Artists under the Rebirth of the Coal Boss

Chapter 198 A fake meets a real man!

Last weekend, Lin Xingzhuo saw a message in the international department's weekly report compiled by Zhang Youqian.

According to the latest schedule of the "Super Star K" program, guest singers will be added to the later stages of the competition!
This immediately reminded Lin Xingzhuo of the famous "fake meeting the real deal" incident.

Following historical precedent, the guest invited by the program team for IU will be Hong Kong singer Joey Yung.

As a female singer who has won the Ultimate Song Chart Award for over a decade and is considered the last Heavenly King of Hong Kong, Joey Yung's talent is undeniable! Her songs are beautiful! But they are very difficult to sing!

Ai Shangzhen won the championship of the Daejeon Youth Singing Competition in South Korea by successfully covering Joey Yung's "Little Little"!

Now that they've encountered the real culprit, the outcome is predictable...

What's even more crucial is that Joey Yung is a typical talent who can explode on stage!
The biggest advantage is that the live performance is so much better than the CD!

This amplified the dramatic effect of the imposter meeting the real deal, even more so under the scrutiny of Mnet's television program! It even created an extremely exaggerated effect of the difference between the seller's photo and the buyer's photo!!

In her past life, this incident dealt a devastating blow to Ai Shangzhen's career in the Korean entertainment industry, forcing her to return to China in disgrace and linger on the fringes of the music and modeling circles, remaining relatively unknown...

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Ai Shangzhen must have offended someone on the "Super Star K" program.

The show invited a Hong Kong diva to sing with IU, who has the superior vocal ability; she is a guest singer with exceptional singing skills.

However, the guest singer invited for Ai Shangzhen was reportedly a Japanese entertainer, or more accurately, a Japanese actress—a guest singer known for her good looks…

I heard that this Japanese actress was recently named the "ugliest morning drama actress in history" by Fashion magazine.

Currently, due to his advanced age and outdated image, the company has initiated the classic "freezing out" process in the Japanese entertainment industry...

According to information revealed by Mina.

This Japanese entertainer is currently unemployed because her radio program, which she hosted for five years, has been replaced, and all her long-term contracts for shooting for teen magazines have been terminated.

With no dramas to be invited to perform, I've fallen into a state of "zero work".

Her agent even advised her to change careers...

Lin Xingzhuo held a video conference with the International Department and was extremely troubled when he heard this intelligence.

Damn it! The Korean TV show production team is so ruthless! This Japanese actress is just there to get free time; she's completely useless.

This is completely leaving no way out!
If these guest singers don't drag the performance down, we should be grateful...

The show's actions are practically an open declaration that Ai Shangzhen is going to be eliminated!
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It's normal for singing competitions in the entertainment industry to have some underhanded tactics, especially since the international division is operating away from home. After all, even a powerful dragon can't suppress a local snake!

However, Ai Shangzhen's situation in this "Super Star K" competition is quite special.

In 2009, the first season of "Super Star K" set up audition zones in eight major cities across South Korea, covering the entire country and igniting a nationwide frenzy!

With 72 applicants, representing 1.4% of South Korea's population, it set a record for the most applicants for a talent show!

Even if a contestant doesn't win the championship, such a phenomenal show can easily help a newcomer build their initial fan base simply by generating some trending topics.

Tiger Shadow Star International also saw the opportunity and invested a wave of promotional resources on YouTube, Cyworld, and Mixi to enhance Ai Shangzhen's brand awareness.

After the last YY Voice live stream, he also interacted with Carina Lau on Facebook, creating another wave of hype...

With the increasing costs, Ai Shangzhen's participation in the competition, which started as a small-scale event, has become the first battle for Tiger Shadow Star International Department to enter the Japanese and Korean markets!
Success is the only option; failure is not an option!

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Now, facing such a huge disadvantage, the only way to win is to cheat!

Tiger Shadow Star's ultimate cheat!
Of course, it's Lin Xingzhuo, one of the "Tiger Capital Trio," a man hailed as a "god" by the artist management department.

However, when the International Department and Lin Xingzhuo formulated this plan, they overlooked a crucial factor.

That's Ai Shangzhen's stubborn personality... Although Ai Shangzhen usually seems quiet among the Tiger-type artists, she's not as boisterous as Zhao Yihuan or Mao Xiaotong.

However, there's a saying in the workplace: "The troublesome coward! The silent stubborn one!"
That's a very profound statement.
Lin Xingzhuo spent two and a half hours on a long international phone call with Ai Shangzhen, but he still couldn't persuade her!
If it were other artists from the Tiger Group, whether it were Zhu Yilong, Da Peng, Zhao Yihuan, Mao Xiaotong, or the newly signed Wan Xi.

Under the patient persuasion of the top coal company leader, they should have taken it over long ago!

However, Ai Shangzhen was incredibly stubborn! She'd rather end her career than accept the original release of "Way Back Home"!

Thus, the incident of Lin Xingzhuo recording the song in Lin'an under the starry night occurred, and he preemptively released the original work on QQ Music before authorizing Ai Shangzhen to perform "Way Back Home".

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The next morning, Lin Xingzhuo and Li Bingbing arrived at Shanghai Railway Station.

Li Bingbing's nanny van, a Toyota Alphard, was already waiting in the underground parking garage at the south square of the train station.

The location for this CP hype was the Happy Valley in Super Junior District, which just opened this year.

Li Bingbing, in a soft sleeper on the train, flipped through the magazine "ZG Railway Literature and Art," constantly talking about this theme park that cost 40 billion yuan and was the largest and most technologically advanced in China.

Both of them were quite lucky.

This trip coincided with the float parade jointly organized by Happy Valley and the organizers of the 2009 Shanghai Tourism Festival.

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In his previous life, Lin Xingzhuo reviewed the documentary "A Century of Expo Dreams," which won the 21st Starlight Award for Best Documentary.

The film mentions this, the largest float parade in Shanghai in the millennium.

This event served two purposes: promoting the theme park and building anticipation for next year's World Expo. Its scale was unprecedented...

A total of 55 floats and 35 domestic and international performance teams, along with the Haibao mascot and Expo-themed floats, joined this grand parade.

Lin Xingzhuo agreed to this time to promote Li Bingbing's Shanghai CP.

I also wanted to experience this largest-ever float parade in Shanghai's history, attracting over 40 tourists along the route.

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The Huayi Brothers agent waiting in the parking lot was not Li Xue, but a middle-aged woman around forty years old.

Li Bingbing told Lin Xingzhuo that this was a temporary agent arranged by the company, responsible for the specific affairs of the trip to Shanghai.

Lin Xingzhuo and Li Bingbing put on masks, pulled their luggage, and followed behind the female agent.

The other party was very cold. When Li Bingbing spoke to her, she only responded with "uh-huh" and "ah-huh".

After Lin Xingzhuo and Li Bingbing got into the car, the agent did not get in herself. Instead, she had Li Bingbing's former assistant drive while she parked her BMW X3 in the front parking space.

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我们 还 能 能 再见面

I have been praying before Buddha for thousands of years.

Would you trade several lifetimes for our one lifetime of love?

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The assistant drove a Toyota Alphard from the North Plaza, heading south along the North-South Elevated Road.

The car radio's Dynamic 101 channel's "Music Breakfast" program was playing "Seeking Buddha," a song by the popular singer Vow, which has been trending for the past two years.

Lin Xingzhuo then asked curiously, "Where is your sister?"

(End of this chapter)