Chapter 261: Wealth Falling from the Sky

"You should cherish the opportunity of me making time in my busy schedule to come to Singapore, understand? My appearance fee is very expensive now."

"Yes, yes, yes, you big shot, you're famous, you're amazing."

Hotel suite, outside the bedroom door.

Sun Yanzi, leaning against the doorframe with her arms crossed over her chest, watched Zhou Yi, who was putting away his luggage and still showing off to her, and stubbornly retorted: "You talk as if anyone else isn't famous."

She is starting the second leg of her 'Start' world tour at the Singapore Indoor Stadium on April 27.

Since Zhou Yi couldn't make a guest appearance at the first leg in Taipei at the end of March, if Zhou Yi is to be invited to appear on Sun Yanzi's concert, then only the Singapore leg at the end of April and the Malaysia leg in early August remain.

Considering he still has concerts and an album to promote in the second half of the year, Zhou Yi finally chose to appear in Singapore, which happens to be Sun Yanzi's hometown as well.

Precisely because of this reason, Warner took advantage of Zhou Yi's current soaring reputation to arrange for him to come to Singapore and appear on a show with Sun Yanzi for advance promotion, while also warming up the public for Zhou Yi's new album currently in preparation.

Unfortunately, while Warner had been applying for major concert venues in the domestic market for Zhou Yi since last year, they did not help Zhou Yi apply for concert venues with local governments in various countries overseas; after all, who could have expected him to achieve such explosive results this year...

Qualified concert venues aren't Chinese cabbage; you can't just go to the field and dig up two whenever you want.

"Regarding the concert matter, I do feel quite regretful. I actually really want to interact with the fans in Singapore at a concert, so I've found another way to say hello to the Singapore fans first by borrowing Sun Yanzi's concert."

March 13, 2002, the recording site of the Singapore Chinese variety show 'Music Base Camp'.

When Sun Yanzi, who was promoting her own concert, brought out a surprise guest, the VCR that played immediately made all the fans in the audience stand up—

Zhou Yi's debut, wearing an orange floral shirt paired with casual jeans, gave the impression that he was here for a vacation; the only things missing were a sun hat on his forehead and a pair of sunglasses on his nose.

"Wow, Guo Tianwang has arrived, Guo Tianwang has arrived; our 'Music Base Camp' production team is truly honored."

The female host, with a very Taiwanese exaggerated hosting style, even looked surprised and bowed to Zhou Yi—

"Zhou Yi, do you know how popular you are in Singapore? Before, many fans were spreading rumors that the Warner Twins had already broken up."

"Is that so? That's truly a pity. Sometimes I actually wish to break up with her; after all, I'm so famous now, right? My status is different."

Taking the microphone, Zhou Yi helplessly shrugged: "But considering there are still songs in my new album that I will collaborate on with Sun Yanzi, for the sake of a friendship discount, I can only endure humiliation for now."

"Once I've tricked her into signing and finishing the MV shooting contract at a friendship discount, then we can break up later."

Ever since the news of the Twins' breakup broke, even with Warner's denials, conspiracy theories about a split still had a large market because Zhou Yi and Sun Yanzi had not yet made a public appearance together.

This joint appearance in Singapore can be considered a form of positive public relations.

"Eh? Sun Yanzi, you are also involved in Zhou Yi's new album? Is it the same as 'Summer Blown by the Wind' from your previous album? Is there any connection in style between the two?"

Even though it was Sun Yanzi's home court, under the support of Zhou Yi's popularity which had just inflated to another level, Sun Yanzi's spotlight was clearly suppressed quite a bit.

But the latter obviously didn't care about these things; after all, as long as Zhou Yi appeared, her purpose of coming to promote the concert today was achieved.

However, upon hearing the female host ask this, Sun Yanzi didn't know what she thought of, and clearly couldn't hold back her laughter. After glancing at Zhou Yi, who was silently looking at his nose and then his mouth, she grinned and laughed loudly:

"Based on some of the information I know, the song Zhou Yi is singing a duet with me in his new album does indeed have a connection with 'Summer Blown by the Wind'."

"Indeed."

Anyway, since the decision was already made, Zhou Yi, who was like a dead pig unafraid of boiling water, seriously admitted it; at worst, he could run a resurrection match in the next album.

He was familiar with this job.

"The company also has high hopes for my new album and has invited a mysterious guest to support; this will remain confidential for now."

"Then Zhou Yi, seeing that your English single last year achieved such great success, ranking well on charts in many countries around the world, do you have confidence in your English single this year?"

"Of course."

"Then can you reveal the current progress of the new English single?"

"I have the concept in my head; it hasn't been recorded yet, and the MV hasn't started shooting."

Under the backdrop of Sun Yanzi laughing until she was bent over, Zhou Yi's three blunt answers seemed particularly cheeky.

The 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup opens at the end of May, and various promotional warm-ups have now basically launched; Pepsi (China) is rolling out its endorsers one after another for the warm-up.

However, Pepsi's ace, Xie Tingfeng, hasn't come out yet; leading the charge is classmate Zhou Jielun, signed by Pepsi for a cabbage price of 2 million.

Originally, Pepsi had a good plan: kings don't meet, let the little brother go first. Just as Xie Tingfeng had also broken up with Wang Fei, he should be able to focus on his career from now on.

But unexpectedly, Coca-Cola (China)'s ace, Zhou Yi, created a huge wave of heat first, directly stepping on Xie Tingfeng's popularity and leaving him covered in dust.

"Coca-Cola's meaning is to hurry up and produce your advertising single while taking this opportunity, since it's a Chinese-English dual version. If you want to invite other stars to collaborate, they can coordinate that first."

After the program ended, Qian Jiang also brought news that Coca-Cola couldn't sit still.

Adhering to the behavior that not taking advantage of heat makes one a bastard, Coca-Cola (China) President Chen Qiwei called Zhou Jianhui to have heart-to-heart talks almost every day.

Unlike Pepsi's star bombardment strategy, the stars Coca-Cola signed domestically are indeed few—

Currently, the most famous is Zhou Yi, followed by Zhang Ziyi, who is red-hot thanks to 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' and 'Rush Hour 2', and then Hong Kong's new generation of popular female actress Zhang Baizhi.

"Other stars aren't needed; I plan to film the most glamorous places in every city in the country. You coordinate with the people from Coca-Cola."

"Cast members in every city, men and women, young and old, are all fine; as long as they are healthy, the more the better. Anyway, it's just about kicking soccer balls in the MV and shuttling through scenes overflowing with passion and vitality, displaying a vigorous and upward image in the cities."

The World Cup version of the song "Wavin' Flag" was originally full of vitality; now that he is performing it, the music video that is most carefree and simultaneously best fits the theme of "World Cup participation by all" is undoubtedly filming major cities.

Promotional song, promotional song; as a Chinese person, is there a problem with filming a 'travel scenic film' of his own country while the Chinese national football team participates in the World Cup?

It saves trouble and saves worry.

Anyway, he hasn't done this for the first time; the MV for 'Jiangnan' was directly used by the Jiang Xi Tourism Bureau as a promotional business card, making the cities that previously belonged to the Jiangnan lineup drool with envy.

Therefore, when Warner announced Zhou Yi's decision to the outside world, tourism bureaus in various places that had some scenery capital to attract tourists immediately perked up—

Could it be that we can also eat this overwhelming wealth?

As everyone knows, for this new English version single of Zhou Yi, Coca-Cola will attempt to cooperate with Warner for global promotion.

ps: py transaction book recommendation~

Book Title: 'Entertainment Wind Rises 2005'

Introduction: "I am an actor, not a star; acting is my foundation. Endorsements and variety shows mean little to me."

"Add money!"

"Ahem, please contact my agent."

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PS: I can't put a direct link in the bio or at the end of the chapter...

Group Number: 940109820

Password: River Beaver's Rice

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