Becoming a Movie Star, System Only Finished Loading After Ten Years
Chapter 122 - 121 Are You Kidding Me? (Request for Monthly Ticket)

Chapter 122: Chapter 121 Are You Kidding Me? (Request for Monthly Ticket)

"I heard you’re buying scripts for high prices, are you planning for full-scale development? Those musicians say they’re getting less money from you."

Once you add the prefix "high price," it’s equivalent to labeling someone as a sucker, and the news spreads particularly quickly.

Even music industry folks like Jin Dazhou now know Qi Hao Studio is collecting scripts.

"If they can write a good script, they can bring it over and take a look."

Qi Hao was in Jin Dazhou’s recording studio, taking the water Jin Dazhou eagerly handed over to soothe his throat.

It was his third day participating in the album recording.

The early stages were mainly practice, the formal recording hadn’t started yet.

His skills aren’t particularly high; what’s recorded still needs some polishing.

Of course, even professional singers need all sorts of sound adjustments.

"Let’s forget about them, they can’t even write songs properly."

Jin Dazhou was most frustrated by his inability to write scripts.

It’s said that if the script is good, it can fetch a price of five million.

Damn, after working for three years, he didn’t even accumulate five million.

"Dazhou, do you think my album has a chance of winning the Best Newcomer Award?"

After recording for a few days, Qi Hao felt wonderful, especially after listening to edited samples. He began imagining what it would be like if he’d debuted as a singer in the past.

"Are you kidding me?"

Jin Dazhou initially wanted to ridicule him, but remembering that this person is a major investor, he immediately changed his tone:

"Even if you go up there and sing ’Two Tigers,’ you wouldn’t fall to the level of just winning a Newcomer Award! Is the organizer crazy? Do they not want to host next time? The 9th CCTV-MTV Music Awards even gave the Most Popular Female Singer Award to Chen Hao, can you believe it?"

For some reason, Qi Hao seemed even more gloomy after being comforted by Jin Dazhou.

Sigh, rich people’s troubles are really hard to understand.

"Forget it, let’s continue recording."

Qi Hao felt disheartened but had no choice.

Since he was already there.

Having spent so much money on this album, he couldn’t just quit halfway.

Originally, for the MV task, Qi Hao didn’t spend a single penny, everything was gratis. He smugly thought free rides were indeed delightful.

But as for the Newcomer Award task, he’d already invested several hundreds of thousands, with potential marketing costs it might reach a million.

The worst part is, even with a million it might not complete the task.

Shit!

Qi Hao was now training four times a week, with a total cost of 111,000 yuan.

A month amounts to four to five hundred thousand.

Then add in maintaining studio operations, marketing and PR, personal expenses...

His post-tax annual income is only ten to twenty million.

He’s almost becoming financially unsustainable.

Selling Mrs. Hua’s stocks wasn’t only about entering the capital game, but also a thirst for cash flow.

"Second time, get ready, start!"

"...In winter, I want to buy you a scarf / Afraid my taste isn’t good so I called my trendy sister to come with me / Talking and laughing with my sister / Easing recent bad moods / At the next corner / I run into you / She’s just my sister..."

"Emotion, put some emotion into it, Teacher Qi Hao, aren’t you an actor? Listen to it a second time." Jin Dazhou patiently urged.

"Which line?" Qi Hao also kept his patience.

Workwise, everyone was mutually compatible, no need to hold the client position arrogantly.

"The part ’run into you’ following ’She’s just my sister,’ here you can feel some grievance to reflect the paleness and helplessness of the explanation."

Jin Dazhou hoped Qi Hao could express intricate emotions.

Use emotion to compensate for technical shortcomings.

This should be Qi Hao’s strength; after all, he’s an award-winning actor.

So far, as a professional award, the Golden Rooster Award in Huaxia still holds a high value.

"Let me try..."

Qi Hao put on his headphones and continued practicing his new song.

On Xu Song’s side, he had actually provided the song’s story background.

The song’s protagonist is a couple facing relationship issues.

The girl’s attitude towards the boy became very cold, so to cajole her, he called his trendy sister along to pick out a gift at the store.

But just when they picked a gift, on the way back, they ran into the girl accompanied by another boy, making the scene awkward.

The loyal admirer hoped to salvage the relationship, hastily explaining the one beside him was his sister, and gave her a purple scarf.

The girl just nonchalantly accepted the gift, thanked him.

The girl didn’t care about the boy’s explanation, which perfectly correlates with the song title ’Excessive Explanation.’

So, in the song, "she’s just a sister" and "how many good sisters do you have?" are two different matters.

Qi Hao compared it with himself.

He realized he could actually find empathy from the story.

Everyone says he has many rumors, but in fact, he hasn’t even dated a formal girlfriend these years.

Explanations are futile.

Others hype up rumors about Qi Hao, as long as it’s not too ridiculous, he rarely goes out of his way to clarify.

Primarily because, when he became famous back then, he benefited partly from the rumors.

Spreading rumors was something his manager, Old Tian, started after becoming Qi Hao’s agent, handling things somewhat clumsily.

However, the person involved didn’t immediately clarify, giving Qi Hao the opportunity to digest the fame and seek resources.

But allowing others to spread rumors isn’t without consequences.

Even when you meet someone you’re interested in, it would cause doubts.

"Yeah, this time’s emotional processing is very good. Actually, Qi Hao, your voice is still quite decent, with professional training, you can adapt to various singing styles."

Jin Dazhou expressed satisfaction with the test recording.

With that, all six songs were more or less rehearsed.