between their wallets and their mentality, one of them will always be hurt.
It took several days to hold solo concerts in Tokyo and Seoul, and the scenes were really lively.
Due to lack of money in the early days, Fan Wumian signed contracts for 15 concerts in total. As he became more financially comfortable, he had someone acquire the Hongcheng Entertainment Company, which was cooperating with him and was responsible for planning concerts, last month.
So in these two concerts in Japan and South Korea, he was actually singing for himself, which was very different from his mentality when he held concerts in Hong Kong, Taiwan and other places before and worked for others.
As the boss, there is no need for him to carry out the remaining 10 concerts in the contract. However, in order not to disappoint his mainland fans, Fan Wumian still plans to hold this concert tour as originally planned, but it may take a little longer.
After returning from South Korea, Fan Wumian went to Yanjing to pick up Zhuang Muxi, and then went directly back to Hong Kong to begin preparing for the filming of "The Youngest Son of the Chaebol Family".
This drama title is only used in Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan and overseas regions. In order to facilitate approval, the domestic title was changed to "The Youngest Son of a Wealthy Family". The content is similar, and some troubles were avoided in advance during the script creation.
More than 20 actors including Zhuang Muxi, Huang Zongze, Chen Weiting, Zhang Yuqi, Liu Shishi and others were present on the day of the opening ceremony and then went to the restaurant to have a meal together.
I started shooting right after eating.
At the beginning of the story, Fan Wumian plays a secretary who works with others to expose evidence of his employer's illegal transactions and successfully short sells for 3 million Hong Kong dollars. He becomes handsome not long before he is betrayed by his accomplices on the run, is injected with poison, falls into the sea and dies, and his soul successfully travels back to more than ten years ago.
Then he will have nothing to do in the short term, and will return to his old job as a director, while his role will be given to a handsome young actor. (End of this chapter)