Chapter 671: Chapter 622 Zhou Xingxing
The next day, Hu Qinglan arrived at the Jiahe Entertainnt office in Imperial City. As soon as she entered Liu Qingliu’s office, she saw Liu Hun sitting alone on the sofa, with no one else in the room.
Seeing such an arrangent, the spring-blossod Hu Qinglan’s imagination ran wild, and although she longed for it, she still felt sowhat humiliated by the previous day’s events. Thus, she maintained her star-like deanor and directly sat opposite Liu Hun, crossing her legs to confidently display her pale thighs. After removing her sunglasses, she playfully tossed her long hair and asked, “President Liu, may I ask why you summoned today?”
Liu Hun didn’t care about Hu Qinglan’s thoughts; after having had his fun, it was ti to get down to business. “You have two choices,” he said, taking out two contracts and throwing them in front of Hu Qinglan.
“What do you an?” Hu Qinglan hadn’t expected her seductive allure to be t with such a tone.
“The first option is to continue staying in Hong Kong. I agree to let you sign with Jiahe Company, but you’ll only get adult-rated films,” Liu Hun said bluntly.
“What did you say? Adult-rated films?!” Hu Qinglan stood up abruptly, hardly believing her ears. To think that she had to film adult-rated movies, exposing her body in front of everyone on set—she’d rather die. The forr high-flying celebrity was now forced to earn money bare, the very thought made her skin crawl.
“Sit down!” Liu Hun said sternly, raising his voice.
Hu Qinglan squird a bit before finally sitting down without the courage to storm out.
“Do you still think you are Jiahe’s leading lady? That ti has passed, stop dwelling on it. If a person always lives in their past glories and mories, they will never be able to move forward,” Liu Hun continued, “No matter how Imperial City helps you make movies, record albums, or do promotions now, people will only rember your debauchery at the club. The more you appear, the more you will be mocked, and no cinema chain will want to show your movies, no newspaper or dia will want to report on you positively. Everyone wants to see you embarrass yourself even more. That’s the entertainnt industry; you should understand better than I do. Once sothing good happens, continuous exposure is needed, but once a scandal is confird, it needs to be diluted.”
“So…” Liu Hun leaned forward and said, “People are only willing to pay to see the parts of your body that have been pixelated in magazines. And the cinemas understand, just like I do, that only these types of films will make people pay to watch them.”
“Enough!” Hu Qinglan cut Liu Hun off, admitting reluctantly that his analysis made a lot of sense. “Then… what’s the second option?”
“The second option…” Liu Hun said, staring at Hu Qinglan, “is to leave Hong Kong.”
“Leave Hong Kong?” Hu Qinglan questioned Liu Hun, never having expected him to suggest such a thing. “Go where?”
“Hong Kong can no longer accommodate you, and you can’t afford to waste your youth here waiting out the scandal. So, the best option is to leave the country, start over sowhere else,” Liu Hun told Hu Qinglan. He actually got this idea from Wang Baizhi.
“Start over?” Hu Qinglan was surprised. “Then… wouldn’t I have nothing? How would I live?”
“Ha!” Liu Hun laughed sarcastically. “Once you get there, the villa you’ll live in will be twice the size of that in Hong Kong. I’ll give you three SUVs, six assistants including your current female assistant. The company will only take 40% of your earnings, and I’ll arrange for you to work with the best entertainnt company and agent there. Of course, that company is also a fully-owned subsidiary of mine. How about that?” Liu Hun asked Hu Qinglan.
Hu Qinglan was stunned; she had not anticipated Liu Hun offering her such generous terms. It was almost too good to be true, making her sowhat wary. “You’re not sending to so desolate place, are you?”
“Not at all!” Liu Hun waved his hand.
“Then where?” Hu Qinglan asked.
“South Korea!”
After seeing off Hu Qinglan’s charter flight at Hong Kong International Airport, Liu Hun asked Li Jiasheng, “Jiasheng, how is the integration of our holdings in South Korea going?”
“The integration there is almost done. Our proxy has good relations with several political parties, and the funds for managing political relations have also been implented according to your instructions,” Li Jiasheng reported back to Liu Hun.
“Just focus on finance, dia, and manufacturing. Keep a close eye! You’ve been working hard,” Liu Hun said, patting Li Jiasheng on the shoulder, and then promptly left Hong Kong International Airport.
After settling Hu Qinglan’s situation, Bao Li Entertainnt’s reputation suffered a significant blow, but under Liu Hun’s guidance, the new talent and new industry initiative gradually began to show its effects. Besides scouring for talent, Imperial City, under Liu Hun’s directive, also placed extra emphasis on nurturing talent, especially directors, scriptwriters, and music producers.
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