The interview that exhausted Yang Ruoqian finally ended in a whimper.
The mess has been made, the gifts have been given, and all that needs to be done has been done. What the final outcome will be can only be determined by fate.
Although it turns out to be a matter of fate, the ending is usually not as good as Yang Ruoqian imagined...
Mr. Yang drove back to the company, turned on his computer, played two games, and then opened "The Voice of China" to relax.
The last time he saw Wei Ling and Zeng Yi appear, they were ruthlessly interrupted by the interview team. This time, the latest episode happened to have just come out, so Yang Ruoqian could watch both episodes together and have a blast.
The screen lit up, and Wei Ling and Zeng Yi were seen singing passionately.
An extremely familiar melody poured into Yang Ruoqian's ears through the headphones.
The singing skills of both of them are as good as ever.
"Cut a piece of time and let it flow slowly..."
"It flows into the moonlight and ripples slightly..."
After just listening to the first two sentences, this familiar melody with a touch of earthy and popular flavor ignited the memories buried in Yang Ruoqian's mind.
Wait, why does this music sound so familiar?! I must have heard it somewhere before! Yang Ruoqian is not the audience for the duo's singing style. He prefers to listen to pure pop music, so he definitely doesn't have their songs saved in his phone playlist.
So where did you hear it?
Soon, Yang Ruoqian figured out the answer from his mind - when he took a taxi home before, the square dancers across from his house used this song as their dance music! And it seemed to be very popular, with a very wide audience.
"What the hell?!" Yang Ruoqian, who had just sent away a bunch of plague gods, suddenly felt that he was about to welcome back two evil Buddhas. "What a cruel strategy. They actually chose to bypass us and enter the sinking market?!"
In many cases, based on the channels through which he obtains information, Yang Ruoqian's judgment on a matter is limited to his own circle.
It’s just a matter of whether the circle is big or small.
Just like the audience of superhero movies basically does not include the older generation, Yang Ruoqian will subconsciously ignore this group of people when making judgments.
The same is true for judging music.
Because the older generation rarely eats out, and even if they do, they won’t go to the Shengraizi restaurant under the Kuiguang Group…
As a result, Wei Ling and Zeng Yi's songs were not spread through the correct channels, and as a result, they have been lukewarm.
At the same time, it also led to Yang Ruoqian's misjudgment, thinking that the two people's songs did not have a wide audience.
So I signed them into the company with confidence and let them go out and do it on their own with confidence.
But when the two really appeared on programs like "The Voice of China", the dissemination channels were opened up, and word of mouth spread, and the audience hidden under the surface immediately surfaced! Obviously, the two's songs have a strong impact on many people, especially the older generation who are not very fond of current pop music.
"What a vicious mind!" After figuring out the logic behind this, Yang Ruoqian pressed his chest, his eyes widening in dissatisfaction, "He actually sneaked around me and attacked me by surprise!"
After thinking about it, Mr. Yang shook his head again.
"That's not right. They didn't attack me. I was just too busy and didn't pay attention to the show in time."
Yang Ruoqian is not an avid fan of this type of variety show. He will not follow the updates as soon as they are shown. Sometimes he will even stock up on two or three episodes and watch them all at once.
So... everyone else had already listened to Wei Ling and Zeng Yi's new songs and downloaded them to their phones, but Yang Ruoqian still knew nothing.
Even after he heard the song on the street and it became widely circulated, he did not realize that the singer was an artist under his own company.
"Raising a drama is harmful to people!"
"In the future, if there is a drama starring one of my own artists, I must follow it closely! I must not support it!"
Yang Ruoqian once again summed up a successful experience and recorded it in his memo.
While recording, Yang Ruoqian did not forget to watch the drama.
Anyway, things have already happened and it’s too late to remedy the situation now. I might as well try to have fun while suffering and deceive myself.
But as he watched, Yang Ruoqian's expression, which was originally in a state of amusedness, gradually turned serious.
At the current stage, the elimination mechanism of "The Voice of China" is completely different from the previous direction of seat rotation.
Now is the scoring elimination stage.
As the name suggests, after a performance, the scores of all contestants are judged, those with high scores stay, and those with low scores are eliminated.
But the problem is that the components of this score are very unreasonable and opaque.
Because it includes the "popularity votes" cast by the audience outside the venue, and the weight of this popularity vote is quite large! The combined score of "popularity points" plus "professional points" is the final score that determines whether the singer stays or leaves.
In other words, if a "singer"'s popularity score is very high, even if his singing skills are not that good, he may be able to eliminate other contestants with better singing skills.
Anyone who has seen this kind of competition system knows that there must be something fishy going on!
How are popularity votes calculated? Is there a phenomenon that one person casts multiple votes? How to ensure that contestants do not influence the delivery of these popularity votes through various off-site means? Even if the delivery of popularity votes is completely fair and just, it is too easy for the program team to influence the audience - variety shows are not live broadcasts, but images released after editing.
If the organizer wants to make someone popular, they will play more clips of that person, allowing him to continue to appear in the public eye, deepening the audience's impression of him over and over again.
If the organizer wants to make someone less popular, they will simply cut out all the clips of that person so that the audience will not even remember that person exists on the variety show.
There are dozens of contestants in a show, each episode is so short, and the update frequency is so low. How can the audience remember every contestant?
As long as you can control the frequency of each person's appearance, you can indirectly control the flow of popularity votes.
Does the program team have any explanation for this?
There is no explanation and no answer at all.
Anyway, their popularity votes are higher than yours, so what? Yang Ruoqian looked at Wei Ling and Zeng Yi, who were ranked third from the bottom in popularity, and frowned slightly.
For a program that allows recommended contestants to advance in the first stage by paying money, Yang Ruoqian has great confidence in their bottom line.
Spending money to advance is clearly not a fair means of competition, but Yang Ruoqian was able to use the public account to pay and was not even warned by the system. This is enough to explain something.
This means that even the system has determined that it is almost impossible to win the championship through sheer strength by participating in this variety show without spending some money to build connections.
However, after Yang Ruoqian spent money to get the two people into the competition, he did not use his financial resources in the following stage.
"What's the point of putting them in the third from the bottom?" Yang Ruoqian frowned, "To remind me that I, the sponsor, don't have enough money and it's time to renew the contract?"
If he was not involved, even if Yang Ruoqian knew that there were many shady dealings in this show, he would at most just laugh and treat it as a performance.
But the problem is... the singer performing on the stage now is from Kuiguang Group.
There is no way to watch the show for fun.
Yang Ruoqian frowned, his eyes fixed on the center of the screen.
After the song was finished and the judges gave out professional scores, after combining the two, Wei Ling and Zeng Yi's scores narrowly surpassed others and they barely advanced to the next round.
At this moment, it was obvious that the tension on both of their faces eased.
But that’s all.
They did not show much joy about their successful advancement.
I can successfully advance this time, but what about next time?
The two had been in society for so long, how could they not see that the whole show was full of undercurrents? When they were singing at the Shengraizi Restaurant, when had Yang Ruoqian ever seen such expressions on their faces...
With a strange feeling, Yang Ruoqian finished watching this episode that had been sealed for a long time and clicked on the next episode.
The reason why it is strange is that from a utilitarian point of view, Yang Ruoqian must hope that the two of them will not become famous or out of the circle, and it would be best if they are eliminated early in the competition.
But now it seems that they are indeed going to be eliminated, but they are eliminated by a lot of shady dealings.
Mr. Yang felt a little unhappy.
After clicking the member's button to skip the ads and scrolling through a bunch of sponsor ads, Yang Ruoqian quickly came to the main episode of the latest episode of "The Voice of China".
In the camera, Wei Ling and Zeng Yi were singing to the best of their ability as usual.
But after the end, due to the reasons of "popularity votes" and "media voting", even though the professional scores given by the on-site instructors were high enough, the two inevitably got a very disappointing score.
In the final judging stage, the two who had held on for two rounds finally couldn't hold on this time. After all the contestants' scores came out, they were unsurprisingly ranked last.
So, he was eliminated.
"How could this be eliminated?" Yang Ruoqian was a little angry when he saw this. "Anyone with ears can tell that this is obviously much better than some people's singing, right?"
Even if the style of the song might not be mainstream, their singing skills and musical level are there, so they can't just lie with their eyes open, right? At this moment, the instructor in charge of the two of them stood up from his chair and applauded in front of everyone.
He faced the camera and said in a loud voice: "You two! I really enjoyed working with you!"
"You are leaving this stage today, not because you sang badly, not because your level is not good enough."
"Due to some off-field factors, you had to leave the competition early... As a mentor, I have to take primary responsibility. I failed to protect you. I'm sorry."
"Come on! I believe that with your abilities, you can still shine even without this stage!"
"I hope to see you two again at the top!"
Crash...
As he finished speaking, thunderous applause broke out at the scene, which lasted for a long time.
It was as if the person standing on the stage was not a loser who had been eliminated.
“…”
Did even the mentors hired by the program team express dissatisfaction with this blatant "black box operation"? Yang Ruoqian looked at this scene with a gloomy face, and suddenly a message came from his mobile phone, which was sent by Wei Ling.
"Boss, the latest episode is out. Have you seen it? I'm sorry. I was pretending to be dead for a while and didn't dare to tell you about being eliminated."
"Alas, I failed to live up to your expectations and made all your money go down the drain..."
Yang Ruoqian directly withdrew from the variety show "The Voice of China" and permanently removed it from his favorites list.
After clearing the garbage from his laptop, he picked up his phone and sent a message to Wei Ling: "I watched the show. It's not your fault. Don't blame yourself."
"Boss, please stop making excuses for us..."
Yang Ruoqian sent another message back: "Don't worry, the group will remember any injustices you have suffered. Just continue to do what you want to do, and don't be discouraged by small setbacks."
“Whether you win or lose, the group will always support you.”
After sending this line of consolation without any grammatical errors, Yang Ruoqian directly called the group's public relations department using the landline at hand.
The head of the public relations department quickly answered the phone and said respectfully, "Mr. Yang? Do you have any instructions?"
Yang Ruoqian said calmly, "Have you been paying attention to the latest episode of Sing My Motherland?"
As the group has grown to its current stage, it must have established a public relations department. However, due to Yang Ruoqian's own reasons, the public relations department's presence in the group has not been very high.
It's a department that gets paid but does nothing.
Yang Ruoqian didn't want to do positive PR, nor did he want to deal with crisis PR. Wouldn't the end result be that he had little presence? Tang Jian, the head of the PR department, immediately replied, "I noticed that a singer under the group was eliminated in the latest episode of the show. Do you have any instructions?"
"The public relations for this matter should mainly be directed to the program team. Don't hype the singer's popularity. If you need funds, report directly to the finance department." Yang Ruoqian issued his orders.
In fact, for an entertainment company, especially one that focuses on agency business, public relations is the most expensive and costly project.
But Mr. Yang doesn’t spend much money on public relations because the impact that public relations can bring is also huge.
It can not only increase your own influence, but also suppress your opponents.
However, Yang Ruoqian did not want to make money, and did not want to harm others and benefit himself, so the Public Relations Department just picked it up and drew empty salaries, and did not play its real role.
But now, things are different.
Yang Ruoqian can spend money without scruples to discredit the program group, burning money while helping his own artists vent their anger, killing two birds with one stone, why not do it? It's just a good opportunity to test the business level of the group's public relations department.
If the business level is too high, you have to recruit more people who are willing to take advantage of the situation to lower the level.
Tang Jian seemed a little excited when he heard such a clear and concise task: "Yes! Mr. Yang, we guarantee to complete the task excellently! Do you have any specific requirements for the public relations task? At what level will you stop?"
His emotion was not fake.
It's certainly nice to get paid without doing anything, but getting too much salary and still not doing anything is a bit too scary.
Tang Jian, who was under tremendous economic pressure all day long, took on this arduous task without hesitation.
Yang Ruoqian secretly glanced at his system panel, checked his account balance, and then said generously: "As long as their program has not been suspended, it will continue and never stop."
"Don't worry about how much it costs, I just want things to get done, okay?"
A PR team that has never done anything big is directly given an almost impossible goal, and the funding will not stop until the task is completed... This bleeding groove is really creative.
Just like the legal department that found it almost impossible to find evidence and was unable to determine the standard of loss, this was the pinnacle of Yang Ruoqian's creativity.
With these two bleeding grooves, combined with the continued losses of Spark Records, the positive impact of "The Black Robe Inspection Team" on the company will definitely be eliminated!
So what if other industries emerge?
So what if the three old loss gods of e-sports, peripherals and live streaming have fallen?
Now that the Kuiguang Group has reunited with three new gods in legal affairs, public relations and records, they will surely lead the company back to the dark future.
Tang Jian, who was carrying the hopes of the group, vowed on the other end of the phone: "Boss Yang, I will definitely live up to your expectations!"
"Okay, go ahead and get busy." Yang Ruoqian was very satisfied with his employee's attitude and hung up the phone.
At the same time, he sent his instructions to the finance department.
As long as the Legal Department and the Public Relations Department want money, no matter what the amount is, just give them the green light and don’t ask any extra questions!
After arranging all matters, Yang Ruoqian was planning to find a terrible movie to cultivate his sentiments when his cell phone suddenly rang.
The caller ID showed Yan Jinyu.
"Who is this?" Yang Ruoqian was confused for a moment.
Since I left a note myself, I shouldn’t be a stranger…
After reminiscing for several seconds, Mr. Yang, who is often forgetful, finally remembered that when he went abroad to watch the YTG competition, he spent a lot of money to recruit a simultaneous interpreter.
Then, using the excuse that the group might have overseas business, he directly poached this girl from her original company at a high price and left her there to collect dust.
Why did this girl call me suddenly?
How could Yang Ruoqian not know whether the group has overseas business or not?
The company’s overseas projects are close to zero, and the only connections they can make are empty ones.
It's just an excuse to spend money.
Yang Ruoqian picked up the phone with some surprise and asked, "Hello, Xiao Yan, what's going on?"
Yan Jinyu's pleasant voice came from the receiver: "Boss Yang, congratulations! The movie's overseas box office performance is good. Now some foreign entertainment companies have sent us invitations for cooperation. I will give you my solution. Do you have any questions?"
I originally thought that as a newcomer, I would have to start as an assistant no matter how high my starting point was when I was hired into the company.
As a result, he became the top leader!
And the business we got was so important.
Yan Jinyu was moved and worked as hard as she could, but she also felt a little bit scared and uncertain.
After drawing up a plan with her colleagues, she hurried over to inform Yang Ruoqian.
Yang Ruoqian was stunned: "Overseas box office?"
What the hell? The movie "The Boys" can actually have an overseas box office? !
The distribution task was Chengyu's responsibility. When Yang Ruoqian heard the news for the first time, he was completely unprepared and his mind went blank.
Then he immediately realized the seriousness of the matter.
What the hell?! Isn't this another surprise prepared for me?! Yan Jinyu was a little surprised: "Yes, the overseas box office, don't you know, Mr. Yang?"
Yang Ruoqian, who always cared about his reputation, immediately acted nonchalant and said, "Of course I know, but you can make your own decisions on such small matters in the future, and you don't need to ask for my opinion. Since I put you in this position, it means I trust you. Okay, I have something urgent to do here, so I'll hang up first."
After hanging up the phone, Yang Ruoqian didn't waste even a second. He directly opened the address book, found Cheng Fei's contact information, and edited a message for her.
"Boss Cheng, can you give me a lowdown on how much our movie's overseas box office is? I want to be mentally prepared."
The new pillar industries of the three companies over there had just been established and they immediately faced their first major challenge.
Which is stronger, the speed at which the movie box office makes money or the speed at which the three pillars lose money? Soon, Cheng Fei sent a message: "Mr. Yang, do you know? I was just about to give you a surprise."
(Thanks for your monthly tickets. I'm a bit busy during the holidays, so I can only update every day. I'll update more when I have some free time in the next two days!) (End of this chapter)
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