Chapter 449: Playing Tricks on the Princes with Fire
"Movies?"
After being in the entertainment industry for a day, Lin Yuzhen has become completely interested in this industry. When she saw that Liao Haide not only praised her talent but also wanted to take her to make a movie, she immediately became excited.
"Okay, okay."
However, Lu Yiming unceremoniously threw a Yangmei pastry at Lin Yuzhen's head and said, "What's good about that? Hong Kong movies are all gone. If you go to see a movie now, aren't you asking for trouble?"
Liao Haide was embarrassed to be exposed in front of others, but he couldn't be angry at his sponsor, so he could only refute awkwardly: "I admit that the Hong Kong film industry is a bit sluggish now, but it's not going to be a big deal, right?"
Lu Yiming turned around and glanced at him: "You don't have a life of your own, so you came to the mainland to shoot commercials, isn't that cool enough?"
Liao Haide: “…”
What you said makes a lot of sense, I'm speechless.
Lu Yiming said to Lin Yuzhen, "Pack up and go back."
"oh."
Lin Yuzhen felt a little unsatisfied, but she hadn't eaten for a whole day because of the filming of the commercial, so she had no choice but to follow Lu Yiming and leave.
On the way home, Lin Yuzhen stood at the gate of No. 1 Middle School and looked at the familiar school gate. Suddenly, she felt a little sad and couldn't help but said, "Lu Yiming, why don't we go for a walk inside the school again. I'll treat you to this fried noodle at the gate."
Lu Yiming said: "Okay."
There are many such stalls in front of the school. They use a tricycle with a stove and a pot inside. Next to it are two large bags of rice noodles, both round and flat. There is also a basket of cut cabbage, a basket of bean sprouts, a basket of lettuce leaves, a box of small ham sausages, and a basket of eggs. Within reach is a long line of bottles and jars of seasonings.
Fried noodles, which cost two yuan per serving, are a favorite meal for many students. They are filling and taste better than the food in the school cafeteria.
The two of them came to a stall. The stall owner was a woman in her fifties or sixties. Because Lin Yuzhen often came to eat there, she quickly recognized her: "Hey, isn't this Xiao Zhenzhen? Why haven't you eaten yet so late today?"
Then, she suddenly remembered something, smiled, and said, "Oh, I forgot that you have graduated from high school. If you want to eat fried noodles in the future, come back and visit us."
Lin Yuzhen felt her nose getting a little sour, and she choked up and said, "Okay."
Lu Yiming said, "I want two fried noodles, half rice noodles and half pho noodles, with egg, ham, bean sprouts and meat."
This is basically the top-notch food during student days, and few ordinary students dare to eat like this.
Adding everything up, a serving of fried noodles that originally cost two yuan now costs five yuan.
However, now that Lu Yiming is already a big shot on the Hurun Rich List, he can certainly afford it.
Lu Yiming took out a ten-yuan note, but Lin Yuzhen pouted and said, "It was agreed that I would treat you."
As she spoke, she took out a handful of change and threw it directly into the old-fashioned small box for storing money.
Lu Yiming had no choice but to put the money away: "Okay, if you want to treat me, then I'll treat you."
Soon, the two entered the school with the rice noodles, but were stopped by the security guard at the door.
The security guard looked at the plastic bags the two were carrying and said unkindly, "You two, you are both in evening study now, why are you here just now?"
Lin Yuzhen stuck out her tongue and said with a proud look, "We are in the third year of high school and have already graduated. We want to go in again before going to college."
The security guard seemed to be used to this kind of situation and immediately became amiable: "Okay, then don't litter when you eat. There are still classes in the teaching building over there, so don't go there. The basketball court and football field are being renovated, so be careful and stay safe."
"Okay, thank you uncle."
Lu Yiming couldn't help but complain: "The school was renovated right after graduation. This is too damn real."
Walking on the tree-lined avenue, Lin Yuzhen looked at the familiar campus and said with emotion: "I used to think about leaving here every day and yearn for the outside world. Now I can leave at will, but I can't help but miss every tree and grass here."
"yes."
Lu Yiming deeply agreed, and following the topic, he couldn't help but recall that in his previous life, he left school and entered society, where he struggled in the mundane world and was covered in mud and scars.
The more he experiences, the more he misses the past.
Just because there are too many intrigues and scheming in society , if you want to find a pure relationship, whether it is friendship or love, you can only find it in school.
There are some things whose value we only realize after we lose them.
Many good friends who we could talk about anything in school gradually lost contact after leaving campus, and we have been separated ever since. The more we think about it, the sadder it becomes.
Although he has lived two lives, Lu Yiming's mood gradually became sentimental as he walked on the playground.
After expressing his feelings, Lu Yiming changed the subject and asked, "How did you do in the exam?"
Lin Yuzhen seemed a little absent-minded and said, "It's OK."
Of course, Lu Yiming was not satisfied with this answer, and asked, "What do you mean by 'okay'? Is it OK or not?"
It seemed that they were about to part, and Lin Yuzhen finally asked out some words that had been hidden in her heart for a long time: "Lu Yiming, why are you so good to me? Not only did you pay me to shoot the commercial, you also wrote songs for me."
Girls' hearts are always sentimental.
Although Lin Yuzhen always says that she is an emotionless money-making machine, she is just an ordinary girl after all.
"We are friends."
"Just... friends?"
Lin Yuzhen pursed her lips, obviously this was not the answer she expected.
"What else?"
Lu Yiming was immersed in the sentimental atmosphere of parting, and did not notice the strangeness in Lin Yuzhen's expression. He smiled and said, "It would cost millions to hire a famous star, and the effect might not be good. If I ask you for help, I only need to pay 50,000 yuan, which is very cost-effective."
Lin Yuzhen, who was originally touched by Lu Yiming's gift of a song, almost became angry when she heard this. She glared at Lu Yiming fiercely: "Okay, you black-hearted capitalist!"
After being interrupted by Lu Yiming, Lin Yuzhen's sentimentality was actually alleviated a lot. The two of them walked around the school, bought a lot of things in the canteen, and then left the school.
Saehan Group.
Li Dongtai asked his men, "Is there any reaction from Mingyuan Technology? Especially that Lu Yiming, keep a close eye on his every move."
Now, he has long regarded Mingyuan Technology and Lu Yiming as competitors, so his attitude has become more serious than ever before.
If Sehan's products fail to gain a foothold in Xia Country, then he, as the person in charge, will have to take the blame and be dismissed. In South Korea, a country with serious internal conflicts, he has worked hard to climb to his current position, and he cannot just give up like that.
When the subordinate heard Li Dongtai asking about Lu Yiming, a disdainful expression immediately appeared on his face. He said, "Lu Yiming originally planned to find a female singer from Hong Kong to be the spokesperson, but now it seems that the person has been changed. It has been replaced by his classmate, a very ordinary girl, not a star at all."
Li Dongtai was delighted when he heard this. "Children are just children. They are so unreliable. I guess he likes that girl and wants to take the opportunity to get close to her. He doesn't know that the business world is like a battlefield. No matter how smooth the life was before, one wrong step may lead to an irreversible situation. This may be an opportunity for us, and we must seize it. We must shoot Chen Long's commercial well, and increase the intensity of TV commercials. Buy all the prime time spots that can be bought for me."
What is the purpose of hiring a spokesperson and shooting commercials?
Spread the word.
Isn’t it just about taking advantage of the celebrity’s fame and turning their fans into consumers?
This Lu Yiming is so good that he asked his classmates to shoot a commercial?
Who knows you, an ordinary person?
Without a fan base, why would you shoot an advertisement for no one?
"Yes, I'll do it right away."
The men turned and left.
"Wait a moment."
Li Dongtai called him.
"Does Representative Li have any other instructions?"
Li Dongtai smiled slyly and said, "Go to the media and newspapers to publicize this matter. Say that we, Shihan, invited Chen Long to do the advertisement, but Lu Yiming found a female high school student."
The subordinate was immediately shocked and said hesitantly, "It seems rather despicable to flatter and criticize like this."
However, as a Korean, Li Dongtai had no idea what shamelessness was. Being mean was nothing. He said unhappily, "Just go if I tell you to go. Why are you wasting your words?"
"All right."
The subordinates had no choice but to do as they were told.
The next morning, the news that Lu Yiming invited an ordinary female student who had just graduated from high school to shoot commercials for Qianqian Jingting and Tianyin MP3 was reported in newspapers.
The article explicitly and implicitly states that Lu Yiming fell in love with this girl and was willing to sacrifice the future of his company to please her. It has a bit of the flavor of "King You of Zhou playing tricks on the princes with fire" in it.
This report indeed sparked heated discussions among everyone.
"Has Lu Yiming lost his mind? This is clearly a wrong decision."
"Xiaguo finally built up a brand of electronic products. Could it be that this brand is just another meteor that will disappear in a flash?"
"Young people are really hot-tempered. How can they let their emotions get in the way of business? If you don't hire celebrities to shoot commercials, then what kind of commercials are you shooting?"
"When shooting commercials, we need the star effect. What do you think of hiring an ordinary person to shoot commercials?"
"The article also mentioned Se-Han. Se-Han was very smart. He directly invited Chen Long. Chen Long is such a big name, a household name action star."
"Shihan and Tianyin are definitely in a competitive relationship, and this time they are in a head-on confrontation. I'm not trying to boost others' morale and destroy my own prestige, but I'm optimistic about Shihan this time."
There was a lot of coverage of this incident in newspapers and magazines.
As the reputation of the Shihan Group soared, the situation became increasingly unfavorable for Mingyuan Technology.
At Lu Yiming's house, Li Yiwen brought a whole fresh leg of lamb to visit.
"Auntie, I haven't had your soup for a long time, so I brought a lamb leg here specially. Please help me cook some angelica lamb soup."
Ning Xuehua smiled and said, "If you want to eat, just call me and I'll go buy it. You have to bring it yourself. Okay, sit down first and I'll make it for you."
Ning Xuehua took the lamb leg and went down to the kitchen. Li Yiwen said to Lu Yiming seriously, "Didn't we say before that we would find a female celebrity to take the photo? Why did you change it to a high school girl? And she's your classmate. This is a bit outrageous!"
Lu Yiming ate the fruit calmly and asked, "How did you know?"
Li Yiwen took out a few newspapers from his briefcase and said, "Look, it's all clearly written on the newspapers. What do you think?"
In Li Yiwen's opinion, shooting commercials is no trivial matter, as it involves the image promotion of the company and its products.
"Let me tell you, even though everyone says you're a billionaire and praises you, don't get too cocky. The higher you're praised, the more painful it will be when you fall."
Lu Yiming didn't care about Li Yiwen's warning. He smiled and said, "It's so expensive to hire a celebrity. Instead of wasting money, I might as well make one famous myself. It's economical and affordable."
Li Yiwen sighed and said, "It's not as easy as you think to make someone famous."
Lu Yiming said seriously: "It may be difficult for others, but for me, it is as easy as eating and drinking water."
At this time, Ning Xuehua, who was busy in the kitchen, spoke up: "Xiao Ming, the female classmate you asked to shoot the commercial is not Xiao Xue, right?"
Lu Yiming was surprised and said, "Mom, how do you know all this? Didn't you say you don't read newspapers?"
Ning Xuehua said, "I heard about this from a neighborhood chat. They also said that people are not optimistic about you now. The Bang country directly found Chen Long to do the promotion. You just found a female student. Is it okay?"
Lu Yiming smiled and said, "Whether it works or not, we'll know in a moment. It just so happens that several TV stations with high ratings have my ads during prime time."
Back then, this advertisement made the BBK music phone famous, and "I Caught a Cold in That Corner" was heard everywhere in the streets and alleys, especially as a ringtone for many people's mobile phones, which could be heard anytime and anywhere.
While eating, Lu Yiming suddenly pointed at the picture on TV and said, "That's the ad."
On the TV screen, sunlight shines through the gaps between the leaves and falls on a secluded tree-lined path. A beautiful girl with her skirt fluttering comes over, humming a strange song.
What’s strange is that there is only one lyric, but the melody is very beautiful. The pleasant voice is like a breeze blowing in people’s ears, and the ups and downs are very gripping.
Li Yiwen had a very strange expression on his face, as if he was shocked and confused: "Is this your advertisement? This song... it's so strange, I remember the tune after listening to it once, and it's quite nice. I consider myself a music enthusiast, so how come I've never heard of it before?"
Ning Xuehua said: "Where was this filmed? Why does it look familiar to me?"
Lu Yiming smiled and said, "It's right in the school. It's a holiday so there aren't many people around."
Then, he said to Li Yiwen: "Isn't this song nice? I wrote it."
"You wrote it?"
Li Yiwen was immediately shocked, staring at Lu Yiming and muttering, "Why didn't I realize you had this ability?"
Then, he heaved a sigh of relief and said, "Just based on this song, no wonder you didn't find any big stars to shoot the commercial."
Although he is not from the music circle, Li Yiwen spends a lot of money on listening to music, so he knows very well that a good song that is widely sung has a chance to make someone famous.
Throughout the entire commercial, all he could think about was darlingdarlingdarling, and he didn't pay any attention to Lin Yuzhen in the film at all.
This song is the soul of the advertisement. As for the people, as long as they are beautiful, it doesn’t matter who comes in!
at the same time.
After returning to Zhonghai, Gu Zhiruo called Lin Yuzhen and shouted , "Oh my God, your commercial is so good! Where did that song come from? Is it a new song? How come it sounds so good!"
Lin Yuzhen curled her lips and said, "It was written by Lu Yiming."
Gu Zhiruo exclaimed: "It's fine that he can make money, but he can also write songs? This is too amazing. Can you give ordinary people like us a way to survive?"
Then, she said excitedly: "Now that the commercial has aired, I guess you're going to be famous soon."
Although she was very happy in her heart, Lin Yuzhen still said modestly: "It's just a commercial, how can it be so exaggerated?"
The songs in the film were not sung by Lin Yuzhen at all, but Lu Yiming found a professional vocal teacher for her and is teaching her to sing.
Gu Zhiruo said, "Don't disbelieve me. Many of my classmates at Zhonghai asked me where they could buy this song. I didn't even dare to tell them that you are my friend."
Lin Yuzhen said: "I remember Lu Yiming said that this song will be released on Qian Qian Jing Ting at midnight tonight."
Gu Zhiruo said happily: "Really? That's great! I'm going to download it to my Tianyin MP3!"
The two chatted for a while before reluctantly hanging up the phone.
Sitting in front of the phone, Lin Yuzhen felt that everything in front of her seemed to become magical.
Have I become a big star?
Meanwhile, at Huaxing Records, Director Luo Guoyang was furious: "What's going on with the new song chart? Where did this song 'I Caught a Cold in That Corner' come from?"
Huaxing Records is promoting Yang Qianhua. Not only did they tailor a good song for her, they also specially arranged for her to hit the charts in July. Coincidentally, several other record companies do not have any heavyweight promotional plans this month, so they can avoid promotional conflicts.
Luo Guoyang originally thought that the victory was a sure thing. The monthly champion would definitely be our Huaxing Records, right? If the results were good, we might even get one of the top ten hits of the year.
What happens now is that a Cheng Yaojin suddenly appears and completely confuses Huaxing Records.
A new song that they promoted vigorously was defeated by an advertising song!
What the hell is this?
Luo Guoyang was furious, and then looked at his manager Ding Zigao who had just returned from Baiyun, and said, "No matter what, hurry up and buy the copyright of this song."
Ding Zigao briefly recalled the whole process, and suddenly he seemed to put on a mask of pain. He smiled bitterly and said, "Director Luo, I can't do this. They are richer than us."
The copyright owner of the new song is a billionaire. His money is more than enough to buy the entire Huaxing Records. Are you going to risk your life to buy it?
Yang Qianhua next to her was even more depressed because Lin Yuzhen's advertisement was also broadcast in Hong Kong, so she naturally recognized it.
The poor mainlander whom she had looked down upon in the past was now more popular than her. How could she swallow this?
Even Yang Qianhua was thinking, if it weren't for Lin Yuzhen, wouldn't she be able to sing the song "I Caught a Cold in That Corner" herself?
Being in the music industry, she naturally knows that it is easy to find singers but difficult to find great songs.
