Chapter 168: Why Me
A few days before Lu Zhou made an appointment to meet Xu Junze, he first arranged a meeting with Qi Jiajia.
Since the last time the two met together for the Baiboli brand advertising endorsement, Lu Zhou and Qi Jiajia have not seen each other again.
When Qi Jiajia received a call from Lu Zhou, she was quite surprised.
Although the two have said before that they will be friends and keep in touch often, everyone knows that after people and people are separated from each other in daily life, it is actually difficult to "keep in touch" again.
If there is less connection in life, there will definitely be fewer common topics. It's not realistic.
Those bosom friends who used to play well in junior high school and college are now ...... How many other people can keep in touch with each other?
The former iron buddies are still like this.
Don't expect this kind of passerby friends who only meet briefly in one show to be in constant contact.
Therefore, Qi Jiajia only regarded Lu Zhou as a polite remark at that time.
Even if Lu Zhou told her the last time they met, if she decided to come out and start a business, she could talk to him, but she didn't look for it in the end.
The circles are different, and they don't have to be forced.
Today's Qi Jiajia has resigned.
Lu Zhou's active contact really surprised Qi Jiajia.
The two made an appointment for dinner, and this time they chose a high-end restaurant with better secrecy, and the location was chosen by Lu Zhou.
"My idol suddenly asked me out for dinner, which flattered me." The moment Qi Jiajia saw Lu Zhou, she joked.
"When will I become your idol?" The two entered the private room, and Lu Zhou gentlemanly pulled out the heavy wooden dining chair for her.
Qi Jiajia sat down unceremoniously and thanked her.
"I have no resistance to talented male stars, maybe when you were on the show, you unknowingly gained me as a fan."
Lu Zhou pursed his lips and smiled when he heard this, "You will be able to cheer, do you still have to practice this kind of eloquence as a simultaneous interpreter?" ”
"Don't believe it, now I'm also a die-hard fan of yours, and I usually mix in your fan station to brush your editing stage when I'm bored and have nothing to do." Qi Jiajiale said.
"Really? So what are you fanning me? Undertaking? Looks? Lu Zhou followed her words and opened the topic.
"Haha, career is the majority, if you want me to just knock on my appearance, then you have to be handsome and angry." Qi Jiajia laughed.
"What's the point of being a business fan, it's not as interesting as being a business partner." Lu Zhou handed her the vegetable book and said with a smile.
Qi Jiajia was stunned, huh? Business Partner?
Lu Zhou shook the menu and said, "Order first." ”
Qi Jiajia reacted at this time, took the menu he handed over, and chose two dishes that he had never tried.
"Last time you said you were leaving, now are you leaving?" Lu Zhou asked.
Qi Jiajia nodded, "Yes, just left." ”
Lu Zhou: "What's next?" ”
Qi Jiajia looked at Lu Zhou with interest for a while, and then smiled: "You seem to be very interested in my career development, why?" ”
Lu Zhou didn't play dumb riddles either, "I want to try to be a business partner with you, I don't know if you're interested?" ”
"Which business partner?"
Qi Jiajia couldn't figure it out, she always had great doubts about Lu Zhou's cooperation intentions that she had already suggested.
"We're in a completely different circle. I don't seem to have anything I can do to help you, and you can't seem to help me in what I'm good at. ”
"I guess ......"
Qi Jiajia picked up the teacup and took a shallow sip, frowning and thinking.
"Do you want to enter the international market, but you don't know the language, and you want me to join your behind-the-scenes team to help you go to the overseas market?"
The reason why Qi Jiajia made this guess is because she recently paid attention to Lu Zhou's dynamics in the entertainment industry, and he has a musical work that cooperates with the movie of country M.
As she spoke, she chuckled and shrugged slightly.
"I'm sorry, I'm not really interested in this kind of employment direction."
"I came out of a leading foreign company for freedom, not to find a new identity as a part-time worker."
Qi Jiajia made her own assumptions and then gave her answer.
Lu Zhou listened quietly, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, and when she was finished, he nodded and said, "I know, the last time we met, you mentioned this pursuit of yours. ”
He pursed his lips and smiled, and said, "You didn't guess right. ”
Qi Jiajia was stunned, didn't you guess right?
"Then I really can't figure out how the two of us can be partners at work." She said.
Lu Zhou smiled and said unhurriedly: "It's better to guess your plan too." ”
Qi Jiajia raised her eyebrows and said with interest: "Listen to me." ”
"You have a strong translation ability, you have accumulated a lot of experience and customer resources when you worked in the previous company, plus you want freedom, and you are now very popular online."
"I guess when you resigned, you should plan to start your own studio or company and build your own professional translation team."
Lu Zhou took out the memories of the previous life and talked about it.
Qi Jiajia was slightly surprised, but after thinking about it, it seemed that it was not difficult to guess.
"At the moment, that's exactly what I think." She doesn't deny it.
"So, how do you work with me? Are you interested in the field I want to do? Want to invest? ”
"Now that the translation market is quite mature, the road I want to take is not a big cake at present, I am just pursuing myself, and you want to nibble on such a small cake? Then I suggest you might as well post a few more songs, it's really true. ”
Qi Jiajia couldn't figure it out anymore following his words, and still didn't understand what Lu Zhou wanted to cooperate with him.
"Indeed." Lu Zhou smiled and said: "The entrepreneurial project you intend to start now, the market is too mature, and it is already a red sea, since you know it yourself, do you want to continue to pounce forward?" ”
If Lu Zhou is not mistaken, in the previous life he experienced, Qi Jiajia embarked on the entrepreneurial project they are talking about now.
She invested a lot of manpower, material and financial resources to do what she loved, and she was busy for many years, and finally lost in the market and ended up in embarrassment.
At that time, she encountered setbacks and did not completely give up, and began to transform with her small team, with the help of online traffic, engaged in English online education, and set up an institution.
But then the situation was not good, and he couldn't play the giants, and he was eliminated again.
The team was disbanded and the company filed for bankruptcy.
In the years when she was obsessed with entrepreneurship, she didn't fall in love, didn't get married, and devoted herself to her career, but she didn't get the success she wanted.
In her thirties, she suddenly got tired of her busy career life and wanted to return to the peaceful days of her family. In the end, I found a divorced man with a fairly solid family financial strength to marry.
The man is not handsome, and his figure is not good, which is too different from the mate selection standard when she was in her twenties.
As for whether she was happy or not, Lu Zhou at that time was not clear, and it had nothing to do with him. After all, at that time, he felt that he was the most unhappy person in the world.
"There are also people in the Red Sea who can play out of it, I want to try, and I don't start a business for anything else, just to pursue self-realization."
Qi Jiajia listened to Lu Zhou's words, and expressed her determination with a firm expression.
"Are you confident that you are the one who can make it out of the Red Sea?" Lu Zhou asked rhetorically.
There was a knock on the private room door, and the waiter came in to serve the food.
The two fell into a brief silence.
After the waiter withdrew, Qi Jiajia answered Lu Zhou's previous question with a somewhat uncomfortable expression:
"I'm not sure."
Yes, her faith was not very high.
She didn't know what the road ahead was, so she could only cross the river by feeling the stones.
But once she decides to do something, she will do her best.
She just needs to know that, and that's enough.
Lu Zhou smiled lightly, took the lead in moving the chopsticks, and motioned for Qi Jiajia to chat while eating.
"There is not only one way to pursue self-fulfillment."
He swallowed the food in his mouth and continued the conversation.
"If there is another entrepreneurial direction that allows you to be the boss and lead the team at the same time, it can also allow you not to lose the profession you love, and if you succeed in the challenge, in the end you will have the freedom and so-called self-realization you want, but the premise is to cooperate with me, are you interested?"
Lu Zhou asked solemnly.
Qi Jiajia's eating action paused, her eyes widened slightly, and she slowed down for a moment before asking, "What project?" ”
Lu Zhou handed over the document bag he brought to Qi Jiajia.
Qi Jiajia took it curiously, she couldn't take care of eating, so she took out the document on the spot and looked at it carefully.
"Culture goes to sea, this is what I want to do."
Lu Zhou mentioned a sentence while eating, and then asked Qi Jiajia to understand the entire project content through the content of the document.
Qi Jiajia finished reading the entire project document in the fastest time, and after reading it, she was a little excited.
"I can do this, but ...... Have you investigated the overseas market for this project? ”
She still had some doubts about the feasibility of the project.
"If you are sure to cooperate, I will show you the overseas market research data that I have found someone to do."
Lu Zhou stopped chopsticks, he has been controlling his diet recently, and he won't eat a lot at one time.
"I've taken a fancy to a small but sophisticated Internet company, and it's going to go bankrupt because of its internal management, and I'm ready to buy it."
Qi Jiajia almost choked and looked at him with indescribable eyes.
"Isn't it proof that the company can't do well? Are you not afraid of rotting in your own hands when you buy it? ”
Lu Zhou is light and light.
"What I fancy is not this company, but the existing work library of this website, which can be used as the initial content library for us to go overseas."
"As for the original team, those who can't do it should be cut, and then go to the big station to dig up one or two powerful editors to take the lead, and then re-pull a strong team of writers, and the prototype of the output team will come out."
"If you cooperate sincerely, you will be solely responsible for the project of content going overseas, and you can build your translation team freely."
"This is actually similar to going out and doing your own translation company, but if you do it yourself, you need to find customers with translation needs by yourself, and this step will stump many people."
"You cooperate with us to start a business, and you don't have to worry about the business needs of translation, you just need to worry about your team management and deepen the quality of your translation services."
"This market will not be small, you can rest assured. If you have copyright, you can also play audio, comics, and videos, and if your translated works have good feedback in foreign markets, we can also play audio and short videos. ”
"I found out in the show before that your English dubbing ability is very strong, and simultaneous interpretation is your specialty, and your comprehensive ability can make you play a role when the content industry chain goes overseas."
"If you do a translation company on your own, you are actually limiting yourself."
"Joining us will give you a bigger stage, which is the real self-realization."
"In addition, I also plan to link up with the domestic industrial chain. Of course, the planning of this part will be discussed in detail later. ”
"Anyway, I'm responsible for investment, I'll find a way to solve this part of the capital, you are responsible for taking care of the company and leading the team to the world to make brilliant achievements. What do you think? Want to cooperate? ”
Lu Zhou said his plan step by step, and Qi Jiajia was full of passion in his heart.
After Lu Zhou's analysis, it is true that this project is very attractive to her, and it is much more attractive than her own uncreative ideas.
To be honest, after listening to Lu Zhou's words, Qi Jiajia was already moved.
But at this time, she suddenly had a feeling of unreality.
"I have a question." She thought for a long time in silence and said.
"You say."
"Why did you choose me to work with you? There are many translators on the market who are better than me and have rich management experience, and they will obviously be more suitable for your entrepreneurial project than me, why don't you find them who are more reliable? Choose me instead? ”
"I only know you as a translator. I feel that your professional ability is quite high, and besides, I know you well and think that you are a trustworthy person. As for the others, they are strangers to me, and even if they are suitable, I need to take the time to get to know them, and I don't have that much time. ”
Qi Jiajia frowned suspiciously, "You don't have that much time?" Is this project urgent? ”
"It's not in a hurry, but I have a habit of not wanting to delay what I have decided."
Lu Zhou didn't answer her directly.
In fact, he just wants to borrow people around him as much as possible to cooperate to create maximum benefits, and by the way, if he can also change their lives, why not?
But he can only digest these silently by himself.
"Thank you for trusting me." Qi Jiajia was quite moved in her heart.
"You can go back and think carefully before giving me an answer, three days, is it enough?" Lu Zhou said with a smile.
"You're really an impatient."
Qi Jiajia couldn't help but laugh when she heard "three days".
"I used to see you doing things unhurriedly on the show, and I thought you were a chronic person, but I didn't expect it to be quite contrasting."
Lu Zhou smiled, "That week? ”
"Haha, no, just three days, I'll answer you in three days." Qi Jiajia said.
Lu Zhou nodded, his eyes fell on the dining table, and said, "Let's eat, it's all cold." ”
The two had a dinner with a smile and a smile, and when it was about to end, Lu Zhou received a call from Pan Chengyi that he needed to go back to the company temporarily.
"Can I stop by and visit your company?" Qi Jiajia heard that he was going back to his company, so he asked on a whim.
"Yes." Lu Zhou agreed.
He knew she probably wanted to get to the bottom of it.
"You really trust me when you promise to be so happy? Aren't you afraid that I will steal your secrets? Qi Jiajia quipped.
Lu Zhoule was happy, "If you go to visit once, you can steal secrets, so it's a waste of talent if you don't go to be a spy." ”
Qi Jiajia: "Haha! ”
In this way, Qi Jiajia followed Lu Zhou to Legendary Entertainment.
It's already night, and some people on the team are working overtime, but they're basically gone.
Linda also insisted on her post, and when she saw Lu Zhou walking into the company with Qi Jiajia, she was stunned and instantly opened her mind.
What's the situation?!
It's not Ye Fangfei, it's not Li Jiayan, it's Qi Jiajia?!
Her boss is actually with Qi Jiajia in private?!
Wow wow, the boss's preferences are really hard to guess!
Lu Zhou swept to Linda's strange eyes and knew what was going on in her mind at the moment.
"My assistant, Linda." Lu Zhou took the initiative to introduce Linda to Qi Jiajia, then looked at Linda and gave her an indescribable look.
Qi Jiajia greeted him warmly, "Hello, excuse me, I'm a friend of Lu Zhou, my name is Qi Jiajia." ”
Linda: "Haha, I know you're Qi Jiajia, I've watched the show you recorded with my boss, and I quite like you." ”
Qi Jiajia: "Thank you!" You're too good at talking. ”
"Linda, entertain my friend, I'll go meet Brother Yi." Lu Zhou admonished.
Linda nodded like garlic, "Good!" The boss can rest assured that he will take good care of Miss Qi! ”
"......" Lu Zhou shook his head speechlessly and said, "You are serious, don't scare people." ”
Linda: "Yes! ”
Qi Jiajia was amused, and inexplicably felt that Lu Zhou's assistant was a little funny.
The girl is about the same age as her, and she feels quite approachable, and she gives people a sense of intimacy when she comes up, just like his boss.
Although this assistant called Lu Zhou "boss", which seems to be a very hierarchical title, the atmosphere between the two is really not like a subordinate at all, more like a friend, very easy-going and comfortable.
Qi Jiajia looked around the office area of Legend Entertainment, looking at the number of workstations, the team size of this company is not much.
She suddenly remembered that Lu Zhou described the online literature company he said when he was eating: small but fine.
These three words are used to describe Lu Zhou's own company, which is also quite appropriate.
The team is not big, but united, refined and capable, which is also what Qi Jiajia wants.
After Lu Zhou finished explaining Linda, he turned around and went to find Pan Chengyi.
He pushed open the door of the office and heard Pan Chengyi snap his fingers excitedly: "Great news!" ”
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