The battle begins
Today's weather is very good, the sun is warm and the sun is shining, it is a good day whether you go out or stay at home. Li Xiuman, as usual every day, sat in a comfortable office chair in his office, seriously handling SM's affairs. If there are no accidents, Li Xiuman will have an ordinary but fulfilling day like this. However, it was such a coincidence that Ning Yi and Li Ke chose to talk to Li Xiuman today, and Li Xiuman seemed to be unable to spend a happy day that he thought would be very ordinary.
"Sit!" Li Xiuman raised his hand to signal the two of them to sit down without surprise when he saw Ning Yi and Li Ke who pushed the door in.
"It seems that you expected us to come!" Ning Yi sat on the sofa in Li Xiuman's office in a very comfortable posture, as if this was not Li Xiuman's office but his home.
Li Ke is not as casual as Ning Yi, Ning Yi's personality determines that he is a person who does not like a very serious atmosphere. Li Ke is different, he is in charge of a group company, he has long been accustomed to sitting upright and full of aura. Therefore, even if the two of them were guests, Li Ke still subconsciously released the momentum of his president. Compared with Li Xiuman, who was smiling and sitting opposite them, Li Ke was more like the owner of this office.
"To be honest, it's a bit of a surprise that you two have only come to me now. Lee so-man smiled and fiddled with the tea set on the table, "I thought that you would come to me immediately after Taeyeon went back that day!"
"How can you be in a hurry about this kind of thing!" Ning Yi looked at Li Xiuman's tea ceremony performance with great interest, "There is a saying in China that if you want to do well, you must do your homework in advance!"
"That's what I said!" Li Xiuman poured boiling water into the teapot made of purple sand, "After such a long time, you should have been prepared!"
"This is natural!" Ning Yi smiled, "I just don't know if you will give face and give us a high score for our performance!"
Li Xiuman shook the purple clay pot in his hand calmly, "Then it depends on how you plan to answer!"
"In that case, it seems that we are going to disappoint you!" Ning Yi smiled as he watched Li Xiuman pour out the first bubble of water in the purple clay pot, "You shouldn't be too satisfied with the answer we gave." β
"Let's talk about it!" Li Xiuman's face calmly poured boiling mountain spring water into the purple clay pot, "I want to hear how dissatisfied this answer will make me." β
"Personal studio!" Li Ke, who was sitting upright, said very briefly the answer that made Li Xiuman's hand holding the purple clay pot pause.
Shaking the purple clay pot slightly, Li Xiuman tilted the body of the pot and poured out three cups of tea with clear colors. "Taste it!" Li Xiuman waved his hand at Ning Yi and Li Ke.
Smiled slightly, picked up the teacup, smelled the fragrance, and sipped lightly, Ning Yi narrowed his eyes with satisfaction, "Good tea!"
"Aren't you drinking?" Li Xiuman looked at Li Ke, who was not moving, and an indescribable light flashed in his eyes, "This tea was specially brought from China by a friend, and the taste should be quite authentic." β
"I'm sorry!" Li Ke bowed slightly, "I'm in a hurry, and I don't like tea very much." β
Li Xiu showed a trace of regret on his face, "It's not a good thing for young people to be too impatient, and if they are too anxious to do things, they will suffer a loss! β
"I don't think so!" Li Ke's face sank like water, "Young people should be determined to forge ahead, and looking ahead will only lead to nothing." β
"It seems that I can't convince you!" Li Xiuman took off his glasses that were attached to some mist because of the rising heat, picked up the glasses cloth on the coffee table and wiped them seriously. "I'm sorry!"
"We're also sorry!" Ning Yi slowly sipped the tea in the cup, "Our cooperation with you has been very pleasant, and now it's really a little reluctant to end!"
"If you can't help it, how about thinking about it again?" Li Xiuman put on his glasses again, "Sometimes people need to make appropriate concessions, not for compromise, but for the sake of better progress in the future." β
"We appreciate your kindness!" Ning Yi put down the empty teacup, "But we young people really can't learn your old-fashioned way of dealing with the world now." Perhaps we will understand the essence of these exhortations when we reach your age, but for now, I'm afraid we won't learn to go back!"
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Ning Yi, who walked out of the SM building, stretched out his arms in the face of the rushing sunlight and slowly closed his eyes, "Today's weather is really good!"
"The weather is good!" Li Ke stood beside Ning Yi, "But some people's mood may not be as good as the weather at this time!"
"There's no way around it!" Ning Yi still didn't open his eyes, feeling the warmth of the selfless gift of the sun on the horizon, "Some people are in a good mood, and naturally some people are in a bad mood." What we can do is try to make ourselves and the people around us feel good, and what does it have to do with us whether the people who have nothing to do with us are in a good or bad mood?"
"That's right!" Li Ke smiled for the first time so far, "We really don't need to care about the mood of idle people. But where are we going next? Today's meeting ended much sooner than I expected, and if I go back now, Xiaoyuan will definitely drag me to go shopping!" Li Ke suddenly shuddered when he said this, "I don't want to be abused!"
"I don't want to either!" Ning Yi opened his eyes, if there was no accident, Taeyeon was now with Hyoyeon, shopaholic so-young and fashion maniac Hwang Mi-young. If a woman's interest is 10 when she goes shopping alone, the interest when a group of women get together is 1000, considering the attribute bonuses that Xiuying and Pani come with, this increase can be adjusted upwards. At this time, it is no fun to go home and be caught by these high-spirited women.
Can't go home, so where are the two of them going to spend their time? Ning Yi's eyes flashed with an unknown light, "How about we go for a drink?"
"Drinking?" Li Ke frowned, then raised his eyebrows, "Do you want to inform the reservists of the results of our trip?"
"That's it!" Ning Yi snapped his fingers in a chic manner, "A certain person is thin-skinned and unwilling to join his boyfriend's joint operations chat room, so we can only work hard and make a special trip over!"
"Is that all?" Li Ke smiled playfully, "Do you know that your eyes are exactly the same as when you looked at the square?"
"It's my brother, he really knows me so well!" Ning Yi patted Li Ke on the shoulder, "Fang Ge is probably crazy now, it's not as interesting to go to him as our reservists at this time, I've been spending a lot of money on my brain lately, and I need something interesting to mediate my tense nerves." β
"Then it's decided!" Li Ke took out the car keys, "I've been nervous lately, and I need to relax." β
"Then let's go!" Ning Yi thought of Liang Haozhe seeing the expressions of the two of them for a while, he couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth, today's day will not be boring!
Liang Haozhe, who was checking his collection in the wine cellar, suddenly felt a chill on his back, and looked back at the wine cellar in the dim light, Liang Haozhe frowned, why did he suddenly feel so uneasy?
Seeing Li Ke's global limited sports car disappear around the corner of the street, Li Xiuman sat back in his chair and glanced at the mobile phone on the desk, Li Xiuman's mind echoed the words that Ning Yi said to him before leaving, "Uncle Li, it's difficult to do one thing well, but it's easy to destroy it." Especially!" Ning Yi smiled mysteriously, "When there is more than one person who wants to cause destruction. β
With a long sigh, Li Xiuman gave up his plan to call other shareholders by phone. From the company's point of view, it is indeed not a good thing for Girls' Generation to continue to stand at the top of the girl group like this, and he, as the largest shareholder of the company, is indeed unwilling to use too generous terms to win the renewal contract of eight people. In his heart, Li Xiuman actually wants to make the name Girls' Generation a thing of the past through a relatively peaceful way, and the eight members can maximize the benefits by developing their own companies in their own names.
However, those eight girls are so stubborn that they want to stand behind the name Girls' Generation, even if doing so will make them a lot less profitable. With his understanding of the eight of them and his temptation of Taeyeon some time ago, Lee so-man decided that even if the renewal conditions were harsh, they would still have a good chance of agreeing in the end. Therefore, the company's strategy for this renewal was also born--- stepping on the bottom line of eight people and making the conditions for renewal to the minimum.
As a shareholder, Li Xiuman completely scoffed at this stupid, childish idea full of useless feelings. But as a musician and an uncle, Li Xiuman appreciates their decision. There is no slump because of a huge blow, no discouragement by a sudden rise in status, no infighting because of uneven gains in popularity, and no choice to fall apart because the glory has passed. This is probably the fundamental reason why Girls' Generation can still stand in Yundun and look down on the seniors and juniors when she has been in the army for ten years!
For the goal in their hearts, they are silently enduring the company's recent small actions, and they have also accepted the company's intentional or unintentional suppression. If everything continues like this, Li Xiuman believes that the company will get the maximum benefit at the lowest cost. It's a pity that Girls' Generation is no longer the girl she was seventeen or eighteen years ago. Now, ten years later, most of them have gained a relationship that is precious to the girl, and they have their own guardians.
For them, this is undoubtedly a very happy and worthy of showing off. But this is not the case for companies. If they just have a boyfriend, it's nothing, and the company may have one more way to suppress them because of this. So where does the question arise? Li Xiuman smiled bitterly and lamented the good fortune of these people in Girls' Generation on the road of love.
The president of the group company who is surrounded by barbecue restaurants all over the streets and alleys of South Korea, whose tax revenue occupies the top few in South Korea's business tax and stomps his feet on the earthquake in the whole of South Korea; the internationally renowned, the latest movie has swept the theaters in most regions of the world, and the box office has repeatedly broken records; the new director who has won awards and won both wealth and fame for a while; the first heir of the chaebol who hides behind many well-known groups in Europe and the United States and whose power is simply incalculable; the mysterious medical family that can even cure cancer; and the family that is very well-connected in the Korean film and television industry and the upstart who is well-known in the Korean business worldγ These characters who are very awesome when they come out at random are invariably attracted to the girls and become knights who protect the girls wholeheartedly. If they join forces to wreak havoc, Li Xiuman believes that it won't be long before SM, the company he has devoted most of his life to, will cease to exist.
This kind of thing is absolutely intolerable to Li Xiuman, so after Ning Yi's vague threat, Li Xiuman wisely decided to withdraw and no longer stir up this troubled water. However, not everyone is like him, there is a niece who is worried that he will make a wrong decision and cause the family to be ruined, and he has already revealed to him what kind of energy the girls' boyfriends have, so it is foreseeable that some people will be unlucky next!
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"What are you talking about?"What are you talking about?" a director surnamed Park said, "Are you kidding? Open a personal studio for idol, do you want us SM to become the laughing stock of the whole circle? No! I will never agree to this ridiculous proposal!"
"I don't agree with this proposal either!" Director Li, who was sitting next to Director Park, said slowly, "I know that the three directors feel sorry for their girlfriends, but in business, this kind of proposal that fundamentally destroys the interests of the company cannot be discussed by the board of directors 100 percent." And the money earned by Girls' Generation is completely worthless to the three of them, and it is a bit irrational for the three to put forward such a proposal to dig up the foundation of the company for such a trivial matter!"
"That's it!" Director Su slapped the table heavily and made a decision for most of the people on the board, "We will never agree to this proposal!!!"
"Absolutely?" Hang Erlang leaned back in his chair and sneered, "This word is not something that can be used casually! Director Su, who has recently begged grandpa to sue grandma because of the sharp drop in the stock of his dairy company, are you sure you have the confidence to say the word absolute?"
"You!" Director Su's face turned red, and after being exposed in front of so many people, Director Su was almost speechless because of shame.
"What am I?" Fang Ge smiled disdainfully, "And you!" Fang Ge turned his gaze to the happiest director surnamed Park, who was the most vocal at the beginning, "I heard that your pharmaceutical company has been in trouble recently, and the prosecutor has searched your house several times, how about it? When are you going to go to the prison for a walk? When the time comes, remember to let the secretary inform me, so that I can visit you in the prison." I've never been to a prison like that, so I'm curious about what it's like inside!"
"Ahem, ahem!" "Director Park began to cough constantly, grabbed the water bottle in his hand and poured it into his mouth, he had been anxious about this matter recently, Fang Ge said this to clearly put salt in his heart.
"And you!" Fang Ge looked playfully at the calm director surnamed Li on the other side, "How do you think your life has been going lately?"
"I think my life is not bad!" Director Li is very calm, he does not have his own company in other fields like Director Park and Director Su. Starting as a chain of video stores, his business has always been stable, and as long as there are idols in South Korea and idols will release physical albums, he will never have to worry about running out of food. Therefore, the extremely obvious hostility of the square, the director surnamed Li completely dismisses it. Here is South Korea, and Fang, is Chinese.
Compared with Fang Ge, the director surnamed Li is more afraid of Li Ke, who has been sitting without saying a word since the beginning of the meeting, which is different from the rich second generation of Fang Ge, who is based in China. Li Ke definitely has the ability to force everyone here to make decisions that no one wants to make, and it is very easy. So in the opinion of the director surnamed Li, the key to the matter now is not whether the studio's plan can be passed, nor whether Girls' Generation should renew the contract, but how much Li Ke is willing to pay for his so-called girlfriend Jin Xiaoyuan.
The director surnamed Li never believed in love, between men and women, there is only desire, love, is just an excuse for men to fool ignorant women. Li Ke will fall in love with Jin Xiaoyuan, probably because Jin Xiaoyuan's identity is special, and he will have a special pleasure with her.
According to what the director surnamed Li has learned, Li Ke and Jin Xiaoyuan have been together for a long time, and Li Ke should be tired of facing the same woman for such a long time. Director Li thinks that this time Li Ke will put forward this proposal with Ning Yi and Fang Ge, whether it is Li Ke's breakup compensation to Jin Xiaoyuan, so it is difficult to say how much Li Ke is willing to contribute to this.
Anyway, the director surnamed Li thinks that if it were him, he wouldn't mind seeking a little benefit for the woman he was about to get rid of without trouble, but if doing so would make him offend a lot of people who didn't need to offend, he would never insist on it again. Pushing himself and others, the director surnamed Li believes that if they collectively oppose the proposal of the studio, Li Ke will definitely not insist on it. Li Ke gave up, how could they be the opponents of their group of Korean natives with that addicted Fang and Ning Yi, who didn't talk much except to make proposals. The proposal of a personal studio is absolutely impossible to pass today.
"It's quite pleasant!" Fang Ge repeated the words of the director surnamed Li, "It's rare, but!" Fang Ge leaned over and raised the corners of his mouth weirdly, "It's hard to say if you can be so happy!"
"What?" subconsciously glanced at Li Ke, and the director surnamed Li suddenly found that there was a mobile phone with a screen still shining on the conference table in front of Li Ke, and the heart of the director surnamed Li chuckled inexplicably.