In Huayu, the career reward is spy

Chapter 158: It’s better to be a godfather first than a music godfather
"Ah? Let me help with the arrangement?"

"I don't want to go. I'm a Rolling Stone employee. Writing songs for Zhou Xun is already considered supporting a competitor. And you want me to go to Warner to arrange music for her."

"Even if I'm the No. 1 star of the Rolling Stones, I still can't do that. I have to have professional ethics."

At Ji Yu's home, he was lazily lying on the sofa and talking on the phone with Chen Kun. To be more precise, he was lying on Teacher Li's lap.

This guy Chen Kun actually called Ji Yu and asked him to help compose music and be the producer.

Writing songs for Zhou Xun can be considered a favor between friends, but being a producer is definitely inappropriate.

However, since Chen Kun now came to him to beg him shamelessly, he was in a bit of a dilemma.

"Xiao Ran! Xiao Ran, you are listening too, right? Help me persuade Ji Yu!"

Chen Kun's voice came from the phone again. Li Xiaoran looked at Ji Yu and pretended not to hear it.

"Okay, okay, let me think about it and get back to you later." Ji Yu calmed Chen Kun down and hung up the phone.

Writing songs for colleagues is not a big deal, but the competition between Warner and Rolling Stone in mainland China is quite fierce, so it is not easy for him to help.

I'll go back and discuss this with the people from the Rolling Stones. At least I'll have to say hello.

"You really can't help?" Li Xiaoran asked curiously.

Ji Yu lay on Li Xiaoran's legs and tilted his head slightly to see her face.

"It's quite troublesome. If I let Zhou Xun be the producer, the Rolling Stones will definitely have objections. I haven't written a song for a Rolling Stones singer before."

Li Xiaoran thought about it and realized that this was a situation she encountered often in Xinbaoyuan.

Zhao Baogang seldom uses people from his own company in his TV dramas. The male and female protagonists are both found by other companies, and there would be an imbalance among the people from his own company.

"Then if you go and help, will your company let you write songs for the company's singers?"

"Probably. Right now the company doesn't have many singers that are good enough. I'll talk to the company when the time comes."

Ji Yu also felt a little troubled. Making friends was indeed not that easy.

He lay at home for more than an hour before going out to Rolling Stone.

The Rolling Stones have been busy releasing an album recently, an album of new songs that includes most of their singers.

When making this Rolling Stones new song compilation, the company approached Ji Yu to join, and if that didn't work out, he could just write a song for someone else.

However, Ji Yu was too busy at the time and refused. Now he has written three new songs himself and is going to write songs for Zhou Xun. The company will definitely have opinions.

What a hassle.

The most critical subsidiary of the Rolling Stone Beijing branch is Magic Stone Records, which focuses on rock music. However, it almost went bankrupt last year due to poor management. If it had not released Ji Yu's record to make up for the loss, it would have ceased operations now.

Xu Huaiyu also joined the group and moved from Rolling Stone Records to Magic Stone Records last year, mainly because she wanted to develop as an actress in the mainland.

Xu Huaiyu was really popular in the past two years. His song "I'm a Girl" became popular all over the country.

Unfortunately, last year she was sued by her family’s elders, and now the company won’t allow her to release an album.

It’s not that many singers don’t want to sing, it’s just that releasing an album is too risky. If the company is not sure of profitability, they will choose to give up, or do what the Rolling Stones are doing now, and make a compilation to test the market reaction.

We all see people making money from releasing an album, but we haven’t seen people losing money from releasing an album.

The cost of producing an album from start to finish is very high. Both the production cost of the CD and the cost of channel promotion are astronomical.

How many people can have the same blessed fortune as Ji Yu did?

Releasing the album when Meteor Garden was at its peak saved a lot of publicity and promotion costs.

The Rolling Stones have also tried to revive themselves in the past two years, but they suffered losses after releasing several albums for their singers.

The business itself is not profitable because the business is too big and the operating costs are too high.

If we lose a few more albums, life will be even harder.

The eldest of the Duan brothers, the owners of the Rolling Stones, came to Beijing at this time to set up a digital music company.

He still has good vision, but he is just unlucky.

The head of the Duan family is now targeting digital music, thinking that physical albums are not profitable, but he has entered the market too early, wasting time and money.

Physical music still has a few years left to thrive, and the ringback tone business hasn’t even started in mainland China. Why is there such a rush to enter the digital music market?

In fact, the company is now also struggling with whether to invest heavily in digital music. If the company still has a producer like Li Zongsheng, they will not be in a hurry.

I originally wanted to train Ji Yu to become the next Li Zongsheng, but who would have thought that Ji Yu would refuse at the beginning.

Ji Yu is truly a godsend for the Rolling Stones, and the Rolling Stones also hope that Ji Yu can become someone like Li Zongsheng.

He is a great singer and songwriter, so why can’t he help the company create a few singers to keep it going?
However, the first time the company invited Ji Yu to sing, he refused on the grounds that he was too busy.

Now that I know he wrote a song for Zhou Xun, I don’t know how I feel about him.

Ji Yu refused at first because he was busy and secondly because he didn't want to be the second Li Zongsheng.

It’s good to write and sing your own songs. One album and a few singles a year is good enough.

If you were a gold medal producer, you would have to produce at least five or six albums a year, which would probably exhaust you to death.

What's more, he still has to film and doesn't have that much time.

When Boss Duan saw Ji Yu, his eyes were full of resentment, as if he saw a scumbag.

Ji Yu shifted his gaze guiltily and looked at the Rolling Stones logo hanging on the wall.

Boss Duan coughed lightly and said, "Let me listen to the song you wrote for Zhou Xun."

There are people with creative ability. Zhou Jielun is a typical example. But people like Li Zongsheng are rare.

It’s amazing to be able to tailor songs for singers!
Boss Duan still wants to see if Ji Yu can become the next Li Zongsheng.

The boss wanted to listen to music, so Ji Yu naturally wanted to satisfy him. He took the guitar in the office and started playing.

"I heard that Snow White is running away~ Little Red Riding Hood is worried about the Big Bad Wolf... I heard that the Mad Hatter likes Alice! The ugly duckling will become a white swan~~"

Listening to Ji Yu's singing, Boss Duan's eyes lit up. This song was completely different from Ji Yu's previous style.

He listened quietly, and when Ji Yu finished singing, he became more certain that Ji Yu had the potential to become the next Li Zongsheng.

This song is really suitable for Zhou Xun.

Ji Yu is a really good guy, he can really write songs based on the singer’s characteristics!

But then he thought that Ji Yu was not writing songs for his own company, and he felt a little regretful.

How could such a good song be given to someone else?

Boss Duan looked at Ji Yu in silence for a while before saying, "It's a good song, very suitable for Zhou Xun, and has the potential to become a big hit."

"Yeah, I think so too." Ji Yu continued to play dead. He didn't want to take the initiative to talk about writing songs for the company anyway.

When writing songs for friends, I would only write one or two songs at most. But if I write songs for a company, then it is not just one or two songs.

Seeing Ji Yu pretending to be dead, Boss Duan said directly: "The company has no objection to you being an arranger for Zhou Xun, but it certainly can't be a producer. However, the company also hopes that you can help the company's singers grow better."

"I'm not familiar with the people in the company. If there are suitable songs, I will definitely give priority to the singers in the company."

I really don’t know Ji Yu well. I only know Wu Bai, Mo Wenwei and Sister Courage.

But the first two have left the Rolling Stones, and Sister Courage is doing very well now.

Boss Duan was helpless too. He thought for a moment and said, "Your concert tour will start soon. I will take you to meet the singers of the company and see if there are any you like."

"Hmm?? What do you mean by seeing if there's anyone you like? I don't play that game. I'm a good person."

"What are you thinking? You know what I mean. The company also needs your help."

"I see. If I meet a new talent with potential, can I sign him?"

"Of course! But you are responsible for the person you sign with!"

"Uh, I'm too tired. Let me think about it."

Ji Yu's lazy look made Boss Duan feel helpless. Don't you understand that the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility?

I'll give him a set of Spider-Man comics later!
"By the way, the album company for the three songs by Yellow Man has already started production, but the sales may not be too high, so you should be mentally prepared."

Boss Duan is not very optimistic about the sales of this kind of inspirational song. It has great publicity and educational significance, but it is difficult to get fans to pay for it.

After all, Ji Yu’s fans are all young people who prefer more popular songs.

Ji Yu also knew the market trend, shrugged and said, "It doesn't matter, any profit is good."

"OK, that's it for now. Finish your own business as soon as possible and prepare for the concert."

"Okay, I'll leave first."

Ji Yu got up to leave, but was stopped by Boss Duan, who said he had brought him a gift.

A black box was pushed in front of Ji Yu. He opened it and found it was a diamond-studded microphone.

Wow, boy, that's not cheap.

Michael Jackson had diamond gloves and he had a diamond microphone, right?

It's so cool to use this microphone at a concert, he likes it very much!

Ji Yu happily walked away holding the microphone, already looking forward to dazzling his fans at the concert.

I feel uncomfortable if I don’t show off for a day!

Since the company has given me such a big gift, it seems that I have to do something to help the company.

Think back and think about which singers with potential who have not yet debuted and give them to the company as return gifts.

In fact, it’s not bad to have the title of music godfather.

It feels very pretentious!
After taking care of the Rolling Stones, Ji Yu can start arranging music for Zhou Xun.

He also didn't want such a good song like Storybrooke to be wasted.

Zhou Xun's arrangement team is pretty good, but Ji Yu is worried that they won't be able to grasp the characteristics of this song.

After Ji Yu came out of Rolling Stone, he called Chen Kun.

"Kun, I'll take care of the arrangement. My boss scolded me for half an hour because of you. Tell me how you're going to repay me!"

Chen Kun asked in surprise: "Really? Good brother! Thank you!"

“Well, just let your son recognize me as his godfather later.” Ji Yu chuckled. He couldn’t be the music godfather for the time being, but he could be the godfather first.

Chen Kun's voice came from the other end of the phone: "You wish! It's absolutely impossible!"

"Don't be so stingy, what's wrong with having another father?"

"It just doesn't work anyway!"

Chen Kun would never agree. His son’s godmother is Zhou Xun, so how could his godfather be Ji Yu!
Ji Yu complained a few words about Chen Kun and then hung up the phone. He took the diamond microphone home to show it to Teacher Li.

After he ran back home, he waved to Teacher Li mysteriously.

"what happened?"

"I have a big treasure to show you!"

Ji Yu excitedly pulled Teacher Li to the bedroom.

Li Xiaoran blushed, thinking that Ji Yu was going to show her that, and said shyly in a low voice: "It's not even dark yet."

"It's the same even if you cover yourself with a blanket!"

Ji Yu excitedly pulled her into the bed, and then he felt that Teacher Li's little hands were getting naughty.

"Teacher Li, what are you doing? It's this."

Ji Yu said as he pulled out his diamond microphone from the box.

More than ten minutes later, Li Xiaoran looked down at the diamond microphone placed on her chest, her face flushed.

After an unknown amount of time, the two of them were already dressed and cooking and eating in the kitchen.

Li Xiaoran looked at Ji Yu sleepily and said, "Will we go after dinner?"

"Well, Chen Kun urged me to finish the arrangement quickly, saying that Zhou Xun had to go to Hainan to film a movie and didn't have time.

"You were pretty nice to him."

"I only act this way because he's your friend. If it were anyone else, I wouldn't care at all."

"Hey, you're so kind."

"Then kiss me."

Trojan~~
After dinner in the evening, Ji Yu drove to Warner Records.

Its full name is Warner Records, a Sino-foreign joint venture record company that has developed very well in recent years.

When Ji Yu arrived, he saw Zhou Xun, who was smoking.

"Smoking while recording a song? Are you really not afraid?" Ji Yu walked over and couldn't help teasing. He quite admired this sister.

Zhou Xun put out his cigarette and said, "I was just smoking for fun, not seriously."

"You have a good voice, and you can still recover it now, don't waste it."

“Some things are meaningless if you quit.”

"Yeah, you sing just for fun anyway."

Zhou Xun wanted to say that he was not playing around, but he was not convincing enough, so he had to give up.

Ji Yu was chatting with Zhou Xun when Chen Kun suddenly appeared out of nowhere.

"Why are you here so late? Let's go and get to work quickly. Don't waste time." As soon as Chen Kun came over, he squeezed between Ji Yu and Zhou Xun.

He was on guard against Ji Yu and Zhou Xun, firstly because of himself, and secondly because of Li Xiaoran.

I can't just stand by and watch Ji Yu and Zhou Xun get together.

He knows Zhou Xun too well, and he also knows men too well, so he must be on guard!

As they walked towards the recording studio, Ji Yu couldn't help but whisper to Chen Kun, "Why are you so nervous? Why didn't I see that she was interested in me?"

"That's because you're with Xiao Ran. You're not allowed to give her a chance, do you understand?!"

"Don't worry, I don't like short people."

"Uh, no personal attacks."

"Then let me put it another way. I'm different from you. I don't connect."

"Who are you scolding?"

"Call anyone who's a pervert!"

"Forget it, let's not talk about this. I really don't want your son to recognize me as his godfather."

"impossible."

"Then I'll seduce Zhou Xun!"

"I'll admit it tomorrow!"

"Then you can call me godfather on behalf of your son first."

"Get out! I'll stab you to death!"

The two of them followed Zhou Xun and bickered with each other, neither daring to speak loudly. The way they hugged each other and whispered made others doubt their relationship.

(End of this chapter)