In the middle of the night, Kim Jong-ming drove his Hyundai car through the rain and rushed to his teacher's house before five o'clock in the morning. However, he did not go in directly or call the door, but stood under the eaves of the other party's house and waited for more than two hours, until his wife went out to buy vegetables in the morning.

"Which one are you singing?" An Shengji looked at Jin Zhongming, who was wet all over, speechlessly, he really couldn't figure out why the other party was doing this.

"To make a good impression in front of you. Jin Zhongming's answer was frankly overdone. "Because there is something that requires you, so I came to Anmen Liyu to learn from others. ”

"The movie thing?" Ahn asked, frowning.

"It's not. Jin Zhongming shook his head, and at the same time got up to thank his wife, who brought him a bowl of brown sugar ginger tea.

"Then you better stop drinking, get out quickly!" An Shengji immediately became vigilant. "I'll help you if it's hard to do something related to the movie, but now I can guess what it is without listening!"

"You also said to listen to it first. Jin Zhongming replied embarrassedly. "Originally, I wanted to talk to you again next week, but now the situation has changed, so"

"Straight to the point. Ahn Sung-ki interrupted Kim Jong-ming's nonsense. "And briefly. ”

"Well, yes, I started a new company. Jin Zhongming also decided to get straight to the point. "The brokerage company is ready to sign someone as a pillar, I wonder if the teacher is interested in coming to be the signboard of our company?"

An Shengji immediately laughed, and Jin Zhongming had to laugh along.

"I was relieved when I heard your first sentence. An Shengji replied with a smile. "Because I thought you were short of money, so I could lend you a little. ”

"The teacher really is for me," Kim Jong-ming began to think of words in embarrassment. "Ugh. Meticulous. ”

"But you actually asked me to sign in to your company?" Ahn Sung-ki ignored Jin Zhongming's sycophancy. "Don't you know that I haven't signed a company for decades?

"I know. Jin Zhongming lowered his head and took a sip of brown sugar water and replied. "I tested you the other day. You told me in detail at the time. You said that you want to be a pure film actor, so you don't sign a company to stop acting in TV dramas, and you don't accept honorary commercial positions, and you have been influenced by me to stop accepting advertisements and endorsements in the past two years."

"You know?" said An Shengji laughed angrily.

"I know. Jin Zhongming nodded in agreement. "But don't I have a hard time? Isn't this trying to make my company a hit in the movies?"

"I'll be blunt, what if I don't promise you to prepare today?" Anshengkira asked directly.

"Then I'll go to Cui Min-sik senior. Kim Jong Ming told the truth, in fact, there was no need for him to hide anything. "Choi Min-sik's predecessor's contract is about to expire, and there are not so many rules. And Yoon Eun-hye's sister, I'm also going to talk to her. ”

Ahn Sung-ki smiled again, and his eyes kept looking at the door of his house. The meaning is already obvious, you hurry up and find Choi Min-sik!

"But I want to sign not only you, but also Choi Min-sik's seniors," Kim Jong-ming continued unashamedly.

"Your heart is really big enough. An Shengji sneered. "The Korean actor market is so competitive, why did you think of doing this?"

"I'm not running an actor agency. Jin Zhongming replied with his hands outstretched. "I run a comprehensive company, from idols to comedy artists to actors, but I am 51% of the shares, and I happen to be specifically responsible for the signing of actors. ”

An Shengji glanced at Jin Zhongming, but he didn't mean to answer at all, but continued to look at the gate of his house.

"Teacher, at the beginning, I was just ready to make a home for myself in the entertainment industry. Jin Zhongming pretended not to understand the other party's hint and began to talk about the whole story from beginning to end. And at that time, I just took a fancy to Hong Seung-sung, the president of JYP. Thinking of partnering, I don't want to get involved in specific things. But I didn't expect Hong Shengcheng to bring in half of the people in JYP. I saw that a top music agency came out, so I actually invested 50 billion won in my last breath. ”

An Shengji turned his head to look at Jin Zhongming, and the corners of his mouth twitched obviously, but he still didn't speak.

"And my mind grew with this scale. Jin Zhongming continued. "You also know that I am a person, that is, I don't want to ask for anything, compared to the things of this company, the biggest impact on me in the past few months is the movie thing, "Chaser" was dumped, "Mother" was slapped in the face by director Bong Joon-ho, I really can't swallow this breath. So the most important thing for me is that I don't have to ask for help when I make movies in the future, I"

"Aren't you already preparing to be your own director?" An Shengji finally became interested. "And it's the right way to go, let's start with a short story, let's go see it next Wednesday, if it's good, you can try a literary film, if the literary film is filmed, you can direct and act in a commercial film, you have told me all this. And it's okay to go this way, that's right, why do you want to do anything about moths?"

"But it's not enough!" Kim Jongming sighed. "Being a director also asks for people! Self-directing and acting also need to ask for people! And at this time, such an opportunity is in front of me."

"So you want to do it in one step?" An Shengji fully understood. "Just take this opportunity to spread out the stall, from the script to the investment, from the director to the actors, all by yourself, right?"

"Yes!" Jin Zhongming nodded in agreement.

"Do you know that if you make a big move, you will be targeted by people if you start such a big company. An Shengji was bitter.

"So I'm just one of a dozen partners in the firm. Jin Zhongming immediately replied without hesitation. "As long as the company doesn't go public for a day, then I'm just a small role. Besides, haven't I come to find a backer?"

An Shengji immediately fell silent.

"That's the case. As soon as I see a good story in the future. If I want to shoot it, I can buy it. Then adapt the script yourself, direct it yourself, and star in it! And you can do the same!" Kim Jong Ming saw that Ahn Sung-ki was moved, and immediately added another handful of firewood, and when he said this, his head was still steaming white, which was due to the temperature of the room evaporating the rain from his body.

"You're saying a good thing, but it's all in the air. An Shengji crossed his legs, took out a cigarette from his waist and lit the fire. "There are two problems with this. One big and one small, but both are important. First of all, I know you're rich, and while I don't want to ask you where the money comes from, do you have the financial resources to support the investment in movies?"

"Of course!" replied Jin Zhongming without hesitation. "I can hold on. ”

"That's good!" Anshengji asked as he flicked off his cigarette ash. However, this is only one of the necessary conditions, and there is another issue that must be clarified, but the problem is that it is difficult to explain it now. ”

"Will you come to my company after that?" asked Jin Zhongming looking up, his face already happy.

"Ah, that's right. An Shengji nodded. "You have to understand. If it's just about money, if I go to CJ or showbox, they will give me face and invest whatever I want. But the question is, why haven't I been there for decades? Is it just a commercial issue?"

Jin Zhongming shook his head: "I don't know." ”

"It's a question of the quality of the film. An Shengji replied after spitting out a smoke ring. "Although my vision is not good, and there are many movies that are considered bad, but overall the average quality of the films I have made so far is quite high. ”

Isn't this nonsense? Kim Jong-ming slandered in his heart, if the average quality of the movies you make is not high, how did you get to where you are today?

Of course, An Shengji didn't know what Jin Zhongming thought, he continued: "But what, once you enter a company, many times the word love is inseparable, people from the same company, he came to me and said that I have a new movie, I hope you can come over and help, what should I say?"

"You can refuse!" replied Kim with his hands outstretched.

"!" Ahn laughed. "How could you refuse? You know what? Director Kim Ji-hoon contacted me and wanted to work with me again, and it was a sci-fi thriller, and I wanted to refuse at that time. But I owe him so much for "Gorgeous Vacation", can I refuse?"

Jin Zhongming probably understood what An Shengji meant, and at this moment he pursed his lips and didn't know what he was thinking.

"Since your new company was founded by half of the JYP people, it definitely doesn't need to prove anything in the music industry. But Zhong Ming, let me ask you, what proof has your company made in terms of movies?" An Shengji asked as he extinguished the cigarette in his hand and stared at his students. "As an actor and a student, of course you have proven yourself, and I am also proud to be the youngest actor, as a teacher. But as a director, as a selector of scripts, as an investor and producer of films, what have you proved? What if your company is 'cursed' like the S.M company you told me? Your teacher also has pursuits, and even though I have reached this age, I still crave excellent works! This is the only thing I am pursuing at the moment, and the only thing that can make me let go of the love between you and me. ”

Kim Jong Ming was silent.

An Shengji stretched out his hands to the student who had fallen silent: "Then the question is, since you want the actor An Shengji to sign with your company, how can you prove that you are a company, or that you are a person, after all, you are the only filmmaker in this company at the moment! What do you personally use to prove that you are qualified to be a good filmmaker and director?"

An Shengji stopped speaking after asking this sentence, and his student fell silent for a long time. In this way, I don't know how long it took, just when he was about to lose his patience, a familiar word suddenly came to his ear.

"Teacher, let's make a bet!" Kim Jong said earnestly as he raised his head and stared at Ahn Sung-ki, his expression exactly the same as when he was in the Gwangju noodle restaurant three years ago.

So, for a moment, An Shengji was a little distracted.

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