Chapter 212: Just Copy Zhou Yi

"As the company's general manager, you still rely on me, your boss, to bring in work. Just admit, isn't your performance as general manager a complete failure?"

Inside the private chef's room, after Wang Xiaojing left, Zhou Yi smiled as he watched Zheng Zhong carefully put away the notes recording the key points of the contract negotiation. This made Chen Hao, who had been cheering herself up just a second ago, roll her eyes playfully: "Yes, yes, yes, you are the boss, you have the final say."

"What do you mean 'you are the boss, you have the final say'? Isn't that just the fact?"

"Right now, besides you, the only one left in the company is me, so..."

Chen Hao, who had stuffed the notebook back into her bag, stood up from the chair, leaned forward to the man's face, gazed into his eyes for a few seconds, then curved her eyebrows and smiled without showing her teeth: "Is it possible that you, this boss, also hold the part-time position of salesman?"

At such close range, Zhou Yi could even vaguely feel the woman's breath coming towards him.

On her exquisite, makeup-free face, one could even see the short downy hairs, seemingly glowing under the light, swaying slightly with her breathing.

This was the first time Zhou Yi had seen Chen Hao make such a move towards him. He unconsciously raised an eyebrow. His gaze did not dodge in the slightest; instead, he looked at his old friend of many years with interest: "Not bad. You learned the essence just by playing Wan Ren Mi once. Is this what a great actor is like?"

"That's right."

Chen Hao seemed very satisfied with her performance: "You should at least give some reaction. I am Wan Ren Mi."

"Yes, yes, yes, Miss Wan Ren Mi, I am bewitched by you."

Zhou Yi grabbed the front of his shirt with one hand. His exaggerated acting made Chen Hao burst out laughing: "I'm going to the restroom, wait for me."

Zhou Yi, sitting comfortably on the chair and stretching, made an OK gesture to her. Only then did Chen Hao put down her bag and leave the room—

After walking into the restroom, Chen Hao's composure vanished completely, and she took several deep breaths in a row.

The faint scent of incense placed by the shop in the restroom made her, standing before the luxurious washbasin, instinctively raise both hands and pat her cheeks in the mirror, until finally exhaling heavily: "Haa..."

The heart beating rapidly in her chest made a constant "thump-thump" sound in her ears. After playing Wan Ren Mi, the director's Lady personally explained the Wan Ren Mi plot to her, which gave her some insight.

Turning on the faucet, while the cold water flowed down from her palms, she looked up at herself in the mirror for only three seconds before Chen Hao's lips unconsciously curled into a smile of self-satisfaction again.

Not long ago, the image of Zhou Yi in the room, holding his index finger to his lips saying "keep it secret" while his face was full of smugness, as if he wanted to write "come praise me quickly" on a card, floated back into her mind.

"What did you say? You are going to the Spring Festival Gala? You've only been in the industry for a short time, is it true? Isn't the Spring Festival Gala famous for looking at seniority?"

"Shh, secret, secret. I've only told this one person, you, so you understand what I mean, right?"

The bad news was that, judging by the current rumors outside, Sun Yanzi from the same company as him seemed to be going to the Spring Festival Gala too.

The good news was that Zhou Yi was not going to sing a duet with her on the Spring Festival Gala stage.

Especially that song "Summer Blown by the Wind".

The increasingly bizarre legends surrounding the Warner Twins forced Chen Hao to take Sun Yanzi seriously. As soon as Sun Yanzi's new album released two days ago, she bought it immediately to listen—

To be safe and prevent any "added content" versions, she even bought two copies: the Taiwan version and the Mainland version.

The good news was that apart from the difference between Simplified and Traditional characters, these two versions did not contain any deliberate "Twins" bonus content that Warner officially inserted to stimulate sales;

The bad news was that "Summer Blown by the Wind" was filmed very sweetly. Whether it was the lyrics, the melody, or the MV visuals.

As the only duo among the non-duo singers most expected by the outside world, Zhou Yi once again contributed two representative works for her in Sun Yanzi's new album: the pop-rock song "Your Smile" and the sweet duet "Summer Blown by the Wind".

As the first lead single, "Your Smile", having been sent to radio stations for charting in advance, after experiencing an initial climbing period in popularity, completely surpassed Jay Chou and Li Wen's "Opera Face", Zhou Huajian's "Is There a Song That Makes You Think of Me", Jacky Cheung's "If This Isn't Love", and all songs from Wang Fei's self-titled album.

It successfully held the number one spot on major request stations three days before the album release, and gradually widened the gap with the second-place song "Opera Face" on charts that best reflect public popularity, such as radio request rates and KTV singing counts.

Although "Opera Face" was also very formidable, in terms of public popularity, "Your Smile" had already become unstoppable.

"Summer Blown by the Wind" debuted at the top of all radio and KTV charts in the two sides of the strait and Hong Kong on the second day after the release of the "Kite" album on October 22.

Even on the Baidu search volume for singer names in the mainland, Zhou Yi and Sun Yanzi were bound together, far ahead of the second-place Zhou Chuanxiong and the third-place Jay Chou, firmly welding the number one throne to their backsides.

"Your Smile" led other songs with a cliff-like margin.

Careful Chen Hao even discovered one thing—

That in the MV of the title track "Kite" from Sun Yanzi's current album, the kite, symbolizing home, actually became the token of Sun Yanzi and Zhou Yi being "together" in "Summer Blown by the Wind".

And in the final segment of the CD version of this album, Warner also included a bonus clip: Sun Yanzi, returning from the set jumping and hopping, showed her big teeth happily and went to find the prop master, asking if she could take this kite home.

Although when asked by the camera why she wanted to take the kite home, Sun Yanzi merely made a victory sign, tilted her head, and winked, saying she hadn't flown a kite in a long time and missed it.

But what kind of person is Chen Hao? You, Sun Yanzi, wouldn't take anything else, but you had to take a kite from the film crew back home and say "I miss it"?

As someone who had often borrowed things from Zhou Yi under the pretext of souvenirs in the past, Chen Hao immediately smelled a kindred spirit.

In fact, it wasn't just her.

When this song was released in full along with the album, whether Sun Yanzi fans or Zhou Yi fans, basically 50% cursed verbally, but their hands ungraciously chose to pay.

In this era without hot search trends, Zhou Yi and Sun Yanzi, on their own, monopolized the front pages and headlines of major newspapers and weeklies in both Taiwan and the mainland from the day the album was released. The only things comparable were the "Yi-Fei Romance" and the "Feng-Fei Romance Breakup" in Hong Kong.

On October 26, Warner officially announced the first-day and three-day sales results of Sun Yanzi's new album "Kite": Taiwan 180,000 on the first day, Mainland 90,000 on the first day, Hong Kong 70,000 on the first day;

Taiwan 270,000+ in three days, Mainland 120,000+ in three days, Hong Kong 90,000+ in three days.

The three-day domestic legitimate sales officially broke through 500,000 copies, not only directly breaking Sun Yanzi's original sales record but also directly refreshing the three-day sales record for female singers in the Chinese music scene!

In comparison, Wang Fei's 130,000 and Li Wen's 100,000 copies, which were originally results worthy of opening champagne, looked fragile in front of Sun Yanzi, like an infant with no power to fight back—

At this moment, not only Li Wen and Wang Fei, but all fans of Hong Kong and Taiwan divas fell silent collectively!

"There has never been a girl in her twenties who can sing like her!"

A slogan originally used by Warner before the release of Sun Yanzi's first self-titled album was now dug up again by media reporters thanks to the explosion of her third album, printed with a huge, bold title!

Several major record distribution channels in Taiwan even gave another number that was terrifying for the music scene—

"According to sales feedback and stocking volumes from major record sales channels in Taiwan, in this gradually declining record market this year, only Warner Music and Alpha Music have eaten their fill."

"Among this, the album sales of just Zhou Yi and Sun Yanzi alone are estimated to account for 50% of the total annual record market in Taiwan!"

"Male Zhou, Female Sun, truly living up to their reputation!"

The Taiwan record sales market is most heavily consumed in the month after release; basically, 99% of a record's final sales can be estimated within three days or the first week.

Therefore, when major record channels in Taiwan, such as Rose Record Store, jointly announced sales data to corroborate Warner, the entire noisy Chinese music scene fell completely silent!

Zhou Yi himself was not in the Taiwan music scene, yet legends of him ruling the Taiwan music scene still circulated.

Sony Music, which was heavily expected before the competition, successively launched Wang Lihong and Li Wen, but both were cut down by Zhou Yi and Sun Yanzi. Only Wu Zongxian's small company, Alpha Music, with its artist Jay Chou, carved out a new path with the extremely strange style of "Double Stick", leaping to become the third person under "Male Zhou, Female Sun"!

"Southern Zhou vs Northern Zhou, contenders for the throne of the new generation of male singers in the music scene?"

Since Zhou Yi happened to be from the mainland and Jay Chou happened to be from Taiwan, media outlets that were meddlesome and unwilling to accept defeat proposed the term "North-South Double Zhou" for the first time based on geography—

Then they were blasted by Zhou Yi's fans until they were covered in blood, with some even running offline to throw eggs at the newspaper office entrance.

Most of Jay Chou's fans were very rational; after all, their boss currently had nothing, and his life had been saved by Zhou Yi, so what was there to fight about, what was there worth fighting for?

And the fans of Elva Hsiao, who had originally been competing with Sun Yanzi for the number one spot, were now silenced by Sun Yanzi's god-tier third album.

The two songs Zhou Yi wrote for Elva Hsiao's album were already hot enough, and "Love's Main Song" had even made a huge splash; they had nothing to criticize, if sales were lower, then sales were lower.

Not to mention that because of Yao Qian, Elva Hsiao, who debuted at her peak, had not even received a single Taiwan Golden Melody Award nomination up to now, because she simply never registered for the Golden Melody Awards...

As the first woman to enjoy the benefits of a duet with Zhou Yi, Zhang Shaohan's fans, though wishing they could go find Zhou Yi to request a love song for her, saw that Fomus had actually gone to secure idol drama resources for Zhang Shaohan, requiring her to sing and act at the same time...

Seeing that there was a jade in front of her in the form of the F4 female lead, Zhang Shaohan's fans endured it, planning to scold Fomus to death once Zhang Shaohan's idol dramas stopped being popular.

Liang Jingru, backed by Rock Records' resources, continued living a life largely unrelated to Zhou Yi, after all, Rock Records was currently promoting her as their main act.

Among the four people hailed as the New Generation Four Little Heavenly Queens, Sun Yanzi, relying on her third album, was the first to complete her ascension.

And Zhou Yi, as the twin star, miraculously swept the entire Asian continent with just two albums, one EP, and one single; he is currently the only man within the Asian sphere capable of competing with F4 in popularity.

In a corner where no one paid attention, Cai Yilin, the former "Boy Killer" who had previously won considerable column space with her crying act at a press conference, watched helplessly as the market gradually forgot her, becoming so anxious she was on the verge of tears.

Especially after the market reputation gradually solidified the slots for the so-called New Generation Four ( ) Heavenly Queens, forcing her to have to call Chen Zeshan—

"Don't worry, don't worry. Listen to me, Jolin."

Chen Zeshan was at least decent enough, pointing out a clear path for her: "You can copy Zhou Yi. Don't forget, you also have a good friend named Jay Chou; he is the existence second only to Zhou Yi among male singers this year.

"We are hyping the Twin Stars; you can also hype a scandal with Jay Chou, not that old kind of hiding and covering. You need to create a catchy gimmick; 'Cai-Zhou Romance' or 'Zhou-Cai Romance' doesn't sound very good; you could hype the English names instead.

"Jay Chou is called Jay, you are called Jolin; take the first letters of both, and hyping the 'Double J Romance' wouldn't that be very memorable and catchy..."

(End of this chapter)