Huayu: Were you ever a top star before writing nonsense?

After Gao Yuanyuan spoke, the group chat fell silent.

At this moment.

Xiao Hu, on the other hand, was not concerned about his vacation. Instead, he was intensely curious about Shen Can's Chinese-style song.

"Judging from the lyrics, 'Xiaochou' is not in the Chinese style, which means that the song Shen Can sang to Sister Yuanyuan was a new song."

As Xiao Hu thought to himself, he pulled open the drawer, inside which was a small diary with a dandelion-shaped cover.

There were some diary entries written on it, and on the last page of the diary were some song titles.

Those were notes she made while watching "The All-Round Artist," containing both Shen Can's released and unreleased songs.

"The Big Fish, the Preface to the Orchid Pavilion, The Seabed..."

Xiao Hu's gaze fell on the three characters "Lanting Xu," indicating that this song was the most likely one.

During the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Wang Xizhi, Xie An, Sun Chuo, and forty-one other high-ranking military and political officials gathered at the Orchid Pavilion in Shanyin (present-day Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province) for a purification ritual. At the gathering, each person composed a poem, and Wang Xizhi wrote a preface manuscript for their poems, which became known as the "Preface to the Poems Composed at the Orchid Pavilion".

This preface describes the beauty of the surrounding landscape and the joy of the gathering at the Orchid Pavilion, and expresses Wang Xizhi's feelings about the impermanence of life and death.

Shen Can's choice of "Preface to the Orchid Pavilion" as the song title is definitely related to this preface by Wang Xizhi.

But Xiao Hu couldn't understand why Gao Yuanyuan needed to play the female lead in the music video to capture the beauty of the landscape and the joy of the gathering.

"We'll find out when the time comes." Xiao Hu couldn't figure it out, so he stopped thinking about it.

As everyone knows, Shen Can is very difficult to understand.

This person is a heretical cultivator, and he always walks strange and unusual paths.

Instead, she began to look forward to her first real-life meeting with Shen Can.

……

Magic City.

Shen Can looked at the QQ messages.

The first 24-hour subscription results for "The All-Round Artist" are in.

10.7 orders!

The first book to reach 10,000 subscribers on Dianping, and the first book to reach 100,000 subscribers.

This achievement is still limited by rampant piracy and restrictions on payment methods.

Shen Can knew that for a long time to come, this achievement would be the ceiling for paid online novel subscriptions.

In the QQ group for top experts, messages from numerous experts flooded the screen.

Dancing: "Worship!"

Shenji: "Holy crap! Can Shen, you're ruthless!"

Toad: "100,000 subscriptions! How can we surpass that? It's terrifyingly strong!"

Chen Dong: "Awesome."

Tomato: "I will write the next book that gets 100,000 subscriptions."

"..."

Every author was excited. 100,000 subscriptions is certainly a towering achievement, but it also shows that online literature has a bright future.

Shen Can humbly said a few words and promised that he would also write a separate chapter to help promote these top authors when they publish or put their books on sale in the future.

Afterwards, Shen Can continued to work on updating his novel for the evening.

The novel "The All-Round Artist" has reached Chapter 77.

The content of this chapter can be described as flowing smoothly through the brain like tap water, leaving no trace.

But it's incredibly satisfying.

After the novel "Sorrow" became a nationwide hit, fans dug up the lead actor's acting experience and his tragic past of being sidelined by his company for two and a half years.

He was once so poor that he couldn't afford the rent, but because he was under contract, he couldn't find a formal job and could only do day labor like the "Sanhe Gods" (a group of migrant workers in Sanhe).

I've carried bricks, handed out flyers, and tightened screws...

Even in such dire poverty, the protagonist persisted in sponsoring impoverished children to attend school and continued to study.

Until he shone on the stage of "I Am a Singer".

In short, make it as tragic as possible, and write the protagonist as incredibly inspiring.

Shen Can's reason for writing in this way is closely related to the social atmosphere of 07. Unlike later generations who advocated "lying flat" and opposed involution, this was a golden age. The economy was booming, people's lives were getting better and better, their eyes were shining, and they believed that hard work would pay off...

These days, getting into the system isn't difficult. The exam is very simple. Once you meet the requirements, you can eventually get in by studying hard and taking the exam a few more times.

However, college graduates look down on jobs within the system, believing that there are serious wage arrears, interpersonal difficulties, and no end in sight. They prefer to work in enterprises or start their own businesses.

Even the emperors people admire are wise rulers like Li Erfeng, who fantasize about becoming ministers after time travel. Instead, 20 years later, most people clearly feel the solidification of social classes and lament that even if they time travel, without a family background, they would probably just be commoners with no chance of rising to the top.

The development of online literature is actually strongly correlated with social trends.

Therefore, Shen Can wrote it this way.

A protagonist who inspires others will create a stronger sense of identification for readers and generate greater anticipation.

At the end of this chapter, Shen Can played a game of regret, making the company that wrote the protagonist regret it to the core. They regretted not knowing that the protagonist was exceptionally talented in music, and wondered why they had made the brainless decision to shelve him. But it was too late to undo the damage, and they had even made a powerful enemy.

"I was so stupid, really. I only knew that Lin Yu's career achievements couldn't compare to Jiang Wanning's, and that he was unlikely to achieve great things. I didn't know he had such a strong talent for music..."

The "regretful wife" trope is a classic trope in old-school online novels, with the saying "mistreating your wife is fun for a while, but chasing her back is like going through a funeral pyre," like in "The Journey of Flower"... Readers just love reading that.

Whether a novel is well-written or not, subscriptions don't lie.

After this chapter was published, Shen Can watched as the number of subscribers increased rapidly.

He stopped paying attention.

"After writing about some daily life and conflicts, I'll be laying the groundwork for the 'Preface to the Orchid Pavilion'," Shen Can thought to himself as he took a sip of water.

He attaches great importance to the song "Preface to the Orchid Pavilion".

This song is one of the top works of Chinese-style songs. It was a very powerful song even 26 years after its release.

Shen Can remembers a netizen who wrote a song review in his past life: "The artistic conception is so beautiful. I memorized the entire 'Preface to the Orchid Pavilion' in sixth grade because of this song."

Creating this song is like buying yourself a large, lifelong retirement insurance policy.

Therefore, Shen Can put a lot of effort into the production of the music video.

He came up with a love story to add color to the song.

Since it's a love story, there will naturally be a male and female protagonist.

Originally, he planned to persuade Zhao Ji to play the female lead in the music video.

Although I haven't seen Zhao Ji in period costume, given his good looks, he shouldn't be bad-looking.

But after the news of Yu Quan's reunion sparked heated discussions online, Shen Can felt that Gao Yuanyuan seemed to be more suitable.

the reason is simple.

First, Gao Yuanyuan's period drama costumes are very convincing, such as "Zhou Zhiruo", "Yang Ruoxi", "Li Biyun", "Liu Sheng Piaoxu"...

Secondly, Gao Yuanyuan was involved in the relationship between Yu Quan and the other two members of duo Yu Quan. In fact, she could be considered the victim in this matter, as she was labeled a "third party" despite having a normal relationship.

So here's the question.

If Gao Yuanyuan were to star in a music video for "Preface to the Orchid Pavilion," putting everything else aside, wouldn't the video generate explosive buzz and garner massive attention?

Shen Can believed the answer was yes.

From a certain perspective, what he did was a direct and overt attack on Yuquan Lian.

It's worth noting that there's a line in the lyrics of the poem "Preface to the Poems Composed at the Orchid Pavilion" that goes, "A thousand years is easy to traverse, but your beauty is hard to capture," and another line that goes, "I wait for the spring thunder to remind you who you love..."

Combining the romantic entanglements between Gao Yuanyuan, Xia Yu, and Yuan Quan with the gossip post about confessing his feelings to Gao Yuanyuan would be even more interesting.

This is Shen Can's own playing style.

The biggest challenge in this whole strategy is whether Gao Yuanyuan is willing to play the female lead in the music video. Shen Can isn't very confident he can persuade her.

Although he guessed that Gao Yuanyuan was upset about the Yuquan affair, this woman has always been very easygoing, so he could only try it with a "let's give it a shot" attitude, since trying won't kill him anyway.

Unexpectedly, after singing a section of "Preface to the Orchid Pavilion", Gao Yuanyuan actually agreed.

"Then let's wait for the show to begin," Shen Can said softly in the room.

"Her voice is quite nice," Shen Can thought again.

After gaining perfect pitch, he became attracted to girls with pleasant voices.

……

Busy times always fly by, and before we knew it, it was October 26th.

At 5:10 p.m. that day, the sky was very blue and the clouds were very white.

At the Shanghai Theatre Academy in Shanghai, students and teachers entered the theater one after another.