TRMP Chapter 104

“What are you envious of?” Jiang Yifeng looked into Hu Zhaocheng’s eyes again.

Hu Zhaocheng took a sip from his wine glass, a slightly dazed and melancholy expression on his face: “Of course, I’m envious of Teacher Jiang’s courage to love and hate. Most people don’t have that kind of courage.”

“Oh.” Jiang Yifeng didn’t quite understand what Hu Zhaocheng meant.

They had a rather dry meal. When they left, Hu Zhaocheng seemed to have had a bit too much to drink.

He wanted to support Jiang Yifeng’s shoulder, but Luo Qi intercepted him. Luo Qi smiled apologetically at Jiang Yifeng, then helped Hu Zhaocheng out: “President Hu, President Hu, your driver…”

“I told the driver to go back, no driver.”

“Then call your driver.”

Luo Qi hugged Hu Zhaocheng, half of his body collapsing onto him, and he couldn’t reach his phone on the other side.

Jiang Yifeng bent down and took out Hu Zhaocheng’s phone. He flipped through it and only saw a bunch of numbers without labels.

Jiang Yifeng could only call the number that had been dialed most often recently.

“Hello, is this President Hu’s driver? President Hu is drunk, can you come and pick him up?”

Jiang Yifeng finished speaking politely, and heard an exceptionally gloomy voice on the other end. “Jiang Yifeng?”

Jiang Yifeng didn’t expect it to be Gu Miao’s phone.

Rumor had it that Gu Miao and Hu Zhaocheng had broken up, but they were the ones who contacted each other the most.

“You’re having dinner with Hu Zhaocheng?” Gu Miao’s tone was low and cold, “I advise you to stay away from him.”

“…So can you contact President Hu’s driver and ask him to pick him up?” Jiang Yifeng planned to hang up the phone, abandon the person, and no longer have any contact with Hu Zhaocheng.

Gu Miao on the other end said sarcastically: “Hu Zhaocheng is not a good person, Jiang Yifeng, when you approach people, you must see clearly what kind of person they are. Stay away from him!”

“So, Mr. Gu, if you had come earlier, I could have stayed away from all of you sooner.” Jiang Yifeng quickly reported the address and hung up the phone.

He didn’t feel comfortable leaving Luo Qi alone, so he waited with Luo Qi.

Gu Miao didn’t know where he was, but he arrived at the restaurant very quickly, helped Hu Zhaocheng, and left.

Jiang Yifeng and Luo Qi also left the restaurant from another exit.

After this brief intersection, Jiang Yifeng continued filming as usual.

On the contrary, the news of Gu Miao arguing with Hu Zhaocheng was exposed, but it was just a small news item and didn’t cause much of a stir.

The perfume advertisement endorsed by Yang Yan was finally completed, and her social media homepage, which had not been updated for a long time, finally updated a promotional advertisement for the perfume.

Yang Yan’s few loyal fans ran around cheering, and even though the price of the perfume was relatively high compared to ordinary daily necessities, it still sold quite a bit.

After the fashion magazine that Yang Yan shot was published, it also successfully completed a promotion – people who like to read fashion magazines are often interested in everything related to fashion and are willing to spend money on it, and perfume is the most inconspicuous part of it.

Both marketing campaigns were successful, and in addition to the endorsement fee, the fashion resources were directly obtained through Long Li’s connections, and they had almost no additional expenses.

But it was still far from their goal.

When Jiang Yifeng called Long Li, the other party’s tone was somewhat uncertain and slow, and he didn’t even want to continue the research and development of the third perfume.

“Don’t worry, even a preliminary small-scale promotion can have hundreds of sales. If we gradually expand the advertising and online presence later, we will definitely be able to make the perfume famous…” Jiang Yifeng soothed Long Li’s emotions.

The money he invested had not been fully recovered, and the small company was still in a loss-making state, but Jiang Yifeng had completed the first step of setting the anchor point, and even Xie Jingshen could clearly feel that the pain was gradually decreasing.

But Long Li had a rare moment of conscience at this time.

“The money you invested hasn’t been recovered yet, there’s no need to keep insisting, right?”

“No, what we lack is just an opportunity. No perfume brand can sell out completely the first time it’s made.” Jiang Yifeng had learned about those perfume brands. Most of them started out by relying on the chemical manufacturing industry. The founders first made a name for themselves by relying on chemical companies and then independently created their own brands.

But they didn’t have that condition.

Moreover, Jiang Yifeng’s initial intention was not to spread the brand’s reputation when he instigated Long Li to make perfume.

“…Let’s see.” Long Li was obviously not very happy.

After Jiang Yifeng put down the phone, he hesitated and wondered if he should continue to pretend to be a big client.

However, he soon received unexpected news.

The sales of the perfume had actually ushered in a small peak period again.

Even though this time’s sales were not enough to earn back all the money invested before, it was still higher than the sales when the endorsement was first announced.

Jiang Yifeng searched online and found that someone had posted a photo of the perfume advertisement laid out on a certain popular internet street.

“Small niche perfume recommendation, Citrus Summer This perfume smells like a light citrus, with the freshness of summer soda, like the shy and sweet feeling of first love on campus~”

The advertisements laid out on the internet celebrity streets naturally attracted many internet celebrity buyers, and as natural promoters, they began to spontaneously write various copy recommendations for “unknown” “niche perfumes”. The more niche, the more fresh and sweet like the warmth of the sun, the more it could meet the preferences of internet celebrities.

Their perfume almost completely hit the point of internet communication, first a few people posted orders, and then more and more people.

Perfume is a niche product, but the light fragrance of the beginning is not pungent, but rather like the astringent taste containing a light sweetness left after just eating an orange.

In addition, Jiang Yifeng asked Long Li to use bilingual packaging, which created a foreign, niche, fresh, and sunny atmosphere.

So, in a situation that Jiang Yifeng didn’t even expect, that perfume actually exploded on the internet.

Sales gradually climbed.

The moment Jiang Yifeng saw the sales, he thought of Long Li.

However, Long Li took the lead in finding Jiang Yifeng to celebrate the victory.

“Although I don’t know how you did it…”

Long Li was almost incoherent on the phone.

He revealed to Jiang Yifeng the production ideas of the two new perfumes, and Jiang Yifeng nodded blankly.

Jiang Yifeng seemed to suddenly think of someone.

He put down the phone and went to Xie Jingshen. He had only called his name, and Xie Jingshen nodded.

“It’s me.”

He didn’t have to say anything, Xie Jingshen knew.

Jiang Yifeng’s eyes were full of smiles, but as he looked at them, his eyes filled with tears.

“Why are you crying…” Xie Jingshen wanted to poke Jiang Yifeng’s eyes, but Jiang Yifeng shook his head, and then sat properly with his hands on his knees and said softly: “I’m just very happy.”

“I used that shell company to do the marketing… I asked the marketing company to help analyze it, designed a marketing plan, and then placed the advertisement.” Xie Jingshen told Jiang Yifeng about all his actions, word for word: “Then I discovered that the worldviews, technology, and behaviors of the two worlds are almost identical.”

So the marketing methods he discussed in that world could succeed in Jiang Yifeng’s world.

“So…”

“I think we’ll be able to meet soon.” Xie Jingshen virtually bumped fists with Jiang Yifeng.

Jiang Yifeng nodded heavily.

After the perfume was a great success, Long Li finally had a goal to move forward.

Jiang Yifeng entrusted all matters to Long Li for handling, while he continued filming on set.

Hu Zhaocheng seemed to be quite interested in him, and Jiang Yifeng received several more tentative invitations, but they were all rejected by him.

However, rejection did not break Hu Zhaocheng’s enthusiasm.

Jiang Yifeng has now reached the point where he has to check whether new resources are related to Starlight Entertainment before taking them—that feeling of needing to be cautious made Jiang Yifeng feel particularly uncomfortable.

After Hu Zhaocheng’s repeated invitations and calls went unanswered, Jiang Yifeng received a message from an unknown phone number, asking him to talk in person.

Jiang Yifeng frowned, and he directly asked who it was.

“Gu Miao.”

Looking at those two words, Jiang Yifeng’s brows relaxed, he asked for the time and place, and then called Guan Shaodong and Luo Qi respectively.

After everything was arranged, Jiang Yifeng went to the place Gu Miao had arranged for the meeting.

The location Gu Miao arranged was a quiet small room. He lowered his eyes and poured a cup of tea, then raised his hand and handed it to Jiang Yifeng.

“If you have anything to say, just say it.”

Jiang Yifeng didn’t bother to be polite with Gu Miao—at the beginning, he didn’t even bother to pretend to be polite. The two of them had already broken up, so there was no need to pretend to be harmonious.

Gu Miao sneered, he put down the teacup and said directly: “Stay away from Hu Zhaocheng.”

“You should be the one advising him to stay away from me.” Jiang Yifeng looked straight at Gu Miao, and Gu Miao’s hand holding the teacup was trembling. He gritted his teeth, and the look in his eyes as he stared at Jiang Yifeng was filled with unfathomable resentment.

Jiang Yifeng was suddenly very curious.

He never remembered where he and Gu Miao had any grudges. Even if Gu Miao stole his role at the beginning, why was it Gu Miao who resented him?

“Besides you stealing the role of “The Condor Heroes” five years ago, do we have any other interactions?”

Jiang Yifeng really wanted to find out.

“No.” Gu Miao lowered his eyes.

His hands were shaking so badly, but after drinking a cup of tea, he put the cup down heavily.

“Jiang Yifeng.” Gu Miao held the cup and suppressedly said: “You didn’t do anything, but you made me so miserable.”

Jiang Yifeng: “?”

Gu Miao stared at Jiang Yifeng and slowly said: “You don’t need to do anything, just because you look good you can get roles, but I still need to… be with Hu Zhaocheng to get roles, and I have to be careful to prevent you from retaliating.”

As soon as Gu Miao mentioned Hu Zhaocheng, his expression became very strange.

He seemed to hate Hu Zhaocheng to the extreme, and he also seemed to love Hu Zhaocheng to the extreme.

“Do you guess why he keeps pestering you? We were dating back then, and I wasn’t willing to publicly admit that I had a lover, and that’s how it turned out.” Gu Miao looked at the water ripples in the glass: “And you just happen to be willing to admit it, you also like men.”

He needed to rely on clinging to a sugar daddy to snatch the role that originally belonged to Jiang Yifeng, and the one he was clinging to was Hu Zhaocheng. At first, Hu Zhaocheng was a good sugar daddy. After Gu Miao snatched the role, he also asked him to help snipe Jiang Yifeng’s other resources, and Hu Zhaocheng did everything.

When Hu Zhaocheng first entered the entertainment circle, he was also considered a newbie. As he got along with Gu Miao, he really developed feelings for him.

However, as time went by, Gu Miao realized that that year of sweet time was like a thorn stuck in his heart.

As long as he thought back to his past with Hu Zhaocheng, and then looked at Hu Zhaocheng now, he felt that the love and hate that had taken root pierced his heart.

He hated Jiang Yifeng.

If only he hadn’t met Hu Zhaocheng, they wouldn’t have ended up like this. Maybe he would have married and had children in the future, instead of struggling in that muddy relationship with a piece of scum.