My Songwriting Was Rejected, But I Became A Superstar

The first time I saw him was when he was about to leave.

Chapter 235 Word-of-mouth masterpiece

This is Zhou Yu’s first time to visit CCTV. It has to be said that as the largest TV station in China, the official TV station among the official stations, the atmosphere and environment here are completely different from those of local TV stations. It seems more serious, and even has strict rules and requirements.

Because the leaders here are indeed leaders of positions, and their levels are not low. Even many people can often see them in the news.

“Haha, Xiao Zhou is here, sit down quickly.”

Director Li was also happy when he saw Zhou Yu. He likes this talented young man very much, and recently the children at home have also become fascinated by Zhou Yu, and often play Zhou Yu’s songs to listen to. After listening to them, even Director Li likes some of Zhou Yu’s songs.

After listening to and understanding, he really felt that Zhou Yu was born for music. This talent is really amazing. It is hard to imagine that so many good songs were written by Zhou Yu, a young man who just debuted and graduated from college. There are many songs that require certain social experience and experience to be so deeply rooted in people’s hearts, but Zhou Yu can write them at this age, which shows that he has a strong ability to empathize, and even his own experience is very rich.

Working at CCTV, Director Li has met many capable people over the years. But there are very few people who can achieve such achievements at this age like Zhou Yu. The key is that Zhou Yu is so talented in music, and he is also so good at writing scripts as a screenwriter.

Not to mention the original Chinese comic he made, which was just launched last week and has been very popular. The new program “Chinese Poetry Conference” in this station was created by him. When he saw this program, he was amazed. This kind of program that combines traditional culture and competitive games is full of entertainment and educational significance, which is exactly the type of program they need in their station.

“Director Li.”

Zhou Yu also smiled and greeted Director Li. In the reception room, he talked with Director Li about helping with the promotion.

That is, let Zhou Yu shoot a promotional video for the program, hoping to use Zhou Yu’s popularity to help the program increase its popularity. Although the current attention to this program has been very high, it still needs to be promoted. It will be broadcast next week, and various promotional resources will still be used this week.

“Then Xiao Zhou, I’ll have you work hard these two days. I know you are busy. I’ll have someone shoot your video tomorrow.”

“It’s okay. I don’t have anything to do later.”

Director Li patted Zhou Yu on the shoulder: “Since you are okay, you should go back and have a good rest after you finish your work here. It’s the end of the year, and you will definitely be very busy later.”

Just as he stood up, Director Li remembered something again: “By the way, Xiao Zhou, you should prepare more for this year’s New Year’s Eve party and Spring Festival Gala. The leaders of the station are very optimistic about you.”

Currently, Zhou Yu has a good relationship with CCTV. Many leaders of the station appreciate Zhou Yu, a talented young man. Even many leaders, like Director Li, like to listen to some of Zhou Yu’s songs. So this time, Zhou Yu was invited to the Spring Festival Gala and the New Year’s Eve Gala. The expectations of him are still quite high.

Director Li whispered to Zhou Yu: “My daughter is looking forward to the new song, and we are looking forward to it too.”

Zhou Yu smiled. He knew that Director Li had a daughter who was in high school, and he didn’t expect that she was still a fan of his songs.

“Okay, I’ll prepare well.”

After Zhou Yu chatted with Director Li, he came out and met Director Jiang Dan who had just finished recording this episode.

“Have you finished chatting?”

Coming out of the recording site, Jiang Dan had already put on a black down jacket, and the women’s suit was covered. Her long hair was tied up, revealing her fair and slender neck, and she wore pearl earrings on her ears, which made her look more dignified and luxurious.

“Well, we just finished chatting. Sister Dan, have you finished recording?”

“It’s over. That’s great. I’ve booked a restaurant and will take you there to eat and try the Beijing-style mutton.”

Zhou Yu and the others didn’t hesitate and followed Director Jiang Dan.

This time they met just to reminisce and talk about the show.

“It’s going to be broadcast next Saturday. To be honest, I’ve done so many shows, but this is the first time I’m cooperating with CCTV. I’m quite nervous.”

While eating mutton, Jiang Dan had already taken off her down jacket, revealing the slim-fitting women’s suit underneath. Ning Wanqiu sat on Jiang Dan’s left, also wearing only a sweater. The two were about the same age, chatting.

Then they became familiar with each other.

Zhou Yu sat on Jiang Dan’s right, and Yuanyuan sat opposite. He took a look at the two beautiful and mature beauties and smiled.

“I watched the finished film and the promotional clips that were released before. The quality of the program is fine. The feedback from netizens is also very good. There should be no problem.”

Regarding the quality of the program “China Poetry Conference”, Zhou Yu watched the finished film, and there is no doubt about the ability of Director Jiang Dan. Now the feedback on the Internet is also very good, just wait until next Saturday to see the results.

“Well, let’s not talk about this. Anyway, we will see the situation next week.”

Director Jiang Dan drank some wine, and her mature and beautiful face was a little red, which showed the charm of a mature woman. She looked at Zhou Yu and asked with a smile.

“As for you, I see that your animation has a very good reputation. The first broadcast data is not bad among original animations. The performance is expected to rise a lot in the future.”

Zhou Yu thought she was going to talk about her animation, but she changed the subject and asked him: “I want to ask you, do you want to lean towards movies or TV series?”

She knew very well that Zhou Yu was doing animation to prepare for entering the film and television industry in the future. She thought that with Zhou Yu’s current screenwriting ability, he could give it a try.

Animation and variety shows, from these two areas, it can be seen that Zhou Yu’s screenwriting skills are very good. Movies and TV series have similarities, so there is no loss for Zhou Yu to try. If it succeeds, these two industries are big cakes.

Zhou Yu has always had this idea, but he has been busy recently and has not thought about leaning towards movies and TV series.

But Director Jiang Dan took the initiative to bring up this matter, and Zhou Yu did not hide his thoughts.

“I have this plan, but I’m busy recently, so I might have to go later. Let’s get through this period of time first.”

Zhou Yu has always had this plan. After all, the film and television industry is very profitable, and many people are trying their best to get in. After his company, it will definitely be involved in this industry, so he has been planning. This animation is just to test the waters, and the effect is not bad.

“Okay, I just want to tell you that if you have a good script, I can recommend a director to you.”

Zhou Yu nodded, but he felt that it was not good to always cooperate with others. As for the director, he knew a little about it in his previous life, so he would learn it later. In addition, he was very clear about the plot development of those film and television dramas, so it should be no problem to shoot it according to the script.

After having dinner with Director Jiang Dan, Zhou Yu went back to the hotel to rest. After shooting the promotional video the next day, he flew back to Zhonghai to have a good rest for a few days.

Time soon came to Friday. Ten days in the morning, “The Bad Man” and “Against the Sky” both updated the third episode.

Xu Shan, a blogger of film and television commentary, has already opened the iQiyi video in front of his computer. He likes this animation adapted from the novel that he used to follow in bed.

“It’s the third episode, and there are only 24 episodes in total. It feels too short.”

After the first two episodes aired last week, they won praise from many fans of the original novel with their highly restored plot. However, Xu Shan is a little worried that the early plot of the original novel is too slow, and he is also a little worried about the rhythm of the animation.

If the original plot and rhythm are always followed, and some adaptations are not made appropriately, the rhythm of the animation will also appear very slow, and the performance will definitely decline afterwards.

“The degree of restoration in this episode is also quite high, but the rhythm is not good. Doesn’t the animation make adaptations?”

After watching the third episode, the classic scenes in the original novel are also restored in the animation, and the special effects are very good. But the rhythm is really dragging. In the first three episodes, the protagonist introduced the background and the gold finger, and the main plot has not yet been connected. And looking at the preview of the next episode, it seems a bit slow.

“If we keep following this rhythm, the animation will collapse.”

It is good to restore the original work, but the rhythm of the original work is slow, so the animation needs to be properly adapted. Otherwise, it will only backfire.

“Let’s take a look at The Bad Guys.”

After watching this original Chinese animation written by Zhou Yu last week, Xu Shan was really amazed. The promotion of traditional culture, with historical dynasties as the background, the painting style is also very beautiful, and the modeling is even more amazing. The key is that the first two episodes are used as a prelude to the plot, and all kinds of hooks are also sufficient, which is very attractive.

The plot has already reached the plot where the protagonist Li Xingyun and his junior sister go down the mountain. Because Li Xingyun concealed the fact that he knew martial arts, the junior sister was a little unhappy and cried in the woods. Blame herself for learning hand in hand for so many years, but she is not as good as her senior brother who learned secretly.

This picture is a bit funny.

Li Xingyun looked

The junior sister cried, and she hurried to comfort him.

“Don’t, junior sister, don’t cry. It’s in the wilderness. If someone who is chopping wood or hunting rabbits bumps into you, they might think I did something to you.”

Then a woodcutter passed by, looked at Li Xingyun with contempt, and then looked at Lu Linxuan who was sitting on the ground crying, shook his head, pointed at Li Xingyun, and left with a sigh.

“Haha.”

Xu Shan also laughed when he saw this scene. This anime has a lot of comedy elements.

When the protagonists arrived in Yuzhou City, the heroine Ji Ruxue appeared. When she rode her horse and whipped past Li Xingyun, Xu Shan was startled at that glance.

“Is this the heroine?”

When Xu Shan saw the heroine being chased by the Xuanming Sect, Li Xingyu and Lu Linxuan followed her, and he was thinking in his heart.

“Is revenge going to start in this episode?”

Li Xingyun’s old servant and Lu Linxuan’s father died at the hands of Xuanming Sect in the previous episode. This time, they met, so they should start revenge and have a cool moment, right?

Revenge plus a hero saving a beauty, such a cool plot is still quite classic.

Li Xingyu and Lu Linxuan defeated a large number of soldiers. A soldier looked at the long sword in Lu Linxuan’s hand and muttered in his heart.

“She used a long sword, and I used a short knife. Close combat is good for me!”

The next moment, the soldier rushed forward, trying to kill Lu Linxuan before he drew out his long sword.

However, the next moment, he felt a pain, and saw Lu Linxuan pulled out the long sword that was broken by his master and stabbed it into the soldier’s body.

“It turned out to be… a short sword!”

Seeing this scene, Xu Shan couldn’t help laughing. This anime has a light comedy style in it.

“Hmm? Black and White Impermanence?”

The plot has come to the time when Li Xingyun rescued Ji Ruxue. At this time, the enemies met and were extremely jealous. In order to save his junior sister, Li Xingyun was hit by the poisonous palm of Black and White Impermanence.

Seeing that Li Xingyun was on the verge of death, he needed half a catty of glutinous rice to save him. The last scene of this episode stayed on the scene where Lu Linxuan was pounced by a white-haired boy.

The third episode of “The Bad Guys” has ended. It must be said that the plot has become exciting after entering the main line. Moreover, the rhythm of the whole animation is very fast, and useless plots are directly glossed over or even not included. Such a compact rhythm is very satisfying for the audience.

“Oh my god! It’s gone so quickly. I strongly request two updates a week!”

“There are only twelve episodes in total. If it’s two episodes a week, haha, it will be gone very quickly.”

“This is really a treasure of Chinese animation. I haven’t seen such a wonderful original Chinese animation for a long time. Come on, I will always support it!”

“Don’t say it, the animation of The Bad Guys is really good. It motivates me to keep following it.”

…

Now that the audience has watched the third episode, they are gradually attracted by the story of this animation. The animation is adapted from the familiar Tang Dynasty as the background story. The modeling style and special effects are all very good. The key is that the plot is not dragged at all and looks very cool.

Many people came here for Zhou Yu and his reputation before, but after the third episode was updated this week, many real anime fans came to watch the animation. Originally, they were just curious to see how this original animation is and whether the original Chinese animation is good. But as they watched, they were inexplicably attracted and finished watching three episodes in one breath. In an instant, everyone felt that this animation has something in it.

After Xu Shan finished watching, he was about to skip the ending, but because of a message on his phone, he didn’t exit directly.

“Huh? This music…”

After he replied to the message, he came to his senses and found that the anime “The Bad Guys” had already entered the ending song. Listening to this song, Xu Shan actually felt that the ending song of this anime was so beautiful.

“I remember that there was no ending song last week?”

If he remembered correctly, there was only an instrumental at the end of last week, but listening to this melody, it seemed to be the instrumental last week, but it had been sung.

“This singing voice is… Wen Shiyi!”

Xu Shan was still very familiar with Wen Shiyi’s singing voice. He was also a fan of Wen Shiyi, and he could still recognize the goddess’s singing voice.

He knew that this anime was invested by Wen Shiyi, so it was not surprising that she sang this ending song.

But what he didn’t expect was that this song seemed to have been released last week, but it was just instrumental music, and the full version was released this week.

“Origin…”

Xu Shan also searched the Internet for this song, and it was indeed just released. It seems that the pure music version released last week in the animation may not have been produced yet.

But I listened to it last week.

When it was pure music, I felt that this song was very touching. It was a piece of music that was more like ancient style. The gentle rhythm combined with the animation pictures really had a sense of atmosphere.

“Sure enough, the composer is Zhou Yu.”

This time, the author of Wen Shiyi’s song, Xu Shan saw that it was still Zhou Yu, and he felt that this was not the “Teacher Zhou Yu”, but the singer Zhou Yu.

After all, this was an animation written by him, and this ending song must have been written by him.

“I really thought I could close my eyes and not speak

I have long been away from the worldly world

I really believe that I have transcended the world

I can turn all troubles into smoke…”

Xu Shan felt that the ancient style and lyrics were very nice. Zhou Yu’s talent is not to be questioned, and this song “Origin” is the ending song of an animation, and the lineup is luxurious.

The composer is Zhou Yu, and the singer is Wen Shiyi. Do you dare to believe that such a lineup will appear in the ending song of an animation?

Zhou Yu is not to be mentioned. He is now a top star and even a man who wants to subvert the Chinese music scene. Wen Shiyi, whose recent albums are selling like hot cakes, is considered a super popular singer who has already entered the ranks of divas. Any of them, if you pick them out at random, would be the one that all the major programs would be vying for.

“I guess no anime can compare to this ending song alone.”

After listening to this song “Original Point”, Xu Shan thought it was pretty good, and it really fits the anime very well.

The key is that after watching the third episode updated this week, he felt more and more that the anime “The Bad Guys” was very good.

This rhythm is really hard to see in anime, there is no water, and the plot is not dragged at all. He even thinks that the plot of “The Bad Guys” in one episode is equivalent to the plot of two or even more episodes of other anime.

“I feel that if it continues to develop like this, the anime “Against the Sky” is a bit dangerous.”

Although when it was first broadcast, “Against the Sky” won the anime “The Bad Guys” by relying on its advantage of having a large number of original fans. But now, judging from the performance of these two animes, Zhou Yu and his team’s “The Bad Guys” is very likely to explode in the later stage. I won’t talk about the modeling and special effects. Both animations are good, but in terms of plot, the rhythm of the animation “The Bad Guys” is very good, far better than the animation “Against the Sky”.

With such a result, “Against the Sky” may still be supported by the fans of the original novel. But the later it gets, the weaker it will become. If it continues like this, it is likely to be surpassed by “The Bad Guys”.

As for Mr. Wang of Starlight Entertainment, he has been very proud in the past week. “Against the Sky”, an animation he organized and invested in, has been selling well, and the first broadcast even broke the record of Chinese animation. As for Zhou Yu and his team, they are not qualified to compete with them. During the first broadcast, they left Zhou Yu far behind.

Recently, in the company and in front of those old guys, he felt that he was walking with the wind.

As long as this animation can maintain such performance and make more money for them at the shareholders’ meeting before the Spring Festival next month, he can ask his father to talk and transfer him back to the position of president.

At that time, the entire company, the entire Starlight Entertainment, will belong to their old Wang family again!

“Haha, Zhou Yu, you still want to fight me, do you think I will lose to you this time?”

He admitted that Zhou Yu was good at music, but in animation and film and television, Zhou Yu, haha, was just a younger brother.

He was so anxious to change careers, even if your animation has a good reputation, you can’t win them.

Mr. Huang of Taochang iQiyi Video looked at the playback data of “Against the Sky” this week. Although it did not decline, it even increased a little, but the negative comments obviously became more.

“The plot is too slow?”

But when they cooperated with Starlight Entertainment, they also learned the lessons and experience of other animations. Knowing that such an animation adapted from a popular novel must respect the original work, so that it can rely on the huge number of original fans to achieve results. This time they did it, highly restored the original plot, and even restored many classic scenes that many original fans expected. As a result, many viewers are now saying that after three episodes, the plot is a bit slow.

This made Mr. Huang a little worried. If this is true, it will be difficult to deal with it later.

“But there is a hook in the plot, which should attract the audience to watch it.”

In the original plot, although the rhythm is slow in the early stage, there are many foreshadowings. And now the data is getting better and better, which shows that their reputation for highly restoring the original is exploding, attracting more fans of the original to watch.

As long as these fans of the original can be retained, the performance will not be bad in the future.

As for Penguin Video, Mr. Yang Kunliang is also looking at the playback data of “The Bad Guys”.

“Hey, it’s worth it. The data is up and the praise is increasing.”

When it premiered, they didn’t win over Taoyuan’s “Against the Sky”, but they accepted it. After all, it was adapted from a popular novel, with its own traffic and fan base. But they are not bad either. The first broadcast broke the record of original Chinese comics, and the data is very good.

This week, the broadcast of the third episode has been rising, and the reputation is also very good. On the other hand, although the data of “Against the Sky” is good, Mr. Yang took a glance and complained that the plot was too slow.

This is an opportunity for them.

“It seems that there will be another chance to surpass them later.”

And tonight, the eighth episode of “Singer” was officially broadcast.

The audience is looking forward to this episode. Liu Zifan came in the last episode, and ignited the feud between the rap circle and Zhou Yu. Everyone knows that Zhou Yu will start to fight back in this episode. Many people want to see whether Zhou Yu can play rap, and how are the pure rap songs brought by Zhou Yu?

“If Zhou Yu plays rap, I’m looking forward to it.”

Lin Jiajia has already opened the program, waiting for Zhou Yu to come on stage.

“Huh? The singer to challenge the club this time is Zhao Lei!”

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(End of this chapter)