Chapter 117: Chapter 103 Artist Training Class

There wasn’t much to do in the afternoon.

So he took them to his new Tengying Headquarters.

His previous place was obviously too small, after all, this was a company that could steadily make several small goals a year.

Not having a majestic headquarters clearly wasn’t appropriate.

In late March, they moved into a five-story building in Chaoyang.

The annual rent was eight million, with a very large area.

Tengying Entertainment occupied the first to fourth floors, and Tenghui Capital was on the fifth floor.

Currently, the staff included a legal department, which currently had five senior lawyers.

They specialized in drafting all sorts of contracts for him and suing anyone who crossed them.

The kind that sends cease and desist letters from afar.

Additionally, there was the online marketing department headed by Jiang Yilei.

Previously, it was just her, and her hands were full even if she had twenty of them.

Now things were better, with more than ten new recruits, all young people.

The third floor was Zhao Liying’s personal studio with a team that took care of her.

As Tengying’s biggest star, it made sense for her to have this treatment.

Bai Xin was in charge of his fifth floor, with an independent elevator that anyone could use, without any special treatment.

This place was not just for office use; they also set up a separate restaurant on the first floor, solely responsible for the staff’s lunch and dinner.

For an entertainment company, the concept of overtime didn’t exist.

He himself rarely came.

After moving to the new headquarters, Tengying Entertainment immediately seemed much more upscale.

At least, that was how Jiang Peiyao and Guo Wen felt when they visited.

“Uncle, these are the drama crews that have been looking for your investment recently,”

Bai Xin felt she had the potential to develop into a dominant female figure in the entertainment industry.

This little secretary was gaining more and more status.

“Just leave them here, I’ll look at them later,”

Chen Pingsheng’s own office was especially large, devoid of books, it just had a big sofa and a tea table.

Usually, he entertained some clients here.

Having a cup of tea and a casual chat often sufficed to settle a deal, which felt pretty good.

Chen Pingsheng asked Jiang Peiyao and Guo Wen to come over, introducing them to his secretary, “Bai Xin, this is my little cousin, and this is her friend. You find them a training teacher, someone professional, as they’re both going to enter the entertainment industry to act.”

“Besides, now that our headquarters is bigger, we can set up our own artist training classes to nurture more new talents.”

“Also, let Zhao Liying mentor one or two of them. Whoever she mentors, the revenue they generate in the future will belong to her personal studio. We won’t do the boss system, but rather a mentor-mentee system instead.”

Chen Pingsheng thought the traditional mentor-mentee system was quite good, whether it was in the chef business or in the world of comic dialogues.

They used the term ‘mentor and disciple’.

In the future, they’d use this method too; whoever mentored the talent, the earnings would go to them.

This was very reasonable.

He himself didn’t understand filmmaking, didn’t know the entertainment industry, but he did understand that distributing most of the artist’s profits was the right thing to do.

In the future, as long as those who rose to fame remained under Tengying, Tengying’s market value would surely keep rising.

He personally had a hundred percent of the shares in Tengying.

Essentially, even if he didn’t earn the artists’ money, the artists could still endlessly drive up Tengying’s valuation for him.

Laymen have their own way of doing things.

Since Tengying gave more than ninety percent of the profits to the artists themselves, no one could poach his people.

“Uncle, you’re finally thinking about setting up an artist training class,”

“Why do you seem more excited than I am?” Chen Pingsheng found it quite strange.

Bai Xin giggled, “If Uncle makes this business bigger and stronger, I can be a more prestigious secretary, right?”

“Alright,” Chen Pingsheng said, “Our Tengying is lucky to have had you all along. There’s no need for you to continue being the cleaning lady. From now on, you’re officially promoted to be the president’s special assistant, with an annual salary of two million.”

“As for whether you want to develop towards becoming a star or in administrative management, that’s up to you to decide.”

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“For the talent training class, let Zhao Liying be in charge of the assessment criteria. We won’t deal with fluff—if your acting isn’t up to par, even if you look like Liu Yifei, not one of you will be kept,” he said.

He always believed that acting was the key to enduring success.

Relying on beauty marketing and various red carpet events was, after all, just a fleeting novelty.

There were some entertainment companies that made money from their artists’ breach of contract fees, which was quite shameless.

Their specific method was to sign a bunch, then shelve them directly. If you wanted to leave, you had to pay a breach of contract fee.

Chen Pingsheng didn’t indulge in such hollow practices—he steadily cultivated a group with good acting skills, which would always be profitable.

Bai Xin took notes in a small book, one point after another.

The boss’s words were the Holy Decree. Whatever he said to do, you did, and it was certainly not wrong.

It’s okay to add a bit of your own little ideas.

But only if it perfectly complements the boss’s ideas.

Anything deviating from the boss’s ideas, that was absolutely forbidden.

The thirty-eight rules for the personal cultivation of a secretary—she had studied them clearly and thoroughly.

For Song Yanxi, this was the first time seeing her husband at work in an entertainment company, and she hadn’t expected him to be so composed and at ease.

How could he not be composed? With the analysis function of the Golden Finger supporting him in the major directions, there was no way he could go wrong in making money. As for minor problems, no matter how many, what of it?

Wasn’t Tengying Entertainment still the most stable money-maker in the drama circle?

He was quite the oddity—disliking those young fresh meat without acting skills, and to prevent his female artists from dating within the company, he simply chose not to recruit men in the talent classes.

As for how to recruit women, that was entirely up to them.

After all, if a woman wanted to stand out in the entertainment circle, she needed either extraordinary resources or extraordinary beauty.

The kind that dazzled people at a glance.

Without either, one couldn’t even find a proper gig if they wanted to sleep their way through.

Jiang Peiyao was his cousin, and Bai Xin was very adept at arranging things.

She arranged for her to live together in a big four-bedroom, two-living-room apartment. It was comfortable enough for four girls to live and have their own space.

Jiang Yilei had to work at night, responsible for the online promotion of Tengying Entertainment’s latest talent training session.

They planned to recruit about thirty, train them simultaneously, and eliminate twenty-nine after a year.

Leaving only the one with the best acting skills.

Jiang Peiyao was inwardly shocked, “Eliminating twenty-nine in one year and only keeping one, isn’t that too cruel?”

Bai Xin stood by, offering a slight explanation.

“That’s just how the entertainment industry works. With such fierce competition, uncle will definitely not tolerate any slackers.”

The four girls in the dormitory were all dressed in their own white pajamas after showers, the air conditioning was on, and legs splayed out—they looked perfectly content.

“But if we release this news, I’m afraid not many people would dare to come, right?”

A one in thirty ratio, what kind of odds are those?

“How could that be?”

Bai Xin said with a smile, “The one who stays, Tengying Entertainment will independently invest in a heroine project for her, with a budget between fifty to eighty million for an A+ level project, and will have Zhao Liying directly boost her status.”

“With this news out, newcomers in the entertainment industry, including those little internet celebrities, who wouldn’t want to come? Our uncle is the most unique investor in the industry. When he says something, everyone absolutely believes it.”

“Is my cousin-in-law really that special?” Jiang Peiyao was somewhat puzzled.

“You don’t even know this?”

Bai Xin’s eyes shimmered as she looked at her, “Uncle is famous in the entertainment industry for his integrity. The dramas he invests in basically don’t involve any meddling, and he won’t make any actress do any under-the-table deals. Uncle doesn’t even attend the glamorous entertainment parties overflowing with beauties.”

“Unless Yang Mi is also there, then he might show a little interest.”

“I see.”

Jiang Peiyao listened proudly and was secretly happy for her cousin.

“As uncle’s little cousin, you’re quite fortunate. It’s not that no one would dare to bully you in the entertainment industry, but absolutely no one would dare molest you.”

Bai Xin patted Jiang Peiyao’s perky buttocks. Not big of age, but not so small of behind.

She intended to pat her shoulder, but her butt was so perky, it was simply within convenient reach.

“Last year, uncle invested one hundred million in the production of Hua Qiangu, and it should wrap up before October this year. Once this drama explodes, our senior sister might just charge into the A-list. By then, with a status in the drama circle that matches Yang Mi’s, Tengying will be an A-list entertainment and film company. As uncle’s only designated secretary, I’m going to be a menacing presence too, Wahaha.”

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