Reborn since 2005

Chapter 406
The beginning of 2008 encountered a cold winter.

Even in Guangdong Province, the temperature is much lower than in previous years.

For this cold winter, Yan Xin had a deep impression in his previous life.

The first impression was about himself. At that time, he was still working as a security guard in Fengxiang City. Because at the end of the year, some security guards resigned and went home, and some security guards asked for leave to go home. The remaining employees could only work in two shifts, 12 per day. Hour.

At that time, working on the day shift was better, but working on the night shift was a torment. It was useless to wear the military overcoat issued by the company. When the wind blew outside, it was so cold to the bone that it was useless to wear any clothes.

At that time, I felt that going to work was too hard, and I thought about whether I should give up and go home and farm the land. I couldn’t earn money from farming, but anyway, I could keep food and clothing, and my time was free. other people's control.

Just thinking about the dilapidated house, thinking about the penniless and embarrassing days, thinking about living with his father every day, how boring life must be?
So, in the end, I gave up that idea.

Later, the heavy snow collapsed the house of his hometown and injured his father.

At that time, he couldn't even go home because the traffic was paralyzed.

His father was sent to the doctor by someone from the government.

I didn't go home until after the Spring Festival.

In that year, he deeply understood what it meant to add insult to injury.

So that in the following life, I have a special sense of fear of the cold.

But in this life, there is no such big worry.

The living conditions have changed. The place where he lives is equipped with an air conditioner, and he just turns on the air conditioner to keep warm when he feels cold.

And he doesn't need to work the night shift, he doesn't even need to work the day shift, and he won't be shivering in the cold wind and patrolling back and forth like in his previous life.

On his father's side, he wasn't so worried anymore.

I live in a new house, which is so strong that it is impossible for it to be overwhelmed by the snow.

What he is most worried about now is that under the ice and snow, his father will slip and fall when going out to work, and he may be injured.

But it will never be as dangerous as in the previous life.

He called home several times, saying that he should not go out to work in cold weather, especially in ice and snow weather.

He not only told his father, he also told his stepmother.

With such a distance, he couldn't supervise his father, but Wu Xiuhong could.

He made such a request, and Wu Xiuhong would take care of it.

He is still confident in this.

This confidence does not come from anything else, but from his family status - he is now the pillar of the family.

Not only the two old ones will rely on him to support them in the future, but even the young one, Bai Xiaoling, will rely on him to help them in the future.

With such an ability, one has a status that matches this ability, and one's words can be valued.

His words may not be of much use to his father, because that is his own father.

But at Wu Xiuhong's place, they will still be executed.

What he is most worried about now is not the snowstorm, but that two people who know about his relationship with Ai Lili have already known about his relationship with Feng Xi. past?

Even if neither of these two people can tell Ai Lili, but now there are two people who know, what about after that?

The number of people who know will only increase.

If Ai Lili went to the capital with him one day, or if Feng Xi came to Yangcheng to look for him one day, this matter would also be exposed.

In that case, there is no way to hide it even if you want to hide it.

It still hurts to think about it.

——Although he knew that this matter could not be concealed forever, and that it would be revealed sooner or later, he was already mentally prepared.

But when things come to an end, it is still inevitable to worry.

He knew the personalities of the two women, and it was impossible to make such a principled compromise in their relationship.

If the matter is revealed, he feels that the relationship with these two women will most likely come to an end.

The best result is that someone will forgive him and choose to continue walking.

It is impossible for both to forgive him and accept the existence of the other.

It is more likely that neither of them will forgive him, and both will choose to leave him.

That was really not what he wanted.

How to deal with the incident after it happened, and who should be retained, is really a big problem.

At least for now he doesn't have an answer.

He also dreaded the day when he would give the answer.

Just like everyone knows that people are going to die after all, but when that day comes, they still cannot avoid being afraid.

No matter how much mental preparation you do, it doesn't make much sense.

On January 1, after having lunch at Ai Jing's place, Yan Xin drove back to Yangcheng with Ai Lili.

Life is still the same as before, but Yan Xin has more worries in his heart.

The weather is getting cold.

It’s better in the north, where the winter is already cold, and the people living there are used to the temperature, so it’s not a big problem if it’s a little lower.

But it's different in the South.

The weather in the south is relatively warmer, and people in some places have never seen snow in their entire lives.

The temperature is a few degrees lower than in previous years, and it feels completely different.

That was really unbearable.

It was the cold without any precautions, which caught people off guard.

There was no trouble in Yan Xin's life.

However, as the cold snap became stronger and stronger, the traffic in a large area in the south was paralyzed, and some places were even caught in a large-scale power outage, which affected the data of online sales.

There is not a big problem in the north, but it is a big problem in the south.

Jinxi E-Commerce Company has already opened several online stores, and spent a lot of money on promotion, and the business is getting better and better.

But this time the cold snap came, and the traffic in a large area was paralyzed, which made it impossible to post in many places, and it was impossible to place orders in several provinces.

This will naturally affect sales performance.

Entering January, due to logistics problems, the sales data of Jinxi E-commerce Company has dropped by more than ten percentage points compared with the previous month.

Logically speaking, shopping should be even more popular at the end of the year.

This happens because of the weather.

Gu Ru's first solo album was also sold online, and it was already up for pre-sale before it was produced.

Also because there is no way to guarantee that the goods will be sent out before the Spring Festival, some chargebacks have been triggered.

Fortunately, Yan Xin knew about this situation a long time ago, and took some measures to deal with it. The record factory he chose was in the capital, and most areas were not affected.

January 1th is the day they are scheduled to officially release the album.

According to the pre-sale data calculated on January 1, there are more than 20 copies.

Originally, they decided to issue [-] copies. They felt that this number should not be too risky, and they would not be able to pay much.

Jinxi E-commerce Company's Nishang Yuyi Store also sponsored this album, and the reward was that the album included more than a dozen photos of Gu Ru wearing their Hanfu, and the name and website address of the online store were also posted. an ad.

With this sponsorship fee, as long as [-] to [-] copies of these [-] records can be sold, there will be no compensation.

I didn't expect that there would be more than 20 pre-sales.

It was beyond their expectations.

Originally, only 10 records were prepared, but another 20 were added later, making a total of 30.

It's just that there are some refunds later.

As of January 1, there were still more than 25 pre-sold copies, and the total number was even nearly 20 fewer than before.

But this puts no pressure on them. There is no loss if the backlog of tens of thousands of records cannot be sold. The production cost is not reflected in the final printing and distribution. If it is just a disc, there is no cost. There will be no loss, basically negligible.

According to industry practice, if the sales data of more than 20 copies is written as advertorials, the starting point is 50.

And it is still a sensational "sale of 50 copies on the first day".

——Yes, on January 1, such an advert appeared in entertainment newspapers that night, and also appeared in the entertainment news of several radio and television stations.

This is to create momentum for Gu Ru.

It is to draw a successful end to her final acting career, and at the same time, it is also to increase her social status, create a personality of a mainland music queen, and get more and better performance opportunities and advertising endorsement opportunities.

It's only the last month, and Gu Ru also wants to earn more.

The sales volume of her solo album is a big evidence to prove her status in the music world, and it is also the most powerful evidence.

False publicity on record sales was not initiated by Starlight Entertainment, it was done by the entire industry.

Leaving aside those falsehoods, let's talk about real sales. This data is also excellent.

The main reason is that she can play these songs, and each of them has the ability to be the main song.

Although it is the first solo album, the quality of this album is even better than that of the best selections.

More than a dozen highly sung classic songs are integrated into one record, and the original singers are all her, which is quite attractive to fans.

There's a bigger reason too, and that's that there's no piracy yet.

All of them are sold online, and they are sold by way of pre-sale one month in advance.

Before the arrival of January 25th, there is no such record on the market, and there is no way to pirate it if you want to.

——Although it is said that some pirated copies are produced by the original record factory itself, but now that the records are not officially sold, it is a bit too much to be pirated, and it is not good for people to make the appearance so ugly.

These songs of hers have been found on the Internet for a long time, many people have downloaded them, and there are also many assorted discs.

But at that time, the conditions were limited, the production was simple, there was not much cost involved, and the quality was not very good, just the quality of ordinary online songs.

The quality of the pirated records based on that version is naturally not much better, a strong copycat style.

As for this solo album, she invited a first-class production team to re-arrange the music in the best condition, and it took nearly a month to complete the production.

Each song has been released for half a minute on the Internet, and the listening effect is completely different, directly going up to a new level.

This naturally attracted many fans, willing to spend 20 yuan to buy such a high-quality album.

Among the sales of more than 20 copies, the users of Xingguang.com accounted for more than half.

Gu Ru is the first sister and one of the bosses of Starlight Entertainment Company, so of course the website should publicize it vigorously.

In addition, in order to make the sales data better, Gu Ru will also interact with fans on music forums when she is free.

With her current status as a celebrity, coming to a mobile website will definitely cause a sensation and attract a large number of people to watch.

Under such a publicity campaign, it is understandable that more people will buy her album.

This solo album is Gu Ru's first album, and it's also her last work. It's the embodiment of her dream for so many years, so she attaches great importance to it.

Even if he is busy with commercial performances outside, he will ask Yan Xin about the online pre-sale data every day.

After the number of pre-sales exceeded [-] copies, she said this:

"My life is worth it! I am worthy of my dream! I am worthy of my youth!"

Years of persistence finally paid off.

With this achievement, you can leave a deep footprint in the music world.

This is the 21st century when people in the industry lament that "records are dead". There are not many in the entire Chinese-speaking region who can achieve such an achievement.

She is also worthy of pride.

This year she did not receive an invitation to Zhuaner TV's Spring Festival Gala, because she had already attended last year, but it is not surprising that she did not attend this year.

She is not a member of the Spring Festival Gala. She doesn't have such a network of contacts, and she rushed to the Spring Festival Gala relying on the popularity of her songs.

It is not easy to be able to go to the last session. If you want to go for two consecutive years, you have not yet reached that point.

However, although she did not appear on Zhuaner TV's Spring Festival Gala, she received invitations from several satellite TV Spring Festival Gala.

Those satellite TV Spring Festival Gala broadcast live and recorded, there is no conflict in time, and the ratings over the years have always been good.

Most importantly, the price is quite high.

As long as the schedule can be arranged, Gu Runa will not refuse anyone who comes, and accepts the invitations of the four satellite TV's Spring Festival Gala in one go.

In addition, there are platter concerts, annual meetings of large companies, and activities in large shopping malls. There are quite a lot of performance opportunities.

At the end of the year, she received several invitations to endorse in advertising, and she had already asked Xiao Yin to talk to the other party.

As long as she can earn money, she doesn't want to miss it.

In January, Chen Li's physical publishing fee for the second half of 1 was settled, and he gave half of it to Yan Xin, and the remaining half was enough for him to repay the more than 2007 million borrowed from Gu Ru.

He even used the rest of the money to buy a house of more than 100 square meters in Pengcheng, and a parking space by the way.

He said this to Yan Xin: "In case the mother and son do not get along well abroad and are going back to China, this house will be given to them, and I will be benevolent."

After he and Liang Wei rejoined as QQ friends, they didn't have much time to chat, but Liang Wei would still take the initiative to tell him about the child - after all, he paid 20 US dollars.

The child has not yet been born, but the gender is already known, it is a son.

Liang Wei also asked Chen Li what name he wanted to name his son.

Chen Li replied to her: "He was born in the United States, and he will be an American in the future. You can give him a name in the United States. You are his mother and his guardian. It is up to you to decide, and you don't need to ask me."

But looking back, he asked Yan Xin again:

"If I have a son, what kind of name should I choose?"

Yan Xin was very strange: "Don't you want a son? How did you think of this question?"

"Isn't there now?" Chen Li said depressingly.

Yan Xin froze for a moment, understood what was going on, and said to him: "That's up to you to think for yourself, you don't even know how to name a writer, you ask me? Don't you think this is funny?"

Chen Li was surprised: "What's so funny? Didn't you pick the names of the main characters in my two books?"

Yan Xin couldn't say that he plagiarized the name, so he patted his shoulder and said meaningfully:

"I can't take away the happiness you deserve as a father. Your son's name can only be taken by you."

(End of this chapter)