Chapter 288: Exposing Privacy

Breaking into the international top tier did not seem to have much of an impact on Miss Luo Quan's life.

Emails for various song requests, endorsements, and interviews kept refreshing, never stopping, but Miss Luo Quan basically never seriously clicked into them.

These days, it is hard to accept endorsements both domestically and abroad, because you never know when the major foreign brand you are endorsing will touch upon the taboos of the domestic public, and when that happens, both the brand and the person will be attacked.

As for domestic brands, if any quality or reputation issues arise, the endorser is the one who suffers.

Therefore, for the sake of her reputation, it is better to accept fewer endorsements.

Of course, she does not refuse them entirely.

For some famous brands that Miss Luo Quan has a good impression of, she agrees quite readily, such as Huawei, which found her through her mobile phone a few days ago.

Not many people know Miss Luo Quan's mobile number, and those who do are people she trusts; contacting Miss Luo Quan through this channel to discuss business is much easier than sending emails.

As the fastest-growing mobile phone brand in the world, Huawei is already in a dominant position domestically, and it is also making great strides abroad, with its global mobile phone market share surpassing Samsung, sitting in second place and eyeing the first.

Under such favorable conditions, Huawei certainly wants to continue to expand in the international market, and for publicity, it must hire stars recognized by foreigners.

By chance, the person in charge of Huawei's publicity department saw that the mobile phone Miss Luo Quan was using was also a Huawei, so the idea of cooperating with her arose.

However, the email sent to Miss Luo Quan at the beginning did not receive a reply.

Originally, they thought Miss Luo Quan was not interested in this endorsement, but later they learned that she was like this with every brand.

Because they could not contact her, Huawei temporarily shelved the matter.

However, in the past few days, domestic and foreign media have been reporting on Miss Luo Quan overwhelmingly, and her popularity is getting higher day by day; she is already a veritable international top-tier star, so Huawei naturally rekindled the idea of cooperating with her.

Through various inquiries, Huawei finally obtained Miss Luo Quan's phone number from a certain Mr. Zhou who did not wish to be named.

After getting through, the person in charge at Huawei explained their request, and before they could list the various generous rewards they could offer, Miss Luo Quan agreed cleanly and neatly.

Things went unimaginably smoothly, and the final price settled with Miss Luo Quan was also very cheap, only 20 million RMB, half of which was donated directly to welfare institutions.

Before this, Huawei had actually sought out some major foreign brands for endorsements, such as famous Hollywood actresses or football superstars, whose asking prices were generally over 30 million RMB.

For Miss Luo Quan's status, charging so little is truly conscientious.

The key is that besides wanting Miss Luo Quan to be the spokesperson, Huawei also wanted her to write a promotional song, and in the end, it was in both Chinese and English versions.

As long as you go online, you can learn a little about Miss Luo Quan's talent; her songs basically become hits as soon as they are released.

Huawei is so persistent in wanting to cooperate with Miss Luo Quan, partly because they want to use her songs to stir up a wave of popularity.

Miss Luo Quan's songs are not cheap now; there are singers abroad who even offered 5 million USD to have Miss Luo Quan help them write a song, and this matter even made it to the Twitter hot search, but Miss Luo Quan just used one sentence: "If there is an opportunity in the future, I will consider cooperation," tactfully expressing her refusal.

Although buying songs did not work out, Miss Luo Quan's songs basically have a base price in the industry; anything lower than 5 million USD should not even be mentioned.

In view of this, Huawei had already prepared to spend 50 million to win over Miss Luo Quan, which can be considered a heavy investment.

However, even after knowing the requirement to write a song, Miss Luo Quan did not increase the price.

This fee is cheaper than many domestic stars!

After signing the contract during the day, Huawei released the news of signing with Miss Luo Quan on Weibo and Twitter that night, happily announcing that Miss Luo Quan had become the global spokesperson for the Huawei brand!

The news hit the hot search less than ten minutes after it came out; as the pride of domestic mobile phones, every move of Huawei mobile phones is highly concerned, and this time, releasing such a heavy piece of news was indeed beyond the public's expectations.

Comment section:

"Amazing, to actually be able to sign Miss Luo Quan for an endorsement."

"Huawei bled heavily this time; previously, when Miss Luo Quan signed with Chanel, the annual endorsement fee was 9 million USD. Now Miss Luo Quan's status has risen by a level compared to before, so the endorsement fee must have gone up!"

"Asking because I don't know, what is Miss Luo Quan's status now? Why is the comment section so surprised? Isn't it normal for a star to sign an endorsement?"

"Miss Luo Quan is famously difficult to sign. Since her debut, she has only signed an endorsement with Chanel. No matter how powerful other brands are, she doesn't care about any of them."

"I know this. When Miss Luo Quan livestreams, she often clears the unread emails in her inbox. There are hundreds every day, and she basically selects all and throws them into the trash bin directly.

Someone specifically watched it in slow motion, and there are many big names signed on these emails!"

"Let me name a few famous ones: Apple, Samsung, Dior, Hermès, Disney, and there are also private messages from some stars, basically all inviting cooperation."

"This is too willful, right? Not giving anyone face at all?"

"Miss Luo Quan said that if she gives face to one person, it would be unfair to others, so she simply doesn't give it to anyone. If only two or three people asked her to cooperate, it might have worked out."

"So, what kind of remuneration did Huawei offer to sign such a difficult Miss Luo Quan?"

"Lifetime free use of Huawei products, a certain signing fee, and I don't know about the rest. They couldn't have given shares directly, right?"

"Trivia: Huawei is not a listed company."

"Ah, this..."

The news of Miss Luo Quan becoming Huawei's spokesperson was being discussed heatedly on Weibo.

The promotional song had already been written by Miss Luo Quan, titled "Dream it Possible."

Huawei obviously did not expect Miss Luo Quan's speed to be so fast, and strongly suspected that this was a song Miss Luo Quan had written long ago.

However, after listening to the demo Miss Luo Quan sang a cappella, they found it surprisingly good, and the lyrics were also very inspirational and positive; it was exactly what they wanted!

Once the song is out, of course, it needs an MV to go with it. Huawei prepared to hand the script to a specialist to plan, and Miss Luo Quan also indicated that she could make a cameo appearance in the MV.

If she were not afraid of the world correction law, Miss Luo Quan would even want to provide the script for this MV directly.

Huawei, having obtained the new song, did not announce it immediately. Huawei was about to hold a new product launch conference soon, a conference Huawei had been preparing for a year, facing the whole world.

When the MV is played at the beginning of the conference, the effect will definitely be quite explosive!

As for Miss Luo Quan, she just spent ten minutes writing the lyrics and music, sang a song, and then earned this extra money.

She didn't particularly care about how much the endorsement fee was; the main thing was that she could get Huawei's new products as soon as they were released in the future, without having to fight with millions of people for a phone in the middle of the night.

Having privileges is comfortable.

Signing with Huawei was a small interlude; Miss Luo Quan's main energy was still on preparing for the National Style Ceremony.

This time she had two programs, one was a Chinese instrument ensemble, and the other was a solo.

Because it was a National Style Ceremony, she also had to customize an ancient-style dress.

At first, she wanted to save trouble and use a cheongsam directly, but she felt that the cheongsam was slightly revealing, so she chose ancient attire.

To be honest, she was also quite curious about what she would look like in ancient attire, and whether it would be full of incongruity as some people on Zhihu said.

To be reasonable, there are many stars in the entertainment industry now who have her high nose bridge and deep eye sockets, and there are also many mixed-race people; if her hair were black, perhaps there would be much less controversy.

The day of the National Style Ceremony was getting closer, and Miss Luo Quan had already booked a flight to the capital.

The National Style Ceremony hosted by N Station this time was livestreamed at the Starlight Film and Television Center in the capital. Most of the audience watching on-site were invited, mainly B Station's own uploaders, and the rest were drawn by lottery for B Station members; whoever won the qualification could come.

In fact, these audiences could also be understood as shills invited by B Station. Anyway, when a group of people performed on stage, the audience below would definitely have to get excited, and they would also be specifically told when to make what kind of reaction.

It was not yet time for rehearsals, and Miss Luo Quan was still livestreaming at home.

After failing to advance to Diamond a few days ago, Miss Luo Quan's luck was not very good, and she often encountered actors and was pitted into losing.

Although she was known as the Summoner Master, her true strength was actually that of a Diamond goalkeeper; wanting to reach Diamond in the first zone still depended quite a bit on luck.

She had already reached the life-and-death game of the promotion series before, but she lacked a bit of luck and fell short; in the past few days, she had been on a losing streak and dropped to Platinum II.

Today her luck was slightly better, and she won four games in a row to return to Platinum I.

Just as a game ended, Miss Luo Quan was preparing to take advantage of her good luck and press on, when her Apple phone, which had been eliminated, suddenly rang.

She wondered who was calling, but found the screen pitch black, yet the ringtone was still ringing, which was very eerie.

Miss Luo Quan frowned, thinking the phone was broken, but saw a line of white text appear on the screen:

"Miss Luo Quan, your phone has been hacked by me. If you don't want me to make the files on your phone public, give me 5 million USD!"

Then, two options appeared on the phone screen, one Yes, one No.

"Damn it, blackmailing me?!" Miss Luo Quan was furious: "I'm afraid of you? Wait to go to jail!"

After speaking, she angrily clicked NO!

The friends in the livestream room were stunned:

"What's wrong, what's wrong?"

"What news made Miss Luo Quan so angry?"

"It seems Miss Luo Quan is really angry; it's the first time I've seen her face so red."

"Something is not good."

"What happened?"

The barrage was all concerned about Miss Luo Quan, and after she clicked NO, the words "You will regret it" soon appeared on the screen, and then the phone went black.

Miss Luo Quan hurriedly restarted it, but after restarting, all the data on the phone was gone, and it directly restored to factory settings like an Android phone.

"Wow, everything is gone!" Miss Luo Quan was furious. Although this Apple phone had retired to the second line, there were still many photos she had taken before on it.

There were collaborations with family and friends, all of which were her memories from the past year, and now they were all gone, and she didn't have the habit of backing up, and she didn't know if she could find them back.

The barrage continued to ask anxiously:

"What exactly happened?"

"So nervous!"

"Don't scare me."

Miss Luo Quan collected her mood and said to the fans: "Just now my phone was attacked by a hacker, asking me to give him 5 million USD, otherwise he would send out everything on my phone.

I refused, and then he deleted everything on my phone, it pissed me off!"

"So that's what it was."

"Scared me."

"These hackers are too arrogant!"

"Why not call the police directly?"

"They are abroad; even if you want to catch them, you can only let Interpol come. Even if the domestic police find out, it's useless."

"This kind of thing is very annoying."

"Does it mean Miss Luo Quan's privacy will be exposed soon?"

"Why am I still a little excited!"

"Don't be like this."

"It is estimated that it will be released."

"It's not like stars haven't encountered such things abroad before."

Miss Luo Quan saw the worry in the barrage; although she was very angry, she was not particularly worried.

The things on her phone, while called privacy, were not really that private; they were all daily photos and chat records.

She didn't use a small account to scold people, nor did she publish any taboo remarks, and the items she usually bought online were also very ordinary... Damn, the style and size of the underwear she bought on Taobao might not be kept secret. If this were made public...

Miss Luo Quan's face turned ugly, but her mouth was still quite hard: "There is nothing special on my phone, just some daily photos. If someone really exposes it, everyone must not go to watch it, and must help me keep it confidential."

"No problem, I am the Director of the Confidentiality Bureau!"

"Since there is nothing special, you shouldn't have to worry too much. (Funny)"

"I suddenly became curious."

"It's better not to watch it."

"I swear, I won't watch it!"

"I also swear!"

"Can you even swear wrongly?"

"Miss Luo Quan sees you all, and has a MMP in her heart that she doesn't know whether to say or not."

Miss Luo Quan really wanted to curse MMP, but not at these fans, but at the damn hacker who hacked her phone!

To be reasonable, she hadn't clicked on any dangerous websites, so how did she get hacked suddenly?

Miss Luo Quan couldn't figure it out, and had no heart to livestream, so she ended the stream directly.

For the rest of the night, she kept wandering around on Weibo and Twitter, paying attention to hot news.

If this hacker released her privacy, it would definitely be big news.

Now she could only hope that this hacker was just bluffing her; after all, stealing others' privacy for blackmail already constituted an illegal act, and if he dared to make a big fuss, he would definitely be tracked down by the cyber police.

As long as he is found, he will definitely have to eat prison food.

Miss Luo Quan bet that this hacker didn't have such big guts.

However, she didn't expect that this hacker's appetite was much, much bigger than she imagined.

PS. Thanks to book friends Feise Shenjie, Liuli Bingcan, and Dadi Chunjie for the book coins, thank you! ===== CHAPTER 289 =====