Tong Shenyi: Thank you, President Gu. I won’t arrive in Shanghai until midnight. Please don’t wait up for me tonight.
Gu Wanrong saw Tong Shenyi’s message, realizing he’d received and seen her hotel reservation message. She relaxed, putting away her phone to play.
LVMH Group had collaborations with many luxury brands and influencers signed with Tito Video. They also invested in Douyin (TikTok) both domestically and internationally.
When the Tito Video executives heard Luo Qingquan’s request to take down videos featuring Gu Wanrong, the second largest shareholder of LVMH, they immediately agreed and swiftly instructed their subordinates to handle it. The entire process took less than half an hour, with all related videos removed from Douyin.
Luo Qingquan also thoughtfully contacted other video platform owners, ensuring that Gu Wanrong’s face disappeared from all videos online overnight.
The three influencers she met at the hotel were shocked to see all videos related to Gu Wanrong taken down. They were relieved they hadn’t uploaded their photos yet and started speculating about Gu Wanrong’s incredibly powerful background.
Lately, Gu Wanrong had been watching a TV drama recommended by Yu Yingying. The drama was adapted from a novel, with the author participating in the scriptwriting. The adaptation was very successful.
In the two episodes updated tonight, the novel’s main villain finally appeared. The actress playing the villain was a newcomer, beautiful and with excellent acting skills. The screen was filled with comments like “Ahhhhh, the sister is so beautiful!”
Logically, this new actress should become famous, but Gu Wanrong didn’t recognize her.
After finishing the two episodes and exiting the video, Gu Wanrong found the newcomer’s name in the cast list: Bai Xiaosi. Watching an interview video of Bai Xiaosi with the main cast, she learned that Bai Xiaosi was still a third-year performing arts student.
The original actress cast as the main villain in the drama “Ask Willow” was unable to participate due to an unexpected accident. Bai Xiaosi’s teacher recommended her to the director as a replacement. Bai Xiaosi’s superb acting skills won over the director, securing her the role.
However, this was even more illogical. A newcomer with good acting skills and looks, whose debut work was a hit drama, shouldn’t disappear from the entertainment industry.
Gu Wanrong continued her search, finding news about Can Yi Entertainment contacting Bai Xiaosi. A punch seemed to hit her mind, recalling a shocking social news story from her past life.
Can Yi Entertainment was publicly denounced by dozens of its artists for illegal and criminal activities. One confirmed accusation was that a newcomer, after resisting the manager’s attempts at pimping, was frozen out, drugged, and ultimately committed suicide. That newcomer was Bai Xiaosi.
Looking at the youthful and beautiful Bai Xiaosi on the screen, Gu Wanrong felt that her future shouldn’t be like this. Knowing the future and having some power, she should help her.
“System, ten-pull.” Gu Wanrong had saved up another ten-pull, originally intending to keep saving. But after learning about the misfortune awaiting the bright and beautiful Bai Xiaosi, she couldn’t ignore it and chose to use the blind box to see if she could get something to help Bai Xiaosi.
[Congratulations, host! You’ve drawn 20% of Tito’s shares, Yi Shang Entertainment Company, Tong Shenwu, and 3 free attribute points.]
The Tito shares and Yi Shang Entertainment Company drawn from the ten-pull blind box were both related to what Gu Wanrong hoped for. Seeing the name Tong Shenwu, Gu Wanrong guessed she was like Tong Shenyi, someone signed with the system and connected to her.
Gu Wanrong first investigated Yi Shang Entertainment’s current situation. Located in Heng City, the company only had a handful of barely known artists, relying on scattered film and television resources secured by the owner. Now, the owner could no longer support it and was looking for a buyer.
Gu Wanrong: Hehe, System, you’re the sucker.
Ding dong—An email arrived from Tong Shenwu, containing her resume and inquiries about when Gu Wanrong would return to China and what work she would be taking over.
Tong Shenwu was currently a high-level manager at MDM Entertainment in Hollywood. Gu Wanrong didn’t know what kind of lure the system offered to make her give up her bright career path. She wanted to ask the system, but it remained silent. The thought of asking Tong Shenyi inexplicably vanished.
Gu Wanrong then sent Yi Shang Entertainment’s basic information to Tong Shenwu, informing her that she would be taking over as the general manager.
Turning her attention to the 20% stake in Tito, Gu Wanrong felt the system was a joker. She had just been working to remove her videos from Tito, and now she’s become one of its shareholders.
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Assets: Guang Le Housekeeping, Xi Yuan Food Processing Factory, 9% stake in LVMH Group, Xi Yuan Lai Food Company, Ying Yuan Law Firm, 20% stake in Tito, Yi Shang Entertainment Company, Hengxin International Finance Building in Shanghai, Wealth Building, Housing x13, Shops x10…]
Gu Wanrong didn’t often check her status panel, but after her appearance attributes maxed out, she didn’t know where to add the free attribute points.
After reviewing everything, Gu Wanrong added one point each to her pitifully low Logical Thinking and Deductive Reasoning, raising her average intelligence from 1.8 to 2.2, and added another point to Verbal Expression.
“System, I’m not an idiot, why does my intelligence score look like that of a moron?” Gu Wanrong had previously focused on her appearance, only now shifting her attention to intelligence, finding it strange.
[The average intelligence level of Earthlings is generally between 1.5 and 3. Below 0.5 is what you would call intellectually deficient. The highest level of brain utilization currently achieved by humans is 6.5.]
“Ah, this…” Gu Wanrong fell silent. The system didn’t look favorably upon her alone.
But since the system said the highest average intelligence was 6.5, Gu Wanrong secretly noted that she shouldn’t add all her attribute points to intelligence in the future.
In the early morning, the sun rose in the east. The room with the curtains drawn was still dark.
Ring ring ring—
On the large bed in the hotel room, a section of slender, fair arm emerged from the covers, groping for the phone on the pillow to turn off the alarm, then remaining motionless. After a while, Gu Wanrong sleepily got up.
After a quick wash, Zhou Lihua, the hotel’s personal butler, pushed open the door with Gu Wanrong’s breakfast trolley. “Miss Gu, Mr. Tong is waiting for you at the door.”
Gu Wanrong instructed Zhou Lihua to bring Tong Shenyi in.
“Sit, have you had breakfast? If not, let’s eat together.” Gu Wanrong offered Tong Shenyi a glass of milk and gestured for him to sit.
“Thank you for your kindness, President Gu. I’ve already had breakfast.” Tong Shenyi sat opposite her, politely declining.
“Then I’ll eat first.” Since Tong Shenyi was waiting outside so early, he must have already eaten. Gu Wanrong was just being polite. “You took a flight to Shanghai in the middle of the night to find me. It’s really troublesome.”
Tong Shenyi said it wasn’t troublesome. After Gu Wanrong finished breakfast, they got down to business.
“President Gu, we talked about me working for your company in China, helping you manage your company’s business,” Tong Shenyi sat up straight. “If Lawyer Luo hadn’t reminded you, I wouldn’t have known you had other companies. President Gu, do you not need me to manage the companies you didn’t tell me about? If you do, you need to inform me of each one so I can manage them.”
Tong Shenyi spoke solemnly. Gu Wanrong nervously stared at the table. “I still have school, I can’t manage everything alone.”
She glanced at Tong Shenyi. “I now have Guang Le Housekeeping, Xi Yuan Food Processing Factory, 9% stake in LVMH Group, Xi Yuan Lai Food Company, Ying Yuan Law Firm, 20% stake in Tito, Yi Shang Entertainment Company, Hengxin International Finance Building in Shanghai, and Wealth Building.”
Gu Wanrong recited them like a list. Tong Shenyi took a deep breath. He didn’t expect there to be so many. “President Gu, given your current situation with multiple companies, I recommend forming a group.”
“Okay, okay.” Gu Wanrong readily agreed, thinking she might acquire more companies in the future. “I’ll continue to acquire other companies, so I’ll rely on you to manage them.”
