I Know Everything - Chapter 639
Chapter 639: Accident.
Huhai, Phoenix Record Headquarter,
They already made it 20 years ago but due to the industry’s downturn year-after-year, they had been losing money the last few years.
They had to sell their 5 stories building at their worst and try to cut the loss in various ways.
However, the location of that building wasn’t very good so they had to sell such a big building at a discount and the other party also didn’t offer a lot, thus they only got 2 million for it and they didn’t make it in the end.
The boss of the company, Song Luding, came from the industry and was Tang Yuan’s predecessor, he was also good to people.
Even during the hardest time for the industry, Song Luding still cultivated the young singers in his company and made sure they could eat their fill and had gigs to make a living.
This was one of the reasons why the Emperor Tang Yuan and Empress Zhou Jing stayed with them.
Who wouldn’t work for a caring boss?
In the past few years where society became more prosperous and more people continued to get into music, singers became more and more sought after.
A second spring came for Phoenix Record as new media such as the internet came and that people sought after more genuine products.
In addition, Song Luding accepted last year sale of 20% of the company to Shining Technology and has since become an affiliated company to it.
The network resource of Shining Technology had been largely mobilized by Phoenix Record, which gave them many benefits.
For example last year, Tang Yuan got a few songs from Chen Huan and the album did very well as the commercial performances, copyrights fees etc… brought the company more than 100 million Yuan in profit.
Moreover, there were the small emperors and empresses like Meng Yang and Liu Fuer who were very popular as their fans continued to increase, becoming new cash cows for Phoenix Records.
However, the most impressive was the newly promoted small empress Li Bi.
In nearly two years, Li Bi earned more than 200 million Yuan for the company but this was due to her dozens of concerts, a lot of commercial performances, dozens of endorsements so it was all piling up.
For a newcomer to make so much money for the company was something they could only wish for!
Li Bi also came into light with Chen Huan stunning debut in ‘I Sing My Song’ show.
Grandpa Zhao Changshou was the champion and she was the runner up.
In all fairness, Li Bi probably would become the champion in any singing show due to her powerful singing and dancing as well as ability to hype up the crowd in a live performance.
However, every single of her songs was suppressed by Chen Huan so she could only be second.
But with the unexpected success of ‘I Sing My Song’ that year and attracting the attention of many people, the runner-up Li Bi actually took all the limelight and resources after Grandpa Zhao retired.
Li Bi was a student from the Huhai Conservatory of Music.
So she wisely chose to join Phoenix Record.
With the current volume of the market and the constant emergence of new consumers, the capable singers didn’t have to worry about a lack of a market with a population of 1.5 billion.
Li Bi released 3 albums in two years with the meticulous production of Phoenix Record.
The first album had great success.
Moreover, the sales of all her albums were still steadily increasing with her influence growing bigger and bigger. She had become the favorite new coming female singer among the young population.
Jin Guwei, the third place in ‘I Sing My Song’ and who debuted at the same as her, was still a newcomer pop singer whose status was no longer comparable to her.
Also because of what Li Bi’s achieved and her influence on young people’s self-respect, she was finally crowned as the fourth small empress this January.
Her growth speed was only second to Han Dong’er.
However, Han Dong’er success in the past where she became a small empress in just one year was mainly due to her natural voice.
For Li Bi, it was her dedication and hard work.
She only slept an average of 5 hours per day in the past two years and had less than 10 days of rest per year. The rest of the time she either was recording songs, was in fan meetings, doing endorsements etc…
Li Bi debuted at 20 years old and now was 22, she was really burning her health to propel her career.
Many felt Li Bi’s success was deserved but felt that if Han Dong’er had half of Li Bi’s work ethic, she would’ve become the third Empress already.
It was weird.
Many people compared Li Bi to Han Dong’er and they thought Li Bi was the person who had the most potential to catch up to Han Dong’er.
People felt that Li Bi would be even more successful if she had half of the resources Han Dong’er had or even if Teacher Lu Xiaofeng only gave her one song.
However, Li Bi’s speech during one of her award ceremony couldn’t help but make people sigh in regret.
“I admire Sister Xiaofeng’s talent as well as her person! But I will prove to him that no matter how much he looks down on me, I’m an exceptional girl and also worthy of your attention!”
Those words put Li Bi at the eye of the storm.
Han Dong’er and Chen Huan’s fans started to loudly criticize her.
Many people scolded her for being impulsive, shameless and trying to steal Han Dong’er’s man.
But Chen Huan understood Li Bi’s frame of mind.
She didn’t make that speech when she was still struggling but waited until she secured her spot as a small empress before doing it, which proved she wasn’t impulsive.
She was just declaring war.
She wanted to prove that she was no worse than Han Dong’er and was also worthy of Teacher Lu Xiaofeng’s love and attention.
Chen Huan didn’t say anything but Han Dong’er still called him to tell to not be angered.
That was why Chen Huan replied with, “You’re a good kid who is strong and hardworking, I also admire your talent! Don’t forget your original goals and continue to work hard in the future!”
It was also a message with love but nobody misunderstood it.
Everyone said that Sister Xiaofeng was someone magnanimous and wouldn’t be angered by an impulsive girl.
But what many people didn’t know was that Li Bi printed that sentence into a card and put it in her bag.
Every time she went to record a song, she would put that sentence into a banner in front of her in order to encourage herself.
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Today was like that.
She was staring at that banner as she was recording her fourth album.
The small empress finally started her work after the NBA finals ended and watched every single Chen Huan’s game.
She ended up spending ten days recording it as except for eating and going back home to sleep, she would spend all her time in the recording studio.
The two sound engineers were exhausted due to that but Li Bi was brimming with energy.
Actually, she has been extremely energetic since Chen Huan won the NBA championship and FMVP.
Today, she was recording an upbeat and electro song.
Li Bi wasn’t someone who just stood there and recorded songs normally.
She liked to walk around while recording the song when it was the intro or intermittence without any lyrics.
She was in a good condition to record at the beginning since the song reminded her of Chen Huan playing in the NBA.
However, she was too excited and used too much force in some passage where she should have mellowed down but was instead high.
This kind of thing may make fans more excited during a live show but for the studio version, everything must be in line with the tune so feelings could be imbued into the song.
So they had no choice but to record it again.
But during the third recording, for an unknown reason, the screen right next to the microphone suddenly exploded.
Inside the recording studio in the isolated room where the singer sang, the most important equipment was obviously the microphone and the display screen placed in front of it to show the lyrics and the pitch change.
Nobody thought that such an advanced product would suddenly explode!
After the loud explosion sound, the fragments of the display screen splashed onto Li Bi’s body and face, who was standing near the microphone to sing.
“Ah!”
Li Bi screamed and squatted as the fragment splattered on her.
The staff outside were all stunned.
It was Wu Xiaoxia who reacted the fastest and she quickly rushed into the room.
The other finally got to their senses at that moment and followed in.
Screams and panics spread throughout the room.