After failing the college entrance examination, he became a big star

Chapter 173
Wednesday.

As soon as Li Kai entered the company, he went to the deputy director's office first, communicated with Qiao Li, talked about the dinner with Mr. Ren last night, and revealed the fact that the Spring Festival Gala quota was cheated, and finally apologized to Qiao Li , His promise that night could not be fulfilled.

Without his consent, the company spoke out to the outside world without his permission, which caused a crack in Li Kai's heart.

The reason is simple. He was a rookie before, and he would inevitably be targeted and beaten by the company in any record company, but now his album is selling well, and maybe after another week, the sales will break platinum. He is a veritable first-line singer, but Still being negative, this is not the practice of all record companies!
If the person behind the scenes is found out, severely punished by the company, and given an explanation, the cracks can still be erased.

But then, when he learned from Shan Weidong that his quota for the Spring Festival Gala had been shady, the crack in Li Kai's heart suddenly spread.

Falsely using his Spring Festival Gala spot to negotiate terms with him, and after being rejected by him, he tried every means to find someone to replace him. This approach is too dark, and it is not the practice of all record companies.

In fact, by this time, the rift has become difficult to erase, and the meal with Mr. Ren last night directly turned the rift into an unhealable rift.

The general manager was repeatedly rejected face to face, so it's strange if there is no grudge in his heart.

Offend the general manager, and then renew the contract with the company, unless there is something wrong with the brain!

Qiao Li's expression was first stunned, then surprised, then angry, and finally calmed down bit by bit.

She sighed and nodded slightly: "I see."

"Mr. Qiao, Sister Ning and I will go to Beijing tomorrow. If there is an invitation from a performance company to perform, as long as the quotation is not too low and the schedule does not overlap, I will take care of everything for me. I will appoint an agent when I join the company next week. Part of the time will not be in the company."

After Li Kai finished speaking, he got up and left.

At noon, Ni Houdao asked Li Kai to have dinner together, and mentioned Jiang Shanlan's matter to him. After hearing this, Li Kai only hesitated for a moment, and then agreed to write a song or two for Jiang Shanlan.

Ni Houdao is his exclusive manager, his right-hand man at work, and Li Kai also regards him as a friend in personal relationship, as long as the request is not too embarrassing, he will not refuse.

As for the operation of buying out the contract, naturally he doesn't need to bother, Ni Houdao will communicate with Qiao Li.

In the afternoon, I found Ning Lan again to get a general idea of ​​the promotional activities of the crew, and made an appointment to meet downstairs at the company at nine o'clock tomorrow.

In the evening, Li Kai asked Xue Bing to have dinner together.

Su Ting was eleven and didn't go home during the Chinese New Year. When she called him this Monday, she asked him for a two-week vacation. Li Kai had no reason not to agree.

As for going to the capital tomorrow, Ning Lan will return on Saturday, and Li Kai doesn't plan to let people from the company accompany her, and it's boring to be alone, so she thought of Xue Bing.

As soon as Xue Bing heard that he was going to the capital with Li Kai, he agreed without saying a word. The construction team had found it, and the decoration of the house had already started, and Xiaopang would just watch over it.

Thursday, early in the morning.

Li Kai first met Xue Bing, had breakfast in a pastry shop, and arrived downstairs at the company at five minutes to nine.

Not long after, Ning Lan walked out of the office building. Apart from Li Xia and Ma Qian, she was accompanied by two security guards assigned by the company, one of whom was also a driver.

The equipment specifications of the team are comparable to that of Li Kai, the travel standard of first-line singers!

"This is my brother, Xue Bing, this is the big singer Ning Lan, Sister Ning, this is her manager, Li Xia, Sister Li" Li Kai introduced it, and a security guard drove a commercial vehicle to the square , After a group of people got in the car, they went directly to the airport.

When they arrived at the airport, Li Kai bought a ticket for Xue Bing out of his own pocket. The group passed through the security check, and stayed at the waiting area for more than half an hour. They checked in and boarded the plane in the early eleven o'clock.

In less than three hours, the plane landed at the Beijing Airport. When the group passed through the security check and left for the arrival exit, Li Xia saw a newspaper store. Impatient, she ran over immediately, and after a while, she chased after her again with There are four more newspapers.

After getting on the commercial vehicle that came to pick up the plane, Li Xia looked down and looked at it. Ning Lan, who was sitting beside her, took off her mask, revealing her flimsy face, and slightly shook her head, "Are the screen full of arguments again? Whether the wind in the music world blows east or west.”

Li Xia looked at it and said, "The popular faction and the over-the-top faction are completely competing this time, and the popularity will not subside until April."

As he was speaking, his voice stopped abruptly, and his expression changed.

"What's the big news?" Ning Lan looked straight out of the corner of her eyes, raised her slender eyebrows, tilted her head and moved closer. After a while, her bright eyes widened with disbelief.

Afterwards, the eyes of the two quickly shifted, and after about a minute, they looked at each other, frowning tightly.

"Li Kai. Mr. Qiao talked to you about the trend of the music world?" Ning Lan turned her head, her eyes were a little complicated.

Li stared blankly: "No."

Ning Lan was stunned for a moment, and after a while, she thought of something, and a look of sullenness flashed across her face, Li Kai saw it in her eyes, and couldn't help asking: "What's the matter?"

Ning Lan let out a sigh of relief, casually took the newspaper in Li Xia's hand, and handed it to Li Kai.

Li opened his eyes and swept, his face darkened bit by bit.

The company has spoken out again. Unlike the last time, it is no longer an ordinary employee of the marketing department, but the director of the marketing department personally took part in the battle, defining his album as a lyrical slow song series, with a length of more than 1000 words, including two emphasis, "Qilixiang" " and "Norwegian Forest" are Li Kai's inspired works, and even hinted that the source of inspiration is not Li Kai alone, but the spark of inspiration when he communicated with other songwriters.

"Li Kai, you must calm down and understand the situation before you speak." Li Xia looked at his face, and a look of worry flashed in her eyes. If it was the first time the company made a sound, it might be someone behind the scenes, then now, the second The second time I spoke out, the point of view remained the same, and the high-level executives came forward, making it clear that they had the tacit approval of the general manager!

If at this time, Li Kai impulsively accepts media interviews and sings against the company, it is tantamount to breaking with the company, and the consequences
Li Kai took a deep breath, suppressed the anger in his heart, and nodded silently.

When we arrived at the hotel, Li Xia didn't need to make this call from Li Kai. Li Xia first called Qiao Li's office, but the secretary said that Qiao Li had gone out, so she called Qiao Li's copy machine again. A few minutes later, Qiao Li called back and learned Knowing the situation, he was silent for a full minute, and then he only said one sentence: "I will return to the company later and tell Li Kai that I have news from here, contact him as soon as possible, do not contact the media, absolutely do not express your opinion! "

At the end of the call, Li Xia relayed Qiao Li's original words. Li Kai looked calm and nodded, "I understand."

Qiao Li rushed back to the company in the early [-] o'clock, bought a few entertainment newspapers along the way, saw the report of the marketing director's interview with the reporter, and was also very angry.

"Mr. Ren, what's going on?" Going straight to the general manager's office, Qiao Li slapped the newspaper on the desk without sitting down.

Mr. Ren looked at her, picked up the newspaper and glanced at her for a few more times, with a calm expression on his face, he pressed his hand to signal Qiao Li to sit down, and then said in a calm manner: "The two songwriters who have signed long-term contracts with the company, You know their attitude."

Qiao Li was angry, and she didn't care about her subordinates, so she interrupted: "Didn't they keep silent during the regular meeting on Monday?"

"Listen to me." Mr. Ren pressed his hand and signaled her not to worry: "It's not just them. In the past two days, several songwriters in the industry have called me, and three of them are famous songwriters."

Qiao Li narrowed her pupils.

"I'm not going to hide it from you. Although I was not the one who nodded when the company made a statement to the outside world, I also heard a hint of the wind in advance. I just turned a blind eye and pretended not to know. But this time, it was I who gave the instruction personally. The old crane is Do as I want."

Mr. Ren sighed: "Three famous songwriters, five famous songwriters, these people are added together. What's more, when Li Kai accepted the media interview without authorization, he put the hat of "misleading children" on Mr. Ge, Also without the permission of the company, now the company is just imitating it, and I don’t think there is anything wrong with it.”

Qiao Li was silent, not because she felt that what Mr. Ren said was reasonable, but because she understood the key point. The eight big and medium singers of songwriting and music worked together to exert pressure. As a senior person in the circle, she knew how much pressure this was.

If it is not necessary, not to mention that Mr. Ren is only the boss of a first-line record company, even the bosses of the five giants will not easily offend him.

She knew it was irreversible.
Qiao Li left, Mr. Ren lit a cigarette, his face was thoughtful, his eyes sometimes flickered, and sometimes he was a little confused. Just when the cigarette was about to burn out, the phone on the desk rang up.

He picked up the phone and said hello: "Who is it? I will let you know."

"President Ren, it's me, Ge Guangyao."

"Mr. Ge, hello."

"Well, I discussed it with a few friends, and added six more songs on top of the conditions last time."

Mr. Ren's expression was shocked, and his breathing unconsciously became rapid, but soon, a tangled look appeared on his face.

Before he could say anything, the other end said calmly: "Six songs, plus the six promised before, can make Time Records produce three to five first-line singers."

These words passed through Mr. Ren's heart like an electric current, making him throbbing unceasingly, and the tangled look on his face faded a lot. After a while of silence, a gleam flashed in his eyes, and he took a deep breath and said, "Okay." .”

Li Kai received Qiao Li's call back, and Qiao Li did not hide anything, and told Mr. Ren's original words, and named the key point, which was the will of the eight songwriters.

"Hehe, three big coffees and five medium coffees all put pressure on me, a small coffee, and they really think highly of me." Li opened his mouth with a sneer.

"Li Kai, I know you are angry, but don't be impulsive. If the company speaks out twice, if you go against the company."

"How about playing against the tune? Is it possible to hide me?"

The sneer at the corner of Li's mouth opened even more: "Mr. Qiao, my current quotation for commercial performances, even if it is less than 20 yuan for one performance, 15 yuan is more than enough. Even if I only run 10 commercial performances a month, it is 150 million yuan, 1800 million yuan a year." 800, the company will share half of it, get rid of some additional expenses, bonuses and the like, let alone [-] million net profit, hide me, ha ha."

After having dinner with Mr. Ren that night, Li Kai thought about all kinds of possibilities, and after much deliberation, the company couldn't do anything to him.

As for the songwriter, he has 100% autonomy.

The singer is about a year and a half away, but he is no longer a rookie at the beginning. With his first album selling well, he is sure to leap into the front line. Maybe he was angry and hurt others and himself.

The only thing that can hold him back is the release of the next album. There is no rush, the album will definitely be released, but it will take at least half a year. At that time, he can use the commercial performances to negotiate terms with the company.

Other singers and even songwriters are controlled by the company, but Li Kai has no such worries at all!
Qiao Li sighed and said, "Li Kai, don't say such embarrassing words, it's not good for you or the company if you get too involved with the company."

"Mr. Qiao, I have a sense of proportion. I don't know how to do things that harm others and benefit myself. I'll hang up."

At the end of the call, Li opened his mouth to sneer, and his face was a little gloomy. He was just trying to be strong with his mouth. In this matter, he really had to admit it.

After all, he is a singer under the company, and the relationship with the company is too tense. It is definitely not a wise move. Of course, this is not the main point. What is more important is that Xu Qianqiu and Feng Mo have made it very clear. He just needs to stand up and express his opinion. , no matter which point of view is pros and cons, it will offend a lot of people, and the only choice is silence.

That night, he worked hard with the treadmill in the hotel gym. He trotted for over an hour, sweating twice as much as usual, and finally lay down on the floor. Fell asleep in the gym.

Friday afternoon.

As guests, Li Kai and Ning Lan attended the promotional activities of the crew, sang the theme song of the TV series live, and participated in the dinner party of the crew, and they didn't return to the hotel until after ten o'clock at night.

Saturday, early in the morning.

Ning Lan and her group set off to return to Shenzhen City. Ning Lan's new album will be released in about ten days, and the warm-up promotion will start in another week. There is still a lot of preparatory work.

Li Kai didn't go with them, he just said that he had nothing to do on the weekend and went to some scenic spots with Xue Bing.

When it was almost noon, Shan Weidong called and asked him to have dinner together at a club. Li Kai specifically asked if he could bring an extra friend.

Shan Weidong had no objection, and told Li Kai that Liu Mingliang was not alone, as well as his manager and assistants.

In the afternoon, Li Kai and Xue Bing went to a nearby leisure plaza, played bowling, billiards, and squash, then went back to the hotel to take a shower, and then set off.

Arrive at the clubhouse before 90 o'clock, the clubhouse is a membership system, in the [-]s, even in the first-tier cities, it was very rare, Shan Weidong said hello beforehand, Li Kai gave his name, and a waiter led them there private room.

The private room is not luxurious, but it is very distinctive. There is a watercolor painting on the wall, showing an ancient charm.

Li Kai and Li Kai talked about the mountains while drinking tea, and not long after, Liu Mingliang and the other three came.

Shan Weidong was dressed in casual clothes, with a big belly and a friendly smile on his face.

Liu Mingliang's clothes are also very simple, also casual. On his handsome face, the smile is like a warm gaze, and his eyes are big and energetic, which is no different from what he usually sees on TV.

His assistant, like Li Kai, is a woman, a few years older than Su Ting's. She looks 26, neither pretty nor ugly. She is dressed in gray business attire, and her mid-length hair is tied into a braid. , looks very capable.

This is the first real meeting between the two parties, but there is not much feeling of unfamiliarity.

Liu Mingliang is the king of heaven, and he has long heard that there is no big-name airs. As expected, it was not counted to shake hands with Li Kai, but he reached out to shake hands with Xue Bing.

After exchanging pleasantries, they sat down.

Shan Weidong chatted with him for a few words, then got up with a smile, and called the waiter to order food in the sofa area outside.

"There is something that I have always felt guilty about. I wanted to talk to you at the beginning, but Wei Dong stopped me and said that we will talk about it after we meet. Only in this way can we be sincere."

Liu Mingliang's smile has a unique affinity, even if there is a bit of apology in his eyes at this time, there is no sense of disobedience.

Li Kai took a sip of the tea and asked doubtfully, "Oh, could it be that you have done something wrong?"

"It doesn't count, it depends on how you understand it."

Liu Mingliang thought about it, and said: "Because in the past two years, I released the film a week before the Spring Festival, people in the circle took it for granted that this was my fixed release date, but in fact, this year, I was planning to change the schedule at first. of."

Li blinked.

"Do you know why I changed the schedule back?"

Seeing Li shaking his head openly, Liu Mingliang pointed at him, with a bit of embarrassment in his smile: "It's because you announced the release date first, so I decided to release the film at the same time as you. Because the recording of my album was not finished, that week, I was rushing day and night, and I slept less than six hours a day."

Li was greatly surprised, he dared not choose to be at the same time as Liu Mingliang, but Liu Mingliang chose to be at the same time as him.

"It's not intentional to make you misunderstood by the circle and the media, but for a reason. As I said, it depends on how you understand it."

Liu Mingliang made a gesture: "My new album is the same as yours, combining three styles of music at the same time. The only difference is that I am a little conservative. The first focus is still lyrical slow songs, and the second and third focus on trying other styles."

"How will the sales of this album be? I have no idea, but I know very well that I need to find an opponent who will put pressure on me and at the same time test the gold for my album. There is a principle of avoidance among super-lines. This The principle has not changed so far, and those first-line top streamers are basically under the banner of the five giants. The company will definitely not agree. As a result, you set the release date for the day before the Spring Festival, which made my eyes shine. Although you He is just a rookie, but he is the rookie king, and his first single has broken several records, so he is the most suitable opponent."

"Yes."

Liu Mingliang didn't continue, but Li Kai understood the meaning, his eyes flickered slightly, unexpectedly, Liu Mingliang's original intention coincided with his own, and an indescribable throbbing could not help but arise in his heart, maybe this is called: There is a heart-to-heart connection!
(End of this chapter)