Turn over from love

Chapter 168 Why Me

A few days before Lu Zhou made an appointment with Xu Junze, he first arranged a meeting with Qi Jiajia.

Lu Zhou and Qi Jiajia hadn't seen each other since the last time the two had met to film a Baiboli brand advertisement together.

When Qi Jiajia received a call from Lu Zhou, she was quite surprised.

Although the two of them agreed to be friends and keep in touch with each other when they have free time, everyone knows that after people are separated from each other in daily life, it is actually very difficult to achieve "frequent contact".

If there are fewer connections in life, there will definitely be fewer common topics. What do you often talk about?Not realistic.

Those close friends who used to have a good time in middle school, high school and university, now... How many people can still keep in touch with each other?
The former iron buddies are still like this.

Don't expect this kind of passing friends who only met briefly on one show to be in constant contact.

Therefore, Qi Jiajia only thought that Lu Zhou was just talking politely at that time.

Even though Lu Zhou had told her last time that she could talk to him if she decided to start a business, she didn't look for it in the end.

The circles are different, so there is no need to force them together.

Today's Qi Jiajia has resigned.

Lu Zhou's proactive contact really surprised Qi Jiajia.

The two made an appointment for dinner, and this time they chose a high-end restaurant with better confidentiality, and the location was chosen by Lu Zhou.

"I'm flattered that my idol suddenly invited me to dinner." Qi Jiajia joked the moment he saw Lu Zhou.

"Since when did I become your idol?" The two entered the private room, and Lu Zhou opened the heavy wooden dining chair for her in a gentlemanly manner.

Qi Jiajia sat down politely and thanked her.

"I have no resistance to talented male stars. Maybe you got me as a fan unknowingly when you were on the show."

Hearing this, Lu Zhou pursed his lips and smiled, "You will be flattering, do you still need to practice this kind of eloquence to be a simultaneous interpreter?"

"Believe it or not, I'm also your die-hard fan now, and when I'm bored and have nothing to do, I just hang out on your fan station and watch your editing stage." Qi Jiajia said happily.

"Really? Then why are you fans of me? Career? Appearance?" Lu Zhou opened the topic following her words.

"Haha, career should be the main factor. If you want me to only focus on your appearance, then you have to be handsome enough to make everyone angry." Qi Jiajia laughed loudly.

"What's the fun of being a business fan? It's more interesting to be a business partner." Lu Zhou handed her the cooking book and said with a smile.

Qi Jiajia was stunned, huh?Business partner?

Lu Zhou shook the menu and said, "Order first."

Only then did Qi Jiajia react, took the menu he handed over, and chose two dishes that he hadn't tried before.

"Last time you said you were going to resign, are you resigning now?" Lu Zhou asked.

Qi Jiajia nodded, "Yes, just left."

Lu Zhou: "What's next?"

Qi Jiajia looked at Lu Zhou with interest for a while, then smiled and said, "You seem to be very interested in my career development, why?"

Lu Zhou didn't play charades either, "I want to try to be a business partner with you. I wonder if you are interested?"

"Which business partner?"

Qi Jiajia couldn't figure it out. She had always had great doubts about the cooperation intention that Lu Zhou had already mentioned.

"Our circles are completely different. I don't seem to have anything to help you, and you don't seem to be able to help me in my field of expertise."

"I guess..."

Qi Jiajia picked up the teacup and took a sip, frowning and thinking.

"Could it be that you want to enter the international market, but you don't understand the language well, and you want me to join your behind-the-scenes team to help you enter the overseas market?"

The reason why Qi Jiajia made this guess is that she has recently paid attention to Lu Zhou's development in the entertainment industry. He has a music piece and a movie in country M.

As she spoke, she chuckled and shrugged slightly.

"Sorry, I'm not really interested in this kind of employment direction."

"I came out of the top foreign company for freedom, not for finding a new working status."

Qi Jiajia made her own assumptions and then gave her answer.

Lu Zhou listened quietly, with a smile on his lips. When she finished, he nodded and said, "I know, you mentioned your pursuit last time we met."

He pursed his lips and smiled, "You didn't guess right."

Qi Jiajia was taken aback, didn't she guess right?
"Then I really can't figure out how we can still be partners at work." She said.

Lu Zhou smiled, and said unhurriedly, "Why don't I guess your plan too."

Qi Jiajia raised her eyebrows and said with great interest, "All ears."

"Your translation ability is very strong, and you have accumulated a lot of experience and customer resources when you worked in the previous company. In addition, you long for freedom, and now you are very popular on the Internet."

"I guess, when you resign, you should plan to start your own studio or company and build your own professional translation team."

Lu Zhou brought up the memories of his previous life.

Qi Jiajia was slightly surprised, but after thinking about it, it seemed that it was not difficult to guess.

"Currently, that's the way I think." She didn't deny it.

"So, how do you cooperate with me? Are you interested in the field I want to do? Want to invest?"

"Now the translation market is quite mature. The road I want to take is not a big cake. I'm just pursuing myself. Do you want to eat such a small cake? Then I suggest that you might as well post a few more songs. Really."

Qi Jiajia couldn't figure it out following his words, and still didn't understand what Lu Zhou wanted to cooperate with her.

"Indeed." Lu Zhou smiled and said, "The market for your current entrepreneurial project is too mature, and it is already a red ocean. Now that you know it well, do you want to continue to rush forward?"

If Lu Zhou remembers correctly, in his last life, Qi Jiajia embarked on the entrepreneurial project they are talking about now.

She invested a lot of manpower, material and financial resources to do this thing she loves. She has been busy for many years, but finally lost to the market and ended in embarrassment.

At that time, she encountered setbacks and did not give up completely. She began to transform with her small team, and with the help of online traffic, she started online English education and established an institution.

But then the situation was not good, and he couldn't play against the giants, so he was eliminated again.

The team disbanded and the company filed for bankruptcy.

In those years when she was obsessed with starting a business, she did not fall in love, did not get married, and devoted herself to her career, but she did not achieve the success she wanted.

In her 30s, she suddenly got tired of the busy life of her career and wanted to return to the peaceful life of her family.In the end, he found a divorced man with a relatively solid family financial strength and married him.

The man is not handsome, and his figure is not good. It is too different from her mate selection standard in her 20s.

As for whether she lived happily or not later, Lu Zhou didn't know at that time, and it had nothing to do with him.After all, at that time, he felt that he was the most unhappy person in the world.

"There are also people in the Red Sea who can play out of it. I want to try, and I started my business for no other reason than to pursue self-realization."

Qi Jiajia listened to Lu Zhou's words, and expressed her determination with a firm expression.

"Are you confident that you are the one who can kill from the Red Sea?" Lu Zhou asked back.

There was a knock on the door of the private room, and the waiter came in to serve the food.

The two fell into a brief silence.

After the waiter withdrew, Qi Jiajia answered Lu Zhou's previous question with a somewhat uncomfortable face:

"I'm not sure."

Yes, her confidence is not very high.

She didn't know the road conditions ahead, so she could only cross the river by feeling the stones.

But once she decides to do something, she will definitely do her best.

She just needs to know this, and that's enough.

Lu Zhou smiled lightly, moved his chopsticks first, and signaled Qi Jiajia to chat while eating.

"There is not only one way to pursue self-actualization."

He swallowed the food in his mouth and continued the topic just now.

"If there is another entrepreneurial direction that allows you to be the boss and lead the team, but also allows you not to lose the profession you love. If you succeed in the challenge, you will have the freedom you want and the so-called self-realization in the end, but the premise is Are you interested in working with me?"

Lu Zhou asked seriously.

Qi Jiajia stopped eating, opened her eyes slightly, and asked after a while, "What item?"

Lu Zhou handed over the document bag he brought to Qi Jiajia.

Qi Jiajia took it curiously. She couldn't care less about eating, so she took out the document on the spot and read it carefully.

"Culture goes overseas, this is what I want to do."

Lu Zhou made a point while eating, and then asked Qi Jiajia to learn about the whole project through the contents of the document.

Qi Jiajia finished reading the entire project document in the fastest time. After reading it, she was a little excited.

"I can indeed do this, but... have you investigated the overseas market for this project?"

She still doubted the feasibility of this project.

"If you decide to cooperate, I will show you the overseas market research data I found someone to do."

Lu Zhou stopped his chopsticks. He has recently been controlling his diet and will not eat a lot at one time.

"I have already set my sights on a small but sophisticated online novel company. Its internal management has some problems and it is about to go bankrupt. I am going to buy it."

Qi Jiajia almost choked, and looked at him with indescribable eyes.

"It's about to go bankrupt, doesn't it prove that the company can't do well? Are you afraid that it will rot in your own hands when you buy it?"

Lu Zhou was calm and breezy.

"It's not this company that I'm looking at, but the existing library of works on this website, which can be used as our initial content library for going overseas."

"As for the original team, those who can't do it should be laid off, and then go to the big station to find one or two powerful editors to take the lead, and then recruit a strong team of writers again, and the prototype of the production team will come out."

"If you cooperate sincerely, you will be fully responsible for the project of going overseas, and you can freely build your translation team."

"This is actually similar to starting your own translation company, but if you do it yourself, you need to find customers who need translation. This step is difficult for many people."

"If you cooperate with us to start a business and translate business needs in this area, you don't have to worry about not having sources. You only need to worry about your team management and deepen the quality of your translation services."

"This market will not be small, don't worry. Novels have copyright, and you can play audio, comics, and videos. If your translation works get good feedback in foreign markets, we can also play audio and short videos."

"I found out in the program before that your English dubbing ability is very good, and simultaneous interpretation is your specialty. These comprehensive abilities of yours will allow you to play a role when the novel content industry chain goes overseas."

"If you work alone as a translation company, you are actually limiting yourself."

"Joining us will give you a bigger stage, which is the real self-realization."

"In addition, I also plan to link up with the domestic industry to form an industrial chain. Of course, we will discuss this in detail later."

"Anyway, I'm in charge of the investment. I'll find a way to solve the fund. You can take care of the company and lead the team to make brilliant achievements. How about it? Do you want to cooperate?"

Lu Zhou spoke out his plan step by step, and Qi Jiajia's heart was filled with passion.

After Lu Zhou's analysis, it was true that this project was very attractive to her, much more attractive than her own uncreative ideas.

To be honest, after listening to Lu Zhou's words, Qi Jiajia's heart was already moved.

But at this moment, she suddenly felt unreal.

"I have a question." She said after thinking for a long time in silence.

"You said."

"Why did you choose me to work with you? There are many translators on the market who are better than me and have rich management experience. They are obviously more suitable for your entrepreneurial project than me. Why don't you find them who are more reliable? Instead, choose I?"

"I only know you as a translator. I feel that your professional ability is quite high, and I know you well, and I think you are trustworthy. As for the others, they are strangers to me, no matter how suitable they are , I also need to spend time getting to know them, I don’t have that much time.”

Qi Jiajia frowned suspiciously, "You don't have that much time? Is this project urgent?"

"It's not in a hurry, but I have a habit of not wanting to procrastinate when I've decided."

Lu Zhou didn't answer her directly.

In fact, he just wants to use the people around him as much as possible to cooperate and create the greatest benefits. If he can also change their lives by the way, why not do it?

But these, he can only digest silently by himself.

"Thank you for your trust in me." Qi Jiajia was quite moved in her heart.

"You can go back and think carefully before giving me an answer. Three days, is it enough?" Lu Zhou smiled.

"You are really impatient."

Qi Jiajia couldn't help laughing when she heard "three days".

"I saw you doing things in the show before, and thought you were slow, but I didn't expect it to be quite different."

Lu Zhou smiled, "That week?"

"Haha, no, just three days. I'll answer you in three days." Qi Jiajia said.

Lu Zhou nodded, his eyes fell on the dining table, and he said, "Let's eat, it's getting cold."

The two had a dinner talking and laughing. At the end of the meal, Lu Zhou received a call from Pan Chengyi, who needed him to return to the company temporarily.

"Can I visit your company by the way?" Qi Jiajia asked on a whim when he heard that he was going back to his company.

"Yes." Lu Zhou agreed.

He knew that she probably wanted to find out.

"You promised so readily, do you really trust me? Are you not afraid that I will steal your secrets?" Qi Jiajia joked.

Lu Zhou was amused, "The secrets can be stolen if you go to visit once, so it's a waste of your talent if you don't become a spy."

Qi Jiajia: "Haha!"

In this way, Qi Jiajia followed Lu Zhou to Legendary Entertainment.

It's already night, and some people in the team are working overtime, but they are basically gone.

Linda still persisted in her post, and when she saw Lu Zhou walking into the company with Qi Jiajia, she was stunned in shock, and her brain opened up in an instant.

what's the situation? !

It's not Ye Fangfei, nor Li Jiayan, but Qi Jiajia? !

Her boss is actually with Qi Jiajia in private? !
Wow, wow, the boss's preferences are really hard to guess!

When Lu Zhou caught Linda looking at them with strange eyes, he knew what was going on in her mind at the moment.

"My assistant, Linda." Lu Zhou took the initiative to introduce Linda to Qi Jiajia, and then looked at Linda, giving her an indescribable look.

Qi Jiajia warmly greeted her, "Hi, excuse me, I'm Lu Zhou's friend, my name is Qi Jiajia."

Linda: "Haha, I know you're Qi Jiajia. I've watched your show with your boss. I really like you."

Qi Jiajia: "Thank you! You are so good at talking."

"Linda, entertain my friend, I'll go see Brother Yi." Lu Zhou urged.

Linda nodded furiously, "Okay! Don't worry, the boss will take good care of Miss Qi!"

"..." Lu Zhou shook his head speechlessly, and said, "Be serious, don't scare people."

Linda: "Yes!"

Qi Jiajia was amused, and somehow felt that Lu Zhou's assistant was a bit funny.

The girl is about the same age as her, and she feels very approachable. When she comes up, she gives people a sense of intimacy, just like his boss.

Although the assistant called Lu Zhou "boss", which seemed to be a very hierarchical title, but the atmosphere between the two of them was really not like a subordinate at all, but more like a friend, very easy-going and comfortable.

Qi Jiajia looked around Legendary Entertainment's office area, looking at the number of workstations, the company's team size is not that big.

She suddenly remembered the online literature company that Lu Zhou described when he was eating: small but excellent.

These three words are quite appropriate to describe Lu Zhou's own company.

The team is not big, it is united, concise and capable, which is what Qi Jiajia wants.

After Lu Zhou explained to Linda, he turned to look for Pan Chengyi.

He pushed open the door of the office, and heard Pan Chengyi snap his fingers excitedly: "Great news!"

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