From the initial polite refusals, he thought they simply hadn't recognized his potential for growth and kept knocking on their door repeatedly.
From the start, the Rong Family had been indirectly but courteously declining, until the last time when they made their stance very clear and firm, saying it was obvious that no matter how many times he visited, they would not invest in his movies or TV dramas, and they had no plans in that direction.
Only then did he return dejected, ready to seek funding elsewhere.
Although he cursed the Rong Family privately for looking down on people, he was somewhat rational, knowing that the Rong Family was not someone he could afford to provoke, so he did not show his resentment publicly.
And he had no clear concept of the Tang Family, who kept a low profile and silently consumed the market.
In short, he didn't truly understand what the Rong and Tang Families stood for; he just knew they ran companies and definitely had money.
