After offending capital, my songs became more and more popular.

Chapter 140: Remembering Kindness, Holding Grudges, and Holding Enmities! Pen Names Revealed! Could This Be a Coincidence?!
"To be honest, I could write a song like 'Beijing Welcomes You' in a heartbeat!"

"Not even a week..."

"Three days!"

"Writing 'Beijing Welcomes You' is so easy, so incredibly easy!"

Why did I stop writing?

"Clap clap..."

"Men have pride!"

"At my age, I can't sell things from a few months ago now."

"We're children of Yishandong, so we have to be true to ourselves first!"

"That's all. The rest, go have fun!"

Shen Ming'en didn't even glance at the roast duck on the table. He hadn't even drunk half a jin or two liang of strong liquor before he started spouting all sorts of nonsense.

But rather...

Sitting next to him, Feng Yucan not only dared not accuse him of "bragging" this time, but nodded repeatedly and said, "Yes, yes, you're right, you're generous!"

"What else?" Shen Ming'en laughed, indicating, "Now you've been proven wrong, haven't you? Now you know I wasn't lying to you, right?"

Feng Yucan: "(￢_￢) Aim"

Although he was very reluctant to admit it, Feng Yucan had to admit that he had been thoroughly humiliated by Shen Mingen...

Ever since arriving in Beijing, Shen Ming'en has been bragging about it every day, telling everyone he meets that he came to Beijing to participate in Olympic-related activities, and boasting that he will sing three Olympic theme songs. Yesterday, before the official recording of the "Beijing Welcomes You" music video, he even said that he would sing the chorus...

Feng Yucan initially didn't believe it at all, and he even scoffed at it before Shen Mingen left yesterday. But after the recording aired in the afternoon, he was completely dumbfounded...

God knows how bewildered Feng Yucan was when Shen Mingen's back appeared during the chorus of the video, and the camera zoomed in on Shen Mingen's face.

To be honest, he was just as shocked as the audience and the capitalists who were itching for a fight.

He was puzzled...

"No, how exactly did you get on board with that creator, Teacher Shen?" Feng Yucan couldn't help but ask.

"Could you introduce me to someone too?" he asked, his pure, gleaming eyes sparkling.

After the official recording of the song "Beijing Welcomes You" was released, it became a hot topic on social media, with many influential figures analyzing it. The notes of the five notes ("Gong, Shang, Jiao, Zhi, Yu") and the pronunciation of the last "i" in each lyric were all amazing. People are now showing great admiration for the creator behind the song.

Especially within the industry!
Now, countless people want to get to know this teacher, partly because his writing is excellent, and partly because he has connections and influence...

To be able to hand over a singer to perform the chorus, their influence must be considerable!

Feng Yitong understood all too well the principle that having more friends makes things easier. Since his friend had this network, he definitely wanted to take this opportunity to get to know him.

"you?"

Upon hearing this, Shen Ming'en picked up his wine glass, took a small sip, and then shook his head with a smile.

A single word or tone may not cause much harm, but it is extremely insulting.

"...What's wrong with me?!" Feng Yucan was about to explode, but seeing his friend's raised eyebrows, he immediately became like a mouse seeing a cat, lowering his head and grinning obediently. He picked up his teacup, cheerfully poured tea for Shen Ming'en, and said:

"Hey, if we become rich and powerful, let's not forget each other, okay? Our brotherhood will never falter. You've been good to me, so I'll be good to you in the future, right?"

"Haha..." Shen Ming'en laughed and patted Feng Yucan on the shoulder, saying, "I still prefer your unruly self."

"So, can I introduce it or not?!" Feng Yucan couldn't help but break down.

"No..." Shen Ming'en found it funny, and the more he looked at Feng Yucan, the funnier it became. He couldn't help but ask, "Do you really not know who this 'Shen Jichou' teacher is?"

"???"

Feng Yucan had no idea why Shen Ming'en said that, and asked curiously:
"No, what you're saying... does that mean I should even know them?"

"What else?" Shen Ming'en suppressed a laugh as he ate a piece of duck skin, savoring the duck flavor spreading in his nostrils, and said with a light laugh.

"?" Feng Yucan's head was filled with question marks.

"I'm not very bright, can you stop keeping me in suspense, bro?" Feng Yucan asked.

"Tsk..."

Shen Ming'en gave him a look that said, "You might as well donate your brain if you don't use it," secretly clicking his tongue in amazement, and said bluntly:
"So far away, yet so close at hand!"

Feng Yucan: "???"

"...You?" He fumbled around for a while, finally looking at Shen Ming'en with disbelief and suspicion in his eyes.

"Mmm." Shen Ming'en proudly raised his chin, his smug expression was just too much.

Feng Yucan: "..."

"No, I know I offended you a lot before, but you can't just talk nonsense, can you?" Feng Yucan said with a twitching mouth.

If the fact that Shen Ming'en made a surprise appearance at the live recording of the "Beijing Welcomes You" music video was a bit fantastical but not impossible, then the fact that he is actually Shen Jichou, the creator of "Beijing Welcomes You," is absolutely impossible!

Currently, it is widely rumored in the industry that this teacher is a veteran artist of the national team with deep behind-the-scenes connections. In everyone's mind, he is probably the kind of senior figure who is probably in his thirties or fifties and has a very deep mind.

You're saying he's Shen Ming'en?
Who believes it!
"It's a shame you haven't gone out and said anything yet..." Feng Yucan once again revealed his ugly face, saying, "If you go out and say something, you'll really get reprimanded by the Olympic Organizing Committee!"

You're ruining the reputation of the theme song composer and shamelessly riding on his coattails and popularity. Your crimes are heinous!
So what about this...?

Shen Ming'en did not refute...

Instead, he looked at Feng Yucan with an expression as if he were looking at a clown.

After a moment, he said, "It doesn't matter if others don't know, but if you don't know, to be honest, buddy, you really should consider getting an EEG or having your eyesight tested."

Feng Yucan: "?"

"Are you saying I'm either mentally challenged or blind?" he asked.

"You know perfectly well, haha..." Shen Ming'en was overjoyed.

"...Can you stop being so mysterious and just tell me already?!" Feng Yucan was about to explode.

"Fine! I'll just say it!"

Shen Ming'en was too lazy to waste any more time arguing with this careless guy and said directly:
"Do you remember when you were still on 'Chinese Music Awards,' we had an episode with a rap theme?

“I remember…” Feng Yucan nodded.

"Do you remember what song you sang that time, and who wrote it for you?" Shen Ming'en asked again.

"You wrote it..." Feng Yucan replied naturally, "How could I forget 'Drifting to the North'?!"

This song is now known in the industry as "Shen Ming'en's guarantee for his brother in the Chinese entertainment industry," and it is arguably Feng Yucan's most representative work. No one can forget it.

What puzzled Feng Yucan was that Shen Ming'en shook his head mysteriously upon hearing this...

He said, "But I didn't write it..."

Feng Yucan: "???"

Feng Yucan was almost driven to the brink of collapse by Shen Mingen's incomprehensible way of doing things: "Can't we just stop with all this weird stuff?"

"I told you everything normally, okay?" Shen Ming'en suppressed a laugh.

"Then what the hell are you saying this song wasn't written by you? How could it not be written by you? How could I possibly get this wrong?!" Feng Yucan shouted.

"Then do you fucking remember that back then you were afraid of being implicated by me, so you made me use a pen name instead of my real name?!" Shen Ming'en also slammed his fist on the table.

"I……"

Feng Yucan was taken aback upon hearing this.

Woc...

Don't tell me... you really shouldn't tell me!

It seems... there really is such a thing!

While Feng Yucan was still in a daze, Shen Ming'en pointed at the guy's nose and said bluntly, "Look at the names of the lyricist and composer of your song 'Drifting to the North'!"

"Here……"

Feng Yucan was completely bewildered. He frantically reached into his pocket, rummaging around but finding nothing. Then he started swaying back and forth, searching...

Finally, on a table not far away, I found the cell phone that was under the cigarette box.

Click, click, Feng Yucan picked up his phone, his fingertips tapping incessantly on the screen. After a moment, he finally found the original draft in his chat history with Shen Mingen...

They also found the list of lyricists and composers for the official version of his song "Drifting to the North".

You won't know until you see it...

Upon looking at it, I was completely stunned!

Whether it was the pseudonym used on the original manuscript Shen Ming'en sent him, or the names of the lyricist and composer on the official and live versions of the music apps where his songs were released, they were all...

Shen Jichou!
Such a name!
And the moment I saw this name...

Feng Yucan's eyes widened instantly, his pupils contracted sharply, and he stared blankly at Shen Ming'en, who was sitting not far away, wrapping roast duck in a lotus leaf pancake.

"No... this can't be a coincidence, can it?" he couldn't help but ask.

Is there really such a coincidence in this world?!
Zun Du Fake Du!

elder brother!
My dear brother!

You're not trying to fool me, are you?

Tell me, is it really just a coincidence that you two have the same name? Is it really just a coincidence that you chose a pen name that is the same as that of Shen Jichou, the creator of "Beijing Welcomes You"?
Tall me!

Look in my eyes!

Why, baby...Why!

"Coincidence my ass!"

As he stuffed the rolled-up roast duck into his mouth, Shen Ming'en chewed and mumbled incoherently:

“When the Olympic Organizing Committee contacted me, I needed to conceal my identity, and you also wanted me to use a pen name. I was too lazy to come up with two other names, so I just used the same one.”

He spoke of it casually, as if being the creator of the star-studded Olympic theme song "Beijing Welcomes You" was a perfectly ordinary thing.

He was even eating roast duck, and his mouth was full of soybean paste and scallion flavor as he said it!
Outrageous!
exaggerate!

Feng Yucan never imagined that something like this would happen!

This teacher, Shen Jichou, who is "revered" by the industry and has been deified by netizens to an excessive degree, is actually... Shen Ming'en!

"Oh my god... Oh my god... Oh my gosh..."

Feng Yucan stood there with his hands behind his head, muttering to himself for a long time, his eyes unfocused and dazed, not recovering for quite some time!

no way……

This is absolutely shocking!
"Shen Ming'en... Shen Jichou... Ming'en... Jichou... holds a grudge... damn it..."

Finally, Feng Yucan blurted out the name of a plant, staring blankly at Shen Ming'en in front of him, and said:
"You've even used antonyms, you bastard!"

on purpose……

Shen Ming'en did this on purpose!
It's a combination of antonyms and homophones. This guy seems to be doing it on purpose. He makes people not associate him with the words just by looking at them, but if they think about it carefully, they will immediately think of him and have no doubt that it is him!

"Hahaha..." Shen Ming'en laughed and said, "I'll take that as a compliment."

"...Of course I'm praising you!" Feng Yucan really didn't know whether to laugh or cry; his expression was priceless.

If Feng Yucan, as Shen Mingen's friend and close associate, reacted this way, he couldn't imagine how interesting the expressions would be if Shen Mingen's mortal enemies, such as those capitalists, his company, Zhou Chujian, and so on, received this news!

Shen Ming'en's performance of the chorus of "Beijing Welcomes You" atop the Great Wall was already enough to shock these people. If they were to find out that this "Shen Jichou" teacher was actually Shen Ming'en, they would not only cry, but probably feel like they were going to die!

Sitting there, Feng Yucan was still in shock. Seeing this, Shen Ming'en coughed lightly and reminded him, "Let me remind you, without my permission, you'd better keep your mouth shut and don't go around talking nonsense, you hear me?"

Don't let Shen Ming'en's slightly boastful attitude fool you; he seems to have drunk a little too much and is blurting out everything. But actually, Shen Ming'en is quite cautious, and he knows what he's doing.

He's not someone who easily trusts others; most of the time, he only trusts himself. Even though Feng Yucan and he have a good relationship, Shen Ming'en didn't initially intend to tell him about this...

It's not that I don't trust my brother, but knowing less about him is a form of protection for him.

But on that day, when Zhou Chujian and his agent Liu Wei came to kick him while he was down, Feng Yucan, who had little influence, surprisingly showed great backbone and stood firmly on his side...

This touched Shen Ming'en a little.

He describes himself as cold-blooded and ruthless, but he is actually still sentimental.

In life, there are more than just women; there are brothers too. So why does Uncle Jackie value his brothers more than women? There's a reason for it!
"Of course I can keep an eye on it!" Feng Yucan silently raised his hand to wipe the cold sweat from his forehead.

If you tell people about something like this, they'll have to believe it!

But then again…

"You also wrote 'Drifting to the North' under this pen name. What if someone traces it back to me and asks if I know Mr. Shen Jichou? What am I supposed to say?" he asked.

"That depends on who's asking..."

Shen Ming'en revealed a mysterious smile...

If it were just an ordinary person asking, I would definitely refuse. But if it were Zhou Chujian or his group asking...

Shen Ming'en didn't mind going out and slapping them hard a few times.

……

The day after the live recording of the "Beijing Welcomes You" music video was the day of the countdown performance.

That evening, almost all the Chinese stars who participated in the MV recording gathered at the Forbidden City to perform "Beijing Welcomes You" together.

The scene was actually quite shocking to think about: a group of people standing in the main hall, three microphones, and no matter how big a star you were, each person took turns going up and singing a line.

Different top-tier singers, each with their own unique timbre, delivered a performance that was incredibly exciting.

Before the performance began, almost all the singers who were going to perform had arrived, and Zhou Chujian and others had arrived at the venue very early to wait...

What puzzled them was that the performance was about to start, so why...?

Why haven't we seen Shen Ming'en yet?

"Isn't Shen Ming'en here?" Zhou Chujian looked around but couldn't find Shen Ming'en. He frowned and asked Liu Wei beside him.

"I don't see anyone..." Liu Wei shook his head, peeked around and looked around, but couldn't find Shen Ming'en in the crowd. Instead, he found a senior singer named Zhao Yuqiang.

"Hey, it looks like Brother Qiang is here." Liu Wei's face showed a hint of excitement as he reminded Zhou Chujian, "Then it's possible that Shen Ming'en won't be edited into the final cut."

Upon hearing this, Zhou Chujian looked in the direction Liu Wei was pointing at, and a smile instantly appeared on his face...

"I knew it..." He chuckled and nodded.

Although the day before yesterday was the recording of the music video for "Beijing Welcomes You", it doesn't mean that every celebrity who appears in the live recording will be included in the final cut.

Many celebrities sing the same lyrics at the same time in different locations. The organizing committee has not yet decided whose segment will be included in the final version. Although Shen Ming'en's chorus lyric "Beijing welcomes you, opening up new horizons for you" was sung by only him and senior singer Zhao Yuqiang, he is far less senior than Zhao Yuqiang.

Today's official performance will basically determine who will officially appear in the MV. So, if he didn't come today and Zhao Yuqiang did, doesn't that mean that Zhao Yuqiang sang the chorus lyrics and that he wasn't part of it?
This is hilarious, this is really funny...

The online buzz was so huge, and netizens were so excited when Hajime appeared at the official MV recording. If Shen Mingen didn't appear on the day of the actual performance...

How big must that be?!

Then his fans will be humiliated!

Thinking of this, Zhou Chujian couldn't help but smile smugly...

He said the organizing committee wouldn't really let someone as inexperienced as Shen Ming'en stand on top of the kings and queens of the Chinese music scene and sing the chorus...

He knew that the organizing committee was probably just giving face to the creator, Teacher Shen, and only symbolically allowing Shen Ming'en to appear at the recording site, without editing his face into the final cut!
If that's the case...

Then he doesn't need to worry so much.

even……

They can gloat and kick someone when they're down!
Thinking of this, a smug smile appeared on Zhou Chujian's face.

But it was at this very moment...

A slender and graceful figure suddenly appeared in the distance.

When Zhou Chujian saw that figure, he was slightly taken aback. The person was none other than Yao Shuli, who had a "close relationship" with Shen Ming'en.

Yao Shuli also participated in the recording of the music video for "Beijing Welcomes You," but she wasn't on the Great Wall section; instead, she was at a relatively famous tourist attraction in Beijing, so they never got together.

But she was in today's official performance, which really surprised Zhou Chujian.

He had to admit that Yao Shuli's family background was indeed terrifyingly powerful upon closer examination...

Zhou Chujian's attention was only briefly focused on Yao Shuli. After all, although Yao Shuli had a relationship with Shen Mingen, he didn't really care whether Yao Shuli came or not as long as Shen Mingen didn't come today.

But just as he was about to turn around and exchange pleasantries with his colleagues...

Not far away, a colleague from the industry suddenly walked up to Yao Shuli, greeting her while asking:

"Ah Li, didn't your teacher Ming En come tonight?"

The woman, surnamed Bai, was a former queen of love songs in Beijing's social circle. She seemed to be quite familiar with Yao Shuli, so she spoke rather roughly, and her words sounded more like a joke.

When she asked that question, many of her colleagues in the room gave her strange looks, and a few people next to her even secretly tugged at her arm...

Bai Tianhou has a straightforward personality; she doesn't play any tricks. Unlike others, she didn't realize what Shen Mingen's absence from the performance meant, assuming he was just late. Knowing Shen Mingen's relationship with Yao Shuli, she went over to tease Yao Shuli with a playful attitude...

The problem is, can we really joke like that now?
Zhao Yuqiang came, but Shen Mingen didn't. What does that mean? It's obvious. When he said those words to Yao Shuli at this time of day, it didn't sound like a joke; it sounded more like he was mocking her.

At that moment, everyone around was too scared to speak...

Zhou Chujian almost burst out laughing when he heard this. He didn't expect someone to make fun of him, and he was actually quite happy about it.

But just when everyone was incredibly nervous, and people like Zhou Chujian who looked down on Shen Ming'en were waiting to see him make a fool of himself...

Yao Shuli blushed slightly and nodded shyly, then said something that left everyone present completely dumbfounded.

She said, "He went to the Imperial Ancestral Temple."

As soon as these words came out...

"..."

Everyone froze in place.

The faces of these superstars were first stunned, and then an expression of disbelief instantly appeared on their faces.

All sorts of facial expressions, whether mocking and waiting to see a joke or curious, have now turned into a deep sense of "shock"!
One word can cause a huge uproar!

Everyone was stunned!

It's worth noting that tonight's event not only features a star-studded live performance of the countdown promotional song "Beijing Welcomes You" at the Forbidden City, but also an awards ceremony for an Olympic song competition held at the Imperial Ancestral Temple next door.

In other words, besides the opening ceremony, this was the performance of another promotional song.

It's also what everyone calls a "solo performance opportunity"!
Why is Shen Ming'en going to the Imperial Ancestral Temple at this time?

Is it possible...

Is he really the winner and singer of that solo promotional song?!

……

(End of this chapter)