Huayu: From the Era of Ringtones to Becoming a Legend

After explaining everything, Lu Jiuge declined Zuo Wei and the others' offer to see her off, took a taxi directly to the airport, and took the earliest flight back to the company, rushing back to Qianxing Entertainment.

Zhang Liangying, Zhou Bichang, and Li Yuchun had already arrived. The recording studio had been brightly lit for several days. The three songs tailor-made for them had been recorded and were just waiting for Lu Jiuge to return so that they could decide on the release date.

As soon as Lu Jiuge entered the office, Chen Bin, Zheng Lin, Liu Sixi, and others came in as well.

Zhang Liangying and her two companions, along with Li Huizhen and her three companions, followed behind.

Seeing that everyone seemed to want to talk, Lu Jiuge thought for a moment and decided to bring everyone into the conference room.

"I was away for a few days, and now that I'm back, we can have a meeting and everyone can report on the situation in their respective departments!"

After Lu Jiuge finished speaking, Zheng Lin spoke first:

"President Lu, thanks to the positive word-of-mouth surrounding the song 'Blue and White Porcelain,' the distribution channels for Lingyun's audio quality optimization solution have achieved a major breakthrough!"

"Currently, 80% of MP3 players, PHS phones, and mobile phone manufacturers on the market have signed agreements to adapt to and lock onto Lingyun's proprietary music format. Terminal models with built-in Lingyun players are under development and will be launched soon!"

Lu Jiuge nodded in praise and asked:

"How's things going with Hisane?"

Zheng Lin's voice couldn't hide his excitement:

"President Lu, Jiuyin Electronics has been completely integrated into our system and officially renamed Lingyun Electronics Technology! MP3 sales have exceeded one million units, and we invested 400 million to firmly hold a 51% controlling stake!"

Lu Jiuge nodded:

"Has the 400 million been transferred? How much money do we have in our account now?"

Lu Jiuge mentioned this point, and Chen Bin followed up with a report:

"Mr. Lu, the company currently has 20 million yuan available in its account. After paying the 4 million yuan to Lingyun Electronics Technology and the 3.8 million yuan penalty to Zhang Jie, we still have over 12 million yuan left!"

After the two stopped reporting, Lu Jiuge felt more confident.

Having food in hand means you won't panic when doing things.

After giving the two a few more instructions, Lu Jiuge told Zheng Lin and Chen Bin to go ahead with their work, leaving Liu Sixi, Zhang Liangying, and the other two to continue discussing the song's release.

On the morning of the third day, Zuo Wei brought Zhang Jie and Deng Ziqi back to the company.

After spending two days recording the songs "Reverse War" and "Bubble," Lu Jiuge called Zuo Wei to her office:

"Pass the word down: all songs are ready."

"Old Zuo, immediately get to work on the promotion. Tomorrow at noon, all five songs—'Painted Heart,' 'The Most Beautiful Expectation,' 'Just Like You,' 'Reverse War,' and 'Bubble'—will be released online simultaneously!"

"Launching simultaneously?"

Zuo slammed his hand on the table, startled, and stood up abruptly.

"Mr. Lu! Five songs released simultaneously? No one in the entire Chinese music scene has ever dared to do that before!"

"We're still being blocked by the platform and have no recommended resources. The risk is..."

Lu Jiuge interrupted him, her words brimming with absolute confidence:

"The songs I write have never been 'flops'."

"I don't want to become famous slowly, I want to blow up the entire music scene."

Seeing Lu Jiuge's resolute gaze, Zuo Wei swallowed back all the concerns that were on the tip of his tongue and nodded emphatically:

"I'll arrange it right away!"

Half an hour later.

Qianxing Entertainment's official account posted the following update:

Qianxing Entertainment's new work will be released tomorrow at noon:

Zhang Liangying's "Painting Heart"

Zhou Bichang's "The Most Beautiful Expectation"

Li Yuchun, "Just Like You"

Zhang Jie's "Against the War"

Deng Ziqi's "Bubble"

The ringtone and music websites across all platforms will be launched simultaneously.

When this news came out, the first to be in an uproar were not the fans, but the entire music industry.

"Hahaha! Has Qianxing gone mad? Being blacklisted like this, he still dares to release five songs at once?"

"Lu Jiuge must be frantic! The top three from Super Girl and Zhang Jie are one thing, but she even signed some nobody?"

"Release five songs at once? This is a desperate attempt to cash out and run!"

"I bet five cents that within three days, they'll all flop, not even managing to get 10,000 ringtone downloads!"

Upon seeing the news, the CEO of Tianyu Media sneered in front of the senior executives.

"Lu Jiuge is still too young. Does she really think she's invincible just because she wrote a poem called 'Blue and White Porcelain'?"

"I want to see how he'll fall and get crushed to death this time!"

The music producer from Hunan TV openly mocked the show during a live broadcast.

"The top three contestants of the 05 Super Girl competition are courting disaster! Giving up promising futures to associate with Lu Jiuge, who's been blacklisted by the entire music industry? In less than three months, they'll completely disappear from the public eye!"

……

The internet is full of ridicule, industry insiders are pessimistic, and smear articles are flying everywhere.

#Qianxing Entertainment's Five New Songs All Flop#

#Lu Jiuge is completely finished#

The two topics quickly rose to the top of the trending searches.

The overwhelming online criticism, especially from many professional music critics who personally condemned Lu Jiuge, has made some of her original fans lose confidence.

Qianxing Entertainment.

Zhang Jie, Zhang Liangying, and the others stood aside, showing no trepidation, only anticipation.

Having witnessed Lu Jiuge's abilities, and with Zuo Wei's professional team handling the project, coupled with the quality of the song, they knew better than anyone that Lu Jiuge's performance this time would definitely not fail!

Despite the widespread pessimism online, Lu Jiuge remained calm.

His consciousness sank into the system, and as he watched the negative faith value soaring on the panel, a hint of amusement flashed in his eyes.

[Negative Faith Value +10000, from music critic's criticism]

[Negative Faith Value +8000, from Luo Zhiqiang of Yawei Records]

……

An hour later, seeing that the negative faith value had directly broken through the 300 million mark, Lu Jiuge finally came back to her senses and looked at the comments online with great interest.

At noon the next day, the five songs were released on time.

The first wave of ordinary listeners who heard the song were completely stunned.

The first song to ignite the fire was Jane Zhang's "Painting Heart".

The moment that ethereal yet fragmented a cappella performance came out, countless young people who were going to work, going home from school, or commuting on public transport felt a chill run down their spines.

Especially the final dolphin-like high notes, which broke the hearts of countless people.

"Holy crap... this is amazing! Is that Jane Zhang? Her singing is incredible!"

"I listened to this on repeat all night! This is what a true OST masterpiece looks like!"

Next up was Li Yuchun's "Just Like You".

Light, refreshing, youthful, and healing.

As soon as the melody starts, people can't help but nod along.

Listeners who were not originally fond of androgynous styles were completely captivated at this moment.

"This song is so catchy! I can't get it off my ears!"

Zhou Bichang's "The Most Beautiful Expectation" swept through students and young people with its inspirational and delicate melody.

What truly blew through the entire youth population, campuses, internet cafes, and streets was Zhang Jie's "Against the War".

As soon as the exciting and explosive prelude started, all the young people were immediately fired up!

In internet cafes, on the playground, in dormitories, on the streets...

This song was playing everywhere.

"This is so inspiring! Zhang Jie has truly risen from the ashes!"

"You'd be doing yourself a disservice if you didn't listen to this song a hundred times!"

Of the five songs, the most surprising was Deng Ziqi's "Bubble".

The song, sung in a young girl's unique voice, expresses broken yet stubborn emotions, bringing countless people to tears.

"Who is this Deng Ziqi? She's incredibly talented!"

"This voice is a gift from God! This song is bound to be a hit!"

In just two hours.

The wind direction has completely changed.

Chen Bin, who was in charge of monitoring the ringback tone download backend, was the first to receive feedback. He slammed his fist on the table, stood up, and excitedly reported:

"President Lu! It's blown up! It's completely blown up!"

All five songs surpassed 50 ringtone downloads within two hours of their release!

"Counter-Strike Online" surpasses 80 views and is heading towards one million!

We've swept the top 5 spots on all the major music charts! And with "Blue and White Porcelain," the top six are all Qianxing!

The person on the left also exclaimed in surprise:

"All five of our songs have broken into the music chart's Top 10! Adding 'Blue and White Porcelain,' which has consistently held the top spot, Qianxing Entertainment has completely dominated the top five!"

……

Hunan TV, twelve record companies, and all industry insiders who were pessimistic about Qianxing.

At that moment, all was completely silent.

They finally realized it.

Lu Jiuge, whom they jointly suppressed and trampled into the mud.

Not only did it not fall, it did not collapse.

Instead, they brought five future top stars and five hit songs of the era to declare war!

Lu Jiuge sat in her office, watching the scene that had caused a stir online, her fingertips lightly tapping the table.

The system panel in my mind was flashing wildly.

[Positive Faith Value +10!]

[Positive Faith Value +20!]

[Positive Faith Value +50!]

Lu Jiuge simply smiled faintly.

Slaughter the rankings?

This is just the beginning.