Huayu 1995

Chapter 89 Life is More Than Just the Present (Seeking Monthly Tickets)
Product Information: "Life is More Than Just the Present Hardships"

Lyrics and arrangement: Xu Wei/Ai Dajin/Ai Dajin/Ai Dajin

Overall system rating: 8.2
Creation start date: October 04, 2013

Release date: August 18, 2016

Su Chao didn't really want to shake hands with Gao Dajin; he was just using the opportunity to open Gao Dajin's shop and buy something.

Here comes a very classic song, "Life Is More Than Just the Present Misery".

The price is not cheap.

He spent 25,000 yuan on this song.

This is the price after the discount.

If you bought it at the original price, this song would definitely cost more than this.

"Dark Fragrance" is also on sale for only 15,000 yuan.

Different songs have different discounts, and the discount level depends entirely on luck.

However, "Existence" is definitely worth it.

This song is one of Xu Wei's representative works.

It is also a well-known song created by Gao Xiaosong, and many of its lyrics have become popular sayings.

For example, "Life is not just about the present hardships, but also about poetry and distant fields."

It has even spawned many variations.

Life is not just about the present hardships, but also about the wedding invitations from your ex.

Riding dreams like horses only makes one more foolish.

Poetry and distant places, the farther away, the dirtier they become.

It is said that this lyric originated from Gao Xiaosong's mother's admonition to him: "Don't be confined by the mundane realities of life."

If Gao Xiaosong sounds familiar, Su Chao wouldn't mind giving him a hug.

Moreover, this song was only created in 2013, so there's no need to worry about it being copied; at most, it might just sound familiar to Gao Xiaosong.

Besides "Gouqie" (苟且), Gao Xiaosong's shop also carries "Over the Hills" (越过山丘) and "Rongyao" (荣耀).

This old man's three items are all songs.

The prices of "Over the Hills" and "Glory" are similar, both costing over ten thousand yuan after discounts.

The former is 16,000, and the latter is 12,000.

Su Chao borrowed 50,000 yuan from Lin Zhimeng yesterday, and Yan Siyuan supplemented his basic salary by 6,500 yuan. The karaoke bar's total revenue that day was 15,000 yuan. Adding the few thousand yuan he originally had, the total was about 75,000 yuan.

That night, I spent 43,000 yuan to buy three songs, including "Dark Fragrance," and now I only have 32,000 yuan left in my pocket.

Now, after spending 25,000 yuan to buy "Gouqie" (苟且),
He couldn't afford either of the remaining two songs; was he just left with no choice but to lament his fate?

of course not!
What's the point of all this futile lamenting?

Why do you feel helpless when you're broke? Don't you have any friends? Don't you have any friends you can swindle?
"Brother, can you lend me five thousand yuan?"

Su Chao asked Chen Jiantian for a loan on the spot.

"You're still short of money..."

Chen Jiantian was shocked; he had witnessed Su Chao's incredible earning power yesterday.

However, he still obediently took out his wallet.

"No, how come you've fallen so low that you can't even come up with five thousand yuan?"

Gao Xiaosong found it unbelievable.

Is five thousand yuan a reasonable amount?
With such a poor and pathetic appearance, how dare he think he can compete with Zheng Jun?
Su Chao accepted the five thousand yuan.

With what was left in my pocket, I bought Gao Xiaosong's "Glory" game.

Product Information: Honor

Lyrics and arrangement: Wang Xiaotian/Gao Xiaosong/Qian Lei/Jie Jian

Overall system rating: 7.0
Creation start date: October 26, 2014

Release date: August 13, 2014

This song cost 12,000 yuan and is considered a relatively popular song.

It's the theme song for Huawei Honor phones.

"The night gave me black eyes, but I use them to seek the light," this line, borrowed from Gu Cheng's poem, is the climax of the song.

Regardless of whether Gao Xiaosong is disliked or not, his lyrics are genuinely quite good.

Su Chao originally intended to stop there.

He is not an excessive person.

It's only right to take back what's yours, and it's even more benevolent to leave one of your poems for Gao Xiaosong.

But the old man didn't even thank him.

They actually mocked him for being poor and stingy.

Gao Xiaosong: I didn't say it, I was just thinking about it in my heart.

Su Chao: Anyway, I heard it!
"Brother, can you lend me some more? Twenty thousand will be enough."

Is it shameful to borrow money?

No!

It's embarrassing to not be able to borrow it.

Just like now, although Gao Xiaosong looked disdainful, Chen Jiantian opened the drawer and took out cash without even asking.

One stack, two stacks, three stacks...

“I was thinking of raising the budget for your album from 250,000 to 300,000, so the total creation fee is 60,000. I’ve already prepared the budget for you, so you can use it for now. However, if you want to use songs created by other people, you’ll have to pay for that yourself.”

Chen Jiantian did not lend Su Chao any more money.

However, following Zhang Yadong's advice, he decided to settle Su Chao's album creation fee first.

"Three hundred thousand! You're spending three hundred thousand on production costs for one of his albums? Old Chen, are you crazy? Even Zheng Jun didn't spend three hundred thousand!"

Gao Xiaosong, who was standing nearby, was stunned.

However, his words infuriated Chen Jiantian because Zheng Jun had already terminated his contract, yet he kept referring to Zheng Jun.

Is Zheng Jun your father?

You think I'm not suffering enough, don't you?

Why increase the budget?
It's all because Zheng Jun left. One Tian Zhen isn't enough; the Red Star Production Cooperative needs a new facade.

Su Chao is a good fit in every way.

The production costs for albums in mainland China are not high; an album costing around 100,000 yuan is already considered a high-quality album.

For example, the production cost of "Xiao Fang" was only 100,000 yuan.

However, Li Chunbo was a newcomer at that time.

Furthermore, in the past two years, the mainland music scene has experienced explosive growth, with music video production becoming increasingly popular, and production costs rising accordingly.

A budget of 100,000 is no longer considered high-quality.

However, there aren't many albums with production costs exceeding 200,000.

What level is 300,000?
This year, Gao Xiaosong produced Lao Lang's new album "Love in the Dust," which only cost 380,000 yuan.

You might think that 300,000 might not even be as much as Lao Lang's album.

But don't forget.

With representative works like "My Deskmate" and "My Brother Who Sleeps on My Upper Bunk," Lao Lang is now a top-tier singer.

For a newcomer, the album production cost is comparable to that of a top-tier singer.

Gao Xiaosong naturally thought Chen Jiantian had gone mad.

"You will know then..."

Chen Jiantian did not react, after all, Gao Xiaosong was still a collaborator of Hongxing.

Talented people always receive more tolerance.

In the mainland music scene, Gao Xiaosong's background and talent have earned him many preferential treatments.

"A production cost of 300,000 and a creative expenditure of 60,000, even 20% is outrageous..."

Gao Xiaosong had never heard of Su Chao's "Goodbye" and "The Moon Caused the Trouble," but he simply did not believe that a young man in his early twenties could have any so-called creative talent.

At his age, he had just been admitted to Tsinghua University.

Meanwhile, Su Chao had already taken away Gao Xiaosong's last song, "Over the Hills".

Product Information: Over the Hills

Lyrics and arrangement: Yang Zongwei/Gao Xiaosong/Gao Xiaosong/Benjamin Wright

Overall system rating: 7.5
Creation start date: October 11, 2014

Release date: August 18, 2017

For Su Chao, spending 16,000 yuan on this song was not worth it at all.

Firstly, this is a song that pays tribute to Jonathan Lee.

It contains too much of Jonathan Lee's style and the melody of "Hills," so it's not unreasonable to say that it plagiarized.

Of course, if it was posted before Li Zongsheng's, then it means Li Zongsheng copied Su Chao.

Secondly, the lyrics are problematic, very problematic.

"Across the hills / I met my nineteen-year-old self / Wearing white gloves / Drinking my wedding wine / He asked me if I was happy..."

Is this something Su Chao could possibly write?

He's only eighteen years old!

And then there's the line, "That girl you loved so much / married the guy next door, Mr. Wang / I asked her if she was happy / she nodded while crying..."

"Let me go with you / Back to when I was twenty / At the crossroads where I was running wildly / To be a solitary singer..."

I'm only eighteen. If I go back when I'm twenty, that's not considered going back.

That's called striding forward.

This song is destined to stay with me for several more years.

Fortunately, as long as it's sent out before 2013, it'll be fine.

The hill by Jonathan Lee was in 2013.

When the time comes, he will say that his favorite singer is Su Chao, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with paying tribute to Su Chao.

Hey~
I was really bullied by Gao Xiaosong today.

Fed up!

I don't care whether I live or die, I just want you to die!
Little did Gao Xiaosong know that Su Chao was relentlessly harassing him.

I simply emptied his shopping cart.

He was still calculating the album production costs for Chan Kin-tim.

When Zheng Jun created "Naked," he was only paid 49,000 yuan as a creation fee.

You're giving a newcomer 60,000?
"Life is not just about the present hardships, but also about poetry and distant fields. You came into this world empty-handed, and you're willing to do anything to find that sea..."

Su Chao ignored them.

He lay back in Chen Jiantian's boss's chair, eating Chen Jiantian's grapes while humming a pleasant song.

This office chair is great; it gave him a lot of inspiration.

What are you singing?

Chen Jiantian finally noticed that he had never heard the song Su Chao was singing.

Gao Xiaosong obviously noticed it too.

He was secretly listening, hoping that Su Chao would sing louder and clearer.

Gao Xiaosong felt that this melody sounded familiar.

The words also made him feel very close to them.

"Life is not just about the present hardships, but also about poetry and distant fields... What do you think of my new song?"

Su Chao wasn't embarrassed at all.

He could pinch a woman's wife until she moaned and groaned, even in front of her husband.

you do not say.

This song is by Gao Xiaosong, so it's like Gao Xiaosong's wife.

Su Chao directly took it for himself.

Not only did he take it for himself, but he also did so in front of others.

I was just having an affair with your wife in secret, and you were eavesdropping on our flirting from behind the wall.

How shameless!
(End of this chapter)