I'm A Baller - Chapter 333
Chapter 333: Er Ya Goes Crazy Again
There was something wrong with her mind.
Fu Yushi realized that there was something wrong with the first thought in her mind.
However, unlike Lin Weiwei, her memory of that dream was not as clear, so most parts were blurry.
Why did she have to catch hold of Wang Yan?
There was no reason to do that…
People were very different from each other. Some people remembered the details clearly after they had a dream, while others forgot it when they woke up. It was normal.
Fu Yushi happened to be caught in the middle. She had some memories, but they were very vague. Hence, she suddenly felt strangely guilty.
She subconsciously glanced at Wang Yan and lowered her head with a heart full of worries.
No one knew what she was thinking. She had always been a difficult girl to guess.
However, the moment she backed down to think about this, Big Bear automatically won the fight and she scoffed smugly.
Shen Man looked at Nawu’s smug attitude and her eyes turned red with jealousy.
Those two girls were not as beautiful as she was and did not know how to dress up. They were not as good at acting coquettishly and pleasing men as she was when they were chatting. What right did they have to make a movie the moment they debuted?!
She refused to take this lying down.
However, Shen Man would not attack them directly. She was not that stupid.
“Master Wang, is your company planning to move into Waiwai? Do you need me to help you build your reputation? Although our strength is meager, we all wish to do our best…”
This little mouth of hers was so sweet yet so scheming!
She did not directly ask to be part of Wang Yan’s company, but she clearly wanted to be affiliated with him. She was just taking a longer route in doing so.
Essentially, she was still waiting and watching and biding her time.
She even pulled Liu Kun and Xiao Zhe into the picture, doing them a favor as a result. What a classy move.
Nawu was very unhappy with Shen Man’s delicate, adoring, and starry-eyed expression. Suddenly, she quietly reached her hand under the table, and the tip of her nails gently rested on Wang Yan’s leg.
Wang Yan definitely got the right message after noticing her slightly pouted mouth.
Was he getting something good out of this? NO! This was a fucking threat!
She was clearly telling him, “If you dare to flirt with this slut, I’m going to get nasty!”
Ever since that dream, the girls had become more and more friendly with Wang Yan. It was hard to say if it was a good thing or a bad thing…
At this moment, Nawu was just tickling him with the tip of her nails and hadn’t clawed at him yet.
He suppressed the feeling in his heart and ignored Nawu, for fear sparks might fly.
He smiled at Shen Man and shook his head. “I appreciate your kindness. But my CEO, the other Mr. Wang, is in charge of the specific implementation. I won’t directly ask about such things. It will easily affect Mr. Wang’s authority.”
This was a very good reason, so Shen Man was very disappointed.
Actually, it was not only Shen Man who was disappointed. Liu Kun and Xiao Zhe could not hide their disappointment.
They couldn’t wait to show off what they were worth, but Wang Yan wasn’t falling for this trick. They were so upset.
It was really hard to get through to Wang Yan.
This was a very high level game. Most of the messages were obscured. Any bids and rejections were all hidden in friendly flattery exchanges that didn’t hurt the harmony. It was a typical way of doing things in this country.
Those who were good at this would often find a way to somehow get the other party involved after going round and round, and would somehow cause the other party to owe them a favor.
Logically speaking, the younger a rich heir or heiress was, the more they would fall for this trick. Their reputation and pride was more important than anything else, and money was nothing!
But when it came to Wang Yan, they didn’t know how to talk to him at all.
This guy was a really tough one.
Fu Yushi saw through it and quietly asked Wang Yan, “Have you already decided to never sign on a livestreamer from another platform?”
Wang Yan nodded silently and gave her an admiring look to compliment her for being so smart.
Ever since he had crafted this plan, Wang Yan had no intention of signing on any of these popular livestreamers, especially those beauty vloggers.
He had already poached so many models and had a few hundred newbies to feed.
Expanding the market alone wasn’t enough. He also had to cut a little from what already existed.
Wangting Entertainment wanted to do a cross-platform business, so all the female broadcasters currently on the internet were competitors.
If they wanted to get to the top, they had to invest a lot of resources to let potential newbies stand out.
Resources were already tight, and the supply of newbies was limited. How could he sign on a popular livestreamer?
In theory, hiring a popular livestreamer would save them the trouble and cost of grooming new ones.
However, the signing fee and contract violation fee for poaching them might be higher than the cost of training newbies, and someone who could be poached might not be loyal. It wasn’t worth it.
So no matter what Shen Man had in mind, Wang Yan would not touch her.
Unless…
Unless she offered him something else for free.
She had to offer something of similar value.
Don’t misunderstand. Wang Yan was not lusting after her, since that was the last thing he was lacking in. Besides, he was a righteous and upright man…
In short, if one wanted to move Wang Yan, they had to have a special sort of value.
If nothing else, at least a special score of 95 and above…what was he talking about?!
Tsk! He should just be quiet and behave himself!
…
Seeing that Shen Man’s ruse clearly didn’t work on Wang Yan, Li Yixu had no choice but to step in to help.
“Xiao Man, find a chance to chat with Mr. Wang Yunxi about those small matters. Don’t worry, Young Master Yan is a person who values relationships. Look at Ling Ya and Mi Zi! They are always so grateful and filled with praise for him!”
“Come, Young Master Yan, let’s have a drink. You have to tell me about your plan.”
“Right now, I’m so curious that my heart is itching. Just pick what you can say. If there’s anything I can help with, I’ll take the initiative to help you settle it. You don’t even have to ask.”
Li Yixu smiled and spoke at a moderate speed. He was still steady and consistent in his manner.
However, from the initial tactful probing, to the subsequent demonstration of sincerity, and now to directly pandering to him, the changes in the three stages were unnoticeable, but his attitude had become more and more straightforward.
It was very simple — he couldn’t drag it on any further.
Wang Yan was more troublesome to deal with than he had imagined.
On the one hand, it was a good thing. It proved that Wang Yan was indeed a rare genius. He was of great value and worthy of deep friendship.
On the other hand, it was a bad thing because the more capable Wang Yan was, the less likely he would be able to take the lead in the cooperation.
Forget about taking the lead. It was already too difficult to get on this bandwagon.
It was difficult to have your cake and eat it. After weighing the pros and cons, Li Yixu decided to be frank.
Businessmen and the second generation of wealthy families were two completely different creatures. The pride that the second-generation rich valued the most was nothing in the eyes of businessmen.
Li Yixu had a pragmatic personality and was much more mature than someone like Triple Xin. After he decided to befriend Wang Yan, he no longer put on the airs of a rich young master. He even raised the wine bottle with both hands to pour wine for Wang Yan.
At this point, even Wang Yan felt that it would be unreasonable not to reveal some secrets.
Fortunately, this big swindler named Wang Yan did have the intention to reveal some secrets to the other party. How could he fish without bait?
“Brother Xu, I didn’t mean to hide it from you. The movie project is really not a foregone conclusion. There’s only a half-finished script and a general direction.”
“The main lead was just confirmed today, and there’s nothing more than that besides some money waiting to be invested. How could I talk to you about it?”
“As for Wangting Entertainment’s next direction of development…”
“Yes, you didn’t guess wrong. We’ve signed many of those showgirls from that day. The company plans to put them on various major platforms and manage them across platforms.”
“Perhaps we won’t limit ourselves to livestreaming platforms. As long as it’s an exposure channel related to the internet, we’ll slowly explore it.”
“In the future, we’ll acquire a few small platforms, do professional market segmentation, and then try to increase our traffic. That’s about it.”
“In any case, we welcome cooperation from any platform now.”
“That’s all I can say. Brother Xu, please don’t take offense.”
Wang Yan smiled bitterly as he cast one hook after another.
Li Yixu was shocked and exclaimed, “Young Master Yan, are you aiming to be a public listed company?!”
Wang Yan smiled but didn’t say anything. He elegantly raised his wine glass.
Everyone present immediately confirmed this had to be true.
Shen Man blinked her big eyes and suddenly exclaimed, “The foresight of an elite young master is really different… Panda TV seems to be aiming for going public too.”
“Indeed.”
Liu Kun nodded and then shook his head.
“But the model is completely different. Compared to Panda, I’m more optimistic about Master Wang’s plan. He controls the livestreamers and internet celebrities, doesn’t directly participate in competing with other platforms, and has a genius-like strategy!”
He was exaggerating a little too much. Wang Yan didn’t take it seriously, but Nawu was happily holding her chin and listening with relish.
It was hard to say how much she could understand…
In comparison, Fu Yushi was too smart. With her surprisingly sharp business sense, she directly found the key problem.
She whispered into Wang Yan’s ear and asked, “But how are you going to solve the problem of lack of talent? The cost of poaching people will be terrifyingly high, right?! You managed to fool Beauty Ko this time round, but who can you target next?”
What the heck!
Was this woman seriously just a dancer?!
Wang Yan’s hair stood on end. It was not because of her warm breath on his ear but his shock at how Fu Yushi was so intelligent.
The three questions were all on point.
Indeed, the model that Wang Yan wanted to set up seemed perfect, but in fact, there was a huge flaw — the source of online celebrities was out of his hands.
It was extremely inefficient and costly to recruit people directly from the public. The gains did not make up for the losses.
It was even more impossible to poach mature livestreamers and internet celebrities.
Their contract fees would cost a bomb.
The top livestreamers on Fish like Timo, Fa Fa, Er Ke, Xiao Cang were all impossible to poach.
It wasn’t that no one could see the benefits of a similar model. It was just that no one could do it and reduce the cost to an acceptable level.
Therefore, what Wang Yan was doing was actually an unprecedented model. A model that could only be self-consistent in economic theory. It was extremely difficult to implement.
Even if they had a dream-like start now thanks to the girls from Beauty Ko, the future prospects were still doubtful.
Wang Yan was considering how to respond when Li Yixu suddenly clapped and sighed.
“What is the meaning of ‘great minds think alike’? I have seen it for myself today…”
“Young Master Yan, I suppose you don’t know this, but actually CEO Wang of Panda TV has a plan similar to yours and is currently in the process of implementing it.”
“The main company doing the implementation is Shanghai Banana Plan Culture Development Co. It was registered and established in June. It has four major subsidiaries under Banana Plan, namely video games, performing artistes management, sports culture, and film and television.”
“The performing artistes management and film and television subsidiary companies have similar functions.”
“However, Banana Plan is not as fast and successful as you.”
“While we are still looking for a breakthrough, you have already turned mukbang competitions into a famous brand.”
“When we just decided to sign Tara in an attempt to combine idol entertainment and e-sports, Wangting Entertainment’s online influence in the livestreaming circle is already unparalleled…”
“Young Master Yan, you really should sit down with CEO Wang. I believe that you two will have a lot in common.”
When these words came out, everyone at the table was dumbfounded.
We?!
Wait, that Banana Plan company was a joint company between Li Yixu and Wang Siming?!
Oh my god!
What business was his family in?!
This guy was a top level heir!
They were already so surprised. When they looked back at Wang Yan again, their eyes were filled with reverence.
Since Master Wang was thought of so highly by this elite second-generation rich and had been able to do something that Wang Siming had always wanted to do but failed to, didn’t that make Master Wang even more powerful?
Not only was his capital immense, but his ability was also incredible!
Wang Yan was not too shocked, but he was suddenly enlightened.
So that was the case!
No wonder Li Yixu’s goodwill was so obvious, and his intention to befriend him was so clear!
It seemed that Wang Siming’s plan really needed him, but because Wang Yan had turned him down before, Wang Siming was too embarrassed to ask again, so he sent Li Yixu instead.
He was surprised that Wang Siming had quite the temper…
Wang Yan was a little amused in his heart, but he was still so calm on the surface, as if he was possessed by the spirit of a best actor.
“Banana Plan… I’ve heard a little about it. I don’t think our development plans overlap, Brother Xu, you’re exaggerating.”
Li Yixu smiled bitterly. “It’s not that the directions don’t overlap. It’s just that we really don’t have your ability, Young Master Yan. We just aren’t able to do it. Sigh!”
Young Master Li was really adaptable in any situation. With just one sentence, he was able to make Wang Yan, who had been extremely resistant all this time, feel happy. His mood instantly swelled up.
Compared to people like Shen Man and Xiao Zhe, Wang Yan couldn’t even muster up the interest to act pretentious. However, to be able to convince Li Yixu was truly satisfying.
Of course, cooperation was impossible.
Wang Yan didn’t have the slightest interest in the plans of Banana Plan.
He wasn’t picking on anyone. He just wanted to tell them that all of them were considered trash in this industry!
No matter how rich you were or how many connections you had, or how many teams you had. If you can’t get enough livestreamers, you just couldn’t get it done.
He was the only one in the world who could get this business going! That was how domineering and unyielding he was going to be.
In fact, at the beginning, Wang Yan didn’t deeply realize the scarcity of the abilities he had mastered. He just judged that this could be done.
As time passed and the plan progressed step by step, Wang Yan gradually realized the irreplaceable nature of his beauty radar in this industry.
Knowing things in theory wasn’t as impactful as going through it personally.
But the moment Li Yixu mentioned Banana Plan, Wang Yan suddenly understood everything.
Wang Siming couldn’t do it!
Those new companies founded by online celebrities couldn’t do it!
The Ali e-commerce platform team had a 10% chance of doing it, Weibo’s team had a 10% chance of doing it, and all the video platforms added together had a 10% chance of doing it.
The livestreaming platform did not have the slightest chance and there was no way to go about it.
The remaining 70% chance was all in his hands!
As for Jingdong Association, Little Red Book, and other platforms that had yet to go in this direction, they originally had a little chance, but now they didn’t have chance left.
Because he was now standing in their way!
What was the most correct path to take?
Wang Yan did not know.
But he did not need to know.
As long as the quality of his staff was high enough, he had a huge number of them and spent very little on them, who cared which road he should take?!
He should just bulldoze through them all!
As long as it was related to livestreaming, then whether it was entertainment, games, make-up, shopping, food, clothing, or transportation, he would attack them one by one!
Nobody could possibly stop an attack that didn’t care about starting small or building a foundation first.
The whole point of having a cheat in life was to be able to have sweeping success in this world!
None of these people would understand how happy he was from this. All of them could stand aside!
…
Just as Wang Yan was suddenly enlightened and extremely inflated, Chen Handong suddenly spoke to him.
“Young Master Wang, if you want to do cross-platform operations, you must talk to Tiger Teeth, right? The operations director of Tiger Teeth used to be my boss. If you don’t mind, I’m willing to help you get connected!”
Wang Yan nodded with a smile. “Oh, that’s a good idea. Brother Chen, Wangting Entertainment is desperate for talent now and Wang Yunxi complains to me about the lack of manpower every day. Would you consider it?”
Wang Yan had finally officially invited him to join, but his attitude was more casual than before.
He was full of confidence.
If Wang Yan had said it like this when he had first entered the room, Chen Handong would definitely feel belittled, but now, he was overjoyed.
“Then I’ll have to trouble Young Master Wang to help me talk to him first. If it’s convenient, I’ll personally visit Mr. Wang Yunxi either tomorrow or the day after!”
When Li Yixu introduced Chen Handong, he had clearly said that Chen Handong wanted to lead a guild of his own.
But after he had been so thoroughly duped by Wang Yan, Chen Handong completely forgot about that.
It was great to be your own boss, but of course it was more comfortable to be in the care of a successful business rather than struggle and fight to take care of your own.
The industry was abuzz with rumors that Wangting Entertainment had stripped Beauty Ko of everything they had and poached over a hundred top-tier models, so they were likely making a big push into the livestreaming industry.
Previously, Chen Handong had been skeptical. Now that he had heard and seen it with his own eyes, his head was spinning.
This wasn’t just a plan to go into the livestreaming industry.
Wang Yan was going to create an entertainment empire!
Chen Handong wished he could kneel down and kowtow to Wang Yan.
He was even ready to fall to his knees and call Wang Yan his father!
…
Liu Kun’s entire body was feeling so restless that he couldn’t even sit in his chair. However, considering that Xiao Zhe and Shen Man were around, he forcefully restrained himself from speaking.
It seemed like he had other plans in mind. It was unclear what he intended to sell to Wang Yan.
Shen Man might have finally realized that she was not whom Wang Yan was looking for, so her expression wasn’t too good.
Her expression was uncertain, and her eyes were flickering.
She did not dare to trip up Wang Yan.
She wanted to show off what she had, but two beauties like Nawu and Fu Yushi were here as well.
There was nothing else she could do but leave it to fate, but she was equally upset about having to give up such a good opportunity…
She was so conflicted that she wanted to bang her head against the wall.
Li Yixu thought for a long time and finally gave up the extravagant hope of achieving success in one go. He placed his hopes on the next opportunity.
“Young Master Yan, when Wangting Entertainment wants to move into Panda TV, give me a call. I’ll help you arrange it. We’ll give you the best treatment we can afford!”
“If the mukbang livestreamers are willing to join us, we’d be even happier.”
“I’ll match Fish’s terms, and I’ll personally help you talk to Wang Siming to give them an increase of at least 20% on top of that.”
Wang Yan did not spend a single cent and managed to settle a huge matter. His mood instantly improved.
All that pretending wasn’t for nothing after all.
Panda, Tiger Teeth, War Flag, Dragon Ball and Six Rooms were all platforms that were difficult to handle.
Now, Li Yixu had taken care of Panda, Tiger Teeth had a traitor, Chen Handong, and he had a few confused but impressed livestreamers from Waiwai. All he did was to brag for a few minutes! What a great profit!
He was so happy!
Wang Yan smiled, and Nawu went over to whisper to the little princess again, “See, I told you. Wangwang is definitely pulling the wool over these people’s eyes!”
Fu Yushi was still thinking about the question she had just now, so she just shook her head absentmindedly.
“That’s not pulling the wool over other people’s eyes, that’s Wangwang’s trump card, and you’d never get to even touch it…”
Nawu’s fingertips had never left Wang Yan’s thigh. When she heard that statement, her brain twitched, and she reached out to grab… Wang Yan’s thigh muscles.
Wang Yan was expressing his gratitude to Li Yixu when his whole body quivered and his smile suddenly froze.
Good heavens!
Er Ya was going crazy again!
