Chapter 213: Lin Junjie Pulls Out a Sniper

"..."

At Chen Zeshan's rapid-fire planning, Cai Yilin fell silent.

She didn't know if Zhou Jie really liked her, but speaking honestly, during the previous period amidst the teasing from Wu Zongxian and various others, she indeed held considerable good feelings for the talented Zhou Jie.

She could also feel that Zhou Jie must have had some feelings for her too.

But back then, Zhou Jie ended up being completely fixated on pulling and tugging with Xu Ruoxuan, which truly made her furious.

However, recently, she heard that Xu Ruoxuan had fallen for Wu Jianhao, a member of F4. Zhou Jie, who was already in conflict with Xu Ruoxuan, was heavily struck; mainly because he hadn't beaten Wu Jianhao in a one-on-one basketball game, which made him even more frustrated...

Cai Yilin pondered thoughtfully.

"Also, I suggest you change your music style. The American Britney is no longer suitable for you to imitate."

After pondering for a moment, Chen Zeshan said over the phone: "How about this? You go to Japan first to adjust your image, then learn the style of Ayumi Hamasaki there. See if you can master a few levels of Ayumi Hamasaki's style, then return to transform into a singing-and-dancing artist."

"In the domestic market, you simply cannot out-sing Sun Yanzi, Zhang Shaohan, or Elva Hsiao. Their vocal timbres are gifts from heaven. Even Elva Hsiao, who has the weakest timbre among the three, possesses a mid-range talent rare in the music industry."

"You need to find another path. I think singing and dancing is very suitable. Dancing can enhance your memorability and, just like Xie Tingfeng in Hong Kong, shape a persona of someone who works hard at exercise and practice, turning that mockery into praise for you."

Thinking of how Xie Tingfeng was once shaped by Emperor Entertainment in Hong Kong into someone who practiced football hard, gaining a huge wave of fans and even attracting the attention of the brand Xtep, Chen Zeshan suggested, copying the plan.

Copying Zhou Yi then copying Xie Tingfeng, directly merging the hype methods of the two most popular male stars in today's music scene, this whimsical idea made Cai Yilin somewhat hesitant.

She knew her own situation. She had danced before, but could her uncoordinated body movements be called dancing? Calling it calisthenics would be a compliment.

"This doesn't seem right. Not to mention Li Wen, who has already achieved fame and success, isn't Elva Hsiao, also a junior sister of Li Wen brought up by Yao Qian, also dancing?"

"Besides Elva Hsiao, who else can you name who releases dance tracks? The older generation like Zheng Xiuwen, Chen Huilin, and Guo Fucheng have all transformed. The younger generation can accommodate two singing-and-dancing artists; this market is huge, and not many people are competing with you."

"As for Elva Hsiao, she cannot consume this entire market alone. With Virgin Records backing her, she cannot focus solely on dance tracks either. This is your opportunity: in promotion, piggyback on Elva Hsiao."

"She is a genius; you can create a corresponding persona, like 'earth talent' or something. This can show your humility and leave others with nothing to say, securely eating up the benefits of the bundling."

"After all, you admit that compared to Elva Hsiao, you are heaven and earth; who could still mock you for piggybacking?"

"This..."

Cai Yilin was obviously still somewhat hesitant.

As the junior sister personally chosen by Li Wen in the past, Elva Hsiao's talent in dance is equally terrifyingly high; both her rhythm and body sense of movement are very strong.

Let alone 'The Thrill of Being Alone' brought to her by Virgin Records, just the song 'Love's Main Song' written by Zhou Yi is something she cannot piggyback on.

"This is your only chance. Do it or not, it's up to you. Also, since you have a good relationship with Zhou Jie, after you return from Japan, you can ask him to compose a few songs tailored specifically for you."

As the Vice General Manager of Warner, if he didn't truly appreciate the 'I just want to be famous' kind of 'madwoman' spirit in Cai Yilin, he would have been too lazy to waste so many words.

It was truly that Sun Yanzi gave him little sense of achievement; because of Zhou Yi's existence, Sun Yanzi's time for slacking off rose sharply.

He didn't quite understand how an artist could be so lazy, but he could only hold it in.

Because the slacking Sun Yanzi's achievements were still far ahead.

It's all Zhou Yi's fault!

Yanzi used to be such a obedient child, sigh...

At the Warner Taiwan building, Chen Zeshan, having hung up the phone, sat in his office and silently sighed.

Recalling the beginning, Yanzi was so obedient to the work he assigned, as obedient as his own daughter. But after Zhou Yi arrived, Yanzi was like she had been kidnapped, finding ways to slack off and delay every day.

Just thinking that if he had a daughter in the future, someone like Zhou Yi might ride a motorcycle and take her away, Chen Zeshan's blood pressure rose.

"Mr. Chen, the first-week sales figures for Yanzi's album are out."

"Good, put it here."

Chen Zeshan, whose head hurt from how difficult it was to manage and guide young artists nowadays, rubbed his temples, took the album statistics report, and opened the first page—

?!

The number that first caught his eye almost made him jump three feet high right out of his leather chair!

360,000 in Taiwan in one week?!

When he saw 'Your Smile' and 'Summer Blown by the Wind', these two songs highlighted in bold red by the marketing department, Chen Zeshan fell into a death-like silence again...

He was now truly both loving and hating Zhou Yi...

And almost at the same time, all medium and large record companies in the country received the first-week sales data for Sun Yanzi's new album 'Kite'—

360,000 in Taiwan, 230,000 in the mainland, 120,000 in Hong Kong.

In just one week, the total domestic sales of the official album exceeded 710,000!

"Terrifying, too terrifying!"

"How is this possible?! Sun Yanzi's previous two albums didn't have such a cliff-like leading results?"

"Because of the duet love song with Zhou Yi... and that 'Kite' behind-the-scenes footage."

"..."

When the market research results came out, all record companies, including Warner itself, fell silent.

They knew Zhou Yi was popular, they knew Sun Yanzi was hot, and they knew even more that the talk of 'The Twin Stars Together' was now making waves all over the internet.

But before this, truly no one thought that these two singing a love song together could cause such a huge sensation, with news exposure brightness comparable to Wang Fei and Xie Tingfeng's century handshake.

Even a considerable part of the audience abandoned cassettes to buy the more expensive CDs, just to get the behind-the-scenes footage in the CD's MV where Sun Yanzi, at the very end, cutely hid the kite.

And Sun Yanzi herself even revealed in an interview that on October 1st, Mid-Autumn Festival, Zhou Yi had eaten dinner at her home...

Some even suspected that the reason Sun Yanzi said this was because she was unhappy with the news of Zhou Yi later going to accompany Chen Hao to look at a house, wanting to declare sovereignty...

In an instant, with the huge explosion of the 'Kite' album, the emotional vortex surrounding Zhou Yi once again became a weapon for the media to attract attention.

"What? Dating? Scandal? I'm afraid of scandals? Are you joking?"

On November 1st, while participating in a Coca-Cola event in Shanghai, Zhou Yi was asked about this matter during an interview and immediately laughed: "Are there few famous female stars in the entertainment industry who have been written about with me? Do we still lack Yanzi and Chen Hao? I suggest you add a few more, so I can see them too."

Unlike other stars who avoided scandals, facing a pile of cameras, Zhou Yi stood tall and proud, with a sense of righteousness.

"Then, may I ask what you think about the news of Xie Tingfeng and Wang Fei breaking up?"

"Read the newspaper."

"May I ask if you are truly with Sun Yanzi, and that is why you promoted the Singaporean musician Lin Junjie out of love for her?"

"We noticed that in Sun Yanzi's new album, you appeared on the producer list for the first time."

"The album credits show you helped produce three songs, one of which, 'Remember', was the first song by the Singaporean musician Lin Junjie to be bought in the Mandarin music scene. May I ask how you noticed him? Is it because he, like Sun Yanzi, is from Singapore?"

As for the only other name appearing in the Zhou Yi and Sun Yanzi combination, Lin Junjie's information was dug out completely clean the moment the album exploded.

From Singapore, a person from Butterfly Music, a rookie, just starting to make songs.

Typically, a person of Zhou Yi's caliber should not have noticed a song written by a nobody like Lin Junjie.

"You don't need to worry about that. I'm just asking you if this song is amazing or not."

Zhou Yi, having played the role of a talent scout, tilted his mouth indifferently: "If I recall correctly, it seems to have ranked in the top ten of the charts?"

The reporters: "..."

(End of this chapter)