Chapter 359: He Still Isn't Satisfied

"Lawyer's letter! I'm going to send them a lawyer's letter!"

Yinghuang — Cai Zhuoyan, whose mood had already been less than beautiful since last night, arrived at the company and vaguely heard quite a few people apparently gossiping about her behind her back. She pushed open the door of the break room only to find that her manager, Irene Ho, had long been waiting there with that gossip weekly in hand—

After seeing the headline and contents clearly, she was instantly furious.

Ah Jiao, who had already reunited with Chen Guanxi in private, had been reading a fashion magazine. Seeing her partner in such a furious state, she couldn't help but be a little curious: "You didn't end up together with him?"

"I drank too much last night. He was very gentlemanly and saw me home."

Thinking about her own face, Cai Zhuoyan hesitated for a moment in her heart, and in the end still did not lay out the whole truth, but simply told a small lie: "That paparazzo was probably hanging in a tree across the road from my house the whole time."

Drank too much — sure, okay.

Irene Ho, who had honestly been given a real fright early this morning, finally breathed a sigh of relief after getting the definite answer: "That's good then, as long as you two really are fine. It's not that I won't let you date, it's just that during this period of time you really cannot have any accident that might affect your personal public image."

Now Twins' image is not simply and solely Ah Jiao's and Ah Sa's — it belongs to Yinghuang.

Especially at the moment when Xie Tingfeng's incident has broken out, the two of them, as one of the company's performance centerpieces, naturally cannot afford to lose the maiden image they became famous for—

Ah Jiao walks the pure innocent maiden route, Ah Sa walks the girl-next-door sweet little sister route — that is the foundation on which they make money.

If it's just a rumor being hyped up, then Irene Ho plays that game very well. As long as there's no hard evidence to dig up, she can hype it with peace of mind.

"Don't worry, Sister Mani, we both understand. We absolutely won't do anything that damages our image."

Ah Sa, who was actually very attentive on this major matter of right and wrong, sat down generously beside her partner, stretched out an arm and pulled in Ah Jiao, who was carefully avoiding Irene Ho's gaze: "You agree, right, Ah Jiao?"

"Mm, mm, right."

Ah Jiao lowered her head slightly, not looking at the two of them.

Because of the rumor that had come out with Yu Wenle earlier, after reuniting with her boyfriend Chen Guanxi, in order to please her boyfriend she had done a few things that Irene Ho would definitely fly into a thunderous rage if she found out about.

"Fine then, as long as you two know what you're doing."

After the false alarm, Irene Ho patted her own forehead with her right hand: "Then later, Ah Sa, you'll come with me to make a public announcement and provide some evidence. It doesn't need to be too detailed — just enough to make those fans who don't want to see you dating believe it after they see it."

To be fair, among Ah Sa's fans there must certainly be some who would be happy to see her together with Zhou Yi, but their proportion of the total is definitely not the mainstream.

"Okay, Sister Mani."

Cai Zhuoyan nodded, watched her leave, then tugged at her own hair twice, turned her head and asked the partner beside her: "Ah Jiao, do you think I'm not very feminine?"

"Huh? You?"

Ah Jiao, who had come back to herself, sized her up from top to bottom: "No, why would you ask that? Look, aren't there plenty of male fans who go for your type?"

The youthful, limitless girl-next-door sweet little sister image — after Cai Zhuoyan finished filming "Sun Wukong the Great Sage Equal to Heaven," this image was thoroughly stamped onto her forehead, even though she herself was not that personality.

"……No, it's nothing."

Cai Zhuoyan, secretly muttering in her heart, let her gaze fall on that gossip magazine……

Thanks to Twins' high popularity in Hong Kong, within just a few hours after this news began fermenting, the majority of young people with time on their hands learned of the matter. The reaction on Zhou Yi himself was that his already soaring popularity climbed yet another level—

Some cursed him for being shameless, some thanked him for saving Ah Jiao from Twins;

There were even some urging him to release songs — these were the most authentic of Zhou Yi's fans.

Your private life, do whatever you want with it, we're all used to it by now. Releasing songs is the real business.

"Zhou Yi! You're in another scandal again! Hurry up and write new songs! Stop dawdling!"

The 20th, 3:40 in the afternoon, Mong Kok promotional event site.

A young man with glasses, holding high a Zhou Yi hand-signed "Lianshan" album, shouted loudly: "Inspiration vanishes in a flash! It can't be wasted!"

"……????"

No way, am I that kind of person?!

Zhou Yi, caught between laughter and tears, pointed at this fan who had come to find him work to do: "This fan, I urge you to be careful. Aren't the songs on this album enough for you to listen to?"

"Zhou Yi! I still have a copy of '4U' here, please do me a favor and sign it."

"That's Elva Hsiao's album, you fake fan."

"……"

At every promotional event, Hong Kong police had to go on full alert. When Zhou Yi was doing his rounds today, he could very clearly feel that security had been strengthened quite a bit more—

Twins really do have fanatical "husband" fans in Hong Kong.

Originally, after helping Ah Sa issue the statement, Yinghuang had also been thinking about whether to take the initiative to help Warner out and smooth over any disputes that might arise. But who would have thought Qian Jiang would directly refuse.

Immediately after, under the dumbfounded gazes of Irene Ho, Cai Zhuoyan and the others, Warner actually went and added fuel to the fire themselves……

This wave of attacks on Zhou Yi's "husband" fans instead became the chip Warner used to unite Zhou Yi's fans, Sun Yanzi's fans, Elva Hsiao's fans, and even Fan Xiaopang's fans—

Look, Zhou Yi hasn't done anything and he's already being attacked like this. You lot who haven't made a move yet, don't just stand by idly — come on down and give Zhou Yi a hand, will you?

How could anyone stand for that?

Chen Yixun, who had thought he would be able to successfully defend his position at the last moment, never expected Warner still had such a slick move up their sleeve. On the daily chart data of several famous Hong Kong radio stations — Hong Kong Radio, Xincheng Radio and others — "Today's the Day" ultimately still couldn't hold back this surge of heat—

The city gates fell.

October 21, 2002, Monday — the day the Hong Kong Radio music chart data refreshed.

Chen Yixun's "Today's the Day" slipped to runner-up; Zhou Yi's "Fairy Tale" officially took the top spot—

At the same time, "Dad and Mom," boosted by story marketing, squeezed out Lu Qiaoyin's "Kind-Hearted Breakup" and rose to third. "Little Dimples" and "Marry Me Today" took seventh and eighth respectively, while the English song "Baby" ranked eleventh.

Among the top eleven on the Hong Kong Radio chart, five were Zhou Yi's songs. On the Xincheng Radio side, Zhou Yi had one more — "Fireworks Cool Easily" — taking six of the top eleven!

On the song-request charts of large chain KTVs like Cashbox, Zhou Yi alone occupied seven of the top ten slots—

Only Chen Yixun's two songs this year — "Thank You" and "Today's the Day" — and Jay Chou's "Return to the Past" were still putting up a last-ditch resistance.

The dominance Zhou Yi had once displayed on the music charts of the mainland and Taiwan when he debuted, after two years of quietly building up strength, has now finally, relying on the high popularity he accumulated, broken through the audience limitations of the Cantonese region, and formally cast the Emperor's shadow over the skies of Hong Kong's music scene!

"The Darkest Hour of Hong Kong's Music Scene"

"The Man Who Ended Hong Kong Music's Last Golden Age — Zhou Yi!"

"……"

As everyone knows, the influence of Hong Kong's music scene in the eighties and nineties of the last century is beyond doubt — it can even be said to have been the center of Chinese-language music.

At that time, the Top Ten Chinese Gold Songs and the Top Ten Ten Most Popular Songs were the most important and most prestigious awards in the Chinese music scene each year, and also the battleground that fans of every house fought over.

When Zhou Yi first debuted, he swept through the Taiwan music scene and emerged in the mainland with dominance, yet the Hong Kong music scene charts at the turn of the century did not allow Zhou Yi to become overly arrogant.

He had taken first place, but there were opponents capable of matching him; moreover, the scene where one person occupied more than half of the top ten had never appeared—not even the previous album "Jiangnan" had achieved this.

Before Zhou Yi, all singers from the mainland could not hold their heads high in the Hong Kong music scene; they all had to bow low and act small.

And now, this situation has been broken.

By all rights, this smokeless battle for positioning should have ended around here, but when Warner discovered that the rankings of the songs from Zhou Yi's "Good Time" and "Baby" albums remained fluctuating between fifteenth and eleventh, a bold thought immediately arose in their hearts—

Could the songs from the "Attitude Show" and "Lianshan" albums possibly sweep the Hong Kong music scene charts?

Not too long, just one day—

24 hours.

If Zhou Yi could hold on, then Zhou Yi would become the first singer in the history of the Chinese music scene to achieve the feat of sweeping the top ten in the Hong Kong music scene—

Unprecedented!

(End of this chapter)