Chapter 830: Chapter 830: War of Words
Lin Qi nodded, “I heard the company acquisition isn’t going smoothly. Currently, Huanya Entertainnt’s market value is about 5 billion. But during the negotiation process, Huanya remained adamant. Midway through the negotiations, the other party said Huanya could be sold to Huace, but Du Huaixi’s personal contract would not be sold.”
The reason Huanya could grow to a scale of 5 billion USD was rely because they relied on Du Huaixi as their money-making machine.
Under Huanya, there were over fifty celebrities signed, but when bundled together, they couldn’t match the worth of Du Huaixi.
Although Du Huaixi didn’t appear in many dramas or films each year, her comrcial value was the highest in the entertainnt industry.
She was also one of the female stars who could navigate the fashion world most adeptly.
However, the company has never been short of exploiting and squeezing celebrities.
Having been in the industry for so long, Du Huaixi had almost always been working beyond her limit.
Shooting day and night, she hardly had any free ti, and even when filming wrapped up, the agency would imdiately arrange her next project or other activities and business deals.
Currently, she alone had more than a dozen high-end business contracts and global endorsents, each with contract prices in the hundreds of millions annually.
Huanya would rather abandon the company than give up on Du Huaixi, their top star.
But Huo Tinghan was equally firm.
Soft approaches didn’t work, so it ca to using force.
After a series of stock market maneuvers, Huanya was severely disadvantaged and ultimately sold to Huace for 2.5 billion USD, including Du Huaixi’s contract.
Li Yufei: “No wonder entertainnt stocks in the market have been dropping recently.”
Lin Qi: “Even acquiring the company for 2.5 billion isn’t a very profitable deal for Huace. Huo Tinghan took over Huanya just to buy out Xixi’s ‘contract.’ Over the years, Xixi worked like a slave for Huanya, earning them plenty. Tinghan doesn’t want Xixi to work so hard anymore.”
Li Yufei: “I wonder if Xixi will appreciate Tinghan’s efforts; after all, she’s inherently strong-willed and very career-driven.”
Lin Qi gave a gentle smile, “No rush, anyway, I’ve already decided on Xixi as my daughter-in-law!”
…
Huanya Entertainnt.
The nanny van stopped at the company entrance.
Du Huaixi received a call from her agent saying that the company was holding a eting.
On the way, she learned from her agent that Huanya had been acquired by another company, and now the entire upper managent had been replaced, including her direct superior.
“Tian Jifeng is really unfortunate. Selling everything for 2.5 billion, including your contract, who knows what he was thinking.”
Tian Jifeng was the forr CEO of Huanya.
Du Huaixi replied, “He didn’t really lose out; over the years, I’ve earned Huanya a lot of money.”
Agent: “Today, the new boss is taking the stage for a eting, and who knows how things will change for us in the future.”
When Tian Jifeng was around, the majority of Huanya’s resources were directed towards Du Huaixi.
The reason was simple.
Du Huaixi was the company’s biggest star.
As investors, of course, they were keen on the most sellable product.
The company wasn’t short of young, beautiful actresses, from second and third-tier to newcors.
But the higher-ups were mostly unwilling to make huge investnts to promote new stars.
And the more the resources favored Du Huaixi, the more famous and prosperous she beca, which naturally led to dissatisfaction among other artists in the company.
Du Huaixi couldn’t get along in the company.
Previously, she had supported a few newcors, and even had so appear in her own productions, but they didn’t gain much attention.
Nevertheless, in this industry, she couldn’t lower her status to give newcors the spotlight—at most she’d cao.
As a result, many stars held a grudge against her, feeling that Du Huaixi suppressed newcors by relying on her fa.
Whenever she had a new drama released, a lot of negative headlines would inconveniently appear online, but who would’ve thought that these headlines were bought by other artists in the company?
The internal discord of a company is embarrassing if it gets out.
Arriving at the company.
Du Huaixi walked towards the eting room.
Through the floor-to-ceiling windows, she saw it was already full of people inside.
As soon as Du Huaixi entered, the eting room fell silent.
“Oh, isn’t this our company’s leading star? How co you’re here today when you’re usually too busy to attend etings?”
“Isn’t she eager to et the new boss?”
“Haha. After all, the company has new leadership. If she skips the first eting and displeases the new boss, what if she gets benched?”
“Obviously she can’t wait to curry favor and cozy up.”
Du Huaixi sat down with a blank expression and looked at her agent, “Ms. Xue, could you pass the eting notes?”
“Sure.”
She adjusted her chair and looked across the table.
Sitting directly opposite her was He ngran, with Yan Lijia next to her.
One was twenty-four (listed as twenty-one on her profile), the other was twenty-three (listed as twenty).
In the entertainnt circle, female stars altering their age and male stars their height is commonplace.
However, Du Huaixi’s profile showed her real age.
Not long ago, when He ngran and Du Huaixi appeared together, He ngran bought negative headlines criticizing Du Huaixi for being older, relying on makeup to look young, and fabricating plastic surgery rumors.
Du Huaixi didn’t hold back, buying dia articles to highlight He ngran’s real age of twenty-four, her adjusted age, appearing with older stars yet getting overshadowed.
Pitting against each other!
Who can’t do it?
Having been around for so long, how could she let little sisters bully her?
Du Huaixi glanced at He ngran, giving a fake smile, “Did you get so beauty treatnts recently? Your skin looks much better. If you looked like this when we appeared together, the dia wouldn’t have said your ‘bloom is short’.”
A gentle laugh with a soft knife, yet every word was lethal.
He ngran’s complexion changed, “If the situation isn’t good, you can make minor adjustnts. When you’re older, nothing can save you.”
Du Huaixi, dark and witty, “Who says? You can always edit ‘Baidu Encyclopedia.'”
The eting room filled with colleagues and other artists erupting in laughter.
He ngran was montarily at a loss for words, her face turning ashen.
Du Huaixi continued, “Being able to maintain youthful beauty at thirty is better than at twenty-four when the face sags, having to rely on costic procedures, right?”
He ngran retorted, “How long can you stay young? I wonder if when you reach thirty-five, you can still play the leading lady? By then, no matter how well you maintain your condition, if you act as a teenager, let’s see if the audience laughs at you being a wannabe kid.”
Du Huaixi innocently shrugged, “At thirty-five, I’ll play your mom. Anyway, I’m not that obsessed with leading roles. Since debut, I’ve always been the lead. I beca a top star at twenty-four, which is better than so who still play maids at that age, right?”
He ngran, furious, slamd the table, “Du Huaixi, you!”
“Shh!”
The eting assistant hurriedly entered, “The boss is here!”
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