Inside a five-star hotel suite.
Tang Kun stood by the window overlooking the bustling city with a tall glass in his hand and one hand in his pocket.
“I just got the news that Shi Fei and Song Yiyuan went to Mr. Ling’s house overnight.” Du Hua poured himself a glass of red wine and told him what he had just inquired about: “They’re going to waste their efforts.”
Tang Kun shook the cup in his hand with a slightly disdainful expression and said, “He’s just a young kid that has few talents, yet he dares to call the shots with Tianxing; does he really think that the entertainment industry is so easy to deal with?”
Even if Shi Fei had a good relationship with Tang Xiangyang, who was an old artist, his hands may not reach as far since they were in different fields.
Recently, due to the incident with Shi Fei, the industry was questioning the strength of their Tianxing Media. Previously, Wu Ziqiang lost several shots to Shi Fei; every time Wu Ziqiang made a move, Shi Fei’s popularity skyrocketed, and he even ended up in jail.
This had become a laughing stock in the industry.
Tang Kun was also one of the shareholders of Tianxing Media, and he was honored to be one of the shareholders. As his manager for many years, he knew that Tang Kun had long been dissatisfied with Shi Fei and was just waiting for a chance to make a good deal of this kid.
It was just in time for the release of his album, so Tang Kun was planning to use this opportunity to teach him a lesson.
At this moment, a woman came out of Tang Kun’s room, wearing a black silk nightgown with a blue quick drying towel wrapped around her head. She was semi-exposed, with a curvaceous figure; this was the otakus goddess, Lu Rongrong.
Even her walk was full of charm; it wasn’t unreasonable for her to be called an otaku goddess by everyone.
Walking over and leaning directly into Tang Kun’s arms, Lu Rongrong’s white fingers teased Tang Kun’s chest, “That kind of person doesn’t need brother Tang’s help; I can take care of him.”
Tang Kun reached out and touched Lu Rongrong’s chest through the fabric and said, “Okay, I’ll give you a chance to show your skills. If you can beat him in the sales this time, I will try to help you get the endorsement of the ‘First Love’ perfume next month.”
Lu Rongrong’s eyes flashed with a trace of surprise. ‘First Love Perfume’ was a first-tier brand endorsement; she and another small flower in the company wanted this endorsement. They secretly tore and trampled on each other for some time because of it.
The conflict from the artists from the same company couldn’t be too exaggerated; otherwise, the higher-ups wouldn’t let it go. A few days ago, that person won an award, and she heard that the company was considering handing over that endorsement to her recently. Lu Rongrong was already worried about what to do.
Now with Tang Kun’s words, Lu Rongrong knew that her endorsement was secure; the premise was to smoothly crush Shi Fei.
Lu Rongrong still had some confidence. Their popularity was similar. Since her debut, she has been steadily attracting fans. In addition, with past sales data, unlike Shi Fei’s one-sided fan acquisition, her fans were relatively stable. After several years of baptism, most of them were die-hard fans.
She still had 80% confidence in facing Shi Fei.
Du Hua was worried: “Shi Fei and Shen Qingran seem to have a pretty good relationship; will he make a move in this case?”
If Shen Qingran did, things wouldn’t be so easy to fix.
Tang Kun wasn’t worried at all and said, “Brother Du, is it your first day in the entertainment industry? There are a lot of plastic bromances in the entertainment industry that seem to have a good relationship on the surface. Besides, even the best relationship is tied together by interests; no one will want to get into trouble for someone else. The more one reaches a height like Shen Qingran, the more they love their reputation.”
Lu Rongrong nodded, agreeing with Tang Kun’s words, then she said, “Brother Du, sometimes the people who look at a good relationship are the ones who stab in the back. In the entertainment industry. There are many sisters who oppose each other in the entertainment industry.”
Du Hua thought about it and felt that it was right; he also understood the reasoning; it was probably because he had invested too much effort and money before and after this album, which led to him being nervous; he couldn’t afford to make a mistake.
“Brother Tang, then I’ll go wait for you in the room.” Lu Rongrong deliberately rubbed her chest against Tang Kun’s chest; the hints were very obvious.
“Go.” Tang Kun said as he slapped Lu Rongrong’s ar-se.
Tang Kun exchanged a few more words with Du Hua and quickly went inside.
Du Hua sat in the living room waiting for the news to come back from there, and from time to time, he heard ambiguous cries coming out of the room, frowning slightly. “The soundproofing effect of this hotel is too bad.”
Fortunately, Tang Kun didn’t last long, and even the foreplay was only ten minutes away. It was true that some elderly people had weak kidneys.
He thought he would have good news when he came out, but the result was that Du Hua told him that there was still no reply.
“It hasn’t come out for so long; there won’t be an accident, right?” Tang Kun’s expression wasn’t good.
“No, wait a little longer.” Actually, it wasn’t that long; it was only ten minutes before and after someone entered the room.
The two of them sat in the living room drinking red wine and waited for almost an hour or so, when a message finally came on Du Hua’s cell phone.
Tang Kun turned sideways and saw the content of the message on it, saying, “Ask him what kind of expression they both had when they left.”
Du Hua quickly edited this sentence and sent it over.
They replied, “Both of them were expressionless; no joy or anger could be seen.”
Tang Kun felt that something wasn’t right; he took out his own cell phone and called Ling Huai, increased the volume, and put it on the table, holding a glass of wine in one hand and waiting for the other side to answer the phone.
Tang Kun couldn’t help but curse in his heart: this old fox, just pretend with me; Shi Fei and the other just left your home; how can you be asleep? He clearly didn’t want to answer his call.
On the other hand, he smiled and said politely, “Mr. Ling, sorry to bother you; I didn’t expect you to go to bed so early at less than ten o’clock.”
Ling Huai played Tai Chi: “I’m getting old; it’s not as before; I have to advocate going to bed early and waking up early to maintain my health. Do you have something to do? If there’s nothing important, I’ll go to bed first.”
After calling, how would Tang Kun give up if he didn’t get some words out of him: “It’s like this; I’ve gotten a new opportunity, and I have an endorsement stand to participate in an event tomorrow, I’m afraid I won’t have the time to go to Penguin Music tomorrow, so why don’t we sign the contract first tonight?”
Ling Huai took some time before responding, “I don’t think this matter needs to be rushed; it’s so late; why don’t we take a rest first? It’s just as well to talk about it tomorrow.”
Tang Kun wanted to say something else but heard Ling Huai yawning, then he finally continued: “No, I’m too sleepy; I really need to go to bed early at this age; that’s it; I’ll hang up first.”
The cell phone beeped and hung up. Tang Kun was so angry that he almost wanted to smash the cell phone.
Du Hua said, “This old fox must have agreed! I’m sure of that.”
Tang Kun said angrily, “Of course I know that. I am only curious as to how Shi Fei managed to get Ling Huai to refuse to get the benefits from my side and agree to his conditions. Is it possible that he doesn’t want any benefit?”
Other than this possibility, Tang Kun couldn’t think of any other better explanation.
Du Hua also shook his head and then said, “We’ll know in three days’ time, so let’s use Lu Rongrong to test their bottom line, and let’s wait until they’ve passed Lu Rongrong hurdle first. If Shi Fei can beat Lu Rongrong in sales, I’d say I admire him, but it’s impossible for him to beat you at the same time. Unless he has the influence of Shen Qingran or he can get ‘Bu Li’ to help him with lyrics and music.”
“If his numbers are good, then let the Yunyue Music website file a lawsuit against Yiyuan Studio for breach of contract. If his numbers are average, then hold off for a while, and then file a lawsuit when he officially starts selling, and corrupt his roadmap.”
Tang Kun’s two moves could be described as damaging, yet very smart.
Du Hua agreed and then immediately went to contact Yunyue Music Network.
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It’d been cloudy and rainy since morning, making everyone upset and hinting at an uneventful day.
At zero o’clock, Lu Rongrong’s new album, “Forever Living,” joined forces with Yunyue Music, Koolaide Music, and many other music platforms, and together they put out a channel for pre-sale.
Lu Rongrong also posted a promotional Weibo post in the early hours of the morning and also posted a photo of herself wearing pajamas and looking in the mirror in the bathroom.
With wet hair draped over her shoulders and a flirtatious pose, many people underneath followed with the message, ”Showing that I will support.”
The pre-sale was basically all about competing with other fans, and in fact, Lu Rongrong’s fans, ‘Banyan Tree’, did support with their actions.
On the first day of releasing her new album for pre-sale, her album pre-sale sales reached a good result of over 9 million.
On the second day, although there was a drop, she also got 6 million album pre-sale sales.
The third day was at more than four million, approaching the twenty million mark straight away.
This sales event was directly related to her endorsement of a top-tier brand. Lu Rongrong put a lot of effort into promoting it, not only taking selfies every day to encourage fans to buy more albums but also participating in several live streaming discussions. She even went on to be a guest on a popular blogger’s live stream.
In order to break through this hurdle, Lu Rongrong also posted multiple messages of gratitude on her social media and even later said that as long as the album sales exceeded 20 million, she would wear Cat Girl clothes to show everyone.
Finally, at eight o’clock in the evening on the third day, Lu Rongrong’s pre-sale album sales surpassed the 20 million mark.
She did what she said she would do and took a few se-xy photos of her wearing a catgirl outfit to Weibo for the benefit of her fans, with the caption: [Thank you for all the support from Banyan Tree. I will continue to work hard for you guys. We’ve always spoken from our strength].
In the photo, Lu Rongrong was wearing black tights, high heels, and a black Cat’s Ear hairband on her head. Her body was tilted backward, which made her look se-xy. In addition, her attractive movements made most of her fans’ noses bleed.
“Strength speaks for itself? Who doesn’t use strength to speak for themselves? Who is this blatant mockery of?” Song Yiyuan’s face turned green with anger when he saw the Weibo post.
Compared to the other party, Shi Fei was really Buddhist. Not to mention cooperating with marketing, this guy hadn’t even posted any promotional Weibo posts except for the pre-sale notice that day and hasn’t even taken a selfie.
Song Yiyuan became more and more angry when he saw that post. He simply called Shi Fei and said, “Ancestor, could you please go and post about it? I have never seen a star like you. Your album is being pre-sold online, and you haven’t even made a post on Weibo. Do you think your popularity has reached the point where you don’t need to advertise?”
“I forgot, “Shi Fei said casually; having been driven crazy by someone’s test papers recently, he had completely forgotten about it.