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

Chapter 99 Behold the phoenix that will eventually soar into a legend!
Ma Ling: "???"

With its ink-wash style and landscape painting, the magnificent rivers and mountains of the motherland, outlined by the brush, seem to be reflected in the painting. Originally, when Ma Ling heard the rap part of the verses at the beginning of Shen Ming'en's "Landscape Painting", she thought it was just a work praising the beautiful rivers and mountains of the motherland...

I never expected this!

When Yao Shuli sang the chorus, it immediately served to "highlight the theme"!

If we don't even mention the nation, and only talk about the mountains and rivers, you still need to think it over for a moment; but once the nation is mentioned, and the mountains and rivers are mentioned as well, what do you have to eliminate it from the list?!

Do you even deserve to eliminate him?!
Only the country and the people can test him and eliminate him!
In the studio, everyone could see that from the moment Yao Shuli sang the chorus, Ma Ling's expression quickly turned ashen.

It's useless...

It's completely ruined!

This time, they couldn't eliminate Shen Ming'en again!!!
"Oh!!!"

The stage was buzzing with excitement. It was unavoidable; Shen Ming'en's rap in the opening was incredibly well-done, and Yao Shuli's chorus was just too captivating…

The key of the chorus of "Landscape Painting" is very high. Even very famous singers would find it difficult to hit it with their true voice using a purely popular singing style. They would basically have to use falsetto. However, Yao Shuli hit it almost entirely with her true voice.

When Yao Shuli sang the word "Guo" in "Danqing Buyu Huawo Zhongguo", many audience members felt like Yao Shuli was singing their heads off!
One comes from a family of opera performers, and the other sings Peking Opera, especially the high-pitched and delicate voice of the Mei School of Qingyi. It's like two completely different worlds from this loud and majestic voice that sounds like the majestic voice of the grasslands. Yet Yao Shuli handles it with ease, without any sense of incongruity. It's truly amazing!
Another work by a powerful collaboration!

Another piece that is in no way inferior to "Little River Flowing 1952"!
But there are far more details in this song than just these!

Shen Mingen's "whipping the corpse" behavior is still ongoing!
……

"Let me hold the Qin and Han dynasties in my heart, and dream of painting peonies in the Tang Dynasty!"

"The strokes of silver and iron have not faded; I have sketched out the magnificent rivers and mountains!"

"Mount Emei, Mount Kunlun, heroes vie for supremacy at Mount Hua!"

"Changbai Mountain, Taihang Mountain, Mount Tai, and the vast sea are all at my command!"

"Songhua, Lancang, Pearl River, oh!"

"Poyang Lake, Dongting Lake, Taihu Lake, oh dear!"

"The highest point of the Yarlung Tsangpo River!"

"Rivers flow to the sea, generations gather!"

……

"Oh!!!"

"Oh!!!"

The rhythm never stops, the rap never stops. Earlier, some people questioned whether Shen Ming'en could rap, sing, or do tongue twisters because of the flow issues in "Little River Flowing 1962"...

That's why I chose a song that doesn't rhyme at all, precisely because I don't know how to rhyme.

just now……

clap clap clap!
What a slap in the face!
What a slap in the face!

What the hell is rhyming?
Listen to the lyrics he just sang!
The last character of each line of Han, Dan, Dan, Shan, Guan is pronounced "an", and the continuous long rhymes from beginning to end are truly enjoyable to listen to!

The Three Mountains and Five Sacred Peaks all appear in the song, creating a vivid image and a surge of national pride unique to our country!

When describing famous lakes and rivers, it was difficult to find rhymes, so he used a rhyming pattern of "ai" and "wei" and "bei", all pronounced "ei", which was clever and did not seem abrupt. The magnificent rivers, lakes and seas of the motherland were also brought into view.

The drumbeats are dense, the rhythm is tight, and the rhymes are exquisite—it's incredibly satisfying!

The chat in the online live stream was flooded with messages:

[Keep smearing us!]

Where are your chicken feet? Did you all use them to make pickled chicken feet? Show them!

[Where are those who say Shen Mingen can't rhyme, can't rap, and that his rapping sounds like he's reading a textbook? Come out and show yourselves!]

[Even the elderly know to dance in the square, so why aren't you dancing anymore?!]

【I'm just asking, isn't this a slap in the face?!】

……

"From the head to the tail of the Yangtze River, brothers drink from the same Yangtze River!"

"From south of the Yellow River to north of the Yellow River, the Chinese people are so beautiful!"

"I want to fly back to the grasslands and play the piano under the moonlight!"

"Hidden within the polished Dunhuang, I dance with my golden feathers!"

"Living in the most mysterious mountains and forests of Dali, Yunnan!"

"Behold, the phoenix will eventually soar into a legend!"

……

"I wield my brush and paint my landscape!"

"The towering sword-like peaks paint this majestic scene!"

"The mighty river flows like a dragon and a snake in the brush!"

"My art will never waver in depicting my China!"

……

The "Landscape Painting" exhibition concluded amidst a vibrant atmosphere.

If "The Little River Flows 1952" is about sentiment and heartfelt connection, making people remember history and the heroic martyrs of the past; then "Landscape Painting" is about atmosphere, national pride, and excitement without any pretense!

They are all works praising the motherland; there's no hierarchy among them, just different styles. As for rhyming and such...

Ha, only a few idiots care about that stuff.

Only some idiots think that if it doesn't rhyme, it's not rap...

If Ma Ling could still use "Little River Flowing 1952" as an excuse to eliminate Shen Ming'en after the performance, then after "Landscape Painting," both Ma Ling and her group of critics strangely shut their mouths and couldn't say another word.

The rankings were released incredibly quickly; the show announced them almost immediately after Shen Ming'en's performance.

Perhaps because the last time "Me and My Motherland" was ranked last alongside Ji Cheng's niche folk songs and was made a big deal out of it, the program team has learned their lesson this time and directly ranked "Little River Flowing 1952" and "Landscape Painting," two works sung by Shen Ming'en and Yao Shuli, together as number one!

The satisfied audience members finally stopped their angry outburst towards the production team, and cheers erupted from the set, but...

The show hadn't even finished recording when Zheng Yun, the "green tea" guy, couldn't take it anymore. She couldn't stand Nan Duomo being used as a foil for Shen Ming'en time and time again. In front of the cameras, she stormed off the stage and left the recording studio with her management team.

This left many viewers completely bewildered...

"..."

The previously enthusiastic scene quickly quieted down, and many people were discussing it:

"What happened? What's going on? Why did they suddenly leave?"

"What the hell is wrong with Zheng Yunfa? Did he catch it from Shen Ming'en?"

"I haven't even had a chance to criticize his lousy singing yet, why the hell is he leaving? Hey, come back here, let me curse you a couple more times before you go, you idiot!"

……

The audience was still discussing and hadn't even realized what was going on when, on stage, indie singer Ji Cheng, musical prodigy Hua Zichen, and veteran love song queen Lu Anqing all left the stage with dark faces. It seemed that Zheng Yun's departure had triggered a chain reaction, and they all left with their management teams.

Occasionally, when the camera pans to the audience below the stage, some viewers may notice that their agents and assistants sometimes try to dissuade them, but unfortunately, they cannot stop them at all; they leave whenever they want.

Stage accident?

Yes, that's about it. If a singer stops acting, stops pretending, and stops putting on a show before the recording ends, and just leaves, how can that not be considered a stage accident?

This is already considered a very, very... very serious stage accident, right?

"What's going on..." On the platform, Director Niu was dumbfounded, shouting into his walkie-talkie, "Where are these idiots? What's wrong with them?!"

"Director, they've had enough..." came the helpless voice of a staff member over the walkie-talkie.

Since the recording of "Chinese Music Center" began, the production team and the behind-the-scenes capital have been putting Shen Ming'en through a series of difficult challenges, including opera singing, Cantonese, and rap...

These singers are all well-known figures, famous for many years, each with their own representative works, and they were all once very successful. Now they've recorded this terrible show and are being ridiculed all the time because of Shen Mingen.

Take Zheng Yun, for example. He's been in this industry for so many years, and he's never been this humiliated before!
God knows how devastated he was when the audience yelled "Get off the stage!" at him for his slip of the tongue!

Many of them came from companies that already had strong opinions about the matter. They had initially thought that eliminating Shen Ming'en would restore normalcy, but the problem was...

This thing just just won't go away!

If they keep dragging it out and making their own artists play supporting roles to Shen Mingen on the show, being ridiculed is one thing, but if there are some "car crashes" on stage, that could easily lead to "eternal infamy".

"What if we were still together now? Haha, we'd be laughing now..." That image is still so vivid in my mind.

If your own little cash cow gets its reputation ruined on a TV show, wouldn't that be a huge loss?

The reason these singers have endured for so long is entirely because this show has a large audience and high popularity, but none of them are the type to play the villain!
"This Zheng Yun is really..." Director Niu was so angry that his nose was crooked when he saw this.

To be honest, he didn't think much of these singers. In fact, he thought it would be better if these idiots left. As long as Shen Ming'en, the god of wealth, was around, it wouldn't matter much if any of them left.

With Shen Ming'en on the show, the production team has plenty of advertising and sponsorships, and plenty of money. They won't have trouble attracting guests, but the problem is...

If they leave at this time without giving prior notice, and suddenly withdraw from the show, it will be difficult for other artists to free up their schedules for a week!

Director Niu actually understood what these singers meant...

go?
That's bullshit!
These talented people really don't want to leave!

Thanks to Shen Ming'en, "Chinese Music Center" has become the hottest national phenomenon variety show in the entire Chinese entertainment industry. Just look at how many people watch the live stream at the same time every episode.
With a viewership starting at 500 million, can you imagine any other variety show doing that?! Neither they nor their companies want to give up this "immense wealth," nor do they want to be clowns and supporting characters for Emperor Ming'en. They're like bastards trying to build a chaste image while being promiscuous. Shen Ming'en's words couldn't be more true; these pretentious bastards are all spoiled rotten!
The production team was in a complete mess, and Ma Ling was having a similarly difficult time.

After the recording ended, various trending topics about Shen Mingen appeared on the trending lists of major social media platforms such as Douyin, Weibo, Zhihu, and Xiaohongshu!

"#Shen Ming'en and Yao Shuli's 'Little River Flowing 1952' pays tribute to the martyrs!"

"#Landscape Painting, a splash of ink depicting the magnificent landscapes of my motherland!#"

#Shen Ming'en: Raising my hand isn't an apology, it's just that you, little brother, still need to practice!#

"#So, can those capitalists actually eliminate Shen Ming'en or not? If they can't, they should hurry up and promote him!"

"#I suggest a thorough investigation of the 'Chinese Music Awards' program team; they really don't want their hit song to rank number one!"

Blasted!

Completely exploded!

After the performance that evening, the two songs "Little River Flowing 1952" and "Landscape Painting" sung by Shen Ming'en and Yao Shuli immediately topped the charts on major music platforms such as NetEase Cloud Music, Tencent Music, and Kuma Music!

The comments section below is almost entirely filled with positive reviews, especially for works like "Little River Flowing 1952," which is quite different from Shen Ming'en's previous style.
While other rappers were still having cheesy, lowbrow music, Shen Ming'en was already paying tribute to the fallen heroes with everyone.

This isn't just "The Rap of China," it's clearly the new Chinese rap!

Wait for me to go home, go home for me, take me home...

This is the kind of song every Chinese person should listen to!

Long live the new China!

……

Paying tribute to our heroic predecessors and evoking memories of that painful history, the song, in terms of its quality, connotation, and live performance, is unforgettable. The video of Shen Ming'en sincerely reciting "May the world be at peace, and may there be no more tears" and "Long live the new China!" during his performance has also been widely shared.

The live video edited by the program team garnered hundreds of millions of views and nearly five million likes overnight. Major official media outlets rushed to repost it, and even the military channel couldn't resist sharing the video.

This is something that countless artists, singers, and actors in the Chinese entertainment industry would never dare to dream of.

Shen Mingen is now incredibly famous!
The show "Chinese Music Awards" also paid the price for trying to eliminate Shen Ming'en on the grounds of "not rhyming". This terrible show was basically destroyed by netizens!

Heaven knows how devastated director Niu Zhi must have felt when netizens used the military channel's repost of Shen Ming'en's "Little River Flowing 1952" to scare him!
At this moment, Director Niu really wanted to tear Haji Ling to pieces. She was treating him like a Japanese person!
And Director Niu certainly wasn't the only one who wanted to tear Ma Ling to pieces...

Ruixing Entertainment.

"boom!"

President Lin Bei made a sudden move, smashing the tall glass in his hand heavily to the ground. Glass shards scattered everywhere, and the midday sun shone on each shard, casting dappled light on the faces of many people in the conference room, making everyone too frightened to breathe...

"So, with so many people in our company, we really have absolutely no way to deal with Shen Ming'en?!" He gritted his teeth and asked, "Does the company really need to bow down to him, give in to his demands, and change his contract to 91%?"

Amending contracts is common in the industry. Many artists make such requests after they become famous. However, these compromises are usually made by companies based on the premise that the artists have made a lot of money for their companies over the years, and the companies are doing so with the idea of ​​win-win cooperation.

But Shen Mingen is now, after he became famous, apart from the hundreds of thousands of yuan per episode appearance fee that "Chinese Music Center" initially set for him, he didn't earn a single penny for the company!

He has so many hit songs, he keeps all the copyright fees himself, and his company has to manage his work for free...

Do you know how it feels to have such a big piece of fatty meat in your mouth that you can't chew?!
"..."

Inside the meeting room, everyone remained silent, not daring to utter a single word.

Have no idea……

Who the hell would have thought that Shen Ming'en could combine rap and other low-brow, music-disdained styles with patriotic songs?

There are two of them!

That's outrageous!
Almost everyone has this feeling now: "This one is Gui!"

He definitely has a system!

If Shen Ming'en heard this, he'd probably cry. He wanted a system too!!!

"Ma Ling," seeing that no one spoke, Lin Bei called on Ma Ling and said, "If I remember correctly, last week I seemed to have told you to prepare for the worst and to have a backup plan, right?"

Among the crowd, Potato, who was sitting upright and trembling with fear, was pale. Upon hearing this, he trembled, swallowed hard, stood up, nodded, and whispered, "Yes...yes."

"So what is your second plan?" Lin Bei's voice no longer contained the rage from before, but instead held a hint of menacing power hidden beneath its surface.

"I...I..." Ma Ling stammered, her voice trembling for a long time before finally managing to utter these few words from that scoundrel's mouth: "I have another new proposition here, which is to say..."

"...Are you out of your mind?!" Before he could finish speaking, he was interrupted by a person in charge not far away, who shouted angrily: "Themed creation, themed creation, how many episodes of this damn lousy show has it been? If it were possible to eliminate him, he would have been eliminated long ago. Are you sure you don't know what he's best at?!"

What is Shen Ming'en's best skill?
He's incredibly good at expressing the same love for his motherland in different ways!
Opera, Cantonese, rap... from high-end to low-end, encompassing the entire hierarchy of the music industry, there's nothing this guy can't do!

In the end, not only was he not eliminated, but he became more and more popular with his works, making it increasingly difficult for him to be eliminated!

Now, even military channels are sharing his work!

Do you understand the value of information relayed by military channels?!

If you keep letting him stay this "popular," what if you eliminate him and the official media comes to your aid? Will your skinny, slender back be able to handle that?!

The Chinese Music Awards program is on the verge of collapse, with the guests being so tormented that they protested by "collective strike"!
In this situation, you're still trying to stall with the "assigned topic" excuse?!

Do you eat fried dough sticks, my dear?
"9494!"

The people in the meeting room, all itching for ideas, couldn't even muster a fart when it came to offering suggestions. They immediately stifled any ideas that came up. Many were saying:
"Assigned topics are absolutely unacceptable!"

"This thing will only make Shen Ming'en more and more famous!"

"I really don't know which idiot with a bubble in their head came up with this idea..."

“Ma Ling byd*&%￥#@…”

The entire conference room fell into chaos once again.

Standing in the crowd, Ma Ling did not answer everyone's questions with the confidence she usually does. Instead, she lowered her head and did not dare to say a word, showing no confidence whatsoever.

Ugh……

no way.

It sounds nice, but what the hell is this "second plan"? She never even considered that Shen Ming'en might write a patriotic song on the topic of "rap".

Otherwise, they wouldn't have insisted on using the excuse of "not rhyming" to eliminate Shen Ming'en on the show "Chinese Music Awards" even if it meant pulling Director Niu's hair.

That was almost the closest she ever came to eliminating Shen Ming'en!
Once you miss it, it's hard to have another chance.

Hajiling is now completely helpless.

After a brief silence, the company president, Lin Bei, did not continue to inquire about the meaning of the "proposition" that Ma Ling mentioned. Instead, he went straight to the point: "So you didn't prepare a second plan at all, right?"

"..."

Ma Ling didn't dare to speak, but silently closed her eyes, preparing to receive the "bombardment" from President Lin Bei.

Just now, President Lin was so angry that she smashed a cup. She's already smashed things in anger, just like before. You can imagine how angry she is!
Being scolded is better than nothing. What I'm afraid of is that the company will hold her accountable for the breach of contract fees she agreed to on behalf of Shen Mingen for those endorsements!
Those are the real big winners!
"Tsk..."

Everyone in the meeting room cast sympathetic glances at Ma Ling.

Ma Ling was unlucky to run into someone like Shen Ming'en, who was impervious to both soft and hard approaches and impossible to punish.

however……

"..."

Everyone waited and waited, but President Lin Bei never got angry.

Looking around, in the center, President Lin Bei simply frowned and looked helplessly at Ma Ling, without getting angry at her as promised.

As the president of a company, how could Lin Bei not understand that getting angry and losing his temper solves nothing?

Besides, Ma Ling's reaction was exactly what he had expected...

To everyone's surprise, after a moment's thought, President Lin Bei said, "Let's call it a day."

After speaking, he stood up, straightened his black suit, and turned to walk out of the conference room with a serious expression.

The people left in the meeting room looked at each other, completely bewildered.

no……

We haven't come up with a solution yet, have we?

Mr. Lin, why are you leaving?!
For a moment, everyone had a bad feeling...

After leaving the company and taking the elevator, they headed straight for the underground parking garage. The secretary, dressed in an office lady pencil skirt, led the way, and together they got into a black minivan.

The vehicle slowly drove away from the office building, passed through the bustling and crowded city center, and drove straight into a commercial building. It wound its way through the underground parking garage and finally stopped at a relatively secluded entrance.

Lin Bei got out of the car and entered the elevator with his secretary. When the elevator doors closed, it was dark and gloomy outside. But when the elevator doors opened again, the beautiful riverside scenery outside the window instantly refreshed one's eyes.

"Good afternoon, Mr. Lin," a slender woman in a beautiful Taoist uniform stepped forward and greeted him politely. "Mr. Liu and the others have arrived. This way, please."

As soon as she finished speaking, the woman led the way. The teahouse was filled with many private rooms, and there were people in almost every room because the lights were on. However, almost no sound came out of any of the rooms. The soundproofing effect of the floor mats prevented their footsteps from being heard. It was so quiet that you could almost hear their heartbeats.

Led by the woman, Lin Bei and his secretary entered a private room. The bamboo door opened, revealing three men and two women.

"President Lin, as the main character and the initiator, you're a bit late," a woman in a navy blue women's suit said with a smile, taking a sip of tea and shaking her head. "You must have been really at a loss because of that artist from your company, right?"

If we weren't completely helpless, why would we have convened such a meeting with them?
It's truly a rare occurrence that several major players in the Chinese entertainment industry would come together because of a single artist.

This time, they're really serious.

No matter what, we can't let Shen Mingen continue to be so arrogant!
……

(End of this chapter)