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"Let Lizhi, Qingxia and the others join Cinepoly?"

Zhang Guorong looked left and right, his face full of disbelief.

Without waiting for Fangyan to speak, Lin Qingxia politely refused. She knew herself well. If she had some qualifications and talent in acting, then her singing, although not tone-deaf, was at least terrible. Otherwise, she would have entered the music scene in Taiwan.

Li Zhi raised her hands unconfidently, "I can't do it either. I don't speak Cantonese well enough, and sometimes I even make mistakes when pronouncing words."

"My Cantonese is not standard, but I can learn it slowly."

Zhang Guorong felt that Lizhi had a good voice, with a unique Wu tune that was as gentle as an oriole.

Fang Yan said: "If you say so, it seems that she does have the potential to be a singer."

Zhang Guorong nodded and promised that if Li Zhi was interested in becoming a singer, he could recommend her to Cinematheque and have her registered under his agent's name.

Although Li Zhi was elected Miss Hong Kong in 86 and signed a contract with TVB, what was different from previous Miss Hong Kongs and artistes signed by TVB was that Fang Yihua offered Li Zhi the most lenient agreement in TVB's history for the sake of Fang Yan.

Unlike other TVB actors, who are just slaves and earn a few thousand yuan a month, they can forget about getting sky-high pay even in their dreams.

This is also one of the reasons why people like Chow Yun-fat and Andy Lau who graduated from TVB's wireless artist training class have less desire to enter the film industry.

"what do you think?"

Fangyan turned his attention to Li Zhi. Since he wanted to train her to be the face of Mingkong Film Company, it would naturally be best for her to develop in the three fields of film, television and music.

"me……"

Under the gaze of everyone, Li Zhi was at a loss and couldn't make up her mind.

Lin Qingxia smiled and took her arm, "Why don't you give her some time to think about it carefully?"

Wang Zuxian followed closely behind Lin Qingxia, took Li Zhi's other arm, and cleverly supported her.

Seeing this, Zhang Guorong smiled knowingly and said, "It just so happens that I would like to take this opportunity to talk to Mr. Fang about the movie song for A Chinese Ghost Story. I wonder if you can write a theme song for this movie like you did for A Better Tomorrow?"

"Isn't CinemaThai a record company under Cinema City? Don't they have any plans to write music for the soundtrack of A Chinese Ghost Story?"

Fang Yan saw Lin Qingxia and Wang Zuxian "pushing" Li Zhi aside, biting her ears, and having a small meeting, and then he looked away.

Zhang Guorong said that Huang Zhan had heard that Tsui Ho was going to adapt Shaw Brothers' "A Chinese Ghost Story" from the 60s, so he volunteered to write songs for the movie. Unfortunately, he arrived a step too late. Tsui Ho had already found a music producer from Cinematheque to take charge, but the work he wrote was not to their liking.

Just as the two were discussing cooperation, Lin Qingxia seriously suggested that Lizhi accept Fangyan's proposal.

After all, lyrics written in dialect are priceless, and every singer in the Hong Kong music scene dreams of having this opportunity!
Not to mention the theme song and ending song of "A Better Tomorrow" written for Zhang Guorong, Keiko Matsuzaka and Teresa Teresa alone carved out a path for themselves in the crowded Japanese music scene with his lyrics, and became as famous as "Showa singers" such as Seiko Matsuda and Akina Nakamori.

"Yes, yes, since he thinks you are suitable for being a singer, it means he has his reasons."

Wang Zuxian also followed suit and advised.

Li Zhi thought about it for a long time and finally made up her mind. Even if she didn't believe in herself, could she still believe in Fangyan's vision?

So, the three of them came to Fang Yan and Zhang Guorong, and heard their conversation.

"I can only write lyrics, so I have to find a composer. So far, the only person I have worked with is Huang Zhan."

"Don't worry Mr. Fang, Director Xu and I were planning to ask Huang Zhan to help again."

Zhang Guorong said that Huang Zhan has finished a song. Originally, this song was written by Huang Zhan for another movie. Because the crew was very stingy and saved money everywhere, they had to cut the cost of a song in the end, so they rejected the song "Don't Come at Dawn". Instead, it helped "A Chinese Ghost Story". They only needed to slightly change the lyrics and find a female singer to sing it.

"You heard it, too?"

Fangyan raised his eyebrows and looked at Lizhi, Lin Qingxia and others.

The three girls nodded, and then Li Zhi met his encouraging eyes and mustered up the courage to take a step forward.

"Teacher Fang, I've made up my mind. I want to join CinemaTelevision. I want to see what my singing talent is like!"

“It’s really great that you think so.”

Fang Yan smiled and said, "You just heard it. No one has sung Huang Zhan's song 'Don't Come at Dawn' yet. Why don't you give it a try?"

Zhang Guorong, Lin Qingxia and others were all surprised by his act of borrowing flowers to offer gifts to Buddha, and the person involved, Li Zhi, could not believe it at all.

I only verbally agreed to join Cinematheque, but I easily got the opportunity to sing the works of the musical genius Huang Zhan!

Everyone thought of the first level, while Fangyan thought of the third level.

Since Joey Wong and Rongsheng Cheung invited Li Zhi to guest star in "A Chinese Ghost Story", if she sings this song, it can create a gimmick of "the 86th Miss Hong Kong champion singing for the first time", which can not only use the movie to increase Li Zhi's popularity, but also allow the movie to use Li Zhi for publicity.

Of course, before that, Li Zhi must get rid of her situation of being an unknown figure in the music industry and at least have one or two songs to rely on.

"As for the mini album, we will wait until Li Zhi officially signs with Cinepoly before starting the production plan. This should be no problem, right?"

"No."

Zhang Guorong agreed to let his agent help Lizhi and began to look for demos or works suitable for Lizhi to sing.

"You are so good at writing songs, why don't you just write one for Lizhi?"

As soon as Wang Zuxian finished speaking, Lin Qingxia secretly touched her with her hand and signaled with her eyes that she should stop talking nonsense.

"What a coincidence, that's what I had in mind."

Fangyan asked Li Zhiqing to sing a song she liked so that he could think about it carefully.

Li Zhi pondered for a while, then slowly hummed Chen Huixian's "Lost Promise":
"Our acquaintance was accidental, but our love changed in an instant. You are in me, or I am in you..."

"At this moment, we are speechless, revealing the sorrow in my heart. Looking at you, my face is full of sorrow..."

Fangyan carefully reviewed the Hong Kong songs that suited her, and took into account her style of music, singing skills, pronunciation, etc.

Except for Chan Wai-han, Anita Mui, Sally Yeh, Wang Fei and others are not suitable, but the song of the little Jewish Zhou Huimin is quite suitable.

Like "Self-love", "The Most Beloved", "Infatuation for Love"...

Of course, the options are not limited to Cantonese songs from Hong Kong and Taiwan from the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. There are also several songs from the mainland that are suitable for Li Zhi's accent.

In an instant, an idea came to his mind. He took out a pen and paper from his bag and started writing without hesitation under the surprised gaze of everyone.

Zhang Guorong, Lin Qingxia and Wang Zuxian all widened their eyes. They never expected that the inspiration for dialect would come so quickly!

Li Zhi's singing also stopped abruptly. She stared at Fang Yan, who was immersed in his creation, in a trance. (End of this chapter)