Bright Era of China Entertainment

Chapter 784 Superstar? Idol? Both are suitable
Fumao Music Company is the signing company of Zhang Shaohan.

In this public opinion field of Zhang Shaohan, the company neither did any public relations nor did anything. Is it the indifference of capital? Or is it the involvement of interests? Or is there something wrong with the company's own operation?

Outsiders cannot see clearly. Only a few senior executives of the company know the truth, but they will not reveal it to outsiders.

The company's senior management, who had originally chosen to do nothing about the incident, was a little surprised by an unexpected incident these days.

Lin Longxuan wants to take back Zhang Shaohan’s agency contract?

Do you want to buy back all of Zhang Shaohan’s music copyrights?
Lin Longxuan, an independent music producer from Taiwan, produced popular songs such as Li Shengjie's "You Love Her So Much" and Huang Xiaohu's "Day Does Not Understand the Dark Night".

He has two other identities, one is the music teacher who brought Zhang Shaohan to his debut, and the other is a singer who debuted from the Fumao Music Company.

It was precisely because of these two relationships that he, as Zhang Shaohan's teacher and agent at the time, recommended Zhang Shaohan, who had already been trained to become a little queen, to the Fumao Company in order to help his student have better development.

In this way, he transferred the agency contract, which is called borrowed signature in the jargon.

Borrowed signing means temporarily replacing Party A who has the right to exercise the contract through an agreement under an existing contract.

In other words, Zhang Shaohan is essentially Lin Longxuan's artist, but during the period of the loan contract, he belongs to the artist of Fumao Company. After the agreement expires, Zhang Shaohan will automatically belong to Lin Longxuan. This is the situation.

Therefore, if you want to get Zhang Shaohan out of Fumao Company, you have to go through Lin Longxuan.

At this point, Chen Zhenrong, Zeng Ni, Lu Tao and the Zhang Shaohan sisters found Lin Longxuan and explained the situation.

"You have been in a slump for more than a year, and I have not been able to help you much. I am really limited in my ability. Now you have a noble person to help you. I am happy for you. Since you can use me, I will do my best."

Lin Longxuan still cherished this talented student and readily agreed to help with this matter.

"She is my student. I brought her up single-handedly. I don't want her to just disappear like this. Since you won't help, I'll find a way."

The senior management of Fumao Company was indeed a little surprised about this matter.

The public opinion surrounding Zhang Shaohan is different from others. It is a dispute between a mother and a daughter. As capital, they have no chance of winning in public relations in such a situation. No matter how capable you, Lin Longxuan, are, it is only reflected in your talent. What can you do about this kind of thing that even their capital can't do?
They thought so, but they were not too surprised. After all, Lin Longxuan was Zhang Shaohan's teacher, so it was understandable that he wanted to help Zhang Shaohan.

In the case that they had clearly breached the contract by transferring Zhang Shaohan's resources to Fan Weiqi, and given that this incident had happened and their company had not done anything, it seemed that there was nothing wrong with the teacher and agent taking back the student's agency contract.

Canceling the agreement is a small matter.

With the current public opinion, even if the agreement is not terminated, Zhang Shaohan is destined to be hidden in the future and will not bring any benefits to their company. Since the teacher wants to take back the agency contract and has found the breach of contract but neither claims compensation nor sue, they will just terminate the contract to save face.

But do we still need to buy back the music copyright?
Well this...

"I asked someone to do an assessment. Based on past sales data, after the negative impact of this public opinion, the total value of Angela's current 60 songs is at most NT$5100 million."

5100 million Taiwan dollars, approximately 1200 million RMB.

This was the estimate made by Chen Zhenrong’s team, and Lin Longxuan acted accordingly.

Under normal circumstances, the full copyright of 1200 songs in five albums of a diva would cost at least more than million.

You should know that Zhang Shaohan's music sales once surpassed the four little kings of Zhou Jielun, Lin Junjie, Wang Lihong and Luo Zhixiang. The value of purchasing the full music copyright of such a singer must be very high, and it would be appropriate to double or triple the 1200 million.

However, with the negative public opinion that is now making a sensation across the country, it is hard to say what the commercial value of an artist, including his or her works, is.

Artists make their living from the market, and the market is made up of the people. If the people don’t recognize you, then how much is your commercial value worth?

This is realistic, but it is also the reality of this industry's profit-making situation.

"NT$5100 million? Don't even think about it!" The senior management of Fumao Company decisively refused.

With so much negative public opinion surrounding Zhang Shaohan, it is very difficult for the economic benefits of her works to operate normally, and it is normal for the value of her copyright to decline. Perhaps it will take a few years after the market has forgotten about this public opinion before her works can operate normally again.

Now, some people want to buy all the music copyrights at once. From the long-term perspective, it may be a loss, but it can bring in a large amount of funds at one time and then carry out "money making money" operations. This cannot be said to be a loss. On the contrary, it can allow the company to develop further, which is also beneficial.

Besides, no one can predict the future. What if Zhang Shaohan's music is worthless in the future? But now it is a fact that a large amount of real money can be pocketed. This kind of immediate benefit is more real for capital.

Want to buy all the copyrights of Zhang Shaohan's music? Sure, but isn't your offer of NT$5100 million a bit too much? You are Zhang Shaohan's teacher, and seeing your student is caught in the public opinion, you are taking advantage of the situation, right?

The company's capital was very angry, and Lin Longxuan was even more angry and laughed. You know how much you have earned from Angela in the past few years. Now that Angela has no future, you don't say a word and completely ignore the past friendship. You still accuse me of taking advantage of the fire? You also accuse me of adding insult to injury? Where is your face?

Capital is capital. It only considers issues from its own perspective. The words "putting yourself in someone else's shoes" have never existed in their dictionary.

To deal with such people, only unconventional means can be used.

"Boss, something happened. Brilliant Times sent us a lawyer's letter."

"Lawyer's letter? Brilliant Era? What's going on?"

"Regarding the song 'Invisible Wings', due to the influence of Zhang Shaohan's public opinion, their crew had to consider revising the script, changing the music, resetting the scene, and re-finding actors, etc., which involved more than 500 million yuan in filming funds. This was caused by our failure to fulfill our contractual obligations, and we need to give an explanation."

"..." Several investors were confused. Just because of a piece of music, they had to rewrite the script? Redesign the scene? Find new actors? They had never heard of it.

What kind of crew is this? Is it so strict?
There is also a fund of 500 million involved? What does this have to do with them?
"What do you want to say?"

"Negative news about Zhang Shaohan started last year, but we did not inform them of this during the discussion on the copyright of Invisible Wings, which violated the clause in the cooperation contract that "if there is a problem with the song, the consequences will be borne by us." As a result, their crew has stopped filming due to the corresponding scenes, causing huge and irreparable losses. They want us to give an explanation, otherwise they will sue us in the Beijing People's Court."

"..." Several capitalists looked stunned and wanted to sue in court?
No, it’s just a song and a 50 contract fee. It’s no big deal. Is it that serious?

Of course, if it is true as Brilliant Times said, that the filming of "Invisible Wings" was stopped and caused a loss of up to 500 million, then it is indeed a big deal.

But, are we fools? Whatever you say is true? I don't believe you!
"If there is a problem with the song, we will bear the consequences. But the problem is that there is no problem with the song. It is Zhang Shaohan who has the problem. This is not in the contract. What does it have to do with us? Are they playing word games?"

Singers are singers and music is music. Although the two are closely related, they are still two different things. They are often separated when doing some commercial operations. Buying music and film and television copyrights has nothing to do with the singer himself.

Just like the song "Thousands of Songs" back then, it was a cover of an island country song. After it became a nationwide hit, its commercial value was extremely high, but this had little to do with the singer himself. The commercial value came from the company's operations.

At that time, due to the anti-Japanese sentiment of some people, there was public opinion that caused problems in the operation of this song occasionally. This is called a problem with the song itself, and the company behind it should make relevant commercial compensation.

But if the problem lies with the singer, what does this have to do with the song itself?
The same thing happened to the Brilliant Times crew with the song "Invisible Wings". If the singer got into trouble, what does it have to do with "Invisible Wings"? What does it have to do with the company behind them? Even if the song was indeed affected by public opinion, it was none of their business!

"We still want to sue in court? This is Taiwan! So what if it's a mainland court? Can it have jurisdiction over us? Don't bother with it!"

"This is not good either. The director and producer of their crew are Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei, who are the bosses of Brilliant Times. If our song really affected their filming, it would be equivalent to us offending Brilliant Times, not just the crew. Brilliant Times has a great influence in the mainland, so it would not be good not to give an explanation."

"Brilliant Times controls the media tool of Weiyu. We did not disclose Zhang Shaohan's situation in advance. Although no one expected the public opinion to explode, it is still because we did not do enough. If it really affected their crew and made them angry, then any random publicity would also have an impact on us."

"The media tools of Taiwan are Facebook and YouTube, not Weiyu. What is there to be afraid of? As long as this land does not return, Weiyu will never be able to enter our market! No matter how powerful Brilliant Times is in the mainland, it has to lie low in Taiwan!"

"This is indeed true, but unless we don't want the mainland market, if Brilliant Times comes to Taiwan, we will have to lie low in front of Brilliant Times when we go to the mainland."

Hearing this, several capitalists were stunned and felt very ashamed.

Formosa Capital has always looked down on the mainland, and Formosa Entertainment has always looked down on the mainland entertainment industry.

Even though the mainland entertainment market is many times larger than Taiwan's, their innate arrogance towards the mainland due to environmental issues often makes them subconsciously ignore this fact.

The fact now is that the entertainment industry in Taiwan is increasingly dependent on the profits brought by the mainland market. Perhaps Brilliant Times seems to be useless in the Taiwan industry, but if they want to develop in the mainland and offend Brilliant Times, then Brilliant Times can kill them in the mainland.

In particular, there is Han Sanping, who can block the release of Formosa films in mainland China. If they offend Brilliant Times, the film and television companies in the Formosa circle may exclude them from the circle.

Although I don't want to admit it, this is a fact based on my understanding of the size of Brilliant Times.

What now?
How to explain the brilliant era?
Go and apologize to Brilliant Times?

Formosa Capital apologized to mainland capital. My God, how can they save face like this? If the news gets out, it will be a disgrace to everyone.

Fortunately, Lin Longxuan's other words helped them find a proper way to deal with it.

"You can guess that Zhang Shaohan is in a very difficult situation now. The annual copyright fee was paid at the beginning of the year but was taken away by her mother. Now she is in urgent need of money to recover from her illness. If you are willing to sell the ongoing copyright business together, you can raise the price a little bit. I will consider it as appropriate."

Ongoing copyright business refers to ongoing business cooperation, including but not limited to music and film copyrights, television station recording rights, shopping mall broadcasting rights, KTV recording rights, and all other businesses whose contracts have not expired. This part of the business can be resold.

Music copyright belongs to music copyright, and ongoing business belongs to business. These are two different business sectors. Buying music copyright does not mean that the ongoing business also belongs to you. The ongoing business still belongs to the original company until the contract expires.

The company's investors were delighted to learn that Lin Longxuan wanted to acquire Zhang Shaohan's ongoing music business.

Due to the negative public opinion about Zhang Shaohan, the business buyers of her music copyrights were already dissatisfied, and their company had a headache dealing with it. What's more, now there's a giant like Brilliant Times coming to find fault with them, adding to the trouble.

But now, isn’t there someone who can take over?
They never expected that Lin Longxuan would purchase the renewed commercial contract. They couldn't understand why Lin Longxuan did this. Isn't this just asking for trouble?

But this is a good thing for them. They can sell off a lot of troubles in a package, making money while getting rid of these complicated and trivial matters. Especially, isn't Brilliant Times going to sue them? Once they sell the renewal contract, Brilliant Times can sue Lin Longxuan.

"We are old friends, so we won't waste time talking. Just one price: NT$8000 million."

"The entire annual contract is only worth NT$1000 million. Even if we add the NT$5100 million for the music copyright that we negotiated at the beginning, it's only NT$6100 million. Isn't this asking for too much? Are you still trying to maintain a good relationship?"

"Eh~ Zhang Shaohan's music copyright is worth less, how could it be worth only NT$5100 million? Even if it has been reduced due to public opinion, it is still more than this number. Besides, I am very optimistic about Zhang Shaohan. Her voice is heavenly. She will definitely achieve something when she makes a comeback in the future, and it won't be difficult to restore her commercial value."

Lin Longxuan was speechless. He had seen shameless people before, but he had never seen anyone so shameless.

Do you think Zhang Shaohan is a good choice? Are you sure?

Instead of helping out when he was caught up in public opinion, he rushed to push resources to Fan Weiqi in order to stop the loss. Is this called being optimistic about Zhang Shaohan?
Now, for the sake of profit, he is even saying good things about Zhang Shaohan. He is really shameless.

Why didn't I see the true colors of these "old friends" at the beginning? Otherwise, I wouldn't have pushed my students into such a pit of fire.

Although the root cause of this incident has no causal relationship with Fumao Company, and the source of public opinion is Zhang Shaohan's family, the way these people in the company behaved really makes him feel sick.

"Let's draw up a contract."

"Teacher Lin is straightforward!"

Under the witness of a lawyer, Lin Longxuan transferred the funds given to him by Chen Zhenrong. When he received the legally effective music copyright transfer documents, business transfer documents, and contract termination documents, he stopped pretending and inadvertently revealed a contemptuous smile.

"The bosses are doing a booming business." Under the astonished gazes of several capitalists, Lin Longxuan took the documents and left in a leisurely manner, leaving them with only his back.

No, it’s obviously us who made money, and you got a lot of trouble, we are not very happy, how can you be happy? Several capitalists were puzzled.

After Lin Longxuan and Chen Zhenrong met up at Zhang Shaohan's rental house, they took out the documents and everyone present couldn't help but laugh excitedly.

"That's great!" Zhang Hanxuan jumped up excitedly and couldn't help but give Zeng Ni a big hug.

More than half a month had passed since the day Chen Zhenrong, Zeng Ni and Lu Tao came to see them, and the experiences of these days seemed like a dream to her.

These kind-hearted people are really helping my sister. I have seen them put their actions into action over the past few days. How could this be false?
Now her sister is free, and has obtained the music copyright and ongoing business, which indicates that everything is moving in the right direction. This allows her, as her younger sister, to further see the hope that her sister will escape from the sea of ​​suffering.

Chen Zhenrong, Lu Tao, Lin Longxuan and Wu Qingfeng also looked at Zhang Shaohan with smiles and were happy for her.

Zhang Shaohan was already crying uncontrollably. He sat on the sofa with his head buried in his legs and cried like a tearful man.

For Chen Zhenrong, it would be best to let Lin Longxuan, Zhang Shaohan's teacher, handle the matter of Zhang Shaohan and his affairs being completely separated from the company. The other company's senior management would not be suspicious and would not be too surprised.

If he were to handle it, as a person who takes care of everything for superstar Zhou Jielun and has made Zhou Jielun's career flourish in recent years, would he buy the copyright of someone else's works when the artist is in a trough? Or transfer his agency contract? Anyone would question his purpose in doing so, and would then keep nagging and wasting time.

Although he had some advice on the way Lin Longxuan handled the matter, overall, Chu Xuan was the one who controlled everything over the phone behind the scenes.

It was simple for Zhang Shaohan to terminate the contract, but it was more complicated to purchase the music copyright. If the music copyright was purchased together with the ongoing business, it would arouse doubts from the other party. Even if teacher Lin Longxuan came forward, he would still be questioned on this matter.

It is understandable that when an artist hits a low point, he or she would buy music copyrights in order to plan for the future.

But the continued business is in a slump due to the artist's low point. This is something that is clearly a thankless purchase, so why buy it?

From Chu Xuan's perspective, once the public opinion about helping Zhang Shaohan is reversed, the continued business value will increase. Since you are helping someone, you have to help to the end. Otherwise, if you only help halfway and let a junk company make a lot of money in the end, then the good-intentioned help will also add a bit of disgust.

This was what he guessed about Chu Xuan's thoughts, but the other party's capital was not clear.

Therefore, in order to dispel the other party's capital's doubts, Chu Xuan asked Brilliant Times to send a lawyer's letter to disgust the other party.

The size of Fumao Music Company is far smaller than that of Brilliant Times. Faced with a lawyer's letter warning from such a behemoth, the company's capital will be further troubled by the ongoing business troubles caused by Zhang Shaohan's public opinion incident. It can either suffer in silence and apologize, or find another way to eliminate the increased troubles.

If it were an ordinary company in mainland China, they would probably just apologize and make amends to Brilliant Times and be nicer.

But the companies in Taiwan are different. This is a place that has been severely eroded by Western ideas, and the capital here is also seriously influenced by Western capital style.

Influenced by Western ideology for many years, most capitalists have a long-standing arrogant mentality. It is difficult for them to apologize to the people in mainland China.

Perhaps capital understands capital best, and Chu Xuan also saw through this, so he sent a lawyer's letter to disgust people, psychologically forcing the other party's capital to abandon doubts, give up messy thoughts and make a choice.

As a result, Lin Longxuan had two negotiations, one in succession. He first discussed the normal music copyright. After receiving the lawyer's letter, he aroused their pride and unwillingness to bow down. Then he discussed the renewal of the business contract and the transfer of matters without too many complicated thoughts.

After receiving the lawyer's letter, he didn't know whether the other capital was really disgusted, but seeing that Lin Longxuan had successfully signed a series of documents, he knew that these capitals were successfully calculated by Chu Xuan.

He could imagine that these investors only regarded it as getting rid of a bunch of troubles, and should regard Lin Longxuan as a fool who took over. Are they still complacent now?
Oh, what a bunch of idiots!
When Chu Xuan turns public opinion around, you won’t be able to cry!

From Chu Xuan's perspective, this company is really a clown, being played around by others without even realizing it.

However, this is also a problem of level difference.

can only say……

"Our President Chu is really amazing." Chen Zhenrong felt deeply moved.

He has a kind heart, the strength of big capital, and such brilliant means. With such a figure in the domestic entertainment industry, there may be more good shows to watch in the future, but it is always a good thing.

"I need to get closer to President Chu. If a person like me develops further in a few years, he might become a top-notch entertainment tycoon." He had this thought again.

Zeng Ni and Zhang Hanxuan separated, and smiled at Zhang Shaohan, "The first two steps have been taken care of. Next we will go to Shenzhen. President Chu has already contacted the program team and the media, and all that's left is for you to go."

Hearing this, Wu Qingfeng patted Zhang Shaohan on the back and said, "Angela, congratulations, you are about to be freed."

As a good friend of Zhang Shaohan, he was really happy for Zhang Shaohan.

Although he still couldn't figure out why Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei, who had nothing to do with Zhang Shaohan, wanted to help Zhang Shaohan, now that things had come to this, the why was no longer important.

The actions that people have taken are clearly to help Zhang Shaohan, so is it necessary to still dwell on this issue? Is it not allowed that there are really good people in this world?
Although he was just a bystander, after following Zhang Shaohan through all of this in the past half month, he had developed a deep admiration for the "national couple" whom he had never met before... Oh, no, it should be the "national husband and wife", and he really wanted to meet them.

"Come on, this is a good start. There are still so many kind people who haven't given up on you. You must never give up on yourself." Lin Longxuan touched Zhang Shaohan's head.

As a teacher, he naturally knew how much suffering and pain his students had endured over the past year, but as it was someone else's family affair, he, as an outsider, could not provide any help.

Until the public opinion broke out and the mother accused her own daughter, the sisters Zhang Shaohan and Zhang Hanxuan could fight back, but they, as outsiders, could not do so, so he could only give some money and comfort like Wu Qingfeng, and could not help with anything else.

Fortunately, there is always a chance for us to succeed. Perhaps God has blessed me as a student and brought a noble person to help me. Now everything is going in a good direction. It is really a blessing from God.

Chu Xuan? Liu Yifei? These two names are so popular in Taiwan, and I never expected that they have such great power behind them.

With such great energy, instead of doing things that benefit vested interests, they choose to help a poor person they don’t know.

"Be it superstar or idol, these are empty words when applied to others, but they are very suitable for you." Lin Longxuan praised the couple in his heart.

At this time, Lu Tao said: "If possible, we will set off tomorrow."

Zhang Shaohan looked up, his eyes were red and tears were on his haggard face. He took the tissue handed to him by his sister, wiped his eyes and nodded.

Obtaining the music copyright means that even if she leaves the company, she can continue to sing her own songs in the future.

After the contract renewal was obtained, it means that after the public opinion turned around, more contract renewals and re-contracts will come in.

but……

"Why do you want to help me?" This was still the question in her heart.

The documents placed on the coffee table also made her feel unreal.

My heart, which has been silent for more than a year, feels dazed by this dreamlike feeling.

I had the best sleep in nearly a year, and when I woke up I felt like I was still dreaming.

It was not until the bright sunshine in mid-April, when the plane flew through the clouds and headed straight for Shenzhen, and she looked at the blue sky and white clouds outside the window, that she realized that all this was real.

"Chu Xuan, Liu Yifei, both of you are a few years younger than me. I cried so hard watching your "Chinese Paladin" back then. I never expected that you would become my benefactors now."

"We're about to meet, I'm so looking forward to it..."

(End of this chapter)