Then she walked up to Ye Jin, a genuine smile on her face for the first time that evening. "Sisters, are you free tonight? I booked a private room at the bar next door. How about we go have some fun and celebrate my rise to the top?"
Ye Jin naturally wouldn't refuse, and besides, she felt that Xu Yan tonight really made the villainous female supporting characters look good, and she had a lot of compliments she wanted to say to her.
Meanwhile, in the corner, Xie Haoyu watched Ye Jin and the others disappear, his expression dark and unreadable.
Fruit Video has encountered another unexpected situation! He had been planning for so long, hoping to take advantage of Fu Ruiming's troubles to acquire Fruit Video at a low price, but Xu Yan's actions have ruined his chance!
His gaze fell on Ye Jin's retreating figure. It was her again!
Moreover, the Su Group, which has finally stabilized recently, has also been targeting his company. It seems that his previous guess was not entirely unreasonable. Ye Jin must be behind this!
He clenched his fists, a surge of anger rising within him. It seemed he could no longer be soft-hearted and try to get rid of Ye Jin.
*
Ye Jin was unaware that Xie Haoyu had his eye on her, but even if she did, she wouldn't be surprised, since in the original storyline she was someone Xie Haoyu was specifically targeting.
She happily celebrated with Xu Yan until late into the night, and didn't even go home, going straight to sleep in a suite at a nearby hotel.
After regaining their composure, they quickly finalized the cooperation details. After all, Xu Yan now had complete control over Fruit Video, making project negotiations much easier than before.
This time, Ye Jin's new investment project is a female-centric drama called " The Phoenix First Rises ".
This drama is adapted from the female-oriented novel of the same name, which tells the story of Xie Chuhuang, who was born a slave, disguised herself as a man to join the army, and eventually rose to the throne as an empress.
This novel is a true female-centric story; 99% of the plot revolves around the female lead, and the so-called strategist male lead is merely a background character.
After the novel was published on Green JJ, it received very good reviews and had many loyal fans, but the data...
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It wasn't particularly outstanding.
However, due to its grand scale, the film and television rights were sold, but the adaptation of the novel resulted in many disagreements.
Film and television companies invest in projects naturally to make money, so the company that initially bought the copyright suggested adding more scenes for the male lead and increasing the romantic scenes, which is a typical approach in film and television adaptations nowadays.
Everyone knows that it's difficult to write scenes where the male/female lead is focused on their career; instead, adding some artificial sweeteners to encourage viewers to ship the couple might be more effective.
However, the problem is that the original novel's author, Pingzi, is a very responsible person when it comes to his novels. He even lowered the copyright fee when he initially sold the rights in exchange for the script editing rights.
As someone who writes novels featuring strong female protagonists, she naturally wouldn't want her heroines to be adapted into characters obsessed with romance. In fact, to create sweet moments, she often reduced the heroine's intelligence and transferred the hero's highlights to the male lead.
Upon seeing the initial draft of the script, she was furious and declared that she would never agree to film it, and that she would sue to reclaim the copyright if the film company insisted on making it that way.
The film and television producers weren't going to take this lying down either. More importantly, they felt that making a female-centric drama with little romance based on the original work was too risky. So the project was shelved, and they decided to see who could outlast whom.
However, the film and television industry has not been doing well in recent years, and that film and television company was experiencing cash flow problems. So it packaged and sold off the projects it had not been able to develop, and eventually ended up in the hands of Fruit Video.
Xu Yan liked the script very much, so he planned to find a film and television company to produce it.
However, given the current downturn in the film and television industry, film and television companies are becoming more conservative in their investments, and their adaptation of " The Phoenix First Rises " shares the same inclination as the original film and television companies.
Xu Yan felt nauseous thinking about Fu Ruiming's foolish behavior during his recent divorce.
Men only slow down the speed at which women draw their swords!
Xu Yan naturally wouldn't agree with the previous adaptation of " The Phoenix First Rises." Having gained a considerable amount of shares in Fruit Video through Fu Ruiming's divorce, she was now able to take charge of the S+ project. After much thought, she thought of Ye Jin.
As a fellow woman with ambitions in her career, she thought Ye Jin should be able to understand her thoughts and the original author's intentions.
Ye Jin took the project Xu Yan offered very seriously. Knowing Xu Yan's abilities and character, she was certain he wouldn't recommend any worthless projects. She immediately started reading the original novel.
So, unusually, she stayed up all night again, spending almost a day and a night reading the entire novel.
Then she immediately decided that she must take on the production of " The Phoenix First Rises ".
This time, their meeting with Xu Yan was to finalize the details of the filming and launch the entire project.
Of course, before officially launching the project, Ye Jin and his team still needed to meet with the original author and gain her approval.
The original author is not in City A, and because his previous collaboration with the film and television company was not pleasant, he is not very enthusiastic about this film and television development.
After receiving their request, the original author declined several times before finally agreeing that they would fly to her city a few days later to meet.
Ye Jin wasn't too surprised by this. If she were the original author, and the screenwriters had changed the story so drastically several times before, she would have lost interest and wouldn't have bothered with it.
However, she wasn't worried. These authors were usually quite simple-minded. As long as she expressed their willingness to respect the original work and not add unnecessary romantic subplots, there shouldn't be any problems.
*
After the discussion, Ye Jin returned to the Su residence.
Although she had her own place to live, and Lin Xiwen didn't require her to live in the old house after the Su Group's situation stabilized, she had been getting along very well with Lin Xiwen and Su Chenglan lately, so she was too lazy to move again.