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Chapter 152 Mid-Autumn Festival Gala, Moon Landing Accident

The song "A Bridge of Fate" is excellent in terms of lyrics, music, arrangement, and composition.

In terms of singing style, it adopts the pentatonic scale and Qinqiang opera, which are rarely seen nowadays. The whole song perfectly blends several completely different elements such as ancient style, rock and Qinqiang opera.

As for the lyrics, Fang Wenshan personally took charge, introducing Wang Changling's "Leaving the Frontier" at the beginning, and then his own lyrics are even more exquisite, with every word and sentence being a gem, showing a high level of cultural knowledge and musical attainment.

The works that Ikeno had previously copied, such as "Confession Balloon," also had lyrics written by Teacher Fang, but the style, meaning, and format were completely different.

The main selling point is that he is exceptionally talented.

This song also won the Song of the Year award on Earth. It is very difficult to sing, but it is full of passion and combines the market attributes of art and popular music.

So when Sister Pliers simply combined the lyrics and music "written" by Chi Ye and hummed a few lines, she instantly had the feeling: how did he even come up with this song?

"No, you need to tighten it a little more."

After listening, Chi Ye shook his head, indicating that Pliers Sister should not hold back and should "pliers" as much as she wanted.

Shi Jin glared at him fiercely, but she also understood why Chi Ye wanted to sing a duet with her.

Perhaps, maybe... besides wanting to piggyback on her fame, there's also the reason that this song is a good fit.

Hmm... compatible?

Shi Jinwei's heart skipped a beat, and her sapphire blue eyes suddenly swept over Chi Ye a few times with a wary look—this was clearly a song written for me.

What does he mean?
Is he really trying to get my attention?
Ah... in that case... then she couldn't possibly be attracted to someone like that!
"No, what are you standing there for? Sing!"

Chi Ye looked dumbfounded when she saw the pliers-wielding woman opposite her. Her beautiful eyes were sometimes suspicious and sometimes strange, like she was crazy... Could it be that Xiao Sheng Ning really inherited Sheng Ning's "neuroticism"?
"What are you going to sing... I'll tell you." Sister Pliers snapped out of her daze and warned, "I'm not like Jin Xia, don't think you can do anything to me with just a few songs."

Chiye: "?"

"What did I do to you? Are you trying to abstain from sex?"

Shi Jin was slightly enraged. He straightened his back and said angrily, "You think I can abstain from lust?! You think I can abstain from lust?!"

Ikeno slapped his thigh: "Yes, yes! That's the sound, that's the feeling!"

Shi Jinwei: "..."

Chino blinked, realizing she hadn't shown Pliers much "respect as a woman," and quickly changed the subject: "Do you think this song is okay?"

"...It's alright, I guess."

Shi Jin paused slightly, ignoring Chi Ye's attitude just now, but kept her anger to herself.

On this day, she went all out, displaying the qualities of a true heroine.

When he sang the words "pen knife~", it instantly soared to the sky. The angry sound made Ikeno's eardrums go numb - his earwax was almost shaken out!

"Holy crap, this isn't a pair of pliers, it's clearly a welding torch!"

Chino was amazed and overjoyed: "You're a true genius!"

Shi Jinwei: "...It's good that you know."

……

Just as Chino and Sister Pliers were preparing their duet for the Mid-Autumn Festival Gala, the other guests for this year's Mid-Autumn Festival Gala had also arrived at the CCTV building.

Outside the door.

Peng Chen led his team into the building in a hurry. After exchanging pleasantries with the person in charge for a moment, he looked around and asked, "Where's Chi Ye?"

The assistant understood what he meant and said, "He's been rehearsing the piece these past few days."

"I'm really convinced."

Lao Peng was very saddened by Ikeno's refusal to share the stage with him.

Like a prisoner, he now stares longingly at the vacant positions in the Big Four accounting firms and the vast market potential they've created, but he can't have them.

Then you, Ikeno, are in the same situation now. If you and I were to share the stage, and Rise were to truly reunite, what a huge buzz that would be.

Can't we beat the other competitors?

Although he might get the lion's share, can he really leave the captain with absolutely no benefit?

Can?

It really works!
"Chi Ye, Chi Ye, he's just too prejudiced against me. I didn't steal that dog back then; Shen Qingyu gave it to me. He said it was his dog, so I accepted it."

Peng Chen shook his head and said, "We can't count on the captain. We'll have to rely on ourselves this time... Hmm, Yu Yan is going to sing this time too, right? Let's team up with him! Let's piggyback on his fame!"

"what?"

The assistant was bewildered: "Bound...how do you bind them?"

"nonsense."

Lao Peng was exasperated: "Trying to scam someone! Can't you even do that? Isn't he going to premiere his new album? Trying to scam him like that!"

assistant:"……"

"Why are not you talking?"

"No, I was just wondering why you're so skilled at it."

"Heh." Peng Chen smiled slightly: "Don't forget where I come from!"

Assistant: "...Now that you put it that way, I understand everything."

Yes, the assistant understands. Peng Chen is a promising talent from Rise, a protégé personally trained by Chi Ye.

But how does the saying go?

The captain will always be the captain.

Just as Lao Peng was hatching all sorts of underhanded tricks to make a fortune off Ji Nan, the team members were shocked to discover that someone had already beaten them to it and was "exploiting" Yu Yan.

No, to be precise, this isn't an attempt to extort money. Given Ikeno's current popularity and status, the phrase "moon landing" should be added before "extortion."

—A staged accident during a moon landing.

Five days before the Mid-Autumn Festival Gala, marketing teams from various companies in the industry started marketing for their idols. Don't assume that veteran actors don't know how to market themselves. Where do you think the term "veteran actor" came from?
Anyone in the entertainment industry has to do marketing.

Among the many TV stations, CCTV's Mid-Autumn Festival Gala is the most prestigious, and the marketing efforts of the participating teams are also the most aggressive.

Yu Yan's team is marketing the "first performance" of her new album, which has been in preparation for two years, and portraying her as a top-tier artist with "positive roots and noble character."

Peng Chen's team is marketing a comparison of Peng Chen's singing skills with Yu Yan's, plus a headlining Mid-Autumn Festival gala... Of course, this is fake, but it doesn't stop Peng from subtly boosting his own profile.

Hmm... Void is the grand finale.

He loves doing this kind of thing.

What's strange is that Sister Pliers, who has always been keen on marketing herself as the only one among the four little actresses with outstanding singing skills, did not market herself in that direction this time, appearing rather "low-key".

But her partner this year, Ikeno, has been less low-key.

Starting from a certain day, various entertainment gossip and marketing accounts suddenly released very consistent insider information.

This gossip columnist claimed that after Ji Heming's downfall, Chi Ye was originally the "biggest beneficiary," with the potential to secure the top luxury endorsement that Ji Heming desperately needed: the Bulgari deal.

However, during this period, this big opportunity was snatched away by a top-tier celebrity in the industry!
Who is this two-character top-tier celebrity in a certain circle?
If he hadn't added those two words, people might have had a few more suspects, such as Lin Yangqianrui, or Chu Hanzhou...

But with these two words added, even someone as clueless as Zhang Ziyi (a famous Chinese comedian) would know that this is the real top star, Yu Yan!
For a moment, Ikeno's fans were emotionally charged—because Ikeno has so far owned very few, if any, luxury items.

He has been ridiculed by his rivals in the industry quite often, who even mocked "Cycle" for being a hit but nothing, saying that a hit drama that didn't even get a top luxury brand award is still called a hit drama?
The show was a hit, but the actors weren't.

They started "verifying" on popular platforms like Douban and Weibo, and finally got "confirmation" from several parties on Douban, a gossip platform frequented by "insiders," confirming that it was true.

Chi Ye's fans were instantly enraged and began tearing into Yu Yan's fans across various social media platforms. Yu Yan's fans were initially confused because they didn't know why Chi Ye's team had suddenly "attacked" them.

But after they realized what was happening, they completely ignored Ikeno's fans.

Yes, I ignored it, disregarded it, and pretended it didn't exist.

One of Yu Yan's biggest fans even posted an announcement in the fan group, without mentioning Chi Ye's name, simply saying:

[Recently, yet another obscure celebrity has tried to piggyback on the moon's popularity. Ladies, just do as usual and absolutely ignore them. Because if you engage with them, they'll profit.]

Indeed, Yu Yan's fans, while not exactly experienced in dealing with this kind of opportunistic behavior, have certainly gained some experience from being targeted.

If Lin Yangqianrui's team had done this, they probably would have rushed over and torn each other apart.

Even if it were Chu Hanzhou, they might still give him some "tough love".

After all, Chu Hanzhou successfully tied himself to Yu Yan and got the title of one of the "Four Little Fresh Meat" so that his feud with the other side wouldn't be considered a loss of face.

But for Yu Yan's team, fighting with people like Chi Ye and Peng Chen, regardless of winning or losing, is just giving the other side a boost in status and traffic!

Ignore it, ignore it, simply disregard it.

This is what Yu Yan's team does.

Even so, with Yu Yan's fans barely getting involved, Chi Ye's fans were struggling to keep up with the infighting among just a small group of overly enthusiastic fans.

—There were just too many people, and these people were so experienced at tearing each other apart. With so many people reporting at once, several accounts were taken down in no time.

The key point about fault-bounded flow is not the flow itself, but the fault itself.

Thus, the Ikeno team's plan to stage a moon landing was not entirely successful, but it did provoke a "counterattack" from a small number of Yu Yan's fans, so it can be considered to have achieved some results.

This is enough.

17 number.

On the day the Mid-Autumn Festival gala was held.

Ikeno sat in the chair, observed the effect of this staged accident for a while, and when he felt it was about right, he released the trending topic #Ikeno's New Album Premiere at the Mid-Autumn Festival Gala#.

That's a bit underhanded.

As early as six months ago, Yu Yan's team had already started to promote the topic of #YuYanNewAlbumFirstSinging# in order to increase the enthusiasm of fans and hope to break the record of hundreds of millions of sales.

Therefore, once the trending topic "Ikeno" was purchased, it was mentioned in every sentence, yet it was always mentioned in the same context.

The key point is that Chi Ye deliberately timed it for the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival gala, making it impossible for Yu Yan's team to deal with him—he's blatantly trying to piggyback on their success!

"No, I'm just wondering why Chi Ye is so fixated on you?"

In another, more upscale rehearsal room.

Yu Yan's agent, who accompanied him to the filming, frowned as he glanced at the trending topics and cursed, "Shameless."

"...It's alright, it's not like it's the first time someone's done this to me."

Yu Yan remained calm. To be honest, he would probably experience this level of staged accident a dozen or so times a year.

I've long since become numb to it.

No matter how much effort is put into it, there's only one Yu Yan in the Chinese entertainment industry.

"He's deliberately retaliating. I guess we thwarted his plan, and he's unhappy about it."

The agent shook his head: "Just one Bulgari, and they act like they've lost their lives. It's laughable."

Yu Yan looked down at the sheet music: "Let's practice this song some more. This is the first time we've performed it, and we also need to promote the album."

"Okay, keep it up. This time, let's try to get a positive trending topic with everyone singing live."

The agent didn't mention it again and turned to greet the team members.

……

the other side.

"Hey, you actually ran into Yu Yan?"

Although Shi Jinwei didn't know exactly how Chi Ye's team operated, as Chi Ye's partner who had been "staying together" recently, she was naturally able to sense the recent "turbulent events" in the industry.

—Ikeno is trying to scam people by trying to go to the moon.

Does he really crave attention that much?

If it were in the past, Shi Jinwei would have thought the same way and would have felt contempt and disdain.

However, this encounter with Ikeno, especially the appearance of "A Bridge of Fate", changed her opinion of Ikeno to some extent.

Hmm... her opinion has changed somewhat, because she feels that Ikeno was definitely trying to piggyback on her popularity this time, but... if the talent is sufficient and the work is strong enough, would it still be considered piggybacking?

That's called a true talent!
Of course, Sister Pliers wouldn't say that out loud. When she saw Ikeno change into her stage outfit for tonight, she subconsciously said, "Your outfit is so tacky."

Chino glanced at her: "Is there enough to bury you?"

Shi Jinwei: “?!”

Then he realized it wouldn't work and waved his hand, saying, "Change it. The central bank can't do this. Change it to something more normal."

Shi Jinwei sat down next to her and asked curiously, "Why did you buy the lyrics for the first performance of that new album? It's so direct, everyone already knows."

Chi Ye looked at her with a puzzled expression: "Yeah, if we don't do it this directly, how am I supposed to put someone down after the party?"

Shi Jinwei: "...You're so cunning and scheming."

"That's better than you being stupid."

Shi Jinwei was furious: "Why can't you talk to me properly? Do you treat all girls like this?"

"correct."

What about this summer?

Chi Ye was taken aback, then shook his head: "She's not."

Shi Jinwei: Damn it!
So, we other girls aren't human?
"Get ready, it's about to begin."

Ikeno glanced at the time; there were still two hours until the party started.

Shi Jinwei didn't say anything more and returned to her seat to begin preparations.

Normally, she has participated in several Mid-Autumn Festival galas and even appeared on the Spring Festival Gala a few times, so she is not nervous.

However, this time the song was very difficult to perform live, and coupled with her fondness for the quality of "A Bridge of Fate," she couldn't help but feel a little nervous.

……

at the same time.

At the entrance of a villa in Shanghai.

This summer, she excitedly pulled her aunt's hand and said, "Come on, come on, we're already here, let's go inside. Grandpa and the others miss you too."

This year, she hesitated, shaking her head nervously, "I think I'd better forget it... They wish I weren't part of this family, I..."

“Oh dear, Auntie, Grandpa was just saying that in anger. He told me several times in private that he regretted it and shouldn’t have said those things to you.”

This summer, she smiled and pushed her aunt, saying, "Let's go, it's been so long since our family celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival together."

(End of this chapter)