High School Belle Fell in Love with Me

Chapter 642: Chapter 274: Jiang Banxia Doesn’t Want to Be an NPC

The business of Musician is very broad, and most of it cannot be managed by Li Yang.

He only needs a direction, and he’ll find a way to discard everything else.

Even if it means losing money, he has to let it go.

What he wants is entertainment, and those celebrities are the core of entertainment.

Strictly speaking, it’s the studios behind those celebrities and the entertainment resources.

Although entertainment is cheap, it undeniably covers the widest range as a form of entertainment.

Without enough content, there’s no way to have a say in the traffic.

The next day, Li Yang met with those celebrities.

They were mostly popular stars or industry bigwigs, but they acted very low-key in front of Li Yang, without any airs.

The core of the meeting was Li Yang wanting to set up a short drama department at Musician, and he needed everyone present to help secure the basic resources.

Short dramas are a very profitable industry, which will explode in a few years, quickly reaching a scale of annual revenues of 20 billion.

With 20 billion in annual revenue, according to the ratio of paid to free, the free market should have at least 100 billion.

Not only domestically, but the popularity of short dramas is actually greater overseas.

In terms of entertainment forms, domestic entertainment already surpasses the global market.

Netizens’ thresholds for getting entertainment are getting higher and higher.

This can be seen from the TK on foreign networks.

Those with millions of followers abroad would hardly get any views domestically, yet foreigners particularly enjoy them.

Whether they have jokes or talents, they might simply collaborate with someone or use a BGM, and it can send foreign netizens into a frenzy.

Domestic online novels can help foreign addicts detox, and domestic short video models can spread like a plague abroad, even breaching the media fortress that Western countries have built over a hundred years.

Similarly, short dramas are the same.

The domineering CEO genre isn’t just loved by locals; it’s globally adored.

The key is to capture emotions in the storyline, regardless of where the project is generally a hit.

These celebrities also have resources abroad, and once the domestic platform is set, they can advance internationally at any time.

This project may not earn much money, but it is the best way for Kuai Pai to convert traffic, and it can also help him control more sources of traffic and capital flow.

Li Yang never considers making money from it, at least not considering whether it earns now or not.

What he wants to build is layer upon layer of relationship chains, ultimately completing a closed loop of the capital chain.

As long as there’s a slaughter, you can always skim off a bit of oil no matter what.

Even if his future foresight advantage fades, as long as the volume is strong enough, he won’t miss out on making money.

A capital base of 10 billion can make only 1% a year and still earn a significant 1 billion.

Those celebrities don’t want to lose everything; they have to work with Li Yang, who won’t buy shares from them, unless they sell at a loss of over 90%, or cooperate honestly to try to revitalize Musician.

The meeting lasted two hours, with Li Yang discussing how to produce a short drama at low cost.

Screenplays can directly be purchased from online novels, and short drama scripts are worthless at this time; others are even willing to give them away for free.

At this point, there’s no concept of short drama script copyrights.

Find a website, and with a few million, you can handle the development rights for tens of thousands of books in bulk.

Moreover, short dramas currently don’t require review filings; elements like time-travel and reincarnation can be shot directly.

In terms of finance, Li Yang will personally assign someone responsible; those previously in charge of Musician’s finance will leave with pay after the investigation.

Li Yang couldn’t possibly use them.

Including the current Musician management team, they are also targets for clearance.

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"Xiangnu... I’ve arrived in Jiangbei, how about having dinner with me?"

"Do you... really have to be so disgusting?"

"Isn’t that what Jiang Banxia always calls you? I’m her husband now, so it’s not a problem, right?"

"She is her, and you are you... Aren’t you supposed to be in the Capital City? What are you doing in Jiangbei?"

"Playing a tournament..."

Xiangnu: "..."

Li Yang put aside so much work just because he likes playing in esports tournaments?

How much money can you make playing esports? Besides, the PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds league has already been established, it doesn’t need his influence.

On the contrary, companies like Extreme Shadow Cars or Green Water Group need Li Yang more.

So, Xiangnu asked, "What exactly are you after?"

"I’m not after anything, just indulging a hobby. Remember to come over tonight, Jiang Banxia will be there too."

"Why deliberately say Jiang Banxia will be there?"

"I’m afraid you’ll wear too little clothes, and I won’t be able to resist."

"Huh..."

At this moment, Li Yang was playing games with his teammates, and he would be on the court in a few days, so he came here for preliminary training.

Jiang Banxia hadn’t arrived yet, but she should be there before dinner, and the whole family would be together.

Including Xue Ning and Li Yuqing.

His reason for participating in the tournament, on the one hand, was to take the opportunity to absorb the opposite event’s traffic completely, and on the other, to provide emotional value to his fans.

He can earn money in the capital market, and even if he milks his fans, he won’t feel guilty, as it’s all a gamble anyway, and they should be mentally prepared once they step in.

But in reality, his persona aims to be sincere.

Even if, by nature, he’s a hypocrite, he absolutely won’t show it.

Even though gaming indeed took up a lot of his time, the overall profits outweighed the losses.