New Century Anime Warrior

Si Hua has always had a deep impression of the 2005 college entrance examination essay topic, probably because it was the newest topic she could encounter before the exam. So everyone put in a lot of effort to study it.

Both reasonable and unexpected.

Now he has encountered something unexpected, yet also quite logical...

He seemed to be on the verge of being exposed.

"Did they help me steal this roast duck leg?!"

Lin Lin looked at the only meat dish on Si Hua's plate, a roasted duck leg from the No. 1 Middle School cafeteria, and let out a soft scream of surprise.

Without hesitation, he picked up the roasted duck leg with his chopsticks and placed it on his plate.

"Thank you!"

Si Ren was speechless. "Heroine, if you wanted roast duck legs too, you should have said so earlier. I could have made two."

Looking at the white rice and vegetables on my plate, and then at Lin Lin's plate which had fish, meat, and even a roast duck leg...

Si Hua pushed his plate in front of Lin Lin and grabbed the meat from the opposite plate, slurping it down with a bang.

Then the two of them started eating rice together, with gossip about them occasionally reaching their ears.

However, the dry rice people were fearless and were not affected at all.

"Yes, yes." Lin Lin munched on a duck leg, but didn't stop talking. "I heard from Aunt Lei that another big company is looking for you..."

Then came a bunch of incomprehensible gibberish.

"Huh?" Si Hua looked up and saw Lin Lin's chubby cheeks. He quickly handed her a bottle of water. "Take it easy, swallow this first before you talk!"

"Oh……"

"Another big company is contacting me? What are they after this time?" Si Hua finally caught up with the news that Lin Lin had suddenly revealed.

After taking a small sip of water, Lin Lin answered Si Hua's question: "Hehe, you probably won't guess, it's Sony."

"Sony? What does that have to do with them?"

"It's just that 'Throw the Years and Far Away' is so good." Lin Lin pouted, as if she had encountered something that made her very unhappy.

"Tell me in detail," Si Hua said, feigning a look of complete attentiveness.

"It was a composer from Sony who heard the melody you selected in your video, copied it into a demo, and submitted it."

Si Hua was somewhat shocked upon hearing this: "Wait, how did you know about such internal matters?"

"Hmph, this is the most speechless part." Although Lin Lin still felt a little dissatisfied, it seemed that the details of the story were too abstract, and she couldn't hold back anymore.

"That demo, along with the backup music library that Sony has collected in recent months, was packaged up and sold directly to Universal's informant by an intern who was not officially hired."

"ha?"

"When Universal Music was reviewing the demo for inclusion, they found that the melody was pretty good, but they also felt that it didn't quite fit the current pop music scene, so they decided to exchange resources with us."

"what?"

"You should remember that we now have a strategic partnership with Universal, right?"

"Absolutely."

"Hmph, anyway, Aunt Lei said that the intern packaged 13 songs together and sold them for 30,000 yuan, including that plagiarized demo."

Lin Lin jabbed her rice hard with her chopsticks as she said this, "My debut song, along with twelve other songs, was only worth 30,000 yuan! That person deserved to be an intern, and deserved to not even get a full-time job. He's so blind!"

No, you're angry because the theme song's melody was priced too cheaply?

Si Hua sorted out the information-packed information in those few short sentences.

In other words, someone copied my melody, which was then stolen by a Sony intern and sold to a Universal informant. Universal then used it to exchange resources with Lin Lin's music company.

A simple animated theme song has somehow unearthed a dirty secret between two music giants.

This is way too abstract...

Every step was somewhat beyond my expectations.

Are there informants among music companies?

Are you guys playing Infernal Affairs?

"And then?" Si Hua felt that this matter was not over yet. After all, such an abstract thing must have an even more absurd sequel.

"Then, our company's copyright review team followed standard procedure and sent Universal Music a statement regarding the copyright review, saying that the demo might involve copyright infringement."

At this point, Lin Lin herself felt a little embarrassed, since it was from this point on that her own employees were betraying their own people.

When Si Hua heard about the informant and the 30,000 yuan, he was about to laugh.

It turns out that people at Universal Music might already know about the theme song for "Voices of a Distant Star".

Suddenly I felt a cold sweat break out on my face.

No more giggling.

"Wait a minute, does that mean the people at Universal Music know about 'Through the Years and Far Away'?"

Si Hua wanted to confirm if there was still any chance of saving him.

Lin Lin seemed to have guessed Si Hua's thoughts: "That's right, just as you guessed, you may have already been exposed, my partner."

Damn, what kind of mess is this...?

Labor and management have been hiding this for so long.

Alas, even supernatural powers cannot defy fate, and time travelers are no match for interns.

"Why didn't Aunt Lei inform me?"

"She's busy arguing with Universal." Lin Lin had already finished eating the roast duck leg and was elegantly wiping her little hands. "So I'm here to tell you, so you can be mentally prepared."

"Actually, Aunt Lei is a little embarrassed to tell you, since it was a management mistake."

Lin Lin added, "We didn't announce the promotional plan for this song internally; we just added the relevant information to the company's copyright library according to procedure."

At the time, Aunt Lei personally handled the data entry process, believing it would reduce the possibility of unauthorized leaks.

"And then?" Si Hua felt there must be a "and then" part.

"Then the review team found the authorization letter in the file, and after hiding some information involving privacy, they made a clean copy and sent it to Universal Music as the copyright basis."

"..."

This is so damn abstract. Si Hua had thought of many ways his identity might be exposed, but he never expected it to be because of a double agent relationship between giants.

Fortunately, the scandal only broke within Universal and was not made public.

But unsurprisingly, Universal should have already guessed that we might be using their event hosting to acquire resources.

What's about to become a major controversy is likely to happen.

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"Hua-zai, I'm sorry." Pan Lei only came to see Si Hua at the No. 1 Middle School the next afternoon.

Si Hua didn't dwell on the matter too much, as the whole thing was quite absurd from beginning to end, and Lin Lin's music company hadn't intentionally made any stupid moves.

It's basically a misunderstanding, so there's no reason to be angry.

By the way, Lin Lin's family's music company is called Linzhong Luming Music Culture Co., Ltd., which fits Si Hua's stereotype of family businesses.

"It's alright, Aunt Lei." Si Hua gently shook his head. "I know you didn't want this to happen either... and..."

"And this is really too outrageous."

Pan Lei shook her head and smiled bitterly. All these unexpected events were initiated from angles that no one had noticed.

"It's also my fault for not managing the team well in the details." Pan Lei was also upset, after all, she had exposed herself, which was very frustrating.

"So what do we do now?" Si Hua believed that Pan Lei hadn't contacted him all day yesterday because she was trying to win some benefits from Huanqiu so that she could come to see him with more peace of mind.

"First of all, the leaders from Global want to see you."

"Although we managed to outmaneuver you a little, this audiovisual competition, which has already passed official review, is tailor-made for you, so you should at least meet the main character."

Pan Lei paused, then added, "Also, they said it would be best to see some of the results of 'Voices of a Distant Star'."

"Secondly, Universal doesn't mind our previous business interactions and will continue to maintain the resources we're currently providing. They might even be willing to increase the investment, but only if their leaders want to meet with you and conduct an assessment."

"Andy Lau, what do you think?"

"Then let's meet. We're already in the big boss's sights, so there's nothing to be embarrassed about."