Ever since Zhao Yiqing left his group <Exile> a lot of fans were in dismay and he was quickly put on the spotlight. Though when he was able to garner everybody's attention, it was not for a good reason because all of the group's fans were roasting him for leaving his group and calling him selfish.
At that time, his members didn't even help clarify the situation or even say a few good things about him. Rather, they found this a start of their own bullying. They threw a lot of accusations at Zhao Yiqing that no one would dare go out in public, much less think of debuting as a solo artist if it were him.
However, despite the harsh winds blowing in his direction, Zhao Yiqing never stopped his feet from approaching the Sahara in the Desert. He wanted to debut as a solo artist after getting a second chance in life to pursue what he wanted.
Zhao Yiqing's passion in writing songs, his members were very clear about it.
Sadly, the genre and feeling of his songs didn't match with the group's intended image hence, even though he tried to push his songs to be part of the group's album, it was never selected. On the contrary, the music producer and even his group members mocked him and even laughed at his talent.
But this was not the case once he left his previous management. At Chestnut, he was given all the freedom he wanted to write his songs. He even received much praise and encouragement from the company's music producer and helped him create an album.
When Zhao Yiqing finally announced his debut as a solo artist and reported that his album was on its way for release, a lot of water army and anti-fans went to his Weibo post and scolded him.
Nevertheless, they still camped out in the music platform where his songs will be released to pick out some bones and criticize his songs.
In an instant, the pre-release of his album received a lot of sales. It immediately got sold a hundred thousand times in just half an hour. Coupled with the hot search bought by his previous company in hopes of destroying him and the netizen's curiosity, his albums reached a million pre-release sales in just one day.
This kind of miracle continued when the song was finally released. A lot of anti-fans and water army were there to mock his songs and even netizens wanted to know why the heat on this artist was so fierce.
But upon listening to his songs, not only were the anti-fans and water army stumped out of their words, those who just wanted to listen and try his songs out of boredom and curiosity were shocked!
His songs varied in genre and demographic target. Zhao Yiqing didn't limit himself to one demographic target and quickly gathered a lot of people to listen to his album.
Of course, there were a lot of people who accused him of buying his own album. There were also those who wanted to ruin him by saying he copied other artists' songs.
But all of these accusations were shot down when the music platforms posted on Weibo that they were not so unscrupulous to fake the sales for one artist. As for the plagiarism issue, no one could back up their words with evidence.
Besides, ever since then, every time Zhao Yiqing released a song or album, his pre-release and official release sales were on the top! No one could deny that this young solo artist was one of the geniuses of the music industry.
Slowly, Zhao Yiqing's status in the music industry rose to an unprecedented height that a lot of idols and solo artists wanted to follow after his steps and tried to subtly copy him.
However, it was too bad that nobody could possibly copy the ideas and lyrics and tunes that were inside Zhao Yiqing's head.
When Feng Huai arrived at the office building, he was slightly sweating from anxiety. It took him twenty minutes to get to the place but as soon as he arrived, he hesitated to enter.
It was because he could feel the guilty conscience he once ignored. He had betrayed the company by leaking company secrets and now, he will do something worse.
However, he had no other choice.
They only have more than 2 hours to get the rest of the money to pay for the damages that Gong Sun caused to Dauntless. If he doesn't give them the money, Gong Sun will expose him and will lead to both of them being handcuffed and sent to prison.
Feng Huai couldn't allow himself to get locked up in a jail.
As soon as Feng Huai entered one of the studios on the eighth floor, he saw Zhao Yiqing lying on the sofa with headphones on his ears.
Probably because he saw the figure reflected on the glass window across from him, Zhao Yiqing turned his head in time to see Feng Huai entering his studio.
"You're here?" Zhao Yiqing smiled at him.
Feng Huai casually nodded, hiding his intentions and said, "You said you finished writing songs?"
"Yes, that's right. I stayed up late last night and composed all the songs in one go." He straightened from his lying position and proudly flashed a cheeky smile, "Aren't I amazing?"
Feng Huai was slightly stunned but calmed down. It was truly amazing to find someone finish an album in one go. But for somebody like Zhao Yiqing, it must be expected since he is a genius.
But it was also great for his purpose.
"Where is it?" He made his way to the right where the screens and music producing equipment were located. "How many songs did you write and compose? Are they all complete?"
Zhao Yiqing only pointed at the flash drive on his desk.
Feng Huai glanced at the flash drive but held back his greedy hands. He coughed lightly and asked, "Did you make any copies?"
"I only have two copies. One is in the computer and the other is in that flash drive."
"Wha a�"what about the producers? Did you tell them about this?"
Zhao Yiqing shook his head and stared at him innocently, "Not yet. I'm planning to tell them once I'm done thinking whether to use this for my next album or just take some songs from that and add it to the ones I will compose soon."
He took a pause before saying, "Besides, I want to know what you think about it first."
Feng Huai: "Why?"
Zhao Yiqing chuckled, "Obviously, because you are my manager."
After hearing this, Feng Huai was relieved. But at the same time, he felt somewhat melancholic. This youth... even though they didn't bond together a lot because Feng Huai was not there and sent assistants by his side, Feng Huai still felt it was a pity that he couldn't enjoy his time as a manager. He was so preoccupied trying to jump to another boat that he forgot that he had a promising artist under him.
Zhao Yiqing looked down at his phone and frowned.
"What's wrong?" Feng Huai noticed his expression and asked him.
Zhao Yiqing waved his hand and said, "It's nothing. A friend just wanted to meet with me."
Feng Huai was instantly elated when he heard this. He was actually feeling troubled on how he should drive Zhao Yiqing away, but now there is an excuse he could use!
Is heaven really siding with him?
Does God think that it was fate for him to get away from this trouble?
Feng Huai felt that he was truly blessed that the world was on his side.
He forced the corners of his lips down and said, "Oh, go and meet them then. Although you're a popular artist now, you still have to meet with friends. Don't waste your youth on one thing only."
Zhao Yiqing raised his eyebrows when he heard this.
Feng Huai added: "You should go now. I'll stay here for a bit before leaving. I still have some places to go later." He paused for a brief moment before he asked, "What is the name of the file for your album?"
Zhao Yiqing said the file name and a few more words to his manager before leaving the studio.
Feng Huai waited until a minute later before he opened the computer and searched for the file. He quickly deleted it and made sure that it was truly gone and irretrievable.
After doing this, he grabbed the flash drive and put it in his pockets and called Gong Sun, who already contacted some people who are willing to throw millions to buy one or two songs made by Zhao Yiqing.
Just when they thought that they were really fortunate, another music producer called Gong Sun and told him that he wanted to buy the entire album for exactly 60 million!
Gong Sun didn't even glance at the other offers and went straight to discuss it with this producer. 60 million was a lot of money and taking out the 55 million, he still has 5 million to spend on himself!
This was really good. Gong Sun happily arranged a meeting with this producer.
As for Feng Huai, he received the address and brought the flash drive with him.
But what they didn't know was that all of their actions were being displayed in front of two screens inside Ran Xueyi's office.
"Uhmm... Is my performance alright?" Zhao Yiqing hesitated to speak and after Feng Huai drove out of the office building, he finally opened his mouth.
Visit freewe𝑏(n)ovel.co(m) for the b𝘦st novel reading experience