Received the sincere thanks and tears of five girls, also received Li Jinlong's unknown sincerity or not, after thanking him, Li Qian sent away the Huage Singing Record team, which was considered to be the formal end of his first production work.

  Several girls from Wu Suo and producer Li Jinlong, after they returned, of course, there is still a series of work to be done. First, it must be to take photos for the album cover, inner pages, and promotional posters. Moreover, it is said that Hua Ge Records insists on shooting two MVs for this album before releasing the record, if true, this will definitely require a significant amount of work.

  Then, considering they are still continuing with the youthful style, a beautiful and sexy dance will definitely be a plus point. Currently, although the new album "Wu Xing Wu Su" has undergone a significant change in style, there are still two songs that are obviously dance tracks - "_Lost Love Alliance_" and "_Charge! Charge! Charge!_". The latter already has a choreographed dance, but the former needs to be arranged. Additionally, considering the change in style, Huayi Brothers will definitely need to have an image designer redesign the image of the five girls according to the new style of the album, including hairstyles, clothes and so on.

  In addition, although Li Jian had strived for perfection during the recording stage, post-production processing is still indispensable for an album to be truly completed, and this obviously also requires Li Jinlong's supervision... In short, there is still a lot of work to be done before the official release of this album. According to Li Jinlong's estimate, it will not be until mid-December that the album's promotion can begin.

  So they will definitely still be busy next and want work to be busy.

  But Li Qian has already been able to take it easy.

  Over the past two months, although his daily spare time has been completely occupied by Wu Yifan's new album, fortunately, his grades have not fallen too badly, and even because of his recent Russian grades are gradually improving, so although the total score of the September exam is slightly lower. But in October, it was pulled back... In short, it is still within the acceptable range of Li Dad and Li Mom.

  After finishing the production work for Wu Xian's new album, Li Qian naturally had more time to study. Although his classmates were all working hard recently, Li Qian felt that in the November monthly exam, his ranking and score would not drop drastically.

  That's it. That's enough.

  Because he is an art student, as long as he passes the art exam and gets the admission permit from the art college, with his current academic foundation, unless he doesn't study at all, it's unlikely that he will fail to get admitted.

  So, apart from attending classes, Li Qian would still strictly require himself to set aside a certain amount of time each day to review his lessons, but in fact, he didn't demand as much from himself as he did during his previous life's senior year. As a result, he actually had quite some free time to listen to music, watch movies, and watch VHS tapes.

  Of course, it also includes drinking tea and chatting with Cao Yun, Yu Bojun, Wang Huaiyu and others.

  As early as mid-October, Yu Bojun's new film had been approved, and this time he was going to shoot another urban romance film - with a small investment, almost no need for extra props, no need to create any special sets, and not even needing to leave Jinan Prefecture to go on location. You can imagine that for Yu Bojun, who made movies purely to fill the empty slots in his chain of cinemas, this kind of urban romance film was simply the best choice.

  And even more so... this kind of film can also allow him to completely follow his own personality in choosing the female lead, making the female lead popular, and then fall in love with her!

  So when discussing the script, Cao Teng and Li Qian unanimously referred to Yu Bojun's new film plan as the "Picking Up Girls Plan".

  When the new film was launched, Yu Bojun only had a story outline. According to convention, Cao Yun would naturally write the script for him. However, this time is different from previous years. When Cao Yun wrote half of the script, Li Qian already had free hands and joined in. Although he was only responsible for helping with ideas and suggestions, his new thinking was added. Cao Yun's script was written exceptionally fast this time. Even though the previously completed script was overturned and rewritten, the entire script was finalized in just over a dozen days.

  Because the new script made extensive reference to Li Qian's suggestions, so in the end when the three of them were brainstorming names together, Cao Yun and Yu Bojun unanimously agreed to adopt Li Qian's suggestion, and the new film was called - "The Bubblegum Total Mobilization"!

  Of course, Li Qian eventually gave up the screenwriting credit, although he provided many suggestions and even decided on the theme and overall direction of the film to some extent. But this script is undoubtedly Cao Yun's work. The theme has a bit of dark humor that isn't great, but if you look closely, it's full of Cao Yun's literary style!

  Li Qian called this "Uncomfortable Siki"!

  In late November, the script was finalized, and Yu Bojun was busy with the actors and the filming crew. Li Qian, under Cao Ting's leadership, bought some gifts to pay respects to his master, and came to Wang Huaiyu's home.

  Although they wouldn't go through those serious master-apprentice rituals, and Li Qian wouldn't even call him "teacher", everyone was a mature old hand, and the little bit of intention between them was immediately understood.

  So, Li Qian began to set aside the entire Saturday every week to follow Wang Huaiyu to learn how to play the suona. Although he wouldn't address him as "teacher", they still interacted with each other as friends, but in subtle ways, Li Qian insisted on treating him with the respect due to a teacher.

  And then, on the last day of November, November 30th, He Runqing's latest single "Half a Jar of Silk" was released.

  A week before the single was officially released, Li Qian had already received many boxes of CDs and cassette tapes through Cao Yun's hands and listened to them seriously.

  To be honest, for the original singer of this song, Li Qian is quite appreciative. With a light and airy tone, he fully expresses the theme of the song, describing a romantic love in the mundane world with a more elegant way, although slightly tinged with sadness, but with a hint of inexplicable Zen-like subtlety... which makes it even more beautiful.

  Obviously, the singing skills of He Rongyi, the queen of sweet songs who is currently at the pinnacle of the domestic music scene, and her understanding and grasp of this song, are enough to kill the original singer.

  When he first gave this song, Li Qian attached his own re-arranged composition, of course, the theme style did not change fundamentally from the original work. Even still mainly using those classical instruments, but his arrangement no longer emphasized the two words "淡然" (calm and serene), to some extent weakening the "Zen" atmosphere of this song, instead trying to make it more popular - although the way he was invited to sing would leave a little unpleasant feeling in one's heart. But the song was released, with his own name on it, as his own work, Li Qian still hoped it could achieve better results.

  He Rongqing was apparently very satisfied with the arrangement after getting this song. The final version that went public is almost exactly the same as the one Li Qian did for her, with hardly any changes at all.

  Under this new arrangement, which is closer to popular music and weakens the "Zen" atmosphere, He Runqing performed extremely comfortably. Her sweet and clear voice revealed a hint of girlish cuteness, and she managed to sing the light and elegant song with great charm. In Li Qian's subjective opinion, at least seven or eight out of ten men would be captivated by this song.

  That's right, it's crispy!

  He Runqing's vocals, singing skills and charm, paired with this very Chinese-style, Zen-like work, plus Li Qian's intentionally trendy new arrangement, ultimately present a piece that is truly enjoyable to listen to. It can make you feel so relaxed that you'll want to replay it over and over again, then sink into the sofa, not wanting to move at all. You'll just think about those beautiful, wonderful, subtle emotions in your heart.

  Li Qian gave twelve thumbs up for He Runqing's singing skills!

  And so, Li Qian is very concerned about what kind of results this song can achieve after its release.

  Through his observations over the past six months since arriving in this time and space, including the songs he has listened to, the sales data of many records he has recently collected, his understanding of media such as radio, television, newspapers, magazines, etc., and even the data on movies obtained through Yu Bojun, Li Qian has already begun to have a preliminary understanding and judgment of the domestic entertainment market in this time and space.

  Simply from the perspective of the music market and record market, since the mid-1970s when domestic control over this market was relaxed, there have been several waves of large-scale market explosions in China. However, if one studies it carefully, they will find that in past years, whether it's rock, folk or popular songs, the explosion has always presented a wave-like trend.

  Among them, of course, there is a small music category that always needs some accumulation before it bursts out. After all, doing contemporary music, for the country, every step is an exploration, and without the efforts of many musicians to explore and accumulate, it is impossible to achieve anything brilliant. However, after careful analysis, Li Qian believes that there is another reason that cannot be ignored, and which is even more important: the overall economic strength is insufficient!

  In short, due to the underdevelopment of the economy and the limited amount of money in people's pockets, the demand for music as a special commodity is not particularly strong.

  Carefully analyzing the domestic record market in recent years, whether it's Fei Xiang Band's huge success, Liu Mingliang's sudden rise to fame, or Zhen Zhen's overnight sensation, what they sold was purely their songs themselves.

  So, even if they are already at the top of the domestic popular music scene, their best-selling records are always the ones that made them truly famous, and after that, whether it's Fei Xiang Band, Liu Mingliang, Zhao Xinfu, Zhen Zhen, or Hu Yang, Zhang Chang, He Runqing, etc., almost everyone, once they had a big hit with their first or second album, unless they came up with another song that swept the nation, their album sales would always be in a steady decline.

  That is to say, if you sing a song well and make it popular, people are willing to spend money to buy your cassette tape back home to listen, but they won't really like you as a singer just because of that, and they won't follow your albums from then on.

  To put it simply, there is no habitual consumption.

  It is well known that the sequels of best-selling movies are often cash cows, and the second album after a best-selling record also often follows this logic. However, in the past twenty years, the domestic music scene has almost abandoned this principle.

  It all boils down to the fact that at that time, everyone didn't have much extra money to chase after stars. So unless your song was really good and really popular, people wouldn't buy it back home to collect.

  But in recent years, it seems to have become different.

  First of all, it is obvious that everyone can feel the domestic economic situation getting better year by year. The income of those previously advantageous occupations, such as teachers, has clearly lost its advantage. Ordinary people, like Qi Jie who resigned and sells cosmetics, her income is three times or more than when she was a teacher. It's said that the girls at their counter can also earn over 2,000 yuan per month. Li Dad, as a senior teacher, earns just over 2,000 yuan per month. New teachers like Qi Jie who have just started working for one or two years, reportedly earned around 1,000 yuan per month initially - they, as members of the teaching profession which is generally considered to be high-paying and stable, can no longer keep up with the income of an ordinary young girl selling cosmetics!

  Although this example is not absolute, the income of salespeople has increased from commissions. The reason for the high commission is that they sell a lot, and the fact that they sell a lot proves that there are many people buying things, which in turn proves that everyone's consumption power is steadily increasing.

  In fact, after twenty years of market cultivation, coupled with the current rapid economic development at home, ordinary people are becoming increasingly wealthy, so Li Qian feels that the era of explosive sales in the domestic music scene is just around the corner - although, even if it's Liao Liao's overnight sensation, it still can't prove his point.

  However, some very obvious examples are that in the domestic music scene in recent years, there have been more and more female singers who have obtained platinum records, while male singers who can obtain platinum records are even more numerous. Moreover, Liu Mingliang was extremely popular when he debuted, but which album of his has sold the most? ... It's actually the one he released in '92!

  So Li Qian firmly believed that his judgment was not wrong.

  The domestic music market, and even more broadly, the domestic entertainment market, is about to usher in an overall expansion and explosion!

  Of course, the overall market explosion may not necessarily be transmitted to some currently very niche types, such as the good performance and word of mouth of "Unfinished Love", can it really represent that domestic audiences like the new Chinese style works brought out by Li Qian?

  Not necessarily!

  So, this single "Half a Cup of Silk" will be a very good touchstone.