Chapter 458: Recording at Any Cost
Lu Yiming has never been a professional singer. At most, he is just a KTV microphone master, so his singing skills are barely better than nothing.
But in this situation, the atmosphere has already been set to this point, singing skills and the like are no longer important.
The slightly clumsy guitar playing and the singing that was without technique but full of emotion immediately attracted the attention of many people around.
Shi Qingxue was stunned at first, but when she heard the singing, she covered her mouth in surprise and cried with joy.
The girls around looked at Shi Qingxue with envy.
The boys around them are in trouble.
Someone reached out and grabbed her boyfriend's arm, saying angrily, "Look at him!"
Someone stomped her feet so hard that her boyfriend's feet became numb: "Look at him! If you were as romantic as him, we would have children!"
The man who failed to keep his ex-girlfriend was daydreaming, as if thinking about something.
When the song ended, Shi Qingxue no longer cared about being reserved and walked over to hug Lu Yiming.
Lu Yiming felt the warmth and tenderness of this beautiful woman, and couldn't help but feel a little distracted.
The summer night was cool. The two of them were dressed lightly, feeling each other's heartbeats.
"Do you like this rose?"
Shi Qingxue nodded vigorously, then hugged Lu Yiming tightly, as if she was afraid that he would run away.
Lu Yiming gently wiped away the tears on Shi Qingxue's face and asked softly, "Why are you crying?"
Shi Qingxue pouted and said, "It's all your fault."
There was warm applause from the crowd.
"Promise him!"
“So happy!”
"move."
"Promise him!"
"Promise him!"
There are also many people who focus on the songs.
"Why haven't you heard this song before?"
“It sounds nice.”
"Why is this song not available on Qianqian Jingting? I strongly request that Qianqian Jingting put it on the shelves."
It was obviously unreasonable that no one present had ever heard such a divine song of love confession.
Even Shi Qingxue was puzzled: "Why have I never heard of this song before?"
Lu Yiming smiled and said, "Of course you haven't heard it, because I wrote this song and it hasn't been released yet."
"Ah? You wrote it?"
Shi Qingxue was extremely surprised.
Lu Yiming said shamelessly: "Yes, I said I would give you a rose, so of course I want to give you the one and only rose in the world."
When the people around heard that this song was written by Lu Yiming, they also felt it was incredible.
"You have talent, brother."
"You wrote it? No wonder I felt like I'd never heard of it."
"Sure enough, there is a reason why I can find such a beautiful girlfriend."
"A winner in life."
Amidst the praises, a man wearing a khaki hat, a khaki vest and a plaid shirt squeezed out from the crowd and said excitedly, "Brother, I'm a talent scout. I just listened to your song. Are you interested in entering the music industry? Our company has strong distribution channels and can definitely make you famous!"
Lu Yiming never thought that he would actually meet a talent scout one day. He immediately asked with a smile, "If I become a singer, how much money can I make in a year?"
The scout thought that Lu Yiming was moved by what he said, so he introduced it more enthusiastically: "With your looks and creative talent, if you work a little harder, you will definitely have no problem making 100,000 or 200,000 yuan. Even if you become famous, it won't be difficult to make a million yuan a year."
When the people around heard the scout's words, they were immediately surprised.
"Wow, just 100,000 or 200,000 yuan a year, and millions if you become famous. Being a celebrity is so lucrative."
"One or two hundred thousand a year is enough to live a luxurious life."
"Is this kid going to have a successful career and love life?"
Although this is the capital city, under the feet of the emperor, an annual income of 100,000 or 200,000 is still very shocking, not to mention an annual salary of one million.
After listening to the scout's words, Lu Yiming shook his head and said, "This is too little. Bill Gates can make an average of 2,500 US dollars per second. Although I am not as good as Bill Gates now, it is not too much to make 100 or 80 per second, right? 86,400 seconds a day, that is 10 million, 4 billion a year, and you only give me 100,000 or 200,000. It's too insincere."
Scout: “…”
Onlookers: “…”
Good man, is this what your math teacher taught you?
No, you fucking think you can make more money than Bill Gates?
This is too outrageous, brother.
Over the years, he has been going door to door to recruit new talents, and has been rejected many times. Some people even thought he was a liar, with all kinds of reasons.
But none of them had as outrageous a reason as Lu Yiming!
Four billion a year, why don’t you go to heaven?
Which star can earn 4 billion a year now?
Let’s not talk about 4 billion. How many celebrities can you count on your fingers who earn 400 million a year?
Xingtoutou walked away without looking back.
"He's young, handsome, and can write songs, but he's a psychopath. God is really fair."
Watching the scout leave, Shi Qingxue burst out laughing.
Although she felt that Lu Yiming's calculation of 4 billion yuan a year was a bit exaggerated, Lu Yiming's method of rejecting scouts was really unique.
"You are so mean."
Lu Yiming curled his lips and said innocently: "I'm just telling the truth."
"Let's go, continue shopping and then go back."
"Um."
Next, the two of them walked around for a while and then returned to the hotel.
The next day, before dawn, the two of them packed up and went to the square to watch the flag-raising ceremony.
After watching the flag-raising ceremony, the two went to visit the museum.
On the third day, we went to the Great Wall.
On the morning of the fourth day, the two went to the mall and bought a lot of gifts, and then took a private plane back to Baiyun City.
At this point, less than a week had passed since the farewell dinner, and it seemed that nothing had changed.
Shi Qingxue urged Lu Yiming to record a complete version of "You Are My Rose", saying that she wanted to keep it as a souvenir.
Lu Yiming thought about it and decided to go all out. He called Li Yiwen directly and asked him to contact a recording studio to record a song.
Li Yiwen was shocked when he heard Lu Yiming's request: "You want to record a song? You want to sing?"
Lu Yiming raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "Yes, I sing, what's the problem?"
Although he didn't know what Lu Yiming was up to, Li Yiwen thought he was joking, so he asked, "What song? Have you negotiated the copyright?"
Lu Yiming said: "I wrote it myself... Oh, by the way, you have to find someone to arrange the music. I don't know how to read musical notation."
"I don't know how to read musical notation... to write a song..."
Li Yiwen suddenly felt a little overwhelmed.
However, he quickly found someone according to Lu Yiming's requirements.
Echo Recording Studio is a relatively well-known company in the music circle of Baiyun City. They have complete recording equipment, professional staff, and have cooperated with many celebrities. They are one of the best companies of the same kind in Baiyun City.
For the arrangement, Li Yiwen found a man named Liang Qiaobo. It is said that this man is very talented and many popular songs were arranged by him.
Anyway, there was plenty of money, so even though Li Yiwen knew that Lu Yiming was just playing around, he still helped Lu Yiming find the best configuration.
Because Lu Yiming knew nothing about composing music and didn't know the musical notation, he could only rely on his own memory and let Liang Qiaobo arrange the music and stick to the original in his memory little by little.
It took a full half month to complete the arrangement.
Next, singing is actually a fatal problem.
Although Lu Yiming is a KTV microphone master, as the saying goes, the layman watches the excitement while the expert watches the door. As soon as Lu Yiming opened his mouth, Liang Qiaobo found that Lu Yiming had big problems in singing. So after seeking Lu Yiming's opinion, she found a well-known vocal teacher in the industry to teach Lu Yiming to sing.
This shows the benefits of having money.
Lu Yiming doesn't have to worry about the cost issue at all. He just makes up for what is lacking.
The cost of recording this song reached at least one hundred thousand.
A mere hundred thousand is nothing to Lu Yiming.
It was not until mid-August that Lu Yiming finished recording this song.
Holding the recorded song file, Lu Yiming returned to the Blue Sea Dragon Court.
After successfully confessing her love, Shi Qingxue went to the Blue Sea Dragon Court all day long. Although Su Yunjin and the others had already returned from the Beautiful Country, after learning about this matter, they turned a blind eye and adopted a tacit attitude.
After all, they had already acquiesced to the fact that Lu Yiming and Shi Qingxue were together, and the so-called confession was more of a sense of ritual that young people pursued.
In the computer room, Lu Yiming took out a USB drive, inserted it into the USB port of the computer, and then uploaded the audio files in it to Qianqian Jingting.
When uploading the song, Shi Qingxue found out that the name of the song was "You Are My Rose".
In the introduction to the work, the first sentence Lu Yiming wrote was: This song is dedicated to my favorite girl. You will always be the most beautiful rose in my heart.
Then, the second line is: All rights reserved. Copying prohibited.
After all, Lu Yiming is the boss of Qianqian Jingting, so he still played his cards very well. Lu Yiming had just uploaded the file, and when the review department saw that it was uploaded by Lu Yiming, they didn't even dare to listen to it and directly approved it.
Not only that, they also urgently replaced the promotional advertising space on the Qianqian Jingting client and replaced it with Lu Yiming's song.
In an instant, countless users who were listening to music using Qianqian Jingting software and users who were chatting and spamming in the Tianyin community discovered this song.
"Wow, look what I found? President Lu is singing in person?"
"For my favorite girl? Mr. Lu announced his relationship?"
"It's over. Mr. Lu has a girlfriend. I have no chance."
"Wake up, even if Mr. Lu doesn't have a girlfriend, you don't have much of a chance."
"Lyrics: Lu Yiming; Music: Lu Yiming; Singer: Lu Yiming. This is the most beautiful three-line love letter I have ever seen today."
"Fuck, Mr. Lu is going to sing?"
"Fuck, Mr. Lu is writing songs?"
"Help! Mr. Lu is here to show off his love."
As soon as the song was released, it attracted a lot of attention.
Let's not talk about how good this song is, the fact that the boss personally wrote and sang the song is quite bizarre in itself. This is just like Chen Rui posting original videos on Bilibili and Chen Wu opening a new book on Qidian, which is enough to arouse people's curiosity.
For a while, the number of clicks on this song continued to rise rapidly, and in the blink of an eye it exceeded 10,000, and it was listed on the two most popular charts, the New Songs Chart and the Hot Songs Chart.
And after listening to the entire song, the comment section below the song exploded even more.
“It sounds good.”
"I didn't expect Mr. Lu to be so talented."
"Did Mr. Lu really write this?"
"Mom, I'm in love."
"What a god-like boss! Not only is he good at making money, he's also good at singing and writing songs. Wow, he's the most perfect man in the world."
"This beauty is blessed in her past life to be favored by Mr. Lu. Cherish her well."
Fortunately, Lu Yiming was very foresighted and turned off all private messages and @, otherwise, with this much popularity, his private messages would probably have exploded.
Lu Yiming never thought about making a profit from this song, so of course he just made it available for free download and turned off the chart-ranking function to prevent users from spending a penny on it.
This once again won the favor of users. Along with the increase in downloads, the score of this song also climbed steadily, and there were dozens of comments just by refreshing the webpage.
Despite its high popularity, it does not pose any threat to the stars who are on the charts.
The reason why I sang and recorded this song was just because of a word from Shi Qingxue.
Lu Yiming didn't care at all about the time and energy spent on this.
It is already the end of August, and Lu Yiming and his classmates are about to report to school.
Not to mention that Lu Yiming and Shi Qingxue were admitted to Fu Ri University. Li Quanwang also relied on his money to get into an ordinary private undergraduate school.
Gu Zhiruo's family already lived in Zhonghai, so naturally she applied to a school in Zhonghai.
On August 17, Lu Yiming, Shi Qingxue, Li Quanwang, Gu Zhiruo, and Cao Jingwen flew to Zhonghai on a Gulfstream private jet.
As for the driver, Zhao Tiezhu drove his Audi on a long journey alone from Baiyun City to Zhonghai.
At the exit of Hongqiao Airport, Lu Yiming and his friends came out of the arrival gate with their luggage and saw a huge sign with Li Quanwang's name on it among the crowd of people waiting to greet them.
Li Quanwang smiled and said, "It was He Zeming who came to pick us up. I called him before we got on the plane."
Five people walked over, and Li Quanwang greeted them, saying, "Lao He!"
He Zeming was very happy to see Li Quanwang, and quickly came up with a few people to greet him: "Mr. Li."
Li Quanwang introduced, "This is the Lu Yiming I've been telling you about, Mr. Lu, the major shareholder of Tongxin Internet Cafe. This is Shi Qingxue, the wife of a shareholder."
Later, Li Quanwang said to Lu Yiming, "He Zeming was originally an employee of Tongxin Internet Cafe. Because he was diligent and reliable, he quickly became the store manager. Didn't he see that you were going to study at Fu Ri University? So I discussed it with Brother Li and opened our flagship store next to Fu Ri University and asked Lao He to come over as the store manager."
After listening to Li Quanwang's explanation, Lu Yiming finally understood the whole story and said to He Zeming, "Manager He, thank you for your hard work. I'll trouble you to take care of the management and operation of the Zhonghai branch of Tongxin Internet Cafe in the future."
He Zeming was very and he promised, "Don't worry, Mr. Lu, I will complete all the tasks conscientiously!"
He did not have a high level of education, so he did not have a very successful life in middle age. Before he was laid off, he was just a production team leader in a state-owned factory, and he had accumulated some management experience.
You know, it's still very difficult , especially for people like him who are over 35 years old. There are not many people willing to hire them.
But Li Quanwang did not despise him. Instead, he allowed him to pass the interview and later gave him the opportunity to be a store manager. Seeing that he worked diligently and achieved good results, he immediately promoted him to general manager of the branch, responsible for expanding the territory in Zhonghai.
He Zeming was very touched by Li Quanwang's kindness. Now that he saw Lu Yiming, the real big boss, he naturally became more cautious.
Cao Jingwen saw that He Zeming, a middle-aged man who was about the same age as her father, was so cautious and trembling when facing Lu Yiming. She immediately whispered to Shi Qingxue, "You have a good eye. Lu Yiming is getting more and more powerful now. His words and deeds can influence the fate and destiny of many people."
At this moment, if He Zeming made Lu Yiming unhappy, Lu Yiming could really defeat him with just one word.
That's why he had to tread on thin ice and show his utmost loyalty and wisdom.
Seeing Lu Yiming being praised by her friends, Shi Qingxue was also very happy, but then she showed a distressed expression: "I don't like him because of these things. Now he is just too outstanding, so I am uneasy and worried that I am not worthy of him."
Cao Jingwen quickly encouraged him, "How could that be? You are also very good. Not only are you beautiful, but you also met him when you were still a nobody. As long as you don't make any mistakes, how can other women compare to you?"
Then he sighed, "Did you save the Milky Way in your previous life? Otherwise, how could you be so lucky? If the boyfriend I find can have one percent of Lu Yiming's ability, I will wake up laughing in my dreams."
Shi Qingxue smiled and narrowed her eyes. She also encouraged Cao Jingwen, "Don't worry. You are so cute and kind-hearted. You will definitely find your ideal husband."
Lu Yiming and Shi Qingxue went to report to Fu Ri University, while Li Quanwang and the others separated from Lu Yiming and reported to their own schools. They agreed to contact each other by phone and meet again after the registration was completed.
Standing at the gate of Fu Ri University, Shi Qingxue looked up at the tall gate tower and couldn't help but feel emotional. She had never thought that she could study at Fu Ri University.
Seeing Shi Qingxue staring at the sign in a trance, Lu Yiming smiled and said, "Didn't you come here once during the interview in June? Still can't get enough of it?"
Shi Qingxue retorted: "How can this be the same? I was very nervous at the time, but now I am considered a member of Fudan University."
The two of them got the special enrollment quota. The so-called special enrollment is somewhat different from recommended admission. Recommended admission refers to the top students with good grades, while special enrollment is actually the school's independent enrollment quota.
How do you describe this kind of quota?
To put it bluntly, it is to open a backdoor for some people. After all, this is a society based on favors, how can we not consider favors?
Of course, most of the special recruitments are for people with connections, but there are also many students who really have a skill but whose academic performance may not meet the standards of prestigious schools.
Therefore, if special admissions students want to become regular students, they still need to pass an interview.
As for the difficulty of the interview questions, there is a lot of room for maneuver.
Shi Qingxue has a special identity. Her specialty is Lu Yiming, so basically anyone can answer the questions given to her. It is just a formality.
As for Lu Yiming, there is no need to mention it. He won the individual and team championships of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Competition, which blinded the judges.
In terms of programming level, they might not be as good as Lu Yiming, so naturally they even skipped the exam steps and just met and chatted.
Otherwise, if you are accidentally stumped by Lu Yiming, how embarrassing would that be?
