Huayu: As a child star, I just want to be famous

Chapter 46 Summary of the Year 2000
After the final exams, it’s winter vacation.

During the winter vacation, Chen Linfeng used the entire vacation time to find the orchestra of the music college to make a pure music album of the twenty or so songs he had written so far.

These include "The History", "Seven Swords Battle Song" and "The Long Road"

"Night of Confession", "The Street Where the Wind Lives", "Awakening"

"A Thousand Years of Prayer", "The Divine Thoughts of the Forbidden City", "Fake Love"

The soundtracks of classic TV series and movies such as "Flight of the Filverbird" and "Heroes Gathering".

Later on, he will continue to reproduce those catchy melodies in his mind one by one.

From now on, no matter he is filming a movie or a TV series, he will never lack good BGM.

Chen Linfeng found an independent label to cooperate with. Since they were only discussing distribution and not copyright, the distributor basically did no publicity.

In the end, only 30,000 records were produced, and in the following months, they were slowly sold under the name of Chen Linfeng.

Music industry insiders gave extremely high praise to this record, but it was limited to the industry and did not cause any waves in public opinion.

Chen Linfeng also achieved his goal, which was mainly to reserve a spot. Secondly, if he wanted to recommend his own soundtrack to others in the future, he could directly release the finished product, which was a lot more convenient.

The year 2000 was the year when the Chen family started to rise. The broadcast of "Young Justice Bao" starring Shi Xiaolong started his child star 2.0 mode and broke new ground in martial arts TV dramas.

The previous film invested by Chen's father, "The Sequel to Journey to the West", was a big hit, and he then participated in "Don't Talk to Strangers", and his career officially got on track.

Chen Linfeng achieved great success in both writing and acting. Not only did he have experience playing classic roles, but his second novel also entered the Japanese market, taking a big step on the road to becoming a famous writer.

It is also worth mentioning that in Japan, Kodansha published his "Book of Life and Death" in early March.

With the support of the fan base attracted by the previously published "Destiny", the new book has attracted a lot of attention since its release and is currently gaining strong momentum.

As of the end of March, it is the settlement period for half a year after the release of "Destiny".

Chen Linfeng's first novel in Japan sold more than 180 million copies in half a year, and including domestic data, the total number is about 400 million.

"The Book of Life and Death" sold more than 50 copies in Japan in just one month.

Not only that, Kodansha sent staff to search for information about Chen Linfeng, and sent back to Japan a series of novels he published in "Selected Short Stories", "Youth Digest" and "Sprout".

Kodansha took a fancy to these stories, combined them together, renamed them "Qilin Short Story Collection", and published them.

In fact, except for the first few short stories, the ones that were later developed in Mengya all exceeded 30,000 words, which is within the scope of novellas.

But this didn’t have any impact. After the release of "Qilin Short Story Collection", it actually sold quite well.

Even his instrumental record album, of which only 30,000 copies were printed, was bought by the people who collected his information and brought to the Neon Kodansha headquarters.

However, after all, the owner of Kodansha is in the publishing business and has little involvement in music, so he just asked industry insiders to do the analysis.

Then, he published these extremely high evaluations from industry insiders in his own audio-visual magazines, which was a way to indirectly promote Chen Linfeng.

When the above sales data were transmitted to China, it caused another uproar.

However, by now, public opinion has generally shifted, and those literary critics who criticized him last year have basically stopped speaking out, with only a few still persisting.

There are very few writers who can enter foreign markets nowadays. Chen Linfeng's move can be said to be very morale-boosting.

Especially when he confronted Japanese writers head-on and won, it made the people excited.

Although Japan and China had a period of friendship in the last century, there is still a general sentiment towards Japan in China.

It's good enough if you don't curse when it's mentioned.

The people are happy to see the Japanese being defeated head-on and earning their money.

During the critical period of joining the WTO, the higher authorities also needed good news, so the mainstream media generally took an appreciative attitude.

After this public opinion storm that lasted for more than half a year, Chen Linfeng's reputation as an internationally renowned writer began to be established.

It has been half a year since the novel was released in Japan.

The royalty settlement with Kodansha meant that Chen Linfeng finally had a sum of money that he could control.

The price of his novels in Japan is about 600 yen per copy, which is equivalent to 40 yuan in China. For the novel "Destiny", his royalties are 11%, so he can get 4.4 yuan for each copy sold. The settlement of the publishing house is based on the number of copies printed rather than the specific sales volume, which means that Chen Linfeng can get royalties for 200 million copies at a time, about 880 million yuan.

Of course it can't be that much. There is also tax. The tax he should pay has already been paid by the publishing house in advance, and will be withheld during the settlement.

Fortunately, he had foresight. At the end of last year, he commissioned someone to open a studio in Neon specifically for tax deductions and exemptions.

The final amount received is about 750 million yuan.

For someone who just turned thirteen, this is a huge sum of money.

Since Neon has maintained low interest rates for a long time, of course you cannot put your money in Neon banks.

Chen Linfeng found someone through Sister Mei to transfer a large part of the money to the U.S. stock market, and bought NetEase stocks one after another over a period of several months.

NetEase's stock price is at its historical lowest point, less than $1 per share. In a few months, it will be even lower, as low as $0.51.

However, he remembered that there were also people in China trying to buy at the bottom, betting that NetEase’s stock price would recover, so it would be better to act a little earlier.

Chen Linfeng will receive more royalties in the second half of the year, and he will also buy NetEase stocks at that time. Ultimately, he will buy enough to buy about two million US dollars. If he buys more, he will become a major shareholder.

A small amount of the money was transferred back to China, and he used it to buy 20 boxes, or 240 bottles of Moutai, some of which were old wines from previous years. In total, he spent only about 7 yuan.

In a dozen years, this amount of money would only be enough to buy a dozen bottles. Now a bottle is only 260, and it will be worth more than ten times in the future.

He didn't do it for appreciation, he just wanted to use it to entertain guests when the Moutai liquor became valuable in the future.

In the next few years, I will continue to buy some while the price is low.

Chen Linfeng also bought a house in Shenhai specifically for storage, which could also serve as his base in Shenhai, killing two birds with one stone.

The days at school passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, it was summer vacation.

Ever since Shi Xiaolong played the young Zhan Zhao, it seemed like his Ren and Du meridians were opened up.

Since the fourth quarter of last year, many crews have asked him to act, and he has been moving from one crew to another, and has almost never stopped until now.

He occasionally talked about this with Chen Linfeng on the phone, his tone filled with happy distress.

"I didn't have any movies to shoot for two years, and now I'm looking for them again. It's really a mixed bag."

"There are so many good dramas for you to act in, so just be happy. When you become an adult, it will be difficult to have such an opportunity again."

"Master Feng, please stop thinking, please stop thinking. I already know how difficult it will be to transform in the future. Can't you let me be beautiful for a few years first? We can talk about the future later."

Indeed, "The Love Story of a Fool", "Little Zhuge Liang", "Young Huang Feihong" and the most important "Young Justice Bao"

One after another, most of them are classic childhood dramas.

His career as a child star would reach its peak in the next few years.

There are indeed more TV dramas about teenagers in recent years, which is completely different from the next decade or so.

As a child star, naturally many people looked for Chen Linfeng.

There are two that are worth mentioning.

One is "Nine-Year-Old County Magistrate". This company called him several times at the beginning of the year, and they were very sincere.

They also invited Shi Xiaolong to play an important role and asked him to help with the work.

The other one is "Young Prime Minister Gan Luo", and this time Xie Miao is his partner.

The crews of both dramas invited him to play the leading role. The ratings of these two dramas in their previous lives were not bad. "The Nine-Year-Old County Magistrate" even had a second season, which shows that it was indeed very popular after it was broadcast.

In fact, they were all good opportunities, but he turned them all down because of Sister Mei.

On the one hand, it was difficult to take leave from school, and on the other hand, he had started writing a new novel, so there was a schedule conflict.

This time, I am also writing about a new subject, drawing on the infinite horror of my previous life.

　The instrumental music that appears in the novel has created a playlist with the same name as the novel on NetEase Cloud. If you are interested, you can go and listen to it. It will be updated later as the novel progresses.
　　
　
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