Chapter 99: Defending Zhou Yi's Glory, It Is Our Duty (Third Update~)

April 3, 2001, the Qiong Yao drama "Love in the Rain" premiered on the CTS channel in Taiwan.

In He Xiuqiong's vision, this should have been a scene attracting universal attention.

She could have proceeded with the promotion step by step, but Zhou Yi, Sun Yanzi, Jay Chou, and Xu Ruoxuan jointly delivered a major scoop to the entertainment industry.

The paparazzi who first photographed the basketball court were so paid that their hands cramped, and he even received invitations from some Taiwan variety show programs; the production team specifically asked him to go on and describe the "Double Zhou romance" in detail.

Especially Zhou Yi and Sun Yanzi.

Thanks to Warner releasing surveillance footage of Zhou Yi interacting privately with Sun Yanzi within the company after Taiwan announced a unilateral "ban," when they were suddenly exposed to this "romance," a large portion of Sun Yanzi's fans did not show overly excited actions or emotions.

At most, they just muttered that this man didn't seem like a good match, had too many scandals, and wondered if Sun Yanzi could tame this playboy.

Of course, the two popular songs "Little Happiness" and "Green Light," both created single-handedly by Zhou Yi, added a lot of points to this.

If it weren't for these two songs, Sun Yanzi's fans would probably have united to oppose Zhou Yi, this playboy with so many scandals.

"I'm not convinced; having so many scandals isn't my problem, especially those young models; I haven't even seen their faces, it has nothing to do with me."

Sitting in Zhou Jianhui's office at Warner, Zhou Yi pointed at the newspaper, sneering: "And that paparazzo actually managed to get on a show; it's ridiculous."

"The key issue isn't that anymore; my parents now know about my rumors and even called specifically to ask me if it's true."

Sun Yanzi, sitting on the sofa nearby, propped her cheek with one hand, playing with the cap of a ballpoint pen, her tone somewhat complaining: "What's wrong with those reporters? Is writing like this a bit too much?"

She, who never liked stirring up romance scandals, was truly angry this time.

Even if she were really dating Zhou Yi, she wouldn't like the feeling of her relationship being under the spotlight.

Besides, the two of them hadn't even started dating; they were perfectly innocent.

"The company is already going through the process; this storm will calm down quickly." Zhou Jianhui also had a headache.

For no reason, his two money-making trees suddenly "ended up" together, which made his heart jump to his throat.

Zhou Yi was a bit better off; since his debut, he had constant scandals, and his fans were already used to it.

But Sun Yanzi was not; even Chen Ze Shan, who loved stirring up scandals the most, wouldn't dare use the tactic of stirring up a romance with her, after all, this truly touched her bottom line.

"We clearly shook off the paparazzi, but then we got hit hard at Jay Chou's place; I should have known not to go play with you."

Sun Yanzi, lying flat on the soft sofa, muttered; Zhou Yi, sitting directly opposite Zhou Jianhui, spread his hands to show he was also innocent: "This isn't my fault, and the two of us were purely just too famous and unlucky, that's all."

"Look at Xu Ruoxuan; suspected of having a boyfriend, she got dragged into Jay Chou's mess; now she's probably more overwhelmed than us."

"Isn't Jay Chou involved with Cai Yilin? How is there a problem with Xu Ruoxuan too?" Sun Yanzi, who had somewhat understood from her manager Chen Ze Shan's collection that both Jay Chou and Xu Ruoxuan were suspected of having new romances, was puzzled.

In February 2001, footage of her and Jay Chou singing on stage together appeared at Cai Yilin's concert, including in Wu Zongxian's flagship program "I Guess I Guess I Guess," where Cai Yilin and Jay Chou sharing the stage was very entertaining.

Wu Zongxian and Tao Jingying even publicly matched these two in a manner similar to a head of the family, which was somewhat like stamping their approval.

"Who knows which side is stirring up the scandal, or if both sides are."

Zhou Yi shrugged, indicating he didn't know either.

Don't really think that because the young Zhou Dong looks shy and bashful on stage, he's truly some pure-hearted young man; speaking purely of scandals, Zhou Dong is not at all inferior to Tao Zhe.

"Anyway, since the two of you are innocent, just leave the rest to the company to handle."

Zhou Jianhui's speed of action was very fast.

Sun Yanzi was also able to put her troubles aside quickly and continue to devote herself fully to the album promotion work.

On the song charts, stimulated by this wave of rumors, "Green Light" even temporarily surpassed "Love's Main Song."

If it weren't for Sun Yanzi having such a strong bottom line, Chen Ze Shan would have really wanted to ride this wind and stir up the "Twin Stars Romance" all the way to the end.

The money from selling the albums is all white silver in hand.

"'Green Light' surpassed my 'Love's Main Song'; you need to bear over 90% of the responsibility for this, Zhou Yi."

On the phone, Xiao Yaxuan, who had also learned of this result, questioned with interest: "Are you really dating Sun Yanzi?"

"Dating your head; I have so many romance targets, I can't date them all; hanging up, we'll chat tonight; I still have to go reply to other people's calls."

Busy with multi-threaded operations, replying to one acquaintance after another, Zhou Yi rolled his eyes.

April 12.

The Coca-Cola commercial starring Zhou Yi launched across the two shores and three regions, with its theme song "Don't Listen to Slow Songs When You're Sad" capitalizing on Zhou Yi's recent surge in popularity to directly debut in the top twenty of major music charts.

In Xiangjiang, it even surpassed the album released by Wang Jie, the second-in-command of Emperor, on the same day, April 3, which included the mobile phone advertisement song "Unromantic Crime," rising to tenth place.

The moment the advertisement rolled out completely, Coca-Cola Company's powerful promotion capabilities were fully demonstrated in this era where traditional media dominated the promotion sector—

Even more incredible was that, due to the explosive viewership of "Love in the Rain" in Taiwan since its broadcast, Coca-Cola Company exerted its unparalleled money power, landing a heavy blow by buying prime-time advertising slots with a huge investment.

This way, anyone wanting to watch the drama "Love in the Rain" would, when turning on the TV, more or less see Zhou Yi's Coke advertisement and hear that song "Don't Listen to Slow Songs When You're Sad."

Thanks to the long time without releasing new songs, this pop-rock song, different from Zhou Yi's first album style, was quickly extremely popular among the youth after its release.

Of course, it also met with contempt from some rock circle figures, who believed Zhou Yi's song was defiling the word "rock," even though Zhou Yi positioned this song as pop-rock.

But regardless of the outcome, Coca-Cola, riding this "demon wind," won huge attention, to the extent that Zhou Yi's advertisement song kept climbing on the radio request chart, reaching seventh place in just three days, second only to the six songs he wrote for Sun Yanzi, Zhang Shaohan, and Xiao Yaxuan.

Seeing this result, Zhou Yi himself was shocked.

Speaking with a clear conscience, the song "Don't Listen to Slow Songs When You're Sad" truly cannot be compared with those six songs; his initial estimated goal was that getting into the top twenty would count as success.

But now, he seems to have indeed underestimated his fans' loyalty too much.

Thanks to some operations by the Taiwan side, he seems... to have successfully washed his fans?

"To be precise, it's not just your fans; a lot of the credit for the rise in your song's ranking also belongs to Zhang Shaohan's fans and Xiao Yaxuan's fans, and even Sun Yanzi's fans."

Qian Jiang, equally surprised, after conducting an investigation, came to a conclusion that made people laugh and cry: "The company's denial made Zhang Shaohan's and Xiao Yaxuan's fans shout the slogan 'Defend Zhou Yi' together; it was said to be to let you see their efforts, so you would be willing to continue cooperating with Zhang and Xiao;

"Sun Yanzi's fans were originally sitting on the fishing platform, but under the efforts of Xiao Yaxuan's fans and Zhang Shaohan's fans, fearing Sun Yanzi would fall behind the other two in this regard, they also helped with the charting..."

Zhou Yi: "..."

"This actually works?"

After "Love in the Rain" aired, Gu Juji and his manager, who had been paying attention to the song rankings, were dumbfounded upon seeing this result.

They watched as the song "Really Want to Want" climbed steadily with the broadcast of the TV drama, but before long, Zhou Yi suddenly killed out with an advertisement song, squeezing "Really Want to Want," which had also been rapidly rising to eighth place, down to ninth.

"Relax. Their three families' fans can't sustain such intense voting for long. They'll just make a show of it for a month at most; afterward, the world is still ours."

Seeing the shifting expressions on Gu Juji's face, the manager, who had never seen this tactic before, spoke to comfort him.

A TV drama can run for several months, or even stretch to one, two, or three years through reruns, but voting fans cannot last that long; they can hold out for a month at most.

After digesting this result for quite a while, Gu Juji finally came to his senses and nodded: "That's right."

Do not seek momentary glory—

One year against one month; the advantage is mine!

(End of this chapter)