Chapter 114: My Mother!
This meeting was primarily a negotiation between the two teams and had little to do with Jiang Shu; his presence merely signified DM Entertainment's Pay attention to of Red Velvet, nothing more.
This person could be Jiang Shu, or it could be Li Duohui, as long as they could represent DM Entertainment.
His presence was enough.
There was no need for him to speak during the meeting; he just needed to sit there and listen.
The meeting started a little after ten and ended shortly after eleven.
After so many liaisons, there wasn't much left to discuss in this final debut meeting; it was more about reporting on the upcoming marketing plan leading up to the debut.
After the meeting, Jiang Shu did not linger at S.M and left directly.
He had originally planned to chat with Red Velvet at S.M, but Choi Ji-yeon's words made him change his mind.
On the way back to the company.
"Mm, I know." Choi Ji-yeon, sitting in the passenger seat, put down her phone and turned to look at Jiang Shu, who was driving.
"President nim, the person is already waiting in your office."
"Good!" Jiang Shu looked straight ahead, acknowledged her, and then gently pressed the accelerator, increasing the car's speed again.
Choi Ji-yeon leaned back in the soft passenger seat, accustomed to Jiang Shu's eagerness.
She didn't know why President nim felt a sense of déjà vu when he saw some people's information, as if he had known them for a long time, but President nim must have his reasons for doing so. As a secretary, if she couldn't fathom it, then she would just execute it flawlessly.
Just like now, Jiang Shu asked her to find a trainee named Jeon Soyeon in the industry. She used all her connections to check the trainees of various entertainment companies. There were several named Jeon Soyeon, but when the information was handed to President nim, none of them were the person he was looking for. Instead, because the news of his search leaked, after learning that President nim was looking for Jeon Soyeon, these entertainment companies all treated the previously unvalued "Jeon Soyeon"s like treasures, acting as if they wouldn't let them go.
Choi Ji-yeon was a bit speechless, but she also knew that her President nim's style was too peculiar. His actions of poaching Zhang Yuanying from YG and his clear targets at the audition convention had already spread. Everyone had more or less come to understand him.
His peers weren't fools; Jiang Shu must have his reasons for doing this. They didn't understand the reason for Jiang Shu's actions, but it was right not to give him the trainees he wanted!
Better to keep them themselves than to give them to the enemy.
Unfortunately, none of the "Jeon Soyeon"s were the person President nim was looking for.
Although Jiang Shu didn't say anything about not finding the person, Choi Ji-yeon didn't stop looking.
She wondered, does it have to be a trainee?
So she asked a contact in the police department to check for "Jeon Soyeon"s in Seoul, and then filtered for those in the K-pop industry.
Then she discovered that her own company had a Jeon Soyeon.
A producer who had just joined last month, a '98-liner. Choi Ji-yeon looked at her entrance evaluation form, and her scores were surprisingly excellent.
After the meeting, she gave this Jeon Soyeon's information to Jiang Shu, and that's how things are now.
It seemed that this producer, Jeon Soyeon, was the person President nim was looking for.
Choi Ji-yeon recalled Jeon Soyeon's information. She didn't look particularly good, but according to President nim's habit, the people he looked for were meant to be trainees.
Not to mention she's a producer, just her face... it seems she can't be an idol, right?
But then Choi Ji-yeon thought of Bae Joo-hyun.
If her President nim could promote a twenty-seven-year-old trainee, then someone with a less-than-ideal appearance... it didn't seem impossible either, did it?
While she was thinking, the car had already arrived at the DM Entertainment building.
Fifth floor, President nim's office.
In the empty office, Tian Xiaojuan sat alone, curiously surveying the office layout.
She had signed up for the audition convention in the second half of this year, but unfortunately, she was eliminated in the preliminary round. In desperation, she tried coming to DM Entertainment, which was rumored to have very lenient requirements for trainees.
She didn't get hired as a trainee but somehow became a producer with a higher status.
Although it was somewhat different from her dream of standing on stage and singing her own songs, it was at least a first step.
Just as Tian Xiaojuan and other producers were working on the B-sides for IVE's second mini-album, she suddenly received a message from the production director, telling her to go to President nim's office immediately and wait, as President nim wanted to see her.
This completely bewildered Tian Xiaojuan.
Who?
President nim?
How did a small fry like her get into President nim's sight?
Tian Xiaojuan couldn't figure it out, but the director was still urging her, so she could only go to President nim's office with a puzzled heart.
This was her first time on the fifth floor. Although she was a producer, the fifth floor was the office area for high-level executives, directors and above, so her rank didn't allow her to interact with these people, and naturally, she had never been there.
Tian Xiaojuan was not unfamiliar with her company's President nim. She often saw videos of President nim online. He seemed like a handsome man who was very gentle and approachable.
But no matter how gentle he seemed online, it was still online. In person, he was still her President nim.
Click.
While Tian Xiaojuan was pondering, the office door suddenly opened.
Hearing the movement, Tian Xiaojuan instinctively stood up and looked back.
When Tian Xiaojuan saw Jiang Shu, Jiang Shu also saw her.
"President nim!" Tian Xiaojuan often watched Jiang Shu's videos, so she immediately recognized him and quickly bowed.
Jiang Shu looked at the girl bowing to him, and the corners of his mouth couldn't stop rising.
Calm... calm... calm... not one bit!
Having Tian Xiaojuan here was equivalent to him blowing up Cube's ancestral grave.
Hahaha!
Cube, go to hell!
Looking at Juan Zong in front of him, Jiang Shu's mouth was twisted into a wide grin.
Not only because the core of (G)I-DLE was in place, but also because ITZY was complete but he had been holding them back from debuting, precisely waiting for Tian Xiaojuan, the key to activating ITZY!
Jeon Soyeon (S)
Bond: (G)I-DLE (5/6), Girl Group Producer (1).
Girl Group Producer: Jeon Soyeon's exclusive bond.
Effect 1: Activates this effect after binding to a girl group. Songs produced will have peak compatibility with that girl group, and their comeback popularity will not fall below top-tier, but the bound girl group can only be changed after one full year.
Effect 2: Can designate one girl group bond artist without Effect 1 binding to possess that group's bond, but that artist will lose all other bonds, retaining only that group's bond, and will not be compatible with any songs not produced with Jeon Soyeon's participation.
Girl Group Producer's Effect 1 was the bond Jiang Shu unexpectedly discovered in his fourth round that was most compatible with ITZY's Five Wangdao Passion!
The (G)I-DLE members were not the reason Jiang Shu yearned for Tian Xiaojuan. Whether it was the five members or six, the bond effects were not particularly outstanding, because what was truly amazing was never (G)I-DLE, but Tian Xiaojuan!
With Tian Xiaojuan, the ITZY project could be launched!
As for Effect 2...
Hmm?
Jiang Shu's eyes suddenly lit up.