Sensing that the people in the coffee shop were looking this way, Li Qiu quickly pulled back his chair and sat down again.
He carefully looked at the contract in his hand again, and made sure that he was not dazzled. It was a contract between the director of the hit movie "The Bottom" and his company two years ago.
The above mentioned is the second film that the director of "The Bottom" Cheng Qinghua is about to start.
As an insider, Li Qiu had heard about this news a long time ago.
When Cheng Qinghua's new movie started casting, many companies got wind of it and were ready to move.
They all wanted to stuff their own artists into his movies, and some companies even took the money directly.
He had only seen this kind of treatment before the movie of a big director started.
It's amazing for a rookie director who has only made one film to do this.
Now with the popularity of the first movie, his second movie is naturally highly anticipated. With so many people staring at it, it is almost impossible to get a piece of meat from it.
Those big companies with a background may not be able to get a desired role, let alone those small companies and artists with no connections.
Li Qiu originally thought that what Jiang Liucheng got was just an ordinary role.
But when he knew the identity of the character was the protagonist's younger brother, he realized that this was not a scene that could be filmed in a day or two.
Unless in the setting of the script, the protagonist's younger brother has passed away long ago, that is a character who lives in memory, and generally there will not be many scenes.
"How did you get this role? You know Director Cheng Qinghua?"
Li Qiu was so shocked that he completely forgot to answer Jiang Liucheng's words.
Jiang Liucheng: "I didn't know each other before, but I got to know each other after we met."
Li Qiu: "How long have you known each other?"
Jiang Liucheng: "Less than a week."
Li Qiu: "..."
Thinking about it, if he had known Cheng Qinghua a long time ago, he wouldn't have just gotten the role now.
Li Qiu thought for a while and then asked, "How do you know each other?"
This contract looks the same as the real one, but it must be taken care of in case it is fake.
Jiang Liucheng: "We met each other on a blind date."
Li Qiu was glad that he wasn't drinking coffee, and said with a complicated expression, "Are you still on a blind date?"
Jiang Liucheng nodded in response, "I've been on blind dates."
Li Qiu was a little speechless, and couldn't help thinking about the moment when he first met Jiang Liucheng.
He found Jiang Liucheng by chance on the road. The other party didn't intend to enter the entertainment circle at first, but he only agreed to it later under his stalking.
However, Jiang Liucheng is different from those starlets who enter the entertainment industry with their dreams in mind. He doesn't have any ambitions. When it comes to acting, he accepts it, and he doesn't care if he doesn't have to.
At that time, Li Qiu thought he had picked up a treasure, and he was secretly happy in his heart.
Later, when I brought people to the company to sign the contract, I realized that I was thinking too much. I can only say that I am worthy of being a top student of Q University.
Under normal circumstances, the company has many requirements for signed artists, and one of the indispensable requirements is that they must not fall in love.
It is still a very normal requirement. Many artists know this before signing the contract, and they are also psychologically prepared.
Li Qiu didn't expect that Jiang Liucheng's first question after reading the contract was that he couldn't fall in love.
He said that after he graduated, he would start blind dates. If he couldn't fall in love, he wouldn't be able to sign a contract with the company.
Li Qiu was dumbfounded after hearing this, not only because the other party refused to sign the contract because he couldn't fall in love, but also because someone with his good looks actually planned to go on a blind date after graduation.
However, he and the company finally made a compromise. A celebrity artist who graduated from a university and a student at Q University is still very attractive to the company.
Later, as long as some questions raised by Jiang Liucheng were not too excessive, the company agreed after careful consideration.
At that time, Zhou Sheng Entertainment was not the same as it is now. Zhou Sheng Entertainment was just a small company with little reputation, and the company also regarded Jiang Liucheng as a straw for its success.
It is not impossible for a traffic star to support a company, and there are precedents in the entertainment industry.
Li Qiu withdrew his thoughts and returned to the business: "Did you just say that you have read the contract?"
Jiang Liucheng took a sip of tea, "I've seen it, there's nothing wrong with it."
Li Qiu nodded and glanced symbolically.
Since he said there was no problem, then there must be no problem. He absolutely believed in Jiang Liucheng on this point.
Anyone can be cheated by the contract, but he can't.
The top student at Q University is not joking, even if many clauses in the contract are defaulted in the entertainment industry, if he thinks it is unreasonable, he will draw inferences from one instance, and even recite the corresponding legal clauses for you on the spot.
Because of this incident, Li Qiu even suspected that there was a reason why the company agreed so quickly in the first place.
If he continues to talk about it, they will all wonder if there are really so many problems in their contract. If he sues the company with these problems in the future, will the company lose the lawsuit.
"Didn't you care about the fact that the company hid you before? Why are you planning to terminate the contract with the company now?"
Li Qiu asked curiously.
"It was the past. When I don't care, of course I don't care." Jiang Liucheng said calmly.
Li Qiu immediately said, "So you're on a successful blind date now?"
Jiang Liucheng paused for a moment: "It's done, but it doesn't seem to be done, but this shouldn't be very important. After the movie starts, we still have many opportunities to get along."
Li Qiu's hand holding the coffee couldn't help trembling, he took a breath, and had a blind date with the director during filming, which is probably unprecedented, and I don't know if that Director Cheng also thought so.
"Speaking of business, it may not be easy for you to terminate the contract, and the company will not let you go easily."
In this matter, the company has nothing to lose.
Although the company also wanted to cultivate Jiang Liucheng at the beginning, but it hadn't had time, which meant that there was no investment, so there was no loss.
The only ones who suffered losses were him and Jiang Liucheng.
Jiang Liucheng put down the teacup in her hand: "I know, but I don't think they can trap me if I terminate the contract, after all, the contract is there."
What Li Qiu was referring to was not the contract, and he also admired the young man for this.
Jiang Liucheng's professionalism in this area is unmatched by other celebrity artists.
At the beginning, he took the contract back and looked at it overnight, and then he listed many questions, one of which was about liquidated damages.
Most artists want to terminate the contract with the company, and they have to face huge liquidated damages that they cannot afford to pay. In the end, they can only accept their fate, but Jiang Liucheng has a foresight.
In the revised contract, there is such a statement about liquidated damages. If the artist wants to terminate the contract early, he needs to repay the amount of the company's investment in him. However, Zhou Sheng Entertainment's investment in Jiang Liucheng in the past year can be said almost none.
In the company's original contract, liquidated damages were mentioned in a vague concept, but the revised contract made it very clear.
In addition, Jiang Liucheng also asked the company to add a statement to the contract, and this statement was also the biggest reliance for him to turn around.
The company didn't take it seriously at the time, and it will never expect to be overturned because of that statement now.
But even if they knew, they probably wouldn't dare to let that person know.
Zhou Sheng Entertainment can have today's fame and strength, in fact, thanks to Jiang Liucheng.
"If you can really terminate the contract smoothly, it's okay to leave with you."
Li Qiu came back to his senses.
Jiang Liucheng nodded: "Then you just wait for my good news."
"By the way." Li Qiu said, "Do you want the company to know about the contract?"
"Of course, you will go to the company with me tomorrow."
"In such a hurry?"
"I don't like procrastination."
The two matched some details again, and when Li Qiu left the coffee shop, his expression was still a little dazed. When he saw Jiang Liucheng for the first time, how could he think that he was a little sheep.
The next morning, the two made an appointment to meet at a place, and then went to Zhou Sheng Entertainment together.
The receptionist didn't react when he saw Li Qiu, but Jiang Liucheng, who was next to him, couldn't help being stunned.
I met Jiang Liucheng at the front desk. Although he didn't come often, to be honest, no one who met this young man would forget it.
When Jiang Liucheng came to the company for the first time, it attracted everyone's attention.
Because the young man is so good-looking, there is no shortage of handsome men and beautiful women in the entertainment industry, but there are very few good-looking ones that impress people at first sight. At that time, many people thought that he would definitely be popular.
Unexpectedly, a year has passed, and the newcomers who signed with him at that time were all very popular and had a group of diehard fans, but he was still a starlet whose name had never been heard in the entertainment industry.
The front desk didn't know the inside story, but only knew that after the young man signed the contract, he was hidden by the company not long after.
Occasionally, the jobs I receive are still playing tricks in some film and television dramas, and sometimes they may be cut off after acting, or their faces are not shown in the camera, which is not the same as Ban Xuezang.
Later, she heard people from the company talking about him, saying that there was a big man who didn't like him, and it was said that he had made some kind of deal with the company to let the company hide him, but she didn't know if it was true or not.
Zhou Sheng Entertainment received a call from Li Qiu this morning, knowing that they were coming, but the boss didn't take it seriously.
Jiang Liucheng was hidden by Banxue for a year, and he didn't see anything he did. The boss thought that Jiang Liucheng was still silent as before, and would only endure the loss of dumbness, so he sent someone randomly to deal with them.
Ten minutes later, the boss who was humming a song in the office to check for new news on the Internet received a call from his subordinate.
"Boss, I think you still have to come and deal with it yourself."
"Just send them away at will."
Subordinate: "I'm afraid I can't dismiss this time, they are here to terminate the contract."
The boss frowned: "Let them come to my office."
"OK."
A minute later, there was a knock on the office door.
"Come in."
Li Qiu opened the door and walked in.
But the boss's eyes fell on Jiang Liucheng behind him, and a pity flashed in his eyes. He really didn't want to hide Jiang Liucheng in the snow. The other party graduated from an institution of higher learning. The conditions for a big fire, as long as there is hype, it's only a matter of time before it becomes popular, but he seems to have offended someone, and the only condition offered by the other party is to hide Jiang Liucheng in half a snow, while hanging him, and at the same time not giving him a chance to show his face.