Early Monday morning, the battle between office workers began.
Wang Jiashi was like a mad soldier who rushes into battle. He took a heavy and powerful step and got into the elevator before many of his competitors, firmly occupying the best position by the door in the middle.
The poor elevator compartment trembled under the pressure of his body weight that was over 100 Kg, and the suspended cables hanging above gave a crisp click, barely withstanding the difficult test.
It’s just that the other people in the elevator were a little scared and have some kind of a bad feeling.
The white-collar man who was one step behind had just stepped his foot in, and the sound of overloaded buzzing suddenly sounded!
Under everyone’s cold gaze, he could only retreat and stared at Wang Jiashi with infinite resentment.
If he wasn’t there, at least two people like him can squeeze in!
Wang Jiashi has long exercised his face of defense +10, completely ignoring the gaze of the spatter, waiting for the elevator door to close.
On the 10th floor, he was the first to rush out.
When Wang Jiashi rushed into the company to punch in his card, the LCD clock hanging from the punch machine showed exactly 9 o’clock.
On his first day back from vacation, he wasn’t late!
Old Wang wiped the sweat on his forehead with fear. He had the feeling that he had just escape from death.
Six months ago, the Xintianyi company changed its major shareholders. And the new officer made many changes and formulated very strict rules and regulations. If an employee is late one time, that employee’s full-attendance bonus will be deducted and the monthly performance bonus will be deducted if an employee is late twice on the same month.
Wang Jiashi is fat and loves to sleep, plus his half-month off biological clock didn’t adjust in time, so he almost overslept, but fortunately he was able to swipe his card successfully on time.
“Old Wang, you’re back?”
“Big Brother Wang. Is Phuket fun? Look at you all tanned.”
“Editor Wang, I’ve put your worksheet on your desk. Two sheets of printing paper.”
“Meeting at 2 o’clock in the afternoon…”
HIs colleagues arrived early, and they have already started working. When they saw Wang Jiashi, they all greeted him one after another.
Wang Jiashi, 32-year-old, is also an old employee of Xinianyi. He has a good personality and real talent, so he has a good relationship with his colleagues.
But at work, his colleagues only exchanged pleasantries with him, unlike in the past where they would have gathered around him a long time ago to ask him how he was doing, whether he had an affair, and where the gifts for everyone were. (TN: Before the change in management)
Wang Jiashi replied with a smile. He also didn’t hand out small gifts in his handbag, but got into his office before the boss appeared.
The 5 square meters office can barely accommodate a small computer desk. The available space was fully utilized. The bookcase was fixed to the wall, filled with a variety of books.
Although the place was narrow and small, Wang Jiashi was already very satisfied.
Because as long as the door is closed, that is his independent world. It’s okay to light a cigarette and smoke. It belongs to the company’s special care for him, a senior employee + old smoker.
Wang Jiashi is the editor of “Pop Colors” of Xintianyi Company. “Pop Colors” belongs to the new media network magazine. The app developed by the company has maintained the top three market share among the similar software in the field of smartphones. Therefore, it is quite famous in the industry. Advertising revenue is fine.
“Pop Colors” focuses on international and domestic popular trends. It covers popular elements such as movies, television, music and pop brands. The target group is mainly young people in the city.
Wang Jiashi is the editor of the pop music section. He has been doing the same job for ten years. His pen name “Stone Man” is widely known in the circle, and his music reviews often appear on the front page.
Pushing open the window ventilation, Wang Jiashi habitually smoked a Lanzhou cigarette. Then, while holding the mouse in his right hand, he skillfully opened a browser, and visit China Music Charts official website.
He wanted to see the song rankings in recent weeks.
As a result, as soon as the web page was opened, Wang Jiashi saw “In Spring” at the top of the chart!
Wang Jiashi has a slight impression on this song. He remembered that it was on the chart before his vacation. It was hanging at the bottom of the chart and he had no time to pay attention to it.
In just over half a month, it has rushed to the top of the chart?
Wang Jiashi felt a little incredulous. One must know that the singer and the Wandering band were unknown in the pop music world. He has never heard of them before. How can their new works rise so fast?
There must be a catch in it!
Wang Jiashi bit the filter of the cigarette and turned to the previous week’s ranking.
“In Spring” was still at the top of the chart!
This made Wang Jiashi immediately have a strong interest. If there was any element of luck for being at the top of the chart for a week, then the continuous dominance in the chart must be a factor of strength. Although the fairness of China Music Chart has often been questioned in the past two years, but at present, there is no other more authoritative than it.
He clicked on the Youshi link for “In Spring”. (TN: Youshi is kind of Youtube)
The partners of the China Music Charts include WeChat Music, NetEase Music, Pop Radio, Youshi and other online new media, so the songs on the chart have corresponding URL links.
Youshi online links were all MV, so they were viewed more.
He clicked into a video page entitled “New Rock and Roll Force, Wandering’s “In Spring””.
This video was uploaded more than a month ago, and the number of views has reached over 1.7 billion!
With such an amazing number of views, Wang Jiashi couldn’t help shaking his head.
Nowadays, the new network media, too like to make a big fuss about the data, a click can blow into ten or even a hundred, which makes people speechless. It is not only Youshi, but WeChat music and NetEase music are no exception. The trend was to use tens of millions of hits or views, this big data, to boost the value of advertising.
In addition, there are endless ways of publishing and promoting hype, so it is difficult to distinguish between true and false.
This more or less spoiled Wang Jiashi’s mood to listen to the song, and he clicked on the play button with interest.
After 15 seconds of advertising, the MV began.
Soon, the hoarse voice, and the vicissitudes of the song began to reverberate in the small room.
“I still remember the spring of many years ago, at that time, I had not yet cut my long hair. I did not have credit cards, I did not have her, I did not have a home with hot water running for 24 hours.”
“However, those times were my happiest. Although I only had a broken wooden guitar. On the streets, under the bridges, and in the fields, singing those forgotten songs no one cared about!…”
Five minutes later, the MV is over.
Wang Jiashi was sitting on his chair in a daze. The cigarette in his mouth was almost burn out, and half of the ashes fell on his body without him noticing. And his eyes were filled with a complex and deeply shocked look.
How did he not hear such a song until now?
His lips moved a few times, and Wang Jiashi felt that he had to say something. There was a kind of passion surging in his chest.
However, the cigarette in his mouth fell out before he could say anything.
Right on his crotch!
“Sh*t!”
The thin fat shorts were immediately burned in a hole, and almost burned the critical part. Wang Jiashi suddenly came back to his senses. He jumped up and hit his thigh heavily under the keyboard bracket.
Almost overturning the computer desk.
Wang Jiashi really wanted to cry but have no tears. He hurriedly reached out and patted the cigarette butts that were still stuck to his shorts.
After the flurry of activity, he sat down again.
The music video has already been played, and almost lead to a human tragedy, but Wang Jiashi’s feelings have not been disturbed, and his mood was still agitated.
After ten years of wandering around in Beijing, this mega-city was still unfamiliar to him. The passion and ideals he once had have long been gone with the years, and he just perseveres in order to survive.
Wang Jiashi has no house in Beijing because he couldn’t afford it.
He also has no girlfriend, because no good girl liked him.
One of the most extravagant things he had ever experienced in his life was the half-month holiday he had just spent abroad!
Now listening to the song “In Spring” and watching the story of joys and sorrows in the MV, Wang Jiashi found that his self-conceived strength was actually vulnerable.
He was deeply touched and affected!
Taking a deep breath, Wang Jiashi rubbed his somewhat sour eyes and relit a cigarette.
Wang Jiashi was going to write an article for the song and put it in the music recommendation for the new issue of “Pop Colors”. Of course, he must first have a comprehensive understanding of the song, such as the Wandering band’s singer and the songwriter.
However, Wang Jiashi soon discovered a rather interesting thing, that is, the Wandering band had a total of three songs on the chart. In addition to “In Spring” at the top of the chart, there was also “Reason To Be Strong” ranked 7th and “I Want To Have A Home” ranked 12th, all of which came from the same person.
Lu Chen!
Wang Jiashi is a stranger to this name, and was certainly not a well-known songwriter in the industry.
Ordinary listeners usually don’t care much about who the author of the song is. It’s like ordering a meal in a restaurant. When people think a dish is delicious, it’s enough for them to remember the name of the dish and the name of the restaurant, but they won’t ask who the cook was.
But Wang Jiashi is not an ordinary person.
As the editor of the music section of “Pop Colors”, he was more interested in the stories hidden behind the song. In addition to the Wandering band and its singer, he also has a strong inquiry regarding Lu Chen, the author.
What kind of character can write such a excellent rock and roll work?
In Wang Jiashi’s mind, he constructed a middle-aged man with a face full of vicissitudes and firm eyes.
He drifted all over the world, weathered many storms, and sang loudly in the wind with his guitar in his arms. “If there comes a time, when I leave quietly, please bury me in this spring!”
Wang Jiashi typed in the browser search bar: In Spring + Lu Chen.
He entered to confirm. Then that the search engine immediately searched for a lot of relevant or unrelated information.
And the one on the top of the list was a post in the Sky Forum.
[Unworthy of the name “Super Singer”, the author of “In Spring”, Lu Chen, was eliminated because of behind the scene dealing!].
Key words: Super Singer, In Spring, and Lu Chen.
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TN: To clarify. The result here is talking about the time when Lu Chen was eliminated in the program “Super Singer” and not “Singing China”. I think the program “Super Singer” is getting bashed because of it.
