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Chen Pingsheng was on his way back when he heard that his sister-in-law had found herself a male star from the entertainment industry; he instinctively fell silent for a few seconds.

"Honey, let's take a look at the person first!"

Chen Pingsheng agreed; the entertainment industry was inherently chaotic, and those so-called idol gods and goddesses were only so to the ordinary people.

It wasn't surprising at all that many third-tier male stars would sleep with male tycoons in exchange for a hukou in Beijing and Shanghai.

Not to mention someone from a wealthy family like his sister-in-law.

Tons of people eager to climb the social ladder would flock to her, trying to ingratiate themselves with her.

Song Wu had been calling her boyfriend, and the two had been talking for almost half a year.

Their relationship had always been good.

This was something Chen Pingsheng found quite normal.

Anyone who dated his sister-in-law Song Wu, before getting married, would definitely cherish the relationship greatly.

And would even use all means to maintain it.

Her boyfriend was a local from Magic City, still a third-tier actor in the entertainment industry at the age of twenty-seven or twenty-eight.

With such qualifications, Chen Pingsheng thought he was far worse than Hu Lin.

At the very least, Hu Lin was a genuinely honest person, unlike him.

After just one glance, he left with little interest.

It wasn't until the evening that his wife mentioned Song Wu's boyfriend to him.

A local from Magic City, whose family can't really be said to be in business.

It was only his aunt who worked as a senior executive in a top real estate firm in Magic City, the rest of his family ran some small businesses.

Family-wise, there weren't any problems, it was just the people from the entertainment industry.

Song Yanxi didn't particularly like them herself.

"Honey, I made a suggestion to him, that if he wants to continue being with my sister, he has to leave the entertainment industry. Do you think he will agree?"

"Take out the 'do you think'."

Chen Pingsheng said, "As long as he is not foolish, he will definitely agree. You're just being too anxious; otherwise, I definitely wouldn't think highly of such a man."

Sigh... Song Yanxi sighed lightly, "There's nothing I can do about it. I asked my sister, and she likes that type herself. Good-looking and sweet-talking."

Chen Pingsheng put down the teacup in his hand, thinking that most girls probably liked that kind anyway.

It's just that while such men are fine for dating, when it comes to marriage, they're really not as good as someone honest and down-to-earth like Hu Lin.

...

November.

It seemed like most people were in a rush to get married.

It wasn't just Zhao Liying reporting to him that she was about to get married, even Bai Xin, Capital City's number one secretary.

Was straightforwardly on the path of discussing marriage; she was the first to follow him.

Having been with Tengying Entertainment since its establishment, she had been there for about four years.

It was normal for her to be talking about marriage at her age, and her boyfriend was an executive in a unicorn internet company.

His income was very good.

An IT tech guy, compared to the third-tier actor that his sister-in-law had found, who knew how many times more reliable he was.

Chen Pingsheng even personally went to Capital City to attend her engagement banquet.

Looking back, it had been four years since he started his first business with a fruit store.

Zhang Tao managed Tengsheng Fruits very well.

The annual profits were stable, always above one billion, and he seldom came here anymore.

Only his wife was in charge of the finance.

Bai Xin's boyfriend was wearing thick glasses, he was the CTO at the unicorn internet company Meituan and also an overseas-educated talent.

Since returning to the country, he had been with Meituan the whole time.
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Having gone through the fierce 'hundred-group war' and then the competition among the top three of BAT.

Now, in the local life services sector, only Alibaba could compete with them.

It was worth mentioning that Alibaba itself was one of Meituan's earliest investors.

Now it had been replaced by Penguin.

Local life services were indeed big business. Chen Pingsheng sat there listening to him talk for over two hours.

Eventually, he decided to invest all of his spare 2.5 billion yuan in Meituan.

Being able to prevail in the 'hundred-group war', this super-giant internet takeaway enterprise was undoubtedly a behemoth.

The annual loss was between 15 to 20 billion yuan.

It's normal for an internet company to incur losses.

The reason for investing two and a half billion yuan was that Meituan had reached its Series D financing round.

Looking at its shareholder list, it was guarded by heavyweights without a place for smaller capitals.

Such a company going public was inevitable, just a matter of time.

He had now invested several billion into it, thinking that he might still be able to make a small profit in the future.

It's worth mentioning that its valuation has already soared to 18 billion US Dollars this year.

The total market value is just over a hundred billion, and throwing in over two billion will only secure about 2% of the shares.

It's not much, just one percentage point less than the 3% in Pinduoduo.

Frankly speaking, by this point, capital rarely invests in small companies anymore.

Rather, it tends to lean towards investing in these super-large unicorn companies.

For instance, a million dollars invested in a startup could perhaps grow a hundredfold in the next year or two.

But his twenty-plus billion might only triple.

However, the difference is between a hundred million and seventy or eighty billion.

Making a hundred million means nothing to him, so of course, he wouldn't spend too much time on that.

This kind of emerging unicorn is different; if all goes well, it will definitely go public.

The larger the investment, the larger the returns.

He didn't need to think too long, considering that so many big players were already in.

He was just another latecomer.

Starting this year, he had markedly ramped up his investments in the internet.

Chen Pingsheng thought that Bai Xin had good judgment; the boyfriend she found was from a good family background and had a decent character.

Worthy of being the secretary who had always been by his side, her taste in picking people was a third as good as his.

By the time he returned to Magic City, it was already the 6th.

Just when Song Wu's boyfriend had agreed to quit the entertainment business and he was feeling rather aggrieved,

Chen Pingsheng didn't indulge him and simply replied with one sentence, "Why don't you go back and ask your parents again."

He was also exasperated. At the age of twenty-seven or twenty-eight,

still playing these little tricks. Who was he trying to show? Wasn't it just to demonstrate how much he was sacrificing to marry Song Wu?

No wonder after four or five years, he was still a minor third-tier actor. With his EQ, apart from making women happy, Chen Pingsheng really didn't know what else he was good at.

There were benefits to Song Wu marrying him, though.

Given his family conditions and status in the entertainment industry, he could be thoroughly suppressed by her family.

Perhaps that was what his wife saw in him, too.

After Yang Changwen's ulterior motives were seen through, he didn't dare to randomly play various tricks anymore.

Calling him naive and foolish was putting it mildly. To have wealth to his extent, wasn't everyone a shrewd person?

How could they not see through such petty schemes?

Chen Pingsheng couldn't be bothered to deal with his sister-in-law's marriage prospects. He had to attend a CEO class in Xiangjiang on the 9th.

He was quite busy, too.

The spoiled brat Chen An'an also wanted to go, but unfortunately, there was no holiday.

When Chen Pingsheng went to Tengying Entertainment, Zhang Wanyi presented him with several short dramas.

Each one consisted of two hundred episodes, with each episode lasting just under ten minutes.

All the plots were essentially centered on showing off and face-slapping.

Indeed, these were the products filmed by his newly established short drama company in half a month.

Short, fast-paced, with intensified contradictions and exciting moments.

This was the biggest characteristic of short dramas.

It could be said that not a single word was wasted; the whole series revolved around showing off and face-slapping.

Though not to mention it outright, Chen Pingsheng found it quite interesting to watch.

Compared to those long and drawn-out TV series, short dramas obviously attracted more viewers.

The busty secretary, Zhang Wanyi, had received a bonus of five million last month and had been very cheerful this month.

Every day she came to work as if energized, and when he was away, she could handle everything in an orderly fashion.

She was doing quite well.

"Boss, is our group really going to release this kind of cringey short drama?"

"Cringey it may be, but it truly hooks people," Chen Pingsheng said, "Prepare for the launch. Also, our own short drama platform can start launching as well."

He owned an arts school in Guangzhou with five thousand students, so making short dramas was a breeze.

With resources from Tengying Entertainment, he could easily snag a bunch of small-time directors in the industry.

As long as he was sure this thing could make money, filming fifty pieces in a month wouldn't be a problem.

Short dramas differ from traditional TV series; they mainly make money through fees.

TV series, on the other hand, rely on selling broadcasting rights and advertisements for profit.

It could be said that watching short dramas obviously incurs higher costs than watching TV series.

Even more expensive than movies, they are indeed perfect little stress-relievers.