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Chapter 91 Do Two Things for One Penny
Xiaotian's eyes widened, her mouth slightly open, her gaze filled with admiration.
Zhou Ye couldn't help but whisper, "Sister Nan is amazing."
Liu Haochun stood quietly to the side, but her doe-like eyes were sparkling with light.
She used to think that bargaining was something only middle-aged women at the market could do, but today she realized that bargaining could be done so elegantly.
Even Tian's mother nodded slightly with her arms crossed, muttering, "This girl has the makings of a businesswoman."
Only Old Li seemed unfazed, arms crossed, a "I knew it all along" smile on his lips.
After securing all the benefits she could, Zhang Ruonan finally launched her final assault on the rent.
She didn't beat around the bush at all in this step, and directly revealed the bottom price she had found out in advance.
The male salesman wiped the sweat from his forehead and finally gave up.
Zhang Ruonan secured the lowest possible rent, six months of free property management fees, and five designated parking spaces.
It must be said that people from Vancouver have a real talent for doing business.
Since Sister Nan has already gone to so much trouble, Wang Zian won't hold her back when it comes to signing.
The contract was laid out on the table, totaling more than twenty pages, with an official seal stamped at the bottom of each page.
He picked up a pen and signed his name in the signature section on the last page.
The venue was rented for five years at an annual rent of three million, and the property management fee of eight hundred thousand per year was reduced to six months' exemption by Zhang Ruonan.
The total amount over five years is 18.6 million.
Upon hearing this number, Xiao Tian, Liu Haochun, and Zhou Ye all gasped in shock.
Xiaotian comes from an ordinary working-class family. The largest amount of money she has ever heard of in her life was the red envelope given by a relative when she was admitted to university or the tuition fee for the art exam. She has never seen so much money before.
Liu Haochun's family owns a shop. She had done the accounting for her family and knew that the shop's annual revenue was not even a fraction of this amount.
No, it should be that there isn't even a fraction of a fraction.
Zhou Ye had seen a lot of money before, but he had never spent this much!
Then Wang Zian took out his card and swiped it on the POS machine.
The machine hissed for a moment, and then a long card receipt was ejected from its mouth.
He didn't even blink.
All three of them widened their eyes simultaneously.
"No way...you really just rented it?" Xiaotian's voice was full of disbelief. "It's so expensive!"
Liu Haochun also opened her doe-like eyes wide and looked at Wang Zian without saying a word.
His lips moved slightly, but he didn't say anything.
She went from being so reserved in the car that morning, not daring to say much even though she was hungry, to finally letting her guard down, only to be shocked by something else.
This person is really going to do this.
Zhou Ye nodded: "With so much money, we can actually do something else!"
"It's just the few of us, so we don't need the office for now! We can just film at the location shooting base like before!"
Zhang Ruonan and Lao Li remained quite calm.
Nan Jie had already taken it for granted that she was flipping through the contract, checking each clause on every page.
Old Li knew very well that, given Wang Zian's execution and planning abilities over the past two days, this investment was just the beginning.
Wang Zian took the copy of the contract from the salesperson and neatly signed his name on the cover.
He took the bill from the salesperson, waved it slightly at the group, and said in a steady voice, "If we keep making short videos, then Zhou Ye is right."
"However, the future I want is not just short videos, but also TV series and movies."
"To do those things, we need a place of our own."
Upon hearing this, Zhou Ye, Tian Xiwei, and Liu Haochun's eyes lit up almost simultaneously.
As students at a professional institution, Zhou Ye and Tian Xiwei's deepest desires were accurately captured by this sentence.
They got into Beijing Film Academy and Shanghai Theatre Academy not to become internet celebrities, but to act in real dramas.
Liu Haochun doesn't have as big a dream as they do, but she's more realistic.
She felt that a company capable of signing a five-year lease in one go had a better future and more financial prospects.
Tian's mother remained silent throughout.
Her gaze remained fixed on the credit card receipt—a black and white slip, a merchant's record, showing the actual amount and card number.
She knew this wasn't a performance put on for her.
Having lived for over forty years, she certainly knows that most people would think twice before spending even a few dozen yuan on their children.
The young man in front of me, who had just come of age, spent nearly 20 million yuan in one go without even blinking.
This can no longer be explained by "good family background".
Wang Zian's behavior of spending money as if it were nothing still frightened her.
She glanced at her daughter.
Tian Xiwei and Zhang Ruonan were looking at the lease agreement together, her pigtails swaying back and forth on her shoulders.
Now, she feels more confident about her daughter making short videos.
My daughter may have actually stumbled upon something reliable this time.
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As the car drove away from Starlight Film and Television Park, it was already getting dark.
The evening rush hour traffic resembled a slowly crawling river of light, with red taillights flickering in the twilight.
Wang Zian glanced at the back row in the rearview mirror—a few girls were huddled together looking at photos of the park they had taken that afternoon on their phones, their laughter echoing in waves.
He could sense that after the nearly 20 million yuan rent payment was made that afternoon, the atmosphere in the entire carriage underwent a subtle change.
It's not a sense of restraint, but a more grounded, reassuring feeling, as if it's been anchored by something.
This is the effect he wanted.
Next, we need to discuss with the parents of several families whether to keep the child. Tian's mother is the first, and Liu Haochun's parents will have to face this sooner or later.
No words can compare to proof of strength, and what is the most direct proof of strength?
Of course, it costs money.
What proves strength? It's spending money, of course.
With nearly 20 million invested, both the venue and the team were secured simultaneously.
With the five-year lease signed, Lao Li's team was stable; the new girls saw with their own eyes that this was not a makeshift team put together temporarily.
Get two things done for a penny; it's a worthwhile investment.
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A group of people ate dinner outside, and afterwards, several girls squeezed into Wang Zian's living room, occupying two sofas haphazardly.
The air conditioner was humming, and there were several half-finished cups of milk tea and opened snacks on the coffee table.
After getting to know each other in the afternoon and having eaten two meals together, the girls' relationship was noticeably more natural than it had been in the morning.
Zhou Ye no longer sat coldly on the sofa, but instead leaned cross-legged against Zhang Ruonan, occasionally handing her a bag of potato chips.
Tian Xiwei took off her pigtails, letting her hair fall loosely over her shoulders, and was gesturing wildly as she described to them her heroic deeds of climbing over the school wall to steal roasted sweet potatoes and getting caught.
Liu Haochun didn't participate in much of the conversation, but she sat quietly in a corner of the sofa, hugging a cushion, with a small, relaxed smile on her lips.
Tian's mother kept observing, from the first time she saw Zhou Ye at the airport to watching her daughter interact with other girls, she took it all in very detail.
Let the children experience and understand their own feelings.
She came to Beijing for three reasons: first, to see the people and things her daughter would be exposed to; second, to give her daughter the opportunity to make friends; and third, to prevent her daughter from encountering any messy or troublesome situations.
Now it seems that these young people are much better than she imagined.