Be reborn and be happy to the fullest

Chapter 741: Using both hard and soft tactics to dominate the entertainment industry (4)

At 12 o'clock in the evening, in the mansion of Tomson 1, Li Shuo was holding Xu Xiaosa in his arms, and in front of him was Yang Xiaomi, who was covered tightly on the outside but completely naked on the inside. She held the microphone, stared at the man with her big eyes, and sang affectionately:

"Holding you in my hands, I devoutly burn incense...cut a candlelight, and light up the sutra..."

This was a private event after dinner, and the atmosphere was very relaxed. After Yang Xiaomi finished singing, Li Shuo praised her, saying, "Very good, you sang very well! Maybe it's because I was there that the song has a bit more affection..."

Yang Xiaomi rolled her eyes at him and said, "Tsk, the one I sang in the recording studio sounded much better than this!"

Then he was immediately exposed by Xu Xiaosa: "Come on, your original voice in the recording studio was far worse than what you sang today. Are you singing? You are just reciting the lyrics, okay? It's only because the situation is special now that you can sing so emotionally because you are looking at my brother Shuo..."

"Xu Xiaosa, you're looking for death!"

"Ah! Brother Shuo, save... me..."

"Oh my, what Xiao Sa said makes sense..."

"Bah, you two, a pair of silver lovers! You're really, really pissing me off!"

Amidst the laughter, Li Shuo stretched out his arms and pulled Yang Xiaomi into his arms, commenting on the place: "This private KTV is beautifully decorated. I'm afraid only a super-large flat like Tomson 1st Floor would be willing to decorate such a luxurious place for a client, but it's just right for you... Although the reverberation and sound quality are far inferior to a recording studio, it's more than enough for daily practice..."

Yang Xiaomi curled her lips, about to say something, when Li Shuo continued, "Has the editing for 'Palace' been completed? As Director Li's masterpiece, shouldn't we start promoting it?"

"The editing is done, but Aunt Hong didn't tell me about the publicity and promotion." Yang Xiaomi's mood instantly dropped. She had been cold towards Li Shuo before. The superficial reason was because he participated in Li Shaohong's party in Beijing. Because of the contract renewal, the relationship between the former master and apprentice is now very strained.

"What are you thinking, little girl? No matter what your relationship with Li Shaohong is, or whether you renew your contract with Jingcheng Rongchuang, you are the first female lead of "Palace". As a drama with a strong female lead, if it has any publicity, you will definitely be notified first!"

Li Shuo leaned close to her ear and explained carefully, "If we haven't informed you yet, it means we haven't started the promotion yet. This might be an opportunity: a good time for you to break up peacefully with Li Shaohong!"

"When I wrote 'Love Offering', I never thought you'd fall out with Li Shaohong. But now that we've written this song, and it's received generally positive reviews, we think it's very likely to boost the popularity of 'Palace', so we should maximize its impact: before releasing 'Palace', we should promote 'Love Offering'..."

"I want to get your consent, then contact Rongchuang and try to combine all our resources to promote 'Love Offering'. Well, mainly because the timing is good now..."

Yang Xiaomi listened carefully and said with admiration on her pretty face, "Wow, you are worthy of being called Brother Shuo. You are killing several birds with one stone, right? I feel like you have already taken into account everything that can be calculated!"

Li Shuo laughed and said, "It's not as powerful as you say. I'm just giving you advice!"

"Tsk, I'm not one of those little girls Shuoguo Culture just signed! You're so anxious to release 'Love Offering' to keep X's popularity going, right?"

"No, I want to tell everyone two things: First, X can not only write adapted songs, but also original songs. Second, Yang Xiaomi can not only act, but also sing!"

"Hee hee~"

Yang Xiaomi's eyes curved into crescents with joy. She was a good actress, but her voice had always been criticized, and her singing was even described as tone-deaf by her art teacher. However, she wanted to develop in the "three fields of film, television and music", and singing had almost become her obsession. Therefore, Li Shuo's "Offering of Love" almost completely hit the spot that made Yang Xiaomi so happy - from the first time they met until now, it has always been like this.

Now, not only was the business done, but the goddess's blockage was also completely cleared. Li Shuo simply picked up Yang Xiaomi in a princess hug and carried her into the bedroom...

After a night of physical work, Li Shuo took Yang Xiaomi and Xu Xiaosa away from Tomson No. 1 and returned to Shuoguo Manor.

"Xiao Mi, regarding the renovation of Tomson First Floor, I've specially assigned you a secretary: Wang Ziyun. She's my senior and the person I trust the most. She's currently overseeing the construction and renovation of one of my investment projects, the SC Club. So, she's fully capable of creating the desired look for you..."

"You already have a room at Shuoguo Manor, so you can just live here during the renovations. Also, I've already contacted Jingcheng Rongchuang through Shuoguo Culture. They're indeed about to start promoting 'Palace,' so it won't be long before you'll be making frequent appearances with 'Love Offering'..."

Li Shuo completely contracted the decoration of Tangchen 1st Floor for Yang Xiaomi. This item alone may be equivalent to giving Yang Xiaomi a luxury house worth tens of millions!

However, as the two of them communicated more and more deeply, their relationship became increasingly harmonious. This shared interest was an inevitable natural process. Moreover, in the foreseeable future, with Yang Xiaomi completely leaving Rongchuang, the cooperation between Xiaomi Studio and Shuoguo Culture would be fully launched...

It only took one night to bring back a top star. Li Shuo happily went to the small secret room in the side hall and called the secretaries:

"Yike, what's the situation with Hualebao and Han Er?"

"Since yesterday, the debate between Huale Newspaper and Zhang Yi has become increasingly heated and tense, but Han Er has not commented on it from beginning to end..."

As Xu Yike spoke, he opened the Weibo page on his laptop and turned it to Li Shuo.

On the screen were some reports and comments from the Chinese Music News regarding the "adapted songs". Li Shuo could see that these reports were quite formal and tried to convince others with reason.

Then the scene changed to Zhang Yi's Weibo. Although he is also a composer and lyricist, his Weibo style is not professional at all. He just stirs up emotions and makes nonsense. But in today's Internet, Zhang Yi's style is the most effective!

Therefore, in the comment section, Zhang Yi seems to be very powerful!

You should know that it's not just Hualebao that's targeting Zhang Yi; it's also Tan Jun, a large number of traditional musicians, and even Shuoguo Internet's "troll army"! Of course, the current "troll army" is engaged in "provoking confrontation," constantly shifting their stances in order to maintain the heat of the verbal battle and keep it a hot topic.

The topic on Weibo these past two days has been mainly about Huale Bao's "adapted songs are also original works." Zhang Yi's comment on this was: "I translated a foreign classic, so I can say that I originally created this book!"

This is a typical confusion of concepts. "Text translation" and "musical adaptation" are obviously different, but this kind of thing is more complicated to explain, and the onlookers are obviously not happy to listen to it, so Zhang Yi naturally has the upper hand!

Li Shuo finished reading these things, thought for a while and said: "Han Er must be the charging pawn whether he wants to or not!"

Han Er is mainly used to target Zhang Yi, which is really appropriate. If Li Shuo takes action personally, it will seem that he has lost his identity. After all, "X" is just his pseudonym!

"How about I call Han Renyi and ask him to urge Han Er?" Xu Yike asked.

Li Shuo shook his head. "Putting pressure on people is useless. Yuan Ke, how are the preparations you've been asked to make going?"

Yuan Ke replied, "Wei Ni has already finished the recording, and the video editing has also been done later... For this operation, Shuoguo Culture has also established a new 'audio-visual team' and contacted three websites, A, B, and C, and registered operation accounts on all three websites... In short, the preliminary work is complete, and we are just waiting for your order!"

"Very good. Upload the video to the three websites first and fully utilize all operational resources. I want the internet today to be filled with Wei Ni's voice! Also, send a link to Han Renyi and have him send it to Han Er immediately..."

All the arguments and verbal battles on the Internet are actually just verbal battles. The easiest way to end it is to produce real works. Li Shuo had been thinking about this day as early as when he used X to throw out the remarks about the adapted song!

After such a long period of preparation, Li Shuo was bound to set off a wave of entertainment craze...

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Just as Li Shuo expected, Han Er was indeed still waiting and watching. Of course, in his own opinion, he had already forwarded the post. Although he did not explicitly oppose Zhang Yi, he had actually taken sides.

In this situation, if Li Shuo wants him to continue speaking out, he needs to show sincerity...

As a result, after waiting for a whole day, Han Er was a little disappointed that his father Han Renyi did not make any further statement: he actually hated Zhang Yi in his heart.

It was in this situation that Han Er received a call from Xu Yike: "Mr. Han, I sent you an email. If you have time, you can take a look. Our boss said that he really hopes to see you stand up for justice!"

Han Er's heart moved, and he asked, "What kind of justice does Li Shuo want me to administer? What can he bring to me?"

He was so anxious that he spoke more bluntly.

Xu Yike said with a smile: "After you finish reading the email, I can meet you offline to chat..."

Email? What's in it?

After hanging up the phone, Han Er opened his email inbox and found an email from the "Shuoguo Culture Audiovisual Group." It came with some links and an introduction: "'Unforgiven' will be released simultaneously online today..."

The first three links are from sites A\B\C, followed by Youku, Penguin Music, Kuwo and other film, television and music platforms.

Han Er casually opened a link, which was from Bilibili. It had no advertisements. After a short buffering, a beautiful girl appeared in a recording studio that looked very professional.

At the same time, the subtitles on the left read:

"Unforgiven" - Theme Song of "The Temptation of Returning Home"

Singer: Wei Ni, adapted; Lyrics: X, Tan Jun

Han Er's mouth twitched. Since they were in his own home, he complained without hesitation, "This Li Shuo, he didn't even type 'composer'. How can he say this is an original song? Besides, the lyrics were probably written by Tan Jun. Can he really write such an adapted lyrics?"

He knew that the reason why adapted songs were respected by people in the industry was that the lyrics had to be consistent with the original mood. Compared with creating the original lyrics, this kind of lyrics was more difficult.

At that moment, the music began, a slightly earthy chorus prelude that made Han Er raise his eyebrows slightly. As a trendsetter, he felt like this was an old-fashioned tune from 20 years ago! Thinking that the song was likely adapted by Tan Jun, Han Er immediately had a bad feeling: Could this be some old-fashioned song? I couldn't possibly endorse it!

Suddenly, the beautiful girl in the video spoke:

"The pain caused by all the love, the wounds caused by all the hatred, I can no longer distinguish between love and hate, is this it..."

The loud, clear, and melodious sound reached his ears, and Han Er felt a shiver all over his body, and goose bumps appeared on his skin! This song really has a rustic flavor, but contrary to his expectations, it is very nice, very nice!

"...yet my trembling hands can't stop, can't forgive..."

The song's tempo didn't seem fast, but the pitch was extremely high, and each subsequent layer of sound waves was higher than the previous one. As Wei Ni finished singing the song layer by layer, Han Er felt like he hadn't sung enough, so he played it a second time...

After playing it for the second time, Han Er felt that he had discovered many new things.

"Well, I can write these as comments and repost Zhang Yi's post to give my evaluation. This will also be considered as officially siding with Li Shuo..."

Han Er is a straightforward and decisive young man. He didn't take sides before simply because he couldn't see which side had the advantage. But now it's different!

After turning off the video, Han Er first wrote a lot of things on his computer, and then after two revisions and deletions, he quickly logged on to Weibo...

"Go check it out! X has registered an account!"

"X's new song seems to be out, but it's a pity that he didn't appear in the video and the singer isn't a famous figure."

Han Er used to prefer Li Shuo, and the people he followed on Weibo were also traditional musicians such as Tan Jun. Now, a trend is emerging in the comment section of these people.

Seeing this, Han Er didn't even bother to pay attention to "X who logged into Weibo" and jumped to the comment section of Zhang Yi's Weibo. Following his post "I translated a famous foreign book, so I can say that this book is my original work", he directly fired back:

"I bought a whole bunch of dishes. Does that make me a famous chef? Both text translation and song adaptation are secondary processes, much like cooking. If there's a difference, then text translation is like making smashed cucumbers or sugar-coated tomatoes. All you need to do is cut the cucumbers into sections or sprinkle sugar on the tomatoes. But changing a song is definitely not as simple as smashing cucumbers. It requires precise lyrics and tempo control according to the rhythm and meaning of the original song. A lot of work is required to create a song that we can understand!"