Chapter 168 - Da Mei Studios (1/2)

Hangzhou had the title of China’s anime capital. In the past ten years, when businesses across the country wanted to develop the anime industry and theme parks as an alternative to real estate operations, Hangzhou was already steadily growing its animation industry.

For the last ten years, there were virtually no animations produced from Zhejiang province, but now there were more than 300 animation and video game related enterprises. These companies formed an industrial group of one board of directors running each company, and one GEM listed company plus 10 new companies with third listing groups. Their annual revenue had exceeded 25 billion.

In Hangzhou, there were several creative theme parks, and each one had an animation related industry.

And Qin Jiao wanted to bring Meng Fan to the Xizi cultural park near the campus which was a creative theme park focused on animated video games.

Soon the car drove into the cultural park, turning left and then right before stopping at a house that looked like a factory.

“Is this all of it?”

Meng Fan looked around. There was a large courtyard surrounding the premises, and there was nobody in the house. There was no company or office listed.

Aside from the massive courtyard, the house was at least a thousand square meters and had three levels… The area was way too big!

Seeing Qin Jiao nodding and walking in, Meng Fan followed her, swearing along the way. “I could tell that you are a rich woman! You were probably just pretending when you cry about being poor before!”

“I wasn’t crying about being poor. I’m really poor.” Qin Jiao pushed the door open and entered before telling Meng Fan the whole story. “Because of the school, I have a position in this cultural park. This is mostly tacking onto the reputation of the school since they also support it. Hence, the cultural park gave me a reasonable price and coupled with policy support, it doesn’t cost me too much to rent this studio. Of course, even if it’s not a lot, I borrowed quite a large amount from your sister. It’s her fault for suggesting it, anyway!”

Meng Fan smiled. “Her money does nothing but gather interest in the bank, anyway. It’s good she’s taking it out to do some investment.”

“Yeah, nevermind investments, I don’t have that ability to make money. If it weren’t for the low rent, I wouldn’t dare to rent it. I wasn’t planning to make money from it. I’ll be happy if it can just operate normally every year.”

She opened a window to let some air in and made some calls to tell the cleaning staff to come here. Then she turned to Meng Fan. “I originally established this studio to give our graduates a choice or a transitional place for them. Even if they graduated from our school, there are many people who choose to work in other industries. Among them, there are many who give up due to external factors. In addition, although some are still engaged in the industry, they are not happy, primarily because they can’t make money. Hence, I don’t hope to profit from this studio, but I really hope that the students who join can make money and pursue what they want.”

If someone else said that, Meng Fan, who had never experienced the real society, would definitely have thought it was a sugar-coated statement, but since it came from Qin Jiao, he chose to believe her.

Qin Jiao pulled out a prepared contract from her bag and handed it to Meng Fan. “Let’s sign.”

“I think I’ll pass.” Meng Fan waved his hands and smiled. “I’ve received a lot of work myself recently, so I don’t need to make money on the reputation of your studio. Besides, I was just trying to make some temporary pocket change.”

“I know. That’s why I wanted you to sign first.” Said Qin Jiao.

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Meng Fan was puzzled. “When you said you wanted the students who joined to make money, did you not mean me?”

Qin Jiao nodded. “You understand me very well. You don’t need money, but you have the ability to make money, so I need you to make money to support the studio.”

Meng Fan wanted to cry. “What did you learn from my mother? Nothing but ways on how to troll me!”

Qin Jiao saw this and laughed out loud. “Look at the contract again.”