106: Chapter 106 Wu and Yue's Ambition

The smoke of the Spring Festival Movie Season continued.

Director Li Li acted as if there was no bad blood between her and Lin Chuyan, even having her team send him quite a few movie ticket redemption codes.

Of course, there was no private contact. Lin Chuyan was too crazy, and Director Li Li couldn't understand him and didn't intend to get deeply acquainted. As for that bullshit about him being a "real actor," it was absolutely impossible to use him.

Lin Chuyan didn't care about this side of things; Wu Yue even bought out a screening of the movie for Director Li Li in the name of his own artist.

After distributing most of the movie tickets, Lin Chuyan looked at the few remaining codes in his hand and took his parents to the cinema.

Standing from the perspective of a professional actor, he certainly didn't like this movie.

If you just watch it and are shocked by Director Li Li's successful weight loss, that's fine. With that kind of topic exposure, it was enough for the Spring Festival Movie Season.

But you just couldn't look too deeply into it.

For instance, in the second half of the film, the character played by Director Li Li actually claimed to have a people-pleasing personality...

Lin Chuyan sat in the theater with a head full of question marks.

Ah, no, you were quite fierce when fighting with your sisters earlier; you flipped the table when you needed to.

When your relatives invited you to interviews and such, you rejected them quite decisively at the beginning, too.

How should I put it, it was even worse than he imagined.

But it didn't matter.

The important thing about taking his parents out wasn't watching the movie, but letting them hear the ending theme song he sang and seeing his name in the end credits.

No matter how many songs he released himself, it wasn't as good as having them sit in a cinema and watch it once like this.

Can't help it; the older generation just eats this up.

After coming out of the movie, he was even recognized by some casual fans.

With several things combined, Madam Su Lanxin finally felt that her son had finally walked out of the gloomy life of the past.

She was very relieved and very happy.

With her left arm around her son and her right arm around her husband, her steps were much lighter.

After watching the movie, Lin Chuyan actually stopped paying attention to it.

But he clearly underestimated the power of the Spring Festival Movie Season.

The box office for burning life was indeed very strong in the first few days, rising all the way, mainly due to Director Li Li's marketing. Although it couldn't be said to have left assassination behind, it was indeed currently number one on the box office charts.

On Maoyan Professional, the box office forecast for the former was currently 3.5 billion.

Doesn't seem very ideal compared to the previous work?

But none of this was his business. Wu Yue was right; there were too many people online scolding the film right now—weight loss movie, scam movie, money laundering movie... But the insults never reached his own head; they were basically all saying the movie didn't deserve this song.

Tsk, tsk, tsk.

Fortunately, fortunately, Wu Yue helped raise the price, otherwise, he would have lost a fortune.

Lin Chuyan would like to call Wu Yue a "Price-Raising Ascetic."

However, in Wu Yue's view, as the box office climbed, the biggest benefit to his artist was actually the rise in his status.

How do you look at status? At least when it comes to OSTs, whoever gets paid more has higher status.

Yes, it's that simple; everything else is fake.

If your status is high, you only get five figures for a song? Do you believe that yourself when you say it?

Status is an intangible thing, invisible and untouchable. It is also a tangible thing that can be easily felt.

These days, Wu Yue's phone was being blown up.

They used to look for Lin Mo, but well, now they know who to look for. Anyway, Lin Mo's songs are also sung by Lin Chuyan, aren't they?

There were too many people asking for prices.

Wu Yue added the people who came to him one by one as friends, and then there was no follow-up; all collaborations were pushed away.

No rush. Haste makes waste.

Having experienced so much, Wu Yue now held what he was confident was a "bomb" card in his hand, so what was the rush?

As steady as an old dog, alright.

As for how Lin Chuyan's future path should go, Wu Yue had thought it through very clearly.

First, polish the upcoming big album well.

Second, take every subsequent acting role steadily. Don't have gaps, and don't take roles indiscriminately.

Besides that, things like OSTs, endorsements... those were all additional options.

If there was a suitable one, he would take it; if not for the time being, there was no rush.

And as for those variety shows that could make quick money but would only consume a person, he would avoid them if he could.

Lin Chuyan is an actor; a good actor needs to maintain a certain sense of mystery. Appearing in the public eye too frequently is not a good thing.

Wu Yue was very clear on this.

Don't look at how Lin Chuyan often trolls people online; in reality, apart from accepting one Bilibili interview, who else had seen him?

Wu Yue had higher expectations for Lin Chuyan.

Let alone the fact that his teacher was Li Mujian, after watching Lin Chuyan's acting skills over the past half year, he had already planned his future path for him—his artist was someone destined to become a Best Actor!

That's right, Wu Yue hadn't told anyone about this, but that's exactly what he thought.

If you don't even dare to think about it, what kind of future do you have?

So, variety shows? Put them aside for now.

If he let such a good seedling like Lin Chuyan get stuck with the label "Variety Show Star," then he, Wu Yue, didn't need to be an agent anymore; he might as well go home and eat shit!

Lin Chuyan had been living a life of luxury recently, with everything handed to him.

It was just that he was still thinking about the Fengshen audition after the New Year, so he still maintained his good habit of working out. Otherwise, his limbs would have really atrophied from lying around.

It's really good to have a home. He truly, truly, truly hadn't felt this feeling in a very long time.

But good times didn't last long.

Not many days into the Spring Festival, Madam Su Lanxin had already started getting annoyed with him...

Especially since he was holding a Violin and practicing there every day, playing it so horribly...

No joke, learning the Violin is really fucking hard.

Things like spiccato, staccato—there were too many bowing techniques.

The Violin also didn't have fixed pitch; all pitches needed to be adjusted by the ear.

However, Lin Chuyan was happy to do so.

His vocal music teacher Ruan Xingyu had said: A sense of good pitch can be trained; this is very important for top Singers.

Although he still had quite a few special skill points left, he knew they would be of great use for Fengshen later, so he wasn't willing to casually add points to the Violin.

Isn't it just reading books and tutorials? He didn't believe he couldn't practice it out.

Keep practicing! Work hard! Keep it up!

And so he became even more annoying...

Fortunately, Wu Yue had another call coming in, so Madam Su Lanxin's ears could finally be quiet for a while.

"Xiao Yan, what are you doing?"

"Practicing the Violin, Brother Yue. Wait until I get back to Beijing, I'll play it for you!"

"... Thanks, but that won't be necessary." Lin Chuyan was in high spirits, and Wu Yue didn't want to dampen his enthusiasm, but having heard it once, he still politely declined, "I have serious business with you. Another good thing has come knocking, and it's about that ending theme song of yours again."

"Ah? Another brand wants the song licensing?"

"Not this time. This time, both major platforms, Tencent Music and NetEase Cloud Music, have come to urge us. Originally, they went to Zheng Hai, but Zheng Hai can't make decisions for us, and you aren't signed under him."

Clearly, this was also one of the powers of the Spring Festival Movie Season; the song "the flower that blooms only for itself" had been made popular.

"Then what do you mean, Brother Yue?"

"My meaning is that the cooperation between rebirth and Zheng Hai has been quite pleasant, and your girlfriend is also at Tianxing, so let's continue to cooperate. Let Tianxing negotiate; I believe they won't treat you unfairly. Of course, I will also be keeping an eye on it from the side."

"I have no problem with that."

Lin Chuyan still trusted Tianxing very much. It wasn't because of Ruan Xingyu, but because Zheng Hai was indeed a very good person!

It was also thanks to him that the song "the flower that blooms only for itself" could be recorded so quickly this time. Reasonably and emotionally, Lin Chuyan had to repay the kindness.

This is the duty of being a person.