Generally speaking, when it comes to purchasing a celebrity’s image copyright, one would normally contact the manager first, and then relay the message to the relevant person in charge or the agency. Once the company agrees, the entire process will be considered done. Because the manager and the agency is the one who is planning the career growth of the celebrities.

And this time, the person in charge of dealing with the buying of the copyright is called Zhang Xuan. She is a very capable head of department of the planning department of Yuan Cheng Technology. She is generally in charge of any collaboration projects with other companies. There’s hardly any issue with the projects handled by her.  

But today, Lin Xiao came to Lou Wei because there was a problem with Zhang Xuan’s project.

Yuan Cheng Technology had decided to buy the image copyright from five celebrities only for now. So they decided to buy the image copyright from the rising stars who are the hottest and have the best traffic flow in the market now.

However, some of these popular artists have a problem. That is, because of their high reputation, there’s a difference when signing an agreement with them from signing it with less famous artists. Some of them can even request to choose their own direction. The preferences, senses, and attitudes of these artists will affect the outcome of this project.

 Zhang Xuan is very smart. Because female celebrities cared about their image more than male celebrities. So for a game like “Compagnon” that requires their body image to create character development games, they would take extra precautions as they fear personal reputation damage. Especially when “Compagnon” has not yet been officially released. Female celebrities couldn’t predict how popular it will be in the future, so they are most likely going to choose the option of wait and see. Even if they are willing to sell the image’s copyright, the price will be very much higher.

Earlier on, by using her connection, she had contacted the manager of a popular female artist to do a survey of the market price. The manager directly set the price of no less than 50 million dollars. Although Yuan Cheng Technology has listed “Compagnon” to be the company’s priority launch goal in 2020, they will definitely not spend so much money to buy the image copyright of just one celebrity.

Although male celebrities care about their personal image very much, they are easier to negotiate with because of gender differences.

Therefore, in this project, Zhang Xuan contacted the five young celebrities, all of whom are well-known, have a large fan base, and would not decrease in popularity within a short period of time. Among the five artists, four have almost the same number of fans which is about twenty million Weibo fans.

However, one of them had a higher reputation compared to the others because he recently starred in a TV series adapted from a popular IP. There was a surge in the number of his fans due to the fans of the book and fans attracted by the TV series.

And it is precisely this artist, Ke Yanan, that is affecting the progress of Zhang Xuan’s project.

Ke Yanan can now be regarded as the artist with the largest number of fans on the internet. You can see his fans everywhere. Regardless of which dramas you are watching, comments on the bullet screen were filled with fans boasting the looks of Ke Yanan, commenting that he is the most handsome man in the entire industry.

When Zhang Xuan watched that well-known IP drama previously, she also liked it because of Ke Yanan’s looks. Although it was not as exaggerated as his fans claimed, he is indeed a rare near-perfect handsome man. But she never expected that during her first time meeting Ke Yanan in real person, the first sentence she heard was-

“Woman?” The male artist who stood beside the floor-to-ceiling window lazily turned his head and sized up the female representative who was brought in by the manager. His gaze focused on her skinny figure, delicate but not protruding face, and overly formal attire. He curled his mouth and let out a light hum in disdain. His eyes that were highly praised during shows and programs as the most attractive eyes across the internet were narrowed slightly at this moment. He said in a mean and cold manner, “Can a woman be capable of talking about such a big project? Do you think you are coming to the vegetable market to buy vegetables?”

Zhang Xuan was actually shocked, “…?” 

Because she had no idea that the dream lover of so many girls, who pretended to be so endearingly silly and handsome on the show, actually spoke in such a vulgar manner in reality.

Zhang Xuan came from good family background. Her parents were both in the business world. She had met all sorts of people, including many celebrities.

But this is the first time she saw someone who is as offensive as Ke Yanan. And what age are we in now? He is still discriminating against a person based on gender?

Come to think of it, she used to like him because of his looks. When she thinks about it now, it was as disgusting as if she had eaten sh*t.

If she is now helping her parents to talk about the business deal, she might just choose to leave because she has control over her own family’s business. But the one standing in front of her is currently the hottest growing star in the entertainment industry. If she falls out with him now, she is worried that it would affect the company in the future when they want to engage other celebrities from Ke Yanan’s agency.

So she tried hard to maintain the smile on her face. She suppressed her anger and said, “Hi, I’m the person in charge of this project from Yuan Cheng Technology. I’m authorized to—”

But she was interrupted again before she finished her words.

Ke Yan’an raised his eyebrows. He pouted and made an innocent face at her, “Did I ask you to speak?”

Zhang Xuan: “???” What’s wrong with this person?!

Ke Yanan extended his finger and tapped on the desk, “Ask your boss to come to see me. Do you want to buy my image copyright? No problem. I want 60 million dollars.”

……

 

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