171 A Poor Person Has Short Aspirations
Yu Han was completely stunned when she saw the pile of zeros on the bill. It was actually so expensive! Not only was the bill cleared, but her account was also cleared.
Yu Han swallowed. “What about my remuneration?”
He Meng counted them one by one with her fingers. “The pay for the first drama that you took on was already very low as you’re a newcomer. You’re not the main lead either. Before the drama was broadcasted, you only received 70% of the money in the early stages. That’s even less.”
“As for that variety show, it stopped after the first episode was broadcasted, and as a newcomer, you’re paid according to the number of episodes broadcasted… Then there’s your current drama. As the producer, your remuneration is directly converted into a share. As for Director Sun’s drama, although you’ve signed a contract, you haven’t joined the production team, so your remuneration hasn’t been transferred yet.”
Yu Han covered her face. “I’ve been trending for more than half a year. It looks like I’m in the limelight, but the money I actually earned is not as much as the money I spent.”
“That’s true.” He Meng nodded. “After all, you didn’t take on any other business deals or endorsements, so you don’t have any channels to cash out. Naturally, you can’t earn much money.”
“As expected, it’s not easy to survive as a small artist.”
He Meng did not say anything after hearing that. If she entered the industry purely to earn money, there were other ways. Other than the way she said to cash in her fame through business endorsements or live-stream sales, there were also some ways to earn money quickly but not with dignity. For example, some small artists who were not so particular would go out to dinners and banquets when they had nothing to do.
Many people liked to discuss things at banquets and also liked to invite some famous people to banquets to show off. For example, ordinary people could not afford to invite big-name artists who cost hundreds of millions or millions to attend an event. They cherished their reputation and would not go easily. However, for some small-time artists who were short of money, these banquets were a very good way to earn money.
They could earn tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of yuan after socializing for a few hours. It was still very attractive to small artists with low and unstable income. As for whether anything else would develop after the meal, it would depend on the bottom line of every artist.
It could only be said that in this industry, the path was different for everyone. As long as you had some capital and would risk it, your life would not be too difficult.
However, this had nothing to do with Yu Han, the daughter of a rich family. She was still young, so there was no need to tell her in detail about the messy stuff.
Yu Han did not know that her manager’s mind had already wandered so far away. She pitifully carried the stack of bills back to her room on the brink of tears.
Initially, she had said that she wanted to find a way to earn money, but she was delayed because she was busy with Bai Chao’s movie. Seeing that her wallet was really going to be emptied, she could not delay the matter of earning money anymore.
Yu Han threw the bill into the drawer, then turned on her computer and logged into the website she was familiar with. Indeed, if she wanted to earn quick money, she had to start from what she was good at.
Yu Han browsed through the commission missions on the dark web, but she did not find any suitable missions. At this moment, an advertisement suddenly attracted her attention—the global hacker competition.
Yu Han clicked on it and realized that it was the most famous Internet company in the world, Yaco. They invited the world’s capable hackers to gather and compete.
If it were in the past, Yu Han would probably ignore such a competition at a glance. After all, there was no first in literature and no second in martial arts. Every top hacker had their own style of doing things and quirks. It was very difficult to really determine everyone’s specific strength through a competition with strict rules.
However, Yu Han, who was seriously short of money, was shamelessly tempted when she saw the string of zeros on the reward column.
Wasn’t the money earned from participating in the competition better than the bounty earned from taking on a bunch of missions? Moreover, she was a little curious about the hackers’ standards in this world and wanted to find an opportunity to get a feel for them.
Looking at the competition time, today was the last day of the qualifier. As the saying went,
don’t think, just do it. Yu Han, who had made up her mind to participate, immediately created a new identity and named it Y.H2. Then, she handed over the competition application form to the organizer.
It could only be said that it was indeed a hacker competition. Less than a minute after Yu Han submitted the application form, she received the topic of the preliminary round. It required the participants to crack a Trojan Horse program within an hour.
Yu Han looked at the time. There were still eight minutes before midnight. To her, it was completely enough time.