ECG -Chapter 76 Are These All His Original Works?

Han Ying was clearly stunned after hearing Lin Hao’s words. “Why?”

“This is my rule. I won’t allow anyone to tarnish my creations!”

“But…”

Lin Hao cut her off. “I know what you want to say, but I have my own judgment and my own rules. The songs belong to me, and I also have the right to refuse.”

Han Ying could only say helplessly, “Alright, but Lin Hao, I still have to thank you!”

“Thank me for what? This was all because of your own hard work!”

After hanging up the phone, he hurriedly put it back into the pocket of his coat, then stuffed both hands into his sleeves. Damn this weather, it was freezing!

……

Yanjing.

Meiying Music Culture Development Co., Ltd., conference room.

After Han Ying hung up, everyone in the conference room had heard the entire conversation clearly because the call with Lin Hao had been on speaker.

Zhao Yiting’s handsome face looked extremely unpleasant.

General Manager Yang Qianyi knocked on the table. “Everyone heard what Lin Hao said. Share your thoughts.”

Han Ying remained silent. Actually, she hadn’t wanted to have the call with Lin Hao on speaker. Even though she had won the gold award in the Youth Song Competition, she was still a newcomer in this industry.

Moreover, she had only just signed the contract. As the saying went, those with little status had little influence. There were many things she couldn’t make decisions about.

When signing the contract, she had kept her guard up. Despite facing countless temptations, she insisted on signing for a maximum of only three years.

She had also specifically added a clause: if she personally paid to purchase songs, the copyright of those songs would not belong to the company. The company’s legal department explained to her that the contract already contained such a clause, but she felt the wording was too vague. Under her insistence, they had no choice but to add the clarification.

However, she had signed an all-inclusive contract. After finishing the signing, she somewhat regretted it. She felt she should have only signed a management contract and separated herself from the recording contract, waiting for better opportunities.

But regret was useless. As a newcomer, she truly did not have the ability to make too many demands at this point, and after signing, the contract already had legal effect.

Meiying Music still had a great deal of influence nationwide. Most of the artists who had won awards in the Youth Song Competition had also signed contracts with them.

Later, she came to terms with it. She was a newcomer, and if she signed an all-inclusive contract, Meiying Music would genuinely promote her and put effort into managing her career. But there was also a downside: she could not terminate the contract within three years, meaning her entire entertainment career was completely in the hands of this company.

There was also one clause in her contract that was different from the others: for the time being, she was not allowed to publicly reveal Lin Hao’s contact information.

Because of this clause, she had struggled for two days. Later, she repeatedly convinced herself that the restriction period was not long. Gold would shine sooner or later!

Lin Hao was still very young. With his talent, sooner or later he would make a name for himself in the entertainment industry.

This was also why so many people had been trying to find out Lin Hao’s contact information, while she had refused to reveal it.

After Han Ying won the award, she saw a piece of news online. The gist was that a contracted singer under Fenghua Fashion Audio-Visual Media had gotten into a copyright dispute with someone named Lin Hao. Later, both sides released statements saying it had only been a misunderstanding—the song “Father” was merely somewhat similar to Lin Hao’s original work.

Internet users’ memories were no different from goldfish. The news was quickly buried under all kinds of gossip.

And she had been busy signing with Meiying Music at the time, so she didn’t pay any further attention to it.

Only a few days after signing her contract, she received several phone calls. They were all asking her about Lin Hao, the lyricist and composer of those two songs, but she could only honor her promise and did not reveal anything.

Zhao Yiting’s manager, Jiang Dapeng, spun a lighter in his hand and said with some disdain, “This guy is really arrogant. He’s only written two songs, and he’s already acting this proud?”

“Exactly! He’s so young, yet he’s choosing to ruin his own future!”

“If you ask me, who knows if he just got lucky by accident? He’s only written ‘Persistence’ and ‘Wild Flower’!”

“Forget other places, even in Yanjing City alone, there are plenty of lyricists and composers! Do we really have to cling to this one tree and refuse to let go?”

“That’s right! I think we should talk to Yu Huai again. We don’t have time right now, but after some time he’ll definitely be able to write it! As long as the money is right, no matter how busy Yu Huai is, he’ll still be tempted!”

“……”

In the conference room, everyone was talking over each other.

Yang Qianyi raised her hand and pressed downward, signaling everyone to quiet down, then nodded toward Xiao Li from the artist department.

Xiao Li was wearing a pair of tight stretch pants. As she walked, her hips swayed in an exaggerated manner. She took out a disc, walked over to the projector on the office desk, and inserted the disc into the laptop’s drive.

The projection screen displayed footage of a bar. At first, the sound was somewhat noisy, but before long, a handsome young man with short hair appeared on stage, playing the guitar and singing.

Han Ying recognized him at a glance.

It was Lin Hao.

The video had been secretly recorded over many days, then edited afterward. Each song only played for half its duration. They were all original songs that Lin Hao had sung at Ferry Bar, and some of them he had also performed at Spring River’s Black Knight Bar.

《Friends》, 《Brother, I Miss You》, 《How Much Love Can Start Over》, 《The Outside World》, 《The Laugh of the Jianghu》, 《Farewell》, 《Blue Lotus》, 《The First Snow of 2002》……

More than twenty minutes later.

Yang Qianyi glanced at everyone. Her fair, slender fingers lightly tapped the table again.

“This is Lin Hao. Do you have anything else to say?”

No one made any more comments.

Because reality had already slapped them hard across the face.

Jiang Dapeng looked somewhat incredulous.

“All of these are his original works?”

Yang Qianyi’s beautiful almond-shaped eyes turned toward him.

“You’ve heard them before?”

Jiang Dapeng’s face reddened, and he didn’t dare say anything else.

Yang Qianyi looked at Han Ying.

“I know keeping Lin Hao’s contact information from you was somewhat inappropriate, but there was no choice. The business world is like a battlefield. However, we also need to understand one thing: some people cannot be suppressed.”

“So…”

She glanced at Jin Yongnian from the copyright department.

“Old Jin, you and Dapeng will make a trip to Long Province.”

Jin Yongnian was a fat man with a hairstyle that looked like “local forces supporting the central government” (short on the sides, long on top combed over). His thick lips moved a few times before he asked:

“What’s the upper limit for the price?”

“300,000.”

Yang Qianyi’s words left everyone stunned.

This was already the price of a top-tier domestic lyricist and composer. One should know that even the most famous lyricist-composer, Yu Huai, only charged 500,000 yuan at most so far.

For many domestic lyricists and composers, being able to sell a song for 100,000 yuan was already quite good. There weren’t many who could get 300,000 yuan for one song. Even Yu Huai couldn’t sell every song for 500,000 yuan!

“President Yang, are we only buying songs for Zhao Yiting? Or…?”

Having worked in the song copyright industry for so many years, Jin Yongnian could tell from what he had just heard that although Lin Hao was young, he was not someone easy to negotiate with. So he didn’t want to make a wasted trip.

Yang Qianyi understood what he meant. After thinking for a moment, she said:

“You’re right to consider that. Go find Xiaolan and bring all the audio and video materials of our company’s existing artists.”

Jin Yongnian nodded and said nothing more.

Yang Qianyi then looked at the head of the artist department, Zhu Xiaolan.

“Xiaolan, get prepared. It looks like in just a few days, the two of us will also have to make a trip to Long Province.”

Zhu Xiaolan was stunned.

“Sign him?”

Yang Qianyi nodded.

Everyone looked at each other and began whispering among themselves.

They didn’t understand what President Yang meant.

Although this Lin Hao sang well, he was still a college student after all. How could they sign him? After signing, would he still be able to continue his studies?

If he wanted to continue studying, how would he do commercial performances? How would he attend various events?