Chapter 227: Blowing the Horn of Counterattack

When Luo Mo returned home, he was also a bit tipsy.

"We agreed on just a small drink, so how did we end up drinking nearly two bottles of red wine?" After taking a shower, Luo Mo felt a little more sober.

Run Jie was in high spirits for drinking today because *Classic* had given her hope of winning an award.

Yes, many people might not know that variety shows can also win awards.

On Earth, *Classic* had won the grand prize this year.

Ning Dan had been doing variety shows for so long that she was already at the top of the industry, but in terms of awards, she had come up empty-handed until now.

People, you know, once they reach the extreme in certain aspects, they will have new pursuits in other areas; otherwise, they will feel a great sense of emptiness.

She planned to submit this variety show in the next few days to see if she could secure support from CCTV.

Taking advantage of the alcohol, Luo Mo lay on the bed and began sending a WeChat message to Xu Chujing.

"Which city are you in today?" Luo Mo sent the message.

Five minutes later, he received a reply from Xu Chujing.

"Just finished showering. I just wrapped up the roadshow in Beijing today and will be back in Shanghai the day after tomorrow," Xu Chujing replied.

"Shall I treat you to a meal when you get back? Consider it a celebration," Luo Mo said.

If it were anyone else, Xu Chujing might have declined with little interest.

Because to others, *Cat Demon* could be considered a huge success, but to her, it was a slight failure.

However, since it was Luo Mo, she agreed and said, "Come cook at my place. I'm craving saury."

The continuous roadshows left her feeling slightly exhausted, and she didn't really want to go out.

"Sure," Luo Mo agreed.

At the end of the chat, Xu Chujing sent him a photo.

When the *Cat Demon* crew was running roadshows, the director didn't know where they got a life-sized standee of Luo Mo, and they brought it along to every place they went.

—He wasn't there in person, but his traffic was.

The photo Xu Chujing sent was a picture of her with this standee.

Take note: when you are chatting with a woman and the other party sends you her own photos or videos, it is usually a sign of intimacy.

"Looks quite harmonious," Luo Mo commented intentionally, with a hidden meaning in his words.

"Is that so? It's alright," Xu Chujing replied.

After the two chatted for a few more sentences, they said goodnight to each other.

Before going to sleep, Luo Mo checked the real-time box office for *Cat Demon* and *Late Marriage*.

It was early Tuesday morning; *Cat Demon* had been released for four days, and the box office had already exceeded 300 million, with the final box office estimated to be a little over 500 million, likely not reaching 600 million.

Because starting Monday, the box office had softened and was cut in half.

In the next few days, it would only get lower.

Then it would rise slightly on the weekend, but basically, it would be sluggish.

But *Late Marriage* was also cut in half.

This film was estimated to finish with a box office of around 300 million.

"It seems this Song Ge is going to enter the 【Ten Billion Club】," Luo Mo thought.

Adding his previous film box office, Song Ge's cumulative total box office was only 20 million short of 1 billion.

"One billion in box office," Luo Mo muttered.

"It's just a matter of one movie."

He gradually drifted into a dream.

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The next day, due to the drinking, Luo Mo woke up an hour later than usual.

He picked up his phone to check and found that his muted phone had received a large number of WeChat messages.

Luo Mo opened them and realized it was the six girls of Aurora Girls, chattering away in the big group.

After all, today was the day *Miss Chic* would be launched on platforms like Penguin Music, and each of them was a bit excited and a bit nervous.

In the past few days, the promotion had already been rolled out, sparking a good response on the internet.

The girls witnessed the terror of Director Luo.

Originally, when an idol group like theirs released a song, apart from fans, not many people would pay attention.

Even passersby, upon seeing it was a song by an idol group, would simply not listen.

Like on Earth, many traffic Singers were also trying their best to transform, and perhaps they were working hard on music later on.

But the inherent impression everyone had of them was already deeply rooted in their minds.

Seeing these people's names, even if the song was free, people were unwilling to open it to listen.

"What kind of good song can this thing produce?" Many people thought this way.

But since the lyrics and music came from Luo Mo's hands, and Luo Mo served as the producer, many netizens expressed that they were already looking forward to it.

"Ah, the feedback received when promoting this is completely different from before," sighed the 1.7-meter-tall captain Han Ziyi, who loved wearing black stockings.

Every time she met Luo Mo now, she would definitely wear black stockings; sometimes they were standard ones, sometimes the kind with cutouts, or ones with patterns.

"This feeling is so good!" He Jingjing said.

"Director Luo is the god forever!" Dong Dong had already started fawning in the group.

The others started not to fall behind.

Shen Yinuo began to loudly accuse them of having no integrity, and then she was almost kicked out of the group chat by the group owner, Han Ziyi.

Luo Mo looked at the chat history and only felt that these young girls were truly full of vitality.

At twelve o'clock noon, the song "Miss Chic" was uploaded to all major platforms right on time.

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Shencheng, a certain residential complex of Siheyuan.

Huang Xishan, who had already begun his retirement, was busy tinkering with his flowers and plants in the courtyard.

After distancing himself from the disputes of the music scene, he was living quite comfortably.

He could watch the current disputes in the music scene with the attitude of a bystander.

Regarding Luo Mo obtaining the title of "King of Love Songs," Huang Xishan no longer felt the slightest bit of resentment in his heart.

Having lost many times, and having let go of his obsession, he was now sincerely convinced.

Hearing yesterday that Luo Mo had written a song for a girl group, Huang Xishan couldn't help but recall the cause of the conflict between him and Luo Mo.

It was precisely because, at the request of Wang Shisong, he had condescended to write the song "Giant Shark" for the boy group NINE-T.

Then, Wang Shisong arranged for that album to compete against Luo Mo Studio, only to be directly crushed by Tong Shu's "Big Fish."

Since then, he, this senior, and Luo Mo, this newcomer to the music scene, had repeatedly clashed.

Therefore, the moment he heard that Luo Mo had also written a song for an Idol group, and that the style was likewise dance music, he immediately became deeply interested.

In any case, Huang Xishan hadn't managed to carry NINE-T to success; he was curious to see if Luo Mo could carry Aurora Girls?

At twelve o'clock sharp, after finishing the beef noodles cooked by his nanny, Huang Xishan turned on his audio equipment.

"Miss Chic." He read the song title once.

As the song began, he listened to the intro and narrowed his eyes slightly.

"Hmm? Electronic Music elements?" he couldn't help but say.

Electronic Music was not a field he excelled in, and he himself wasn't actually very interested in this type of music.

If this song hadn't come from the hands of Luo Mo, he might have already turned it off.

Under the highly dynamic intro, Huang Xishan could feel that this was a song with a strong sense of rhythm.

The Singing soon came through.

"【Slept too little last night, can't cover the dark circles.

No image, a bit of a mess, doesn't matter, not important.

I think you're not sleeping well, the ambiguity is like ants biting.

A confession is not a prayer, just want to let you know.】"

Listening to the Singing, he was immediately stunned.

"This is a major transformation?" Huang Xishan couldn't help but say.

The Aurora Girls of the past did not follow this style at all.

After listening to the whole song, he had no intention of listening to it a second time.

This song wasn't his cup of tea, but he knew the quality was extremely high.

Huang Xishan was a music professional, so he knew very well that one shouldn't deny a song or call it trash just because it didn't suit one's own preferences.

"Among dance songs incorporating Electronic Music elements, this is the most mature work I've heard this year," Huang Xishan evaluated.

Intuition told him that this song would likely have good results.

"Sure enough, I'm not as good as you," he thought to himself.

In his view, Pineapple, which had previously boasted about wanting to keep an eye on the Singers of Xinyu to compete with them, had better pray recently that Luo Mo would show mercy.

Right now, it was Pineapple that was afraid of Luo Mo, this Music Director, keeping an eye on them.

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Once "Miss Chic" was released on all major platforms, it triggered countless people to come and listen.

"This style is beyond my expectations, it's very dynamic!"

"The Singing is also very sexy, very cool and dashing!"

"Wow, they didn't go for the sweet route this time."

"It's good, better than any previous song by Aurora Girls."

"Go watch the dance studio version of the group dance video! I've watched it ten times in one go!"

"Luo Mo wrote two songs for them in total, right? I've already started looking forward to the second one."

It was clearly a song uploaded on Tuesday, so the entire song had no accumulated data from Monday.

Yet by three o'clock in the afternoon, "Miss Chic" had rushed onto the homepage of the New Song Chart and into the top ten.

This terrifying heat and data shocked all the Idol groups in the industry.

Members of various domestic girl groups were stunned; they had never seen such a fierce new girl group song.

"No way, could it be that Luo Mo creates a girl group miracle as soon as he makes a move?" they thought.

The reason that girl group from Cilong was considered the number one girl group in the country was because they had an album that was quite popular, and one of the songs had been at the top of the New Song Chart for a full four days.

But "Miss Chic" was too fierce; released a day late, yet all its data was catching up rapidly.

By five o'clock in the afternoon, this song had already rushed to third place on the New Song Chart.

And by eight o'clock in the evening, it went straight to number one!

When the members of Aurora Girls saw this scene, they were so excited they wanted to scream.

This made them think of the words Luo Mo had said.

"It's fine, being late is fine, let them have a day."

Facts proved that even if they gave them a day, they could still overtake them!

In fact, "Miss Chic" was merely the beginning.

This caused many people in the music scene to plan to adjust their song release schedules.

"The Aurora Girls' next song will likely be released next Monday; avoid it if you can!"

We once didn't need to take this girl group too seriously.

But the man behind this girl group is someone we cannot afford to provoke!

This made Zheng Quan, the Music Director of Pineapple, incredibly distressed.

Because according to the plan, the Pineapple diva Chun Xiao, hailed as the "Heavenly Queen Gatekeeper," was set to release the first song of her new album next Monday, and the promotional warm-up had already begun recently.

"Is he starting to take the initiative to strike back?" An ominous premonition welled up in Zheng Quan's heart.

Zheng Quan guessed correctly.

Luo Mo would not be like Wang Shisong, who would even make a public announcement saying he intended to target Pineapple's Singers for a showdown.

There was no need; shouting slogans was meaningless.

He preferred to take direct action.

It was time to let the entire music scene see what it meant to write songs single-handedly and crush an entire company.

"There are two months left until the New Year," Luo Mo thought to himself.

"Might as well let the Singers of Pineapple rest a little earlier."

(PS: First update, asking for monthly votes at the start of the month to climb the rankings!)

(End of this chapter)