Chapter 179 Have you thought it through?

"Oh, hello, I'm Li Qiuyue. Please come in quickly. Your uncle is cooking now and it will be ready soon."

Following Sunny and Goo Hara's self-introductions, Li Qiuyue was stunned for a moment, then quickly reacted and quickly invited the three people standing at the door to come in.

However, her eyes were still looking up and down at Sunny and Goo Hara, unable to hide her curiosity and inner shock.

"Well, these two aren't as tall as Shirley from last time."

"But she has a really nice figure!"

"Just a little too thin."

"You need to eat more to replenish your body."

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"But why would such a beautiful girl like Huang Xu?"

"And I will be with Huang Xu at the same time."

"You didn't find anything special about Huang Xu?"

"Is it because he has money?"

"Then we need to remind him to pay attention."

At this moment, Li Qiuyue's mind was busy. Not only was she curious about Sunny and the other girl, she was also shocked that Huang Xu brought two girlfriends to her house.

However, these were not said out loud, but in my heart, I kept making various guesses.

After all, he is a middle-aged man with decades of life experience. Although he was very shocked by this incident and wanted to ask Huang Xu what was going on, he did not lose his composure.

Just as Li Qiuyue invited the three people into her home, James was in a private room on the second floor of a bar in Itaewon, not far from their apartment, waiting for guests to arrive.

It had been more than ten days since he arrived in Seoul. Except for the first two or three days, he had not been to Korea for a long time and was a little shocked by the rapid development of Seoul.

Then I slowly regained my familiarity with Seoul.

After all, I served in Seoul for three years, although I served here in the early 2000s, so a long time has passed.

But it only took him two or three days to regain the feeling of serving in the army and become familiar with Seoul again.

And he has been to this bar several times.

So he seemed very comfortable now, even though he was alone here, he was not in a hurry at all. Instead, he stood in front of the one-way glass, looking down. It was only six or seven o'clock, but there were already many people dancing on the dance floor, feeling the drunken nightclub.

At this moment, the bartender came in with a few slightly sturdy figures, and after coming in, they came directly to his side and put their hands on his shoulders.

"Hey, James, is there a pretty girl you like?"

"No, it's too early now. High-quality beauties will have to wait for a while before they appear."

James didn't even turn his head and directly commented on the crowd below, just like he did more than a decade ago when they were still soldiers.

After saying that, he turned around, hugged the visitor back to the sofa, waved to the waiter to bring two more boxes of wine, and asked the waiter to call over a few more girls to accompany the drinks.

However, his behavior seemed very magnanimous and generous, which made these people look at him in slight surprise.

However, most of them were just slightly surprised and did not take any other actions.

But there were also people who acted interested in his boldness, as if they were meeting him for the first time.

After the waiter left, he sat next to him, pulled him aside and asked in a low voice:

"James, are you rich?"

"How to say?"

"This is already the third time you've treated us to a meal, and you treated us to a meal and drinks before, but you didn't spend a lot of money. You must have become rich, how can you be so rich?"

Seeing that James refused to admit it, the visitor simply told him everything he had done during this period of time.

He also had a certain understanding of James' past situation. If he had not suddenly become rich, he would not have had so much money and spent it like that.

Although American soldiers receive generous pensions and various benefits after retirement.

But that's just on the surface.

In fact, the real American veterans live a very ordinary life in the United States. After retiring, quite a number of soldiers can only do temporary work or jobs that do not require any technical skills due to various reasons.

This also results in their income being generally not very high.

There are even quite a number of people who, for various reasons, are unable to adapt to modern America after retirement, and eventually go bankrupt and become scavengers.

In addition, they had served together in the past. Although they had no contact in the few years after retiring, they had some mutual acquaintances and had talked about some of James's situation. Therefore, he knew that James' life was not as good as he had imagined.

Especially in the past two years, I heard that James started to borrow money from friends because his daughter was ill?
As a result, James, who seemed to be not poor but not well-off, could actually spend money so lavishly to treat guests. Naturally, he had some guesses.

When James saw the other party's reaction, he began to feel ecstatic.

"Finally he took the bait."

However, although he sighed in his heart, he did not show it on the outside. Instead, he waved his hand nonchalantly.

"I'm not getting rich, I just wanted to celebrate with you guys."

Then he started to greet the people in the private room and began to select the beauties who followed the bartender in.

Then he led the people in the private room and started a life of drunkenness and debauchery.

However, compared to the happiness of other people, James at this time was not so unscrupulous. Instead, he was always paying attention to his alcohol intake.

After a few hours, although James was able to control himself, after a few hours of madness, he looked exactly like those drunkards and even walked unsteadily.

But in his eyes, there was still a trace of clarity.

I watched as several men hugged a beautiful woman each, and then they parted at the door of the bar.

However, after seeing several people disappear one after another, James took out the tip and handed it to the beautiful woman who was serving wine, and then let her leave.

James returned to his residence alone. As soon as he entered the door, he went straight to the bathroom, and then he heard bursts of vomiting sounds.

After a few minutes, when James came out, his eyes were no longer blurry, but had regained clarity.

Then he took out his cell phone, found Huang Xu's account, sent a message saying "the fish has been hooked", then took out some ice water from the refrigerator and slowly waited for Huang Xu's reply.

He didn't even have to wait for a few minutes before he received a call from Huang Xu.

"Took the bait?"

"Yeah, I took the bait."

"Okay then. Thank you for your hard work. Now it depends on when he will come to see you."

"Don't worry, Boss. From what I know about him, it shouldn't take long."

"I understand. Just wait patiently. By the way, is the money I gave you enough now?"

"It's enough, please rest assured."

"Okay, then I'll wait for your good news." Huang Xu said and hung up the phone.

Sunny, who had just returned from her uncle's house with Huang Xu, looked at Huang Xu with concern after seeing Huang Xu hang up the phone.

"Is it done?"

"Okay, the fish has been hooked, let's see how to talk about it next."

"That's good."

Sunny looked at Huang Xu's happy expression and nodded with satisfaction, but then she remembered something and frowned.

"Is there still no news over there?"

"No ah."

When Huang Xu heard what Sunny said, he became a little worried and the happy expression on his face disappeared immediately.

If the progress here is quite encouraging, the progress on the other side is not so fast.

Even Kim Tae-woo's report two days ago was still the same as when they first met. He still didn't get to know everything clearly and couldn't be sure of their thoughts and purposes.

Therefore, Huang Xu still has no idea whether this plan can be implemented.

Who made Kim Kwang-soo seek financing from CJ Group now?

For ordinary people, these little tricks he has now can be said to be no problem.

Even a veteran like Kim Kwang-soo who has been in the Korean entertainment industry for decades can bluff him directly without any problems.

But the current situation is somewhat unusual.

That’s Seagate, one of Korea’s top chaebols.

If something they like is stolen, they will definitely need to investigate it thoroughly.

However, the simple white glove that Huang Xu prepared for James could not withstand the investigation of these people.

This is also the reason why Huang Xu is so cautious.

Otherwise, Huang Xu would have asked James to hug Park So-yeon and the others and go to Kim Kwang-soo's office to force the contract.

Therefore, Huang Xu could only look at Sunny and said helplessly:

"Now we can only take it one step at a time."

"What should we do then? What if he signs a contract with Seagate? What will you do then?"

Sunny looked at Huang Xu's helpless expression and asked with concern.

"Then all your efforts during this period of time will be wasted, right?"

"It's okay. Even if the contract fails, it won't have much impact. I have some other plans. Don't worry."

Huang Xu stood up and walked to the window, looking at the starry night sky and said:
"Now it depends on whether Jin Taiyu can find out the inside information."

At the same time, Kim Tae-woo, who was being talked about by Huang Xu and Sunny, was entertaining a section chief from Mnet Media (M-net) in a private club not far away.

As a veteran who has been in the Korean entertainment industry for more than a decade, although he looks ordinary, his hard work over the past decade has expanded his network of contacts to an immeasurable extent.

Although most of these connections are just acquaintances and can't be of much help, it's enough to know a lot of people, and the people I know are quite diverse.

In addition, the question he was inquiring about was not highly confidential information, so after giving the M-net Section Chief Liu a few glasses of wine, he easily got the information he wanted.

“Are you saying that the company is not interested in Kim Kwang Soo’s company now?”

"Yeah, Tara is the only famous person in his company right now, and now she's in this state, the company doesn't want to invest at all."

Section Chief Liu didn't know whether it was because Kim Tae-woo was an old friend or because he was annoyed by Kim Kwang-soo's behavior in recent times, but in any case, he kept talking about Kim Tae-woo's affairs in front of him.

Mnet Media, the full name of which is CJ Mnet Media Company, is a South Korean entertainment company affiliated to the South Korean CJ Group. The entertainment company has a wide range of business operations, including TV channels and TV programs, music providers, and award ceremonies.

The reason they are contacting Kim Kwang-soo now is mainly because of the strategic requirements of CJ Group's full entertainment platform.

And he didn't just come into contact with Kim Kwang-soo's company, he also came into contact with other companies and labels at the same time.

Therefore, whether Kim Kwang-soo's Core Contents Media company can be acquired has basically no impact on them.

After all, apart from Tara, there are no other well-known artists in his company now.

And most importantly, his company's reputation is not very good.

This kind of bad is not just ordinary bad, but it has reached the point of being notorious.

This company's reputation for exploiting and treating its artists harshly has spread throughout the entertainment industry.

Even some fan groups know about some of their actions.

As for the artists under the company, after their contracts expire, there is basically no renewal. They just leave when they can, and the company has no ability to retain anyone.

Although this phenomenon also exists in other companies, it is not as absolute as Kim Kwang Soo's company.

Therefore, they are still in an ambiguous state as to whether to invest in Kim Kwang-soo.

In addition, Kim Kwang-soo had been trying all kinds of medical treatments for his illness recently, which made him have a bad impression of Kim Kwang-soo. Instead, he felt a little disgusted with him.

When Jin Taiyu heard this, the worry in his heart finally subsided.

This was the first task Huang Xu taught him, and also his token of loyalty when he joined the company.

If I can't do these well, then it will be unknown whether I can take on the position of president next.

Therefore, after understanding the inside story and confirming that Kim Kwang-soo's company was dispensable, the stone in his heart finally fell to the ground.

After that, I accompanied Section Chief Liu and had a few more drinks.

Then Section Chief Liu was completely drunk by Kim Tae-woo and could hardly walk.

Kim Tae-woo had no choice but to arrange for him to stay in a nearby hotel before turning around and leaving.

However, what Jin Taiyu did not expect was that just after he left, Section Chief Liu, who was drunk just now, opened his eyes and the blurred look just now disappeared.

He sat up from the bed and muttered to himself as he watched Kim Tae-woo leave.

"What does this Kim Tae-woo mean?"

"Does he have any idea?"

Kim Tae-woo, who had already left the hotel, had no idea what happened after he left. He excitedly sent a message to Huang Xu, telling him the news he had just received.

On the other side, Huang Xu did not see it immediately, and only saw the message from Kim Tae-woo early the next morning.

After watching it, I couldn't wait to call Kim Tae-woo and give him some praise.

Then he called another person.

"Have you thought it through?"

(End of this chapter)