Chapter 280: Tracing the Code

Seeing how he believed in his good brother so firmly, Su Yun thought about it and still couldn't bear to say more to him - let him keep this beautiful fantasy for a while...

So, Su Yun turned her attention back to the flyer in her hand: Zhang Querong's concert held in the auditorium of Mandarin Hotel in Bangkok was performed by him alone, and in addition to his own songs, there were also many "borrowed" songs.

Nowadays, very few people can hold concerts alone, and even fewer can go abroad to hold independent concerts. Generally, several singers will work together to do medleys and earn extra money from such performances. This is also the best way for most artists in the Hong Kong and Taiwan entertainment circles to make quick money. The show pays according to their worth, and the minimum for doing a show is five or six figures. It does not take up as much time and energy as filming a movie, so it is a profitable side job that many artists particularly like.

Of course, if this kind of private work does not affect normal work, the higher-ups will generally turn a blind eye to it; however, after it often happens that veteran and big-name artists bring newcomers to take private work, which causes the program crew to have a blank slate, or they are obviously showing signs of fatigue and affecting the performance, the higher-ups have gradually made regulations against this kind of outsourced private work.

As one of the management, Su Yun also has some understanding of such things. However, considering that the TV station is really harsh on its artists, she will generally approve any private work application that is reviewed by her as long as it is not excessive. As a result, many people are looking forward to her filming fewer new dramas, and then managing the TV station and film company business more after returning from overseas...

Faced with this situation, Su Yun just laughed it off: Allowing artists to take private jobs is not a proper way to deal with the problem. If we really want to ensure that artists have sufficient energy, the key is to increase their salaries and increase their ways to make money.

After all, the paparazzi in Hong Kong are really rampant. If an artist doesn't have some money to buy clothes and take care of himself, the next day he may be photographed with a disheveled face and a full-body photo eating at a roadside stall, which will be circulated all over the city, and surrounded by all kinds of sarcastic remarks - how can this not make artists pay close attention to their image?

However, blindly cutting costs and squeezing out employees will only result in artists desperately taking private jobs to make money. Only by opening up sources and adjusting salaries according to market levels can we find the key to balancing employees' private jobs and normal work.

However, this road is still too long. When Su Yun submitted the document with the core content of "money is not saved but earned", except for the younger ones such as Zhao Liying, Zhao Liming and Zhao Lizhong, the rest of them looked as if they were kidding...

After the meeting, Fang Mona took her back to the office for some lectures. The gist of her words was to tell her not to work too hard: It’s not like they don’t know about these things, but they are capitalists, so why would they give away the money when they can make more?

Moreover, this is a rule passed down from the ancestors of the Zhao family, or even from the ancestors of many families. It is through this kind of oppression that the family inheritance today has been achieved. How can she change it alone?

These families and companies have persisted until now, and "rules" have played a big role in this.

"Anyway, I just don't think this is a good thing." Su Yun replied stubbornly, "Besides, it has always been like this, so does that mean it is right?"

"When beneficial mistakes are passed down for years as if they were traditions, then even the most amusing dross will be wrapped in the cloak of centuries-old traditions."

"But I don't want to see this. The reason why Zhao and TBB can hold on until now is not because they are better than others, but because others are worse than them." Su Yun sighed, "I also watched Jiayi and Liying challenge the 'old men' of TBB. We can hold on because our family background can withstand more than theirs, so we can outlast the opponents who tried to challenge the new order. However, if one day a powerful enemy who can withstand more than us appears, what will we do then?"

Thinking of the secret news that many forces are eyeing Liying, Fang Mona is also a little helpless and shocked by Su Yun's mentality of being prepared for danger in times of peace: "I know your idea is good, but first you have to show that you have the power to change the current situation."

Just like she did back then, she started from the bottom to accumulate the capital to speak, and then slowly infiltrated them, climbed to her ideal high position, and confronted those people.

"You've probably been too tired recently. You should take a few days off to adjust. Going out to have some fun and relax might help..." Fang Mona finished her lecture and looked at Su Yun's thoughtful expression. Finally, she softened her gaze and said, "Since you've been paying attention to these things recently, why don't you go to Thailand? Your friend Zhang Querong will have a concert in Bangkok at the end of the month, so you can go and see it on the way."

After hearing Fang Mona's guidance on the latest relevant news, Su Yun smiled and said, "Okay, I understand."

This is why Su Yun was able to "go abroad to relax" despite her busy schedule. However, she didn't expect that Chen Boyan, who has also been very busy recently, also found it difficult to squeeze out a few days of vacation to support his old friend.

However, being able to hold a solo concert in Bangkok, with two shows a day for three consecutive days, can be considered a result of both strength and luck: Zhang Querong had been working hard for several years, and he also had a lot of fans in Southeast Asia from the movies and TV series he had sold before. His album "The Wind Continues to Blow" released in May this year was a hit both locally and abroad. As a result of all these factors, his capable agent found the opportunity, contacted them, negotiated with them, and jointly created the opportunity to hold a concert in Bangkok.

It is said that for this concert, Zhang Querong, who majored in textile, made a set of shiny "singing shirt" by himself.

The so-called "geshan" is a common name in the circle. In fact, it refers to the performance clothes when going on stage. Because it is generally used for singing in concerts, this common name has spread to distinguish it from the performance clothes of drama.

As his good brother, Chen Baiyang, who had held a concert at the Hong Kong Coliseum before, also gave him a lot of advice on his performance clothes - the two of them have a similar love for shiny performance clothes.

In order to help Zhang Querong get his singing shirt for his performance in Bangkok, the two of them even sneaked into Ladies’ Market and brought back a bunch of rhinestones. They went home and unpacked the bags and selected the rhinestones, then stayed up all night putting them on the clothes by hand. As a result, they were always exhausted during those days and were fired by their respective directors and agents...

"The tailor didn't understand the effect we wanted, and time was tight, so we had to do it ourselves..." Facing Su Yun's foolish look, Chen Boyang explained with a look of grievance.

"Okay, I know you two are good brothers." Su Yun waved his hand: I hope that after you listen to him singing your song, you can still maintain this brotherhood.

We chatted and laughed all the way after getting off the plane and took a car to the Mandarin Hotel. After checking our tickets, we entered the venue early and sat in a slightly remote position in the front row to wait.

Zhang Querong's agent was really competent and did a great job in the early promotion. Before the concert even started, some particularly enthusiastic fans had already joined forces to hold up light sticks and cheer. Clusters of them were scattered around, and it looked very lively.

"He will definitely be very happy to see how enthusiastic his fans are!" Chen Boyang looked at the enthusiasm of these people and was very happy for his old friend: Zhang Querong has endured for so long and has finally achieved some success, and this is the time when he especially needs fans to express their love enthusiastically, which can greatly enhance the person's self-confidence.

When he held his first concert, he felt uneasy and nervous, but he was inspired and encouraged by the enthusiastic support of his fans. Only then did he gradually gain confidence and dare to continue holding concerts.

Su Yun glanced at him silently: the way fans in Hong Kong express their love now is still relatively subtle, and he really doesn't know what a terrible scene it would be when the "passion" goes too far.

Soon, the phenomenon that Su Yun was worried about occurred: Zhang Querong had just come out and greeted the audience, but was tossed around by overly enthusiastic Thai fans and turned into a tumbler struggling to stay on the stage...

What's worse, some even took advantage of the darkness to rush onto the stage and forcefully kiss and hug him, or stretched out their perverted hands to try to strip him of his clothes and pants. The whole scene was like Tang Monk falling into the Pansi Cave, with demons dancing in disorder...

Seeing Chen Boyang next to him trying to rush onto the stage to help several times, but finally trying to hold himself back for fear of affecting the show, Su Yun had no choice but to reach out and hold him back: "Calm down, he can handle it."

When Chen Baiyang finally calmed down, it was almost time for Zhang Querong to sing "I Just Like You".

So he looked at the stage with an encouraging and supportive look.

“The sorrow cannot be waved away and it cannot be dispersed…” However, perhaps because he was overly nervous due to the psychological trauma he had brought out after being touched, or because he had too many songs to sing and forgot the lyrics for a moment, Zhang Querong sang the wrong lyrics the first sentence he opened his mouth.

Su Yun looked at Chen Boyang with a smile, who had said with certainty that "he will not make a single mistake in singing the song" - good guy, even in such a dim environment, she could still see his face gradually turning green.

However, the beatings always come one after another. Chen Boyang, who had originally insisted that his friend had just sung a wrong line, listened to the entire song and then took out the small notebook he had been writing in for the entire afternoon and tore off a page.

Su Yun also covered her face: He only got three and a half sentences of the lyrics of a song right. No wonder Chen Po-yang didn't write a song for him no matter how much Zhang Que-rong "accused" him later...

After tearing the paper, Chen Boyang seemed to have calmed down a little. He didn't wait for the concert to end. He stood up and walked out while Zhang Querong was not paying attention.

Seeing that something was wrong with him, Su Yun quickly stood up and chased after him, but he just kept shouting and walking faster and faster, and he slipped into the elevator in two steps with the crowd.

"Danny!" Su Yun called him quickly and put her hand on his shoulder, trying to stop him from leaving.

"Ah? Where is Danny? Here - Danny! Let's take a picture!" Unexpectedly, there was an echo after the shout. Su Yun looked back in surprise, and saw a girl holding up a camera and pointing it over here. She took a picture of Chen Boyang, who looked towards the camera and smiled subconsciously when he heard the sound.

"She's my fan, not a paparazzi." When the elevator door closed, Chen Boyang whispered to Su Yun, "I saw she was wearing a purple T-shirt with my English name printed on it."

Chen Baiyang particularly likes the color purple, so it is well known in Hong Kong that most of his fans wear purple T-shirts to support him, but I didn't expect to see this in a foreign country at this time.

Su Yun nodded and didn't care.

However, in a fan forum called "Tracing the Codes" where people were arguing about Su Yun's true CP, this old photo was posted by a passing fan of Chen Boyang, which caused a daily CP-picking storm in the forum.

After all, the four characters "追絲码迹" are derived from the idiom "蛛絲马迹", which means that in front of these fans who are as good at microscopy as Sherlock Holmes, there is nothing related to Marie Sue that they can't recognize...

"I recognize the hand on Danny's shoulder! It's Marie Sue's! She has shown off that ring on her scarf before. It was a handmade birthday present from Tang when she was 18 years old. I will always remember that ugly face that could make anyone cry at a glance hhhh"

"Did they secretly go to Bangkok to relax in 1983? Were they together? The girl from the Zi family said she was impressed!"

"At this time and place, it's Lesley's 83 Bangkok concert. Is Mary Sue going there to support Lesley? Ah, I want to take this to Rongmen Inn to have the master appraise it..."

"Can you please stop talking nonsense here? Marie Sue can wear this ugly ring from Tom, doesn't this prove that they are truly in love?!"