167: Chapter 167 Chinese Style Relay

Over the next few hours, the popularity of red dust inn continued to climb.

By the afternoon,

the topic related to "Lu Li singing red dust inn" had surged to the second spot on Douyin's trending search list, second only to the scandal of a certain top-tier celebrity.

The related discussions were also becoming more and more in-depth.

Moreover, musicians across the entire internet seemed to have caught a whiff of a business opportunity, taking out red dust inn one after another to review and comment on it.

From initial simple praises, it gradually turned into in-depth analysis of the lyrics, arrangement, and artistic conception.

At this critical juncture, the traffic for red dust inn could be described as an absolute explosion, and not a single person wanted to miss out.

What was even more interesting was that almost no one said the song was bad, at most just pointing out that Lu Li's vocals had slight flaws.

If one were to ask why?

To ask was to know that those who gave bad reviews had already been swamped and crushed by fans and passersby.

After all, if you spoke nonsense with your eyes open and treated netizens like idiots, netizens weren't fools; could they not know whether it was a good song or not?

Lu Li leaned against the sofa, flipping through the comments one by one, and his mood was simply comfortable to the extreme.

He hadn't seen so many people praise him in a long time.

Awesome!

At this moment, Shen Qingxue suddenly looked over at Lu Li.

"The popularity has brewed almost enough; it's time to release the preview for the next song. What do you think?"

Lu Li was crossing his legs and scrolling through the comments with a beaming expression, stunned for a moment upon hearing this.

"Ah? Release it now?"

"Mhm."

Shen Qingxue straightened her posture, her expression turning serious.

"Right now, the popularity of red dust inn is at its peak. Releasing the preview at this moment will yield the best traffic-guiding effect."

Lu Li thought about it and nodded.

"Alright, then I'll post it."

Afterwards, he exited the comment section, opened the publishing page, and tapped his fingers on the screen a few times.

["Preview: Tomorrow night at eight o'clock, east wind breaks! Another brand-new Guofeng song, are you guys ready?"]

Lu Li was about to click publish when Shen Qingxue suddenly reached out and stopped him.

"Wait."

"What's wrong?"

Shen Qingxue took his phone and added a hashtag behind the caption.

"Adding a hashtag will make the popularity even higher."

Lu Li leaned over to look, and what she added was...

#GuofengSongRelay

He was stunned for a moment, and then his eyes lit up.

"Damn, adding this topic is simply the finishing touch! Are you trying to hype up the topic of Guofeng?"

"Mhm."

Shen Qingxue handed the phone back to him and nodded.

"Guofeng itself is a massive traffic pool. Since Starlight Entertainment wants to use this topic to go head-to-head with us, we might as well stir the pool even bigger."

"Whoever wins and whoever loses, it all depends on individual ability."

Lu Li stared at her for two seconds and couldn't help giving a thumbs up.

"Your brain is truly my think tank! In the future, when the two of us conquer the world, I'll be solely responsible for cawing, and you'll be responsible for slaughtering everything."

Shen Qingxue gave him an exasperated glare.

She finally realized that sometimes Lu Li was purely a ruffian, a scoundrel! Yet she could do nothing about him...

What else could she do? She just had to endure it herself.

"Posted."

Lu Li's fingertip fell, and the preview video was published successfully.

He refreshed the page, and the growth rate of the comment section was much faster than just now.

Obviously, quite a few people were staring at this place.

["Damn? Again? One song a day? What is Rock Sugar Pear trying to do?"]

["east wind breaks? This name feels so evocative, is it also Guofeng?"]

["Lu Li, you are truly prolific; even the donkeys in the production team wouldn't dare work like this."]

["Speaking of which, Starlight Entertainment is also releasing a new Guofeng song tomorrow. Are they going head-to-head?"]

["Fight! Fight! Anyway, the beneficiaries are the listeners, hehehe."]

["Looking forward to it! The goddess singing Guofeng must be another masterpiece!"]

["Lmao, Starlight Entertainment over there is probably going to be pissed to death; all their popularity was intercepted."]

["Fighting is for the best. I'm not sure about Starlight Entertainment, but Lu Li actually releases good songs when he has them."]

Lu Li flipped through the comments one by one, and the arc of his lips couldn't be pressed down no matter what.

"The response is not bad."

Shen Qingxue leaned over to take a look and nodded slightly.

"Mhm, even better than expected."

She paused and added another sentence.

"However, Starlight Entertainment will definitely react."

Lu Li put his phone on the coffee table, pillowing his hands behind his head and crossing his legs.

"Care about them? We just need to take care of ourselves. Let's go? Practice some songs?"

Shen Qingxue glanced at him and nodded, her heart suddenly feeling a bit expectant once again.

Meanwhile,

Starlight Entertainment, Chairman's office.

Zhao Ming leaned back in the leather chair, holding a cup of coffee in his hand, while the computer screen in front of him was playing red dust inn.

Standing next to him was his assistant, holding a tablet computer with a somewhat nervous expression.

After listening to the song, Zhao Ming put down the coffee cup and sneered.

"Just this?"

The assistant asked cautiously,

"President Zhao, then our plan..."

"Proceed as usual."

Zhao Ming interrupted his words, his tone casual and understated.

"It's just a song; it can't stir up any waves."

He paused, took another sip of coffee, and added slowly,

"Besides, the one singing isn't Shen Qingxue. With Lu Li's tiny bit of crappy popularity, what kind of scene can he support? Before long, the popularity will die down."

The assistant opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but seeing Zhao Ming's confident expression, he swallowed the words back down.

"However, we can't just sit and watch either. Go, notify Lin Zhihan to advance tomorrow's new song release to 7:00 PM."

Zhao Ming put down the coffee cup, the corners of his mouth curling into a meaningful arc.

"Since they want to go against us, let's make them lose completely."

"Yes."

The assistant nodded and turned to walk quickly out of the office.

Zhao Ming leaned against the back of the chair, his gaze falling on the paused screen on the computer monitor.

By now, he didn't expect much to get the copyrights of those songs from Lu Li and Shen Qingxue's hands.

Might as well cultivate newcomers and continue manufacturing gods.

But adhering to the mentality of destroying what one cannot get, he wouldn't let others profit from it either.

It's just that, from his perspective currently, the identities of these two people were truly so clean that not a single piece of dark material could be found on them.

They could only fabricate it out of thin air.

But fake things could never make it to the mainstream stage in the end. If the first time didn't succeed, then there probably wouldn't be another chance of success afterwards.

Unless they really dug up some big dirt.

Zhao Ming sighed, his fingers tapping on the desk rhythmically and idly, murmuring to himself,

"Sigh, I didn't expect that a small move back then would eventually cause me a bit of trouble. It seems I have to let some paparazzi loose..."

"Otherwise... I still won't be able to sleep and eat in peace..."