Be reborn and be happy to the fullest

Lu Xiping didn't seem to notice the strangeness of the crowd, and still had a smile on his face: "What? Am I wrong? Although Mr. Chen is from Spreadtrum, we have more than one investor. Mr. Fu is gone, but we still have Mr. Li..."

The others were silent for 3 seconds, and then there was a buzz:

Someone muttered, "Li Jiulin from Shuoguo Culture? He only showed up once the day before yesterday, right?"

Someone else said: "Although Chen Xiaoqi is strict, she is still doing this kind of work after all. The crew was able to operate yesterday thanks to her. Li Jiulin can't do this!"

In short, although they complained about Chen Xiaoqi, they were all smart people. They naturally knew that Chen Xiaoqi was capable at work. If Li Jiulin was replaced...

Assistant Director Chen Dahai concluded: "Perhaps if Mr. Li is in charge, we will have an easier time, but I am afraid the crew will not be able to function."

After what happened the day before yesterday, Wu Bing's position as director was taken away, and the person doing his job now is Chen Dahai. It can be said that Chen Dahai was promoted by "Li Jiulin". Even though he said so, one can imagine what other people think of Li Jiulin.

Lu Xiping frowned. He was from Shuoguo Culture and had always wanted Li Shuo to be in power. Therefore, he had not received Li Shuo's approval for what he said just now. He didn't even know that Li Shuo was in the holiday villa right now!

Just when he didn't know what to say, he suddenly heard a noisy sound outside. The next moment, the conference room was pushed open, and Chen Xiaoqi and Li Shuo appeared in front of everyone. Behind them were Qiu Cixian, the male lead, the second female lead and other crew members.

"Everyone is here. Hmm, I didn't expect that this time our crew would be even more organized than during the opening ceremony..."

As Chen Xiaoqi spoke, she glanced at Li Shuo. She had run into this guy when she went to call Qiu Cixian! It was actually normal for the investor to live with the heroine, so she was not surprised. She was even deliberately covering up for Li Shuo.

"Many people were not present at the opening ceremony. Come, let me introduce you to Mr. Li Jiulin, the producer assigned by Shuoguo Culture to the crew..."

At this time, Chen Xiaoqi should have introduced the resume of "Li Jiulin", but according to what she learned, this artist who had just debuted had no other achievements except being involved in a project of Shuoguo Culture as the male lead.

So Chen Xiaoqi just briefly mentioned them during the introduction, and then introduced the others to Li Shuo, and then started the morning meeting:

"There were some problems on the set yesterday..."

Li Shuo sat on the left side of Chen Xiaoqi. Because he worked so hard until the early morning last night, his head felt a little swollen. As Chen Xiaoqi kept talking, he gradually became drowsy...

Qiu Cixian was sitting next to Li Shuo. Seeing Li Shuo like this, she leaned against him so that Li Shuo could lean on her shoulder...

The interaction between the investor and the heroine was seen by everyone, and everyone, like Chen Xiaoqi, turned a blind eye to it. However, deep down, everyone still shook their heads and equated Li Jiulin with Fu Chengguo.

Chen Xiaoqi's meeting was not a formality like some other government agencies'. She simply talked about yesterday's work problems, and then instructed how to make improvements today, and made it clear to the people involved one by one.

The whole process took only 20 minutes, and then he stood up and announced the adjournment of the meeting.

Everyone stood up, and the man who gradually leaned on Qiu Cixian's broad mind became particularly conspicuous...

Li Shuo felt a pain in his waist and quickly opened his eyes. Then he saw that everyone was looking at him. Some looked at him with contempt and some with understanding, but most people looked at him as if he were a dandy second-generation rich boy.

"Is the meeting over? Then let's get to work."

Li Shuo didn't take these people's looks seriously, and he never thought of having absolute control over the crew. After all, he was really not good at and didn't do things like coordinating interpersonal relationships.

Instead, Chen Xiaoqi stopped Li Shuo after everyone else left, closed the door of the conference room, looked at him and said, "I received a call from President Fu last night. He informed me that Century Huayue will send someone over in three days at the latest to negotiate about withdrawing from the crew. I hope that Producer Li can be present at that time."

If Century Huayue wants to withdraw from the crew, the other two major investors will naturally need to be present. At that time, they will discuss how the company will withdraw from the crew, whether to return the investment, and the value of Century Huayue's initial work.

Li Shuo nodded easily and said, "No problem, wait for the people from Century Huayue to come over. If I'm not in the crew, just call me directly..."

As he spoke, he handed over his business card.

Chen Xiaoqi didn't even look at it. She just put it in her bag and left the meeting room.

Only then did Qiu Cixian grab Li Shuo's hand and said excitedly: "Let's go, let's go have breakfast, the food here is very good..."

It was not until 5 minutes later that Li Shuo realized that the so-called "good meal" was just the buffet level of a star-rated hotel, with a wide variety of vegetables and fruits.

The two had just chosen a seat and sat down when Jin Xizhen appeared out of nowhere:

"Mr. Li, good morning."

"Good morning"

Then Jin Xizhen carefully sat opposite the two of them. Unlike Qiu Cixian, she knew that "Li Jiulin" was "Li Shuo".

Seeing that Jin Xizhen was a little nervous, Li Shuo casually asked about some daily life matters, and then the topic was somehow led to South Korea...

After being nervous at first, Kim Seo-jin quickly got into the topic and criticized and complained about the South Korean entertainment industry for 20 minutes.

In her words, the South Korean entertainment industry is simply a living hell. Regardless of gender, anyone who works in the entertainment industry, including actors, singers, screenwriters, and even behind-the-scenes professions such as directors, as long as they are famous, must sign a contract with an agency.

She called this type of contract a "slave contract" and said, "Once signed, you will be imprisoned for three to five years, and when the contract ends, you will need to pay a high severance fee to leave your old employer."

Such an outrageous slave contract, but in terms of profit distribution, it is still a deadly exploitation of artists. There is even a legendary 0-10 split, where the artist gets 0, or only gets daily living security, and the agency takes all the profits.

“…So, even idols who have already become famous need to be arranged by the company to participate in various commercial activities. They need to follow the company’s arrangements until they are over 30 years old. If they can still maintain a high level of popularity, they will be eligible to negotiate with the company and regain some autonomy and benefits…”

"For example, most of the top stars in South Korea rent houses instead of buying them outright. Although this is related to the prevalence of the rental culture in South Korea, in the final analysis, it is still the huge amount of income that is taken away by the agency, and the remaining money of the stars is still not enough to buy a house outright..."

From these words, Li Shuo thought of a lot. Because of his South Korean Tik Tok girlfriend in his previous life, he not only knew Korean, but also had a certain understanding of many things in South Korea:

For example, when it comes to celebrities, although what Kim Seo-jin said was a bit exaggerated, most of it is true, which is why there are frequent suicides among celebrities in the entertainment industry.

These reminded Li Shuo: If he wants to follow Han Dazhi to control South Korea's SN Entertainment in the future, as long as he loosens the "tight ring" a little, he may be able to attract a large number of South Korean stars to join him, and perhaps among them will be some of his favorite idols in his previous life.

However, these are obviously not what we are considering now. What is worth Li Shuo's deep consideration is what Jin Xizhen said about "South Korea's rental culture."

South Korea is a very strange country. Perhaps because the lower class will never be able to surpass the level of the chaebols in their 100 lifetimes, most people have a serious speculative mentality.

In addition to conventional speculative projects such as stocks, South Korea is also the country that likes to speculate on virtual currency the most in later generations. A report released in 22 years showed that 80% of the population in South Korea had participated in the buying and selling of virtual currency!

Although this may be the case where one person opens an account using the ID cards of his entire family, this proportion is far higher than the total of other countries.

Bill Huang is a Korean-American. In his previous life, he lost 500 billion Korean dollars overnight, and a lot of money came from South Korea. So, Li Shuo thought that he could choose an appropriate time to let Bill Huang return to South Korea to establish a virtual currency trading platform.

This is a huge business. In his previous life, Zhao Changpeng had a fortune of more than 300 billion US dollars because he owned the B-An trading center.

However, Li Shuo must learn from Zhao Changpeng's lesson and at least gain a certain amount of influence in South Korea before establishing a trading platform...

So, after finishing the meal, Li Shuo sent Qiu Cixian back to the filming site, then waved to Jin Xizhen, took her to a deserted corner, and asked her: "Maybe in a while, I will go to South Korea and even buy some houses in Seoul. Can you introduce me to some places?"

Jin Xizhen blinked, her face full of surprise: "You want to buy a property in Seoul?"

Buying a house in a place means at least treating it as a settlement, which is undoubtedly good news for Kim Xizhen who "escaped from South Korea".

So, she immediately and enthusiastically described the real estate in South Korea to Li Shuo:

"If you want to buy a house in South Korea, you must buy it in the capital Seoul. Although the house prices there are the highest, it is the most valuable and even the fastest..."

"However, we South Koreans usually don't buy houses. Even if we want to get married, we will buy it through the 'full rent' method, because in that way we can get a loan from the bank, so we don't have to spend the entire family's savings to raise the purchase price..."

Jin Xizhen's introduction is consistent with the information known by those who were reborn from the previous life: compared to buying houses, South Koreans prefer to rent houses, and among them, the rental prices are divided into monthly rent, half rent, full rent and other methods.

Full rent means taking out more than 80% of the value of the entire house and handing it over to the owner, thereby meeting long-term housing needs.

It sounds silly. Since you have so much money to buy a house, why not buy one?

That's because a fully rented house can be mortgaged to a bank, and most South Koreans regard a fully rented house as equivalent to buying a house, so it does not affect the marriage of young men and women.

Even in the future, when South Korea's economy is most developed, full rental housing will begin to form a new financial industry chain in South Korea:

Buy the first house → rent it out → rent + loan to buy the second house → continue to rent it out

Under this model, some people even started from one house and gradually owned thousands of properties. Although there were layers of bank loans involved, which resulted in the owner's actual property only appreciating ten or a hundred times instead of 1 times, as long as housing prices continued to rise, the owner would sooner or later obtain a 100-fold increase in wealth.

Until 22, the US Federal Reserve raised interest rates, the global dollar returned, and South Korean housing prices began to plummet rapidly, eventually causing countless people to go bankrupt. The number of suicides on the Han River broke historical records every month in December of that year...

That was 12 years later. Li Shuo now knows that this is an opportunity second only to B currency and the U.S. stock market. Moreover, compared with the huge fluctuations of those two, the housing prices in Seoul have indeed been rising in the past 12 years, and the rate of increase is far higher than many cities in China.

"Mr. Li?"

Seeing that Li Shuo remained silent for a long time, Jin Xizhen couldn't help but push him.

Li Shuo came back to his senses from his fantasy, smiled apologetically and said, "Sorry, I just thought of something... So, Sister Jin, do you have any house recommendations in Seoul? Can I, a foreigner, buy one?"

"Of course, South Korea is the most tolerant country towards foreigners..."

Kim Xizhen said a lot, and everything she said proved that South Korean society's "friendliness" towards foreigners has even reached the level of "super-national treatment."

"Well, after the crew finishes their work and Sister Jin returns to South Korea, why don't you help me keep an eye out for real estate over there? I think I need to allocate some money to invest in real estate over there..."

After confirming Li Shuo's intention, Jin Xizhen couldn't help but show her joy. If Li Shuo goes to South Korea to develop, it means that they can return to their hometown with the help of Li Shuo's strong capital. This is really returning home in glory!

On the other hand, she realized as early as the first time she met Li Shuo that he was a "chaebol-level" wealthy son-in-law. For most South Korean women, he was a man like the "dream prince" in Korean dramas.

Jin Xizhen herself has an average appearance and is middle-aged, but she has a beautiful sister. Jin Xizhen is sure that as long as Li Shuo can meet her sister by chance under her arrangement, Li Shuo will definitely be attracted by her sister's charm, and then she will be able to become a member of the chaebol family!

Just imagining it, Jin Xizhen felt very excited...

Afterwards, Li Shuo talked with Jin Xizhen about some substantive content and confirmed that the current housing prices in Seoul converted into RMB are comparable to those in Cold Sea. In addition, the housing prices in some wealthy areas may be even higher. However, most of the houses in wealthy areas are large single-family villas, which is also a great experience to buy for living.

They chatted until 10 o'clock, when Chen Xiaoqi invited Li Shuo to meet, and Li Shuo returned to the photo shoot.

At this time, everyone in the crew had already started working, and they were filming the scenes of the heroine Qiu Cixian. Because Chen Xiaoqi, the actual controller of the crew, was not the director, she had some free time at this time.

Seeing Li Shuo coming over, Chen Xiaoqi waved to him and said from a distance: "Producer Li, the company has some instructions regarding the share allocation of this project..."