The straight man in the entertainment circle

The phone numbers of the "Masked Singer" column team of Lychee Channel have been buzzing these days, with countless news media hoping to interview him.

But not wanting to be tricked into saying anything, Yuhui refused them all.

Yuhui didn't have time to be interviewed either. He had to watch the final production of "The Masked Singer" and he also had to manage some things for the Spring Festival Gala. He was really overwhelmed.

However, external interviews can be refused, but internal relationships cannot be avoided.

The day after the finals recording, Zhou Xiaodong, the vice president of Xingcan Entertainment, the producer of "The Masked Singer", came to Lychee Terrace in person.

Xingcan Entertainment is to Lychee TV just like Tianyun is to Mango TV. They are close partners with the TV station. Although Lychee TV is not as good as Mango TV, Xingcan’s strength is not worse than Tianyun at all, and is even stronger. Up a few points.

The first brother and the first sister in Xingcan's family are both considered top-notch, much better than Tianyun who only has one top-tier Wen Xin.

Many of the guests in the early stage of the "Masked Singer" program are also singers under Xingcan, and many people complained that it was Xingcan's exclusive show.

The two companies had frequent business contacts, so Yu Hui and Zhou Xiaodong naturally became familiar with each other.

Seeing Zhou Xiaodong coming, Yu Hui also had some bad premonitions.

"Why does Mr. Zhou have time to come to my place today?"

Zhou Xiaodong is a middle-aged man who is nearly fifty years old. He has a fat body, but he looks quite smart.

"Aren't I here to congratulate you, Director Yu? I heard that the finals are particularly exciting and unexpected. The broadcast the day after tomorrow will definitely break a new high." Zhou Xiaodong said with a smile.

Yu Hui smiled, thinking that he knew it really fast. Fortunately, Lin Li didn't reveal his face in the finals, otherwise the whole world would know about it now.

"The program is jointly produced by our TV station and yours Xingcan. If the ratings really hit a new high, I would be happy too."

Zhou Xiaodong smiled and said: "Oh, then our company deserves it a bit. It can be said that we got a ready advantage. Haha, Director Yu, you have done a lot of hard work. I don't know where you invited such a mysterious guest. It's really It’s eye-opening.”

When Yuhui heard what he said, he suddenly knew why he was here and started to become a little wary.

"I was also lucky, and he didn't hesitate to agree, so I achieved today's results."

After hearing this, Zhou Xiaodong came closer and asked: "Director Yu, is this person you are talking about, the person next to the single person, or the person next to the female character, her?"

Yu Hui understood what he was planning and said with a smile: "Mr. Zhou, I'm afraid this issue won't be revealed until the Spring Festival Gala."

"Why, Director Yu can't trust me?" Zhou Xiaodong said jokingly.

"As for Mr. Zhou, it's just that I promised him to keep this secret. I didn't even tell our station director."

Yu Hui's words are very clear. I don't even give our station director the face, so you should be sensible, otherwise it won't look good.

Zhou Xiaodong was a little embarrassed and smiled and said: "Director Yu, the finals have been recorded. It can be said that the guests have nothing to do with your show, but your show still has another season."

What Zhou Xiaodong meant was that the relationship between Xingcan and Lychee TV was still there, and they would collaborate more in the future. However, this season of the show was over, and this guest could almost be regarded as an abandoned child, so it didn't matter if he revealed some information.

Yu Hui hesitated a little. In the entertainment industry, interests are indeed the top priority. Everything is done only based on interests. We will do whatever is beneficial. Commitments are not important at all, especially verbal commitments.

But remembering that a month ago, when his show was about to be canceled, he was criticized in the director's office, made various difficulties by the financial department when applying for a budget, and received various cold receptions when inviting guests, Yu Hui still shook his head firmly.

"Mr. Zhou, this guest will be a great person in the future. I don't want to offend him yet, so please let me go."

Yu Hui thought to himself that he would rather offend Xing Can than Lin Li. Even for the sake of profit, with the current popularity of the "Masked Singer" program, whether Xing Can joins or not has nothing to do with the overall situation, but he still wants to do the show in the future, but There's no telling whether I'll be able to ask Lin Li for help one day.

Zhou Xiaodong was a little surprised. He didn't expect that Yu Hui would still refuse to let go, but he was relieved immediately and said with a smile: "Director Yu, I think you may have misunderstood. I'm not here for my own curiosity. I'm here to represent us." The company wants to talk to this guest to see if there is a possibility of signing a contract. I don’t know who he is, so I hope you can tell me a little bit. Don’t worry, I’m a very tight-lipped person.”

Yuhui understood that Xingcan was trying to poach him.

"Mr. Zhou, this guest has a management company, and as far as I know, they have a good relationship. I think you shouldn't waste this energy."

Zhou Xiaodong said: "Have a good relationship? Haha, no matter how good the relationship is, how about money? As long as the money is enough, I think he will change his mind."

Seeing that he didn't give up, Yu Hui hesitated and said, "Then why not... wait until the Spring Festival Gala reveals his face before contacting me?"

"No, no, no, you also know that the discussion he has caused on the Internet is even more heated than that of the king of superstars. Not to mention after the finals were broadcast. No singer has had such a discussion in the past ten years. There are many now. The entertainment companies are all trying to get him, but they all have no choice, and our company hopes to be one step ahead. We have asked many people on the program team, but they don't know, so I won't come to you."

After Zhou Xiaodong said so much, there is actually only one key point, and that is to take advantage of the fact that no one can contact the mysterious guest himself. They want to take action first. After the mysterious guest is revealed, other entertainment companies can also contact him. When the time comes, if Xingcan wants to poach people, he won't be able to compete with those companies with the most abundant funds in the entertainment industry.

Yu Hui naturally understood the reason. Zhou Xiaodong said so, so he couldn't refute his face too much, so he said: "Mr. Zhou, let's do this. I'll send you a message and ask him what he means. If he is willing to follow If you reveal your identity to discuss the contract, I will definitely tell you his information, but if he is unwilling to reveal his identity...then...please understand."

Zhou Xiaodong was unhappy, but he couldn't say anything. After all, the relationship between the two parties was just a cooperative relationship, not a superior or subordinate.

"Okay, then I'll let you guide me. It's easy to negotiate the price with him. We just need to have a face-to-face talk. We also need to know his true identity before we can give the final price assessment."

Yuhui nodded and said, "Okay, I will definitely bring this to you."

After saying that, Yu Hui picked up the phone and wanted to make a call. Suddenly he remembered something and couldn't help but look at Zhou Xiaodong, smiled awkwardly, and then walked to the distance and called Lin Li.

Yu Hui told Lin Li about this, but Lin Li naturally refused. If he wanted to change his agency, he would have left with Sister Hua long ago.

Although Xingcan Entertainment is quite good, it is still far behind the Juxing Entertainment company where Sister Hua works. Juxing has many front-line players and many superstars. It is the strongest among all entertainment companies.

And Sister Hua can be said to be the strongest agent in Juxing.

Lin Li refused even the invitation from the most powerful agent from the most powerful company, so naturally he looked down on Xing Can's olive branch.

After hanging up the phone, Yu Hui walked to Zhou Xiaodong and said, "Mr. Zhou, I'm sorry, he doesn't want to reveal the identity of this guest, and he has no intention of changing companies."

Zhou Xiaodong frowned and said, "Didn't you tell him that he could raise the price?"

"Of course he did, but...he said he was not short of money."

Zhou Xiaodong was stunned. He had always felt that the mysterious guest that the judging panel and countless netizens had not guessed must not be a particularly famous person, otherwise it would be impossible for everyone to guess it.

Since you are not a successful and famous person, how can you not be short of money?

Are there still people in the entertainment industry who don’t love money?

Or is it that this person has already seen through his intentions and knows that he is waiting for a price?

"Ha, in that case... I really want to see who he is after he is revealed in the Spring Festival Gala!"

…………

While Yu Hui and Zhou Xiaodong were talking, seven or eight leaders of the company's music department also gathered in the internal conference room of Tianyun Entertainment in Xiangzhou.

The person who chaired this meeting was Tianyun Vice President Yan Jiawei.

"I think you all know why I called everyone here today. The people sitting here are all my own people. If I have something to say, I will say it directly."

"Because of Lin Li's incident last year, our company's performance in the second half of the year has been very poor, and the annual report is even more ugly, so this year the company is preparing to make some changes."

"There are still more than three months until the new round of draft starts, but according to our market research, the draft show has now entered a weak period, and the ratings will no longer be the same as in the previous two years. There are also many potential newcomers. Basically, all of them have been screened out in the past two years, and the possibility of relying on the draft to produce a Wen Xin is very slim."

"At this time, we decided not to focus on the talent show and cultivate artists ourselves, but to change our strategy and directly recruit some artists who can bring huge benefits to the company."

Speaking of this, Yan Jiawei paused, looked at several people present, and said: "We have a list of candidate artists, but they are prioritized. The first one is Bai Wuchang from "The Masked Singer" , I think you all know music, and you should all know about him, but we don’t know this person’s true identity and have no way to contact him. We also used a lot of connections, but in the end we got nothing, so I called everyone here. I hope you can analyze and judge who this mysterious guest might be so that we can contact him."

As Yan Jiawei spoke, he clicked a few times on the computer in front of him. On the big curtain in the conference room, Bai Wuchang's appearance on the stage of "The Masked Singer" was projected.

"We have been discussing this person. She has good singing skills and good songs. But we don't know whether she wrote the song herself or if it was produced by their company. If she wrote it herself, that would be terrible, but if it is a song produced by the company Written, I feel that if our company cannot produce music of this caliber, it would be a waste of the artist’s voice.”

The person who spoke was Tianyun Music Director Tan Tao. He has been with Tianyun longer than Yan Jiawei, and the people sitting here are all his own people, so he has no worries about what he says.

"Let's not discuss this for now. What we are discussing now is who her true identity is. We will know the answers to all the questions when we contact her." Yan Jiawei said.

"Mr. Yan, Bai Wuchang is a female singer. If we recruit her...will Wen Xin have any thoughts?"

"Yes, Mr. Yan, I think with the limited budget, we should try our best to sign a male singer. Our company does not have a good male singer. It is enough for the female singer to have Wen Xin. After all, Wen Xin is still here Rising period.”

Wen Xin is currently the first sister of Tianyun and the only one who is doing well in the entertainment industry. Among the people attending the meeting, many have a good relationship with Wen Xin. They know that the company wants to recruit people, and they are worried that they will compete with Wen Xin. This is the position of the first sister Tianyun.

Yan Jiawei smiled and said, "I'm afraid you don't know. According to internal information, in the finals of "The Masked Singer" just recorded, Bai Wuchang turned into Hei Wuchang, and he sang with a male voice, so it is very possible that he is a male singer!"

After the words fell, several people in the conference room were dumbfounded.

They naturally knew about Bai Wuchang, who was making a lot of noise on the Internet, and they had been guessing who this person was, but they had always guessed it was a female singer. Several times, they guessed the same thing as the guessing team, but the results were proven wrong.

They never expected that Bai Wuchang would do something like this during the recording of the "Masked Singer" finals.

"Sing male voice?"

"Has it become dark and impermanent?"

"No way?"

"Don't doubt it, the source of the news is accurate. It is said that the voice of the girls in the previous issues is completely different from that of the girls in the previous issues. It is completely a male voice, and it is also in Cantonese."

The people in the conference room were all silent. They had no live picture and could not hear the live sound. They could not imagine that Bai Wuchang, who was so shocking in the previous issues, could be a male singer!

"Well, like you, I couldn't believe it when I first found out, but since he sang such a song in the finals, we can't rule out the possibility that she is a male singer. The finals won't be broadcast until tomorrow night, so we There is no live footage, but I have her videos from the first three issues. Let's take a look and see if you can find any clues. I hope you can identify her true identity. We must hurry up and follow her before other companies. She got in touch!”

After Yan Jiawei finished speaking, he played three videos about Bai Wuchang from issues 9 to 11 of "The Masked Singer" on his computer.

However, the people attending the meeting became more and more suspicious of what Yan Jiawei said.

Even Yan Jiawei himself became suspicious...

…………

In the evening, Liu Saihua's house.

Leng Ying and Liu Saihua live in the same community and in the same building. They say their relationship is that of an agent and an artist, and more often than not they look like mother and daughter.

Leng Ying was wearing pajamas and lying on the huge sofa of Liu Saihua's house. Her bare face looked more elegant, and she was much more approachable than she looked on the stage.

Leng Ying was lying on the sofa eating snacks.

Liu Saihua opened the door and came in. She was not surprised to see Leng Ying at her home. She just reminded: "Eat less snacks. I have gained more than a pound recently."

Leng Ying put down her snacks angrily, sat up and asked, "Sister Hua, why did the meeting with the boss and the others last so long today?"

Liu Saihua poured a small glass of red wine, walked over while shaking the glass, and sat down next to Leng Ying.

"Does Bai Wuchang know?" Sister Hua asked.

Leng Ying was stunned and asked: "Which Bai Wuchang are you talking about?"

Now speaking of Bai Wuchang, one is the seducer in folklore, and the other is the mysterious guest in "The Masked Singer". Leng Ying obviously knew it when she asked.

"It's the person who sings like crazy. The company held a meeting and wanted us to initiate connections to find her."

"Oh...have you found it?"

Liu Saihua shook her head: "I have been in the music industry for more than 20 years, and I have some acquaintances in almost every company and TV station. It's not just me. Everyone in our company who has some respect has asked around, and found nothing. This is really the first time I have encountered something like this. It’s as if this person doesn’t exist in the world.”

"I can't tell who she is when I listen to her singing. There seems to be no such person in the circle. Could it be that she is just an amateur?" Leng Ying asked.

"Probably not, otherwise this show would have no meaning at all."

Leng Ying was slightly taken aback and said, "Won't their show be revealed in the finals? When was it recorded? If you go find out, you should be able to find out."

"We have thought of it a long time ago, but their program team is also very powerful. They changed the rules and moved the unveiling to the Lychee Station Spring Festival Gala live broadcast. Now many companies are secretly planning to dig up this giant Buddha. Who will reveal his identity first? Whoever guesses it will get the upper hand."

Leng Ying comforted: "Since we can't find it, other companies certainly can't find it either. It's better to wait until the Spring Festival Gala is unveiled before looking for it."

Sister Hua smiled and said, "The company said so too, and asked me to go to the Lychee Terrace Spring Festival Gala to watch this mysterious man."

Leng Ying held Sister Hua's arm and said, "Who can resist Sister Hua when she comes out? Besides, our company is so strong. As long as that person is not a fool, he will definitely be recruited."

Sister Hua's face changed slightly, and she suddenly thought of someone and said, "Sister Hua, I am not omnipotent. There are still some fools in this world."

Leng Ying also knew who Sister Hua was thinking of. She realized that she had said the wrong thing and quickly shut up.

…………

It had only been one night since the "Masked Singer" finals had been recorded, and what happened during the recording had already spread in the circle. Like Xingcan, Tianyun, and Juxing, other entertainment companies in the entertainment industry had shown their concern. Others sing for money, but I sing for life. This guest is of great interest.

All major brokerage companies are using their connections to inquire about information externally, and internally, they are holding seminars, hoping to guess who this mysterious guest is earlier than other companies.

Major companies have organized some musicians and singers in the company to guess who it is that others sing for money and others sing for life!

Even the mysterious guest's posture when holding the microphone, sitting posture, standing posture, and speaking speed were disassembled one by one and then analyzed.

However, almost half of the music industry’s efforts were used, and no one could guess who the guest was.

At first, they guessed that no one seemed like this mysterious guest.

And now, no matter who they guess, they all feel like this mysterious guest.

Simply stunned.