Chapter 47 Wen... Wen Chun?

  When the whole song finally calmed down, Father also let out a long sigh. He looked at his little daughter who was still immersed in the music beside him: "Do you like it?"

  "En!" The daughter nodded.

  Her daughter has been fond of music since she was a child. Although she is only six years old, her love for music is by no means ordinary.

  "Who knows, maybe she'll even enter the entertainment industry one day. As long as she meets the right people and does the right things, I'll support her all the way," thought the father with a hint of tears in his eyes.

  And at this time, the second song finally sounded up.

  The song "secretbase" by ZONE also has a very high quality, and unlike the previous small love song, this song's music style is softer. In fact, being's composers do have a conditioned reflex to arrange the music in a more intense direction towards rock when composing, but on the other hand, Zhou Xiao is trying to control this trend, he still hopes to make this song closer to the original ZONE while making it suitable for himself to sing. Actually, whether a song is sung by a man or a woman mainly depends on the arrangement rather than the original melody, most melodies themselves do not have a tendency, even a beautiful melody can become majestic and intense through clever arrangement, and conversely, an intense song can become gentle and soothing if slowed down twice and played on piano.

  Zhou Xiao's "secretbase" is obviously more in line with the musical tastes of a little girl. As soon as the chorus ended, she hummed along softly beside him, which made her father raise an eyebrow. He was very familiar with his own daughter, and although she had liked listening to music since childhood, it was clear that she really loved this song.

  "Zhou Xiao ah...... I don't even know what he looks like, probably the sales at the CD store will be very difficult... But you have a little fan now..." The man thought to himself as he looked at his little daughter.

  A father and daughter, by chance bought two CDs in a CD store that almost nobody would buy. This kind of thing is extremely rare, and for this father and daughter, buying a good-sounding CD wasn't a big deal either. Except the CD player still often played that CD, after mentioning it to his wife at dinner time, he never mentioned it to anyone else again.

  It's already unlikely that there are many people who often buy CDs, and even fewer can see Zhou Xiao's CD and buy it. Those who can buy it back to listen, think the song is very good, and then recommend it to people around them... The probability is even more unlikely.

  While Zhou Xiao, after finally finishing a single song, once again returned to his usual rhythm, at home he would code words, and when going out he would go learn music with Quan Shui sister. Compared to the previous period of time which was quite unstable, not knowing what to eat for dinner, not knowing where to live next month, it's a world of difference. And as for his single song, Zhou Xiao is not in a hurry to make money, his last album "Small Love" only became a huge hit after being released for two years and reached the top spot on the ori chart. This life, although he is releasing songs through regular channels, but on the other hand, his fame is much lower than Mongol800's, so it seems that taking the slow road to fame will still take some time.

  However, he was not in a hurry because the manuscripts of several books were about to be completed. The two books adapted by Hidetaka Semiya might still need some time to polish slowly, but works like "Meteorite" by Keigo Higashino had already been completed. As long as the book was sent to the publisher, he should be able to receive all the money to pay the rent.

  In Japan, this kind of reasoning is usually not published in book form first, but rather serialized in various magazines. As for the place where it will be serialized, Shu Xiaoxiao had already found it a long time ago, which is Weekly Bunshun, a famous magazine where almost every book by Higashino Keigo is serialized.

  Huh? Why are there so many AKB48 fans rolling their eyes?

  That's right, it was that weekly magazine Shukan Bunshun, the one that exposed the secrets of countless AKB48 girls!

  Shukan Bunshun is not just a single magazine, but actually includes multiple sub-publications such as Shukan Shincho and Shukan Gendai. In terms of content, aside from serialized articles, scandals and gossip related to society, politics, sports, and business are what people care about the most. As for entertainment news, unless you're a big shot, it might cause a stir within your small circle, but to the general public, it's just a minor issue that can't even be considered newsworthy.

  As an AKB48 fan, Zhou Xiao doesn't particularly dislike Shukan Bunshun. He's well aware that the world needs a magazine like Shukan Bunshun, and even if it didn't exist, there would be other magazines like Shukan Bunshun Natsu or Shukan Bunshun Aki that would appear. It's impossible to have no such magazine at all. Moreover, having a magazine like this can actually make many people restrain themselves from going overboard in some ways.

  So, serialization in this magazine was almost inevitable, and there's another advantage to this decision, which is that after telling Uncle Ikegami that I wanted to serialize it in Weekly Shonen Jump, he said so too.

  At that time, Uncle Inoue heard that Zhou Xiao was going to send the weekly article "Wen Chun" and looked at him with a profound meaning. Zhou Xiao was very puzzled, why did he look at him like that? Uncle Inoue then asked strangely: "You're sending 'Wen Chun' for serialization, dare you say you don't know what's good about it?"

  "I really didn't know, I just saw that Higashino Keigo was serializing here so I chose this place too." Zhou Xiao said at the time.

  "Huh? Really? Well, you've certainly chosen a great place."

  "Why say that?"

  "This isn't a big secret, you can research it. Whether it's Weekly Bunshun or another gossip magazine with relatively more influence, Friday, unless the story is huge, they almost never report any scandals about certain families. Why? Because almost all of them have formed an alliance, if you report their gossip, they won't give you articles! In the end, the only one who will lose out is the magazine that reported the scandal."

  "Is it that fierce?"

  "Of course, it's awesome! I also heard this from an author at a dinner party. Some authors are so passionate about seeking inspiration that they've almost done anything outrageous. Taking a bar girl out for the night, having extramarital affairs and whatnot are all small matters. Those even more shocking things, you're only 18, I shouldn't be telling you!"

  "This...this still can't be told to me?"

  "In short, if your book can really be published, it would be great to have it come out in the spring. Especially since you're a singer and will be entering the entertainment industry, at that time all the magazines will think twice before reporting on any scandals they might dig up about you, and consider whether it's worth offending all of Japan's authors just for one person."

  "It sounds like... it sounds like I entered the entertainment industry just to create scandals." Zhou Xiao refuted with dissatisfaction, but such a refutation somehow lacked conviction...

  Before long, a week had passed.

  This week, Zhou Xiao didn't pay much attention to the sales of his single. In fact, even if he wanted to, he probably wouldn't have found a way to do so. Ori only releases the top three sales and rankings for the day, and Zhou Xiao's song probably won't make it into the top 100 on any given day this week, so all he can do is wait.

  By Tuesday morning, Zhou Xiao had once again arrived at Being's headquarters, and soon the sales figures for this week's new single would be faxed over.

  After arriving at the company, Zhou Xiao found that the overall atmosphere of the company was very poor, and all employees looked somewhat listless.

  "How could this be?" Zhou Xiao was very puzzled in her heart.

  He soon found out the real reason from his colleagues' chat, Mai Kuraki lost to Ayumi Hamasaki in a landslide victory, "NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP" sold 434,000 copies for the rest of 2000, while Ayumi Hamasaki's "SEASONS"... would sell 1.362 million copies, completely defeating Mai Kuraki.

  PS, I once wanted to post three updates a day, but later found that posting three updates a day is doable, but consecutive days of three updates are simply exhausting... So from now on, two updates a day as the minimum guarantee, with three or four days a week having three updates, averaging 2.5 updates per day... Hmm... That's all for today.