Chapter 314 Cooperation
“Our Cube Entertainment has a complete film and television production industry chain. Your company has reached its peak in the K-Pop industry. Why don't we cooperate with Cube Entertainment and develop towards the film and television industry?”
After An Youheng finished speaking, he saw Jiang Shu looking at him with a half-smile.
“Is Representative An pretending to be foolish?”
Su Xueyun, who was standing beside him, became nervous after An Youheng finished speaking, and only relaxed when she heard Jiang Shu’s words.
An Youheng was digging a pit for Jiang Shu. Before coming, An Youheng had already discussed this matter at the board meeting.
DM Entertainment has now become a complete entity, almost invincible in the K-Pop field, occupying a huge market share. However, DM Entertainment is also very law-abiding, making it impossible to find an excuse to take action against DM Entertainment.
Since they couldn't find one, they could only create a reason.
This was the reason An Youheng gave DM Entertainment.
No one would care if DM Entertainment reigned supreme only in K-Pop, but if DM Entertainment tried to dabble in the film and television industry, it would show monopolistic tendencies, and thus provide an excuse.
Su Xueyun had thought about informing Jiang Shu, but she didn't expect An Youheng to act so quickly. Fortunately, Jiang Shu reacted in time.
This incident made Su Xueyun secretly alarmed. Next time, she must inform Jiang Shu of such information immediately.
“Chairman Jiang, what do you mean by that?” An Youheng asked, looking at Jiang Shu blankly.
Jiang Shu smiled slightly.
“Since Representative An doesn’t understand, then so be it.”
“DM Entertainment rejects this cooperation.”
An Youheng’s smile remained unchanged, but his contempt for Jiang Shu also lessened a bit in his heart.
Hearing a hundred times is not as good as seeing once. No matter how much one heard about DM Entertainment Chairman’s shrewdness and ruthlessness, it was not as real as seeing and experiencing it firsthand.
He was indeed more experienced than his age suggested.
“Then let’s discuss another cooperation,” An Youheng said with a smile.
“Please speak, Representative An.”
“Our Cube Entertainment is preparing to launch a new girl group, and we would like to invite DM Entertainment’s core team to help us produce the new girl group.” An Youheng stated his true purpose for this trip.
What he had just said was to dig a pit for Jiang Shu. It would be best if he could trick him, but it didn't matter if he couldn't.
“Representative An can discuss such matters with President Li of our company.”
Due to DM Entertainment’s 100% success rate in debuting groups, DM Entertainment also launched a unique project—the girl group creation project.
As long as an entertainment company paid a fee, DM Entertainment would arrange for the production team that created its own girl groups to go and help produce the girl group.
This project was quite popular in the industry, and five or six companies had already completed collaborations.
Cube Entertainment came this time for the same reason.
“The team list President Li provided is not suitable for our Cube Entertainment, so we came to Chairman Jiang,” An Youheng said with a chuckle.
“Which team do you want?” Jiang Shu turned his head and asked him.
DM Entertainment has three internal girl group production teams. Jiang Shu probably knew which one An Youheng was referring to, but of course, he wouldn't bring it up himself.
“The Son Jung-min team.” An Youheng said a name that Jiang Shu had expected.
Son Jung-min is the head of one of DM Entertainment’s three girl group production teams, and also the leader of DM Entertainment’s Production Department Team One. The girl groups he has overseen include IVE, ITZY, and IZ*ONE, and he is known in the industry as the best K-Pop girl group production team.
DM Entertainment’s outsourcing projects rarely use Team One; usually, Team Two and Team Three, which are the other two teams, go to help entertainment companies produce girl groups.
“That’s a pity. Team Leader Son is busy with (G)I-DLE’s matters and doesn’t have time.”
An Youheng’s expression remained unchanged after being rejected, and he continued: “We have obtained four A-grade resources from the Three Greats television stations. Chairman Jiang, you can choose one.”
“In addition, we have obtained a script from JTBC, a script for a female lead. IU’s development in the entertainment industry seems to have encountered some bottlenecks recently. Perhaps we can offer some help?”
“We can also get female lead scripts, but IU can’t carry a whole drama yet,” Jiang Shu said with a faint smile.
It sounded as if DM Entertainment couldn't get female lead scripts for IU.
“However… for two resources, I can promise that Team Leader Son will join Cube Entertainment after (G)I-DLE debuts,” Jiang Shu said, holding up two fingers.
“No, two resources are too many. These are resources we have reserved for other companies. If we give you two, our remaining deals cannot proceed,” An Youheng said, shaking his head.
“Then there’s nothing to discuss,” Jiang Shu said with a slight smile, making a gesture to dismiss him.
Seeing this, Bae Joo-hyun immediately stood up and walked over, ready to see them out.
An Youheng looked up at Bae Joo-hyun, but the next second he saw Wu Haiyuan, his face first froze, then tightened.
He knew Bae Joo-hyun was here, as she was Jiang Shu’s attendant, but Wu Haiyuan also appearing here…
An Youheng’s expression shifted, and he spoke before Bae Joo-hyun could: “Chairman Jiang, may I ask, if I give you two resources, which group will you allocate them to?”
“Theoretically, this is an internal matter of our company, but since I feel like old friends with Representative An, I will tell you.” Jiang Shu waved his hand with a chuckle, and Bae Joo-hyun stopped in her tracks.
“I will allocate them to NMIXX.”
An Youheng thought to himself, “As expected.”
He had thought that Wu Haiyuan wouldn't appear in such an occasion for no reason. Her status was not qualified to overhear their conversation, yet she was there.
Fortunately, he noticed this detail, otherwise, he really wouldn't have been able to continue the discussion.
Moreover, judging from Jiang Shu's expression and words, the other party was very clear about Cube Entertainment's bottom line.
Nonsense about feeling like old friends, he simply knew who they planned to trade those four resources with.
Numerous thoughts flashed through his mind, and An Youheng chuckled as he spoke again.
“To be honest, we have two resources that we are going to trade with JYP, and JYP also prepared these two resources for NMIXX.”
When smart people converse, they know when to stop.
Upon hearing what he wanted to hear, Jiang Shu’s face immediately broke into a friendly smile.
“Then let’s make it one,” Jiang Shu emphasized “one” when he said it.
An Youheng nodded, also repeating, “One.”
Upon hearing this, Jiang Shu stood up for the first time.
As he stood up, everyone else also followed suit.
“I hope we have a pleasant cooperation this time,” Jiang Shu said, extending his hand to An Youheng.
An Youheng quickly bent down and clasped Jiang Shu’s outstretched hand with both of his own.
“It’s our honor!”
“Along with the script for the resource, we will also send it to Chairman Jiang’s hands.”
“Mm.” Jiang Shu nodded indifferently. He didn’t care much about the film and television industry, and the script didn’t matter.
“Then we won’t bother Chairman Jiang any longer.”
“Alright, take care.”