Chapter 33

Before the power went out at night, Xie Yang turned on his computer and logged into Yangxing Bank's official email account. He picked an email from Long Shuyou, opened it, chose to reply, and sent it with his WeChat account.

In less than a minute, Long Shuyou's friend request came.

Jie Yang passed.

Nagarjuna replied immediately: Are you going to make an album?

Xie Yang replied: Thank you for your kindness, but I still want to make my own album.

It was quiet over there for a while.

Nagarjuna: I thought you changed your mind by replying to my email.

Xie Yang: I am replying to your email because I want to discuss another cooperation with you.

Long Shuyou’s reply suddenly became short: What?

Xie Yang: I can let you participate in the production of my album. In fact, I already have new songs ready for my new album.

Long Shuyou made a voice call directly.

Took the bait.

Xie Yang answered the call.

"How do you want to cooperate?"

Xie Yang replied: "I have been invited to participate in the next episode of "Who is the King of Singers" as a guest singer. I hope you can also participate in the next episode as a guest commentator."

Nagarjuna answered simply: “No problem.”

"I have one more request."

"you say."

"Mr. Long, are you interested in joining my company? You don't need to hold any formal position, just be a music consultant."

Long Shuyou understood immediately: "If I become a music consultant, I can participate in the production of your album?"

"Of course you can." Xie Yang began to make plans. "Not only can you participate, but you can also get all the new songs I prepared for the album in advance as a consultant, including the twelve finished songs that have been decided to be used, and the ten semi-finished songs that have not been used."

"I'll join." Long Shuyou agreed quickly, "My lawyer will contact Yang Xing tomorrow. Xie Yang, don't let me down."

Xie Yang swallowed the rest of his nonsense and said, "I hope you won't let me down either."

After agreeing on the cooperation and hanging up the voice call, Long Shuyou suddenly sent another message and asked: Who are you singing with?

Interpretation: Ji Zehui.

Nagarjuna: ...

Xie Yang: What?

Nagarjuna: It's a complete waste of your voice to work with that pig that can only howl like a ghost.

Xie Yang was genuinely stunned, and imagined Long Shuyou using that standard white moonlight male supporting role's cool and ethereal face to say that Ji Zehui was a pig, and he chuckled.

The next day, Xie Yang went downstairs again wearing clothes that were very cost-effective.

Qiu Xing was so angry that he couldn't even eat breakfast. He asked, "Why are you still wearing this?"

"No other clothes."

“Don’t know how to buy it?”

"There are no shopping malls around Jinghe Garden, where can I buy it?"

"..." Qiu Xing felt guilty and said in a better tone, "You can ask Wu Shui to buy it for you."

"Why bother him so late at night?" Jie Yang picked up a small bun and put it on his plate. "Besides, why buy clothes? Money should be spent wisely. Just enough clothes to wear."

Qiu Xing was amused by Jie Yang: "Where was your generosity when you made the performance clothes?"

"That's the blade." Xie Yang boasted without any pressure, "In fact, I think I'd still look handsome even if I was just wearing a sack."

Qiu Xing looked at Jie Yang and found that he could not refute what Jie Yang said, so he ignored him with a gloomy face.

When going out, Jie Yang discovered that Wu Shui was not driving his usual business sedan today, but an SUV with a very special design.

"Why did you change the car?"

"The car I was driving was sent in for maintenance, so I borrowed a new one from Mr. Qiu."

Xie Yang raised his eyebrows, took out his cell phone after getting in the car, and sent a red envelope worth two yuan for the car rental fee to Qiu Xing.

Qiu Xing received it immediately and sent a photo back.

Xie Yang clicked on the photo.

In the center of the photo, with black suit pants as the background, there is a slender and powerful hand with a loose fist, with the thumb, index finger, ring finger and little finger all curled up. Only the middle finger stands upright, and the nail cap is a little dark in color, indicating that the owner of the hand is not in good health.

Xie Yang: “…”

He coughed to suppress his smile and clicked save on the photo.

After thanking Qiu Xing for his new car, Xie Yang checked Weibo again.

After one night, the topic #解杨怼球迷# has successfully made it to the top of the hot search list, with some internet trolls leading the trend, saying that it is really unfair for fans to defend Jie Yang but still be criticized by him, implying that Jie Yang has a terrible personality.

Hu Biao should have hired a public relations officer to control the situation. Half of the topic should have been about clarifying that Jie Yang was targeting black fans, so as to prevent public opinion from becoming one-sided.

Most of the passers-by were very rational. After reading all the comments forwarded by Jie Yang, they quickly understood what was going on. Some people even helped the fans to explain to the internet trolls who were stirring up trouble, saying that the three comments by Re San were obviously slanderous and it was normal for Jie Yang to get angry and respond.

After discussions from all sides, this topic actually made the musician's "objective comments" article popular. More and more people participated in the discussion on Jie Yang and Ji Zehui's singing skills, which invisibly increased everyone's attention to the next episode of "Who is the King of Singers".

However, although the overall public opinion has been controlled, there is still some impact.

After Jie Yang arrived at the company, Hu Biao immediately came up to him and said, "After the trending searches about you arguing with fans came out, the growth rate of pre-orders for IUD immediately slowed down. And just in time, the digital sales of Broken Cocoon saw a surge last night, directly surpassing us. This time, Ji Zehui stepped on you to earn a reputation as a good senior!"

Xie Yang comforted him: "It's okay, we will get back on track someday. Has the production crew arrived?"

"Just arrived. I'm waiting for you in the conference room. Go quickly, or else the production team will label you late again.

Xie Yang responded and was about to go over, but he stopped as soon as he took a step forward, leaned close to Hu Biao and whispered a few words.

Hu Biao gasped in shock.

Xie Yang patted Hu Biao on the shoulder and said, "Be steady. This matter is still a secret for the time being."

Hu Biao quickly suppressed his excitement, glanced in the direction of the conference room, and said happily in a low voice: "Good job! Long Shuyou, the venomous tongue who doesn't give face to anyone, is on the show. Ji Zehui can only wait for the fall!"

The shooting started at nine o'clock sharp.

Xie Yang acted as if the camera didn't exist throughout the whole process. He greeted the interviewer in a generous and natural manner, then took the interviewer around Yangxing, answered a few questions from the interviewer, then went downstairs to the parking lot and got into the car prepared by the program crew.

Wu Shui drove behind the program crew.

The interviewer specifically asked the photographer to take a shot of Wu Shui.

After chatting for a while in the car and shooting enough footage, the interviewer asked the photographer to turn off the camera and smiled as he told Xie Yang to relax a little.

Xie Yang smiled and pretended not to notice the hidden camera installed in the car. He was still polite but taciturn. When the interviewer spoke to him, he responded politely. When the interviewer didn't speak to him, he lowered his head and flipped through the recording schedule.

An hour later, everyone arrived at the practice location provided by the program team for the guests.

Not surprisingly, Ji Zehui had already arrived and seemed to have been waiting for Li Yang for a while.

Xie Yang quickly took a look at Ji Zehui, who was about 30 years old, tall and handsome, and smiled apologetically. He walked over and said, "I'm sorry, I didn't expect Mr. Ji to arrive so early, and the staff didn't tell me. I will definitely come half an hour earlier tomorrow to avoid keeping you waiting."

His one sentence directly pointed out that it was Ji Zehui who arrived too early, not that he was late, which invisibly blocked the possibility of Ji Zehui's subsequent hype that "the newcomer was acting like a big shot and was late, making the seniors wait for a long time."

Ji Zehui's smile remained unchanged, but his eyes deepened. He said, "Don't be so polite. I'm just used to arriving a little earlier to prepare when I have work to do."

Xie Yang sighed: "It was really hard for the staff who followed you to shoot the film. They also had to get up early with you. Everyone is really dedicated."

Ji Zehui: “…”

He smirked: "Xiao Jie, you are really interesting."

Xie Yang said sincerely: "Thank you for the compliment, senior."

Ji Zehui: “…”

The two of them each had their own ulterior motives and kept testing each other with words, but on the surface they pretended to be friendly and harmonious.

After a round of hypocritical greetings, we finally got down to the business of selecting songs.

Ji Zehui took out a sheet of music and said, "I discussed with several teachers and decided to adapt and cover Master Liu Hongguang's "Raging Waves". Have you heard of this song, Xiaojie?"

Xie Yang shook his head honestly.

Ji Zehui smiled comfortably and said, "You young people should not refuse to listen to old songs just because you think they are outdated. Many old songs are classic and excellent. Listening to them more often and pondering them more often will help improve your taste."

"You're right." Xie Yang looked educated. "Then, Teacher Ji, have you ever heard of the song "Raging Sea"?"

Ji Zehui paused and said, "I seem to have heard it before, but I can't remember which master's work it was. Do you think that the song "Raging Sea" is more suitable for adaptation than this song "Raging Waves"? "

Jie Yang shook his head, "Of course not. In fact, the author of "Raging Sea" is far from being a master. It is the work of a senior high school student. This song "Raging Sea" was published on the Internet, and the number of online views of this song has exceeded one billion. Teacher Ji, it is rare for a senior like you to take the initiative to help the younger generation. Just now when I heard you mention "Raging Waves", I suddenly remembered this song with a very similar name, "Raging Sea". I thought you might also pay attention to that student. I heard that she is also your fan."

Ji Zehui's expression froze for a moment. Just last year, he let his mouth off in a show and implied that those online singers were just vulgar people who could only write sleazy songs and sing cover songs. That time he lost a lot of fans, including several very famous online singers. Xie Yang definitely has no good intentions in bringing this up now.

He warned quietly: "It is not a good thing for young people to be too impatient."

Xie Yang was still polite and courteous: "You are right in teaching me a lesson. I was the one who said too much."

“……”I feel so suffocated.

Ji Zehui found an excuse to escape, and asked Xie Yang to familiarize himself with "Raging Waves" first. Without the annoying presence, Xie Yang immediately put aside his aggressiveness, sat down in a corner, put on his headphones, searched for the song "Raging Waves", and listened carefully to the music score.

The song begins with a high-pitched prelude, and then a powerful baritone suddenly cuts in, instantly bringing out the mood of roaring rivers and seas and surging waves. Afterwards, the waves grew stronger and stronger, and the baritone voice grew higher and higher, like a huge ship that split the waves and bravely moved forward, firmly controlling the wind and waves. Finally the waves subsided, the ship successfully docked, and the sun rose.

All in all, this is a "real man" type song. The song is magnificent and majestic, and the singer's performance can be summed up in one word, that is - powerful!

Half an hour later, Ji Zehui came back with the smile of a good senior and asked Jie Yang, who was still sitting in the corner listening to the music: "Xiao Jie, what do you think of this song "Raging Waves"?"

"Very good." Jie Yang took off his headphones and stood up. After thinking for a moment, he emphasized again, "Very good, very suitable for your voice." It is also very suitable for rollovers.

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