The opening of China Entertainment Group gave Jay Chou a head-on confrontation

Chapter 829 My Dad Said, Stay Away from Juliet

There are few impenetrable walls in the world.

Zhou Yi’s status within Warner is clear. Now that he has spoken, senior and middle-level managers naturally have to start preparing in advance.

As more channels and more people are involved in the upstream and downstream, it is inevitable that some seemingly true information will leak out, even if Warner has tried its best to control it.

"Have you heard? Something seems to have happened inside Warner involving Zhou Yi."

"what?"

"Is this true? Isn't Zhou Yi the Emperor of Warner? What could have happened to him?"

"Really? I'm not lying to you. The son of a neighbor of a friend of mine works at Warner (China). He said that there seems to be a problem inside Warner, and it's about Zhou Yi's contract."

"?"

"Stop talking nonsense. Zhou Yi is already tied to Warner. He is the largest individual shareholder of Warner Music and his investment company also has shares in Warner Music. What can go wrong with the contract?"

As for the relationship between Warner (China) Records and Warner (International) Records, it has been so long that it has been completely uncovered by the resourceful netizens. This is also the fundamental reason why Zhou Yi's nickname "Warner Emperor" is well-deserved.

"If you don't believe me, forget it. The son of my friend's relative's neighbor said that all the preliminary work that Warner had prepared for Zhou Yi's contract renewal had been suspended and canceled in an orderly manner. He was in charge of one of the parts."

"???"

Meet barbecue in the capital.

A few people who were eating barbecue in the early morning listened to the leader sharing the gossip he heard from the front line, and everyone showed a bit of disbelief on their faces.

Zhou Yi's current contract with Warner Music will expire in 08, which is something that anyone who paid attention to the news of Zhou Yi's contract renewal knows. In theory, the contract renewal of a superstar of Zhou Yi's level is not a simple formality.

Even now Warner (China) Records is his career.

Public is public, private is private. If you don’t distinguish them clearly, the accounts will be a mess.

Zhou Yi's current contract expires in May 08, which means Warner must now start the preliminary preparations for the renewal. Because the interests involved are too huge, it will take a long time to sort out;

In 06, he started to negotiate with Zhou Yi's team with the prepared contract renewal.

In 07, all the renewal terms were negotiated between the two parties and the renewal was officially announced.

But now, you tell me that Warner has just started the preparations for Zhou Yi’s contract renewal, and it hasn’t been long before it’s all suspended and canceled?

What?
Warner and Zhou Yi broke up?

"Is this news true?"

"It's not completely true. You know, Zhou Yi is too valuable. There are many aspects that need to be negotiated for the renewal of the contract between the two parties. The son of my friend's relative and neighbor is only responsible for one part.

"What I can confirm at the moment is that at least the part he is responsible for has been suspended and is expected to be cancelled next week. Maybe there is simply something wrong with his part?"

"…That's enough, thanks brother."

Han Zhongguo, who works at Sohu News, opened a bottle of beer and showed off to show his gratitude.

The contract between Zhou Yi and Sohu has expired. Now Sohu's personal IP only has one CEO, Lao Zhang, who treats himself as a celebrity. For his own KPI and performance bonus, Han Zhongguo keenly smelled the money in this news.

"Warner Zhou Yi's contract renewal seems to be in a deadlock?!"

On April 4, an explosive article appeared on Sohu News with an extremely eye-catching title, which attracted a large number of people. The topic of Zhou Yi, which was already at the cusp of entertainment news, was instantly ignited!
"What the hell? What's going on? Are Zhou Yi and Warner going to break up too?"

"I've read the whole article. Damn the clickbait headline! It's all suspicion and speculation, without any concrete evidence!"

"Let's just break up. Zhou Yi's Golden Melody Award nominations hit a record low and they are just trying to get attention. It's as if Zhou Yi is going to be abandoned by Warner."

"To be honest, this may be groundless. Who would have thought that Zhou Yi and Warner would fail to reach an agreement on a contract renewal?"

"???"

"..."

Because of Zhou Yi's status, the news broke out at a time when no one expected it. Although everyone knew that Zhou Yi's shares in Warner made it impossible for him to cut ties with Warner -

But what if?
What if Zhou Yi wants to sell all of his shares in Warner?
Because this news was so outrageous that it seemed to be true, even Zhou Yi himself received one call after another, which made him laugh and cry.

"I have no intention of leaving Warner. I will not leave Warner."

After responding to the curious Fan Xiaopang, Qin Lan, Xiao Yaxuan, Li Bingbin, Zhou Xun, Lu Yi, Ren Quan and others one by one, on the 20th, in order to calm down the next wave of public opinion, Zhou Yi himself attended Sun Yanzi's contract renewal press conference as a Warner shareholder.

"This is completely nonsense. There is absolutely no problem between me and the company. I ask all media friends not to believe in rumors or spread them."

Before the Sun Yanzi contract renewal press conference started, Zhou Yi, who knew what the reporters who flocked to the press conference wanted to ask, took the microphone and said righteously: "For reasons that are well known to all, I will stay at Warner Records. This is my home and my family. Who can tell me why I want to leave here?"

Don't ask, the only thing I know is that I won't leave Warner.

I didn't lie, I really won't leave.

"Yes, he has to continue to exploit me. He can't bear to let go of such a good and hardworking employee like me." Sun Yanzi, who was standing next to the man, leaned into the picture, poked his cheek with his index finger and said with a smile.

Zhou Yi tilted his head and rolled his eyes.

Sun Yanzi renewed his contract with Warner for 5 years, which can basically be said to be a complete dedication to Warner.

After signing this five-year contract, Sun Yanzi himself doesn’t know whether he can maintain his current business speed and exposure.

While the two were still laughing, Zhou Jianhui over there took on the main responsibility of the press conference: announcing the highlight of Sun Yanzi's contract renewal.

"Yanzi will release an English cover album and an English EP next year as a test of the English market. By then, Ayi will be the sole producer and be fully responsible for Yanzi's English EP..."

This also indirectly confirms the statement that Zhou Yi will not leave Warner.

Unlike the album "A Perfect Day", where the Li brothers were listed as producers in addition to Zhou Yi, he will be the only one to produce the English EP.

This is also the first time that Zhou Yi has truly helped someone produce Chinese and English albums.

Before this, even Elva Hsiao was just writing songs and was not listed as a producer.

"The winner is clear!"

"I now suspect that these two have already slept together privately. First, they kissed on the cheek in public at the Golden Melody Awards, and now Zhou Yi is serving as a producer in a rare occasion. This treatment is truly unique."

"After all the twists and turns, my true love is still Yanzi."

"..." If the public opinion field was just expressing feelings, all the female singers in the entire market, except Elva Hsiao, felt as if they were facing a great enemy after April 4, and had an extremely serious sense of crisis in their hearts.

Being a producer and simply writing songs are two completely different things.

Simply writing songs may result in the song becoming popular but the album failing. Although Zhou Yi has not encountered such a situation so far, he always has the desire to stay here.

But once Zhou Yi becomes the producer, it means that he will be able to recreate his own hit album that will definitely sweep the market once it is produced.

Zhouyi has never failed.

This is a terrifying achievement that has never been achieved before and will be difficult to surpass in the future.

Cai Yilin, who was still on a show in Taiwan, was the first to see the news of Sun Yanzi's contract extension. The first thought that popped into her mind was envy. Her eyes almost popped out of envy.

The Warner twins have been through ups and downs together since their debut, until this year's Academy Awards stage when Sun Yanzi's stunning kiss in front of the camera won everyone's admiration and blessings.

And what about her?
Although the "Double J Love" that imitated Gemini marketing was once sweet, it ended with an extremely embarrassing "cheating" scene - Jay Chou and anchor Hou were photographed in Daikanyama, which ruined all the marketing press releases she had prepared this year!
All!

Jay Chou even personally held a press conference to support host Hou, publicly declaring that he and Cai Yilin have always been just friends, and that it was the media friends who had been hyping up the situation before, and that there was no cheating relationship between the two parties, completely cutting off Cai Yilin's chance of personally selling her misery.

The contrast between the two made her seem somewhat miserable.

Whether it is career or love.

It's impossible to say that she and Jay Chou never had a relationship. They pretended to be in a relationship for a while, but they broke up soon.

Unfortunately, the personalities of each other in the Double J relationship are just personalities.

The huge difference between their public and private images forced the two to treat it as a dream within the circle after their hormones subsided. The Cai Yilin that Jay Chou liked was the public image packaged by Sony, not the private one.

After all, he and Cai Yilin are not the same kind of people, and they even have extremely serious differences in many aspects.

Therefore, when Host Hou appeared, he quickly fell in love with this gentle, intellectual and sweet princess. He was so satisfied that he even took Host Hou to celebrate the New Year with his family.

It can be said that except for her fans, everyone knows it, including her, Cai Yilin.

Everyone just chose not to make it public in order to cooperate with the company in maintaining the superficial relationship between the two Js.

However, the accidental exposure of Daikanyama directly ruined Cai Yilin's entire marketing plan for this year and a large amount of materials shot in advance - and she has not received even an apology from Jay Chou so far, but instead waited for a press conference just for friends.

Jay Chou's press conference blocked all the excuses that Cai Yilin could find and did not give her any chance to struggle.

That was too harsh.

After all, we were once together, even if the time was short, but at least we should leave her some marketing space to consolidate her fans.

But Jay Chou didn't.

Compared with the Zhouyi, the difference is like heaven and earth.

“Why are their lives so good?”

Cai Yilin felt seriously unbalanced when she thought about how Zhou Yi's rumored girlfriends were taking advantage of his fame.

There is no harm without comparison.

She just felt it was dazzling.

She tried her best to climb up and tried hard to change her fate, but the result she got in the end made her feel discouraged.

Even his fucking taste in finding a man is a complete failure!
"Ah!"

In a manor hotel in Barcelona, ​​Spain.

Sun Yanzi, who was sitting in front of the man with a tray in her hand, suddenly felt her nose itchy. She turned her head and sneezed, covering her nose with her hand.

"Why? The air here doesn't suit you? Barcelona's beaches are a world-famous holiday resort."

The green floral shirt was half-unbuttoned to reveal his full chest muscles and faintly visible abdominal muscles, and a pair of sunglasses were placed on the man's nose;
Under the loose blue and white beach pants, a pair of standard flip-flops highlights Zhou Yi's ease and comfort.

"I guess my parents scolded me privately after seeing the contract extension news."

There was a pink sun hat pinned behind her neck, and sky blue beach shorts embellished her straight white legs;

Sun Yanzi was wearing a belly-baring short-sleeved top with a few paintings of sunflowers facing the sun on the chest. She lowered her head to scoop a mouthful of Spanish paella, shook her short hair, and muttered with her puffy mouth.

"what?"

Zhou Yi raised his sunglasses in surprise: "Uncles and aunts scolded you after seeing the contract renewal news? What kind of trick is this?"

The contract renewal comes with a signing bonus, shouldn’t this be good news?
Besides, the contract offered by Warner is one of the top levels in the world.

Sun Yanzi looked up after taking a few bites of rice, her beautiful eyes staring at the man with puzzled eyes, biting the spoon and smiling: "Of course it's because of you, Liang Shanbo."

"Liang Shanbo and Juliet" is a duet love song in her new album that makes her fans feel strange.

This is also the album's love song that the two of them sang together again after many years, not counting "Beautiful Myth" which has not yet started recording.

"I?"

"Who made you so angry? My dad saw the news of the one-on-three incident and scolded you. He thought it was not good for me to stay in Warner and follow you."

Sun Yanzi groaned, his toes out of flip-flops under the table were round, and the wine-red nail polish was particularly eye-catching as it flickered: "Playboys are hated by everyone, don't you know?"

"It looks like my plan to go fishing with my uncle will have to be postponed."

"It's not a problem if you remember to wear a helmet."

It is true that you should always wear a helmet when fishing.

Sun Yanzi smiled with curved eyebrows and danced with joy when he was excited: "At most, my dad will point his finger at your nose and scold you, saying to you, hey kid, stay away from my Juliet."

Zhou Yi became interested as their eyes met, and leaned a little closer: "What if I don't listen and stay away from Juliet?"

"Then this story may not be about Liang Shanbo and Juliet."

Sun Yanzi did not shy away from the challenge. Her red lips were full and round under her light makeup. She tilted her head and spread her hands towards the man: "Maybe Romeo and Juliet?"

(End of this chapter)