Artists under the Rebirth of the Coal Boss

Chapter 232 Japanese Movies Becoming Reality?

Asa explained, "In 2000, Edison and Ah Jiao recorded the music video for the song 'How Bad'."

"After they finished recording, they invited me to have drinks in Lan Kwai Fong, where we played this modified version of the King's Game."

"This game is usually best played with eight or nine people. He changed the rules so that it can be played with only two or three people."

Lin Xingzhuo finished his glass of Howling Eagle red wine and said, "Okay..."

After drinking too much, Asa became noticeably excited. Seeing Lin Xingzhuo agree, she happily said:

"Let me explain the rules to you first. Um... let's use playing cards! I'll go ask the food stall owner for paper and pen, and you can go to the 7-Eleven across the street to buy playing cards."

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Asa briefly explained the revised King's Game rules to Lin Xingzhuo.

The core mechanism is similar to a game of "Truth or Dare," where participants decide a "King" by drawing playing cards or lots.

The "king" has the power to command and can arbitrarily designate other participants to do anything, and those designated must obey.

The version Asa played limited the king's power due to the limited number of players.

Each of the two wrote ten instructions/tasks, and the "King" randomly selected three, choosing one to execute.

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Lin Xingzhu went to the 7-Eleven convenience store across the street and bought a deck of Yaoji playing cards.

Asa borrowed napkins and a ballpoint pen from a food stall.

The two of them each wrote down five punishment tasks, and put them directly into their bags without showing them to each other.

The person who draws the "King" role then draws a task from the bag, so the task itself remains unknown to both parties.

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The first three times, Lin Xingzhuo drew the "King" card, and the punishment task he drew happened to be one that Lin Xingzhuo had written.

There's no pantomime; go to a 7-Eleven and order a McDonald's Big Mac meal.

He held out his empty wrist to a stranger at the next table and asked, "What time is it?"
Imitating an anime character, cosplaying Sailor Moon with the line "I will punish you in the name of the moon!";
When Asa became king for the fourth time, she took out three task slips, bit her lip, and pushed one of them in front of Lin Xingzhuo.

Then she drank the entire glass of Shaoxing rice wine in one gulp.

Lin Xingzhuo looked at the note.

Safe kiss?

This isn't one of the entries from those ten slips of paper I wrote!
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Night had fallen, and the neon signs of the food stalls mingled with the rising steam.

Charlene Choi (Ah Sa) sat casually on a plastic stool, her simple yellow-brown dress outlining her figure, and her white shirt collar slightly open, revealing a hint of unintentional intoxication.

This once radiant and beautiful young woman drank an entire glass of Shaoxing wine, her face turning a deep red like a ripe apple.

As she lightly brushed her curls behind her ear with her fingertips, the Omega watch on her wrist reflected a subtle shimmer.

Her eyes sparkled with both the lively innocence of a sunny young girl and the mature charm of a married woman.

Asa touched her lips with her fingertip and casually took a napkin. Lin Xingzhuo, of course, had no reason to back down.

The tissue was gently placed between their lips, and they could vaguely feel each other's warm breath.

Their eyes met, and a subtle sexual tension filled the air...

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"The steamed eel with black bean sauce is ready! You two over there, stop playing around and come get it!"

At this moment, the waiter at Rongfa Food Stall placed the dishes on the counter and shouted loudly.

The two were startled by the sudden movement, and the tissue unexpectedly fell to the ground.

Lin Xingzhuo's lips lightly touched Asa's gentle lips, tinged with a hint of alcohol. Both of them froze instantly…

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Although Lin Xingzhuo had lived two lives, this was the first time she had encountered such a situation...

Previously encountered classical pipa expert Shi Bingyue, bone-scraping expert Xia He Zhao Yihuan, newcomer Yi Yi from Zhejiang TV, and Golden Horse Award-winning actress Li Bingbing were all single...

Are Japanese movie plots mirroring reality?

Never mind!!

Cables don't ask where they come from, and wives don't ask where they came from!

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Lin Xingzhuo composed herself, went to the food stall's counter, and brought over a plate of white eel meat coated in a dark brown, oily soy sauce, garnished with bright green scallions and fresh red pepper strips.

Asa's face was flushed as he looked down at his phone.

Lin Xingzhuo didn't know what to say for a moment, so he simply took two more bowls of rice, poured the sauce that had gathered at the bottom of the steamed plate, which contained the essence of the eel and the soy sauce seasoning, over the rice and mixed it well.

Lin Xingzhu mixed two bowls of rice, handing one to Asa: "Try it, it goes perfectly with rice!"

Asa lowered his head and said, "Thank you."

With its rich soy sauce flavor, tender eel meat, and rice infused with the soul of the broth, Lin Xingzhuo devoured two bowls of rice in one go.

Asa, holding her phone, said, "Azhuo, I follow you on Facebook and see that your tag is 'singer'."

"The comments section below says you wrote 'Way Back Home,' which became a huge hit in South Korea?"

Lin Xingzhuo ladled out another bowl of rice and nodded: "Yes, this song was licensed to our company's Ai Shangzhen for a cover; she made it popular in South Korea..."

Asa was extremely drunk, whether from the large amount of alcohol he had consumed or from the thrill of pushing his limits in that moment, it was unclear.

She suddenly moved the plastic stool closer to Lin Xingzhuo and said with a grin:

"Hehe, what a talented person! Many Chinese music groups on Facebook have highly praised you as the first person to reverse the Korean wave!"

"I saw someone say that the song 'Sorrow' that you composed for the TV series 'Dwelling Narrowness' on the mainland's Qianqian Music Player has been on the charts for more than ten weeks! It has broken the record of 'Leo'!"

"Could you write a song for me... no... for Twins? Or, like the artists in your company, grant us cover song rights?"

As soon as Asa finished speaking, he regretted it. After what happened last year, the Twins duo were already in a vegetative state of brain death. In this situation, even if they wrote a divine song, it would be a waste.

Moreover, Asa had secretly learned about the boy in front of her. He was a high-ranking executive in a mainland coal-based film and entertainment company. Why would he write to her if he didn't want the money to go to outsiders?

Lin Xingzhuo, while eating his bibimbap, said, "Sure! I can give you the rights to cover this song!"

Asa, who was feeling down, looked at Lin Xingzhuo incredulously: "Huh?"

Lin Xingzhu finished the last few mouthfuls of rice and said, "Let's start now."

Asa was a little incredulous: "Now? Doesn't creating art require finding inspiration?"

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Click!

Lin Xingzhuo pressed down on the ballpoint pen, picked up the menu on the table, and wrote down the lyrics in a smooth and flowing manner while humming the melody softly.

This is a song sung as a duet between a man and a woman.

The melody Lin Xingzhu hummed was upbeat and had a strong urban feel to it...

Asa gently rubbed his face, wondering if he was drunk and dreaming.

I've actually encountered these iconic moments of musical genius improvising and creating on the spot!
What a treasure of a boy!

(End of this chapter)