Guesswork

Every company in the market was drooling over GT Animation Company's profit margins.

But that was how the entertainment industry worked: the biggest hits took all. Take Nezha, the animated film from the Parallel World, for example. It had been made for an investment of eighty million and earned four or five billion at the box office. That meant the production company had made more than twenty times its investment from ticket sales alone. And the profits from merchandise might well have been just as high.

But most films didn't even make back half their production costs. Their creators ended up losing their shirts!

So whether in the Mainland or on Japan Island, after seeing GT Animation Company become the first to benefit from the cultural exchange between the two places, other companies naturally wanted to be the second, the third, and so on...

As for Chu Yu, after deducting the sixty million he'd lent GT Animation Studio for production costs from the 488 million in earnings and returning it to his own account, he had 428 million left. He couldn't be bothered with any clever schemes.

He was the company's largest shareholder, with well over fifty percent of the shares and full control. He could decide whether to distribute the profits. If he didn't want to, he could use company development as an excuse and withhold dividends for ten or twenty years. No one could do a thing about it. The money was in the company's account, after all. He could buy houses, cars, or whatever else he wanted in the company's name. He could even pay himself an annual salary of a hundred million. The shareholders might object and report him, though!

But he'd given Zhao Qinyin one percent of GT Animation Company and Su Ruo one and