Chapter 23

Xie Yang took Hu Biao to take a look at the office building address in the contract.

"Six floors, fully furnished, in a prime location in the business district, and the lease is signed for ten years... Oh my God." Hu Biao stood in the middle of the reception hall, reluctantly moving his eyes away from the luxurious chandelier above his head and looking at Jie Yang, "Where did you get such a good place? Opposite is the building of Rongding Group, this location is amazing."

Xie Yang had never expected that Qiu Xing would give him such a good place so close to Rongding. He looked through the French window at the Rongding building opposite and replied, "From an old man with a hard mouth and a soft heart."

"ah?"

"I got it from an acquaintance." Xie Yang turned around and checked the time. "Hurry up and contact the decoration company. The company will be registered in another month. I will decorate this place and add some equipment. I will officially start recruiting people after the performance."

Hu Biao nodded heavily: "Okay! I promise to find a good decoration company to decorate our base camp comfortably!"

After Hu Biao left, Xie Yang also prepared to leave by car.

Before Wu Shui was about to start the car, Xie Yang suddenly remembered what Qiu Xing said yesterday, "You will only come to me when you are in trouble." He stopped Wu Shui and took out his mobile phone to send a WeChat message to Qiu Xing.

Xie Yang: I just saw the office building, it’s very nice, thank you. Is it convenient for me to visit you at Rongding? Have lunch together?

Qiu Xing replied immediately: It’s inconvenient.

"……"OK.

Xie Yang put away his phone and said to Wu Shui, "Let's go to the recording studio."

On the way to the recording studio, Jie Yang plugged in his headphones, played the accompaniment of the new song on a loop, and then opened Weibo.

Eating melon makes people happy.

After one night, the hot topics on the Internet changed again.

IUD fans' activity of digging up Mo Bin has ended with Mo Bin deleting the new announcement. They reposted the Weibo posts of other old team members, and finally noticed a detail that they should have noticed long ago - IUD was suspected to release a new song at the memorial performance! The evidence is the Weibo post posted by Tong Jian.

Afraid that they might have misunderstood, the fans suppressed their excitement and very cautiously went to Tong Jian's Weibo to ask if he was really going to release a new song. Tong Jian replied to a fan in seconds, saying that he was indeed going to release a new song, and that the accompaniment recording for the new song had already been completed, and that the recording would officially begin in the next two days. Afterwards, Tong Jian showed off a little bit, saying that the new song was "great and amazing."

When the fans got the confirmed news, they were all so happy that they became groundhogs, and the comment section was filled with screams of “Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!”

——After more than a year, IUD is finally going to release a new song!

Fans started to celebrate and assumed that the new song was written by Xu Chenhao. Fans who had unfollowed Xu Chenhao after he left IUD started following him again while shouting "slap in the face", and crazily cheered him on and thanked him for coming back under his new Weibo posts.

Perhaps noticing the fans' movements, Tong Jian quickly posted another Weibo.

Tong Jian: No, you are all wrong. The new song is Yang Yang’s work. Everyone, please stop hating Yangyang, he is great!

This Weibo post really stirred up a hornet's nest. All the wildly enthusiastic fans instantly quieted down like chickens with their necks pinched. Then Tong Jian's comment section was once again filled with “Ahhhhhh” comments, but this time they were filled with horror.

When Xie Yang opened his Weibo, his fans had just finished screaming in fear and were repeating “Tell me this isn’t true” under Tong Jian’s Weibo post like Xianglin Sao.

Tong Jian was really stupid. He actually picked another comment and replied seriously: It’s true, Yangyang is really good! He was the one who paid for the fifth anniversary performance. Without him, there would be no performance. Don’t hate him so much. What people say outside is all fake! He is really nice!

What? Was the performance paid for by Jie Yang? !

The IUD fan circle is shaken again.

Xie Yang was amused by the silly looks of his fans. He opened the WeChat group and typed: Tong Jian, stop posting on Weibo.

Hu Biao probably also noticed the developments on Weibo, as several messages suddenly popped up.

Hu Biao: Tong Jian, what are you doing! ! !

Hu Biao: You are the only one who keeps a mouth full of chatter, why do you tell everything out loud! Shut up! You have to uninstall Weibo for me. I will be in charge of your Weibo before the performance starts!

Tong Jian: What, what's wrong? I'm telling the truth. If I explain it to you, the fans won't hate Yang Yang anymore.

Hu Biao: You know shit! Are you thinking that IUD isn’t popular enough on Weibo and want to hype it up again? Believe it or not, soon someone will dig up whether Jie Yang has composed music before and what his composing skills are. Then a bunch of messy negative information about the performance will come out!

Hu Biao: Also, the performance was paid for by Jie Yang, so fans may dislike Jie Yang less for this reason. But before everyone sees Jie Yang's ability with their own eyes, there will definitely be people who criticize IUD for agreeing to keep Jie Yang and sing his songs because they are attracted by Jie Yang's money! Xie Yang stayed in IUD just to earn money to promote himself! The fifth anniversary performance is a show that he paid you to play supporting roles in! ! It's to trick fans! Slander you for selling IUD's and praising Jie Yang's stinky feet!

Hu Biao: You're always going to do something weird if I don't keep an eye on you! Uninstall Weibo for me!

Tong Jian was probably frightened by Hu Biao's words. After a moment of silence, he replied: I have already uninstalled it... Will it really turn out as Brother Biao said? I didn't expect that, sorry.

Xie Yang shook his head and typed: It’s okay, just concentrate on practicing the song. No matter what is spread outside, we will speak with our strength.

Neither Tong Jian nor Hu Biao responded. Xie Yang guessed that Hu Biao had probably called to scold Tong Jian.

Half an hour later, the car stopped downstairs of the recording studio.

The recording studio was rented by Xu Chenhao for a long period of time. When getting off the car, Xie Yang stopped and looked in one direction. Wu Shui also quickly discovered something was wrong, and he blocked Jie Yang and said in a low voice, "There is a paparazzi taking pictures secretly, in the van across the street."

Xie Yang retracted his gaze and continued forward, saying: "Don't worry about it, these are inevitable in the future."

Wu Shui nodded.

The two of them took the elevator up and everyone else had already arrived. Tong Jian was huddled in a corner dejectedly. Ke Lan was whispering something to him. Xu Chenhao was sitting in another corner with headphones on, eyes closed and resting.

After Xie Yang entered the room, Tong Jian immediately stood up and moved over, saying: "Yang Yang, I——"

"Stop." Xie Yang looked towards the recording studio, his eyes showing a hint of expectation and eagerness. "Start recording the song. There are too many things to do. You don't have time to chat with us."

Everyone quickly adjusted their status and entered work mode.

The old members of IUD are very familiar with each other's voices, but Jie Yang is a complete stranger. Before the official recording session, the recording engineer asked Jie Yang to sing a random song first so that everyone could get to know his voice.

Xie Yang thought about it, then sang a passage from a song he had composed in his previous life that showed off his skills and vocal range. After singing, he noticed that everyone was looking at him with strange expressions, so he tried to remain calm and said, "How about it? Don't smash the IUD sign."

The sound engineer came back to his senses and said in surprise, "No wonder you were labeled as such. You were born to be a singer."

Tong Jian clapped his hands and said excitedly, "Yang Yang, your voice is great!"

Ke Lan's attention was elsewhere, and she asked, "Did you write this song too?"

Xie Yang loosened his slightly tightened palm and nodded.

"The voice is clear and mellow, with distinct personal characteristics, a wide range, powerful high notes, stable low notes, plenty of breath, and the techniques are a little awkward, but you've mastered them all." Xu Chenhao commented, lowered his head and circled the lyrics in his hand a few times, then looked at Tong Jian, "I was going to let you sing the chorus of the new song, but now I've changed my mind, you can sing harmony for Jie Yang."

Tong Jian stared: "Ah?"

Ke Lan and Xu Chenhao both laughed. Tong Jian also smiled when he realized what was happening, and nodded in response: "No problem, I'll sing the harmony for Yang Yang!"

Jie Yang curled his lips: "No need. Let Tong Jian sing the chorus and I'll sing the harmony. "IUD" is your stage, I'll just serve as a foil."

Xu Chenhao disagreed and wanted to say something, but was interrupted by Xie Yang, who said, "I'm the boss, listen to me."

Everyone: “…”

After a day of working together, we made good progress and basically finalized a rough outline of the new song. We finished recording at around five o'clock, agreed to continue recording tomorrow, and then took the elevator downstairs together.

The elevator reached the parking lot and the doors slid open. The flash lights shot straight into the door, and Wu Shui reacted immediately, walking to the front to block the swarm of paparazzi that were rushing over.

"Tong Jian! You said that IUD's new song was composed by Jie Yang. Is that true?"

"Xu Chenhao, why don't you write new songs? Have you really run out of ideas? Why did you return to IUD? Are you planning to make a comeback?"

"An internal Wenyi employee said that Wenyi is still preparing the venue for IUD's fifth anniversary performance. Is your leaving Wenyi just a hype? Will you sign back after the performance?"

"Jie Yang! Your classmates said that you can't compose music at all. What do you think of your classmates' words?"

Several microphones passed Wu Shui's blockade and stretched out towards the people in the elevator. Everyone reacted. Xu Chenhao and Ke Lan tacitly protected Tong Jian and Jie Yang in the middle, asked their assistants to go outside, and without saying anything, they quickly walked out of the elevator and walked towards the parking space.

The paparazzi kept surrounding the area, asking questions non-stop. Some of them even secretly pushed Wu Shui and his assistant who were protecting the outer circle, trying to rush to Jie Yang and the others.

Xie Yang noticed that some of the paparazzi's questions were almost exactly the same as the direction of public opinion that Hu Biao had speculated on in his WeChat posts. It was as if they were reading out Hu Biao's previous WeChat posts. He realized that another rhythm storm was brewing.

"Jie Yang! What do you think about the rumors online that you are using the IUD memorial performance to promote yourself?"

"Jie Yang! There are rumors that the new song you composed was actually a piece that Wen Yi bought from Master Nagarjuna. Why did you steal someone else's work and claim it as your own?"

Xie Yang stopped.

Ke Lan and the others were also stunned, and then hurriedly held down Jie Yang, fearing that he would get angry and do something wrong. Xu Chenhao frowned and said, "Buying and stealing music are both nonsense."

Seeing them speak, the paparazzi became more and more excited, and kept asking questions on this point. The more they asked, the more infuriating they became. They even asked ridiculous questions like how much IUD's fifth anniversary performance was sold to Jie Yang.

Everyone had already walked to the car. Xie Yang retreated inconspicuously, first protecting the other team members to get into the car, then turned in front of his own car, facing the paparazzi, and said: "All your questions can be answered at the fifth anniversary performance. The ticket grab will start in three days. I wish you success in grabbing tickets. In addition, I advise certain people not to play tricks anymore. I hope you don't involve innocent people in the internal conflicts of IUD. It doesn't matter if your voice is damaged, you can still watch the performance. I will send you a VIP ticket. October 20th, Dazhou Stadium, you are welcome to come."

After saying that, he got into the car under Wu Shui's protection and slammed the door shut.

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