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  "Are you looking for me for something?" Liu Zishi asked Yin Xian while driving.

  Just now, when Yin Xian told him to hitch a ride, he felt it. This was not the first time Yin Xian had gone out with them without an agent and assistant. In the past, Yin Xian would always call a taxi by himself after the gathering ended, and even when Liu Zai Shi offered to send him home, he declined, saying it was no trouble.

  So, it must be that Yoon Hyun has something he wants to tell himself.

  However, he thought Yoon Hyun wanted to talk to him privately about the Infinite Challenge MC.

  I guess several other MCs also thought so.

  "Is there something on your mind, Shi Ge?" Yun Xian asked with a serious face.

  "No... it's just about the 'Infinite Challenge' program." Liu Zai Shi was stunned for a moment, and then laughed.

  "What's on your mind? Let's talk about it! Two heads are better than one, after all!" Yin Xian said with a smile.

  Liu Zaishi fell silent for a moment.

  He was just stunned when he heard that Yoon Hyun wanted to walk with him privately, mainly because he didn't think Yoon Hyun had anything to say to him that he couldn't say to others.

  It seems that Yoon Hyun has seen some of his own worries. Moreover, this concern has made Liu Zai Shi feel a little warm. He sighed: "Recently it's been really busy."

  "Busy? What's wrong with being busy? You can only make money when you're busy!" Yin Xian said with a smile.

  "A bit worried!" Liu Zai Shi sighed.

  "What's wrong? Is something not going well?" Yun Xian rarely saw Liu Zaishi react like this, and for a moment, he was stunned.

  "Recently, things in the company have been a bit frustrating." Liu said after some deliberation.

  "Company? Oh, you mean your own economic workshop!" Yun Xian suddenly realized.

  "Yes, this thing is really too troublesome." Liu Zai Shi let out a sigh of complaint, "There are many things I don't understand, especially personnel arrangements and whatnot. There's only one person using it, but you can't do without it... not even one little thing can be missing..."

  "Your income isn't bad at all, brother." Yoon Hyun said with a mix of comfort and ridicule.

  "I don't have such a high income!" Liu Zai Shi sighed, "You also came out of 'Infinite Challenge', so you naturally know that our income is not considered to be very high."

  Yoon Hyeon was momentarily at a loss for words.

  He had never thought that hosting a variety show would bring him any income... How much money did the two years of "Infinite Challenge" earn for himself? He really has no concept. But thinking about it carefully, it seems to be true, if the income was really high, wouldn't he have no memory of it at all?

  "There are many programs in my hands, but actually there are only three main ones from the three major stations. At the beginning of the year, SBS's 'Family Outing' was also stopped." Liu Zaishi sighed.

  "That program itself has congenital deficiencies, it's hard to do it from the beginning. Where can you find so many suitable villages in China for filming?" Yin Xian seized the opportunity to reveal a bit of his thoughts on that program.

  "SBS started season 2, but none of us went." Liu Zhi said with a bit of depression, "It's a group of idols doing it."

  "It's a miracle if it lasts more than half a year." Yoon Hyun-ji let out a scornful smile, "I went to participate in KBS' 'Youth Without Failure' before, the entire program's rhythm was all over the place, purely relying on the idol's popularity to hold it up. The ratings barely broke 10%, what kind of show is this for Sunday afternoon? Don't joke around."

  Liu Zai Shi nodded and said: "Although it's true that words can be said like this, but after all, it still shows an attitude of SBS..."

  "What attitude?" Yoon Hyun was slightly taken aback.

  "Yin Xian ah, you know, I'm from a comedian background..."

  "Brother, I don't have any negative impressions of comedians! That song of mine was written for you guys." Yun Xian hastily said.

  "I know, I know!" Liu Zaishi waved his hand, "I'm not talking about you, but... there are still many people who don't quite like comedians, thinking that we can't really take the stage."

  Yoon Hyun was momentarily at a loss for words. Although he didn't think that comedians were of a lower class, in the Korean entertainment industry and even in Korean society as a whole, it seemed like this perception was universal.

  "This... In Stone Brother, your current status, has nothing to do with this anymore, right?" Yoon Hyun chuckled and indeed, Liu Zai Shi was no longer an ordinary comedian, compared to a comedian, his current identity is: National MC.

  "But this is a trend." Liu sighed, "MBC has given fewer and fewer opportunities to comedians in the past two years. Including the year-end entertainment awards, more and more actors and idols have participated, KBS is like the program you mentioned, also more and more people outside of comedians are participating. If SBS is also like this..."

  "This is related to Shi Ge..." Yun Xian said up to here, suddenly woke up with a start.

  He understood Liu Zhi's meaning.

  When the skin is gone, where will the hair adhere?

  "So, it's someone in your company who is worried about this?" Yoon Hyun rearranged his thoughts and found the point where Liu Zai Shi might be concerned.

  "Everyone is in this circle, such an obvious trend, and everyone has a number in mind. Including this time's 'Infinite Challenge', the person who was chosen to join, Gijun, is also a singer by origin." Liu Zaishi sighed, "So there are people in my company who worry about my future development... In the past few days, several people have proposed to resign."

  "Resign? Let them resign then. With your workshop, Stone, aren't you afraid of not being able to recruit good people?" Yin Xian was taken aback for a moment and revealed a sneering expression.

  Don't you trust Liu Zai Shi? Are you out of your mind?

  "No wonder they did so, the capital chain of my studio has been a bit tight recently..." Liu Zaishi sighed.

  "How could this be? Isn't it just one less program?" Yoon Hyun was a bit speechless.

  "Yin Xian, are you really unaware or just teasing me?" Liu Zai Shi was a bit angry.

  "What's wrong......" Yoon Hyun was a bit surprised, he had never seen Liu Zai Shi like this before. "I've never paid attention to my hosting income, so I really didn't care..."

  Liu Zaishi was choked by Yoon Hyun's words.

  After a while, Liu sighed and said: "The hosting fees given by the TV station are all delayed for a period of time. KBS and MBC's arrears situation is more serious, SBS also has some, but it's relatively better. Now the program on SBS side has stopped, but they didn't say to settle the previous ones..."

  "I see, I understand." Yun Xian nodded.

  No matter how popular you are and how willing we are to follow you, if there's no money to pay our salaries here, it's not going to work!

  "Can't your agent communicate with the TV station about this?"

  "Of course there is communication, but you also know that since the Tiger Dong incident, I have been very cautious about such things..." Liu Zaishi sighed.

  Yoon Hyeon was silent for a moment.

  The previous suspected tax evasion case of Kang Ho-dong was proven to have no relation with him at all. Some people even suspect that the whole thing was just a trap set by some individuals who were not happy about Kang Ho-dong's influence on Korean citizens.

  Although Jiang Hudong still gained a lot of sympathy after all the dust settled, he was once standing above Liu Zaishi at his peak and now it's hard to mention him in the same breath as Liu Zaishi.

  Because of the Jiang Hu Dong incident, Liu Zai Shi, who was somewhat moved by Haha and Yoon Hyun's persuasion to do some side jobs to support his family, gave up instantly.

  "But in Shige, isn't the point of doing a job to earn more money?" Yin Xian tried to persuade him again, "As long as you are clear with yourself, in the end, it will be clear who is right."

  "I don't want to give people an excuse to say that I'm making money from my fans...” Liu Zaishi shook his head firmly, “My job is as a comedian, although now I've become an MC, but I'm still a comedian. I hope to make money through my work.”

  Yin Xian silently shook his head. Liu Zai Shi, this person he had been in contact with for so long, naturally knew that once he made up his mind, it was very hard to change it.

  "Otherwise... why don't you close your economic workshop and sign with a new company?" Yin Xian changed his train of thought, "A person like you, an economics company would be very happy to snatch up."

  "If you, Yoon Hyun, were to start a company, I would be willing to go because I trust you, but others..." Liu Zai Shi shook his head.

  Yin Xian suddenly remembered that Liu Zishi had opened his own economic workshop, wasn't it because the previous economic company owed him a settlement fee and didn't pay him for a long time?

  Trust is really hard to come by!

  Yin Xian could only remain silent.

  After a while, Yin Xian said seriously: "Otherwise, let's do this. If you're having trouble with capital turnover, Stone, I can introduce you to a company that won't charge you any interest. A short-term loan should be no problem."

  "Which company did you introduce? Is it your own company?" Liu Zai Shi retorted at Yoon Hyun.

  Yin Xian nodded slightly with some embarrassment.

  "It's not that difficult." Liu Zai Shi smiled and shook his head, "There's just a bit of a problem, once MBC and KBS pay over part of the payment, it'll be fine."

  Is it all right now? Yeon Hyeon suddenly wanted to ask Liu Zai Shi, how much foreign debt he currently has in these two TV stations.

  But he never asked in the end.

  "Yin Xian, your cooperation with the company has been going smoothly, right?" Liu Zai Shi shifted the topic.

  "It's okay... but actually, I also didn't really pay attention to when the company's commission was credited," Yoon Hyun said with a bit of embarrassment.

  Liu Zaishi burst out laughing, and for this little brother, Liu Zaishi really didn't have any temper.

  Discussing this kind of money issue with such a nouveau riche is purely embarrassing.

  "Anyway, if you have any difficulties on your side, just tell me, and I'll definitely help if I can." These words of Yun Xian were a promise.

  Liu nodded: "Thank you."

  "Brother, don't mention this to me. If it wasn't for you pulling me back then, I really don't know if I'd still be in the entertainment industry now." Yun Xian said sincerely.

  Liu Zai Shi didn't say anything more. He felt a bit embarrassed.

  "I know that to you, Shi Ge, this might just be one of the many similar things you've done over the years. But to me, it's a very important matter."

  Then the two people didn't say much more.

  "Next time we gather, let's bring Ji Sung-joon along too!" Yoon Hyun's house arrived, and as he got off the car, Liu Zai suddenly said.

  "Of course! The more friends the better, right!" Yoon Hyun naturally knew what Liu Zai Shi meant.

  Then there was a smile at each other. Between brothers, isn't it also like this, the most comfortable?

  Yoon Hyun returned home and opened his email account, seeing many messages.

  It's not like Kim Soo-yeon thought, no one came to find Yoon Hyun for a duet.

  All she saw was that some well-known big companies didn't take action, while some small companies still had a try-it-out attitude and came to contact him by email.

  Every day is enough to fill his mailbox.

  In order to attract Yoon Hyun's attention, all sorts of strange moves are being made.

  For example, sexy photos of female group members who want to approach Yoon Hyun.

  Of course, there are also men... Because of Park Ji-yeon's incident, many people think that Yoon Hyun is likely to be oriented towards another faction...

  Both of these were directly ignored by Yin Xian, especially the second one, which was directly blacklisted.

  Although basically most of them fall into these two categories.

  This daily task made Yoon Hyun's head ache, but out of self-respect and not wanting to give Kim Soo-hyun the satisfaction, he quietly endured it without telling anyone.

  He took action to formally notify LOEN Entertainment that from now on, he would not use Kim Soo-young to arrange any schedules for himself, and only needed her help with some follow-up work when necessary.

  In short, from broker to assistant.

  Kim Soo-hyun also did not comment on this matter.

  When Yoon Hyun opened his email today and was about to delete the emails in bulk, he saw one of them that made him pause for a moment.

  There is an email from Park Jin-young.

  JYP approached Yoon Hyun with a song offer.

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