HuaYu97: Starting as a Singer

Chapter 29 [029] Wahaha Mineral Water Endorsement?

"Recently, quite a few products have wanted you to be their spokesperson. I spent a long time choosing and finally selected a good brand."

"Did you know Wahaha? They want you to endorse their bottled water. They're offering 500,000 yuan for a two-year endorsement and want you to write an advertising jingle for them."

Song Ke recounted the situation in detail.

Qi Yuan certainly knew about the Wahaha brand; it became incredibly famous later on.

Wahaha's mineral water and purified water are of good quality. Later, many laboratories used their purified water, so there was no risk of the building collapsing.

"Your popularity is soaring so fast right now, my advice is not to rush into signing with them, but to focus on your autograph sessions and campus tour first."

The Central Academy of Drama was our last stop in Beijing. After that, we traveled south along the eastern coastal provinces, finally ending in your hometown of Guangzhou.

After we complete this trip, your popularity will soar to new heights, and your endorsement fees can increase accordingly.

Song Ke suggested.

“Okay, then I’ll do as you say, Mr. Song.” Qi Yuan thought so too.

He's currently in a phase of rapid rise to fame, so signing endorsement deals at low prices would be a loss for him.

"I never imagined I'd be working as a talent agent one day," Song Ke said with a helpless smile.

"Isn't this because the company is poor? To put it nicely, it's because of a relaxed artist management environment; to put it bluntly, they can't even afford to support a talent agency department," Qi Yuan retorted mercilessly.

If he were with a big company like Rolling Stone, once he became famous, he would have already been provided with an agent, assistant, and security.

We haven't found a reliable agent yet, and we've hired two new assistants, but neither of them is very skilled in their roles.

"..." Song Ke was speechless after Qi Yuan's teasing.

……

Central Academy of Drama.

Qi Yuan launched her fifth tour on campus.

"Hand in hand, one step, two steps, three steps, four steps, looking up at the sky, watching the stars, one, two, three, four, forming a line..."

Qi Yuan is very popular at the Central Academy of Drama, and her singing performances elicit screams from her fans.

To be precise, he's not popular at the Central Academy of Drama, he's popular among students.

Many of the songs on his debut album were aimed at attracting young fans.

"This is the last song. I'll randomly select a female fan to come up and interact with me. If you want to come up, please raise your hand. Okay, you're the one." Qi Yuan immediately spotted Zhang Tong, who had her right hand raised, in the crowd.

The girl he was closest to at the Central Academy of Drama was Zhang Tong; it seemed like he didn't have many other options besides her.

"Phew~ There's something inside, there's something inside."

"No personal agendas allowed. Choose another one."

"A second vote! A second vote!"

The female students from the Central Academy of Drama present discovered that Qi Yuan had chosen Zhang Tong and resolutely resisted this underhanded operation.

In the Central Academy of Drama campus, who doesn't know that Qi Yuan and Zhang Tong know each other? What kind of random selection of female fans is it to choose someone they know?

Unable to defy public opinion, Qi Yuan had no choice but to go along with it and chose the girl next to Zhang Tong who looked a bit like an alpaca: "Classmate, it's you. Please come up on stage."

"Me?" Alpaca girl Hu Jing pointed to her face, her eyes wide with disbelief.

Only after being reminded by her roommates Meiting and Zeng Li did she realize it was her, and she went on stage with a nervous heart.

Mei Ting and her roommates didn't forget to tease Zhang Tong: "Old Zhang, you're so cocky. After filming that MV with Qi Yuan, none of the girls at school want you to go on stage anymore. Alpaca got a good deal, though."

Hu Jing looks like an alpaca, and Qi Yuan isn't the first person to think so.

In fact, in the 96 acting class at the Central Academy of Drama, Hu Jing's nickname was indeed Alpaca.

Zhang Tong didn't care: "They wouldn't let me go, and they didn't go either. In the end, it was my good friend who went."

The girl on stage was replaced by Hu Jing. The girls from the Central Academy of Drama were happy, but the boys were not. Outrageous! After seducing Zhang Tong, you're now seducing our alpaca? You might as well just take all six beauties!

"This is a very sweet and affectionate song. Would you mind if I held your hand while we sang it?" Qi Yuan asked Hu Jing politely.

The male students from the Central Academy of Drama in the audience were even angrier. This kid was definitely up to something. If you're going to sing, just sing. Why are you holding hands?
"Objection! Objection!"

A group of boys disagreed.

But their objections were useless. Hu Jing nodded shyly twice and placed her delicate hand in Qi Yuan's hand.

Qi Yuan took her delicate, cool hand in his, and the intro to the song began.

The boys who had been shouting their opposition fell silent.

They claimed they were mortal enemies, but most of them were just joking; very few people actually harbored any real hostility towards Qi Yuan.

Qi Yuan and Hu Jing stood face to face, hand in hand. With eyes that held the deepest affection, like those for a dog, he gazed at the shy, downcast Hu Jing, and sang tenderly and affectionately: "Sunny days or rainy days, in a crowded coffee shop, I'll find a comfortable corner where I can think of you..."

Handsome men and beautiful women, sweet and youthful love songs, the atmosphere of romance is overwhelming, making many female students from the Central Academy of Drama in the audience show up with maternal smiles.

The male student from the Central Academy of Drama who had been clamoring against it earlier started taking notes quietly.

I've learned something new! I never knew holding a girl's hand and singing love songs could be so romantic. Qi Yuan really knows how to do it.

If they had scoffed at Qi Yuan just now, they are now going to start studying him frame by frame.

"The roads are always congested, everyone is enduring it every day... They say it every day, every day, every day they say how much they love you, yay~~"

After singing "Everyday," Hu Jing's face turned bright red to the roots of her ears.

"Thank you for your cooperation, and thank you to all the students from the Central Academy of Drama for supporting an unknown singer like me." Qi Yuan bowed to the audience.

The students who bought the original records started asking Qi Yuan for autographs.

Hu Jing was the first.

Holding the cassette tape she had gone to six stores to buy, she said to Qi Yuan, "Could you write a blessing for me? My name is Hu Jing, Hu as in Gu Yue Hu, and Jing as in Guo Jing."

Qi Yuan thought for a moment, then wrote on the cassette tape box, "Wishing Hu Jing great success soon and that she grows more and more beautiful," and signed his name at the end.

……

The following day, media outlets reported on the immense success of Qi Yuan's campus tour.

Qi Yuan's singing entered the campus, creating a packed house wherever she went.

[A pioneer of R&B in mainland China, and a new generation idol for campus youth]

[Qi Yuan, a student at the Central Academy of Drama, showed her affection for her fans in an open-air setting. The young girl's face flushed, but the female fans in the audience still shouted that they were not satisfied.]

"???"

If the last news item hadn't been written by Hong Kong paparazzi, Qi Yuan would have eaten the newspaper on the spot.

This morning, Qi Yuan arrived at the company and found that everything had changed.

Overnight, Wheatfield Music was renamed Warner Wheatfield and officially became a franchised sub-brand of Warner UFO.

Qi Yuan transformed himself into the junior apprentice of Asian dance king Aaron Kwok.

There was no way around it; Zhou Jianhui was offering far too much, setting conditions that Song Ke couldn't refuse.

No matter how bad Warner UFO is, it's only in comparison to its peak.

For Wheatfield, a small company (studio) established less than two years ago, Warner UFO is a behemoth.

Zhou Jianhui only needed to make a slight move to take down Song Ke.

Zhou Jianhui finally got to meet Qi Yuan, the pioneer of R&B in mainland China.

He brought Wheatfield Music under his wing because of Qi Yuan's musical genius.

(End of this chapter)