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Chapter 258 - 256, Jay Chou, Sunny Day! (Third Update)_1

Chapter 258: 256, Jay Chou, Sunny Day! (Third Update)_1

About the emergence of 17 anonymous songs in the top 20 of the charts, many people felt this could very well be the highest record, truly a case of there being no precedent and likely no followers. However, some believe it’s entirely possible that geniuses have appeared seemingly from nowhere—and more than one at that?

Of course, there are those who think this is the work of a single person, very likely Yang Xi’s mysterious boyfriend. It seems on the surface that Liu Erbao, Yang Xi, and Jiang Siyao have nothing to do with each other.

But some knew that Yang Xi was Jiang Siyao’s cousin, and those three songs by Liu Erbao could very well be a resource exchange by Yang Xi’s secretive boyfriend. Could he have written three songs in exchange for the other party shooting a music video for Yang Xi?

Yet everyone knows what Liu Erbao is like. A simple exchange surely wouldn’t do. Perhaps Yang Xi’s mysterious boyfriend was already friends with Liu Erbao.

Who exactly is Yang Xi’s secretive boyfriend?! They looked into copyright ownership and found that these songs were sold outright to the current singers. This means if you want to cover these songs, you just have to pay Yang Xi, Liu Erbao, and Jiang Siyao. The copyright owner and the creator are actually two different things. Only "Encounter" is unclaimed and everyone is still afraid to use it. If the original creator had evidence to prove it’s their original work, those who used it could instantly be sued for damages. And nowadays, copyright protection is quite strong; it exists to protect this fledgling cultural industry.

Ren He’s identity is like a peculiar mystery—those who know keep their lips sealed, and those who don’t are dying to find out.

However, out of respect for Zhou Wumeng’s influence, not a single media outlet has tried to delve into Ren He’s identity. It’s as though everyone has collectively decided to ignore the matter.

To be honest, the most conflicted amidst all this noise is truly the committee of the Golden Melody Awards. This year’s awards are really tough to judge...

The Best Lyricist and Best Composer are all anonymous. When you can’t even find the person, how do you decide?!

Meanwhile, Ren He at Wind Cloud Center leisurely held his guitar in his yard, teasing and joking with Yang Xi. She thought about it and still refused, "If I say they’re written by me, that’d be too dishonest. If you can reveal your name in the future, these songs will still be yours. Let’s just stick with anonymous. If my mom asks, I’ll deny it to the death, or maybe I should just switch agencies."

Ren He found this amusing yet exasperating. The current media company Yang Xi worked for was set up by Su Ruqin specifically for her. If Yang Xi left, what would become of it? An agency without a single artist...

Yang Xi insisted, "Let’s just keep using anonymous. I believe my mom will agree."

Ren He, seeing the determination in Yang Xi’s eyes, felt there was nothing more to say. In truth, Yang Xi was a very opinionated person, it’s just that this aspect was less obvious since she was with him. But how could a girl who had been through wars and still maintained such a good mindset be simple? What he worried most about was that when Su Ruqin learned these songs were written by him, even if she wouldn’t use low-quality songs, she might refuse to use the songs he had written for Yang Xi, and that would truly be problematic.

If Yang Xi couldn’t use them, wouldn’t the songs he wrote be wasted? Should he sell them? But Ren He didn’t lack that little amount of money. The price of one song was merely the profit that would come from doing nothing at Kunlun...

The daily earnings of Qinghe Games were astonishingly high. In fact, the market values of internet companies typically surpass those of physical businesses mainly because the profit margins in the IT industry are just too high.

Just like how Tencent, compared to Huawei, has an annual revenue of 6.9 billion US dollars while Huawei has over 20 billion, yet investors prefer Tencent? That’s because Tencent’s costs are far lower than Huawei’s...

It’s precisely because Qinghe Games would bring Ren He a considerable fortune that he couldn’t care less about the income from selling his songs. Now that Yang Xi says she will try to persuade Su Ruqin, he decided to wait and see how things unfold. After all, Su Ruqin doesn’t know he’s already in the Capital or at No.4 Middle School. Even if she discovers there’s still contact between Yang Xi and Ren He, she’ll probably think it’s just online or phone communication. In Su Ruqin’s opinion, Ren He wouldn’t possibly come to the Capital for school.

As long as Yang Xi doesn’t get a transfer to study abroad, everything should be fine...

Ren He laughed and said, "Let me sing ’Lucky’ for you." It occurred to him that he hadn’t yet sung the original version of this song to Yang Xi.

This song is actually a very sad one. Its lyrics go, "It’s such luck to meet you, but I have lost the right to tears on your behalf," signaling a theme of "missed opportunity," yet people always remember the line, "It’s such luck to meet you..."

Ren He himself didn’t understand the mentality of singing at a wedding, "You spread your wings, it’s fate to meet you, how lucky she must be." Is that the groom’s way of wishing his bride happiness?

But he couldn’t change the trend. If everyone treated it as the wedding march, then a wedding march it shall be...

What could he do? He was also in despair...

As he finished singing ’Lucky’, Yang Xi’s gaze nearly melted away. Never mind all that, Ren He could tell that Yang Xi felt the same way, having heard "It turns out you’re the luck I wanted to keep the most."

"It’s beautiful," Yang Xi said with a smile full of happiness. Listening to this song felt to her like Ren He was confessing his love, and she could never get enough of it.

"I’m glad you like it," Ren He cheerfully replied. "I’ll give you another song today, let it be the standout in this album. Yeah, its style is pretty great."

"What song?" Yang Xi asked curiously.

The song Ren He had chosen for Yang Xi this time was not that obscure. It won the Best Song Award in the Taiwan and Hong Kong region at the 10th Global Chinese Music Chart Awards in 2003 and in 2005, it earned the Most Popular Song of the Year at the 4th Global Chinese Song Ranking.

It was Jay Chou’s song, ’Sunny Day’!

Those who understood Jay Chou knew that the lyrics he penned before getting married always reflected his lonely heart, revealing a delicate and restrained sorrow and vulnerability which differed from the mystical and quirky feelings spun by Fang Wenshan’s lyrics. Jay Chou’s emotions were quite abundant.

’Sunny Day’ was also one of Ren He’s favorite songs by Jay Chou, and now letting Yang Xi sing it wouldn’t feel out of place at all.

Ren He even considered letting Yang Xi transition to Jay Chou’s style of Chinese music, like ’East Wind Breaks’, ’The Longest Movie’, and ’Coldness’, but decided to take it slow and wait a bit longer.

As he was working on ’Sunny Day’, Fang Uncle and Mrs. Wang whispered in the kitchen, "That song our boss just sang sounded pretty nice."

"I’ve never heard it before. Could our boss write songs?" Mrs. Wang wondered.

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