time flies!

Now the entire entertainment industry has become calmer than before.

but.

Everyone in the entertainment industry knows that there are more turbulent waves hidden under this calmer sea, and more terrifying storms will appear at any time.

because.

During this period of time, almost all people in the entertainment industry have been living their lives in a pinch, checking their calendars every day.

Today is one day closer to the expiration of Wang Cheng's contract with Rubik's Cube Entertainment.

When they were in high school and taking the college entrance examination, they didn't count the college entrance examination date so seriously on their fingers.

When the sun rises again.

Yu Jinghong came to Lei Zhenzong's office early in the morning. In the office, she unexpectedly saw Zhang Liang, the vice president from the Penguin Group headquarters. This president is in charge of the entire Penguin Group's pan-entertainment business. He has great influence in the entire Chinese entertainment industry.

He is a person who truly stands at the pinnacle of power.

When Yu Jinghong saw Zhang Liang, she hurriedly said hello: "Good morning, Mr. Zhang!"

Zhang Liang nodded and said with a smile: "Don't be polite, we are all our own! How have you been preparing Wang Cheng's information these days?"

Lei Zhenzong said in a low voice: "Mr. Zhang came here specially from the group headquarters and is fully responsible for this negotiation with Wang Cheng!"

Yu Jinghong nodded to express her understanding, and took out a large stack of information from her bag and handed it over: "This is all the data I have recently collected about Wang Cheng since his debut, including dance, songs, literary works, classical music works, and film and television works.

, novels and works are all included!”

"I know that the group headquarters must attach great importance to Wang Cheng. However, I must say in advance that Wang Cheng's own value is amazing. At the same time, he has recently rejected all entertainment companies that contacted him in advance."

"Furthermore, as far as I know, Qin Yuhai met Wang Cheng again a few days ago, and the condition he offered was to give away 20% of the shares of Rubik's Cube Entertainment for free, with no other requirements! If he doesn't renew his contract with Wang Cheng, it will be even worse.

Without signing any work contract, Wang Cheng was given 20% of Wang Cheng’s shares for free without any additional conditions, which is worth more than 10 billion based on the current market value, but Wang Cheng rejected them all.”

While Lei Zhenzong and Zhang Liang were looking at all the information about Wang Cheng, they looked slightly sideways when they heard Yu Jinghong's words!

They are all capital, and any behavior is for the purpose of profit. No matter what conditions are offered to Wang Cheng, the premise is that they can see the benefits and benefits.

Some people do the business of beheading, but no one does the business of losing money.

This time, Qin Yuhai did not want any benefits and directly gave Wang Cheng 20% ​​of the shares for free. This was not in line with the purpose of capital.

Yu Jinghong continued: "I guess Qin Yuhai just wants to keep in touch with Wang Cheng. If Wang Cheng really retires, he will be completely cut off from the entire entertainment industry. But if Wang Cheng holds shares in Rubik's Cube Entertainment, Qin Yuhai

We can always claim that Rubik's Cube Entertainment is Wang Cheng's company, and this name is enough for many fans who support Wang Cheng to find a sense of belonging."

Zhang Liang's eyes suddenly dawned and he said: "Qin Yuhai is indeed an entertainment giant that has been able to stand for many years. He is absolutely willing to spend money to win over people's hearts!"

Zhang Liang looked at the works written on the white paper and the terrifying sales volume behind the works. The sales volume of each of Wang Cheng's music works exceeded 300 million, and the highest one had reached a frightening 600 million plus

, simply incredible.

Because Zhang Liang knows the internal data, the total number of registered users of Penguin Music is only about one billion, but the number of real-name users is more than 600 million.

That is to say!

Almost all users on Penguin Music have purchased Wang Cheng’s works, and even the worst works attracted more than half of the users.

This kind of attraction is incredibly powerful across the world.

Looking at Wang Cheng's literary works, Zhang Liang's eyes were filled with excitement as he looked at the masterpieces that he was familiar with and could even recite. If he could own one of these, he would definitely regard it as a family heirloom.

He knew that the chairman of the Penguin Group, the boss, privately offered a sky-high price of 8 billion to buy the Maple Bridge Night Mooring in Zheng Wenzhong's hands, but was rejected!

Zheng Wenzhong originally spent 1.5 billion to purchase this work, but its current market value has soared several times.

It's not that this work is really worth that much.

But everyone wants to buy Wang Cheng's works like crazy, but only a few of Wang Cheng's works have leaked out, so these wealthy collectors are raising the prices like crazy, hoping to collect one by throwing away money.

, but it didn’t succeed!

The market price of Yu Hong's Magpie Bridge Immortal and Pan Yao's plain tone painting are not less than 3 billion, but they are not for sale, and they are tightly covered, so that no one can see them.

And the more this happens, the more wealthy people and collectors who have become fans of Wang Cheng pursue him!

The market is so strange.

If given the chance, Zhang Liang would be willing to pay all his wealth for a pair of Wang Cheng's works, but unfortunately he knew he would never have the chance in this life.

"The total global box office of The Matrix has exceeded US$2.5 billion, ranking first in the world of film and television! It is still being released in a small number of areas, so the statistics will be re-calculated every once in a while! Several major Hollywood giants want to buy this movie

The copyright of the movie has gone crazy. Every day there are executives squatting over Wang Cheng just to talk to Wang Cheng, but so far Wang Cheng has not negotiated with any party!"

Yu Jinghong saw that Zhang Liang saw the film and television part and explained: "It is expected that the value of the Matrix series will exceed 20 billion US dollars. Now hundreds of millions of people around the world are eagerly waiting for the sequel."

Zhang Liang: “Do we have an offer?”

Lei Zhenzong nodded: "Our latest bid is 5 billion, to buy half of the copyright, and we will invest all in filming and development. Wang Cheng will take half of the copyright income without paying anything. Wang Cheng has no response to this."

Zhang Liang took out a piece of paper with the name of the Three-Body Problem written on it, and said seriously and excitedly: "Is it possible to buy this book?"

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Lei Zhenzong smiled bitterly and shook his head: "It's difficult! We also have a bid. The latest bid is 7 billion to buy half of the copyright. We will also invest in development. Wang Cheng sat

Enjoy half of the copyright income. He did not respond at all..."

Zhang Liang was a little silent because he is a true fan of the Three-Body Problem. He has read the entire Three-Body Problem series and knows how great this series is.

Yu Jinghong said softly: "The three books of The Three-Body Problem were launched simultaneously around the world. The total sales have exceeded 50 million, and the domestic sales have exceeded 30 million! It can be said that book fans are all over the world. They have won all the domestic science fiction awards.

, but Wang Cheng did not show up to receive the award."

"I heard the news that the organizing committee of the World Science Fiction Award's highest award is hesitating whether to award the Three-Body Problem. Based on its influence and performance, the Three-Body Problem will definitely win the award, but if Wang Cheng doesn't go, the judges will feel that it is not possible.

I don’t want to lose face, so I’m hesitating!”

Zhang Liang said with certainty: "They hesitated just to save their own face. In the end, they will definitely be unable to withstand the pressure and award the award to Trisolaris. It's not like you haven't seen the news back then, even the president of North America made it public

No writer in the world has ever enjoyed such treatment as urging updates on Three-Body Problem on social platforms.”

"If Wang Cheng is willing to cooperate with the operation and hype, this book will be even more popular. This is a truly great science fiction novel. It made me realize that science fiction can be like this, and this is real science fiction."

Zhang Liang expressed his true love for this book in a somewhat excited tone.

After watching The Three-Body Problem, when he looked back at those European and American science fiction novels and movies, he felt that it was too childish.

False science fiction - riding in a light-speed spacecraft to fight face-to-face with a lightsaber, or traveling through a wormhole and landing on a planet to fight hand-to-hand like primitive people, or even the main control computer of an alien spacecraft traveling at the speed of light will be contaminated by earth computer viruses, Microsoft

The system has been sold to aliens!

And the real science fiction - when an alien civilization passes by, just throw a two-way foil and directly destroy the entire solar system!

The word dimensionality reduction attack has become popular around the world recently, and various industries are using this word to show off in meetings!

Zhang Liang said this more than once during the meeting.

Yu Jinghong said with certainty: "Yes, if the Hugo Award is not awarded to The Three-Body Problem, hundreds of millions of book fans around the world will not be willing. Now film and television companies around the world know that this is a huge treasure IP, and the seven giants of Hollywood

They are also competing. I heard that the highest price has been set at two billion U.S. dollars to buy out all the copyrights. The Hollywood giants are still unwilling to share the copyright revenue."

"Similarly, they didn't get any response from Wang Cheng."

Zhang Liang nodded and asked softly: "I heard that the Three-Body series was handwritten by Wang Cheng himself and then typed by the publishing house. Is that true?"

Yu Jinghong's eyes flashed and she nodded: "That's for sure! Wen Yixiao went to Wang Cheng's house last time and saw the manuscript and read it for a while. She was so excited when she came back that she couldn't sleep!"

Zhang Liang praised: "If I can get this manuscript, I am really willing to give everything!"

Lei Zhenzong smiled bitterly and said: "I heard from the gossip that Wang Xueming asked Qin Yuhai to help bring flowers and offered six billion to buy this manuscript. Qin Yuhai refused directly for Wang Cheng without saying anything. With Wang Cheng's calligraphy achievement being the highest in history

Every word of a family's identity is valuable, and this manuscript has 900,000 words in total, so its value is immeasurable."

Yu Jinghong shook her head and said: "None of you have seen Wang Cheng's hard-pen calligraphy. If you saw it, your evaluation will rise. Wang Cheng's hard-pen calligraphy is also unprecedented and unparalleled! The 900,000-word Three-Body Manuscript

, no one can afford it. I just don’t know how long this manuscript will stay in Wang Cheng’s hands.”

Zhang Liang glanced at the sales volume of the sports goods series co-operated by Wang Cheng and Hongxing, frowned slightly and said: "Is this data leaked from Hongxing? Can you confirm it?"

Because the numbers above are too exaggerated.

Yu Jinghong said with certainty: "I'm sure it's all true. Hongxing is now the leader in the field of domestic sporting goods and ranks second in the world. This year's total sales exceeded 300 billion.

It’s inevitable, the Three-Body series alone can bring tens of billions!”

"Ninety-nine percent of the sales are Wang Cheng's copyright sales!"

Zhang Liang stared: "In other words, by the end of this year, can Wang Cheng get a cash share of 50 to 60 billion from Hongxing Group?"

Yu Jinghong: "Yes. In fact, Wang Cheng has already received most of the share. Hongxing Group and Wang Cheng are settled monthly and paid in cash! Penguin Music is even willing to give Wang Cheng daily settlement and pay Wang Cheng this year

The share has exceeded 5 billion."

Zhang Liang took a deep breath and asked again: "How much royalties did the publication of the Three-Body series bring to Wang Cheng?"

Yu Jinghong: “Preliminary estimate is over 10 billion!”

Zhang Liang stared: "Then, Wang Cheng's annual income this year will reach 70 to 80 billion?"

Yu Jinghong and Lei Zhenzong both smiled bitterly and did not answer.

Because, although this is unbelievable.
To be continued...