《Wei Sama, Let's Stuff Them With Dog Food[1]》74. New Endorsements
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Qi Le An didn’t know that he and Tong were photographed by someone with no good intentions. After entering the room, he stared at Tong’s messy closet with his eyes wide open and he couldn’t help but ask, “How long… how long have you been living here for?”
Tong who was rummaging her draw for the tickets for Qi Le An said casually, “Two days maybe, I came with the crew. What’s wrong?”
Qi Le An silently withdrew his gaze from the closet and said, “Nothing.”
Tong turned her head and saw the mess in her open closet, “Aiya! Don’t laugh at me… Besides, I’m sure Chen Shan has prepared a pile of clothes for you too.”
Qi Le An shook his head. Tong continued, “Really? Go and see Wei Sama’s wardrobe, I guarantee you Gary has prepared more clothes for him than mine.”
“… If I have a chance, I will take a look,” Qi Le An said.
Tong handed the ticket to Qi Le An and said, “Here you go, two in the afternoon, you must come, I want to see you there!”
Qi Le An took the tickets and there were many photography works on the black rectangular ticket, including Tong’s.
“Don’t worry! I will be there.”
Chen Shan had arrived soon after Tong found the tickets. Qi Le An sat in Chen Shan’s car and he felt so sleepy. Chen Shan asked the new assistant to drive and he sat at the back with Qi Le An, “I’ve met a lot of people this time… including some representatives from advertising agencies, are you interested in meeting one, say, the day after tomorrow?”
When Qi Le An heard the three words “representatives from advertising agencies”, he was in high spirits. These four words meant “Ka-Ching!”
“What advertisement are we talking about?” asked Qi Le An.
“Soft drink,” Chen Shan said.
Qi Le An’s eyes lit up.
Chen Shan picked up the can in the back seat and shook it, “This one, you must have had it before. I talked to Manager Yin about this too, he says this can be a good deal.”
“Really? Is it really this brand?” Qi Le An was surprised.
Fanda was one of the leading names of soft drinks and it had dominated the international market for a long time!
Chen Shan nodded and raised his eyebrows twice. The message it conveyed was ‘I know, I am that awesome!’
Qi Le An trusted Chen Shan’s instinct on picking endorsements for him, he couldn’t help but think about the laptop brand Chen Shan picked for him. Many of his classmates were using that product, and they all loved it!
“But the advertising fee may not be high,” Chen Shan added, “The endorsement fee is only two hundred thousand a year.”
Two hundred thousand was not very high for an endorsement in the industry.
In addition, Fanda had paid up to a million to the movie stars who endorsed them, so the two hundred thousand they were offering Qi Le An didn’t sound very presentable.
“Your commercial value will rise again after Better Days,” Chen Shan inserted the drink back into the backseat bag and said, “But now our options are not very diverse, especially you are still underage, we can only play it safe, we don’t want any controversial products, but we only want great established brands. There are few left. The benefit of Fanda is it’s an international brand and everyone loves it.”
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Qi Le An’s image was a youthful and positive boy, so he didn’t have a wide selection of choices, to begin with and he valued the authenticity and quality more than anything in an endorsement. Because if there were problems with the products themselves, it might have a big impact on the spokesperson.
Qi Le An still remembered the yogurt advertisement that he had turned down. he wouldn’t do it for a million dollars.
Fanda was different. The brand was nearly a hundred years old, nothing would go wrong.
“That’s no problem,” Qi Le An nodded and said, ” Two hundred thousand is not a small amount!”
Chen Shan smiled.
Chen Shan had booked a room for Qi Le An in CBD, Gale Studio had a long-term cooperative relationship with the hotel. Chen Shan escorted Qi Le An to his room. Qi Le An wanted to check how to get to Wei Chang Feng’s café on his phone, but soon he gave up after several failed attempts, so he had to borrow ask Chen Shan’s phone.
Chen Shan threw the phone to Qi Le An and said, “You should get a new phone!”
This time, Qi Le An didn’t refute Chen Shan. He opened the map APP and said, “You are right, I will get a new phone as soon as I get back to Hai City!”
Chen Shan looked at Qi Le An with surprise. He did not expect his persuasion was working.
The hotel was not far from Wei Chang Feng’s café. It was like a fifteen minutes’ walk or so. Qi Le An immediately decided to walk over by himself the next day!
Chen Shan asked curiously, “Where do you want to go?”
Qi Le An turned off the APP and returned the phone to Chen Shan, “Nowhere, just wander around.”.
Chen Shan said expressionlessly, “Oh, you are seeing Wei Chang Feng again?”
Qi Le An, “…Is it that obvious?”
Chen Shan couldn’t even be bothered to ask Qi Le An to have a look at himself in the mirror, his grin was giving everything away. He took back his phone and said, “Tell me honestly.”
“I’m going to have desserts with Wei Sama in the morning, and we are going to see a photography exhibition in the afternoon,” said Qi Le An.
Chen Shan nodded in agreement.
“By the way, Chen Ge, do you know about Weibo?” Qi Le An suddenly asked.
“Of course,” Chen Shan shook his phone and said, “What, do you want to follow me?”
“Do you think Weibo will become a hit?” Qi Le An didn’t want to look too eager when he talked about Weibo, Chen Shan might ask him why he had so much confidence in a new social media platform.
Chen Shan frowned, “It’s still a fairly new thing, it only appeared at the end of last year, right? It isn’t too popular, I don’t see many people on it.”
‘Last year? Isn’t it supposed to be 2009?’ thought Qi Le An.
Qi Le An also frowned. “Are there any celebrities who are on Weibo?”
Chen Shan was stunned and suddenly realized what Qi Le An was talking about. He quickly lowered his head and checked his phone, “No.”
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“No?” Qi Le An was surprised and he asked, “How about xxx?”
Xxx was the actress whose career had taken off thanks to Weibo.
“No,” Chen Shan checked and he was confused. “Why did you suddenly mention her? Have you met her before or something?
Qi Le An quickly calculated in his mind. Why did Weibo come out two years later than in his previous life, and the Queen of Weibo was still nowhere to see?
‘Has something changed because of my rebirth?’ Qi Le An couldn’t help but wonder.
To Perish Demons should have nothing to do with him, and the role in Better Days shouldn’t belong to him either, and Wei Chang Feng was supposed to be someone that he couldn’t even approach. It seemed like everything had deviated from the original procedure due to his rebirth!
“Why do you ask?” Chen Shan felt that Qi Le An was a little strange. First, he agreed to replace his old phone, then he mentioned some unknown social APP, and then he even mentioned a female celebrity who had no contact with him.
“Chen Ge, I want to try Weibo,” Qi Le An raised his head and told Chen Shan firmly.
Now the internet was still ruled by Tianya BBS and Douban BBS, but Qi Le An knew social media was taking over, Tianya and Douban soon would lose their charm and they would decline. Weibo, on the other hand, would quickly integrate into the world of young people, and would even attract foreign celebrities and leaders.
This was a huge cake that had yet to be discovered.
“Weibo?” Chen Shan was still confused and asked, “What is so special about this Weibo thing that you are just full of praise now? You might as well try Tencent if you are interested in social media.”
Tencent was a leading technology conglomerate company, but Weibo turned out to be the dark horse in Qi Le An’s last life.
“I think Weibo is very good, I like Weibo!” Qi Le An did not give up, “Look, how Weibo works are like the celebrities share their lives with the fans, the fans can like and comment on those posts, the celebrities can reply to the fans in real-time! This has never been done before, I’m sure Weibo will become a hit sooner or later!”
“Look, I can’t add fans on my private phone number and talk to them through messages, right? But I can talk to the fans on Weibo.”
Chen Shan immediately understood what Qi Le An meant.
Chen Shan thought a little while and said, “Yeah, we can give it a crack, there’s nothing to lose.”
“Yeah! We have nothing to lose.” Qi Le An replied immediately.
Chen Shan was finally convinced, he nodded and said, “I’ll contact a few people to see if I can talk to Weibo’s management and maybe I can organize a meeting with them for you. Do you want to endorse Weibo or…?”
“No, not really,” Qi Le An quickly denied, “How do I put this… mutual benefit is what I’m looking for, maybe they can promote my new film and I can promote them.”
Chen Shan simmer with laughter said, “Smart thinking, all right, I will call a few people for you.”
Qi Le An’s eyes sparkled, he felt so lucky that he had met Chen Shan in this life, Chen Shan was his second golden finger since his rebirth!
Chen Shan’s room was next to Qi Le An, but the new assistant’s room was downstairs. After Chen Shan heard Qi Le An’s description of the assistant, he said, “Really? That does sound a bit unpresentable, but if you really think about it, he has some big shoes to fill, I’ve set the bar ridiculously high. I’ll be back soon anyway, we can train the right candidate after I come back.”
Qi Le An nodded. That was what he meant. He didn’t want too many people to get close to his personal life.
After saying goodnight, Chen Shan returned to his room. Qi Le An took a shower and went to bed early too.
Some people slept early, and some people couldn’t fall asleep. Chu Cheng Yuan was one of them, he kept sending anonymous emails to entertainment reporters, and finally, his ‘hard work paid off, someone agreed to publish the photos.
He wasn’t looking for money when he took those candid photos, so he didn’t want to expose his identity too early. Anonymous emails had kept him safe, no one would suspect it was him, they would only think it must be some paparazzi who was lurking around in the hotel.
Chu Cheng Yuan was very satisfied with his plan. He decided that he needed to become close to Qi Le An and destroy him soon…
Chu Cheng Yuan had no idea where Qi Le An and Wei Chang Feng agreed to meet the next morning, but that didn’t matter. It wasn’t a secret that Chen Jing Tong would participate in the photographic exhibition the next morning, and he had seen Qi Le An holding two tickets in hand when he left Tong’s room He figured he could meet Qi Le An at the exhibition as long as he went there too!
At that thought, Chu Cheng Yuan’s eyes flashed with excitement. He showed a cunning smile and called Inspector Wang to ask him whether he could get two tickets for the photographic exhibition the next day… ”
Chu Cheng Yuan was too excited to fall asleep when Inspector Wang told him that he could get the ticket for him. Qi Le An was sleeping like a baby while Wei Chang Feng was woken up by a phone call from Sheng Chang’an.
“Poised Deer? Sounds familiar… Wait!”
Wei Chang Feng quickly flipped through his phone message. When he slipped to the bottom, he saw a message that he had not deleted yet.
“Yes, there was some friction. I’ve rejected a movie invested by them.”
“What’s the title? It seems to be called The General. Someone texted me not to shoot the film and stay away from Poised Deer.”
“I don’t know. That number seems to be inactive since that text.”
“Okay.”
Wei Chang Feng frowned and sent the phone number to Sheng Chang’an’s phone.
His car accident was related to Poised Deer.
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