They’re all reborn, what’s wrong with being a little more almighty?

Chapter 316 Troublemaker

The next day was Saturday, and Zhang Wei had planned to sleep in. After all, he had been busy all night, exchanging two talents and using up several days of his life, so he had to sleep a little longer to make up for it.

However, he was woken up by the ringing of his cell phone. The caller ID showed an unfamiliar number, with the first few digits being 00852.

"It's a Hong Kong number. Could it be that the university there wants to invite me to give a lecture?" Zhang Wei muttered, then answered the phone.

"Hello, are you Mr. Zhang Wei?" The other party spoke very standard Mandarin, which sounded more authentic than what Zhang Wei spoke.

"I'm Zhang Wei, who are you?" Zhang Wei asked.

"I am the deputy director of the Art Department of CCTV Art Center, and my last name is also Zhang." The other party answered.

"Then we are still relatives!" Zhang Wei said casually, but he was wondering in his heart, the people from CCTV should be in Beijing, why did they call him using a Hong Kong number.

The other party continued, "It's like this. Last night, you sang a song with Mr. Yung Cho called "Bauhinia Blossoms". It's your original song, right?"

"Yes, this song was written specifically for the tenth anniversary of Hong Kong's return to China," Zhang Wei replied.

"Can you give us the license for this song?" Director Zhang continued, "CCTV is planning a cultural performance for the 10th anniversary of Hong Kong's return to China. Our program team thinks the theme of your song is very suitable for this cultural performance. We plan to arrange for a guest to sing your song in tonight's performance."

"The performance is tonight? The schedule is so tight!" Zhang Wei subconsciously looked at the calendar. It was June 6th, so the performance was indeed tonight.

"That's why I called you early in the morning to ask for song authorization!" Director Zhang said.

"No problem. I'm flattered that my work can be performed on such an important occasion! Not only tonight's performance, but also this song "Bauhinia Blossoms" can be used by CCTV whenever it wants without informing me." Zhang Wei said immediately.

"This guy is quite sensible." Director Zhang muttered to himself, and then said, "I'm busy with rehearsals here, and time is tight, so I'll first get your verbal consent and formal written authorization. After the performance, I'll arrange for the legal department to contact you."

Putting down his phone, Zhang Wei quickly went online to check the news about the cultural performance celebrating the 10th anniversary of Hong Kong's return to China.

This is probably the largest cultural performance event held in Hong Kong in the past decade. The performers are the top celebrities from both sides of the Taiwan Strait. There are several performance teams with Chinese national flags alone. It is no exaggeration to say that even the Spring Festival Gala may not be able to invite such a lineup.

In addition, this art performance will have the Four Heavenly Kings performing on the same stage. Not only will each of them sing a song, but the four of them will also have a chorus. This is also the last time the Four Heavenly Kings will perform together so far.

The last time the Four Heavenly Kings performed on the same stage was at the 2003 Academy Awards ceremony. That year, Leslie Cheung committed suicide, and the Four Heavenly Kings sang Leslie Cheung's "When Love Was Here" to commemorate their brother who had just passed away.

Prior to that, there was the Hong Kong Return Gala in 1997, the "Stars of Disaster Reduction and Poverty Alleviation" charity performance, the Golden Melody Awards ceremony and Hong Kong and Kowloon fundraising performances in 1993, as well as the Miss Hong Kong finals and the Sun Project event in 1992.

Although the title of "Four Heavenly Kings" has been around for three or four decades, in reality, the four of them have performed on the same stage only eight times, including this time in 2007.

There is no other way. It is too difficult to bring these four together. Especially after 2000, the four are all top superstars. Probably only heavyweight celebration performances and extremely important charity performances can invite the four to perform on the same stage.

The fact that the Four Heavenly Kings were invited to the cultural performance for the 10th anniversary of their return is enough to show the quality of the performance, which should be the best in the past decade.

Zhang Wei had no extravagant hope of participating in a performance of this level. For celebrities, the cultural performance for the tenth anniversary of the return was very exciting, with many big stars lining up to participate. How could it be the turn of Zhang Wei, a little Kara-mi in a talent show?

However, Zhang Wei is already very satisfied that one of his songs was selected by the organizer and performed in the cultural performance.

After thinking for a moment, Zhang Wei called Wang Xing.

"Brother, I'm sorry to bother you so early in the morning."

"It's okay, I'm just having breakfast!" Wang Xing paused, then continued, "I watched your competition last night. I didn't expect your singing skills to be so great. You have to come and sing a few songs for our annual meeting later."

"Okay, I'll definitely go when I have time." Zhang Wei agreed casually, and then continued: "Brother, I need your help with something again."

"Should I continue to help you build momentum on the campus website?" Wang Xing asked.

"It can be considered as a publicity stunt!" Zhang Wei continued, "Did you listen to the song I sang with Mr. Yung Cho last night?"

"I heard you singing in Mandarin and Mr. Yung Cho singing in Cantonese. I think this song is pretty nice. It's such a pity that you didn't advance directly. Do you think those judges are deaf?"

"These judges are not deaf, but bad!" Zhang Wei smiled and continued, "I wrote this song specifically for the 10th anniversary of the return. It is definitely the main theme song, but it cannot be promoted. Do you think these judges are unpatriotic?"

“But I remember that among the three judges last night, two were not from our mainland, and one of them was from Malaysia. It is not realistic to expect Malaysians to have the same empathy as us for the tenth anniversary of the return,” Wang Xing said.

"The guests can be without empathy, but the program team can be, right?" Zhang Wei chuckled and continued, "What on earth are the program team trying to promote by inviting such guests? Is their butt a little crooked?"

"Aren't you taking this a bit too seriously?" Wang Xing said subconsciously.

"Yes, I am planning to exaggerate this." Zhang Wei lowered his voice and continued, "Brother, find some people to post some messages on the campus website to help me stir up a wave of public opinion offensive."

Wang Xing sighed softly: "Your move is really cruel. If it involves the main theme, the whole program will be cancelled if it is not handled properly."

"I don't want to use such a ruthless trick, but this production team is really bullying me too much. I can't just passively take the beating without actively fighting back!" Zhang Wei also sighed and continued:

“You saw yesterday’s competition. That lousy expert jury was made up of people appointed by the production team. They simply refused to vote for me. They dared to do such shady things. They have already torn their relationship with me.

In that case, I don't need to give him any face. As the saying goes, if no one offends me, I won't offend them. If someone offends me, I will definitely offend them. Let's just fight, at worst we can just hurt each other!"

……

That evening, a cultural performance to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Hong Kong's return to the motherland was held at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. Hong Kong's top stars gathered together, and many veteran stars who had not appeared in public for a long time showed up on the scene.

Compared with the performance ten years ago, there are fewer Leslie Cheung and Anita Mui, but there are more new generation superstars such as Eason Chan, Gigi Leung, and Twins.

The repertoire of the performance also has many similarities with that of ten years ago, such as "Under the Lion Rock", "Pearl of the Orient", "Chinese Heart" and other songs, which are all must-have songs for the return celebrations over the years.

Also because the songs performed are old songs that are familiar to everyone, whether it is the audience at the scene or the audience in front of the TV, they are not interested in the songs themselves, but are paying attention to the stars appearing on stage.

Until the song "Bauhinia Flowers in Bloom" appeared.

"Bauhinia is in bloom? I haven't heard of it. It's a new song!"

"I didn't expect there would be new songs at today's party. I thought they were all old songs!"

"Hey, I think this song is pretty good, it sounds nice."

There were two singers on the stage, one from the mainland, singing in Mandarin, and the other from Hong Kong, singing in Cantonese. Although they spoke different languages, the two singers worked very well together, and Mandarin and Cantonese were completely integrated into the same song. Just like the lyrics say: Under the same roof, like a painting, from the same family, pursuing the same dream.

This type of performance has never appeared before. Although there were choruses in previous performances, they were all in Mandarin or Cantonese. There has never been a performance that mixed Mandarin with Cantonese.

Nowadays, when this form of performance appears, it instantly makes people feel bright.

Moreover, this song not only has a nice melody, but also has very good meaning in the lyrics, which is very suitable for a performance like today.

Among all the classic old songs, the song "Bauhinia Blossoms" instantly became a highlight in the cultural performance.

……

The next day, a performance video of "Bauhinia Blossoms" appeared on major domestic video websites. Although the resolution was not high, people's faces could be seen clearly and their voices could be heard clearly.

At the same time, the MP3 audio of "Bauhinia Blossoms" is also available online on various pirated music websites, and netizens can download it for free.

It is very easy for young people nowadays to listen to music. They can open QQ Music or various music software that comes with their mobile phones and listen to music anytime and anywhere through the Internet.

In the past, there was no such developed Internet, nor such convenient APP. If you wanted to listen to music, you had to buy albums or download them from pirated music websites.

A quick search on the Internet will reveal many pirated music websites. After downloading, copy the songs into your own MP3. MP3s with more functions can also show the lyrics, but you need to download a special lyrics file.

So at that time, a business was born to help people download songs.

The owner of a small shop next to the school has a computer specifically for students to download songs. Since students cannot access the Internet normally, they use their MP3s to copy songs. Each song costs only two or three cents.

If you have MP4, you can also download movies. A movie costs one or two dollars. Some unscrupulous bosses will even download movies starting with FBI. If you want to copy it, you have to pay extra.

Soon after, a series of posts appeared on the campus network, questioning the song "Bauhinia Blossoms", which did not advance in the Super Boy competition and was instead marked as pending by the judges.

At the same time, the post also contains a hyperlink to the video or audio of the song, and people who read the post can view it directly by clicking on it.

Such posts spread quickly on the campus network and immediately sparked heated discussions.

At this critical juncture of the tenth anniversary of the return, a tribute song to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the return was actually eliminated in the talent show!
It would be fine if this song was just ordinary, but the quality of this song is very good. Not only is the melody nice, but the lyrics are also full of meaning and positive energy.

In comparison, the other contestants' songs were completely defeated just in terms of the theme!

However, the judges put the song "Bauhinia Blossoms" on hold and chose two other songs to advance. This is incredible!
What does it mean to not promote this main theme song? Do you think the 10th anniversary of the return is not important? This is clearly unpatriotic!

Looking at the judges again, only one is a mainland musician, and the other two were invited from outside.

Although you judges are not mainland musicians, you came to the mainland to make money! It is obvious that you are eating our rice and destroying our pot!

Then another post said that the song "Bauhinia Blossoms" was also performed in CCTV's 10th anniversary performance.

This is the top-level performance event, one level higher than the Spring Festival Gala.

The works that can be selected by CCTV and performed on top shows are just pending in your talent show?

Could it be that CCTV’s ability to appreciate music is not as good as you judges?

Could it be that the quality of a performance that's even higher than the Spring Festival Gala's is not as good as the top four in your talent show?

It's obvious that they are deliberately not letting the song "Bauhinia Flowers in Bloom" advance!

If we deliberately don't let them advance, doesn't that prove that the judges are eating our food and blaming us?

Tolerable or unbearable!
The mainstream users of campus network are still college students, who are the most easily excited and easily influenced by others.

Overnight, the campus internet was abuzz with emotion.

Soon after, the criticism was directed at the organizers of the program.

You can hold a talent show, but why do you invite some artists who are only interested in eating and ruining the show as guests? Is your butt crooked?

There was a lot of cursing on the internet, some of the harshest ones even used the word “traitor”.

A day later, someone posted a message saying that they had called to report the incident, and attached the process and reporting phone number.

Immediately afterwards, the General Administration became busy, with reports of complaints pouring in from college students across the country.

……

The atmosphere in the conference room was silent. Although every seat was occupied by a living person, the room was lifeless and devoid of any sense of life.

“What the hell are you doing? This song ‘Bauhinia in Bloom’ is such a good song, why don’t you let him advance?” The leading man said as he slammed the table to vent his anger.

Someone secretly glanced at the leader and thought to himself, "You were the one who gave the order to eliminate Zhang Wei. Are you pretending to have lost your memory now? Are you turning your back on me?"

According to normal procedures, a good and conscientious subordinate should come out to admit his mistake, take the blame, and give his leader a way out.

However, today, no one dared to speak up, because the General Administration has already held talks on this matter. The matter has become so serious that anyone who acts rashly may be used as a scapegoat.

This blame is too big to bear.

The leader then said, "Our show needs attention, but we don't need attention from being scolded. Look at what people are calling us online? Traitors, running dogs, traitors, the worst possible way to get them to listen to us!"
Talent shows are controversial these days. When we did the Super Girl talent show two years ago, a group of people said we were corrupting the kids. We also launched this year's Super Boy talent show under great pressure.

Originally, seeing that the ratings were pretty good, I thought I could continue to promote the Kuai Boy brand. But now, the reporting phone number at the General Administration is busy 24 hours a day. How can we continue to promote the Kuai Boy brand in the future?
The General Administration has already ordered us to make corrections. The judges for the next competition must be mainland musicians, and the public jury has also been cancelled! Anyone who causes trouble for me again will be kicked out immediately!"

Seeing that the leader's mood had calmed down a bit, the planner raised his hand weakly: "Leader, what about Zhang Wei? If you don't interfere with the judges' selection and don't use the public jury, Zhang Wei will definitely win the championship!"

"Zhang Wei, Zhang Wei, it's that Zhang Wei again! I get a headache when I hear this name! This trouble was caused by this Zhang Wei. If he hadn't sang 'Bauhinia Blossoms', he wouldn't have caused such a big trouble!"

The leader slammed the table, looking extremely angry and yelling hysterically, "I want to ban him completely!"

(End of this chapter)