Chapter 281: Harvest

"How to evaluate 'Jiangnan'?"

Recently, the frequency of Miss Luo Quan appearing on the Some Zhihu hot list was even more frequent than on the Weibo hot search.

"I won't say much more; Miss Luo Quan's talent no longer needs any flowery language to gild the lily. Just pay attention to every work of hers."

"A rare masterpiece in the Chinese music scene, the lyrics are beautiful and full of deep meaning. It's just that I don't quite understand what the 'circles, circles, circles' mean."

"Miss Luo Quan explained it during the livestream; it's the ripples caused by raindrops falling on the water surface, a beauty that can only be understood and not expressed in words."

"I sincerely hope Miss Luo Quan can create more Chinese songs. From her, I see the dawn of the Chinese music scene."

Just as 'Jiangnan' was sparking a discussion and listening frenzy in China, things were not calm abroad either.

Although 'Love' became popular again due to the 'Rolling Stone' Top 100 list and sales rebounded, the songs had been out for so long, and the popularity that could be maintained was always limited.

New works are the key for stars to maintain popularity.

Although 'I'm Coming' was popular in Japan, it didn't make much of a splash in Europe and America.

The language audience is different, and upon learning that this album didn't come with Miss Luo Quan's autograph, most Western fans lost interest, except for some die-hard fans who would buy a copy.

Although she didn't release new English songs, Miss Luo Quan wrote them for others.

Universal Music had started promoting Gao Liang a few days ago, saying that two new songs were about to be released, with Miss Luo Quan in charge of production.

Just hearing this news was enough to make countless fans excited.

Miss Luo Quan and Gao Liang are now walking heart-harvesters in the eyes of young people in Europe and America.

Most of the time, one look is all it takes to be attracted to the two.

You can't blame young people for being so superficial; after all, vision is the most direct sense for humans, plus the two's appearance is truly outstanding.

In fact, Gao Liang had been trying hard to get rid of the idol label, polishing his acting skills, singing, and works, wanting to align himself with the strength-based faction.

But currently, there were no visible results yet, so he still had to rely on Miss Luo Quan.

But anyway, she was his own sister, so why not rely on her?

After sufficient promotion, the two new songs Miss Luo Quan wrote for him finally went online on major music platforms.

They say Asian female fans are crazy, but European and American fan-circle girls are no less so. As soon as the two songs were released, they rushed directly into the top ten of the Billboard charts.

There were originally five of Miss Luo Quan's songs in there, but after Gao Liang released the new songs, one of Miss Luo Quan's songs finally dropped out of the Billboard top ten.

The new songs '500 Miles' and 'Auld Lang Syne' were both soothing and gentle slow songs. Perhaps they wouldn't feel particularly stunning at first, but they were endlessly memorable, making people unable to help but put them on loop.

At first, the fans' crazy chart-rushing behavior made the Billboard backend think this was some star coming here to gild themselves, and they were just about to remove them when they saw it was Gao Liang's new song.

After listening to it again, no one mentioned removing them from the chart.

The quality of these two songs deserved to enter the top ten!

The Billboard results and the fans' enthusiastic forwarding and recommendations made Gao Liang's new songs immediately popular in the European and American music scene.

A group of "professionals" immediately launched a strong attack, preparing to express their profound insights, or rather, to criticize.

Music knows no borders, and keyboard warriors are the same.

No one likes "little fresh meat." Although Gao Liang, who was labeled with this, had been working hard, the public's view of him was still that his looks outweighed his strength.

And criticizing his works was also a great pleasure for "professionals."

But this time, the numerous professionals clearly couldn't criticize him.

The quality of the works was extremely high, and the singing was also very on point. Overall, the completion and musicality of these two songs were very high, and they could absolutely win a Grammy!

And when the real professionals spoke up, the recognition Gao Liang had long craved finally arrived:

"After listening to '500 Miles,' I once thought it was the best folk song in the world; this view lasted until I heard 'Auld Lang Syne.'

These two songs are absolutely the best folk songs of this century, and they are excellent enough to be mentioned in the same breath as those folk masters of the last century!"

"'Rolling Stone's Top 100 Songs list has more songs to include. These two songs can be called representative works of folk music. It's been a long time since I've heard folk music with such beautiful and graceful vocals and lyrics so intimate and gentle. The combination of Gao Liang and Miss Luo Quan is really great!"

"Really curious, under what circumstances did Miss Luo Quan write such beautiful songs?"

This question sparked quite a lot of curiosity and discussion among fans, who offered their own answers, but they were all far from the truth.

Fred knew this question better than anyone.

Because these two songs were written right under his nose; he was the lucky one who got Miss Luo Quan's sheet music first.

At the same time, he was also the second unlucky one to be clearly rejected by Miss Luo Quan; he hadn't even managed to say his confession yet.

At that time, in front of Miss Luo Quan, he had endured it to maintain his composure.

After returning to the hotel, he finally hugged his pillow and began to go crazy.

It wasn't that he was particularly irritable; he was just simply throwing the pillow to vent.

If it were a few years ago, he probably would have shed a few tears, but now, he didn't even have the right to shed tears.

Everyone was telling him: Fred, you're already an adult, be strong; tears are the exclusive property of women and children!

Thus, Fred's only remaining way to vent his emotions was to hammer the pillow.

This was the lowest-destructive and most effective way he could find.

When goose feathers were flying in the room, Fred finally felt relieved.

Some things aren't necessarily yours just because you crave them.

Now hearing these two songs again, Fred was filled with mixed feelings. He used a burner account to browse Miss Luo Quan's Twitter, resisted the urge to send a message, turned his head, and used his main account to post a congratulatory message under Gao Liang's Twitter..............

"What, is that guy such a sycophant?" In the room, Miss Luo Quan laughed while gnawing on an apple, her phone on speaker, talking to Junko.

"Yeah, his main account follows my Weibo without saying a word, but his burner account sends private messages every day to show concern, it's even more nagging than my grandmother." Junko looked distressed.

The person she was talking about was a quite famous rich second-generation in China, a local from Shanghai, who had some friendship with the "National Husband."

Both of them were active figures on the internet, loving to evaluate and expose various truths in the entertainment industry, not giving any artist face, so they had the titles of "Entertainment Industry Disciplinary Committee" and "Entertainment Industry Prosecutor."

The former was the National Husband, and the latter was the "Entertainment Industry Prosecutor" who was more nagging than her grandmother—Ye Kai.

Looking at this surname, he was born with the fate of being a protagonist.

It's a pity that he didn't know how he had become obsessed with Junko recently, and it was the kind that was out of control.

He often used his burner account to interact and leave comments with Junko, and he was also very active in fan chart-rushing.

Previously, on the night the 'Produce 101' group was formed, Junko was able to take third place, and Ye Kai deserved one-third of the credit for that.

Interestingly, Ye Kai's alt account is just as famous as his main one, and everyone basically knows it's his alt. Because of this, the news of Ye Kai's obsession with the new girl group member Miyano Xia Zi has already become an open secret on Weibo.

The reason it was a secret was because the popularity of this matter had been suppressed; many people who didn't pay attention to this aspect didn't know, and they didn't know if it was Tencent or Ye Kai's side that did it.

In short, it was a good thing for now, but it was hard to say in the long run.

As far as Miss Luo Quan herself was concerned, she didn't have much of a good impression of these rich second-generation kids, especially the Chinese ones.

Although she felt that Seifert and Gao Liang, whom she had interacted with, were quite good, had no bad habits, were humble and polite to others, and had relatively low-key personalities.

But Miss Luo Quan felt that such people were definitely in the minority.

Probably because she had been poisoned too severely by those urban novels, anyway, Miss Luo Quan didn't have any good impression of rich second-generation kids.

Of course, she didn't hate them either; it was just a plain, indifferent feeling.

As for Ye Kai toward Junko, Miss Luo Quan felt it was probably just a whim of this young master. If Junko kept not responding or appeared relatively indifferent.

Either Young Master Ye would be embarrassed into anger and tear his face off with Junko.

Or he would find it boring and turn to look for new love.

The possibility of him insisting on being a sycophant was minimal.

"Then what should I do?" Junko expressed that she was a little panicked.

Like Miss Luo Quan, she had never been in a relationship since she was a child. Now that she had encountered such a situation, she didn't know what to do.

Should she express rejection tactfully, or cut the Gordian knot like Miss Luo Quan? Junko fell into a dilemma.

Miss Luo Quan replied: "If he wants to be a sycophant, let him be. If he rushes the charts for you, say thank you, and interact with him politely.

Sooner or later he will confess to you, and then you can reject him, and that will be it."

The dog-headed military advisor who had never been in a relationship began to teach Junko various little tips about love, and the latter listened quite seriously.

After finishing the call, Miss Luo Quan browsed Weibo and saw that the interface for entering Weibo had been replaced by the movie poster for 'Wolf Warrior 2' at some point.

A row of eye-catching large characters at the top: Warmly celebrate 'Wolf Warrior 2' box office breaking 10 billion!

Miss Luo Quan widened her eyes in surprise—it already hit 10 billion?!

In fact, after 'Wolf Warrior 2' reached 1 billion in box office, she hadn't paid much attention to this movie. Although she could occasionally see news of it breaking records on hot searches, in Miss Luo Quan's view, this was all as it should be, nothing worth being surprised about.

Until today, seeing the box office of 'Wolf Warrior 2' reach the astonishing figure of 10 billion.

This was not only the highest box office for a Chinese movie, but it should also be the highest box office for an Asian movie, equivalent to over 1 billion US dollars. Such a result was a quite terrifying achievement in the entire history of film.

It is worth mentioning that 'Wolf Warrior 2' was about to enter the Asian and even the world market.

Even if this movie, full of Chinese mainstream values, couldn't achieve the same success as it did in China, relying on Miss Luo Quan's fame and the popularity of sweeping 10 billion in box office domestically, it should still be able to achieve good results.

After all, setting aside the mainstream values, this movie was absolutely an action gunfight movie that met the passing line. Moreover, there were so many overseas Chinese that there would definitely be quite a few willing to spend money to watch it.

Having been a hit for so long, 'Wolf Warrior 2' was finally about to be taken off the screens, but the next steps wouldn't stop there; entering foreign countries was naturally a matter of course.

Of course, she didn't need to worry about these things; the work that belonged to her had already ended.

Clicking on the hot search, the first one was the news of 'Wolf Warrior 2' breaking 10 billion.

The number of comments exceeded 100,000, which could be said to be quite a large discussion popularity.

The top comments were basically all congratulations and pride.

Of course, such a movie would definitely not have only one voice:

"Can such a movie break 10 billion? Are Chinese audiences blind?"

"A disgrace in the history of Chinese film."

"Are these leeks too easy to cut?"

"Three people taking down an army, may I ask if this is a sci-fi movie?"

"Those people with high likes, just call them 'Wolf Warriors' from now on, look how excited they are."

"Douban rating 7.0, although it broke 10 billion, the quality can only be said to be average."

Sure enough, a group of people whose composition was unknown stood out to criticize 'Wolf Warrior 2', doing everything possible to belittle it.

Such voices had actually appeared from the day 'Wolf Warrior 2' was released, and as the box office of 'Wolf Warrior 2' got higher and higher, the voices scolding it also got louder and louder.

Especially loud today.

But the fiery-tempered Wu Dao Jin never tolerated such behavior, directly posting a video to retort.

"Originally didn't want to say these things on this good day to spoil the fun, but I really can't stand some people's words."

In the video, Wu Jin sat on a chair, crossing his legs, still smiling.

"Really, some of you are too inferior, used to being bullied by foreigners, thinking we can't be strong.

Today I'm going to retort to these people who have such thoughts.

Chinese people must be beaten down, Americans can be heroes who save the world; we must be incompetent, while others can be competent?

Isn't it cheap? Really, too cheap!

In a word, if you can't stand it, don't watch it, go watch American movies, don't watch my movie, and don't come here to express your high-sounding arguments."

Speaking of this, Wu Jin's expression was already full of contempt.

That was contempt for everyone who had such thoughts.

Although the video wasn't long, the effect it achieved was very significant.

The great Wu Dao was directly scolded onto the hot search, and one video flushed out almost all the "foreign-worshipping dogs" on Weibo.

More than half of the comments were scolding him, and there were also quite a few people helping him fight back, but the number of people wasn't large.

Miss Luo Quan saw this and thought, this won't do, can't let Wu Dao fight alone, and immediately posted on Weibo:

"I'm thinking you guys didn't get a green card either, where does this 'convert's fanaticism' come from? Or is it that now 'spiritual Americans' are qualified enough to virtually get an American green card?

Add some bones to your knees; history tells us that people who are servile never have a good ending. If you don't like it, you can leave here and go to the place you want to go.

But as far as I know, the America you're thinking about day and night probably won't accept trash like you.

It seems that in this life, you can only be a spiritual American."

After posting, she @-ed Wu Dao who was being targeted.

And after this statement came out, Miss Luo Quan became the target of a new round of concentrated fire.

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