Chapter 634: 《Sea of Flowers》

Cilong Entertainment building, conference room.

A group of middle and senior management sat there, their expressions grave, the atmosphere poor.

On the contrary, when Chen Luo walked in, his expression remained calm, wearing his signature gentle smile from the past.

Many people call him the number one brother of the music scene, a main reason surely being that he is a top-tier Heavenly King, the strongest among this generation of male Singers, and also because he never puts on airs, always wearing a gentle smile, giving people the feeling of a neighborly Boss.

In this nationwide album competition, although the first round ended in Chen Luo's defeat, his demeanor remained.

"Everyone is here, so let's start the meeting," said Yuan Hewen, Music Director of Cilong Entertainment.

In this album of Chen Luo's, our Yuan has not written a single song.

Having locked horns with Luo Mo so many times, he could be said to have lost all his old face long ago, and was already afraid of losing.

During the album's preparation, Chen Luo had also asked him for songs; Yuan Hewen agreed in words, but never gave any songs, using the excuse that he was getting old, his creative inspiration couldn't keep up, and on top of that, he had been feeling unwell lately, always having this ache or that pain, absolutely not because he was afraid of Luo Mo or worried about losing face again!

As everyone knows, Luo Mo is the one who pioneered 【Chinese Style】 by standing on our Yuan's shoulders!

Could our Yuan be a coward?

Impossible!

Cilong has already been holding meetings for two consecutive days.

The last meeting was to summarize the gains and losses.

Today is to summarize again, and then make arrangements and deployments for the upcoming new song release.

Since the period of Creating Idols, Luo Mo has had a personality trait well-known to the Masses, which is: "He really likes to keep people in suspense."

The Music Mentor on the show, Wei Ran, our dear Wei Ge, almost got a stomach ailment from being kept in suspense by him while recording the show.

Because, over at Luo Mo Studio, they had revealed almost no information regarding the second new song.

And this person's creative path is very broad, and his own singing style is also very broad, so it is really hard to guess.

In the meeting, some guessed that Luo Mo would release a pop love song.

Others guessed that Luo Mo might release a love song duet with Xu Chujing next.

Of course, most people felt it would be Chinese Style; after all, this is a genre he founded, and he has been nicknamed the 【Grandmaster of Chinese Style】.

It's just that whenever everyone mentions Chinese Style, they always glance at Yuan Hewen from the corner of their eyes from time to time.

Many senior executives in the company were thinking about whether to arrange for Yuan to go on those roast-style or talk show-style variety programs, let him roast himself, write this meme into the script, and thereby save some favorability with the netizens.

If he stood on stage and said that line again, "Luo Mo pioneered Chinese Style by standing on my shoulders," that would be a real viral meme!

These days, self-deprecation has almost become the most effective way to whitewash oneself.

Chen Luo listened to everyone talking one after another, a smile always on his face.

But the words he spoke made everyone's breathing hitch, their pupils slightly dilating.

"For the second song, let's release 'Fly'."

"Isn't it almost Chinese New Year? It's the peak tourist season, so releasing a song with the core of protecting nature is also quite fitting for the occasion."

Although he didn't say anything, everyone knew it clearly in their hearts.

"Rice Fragrance" is a positive energy song, warming people's hearts and having positive social significance.

"Fly" is also a meaningful song, a song with positive guidance.

This is wanting to compete again!

Yuan Hewen looked at Chen Luo, opened his mouth, and stopped himself several times.

In Chen Luo, he saw his own shadow from the past.

It was like this in the beginning; the more you lose, the more you want to fight! The more you lose, the more you get carried away!

The pride, confidence, and refusal to admit defeat in one's bones... these are things that people who have achieved high success in a field naturally possess.

But the more one has these, the more one wants to win back beautifully and completely!

However, Yuan Hewen also knew that he and Chen Luo were still different.

In the world of songwriters, he, Yuan Hewen, is considered first-class, but not top-notch.

If he dared to say he was the strongest in the songwriting world, Huang Xishan, who had been retired for quite a while, would be afraid to immediately get angry and hold a comeback press conference.

But Chen Luo is different; he has been the number one brother in the contemporary music scene for several years.

On the contrary, the senior executives of Cilong were all happy to see Chen Luo still have this drive.

If Chen Luo were no longer the Chen Luo of the past, then Cilong's status in the music scene would continue to slide.

As for the company's senior management, they themselves cannot write songs, nor can they sing.

But they don't like the people under them to have their spirit beaten out of them by Luo Mo, like a certain Yuan.

If everyone were like that, our Cilong might as well hand over all the shares in the music scene, stop making money, and stop running the company!

If it weren't for seeing Yuan Hewen still being fierce when beating others in the music scene, they would have stopped letting him be the Music Director long ago.

Yuan Hewen: I am timid toward Luo Mo, but I strike hard against others!

………

………

Chen Luo and Luo Mo's new songs will both be released on Monday, once again vying for the throne of the new song weekly chart.

On the other side, Tongguang Studio finally finished "Chinese Choir" and sent it to the Review Department.

Team Leader Zhong Lin of the Review Department never expected that with Chinese New Year approaching, there would still be a new work from Luo Mo that needed her personal review.

"'Chinese Choir'?"

"The name is so grand again," Zhong Lin thought to herself.

Honestly, during this period, her mood was a bit complicated.

The reason is simple: the final box office for "Fame and Fortune" is estimated to end at 1.6 billion.

The military order Luo Mo set before her was 8 billion for three movies.

It was precisely because of this 8 billion temptation that she approved Luo Mo's "Sheep Without a Shepherd" and "The Bad Kids".

——Madam, you wouldn't want to fail the task assigned by your superiors, would you?

I, after all, have 8 billion.

But as it stands now, this has become an almost impossible thing.

Zhong Lin was not displeased because of this; as a section chief of the Review Department, how could she not know that there is no such thing as a creator who never misses in this world?

She just felt a lot of pressure, and if things went wrong, she might end up having to take the blame herself.

"However, the Hundred Billion Box Office Plan has a total of 8 films this time; 10 billion divided by 8 is only 1.25 billion. 'Sheep Without a Shepherd' has 1.6 billion, so actually, no matter how you look at it, it already counts as a good start," Zhong Lin said in her heart. "Don't be too greedy."

When a woman reaches a certain age, she must never be too greedy, otherwise it is easy to head toward the abyss of Evil.

Sitting in her office, Zhong Lin clicked on the short-as-can-be "Chinese Poetry Choir".

On Earth, this was, after all, a public welfare Animation, so it was normal for the duration to be short.

But after watching a few episodes in one breath, she felt increasingly shocked in her heart!

"One episode, one poem!"

"And they are all written so well!"

"It's educational and entertaining, and the art style is so exquisite!"

Zhong Lin instantly understood that this work had an extraordinary significance.

She was currently watching the third episode.

This episode was called "Traveler's Song".

At the very beginning of the story, in a house, there were several children playing; while frolicking in the room, the children accidentally saw an old cotton-padded jacket.

"Whose is this? It's so dirty and smelly."

"Xiao Huo, you've caused trouble again; when Father returns, he'll surely reward you with a flick to the forehead."

A voice came from behind: "Who is it that wants to reward a flick to the forehead?"

A man wearing official robes appeared.

Regarding some details, Luo Mo had made adjustments based on the history of Blue Star.

"Father, you're back!"

The children handed the cotton robe over and asked: "Father, whose cotton robe is this?"

"Such a small cotton robe, who is it for?"

"It's so tattered, why is it still being kept?"

While the children were chattering, the man wearing official robes kept looking down at the cotton robe, lost in thought for a long time, his pupils even trembling slightly.

"Father! Father!" the children called out loudly.

After a good while, he finally came back to his senses.

"Father, what are you thinking about?" the children asked.

The man wearing official robes held the old cotton jacket with both hands, squatted down, looked at the children, and said: "Before dinner, let me tell you a story."

The scene shifted to a winter many years ago.

Several children were singing a nursery rhyme they had made up, mocking another child.

They sang: "Little scholar, tattered cloth, can't show his face when winter comes, drinks your mother's porridge, wears your father's robe, snot running all day long."

The child in tattered clothes was being bullied and mocked by the other children; he was pushed to the ground, his face covered in tears.

After returning home, the first thing his mother did was to warm his hands.

While rubbing them, she blew hot air onto his hands.

The mother began to cook, while the child took out his books.

But before long, a little mouse crawled out from a patch on his clothes, and his younger sister suddenly popped out, whispering that the mouse was one she was raising, called Xiao Gao Tuan.

The little girl was very cute; she raised the mouse also because her older brother had previously told her a story about a little mouse recommending a paper to an examiner, and tomorrow happened to be her brother's first time taking the child examination, so it was a good omen.

The family could be said to be living in harmony.

At night, the mother told the boy by the bedside to rest early, as he still had to take the exam tomorrow.

The boy looked at the tattered clothes folded by the bedside, somewhat lost in thought.

He began to imagine the scene of tomorrow, where there would surely be many people wearing new clothes specially prepared by their parents, and he also thought that someone would laugh at him: "Dressing like this to take an exam, what a disgrace!"

With such imaginings, the boy gradually fell asleep.

He had a dream.

In the dream, he was on an endless expanse of white cotton, feeling especially warm.

He also dreamed of the little mouse his sister raised, with a large "top scholar" character on the mouse's body.

Later in the dream, he saw the content he had read in his books, as if swimming in an ocean of knowledge, and finally, he saw a huge loom formed by the starry sky.

"What a huge loom!" the boy exclaimed.

Just at this moment, he heard his mother's voice calling him to wake up: "Sheng'er, Sheng'er, it's time to get up."

After he woke up, he saw a new set of clothes.

"New clothes! Ah! Thank you, Mother!" The boy looked up at his mother and saw her eyes were slightly swollen, her dark circles were heavy, and her face was haggard.

The mother just looked at him, smiling constantly, a Gentle smile.

He glanced at his mother's hands and saw there were wounds on them.

The mother immediately hid her hands, tucking them into her sleeves.

At this moment, the boy already understood that he had dreamed of the loom perhaps because his mother had been staying up late to help him make the new clothes; he had heard the sounds, and so he had dreamed of it.

On a morning covered in ice and snow, the boy said Farewell to his mother, wore the new cotton robe, and traveled far to the examination hall.

The story ends here, and the time returns to the timeline at the beginning of the story.

The children pursued the man wearing official robes, asking him if the boy had passed the exam.

The man smiled and said, "Later on, this little boy wore a new cotton robe, so of course he wasn't afraid of the cold anymore. He not only passed the child's examination, but also passed the imperial examination for the scholar degree, passed the metropolitan examination, and went to Beijing to become an official."

Within this, there were his harvests time and time again, and also his farewells to his mother time and time again before setting off on a long journey.

"And later still, he had four little rascals just like you," the man said, looking at the four children.

The story had finished, and the family was going to eat dinner.

It was just that this time, the dinner table was a little different.

"Wait a moment, Mother eats first!"

"Eat mine first, this piece of mine is the best."

"My piece is delicious!"

Mother was bewildered: "What has gotten into these children today?"

The scene at this moment focused on the old cotton robe that the man in official robes had carefully put away.

In these scenes, the singing had already begun to echo.

In the background music, the singing was—"Traveler's Song"!

"【From the hands of a kind mother, threads for the clothes of her traveling son.

Before he leaves, she stitches them tight, fearing he will be slow to return.

Who can say that the heart of a blade of grass, can repay the sunshine of spring.】"

To the knowledgeable Zhong Lin, the content of such a story was simply too simple.

But for some reason, listening to the singing, listening to the poem, and looking at the excellent art style, she still felt a bit moved.

"Before he leaves, she stitches them tight, fearing he will be slow to return."

"This is written so well."

She finished watching "Chinese Singing Choir" in one go.

For such a work, of course, she would pass its review!

……….

……….

"'Chinese Singing Choir' has passed the review." After receiving the news, Luo Mo said to Xu Chujing with a smile.

"Is that so? The efficiency is truly as high as ever." She gave Luo Mo a playful look.

As the person sleeping beside Luo Mo, she even suspected that Luo Mo wasn't telling the truth and that he really had someone inside the Review Department!

"It's just a pity that it didn't make it in time to be broadcast before the first day of the Lunar New Year; it can only be broadcast during the New Year period," Luo Mo said.

Regarding this, he still felt a bit of regret.

"Alright, hurry up and go change your clothes," Xu Chujing urged.

The two of them were now setting off for the airport together, flying to Beijing to participate in the Spring Festival Gala rehearsals.

The director of this year's Spring Festival Gala was named Zhang Wei, and Luo Mo was not very familiar with him.

But this person seemed to really like Luo Mo's songs and sincerely invited him to sing a new song on the Spring Festival Gala stage.

These days, whoever directs the Spring Festival Gala feels immense pressure and must be prepared to be roasted by the entire internet.

Luo Mo's new songs could always hold down the stage; they were rare and powerful tools!

For this reason, Zhang Wei even stated that if there were any Requirements, he should just bring them up, and if the whole team could accommodate them, they would try their best to do so.

Seeing that he had said as much, Luo Mo only brought up one point.

"Director Zhang, for this year's Spring Festival Gala, can we still use 'Unforgettable Tonight' to close the show?"

Upon hearing this, Zhang Wei was inwardly surprised.

Although the previous performance of "Unforgettable Tonight" by Xu Chujing had left a deep impression on him and he felt it had a great festive atmosphere, the Blue Star Spring Festival Gala did not have the tradition from Earth of using "Unforgettable Tonight" as a fixed closing song.

In fact, even on Earth, when "Unforgettable Tonight" first appeared, it wasn't immediately designated as a song to be sung every year.

Therefore, Luo Mo's current idea was very simple.

Every future Spring Festival Gala director, if you have any Requirements for me, I can actually satisfy them all.

If you want a new Chinese Style song, I will sing a new Chinese Style song.

If you want something more positive, I will be more positive.

If you want that kind of celebratory nature, I can handle that too.

If you feel that just me singing a new song isn't enough, I can also write new songs for Tong Shu and the others!

—I am responsive to every request.

There is only one small Requirement, and that is to arrange for my Jing to sing "Unforgettable Tonight"!

As long as the frequency is high enough, over time, won't it just become a traditional Retention program!

Director Zhang Wei didn't understand what Luo Mo was thinking at first.

"Unforgettable Tonight" had indeed had a very good response when it first appeared on the Spring Festival Gala.

But with your level, wouldn't it be the same to write a new song for your girlfriend every year?

Why be so stingy this year, wanting her to sing an old song that has already been sung at the Spring Festival Gala? How lacking in novelty that is.

However, when he thought about it carefully, he began to understand a little.

"This young man, he couldn't really have such a grand scheme in mind, could he?"

"If it really becomes like this, then, then... that would be too terrifying!"

"If this goes on for a long time, it might even become a situation where it's not Xu Chujing who needs the Spring Festival Gala, but the Spring Festival Gala that needs Xu Chujing!"

On Earth, if many people didn't hear Li Guyi sing "Unforgettable Tonight" at the Spring Festival Gala, they would feel like something was missing, like the flavor of the Spring Festival Gala wasn't right!

For this reason, Zhang Wei's team held several meetings, and then even sat down with people from CCTV and the Review Department for a small meeting.

If it were anyone else's request, CCTV and the Review Department would likely think: "Is this necessary? There is no precedent for this, let's not take the risk."

But since the other party is Luo Mo........

What else can they do?

Just spoil him!

Of course, the attitude of CCTV and the Review Department was neither to explicitly refuse nor to directly agree, but rather: "Director Zhang, just make the decision yourself."

Zhang Wei: "........."

It was very clear that they spoiled Luo Mo, but were just so-so toward Director Zhang.

Zhang Wei agonized for a long time, but for the sake of the reputation and final presentation of the Spring Festival Gala's 【Singing Category Stage】, he gritted his teeth and agreed to Luo Mo directly.

Luo Mo also returned the favor, indicating that Tong Shu would also perform a new song at this year's Spring Festival Gala.

The Spring Festival Gala rehearsals went incredibly smoothly, and after watching the stage performances of Luo Mo and Tong Shu, Director Zhang Wei felt more and more how correct his decision had been.

He felt that whether the language and dance programs would be stable was still an unknown.

However, the singing programs were definitely going to be stable this year!

There were still a few days left until New Year's Eve.

And the new Monday arrived very quickly.

At exactly ten o'clock in the morning, the new songs by Chen Luo and Luo Mo were uploaded simultaneously on all major music platforms.

Chen Luo's new song is called "Fly".

And Luo Mo's new song is called——"Flower Sea"!

A large number of fans listened to the new songs the moment they were released.

People in the music industry also came to listen and learn immediately.

Luo Mo's singing voice echoed in their ears, and everyone was shocked the moment they heard the first line.

"This song sounds very different!"

"I've never heard this kind of Singing style before!"

"I haven't heard Luo Mo sing like this before!"

(PS: Hmm, as you can see, the Kindergarten Leader was named a 【Great God】 this year.)

(End of this chapter)