I just want to sell products, but you're forcing me to perform talents.

Chapter 217: No answer, yet endless longing.

Cat Brother's fans have unknowingly surpassed 300 million.

Not only Cat Brother, but many media accounts that are riding on Ye Xian's popularity are also rapidly gaining followers.

As long as you praise Brother Xian, we'll be good friends.

During the days of fawning over Ye Xian, Cat Brother thoroughly tasted the sweetness of success.

His current fan base includes many long-time fans who enjoy music, music reviews, and entertainment gossip, as well as many fans of his late-night snack group and many casual fans attracted by his music and popularity.

Now, Cat Brother stands tall and isn't afraid of being bombarded with posts from young idols' fans. In fact, he's full of confidence, saying that anyone who dares to bully him is bullying Brother Xian's 2300 million fans.

Yes, Ye Xian's meteoric rise to fame continues.

Thanks to his performance at the Tang Dynasty Peony Festival and the recent challenge of wearing traditional Chinese Tang Dynasty clothing during the festival, Ye Xian has consistently topped the trending charts, making him a trendsetter once again.

These music critics' comments are mostly just trying to gain attention.

The Royal Observatory's three praises of Ye Xian were not just for publicity; they represented the royal family's stance and drew attention back to Ye Xian.

"...More than half a month has passed since the Qingming Festival. Just when everyone was habitually hiding their pain, Ye Xian used a song called 'I Remember' to draw everyone back into the pain of missing someone, and also gave everyone a new understanding of missing someone."

It turns out that our understanding of our mothers is so shallow.

Longing is unidirectional; it is a remembrance of the deceased and past times, and the direction should always be backward. However, Ye Xian longs for his mother from the opposite perspective.

Whose songs focus on the pain of childbirth? Whose songs focus on a mother's life experiences, loves, and hates? Often, we pay far too little attention to a mother's past!

Some songs, filled with empty sentimentality, fail to gain public approval, yet they blame the public for not appreciating them and proclaim themselves art. Ye Xian, with "I Remember," tells everyone that only genuine emotions can earn recognition.

Just when everyone thought "I Remember" was the end, "So Many People in This World" was released, and Ye Xian's longing surged like a tide, once again touching everyone's hearts.

Some say that "There Are So Many People in This World" is a love song, written by Ye Xian for his childhood sweetheart who lives far away in a foreign country. Others say that Ye Xian has stated he wrote the song while visiting his parents' graves, so it must have been dedicated to them. Ye Xian has never given a direct answer, but he has sung the song with many different nuances.

The fact that there are so many debates only proves how deeply Ye Xian puts his heart into writing songs.

The heartbroken hear the words of love.

The grieving person hears words of kinship.

Ye Xian sang a completely different kind of loneliness at the "Tang Dynasty Peony Flower Festival". This kind of loneliness, the loneliness of wanting us to be together but not being able to, the pain and loneliness of being left alone in this world, are all incorporated into this song.

There is no answer, yet the longing is boundless.

It's hard to imagine that a 20-year-old could express such deep longing.

This is precisely why it shows how painful the suffering Ye Xian endured was.

The release of "Towards the Clouds" precisely illustrates that Ye Xian is at a very contradictory point.

He used a tranquil and melodious pastoral folk song to express his confusion, while using positive rap to remind himself to cheer up and constantly transform.

Some people say that this song doesn't need the rap part, but how could that Ye Xian be the Ye Xian we know?

He is the Xian-ge who "wants to fly to the sky and stand shoulder to shoulder with the sun," the Xian-ge who "sings and drinks to express his joy and seizes his youth to the fullest," the Xian-ge who "sings and drinks to the fullest and only wishes to be happy until old age," and the young man whose "beliefs planted in his heart have not diminished in the slightest"!

Longing reminds us of the beauty of the past, but it is never an excuse to stop us from moving forward. The heartfelt comfort and down-to-earth encouragement in "Towards the Clouds" may be Ye Xian's way of healing himself, diluting the pain of longing and the bitterness of loneliness.

This is perhaps the main reason why "Towards the Clouds" has become so popular.

Because everyone wants to praise the peony like Ye Xian did, saying, "When the earth is frozen, you are nurturing a vibrant life," and "When the spring breeze blows, you bring beauty to the world."

Just as the national flower peony is like this, so too is Ye Xian, and so too can everyone else. Only then can our Great Tang Dynasty, like the national flower peony, flourish forever!

Finally, I'd like to dedicate the ancient poem chosen by Ye Xian to Ye Xian, and also to everyone else.

If the south wind understood my heart, it would not let the evening glow fade at dusk.

……

This is the third time the Royal Observer has praised Ye Xian.

One was the release of "Invisible Wings", another was the Haizhou charity event, and this time, it's for Ye Xian's four most recent songs.

This time, Ye Xian's fans were noticeably calmer when it came to liking the post.

[Martial Arts Master: My kid got liked for the third time?! What should I do? I'm not even excited anymore! Being too outstanding isn't always a good thing!]

[Yan Zhi You Li: Oh dear, it's basic stuff! Basic stuff! Don't make a fuss!]

[Boiled Mermaid: Speaking of which, shouldn't Brother Xian release a new song to celebrate?]

[Half of the Tang Dynasty's most handsome men: I heard all your little schemes in the Great Food Province! He's busy filming a TV series, he probably forgot he's about to release a new song!]

……

"Everyone's urging you to release an album! Even just organizing your existing songs and adding one or two new tracks would be enough for two albums!"

Although Ding Zhan was busy with the winery, his focus remained on Ye Xian.

Ye Xian didn't take it to heart. Liu Xiaoxiao had advised him before, Jiang Tian had also called to advise him, and even Teacher Jiang Wei, whom he had just met, had been advising him recently.

But Ye Xian didn't want to win any awards.

Instead of wasting time, you should focus on selling some goods.

I have too much debt!

These past few days, Ye Xian has been speeding up the auditions for the actors in "Dream of the Red Chamber," and the pre-production preparations are almost complete. They are just waiting for the progress of the construction on the Sixth Princess's side.

The construction of this project is actually not difficult, because it is not a high-rise project. As long as the money is in place, landscaping can be done very quickly in Haizhou.

The trouble lies in the later decoration.

To restore the luxurious decorations in "Dream of the Red Chamber" would require a great deal of effort, but fortunately, this luxury was insignificant in the eyes of the Sixth Princess.

The decorations in any of her villas are several times more luxurious than those described in "Dream of the Red Chamber." Moreover, there are too many film and television props nowadays; it's not like the 87 version, which depicted an era of scarcity.

What everyone needs to do at this stage is to gather the actors and conduct training.

Ancient etiquette, the rules between mistresses, ladies, maids, and servants, the interests among officials, the use of various utensils, studying scripts, analyzing characters, learning basic knowledge of music, chess, calligraphy, and painting to enhance artistic cultivation, etc.—this complex training, even with overtime, would take at least a month.

Even a simple fan-waving motion requires training. You know, the way the elegant ladies in the 87 version waved their fans was very refined, light and graceful, unlike later versions where they practically used the fan to flatten their faces!

The actors for the 1987 version underwent two training sessions, lasting six months in total, with each session lasting three months. Filming took approximately one year.

Back then, conditions were rudimentary. Now, the film and television industry is extremely developed, film and television bases are everywhere, and locations can be filmed at any time. Multiple cameras can even be used for shooting simultaneously. Shooting techniques and methods are more advanced, and digital shooting does not require a large amount of film. On-the-spot shooting and editing are very efficient.

Moreover, Ye Xian's script was already in place and did not require major revisions, so the training time for Blue Star's "Dream of the Red Chamber" was compressed to one month. At the same time, the assistant director and the cinematographer had already started the location shooting.

As the lead actor, Ye Xian naturally needed training as well. He brought live streaming to the training base, broadcasting daily lessons on physical fitness, ancient etiquette, script readings, and so on for the various lead actors.

The combination of slow-paced live streaming and random interviews immediately won the hearts of many fans of idol-training programs and variety shows.

Many fans had never even read "Dream of the Red Chamber" or heard Ye Xian's storytelling. They simply viewed the official "Dream of the Red Chamber" live stream and Ye Xian's live stream as a slow-paced variety show with a nurturing element.

We feel a bit uneasy if we don't see the actors' growth and changes every day.

Many people were amazed by Ye Xian's meticulous attention to detail in this drama, which made many people increasingly look forward to it.

Ye Xian's live streams remain fixed at once every three days in the evening, where he either sells products or talks about "Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio".

However, no matter how busy he was, Ye Xian did not forget that it was time to release his new song.

……

P.S.: Today's Recap

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