Chapter 1024: The Temptation of New Year's Greetings (Part 2)

After paying, Luo Quan didn't go home immediately but chose to order two cups of milk tea.

She hadn't drunk this for a long time and wanted to reminisce about this warm and intimate feeling.

"Youlemei Milk Tea..." Ye Zhining looked at this strange name and didn't dare to take a sip at first.

In the palace, everything she ate and drank was the top-tier of the entire Huanyu, and just the appearance alone could whet one's appetite.

However, this drink in front of her had a strange name and color, which made her hesitate.

But after seeing Luo Quan drinking it with relish, Ye Zhining still lowered her head and took a sip.

"How is it?" Luo Quan chewed two soft and glutinous pearls and asked.

"Not bad, it's the first time I've drunk a drink with this taste, and these little balls are quite chewy." Ye Zhining gave a very high evaluation.

Although she had eaten countless delicacies, she had never drunk pearl milk tea; perhaps the palace chefs wouldn't put such cheap drinks on the table.

Perhaps this thing had no nutritional value, and the taste wasn't good enough to make people unable to stop, but for Ye Zhining, it was still quite novel.

It was just like when she first got her hands on an Apple phone; at first, she would feel a sense of nostalgia, but after using it for a long time, she would find it inferior to the light-screen phones of the Huanyu.

The former requires moving fingers, while the latter only requires moving thoughts.

"My dear consort, I looked at your life resume last night."

Ye Zhining took another storm-like sip of milk tea and said to Luo Quan: "You should be 23 this year, but it seems that from your student days until now, you haven't been in a relationship once.

I'm curious, have you really never been in one, or have you been in one before but hidden this experience?"

"Never been in one." Luo Quan answered quickly. "Didn't I tell you before, Your Majesty? I've never been in love before, and I won't be in love for a while."

Ye Zhining looked into Luo Quan's eyes: "So, is it because your standards are too high that you can't find someone you like, or do you fundamentally not intend to find a man to spend the rest of your life with?"

"Neither, I just feel that being alone is more relaxed and happy."

Luo Quan threw the finished milk tea into the trash can and said with a smile: "Love is always sweet and happy at the beginning, but after a long time, when the trivialities of life strike, you will find that happiness is short-lived, and troubles are long-lasting.

They say the process from lovers to husband and wife is a process of mutual patience and compromise, but I am relatively strong-willed and find it difficult to endure and compromise with the other half.

Rather than making things difficult for myself and others, it's better to be free and easy, and love no one."

Ye Zhining was confused: "But with your conditions, there should be plenty of people willing to endure you and compromise with you."

Luo Quan shook her head and chuckled: "That wouldn't be love, but just greedily wanting my body."

"Who wouldn't greedily want your body, my dear consort?" Ye Zhining laughed while recalling the look of Luo Quan coming out of the bath that night.

That was truly like a white lotus coming out of the water, charming and dripping, beautiful beyond compare.

One might ask, such a beauty, who wouldn't greedily want her?

Since everyone in the world greedily wants her, then Luo Quan's concept is not established.

However, digging deeper didn't make much sense; Ye Zhining asked this just to understand Luo Quan's emotional experience.

In her perception, a woman who is determined not to fall in love again must have been hurt in her previous relationship, so she began to reject new feelings from the inside out.

Ye Zhining thought Luo Quan was in this situation, but after asking carefully, she found it wasn't.

This is probably the trouble brought by being too excellent. If Luo Quan were just an ordinary pretty girl without this heaven-defying beauty that everyone loves, perhaps she would have already fallen in love.

Of course, no matter what Luo Quan was like before, now that she has met herself, if she feels lonely in the future, the only object she can find is herself, and no second person is allowed.

However, there is no need to emphasize this all the time; Luo Quan knows it in her heart, and from the current point of view, she seems to be unable to accept the status of a consort for the time being.

This kind of thing needs to be polished slowly and cannot be rushed.

Luo Quan didn't know Ye Zhining's thoughts; her attention was now on the news on her phone.

Just after New Year's Day, the most discussed topic is of course the New Year's Eve galas of several major satellite TV stations.

In terms of popularity, Bilibili became the second most popular New Year's Eve gala in 2021, second only to Mango TV.

Last year, Bilibili's gala was still at the bottom, but this year it reached second place. It must be said that the joint performance of Luo Quan and Gao Liang really attracted a large number of viewers.

And Luo Quan's solo segment was one of the peaks of viewership for several major galas.

Unfortunately, even with her popularity today, she still couldn't dominate, mainly because there was also a ruthless person on Mango TV.

Although it was just a simple song and dance, because of the clothing, the female star's cleavage was very conspicuous.

Plus, she would jump around from time to time, simply ready to come out.

So although this top-tier female star's singing skills were notoriously poor, famous for the song "Love's Suicide, Ask for Support," she still attracted a huge amount of viewers when singing, and could even compete with Luo Quan in a short time.

It can be seen that "edge-balling" is indeed the favorite of the masses. The data is there, and it cannot be argued.

If Luo Quan had dressed and performed like that at the time, the number one viewership would definitely have been firmly secured. Unfortunately, she didn't think at the time that someone could tie with her just by selling meat.

So singing diligently doesn't necessarily conquer all viewers. If you want to gather people's hearts, you have to open your mind.

Perhaps in the future, when performing, you can consider designing the performance clothes to be bolder and exert your advantages as much as possible.

Of course, the Spring Festival Gala definitely can't do this, because it won't pass the review.

Looking back at the major New Year's Eve galas this time, Luo Quan found something that made her feel a bit blocked.

That is, although her joint performance with Gao Liang received countless praises, it was beaten by *Good Morning, Longhui* and *Wujiapo 2021* in terms of internet popularity.

The former was created two years ago. Originally, the author used it to praise his hometown Longhui. After being used by Douyin netizens as the BGM for the Messi World Cup winning mix, it became popular on the internet, breaking ten billion in a very short time.

This data is even more exaggerated than the data of any of Luo Quan's songs so far.

Because Longhui is in the province where Mango TV is located, and the popularity is explosive, this song was on the New Year's Eve gala and became popular again.

Now the playback volume has exceeded 20 billion. If it continues, it is estimated that exceeding 30 billion is not a problem.

As everyone knows, when a hit appears on Douyin, netizens like to identify plagiarism in the first time.

It's not that they can't see others doing well, but because they have almost never missed before. Almost every Douyin hit has been pointed out as having suspected plagiarism.

Some were sued and bought the copyright.

Some authors had no way to know about this, so they couldn't defend their rights.

But Douyin hits and plagiarism songs are now basically synonymous.

So, after *Good Morning, Longhui* became popular, netizens quickly started to identify plagiarism, and then reached a conclusion: there is indeed a suspicion of plagiarism.

The melody and rhythm in the song are similar to at least three songs, and you can find the problem by comparing them.

As for the lyrics, they were probably written so poorly that even those who identified plagiarism didn't bother.

In short, this *Good Morning, Longhui* has become a typical case of Douyin hit plagiarism.

And sharing a similar fate is another song with high popularity, *Wujiapo 2021*.

These two are the most popular songs at the end of the year. The former stitched three songs, and the latter copied one song.

Old Bilibili users must be very familiar with the original singer of the copied song, that is, the originator of electronic divas, Hatsune Miku.

Those who know this belong to the old two-dimensional generation. The new two-dimensional generation is probably more familiar with domestic electronic divas like Luo Tianyi and Yuezheng Ling.

The melody of *Wujiapo 2021*, after being compared by Bilibili up-masters, is basically a copy-paste of a song by Hatsune Miku.

At first, the author of *Wujiapo 2021* indicated Hatsune Miku in the composer column, and the lyrics were the Peking Opera segment *Wujiapo*.

However, after the song became popular, the lyrics and composer column all became his own name.

Probably also bullying Hatsune Miku for having no popularity in China, so he dared to do so.

But paper cannot wrap fire; if it is plagiarism, it will inevitably be dug out.

Unfortunately, the netizens' verbal criticism is limited to Bilibili. The playback volume of these two songs on Douyin is still rising, and there is no sign of being affected at all.

No way, Bilibili's influence is ultimately a bit worse. If it could get on the Weibo hot search, maybe it could see some effect.

The most speechless thing is that it is said that *Good Morning, Longhui* is going to be on the Spring Festival Gala.

Because the performance on the Mango New Year's Eve gala was too outstanding, the Spring Festival Gala director group decided to temporarily requisition this song after seeing it, letting it and its author board this national stage.

It must be said that when a song becomes popular to a certain extent, it can completely make people ignore its creative source.

Just like many netizens said: I don't care if it's plagiarism or not, as long as it sounds good.

Indeed, not everyone likes to dwell on this issue that has nothing to do with life.

Everyone is an ordinary person, busy to death every day for a living. Listening to a song is just to make the mood happy. Is plagiarism important?

It is definitely important for practitioners, but for the masses, they probably just say "oh" after understanding the situation, and then continue to listen.

This is also the reason why countless netizens want her to revitalize the glory of the Chinese music scene, but she has always refused.

In such a big environment, hoping to change it by one's own strength is no different from a fool's dream.

This is not a habit formed in a day or two; this is the consumption inertia brought by decades of free-riding.

For most people, paying for listening to songs is already very outrageous.

As for plagiarism? None of their business!

So Luo Quan saw through all this very early and pessimistically believed that the Chinese music scene would continue to be rotten until more than a dozen genius-level singers emerged in a short time, just like at the beginning of the century.

In the 70s and 80s, the Chinese music scene basically relied on Japanese singers to survive. Those classic old songs that everyone is familiar with were almost all covers of songs by Japanese singers.

The place where that era was better than now is that the singers had good singing skills, and the covers all bought copyrights.

Just talking about original works, it's actually just like that.

It wasn't until a large number of talented singers emerged after the 90s that the Chinese music scene finally reached its peak.

During that period, countless golden songs and divine songs emerged, many of which are still being sung over and over again, which can be called enduring.

Unfortunately, this golden age lasted less than fifteen years. No matter how talented the geniuses were, they couldn't avoid the day when they ran out of talent.

After 2010, these kings and queens either announced their retirement or released an album every few years, and their minds were basically no longer on music.

And the strength of the successors was not enough to support the scene, so countless netizens were shouting that the Chinese music scene was dead.

However, in Luo Quan's view, the Chinese music scene is in a half-dead state.

To say it's dead, but except for herself, she can still find quite a few singers who are serious about music, and their works are also remarkable, not much worse than their predecessors.

But to say it's not dead, this environment and this atmosphere really don't deserve the word "alive."

So she felt that the Chinese music scene is in a Schrödinger's survival state.

Occasionally a good song comes out, and it's alive.

But once the plagiarism identification is successful, it dies again.

It sounds ridiculous, but this is the status quo.

If it were in the past, seeing this *Good Morning, Longhui* going to be on the Spring Festival Gala, she would have mocked it a few times, even if it offended the director group or even higher leaders.

But now, she is even too lazy to speak out because she is already a bit numb.

There are so many plagiarized songs; can she manage them all?

Mocking every one of them is obviously impossible.

But looking at the indignant netizens in the comment section of the plagiarism identification video, Luo Quan felt that her numbness and silence were somewhat irresponsible.

Finally, she chose to forward the video and posted: "If it's original, don't make it so similar to others' works; if it's not original, indicate the original author."

As soon as this dynamic was posted, it quickly climbed to the Bilibili hot search, and countless fans cheered for her.

Unfortunately, it only climbed to the Bilibili hot search. There was no movement on Douyin, and the author of *Good Morning, Longhui* had no intention of responding to her at all.

And on the Weibo side, the Spring Festival Gala director group posted a message saying that they would modify *Good Morning, Longhui*.

It can be considered as taking advantage of the rhythm not expanding to settle the matter first.

The effect was indeed good, not letting this sudden event affect the overall situation of the Spring Festival Gala.

And Luo Quan was also very curious about how this song would be modified.

She was going to Beijing tomorrow, and she should be able to hear the modified song during the second rehearsal. I hope the director group can seriously modify it.

At least, change the lyrics. These lyrics that don't even rhyme sound awkward and outrageous.

Being grounded is a good thing, but being too grounded is just earthy. ===== CHAPTER 1025 =====