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Chapter 40 - 38: Truly Fragrant

Chapter 40: Chapter 38: Truly Fragrant

Wu Li returned the gesture to the other party.

The young man touched his head with some embarrassment and pointed at the chair, "May I sit down?"

"Of course," Wu Li nodded. He felt that this chairman was perhaps too polite, almost suspiciously so.

"This is my business card," the man said, handing it over with both hands.

Wu Li took it and read:

Bo Yuan Media Culture Co., Ltd. Chairman, Liu Yuanbo.

Nowadays, eight out of ten business cards were for general managers, so Wu Li was skeptical about Liu Yuanbo’s position as chairman, especially since he looked too young.

"Mr. Wu, our Bo Yuan Company is also working on social media operations. I watched your live stream and your match with Ren Donglai online, and I think you have great potential, so I hope you can sign a contract with our company!" Liu Yuanbo said earnestly.

Wu Li: "Uh, Mr. Liu, I’m not very familiar with your company."

Liu Yuanbo quickly nodded, "Right right, I forgot to introduce it."

Wu Li was speechless, feeling increasingly that the other party was unreliable.

"This is the thing, our company was previously involved in fitness and fighting, and this year we plan to enter Mo Yin to expand the company’s influence through online broadcasting, so we need to sign some influential social media figures, preferably those related to fitness or fighting," Liu Yuanbo explained.

Fitness? Fighting? Wu Li was baffled. This had nothing to do with MCNs. It seemed that the other party was just a ’novice’ looking for help.

"I’m sorry, I don’t think your company is a good fit for me," Wu Li said, outright rejecting the offer.

Liu Yuanbo, looking a bit anxious, quickly asked, "Is there something unsatisfactory? You can tell me directly any requirements you have!"

Wu Li: "Then I’ll be straightforward. I expect that a company I sign with can help me further increase my popularity online, but your company is still new to this field, which probably won’t offer much help."

"Mr. Wu, we are very sincere..."

"That doesn’t work either," Wu Li interrupted him, standing up to leave, feeling that this guy was too unreliable.

Liu Yuanbo: "But our company has several official accounts on Mo Yin. Together, they have over 20 million followers. Could that help you?"

Wu Li: "???"

"Doesn’t that work?" Liu Yuanbo asked, looking somewhat embarrassed.

"Uh." Wu Li sat back down, "Well, that could work. Can I see your company’s official accounts?"

"Of course," Liu Yuanbo told Wu Li the account names.

Wu Li opened Mo Yin and searched for these accounts. One was ’Qi City Bo Yuan Fitness Club’ with 5.8 million followers; there was also ’Ning City Bo Yuan Fitness Club’ with 4.23 million followers and ’Fengdu Bo Yuan Fitness Club’ with 2.17 million followers...

Other than Qi City, there were accounts prefixed by other cities, totaling four, and there was also an account named ’Qi City Bo Yuan Boxing Gym’, though it only had 130,000 followers. Together, these six accounts indeed had over 20 million followers.

"Who would have thought, is this some kind of cross-city conglomerate?" Wu Li was surprised. He casually clicked on a fitness club’s account and found that the covers of dozens of posts were all beautiful girls!

Wu Li clicked on one of the posts and saw a video of a gorgeous girl in tight clothing working out. Scrolling down, there was another beautiful girl working out, and yet another down the line... They all shared the common feature of having attractive figures.

Wu Li began to understand why the fitness club accounts had so many followers.

"Mr. Wu, what do you think? If our company’s accounts help promote you online, that should be of help to you?" Liu Yuanbo asked hopefully.

Wu Li nodded and silently followed these accounts.

"That could help me, but how do you plan to use these accounts to assist me?"

Liu Yuanbo said without hesitation, "We can share your videos, have our star trainers make videos with you, interact during live streams, and all our accounts can upload videos to promote you."

"Mhm," Wu Li nodded. This indeed covered a full range of self-promotion, but compared to larger companies, it would still lack in promotional power.

Sensing that Wu Li was still not completely satisfied, Liu Yuanbo said, "We can keep promoting you online until you are satisfied!"

"Until I am satisfied?" Wu Li was taken aback, "Do I get to decide that?"

Liu Yuanbo: "Of course!"

Tsk, no need for further negotiations on that autonomy.

Wu Li was somewhat swayed by the other’s attitude, but he still hesitated since his current situation was quite awkward.

If he were just a newcomer, Liu Yuanbo’s company could rapidly advance his career, but unfortunately, his popularity was stagnating in the middle, and Liu Yuanbo’s company might not take him to the next level.

Simply put, if he signed with a big company like Lemon Culture, Wu Li was 80% sure that his popularity could climb a notch in a short period, but with a small company, this probability would decrease.

Despite just having defeated Ren Donglai and being in a favorable position on Mo Yin, once the hype died down, Wu Li’s popularity could quickly decline, from millions of followers to potentially just a few hundred in his live sessions.

Being famous for a moment is easy, staying famous is difficult.

Having talent doesn’t guarantee fame; the world is full of unsung talents.

To become famous, you need opportunities, luck, and capital support. Wu Li just wanted to publicly challenge Ren Donglai and it took so much effort; in the end, he still relied on someone else’s help to get the chance. Could he guarantee that he could continue to stay famous this way?

Thus, Wu Li had to be cautious, seizing the current opportunity and pushing further while he’s trending!

"Thank you, President Liu, I’ll think about it more," said Wu Li, planning to see if there were better companies that could offer him autonomy while also helping him more effectively.

Liu Yuanbo was anxious, "Mr. Wu, I know our company isn’t as helpful as some professional MCN companies online, but I can compensate you in other ways."

"Other ways?" Wu Li asked, puzzled.

"Yes," Liu Yuanbo nodded, "We haven’t discussed the compensation yet, have we?"

Wu Li: "Well, actually, about the money, I’m not really..."

Liu Yuanbo: "As soon as Mr. Wu signs with our company, we’ll give you a two-million signing bonus."

Wu Li: "???"

Unless one is already a famous artist or a well-known influencer, signing with an MCN company usually doesn’t come with a signing bonus. At most, there might be a base salary and then it’s all about revenue share.

For someone like Wu Li, who already had over four million followers before signing, there might be a signing bonus with some smaller companies but definitely not as exaggerated as two million.

To put it bluntly, Wu Li’s account monetization might not even be worth two million.

Wu Li: "President Liu, this..."

Liu Yuanbo: "A revenue share split of thirty-seventy. We take thirty percent, and you take seventy."

Wu Li: "This..."

Liu Yuanbo: "Additionally, I plan to allocate another two million as your promotion budget, all to be invested in Mo Yin to promote your personal account."

Wu Li: "..."

If Liu Yuanbo wasn’t joking, it meant he was investing four million in Wu Li without him even starting; considering Ren Donglai’s peak monthly earnings were only about two hundred thousand and those couldn’t be guaranteed for a year, pouring four million into Wu Li was a huge risk, especially with a revenue share where he only took thirty percent.

"Does this guy’s family own a mine?" Wu Li mumbled to himself.

Seeing that Wu Li still hadn’t spoken, Liu Yuanbo bit the bullet: "Lastly, I can personally offer you five percent of the shares in Bo Yuan Boxing Gym."

Wu Li: "!!!"

"President Liu, are you sure you’re not joking?" Wu Li was shocked. It was the first time he heard about getting shares through signing with a company, although it was only shares of the boxing gym.

Liu Yuanbo shook his head, "Of course I’m not joking, but I have a condition."

Wu Li tensed up, "What?"

Liu Yuanbo suddenly seemed a bit embarrassed, scratching his nose: "That is, you’d be a coach at Bo Yuan Boxing Gym, and also, you’d take me as your disciple!"

Wu Li: "???"

Damn, this feels like a dream... Wu Li felt a bit dizzy.

"Actually, I really like Traditional Martial Arts too, and I’ve looked for many masters in Practicing Traditional Martial Arts, but none could defeat my gym’s coaches, until I met you. That fight you had with Ren Donglai was the first time I’ve ever seen Traditional Martial Arts defeat modern combat sports in the ring! It was so cool! So impressive!"

Liu Yuanbo said excitedly, gesturing wildly, not looking at all like the chairman of a company, but more like a starstruck young man.

"So Mr. Wu, do you want to sign with our company?" Liu Yuanbo asked eagerly.

Wu Li took the opportunity to search for Bo Yuan Boxing Gym online while Liu Yuanbo was talking.

The gym had three branches in Qi City with over a thousand members listed on their official website, and the cheapest annual membership card was priced at 5999. Wu Li roughly estimated that Bo Yuan Boxing Gym could be making millions in profits each year. By owning five percent of the shares, he could passively make tens of thousands every year, and this was definitely more sustainable than being an internet celebrity.

No matter how famous, in other people’s eyes, one is just an influencer, but having one’s own business changes one’s social status entirely.

And it’s not just about the money – after all, with the system, Wu Li wouldn’t lack money. The key was having the shares; it would broaden Wu Li’s path, allowing him to leap directly into the combat sports industry without starting from scratch.

In simple terms, he could skip the initial accumulation phase, saving a lot of time because many things can’t be resolved just with money, or if they can, they require a lot of time.

"President Liu, no, Yuan Bo, actually the shares don’t matter, what I really like is having you as a disciple!"

Wu Li stood up, grasped Liu Yuanbo’s hand earnestly, and spoke sincerely.

(Sorry for being late today. The protagonist won’t just keep live broadcasting and being an internet celebrity; his scope will be much larger. This marks the start of his strategic planning.)

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