"We're planning to recruit some of our own designers and then create original blind box figures," Yang Ning revealed his plan.

There is a saying that taking the original path leads to a dead end.

But actually, it's not that serious; at most, it's a nine in ten chance of failure.

After all, since the concept of IP was born, globally known IPs are few, and sometimes a new IP doesn't emerge for a year or two.

Originality is extremely difficult.

Yang Ning is naturally aware of how tough this path is, but for the future development of the company, he has no choice but to pursue it.

However, if the company is to take the original route, its preliminary revenue is expected to decrease significantly.

Currently, Marte Bubble is at a stage where the money earned is just enough to support expansion.

So if we want to go for originality, the company needs to prepare a certain amount of cash to support itself through the preliminary phase.

"How much money is needed?" Chen Yiyang asked.

"Around fifty million," Yang Ning reported a rather conservative figure.

In reality, fifty million would barely keep Marte Bubble afloat for over a month.

Although Marte Bubble follows the route of being a light asset company, offline retail is equally an important part of its expansion, making the monthly cost pressure great.

"Fifty million isn't enough; you'll still need to hire a designer for your original figures."

"Regarding designers, we've found a relatively talented one, and we're planning to offer him two percent of the shares to join the Marte Bubble company," Yang Ning stated.

Brave indeed.

Chen Yiyang couldn't help but look at Yang Ning with newfound respect.

The first generation of creators typically value shares greatly, and only investors can use their capital to squeeze shares out of them.

Unexpectedly, Yang Ning was willing to share a portion of the shares with a designer.

It seems this company's future success is well-founded.

"If I invest two hundred million, how much stock can I get?" Chen Yiyang inquired.

"Are you interested only in dividend rights, or do you also want voting rights?"

"I only need dividend rights," Chen Yiyang wasn't particularly interested in voting rights.

Generally, investment institutions prefer taking many voting rights when investing in startups, mainly to prevent founders from skewing the company's development due to personal interests.

With the trusty insider information ensuring this company's future progress.

Just peacefully holding the dividend rights and waiting for dividends to come seems sufficient, with voting rights proving less significant.

"We can offer you twenty percent of shares with only dividend rights," Yang Ning mentioned.

"Alright," Chen Yiyang calculated in his mind and felt it was acceptable.

A light asset company like Marte Bubble holds its value primarily in intellectual property.

With two hundred million taking twenty percent of shares considered pretty good.

Yang Ning is willing to offer twenty percent shares mostly because if Marte Bubble's transformation fails and the company goes bankrupt, as an investor, Chen Yiyang will find it hard to claim any assets from the company as a loss deduction.

Therefore, it's necessary to be generous with the shares offered.

After finishing the talk with Yang Ning and his wife.

After returning to the hotel, Chen Yiyang soon received a phone call.

The call came from a contact at the Cultural Review Bureau.

"Mr. Chen, I asked around for you. The officials mean that the program 'Goodbye Lover 4' is currently gaining too much attention."

"Alright, we understand," Chen Yiyang nodded.

The message was clear enough.

Chen Yiyang immediately went looking for Hu Lei.

"Sigh, so much material can't be aired," Hu Lei could only sigh.

The current popularity of the 'Goodbye Lover 4' program is too high.

Such high popularity is largely due to the couple conflicts depicted in the show.

If we want to reduce the popularity, the program must aim for a happy ending.

Although it might make the audience feel it ended poorly, it has to be done.

However, this is outside Chen Yiyang's concern.

He has already secured sponsorship for Luzon Food Factory for the next season of 'Goodbye Lover.'

Not being clear whether the program will continue to be popular next season, Chen Yiyang only acted as a broker this time, without his company intervening and giving a bottom-line guarantee leading to a big profit.

After finishing his business in the Imperial Capital.

Chen Yiyang was still on the plane, not yet arrived in Lin'an.

While connected to the plane's WiFi, he received a message from the head of the 'Produce 101' program, Zheng Zhiming, wanting to discuss something with him.

Chen Yiyang thought this discussion wouldn't be about anything good.

So, upon arriving in Lin'an, Chen Yiyang didn't rush to visit Zheng Zhiming but rather took a good night's rest to recharge.

Early the next morning, he looked at his phone.

The current information bulletin provided a valuable authorization: within ten days, acquire the rights to remake the film "Brewster's Millions" for under one million US dollars to successfully take advantage of this opportunity.

The relevant contact information was attached on the second page.

Hmm?

It's the first time that Chen Yiyang has encountered a film remake opportunity for taking advantage of.

Moreover, the name of this film seems unfamiliar.

So Chen Yiyang took out his computer and searched for it.

The original work of "Brewster's Millions" is a novel written in 1902, and it has been continuously adapted to films multiple times.

The most successful and classic version was filmed in 1985.

Currently, the copyrights of this film and novel are held by a small company in the United States.

Chen Yiyang simply found resources online to watch this comedic film from 1985.

The movie wasn't long, and it was quickly finished within an hour or so.

It was indeed classic.

The movie's storyline revolves around a second-rate baseball player who must spend thirty million US dollars within a month to inherit a massive fortune.

The thirty million US dollars, instead of the one million US dollars mentioned in the movie's title.

This is because back when the book was originally written, one million US dollars was considerably valuable and hard to spend.

By 1985, spending one million US dollars was no longer challenging.

Thus, in the movie, one million was inflated to thirty million US dollars.

Of course, if a remake is attempted now, spending thirty million US dollars also wouldn't be difficult.

Based on the protagonist's actions in the film, such as buying and burning famous paintings, hiring street security at high wages, and investing in seemingly ridiculous iceberg development projects.

At least several billion would be needed to spend like that.

"Could it be that someone domestically has recently taken a liking to this script for a remake?" Chen Yiyang pondered, stroking his chin.

Since the information bulletin provided a time constraint, it's best to act swiftly.

Fortunately, although he had previously left the United States hastily, his hired team was still there managing stock trades for him on the pink sheet market.

Thus, Chen Yiyang immediately contacted his team, instructing them to seek negotiations with the company holding the rights to "Brewster's Millions."

The aim was to purchase the rights in the shortest time possible.

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