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Chapter 90: Shanghai

a long time.

Sun Meiqi then ran to the bathroom to wash her face and touch up her makeup.

Song Dao was arguing with Yan Yu.

"Praise me and comfort me."

"What?"

"My sister works for you and was just scolded by my father. Isn't it worth your praise and comfort?"

Yan Yu looked at Song Dao confidently: "Do you know how arrogant I am in front of him?"

"First of all, please pay attention to your emotions and words. You are not working for me, you are working for yourself. Secondly, my proud sister, can I ask where the cash for your investment in the company came from?"

Yan Yu was furious and said, "I came here openly! Do you think I would beg for such a small amount of money? This is really funny!"

Then he fell on the sofa, hugged Lin Fei and said, "Sister Fei, look at him. It's so hard to ask for a favor from him!"

Lin Fei smiled and said, "Didn't I write a song for you?"

Yan Yu rolled his eyes: "He and you are true love..."

In the past, Lin Fei would probably avoid this question.

Maybe I have figured some things out.

He smiled and said, "Yes, 20% of the profits, and I have to work hard for him to earn more dividends. This is indeed true love, right?"

Yan Yu nodded vigorously: "Yeah, yeah, why doesn't it count?"

Song Dao: “…”

Yan Yu: "I wonder if Qiqi will be so scared that she will turn around and run away when she finds out that the god-like teacher Shui Ji Sanqian in her mind is actually a black-hearted money-grubber?"

Lin Fei: "That's not the case. At worst, I can write it myself. It's not like I don't have the ability to do it."

At this moment, Sun Meiqi pushed open the bathroom door, came out in high spirits, and said with a smile: "It's okay, just give me one Chengdu."

At this time, she had already put on her makeup, and except for her eyes which looked a little red, it was almost impossible to tell that she had been crying.

"You can hear all this?" Yan Yu asked in surprise.

They didn't chat behind anyone's back.

But the bathroom is about six or seven meters away from here, and there is a door in between.

Sun Meiqi said: "I have had very good hearing since I was a child. My parents always joked that they should not say bad things about me. I could hear them chatting even through two doors."

Yan Yu was amazed, and then asked half-jokingly: "You really don't mind that someone else takes the lion's share of the copyright income?"

Sun Meiqi came over and sat down, saying sincerely: "I really don't mind. Haven't I been living like this all these years? Although those songs were all written by me, I didn't get any copyright income. In the beginning, I even had a fixed salary..."

Poor baby!
But rules are rules, and the most you can get is 20%.

Song Dao thought to himself.

Lin Fei talked to Sun Meiqi about the treatment at Feiyang Lezhang.

In fact, during the two or three months of recording the show, Sun Meiqi had already understood most of it.

For her, making money is secondary.

The most important thing is not to be controlled to the point where you have no freedom.

There are many ways for singers to make money nowadays, and the song itself is not the most important one.

As long as there are new songs to keep the popularity, that’s fine.

Although the copyright income is not small, it doesn't matter to someone like her who has never eaten it.

If you can’t even get what you wrote, it naturally doesn’t matter what others write.

But then again, this is just Song Dao.

Song Dao, who has the pen name of Shui Ji San Qian, a top producer.

If someone else offered to split the money 20:80 with her, she would not agree.

Although I have not been in the entertainment industry for a long time, I have heard and seen everything I should hear and see.

I know the rules of this circle very well.

Whoever has the resources and capabilities has the right to speak.

If you don't want to do it, don't do it. There are plenty of people who are willing to do it.

This is the same whether it is done openly or in private.

Then Li Qingqing hurried over, her face showing surprise and uncontrollable joy.

Sun Meiqi!

This is a rising star in the Xiayu music scene.

It was hard for her to understand why the agency behind Sun Meiqi was unwilling to make some concessions?

Instead of taking good care of such a money tree, allowing it to drop gold ingots throughout its life, you can't wait to cut off its branches and sell them for money before it grows up?

What's the difference between this and killing a chicken that lays golden eggs, chopping it up and stewing it?
It's so stupid!
But that's how many things are in this world.

Greed blinds one's mind.

Not many people can be as generous and magnanimous as Lin Fei, a spendthrift woman, who doesn't care about money.

She came in a hurry, but she was actually a little worried, fearing that Lin Fei would become emotional and give away shares impulsively again!
I am really worried about this family!
Fortunately, Lin Fei is not that stupid.

However, he also agreed to sign a two-year agency contract with Sun Meiqi, with a 50-50 split of the profits.

Two years later, either adjustments will be made based on the situation at the time, or a separate studio will be set up for her.

The conditions are definitely not as good as Song Dao’s.

After all, she is not a great god like Shui Ji San Qian who can be praised by anyone.

But for Sun Meiqi, a girl who had barely had a full meal, let alone seen "four dishes", this was a treatment she had never dared to imagine in the past.

Fifty-fifty!

She can choose from various notices and just not go if she doesn't want to.

It's like being treated like a god, okay?

The young queen, who didn't even have an agent or assistant at the time, immediately nodded happily and agreed.

Both parties agreed to come over as soon as the two concerts were over.

Li Qingqing temporarily serves as her agent.

Then, the impatient girl dragged him to rent a house.

You can't afford to buy it.

In Sun Meiqi's words, despite her high-intensity work, her average annual income does not exceed two million.

Although it’s a lot, you have to know that she is a little queen!

Under normal circumstances, if you don’t make 300 to 500 million a year, you’d be embarrassed to say hello to people when you go out!

In the end, no one made as much as Song did in these few months!
Besides, she is not like Brother Song who has little expenses. Girls are more expensive by nature.

I also have to support my parents, so I never have much money.

But this time, I finally see hope.

When she left, the girl walked with a breeze.

……

a few days later.

November 5th.

A TV series that had no prior publicity was released very low-key on the 8pm slot on Orange Channel.

Shanghai Beach!
The show's premiere did not cause much response.

Even if the director is a big shot like Gao Qun who always makes classics.

Not many people paid attention to it at the beginning.

Gao Qun’s characteristic is gradual progress, and he is good at laying various foreshadowings at the beginning.

As the plot develops, it goes up and up.

The drama Shanghai Beach tells a story about gangs from more than a hundred years ago. The actors used are all skilled actors, without any popular stars.

A little slow to warm up.

But when the ending song appeared, many people were shocked on the spot.

Not long after the first episode was aired, the ratings for the second episode began to soar.

At the same time, many people on the Internet were surprised and happy.

A heated discussion broke out.

……

"Fuck, guess what I found?"

"That TV series on Orange TV seems to be a gangster-themed story directed by some famous director. It feels so-so, but the theme song is sung by Fei! It's a Cantonese song! It's so good!"

"Haha, I watched it too. Actually, that TV show is pretty awesome. You'll know how awesome it is when you watch it later. But I have to say, Fei's song is really awesome."

"Compared to "Lovesickness" and "Scars", this song is so explosive. It goes really well with the TV series!"

"It's magnificent and top-notch! I looked up the composer and it's the mysterious Water Strike Three Thousand God! It sounds great!"

"Hahaha, what did some people say before? Shui Ji San Qian doesn't write songs for the Queen? Isn't that a slap in the face? This is the level of the first move, this is called not writing songs for Lin Fei?"

“The waves are running and flowing, the surging river never stops… The lyrics are so majestic, really amazing! Sister Fei’s singing is also awesome!”

"I didn't think the TV series was that good at first, but after listening to this song, I felt it so much!"

"Is Lin Fei going to dominate the charts completely? The song Scars was only released a few days ago, and now there's another hit song from a movie or TV series? It seems like there's no point in beating up others, why not just beating up yourself?"

“It sounds good. It really sounds good!”

“So shocking!”

That evening, it caused heated discussions on the Internet.

It became a hot topic, but the ranking was not high.

There are only a dozen or so on major platforms.

The main reason was that Lin Fei did not promote it, and "Shanghai Bund" was not first released on Penguin Music.

Therefore, even many fans were unaware that Lin Fei actually released such a terrible Cantonese song.

But after a night of fermentation, the entry "Lin Fei's new song" had already made headlines on major platforms the next morning.

Countless people finally noticed the song "Shanghai Beach".

Everyone was stunned by the majestic momentum of the song.

Countless people are calling for them to go to Penguin Music as soon as possible.

"What is Feiyang Music doing? Shouldn't a song like this be uploaded as soon as possible so that we can listen to it in the best quality?"

"Yeah, why can't we find this song on Penguin Music?"

"Sister Fei, what are you doing? Hurry and put it online!"

“Is there a requirement from the TV series that it can’t be released on the platform so early?”

"What does it have to do with them? If that's the case, I'd rather not watch that show!"

……

Gao Qun, who was also paying attention to the developments online, was suddenly shocked.

He really didn't ask for that!
Although for many TV drama theme songs, the production companies would like the singers to upload the songs to the platform later.

This will attract more people to watch the show.

But he really didn't.

It’s so unfair!

In fact, Lin Fei and Song Dao feel that "Scars" is still very popular now, surpassing "Crescent Moon" and Jiang Ying's "Memories" to top the list.

Releasing "The Bund" at this time will really be like what some netizens said, it will backfire.

So I plan to postpone it for a few days.

Unexpectedly, Gao Qun couldn't stand it anymore.

"Teacher Lin, you have to testify for me. It's not us who are stopping you from posting it. Please upload it quickly. If you hit yourself, then you hit yourself. Anyway, the meat will be rotten in the pot..."

Looking at the comments from netizens on the hot searches, Lin Fei was a little scared.

Immediately contact the company and ask them to transfer the audio source of "Shanghai Beach" to Penguin Music.

Then the song exploded!

After posting this song, the comment with the most likes from fans was:

“When people have classic songs like this, they put them in an entire album as the main hit.

Then I build up the rhythm little by little, and only release new songs after they have fully fermented.

Sister, you are so willful, aren't you, relying on the support of the mysterious god Shui Ji San Qian behind you?
Lovesickness, Scars, Shanghai Beach... every song is a blast!
Are you going to fill an album with songs of this level?

I finally figured out that Sister Fei is not competing with others at all, she is fighting herself!

If "Yao Lian" and "Xing Si" complement each other, then if the drama "Back to Shanghai" becomes popular, in my opinion, at least half of the credit is due to this song!"

This netizen’s speech is very insightful.

The same is true.

This majestic Cantonese song "Shanghai Beach" quickly became popular.

It easily beat "Scars" which had just topped the charts for a few days.

The TV series became a hit on the evening of November 6th.

On the morning of November 7, the new ratings shocked countless people.

It actually exceeded 3%!

This is already considered extremely high in this era.

You have to know that the two episodes aired on the 1th were just over .

In other words, overnight, the popularity of a song directly supported the entire drama!
Even director Gao Qun posted a message on Shuibo to publicly thank Lin Fei and Shui Ji San Qian.

“I am very confident in my drama, but if I were to judge, it would take at least a dozen episodes for it to become popular.

And it may be difficult to attract the love of today's young groups.

So I really want to thank Teacher Lin for his singing, and thank Teacher Shui Ji Sanqian for tailoring this song for this drama!

I would also like to thank the young netizens for their attention. I hope you will like this song and this drama as well!"

Gao Qun then quickly followed Shuijisanqian’s Weibo account, just like Peng Chuan and Zhang Yi before him.

Shuijisanqian, who rarely posts on Weibo, almost never posts, quickly responded:

"Director Gao, you're too polite. I've been following this drama. From the plot to the actors, it's all first-rate. Even without this song, it will definitely become a classic!"

Lin Fei forwarded this post and added: "It's mainly because Teacher Sanqian writes well, and Shuihou's singing is just average."

Dong Yu forwarded it immediately - supporting my sister.

then.

The surname Lin is on the hot search again.

[Water Queen's singing is average]

[Gao Qun thanks Lin Fei and Shuiji Sanqian]

[Water strikes three thousand and is alive]

This terrifying hot search physique really leaves people in the industry speechless.

Some people try their best and spend money to find people, but it is still difficult to make the headlines.

But some people can easily become a hot topic and make the headlines even if they just post a casual post.

When more people flocked to Orange TV and started paying attention to this drama, they were surprised to find that it was unexpectedly good!

The "snowball effect" began to appear.