Perfect Superstar

Early Mondaymorning, the battle between office workers began.

Wang Jiashiwas like a mad soldier who rushes into battle. He took a heavy and powerfulstep and got into the elevator before many of his competitors, firmly occupyingthe best position by the door in the middle.

The poorelevator compartment trembled under the pressure of his body weight that wasover 100 Kg, and the suspended cables hanging above gave a crisp click, barelywithstanding the difficult test.

It’s justthat the other people in the elevator were a little scared and have some kindof a bad feeling.

Thewhite-collar man who was one step behind had just stepped his foot in, and thesound of overloaded buzzing suddenly sounded!

Undereveryone’s cold gaze, he could only retreat and stared at Wang Jiashi withinfinite resentment.

If he wasn’tthere, at least two people like him can squeeze in!

Wang Jiashihas long exercised his face of defense +10, completely ignoring the gaze of thespatter, waiting for the elevator door to close.

On the 10thfloor, he was the first to rush out.

When WangJiashi rushed into the company to punch in his card, the LCD clock hanging fromthe punch machine showed exactly 9 o’clock.

On his firstday back from vacation, he wasn’t late!

Old Wang wipedthe sweat on his forehead with fear. He had the feeling that he had just escapefrom death.

Six monthsago, the Xintianyi company changed its major shareholders. And the new officermade many changes and formulated very strict rules and regulations. If anemployee is late one time, that employee’s full-attendance bonus will bededucted and the monthly performance bonus will be deducted if an employee islate twice on the same month.

Wang Jiashi isfat and loves to sleep, plus his half-month off biological clock didn’t adjustin time, so he almost overslept, but fortunately he was able to swipe his cardsuccessfully on time.

"OldWang, you’re back?"

"Big BrotherWang. Is Phuket fun? Look at you all tanned."

"EditorWang, I’ve put your worksheet on your desk. Two sheets of printing paper."

"Meetingat 2 o’clock in the afternoon..."

HIscolleagues arrived early, and they have already started working. When they sawWang Jiashi, they all greeted him one after another.

Wang Jiashi,32-year-old, is also an old employee of Xinianyi. He has a good personality andreal talent, so he has a good relationship with his colleagues.

But at work,his colleagues only exchanged pleasantries with him, unlike in the past wherethey would have gathered around him a long time ago to ask him how he wasdoing, whether he had an affair, and where the gifts for everyone were. (TN:Before the change in management)

Wang Jiashi repliedwith a smile. He also didn’t hand out small gifts in his handbag, but got intohis office before the boss appeared.

The 5 squaremeters office can barely accommodate a small computer desk. The available spacewas fully utilized. The bookcase was fixed to the wall, filled with a varietyof books.

Although theplace was narrow and small, Wang Jiashi was already very satisfied.

Because aslong as the door is closed, that is his independent world. It’s okay to light acigarette and smoke. It belongs to the company’s special care for him, a senioremployee + old smoker.

Wang Jiashiis the editor of "Pop Colors" of Xintianyi Company. "Pop Colors"belongs to the new media network magazine. The app developed by the company hasmaintained the top three market share among the similar software in the fieldof smartphones. Therefore, it is quite famous in the industry. Advertisingrevenue is fine.

"PopColors" focuses on international and domestic popular trends. It covers popularelements such as movies, television, music and pop brands. The target group ismainly young people in the city.

Wang Jiashi isthe editor of the pop music section. He has been doing the same job for tenyears. His pen name "Stone Man" is widely known in the circle, andhis music reviews often appear on the front page.

Pushing openthe window ventilation, Wang Jiashi habitually smoked a Lanzhou cigarette.Then, while holding the mouse in his right hand, he skillfully opened abrowser, and visit China Music Charts official website.

He wanted tosee the song rankings in recent weeks.

As a result,as soon as the web page was opened, Wang Jiashi saw "In Spring" atthe top of the chart!

Wang Jiashi hasa slight impression on this song. He remembered that it was on the chart beforehis vacation. It was hanging at the bottom of the chart and he had no time topay attention to it.

In just overhalf a month, it has rushed to the top of the chart?

Wang Jiashifelt a little incredulous. One must know that the singer and the Wandering bandwere unknown in the pop music world. He has never heard of them before. How cantheir new works rise so fast?

There mustbe a catch in it!

Wang Jiashi bitthe filter of the cigarette and turned to the previous week’s ranking.

"In Spring"was still at the top of the chart!

This madeWang Jiashi immediately have a strong interest. If there was any element ofluck for being at the top of the chart for a week, then the continuous dominancein the chart must be a factor of strength. Although the fairness of China MusicChart has often been questioned in the past two years, but at present, there isno other more authoritative than it.

He clickedon the Youshi link for "In Spring". (TN: Youshi is kind of Youtube)

The partnersof the China Music Charts include WeChat Music, NetEase Music, Pop Radio, Youshiand other online new media, so the songs on the chart have corresponding URLlinks.

Youshionline links were all MV, so they were viewed more.

He clickedinto a video page entitled "New Rock and Roll Force, Wandering’s "InSpring"".

This videowas uploaded more than a month ago, and the number of views has reached over1.7 billion!

With such anamazing number of views, Wang Jiashi couldn’t help shaking his head.

Nowadays,the new network media, too like to make a big fuss about the data, a click canblow into ten or even a hundred, which makes people speechless. It is not onlyYoushi, but WeChat music and NetEase music are no exception. The trend was touse tens of millions of hits or views, this big data, to boost the value ofadvertising.

In addition,there are endless ways of publishing and promoting hype, so it is difficult todistinguish between true and false.

This more orless spoiled Wang Jiashi’s mood to listen to the song, and he clicked on theplay button with interest.

After 15seconds of advertising, the MV began.

Soon, thehoarse voice, and the vicissitudes of the song began to reverberate in thesmall room.

"I stillremember the spring of many years ago, at that time, I had not yet cut my longhair. I did not have credit cards, I did not have her, I did not have a homewith hot water running for 24 hours."

"However,those times were my happiest. Although I only had a broken wooden guitar. Onthe streets, under the bridges, and in the fields, singing those forgottensongs no one cared about!..."

Five minuteslater, the MV is over.

Wang Jiashi wassitting on his chair in a daze. The cigarette in his mouth was almost burn out,and half of the ashes fell on his body without him noticing. And his eyes werefilled with a complex and deeply shocked look.

How did he nothear such a song until now?

His lipsmoved a few times, and Wang Jiashi felt that he had to say something. There wasa kind of passion surging in his chest.

However, thecigarette in his mouth fell out before he could say anything.

Right on hiscrotch!

"Sh*t!"

The thin fatshorts were immediately burned in a hole, and almost burned the critical part. WangJiashi suddenly came back to his senses. He jumped up and hit his thigh heavilyunder the keyboard bracket.

Almostoverturning the computer desk.

Wang Jiashireally wanted to cry but have no tears. He hurriedly reached out and patted thecigarette butts that were still stuck to his shorts.

After theflurry of activity, he sat down again.

The musicvideo has already been played, and almost lead to a human tragedy, but WangJiashi’s feelings have not been disturbed, and his mood was still agitated.

After tenyears of wandering around in Beijing, this mega-city was still unfamiliar tohim. The passion and ideals he once had have long been gone with the years, andhe just perseveres in order to survive.

Wang Jiashihas no house in Beijing because he couldn’t afford it.

He also hasno girlfriend, because no good girl liked him.

One of themost extravagant things he had ever experienced in his life was the half-monthholiday he had just spent abroad!

Nowlistening to the song "In Spring" and watching the story of joys andsorrows in the MV, Wang Jiashi found that his self-conceived strength wasactually vulnerable.

He wasdeeply touched and affected!

Taking adeep breath, Wang Jiashi rubbed his somewhat sour eyes and relit a cigarette.

Wang Jiashi wasgoing to write an article for the song and put it in the music recommendationfor the new issue of "Pop Colors". Of course, he must first have acomprehensive understanding of the song, such as the Wandering band’s singerand the songwriter.

However,Wang Jiashi soon discovered a rather interesting thing, that is, the Wanderingband had a total of three songs on the chart. In addition to "In Spring"at the top of the chart, there was also "Reason To Be Strong" ranked7th and "I Want To Have A Home" ranked 12th, all of which came fromthe same person.

Lu Chen!

Wang Jiashi isa stranger to this name, and was certainly not a well-known songwriter in theindustry.

Ordinarylisteners usually don’t care much about who the author of the song is. It’slike ordering a meal in a restaurant. When people think a dish is delicious, it’senough for them to remember the name of the dish and the name of the restaurant,but they won’t ask who the cook was.

But WangJiashi is not an ordinary person.

As theeditor of the music section of "Pop Colors", he was more interestedin the stories hidden behind the song. In addition to the Wandering band andits singer, he also has a strong inquiry regarding Lu Chen, the author.

What kind ofcharacter can write such a excellent rock and roll work?

In WangJiashi’s mind, he constructed a middle-aged man with a face full ofvicissitudes and firm eyes.

He driftedall over the world, weathered many storms, and sang loudly in the wind with hisguitar in his arms. "If there comes a time, when I leave quietly, pleasebury me in this spring!"

Wang Jiashityped in the browser search bar: In Spring + Lu Chen.

He enteredto confirm. Then that the search engine immediately searched for a lot ofrelevant or unrelated information.

And the one onthe top of the list was a post in the Sky Forum.

[Unworthy ofthe name "Super Singer", the author of "In Spring", Lu Chen, waseliminated because of behind the scene dealing!].

Key words: SuperSinger, In Spring, and Lu Chen.

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TN: Toclarify. The result here is talking about the time when Lu Chen was eliminatedin the program "Super Singer" and not "Singing China". I think the program"Super Singer" is getting bashed because of it.

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