Bright Era of China Entertainment

Chapter 780 Unexpected Situation
Shenzhen was prosperous and bustling after nightfall, but Liang Datong, who was originally walking and chatting with the directors, feeling the strong advanced and modern atmosphere of the metropolis, suddenly lost his good mood after receiving a phone call.

Even after the script was coordinated last year, music producer Zhou Jielun proposed the copyrights of two songs, one is the recording and adaptation rights of the Russian song "Stars", and the other is the recording rights of "Invisible Wings", the representative work of Taiwan singer Zhang Shaohan, in order to better fit the corresponding plot of "My Love from the Star".

Recording rights refer to the right to sing covers and the right to insert into films and TV shows, and cannot be adapted at will.

The right of adaptation refers to the right of secondary creation, which allows the song to be adapted.

Recording rights and adaptation rights are also the two most commonly sold copyright rights in the global music industry.

What Zhou Jie Lun meant was that in order to adapt "Stars" into Chinese, he needed an additional adaptation right, while for "Invisible Wings" he only needed a normal cover, which only required a recording right.

In order to make "My Love from the Star" better, and with the big sponsorship fees in place and the related copyrights of the two songs, Li Yu readily agreed.

After communication at the end of last year, relevant personnel from Century Culture went to Russia to negotiate with Vitas Music Copyright Company after the New Year. The deal was reached two days ago and the copyright was obtained.

International negotiations are a bit troublesome, but domestic music copyright is much simpler. A call was made to the music company that Zhang Shaohan signed with in Taiwan. When the other party heard that "Invisible Wings" would be used as the interlude of Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei's new drama, they agreed very readily. This was something they were eager to do, as they could get copyright fees and the song might become more popular. How could the capital refuse?

This matter originally had nothing to do with Liang Datong. The copyright was handled by his own company and had no direct contact with him, the production director of the crew.

He only needs to lead the team to formulate the shooting plan of "My Love from the Star" step by step, deciding what to shoot today, tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow. He just needs to make proper arrangements based on the plan and the actual situation inside and outside the crew, and ensure that the crew and the director can shoot smoothly.

The copyright of "Invisible Wings" was acquired earlier, so he had arranged the corresponding part of this song in the drama in advance. This part is a concert scene with Yang Mi and Gulina as the main characters, and Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei as the audience.

The relevant sponsorship scenes for this scene have been arranged, and director Chu Xuan can start filming in ten days or half a month.

The copyright of "Star" was acquired just two days ago, and the related scenes can be put on the schedule.

Everything seemed to be going well, but then an unexpected accident occurred.

"Lao Liang, something happened to Zhang Shaohan. You guys may have to be prepared to adjust your roles."

A call from a colleague at the company made him a little confused.

Something happened to Zhang Shaohan?

No, what does Zhang Shaohan’s accident have to do with him?
Do you also need to be prepared to adjust your roles?
This is even more ridiculous. What does a singer’s accident have to do with their crew?

"It's all negative news. Weibo Entertainment is dominating the trending searches. Her songs may be boycotted."

When his colleague said this, Liang Datong was speechless.

Is there any negative news about Zhang Shaohan?

Still dominating the trending searches?

This is not the point. The point is, will the song still be boycotted?
This won’t work. If the song is boycotted, then “My Love from the Star” using “Invisible Wings” will naturally have a negative impact.

Liang Datong was not in the mood to take a walk, so he said goodbye to his teachers and hurried back to the hotel.

The truth is that you have to see it with your own eyes.

As soon as he returned to the hotel, he turned on his computer and logged into Weiyu to take a look.

#Zhang Shaohan's Seven Deadly Sins#
#Zhang Shaohan's Unfilial Daughter#
#Zhang Shaohan is ruthless and ungrateful#
#Zhang Shaohan bullies his mother and insults his father#
#Zhang Shaohan kicked his mother out of the house, and didn't visit his father during surgery or spend a penny#
#Zhang Shaohan instigated his sister to form an alliance and openly broke with his mother#
#The former best friend broke up, Fan Weiqi said she was very disappointed, she didn't expect Zhang Shaohan to be such a person#
Liang Datong was very surprised. It was the first time he saw negative news about a person dominate the hot searches.

If it is true, then Zhang Shaohan is a really outstanding person, and he has been deserted by everyone.

If it is fake information, then someone wants to kill Zhang Shaohan.

But Liang Datong was in no mood to care whether these big news were true or false. Thinking of what his colleague said on the phone, his face darkened.

With so much negative news out there, what will the audience think?
If a song by a negative singer is used as the music for the inspirational plot of "My Love from the Star", will the audience really boycott it?
If the audience boycotts it, will the reputation and ratings of "My Love from the Star" be affected?

As the production director of “My Love from the Star”, these are the issues he needs to consider.

Moreover, the scenes related to "Invisible Wings" will be filmed in a few days. In this case, should this scene be filmed?

Liang Datong was in a moody mood and couldn't make up his mind after thinking for a long time. He called the landlady Liu Yifei and briefly explained the situation. Liu Yifei asked him to come over and discuss the details in person, so he hurried to Liu Xiaoli's room.

"Boss Chu, Boss Liu, Chairman Zhou, the current situation is like this..."

As Liang Datong was talking, Zhou Jielun operated the computer and logged into Weiyu.

Chu Xuan, Liu Yifei, Liu Xiaoli and Fang Wenshan gathered on both sides of Zhou Jielun to read the news on Weiyu.

They were originally having a pleasant conversation about music, but Liang Datong reported an unexpected situation, which ruined their good mood.

Something happened to Zhang Shaohan?

What is this situation?
What direct connection does this have to their crew?
They didn't understand why until they saw the negative news about Zhang Shaohan. Suddenly, they felt a strong sense of malice in their hearts.

"Zhang Shaohan..." Liu Xiaoli frowned. At first glance, these news showed that Zhang Shaohan behaved badly and was a misbehaving person, but she was not that naive. She had experienced so many things in the entertainment industry and had been at the top level with Wang Jinhua for many years. She knew there was something wrong with these news as soon as she saw it.

First, some news topics that are really popular can indeed be included in the hot searches normally, but according to the internal operating rules of Weiyu, it is almost impossible for similar topics to appear on the hot search list in the same time period, unless money is spent to buy hot searches for internal operations.

Just like the Weibo hot search list in front of us, in the case of Zhang Shaohan’s negative news, her topic alone occupies half of the page. This is a news phenomenon that cannot exist normally no matter how popular it is. There must be a team behind it spending money to hype it up.

Second, since money is being spent on hype, the authenticity of the news is questionable, and it is very likely that someone is maliciously targeting Zhang Shaohan.

"It must be fake." Liu Xiaoli concluded.

Liu Yifei also felt that it was fake. These news reports made Zhang Shaohan look unworthy of being a human being, and the comments were all one-sidedly criticizing Zhang Shaohan. She didn't believe that there was no one controlling the direction of public opinion behind the scenes, and that there were no internet trolls maliciously misleading netizens, making it difficult for them to correctly judge right from wrong.

"But..." She became suspicious again: "Zhang Shaohan's mother, father, uncle and other family members have publicly exposed Zhang Shaohan's true face, this..."

If there is only spectator news, she feels it is fake.

But the presence of her family members in the news made her lose her judgment.

Watching the news, Zhang Shaohan's mother, father and uncle accused Zhang Shaohan of being unfilial in front of the media. It seems to be true.

Put yourself in her shoes. If she had a falling out with her mother, given her mother's love for her, she would never do that even if they had a falling out.

Under normal circumstances, maternal love is great. What mother would force her daughter into a desperate situation? Unless her daughter is really unworthy of being a human being, then the mother will sacrifice her own daughter for the sake of justice, right?
"That's right, her mother accused her of wrongdoings in public. Is Zhang Shaohan really that bad?" After hearing her daughter's words, Liu Xiaoli began to change her opinion.

She thought the same as her daughter. Most mothers treasure their children. No matter what, there would never be a situation in the news where a mother would say that her daughter was useless, unless the daughter was really bad and did something that made her family extremely disappointed and even desperate.

Not to mention Liu Xiaoli and Liu Yifei, Zhou Jielun, Fang Wenshan and Liang Datong also thought so.

At first glance, the one-sided negative news seems unreal, but the news also contains real evidence from the family members of the parties involved, so we have to look at the news from a different perspective.

Only Chu Xuan sighed in his heart. The unique thing about these news is the presence of family members. This is also the point that caused a large number of netizens and many fans of Angela Zhang to lose their normal judgment.

When the biological parents accuse their biological daughter, according to the normal thinking of the people across the country, the biological daughter must be bad, otherwise how could the biological parents do such a thing?

But Chu Xuan knew that Zhang Shaohan's biological mom and dad did this for money and they wanted to kill Zhang Shaohan.

He would forget some things before they happened, but suddenly when he saw the news, some memories came to his mind.

In his memory, it was also in the two years of 0809 and 18 that the queen of pop Zhang Shaohan suddenly disappeared for ten years, and did not make a comeback until 19 or , as far as he could remember.

He is not sure what Zhang Shaohan went through during this period, but the impression she gave was that she had a heavenly voice and excellent singing skills, but her life was very bumpy and inspiring.

Seeing the news in front of him, he roughly guessed what the situation was. He estimated that Zhang Shaohan was forced into a desperate situation by his family, and thus had been silent and depressed for ten years.

Looking at the news, Zhang Shaohan is currently suffering from a heart disease and is undergoing treatment. It is really tragic that he is being treated like this by his family while he is ill.

"I was just thinking that the female part of the song 'Stars' is very suitable for Zhang Shaohan. Her vocal range is very high and her high notes are very explosive and penetrating. I have met her a few times before, so it should be no problem to ask her to sing the female part of this song. Who knew that changes would come so quickly." Zhou Jie Lun sighed.

When it came to choosing the singer for the song "Stars", he had just really thought that Zhang Shaohan seemed very suitable, but he didn't expect that reality would soon slap him in the face. Not only could he not invite Zhang Shaohan, but the possibility of using another song "Invisible Wings" also became a problem.

Zhang Shaohan and he are singers who debuted in Taiwan at the same time. If Cai Yilin is a new-age queen who is good at singing and dancing, then Zhang Shaohan is a new-age queen with unique singing skills and voice.

Among young singers, there are very few who can beat Zhang Shaohan in singing skills. He, Cai Yilin and Xiaozhu are no match for him. Only Lin Junjie and Wang Lihong can compete with Zhang Shaohan.

At the beginning, the sales of Zhang Shaohan's album "Aurora" once suppressed the momentum of these people. Popular songs such as "Fable" and "Invisible Wings" also swept the major charts in terms of mobile phone ringtones and mainland online music.

Such a popular and talented singer should have had a bright future, but unfortunately fate played tricks on him and such a thing happened.

"What a pity." Zhou Jie Lun shook his head.

"Strange." Fang Wenshan said, "Doesn't her company provide her with PR? Investors don't care about an artist's character. Potential and value are the only criteria for making money. With so much negative news, she should have done some PR anyway. But I didn't see any such news. It's really strange."

Zhou Jielun looked at him and told him a fact: "Zhang Shaohan announced at the beginning of last year that she would take a rest for treatment for a heart attack. Many announcements and concerts were postponed. What did her company think?"

Zhou Jieren’s words were not made clear, but everyone understood.

How do music companies make a lot of money? Besides releasing albums, they also sell concert tickets.

But Zhang Shaohan has a heart disease, how can he still hold a concert?

Artists can no longer hold concerts and can no longer bring major profits to the company. What will the capital think?
Moreover, there is no exact time limit for whether heart disease can be cured. In the eyes of capital, it will be believed that Zhang Shaohan may not be able to bring them benefits for many years. Now that Zhang Shaohan is in trouble, it doesn't matter if they help him if it is a small matter, but it is no small matter to deal with such a huge public opinion.

For entrepreneurs with a long-term vision, they may help Zhang Shaohan in the hope of getting better returns in the future.

But for the vested interests of capitalists, they would never do such a thing even if they were beaten to death. Long-term goals are too far away, and they only look at the present.

In the eyes of these capitalists, helping Zhang Shaohan is equivalent to paying a huge price but getting nothing in return, which is not in line with the interests of capital.

Moreover, as far as the current public opinion is concerned, Zhang Shaohan is in the position of being "correctly criticized". People all over the country think that Zhang Shaohan is wrong, and his parents are supporting him in public opinion. How can he do public relations?

If you go to PR, will netizens all over the country believe the parents or you? This situation is very complicated and difficult to deal with.

"Mr. Chu, Mr. Liu, are we still going to shoot the concert scene?" Liang Datong asked.

Whatever happened to Zhang Shaohan was none of his business. He was doing his job and was only concerned about the influence of public opinion. Since their scene was related to Zhang Shaohan's song, it might also have an impact on their scene. He asked Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei for their opinions on whether to shoot the scene as usual or make some adjustments.

Everyone looked at Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei to see how they would make the decision.

Liu Yifei looked at Chu Xuan. This was the first time she had encountered such a thing and she was unsure about it.

I saw Chu Xuan always looking down at his phone, not knowing what he was looking at, as if he didn't care about the matter.

Just as Liu Yifei was about to call out to him, she learned the shocking truth from him.

"Last year, Zhang Shaohan suffered a heart attack, but her mother took away all her money, leaving her with no money to see a doctor. She had to borrow money from several friends, and that was the beginning of the conflict between her and her mother."

"I don't know what happened during the one-year period. According to the news from the entertainment reporter in Taiwan, Zhang Shaohan intended to sue her mother, and her mother took the initiative and launched this public opinion campaign against Zhang Shaohan."

"The purpose is probably that it is difficult to justify a mother taking her daughter's money from a legal perspective. If public opinion is biased in this direction, Zhang Shaohan will have nowhere to go, and her mother will naturally take away all the money Zhang Shaohan has earned over the years."

"According to the information brought by the paparazzi, her mother is suspected to have cooperated with the music company and wanted to permanently renew the copyright of Zhang Shaohan's music so as to get a part of the copyright share."

"This is probably the reason why the music company didn't do any public relations. According to reliable sources, the music company has begun to transfer all of Zhang Shaohan's resources to fellow artist Fan Weiqi, and seems to have completely given up on Zhang Shaohan."

"Fuck!" Liang Datong couldn't help but swear.

He had never expected that this piece of news would be so explosive. He had just subjectively believed that there was something wrong with Zhang Shaohan, but he never expected to learn such a big reversal from Chu Xuan.

Awesome!
Really awesome!
Zhang Shaohan’s mother is a talented person!
"Oh my God, how could this be!" Liu Yifei was stunned.

At first she thought the news was fake, but later because of her family, she thought the news was more true than false. Now after hearing what Chu Xuan said, she felt that her three views had collapsed.

Is there such a mother?
All the money for my daughter’s medical treatment was taken away?

Not only that, in order to prevent his daughter from filing a lawsuit, he also had to stir up public opinion to torture her to death!
This... my three perspectives are shattered.

"Is this true?" Liu Xiaoli was incredulous and took Chu Xuan's phone: "Let me see."

Zhou Jielun and Fang Wenshan looked at each other in disbelief at this reversal. They moved closer to Liu Xiaoli out of curiosity to see what was going on with her.

There were several text messages in Chu Xuan’s mobile phone, and the sender’s note was [Li, the operator of Xinlang Micro Entertainment News Department].

This note looks reliable at first glance. Although I don’t know who this operator Li is, he is an operator after all. And Chu Xuan’s identity as a shareholder of Xinlang Weiyu is there, so I think the information sent must be true.

After reading the text message, Chu Xuan took the initiative to ask about the public opinion, and the reply from the operator Li was very rigorous, using a lot of words like "suspected" and without a single affirmative sentence. It seemed that the content was a mixture of speculation from various sources.

But even so, the credibility was very high, which shocked the people present.

"This mother is amazing." Liu Xiaoli shook her head repeatedly.

If it weren't for these text messages, she would have been really cheated for a while.

In that news report, it was hard to imagine that Zhang Shaohan's mother was pretending to be in tears.

What else can she say about a mother's attitude towards her daughter being so extreme? She can only say that there are many strange things in the world and she is really impressed.

"Speechless." Liu Yifei sat back in her seat with mixed feelings. She no longer had the energy to eat the delicious fruit and shook her head and sighed.

She was raised by her mother since she was a child. Her mother's love for her and her love for her mother are incomparable. Facing such truth made her feel very bad.

Zhou Jielun was also speechless. This was truly deceiving the feelings of the people across the country.

He also comes from a single-parent family and was raised by his mother alone. He was shocked by the truth and had mixed feelings.

"Since you know the truth, why don't you make it public?" Liu Xiaoli frowned and returned the phone to Chu Xuan.

Chu Xuan took the phone and said, "The current public opinion situation is not conducive to the disclosure of the truth. Even if the truth is disclosed, no one will believe it. After all, they are the biological parents. If the Internet trolls casually say that they are just trying to attract attention, the thinking of netizens across the country will be deviated. Moreover, the content of the text message is just speculation, there is no evidence."

"Then there is no evidence for what her parents said!" Liu Yifei is now completely sober.

I just saw the topic of Zhang Shaohan’s parents’ accusation in the news, and I didn’t think about any evidence or anything. Aren’t the words spoken by the parents themselves the evidence?
But now she doesn't think so anymore. She has changed her mindset and thought that what parents say must be true?

"That's the problem. No one believes that what the biological parents say is false, especially when it comes to their own daughter," said Chu Xuan.

Liang Datong shook his head and said, "Besides, the media are just following the trend and don't care what the truth is. Her parents are also motivated by their own interests. So what good will it do if the truth is made public? It won't generate any attention at all."

Zhou Jielun folded his arms and said, "The only way to break the impasse is Zhang Shaohan herself. If she can get out of the public opinion, wait until the time limit of the public opinion has passed and become popular again, then she can reveal the truth and break the impasse."

"Yes." Chu Xuan nodded. He agreed with Zhou Jielun's statement. In his memory, Zhang Shaohan seemed to have done just that. After being silent for ten years, he became popular overnight through "I Am a Singer". The media took advantage of the popularity and made the dusty past public, so that the people also learned the truth of what happened back then.

If it's not popular, the media won't be in the mood to reveal the truth.

Although Zhang Shaohan is now popular in the public opinion, this popularity is dark, and the truth is only in the hands of a very small number of people. How can a very small number of people fight against the majority? And with the interests of Zhang Shaohan's parents behind the scenes, the truth is even more powerless.

"Oh, how pitiful." Liu Xiaoli sighed, and her previous doubts about Zhang Shaohan turned into pity for Zhang Shaohan.

"Oh." Liu Yifei also sighed and was speechless.

"Um..." Liang Datong asked again: "Are we still shooting that scene?"

Although the truth surprised him, he just treated it as gossip at most. The most important thing now was how to handle the role issue. Seeing that the bosses were attracted by public opinion, he gave them a reminder.

Everyone turned their eyes to Chu Xuan again to see what the director thought.

(End of this chapter)