Chapter 130: The Reflection in the Eyes

As a proud student produced by the Central Academy of Drama, Chen Hao felt it necessary to pick up a small teaching stick and properly teach Zhou Yi what contrast meant.

Just like her.

Her personality in real life and the radiant, dazzling Wan Ren Mi were completely opposite directions.

If Wan Ren Mi was a butterfly fluttering in men's hearts, then Chen Hao herself leaned more towards the gentle, family-oriented meaning of traditional China.

Being able to portray a character with a personality so utterly opposite to her own so vividly, one had to say that Chen Hao's acting, at only 22 years old this year, was truly strong.

At least Zhou Yi thought so.

"No, no, filming and shooting an MV are different; you need to recite this line with a lighter tone, but it can't be that weak, breathless feeling.

"Also, you need to rein in your usual temperament and imagine yourself as a good person who treats others with sincerity..."

After finishing the meal, adhering to the principle of professional exchange, Chen Hao began by teaching Zhou Yi the differences between acting and shooting an MV, while also explaining her understanding of the character Li Bai to help Zhou Yi find the feeling.

One word: Pure.

Two words: Innocent.

As Wan Ren Mi's destination, the point on the character Li Bai that clearly moved Wan Ren Mi was sincerity, sincerity, and damn it, sincerity.

After Chen Hao's analysis, Zhou Yi understood.

Wasn't this just the innocent plus little puppy dog of the traffic era? He knew it well.

But it was just Chen Hao's description...

Zhou Yi glanced at her sideways with a strange expression: "What do you mean by imagining yourself as a good person who treats others with sincerity? Isn't that just who I am?"

Chen Hao, who was sitting on the living room sofa immersing herself in the teacher's plot, heard this and offered no defense; she simply placed her hands on her crossed legs, watching him quietly, a playful smile on her pretty, unadorned face.

Zhou Yi, sitting cross-legged on the living room carpet, blinked; after a few seconds of eye contact, his face became somewhat untenable, and he began to defend himself incessantly.

Things like "I, Zhou Yi, am iron-boned and honest, never lying," "I have always been clean and treats others with sincerity," and so on, causing Chen Hao to finally lose her composure, laughing so hard her body shook, and the air in the hotel suite instantly filled with a happy atmosphere.

"Although your acting isn't great, the fact that you are handsome is true. I heard there is a male group called F4 on the Taiwan side that is very popular, just because they are handsome."

Seeing the situation was good enough to stop, Chen Hao pressed her lips and smiled secretly: "You are more handsome than all four of them combined, and you can both sing and dance; being multi-talented makes you far superior to them."

"Hard to say. Those four are too popular right now; even I couldn't withstand the continuous bombardment of the drama 'Meteor Garden'."

Hearing the name F4 from Chen Hao's mouth, Zhou Yi sighed and shook his head.

In July, 'Meteor Garden' had already begun to gradually reveal its phenomenal power, with an influence so great it was nearly sweeping the entire Taiwan entertainment industry.

Even though his 'Jiangnan' had also developed to the point of being played on every street and alley, in terms of influence, it was gradually being surpassed by 'Meteor Garden'.

Relying solely on songs and song MVs to compete with 'Meteor Garden' in influence was obviously lacking in staying power.

The heat of the lawsuit could not last for months, but the drama 'Meteor Garden' continued to extend its heat through constant broadcasting and rebroadcasting.

Reflected in the radio song charts, the song 'Meteor Rain' had once again surpassed 'Jiangnan', reclaiming the top throne.

The second spot was basically a fight between Harlem Yu's 'Love Is Unfair' and 'Jiangnan'. Only 'Jiangnan' was basically fighting two at once; falling down meant fighting 'Love Is Unfair', climbing up meant fighting 'Meteor Rain'.

The fourth spot was a battle between Elva Hsiao's 'Love's Main Song' and Sun Yanzi's 'Green Light'. However, relying on the characteristics of dance music, in terms of popularity across all age groups and commercial copyright licensing, 'Love's Main Song' clearly performed better.

The sixth spot was Dai Peini's 'The Love You Want', Zhou Yi's 'Big City Small Love', Guang Liang's 'The First Time', and Gu Juji's 'Really Want to Want You' fighting back and forth, with the rankings still changing indefinitely to this day.

The tenth spot was very stable now; the newcomer Zhang Shaohan, with her song 'The Original Dream', basically sat firmly in the position of the gatekeeper of the top ten.

Only considering that the songs of Elva Hsiao, Sun Yanzi, and Zhang Shaohan were all written by Zhou Yi, one could only say that this chart actually proved Zhou Yi's worth.

"If you expand to a range of fifty, then you have even more songs."

Chen Hao, obviously paying attention to Zhou Yi's results, with curved eyebrows, softly comforted him: "In terms of height, you can fight for first; in terms of breadth, you have ten songs in the top fifty, which is unique in the entire Chinese music scene right now."

'Hugging Back to Back' hovered between 13 and 15; 'Love Me or Him' fluctuated around 16 to 20;

'Dong Feng Po' was around 35, and 'Mermaid' was the gatekeeper at number 40.

'No Trend, No Need to Spend Money', benefiting from its dynamic dance rhythm and the surprising Minnan homophones, actually ranked high on the Taiwan KTV request chart.

In the eyes of major traditional record companies, Zhou Yi this time could be said to have single-handedly shouldered the banner of fighting against idol drama singers.

Without Zhou Yi, F4 would probably truly be invincible everywhere.

"Hard to say, only a little over half a year has passed; there are still many singers releasing songs in the second half of the year."

"Then don't you also have a graduation EP coming out in the second half of the year?"

Chen Hao's confidence in Zhou Yi was obviously unreasonably strong: "However, the interludes you wrote for 'Pink Ladies', are you really not putting them in an album or EP? And those songs of yours from before?"

"Having a TV drama soundtrack is enough; an EP is not the time yet. As for the others, just consider it me planting some topic heat."

Zhou Yi smiled.

To some extent, his behavior could also be considered planting topic heat for the future. When he finally had no more songs to copy, he would truly record these songs and integrate them into an album with significant commemorative value; only then would the topic heat be great.

After all, the songs he could copy were limited; he couldn't keep copying endlessly.

As for now, he still had albums to copy.

Moreover, this 'unconventional' behavior of his, if looked back upon in the future, might even be labeled with the tag of a conscientious singer.

"Then have you finished writing it? What type of song is it? Can I listen?" Chen Hao, who knew Zhou Yi's songwriting speed very well, immediately asked curiously.

"Want to listen? Remember to pay after listening; you are the first person to hear this song."

"No problem, I have a lot of money." Hearing that she was the first to hear this new song, the woman patted her chest and guaranteed: "What is the song title?"

"'Li Bai'."

Seeing Chen Hao on the sofa waiting eagerly, Zhou Yi smiled, stood up, and fetched a guitar: "I don't carry many instruments; the guitar will have to do for now."

When hearing the song sharing the character's name play from Zhou Yi's fingertips, the expression on Chen Hao's face froze at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"If only it mattered, I would choose Li Bai

"Good or bad done hundreds of years ago, not so many people guess

"If only it mattered, I would choose Li Bai"

When playing to this point, Zhou Yi pressed down the guitar strings; while the sound suddenly stopped, he raised his eyes to look at Chen Hao, who was watching him with her hands supporting her cheeks, and raised an eyebrow at her: "At least I can still write poems to be passionate, teasing girls~"

Chen Hao, amused by this line of lyrics, instantly burst into a brilliant smile; her feet stepping on the carpet followed the beat to clap along, shaking her head and watching the man strumming the guitar and singing, her eyes filled with tenderness and full of his reflection, her gaze not moving a single bit.

(End of this chapter)