Wang Jinglu didn't even turn his head, "Get in touch with him, he just arrived at Hanzhong Prefecture the day before yesterday, saying that he was going to stay for two days. Today, he should be leaving for Dunhuang. He said he wanted to take a look at Mogao Caves."

  After a pause, Wang Jingxue asked again: "He wants to go out and play, didn't he call you?"

  Wang Jinglu has already chosen a DVD, while opening the DVD player and TV, putting in the disc, she still doesn't turn her head to answer: "You called me, saying you'd take me on a trip around the world, haha, I didn't go, I want to learn acting! I'm not as talented as him, understanding everything, doing everything so amazingly well, of course I have to work harder, stupid birds fly first!"

  Wang Jingxue continued to be expressionless, hesitated for a moment, as if she wanted to say something, but in the end, she didn't say anything.

  She knew that even if she didn't let her sister appear to say anything, just making a phone call herself would be enough. Considering her sister's face, Li Qian wouldn't make things too difficult for her. Maybe they could even turn things around for Wu Su and Hua Ge Shang Pian. If not breaking the ice to prompt their second collaboration, at least it could ease the relationship.

  But she didn't.

  Wang Jinglu put down the DVD, and the TV started showing images. She walked back, sat beside Wang Jingshu, smiled and said: "Sister, have you eaten yet? Let's watch it together, Li Qian said this movie is well-made!"

  Wang Jingxue nodded and then shook her head, saying: "I'm going to take a bath, you watch yourself!"

  As they spoke, she finally stood up and walked towards the bathroom, but after two steps, she stopped again, turned her head to see Wang Jinglu had already put on her glasses, staring intently at the TV screen. Some words, if left in the past, she would never have said, not even thought of, because she would despise that point of view, but now, at least for this moment, she couldn't help but say to her sister: "You shouldn't just follow your own nature and do whatever you want. Li Qian is a good person, grasp him well, think more about how to make two people happier together. Don't always think about your own career."

  Wang Jinglu turned her head to look at her sister, "oh" and felt a slight sense of surprise in her heart, vaguely feeling that her sister seemed a bit off, but she didn't think much of it. She just nodded, "I know!"

  The two sisters grew up together since childhood, and Wang Jingxue was really too familiar with her younger sister's temperament. To a certain extent, many aspects of her personality were simply nurtured by Wang Jingxue herself.

  So at this time, she could naturally hear her sister's distraction.

  But after some thought, she didn't say anything else, just silently sighed in her heart and turned around to walk away.

  Should women have their own careers?

  Of course!

  However, between a woman's career and the man she loves who also loves her, which one is more important?

  In the past, Wang Jingxue would have answered without hesitation: Career!

  Having a career, in this male-dominated society, women can gain economic independence and social status. Only when economically independent, can one's personality be independent, and then, women can obtain pure and unconditional love.

  But now, although the thoughts in her heart have not changed, Wang Jingxue still can't help but think: what is love after all? Is it only when women don't need to rely on men for survival that they can have love? Or, if a girl appears weak in front of a man, is it actually better?

  To be honest, she still can't figure it out until now!

  Sometimes she even feels that she doesn't understand what love is at all.

  It was only her strong personality from childhood to adulthood that made her always pursue independence and develop her own career, until now. It seems that her career suddenly reached an unprecedented peak, and then suddenly fell down, she suddenly turned back from the idea of pursuing independence, and began to think about some things beyond that.

  For example, his own sister, for example Li Qian, for example the feelings between the two of them.

  But what's the use?

  Sister is sister, Li Qian is Li Qian, oneself is oneself.

  No one can change anyone!

  …………

  August 2nd, morning.

  Anbei Building, Block B, 8th floor.

  Liao Liao stood there watching the decoration workers for a while, although she didn't understand anything, but still felt that their technology seemed to be good. Anyway, she was happy and thought everything looked fine. As she watched, she turned her head and saw Qi Jie, then went over and hugged her waist, excitedly saying: "The progress is not slow, how many days is the construction period?"

  "Forty-five days! Probably by September 10th, it will be completed, then we'll take a break and install the equipment and instruments, and finally move in the office furniture. By the end of September, it should be thoroughly completed!"

  Liao Liao nodded and looked up and down excitedly, "Having money really makes things easier!"

  This is true.

  On July 20, Huayi Brothers gave the corresponding share of over 5 million yuan after the album "Sisters Who Make Waves" sold more than 5 million copies, which was 5.4 million.

  With this money, the design plan has already been done and Li Qian has also nodded in agreement. Then, we can directly sign a contract with the decoration company, and they will immediately start work and deliver materials. The construction will begin the next day.

  An area of over 1,000 square meters, with a decoration budget of tens of millions, which is not a high standard even for decorating an office space. However, considering the market price, it's not cheap either. Especially in the design plan approved by Li Qian, many soundproofing materials were intentionally added. In Li Qian's words, not only do the walls of each individual room need to be soundproofed, but also the ceiling and floor require soundproofing treatment. This requires some very special soundproofing materials, which are quite expensive.

  Of course, no matter how expensive it is, Li Qian would not save a single penny on these important and crucial materials for the music studio. Even the cables that need to be set up in advance are all top-of-the-line purchases.

  But in fact, this is just the basic decoration of the first step.

  The equipment needed to open a music studio next is really expensive, and with Li Qian's current meager family assets, it can only be bought little by little, striving to buy it back in batches within half a year to one year.

  Compared with that, office furniture and so on are really just small money.

  But anyway, the first step has been taken.

  However, Qijie was still Liao Liao. Standing on one side and watching the workers come and go, she had an inexplicable sense of expectation in her heart: everything here was being taken care of by Qijie from start to finish. With Li Jian's personality as a laid-back boss, she was almost destined to be the future daily manager of Li Jian's studio. Liao Liao was also almost certain to be the studio's first signed artist. For a long time, she might even be the only signed artist. Now, watching her future workplace slowly take shape and improve, it seemed like a bright future was beckoning to her. It was natural for her to feel some excitement in her heart, as if waiting for herself to make a big splash here.

  So, even though it's clear that the materials used for decoration will inevitably have some smell, no matter how much money you spend on good things, and that smell is definitely harmful to your body after smelling it. However, Liao Liao still can't control himself from running over every two or three days, and each time he comes with a full sense of freshness and excitement.

  Every time she comes, seeing some changes in certain places from the last time, seeing the progress of decoration, she can't help but hold onto Qijie and talk for half a day, ask for half a day, and then look forward to it for half a day.

  After finishing the eighth floor, she pulled Qi Jie up to the ninth floor again.

  Qijie prepaid half of the decoration fee. And promised to pay the balance on the same day after the completion of the decoration and acceptance, the other party saw that this little girl was very decisive, so they were willing to invest in this side, so the decoration here is carried out simultaneously on the 8th and 9th floors, ensuring that the progress is controlled within one and a half months.

  After climbing up to the ninth floor along the stairs, Liao Liao walked around and looked around, still in an excited state.

  Just yesterday, on August 1st, Monday, the new album sales chart of Dongguan Bookstore was released. Her new album "Tao Sheng Yi Jiou" (Waves Still Remain) had a slight drop in sales, but compared to last week's astonishing sales of 38,552 copies, this week's 38,135 copies are still absolutely stunning! The decline is so small that it can almost be ignored.

  This not only means that she became the first singer in the history of Dongguan Bookstore to break 30,000 copies sold for three consecutive weeks, but also the total sales of over 136,000 copies in the first four weeks at Dongguan Bookstore represent that the national sales of this album have already exceeded two million copies!

  And also, on the music streaming charts released last Wednesday. Although the rankings have changed, her nine songs continue to occupy the chart simultaneously, which also indicates that this album is still going strong.

  In fact, according to the changes in the increase and decrease of this album over the past four weeks, some media have predicted that this album is likely to become the first record in the domestic pop music scene to break through the 10 million mark!

  However, facing those sales data, ranking data, comments and analysis, although Liao Liao was also happy, she couldn't be too excited. Instead, it was the dirty decoration site here that made her extremely excited every time she came.

  She even went over to chat with the decoration workers who were busy working, asking this and that, and even walked over to pretend to take a look at the decoration drawings on the ground, her eyes shining brightly, her face flushed, Qi Jie couldn't help but reveal a helpless expression.

  Some things, this outsider actually sees more clearly than anyone else.

  She was just about to open her mouth to persuade her a few words, and then she pulled her away. At this time, the mobile phone suddenly rang again.

  She calmly pulled out her phone from her bag, saw an unfamiliar number and didn't find it strange. She pressed the answer button while walking outside, "Hello, I'm Qi Jie, Mr. Li Qian's agent. May I ask who you are?"

  On the other end of the phone was a middle-aged man's voice, very gentle and pleasant. "Hello Miss Qi, I'm Watanabe Kazukazu, the general manager of Sony Records."

  Qijie was taken aback for a moment upon hearing this.

  On the Sony Music side, as an agent, she had been in contact with their music director Xie Mingyuan several times before. Just recently, Xie Mingyuan called again, saying he wanted to meet Li Qian after his return to Shuntianfu and have a chat. Between the lines, there was a strong implication of recruitment, and it was also vaguely mentioned that even if Li Qian wanted to start his own studio, it could be considered to be affiliated with Sony Music. In short, all conditions were open for discussion.

  In fact, although Qijie has not been in the industry for long, he also knows that at Sony Music, it is said that Xie Mingyuan, the music director, has always been extremely powerful, and even the general manager sent by Japan was suppressed by him to the point of having almost no right to speak.

  So at this moment, she suddenly received a call from the Japanese general manager of Sony Records, which made her a little unresponsive for a while. She paused for a moment before hurriedly saying: "Mr. Watanabe, nice to meet you, I've long admired your name."

  On the phone, Watanabe and Ichi seemed to have smiled, taking Qi's polite words as a matter of course, and continued to speak in his completely accent-free Chinese: "Miss Qi, I know that Jian Shao is not currently in Shuntian Prefecture, so I'm just making a phone call to make an appointment. I hope that after Jian Shao returns to Shuntian Prefecture, you can convey my regards to him and tell him that when he has time, I'd like to meet with him and discuss some matters."

  Qijie heard the words and was stunned, subconsciously saying "oh" before hurriedly saying: "Of course there's no problem, when Li Qian returns I will definitely convey Mr. Watanabe's meaning to him."

  On the other end of the phone, Watanabe hummed a response and after a brief moment, he continued: "Because there are some things that aren't convenient to make public, so I hope this call is only known by you, me, and Jian Shao, can it be?"

  With a swish, Qi Jie, who was walking to the middle of the large balcony, suddenly stopped.

  Her eyes blinked, and she nodded unconsciously, saying in a low voice: "I understand what you mean. I can guarantee that the message will not leak out from me and Li Qian."

  "Thank you, sorry for the trouble, goodbye!"

  She hung up the phone and turned her head to gaze at the high-rise buildings in the distance, unable to help but take a slow breath.

  This is no longer typical of human complexity.

  Thinking of the rumors that had been circulating in their circle, Qijie could vaguely guess what the other person meant by calling Liqian. But subconsciously, she felt that this matter shouldn't involve Liqian.

  However, okay, I'm just an agent after all. Whether or not to get involved is up to Li Qian himself to decide!

  In fact, although he is only eighteen years old, when it comes to the subtlety of advancing and retreating, and the meticulousness of handling things, he is actually much more mature than himself!

  She shook her phone and put it back in her bag, telling herself, "You're just a broker, you're just a broker, you're just a broker...... Alright!" Then she turned around and walked back.

  ***

  The second update, 4,000 words!

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