Chapter 177: Lover Not Yet (Fourth Watch)

"Do you lawyers often like to seize the initiative in conversation and then guide clients to reveal their true desires?"

"I'm not, I'm not, don't make things up. I'm not even a lawyer; I don't have a single certificate."

Facing Sun Yanzi, whose emotions had clearly shifted somewhat upon her return, Zhou Yi flatly denied it, but the latter merely stood before him with her hands behind her back, a smile in her eyes, watching him perform in silence.

Zhou Yi swore to the heavens: "I really don't have a certificate."

"You know that's not what I want to ask." Sun Yanzi's mood was clearly quite good.

"Then how do you feel now?"

"Not bad."

"That's good; it seems this fake lawyer hasn't lost his touch." Zhou Yi smiled and tilted his head: "You are my first client in the entertainment industry."

"I hope I won't need to make a second appointment."

Sun Yanzi shrugged noncommittally; as their eyes met, she still felt it was somewhat incredible.

Zhou Yi's powers of observation were somewhat beyond her expectations.

"If there is a next time, I'll have to charge; consultations from top-tier lawyers are all calculated by the minute."

After Zhou Yi made a gesture of counting money, Sun Yanzi chuckled: "OK, I have no problem."

"Won't you ask how much? Aren't you afraid of regretting it?"

"You're worth it."

"I love hearing that."

Zhou Yi hummed a lilting little tune and swaggered ahead, swaying with every three steps. Sun Yanzi, walking beside him with her hands behind her back, kicked up stones along the path while tightly gripping the broken kite in her hand.

"Zhou Yi, did you used to rely on this skill of reading people and expressions to trick girls?"

"What do you mean 'trick'? Please show some respect when speaking to me."

"Oh, may I ask, Mr. Zhou Yi, did you used to rely on this skill of reading people and expressions to trick girls?"

"Get lost."

Zhou Yi, a smile on his lips, grumbled: "A dog bites Lu Dongbin; he doesn't recognize a kind heart."

"Hehehe."

Sun Yanzi, her eyes squinting into a pair of crescent moons from laughter, unconsciously swayed the broken kite in her hand; the swallow's tail danced joyfully in the wind.

After the two returned, Sun Yanzi immediately broke away from Zhou Yi and found the head of the props department—

"Uncle Wu, may I ask, can I take this kite home after filming is done?"

"The kite? What do you want it for? It's broken."

The fifty-two-year-old head of the props department noticed the kite's damage and thought she wanted to play: "I can give you a new one; there are backups in the box."

"No, no, no, no need, Uncle Wu."

Sun Yanzi hurriedly waved her hands: "Since there are backups, then I'll take this one; please make a note for me, Uncle Wu."

After finishing the operation together and handing the damaged kite to the assistant, Sun Yanzi finally returned to the filming set.

"Next is to walk a section of road, just this one road, in a straight line. Props, props, prepare to scatter leaves and willow catkins."

The director, still arranging the final effects, saw Sun Yanzi return and called out to her: "Stefanie, go change into an outfit; change into that beige long dress."

Zhou Yi, who had no fuss about changing clothes, directly called the assistant to bring clothes over, swapped his T-shirt, added an undershirt, put on a brown long trench coat, and while still adjusting his cuffs, he saw Sun Yanzi looking at him; the latter shook her head with a look of regret: "Nice figure, what a pity."

"It's good enough that you get to see it; 'what a pity'? That's a paid service."

Many housewives outside can't even see this in photo albums.

After changing into a beige long dress, Sun Yanzi came to Zhou Yi's side, took a coin from her handbag, and tossed it to him.

"I'm only worth one dollar?"

"Put it on the tab."

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"Put it on the tab? What tab? Sorry, little sister, we don't allow tabs here."

Taiwan, Kaohsiung, a certain audio-video store.

The boss, wearing a straw hat and carrying a small red bucket upon his return, looked at the child before him who was laying out three bills to buy an album, drove away the prodigal child who was helping him watch the store, and said kindly.

"How about this? You can't afford Zhou Yi's EP album, but you can buy this 'Girls' Dormitory'; their songs are very good too. It's said their most admired person is Zhou Yi, and many songs on the album were released after referencing Zhou Yi's opinions."

To maximize profits, the straw-hat boss guided him step by step, even going so far as to invoke the great deity Zhou Yi to support his theory.

The official price set by Warner for Zhou Yi's EP is the official price; in a place so far from the Emperor, where he is, no one can do anything about him quietly raising the price.

Among so many singers, only Zhou Yi can currently sell albums at a premium.

The audio-video stores, which had suffered for several years, finally got a good recovery last year.

"'Girls' Dormitory'?"

"Yes, it seems to be a new girl group launched by Huaran Records. You know F4, right? It's their counterpart. Huaran also has a relationship with Warner; otherwise, look, their company names differ by only one character, so Zhou Yi is their senior brother."

"Oh, oh."

The little sister with braids, believing it to be true, took the album home after paying.

Then she discovered she had been greatly deceived and cried, wanting to find her temporarily returned older brother and second sister to seek justice; that was her allowance saved for a long time!

Unexpectedly, her sister actually looked delighted.

"Hmm? SHE's 'Girls' Dormitory'? Little sister, you actually have stock? How about I trade Wang Lihong's 'The One' with you? 'Zhou Yi' works too; how about I give you the cassettes for 'Jiangnan' and 'Graduation'?"

On September 11, 2001, the girl group SHE, which debuted on 9/11, although not achieving great marketing success, quickly stirred up a whirlwind in Taiwan's suddenly calmed music market thanks to the solid quality of their album—

On September 12, this dark horse from Huaran Records forcefully broke into the sales share statistics compiled by Taiwan's three major record marketing channels and the top ten daily sales rankings.

On September 13, after Zhou Yi and Sun Yanzi finished filming the music videos for 'Summer Blown by the Wind' and 'Your Smile', 'Girls' Dormitory' soared to the skies in a manner no one had anticipated, with that day's sales even trampling Wang Lihong's 'The One' underfoot.

The album's lead single 'Lover Not Yet' shot straight to the top of various charts, shaking the entire Taiwan music industry with the posture of a newcomer!

As a female singer, Sun Yanzi, having finished her filming work, immediately received the 'Girls' Dormitory' album sent over by Chen Zeshan, simply because the other party said this album was highly likely to pose a threat to the release of her own album in the coming period.

Yet, the moment the melody of the album's lead single began to play, Sun Yanzi, who had just heard the opening, felt her eyelid twitch imperceptibly; immediately, she instinctively turned her head to look at the swallow-shaped kite she had left on the nanny car.

"Why can I talk with you all night long, why do I want to meet again the moment we part?

"Among friends, you are the most special of all.

"You always make me feel so close, so intimate~"

Fourth watch!

(End of this chapter)