The Counterattack Plan of A Villain With Ten Thousand Fans - Chapter 108

Chapter 108

The next day, Ling Chunann woke up feeling sore and stiff, glancing at the man's enthusiastic state. With a decisive move, he pushed away the large hand that was massaging him, "Don't touch me for at least a week."

"Okay." Fu Xianzhi replied straightforwardly, then smiled shyly, "Darling, let me massage you. Are you tired?"

Seeing the man no longer insisting, Ling Chunann relaxed and leaned against his thigh, "Here, and here."

"Host, while you were asleep, your editor has already negotiated with Director Chu Yu about switching companies. Your reversal value has now reached 80%." 098 reported as Ling Chunann settled down.

"I know, he's always efficient."

"However, he used your novel to lure Director Chu Yu. It's all thanks to you." 

"No matter what method he used, as long as the goal is achieved, I don't care about the process."

Soon after, Ling Chunann's communicator buzzed, and he glanced at the name before initiating the video call.

The next moment, Li Yi's virtual image appeared in the room.

Seemingly surprised that Ling Chunann had actually accepted the call, Li Yi looked a bit flustered, with wet hair and a colorful towel draped over his head, "L-Ling, Ling Chunann."

Raising himself up from Fu Xianzhi's embrace, Ling Chunann asked, "What's the matter?"

Fu Xianzhi nodded to Li Yi in greeting before giving Ling Chunann a peck on the corner of his mouth, "Darling, I'll bring you some porridge."

As soon as Fu Xianzhi left the room, Li Yi finally regained his composure. He instinctively removed the towel from his head and offered a polite yet awkward smile, "Good morning."

"Morning." Ling Chunann nodded.

Glancing at the clock, which read two thirty in the afternoon, 098 remained silent.

Ling Chunann took the lead, "What's the matter?"

Li Yi finally calmed down and cleared his throat, "I've completed the task you assigned me yesterday. Director Chu Yu has agreed to leave the Mu Group and join Tianyuan Entertainment. We can arrange to sign the copyright contract now. As for the profit sharing, since you didn't charge any copyright fees, our company is willing to pay you 35% of the gross profit later."

"How much is Chu Yu getting?"

"25%." Li Yi instinctively replied, then realized his slip of the tongue and blushed, "Sorry, 35% is the maximum our company can offer now. The film industry is too unpredictable. Chu Yu's last film only had a gross profit of 15 billion credits, calculated from his best performance. After deducting 60% and all the investments, the company's profit is less than 10%."

"Host, what he's saying is true." 098 provided the result. "If you want to invite good actors, you may need to share the profits. So, Tianyuan Entertainment's profit should be around 5%, and if the movie fails, they may lose everything. However, the likelihood of that happening is almost negligible."

With the popularity of Ling Chunann's novel, even if the movie isn't well-made, countless fans would be willing to pay, especially with a renowned director like Chu Yu. So, the outcome can only be good or better, which is also why Tianyuan Entertainment is willing to take the risk.

Ling Chunann continued, "Is the initial investment enough?"

"Because it's a new genre and has a grand setting, we estimate an investment of 500 million credits. Currently, Tianyuan Entertainment only has 200 million in liquid assets. Chu Yu is willing to invest 100 million, so we're still short by 200 million." Li Yi's eyes showed a hint of gratitude. He didn't expect Ling Chunann to agree to switch companies and even volunteered to invest, so he agreed to give him 25% of the profit.

"I'll invest the additional 200 million, no need to increase the profit sharing." Ling Chunann said.

"This..." Li Yi looked at Ling Chunann in disbelief. He knew how much money Ling Chunann had made over the years, at most only seven or eight hundred million, far from two billion.

But Ling Chunann didn't explain much, "But I need your help with something."

"What is it?" Li Yi asked.

After arranging the signing time with Li Yi, Ling Chunann ended the call.

098 carefully checked the amount in Ling Chunann's account, "Host, including all the money from the Mu family, you only have 100 million credits. What about the other 100 million?" Then 098 thought of Fu Xianzhi, who could come up with money at any time. Is the host planning to ask the man for money this time?

"Don't worry, I have a way." Ling Chunann reassured the system, then added, "I'm not asking Fu Xianzhi for money."

"..." Is the host planning to rob a bank?

Ignoring 098's childish speculation, Ling Chunann stretched lazily and then headed downstairs.

Ever since the humiliating encounter with Chu Yu and the subsequent lack of progress due to failing to complete the system-assigned task, Ye Chufeng's temper had become extremely volatile. Not only that, he had also vented his anger on Dongfang Ying, blaming her for botching the conversation. Dongfang Ying, originally a spoiled young lady, couldn't bear his inexplicable temper and stormed out, slamming her bag on Ye Chufeng's head before leaving for good.

Thus, the two parted ways.

"Task to remedy: New film's box office reaches 20 billion."

Staring at the task, Ye Chufeng took a deep breath, his eyes reddening. Then he thought of Mu Linke. Although they hadn't met since the quarantine, neither had mentioned a breakup. Mu Linke was the daughter of the Mu family's patriarch, deeply cherished. With her help, he wasn't worried about Chu Yu refusing to sign with him.

Deciding to act, Ye Chufeng quickly opened his communicator and found Mu Linke's contact information.

Three seconds later, his expression darkened. "This woman actually blocked me."

But Ye Chufeng wasn't one to give up easily. He decided to go to the Mu family himself.

As Ye Chufeng had been too preoccupied with throwing tantrums in recent days and hadn't paid attention to current events, he was unaware that Chu Yu was currently in the process of leaving the Mu Group and signing with Tianyuan Entertainment. Today was the exact day Chu Yu left the Mu Group and signed with Tianyuan Entertainment, so his trip was destined to be in vain.

"Host, the male lead has gone to the Mu family, seemingly to intimidate Director Chu Yu with their help. However, after making him wait for three hours, the head of the Mu family kicked him out," 098 reported. "Mu Linke is pregnant. It was discovered at the last minute that she also has the same hereditary disease as you, so she didn't terminate the pregnancy. The child is the male lead's."

"...As expected of the male lead. Check if Dongfang Ying is pregnant," Ling Chunann said, somewhat surprised.

"If you invite me out and don't speak, I'm busy. If there's nothing else, I'm leaving." Mu Linke, who had been ignored, showed a slightly annoyed expression, set down her cup, and got up to leave.

The two had arranged to meet at a high-end tea house. Although Mu Linke appeared reluctant, she arrived on time. Ling Chunann wasn't surprised by this. Seeing her about to leave, he stopped her. "Wait."

Mu Linke was not a protagonist or an important supporting character, so apart from a few conflicts with the male lead, she was rarely mentioned in the text. Without Ling Chunann's instruction, 098 didn't know what she had done, nor was it interested. All it knew was that she had shown a bad attitude toward Ling Chunann since their first meeting, and now, acting so arrogantly, she was simply annoying. It didn't understand why the host would even remember her.

What's more surprising was that Fu Xianzhi, who usually clung to Ling Chunann, didn't accompany him this time. What made him trust this woman so much? What if the host, with his small stature, gets beaten up by this rude woman?

098 didn't know, but that didn't mean Ling Chunann didn't know. The reason Mu Linke wasn't surprised by Ling Chunann's current appearance and why no one, including the media, had found Ling Chunann's whereabouts yet, was because she had been keeping an eye on him all this time. And when Ling Chunann was discharged from the hospital, it wasn't at the behest of the head of the Mu family, but rather this Miss Mu, who did it. Even her appearance at the hospital that day wasn't a coincidence.

Even the kind landlord who had helped Mu Linke out of a tight spot years ago was hired by Mu Linke as an actor. The original owner of the house was named Mu Linke.

All this information came from Fu Xianzhi. As a robot companion, they had a certain degree of compatibility, so Ling Chunann could directly receive information sent by Fu Xianzhi.

Fu Xianzhi had thoroughly investigated the Mu family. It was a large family, cold-hearted, with the previous generation fighting tooth and nail for their own interests. Perhaps because the competition was too fierce back then, there weren't many children in this generation—only three: Mu Linke, Mu Linjia, and Mu Linke.

Originally, as the only boy, Mu Linke should have been the apple of the Mu family's eye. But unfortunately, he had an incurable hereditary disease and had been abandoned by the family patriarch. What kind of treatment could a child abandoned by a large family expect? Even the children of the Pang family could easily trample him underfoot.

This was Mu Lin

ke's life in the first ten years.

If there was any warmth in Mu Linke's life in the Mu family, it was Mu Linjia. Although Mu Linjia seemed to bully him on the surface, every time she appeared in her elder sister's guise, all the children who bullied Mu Linke would stop. It was just that Mu Linjia never showed Mu Linke a good face, so Mu Linke never knew that his second sister had always been looking out for him.

But Mu Linke couldn't see it, while Ling Chunann could easily piece together the cause and effect from his memories. After Mu Linjia helped Mu Linke for the first time, although it was effective at the time, shortly after, she found that he was being bullied even more severely, to the point where he was almost thrown into the pond to drown. So after pulling him out, she changed her approach and resorted to covert threats. That was why, in the end, only Mu Linke was occasionally bullied by Mu Linjia.

Regardless of appearances, Mu Linke's actions were enough to prove that she was a good sister.

But she still didn't know that the brother she had protected for more than twenty years had died in that man-made disaster. Sitting in front of her was a tasker, so she remained the same as before.

Ling Chunann didn't mind. After all, his current role was her younger brother.

Mu Linke sat back down, her gaze pausing on Ling Chunann's now exceptionally handsome face for a moment, her expression somewhat impatient. "What's the matter?"

"Sister, I asked you to come here to discuss something," Ling Chunann said.

Mu Linke dropped the cup in shock, the glass making a crisp sound as it hit the floor, but she didn't seem to notice. "Wh-what did you call me?"

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