Chapter 048 After the Heavy Snow
Half a month passed quickly and "White Tower" premiered on January 6. Starring Kim Myung-min, Lee Sun-kyun, Song Sun-mi and newcomer Jang Ja-yeon, the drama won 12.2% viewership rating in the first episode. Although the second episode dropped by 0.5 percentage points, the online reviews were still good.
Zhang Ziyan, who debuted as a newcomer, also showed an unexpected side. Although she was not perfect, she looked very spiritual during the filming. Although An Panshi didn't want to admit it, he didn't expect Zhang Ziyan to be a new actor with a unique temperament. Acting is 30% talent and 70% hard work to achieve perfection, but there are many actors who have amazing acting skills, but only a few of them can become the leading actors.
Excluding acting issues, there are generally three reasons. The first is appearance. Although it is embarrassing, the mainstream of the entertainment industry is to look at the face.
The second is that there is no personal temperament. The iceberg temperament of a beautiful woman, the villain temperament of an ugly man, and the elegant classical temperament. Although it sounds mysterious, based on the appearance, personality, and some small habits in daily life, you will naturally feel the personal temperament after more contact.
Just like Zheng Xiuheng, although he is not an actor, after spending these days together, Li Jae-won keenly discovered that Zheng Xiuheng is a very indifferent person to some extent. Except for the things he really cares about, everything else is something that can just flow through him.
In the company, although Zheng Xiuheng occasionally ate with everyone, even old employees like Huang Chenghu would have a vague feeling that Zheng Xiuheng was difficult to approach, and at the same time would have a strange idea that Zheng Xiuheng was superior to themselves. This could be considered the influence of certain temperaments.
The third reason is because of personal temperament. Some girls are obviously pretty, very cute when they don't speak, and they smile very sweetly, but when they really act, they only need to glare at each other and the temperament of a bad boy or a bad girl will emerge.
Therefore, in Korean dramas, you can often see that the second female lead’s acting skills are much better than the first female lead, but no matter how many dramas she acts in, the second female lead is still the second female lead.
In other words, just like a stereotyped actor, someone who has been playing villains for a long time is naturally suitable for playing villains, and the same goes for someone who has been playing evil men and women for a long time.
Jang Ja-yeon also has her own temperament, although it does not match this drama. Although An Panshi's character is not very good, the director's vision is still there. He discovered her specialness at a glance, but he did not say anything. After all, this actress was allowed into the crew because she was threatened, so it is of course impossible to say that he has a good impression of her.
But the important thing now is to make the show well.
Zheng Xiuheng has nothing to do with this. Zhang Ziyan's company arranged Lin Zaiyou to be her assistant. Although this shark-headed guy looks fierce, he is not a brat like Lin Dazhong who likes to coax women.
In fact, what surprised Zheng Xiuheng was that Lin Zaiyou, who was two years younger than him, already had a two-year-old daughter and a girlfriend of the same age.
Both of them are from Busan and were junior high school classmates. They had been in love for three years. One day, they accidentally got pregnant. The girl wanted to give birth to the child, and Lin Zaiyou agreed. However, after both families knew about this, they angrily stopped the two and insisted that they break up and abort the child.
Finally, the two eloped.
It sounds magical, but the reality is that the two did not return home until the child was born, but both parents angrily drove them out. Although their mothers helped them secretly, both mothers were typical Korean housewives and were powerless...
Lin Zaiyou got angry and brought his girlfriend to Seoul. Then he went from working as a part-time worker to hanging out with gangsters in order to earn some money for milk powder. Like Zheng Xiuheng, Lin Zaiyou was willing to do anything and dared to do anything.
Zheng Xiuheng was very relieved to let him be Zhang Ziyan's assistant. As for the agent, Zhang Ziyan didn't need it yet, so she could just let Li Zaiyuan play a cameo role. In fact, it's better to say that he is a bodyguard than an assistant. Now Zhang Ziyan basically does everything herself except carrying the bag.
Although the company has been established, this entertainment company now does not even have an office space and is a complete empty shell.
But no matter what, Jang Ja-yeon will get money for playing the second female lead.
In South Korea, TV actors generally accept roles according to 18 levels of "production fee payment standards". Among them, the pay for child actors is from level 1 to level 5, and the pay for adult actors is from level 6 to level 18. The basic pay for level 18 is 140,000 won per ten minutes. The pay for level 6 is only 33,000 won per ten minutes. Depending on the type of TV series they star in, actors can receive a subsidy of up to 80% of their pay.
Of course, this refers to ordinary actors. If you change it to actors like Bae Yong-joon and Park Shin-yang, who can earn over 100 million yuan for one episode, they are certainly not included. Even the ordinary leading actors will not be paid like this.
However, Zhang Ziyan is actually higher than the 18th-level actress, firstly because An Panshi is a little worried, and secondly because she is indeed the second female lead after all.
Therefore, the highest standard plus the role subsidy brings the total salary subsidy to 750,000 per ten minutes. This may seem like a lot for a new actress, but judging by the amount of scenes she has, not every episode has ten minutes of scenes.
In total, there are about 18 ten-minute episodes in a 20-episode TV series, and MBC will pay 13.5 million in the end. Of course, this is the money that will be paid in full after the filming is completed, but Li Zaiyuan and others are also a little excited. They didn't expect that Zheng Xiuheng would make so much money by helping Zhang Ziyan.
Although it is unknown how much Zheng Xiuheng will give Zhang Ziyan, it is estimated that it will not be too much. Li Zaiyuan now has some understanding of Zheng Xiuheng, and Zheng Xiuheng is in urgent need of funds.
"I've washed the clothes, prepared the food and put it in the refrigerator. I'm going to the crew first!"
Zheng Xiuheng looked at Zhang Ziyan who spoke carefully and then slowly left the room without saying a word. Zhang Ziyan was also a little disappointed. She didn't understand what she was in Zheng Xiuheng's eyes. It didn't mean that she was in love with Zheng Xiuheng. It was because Zhang Ziyan lacked everything now, whether it was a sense of security, money, future, or even thinking ability.
She was very afraid that Zheng Xiuheng would abandon her one day. Although she was a little confused now, at least she felt that she had someone she could rely on.
After bringing Jang Ja-yeon back to the company on the first day, he originally wanted to let her go home first, but he heard her say that she had nowhere to go after leaving Kim Seung-hoon's company, and her previous company was mortgaged to the bank because of her parents' debts, and she didn't even have 10,000 yuan on her.
Zheng Xiuheng was helpless and could only keep her at home for one day, but he couldn't keep this woman for long. After all, he didn't know when Xiujing would come over, and there was also the little snowball who often came over. Thinking of Shuijing's jealous character, Zheng Xiuheng found a room for her the next day, which happened to be downstairs. However, Zheng Xiuheng didn't know that the room was exactly where Lee Hyo-ri lived a few days ago.
There is not much the company can do now except collecting information. The micro-loan business is underway. Two loans were made in half a month, one for 30 million and one for 28 million. The repayment period is one month for both loans, and the interest rate is 3%. Because the procedures are simple and the money can be received on the same day after a simple review, although the interest rate is relatively high, it is understandable.
Generally speaking, lending money in this way is definitely risky, but in fact, for these two accounts, the other party's information was first collected through various means, and then intervened in other ways.
There was nothing special about other aspects, but when Huang Chenghu sent people to monitor the senior management of SM, he accidentally found that several former presidents and current directors were very close. Once he followed two of them to a bar, and saw that they had drunk a lot of wine and chatted boldly, so he approached to eavesdrop and actually heard some news.
The current president of SM wants to give several trainees to the former president, and is even preparing to take away a member of a group that is preparing to debut. This makes Zheng Xiuheng concerned, because his sister is also among them.
Jang Ja-yeon left for a while, and Jung Soo-heng also went to the company.
However, Zheng Xiuheng came to the company today not for this matter. Originally, Zheng Xiuheng would not go to the company on weekends, but Jin Guanglu called and said that Lin Chengyan came again and asked to see him specifically, saying that he had something important to discuss with him, so Zheng Xiuheng went.
Tongque District is still very prosperous because it is close to Jiangnan, but this is not Jiangnan after all. It is precisely because of this that we can see some larger citizen parks. If it were in Jiangnan, even the government would not be so extravagant as to build such a park.
In the Citizen Park on Baihua Road, colorful graffiti can be seen everywhere on the walls, lamp posts, and benches. This is a holy place where rebellious young people gather, especially the hip-hop culture is very strong. Street competitions are often held here, ranging from dance to street basketball, and even rap duels.
However, after entering winter, there are fewer people here.
After the heavy snow, the air in Seoul was cold, but it had been ten days and there was no snow on the ground. The silver-white world seemed to have disappeared, and the city once again had a decaying steel atmosphere.
At this moment, in the basketball court on the south side of the park, a group of people are gathered together to watch the excitement. The mentality of onlookers is common in many countries.
After about twenty minutes of music, these people slowly dispersed, leaving only two girls and a tape recorder.
"Senior Kim Hyoyeon, do you have the talent to compete in singing?"
"Tsk, Kim Hyun-ah, you're not necessarily better than me at singing. Besides, you're about to debut, so you should just hold back a little bit!"
Some people just don't get along with each other. It can't be said that they hate each other, but it's just because they have different positions. In addition, they are all focused on the same field, so of course there will be opportunities for contact.
