Chapter 166 Main Audition

After meeting both parents, the two seemed to foresee a happy life in the future and were full of motivation for work.

During the Chinese New Year, Xu Rui and Yan Ran went to each other's homes to pay New Year greetings, and also took her to visit her grandfather. The rest of the time was spent either attending parties or busy with album announcements.

"There really are no holidays in the entertainment industry. I'm a person who can't go to the Spring Festival Gala. Why am I so busy?" Xu Rui took the time to complain to Lu Ziliang.

Lu Ziliang smiled and said: "It shows that you are in the process of accumulation. You are busy now so that you can stand on a higher stage in the future."

"Stop fooling me with these words." Xu Rui said that he did not accept this trick. "This is just like studying hard now so that you can have fun in college. How many ignorant children have been deceived."

"Okay, I can't defeat you." Lu Ziliang didn't argue with him. Anyway, Xu Rui complained and complained, and work was indispensable. "After the New Year, the assistants and team I hired for you will come to work. In addition, the company I have already inquired, and no top singer will release an album in February. After discussions, the final album release date is set at 2.18.”

"Huh?" Xu Rui was surprised, "Isn't that my birthday?"

Lu Ziliang nodded: "Yes, I will prepare an online birthday party for you at the same time as the album is released."

"emmm..." Xu Rui muttered.

"What's wrong?" Lu Ziliang asked.

Xu Rui said seriously: "I have been thinking for a long time, but I can't think of a reason not to spend my birthday with my girlfriend, but to cooperate with your activities!"

Lu Ziliang guessed that he didn't have anything nice to say, so he advised: "The birthday party is only for an hour. It won't delay your date. You haven't seen that many celebrities will take the time to do this event. This is a way to maintain fans, and it is also good for the sales of your first album. Think about it, the album is released on your birthday, and it’s normal for fans to buy it as a birthday gift.”

Xu Rui immediately said: "The reason why fans are fans is that I will buy albums even on my birthday!"

Lu Ziliang was speechless for a moment. He felt that Xu Rui was a professional bully. The key is that if this bully is not willing to do anything, the company really can't do anything to him.

However, after being together for so long, Lu Ziliang has finally learned how to comfort Xu Rui. He handles this guy just like a cat, just caress him along his fur.

Lu Ziliang advised: "Many people have worked overtime to plan for you, and online fans are also looking forward to it. If you don't show up, the staff will be busy in vain, and the fans will be very sad."

Xu Rui was very keen: "Are you trying to kidnap someone morally?"

"No, how could it be!" Lu Ziliang denied flatly.

"Okay, okay, just one hour!" Xu Rui agreed.

…

As soon as the Spring Festival holiday was over, the promotion of Xu Rui's new album began. The album was named "Over the Hills". Just the announcement of the album title aroused many people's interpretation and discussion.

Then music radio and other media platforms released a one-minute preview version of the number one hit "The Wind Rises".

She Jianqiu had just returned from his hometown after the Chinese New Year. He got into a taxi from the airport. He sat in the back seat and flipped through his phone.

Seeing that he had no intention of chatting, the driver in front turned on the car radio and tuned it to the music channel.

She Jianqiu was scrolling through the hot search list when he suddenly heard the DJ on the radio introducing: "I have a surprise for everyone tonight, that is singer Xu Rui's first album "Over the Hills", the first hit "The Wind Rises" 》It will be broadcast on the radio for the first time and will meet the audience on this station. Let us listen to it together. ”

She Jianqiu sat up straight and heard Xu Rui's voice on the radio: "Hello everyone, I am the singer Xu Rui. This is the FM104.7 music radio channel. I am very happy to share my new album song with you here. This is The name of the song is "The Wind Rises", I hope you like it."

Just as the song was about to start, the driver reached out and turned on the car radio to switch to the traffic news channel.

The emotions that She Jianqiu had been brewing collapsed in an instant. He patted the back of the co-pilot's seat excitedly and shouted: "Master, move back, hurry up and move back."

The driver was shocked. This was the first time he had seen such a big passenger being reflected on a different radio channel. He quickly switched back, fearing that the passenger would suddenly slash someone if he didn't meet the other party's request.

Fortunately, the driver moved quickly, and the back and forth didn't take much time. The audition was still playing, and it happened to be the chorus part, and only the chorus part.

"I once had a hard time extricating myself from the size of the world

I also indulged in it and talked in my sleep.

No need to be true or false, no struggle, no fear of jokes

I once turned my youth into her

I also had summer popping up at my fingertips

Just go with whatever your heart brings you

…”

But just these few sentences conquered the ears of most listeners, including She Jianqiu.

The driver glanced at the rearview mirror and saw She Jianqiu's comfortable expression after listening to the song. He was a little surprised at first. He always felt that he could understand this state. After thinking about it carefully, he suddenly understood that this was not the way he was raped by his wife. Staring at how you will look when you quit smoking until you can't help but smoke one secretly, it feels so comfortable!

Recalling that he had not quit smoking no matter how hard he tried, but his wife's craving for cigarettes faded away when she became pregnant, the driver recalled the song just now and felt something in his heart, so he asked, "Are you a musician?"

She Jianqiu nodded: "Barely, I'm a music critic."

"Music critic?" The driver thought for a while, "I see, he's just like a sommelier. He doesn't know how to make wine, and he's responsible for picking and choosing."

She Jianqiu was stunned. The driver was probably irritating him, but the tone didn't sound like it.

Before he figured it out, he heard the driver's interested question: "How do you make money?"

She Jianqiu felt that the driver really had no ill intentions, he just didn't use the right words. If "responsible for picking and choosing" was replaced with "expressing insightful opinions", it would sound much better.

Anyway, the driver couldn't steal his job, so he didn't hide it: "We just write music reviews and columns. If we do well, companies will invite us to write press releases and soft articles, and we can also take some advertisements. If we do better, we may be invited to appear on TV shows."

The driver said he understood: "If you do well, you make money, but if you don't do well, you will starve. So, you make money or starve."

"..."She Jianqiu felt that the driver should be a snake, too venomous, and he must have offended many passengers. "I make a little money, and it's not a problem to support myself."

"That's good."

"Yeah."

After chatting for a while, the driver drove seriously, and She Jianqiu's thoughts returned to music, thinking about the first hit of Xu Rui's first album.

The melody of the chorus was imprinted in his mind after just one listen. The melody was pleasant and the lyrics were moving.

"It seems to be an album worth looking forward to!"

New Year, new atmosphere. Just after the New Year, She Jianqiu, like many fans, had new expectations.