Be reborn and be happy to the fullest

Li Shuo was being taken by Yu Xiaowan to "receive a customer" when Wei Shuting came over and handed him a phone. She whispered, "The other party claims to be Zhu Mingyu, the president of Qianyu Times..."

"Sorry, Sister Yu, I have to take a call."

After greeting Xiaowan, Li Shuo walked aside with the phone.

Zhu Mingyu's Qianyu Times, which has big brands like Chopstick Brothers, now seems to be in financial crisis and is trying to seek investment from Zhou Huanian.

The combination of these two factors made Li Shuo quite interested in the company.

"Hello, Mr. Zhu"

"Hello, Mr. Li. This is what I have done. I have prepared a document with the relevant information about Qianyu Times and sent it to the email address of Shuoguo Group. I hope you can review it in time. If possible, I very much hope to reach relevant cooperation with Shuoguo Group."

"Well, no problem, I'll have someone review it carefully..."

"Um, may I ask what is Mr. Li's position in Shuoguo Group..."

After finishing the business, Zhu Mingyu couldn't hang up the phone immediately, so he asked a question, and then he heard an unexpected answer: "I founded Shuoguo Group..."

"Ah? You are so young..."

Zhu Mingyu blurted out, wanting to question, but realized it was impolite halfway through and stopped quickly.

Li Shuo chuckled and said, "Boss Zhu, I really doubt your ability and sincerity. Since you want our company to invest, why can't you find out more about it? Are you incapable of finding out the information, or do you simply lack the integrity to do so?"

"Um, this... I'm sorry, Mr. Li, I did underestimate you because you are too young. I apologize to you. So, when are you free, I will treat you to a meal and we can talk in person?"

"No need for that. Let's talk after Shuoguo Group has reviewed your company's information."

Zhu Mingyu's mistake almost immediately made Li Shuo lose interest in investing. After all, he didn't really care about the operation of Shuoguo Group. He would intervene if he could, including the Chopsticks Brothers and Zhounianhua. But if it was too much trouble, he was too lazy to get involved.

"Um, wait a minute, Mr. Li... Well, you should also know that the company cannot write all the information on paper documents. I still want to explain it to you in person about our Qianyu Times..."

"I told you that I will call you after the company has reviewed the information..."

Li Shuo said this and hung up the phone.

The "sincerity" he asked Zhu Mingyu to show was not real "sincerity", but to let him mobilize his connections and relationships to find out how awesome Shuoguo Group is. Just like the reactions of those company executives when Yu Xiaowan introduced him just now, those who really have information channels naturally understand how amazing Li Shuo is, and their attitude towards him is naturally more enthusiastic, even flattering. On the contrary, those who don't understand these will be like Zhu Mingyu, who instinctively ignores him because of his age.

For Li Shuo who wanted to invest in Qianyu Company, it was naturally impossible for him to personally tell the other party "I'm awesome". He even had to put on a high posture and wait for the other party to take the bait.

Of course, it doesn’t matter if you really don’t take the bait. “Little Apple” has no shortage of original singers!

What Li Shuo didn't know was that Zhu Mingyu was in the banquet hall downstairs at this moment: the purpose of Li Shaohong's convening of this party was to integrate the resources in the circle, so that the brokerage companies could cooperate with each other, and everyone could work together to make the cake bigger and distribute the cake. Naturally, this matter would have some impact on the current interest structure.

Chen Guanwei was fine, as she and Yu Xiaowan were colleagues and members of the same small circle. However, Zhou Huanian was the one whose interests were truly affected. Many companies in his circle responded to Li Shaohong's call this time, which made Zhou Huanian very embarrassed. Naturally, he held another party in the same place.

Zhu Mingyu had previously wanted Zhou Huanian to invest in Qianyu Times, so when he encountered such a good opportunity, he naturally rushed over eagerly. However, a conversation with Li Shuo made him feel like he was poured with a bucket of cold water, and he woke up completely.

"Um, Mr. Zhang, do you know Shuoguo Group?"

"Mr. Li, have you heard of Shuoguo Culture?"

Zhu Mingyu contacted several high-level people in the circle and got similar answers: Shuoguo Culture is a new entertainment company in Lenghai with a strong development momentum. Shuoguo Group is the parent company of Shuoguo Culture. Everyone's understanding of its strength mainly comes from Shuoguo Culture, but it is said that it has sufficient funds and helped Beijing Cultural and Creative to successfully go public some time ago...

In addition to these, almost everyone mentioned "Li Shuo": "Mr. Zhu, you should pay more attention to Li Shuo. He is the last disciple of Dean Liu of Lengxi. It is rumored that he has outstanding abilities. Not long after his debut, he has almost integrated the resources in the circle of Lenghai. His power is overwhelming. Recently, Shuoguo Culture has also entered Beijing and opened a branch here. For us, this is a fierce dragon crossing the river!"

Zhu Mingyu was stunned and instinctively questioned, "This is not right. This is the capital. Who can be a 'dragon crossing the river' in the capital?"

Others only had an ordinary relationship with Zhu Mingyu, and this was not explained very clearly. Soon, Zhou Huanian invited everyone to take a seat, and the topic was brought to the "main topic".

"Boss Zhou, I just met Boss Han Ping. He's upstairs..."

"Humph, Li Shaohong has become more and more of a big star since he published Dream of the Red Chamber. Just one party attracted nearly half of the Beijing community. Boss Han Ping only patronized her because of the presence of so many people..."

"Right, right, right. We should actually pull some people down. Mr. Zhou, just one word from you and I'll go up and call Lao Li, Lao Zhang and the others down... It's really outrageous that you're sitting here and they don't even come down to toast us!"

The so-called "main topic" is naturally the criticism of Li Shaohong.

For Zhu Mingyu, he came to seek Zhou Huanian's investment, so he naturally stood on Zhou's side, until he heard a familiar name:

"Boss Zhou, Li Shuo is also upstairs. According to Boss Wang over there, this guy has a very close relationship with Li Shaohong and Yu Xiaowan. He was even led by Yu Xiaowan to greet guests at the door..."

Zhu Mingyu was surprised when he heard this. In his mind, Li Shuo was just a young man he met by chance. Maybe he had some influence, but how could his name be put together with big names like Li Shaohong?

What surprised him even more was the reaction of Zhou Huanian and the people around him. First, the people close to Zhou Huanian criticized him:

"Li Shuo is such a piece of shit. Mr. Zhou thinks highly of him and gave him shares of Beijing Cultural and Creative. This is such a great favor. But now he is so ungrateful!"

"That's right. How about I go up and meet Li Shuo? Pull him down and apologize to President Zhou in person?"

Then Zhu Mingyu saw Zhou Huanian said impatiently: "If he had the heart, he would have come a long time ago. Since he didn't come, it means that the friendship has run out. What's the point of seeing him again? You should be careful in the future and don't have any contact with him anymore..."

Amid the “yes, yes, yes” of the crowd, Zhu Mingyu only saw one thing clearly: Zhou Huanian didn’t dare to retaliate against Li Shuo! In other words, he couldn’t do anything to Li Shuo!

Just now someone was shouting to go up and call for help. Now seeing Zhou Huanian's clear attitude, two or three of them had already left. Seeing this, Zhu Mingyu also stood up and followed the group upstairs. At this time, he heard some people talking:

"Hey, Mr. Zhou's power is not as great as before!"

"Yes, if it was in the past, how could Li Shaohong dare to do this?"

"This matter actually started from the last time when President Zhou sold his shares in Beijing Cultural and Creative to Li Shuo. At that time, Li Shuo dared to touch the tiger's whiskers, and ended up with President Zhou being evenly matched. This naturally made people like Li Shaohong, who were interested, start to question President Zhou's authority..."

"Tsk, so after we go up, will we come down again?"

"He will definitely come down, otherwise it will be hard to explain to Mr. Zhou, but we also don't want to offend Director Li, so we definitely can't ask him to go down..."

The voices gradually faded away, but Zhu Mingyu froze in place, unable to calm down for a long time. The Li Shuo these people talked about was really beyond his imagination! He was so regretful at this moment: If he had known this, why would he have asked for a private room when he met Li Shuo in the afternoon? If he had known Li Shuo well and had a good relationship with him, wouldn't he have everything?

After a moment, Zhu Mingyu took a deep breath and picked up the phone:

"Brother Ma, it's me. Are you in Beijing? Oh, I'm in Taiwan. That's fine..."

"King Zhou, it's me, Xiao Zhu..."

"Hey, Sister Cao, you have a lot of connections in the capital, so I want to ask you about someone. Do you know Li Shuo? Well, I want to ask him to do something for me..."

Li Shuo didn't know that among the artists under Qianyu Times, Chopstick Brothers was the less famous one. Its main artist network was in Taiwan and Hong Kong Island. After Zhu Mingyu made this call, he finally found someone who was currently upstairs: Cao Ying.

After Zhu Mingyu went upstairs, he soon saw this once-powerful superstar in the banquet hall.

Cao Ying is a native of Beijing. After graduation, she worked as a host at CCTV. In the second year after she switched to acting, she won the Golden Eagle Award. Although she got married and has not produced many film and television works since then, she and her husband both work in various art associations and have extremely deep qualifications and connections.

Seeing Zhu Mingyu, Cao Ying came over to shake his hand, and said in a friendly but not complaining tone: "Boss Zhu, I'm not saying anything, but your business strategy is indeed problematic. The artist contracts in our company are almost in name only. Xiao Ma Ge and Ma Da Bao Xiao have already developed their studios into companies, and you don't impose more restrictions on them? And those new generation people, Lin JJ, Penny Dai, their popularity in the mainland, wasn't it you who ran around to create it? As a result, the company is in trouble now, why don't you say a word to them?"

"Oh my, Sister Cao, I don't consider them as my artists. We are all friends. They think highly of me and are willing to sign their contracts with Qianyu Times. Now that the company is in trouble, I have the nerve to implicate everyone..."

Seeing that Cao Ying wanted to continue, Zhu Mingyu quickly changed the subject: "By the way, do you know Li Shuo? Can you introduce him to me later?"

Cao Ying's attention was drawn. She pointed her little finger at the center of the crowd and said, "How could I not recognize him? He is the focus of everyone's attention now!"

Zhu Mingyu looked in the direction and saw that except for the two hosts Li Shaohong and Yu Xiaowan, all the other people in the circle were bigwigs in the circle, such as Han Ping, who everyone had to call the boss, and the well-known art scholar Professor Huang Mingrui, and, yes, Chen Guanwei!

This time, Zhu Mingyu was quite surprised. Everyone in the circle knew that Zhou and Chen represented the film and television circle and the art circle respectively, and it seemed like two kings were competing against each other. Unexpectedly, they would gather in the same hotel now!

"Tsk, does Li Shuo really have such a high status? Logically speaking, no matter how capable he is, the most important label on him is still that he is the disciple of Dean Liu Lengxi, right?"

"You don't know this. Dean Liu has two good sons... Of course, in addition to him, Li Shuo is also very capable. He doesn't just rely on Dean Liu's relationship. How should I put it..."

In fact, Cao Ying should not know how to describe Li Shuo. If you say that he is a big shot in the circle, his status is far inferior to that of Chen Guanwei and Zhou Huanian. If you say that his Shuoguo Culture is powerful, it is a new company after all and it does not follow the traditional entertainment route. But everyone with a discerning eye knows that this guy has great power, mainly because his financial resources, power and network of relationships can be effectively combined. If they form a joint force, they can really compete with some big shots.

But how could she sort all these things out and explain them to Zhu Mingyu?

After thinking for a long time, Cao Ying saw one of the most beautiful girls in the room standing next to Li Shuo. Her eyes lit up and she pointed at her and introduced her, "Look, you see the most beautiful girl, right? Her name is Jin Chen, she is the granddaughter of Mr. Jin, and she is also Li Shuo's female companion tonight."

"Ah? Mr. Jin!"

Zhu Mingyu suddenly realized and thought to himself, no wonder this girl can be so popular in Mr. Yao’s restaurant!

But the more exciting part was yet to come. Cao Ying pointed to the other side, where many celebrities from Beijing gathered, and said, "Look over there. Among the celebrities from Beijing, the most beautiful one is called Lan Ying'er. She is the daughter of Beijing Cultural and Creative, a listed company. She is Li Shuo's girlfriend..."

"The female companion is Miss Jin, and the girlfriend is Miss Lan?"

Zhu Mingyu looked at the two beauties who could be described as stunning beauties, and his man's instinct made him inevitably feel envious.

At the same time, Cao Ying reminded softly: "This is the entertainment industry. What do you think it means to be able to capture the heart of such a beautiful woman and to be able to stay in the same room with her without fighting?"

Zhu Mingyu sucked in a breath of cold air, feeling that the terrifying information contained in it was beyond the imagination of even his ultimate brain!

"Sister Cao, please introduce him to me. I need to personally go up and greet him. I must gain the relationship with this young boss!"

"I didn't have much communication with Li Shuo before, but I can imagine that this young man who is successful at a young age and surrounded by beauties should be extremely domineering and difficult to deal with. That's why I told you so much so that you can be mentally prepared. If you are ready, we can go now!"

Zhu Mingyu took a deep breath and nodded heavily.