Chapter 206: Fairness

However, the subsequently announced price also poured a basin of cold water on many fans.

"Love" limited edition record, only 999 copies sold globally, 1,000 US dollars each.

This is a very expensive price for most people. Compared with the commemorative version that only sells for 50 US dollars, the limited version only has a few more videos that can be watched for free

Even with the greatest love for Luo Quan, this price is absolutely enough to make most fans calm down.

However, among the fans who love Luo Quan, there are still those willing to spend 1,000 USD to buy an autograph, and there are definitely more than 999 of them.

After all, the income levels of ordinary people in China, Japan, and the United States are not the same, and their consumption concepts also differ.

But for the sake of fairness, before agreeing to the autographs, Luo Quan made a request to the company: the sales of this commemorative record must be completely random.

Universal naturally followed suit, opening a link at the bottom of the record sales page where fans who want to purchase the limited-edition record can click in, enter their personal information, and wait for the system to conduct the lottery.

In any case, there are only 999 spots, and the lottery starts tomorrow night, so there isn't much preparation time for the fans.

However, fans who truly love Luo Quan basically won't miss this news. Regardless of whether they have the ability to purchase or not, they all happily clicked in to increase the difficulty of winning for others.

Even if one is actually drawn for the purchase qualification, one doesn't necessarily have to buy it; just click to forfeit the qualification. But this qualification is bound to personal information the moment it is drawn, and it will be verified again during payment, so there is no such thing as reselling the purchase qualification.

It can be said that by doing this, Luo Quan has secured enough fairness for her fans.

There are many things in this world that can be made convenient by spending money. The rich will always enjoy far more high-quality treatment than the poor.

This is an indisputable fact; after all, the wealth gap is an objective reality. People have money, and there is nothing wrong with enjoying more, as long as it isn't ill-gotten money.

However, Luo Quan has never been one to indulge that. Regardless of whether one is rich or poor, at least in terms of qualifications, everyone is equal. In any case, the time limit for purchase is very long; payment can be completed within three months.

For most adults who already have stable jobs, gritting their teeth and saving some money is enough to afford it.

If it's a student, then there's nothing to be done.

In short, this activity, which looks more like harvesting leeks than a fan benefit, didn't receive many negative reviews after going online. Instead, many fans complained that the limit of 999 was simply too small, and with their luck, they wouldn't be able to win at all, and so on.

Of course, these are just small interludes; the real highlight is still Luo Quan's record sales, which are still exploding.

In less than a day, the 1.5 million albums put on the shelves have been sold out. Besides that, there are as many as a million paid orders on retail websites waiting to be processed.

With nearly 3 million copies sold on the first day, this is unique in the entire world pop music scene!

The millions of sales of *Coming of Age* in Japan were cumulative pre-sales over many days, so they cannot be counted in the record.

But this time, *Love* has truly broken the world record for first-day record sales.

The former first place was a record set by the late pop king Danny Knier in the last century and this century; on the first day of the record's release, he achieved sales of 1.07 million copies.

Since then, no other singer has been able to achieve such a result, until the appearance of Luo Quan, who directly doubled this record and then some!

It has just been twenty-four hours since the physical release of *Love*, and the sales figure has settled at 2,673,210 copies.

The Guinness official website also quickly posted an article, which is the certification of the world record for first-day record sales:

"Chinese singer Luo Quan's new album *Love* achieved sales of 2,673,210 on its first day of release, breaking the record of 1,074,336 copies set by Danny Knier!"

Guinness officials also contacted Luo Quan later, saying that the certificate would be couriered to Luo Quan in a few days.

For an ordinary person to apply for a Guinness World Record, they have to take the initiative to contact them. A situation like this, where it's the other way around, is very rare, which shows how high Luo Quan's popularity is right now.

Her Twitter followers have already broken 50 million, leaping to become a top-tier celebrity in the European and American entertainment industry.

In addition, many fans are urging Luo Quan to open an account on Instagram, with a large group of Instagram users waiting to follow her.

Instagram is actually like the WeChat Moments in China, where one can post photos, text, and share daily life. Twitter is more like Weibo; on Twitter, most people post their own thoughts or promote their work.

If you want to see what a celebrity's life is like, you have to go to Instagram, so most celebrities have more followers on Instagram than on Twitter.

Take Lyon, for example; he basically doesn't use his Twitter much, as it's all work-related stuff, such as travel schedules, where he's going to hold roadshows next, etc., and he only has 60 million followers.

Yet, it was precisely this style, so simple as to be crude, that became the "walking dream" in the hearts of countless men. It must be said that sometimes simplicity is indeed more popular than heavy makeup.

Of course, no matter what it is, the number of followers is always inflated; the only difference lies in the amount of inflation.

While gaining followers abroad, the domestic front hasn't fallen behind either.

Weibo followers have already reached nearly 30 million, and Bilibili followers are also heading straight for 4 million.

As an up-loader who frequently goes silent, Luo Quan, who has basically not posted any serious videos since returning to the country, is still gaining followers at a rate of tens of thousands per day. If this continues, Luo Quan is very likely to become the up-loader with the most followers on Bilibili.

After becoming famous and having more fans, work-related matters have also increased.

In addition to countless interview requests from the media and invitations to various events, there are also overwhelming advertising endorsements that follow.

From small daily necessities of the second and third tier to top global luxury brands, all of them sent messages to Luo Quan's Google mailbox at the first opportunity, wanting her to be their spokesperson.

Of course, there are many levels of spokespersons: some are regional spokespersons, some are global spokespersons, and some are brand spokespersons.

However, Luo Quan's status is already high enough now, and the international brands that come to her start by offering her the Asia-Pacific spokesperson position.

Some even promise that after becoming a spokesperson, the products of the endorsed series can be used for free until the contract ends; if it's a lifetime endorsement, then she can use them for a lifetime!

But no matter how tempting these promised things are, Luo Quan has rejected every single one of them.

If it were some domestic brands, it wouldn't be impossible to consider, but as for foreign ones, let's forget it.

Some time ago, a luxury brand was suspected of discriminating against yellow-skinned people due to the choice of models, which aroused great resistance in the country, and even the domestic celebrities who endorsed this brand were implicated.

Even if these celebrities terminated their contracts with the brand at the first opportunity, they could not avoid being scolded on the trending list, and some were even scolded more than once.

It's actually a bit innocent when you think about it, but who told you to have ties with this brand? When the public cannot find a target to vent their anger, they naturally can only aim their spearhead at these people who can be directly reached.

This kind of public anger has nowhere to reason with. Even someone like Luo Quan, who likes to "reason" so much, was still engaged in high-intensity confrontations with a bunch of trolls when she was being blacklisted by the entire internet back then.

But in this situation, she has no second path to take other than apologizing and terminating the contract. If the tone is slightly aggressive, that is standing on the opposite side of public opinion. People who do such things generally don't end up very well.

And such risks will always exist as long as one signs a contract with a foreign brand.

Although the probability is not high, sometimes some people's brains just twitch. Clearly, some words are a lose-lose situation when spoken, yet they still want to say them; clearly, some things can find better solutions, yet they just want to make things difficult for the Chinese people and create controversies that shouldn't exist.

Luo Quan doesn't want her reputation to be bound to someone who might suddenly turn into a pig-headed person in the future, so even knowing that if she signs with these top luxury brands, both fame and fortune will be greatly improved, she still pushed them all away, including brands like Chanel, Dior, and Givenchy.

In fact, this is not the first time they have contacted Luo Quan. As early as the beginning of the year, when she won the title of the world's most beautiful, they had already approached her once, and the money and benefits offered were more and more each time, but Luo Quan politely declined them all.

This time is no exception, just with some different reasons and a gentler tone.

After all, they are world-class top brands; a tone that is too aggressive will offend people.

Although Luo Quan has become popular, she hasn't gotten carried away at all. Maintaining quality and politeness is the foundation for a person to receive good evaluations from others, and this has always been Luo Quan's code of conduct.

Of course, in some situations, she also has an emotional side. For example, there are always a few days every month when she can't help but want to lose her temper, and her speech will be as fiery as if she had eaten gunpowder.

She never had such an emotional side before, but ever since she transmigrated, she has always encountered such troubles.

Fortunately, whenever it arrives, she tries her best not to go online, peaceably reads some books, listens to songs, and drinks sugar water; as the saying goes, out of sight, out of mind.

Of course, in most cases, her temperament is still relatively gentle, and she puts courtesy first in dealing with people and things, which is also the reason why people who have interacted with her have such high evaluations of her.

In addition to endorsements, many companies have also proposed invitations to sign contracts with her.

They are all large domestic companies, including professional entertainment companies, film companies, or music companies, and the prices offered are also very high, much higher than the signing fee that Zhou Yangwen gave her back then.

But without a doubt, these were all rejected by Luo Quan.

The system's restriction condition is still there to this day: she cannot be bound to any entertainment company for a contract.

From the perspective of that time, this limited Luo Quan's development, forcing her to choose the most difficult path to forge her own reputation.

But from the current perspective, this restriction has instead made her truly the freest star in the entertainment industry.

She can decide her own schedule as she pleases; schedules, endorsements, and activities—if she wants to take them, she takes them; if she doesn't want to, she refuses. Every day, she also has plenty of time to do what she likes to do, even if it's lying in bed playing with her phone to kill time, no one will gossip about her.

Moreover, there is absolutely no need to worry about all the troublesome things brought about by company operations; she manages all social accounts herself and doesn't need to look at anyone's face.

Now Luo Quan is truly grateful to the system for giving her this restrictive task.

If it weren't for this task, which led her to rashly sign a contract with a company back then, now that she is explosively popular, who knows how many endorsements she would be forced to sign and how many movies she would have to act in just for the money.

Aren't so many celebrities who suddenly become popular just because these short-sighted signing companies are eager to cash in on their popularity and squeeze out all their potential step by step?

Establishing a reputation often takes a long time, while collapsing it sometimes only takes one endorsement or one movie.

Having watched too many farces in the entertainment industry in her past life and witnessed too many new stars fading away, Luo Quan understands better than anyone how important it is to maintain a good reputation.

In short, her image at home and abroad has been completely established: talented, outstanding in strength, humble, and low-key, with almost no solid black material.

As long as she keeps this up, not to mention becoming a goddess for all the people like in Japan, it is not difficult to become a first-line star who is well-regarded by most netizens.

When the time comes, she will take on a few more high-quality movies, complete the tasks given by the system to obtain mysterious rewards, and then her personal panel attributes will go up another level.

Luo Quan's current personal panel attributes are:

Fame: Somewhat famous (worldwide)

Appearance: SSS

Singing: S+

Acting: A

Creation: A- ~ Infinity

【Star Binding: Sarah Brightman (seven days)】

Expertise: Iron lungs, skin quality improvement, piano mastery, guitar mastery, opera mastery, eight types of mastery, culinary mastery............

In the backpack, there are all kinds of strange potions—breast enhancement, butt enhancement, face slimming—basically all related to beauty, and there aren't many that are truly useful.

These are things drawn from mysterious rewards given by the system after completing tasks or leveling up.

This reward draw has a certain probability of drawing top-tier items, such as attribute improvement cards, permanent star binding cards, etc., but Luo Quan's luck is not very good. So far, she has drawn no less than twenty times and only drawn one attribute improvement card; the others are either useless potions or time-limited star binding cards.

And now, her level has improved once again. Every time the fame level is improved, there will be a reward draw gift, and this time is no exception.

This time, because the degree of improvement is relatively large, the system directly gave her three chances to draw.

"Let me see what good things I can draw this time." Luo Quan rubbed her hands and entered the lottery page full of anticipation.