A grand feast for the Chinese entertainment industry

Chapter 12 The Battle for Supremacy
When the group of people arrived at the booked restaurant in several cars, Chen Shuhua was already waiting there.

Wow, it was surprisingly stunning at first glance.

As for Lin Jianlu, she is a typical example of someone whose songs are well-known but whose personal life is not. Her works are so outstanding, such as "When Dreams Awaken," "Rolling Red Dust," "Laughing at the Red Dust," "Clearly My Heart," and "Ask," which are still popular after three or four decades. However, the person herself is too far removed from her memory. In order to compete in the old song re-recording competition, Lin Jianlu has listened to no less than forty or fifty of her songs, listening to them repeatedly and singing them very well, but she has almost no impression of what the person looks like.

She looked to be under thirty, perhaps around twenty-six or twenty-seven, with short hair that made her appear energetic and capable. She had a great figure and striking, beautiful features—a classic example of someone who was both mature and innocent.

Xue Zhongding had briefly mentioned in class that she was actually a mama's girl, the kind who couldn't live without her mother. Lin Jianlu had assumed she was probably just not very talkative and rather quiet.

But when they met face-to-face, she was radiant and outshone everyone else.

She turned out to be a woman who was both dashing and charming.

As a singer, she is a successor to artists like Su Rui, Zhang Aijia, Pan Yueyun, and Qi Yu, and a successor to artists like Lin Yilian and Su Huilun. As the first singer in Taiwan to sell a million copies of a single album, and currently in her prime, her status in the music industry is undeniable. With her beauty to back her up, she is an absolute princess at Rock Records, pampered by everyone in the company, from songwriters to producers to the boss. Lin Jianlu has only been famous for a few days, so it's clear that she doesn't deserve to leave her mother to come and welcome Lin Jianlu.

There's only one reason: she's Lin Jianlu's "super fan"!
More specifically, in the entire album "Cold to the End", her favorite songs are actually the two R&B tracks "Hua Tian Cuo" and "Xiao Xiang Yu", which she absolutely loves.

This surprised Lin Jianlu slightly.

She is undoubtedly at the top of the industry, and it can even be said that she has already become the queen of a certain track. In Lin Jianlu's mind, she seems to be the elegant woman who should always sing "At first, you were unintentional, and I was an innocent young man. The love in the mortal world is just because of the silent entanglement of life".

She can be gentle and silent, or she can be dashing and heroic, but ultimately, she belongs to the "old era" of people—well, yes, for a post-95s generation, she is too old, too much of a thing of the past.

She's from the same generation as Luo Dayou and Li Zongsheng, so very old...

Despite the radiant and beautiful young woman standing before her, and despite the passage of time, Lin Jianlu was becoming increasingly accustomed to the fact that she was born in 1976 and was now living in the 1990s, not much younger than Chen Shuhua, Su Huilun, and Liu Ruoying. However, no, her preconceived notions were not so easy to change overnight.

She's been famous for about seven or eight years now, right? Don't let her youthful appearance fool you, she's probably close to 30 or even over 30, definitely born before the 1970s!
How could a singer from a "gone era" like her be interested in R&B?
"It's alright. It's been five days since she started the IV drip, and she says she feels much better. Actually, I'm not very useful anyway, since Dad can take good care of Mom!"

Duan Zhongtan and Li Zongsheng both inquired about her mother's health with concern. Upon hearing that she was mostly recovered, they said no more and let her continue to pester Lin Jianlu.

She kept talking and talking.

To worship to the extreme.

It's not just flattery, it's downright sycophancy.

But she's not the shrewd, worldly-wise type. Even when she exaggerates, she makes people feel her sincerity and that she genuinely loves those two songs.

She was with Rock Records, which gave her a lot of influence. The master tapes of the album "Cold to the End" were finished, and before the records even went to the factory, she used the company's internal equipment to convert them directly, and we could already listen to the CDs.

I love listening to it, I listen to it every day, I'm almost obsessed.

"Xiao Xiang Rain" and "Hua Tian Cuo" are ancient-style R&B songs that I absolutely love!
She said that if it weren't for the fact that it was the dead of winter in the north, if it weren't for Lao Duan's insistence on stopping her, and if it weren't for her mother's poor health in recent months, she would have planned to go to Hong Kong to apply for a Taiwan Compatriot Certificate and then head straight to the capital!

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When she sat down, she naturally sat down next to Lin Jianlu.

However, once she sat down, she immediately became well-behaved and acted quite like a lady.

However, while the food was being served, Lao Duan was bragging and making his usual insults when Lin Jianlu noticed that she kept turning to look at her. After three times, she couldn't help but turn to look at her and whisper, "What's wrong?" She pursed her lips, suppressed a laugh, and blushed, "Sorry, I just realized how good-looking you are!"

Qi Yu, sitting on her other side, burst out laughing. Immediately after, Xiao Chong, sitting on Qi Yu's other side, also couldn't help but laugh, completely oblivious to the seriousness of interrupting her boss's boasting. Pointing at Chen Shuhua, she laughed, "She said she just discovered that Ah Lu is a handsome guy! Hahaha..."

Lin Jianlu was also somewhat amused and exasperated.

However, I couldn't help but turn my head and take a deep look at her—simple people are quite nice.

Moreover, it seemed that everyone dared to laugh at her, and she herself accepted the ridicule, laughing embarrassedly yet happily. Even her forced explanation seemed somewhat cute: "I really didn't notice just now!"

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A delicious meal had just begun when an uninvited guest arrived.

An extraordinary person, Sylvia Chang.

For a moment, dishes and cups were knocked over, and the sound of chairs being moved and people getting up could be heard everywhere—Zhang Aijia was a big name. Before coming, Lao Xue even mentioned her when explaining the people here, saying that she was the big sister of Taiwan's literary and artistic circles.

In Xue Zhiqian's words, if we really talk about those days, you can understand it as Zhang Aijia, who was a national goddess at the time, insisting on having Luo Dayou make a record for her, which made Luo Dayou famous and boosted the popularity of Rock Records!

That was in 1981!
Rock Records had only been established for a year at that time! Luo Dayou was just a freelance musician who had just begun to gain some fame! And Li Zongsheng was still struggling to make ends meet! But Zhang Aijia was already a goddess who dominated Hong Kong and Taiwan, and her first album was even released in 1976!

At this time, she should have been over forty years old, after all, she was a "veteran" figure, but she did not show any signs of aging. Her beauty was still there, and she deserved to be called exceptionally charming.

She was originally supposed to be a pure and innocent type. Her looks weren't top-notch, at least not as sweet as Yuan Fei Bing. But what's rare is that now that she's middle-aged, not only has her looks not faded and she still retains her innocence, but she has also gained a touch of the richness of time, and has become more and more charming and indescribable.

A handshake, a polite gesture.

She was already very familiar with Rock Records and had collaborated a lot with them. Even Liu Ruoying, whom she herself had made famous, signed with Rock Records to release her album, which shows how close and familiar their relationship was.

She had barely sat down and hadn't even said a few words when another person came in.

A middle-aged woman who looks very kind at first glance.

She seemed very high-profile, as many big shots stood up and addressed her as "Sister Ge," but Lin Jianlu had no recollection of her name. Duan Zhongtan personally introduced her, saying she was a famous agent named Ge Fuhong.

Lin Jianlu immediately understood.

At this moment, he suddenly remembered that Lao Xue had mentioned it briefly before. Zhang Aijia actually runs a talent agency now. Liu Ruoying is considered her student. After being made famous by Zhang Aijia's film "Siao Yu", Liu Ruoying signed with her talent agency and was then pushed to Rock Records to release records.

understood.

There were no uninvited guests; they all came prepared.

Upon closer observation, it became clear that Zhang Aijia and Ge Fuhong were quite familiar with each other, but their conversations hinted at a rivalry—the newcomer Lin Jianlu pretended not to understand, listening but remaining silent.

(End of this chapter)