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by UntamedSIn the middle of the night, all the major media reporters and bloggers were forced to get up, and their fingers were moving rapidly on the keyboard.
The great god Buli personally handled the lyrics and compositions; the quality of the tune must be guaranteed. In addition, Shen Qingran posted a Weibo promotion in the evening, and it should be noted that Bu Li Teacher used to only help Shen Qingran write songs.
There was too much news that could be written.
‘The great god Buli personally wrote songs for Shi Fei; will Shi Fei become the second singer to get a Grammy Award?’
‘Shen Qingran is suspected of being a matchmaker for Shi Fei and the Great god Bu Li.’
The headlines were all boldly made up; this time it was all about who’s headline was more gripping and who was able to grab attention.
The real spark that ignited this night was a Weibo post at one o’clock in the morning.
A famous entertainment blogger ‘Entertainment Eight’ uploaded a long post reprimanding Shi Fei: [Some people spend hundreds of millions of yuan to buy fake album sales, and they are willing to invest money for the sake of brand recognition. Can’t they do music well? If you insist on creating this false information, even if you want to boost sales, make the data look better. Don’t just buy from one account; don’t treat the audience as fools. I have a reasonable suspicion that the young man surnamed S is cooperating with a certain platform to create false information.’].
There were several pictures below, including a screenshot from 23:45pm on 31st July, when the sales were still 5.29 million, but at 23:55pm they became 25.29 million.
There were also several ID purchase charts attached below; the first one was an ID ‘Ji Bu Ze Shi is real’, which bought a total of 20 million copies.
The top ten all bought hundreds of copies, and even the ones at the bottom bought dozens of copies.
It was already a common practice for fans to purchase albums released by idols, but spending hundreds of millions of yuan to buy digital albums was truly unprecedented and probably unparalleled.
What kind of fan was so rich to drop 400 million? This 400 million wasn’t R currency, not to mention plutonium. If they said it wasn’t officially falsified, even ghosts wouldn’t believe it.
Lu Rongrong’s fans were already very angry with Shi Fei’s fans, and since they both opened the presale on the same day, it was inevitable that they would make comparisons.
The person who had been suppressed by them for three days and had their pre-sale results beaten suddenly exceeded the deadline ten minutes before the pre-sale deadline. It was no wonder they were happy.
With the guidance of various blogs, many people quickly started to insult him.
“No wonder others say that China’s music industry doesn’t work; it’s dragged down by these people. They can’t sing well, but their fake sales are the top.”
“Does Shi Fei have any popular musical works? I haven’t heard of him; I only recognize goddess Rong Rong.”
“I’ve only heard of someone’s Weibo’s popularity being fake and Taobao’s sales being faked, but for the first time, I’ve seen someone even fake the sales of their digital album.”
“Other idols at least have fans pooling their money to buy, but this one is even faking sales.”
“I pity our goddess Rong Rong; she made music with all her heart, but being overtaken by this kind of person who buys fake data, it’s so embarrassing.”
“The most pitiful is Bu Li, right? He personally wrote the songs for him, but the pre-sale sales couldn’t compare with others, so he had to fake it. It’s too embarrassing.”
There was a large scale of people mocking Shi Fei for buying sales and falsifying data. Lu Rongrong was well aware that Shi Fei was somewhat protected by Bu Li’s reputation; the quality of his music couldn’t be criticized.
She had to start somewhere else. Bu Li himself had many fans, although not as many as popular celebrities, but it was enough. Many fans of Bu Li who didn’t understand the truth started angrily cursing Shi Fei.
“He got songs that were well made, yet he had to use this kind of fake information to fool people.”
More and more people joined the scolding battle.
Shi Fei’s fans were clear about things; they originally knew that their idol got a song written by a great god; they were quite excited; at least the first album had a high starting point.
After being happy for a moment, they fell into a collective trap. The little fans quickly gathered together to block the situation. After being in the fandom circle for a long time, they understood that many people were involved in this matter.
There was a lot of controversy surrounding the situation, and everyone understood that it may be difficult to sleep tonight. If this battle couldn’t be quelled tonight, things would escalate even more when everyone woke up tomorrow.
“Believe Brother Fei, what kind of evidence is this? Can’t it be bought by a tycoon fan?”
“I can tolerate you suspecting brother Fei’s appearance, but I won’t tolerate insults concerning his voice. Could you please go and see the songs brother Fei sang during the talent show first?”
“And the performance at Teacher Shen Qingran’s concert, I’ll just ask how many people can sing that song with such perfection?”
“You have the nerve to say that your idol is making music with all her heart? Has she ever had a popular song? Our brother had at least a few songs that went viral when he was in the show.”
“Her voice isn’t good; she just has a decent appearance. If someone exceeds her sales, she doesn’t reflect on herself. She just stares at them and sets traps.”
“They are just jealous; they are jealous that brother Fei has teacher Bu Li to help him write songs; certain people can’t get such an opportunity for the rest of their lives.”
“Sisters are wrong; certain people can only sing sweet songs; if you give her this song to sing, can she sing it?”
“Songs have to match the right people; if you have the ability to talk about others here, why don’t you reflect on your own abilities first? What else do you know besides being able to sell your persona on variety shows?”
“Don’t curse, everyone. Swearing is just bringing trouble to brother Fei’s reputation. I believe brother Fei will focus on clearing the misunderstanding.”
The sleeping people had no idea that a smokeless battle was unfolding on this night.
That night, Song Yiyuan and Xu Zemin saw these messages and were so anxious that they felt like ants on a hot pot.
Song Yiyuan also sent his company’s public relations team to handle the situation, but unfortunately the other party came aggressively and there was no strong evidence. If he could find the fan who spent 400 million yuan to buy these albums, the matter could be resolved.
Xu Zeming, on the other hand, personally went to the battlefield.
Shi Fei got up the next morning, opened his mobile phone, went to brush his teeth, and found that there were a lot of missed calls as well as messages.
He clicked on the search button and looked at the information with one hand holding the phone. Before he could get a rough idea, Xu Zeming quickly called.
After chatting with Xu Zeming for a couple of minutes, Song Yiyuan’s phone call came in, and both of them were talking about the same thing: the hot search on Weibo last night and the incident of the person who spent 400 million yuan to buy sales.
Song Yiyuan asked uncertainly, “Shi Fei, this really isn’t the fake information you made with Ling Huai?”
It wasn’t surprising that he was skeptical; even he thought it was a bit ridiculous.
It was common for fans to support their favorite albums with a few thousand yuan, and it wasn’t uncommon to see even tens and hundreds of thousands of yuan.
If it were to hit millions, it would definitely be shocking news for the entire fan circle, but at most it wouldn’t attract too much attention.
A digital album with a total sales volume of 400 million yuan had never been sold before. Not only did Lu Rongrong and the media not believe it, even his agent had to doubt it.
“I don’t have that ability to make Chief Ling change the data specifically; Penguin Music wouldn’t be able to become one of the top three music platforms if it couldn’t even be fair.” Shi Fei put his mobile phone on speaker mode, and after casually brushing his teeth, he took a towel and wiped his mouth and started to wash his face.
“Could it be that you paid for the sales yourself? Crap, are you that rich? Four hundred million, ah, that’s half of it going to Penguin Music Platform, a total of 200 million. If you’re so rich, just sponsor me, ah.” As soon as Song Yiyuan thought of 200 million, his heart ached as if someone had snatched the sausage from his noodle bucket, and in his heart, he even thought of going to find Ling Huai at this time to ask for this 200 million yuan back, although he did know whether it would work or not.
“I didn’t buy it; I have confidence in my music; I don’t need this.” After washing his face, he took his mobile phone and walked towards the kitchen, saying, “Continue to fight on your side; I will soon provide evidence to fight back on my side.”
After hanging up the phone, Shi Fei boiled a pot of water. While waiting for the water to boil, he went online to see the direction of public opinion on the Internet.
Well, it was a bit intense, and that was normal.
Even Song Yiyuan, an agent, thought this way, so it was no wonder that others would have their suspicions.
Lu Rongrong also sent out a post: [I believe that darkness won’t always reign, dawn will eventually come, and all falsehoods will be dispersed.]
Below was also a particularly controversial image that was the kind used to crack down on counter-feit products.
Clicking on the comments, they were full of comforting words for her, the gist of which was that he was too shameless and Rongrong was too wronged.
Shi Fei was too lazy to care about this kind of people; he wanted to directly exit when he saw one of Lu Rongrong’s fans scolding the fan, ‘Brother Fei isn’t usual’. The other person’s words were a bit hard to hear: ‘Do you like this kind of despicable person? Do your parents know? If I were your parent and had a daughter like you, it would be better to forget about it.’
Shi Fei remembered this ID; this was one of his popular fans. Seeing his fan being scolded by other fans like this made him slightly unhappy, so he directly replied under this comment: ‘Why don’t you follow the trend and soar up to 90,000 miles?’
This comment was quickly discovered, and the number of likes soared. Fans were deeply moved when they saw their beloved idol personally coming out to defend his fans. The whole night’s hard work was worth it.
On the contrary, there were still some people who didn’t quite understand what Shi Fei’s response to Lu Rongrong’s fans meant.
Someone soon explained the stanza.
“The original meaning of this ancient saying is ‘Why don’t you join the wind and fly 90,000 miles above the sky?’ Translated into modern mocking words is ‘Why don’t you go up to the sky if you’re so capable?’
“Hahahahahahahahaha, how come Shi Fei is so funny? He even uses ancient language when scolding.”
“It’s me who doesn’t deserve it; I didn’t learn the ancient language well and dragged the fandom down.”
“Brother, in order to defend his fan, personally came down to dislike someone; he basically defended me. I am so touched and warm, I became a fan of the right person.”
“What are the sisters waiting for? Even brother came out. Do you still want to let others insult him?”
Shi Fei’s fans were immediately energized; a night of fatigue was gone; they rose up and started a new round.
Shi Fei also sent a new post to respond to Lu Rongrong.
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