Chapter 195: Sis Will Avenge You

Listening to Han Jiangxue's eerie tone and facing her pretty face directly, Su Chen fell silent.

He understood that although this appeared to be a debate between sweet and savory tofu pudding, it was actually a battle for the supreme throne of their future household!

If Su Chen backed down now, this retreat would last a lifetime!

Su Chen would wear the title of a henpecked husband, suppressed beneath the metaphorical mountain for all eternity.

Therefore, a raging fire ignited in Su Chen's eyes, and somewhere in the void, a background music seemed to slowly swell.

Before Su Chen could speak, however, Han Jiangxue pierced straight through him with a single sentence, giving him a chilling reality check.

"If you're not going to eat it, I'm just going to throw your portion away."

As Han Jiangxue spoke, she looked fully ready to toss out Su Chen's soy milk and fried dough sticks right along with the savory tofu pudding.

How could Su Chen possibly agree to that?

Food is the paramount necessity of the people, and going hungry for even a single meal hurts!

No matter who you are at odds with, you should never go to war with your own stomach!

So Su Chen let out a cold laugh, launched a decisive counterattack, and pulled his breakfast protectively into his arms.

He then hurriedly said, "No, no, no! I'll eat it, I'll eat it! You probably didn't know this, but I've loved savory tofu pudding since I was a kid!"

Han Jiangxue: ???

This move by Su Chen could be described as subduing the enemy without fighting.

I'm not pretending anymore! I surrender!

When given a choice between having food and having no food, anyone with half a brain would know what to pick.

So what if it's just a few bites of savory tofu pudding? What is there to be afraid of?

As Su Chen thought of Gou Jian enduring hardships, Han Xin crawling between a bully's legs, and Liu Pang attending the Feast at Swan Goose Gate, he tearfully shoveled a mouthful of savory tofu pudding into his mouth.

Then, the very next second...

Su Chen's eyes widened, shining with a brilliance that had never been there before!

Holy crap?!

This savory tofu pudding... it actually... it actually doesn't taste bad at all...

Uncertain, Su Chen scooped up another couple of bites.

Now, Su Chen was completely certain.

Savory tofu pudding was genuinely delicious!

Seeing Su Chen wolfing down his food, Han Jiangxue flashed a satisfied smile.

At the same time, she muttered to herself.

Should I... maybe try the sweet kind next time? But could the sweet kind possibly taste good? Oh well, I'll give it a try later!

If it tastes bad, I'll just make Su Chen eat it, heh heh heh~

Right around noon, the two of them managed to solve both their breakfast and lunch problems right there in the hotel room.

Once their hunger was satisfied, Han Jiangxue saw Su Chen slumped limply in his chair and asked, "All the paperwork for the studio is finished now, and I've run back and forth to the Administration for Industry and Commerce too. We are officially people with our own company now!"

Su Chen was slightly stunned, though the news didn't evoke much of an emotional reaction from him.

As for setting up studios, Su Chen couldn't even remember how many he had founded in his past life.

In truth, artists set up independent studios for essentially three main reasons.

The first is reasonable tax avoidance—those who know, know, so there's no need to elaborate.

The second reason is actually to break free from the restrictions entertainment companies place on artists. The difference between working for someone else and being your own boss needs no explanation.

As for the final reason, it comes down to factions and resources.

In the entertainment industry of his past life, although it looked like a single pond, it was a complex mix of many different factions.

Take the film industry, for instance. They categorized filmmakers based on the film studios they aligned with.

There was the old-school Xi'an Film Studio, the imperial capital's Beijing Film Studio, the capital-heavy Shanghai Film Studio, and so on. The resources of these studios were completely unshared.

Take the clique formed around the Beijing Film Studio, for example. If you wanted access to their resources, you had no choice but to become part of the Beijing studio, meaning you could never touch the resources of the Xi'an or Shanghai studios ever again.

This was what they called a circle.

While the music industry wasn't as rigidly "standardized" as the film industry, factions still existed.

To put it simply, take the group centered around the Hunan TV station versus the group around the Zhejiang TV station. These two were at constant loggerheads, and their covert struggles were obvious to any ordinary viewer.

Although nobody said it out loud, certain unwritten rules were taken for granted.

Once you consumed the resources of Hunan TV, you had no business touching the resources of Zhejiang!

Yet the cake was so massive, and seeing delicacies you weren't allowed to touch drove everyone crazy!

Therefore, forward-thinking individuals would shake off the shackles of traditional entertainment companies and open their own independent studios, operating on a freelance basis—becoming a brick in the entertainment industry, placed wherever they were needed most.

The core strategy here was neutrality.

Though this neutrality wasn't absolute, and other agencies wouldn't hand over their core resources to you, the greatest advantage was absolute freedom!

Money is precious, but career status is even higher; for the sake of freedom, both can be discarded!

Moreover, opening a studio didn't entirely lock you out of a circle's core resources.

As long as you were popular enough and your earning power was strong enough—so strong that people couldn't find a replacement for you—those core resources would still end up in your hands.

Besides, the moment one artist set up a studio and others saw the sweet benefits, they would naturally follow suit.

Before long, with so many people doing it, who would still want to lay bricks as an ordinary employee at a company? Everyone would rather become a general contractor!

Once there were too many general contractors, how many construction companies would still be willing to spend money maintaining their own in-house construction teams? Everything would be outsourced!

Thus, the market would shift, gradually evolving toward the trend of establishing independent studios.

That was why Su Chen set up his studio, and why he had to do it before those major companies attempted to sign him.

This way, he could cast off any potential labels and even use it for a wave of reverse self-promotion.

This was the exact reason Su Chen rushed to set up the studio so quickly.

Though Su Chen wasn't entirely familiar with the factional landscape of the entertainment industry in this parallel world, he was certain that factions existed.

Wherever there are people, there is jianghu—this was an inescapable rule.

However, these factions were something Su Chen needed to pay close attention to now.

It looked like he needed to find some time to chat with Sister Fuyu and Sister Yanmi about this; he couldn't just remain completely in the dark!

Slumped on the sofa and rubbing his little belly, Su Chen thought to himself.

Furthermore, now that he had his own company, he could finally start making moves against Starlight Intertainment.

Of course, Su Chen still needed to discuss all of this with Han Jiangxue. After all, as the manager of Su Chen's studio, Han Jiangxue currently handled all his affairs, both big and small.

Besides, after what happened in the past few instances, Su Chen wouldn't dare keep things from Han Jiangxue anymore.

An angry Han Jiangxue was still quite terrifying!

"...Alright, so as for Starlight, are we going to court in a couple of days to submit the chain of evidence and then file a lawsuit?"

Han Jiangxue glanced at Su Chen in confusion and said, "Why wait a couple of days? You're my person now—your enemies are my enemies!"

"Don't you worry, just wait for big sis to go avenge you! Watch me dismantle them completely, my iron bro!"