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Chapter 245 The Ultimate Explosion: "Seven Mile Fragrance"

Sister Shang is a typical example of someone who appears to be a lazy bum on the surface, and is actually quite lazy in reality.

Of course, only she herself knows how much sincerity she truly had in her words.

But Ikeno is certain that anyone who has gone on to become an actor, star, or entertainer and achieved success has never truly been a passive, complacent individual.

Even a lazy person like Sister Shang can only take a break for a year or two at most... well, in the end, she still has to reluctantly go back to filming.

Does she really dislike her job?

should be.

Does she not want to achieve results or make movies?

Certainly not.

The film industry seems to have been a "pain point" and a "black mark" for Shang Jie since her debut.

Having starred in numerous big-budget films, her movies were met with overwhelmingly negative reviews and dismal box office returns. Perhaps that young businesswoman back then also dreamed of becoming an "international movie star," a powerful and influential figure…

But with each failure, she may have long lost her ambition to dominate, leaving only the "charm of tea drinking"...

As for why she took on the script for "Girl," it wasn't entirely out of respect for Ikeno, but it was out of a 100% willingness to help... She swears a thousand times that she never expected "Girl" to achieve its current success and momentum.

After all, this is a low-budget youth film with a total investment of no more than 100 million yuan. Whether looking at its past performance, cast, or subject matter, it is a small project with a clearly visible ceiling.

Yes, a small project.

Small projects are not worth taking on by Sister Shang, even though she has long since disappeared from the film industry.

From its inception to its completion, the small project went unnoticed and unnoticed by anyone. The Shang Jie team didn't even consider how much box office revenue the film would generate.

—Success is achieved if Ichino manages to make money.

This is the idea of ​​Sister Shang's team and agent.

result…

Shang Jie sat indoors, blinking her guilty eyes, her gaze wandering aimlessly, avoiding eye contact with Chi Ye.

Chi Ye looked at her for a while before nodding: "I knew a long time ago that you weren't a diligent person."

"...You're so smart."

Ikeno: "...Never mind, but this is indeed an opportunity. If you do your homework, you might just break into the film industry again."

If Sister Pliers heard this, she would definitely scoff. If it were the Empress Dowager, she would hum and say, "I'm the one leading you through this."

But if it were Sister Shang, it would be completely different.

"Haha, I, Shang Youshu, have never needed to explain my actions to others. Do you think I'm marketing myself?"

Shang Jie looked at Chi Ye: "Yes."

Chiye: "..."

"Xiaochi, you don't understand. I'm not doing this for myself. I'm doing it so that I can earn more money in the future, so that I won't have to work anymore and can lie down forever."

Sister Shang's "ambitious goal": "When the time comes, I'll eat barbecue three times a day, and then have hot pot twice a day. Nobody can stop me. I'm going to strip naked on the beach and use my belly to beat... um..."

She suddenly stopped talking because she realized that this topic was not suitable for in-depth discussion.

Chino, still peering out curiously, asked, "What are you doing with your stomach?"

"It's nothing, just a slip of the tongue."

Ikeno: "That was a pretty serious slip of the tongue. I suggest you get it checked out."

Sister Shang stopped talking, lowered her head and began to admire her own beauty again, muttering, "Hurry up and finish, I want to continue admiring my beauty for a while longer."

Chi Ye glanced at her, then stood up to leave.

"Hey, wait a minute."

Suddenly, Sister Shang called out to him, "Where are you going? Do we have any activities later?"

Chi Ye was bewildered and asked in confusion, "No, I've told you several times, but you haven't listened?"

"...I, I was listening to an audiobook just now." Sister Shang chuckled awkwardly, "It was right at the climax...the crucial moment, I...I just secretly listened for a little while, really just a little while...I remember everything you said after that."

Ikeno: "...I'll release a new song to give the movie another boost."

"Oh...ah?!"

Sister Shang nodded at first, then realized what she meant and exclaimed in surprise, "A new song? So soon?!"

"It was prepared in the first place."

Chi Ye waved his hand: "You can't leave yet. Let's see how it goes after the song is released. If it goes well, we'll try to do more roadshows in a few more cities to make the box office even better."

"Xiao Shang, keep it up! Work a few more days, and I'll marry you a boss lady."

Shang Youshu: “…”

Ikeno, if you had even a shred of conscience, you wouldn't have said something like that. You...you...Fine, I'll add a few more days!

In a fit of anger, Sister Shang felt that helping others to the end was also helping herself.

She's now considered the "nation's white moonlight," so she has to be reserved, reserved!
"Xiao Chi, wait for me, I want to go listen to music... Xia Xia isn't here, is she? If Xia Xia is here..."

"Sister, I noticed you have some tea."

"Tea? What kind of tea? Afternoon tea?"

"..."

Without saying a word, Ikeno walked into the lounge and began working on his "new song".

Two songs from the movie "Girl" have become hits: "Sunny Day" and "Those Years".

As the saying goes, a hit song is the first thing to become a hit. If the OST of a movie or TV series becomes a hit, it means that the movie will become more popular and well-known. Of course, TV series are still a bit less popular, after all, bad movies often produce hit songs.

But even bad movies can only produce one hit song; it's rare for them to produce two or three, or even more.

Besides, "Girl" is not a bad movie.

Before and during the film's release, Chi Ye wrote "Sunny Day" and "Those Years" for the girl, respectively. Both songs were incredibly popular, debuting at number one on the three major music platforms at different times.

However, that's not enough. The subject matter of "Girl" has limited potential. Even though it's currently in the National Day box office and there are other films to support it, it still needs some support to continue to rise.

This third song is the "help" that Ikeno prepared.

"...'Seven Mile Fragrance'?"

When Shang Jie saw the song title, it instantly seemed familiar: "This...this song...I remember you wrote this title when we were filming?"

"Did you already have this song in mind back then? Or was it already written and you were just waiting for it to be written?"

Ikeno didn't speak, he just nodded.

Sister Shang was instantly confused and impressed, but also felt a little "terrified": "Xiao Chi, your thinking is just like the male protagonist in the novel 'The Emperor's Conquest' that I read! You're so cunning. If anyone marries you in the future, they'll have to prepare a hundred or so prenuptial agreements... or they'll be screwed over by you!"

"Manually tagging Xiaxia".

Chiye: "???"

He was speechless: "If you can talk, then say more."

Sister Shang smacked her lips: "I'm not going to say anything more, I'm afraid you'll screw me over."

Chi Ye glanced at her: "What would I do to you? Try to trick your little belly?"

"...Chi Ye! I have a temper too. If you keep this up, I'll..." Sister Shang glanced around before saying "angrily," "I'll elbow you!" Chi Ye turned around, already editing his Weibo post, having received the "MV" (the "Girl" version) produced by his team.

"...Then I won't leave if you don't say anything."

The woman, quite naturally, found a way to save face, then cheekily leaned closer and asked, "Could you let me hear it once first?"

"I've sent it out, listen to it."

Chi Ye clicked "post," and Shang Jie paused, then grabbed her phone and opened Chi Ye's Weibo.

In just a short while, Chi Ye's Weibo post had already garnered over 10 reposts, comments, and likes.

She was slightly confused, but was quickly drawn in by the song.

She knew the name "Seven Mile Fragrance," but just by looking at the name, she couldn't see any connection between it and the movie "Girl."

"Is it a music video?"

She realized this might be another song called "Sunny Day," but she wasn't quite sure... mainly, can a song like "Sunny Day" just appear out of nowhere?

She clicked on the music video, and a pleasant intro began, with the sounds of cicadas and wind chimes.

Scene: A first encounter on a summer campus.

As the intro of cicada chirping begins, the camera pans from the classroom fan to the tip of Shen Jiayi's ponytail, accompanied by the crisp, chiming sound of a guitar and the rustling of pages as she turns the pages of a book.

"This...this melody...it's so nice, so nice, Xiaochi, you're so talented."

Shang Jie didn't hold back her praise and compliments, directly breaking the atmosphere that had just been built up in the MV.

Of course, she broke the atmosphere of the scene, but most of the audience watching Ikeno's new song MV were completely absorbed in it.

because…

This song is fucking awesome!
In the music video, before the lyrics are introduced, there is a shot of Zhou Ye peeking at Shen Jiayi. Sparrows flutter by outside the window, and the girl pokes Zhou Ye's back with a pen, handing him her English notes. He draws Shen Jiayi's funny face in the corner of the textbook.

Ikeno's singing voice began:
The sparrows outside the window are chattering on the telephone pole.

"You said that sentence has a very summery feel to it."

The pencil in my hand moved back and forth across the paper.

"I'll use a few lines to describe who you are to me."

Sister Shang was slightly taken aback, looking at Chi Ye: "Holy crap, he's that strong?!"

Ikeno: "...Can you shut up?"

"...Okay, I just didn't expect you to take this movie so seriously..."

Shang Jie muttered to herself, and the lyrics that followed in the MV confirmed her previous guess once again—this song, like "Sunny Day," was an OST written by Chi Ye for "Girl," because the plot details were almost identical.

"Both you and the cat want to know the taste of saury"—Zhou Ye secretly took a picture of Shen Jiayi's profile while she was feeding stray cats.

"We rediscovered the scent of first love—the scent of a girl's shampoo. Zhou Ye once said, 'Your hair smells like oranges.'"

"The warm sunlight is like freshly picked bright red strawberries"—at dawn, the boy promised the girl that he would study hard and never be late again.

"You said you couldn't bear to eat this feeling"—years later, Zhou Ye still couldn't forget this feeling, even at "her" wedding.

"Rock" Marketing Outsourcing Company.

The person in charge listened to the song in a daze for a long time, then suddenly burst out cursing: "How are we supposed to market this?! What kind of tricks does Chi Ye have?!"

"Is he a marketing major? Isn't he an entertainer?!"

A female employee was watching the music video and suddenly felt a little sad.

"The rain fell all night, my love overflowed like the raindrops."

"The fallen leaves in the yard are a thick stack of my longing."

A few words of gossip couldn't cool my enthusiasm.

You appear on every page of my poems.

"..."

"What a nice view."

Xu Yingying looked at the MV, at Shang Youshu in the sunlight, and Zhou Ye walking side by side with him.

I don't know if they're referring to the person's beauty or the music.

The two strolled among the sunlit wheat ears, and as they walked, they suddenly "grew up." As they walked, Zhou Ye was now dressed in a suit and tie, while Shen Jiayi wore a pure white wedding dress, standing at opposite ends of the red carpet, looking at each other.

Zhou Ye suddenly disappeared, leaving only Shen Jiayi behind.

The scene shifts back to their teenage years, where Shen Jiayi's handwriting on a note that reads "Okay, let's be together" is blurred by rain.

As the music video came to a close, the subtitles, written in calligraphy, read: "This song is dedicated to all the unspoken fragrances of the seven-mile fragrance."

The screen went completely silent, but trending topics and viewers who watched the music video immediately went wild.

"Holy shit! You idiot! You stabbed me?!"

"You're not together, right? You're not together at all!"

"Damn it, it would have been better if this song hadn't been released. Now that it's out, it's like official confirmation that Zhou Ye and Shen Jiayi aren't together."

"This is so good, bro! Stop acting and keep releasing songs! You're a king of pop, why are you acting?!"

"You absolutely have to film this! What's the point of keeping that face if you're not going to act? You and Sister Shang, film it together! While the flowers are still in bloom, film as many as you can, I love to see them!"

"I suggest that with their looks, they could film some R-rated content that's best left unsaid... cough cough, I'm a girl, I want to see it."

"I'm a boy, I want to watch it too."

"..."

……

"Seven Mile Fragrance" became a hit.

The fire was as expected.

Because of this timing, whether it's Ikeno's personal appeal in the music scene or the current popularity of "Girl"... how many people are paying attention to Ikeno and "Girl"?
To put it bluntly, in order to make this marketing campaign effective, Ikeno even brought up the hottest topic that has been debated ever since the release of "Girl"—whether the male and female leads ended up together.

The core of the song "Seven Mile Fragrance" lies in wrapping regrets with warmth—the cicadas chirping in summer, the classroom in the afternoon, and the tears in the rain, all eventually become "beautiful chapters flying in the poem," becoming an indelible negative in the memories of youth.

Therefore, the appearance of "it" instantly amplified this topic infinitely.

Thanks to its widespread popularity and the quality of the song itself, coupled with the buzz surrounding the film, "Girl" quickly became a hit during the National Day holiday, adding the final spark to its soaring success.

Forget about the knife or the knife; the facts prove that the more marketing is done this way, the more addictive moviegoers become.

Even many moviegoers who had seen "Girl" refused to believe the rumors and continued to watch it a second or third time in order to confirm their guesses.

On that day, the last day of the National Day holiday, "Girl" exploded in popularity, with its daily box office exceeding 250 million yuan, reaching 280 million yuan, breaking numerous records for the highest and fastest single-day box office for a youth film.

The total box office reached 13 billion.

It instantly surpassed "Climbing One," which was still "struggling," and left its good brother "Wolf Warrior Wu Jing" on the beach.

The incident caused a stir both inside and outside the entertainment industry, and fans of Chi Ye and Shang Youshu celebrated the Lunar New Year.

Major cinema chains began allocating screenings of "Climbing One" to "Girl" on a large scale.

Thus, on the last day of this year's National Day holiday, "Girl" finally completed its true "comeback," going from being ignored at the beginning to becoming the number one film in the total box office.

(End of this chapter)