The diva and I cross each other

Chapter 523 Another New Year's Eve
Lin Shuwen's expression was obviously not right, so Luo Ming directly rejected Team Leader Guo's invitation to dinner.

"Wenwen, do you have a grudge against this Team Leader Guo?" Luo Ming asked.

"Yes! Didn't Qi Suling want the song "As Wish" before? She didn't ask directly, but found a middleman, and he was that middleman."

Luo Ming frowned when he heard this: "Do you want me to find someone to replace him?"

With the current influence of Zhuoguang Technology, it is not difficult to replace the person in charge of the Spring Festival Gala project team.

Moreover, as long as Luo Ming takes action, this man's official career will almost be over.

"Not really. I've even forgiven Qi Suling. There's no reason to hold on to a middleman. I was just telling this guy that I didn't forget what happened before. I told him to do his job well and not try to fool around."

Luo Ming didn't say anything more after hearing this. Since Lin Shuwen had already made the decision, he naturally wouldn't raise any different opinions.

In fact, Lin Shuwen's warning was quite effective.

Director Guo was very nervous about Luo Ming and Lin Shuwen's attitudes. He was afraid that one day he would receive a call from his leader asking him to get out as the team leader of this project team.

If this day really comes, not only will his tenure as leader of the Spring Festival Gala project team come to an end, but he himself as the director will also have to step down.

The sword of Damocles is always hanging over his head. Team leader Guo can only do his job as well as possible and hope that the sword will not fall.

Just like that, with Team Leader Guo feeling extremely uneasy, the time came to December 12th.

There is only one day left in 2016, and Zhuoguang Technology has been particularly busy these two days.

Because Zhuoguang Technology’s most core APP Douyin is about to be launched.

After obtaining the relevant patents for big data algorithms from Zhuoguang Technology, this APP was included in Luo Ming's plan.

ByteDance has become a new Internet giant thanks to TikTok.

At the same time, Tik Tok is one of the only two apps that did not exist before the mobile Internet era but has developed into an app with more than 5 million registered users after the mobile Internet era.

The other is Meituan Takeout, but Meituan only achieved this result in 2023, while Douyin achieved this achievement in 2019.

The user activity of the two is also incomparable. In 2023, Douyin will have 15 billion registered users worldwide, of which 11.85 billion users will open Douyin and use it for more than one hour every day, and 13.97 billion users will open Douyin more than once a week.

Meituan Takeout has only 2.2 million weekly active users, not to mention daily active users.

Therefore, in the era of mobile Internet, there is only one company that has truly come from behind and surpassed the previous Internet giants, and that is TikTok.

Therefore, Zhuoguang Technology attaches great importance to this APP. Only half of the company's employees will have a day off during the New Year's Day holiday.

As long as the work content is related to Douyin, the rest time will be postponed to ensure that there will be no problems with the launch of Douyin.

Zhuoguang Technology is busy preparing for the launch of TikTok, while Zhuoguang Entertainment is arranging the New Year's Eve party.

This year, many artists from Zhuoguang Entertainment have received invitations from major satellite TV stations.

Wen Wan originally wanted to attend the Shanghai Satellite TV New Year's Eve concert, but her father Wen Songyue said that he wanted the whole family to have a meal together this New Year's Eve. Wen Wan hesitated for a moment, put off her work, and went back to celebrate the New Year with Wen Songyue.

Zhang Songzhi and Aurora accepted the invitations from Mango TV and Zhejiang Satellite TV.

It is worth mentioning that Zhang Songzhi will release his new album in February next year. This album is Zhang Songzhi’s last personal album. He will not release albums himself in the future and will only be active in the music industry as a group.

Therefore, Zhang Songzhi wanted to have a perfect farewell for this person's last album, so he asked Luo Ming to write a title song for him.

Luo Ming directly gave Zhang Songzhi a heavyweight song that was enough to make him a god, which made Zhang Songzhi very excited.

Zhang Songzhi plans to sing this song in this New Year’s Eve concert to give the Chinese music scene a small shock.

Aurora will be singing a song written by Qin Sinuo and composed by a famous arranger from the island country.

Lin Shuwen specially brought this song to Luo Ming to listen to. Luo Ming was a little surprised after listening to it, because the melody of this song is very similar to "Gradually Attracted by You" by Izumi Sakamoto in his previous life.

Luo Ming has a deep impression of this song, mainly because it was once the theme song of "Dragon Ball GT".

Luo Ming had always thought that "Dragon Ball GT" was the finale of Dragon Ball, so he had a deep impression of this song. It was only later that he heard about "Dragon Ball Super".

Luo Ming found it somewhat strange that Aurora had gotten a song with an arrangement so similar to that of "Gradually Attracted by You".

At 2pm the next day, there were only 10 hours left before TikTok went online.

In fact, Luo Ming has also considered whether to go online one day earlier on December 12st, so that he can also take advantage of the popularity of the major satellite TV stations' New Year's Eve galas.

But Rongmu felt that this was unnecessary. Zhuoguang had always promoted the release of the Douyin video on January 2016, 1. Releasing it a day earlier just to catch the wave of popularity would affect the corporate image of Zhuoguang Technology.

Luo Ming thought about it and decided to suppress the idea.

Since Douyin was going to be online at 12 o'clock, Luo Ming and Lin Shuwen did not go home and stayed in the office directly, and Rong Mu did the same.

The three of them simply went to a nearby restaurant to have a meal, and then returned to the company to watch the New Year's Eve concert. After the New Year's Eve concert ended, TikTok was launched, making it a seamless transition.

"Erming, I heard that you wrote an amazing song for Zhang Songzhi?" Rong Mu asked with interest.

"Yes, you can listen later." While the two were chatting, Lin Shuwen brought a plate of cut fruits, some snacks and melon seeds.

The three of them ate while watching the New Year’s Eve parties on various satellite TV channels.

"What time will Zhang Songzhi go on stage?" Rong Mu asked while yawning.

This year's New Year's Eve parties on various satellite TV stations were indeed very boring, so it is understandable that Rong Mu felt sleepy while watching them.

"It should be 10 o'clock!" replied Lin Shuwen, who was also a little sleepy.

"It's already 9:50, let's cut to the mango!"

"Okay." Luo Ming responded and changed the channel to Mango TV.

The program on Mango TV right now is a skit.

"I don't know since when skits have started to like forced sensationalism or the kind of stuff that gives you value. It's really boring to watch them." Rong Mu complained.

Luo Ming agreed with this, and Lin Shuwen also agreed that the skits they performed when they were young are completely different from those now.

After the skit ended, the host came up to introduce the story, and then Zhang Songzhi took the stage.

Today Zhang Songzhi was wearing a red suit and his makeup looked younger.

After Zhang Songzhi stood on the stage, the song title emerged at this time:
"Young China"

Lyricist: Mr. Liang
Composer: Takiha

This song was written by lyricist Ershui, who adapted Mr. Liang's "On Young China". The composer is Xu Song.

Xu Song is quite experienced in adapting poetry. In addition to this song, he also has similar works, such as "Last Night's Book", which was adapted from Yue Fei's work.

When Rong Mu saw the name of the song on the screen, a hint of surprise flashed in his eyes. He turned to look at Luo Ming and said, "'Young China'? Er Ming, this name is too big, isn't it? A pop song dares to put the word 'China' in the title. If the lyrics and music are not well written, it will probably be put on the blacklist directly, right?"

Luo Ming smiled and said, "Mu Tou, you are right. The requirements for lyrics and music of this type of song when submitted for review are much stricter than those for ordinary pop songs."

"Then you're still writing?"

"I didn't write the lyrics. Didn't you see that the subtitle just now was Mr. Liang?"

"Who is Mr. Liang?" Rong Mu asked.

"A senior who wanted to save this country a hundred years ago."

Rong Mu fell silent upon hearing this. He had no right to judge such a person.

At the same time, Rong Mu also guessed that this song should be a work of grand scale. No wonder Luo Ming said that this song is worthy of being called a masterpiece.

"I'd like to hear what the lyrics written by such a senior would say!" After saying this, Rong Mu looked at the screen with some anticipation.

At this time, on the screen, the children's choir was already in place. After a few children stood on the stage, the singing began to be heard, and they were the first to sing:
"The wisdom of the youth is the wisdom of the country,
A rich youth makes a country rich,

When the youth is strong, the country is strong,

If the youth are free, the nation is free.”

Every time these children sang a line, there were powerful drum beats.

Listening to the lyrics and the drum beats, Rong Mu got goosebumps!
This is too big a plan! Just based on these four lines, this song has the potential to be a big hit.

Lin Shuwen also looked at the screen with a serious expression.

With just four lines of lyrics, the song instantly killed all the programs before Mango TV's New Year's Eve concert, leaving nothing behind.

When Luo Ming saw the two of them, he couldn't help but recall the scene when he first heard this song.

At that time, he was also deeply shocked by this song like Rong Mu and Lin Shuwen.

"This word is amazing! It's absolutely amazing!" Rong Mu praised.

"It's really amazing, whether it's the idea, structure, or pattern! They are all so brilliant. Only the predecessors of that era could write such passionate words." Lin Shuwen echoed.

At this time, Zhang Songzhi on the stage was still holding the microphone, but had not started singing yet.

The children standing beside him repeated the four sentences again. After singing each sentence, they paused for a moment, and then the passionate drum beats suddenly came out a few times.

However, when singing the song for the second time, the sounds of Chinese classical instruments came in, and it was no longer just singing and drums as before.

Many young viewers already started to get excited just by watching the pictures and listening to the songs.

You know, in the past lives, many people who could recite "On Youthful China" by heart felt passionate when listening to the song.

Everyone in this world is hearing these words for the first time, so how can they remain calm?
(End of this chapter)