The Villain and the Cannon Fodder’s Mother
chapter-121

Chapter 121 – Ms. Lin Ping was the true big boss! (1)

Lu Xun tried to convince Lin Yiyi to be a part of Director Lu’s newest work as she was once a part of the entertainment circle.

“Once” because after she had joined the entertainment circle, she got married and had children before she became popular.

And, after all these years, she was actually more popular now than ever!

Part of it has to do with Meng Yan. Negative publicity was still publicity. At least everyone has heard of her. Whenever the name “Lin Yiyi” was brought up, everyone would immediately say, “Oh, she’s that wife of Meng Yan. She enjoys ostentatious shows of wealth.”

What Lin Yiyi didn’t know was that when her family background was exposed, her new identity as a White, Rich, and Pretty has been accepted by the general public. At the same time, all of her negative publicity from the past about her ostentatious shows of wealth or merely using the film emperor has also been neutralized.

She didn’t have the slightest idea the size of the crowd that she could draw today!

Unfortunately, whilst Lu Xun might have taken all aspects into account, he hadn’t expected Lin Yiyi’s lack of interest in playing a role in the movie or even having anything to do with the entertainment circle.

To put it simply, Lin Yiyi has a pretty good idea what she was made of.

Cooking she could handle, but when it came to acting skills…

She had none of that!

She had no idea whether the original owner was talented in that area or not but probably not if she had to venture a guess…

If she was indeed talented, she wouldn’t have been an 18th-tier actress who was bashed by black fans for over 10 years.

Regardless, let it be in the past or now, she was not meant to be an actress.

But…

The name Lu Sen just sounded so familiar!

If she was right, this Director Lu Sen would become a lot more than just a minorly-famed director in the future in this novel world.

At this very moment, Lin Yiyi saw potential.

Not just the potential of a director, but the potential of this market.

She stopped Lu Xun from continuing to try to convince her. She asked, “How much is the investment for Director Lu’s new work?”

This movie – “Earth-shattering” – was done in Director Lu’s usual wuxia style, and it was also one of Shengshi’s most crucial investments of the year.

“It was tentatively set at 200 million yuan.”

Lu Xun was very open about it. “But, knowing what we know about Lu Sen, he would most likely spend every dime of it and then some. My bottom line is 250 million yuan. Any more than that and I’d be worried that we won’t be able to make it back.”

When he was done saying that, he suddenly realized what she was trying to get at. He looked at Lin Yiyi in surprise and asked, “You want to invest in the movie?”

As much as he may seem goofy at times, he was still pretty sharp when it came to anything work-related.

Lin Yiyi shook her head initially. “The first thing you will need to make a movie is capital. As for why you need so many different investors, that’s because you want the risk to be spread out between multiple parties. That and it will be good publicity, right? The movie industry has risk, high risk at that. But the return is equally high, which is why it can attract so much capital.”

To use an insider’ words, 9 out of 10 movies were losing propositions and that was the god-honest truth.

But, when one made a profit, that profit would be so substantial that it would more than make up for the losses on the other 9.

Naturally, Lu Xun was well aware of that.

A portion of his entertainment firm focused specifically on movies and TV shows. At the end of the day, he was a businessman and wouldn’t do anything that’s unprofitable.

He nodded and said, “A movie usually requires a lot of capital. Another investor means more support, more publicity and also gives the movie more draw.”

“Count me in if you still need more for your 250 million yuan capital.”

Lin Yiyi pointed at herself and said, “My dad is Gu Chengyi; my mom is Lin Ping. I am a once-in-a-lifetime kind of customer.”

Most of Gu Chengyi’s businesses were overseas, but he still has his network domestically.

Not to mention Ms. Lin Ping. She has gained her wealth initially from the seafood business and finally became one of the top real estate magnates in City Nan.

Their combined assets would put them among the richest top 20 in the world!

Technically, “Lin Yiyi” was a real boss!

“You… didn’t you just say you didn’t want to invest in movies?” Lu Xun was a little baffled.

It seemed he has yet to adjust to the abrupt and drastic change in the distance between their newly-established statuses of him being “an owner” and her being “a real boss”.

Did that mean he should go and hug her thigh right here right now?*

And then, he reflexively looked over at her two white and smooth thighs exposed outside of her skirt…

“The National Radio and Television Administration announced the Regulations on the Administration of Movies in an effort to encourage privately owned capital to be injected into culturally-related businesses such as movie production, screening, and dramatization, etc. This has also provided the opportunity for privately-owned film companies to grow rapidly,” said Lin Yiyi. “My idea is to start my own film company and invest in your ‘Earth-shattering’… You want my participation, right? Isn’t this perfect?”

Lu Xun: “……”

I was asking for your participation as an actress!

That being said, if he thought through what she had said, it made sense.

In terms of wealth, if Lin Yiyi wasn’t considered wealthy, then there would be no wealthy people in this world…

In terms of networking, her family background was top notch. Even a small, small, small segment from Lao Gu and Ms. Lin Ping would be more than sufficient.

It was just that…

“Running your own film company is no small feat.”

As for exactly how complicated it could get, that’d depend on many other factors.

The first and foremost was, of course, money. Everything would only be smooth sailing when that criteria has been met.