Taking advantage of the mont when Enes and Nancy were negotiating the contract, Harry imdiately turned around and slipped out of the eting room.
He hid in a nearby office, took out his phone, opened his YouHaborry Tiktok account, glanced at the ssage Nancy had sent him, and quickly replied to her.
[YouHaborry: Miss Nancy, I’m very happy to help you. I’ve approached many major dia companies, and they all refused to sign you. Now, there’s only this Oga dia left.
Oga dia isn’t a small company, they do have so resources. You can rest assured. With Oga dia protecting you, at least you won’t be banned on Tiktok.
However, recently many platforms and dia companies, as well as talent agencies, have introduced so very restrictive contracts. I asked Oga dia about it, and they want to sign people for 20 years.
I hope you can understand this, as it’s the company’s standard contract clause. As a shareholder, it’s not appropriate for to make changes arbitrarily.
But you can confidently sign with Oga dia. If you ever breach the contract, I can guarantee they won’t dare to hold you accountable.]
Harry was deeply afraid that such harsh contract terms would make Nancy refuse, so he deliberately used his alternate account to reassure her. After sending the ssage, Harry quickly slipped back into the eting room.
At that mont, Nancy was sowhat agitated and arguing with Enes about sothing. From their debate, it seed to be about the 20 year contract term.
No matter how much Nancy tried to negotiate, Enes remained as unmovable as a rock, not giving any ground at all.
"Fine, if that’s the case, I need to discuss this with my assistants."
Seeing that Enes remained calm and unyielding, Nancy hesitantly turned to look at Clara and Wendy. She pulled Clara, Wendy, and Harry aside and said, "Wendy, Clara, Oga dia’s contract is too harsh. Once I sign with them, I’ll have no autonomy for 20 years! It’s basically tying completely to their company! Do you... do you think I should sign?"
"A 20 year contract? That’s way too long! If you ever have other ideas in the future, Nancy, won’t you be stuck with this company? But I’ve heard our ntor say that many companies nowadays do require new talents to sign for 5 to 10 years, so this is sowhat standard practice."
"I think we should consider other options. Nancy, according to what this President Enes said, this contract is no different from a slave contract! They even want to control what you say and do in public! They even want to ddle in your personal life, like dating and marriage! It’s too much! And if you breach the contract, the penalty is 10 tis the compensation. If you only work for this company for one year and your salary is 300,000 USD, that would an 3 million USD! That’s such a bad deal!" Wendy hesitantly advised Nancy.
"It’s not that big of a deal. This is essentially a gamble. Right now, Oga dia is willing to invest money and resources, taking huge risks to protect you and promote you. Of course, they expect so returns from you.
If you don’t sign such a contract, once the storm passes and they’ve made you famous, what if you suddenly get poached by a competitor for a higher price? If you were the boss of Oga dia, would you be okay with that? I think signing this is fine.
As long as Nancy doesn’t leave the company, the contract terms won’t be disadvantageous to her. Besides, Nancy doesn’t really have a choice now.
If she signs with them, she might overco this crisis and even beco famous. But if she doesn’t sign, Samuel will absolutely destroy her!"
Harry very cleverly twisted the narrative, guiding Nancy toward the trap.
At such a critical mont, the words of soone she considered "on her side" carried significant weight for the indecisive Nancy.
Harry’s words imdiately made the hesitant Nancy nod in agreent.
"But you can’t guarantee they’ll definitely be able to deal with Samuel, nor can you guarantee that Nancy won’t clash with the people in this company later! Signing this blindly would an there’s really no turning back."
Clara was clearly much sharper and quickly realized the underlying implications.
"That’s not a problem. They’re signing Nancy for 20 years, and Nancy is signing with them for 20 years. Don’t forget, within those 20 years, they have to pay Nancy a base salary of 300,000 USD every year! Even if Nancy gets banned later, with this 300,000 USD annually, what does she have to worry about?" Harry continued to steer the conversation.
"That’s true..." Nancy nodded beside them, took out her phone, and opened the Tiktok ssage interface to take a look. After seeing the ssage from YouHaborry, Nancy finally made up her mind.
"President Enes, I agree to your contract! Let’s sign it now!"
Seeing Nancy smoothly signed by Enes, Harry’s lips curled into a smug, cold smile.
Now, Nancy was completely locked into his company. From now on, there would be plenty of ways to control her!
Moreover, given Nancy’s current popularity, as long as they managed it properly, Harry felt they could definitely host a live stream on Tiktok, throw in so product promotion, and absolutely make a "hefty" profit!
As for Samuel over there, screw him.
When it ca down to it, Samuel was just a rich kid. If they gave him face, he was Principal Samuel. If they didn’t, what could he even do to Nancy?
After sending the newly contracted Nancy and Wendy back to the Mackerel Family, Harry imdiately hid in his study and called Enes.
"Enes, now that we’ve signed Nancy, we need to capitalize on her explosive popularity. Hurry up and contact so internet trolls, spread the news everywhere, make sure as many people as possible know—tonight at 9 PM, Nancy will go live on Tiktok to tear into Samuel! Expose Samuel’s ugly true colors!"
"Make the headlines as exaggerated as possible. For example, ’Samuel Pursued Nancy but Got Rejected, Turned Spiteful and Slandered Her—Nancy Goes Live on Tiktok to Plead for Help.’"
"Or sothing like ’Nancy About to Drop Major Dirt on Samuel!’ You get the idea, you’re better at this than . Just handle it."
"Also, contact so brands that need product promotion. Once Nancy’s live stream gains traction, imdiately pivot to a sales pitch!" Harry rambled on, getting more and more excited as he spoke.
"President Harry, isn’t this inappropriate? Headlines like these might provoke the Wang family... Besides, if it’s supposed to be Nancy live-streaming to confront Samuel, how does that suddenly turn into a sales pitch? Won’t that look way too greedy and obvious?"
Enes, being kind-hearted and honest, found Harry’s blatantly shaless profiteering hard to stomach.
"You know Yiren, right? You know Inba, right? Those guys pull way more shaless stunts than this, and they’re raking in cash, aren’t they? We’re a business. Our goal is to make money, to turn a profit, not run a charity. Those Tiktok fans? They’re just bored spectators looking for drama. You really think they care about justice?"
Harry had spent so free ti watching Tiktok livestreams and had already picked up on so basic influencer tactics. At first, he’d thought these tactics were downright stupid and disgustingly transparent.
But seeing how so hosts sold hundreds of thousands of units in one stream, raking in millions, Harry had co to a realization. Sure, these tricks were fake and sleazy, but the idiots watching loved them!
You couldn’t judge things based solely on your own perspective. Most Tiktok users were either uneducated middle-aged or elderly folks, or kids with no critical thinking skills, or brain-dead housewives. For these people, the simpler the trick, the better.
"O... okay, President Harry. I’ll get it arranged right away." After Harry’s rant, Enes reluctantly nodded in agreent. Having worked in livestreaming for so long, she’d long since noticed this trend. But Enes was too kind and naive to stoop to such underhanded tactics.
Now that the company had reached this point, Enes had no choice but to accept it. She’d suffered enough losses because of her innocence and kindness. She’d finally realized that in business, if you wanted to stand firm, you had to play dirty.
"Then the livestream is in your hands. Rember to study the tactics of people like Yiren and Inba, use all their tricks. Don’t worry about looking greedy. As long as it makes money, nothing else matters. Oh, and try to partner with a liquor company—alcohol sales are crazy profitable."
Harry couldn’t resist adding more instructions, just to be safe.
On the other end of the line, Enes nearly spat out her coffee, her face darkening with disbelief.
By using Oga dia to control Nancy and then leveraging Nancy’s fa to make money and revive Oga dia, Harry was quite pleased with his own cunning maneuvers.
Now that everything was set, all that was left was to sit back and enjoy the show tonight. These operational details weren’t his forte anyway, so he was happy to delegate. That left him free to find so excitent elsewhere tonight.
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