Huayu: From the Era of Ringtones to Becoming a Legend

Zheng Lin's eyes lit up, the bitter smile on his face disappeared, and his eyes instantly brightened:

"President Lu, I understand! Qianshan Jingyin has been on the defensive for over a year, and my mindset has changed accordingly. I forgot that the technology we have is absolutely overwhelming!"

Lu Jiuge patted him on the shoulder:

"No wonder he's been fighting in the business world for so long; he figured this out so quickly!"

"That's right. As the future leader of Lingyun Technology, you must always take the initiative and control the narrative when facing any situation!"

Zheng Lin's eyes gradually hardened, and he nodded emphatically.

"Let's leave Kyoto behind, return to Hengdian, and immediately move on to the next step!"

……

Without further ado, the two booked the earliest flight back home.

Upon landing at the airport, Lu Jiuge did not return to the film studio, but instead spent the night in the city with Zheng Lin.

The next morning, I took a taxi directly to the city's largest digital mall.

Zheng Lin got into the car, somewhat puzzled:

"Mr. Lu, aren't we going back to the company? Why are we going to the electronics mall?"

"Buy something."

Lu Jiuge looked at the street scene flashing past the window, her tone calm.

Twenty minutes later, the two stood at the entrance of the digital mall.

Lu Jiuge glanced at the sign and headed straight for the street lined with media players and mobile phones.

After looking around, he finally bought an MP3 player called Jiuyin and handed it to Zheng Lin:

"Old Zheng, is it possible to do this with commercially available pre-built machines, without modifying the hardware, just by flashing our Lingyun algorithm into the system layer?"

Zheng Lin took the MP3 player, pressed a few buttons, and then plugged in his own monitoring headphones to listen for about ten seconds.

"able!"

He answered very confidently:

"They're all generic solutions; the main controllers are either Rockchip or Actions Microelectronics. Our algorithm package has been adapted for general use. All you need to do is crack system permissions and rewrite the audio driver. Give me a computer, and I can get it done in two hours."

"That's good. Let's start with this company as our breakthrough point!"

Zheng Lin looked at the brand logo and asked, puzzled:

"Mr. Lu, before I left for Kyoto, I did some research. This Jiuyin Company is only a ten-minute drive from the film studio, and the boss is called Wang Daqiang."

"According to publicly available information, this Jiuyin Company has a very small factory. Is it really feasible to use it as a breakthrough point?"

Size doesn't matter.

Lu Jiuge interrupted him, her gaze falling on the silver-gray MP3 player in his hand:

"As long as the product we make is competitive, that's all that matters!"

He took the MP3 player, pressed play, and the poor-quality sound came through the headphones, harsh and thin.

"Users don't care who made the machines or how big the factory is."

Lu Jiuge pressed the pause button:

"They only care about one thing: how the music sounds."

"Old Zheng, let's go back now. As quickly as possible, write the Lingyun audio optimization algorithm into this MP3 player. Tell me when it's done, and we'll go meet that Wang Daqiang."

……

The day after returning to the company, Zheng Lin found Lu Jiuge with an MP3 player at noon:

"Mr. Lu, the optimization is complete. We've done the tests, and the output sound quality is five times better than before!"

"Is that exaggerated?"

Lu Jiuge took the MP3 player in surprise, put on the headphones and listened for a while, becoming even more excited:

"Quick! Call Teacher Liu, Old Chen, and Zuo Wei over; let's have a trial lesson!"

After giving the instructions, Lu Jiuge took her MP3 player back to her office, downloaded a few more songs, and then got up to go to the conference room.

Ten minutes later, in the conference room of Qianxing Entertainment.

Liu Sixi pushed open the door and came in, clutching the sheet music:

"Xiao Lu, what's the rush? I'm arranging the strings for Huizhen's absolutely adorable song from yesterday!"

Chen Bin followed closely behind, carrying the account book:

"Mr. Lu, the 320 million yuan revenue share from the ringback tone service this month has arrived in my account. I was just about to report it to you."

The person on the left was the last to enter, holding a laptop that displayed public opinion about Lu Jiuge.

After everyone was seated, Lu Jiuge placed the Jiuyin MP3 player in the middle of the conference table.

"I called everyone here today for just one thing."

He looked around:

"Listen to music!"

Upon hearing this, Liu Sixi stood up and complained:

"Listen to songs? Why didn't you say so earlier? I'll go to the recording studio right now and copy over the four songs that have already been recorded!"

"Teacher Liu, I'm not listening to your songs, I'm listening to this!"

Lu Jiuge stopped Liu Sixi and pointed to the MP3 player on the table.

Liu Sixi stopped, picked up the MP3 player with a puzzled look, glanced at the brand information on it, and stared blankly at it.

"Isn't this just a knock-off media player made by Old Wang next door?"

"Can you even listen to the sound quality of this piece of junk?"

Lu Jiuge's eyes lit up, and she pressed for an answer:

"Teacher Liu, do you know Wang Daqiang?"

Liu Sixi nodded:

"We know each other, we've met twice at dinner parties. He was really pushing his music player and wanted us to help promote it."

"But after listening to it, I felt the sound quality was too poor, so I didn't agree to endorse him."

Lu Jiuge nodded, not continuing the topic, but instead said:

"Teacher Liu, this product is different, listen to it!"

Seeing Lu Jiuge's expression, Liu Sixi put on his headphones with a puzzled look, pressed the play button, and adjusted the volume to a moderate level.

The moment the intro started, he froze, swallowing back any words he wanted to say.

"this……"

Liu Sixi took off his headphones, then put them back on, as if he doubted there was something wrong with his ears.

"This soundstage width, this low-frequency extension, is this really a 128kbps MP3?"

He kept pressing the buttons, switching between several specific sections, and tried a few more songs, his expression becoming even more shocked.

"impossible!"

Liu Sixi raised his head and stared at Zheng Lin:

"Old Zheng, you guys tampered with the audio files? This is definitely master-quality material!"

Zheng Lin smiled and shook his head:

"Teacher Liu, the audio source hasn't been changed; it's the decoding algorithm that's been modified!"

He pulled up a spectrum comparison chart from his laptop and projected it onto the wall.

The two waveforms on the left and right resemble two completely different mountain ranges.

"On the left is the original decoder, with the high frequencies severely clipped and the mid-frequency frequencies completely muddy; "

On the right is the waveform optimized by Lingyun. We've recovered all the subtle details that were cut off by traditional algorithms, resulting in a truly superior listening experience.

Chen Bin doesn't understand technology, but he understands data.

"Engineer Zheng, if you were to mass-produce this algorithm, how much would the cost increase?"

"zero!"

Zheng Lin said:

"A pure software upgrade, without changing a single resistor or capacitor, only program optimization!"

After explaining, Zheng Lin looked at Lu Jiuge:

"Of course, when I say the cost is zero, I don't include the ten million that Mr. Lu spent on purchasing the Lingyun audio quality algorithm!"

Lu Jiuge waved her hand:

"We'll talk about costs later. Now, listen to what we have to say and see how it goes!"

Chen Bin and Zuo Wei listened for a while, and their reactions were similar to Liu Sixi's.

After observing the reactions of the others, Lu Jiuge had a plan in mind. He tapped the table:

"Since everyone thinks it's good, let's end the audition here. Old Zheng, grab the equipment, let's head to Jiuyin now and meet Old Wang!"

He stood up, his gaze sweeping over the four people:

"Lingyun must be launched as soon as possible. This is entirely under Lao Zheng's control. Our roots are in the entertainment industry, but we must control our own profit channels. Let's go to Jiuyin now and get to work!"