In the bedroom, Li Qian was leaning over the desk, his right hand writing and scribbling in a notebook. From time to time, he would pick up his guitar and strum a few chords before bending down to write again.

  He is scoring for those five songs sold to Liao Liao.

  When it comes to composition, outsiders may think it's insignificant, but people in the music industry take it very seriously. Just like a famous opera singer will always have a "first violinist" by their side, and if that person is not there, they might even refuse to perform. Similarly, many well-known singers often have several trusted composers who work with them closely, and when releasing new songs, they'll choose the right person based on style. If you ask them to switch to someone else, they won't feel secure - that's what it means by "first violinist" or composer, their role is roughly similar, simply put, it's about carrying the tune!

  A good string, always can accurately bring out the singer's voice, and that unique charm of singing style to the extreme. A good arrangement also always can maximize the atmosphere and theme of the whole song, and help the singer push out the emotions of this song to the right place.

  In reality, there is often such a situation: a song, you've heard it before, but didn't think much of it. One day, you happen to hear it again on a certain program by another person, and suddenly feel enlightened, thinking that this song is really good!

  Don't be puzzled, it must have been rearranged!

  So, a good song and a good singer are certainly the most important and fundamental factors, but for a song or an album to become popular, to be sung and heard by more people, and to become a classic in the hearts of listeners, a good arrangement is also absolutely indispensable.

  In fact, this is also one of the reasons why Liao Liao was willing to pay a high price for the song and let Li Qian be in charge of arranging it - as a singer who is particularly sensitive to emotions, although she only listened to Li Qian play the guitar and sing once, she understood at that time that Li Qian had captured the soul and temperament of those two songs very keenly.

  And in her opinion, it's obvious that Li Qian is the original author, and his composition, even if it wasn't used in the end, would definitely be extremely valuable for reference!

  …………

  It should be acknowledged that as long as it involves music, Li Qian's memory is absolutely exceptional. After all, being in this industry every day, he is naturally more exposed to these things and remembers them more accurately.

  Even if he remembered it more accurately, "Dedication of Love" and "Wildflower" are indeed classic enough, but after all, they were songs from nearly twenty years ago. By the time he fell off the stage and died, it had been at least a decade since he last heard them. So while remembering the lyrics wasn't a problem, arranging the music was something he could only vaguely recall, limited to some of the most crucial elements.

  For example, he roughly remembers that the arrangement of "Wild Flower" is mainly guitar and violin, and also roughly remembers that the arrangement of "Persistence" is also mainly guitar - in fact, Tian Zhen's album at that time was itself a light rock and folk style, it's not too hard to remember this - plus "Cheers, Friends" is roughly on this path as well, so even if you can't quite recall, it's not difficult to re-arrange them.

  "Relatively more difficult are 'Unfinished Love' and 'My Hot Homeland'."

  Among them, "Unfinished Love" is obviously a song with strong Chinese flavor. Later, with the emergence of Jay Chou, Li Jian's research on Chinese style music was mostly inclined towards his and Lin Junjie, Wang Leehom's works, so that although I can recall the lyrics and melody of "Unfinished Love", but what the original arrangement is like, there is no impression at all.

  As for "My Hometown in the Hot Sun", although this song was really popular back then, because it's from a very distant era, Li Qian has heard and liked it before, but as of today, his memory of it only remains with the lyrics and melody.

  So these two songs are the focus.

  Of course, actually what made Li Qian most difficult was that there were too few tools in his hands.

  Not to mention having a material library that can be called up at will like in the future, now he only has an acoustic guitar on hand, and not even a keyboard!

  So now his so-called composition is purely brain-eating - there's not enough material, and imagination is used to make up for it.

  Adhering to the principle of "easy first, difficult later", Li Qian spent just over an hour recalling and searching for inspiration before dinner, and roughly completed the arrangement processing of the three songs "Determination", "Wildflower" and "Cheers, Friends". After dinner, he took out more than half an hour to carefully review them twice, made some appropriate adjustments to the details, and considered it basically finalized.

  Then he tore off a few clean white papers from the manuscript paper, carefully copied his composition version on it, and that was all. Moreover, his composition ended here today.

  Next, he plans to spend another two to three days working on the arrangements for the remaining two songs.

  The original arrangement of "Unfinished Love" he had no impression at all, but it didn't matter. After entering the 21st century, with Jay Chou's rise to fame, and with songs like "East Wind Breaks", "Jiangnan", and "Hair Like Snow" becoming hits across China, Li Jian, who had been making a living from music for over a decade, naturally also had experience studying the arrangement of Chinese-style songs. So he decided to redo the arrangement of "Unfinished Love", as a test of his own arranging abilities.

  As for "My Hometown", to be honest, after Li Jian grew up, especially when he started playing rock music, composing and arranging music, this type of song was no longer very popular. However, including this song, as well as "Our Home is on the Yellow Hillside", the arrangements of these obvious folk-style representative works all have a very clear tendency.

  That is, ardent and unrestrained.

  So, as long as you pay attention, it shouldn't be too difficult.

  And as for this song, Li Qian will definitely be very careful.

  Although in his prediction, although songs like "Determination" and "Wildflower" will become more popular over time, the one that helped Liao Liao's album make a big impact was actually "My Hometown".

  Actually, there's not much logic to this, several songs are good and classic enough, but according to Li Qian's understanding, the most popular style in the domestic music scene nowadays is folk song, country song and ballad. Among the first-line singers who have been recognized by the public, only Fei Xiang Band represents rock, Zhou Mei represents urban love song, and the rest of the big-name singers are almost all playing this type, at least mainly this type.

  Not to mention Chinese style, even love songs are not mainstream in the music scene.

  So, in short: This song must be popular!

  …………

  After copying the score, Li Qian stood up and stretched his waist, thought for a moment, picked up his mobile phone and sent Wang Jinglu a text message: There's some good news to tell you, go upstairs.

  After sending the message, he put away his phone, got up and washed his face in the bathroom, then said goodbye to his parents and changed his shoes before going out.

  In the afternoon, Li's father and mother had already gone to the bank.

  The check is fine and can be cashed at any time.

  Mr. Li withdrew 50,000 yuan at that time and transferred it to Li Qian's bank card. The remaining 350,000 yuan, he was afraid that young Li Qian could not hold on to it, so he specially opened a new account and deposited it in.

  On their way back, Li's father and mother also went to an accounting firm along the way, spent sixty yuan, and consulted on the tax issue of selling song copyrights.

  The result is surprisingly pleasant: the income from selling copyrights of original cultural industry works such as songs and scripts enjoys the same treatment as manuscript fees for literary works publication, which are exempt from personal income tax!

  That is to say, no matter if it's 30,000, 50,000 or even 400,000, all of it belongs to the author, not a single cent goes to the country!

  According to Li's father, he also consulted at that time and it is said that the derivative income of cultural copyrights, such as record sales, tape sales, video tape sales, VCD sales, movie box office revenue, opera ticket revenue, drama ticket revenue, concert ticket revenue... etc. Although these artistic works' derivative income are taxed, the tax rate is also very low.

  This news is naturally the best news for Li Qian, who has vowed to revolve around music and movies all his life - it's not just a matter of money or taxes, but represents a national attitude of vigorously supporting the cultural industry. With this attitude, it would be hard for the cultural industry not to flourish!

  The entire industry has prospered, and those who are in it will rise with the tide!

  …………

  Li Qian came to the rooftop and waited for a while, then Wang Jinglu came up.

  "What good news do you have to tell me?" She asked as soon as she came up, looking like she was in a good mood.

  Li Qian didn't beat around the bush and said directly: "This afternoon, I sold five songs, my original compositions, to a singer!"

  Wang Jinglu's footsteps paused for a moment, and then her face showed a look of surprise and delight, "Really? Selling songs?"

  Li Qian nodded.

  This time Wang Jinglu was really excited, "You can actually sell songs now? I thought you just knew how to sing other people's songs! Ah, ah, how much did you sell it for?"

  "In short, it's enough to treat you to many more bowls of rice noodles!"

  Wang Jinglu let out a "ha" and continued to ask relentlessly: "Come on, how much money is it?"

  Li Qian stretched out four fingers and said directly: "Four hundred thousand."

  Wow!

  This time Wang Jinglu was really stunned.

  Then, she excitedly clenched her small fists and unconsciously waved them in front of her, "Four hundred thousand... my god! Ahhhhh, no way, you're actually ahead of me! I thought I was going to be leading by a lot!"

  As they spoke, she couldn't help but pace back and forth beside Li Qian...

  Then she said, and said, and said...

  "Do you know? I heard my sister say that the album released by their group, after deducting all expenses such as recording, composition, production, and manufacturing, would only start to make a profit if it sold 300,000 copies. Only then would they be able to get bonuses. I remember last time my sister came back and told my mom that up until now, the album has only earned her around 20,000 yuan."

  "Two hundred thousand yuan, my sister and the other four members of their group, they work hard every day to practice singing and dancing, but after a year of hard work, they only earned a total of one million yuan from album sales!"

  "My sister said that their group's biggest income comes from performing at business events, but even with that, after they released an album last year, they only got 50 or 60 commercial performances in four or five months, and my sister only got around 200,000 yuan. But you, on the other hand, sold just five songs and earned 400,000 yuan!"

  “……”

  Li Qian looked at her with some surprise.

  He had seen her beaming with joy, it was after Li Qian's score improved significantly in the last monthly exam, she showed him that kind of unrestrained smile for the first time.

  In fact, even in Li Qian's original memory, except for the few years of childhood when they ran and laughed together, she had always been elegant as water and refined as wind, a perfect good girl. Li Qian couldn't even remember her being this excited to the point of being somewhat abnormal after growing up - even after the last monthly exam, although she was happy, she was still somewhat restrained and didn't behave like she did now, excited to the point of almost losing control.

  But... this is what a 17-year-old girl should look like!

  Seeing her in this joyful and crazy state, Li Qian suddenly felt that he had also regained a bit of his youthful feeling.

  Youth... isn't just about being 17 years old, or just because you're in high school. If when sitting next to a girl your palms don't even sweat, if when holding hands with a girl your face doesn't flush, if when dating a girl you don't feel your heart beating and happiness accelerating together... then how can that be considered youth?

  Now, looking at Wang Jingluo, Li Qian suddenly smelled the taste of youth.

  "Hey, if I treat you to a meal, how many bowls of rice noodles will you have?"

  "What? Oh...... I want to eat...... two bowls...... no, three! Anyway, you have money now, I'll eat as much as I can!"

  "Pig!"

  "You're just a pig!"

  "I'll just have one bowl!"

  "That's also a pig!"

  “……”

  Finally, after venting out, that wild joy gradually subsided, and she slowly calmed down. Although there was no light or moonlight, Li Qian still subconsciously caught a glimpse of her small face still being red and puffy!

  "What's with all these songs you've written? They're selling for so much money?"

  "Wow, there are quite a few! I'd say they can be categorized into three styles!"

  "Turn back and sing it for me to hear!"

  "Good!"

  "By the way, can I tell my sister... Hey, since you know how to write songs, why don't you write one for my sister? Write a good one and bring out your best work. If my sister likes it..."

  "Don't even think about this... your sister probably won't even look at you..."

  "Oh..."

  Suddenly, Wang Jinglu fell silent as if recalling something.

  A moment later, Li Qian turned his head to look at her. As if sensing Li Qian's gaze, she also lifted her head and looked at him shyly.

  "I'll write a song for you."

  "What? Alright, that's great! What song? Have you written it or not?"

  "Alright, you guessed it right, I've already written it, and when I get back, I'll sing it for you!"

  "Good! Then I must record it, and later bring it to the capital city, so I can listen to it often!"

  “……”

  PS: Stop saying I update too little? Two thousand words is already a chapter for me, and I've never had less than three thousand words, often even four or five thousand, right?