To be honest, Ms. Gu Changge's impression of An Ran is much better than that of Peng Yuchen, but she is not the kind of character who expresses emotion and anger.
She left quickly after meeting.
But not long after, specifically during the New Year's Day holiday, she appeared again in Peng Yuchen's not-so-luxurious office.
Today's battle formation is much larger. On Gu Changge's left is his daughter Gu Caiwei, and on both sides sits a woman in a suit and leather shoes with a serious expression.
Over at Iron Eater Entertainment, Peng Yuchen is in the middle, on the right is her partner An Ran, and on the left is a middle-aged woman wearing glasses. They are dressed very casually.
Seven women, a conference table full of people.
Peng Yuchen thought that today was a relaxed meeting, so he pointed at the stranger opposite: "Who are these two?"
"Please allow me to introduce myself."
One of them took the initiative to speak: "My name is Xiao Jing. I am a partner at Lin'an Shilin Law Firm. I am responsible for representing Ms. Gu Changge in her legal affairs."
"The person on the far right is my senior sister Hu Jing from Zhijiang University School of Law. She has many years of practice experience in Shanghai and has made great achievements in the field of artist management contract disputes."
"We accept the entrustment of Ms. Gu Changge to review and witness the signing of the contract between your company and Ms. Gu Caiwei today."
Lawyers are also a big industry, and laypeople who have no experience in it can easily mistakenly think that they are the same type of work.
For example, in addition to the litigation lawyers who are most popular in movies and TV dramas, there are also many specialized non-litigation lawyers, that is, lawyers who do not appear in court at all. These people may have been practicing for many years and still don’t know which way the court door opens.
Professionally speaking, many well-known barristers actually only focus on a very narrow segment and serve a limited number of clients, which is enough to support themselves and their teams.
From a geographical perspective, due to various reasons, many lawyers have their own comfortable scope of practice and do not like to litigate across borders.
In short, there are great differences between lawyers and high barriers to entry.
Lawyers like Gu Meimen, who can accept any deal and win any deal as long as they are paid, only live in TV dramas.
The real world does not allow such awesome lawyers to exist.
So today, Gu Changge entrusted this matter to his most familiar lawyer friend Xiao Jing. Xiao Jing was relatively unfamiliar with this field, so she found a fellow lawyer as a foreign aid.
Of course Peng Yuchen was not scared and even made a joke:
"We just signed a small trainee contract. I didn't expect Ms. Gu to be so grand. No wonder she specially took away our contract sample that day."
She motioned to the woman wearing glasses on her left: "This is the legal director of our company. What advice do Lawyer Xiao and Lawyer Hu have?"
This time it was lawyer Hu Jing on the other side who spoke. She took out an annotated version from her briefcase and handed it to the other side:
"I reviewed this contract based on Ms. Gu's entrustment and request, and formed a total of seventeen opinions, among which..."
"Wait a minute, wait a minute."
Peng Yuchen stopped directly and said to Gu Changge:
"Ms. Gu, you brought these two giant Buddhas here today just to say that your daughter is not something that can be manipulated casually. I understand that."
"But I want to tell you that I had no intention of bullying your daughter because our goals are the same."
"I think there is no need to read Lawyer Hu's opinion any further. If you let these lawyers pick out words here, they can argue all day long. I believe this is not your intention."
"Then let me express my opinion. The contract you see is our standard contract for all contracted trainees, and it is treated equally."
"Except for the conditions I promised you to guarantee Gu Caiwei's debut, no other word or punctuation mark can be changed."
"The fees charged by these two barristers should not be cheap. Let's hurry up."
Xiao Jing and Hu Jing looked at Gu Changge at the same time. They had communicated with each other before coming here. When they saw Gu Changge nodding, they put away the version with seventeen comments.
Hu Jing came up with a clean contract again: "Ms. Gu, in my professional opinion, this contract is generally a relatively standardized artist training contract."
"Because the contract clearly stipulates that the training services provided by Party A are free and will only be deducted from the income after the start of performing arts activities, commonly known as debut, so there is no trap."
"But one thing I want to remind you in particular is that the biggest risk in this contract is that it has very harsh exclusivity clauses."
"In other words, before this contract expires or is terminated, your daughter cannot carry out performing arts activities on her own, nor can she sign any similar agreements with other performing arts agencies, otherwise she may face high liquidated damages and more legal consequences.
Pursuit.”
"Considering the duration of this contract, this means that your daughter's acting career is basically bound to this company."
"Please consider carefully."
Peng Yuchen explained: "The company has invested resources to train trainees, and the minimum guarantee is that they cannot make wedding clothes for others. This is fair."
This time, Gu Changge glanced at his daughter sitting next to him, and Gu Caiwei nodded solemnly.
The subsequent signing process was uneventful. Gu Caiwei felt a special sense of ceremony after putting pen to paper. This was the first legally binding formal contract she had signed as an adult.
After the business was done, a few lawyers left first. Today was still a holiday.
Gu Caiwei, her daughter, and Peng An were left alone. Gu Changge suddenly asked: "Mr. Peng, what do you think of this boy Lin Yi?"
She was not looking for clues. The last time she came, she had already confirmed that Peng Yuchen and Lin Yi had never known each other before meeting on National Day.
Peng Yuchen misunderstood what she meant: "I have a deep impression of this boy, but we don't plan to recruit male trainees before the company's first girl group debuts."
"I mean, does his relationship with Xiao Wei have any impact?"
This question made Gu Caiwei prick up her ears.
Peng Yuchen thought for a while: "In principle, the company does not interfere with the trainees' private lives, but I hope you can ensure that the scope of knowledge is as small as possible."
This was already a concession for her, and this was not what she asked for from other trainees Peng Yuchen.
Gu Changge understood that this was actually delaying the change. After all, Xiaowei's relationship was very unstable at her age. Maybe they would have a falling out in two months?
She knew that her daughter and Lin Yi were very well behaved in school. If Gu Caiwei, the school beauty, hadn't attracted so much attention, they would have been almost as silent as those sneaky "underground gangsters".
An Ran ended the chat: "Let's go, the contract has been signed. Let's do a detailed test. I'm going to make a practice plan for you."
The four of them walked out and met a girl with cute tiger teeth in the corridor. They greeted her respectfully: "Mr. Peng, Teacher An."
When she looked at the other two people curiously, the mother and daughter were also observing her.
Peng Yuchen introduced: "This is one of our trainees, Xu Yali. Like Gu Caiwei, she is still a senior in high school. She will be a companion in the future. You should get to know her yourself."
Gu Caiwei and the girl introduced themselves to each other, exchanged contact information, and then she said goodbye and walked to the practice room.
"I still practice during the holidays. I work very hard." Ms. Gu Changge commented.
An Ran responded: "We have recruited trainees several times in Shanghai, but we only found this one. Her musical literacy is very good, but she has never danced. Fortunately, she works hard and comes to train whenever she has time."
Gu Changge heard An Ran's appreciation and knew better.
After An Ran completed the test on Gu Caiwei, Peng Yuchen sent mother and daughter out. She finally smiled at Gu Caiwei: