Role Secured!
Watching Liu Yifei on his phone screen work her own index and middle fingers in and out of her slick little pussy over and over, Ye Yu sped up his stroking, as if he were really fucking that cunt himself.
What had started as a half-hearted performance had Liu Yifei getting turned on again despite herself. Little by little, she was drawn in by that big cock that had already been inside her body God knew how many times before, as if she were really being ruthlessly fucked by a huge dick over and over.
The two of them hit climax almost at the same time. One blasted the screen full; the other sprayed hard and nonstop like a showerhead with the faucet opened all the way.
Looking at the fairy-like beauty's flushed, delicate face, Ye Yu's cock showed no sign of going soft at all; it was still hard as iron. Too bad she had gone out to shoot a scene, otherwise... heh heh, he wouldn't have let her off so easily.
With the screen already turned off, Liu Yifei hurriedly straightened her clothes and started a very careful cleanup. As she swept up, tears burst from her eyes and she ended up crying pitifully, looking as wronged and helpless as could be, thinking she was really miserable and that Ye Yu was a heartless devil.
“You got the role?”
“You got one too. I'm Tang Xuejian, Tangtang, what about you?”
“Zi Xuan!”
Tang Yan and Yang Mi were genuinely shocked. The result was far beyond what they'd expected and completely beyond their imagination. But what Tang Yan was thinking more about was whether this was really Ye Yu pulling strings, or whether he had simply been lucky and caught it by chance.
There were only two possibilities. Either someone had already planned to pick her and Ye Yu had just happened to come along, or Ye Yu had worked behind the scenes and was the key to her landing the role.
Which of those it was, Tang Yan naturally wanted to confirm. She didn't have those kinds of connections, but Yang Mi did. Yang Mi's manager Zeng Jia and Sister K had a very unusual relationship; the two were very close, and Yang Mi getting this role had a lot to do with their effort.
Don't be fooled by the fact that Sister K was Tangren's talent director. The agency world was different from other industries; unless you were your own boss, there was no such thing as absolute loyalty. Most of the time, it just came down to which side would benefit you more.
Although she wasn't quite sure why Tang Yan wanted to know the truth behind the casting, Yang Mi herself was also extremely curious. Why had Tang Yan been able to land the number-three female lead, Zi Xuan, while her own role was only barely passable? Tang Yan's case was undeniably strange.
Yang Mi and her manager Zeng Jia got along very well. The two of them had started working together back in 2005 on The Return of the Condor Heroes, and they had even reached some secret agreement. Since it was secret, of course, no third person besides the two of them knew about it.
After hearing Yang Mi's doubts on the phone, Zeng Jia answered very directly: “What's the big deal? I already checked with Sister K. Cai Yinong, that old hag, naturally wasn't willing to back down. She just wanted the two of you to pick one and sign the slave contract she put in front of you.
But Tangren's real boss was still Li Guoli. Old Li had his own standards, and you and Tangtang were among the top of all the people who auditioned. If he didn't pick you two, then who could he pick?
With tens of millions on the line, they couldn't just throw the investment into the trash, could they?
Still, you need to be prepared. The pay definitely isn't going to be high, and that's the real advantage you have right now. Otherwise Tangren has plenty of other choices, and at this stage you still don't amount to much.”
After hearing Zeng Jia's reply, Tang Yan let out a long breath and immediately agreed to Yang Mi and Zeng Jia's invitation to go out for a meal and celebrate, while also nailing down the signing. The breach penalty wasn't much, and someone could still snatch her away at any time, but signing the contract was still a lot safer. Even if worst came to worst, the penalty wasn't a small amount.
But Tang Yan had clearly still underestimated Cai Yinong's bottom line and overestimated her morals. She had only been offered a hundred thousand in salary, and this was a key role within the top five billing, the drama's number-three female lead, basically a near-lead.
By now Tang Yan was even more certain that landing this role probably had nothing to do with Ye Yu at all. It was purely because she was cheap enough. A hundred thousand... that really was a complete newcomer price. The entire shoot would last forty days, with twenty episodes in total, which worked out to five thousand per episode. It really was dirt cheap.
Still, Tang Yan decisively signed her name. Sometimes salary didn't mean everything. As long as the role led to success and she blew up overnight, everything would be different. The next time Tangren invited her, it wouldn't be five thousand an episode anymore; it would be fifty thousand.
Yang Mi's situation was pretty much the same as what she and her manager Zeng Jia had estimated. Ten thousand per episode. In terms of status and billing, it barely counted as treatment for a rising second-tier actress in the industry. If she signed with Tangren, that would be proper second-tier treatment, with a per-episode fee of thirty thousand.