445: Chapter 445 The Female Model from Er Mao's Family! Can't Go Home?

Chapter 445: A Female Model from Ukraine! Unable to Go Home?

Xu Fei was still able to receive a 5% profit share from the company, just like before.

Although Su Yang's move to improve employee benefits would certainly affect the company's profits and, consequently, her share.

But the 100,000 yuan increase in her annual salary was almost enough to completely cover the profit share she used to receive every year.

After Su Yang announced the good news and gained the favor of the employees at Meixing's headquarters, Xu Fei introduced Yu Siying, the General Manager of Spark Media, to everyone.

From now on, Meixing Model Agency would be a subsidiary under Spark Media.

Yu Siying's appearance was naturally welcomed by the employees, especially the signed models!

Truth be told, Su Yang's status was too high—practically unreachable.

They probably wouldn't have much contact with him usually.

On the other hand, Yu Siying's impression of them would likely influence their future development in the directions of internet celebrities and film and television!

After Yu Siying took the microphone, her tone was quite serious.

She promised that there would be no layoffs or job adjustments for the time being.

However, the parent company would carefully observe their performance...

The employees of Meixing Model Agency also became serious and attentive!

After the meeting ended, Xu Fei took Su Yang and Yu Siying on a tour of the company, introducing them to the Meixing staff.

Su Yang also cordially chatted with each employee, encouraging them to work hard and telling them that if Meixing developed well in the future, the company would increase their benefits accordingly.

Finally, Xu Fei introduced Su Yang to two foreign models staying in Rongcheng!

Karolina, a beautiful model from Poland, tentatively greeted Su Yang in English, and Su Yang smilingly replied with a few sentences.

Since gaining the Photographic Memory ability, Su Yang had been studying several commonly used international languages quite seriously.

How could he not know English?

Finally, Xu Fei introduced Natalia to Su Yang.

This was a very beautiful foreign girl.

She had a well-proportioned figure, a height that seemed just under 1.7 meters, and shoulder-length golden-brown hair.

She had fair skin, and beneath her golden-brown eyebrows, a pair of brown eyes were large and sparkling.

Below her high-bridged nose was a pair of beautiful red lips, and her smile was particularly sweet!

When Su Yang heard Xu Fei introduce her as being from Ukraine, Su Yang smiled and reached out his hand to her: "Здравствуйте (Russian: Hello)!"

Natalia looked at Su Yang with some surprise: "Ты говоришь по-русски (You speak Russian?)".

Su Yang nodded: "Конечно (Of course)!"

Natalia looked at Su Yang, tucked a strand of hair behind her ear, and happily began chatting with him.

Xu Fei and Yu Siying, standing nearby, were completely bewildered!

Xu Fei looked at the female translator, and the female employee responsible for translating said with some surprise, "The boss's Russian is very standard!"

"I've self-taught several languages, including Russian!" Su Yang turned his head and smiled. "I noticed that when the translator spoke to Natalia, she was using Russian... If it were Ukrainian, I'd be at a loss; I haven't learned that yet!"

Xu Fei couldn't help but praise, "The boss is very impressive!"

Su Yang replied with a smile, "I'll most likely expand my business abroad in the future, so learning a few more languages is always good to be prepared!"

"That's for sure!"

Xu Fei nodded seriously.

Back when she relied on her broken English to go abroad and recruit foreign models, she had made quite a few blunders!

At that time, she thought how wonderful it would be if she knew a few more languages!

However, she didn't seem to have a talent for languages; even though she had traveled abroad frequently over the years, she could only barely communicate with foreigners in English.

As for French, Japanese, Russian... she only knew a few common phrases and couldn't have a deep conversation!

Xu Fei asked curiously, "What other languages does the boss know?"

"Besides English and Russian, I also know Korean, Japanese, and French, but I'm not very proficient—just enough to barely communicate!"

Xu Fei was surprised: "Five foreign languages?"

"And Cantonese; I can already converse with locals!" Su Yang said with a smile. "Of course, that certainly doesn't count as a foreign language!"

"That's already very impressive!"

Su Yang noticed that Xu Fei's loyalty to him had begun to rise again!

Su Yang started chatting with Natalia again.

Since learning Russian, this was his first time communicating with a Russian-speaking foreigner, so it felt very novel.

At first, he was a bit stumbling, but with Natalia's corrections, he spoke more and more fluently!

Then the two of them sat on the sofa to continue their chat.

Xu Fei and Yu Siying didn't rush them and even had an assistant pour tea for both.

Natalia was in high spirits; her large, beautiful brown eyes were fixed on Su Yang, her lips curled upward as she chattered away incessantly.

She complained to Su Yang that her English was not proficient, making it difficult to communicate with people in the country, so she could only talk to the translator. Even her manager only knew a few words.

In the company, she actually had two female compatriots working in the country.

But they were currently working in Hangzhou, so she felt a bit miserable staying in Rongcheng!

She couldn't leave Rongcheng for the time being because she still had work here.

She really wanted to go home and visit, but it wasn't very convenient!

Perhaps noticing that big figures like Xu Fei and Yu Siying were still waiting for Su Yang, Natalia felt bad about taking up too much of his time and reluctantly ended their conversation.

After saying goodbye to Natalia, Su Yang took Yu Siying, Xu Fei, and Meixing's Vice President Wang Gaojun into the office.

Su Yang didn't make any work demands of them in the short term; he just needed them to follow the established routine for now!

However, he still asked curiously and bluntly, "President Xu, our company doesn't make anyone sleep with clients, right?"

"No!" Xu Fei shook her head repeatedly. "We are a legitimate company. Models collaborate with clients through their managers; we don't let models have direct contact with clients!"

Su Yang nodded with satisfaction: "That's good!"

Xu Fei cautiously added, "However, we can't easily control what models do in their private lives!"

"I understand!"

Su Yang also knew that private matters were hard to control; whether things were messy or not depended on the model's character!

This seemed to involve their private lives... but as long as the company itself was clean, it was fine!

If the company controlled too much, models might find it too annoying and might stop collaborating with you.

Modeling agencies and domestic film and television talent agencies were completely different!

Many domestic film and television agencies would sign artists for eight or ten years at a time.

The profit split was often 70/30, 80/20, or even 90/10.

90% for the company, 10% for the artist.

If you encountered those large idol groups in South Korea, it was even worse!

But modeling agencies were different, often having a 30/70 split.

30% for the company, 70% for the model.

If a model earned a million, the company could only take three hundred thousand.

Others had 20/80, 40/60, or 50/50 splits!

It depended on the model's fame and ability!

If a foreign model came over and had a mother agency, that mother agency would also take a cut.

Moreover, the contract duration between a modeling agency and a model was relatively short, ranging from a few months to a few years.

It was impossible to sign too long a contract!

This made models more free than those film and TV artists!

Of course, the reason these models could obtain higher and more generous split treatments than artists and stars was entirely because the modeling industry largely depended on innate figure and appearance.

Models weren't like stars and actors who needed a talent agency to train them for three to five years before they could debut.

Even less did the company need to take the risk of investing millions or tens of millions to make them famous!

Some models with excellent appearances could officially take on jobs and start bringing in revenue for the company after just half a month of training.

"What's the situation with that Natalia?" Su Yang asked, recalling the conversation with Natalia just now. "She said she wanted to go home but couldn't? How long is our contract with her?"