BXBX NOVEL Chapter 166 - 157 Olive Branch_1
He only needs to work on the weekend.
From Monday to Friday, Lin Yuan is still a student.
However, it’s more apt to say that Lin Yuan is Yang Zhongming’s student rather than a student of this school’s tutors.
During Lin Yuan’s school term, he studies with Yang Zhongming for two hours every day!
This doesn’t interfere with Lin Yuan’s normal classes.
Every day, studying with Yang Zhongming inside his brain for two hours equates to only two real-life minutes.
Yet, this does affect Lin Yuan’s campus life.
The most significant impact is that Lin Yuan found that the teachers’ pace of teaching can no longer keep up with his learning speed.
Qi Art’s teachers have just started teaching the composition knowledge from the first stage of the previous semester.
Lin Yuan, however, has already learned with Yang Zhongming up to the third or even the fourth stage of the previous semester’s composition knowledge.
This results in the teacher’s lessons becoming boring to him.
Lin Yuan even anticipated the weekend to come sooner so he could do his tasks at the company.
But Lin Yuan failed to get the weekend to come earlier.
Instead, the drama “Distance Between You and Me” officially aired that Friday night!
Tan Kai is an A-list actor in Qi Continent, him starring in “Distance Between You and Me” produced by Thunderbolt Entertainment naturally would be a blockbuster drama.
So, it drew a lot of interest.
But after two episodes of this drama aired.
Online comments about the drama focused not on its plot, but on its theme song!
“This theme song called “Like You” is so pleasant to the ears!”
“The drama was fine, it’s one of those that I could either watch or not, but when the male and female leads reunite, the theme song suddenly played, causing the story to become fascinating!”
“The old-fashioned plot, yet a godly song?”
“Hahaha, it’s not that bad of a drama I guess. I remember the scene in the warehouse where the male and female leads reunited for the first time. The female lead moved boxes and after moving a dozen of them, she saw the male lead standing opposite her. They stared at each other, and then the music sounded. It really touched me…”
“How should I put it, the past poor boy has turned into today’s overbearing CEO. He encounters his wife who abandoned him years ago. This cliche plot is irresistible, and combined with the music the effect is suddenly more than the sum of its parts!”
“The integration of the song and the drama is just too good!”
“The theme song was sung by Tan Kai himself, I didn’t know Tan Kai sounded this good in singing. Plus, he’s the male lead, I felt an immediate sense of immersion!”
“The song reignited my passion for the drama.”
“I usually start liking a song because of a drama, this is the first time a song made me interested in a drama.”
Gu Dong is a fan of Tan Kai, so she watched the drama as soon as it aired. Seeing these comments from the audience, she couldn’t contain her excitement!
They’re saying the song “Like You” saved the drama?
Surely that’s an exaggeration, especially for professionals like Gu Dong.
A good drama can drive the popularity of an average song, but a good song can hardly boost the popularity of an average drama.
So, Gu Dong understood very well that the recognition for “Like You” not only comes from the quality of the song itself but also from the fact that the drama itself is quite decent.
Without the neat integration with the plot, while “Like You” still sounds good, the audience would only feel that the song is good, not the drama.
Therefore, most of these comments were from biased observers.
Or perhaps they subconsciously didn’t want to admit being attracted by a drama with such a cliche plot…
That would make them seem tasteless, wouldn’t it?
However, in reality, the vast majority of people are tasteless, it is a world that gets won over by cliches.
It’s even somewhat like novels.
Using the same cliches, some directors can make a moving work, while some directors will produce something vulgar and unbearable.
Here’s a simple example:
Some works have been remade, with the same story but a different crew, the effect can be completely different.
In general, the performance of this drama has been decent.
And subsequently, the “Like You” original soundtrack released by Starlight Music quickly gained in download numbers, showing signs of becoming a popular song.
It’s worth mentioning that.
The song rights are shared by Starlight Music and Thunderbolt Entertainment, but Thunderbolt Entertainment doesn’t partake in the download royalties.
Tan Kai sang the song, and rightfully he should share in the download dividends as the singer.
But during the formal handover negotiations, Thunderbolt Entertainment proactively gave up Tan Kai’s share of the royalties. Instead, Starlight Music paid Tan Kai a one-time performance fee of 200,000 yuan, thus buying out the subsequent dividends.
This amount was split evenly between Lin Yuan and the company.
Who made it necessary for the company to pick a singer from another company since they don’t have a singer themselves?
On the flip side.
Even if it’s the company’s own singer, those who sing the song should share the profits with the composer, so essentially there’s no difference.
Lin Yuan was satisfied with this outcome.
Qi Continent’s order-based model suits Lin Yuan perfectly because he needs to release songs anyways, and the order’s customization fees serve more like extra income for him.
The main reason was the existence of the system.
This kind of order is difficult for other composers.
Extra income from releasing songs?
It sounds good, but the song must meet the client’s requirements and maintain quality —
How difficult is that!
But no matter how restrictive the rules are, it’s hard to hold back Lin Yuan.
Because the system’s song library is extremely vast.
Therefore, Qi Continent may be a minefield for other composers, but for Lin Yuan, it is a place where he can make some extra income.
And the most direct impact of this successful order is…
Starlight Music is now in the spotlight!
With abundant funding, the client would select their partners based on their achievements!
Starlight Music couldn’t show any decent results before, so slightly more powerful clients wouldn’t cooperate with them.
But now, “Like You,” produced by Starlight Music is a hit!
For the drama “Distance Between You and Me,” it’s undoubtedly a very successful theme song!
An undisputable success case!
Let’s not forget, Starlight Music this time cooperated with Thunderbolt entertainment!
Even without mentioning how good “Like You” is, just a little contemplation would tell that a party chosen by Thunderbolt for cooperation can’t be bad.
You should know, Thunderbolt Entertainment used to mostly order songs directly from the Qin Continent!
Therefore, naturally.
Several clients from Qi Continent have started paying attention to Starlight Music.
Among them,
Some moderately-sized companies went one step further, directly extending an olive branch to Starlight Entertainment, showing their intent to cooperate!