Be reborn and be happy to the fullest

"Let me introduce you all. This is Yu Chengcheng from the SV Club... and this is Iwasaki Junko, the owner of Iwasaki Cuisine..."

Li Shuo didn't believe that Iwasaki Junko was just the owner of this restaurant, not only because Yu Chengcheng treated her differently, but also because Li Shuo knew that the surname "Iwasaki" was the best in the Japanese business world.

Li Shuo was in finance in his previous life. He had a keen sense of capital in this circle and understood some of the inside stories of the world's capital operations. For example, Wall Street capital is the most famous in the world, but it is actually Japanese capital that invests the most in industries around the world!

Due to the unlimited quantitative easing monetary policy, Japanese capital has been developing slowly on the island and can only invest abroad, of which investment in China accounts for the majority. Because of the high concentration of wealth, these investments are actually operated by the six major financial groups in Japan, and the founder of the head of the six financial groups, 30, is named Iwasaki.

The Iwasaki family was at its peak during World War II. The 30 Company led by it had the same "organizational power" as government agencies, which enabled it to reap huge profits in invasions and colonial wars.

After World War II, the United States dismantled the old six major Japanese conglomerates, but retained the core conglomerate banking industry. Therefore, in just the past 30 years, 44 has relied on the strategy of breaking up the whole into parts, with 70 Bank as the core, cross-holding and dispersed holdings in 44 companies. By the 1s, the total assets of the 10 companies accounted for 10/ of the total assets of all Japanese companies! Among them, the sales of companies are equal to the national budget!

At that time, Tri-Zero repeatedly acquired American companies and threatened to acquire the entire United States, which led to the Plaza Accord.

Since then, the 30th Financial Group has begun to decline. The Iwasaki family lost the "Golden Glory Club" which symbolizes the control of the financial group and gradually disappeared from the public eye...

However, in his previous life, Li Shuo had seen more than once a certain listed company with "XX Co., Ltd." on the shareholder list. Upon checking, it was often controlled by someone with the surname Iwasaki. Of course, there were also some with the surname "Mitsui."

Perhaps, this is not the decline of the Iwasaki family, but that it has continued the strategy it used to turn things around in the 70s: breaking up into smaller pieces, dispersing capital around the world, and developing silently relying on nutrients from the entire world. Behind this may also be the ambition to compete with the American dad.

While Li Shuo's thoughts were divergent, associating a beautiful woman named Iwasaki with the No. 1 financial group in Japan, on the other side, Iwasaki Junko, acting as a hospitable restaurant owner, started chatting enthusiastically with Lu Tingyu and other girls.

Seeing Li Shuo in a daze, Bai Lu came over and whispered to him the background of the arrival of Zheng Yingshan and her group and Tan Jun.

After listening, Li Shuo waved to Lu Xiping, who came over eagerly. Then he waved his hand as if to drive away a fly, and said lightly: "You can go now. I will call Minister Wang of Huaying later and he will demote you to an ordinary clerk. Be prepared!"

Lu Xiping's breath was choked, but he soon thanked him with gratitude:

"Thank you, Mr. Li! Thank you for your kindness!"

As he spoke, he quickly left the box. From his personal point of view, the matter of "offending the powerful" had finally come to an end. Although he lost his position, at least he had kept a good job and there was still some hope for his second half of life.

After he left, Li Shuo looked at Tan Jun. Tan Jun no longer had the "arrogance" he had just shown in front of Lu Tingyu. He lowered his head to Li Shuo and said, "Mr. Li, I should apologize to you. I listened to the slander of the villain before and thought you... um, let's not talk about it. I was wrong about this. If you are still willing to record songs with me, I am willing to give you a 50% discount!"

Li Shuo laughed and asked, "Only 5% off?"

Tan Jun said in embarrassment: "Well, don't think the price is expensive. It's mainly because the various equipment is expensive. The money the studio charges for recording songs can't even cover the maintenance fee..."

Before he could finish, Li Shuo waved his hand and said, "Okay, let's talk about recording songs and stuff later..."

He asked Lu Xiping to come over just to prevent him from doing something desperate. He had no idea about Tan Jun at all.

But Tan Jun felt that he had offended Li Shuoshen. Seeing that he had not let it go, he immediately became nervous and asked cautiously: "Well, I wonder if you can tell me about Mr. Li's masterpiece? I am not talented, but I have some taste in music. I hope to do my part for Mr. Li..."

"you?"

Li Shuo almost laughed out loud: buddy’s song was copied from a masterpiece in the previous life, even if the master came, he wouldn’t be able to “do his bit to help”.

This sneer made Tan Jun's face turn red immediately. It was a humiliating feeling as if someone was stepping on his face!

At this time, Iwasaki Junko came over, looked at Li Shuo with watery eyes, and asked with interest: "Mr. Li, can you compose music?"

"After all, I am an art student, so I do like these things. However, it is just my personal interest, so I can't say I am 'good at' them..."

Li Shuo said perfunctorily, but Iwasaki Junko was still interested and said with a smile: "I have nothing to do, so I am very interested in music and art works from all over the world. What song did Li Jun write? Can you let me see it?"

"Uh, it's some whiny pop music. I don't think Ms. Iwasaki would like it."

Li Shuo continued to perfunctorily answer, and Iwasaki Junko looked at him with a broad mind and said briskly, "Okay, I like pop music, especially Chinese-style songs, which are full of charm..."

Li Shuo's eyes widened, and he wanted to ask, "Is this true? Don't young ladies like you like those elegant things?"

As if she could see through his thoughts, Junko Iwasaki chuckled and said softly, "Don't be surprised. Although I am a foreigner, music knows no borders. No one likes songs that are too highbrow to be appreciated by the masses. There is only one reason why popular songs are liked by people, and that is because they are 'good to listen to'..."

"So, as long as it's a good song, I like it! I heard that Li Jun is the original author of "Dala Bangba". Since he can write such a popular song, I think his new work will be very good too. Doesn't Li Jun want people to enjoy it?"

At this point, Li Shuo could only smile bitterly, nodded and said, "Well, then I'll show off my ugliness..."

While the two were talking, there was silence in the box: Reba and the other girls were well trained, and even Bai Lu didn't dare to interrupt Li Shuo when he was chatting, let alone Tan Jun. As the weaker party, he could only wait for time to pass, hoping to get through this.

Zheng Yingshan and the other two also didn't say anything, but they made many eye contact with each other. At the beginning, when Zhang Xiang heard the name "Shuoguo Culture", he winked at the two women, meaning: This company is very powerful, we can't afford to offend it!

After setting the tone, the two girls looked at Bai Lu with some envy. Later, when they heard that Li Shuo was going to ask Tan Jun to record a song for Bai Lu, Zheng Yingshan clenched her fists fiercely: How could she, who studies acting, record a song? Why can't I, a student of Leng Yin, have this opportunity?

Correspondingly, Zheng Yingshan looked at her boyfriend Zhang Xiang with some murderous eyes.

It was not until later when they heard Junko Iwasaki mention "Dala Bangba" that the three of them suddenly realized: it turns out that Li Shuo was the original author!

Then, Zheng Yingshan's eyes were filled with jealousy: Bai Lu's boyfriend was not only the boss of Shuoguo Culture, but also the talented writer of "Dala Bangba", and now he was so considerate that he wanted to record a song for Bai Lu! Oh my god, how could Bai Lu be so lucky? What kind of shit luck did she have to find such a boyfriend?

Reality is not subject to personal will, so Li Shuo naturally would not pay attention to the thoughts of these irrelevant people. Since Junko Iwasaki said so, he smiled and took out his mobile phone and flipped out the music score he had already written...

Iwasaki Junko was a little dumbfounded and asked, "Is it just the music score?"

Li Shuo pulled out another manuscript: "There are also lyrics!"

Iwasaki Junko said with a smile: "But how can we say we are listening to a song just by watching these?"

Li Shuo shrugged: "Didn't you say you wanted to listen?"

He thought that this young lady from the Iwasaki family had some profound musical accomplishment, but it turned out that she was just like an ordinary person.

On the contrary, Tan Jun, who had been staring at Li Shuo's phone screen in shock since he took out the sheet music, couldn't help but interrupt and said, "Um, Mr. Li, may I ask what the name of this song is? Where is it going to be used?"

Li Shuo answered casually: "The song is called "Love Offerings". It is the theme song of the TV series "Palace" to be released by Beijing Cultural and Creative Company. It is currently scheduled to be sung by Yang Xiaomi. However, before she sings, I plan to let Bai Lu and Re Ba audition to see who can sing this song well, so that I can arrange whether to enter the entertainment industry in advance..."

Upon hearing this, Tan Jun couldn't help but smile bitterly, and then explained to everyone's strange looks: "Actually, Director Li had asked me to write a song before, and the theme of the song was exactly this kind of ancient romance. I pondered for a long time before I found some inspiration... When I saw Director Li's music score just now, my first feeling was familiarity, because some of its tunes were so similar to the ones in my mind!"

As soon as these words came out, Bai Lu immediately slammed the table and stood up: "Tan Jun, what do you mean? Are you saying that my brother Shuo copied your song?"

Tan Jun waved his hands quickly: "No, no, no, I certainly don't mean that. Besides, my music score is still in my mind and has not been put down on paper. Mr. Li's song..."

He pointed at the photo on Li Shuo's phone, where a red official seal had been stamped: "Mr. Li's song has already been copyrighted. Even if it's plagiarism, it's me who plagiarized Mr. Li!"

"The reason I said this is because I really think our thinking is too similar, and what's more, coincidentally, they are both the theme songs of Beijing Cultural and Creative Projects..."

These words were like fairy tales to others. Even Zheng Yingshan and others from Lengyin were full of disbelief, and even secretly despised Tan Jun in their hearts: You are already a well-known musician, how can you come up with such a flattering way of licking? Isn't Li Shuo the boss of Shuoguo Culture? Is it worth it for you to lick him like this?

Among all the people, only Li Shuo was stunned: Tan Jun has connections with Beijing Cultural and Creative Industry, and the "Palace" project asked him to sing the theme song! And he has already thought of some similar tunes. How come Tan Jun is the original author of "Love Offering"? !

A lot of thoughts flashed through Li Shuo's mind, and he quickly smiled and waved his hands, saying, "It doesn't matter, it might really be a coincidence, but in this case, I feel very relieved to give this song to Teacher Tan to record..."

Everyone was shocked, especially Bai Lu and other girls, who were all wondering: How come Li Shuo changed his attitude in an instant? He didn't want to pay attention to Tan Jun before!

"Well, Mr. Tan, how about you sing it again with the music score? See if there are any omissions?"

Li Shuo ignored everyone else and handed the phone to Tan Jun.

At this moment, Tan Jun felt a deep sense of gratitude in his heart: he said such outrageous words, but Li Shuo did not doubt him and even gave the song to him to record. This... is simply a confidant and a mentor!

"I'll try!"

Tan Jun took the phone with a little excitement, coughed, and then began to sing "Love Offering" in a soft male voice:

"I hold you in my hands and burn incense devoutly, cut a piece of candlelight to light up the sutra, I don't ask for a heart-wrenching love, I just want a love, love to the end and get hurt and cry so desperately..."

As soon as he opened his mouth, Li Shuo knew that his choice was right. As a professional, Tan Jun grasped the rhythm of the song almost instantly. Even though Li Shuo had Yang Xiaomi's version from his previous life in his mind, he now secretly compared it and found that Tan Jun's male version was even slightly better than Yang Xiaomi's!

Even Li Shuo, who knew the "original version", had such thoughts, let alone others!

When Tan Jun started talking, Bai Lu sat down directly, while Reba and Lu Tingyu had already sat upright, listening to the song.

Yu Chengcheng didn't care much at first, and even thought it was a bit boring, but after hearing Tan Jun start singing, he also straightened up: even ordinary people can tell the quality of a pop song with just one ear!

"I have spent my entire life to support you, just hoping that you would stop looking at me..."

At this time, Tan Jun sang to the climax, and his voice suddenly rose. In an instant, everyone present felt a "tingling scalp", especially Zheng Yingshan and the other two. They could clearly feel the artistic conception of Tan Jun's lyrics...

Iwasaki Junko was the most exaggerated. As she listened, tears actually flowed down her cheeks...

Seeing this, Tan Jun stopped immediately: "Um, sorry, I haven't sung for a long time, and I didn't warm up my voice in advance, so the tone is a bit off..."

In fact, he was just making excuses for himself. He knew that the song was sung by Li Shuo. This Japanese beauty looked very famous. If he continued singing, what if he stole the limelight from Li Shuo? Wouldn't that make him uncomfortable?

Li Shuo didn't care and looked at Iwasaki Junko: "Um, Ms. Iwasaki, are you okay?"

"Well"

Iwasaki Junko wiped her tears, then grabbed Li Shuo's hand and said sincerely: "Mr. Li, please, you must produce this song. I will pay for the production, but please find the best singer to sing it... It really is so beautiful, and it is full of touching love between young men and women. It makes people feel heartbroken and can't help but empathize with the characters in the song..."

Is it really possible to empathize like this? The daughter of a conglomerate family doesn't look like a "sickly" person, right? At least she should be a "sickly girl", or a "performative black-bellied woman"?

Li Shuo's mind raced, and he smiled gently on the surface. He tried to pull his hand away, and said, "Of course there is no problem with this. Even if Ms. Iwasaki doesn't say anything, I will record the song well."

But the hand that was pulled out was caught by Iwasaki Junko the next moment...