I am a Big Player-Chapter 42 - . Selling songs 800000 for one_1
Chapter 42: 42. Selling songs, 800,000 for one!_1
Chapter 42: 42. Selling songs, 800,000 for one!_1
Helping Cousin Jiang write a song? Yang Xi hesitated a bit, she didn’t know that writing each song meant Ren He had to take on a mission and risk his life, but she did know how difficult creation was, so she couldn’t make this decision on her own, Yang Xi replied, “I can’t decide on this, sis, I can only ask him for you.”
“Okay, I won’t ask for his song for nothing, I’ll pay 400,000 for each song!” Jiang Siyao explained, “The company I’m with now had a falling out with a top songwriter, so I haven’t gotten any good songs lately. If I don’t have songs that can carry the whole album, I’ll likely have to delay my new album release. But the entertainment industry is like rowing upstream, if I stop, I’ll just fall behind the times.”
“Okay, I’ll ask him for you,” Yang Xi thought for a moment before answering.
“To show my sincerity, I can make a special trip to Luo City!”
Yang Xi first hung up the phone with her cousin and called Ren He to relay the general situation, explaining that Ren He should feel free to make his own decisions and not to force himself.
Ren He was still a bit surprised, why did he suddenly have to write a song for Jiang Siyao? 400,000 for one song was very tempting, but his most important task now was to finish Yang Xi’s song first, he declined, “It’s like this, I’ve been focusing on your song recently, and I don’t plan to write for others at the moment, help me reply to your cousin.”
He had a clear distinction, Yang Xi was Yang Xi, and Yang Xi’s cousin was Yang Xi’s cousin, not his own. He didn’t need to play the good guy and take risks.
Yang Xi delicately conveyed Ren He’s words to Jiang Siyao, who calmly replied, “I just booked a flight to Luo City for early tomorrow. I want to personally ask him for a song.”
Yang Xi’s mouth fell open in shock, could Ren He’s talent truly be so important in her cousin’s eyes? Although she knew good songs were hard to come by, not being in the entertainment circle herself, she didn’t realize how rare they actually were.
Nowadays, there are too few songwriters in the entertainment industry who can produce good songs, and from Jiang Siyao’s own experience, sometimes after asking for songs, what she received were not necessarily hits; some she listened to and felt like giving up on including in her album.
The three songs Yang Xi had sung earlier, Jiang Siyao liked every single one of them. In her mind, she already regarded Ren He as a top songwriter because Ren He had a very high rate of producing good songs – three songs, all good!
Yang Xi told Ren He about it, apologizing while she did so, “I’m sorry, my cousin is coming to see you tomorrow morning. I couldn’t stop her…”
“Haha, no problem. It’ll be good when she arrives, I can negotiate the price with her,” Ren He had his ideas at this time, and everything would wait until Jiang Siyao arrived to be discussed. There was no need to blame Yang Xi; who could have a grudge against money? As long as the other party could meet the price he wanted, he had already thought about what songs he could offer her.
Doing continuous missions was indeed a headache, but as long as she was worth the price, there was no problem at all!
The next morning, Yang Xi proactively passed Ren He a note saying her cousin had arrived, lunch together?
Ren He wrote back on the note saying it was possible.
At noon when school let out, Yang Xi took Ren He to an inconspicuous little restaurant. By the time they arrived, Jiang Siyao was already sitting inside. She earnestly sized up the boy next to Yang Xi, who looked a little thin, but Jiang Siyao had a sharp eye; she could tell that there were solid muscles beneath his clothes.
Overall, he was very fresh-looking, wearing nothing too expensive, but his clothes were all very clean, Jiang Siyao had a good first impression of Ren He.
There was nearly a 12-year age difference between the two, so at that moment Jiang Siyao calmly felt she should take the initiative. After all, with her age and status, she should be able to exert a sense of pressure when facing a middle school student.
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However, what surprised her was that at the start of the negotiations, her rhythm was disrupted by the other party!
Ren He sat down and smiled, “Hello, Cousin.”
Yang Xi was not pleased on the spot. How come her cousin was brought into this? However, Ren He paid no attention to her and looked at Jiang Siyao, saying, “Three songs, eight hundred thousand each, if that’s acceptable, I can produce the songs right now, if not, let’s call it quits after this meal.”
Doubts flickered in Jiang Siyao’s eyes. This boy knew the value of his songwriting talent! She had been wondering if the boy might not know the worth of his three songs, which is why he would give them so easily to her cousin. But it turned out he did know!
To tell the truth, Ren He’s songs might not have been so expensive in his previous life, but in this parallel world where good songs were rare, Ren He was quite confident!
Jiang Siyao pondered, what kind of songs would be worth eight hundred thousand each? This was already beyond the budget. What if the songs couldn’t satisfy her? Why did he have such absolute confidence?!
And what was that he just said?
Jiang Siyao wanted to confirm with Ren He. “Produce the songs right now?”
“Yes!”
“Then how about we talk about the price after your songs come out?”
Ren He smiled. That was fine, after all, there was no basis of trust between them. He pulled out paper and pen from his pocket and began to write the songs.
He had seriously considered these three songs, first, they should not clash with Yang Xi’s style since he reserved all the suitable ones for her. Next, each of these three songs was a classic, and since Jiang Siyao typically sang love songs, these matched her style as well.
The first song: Liang Jingru’s “Unfortunately, It’s Not You”!
Having finished the first one, he passed the sheet of paper to Jiang Siyao to see, and then he began the second.
The second song: Liang Jingru’s “Courage”!
The third song: Liang Jingru’s “No If”!
These were the three—songs that Liang Jingru had once made hugely popular in his former life!
“Unfortunately, It’s Not You,” when it was first released, became an instant hit far and wide. Back then, you could hear the song everywhere you went. Additionally, it won the Song of the Year at the 20th China Music Awards!
The whole song’s melody and rhythm were both beautiful and dynamic, fast and slow complementing each other, with a sense of lightness and gravity, as well as layering—most importantly, the perfect combination of Liang Jingru’s true and falsetto voices in this song.
“Courage” and “No If” were also chart-topping hits; any one of them taken out would be a great song.
Whether or not they were worth eight hundred thousand was a matter of opinion. Ren He looked up at Jiang Siyao, noticing she seemed to be completely captivated by these three songs!
Jiang Siyao was holding three sheets of manuscript, densely filled with lyrics and music. At her level, she could envision the melody just by looking at the score. She just didn’t quite understand, were these songs really composed on the spot by a middle school student?!
