Chapter 54
The next day.
Su Chengyang was late again, ten minutes late. Lü Yi seemed to be immune to his lateness and did not show any anger. Under Su Chengyang’s humorous offensive, Lü Yi soon laughed. The two got in the car and went directly to the Forbidden City.
Just like in the era of online clocking in, Su Chengyang transformed himself into a professional photographer, and then he worked like a tiger, using film as if it was free, and took many photos. When Lü Yi took the camera and saw the photos taken by Su Chengyang, he was a little surprised,”Not bad, you can’t judge a person by his appearance. I didn’t expect your photography skills are so good.”
“Hey, I’m not bragging. When I was studying in the United States, I was a master of photography.”
“Specializing in taking private photos for people.”Su Chengyang added in his mind.
Recalling his dissolute life in the United States and the hundreds of GB of private photos in his computer, well, Su Chengyang admitted that he had thought about it.
“You’re a photography master, look how awesome you are.”
Lu Yi curled her lips. The man beside her did have many skills that surprised her and impressed her, but after a while of getting to know him, she had figured out his temper. That is, don’t compliment him. Once you compliment him, he will brag to the sky.
“well~~”
“To be honest, why doesn’t anyone believe me?”
Su Chengyang pretended to be very sad.
Lu Yi rolled his eyes and ignored him, looking through the photos with his camera.
“Yiyi, are you hungry? How about we go eat?” Su Chengyang didn’t eat much in the morning. He walked around for a few hours and his feet were almost blistered. He really didn’t want to walk anymore. He just wanted to find a place to sit down and rest.
Lu Yi was probably tired. After hearing what he said, he nodded and agreed.
Su Chengyang secretly breathed a sigh of relief and made up his mind not to be stupid in the future. He proposed to travel with a woman. It was really fucking tiring.
The two of them left the Forbidden City, got in the car, and randomly found a high-end hotel western restaurant and sat down.
“Look, what do you like to eat?”
“You order, I’m tired, just eat something casually.”Lü Yi was a little tired.
“That’s fine.”
Su Chengyang picked up the menu, asked the waiter what special dishes were available, and then ordered according to the menu. After ordering, he handed the menu to the waiter and asked him to bring a bottle of red wine.
Western food is about the atmosphere.
It’s better not to eat Western food without red wine.
Forty minutes later, the two left the western restaurant.
Because they were tired from shopping, Lv Yi didn’t want to go shopping anymore.
Su Chengyang didn’t want to go shopping anymore, and he had something to do in the afternoon, so he sent Lv Yi directly back to the community where she lived.
“Why don’t you invite me in for a seat?”
After getting off the car, Su Chengyang said to Lu Yi.
“Didn’t you say you had something to do this afternoon?”
“You also said that it was afternoon, there is still time now”
“What’s wrong? Do you have something shameful at home and you’re afraid that I’d see it?”
“Really?”
“No way…No way, I didn’t expect Yi Yi, you are this kind of person.”
Su Chengyang looked at Lu Yi in exaggeration, horror, and disbelief.
Lu Yi’s forehead was black, and the anger in his heart instantly surged up, and he hurriedly argued:”Bullshit, you are talking nonsense~~”
“ah?”
“”Yiyi, I didn’t expect you to swear.”
Su Chengyang seemed to have discovered something surprising.
Lu Yi’s cheeks were slightly red.
It’s over, now her ladylike image is completely gone.
Thinking of this, it was this hateful guy who made her angry for no reason. The more she thought about it, the more she hated him. She showed her little silver teeth and looked like she was going to bite someone, which scared Su Chengyang so much that he retreated strategically.
“What are you hiding from!”
“You want to bite me”
“I’ll bite you to death, you damned fellow, you always make me angry”
“this is not…”Su Chengyang wanted to say that he was not provoking you but flirting with you, but he stopped talking immediately, changed his expression, walked forward with a smile, touched Lu Yi’s head, and said softly,”Okay, it’s my fault, I won’t make you angry anymore.””
“snort~~”
Lu Yi snorted.
Then, she came back to her senses and saw Su Chengyang touching her head. Looking at his eyes, Lu Yi felt something was strange, but she couldn’t put her finger on it.
“”Let’s go, I’ll take you upstairs.”
Su Chengyang said to Lv Yi.
He took back the hand on Lv Yi’s head, and without waiting for Lv Yi to say anything, he took the hand again and walked in.
Lv Yi, who was being pulled away, looked at Su Chengyang’s back, and a strange look flashed in her eyes.
Lv Yi’s house in Yanjing was a high-rise commercial house. She had only been in the industry for a few years, so she couldn’t afford to buy a house in Yanjing.
“I gotta go々々 々々 ”
“Um~~”
“Hmm what? No expression?”
“What does it mean?”
Lü Yi was confused, his eyes were blank.
“well~~”
Su Chengyang sighed.
This kind of thing still needs him to do it.
“of course…”
Su Chengyang took a step forward, pushed Lv Yi against the door, and kissed her attractive red lips.
A few minutes later,
Su Chengyang let go of her hand.
He said to Lv Yi, who was still in a daze,”Let’s go. Remember to think of me. I’ll come to see you another day.”
After that, Su Chengyang turned around, hummed, and walked away.
When Lv Yi woke up, Su Chengyang had already got on the elevator.
“asshole!”
“You just know how to bully me.”
Lü Yi’s cheeks were red as she cursed in a tender voice.
But this curse was like flirting….
“BOSS”
On this side, Su Chengyang came to the company.
Sitting on the office chair, with his feet on the table, he took out his mobile phone and dialed a number with a relaxed look on his face.
“Jason, how are things going with Marvel and Perfect World?”
As part of the big entertainment strategy, both companies are very important to Su Chengyang.
In particular, after experiencing the era when Marvel heroes were killing the global box office, Su Chengyang was very clear about the importance of Marvel.
“Perfect World has almost reached the point. Including the shares held by the boss, it has reached 69.3%, which means it has reached absolute control.”
“The negotiations with Marvel went smoothly before, and the price was almost agreed upon. Marvel was bought for $3.8 billion.”
“But for some reason, when the transaction was about to start, Marvel kept dragging its feet and always found excuses to delay. I suspect Marvel regretted it and there must be a new buyer, but the details are not clear yet and we are still investigating.”
An accident?
Could it be Disney?
Su Chengyang frowned.
In his previous life, Marvel was acquired by Disney, and it seemed that the time point was also 2009, and the price seemed to be 4 billion US dollars.
Before Iron Man became popular, no one would buy it even for 1 billion, let alone 4 billion US dollars.
Iron Man made Marvel, which was on the verge of bankruptcy, completely resurrected. No, it should be even better.
It became a hot commodity in the eyes of many movie giants.
Needless to say, the news of the acquisition must have been leaked, and Disney, or other movie giants have joined the competition, and Marvel took the opportunity to sit on the sidelines and see which party bids higher, and then sell it to that party.
After sorting out the clues, Su Chengyang said,”No need to investigate, most likely Disney wants to cut in.”
“Disney?”
Jason was surprised
“Um~~”
“You talk to Marvel again and say that you want to buy Marvel and all the heroes for 4 billion US dollars. If Marvel is still vague and wants to sit back and watch the competition so that they can catch big fish later, then we won’t buy it.”
Su Chengyang said in a deep voice.
Although Marvel is good, it doesn’t mean that we have to buy it.
Even if it can bring in tens of billions of dollars in box office, what can it do?
Disney spent 4 billion US dollars to acquire Marvel, and it had not recovered its investment until Su Chengyang was reborn.
The reason is that the producers in the film industry only account for more than 20% of the entire box office share, and the bulk of it is taken away by the theaters.
“Is 4 billion US dollars the reserve price?”
“right~~”
“OK, I got it, boss!”
“Well, Perfect World can show its cards now.”Su Chengyang said.
He planned to take advantage of the low stock price of Perfect World to privatize Perfect World, kick Chi Yufeng out, and completely control this first-tier domestic game development company.
Cut off the messy game projects behind.
First, the entire PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds will be developed.
When the time is right, League of Legends, Dota, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, if CSGO is developed, then e-sports events will be held directly, and then the penetration of game entertainment will be further strengthened. After that, game live broadcasts, events, etc. will be incubated, just like the fat penguin in the previous life, controlling the entire e-sports event and even the live broadcast industry chain.
After talking to Jason on the phone, Su Chengyang asked someone to call Lin Haishen
“How is the deal going with the acquisition of Shengda Literature and other novel websites?”
Lin Haishen hesitated:”We are still discussing it. Shengda Group doesn’t really want to sell Shengda Literature.”
“Don’t want to sell it?” Su Chengyang smiled and said,”That may be part of the reason, but the most important thing is that I think the price was not agreed upon.”
“What price did you quote them?”
“360 million.”Lin Haishen said
“”Have you found out the current profitability of Shengda Literature?” Su Chengyang asked. Lin Haishen nodded and said,”I asked a research company to check. Shengda Literature’s net profit last year was more than 60 million yuan. The most core and profitable one is the Singularity website.”
Annual net profit of 60 million.
The asking price of 360 million yuan is indeed not much.
“In this case, you can talk to Shengda Literature again. As long as the price is not too outrageous, Shengda Literature must be acquired no matter what.”
Su Chengyang said firmly.
At this time, the value of online literature adaptation has not yet exploded. After 12 years, the price of online literature IP has skyrocketed, especially the film and television IP, which can be said to have skyrocketed dozens of times or even hundreds of times.
Now, the film and television adaptation rights of a novel are estimated to be sold for only tens or hundreds of thousands, but after 2012, millions and tens of millions are everywhere.
In the era when the film and television IP adaptation of online novels was popular, several major domestic video platforms competed for it, which not only caused the copyright of online novels to skyrocket, but also caused the actors’ pay to skyrocket. The pay of a certain actor was as high as 80 million. If the acting skills were good, it would be fine, but the acting skills were so bad that it was unbearable to look at.
In addition, Penguin was planning the film and television industry that year, and spent 5 billion to buy Shengda Literature.
So whether for the purpose of planning or from the perspective of investment, Shengda Literature is worth spending money to acquire
“I wonder what the chairman’s reserve price is?”Lin Haishen was unsure, so he had to ask Su Chengyang
“Within 1 billion.”
Su Chengyang added:”The lower the price, the better.”
Lin Haishen nodded. If it was 1 billion, he felt that the deal should not be difficult.
“What about other websites?”
He asked Lin Haishen to acquire Xiaoshuo.com, not just Shengda Literature, but also other novel websites.
“The discussion with Xiaoxiang went smoothly and it has been finalized. The 100% equity will be acquired for 23 million.”
“¨‖ ¨‖ Novel reading here, asking price 60 million, estimated transaction price is 55 million”
“The grinding and pasting are almost done, and some details are not finalized yet. The price is 7 million.”
“Rongshu has completed the transaction and spent 6.9 million.”
Lin Haishen replied quickly
“”What about Jin Jiang?”
Su Chengyang asked with a frown.
Although the website page is terrible, it is a major place for film and television adaptations. Almost half of the online novels adapted into film and television dramas are from this website.
Many online dramas familiar to later generations are from this website.
Compared with Modie and Rongshu, Su Chengyang pays more attention to Jin Jiang.
Lin Haishen showed difficulty on his face:”I have talked to Jin Jiang. The couple Huang Yanming and Liu Xudong are unwilling to sell their 50% shares. I offered 20 million, but they were indifferent. There is really nothing I can do.”
Su Chengyang raised his eyebrows.
20 million to acquire 50% of the shares can be regarded as very sincere. You should know that Jinjiang only implemented the VIP listing system last year. Before that, Jinjiang had always been free, and its status in the female frequency was not as good as Xiaoxiang and Xiaoxiang. It was far from the overlord in the film and television adaptation period.
The reason why Jinjiang, a website, can become a beneficiary of the film and television adaptation era is that it accumulated a large number of works during the free period, and there are many high-quality works.
To put it bluntly, buying a website is to buy a content copyright library. Other technical teams, operation teams, etc. are all nonsense.
“I remember that the company of this website Jin Jiang is in Yanjing?”
“Yes, their company is in Yanjing, a very small company with only a dozen people.”
“In this way, you should speed up the discussion with Shengda, and I will handle Jin Jiang’s situation.”Su Chengyang thought about it and decided to personally go to Huang Yanming and Liu Xudong.
“The chairman is going there in person?”
Lin Haishen was surprised
“”Hmm~ Jin Jiang is very important, you will know this later.” Su Chengyang couldn’t say it clearly.
Lin Haishen nodded and didn’t ask any more questions.
However, he didn’t think Jin Jiang was as important as Su Chengyang said.
Apart from Rongshu, Jin Jiang was the smallest of the companies he had talked to, with an office of less than 100 square meters.
“correct”
“How was the discussion with Gong Yu before? Is he interested in joining?”
(Lin Haishen said:”I talked to him and he has this intention, but he is not satisfied with the issue of shares.”
Su Chengyang frowned:”What did he say?”
“He wants shares, not dividends.”
“How many?”
“5%!”
Su Chengyang’s expression eased.
5% of the shares was fine.
If Gong Yu asked for 10%, Su Chengyang would immediately change people and find someone who knows how to operate Internet streaming media. It would just take more effort. It doesn’t require much technical skills.
However, it would be best if Gong Yu could join.
Gong Yu is the founder and CEO of a certain iQiyi video website. He can be said to be the founder of the first streaming media in China.
(Websites like Tudou and Youku don’t count. These can only be considered video websites. The object of imitation is YouTube. The streaming media is benchmarked by Netflix.)
“Promise him! However, you have to wait until the company goes public before you can share the profits.”
Su Chengyang instructed Lin Haishen.
Streaming media must be listed. This thing is a money-burning platform. If you want to make achievements, you have to burn at least two or three billion every year, and it will take many years. Su Chengyang is reluctant to burn his own money. First, build the platform, and after becoming an industry giant, introduce capital to join, and then go public.
If it weren’t for the fact that the video platform is a core part of the entertainment strategy, he would not invest at all. It’s too expensive.
Moreover, the piracy market in Longguo is too rampant. Many people are used to watching pirated movies and are unwilling to spend more than ten yuan every month. Membership has caused several major video platforms to lose money every year.
Of course, another reason for this is that several domestic video platforms are too shameless.
After people become members, there should be no advertisements, but there are ten-second advertisements at the beginning of the film, and advertisements are inserted halfway through the film.
That’s fine, but they also have to make advance on-demand ads.
It’s simply a VVIP and VVVIP routine.
It’s strange that they are not scolded.
It’s equivalent to membership in vain, so people will naturally watch pirated content.
In short, Gong Yu did a good job, and he didn’t mind giving out some shares.
Lin Haishen nodded and said,”I understand, I’ll contact him right away.”.
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