Have you ever been a celebrity? Why are you writing about entertainment?

Chapter 15 Thank you for the gift of nature
Among the four mentors of "Chinese Idol", Teacher Han is known for his emotional comments and high level of musical professionalism. He has been moved to tears by the contestants' stories and is also the most popular with the audience.

Huang Xiaoming's main style is "acting cute". Although he is not a music major, his interactions and banter with Teacher Han are very interesting.

Teacher Wang is skilled at adjusting the atmosphere on set, balancing the serious or emotional moments of other mentors, and is also very knowledgeable about human relationships.

In contrast, the newcomer Wei Yu is quite sharp-tongued, giving very objective and even harsh scores without any mercy.

He's here to replace Teacher Li this time.

As Yu Wei wrote this, she sighed, and her fingers, which had been flying across the keyboard, stopped. Teacher Li was no longer with her…

After finishing the new chapter, Yu Wei casually picked out a few novels to recommend, since he had also failed in his own field and knew very well the torment of struggling.

If you can help, then do so. Life doesn't have a main character; everyone is just an NPC.

Because of his early copying of the novel "Heart Wall," Yu Weixi earned the title of "Entertainment Prophet" and successfully gained a certain degree of fame in the online literature industry.

His book also gained over a thousand favorites and two hundred readers.

The numbers aren't high, but among new books of 30,000 words each published around the same time, his start is already outstanding.

This gave Yu Wei considerable confidence in the data requirements for his next project. If he could just get one more song, he could relax and do nothing next month...

The concept of time in entertainment novels is very abstract. Some protagonists sing a song every three days and write a script every five days, which somewhat ignores objective laws.

No matter how talented someone is, they're not a music-making machine. If they release new songs every day, netizens will probably get tired of them.

Yu Wei doesn't want to make things too exaggerated; she just wants to release one piece of work each month to make an appearance and not fade from the public eye...

"Time to go to work."

He still has to go to the company to record a song today. The performance on stage is just an a cappella. If he wants to upload it to a music platform, he still needs to make an official version.

On the way, Yu Wei glanced at Weibo and saw that his number of followers had increased by hundreds of thousands, and the data was still growing.

Although he seems to have gained a lot of followers, it's not even a fraction of what top-tier celebrities gain.

To put it simply, Qi Yuan has nine million fans, and it's only a matter of time before he reaches ten million. Among his former teammates, even the one with the fewest fans had over three million...

In comparison, Yu Wei doesn't have many fans, but he believes his data is more authentic. With so many active users, it would be a shame if they didn't come to read and vote.

He was playing with his crickets when he bumped into Qi Yuan coming out of the company entrance, with his agent Wu Qi following beside him, clearly on business.

"Xiao Yu is here."

Yu Wei was taken aback by Wu Qi's friendly greeting. In the past, let alone a greeting, this top agent would only give him sidelong glances.

When he and Qi Yuan had a good relationship, she did a lot of things to sow discord between him and Qi Yuan.

Qi Yuan saw him with a furrowed brow, looking as if he wanted to say something but hesitated for a long time before finally just giving a simple greeting.

Although he didn't want to admit it, Qi Yuan had to face reality: he and Yu Wei were no longer on the same track...

Don't be fooled by his current popularity; years from now, people won't remember this fleeting male idol, but they will still listen to Yu Wei's songs.

This is the difference.

Whether a celebrity has any outstanding representative works is like whether a professional athlete has any championships. No matter how much the fans praise them, the honors cannot lie.

This is precisely why agent Wu Qi's attitude towards Yu Wei changed so drastically. It's essential to maintain a good relationship with a singer-songwriter, since even champions can be easily defeated.

Yu Wei was well aware of this. Good works are always a powerful weapon in the entertainment industry. It's not as exaggerated as in novels, but having one or not makes a big difference.

The breakthrough from 0 to 1 is the most difficult, and many popular celebrities get stuck at this step...

As expected, Wu Qi still didn't want to miss this opportunity and tentatively asked, "Xiao Yu, your song is really good. I'm almost a fan of yours. When are you going to release a new song?"

Yu Wei had seen this tone before. When he was a child, he would go to a classmate's house to play, and the other parent would say the same thing, "You're so good at studying, why don't you tutor our Jiahao sometime?"

You want to get something for free through connections, huh?

"It's not that easy to write. I need to spend another four years reflecting on it."

Yu Wei's answer was nonchalant, but his simple statement about four years of reflection successfully stunned the two men. How many four-year periods does one have in a lifetime? His words seemed to imply that any excellent work is hard-won, and you can't just take it for free.

Wu Qi was too embarrassed to bring it up again. Looking back on the past four years, she realized she had never taken Yu Wei seriously, and it was really shameless of her to say such a thing now.

These words had a different meaning to Qi Yuan. Four years, yes, Yu Wei had spent so long to achieve his remarkable success. What was there for Qi Yuan to be unbalanced about?

On the other hand, he's either on variety shows or filming period dramas, his schedule is packed full, yet he can't spare a single day to improve himself.

impetuous!

He is not as good as Yu Wei because he is too impetuous!

Qi Yuan remained silent for a long time, seemingly having realized something.

"Sister Wu, please cancel that variety show invitation."

"What did you say? Wasn't it all already decided?"

"Cancel it."

Qi Yuan looked in the direction Yu Wei had left, his eyes growing increasingly resolute. Only someone like him was worthy of being his opponent.

If it were Yu Wei, he certainly wouldn't waste time on such frivolous things.

……

"Did you run into Wu Qi and the others just now?"

Yu Wei ran into Liu Ning, who had a half-smile on her face, as soon as she entered the company. Clearly, she had witnessed the entire meeting.

"Yeah, they wanted to get something for free, but I sent them away."

"I knew it."

Liu Ning glanced at the two people who hadn't gone far outside the window and chuckled, "You'd better be careful not to get bumped."

As an agent, she knows a lot of inside information. Qi Yuan, as an agent, has used many underhanded tactics to promote her artists.

They use every trick in the book: selling bromance, belittling one person to praise another, playing the victim to manipulate fans.

When the group first formed, Zhang Lingye, who was the most popular member, was often used as a blood donation target by them. After creating a CP (couple pairing) and sucking his blood, they would also kick him while he was down.

The reason she hesitated to let Yu Wei create a couple last time was because she knew that Qi Yuan's couple would sell well. They really can accept anything...

However, Yu Wei's real talent lies in his own hard work and his ability to become famous without resorting to crooked means.

“You’ve been really popular lately. I was thinking of having you strike while the iron is hot.” ​​Liu Ning showed Yu Wei the laptop screen, which displayed business opportunities that Yu Wei could consider.

"It's a pity that all the good resources have been taken recently, leaving only a few local music festivals. Are you going?"

Yu Wei resolutely refused.

He only knows one song right now, and a music festival guest can't just sing one song and then leave the stage...

He was quite open-minded about not having resources. In novels, the protagonists always seamlessly transition between roles, singing a song and then appearing on variety shows, filming a variety show and then joining a film crew. What are the chances of that happening?
The entertainment company was set up just for him, so they just needed to arrange for him to take turns performing.

The work schedule in the entertainment industry is very irregular, and it is common for there to be a six-month hiatus.

"Wait a minute, a variety show has actually been released. It's a lifestyle reality show, and it's pretty lighthearted."

"I'll go ask for you."

And such good things?

Although he had written about many variety shows, Yu Weizhen had never actually seen one in person. Given the opportunity, he naturally had no reason to refuse, considering it as gathering material for his novel.

I don't know, who would just give up such a good job like that...

Who cares? Let's just thank nature for its bounty.

(End of this chapter)