Chapter 368: The Darkest Hour Arrives

Is this something I can say?!

Sun Yanzi jolted, leaping straight up from the sofa, frantically fumbling for her phone, flipping straight to the number and dialing it out—

"Hello?"

Not long after, Zhou Yi's familiar voice reached her ears.

"What's going on with you? Publicly saying this on the show???"

"Which one? I've said plenty of things." Zhou Yi on the other end of the line was clearly somewhat confused.

"The A-Da-Jin thing."

Although she didn't mix in the mainland music scene, thanks to Zhou Yi being from the mainland, Sun Yanzi had still made up for her lack of knowledge on mainland music history, after all, her main sales battlefield going forward would also be the mainland.

"Just clean him up along with this wave of heat, there's nothing wrong with that, how connected can his background possibly be?"

Zhou Yi snorted: "Since he dared to jump out, he should be prepared to get knocked back, isn't that normal?"

"... You—huh? Wait, that's not right, where are you? Why is it suddenly so noisy over there?" Feeling something was off, Sun Yanzi blinked, then turned to ask what the man was doing now.

"Experiencing KTV culture, you know."

"... Just drink yourself to death, I was worried about you for nothing."

"To be fair, you're slandering me there; I never drink when I go to KTV, I only eat the fruit platter."

"Nyah nyah, I say this and you listen, remember to protect your voice, don't drink too much."

Having mimicked Zhou Yi's tone to say a couple of lines, Sun Yanzi was just about to chat about something else, like Cai Zhuoyan for instance, when she saw another work phone receive a call from Chen Ze Shan, and immediately slumped her head in despair—

"Chen Ze Shan is calling me for something, I'll hang up first."

The phone disconnected with a "beep".

Zhou Yi, who was inside the KTV private room, also pushed open the bathroom door after the call ended and returned to the room—

"Small dimples, long eyelashes, are your most beautiful mark

"I can't sleep every day, missing your smile

"You don't know how important you are to me

"With you, life is just perfectly complete~"

Chen Guanxi and A-Jiao were singing a duet with deep emotion, and Cai Zhuoyan, who was eating fruit platters with Joey Yung, Ying Choi-yee and other Emperor Group artists, saw Zhou Yi return and immediately raised a hand to wave at him: "Over here, A-Yi."

"You really are awesome this time, Xincheng Radio is almost completely occupied by you alone."

The few previous meetings had naturally allowed Joey Yung, who was very friendly, to greet Zhou Yi, smiling and teasing a remark. The still-newbie Ying Choi-yee, Cheng He-yi and others sat at the far end, and seeing Zhou Yi return, quickly stood up to greet him—

"Brother Yi."

"Brother Yi."

"This has nothing to do with me; someone wanted to provoke me, I just fought back."

Opening his mouth to bite the cantaloupe piece fed to him by Cai Zhuoyan, Zhou Yi shrugged indifferently, making himself sound like a white lotus.

"Tingfeng's parents asked me to pass a message to you for him, saying thank you."

As the most favored female artist at Emperor Group currently, Joey Yung also served as a messenger.

Zhou Yi's willingness to attend the banquet was the greatest goodwill.

"Too polite. Although I haven't seen Uncle Xie's plays, my parents have."

Zhou Yi made up a sentence off the cuff, expressing gratitude in return.

Facts proved that the plan to split the older generation in Hong Kong starting from Tse Yim was clearly effective.

Starting from the 28th, Hong Kong's older generation of entertainment figures, led by Tse Yim and Di Bola, began to express appreciation for Zhou Yi—even though they had nothing to do with the music scene.

But these people still had some fame in the hearts of the older generation in Hong Kong.

"I quite like A-Yi's songs; when Tingfeng was at home, he often played his discs. I know the media and many people are hyping that the two of them are rivals for a long time, but actually that's not true; Tingfeng actually admires A-Yi's music."

As Tingfeng's father, Tse Yim personally stepped forward, returning the favor and becoming a Zhou Yi fanboy—

"Why does he say he's the first, second, and third in history? Come on, big shot, didn't he say it was his own psychological ranking? When I was young, I also thought I was the second best after the heavens."

As Tingfeng's mother, Di Bola also cooperated with her ex-husband to turn into a Zhou Yi fanboy, which completely confused those die-hard Tingfeng fans who had originally united to help Chen Yixun and others—

Your subjects were just about to fight to the death, Your Majesty—ah no, Empress Dowager, why surrender first?

Why did you guys chicken out??

Why don't you dare to fight Zhou Yi with real swords and guns?

With the help of Tse Yim, Di Bola and others, spurred on by Zhou Yi's "fans", the firm will of this highly combat-effective group of Tingfeng fans finally wavered, starting to feel that what they said made some sense.

If Chen Yixun really took power, wouldn't Tingfeng's past status and honors really be replaced?

No, no, that won't do!

If the previous instigation was just planting a nail, then right now, Tingfeng's own parents' assist completely made them start to waver—

Although some chose to stop and sit on the fence, some chose to help Zhou Yi, and others continued to help Chen Yixun.

But overall, this group was completely split internally.

And for Chen Yixun's fans, Emperor Group's move of taking sides was enough to leave them completely dumbfounded—

Wait, Chen Yixun is your own person, why are you elbowing outwards?

"He hasn't even topped the charts yet, and Zhou Yi is already being hyped as first, second, and third in history; what if he actually tops the charts?"

"Everyone, you don't want the entire Hong Kong music scene to be despised by Zhou Yi's fans in the future, do you? Zhou Yi's fans are a cancer, a swarm of locusts!"

"What the hell! Zhou Yi's fans are obviously all elegant and easygoing, just like the main star!"

"xxxx!"

It's dark, it's dark...

A fan war that was finally completely divided ultimately opened its curtain around Zhou Yi's highly controversial remarks—

On the 29th, of the six songs on Zhou Yi's chart, except for the champion "Fairy Tale", the other five all moved up in rank. At the same time, because Sony went all out to back Wang Fei, Lu Qiaoyin's "Goodbye Heartbreak", which was also under Sony, dropped out of the top ten of the daily chart data, and "Lonely Mr." filled the spot—

On the daily chart, seven of the top ten were his, and the fan stickiness was downright despair-inducing!

On the 30th, "Mr. Lonely" dropped out of tenth place, and Wang Fei's "Fable" filled the slot, reigniting the battle;

On the 31st, the eve of Halloween, Zhou Yi's chart-topping single, the English song "Yeah," riding the pre-holiday atmosphere, broke into the top ten for the first time, knocking out Chen Yixun's "People Come, People Go."

On November 1, 2002, Halloween day, "Yeah" and "GoodTime" climbed once more along with the holiday buzz, and at the same time "Mr. Lonely" re-entered the chart, pulling up the rankings of "Little Dimples" and "Marry Me Today" along the way—

Because many students chose that day to confess.

On November 2, because they were older songs, "Fable" and "Kai Dao Tu Mi" finally couldn't hold on—the former dropped out of the top ten, the latter slid to seventh—"GoodTime" filled the slot and re-entered the chart.

At the same time, Chen Yixun's "This Day Next Year" slipped to fifth…

One person, ten songs, occupying eight spots—

This was a scene that had never before appeared in the Hong Kong music scene, and it left countless Hong Kong music fans in despair.

Zhou Yi was too steady—steady enough to be infuriating.

What's even more cheat-like is…

He freaking brought in reinforcements!

Mainlanders are all coming to help push the charts—isn't this fucking cheating?!

(End of chapter)