My wife is in my arms

Chapter 521 Selling Songs (Part 4)

"This guy……"

Bai Li muttered under her breath, "Can't you even negotiate prices when doing business?"

After saying that, Bai Li didn't take it to heart and continued to eat and chat with her friends. About an hour later, the seafood barbecue came to an end.

Bai Li reached for her coat draped over the chair and put it on. After saying goodbye to her friends, she sat back in her car. Subconsciously, she took out her phone again and opened the lyrics Zhang You had sent her, reading them carefully.

After watching it twice, she began to sing it a cappella.

"Hearing winter depart, I woke up in a certain month of a certain year, but the future cannot be arranged because of this... On a cloudy evening, outside the car window, someone is waiting in the future. Looking left, right, and forward, how many turns will love take before it arrives? Who will I meet..."

At this point in the song, her personal assistant suddenly exclaimed, "Sister Bai, is this your new song? It's so beautiful, it suits your voice perfectly!"

"That sounds really good!?"

Bai Li pressed for an answer.

"There's a sense of being forgotten, sculpted by time."

Her personal assistant commented.

"..."

Bai Li was taken aback.

To be honest, she really didn't see anything unusual about Zhang You's song "Encounter". The lyrics weren't as easy to understand as "Question". It was clearly about a woman's sadness about love.

But now even her assistant says that "Encounter" is very good. Does this mean that the song "Encounter" is of high quality, but she herself is unaware of this?

After a slight hesitation, Bai Li sent the song "Encounter" to her manager, along with the message, "Written by Zhang You, see if it's worth four million!"

Less than a few minutes.

Her cell phone rang.

As soon as Bai Li answered the phone, she heard her agent say in an impatient tone, "Buy it, four million it is. Have Zhang You send over the sheet music."

"Is it really that good!?"

Even now, Bai Li is still somewhat uncertain.

"Judging from the lyrics, it has the potential to become a huge hit. It should be one of Zhang You's most treasured songs. I'll buy it first."

Her agent spoke directly.

"I see"

Bai Li responded.

After hanging up the phone, Bai Li thought for a moment and then called Zhang You. Her assistant had heard her sing a cappella and said it was beautiful, and her agent had said the song was worth four million, which proved that the song might have potential that she hadn't discovered. The phone rang several times but no one answered, so Bai Li directly found Jiang Yiren's number and dialed it.

"Sister Bai, is something wrong?!"

Upon hearing Jiang Yiren's voice on the phone, Bai Li immediately said, "Tell your husband, I want the song 'Encounter,' four million it is."

"Feel sorry"

Jiang Yiren apologized first, then smiled and said, "Since you didn't want it, my husband gave me the song. Now... Sister Bai, I'm sorry, I quite like this song too."

“Is this necessary?!”

Bai Li was on the verge of tears when she said this.

"It's your own fault for not wanting it, which made my husband quite angry. He said he brought out all his treasures, but you rejected them."

Jiang Yiren said with a smile.

She held the lyrics her husband had printed out in the study printer… Compared to "Everywhere You Kiss," she preferred the song "Encounter." It wasn't difficult to sing, and even her son Shan, who always said she was a terrible singer, just said… "My dad wrote such a beautiful song."

This undoubtedly proves that "Encounter" is a very good song.

Otherwise, Xiao Zishan wouldn't have included her when praising her dad. She should have directly praised her dad for writing well, instead of saying it sounded nice. This would have been a subtle way of affirming her as her mother's singing.

"Forget it"

Upon learning that Jiang Yiren had also taken a liking to her, Bai Li did not force her.

The main thing is... she still doesn't see what's so good about this song, so if she can buy it, she'll buy it; if not, she'll just let it go. There's no need to keep harping on it, since it's not a hit like "Ask" or "When Love Has Become the Past".

Putting those two songs aside, she doesn't think "Encounter" is better than Jiang Yiren's "I Don't Want to Be Like This" and "Just Like You," which is evident from the lyrics.

The car was driving back.

When she was almost home, her agent called.

"Did you buy it?!"

Her agent asked.

"without"

Bai Li replied, "Zhang You sang it directly for Yi Ren, and Yi Ren refused to sell it. However, Yi Ren did say that 'Encounter' is indeed one of Zhang You's best-kept secrets. Are his best-kept secrets really that amazing!"

"Both 'Ask' and 'When Love Has Become the Past' are considered 'hidden gems' by Zhang You, so there must be something unique about 'Encounter' that Zhang You has kept hidden away. Along with Jiang Yiren's 'Red Bean,' 'Encounter' should be Zhang You's fourth hidden gem..."

Before her manager could finish speaking, Bai Li interrupted her with laughter, saying, "You're making it sound so real. I admit Zhang You is very talented in songwriting, but how could he possibly judge whether a song will be a hit? If he really had that ability, wouldn't it be better to just write a few hugely popular songs for Yi Ren?"

"Aren't 'I Don't Want It This Way' and 'Just Like You' considered hits? Both songs have already surpassed four million purchases, and this is Jiang Yiren's fourth song to surpass four million purchases since last year. Just wait and see! Jiang Yiren will be holding a concert at the end of next month, and then you'll see... just how big a fan base she has accumulated with the songs written by Zhang You."

At this point, her manager became furious, saying, "You don't even want Zhang You's best-kept secrets? I can't even be bothered to talk to you. I guess Zhang You only gave you one song because you're the first singer willing to pay four million, and you just refused it outright."

He got a scolding from his own agent.

Bai Li was also a little embarrassed, but she didn't argue back.

She remembered the song "Encounter". Since Jiang Yiren had sung it, she wanted to see if Zhang You's so-called "hidden gem" song was as exaggerated as it seemed.

He's great at writing lyrics and composing music.

If someone could even predict market feedback after a song's release, they wouldn't be human, they'd be a god.

......

In the study.

While doing her homework, Xiao Zishan secretly glanced at her mother, who was looking down at the lyrics.

"If you keep looking, I might get physical."

Noticing her daughter's gaze, Jiang Yiren snorted coldly.

Besides "Encounter," she also had the lyrics to "Everywhere I Kiss." Her husband said that once he was done with his work, he would come and teach her, a professional singer, to sing. Just thinking about it made Jiang Yiren feel depressed.

She's already this age, and she's still being forced to learn, especially since her husband can sing, and sings so well, but instead of recording and releasing his own performances to earn money to support the family, he insists that she sing.

Jiang Yiren couldn't help but recall the conversation she had with her husband when she got home that evening. So, she pulled up a chair and moved closer to Xiao Zishan, asking, "Zhang Zishan, have you noticed that ever since your dad forced us to come back last year, he's like a completely different person? Is it possible that your dad isn't actually your dad, but someone else?!"

"So you secretly went to see her at night?!"

Xiao Zishan's words almost choked Jiang Yiren to death.

(End of this chapter)