As for whether Yang Mi has ever accepted the casting couch? Whether she's slept with any directors? Or how many men she's been involved with? That's unclear.

Yi Anguo wouldn't go snooping into these matters, but right now, Yang Mi, Liu Yifei, and some other post-'85 floral actresses, though they've gained a bit of fame, still haven't reached the peak of stardom, at most they're second-tier celebrities, not yet first-tier stars.

However, for Liying Film and Television Company's current historical fantasy drama, there's no need to insist on hiring first-tier stars, having second-tier stars like Liu Yifei and Yang Mi is already sufficient.

The fees for first-tier stars are too high, while second-tier stars' fees are relatively much cheaper.

The key is that Liu Yifei and Yang Mi's looks and acting skills are adequate; they also have a certain level of recognition and a good number of fans supporting them, making them very suitable.

He then got to know Su Chang and other cast and crew members, including directors. Though many aren't first-tier stars or renowned directors now, it won't be many years before lots of them become top stars and notable directors.

That night, Yi Anguo planned to invite everyone from the crew to a meal. For the future development of Liying Film and Television, as well as the future of Quiet Video, long-term cooperation with these people is inevitable. It's very necessary to deepen relations with them while they're still not top-tier stars and directors.

Quiet Video will definitely set up a film production center in the future to produce self-made online dramas.

The acquisition of Victory Literature is progressing unsatisfactorily, but Quiet Literature has been established, having headhunted many talents from Victory Literature with high salaries and attracting many web authors to settle on the Quiet Literature website platform.

After all, the author benefits provided by Quiet Literature are much higher than those of Victory Literature's website.

Water flows low, people move up. Online literature creators need to eat too, naturally tending to whichever site offers better benefits!

Plus, some well-known online authors joining in has drawn a large number of readers over, as many known authors have established fanbases; wherever they post their books, these loyal readers and fans will naturally follow to read there.

A large influx of readers equates to substantial traffic; these fans of well-known online authors won't only read one author's books—when they see other interesting good books, they'll naturally read those too.

For the newly established Quiet Literature, whether it makes money or not doesn't matter; losing some money is normal. Just producing a few blockbuster IPs to make into animations and dramas means profits will follow.

In the afternoon, Zhao Liying suddenly received a call from her company; several artists from Harbor Island whom she'd invited to join Liying Company suddenly visited.

Liying Film and Television Company has its own agency; Zhao Liying, of course, wants to sign more film and television star artists.

She had gathered information on some soon-to-expire and resolve contracts of Harbor Island artists, inviting them to sign with the agency under Liying Film and Television Company. Previously, there hadn't been much response—unexpectedly, a group came, which made Zhao Liying very happy.

He greatly valued this matter; upon receiving the call, he hastily decided to fly back to Shenzhen to interact with these visiting Harbor Island film and television stars, doing his utmost to secure their signings.

Yi Anguo was new, and while Zhao Liying was eager to fly back to Shenzhen, he wasn't entirely pleased but couldn't stop her. On the contrary, he had to support her work.

Zhao Liying quickly greeted Yi Anguo warmly as a form of consolation.

"Honey! I'm sorry! Next time I'm free, I'll definitely make it up to you," Zhao Liying said apologetically.

"Alright! You're focusing on your career now, it's important; no worries, we'll have plenty of time together later," Yi Anguo smiled, reassuring her.

After sending Zhao Liying off, Yi Anguo woke from a nap to find it was already evening.

Remembering his plan to treat the crew to dinner that night, Yi Anguo hurriedly got up, freshened up, and stepped out of his room.

Jian'an Holiday Hotel has its own restaurant; Yi Anguo booked the dinner at the hotel's restaurant.

Without Zhao Liying present, Yi Anguo wasn't familiar with the crew, feeling a bit reserved initially, but the crew had seen all kinds of scenarios and were very open, soon warming up to Yi Anguo.

Everyone raised their glasses to Yi Anguo, flattering and currying favor with him.

After all, winning Yi Anguo's favor means not having to worry about not getting roles in the future.

And they might even secure a lead role.

Though Yi Anguo isn't a director and doesn't directly participate in film and television production, he is the boss, the investor; if he wants to designate someone for the lead roles, he absolutely can make it happen.

An investor's words carry more weight than a director's.

In essence, directors just work for investors.

If the investor doesn't wish to involve themselves, the director makes the decisions. But if the investor voices an arrangement for a role or assigns a lead actor or actress, the director must follow the investor's orders.

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