130: Chapter 130 Three Million Yuan Signing Fee! Dealing with Jiang Yan's Hidden Dangers!

Chapter 130: Three Million Signing Fee! Handling Jiang Yan's Hidden Risks!

The salary package offered by Spark Media was, naturally, quite generous.

The positions being recruited for were also varied, and there was a constant stream of interviewees.

In less than three days, the number of employees at Spark Media directly surpassed one hundred and sixty.

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This left Yu Siying feeling rather helpless!

However, Su Yang also promised Yu Siying that he would stop hiring once they reached two hundred people before the end of the year.

Yu Siying could only agree.

Su Yang couldn't be blamed for hiring so many people; he had discovered that there were actually quite a lot of talents in Rongcheng.

Whenever he saw applicants with Proficient or Expert-level professional skills, his hands would itch to hire them!

Even if they were on the older side, over thirty or even over thirty-five.

As long as their salary requirements weren't excessive, he was willing to take them in.

After all, they were elites who truly possessed high-level professional skills!

As for overtime, there was relatively little of it at Spark Media.

Unless they encountered some kind of emergency!

Moreover, overtime didn't really require these high-tech talents; that was work for the internet water army!

After some inquiries, Su Yang learned that many people had been laid off at the end of the year.

Since it wasn't yet time for the New Year, they saw Spark Media's recruitment and came to try their luck.

Su Yang naturally accepted these talents with a smile.

Over the course of seven days, Su Yang gradually expanded Spark Media to two hundred and two people.

The last batch of people was already queuing for interviews, and he didn't feel right just telling them to go home.

After the interviews, he happened to take on two more!

Accounting for office space rental, renovation, and equipment procurement, Su Yang's nine million had six million remaining.

Mainly because Su Yang had also purchased a batch of higher-quality computers.

They were used for special effects, AI, 2D, 3D animation, and the like.

In addition, there were cameras, still cameras, audio equipment, live broadcast sound cards, microphones, and other equipment.

After finishing the recruitment, Su Yang returned to his office and saw Jiang Yan eating lunch in the live broadcast room on the way.

In the past few days, Jiang Yan had gone to Shenzhen to participate in a comic convention, and her performance was quite stunning.

The company also took the opportunity to collaborate with the convention organizers for a wave of marketing for her.

They said her offline appearance at the event was still strikingly beautiful, with no difference at all from her online presence.

This allowed Jiang Yan to catch another wave of popularity, gaining hundreds of thousands of followers.

The convention organizers were also quite satisfied with her performance and paid the two hundred thousand very readily!

Having not seen her for a few days, Su Yang noticed that Jiang Yan seemed to have lost a little weight.

This made him feel a bit protective!

Entering the live broadcast room, Jiang Yan looked up and saw Su Yang.

"Boss!"

"You seem to have lost a bit of weight? Didn't you eat well while you were away?" Su Yang asked curiously. "There should have been staff members accompanying you, right?"

"I wasn't used to the food there!"

"Alright then!"

"Have you had lunch, Boss?"

"It should be arriving soon!"

"This is for you!"

Jiang Yan picked up a chicken leg from her lunch box and handed it to Su Yang.

Facing Jiang Yan's kindness, he felt bad refusing.

However, after taking a bite, his expression instantly froze.

"What's wrong? Is it not good?" Jiang Yan asked curiously as she took a bite of the chicken. "I think it tastes okay?"

Su Yang took a deep breath. "The taste is okay, it's just been sitting for a bit too long!"

Jiang Yan said nonchalantly, "As long as it hasn't gone bad, it's edible!"

"Ordered takeout?"

"Yeah!" Jiang Yan nodded. "Sister Chen ordered it for me, said this place's food was decent."

Su Yang said helplessly, "The taste is indeed decent, it's just that the meat has been frozen for two years..."

Jiang Yan's chopsticks also froze for a moment, but then she continued eating with total indifference.

"Why are you still eating?"

"I can't just throw it away, can I?"

"How much was this dish?"

"Forty-five!"

"..."

Su Yang patted Jiang Yan's head, thought for a moment, and said:

"Next year, I'll go open a fast-food restaurant at the entrance of the park!"

"Huh?"

Jiang Yan was stunned.

"KFC?"

"Chinese fast food!" Su Yang pointed to the lunch box in her hand. "Similar to what you're having!"

"Why? Is it very profitable?"

"Whether it's profitable or not isn't important," Su Yang said softly. "At least it'll let you eat something fresh, right?"

"Boss!"

Jiang Yan put down her chopsticks and looked at Su Yang, her voice sounding a bit sweet and cloying.

"What's wrong?"

"Are you trying to touch my heart so much I die?"

"Not at all! Not at all!" Su Yang said quickly. "I'm doing it purely to make money!"

"I don't believe you!"

"It's the truth!"

"Let me give you a kiss, and I'll believe you!"

"Don't, your mouth is all oily, stay away from me!"

"..."

After wiping the oil off his face, Su Yang returned to his office.

Only then did he notice that Yu Siying was also there.

His and Yu Siying's offices were next to each other.

"President Yu, is there something?"

"An MCN Company from Yangcheng has approached Jiang Yan."

"Oh!"

"They offered a three million signing fee and will pay her liquidated damages!" Yu Siying said with some concern. "This was told to me by an employee close to Jiang Yan."

"Three million?"

Su Yang was also a bit surprised.

Jiang Yan hadn't mentioned it to him just now.

Is Jiang Yan worth three million now?

Actually, she really was!

With over two million followers on the Douyin platform and nearly a million on Bilibili, her momentum wasn't slowing down at all!

Three million was completely worth it.

Many wealthy MCN companies didn't like cultivating newcomers because the uncertainty was too high.

They preferred to rely on their capital to poach people already well-trained by other companies!

Su Yang asked, "What did Jiang Yan say at the time?"

"She refused at the time!"

"Oh!" Su Yang thought for a bit and said, "Then let's improve her benefits?"

"Alright!"

Yu Siying had no objection to this.

After all, now that Jiang Yan had become popular, the company should consider how to tie her more closely to them.

If she were really poached by another company, she would want to cry!

"By the way, didn't you investigate Jiang Yan's past?"

Yu Siying said in a low voice, "It's quite clean, no dark history. In fact, she was bullied by female classmates during her school days. She did date a boyfriend, but it's not a big problem, I can handle it!"

"That's good then!"

With internet celebrities and the like, the fear was that their dark history would be dug up.

The more famous you were, the more you attracted people's attention, and the more they liked to see you fall and collapse!

Having put so much effort into cultivating Jiang Yan, he couldn't let anything go wrong.

And Jiang Yan was very obedient!

As for the matter of her ex-boyfriend, Su Yang didn't really care.

Who didn't have a past? He had one too!

Jiang Yan hadn't been after anything from him; their relationship only started after the company decided to invest heavily in her!

Since they got together, Jiang Yan hadn't made any demands of him.

Next, Su Yang chatted with Yu Siying about the company's development plan.

Su Yang was ambitious, and Yu Siying could fully sense it.

But she liked ambitious bosses!

Returning to Jiuxiang Catering, Su Yang mentioned the idea of opening a fast-food restaurant to Ji Guoxiong.

To be honest, as a boss in the catering industry himself...

Letting his employees spend the price of a normal stir-fried dish to eat pre-prepared meals and zombie meat that had been frozen for two years seemed a bit unjustifiable.

And this kind of Chinese fast-food restaurant was currently quite popular with office workers in big cities.

Mainly because the prices were cheap and affordable, and it could also absorb a lot of employees.

Since they were already in the catering business and had Jiuxiang Healthy Catering...

Opening another Chinese fast-food chain didn't seem to be a problem.

It just so happened that Nine Fragrance Hotpot was becoming a bit saturated in Rongcheng.

There was no need to make it too big in the beginning; Su Yang planned to first open one each near the food park, the MCN park, and the Jiuxiang Catering headquarters to provide meals for the employees first!

Ji Guoxiong was already used to Su Yang's operations and didn't object.

He was actually also quite optimistic about low-priced, cheap, and affordable Chinese fast food.

With the current consumption downgrade, the hotpot industry was indeed not what it used to be.

Many hotpot restaurants were going out of business!

If it weren't for Su Yang's good vision, their Jiuxiang Catering couldn't have developed to such a scale.

Now, Ji Guoxiong's confidence in Su Yang was almost blind.

However, Ji Guoxiong still said, "Boss, my suggestion is that we talk about it after we've handled the supply chain and logistics!"

"Alright then!"

Su Yang also nodded, agreeing with Ji Guoxiong's idea.

This matter would definitely have to wait until next year!

I cut down Jiang Yan's plot, for fear you'd be unhappy!