A grand feast for the Chinese entertainment industry

Chapter 59 The Dirt in My Heart
Since he transmigrated, Lin Jianlu has uttered similar sentiments countless times: It's so nice to be idle!

He was constantly busy, submitting articles, signing contracts, releasing albums, shooting music videos, doing promotions, signing autographs, and even performing at commercial events. In short, he was trying his best to make money. His goal was actually very simple: to be able to relax!

This was his biggest dream in his past life.

Every day there are classes, rehearsals, and live streams after class. Sometimes there are even two live streams a day. It would be a lie to say that you're not tired. Even if you're young, you'll get tired. If it weren't for a few stinking bucks, who the hell wouldn't want to be idle!

August 6th, nothing to do.

On August 7th, I accompanied Gao Yuanyuan shopping, drank with people at noon, and spent 3.5 million yuan.

August 8th, nothing to do. In the afternoon, Gao Yuanyuan called again, saying she had finally decided to buy the beige dress she'd seen yesterday and asked me to go with her. Go with her. Not only that, but she also treated me to a nice dinner that evening.

Her little hands are so soft, and she even changed into a new dress for you to see. The best part is that she doesn't have 404 glue on her clothes, how wonderful!
On August 9th, Lin Jianlu had just bought groceries and returned home. Before she could even turn on the air conditioner, Lao Xue, Xue Zhongding, suddenly called—"We're going to give out money!"
Thank goodness, the album was released on March 1st, and now, more than five months later, Xinhua Bookstore is finally settling the first phase of sales revenue. Moyan will go to settle the settlement today, and after completing the procedures with the capital branch of Rock Records, Lin Jianlu will receive the money as soon as possible.

The total sales revenue to be settled this time is approximately 3600 million RMB. Moyan will receive about two-thirds of it, and the other third will be the distribution fee from Xinhua Bookstore. However, after the settlement with Rock Records, Moyan's distribution fees, promotion fees, and other expenses will be deducted, leaving approximately 2000 million RMB.

But those things actually had nothing to do with Lin Jianlu. He directly took 15% of the sales revenue, which was a little over 540 million! Rolling Stone reported the taxes to the agents based on the manuscript fees, so he would still get about 480 million after tax.

Sigh... The money I invested in "Spicy Love Soup" and the money I decided to invest in "Kangxi's Private Visits" has all come back in one go!

Of course, that's just how the domestic market is now. This round's settlement, while certainly not the final figure, is the main thing. Even if there are more rounds later, there won't be many left.

The period of massive sales for genuine copies lasted less than half a month!

Of course, Xue Zhongding mentioned that by April, the distributors below started returning goods one after another. The unsold and expected unsold goods were all returned. By May, the number of these returned tapes had reached more than one million. It was heartbreaking to see them piled up in the warehouse, as they represented a significant portion of the cost. So Zhang Peiren used a cunning trick. He wholesaled those tapes to the distributors again at a price of three yuan per tape—genuine products, but I sold them at the price of pirated copies!
It's selling very well!

Everyone sells them for five yuan a box in music stores. The genuine version is obviously printed in a better quality, with genuine lyrics pages inside, and also comes with a beautiful 16-page poster of Lin Jianlu. Of course, it sells better than the pirated version!
There is no way around it.

Under normal circumstances, genuine products would not be sold at this price or in this way. They would rather destroy the tapes than use such a low price to disrupt the market. However, more than a million tapes are involved, and the cost is really not small. Moyan's family business is small and they are really unwilling to bear such a big loss.

Old Duan from Rolling Stone also tacitly approved of his handling of the situation.

For this part of the sales, Moyan will charge the cost price, but when it comes to Rolling Stone, there won't be much money left. For a box of genuine products, they can only get less than two yuan back. But Lao Duan said that these will still be counted as genuine product sales and Lin Jianlu will receive royalties normally—who knows, they might even make another one or two million.

Then, the money from the mainland was basically gone.

Unless Lin Jianlu is willing to start doing commercial performances in mainland China—he initially thought the mainland was poor and didn't plan to make much money there, but as he made more and more friends inside and outside the industry, he gradually began to understand the market rates, and now he's starting to get a little interested.

The Asian superstar, the diamond-level singer, now commands a price of up to 120,000 yuan per commercial performance in mainland China!

The main problem is that there's always been a price but no market, which is frustrating.

But that's not important. What's important is that the mainland is just too big. As long as he's willing to take on gigs, he can even switch between two or three venues a day. He can earn 80,000 or 100,000 per show, go on stage for ten minutes, and leave right after. He can easily make several million a month. If he wasn't sure that he could earn much more than that just by recording one album, he would have already been tempted to make that kind of money.

For now, he'd rather forget it and stay idle.

…………

That night, he suddenly became a little horny.

Yeah, it's that kind of horny feeling.

Well, after transmigrating for more than half a year, this 20-year-old strong young man has been surrounded by one beautiful woman after another every day. The key is that each of these beauties seems to be interested in him as long as he is interested in her. No one could resist that.

In the past, things were alright. Lin Jianlu was determined to make money, and he always had a clear goal in mind: to earn enough money to retire and for our family of five to enjoy a leisurely life.

But in the last few days, he has clearly felt himself getting restless.

The channels have been opened, and there's already a lot of money. Next, the royalties will be settled one after another, and the money will gradually arrive in my account, resulting in even more. As long as I continue to record albums, or even just record albums for others, the money will continue to increase.

I bought a courtyard house, and I can move in during the winter.

He's already found one of his four wives, and they're holding hands.

My heart suddenly started to race – should I just keep waiting like this?
This one is still in high school, but she's probably the oldest. My Fei is probably still in elementary school, so don't count on her. My Bingbing is probably a little younger than Yuanyuan, so she's still early too. As for my Tian, ​​my Shi, and my Mi, we don't even know if they've graduated from kindergarten yet...

Oh dear, I'm so anxious and restless.

Normally he would lie down around 9:30 and fall asleep within minutes. Even if he had a drinking party at night, he would not go to bed later than 11:00. His schedule was as standard as could be. But today was different. He tossed and turned for a long time and couldn't fall asleep. He got up to check the time and, wow, he hadn't fallen asleep for a record half hour.

I got up and took a cold shower. Thankfully, the heat subsided, but I still felt empty inside.

My sleepiness has mostly worn off.

He slumped onto the sofa and began to let his mind wander—face after face flashed before his eyes almost uncontrollably. Suddenly, at one point, he inexplicably thought of a face he had long forgotten.

My heart has become much cleaner without me even realizing it.

Who said that the hearts of seventeen or eighteen-year-old boys are dirty, no better than an outhouse that hasn't been cleaned for years? But when I think of her, I feel a strange warmth in my heart.

Ada Choi.

I wasn't very familiar with her at first, I just had a vague impression of her. She must have had quite a few messy scandals later on—but at least for now, this girl still deserves a certain amount of respect.

A twenty-year-old girl, independently shouldering the burden of a family, is strong enough.

A sudden thought struck him, and he picked up his phone, then flipped through his phone book and dialed the number. To his surprise, the call was answered almost immediately after the connection was established.

"Hello? Brother Lu?"

She seemed very excited.

"It's me. You're still awake?"

"No! Wow... I don't know if you understand how I feel right now. You know, just now, I was holding my phone, hesitating whether or not to call you!"

"Huh? Why? Is something wrong?"

"I paid back another 30 today, so now I only owe 274 million, including principal and interest! I was so happy after paying it back, and I had a nice meal with my mom and brother tonight! But I just couldn't fall asleep in bed... I don't know why, but I really wanted to call you and tell you this good news... But I didn't expect that after hesitating for almost half an hour, thinking I would be too embarrassed to bother you, you actually called... Brother Lu, Brother Lu... I..."

As she spoke, her voice unconsciously began to tremble with emotion, almost as if she were about to cry.

On the other end of the phone, Lin Jianlu laughed instead, suddenly recalling her bright smile clearly—"My Yuanyuan is still too young, too naive. Liang Yongqi is beautiful, but she seems too plain and not bright enough. If Lin Jianlu had to give his opinion, he felt that among all the girls he knew, she was the most beautiful one."

Lin Qingxia and Rosamund Kwan are excluded. The former is over forty, and the latter always gave Lin Jianlu a strange sense of distance—it felt like they wouldn't be kindred spirits who shared a love for simple meals.

It seems that only Jiang Qinqin can barely hold her own against Jia Jingwen.

Congratulations! You've taken another big step forward!

"Ah."

"I'm going to Taiwan again in a while, and we'll have dinner together then."

"Okay! This time I'll treat you to a different restaurant! Uh... don't you think it's a bit too much of a slap on the wrist to just treat you to a bowl of noodles?"

"Of course not!"

"That's great! It's still on that street, there's a noodle shop. It's not expensive, but their noodles are so delicious. I often go there for a bowl of noodles after work! I'll treat you!"

"it is good!"

"It's a deal!"

"That's a deal."

She laughed, then fell silent. After a long while, she said again, "Brother Lu, you're so kind!"

"Hmm. Now... I can sleep peacefully?"

"Okay, I can go to sleep now."

"Good night then."

"Good night."

(End of this chapter)