"Honey, I'm telling you, I'm so miserable. I was riding on the back of a silver dragon, and I've been dominating the Neon local music charts for a long time.
“But yesterday they had a variety show called The Masked Singer, which suddenly started airing, and the covers of songs by many singers shot to the top of the charts.
“Especially, a singer named Ultraman Tiga wrote a song. I heard it was a new song, and it suddenly shot to the top of the charts.
“My name was squeezed out all of a sudden, it’s really annoying!
"Really, don't let me know who this Ultraman Tiga is. It's really hateful!"
Song Hongdou was on the other end of the phone, squirting at Ultraman Tiga, who had stolen the top spot on his ranking list.
Song Ci frowned slightly when he heard it, and there seemed to be three black lines floating on his head.
He coughed dryly and originally planned to tell Song Hongdou directly that he was Ultraman Tiga.
But when she thought of the way she was gnashing her teeth and cursing Ultraman Tiga, he just let her be arrogant for a while.
When she knows that Song Ci is Ultraman Tiga, let's see what kind of expression she will show in front of her.
It will definitely be particularly exciting.
Song Ci thought this, with a strong look of anticipation on his face, so he smiled at Song Hongdou on the other side of the microphone and said:
"Actually, it's almost the same. For your song to be number one on other people's charts for so long, it already shows your success!"
The topic of Song Ci was transferred very successfully. Song Hongdou immediately cheered and continued to report to Song Ci her achievements during this period:
"You don't know, my number of fans on Twitter has exceeded 500,000. You have to know that I have only registered for 10 days. It's amazing. Most of the fans who follow me are from Neon Kingdom. fans!”
Hearing what Song Hongdou said, Song Zhi also remembered that Shuji Akai had also contacted him before and asked him if he had pushed it to the account so that he could promote it.
But he did not register.
So I took this opportunity to contact Shuji Akai, and then created a Twitter account called [Masked Singer Contestant Ultraman Tiga].
Once the account was set up, it received some promotion from The Masked Singer's official Twitter.
In just two or three days, it gained more than 200,000 fans.
Of course, more than 95% of them are from Neon domestic viewers who watched the Masked Singer show.
Everyone started to follow this account because they were fans of the song "First Love".
The messages were basically guessing who he was.
"Brothers and sisters, I'm really curious, who is this Ultraman Tiga? I didn't even find a singer who fits him using professional music analysis software."
"I'm totally confused now! It's impossible for a high-quality male singer-songwriter with such good singing skills and such a good figure to look like a super handsome guy in our country to be unknown! In fact, if you screen carefully, he might be So there are two or three people, but these two or three people don’t meet the conditions! I’m really confused by the program team now, I’m so curious!”
"Ultraman Tiga, who are you? Please, can you give us some clues? Damn it!"
Song Ci looked at these comments from netizens and found them quite interesting.
He operated his account and silently liked some interesting comments.
The other party suddenly felt like they were being turned over, causing the other party to scream again in the comment area.
Then Song Ci didn't care much about this account.
He just asked Liao Jie to properly operate this account alone.
Liao Jie's Japanese level is even worse, worse than Song Ci.
So when she usually uses this account to post something, she specially hires the company's Japanese translator to help. Of course, this is another topic.
When Song Ci returned home, his parents couldn't watch Neon's local TV live broadcast. They could only watch online resources, and they were still raw meat, so they could only watch the singing video of Song Ci participating in the live broadcast of this competition.
"Why are you singing Japanese songs in this competition? I can't even understand them!" Dad complained to Song Ci in disgust.
Mom smiled, then gently pushed dad and said:
"Are you smart or not? Your son is participating in a masked singer competition, and it's in a local area. If you don't sing other people's Japanese songs, wouldn't it be immediately exposed if you sing our Chinese songs?
"Will people still vote for your son? Song Ci, this time you must bear the humiliation and compete well in this competition!
"Strive to reach the finals. If you can win the championship, that would be great!
"When you win the championship, you reveal your face again and let everyone in Neon see that you are not one of theirs, but that you are Chinese, and all of them will be shocked!" In this case, that scene This is what I expect from your mother, you know! If you can't do this, don't go home! "
Mom patted Song Ci on the shoulder with serious words.
She patted him several times in succession, and each pat seemed to place a huge weight on Song Ci's shoulders.
Song Ci smiled bitterly and looked at Song Lanjun, who was sitting on the sofa nearby and eating ice cream.
Song Lanjun showed a sweet smile to Song Ci and spread his hands to express that he was helpless.
In Song Lanjun's eyes, she actually doesn't quite understand why her brother went to Neon to participate in this competition?
Song Ci is now extremely popular in China, and it is the most popular among a population of 3 billion.
There is absolutely no need to go to Neon and wade through that muddy water again.
Even if it becomes prosperous there, can it give up the domestic market?
This is completely impossible.
Of course, she wouldn't say this to Song Ci.
Because at home, Song Ci is so successful now, she said that she doesn’t even need to refute Song Ci himself if he sings the opposite tune.
He will definitely be severely criticized by his parents.
So she kept her little thought silently in her heart.
Anyway, it doesn't matter. Even if I break into the street in Neon, I won't lose anything.
Besides, there is still an appearance fee for participating in this competition, right?
Hearing what his mother said, Song Ci could only pat his chest and reassure his mother:
"Don't worry, I will definitely work hard for your son, but how others vote for me is their business. After all, the right to vote is in their hands, and I am playing in an away game!"
Dad also stood on the other side of Song Ci, patted Song Ci's other shoulder with his heavy palm, and said seriously and solemnly:
"You have to know that you are fighting against neon on behalf of the country!"
Song Ci's face suddenly fell.
Mom and Dad immediately raised Song Ci's participation in this competition to the highest level.
He smiled helplessly.
On the other side, preparations for the story conference are almost complete.
On the first day when the competition officially started, according to the procedure, Song Ci had already handed over his script.
This Yizhou Story Conference only has one round of competition.
A total of 17 screenwriters who had the right to participate submitted a script they had written within this week to the organizing committee of the event, with the cost controlled within 1 million.
The organizing committee printed the script.
At the same time, the first 1/3 of each script was shown to the directors participating in this round of competition.
At this moment, in a huge theater, more than 20 directors were sitting in their respective seats.
In the past two days, everyone has read 1/3 of the scripts received.
Everyone has a book of their own choice in their heart.
"Personally, I am optimistic about the book "Dead Souls". It has a bit of a mental illness. I must win this book. No one can compete with me!"
"The script "Because Love Has You" made me moved to tears! I don't know what the final ending will be. Even if I can't get this script, I must meet this screenwriter. I feel that this screenwriter It should be someone who has collaborated with me!”
"These 17 scripts each have their own pros and cons, but the organizing committee is so cruel and only shows us the first 1/3 of the script, so we can't judge the quality of which script at all!"
"Fart, you can actually see a rough idea just by looking at the front 1/3!"
The person in charge, Yang Xiufeng, stood in front of more than 20 directors and held up a tweeter:
"Dear directors, please be quiet, our competition has officially begun.
“I would like to emphasize to everyone again that in this story conference, our directors, screenwriters and actors are a trinity.
“Although our competition is called a story competition, the most important thing is the story written by the screenwriter.
“But our directors and actors also play a huge role in it, so directors must choose their scripts very carefully.
“Because we have a total of 24 directors on site, but there are only 17 scripts, there are bound to be directors who cannot get the scripts to film.
"It's a two-way choice!
"Now everyone can vote, vote for the script you want, and let's see the results!"
On the other side of the theater, Song Ci and 16 other screenwriters walked into a huge room.
There is a huge screen in front of everyone, which is playing the selection screen of the gentlemen in real time.
Song Ci was the last one among the screenwriters to arrive.
Originally, the other screenwriters were all talking and laughing.
But when Song Ci came in, everyone's expressions calmed down, and then they all crowded towards Song Ci.
After what seemed like a few seconds of silence, everyone's faces burst into smiles again, and they all started chatting with Song Ci.
The screenwriters present are all well-known in the industry, and they all have their own masterpieces that they can produce.
Among them, there are even three or four screenwriters who have written top-notch movie scripts with a box office of over 1 billion.
But in front of Song Ci, all the people combined are not enough.
Talking about Song Ci's screenwriter status alone, he is already an absolute ace screenwriter in TV series and movies.
Not to mention Song Ci's top actors, singers and writers.
So when Song Ci came in, everyone guarded him in the center, vaguely regarded him as the number one person, and praised him.
Some people who met Song Ci for the first time also shook hands and introduced themselves to him.
"Hello, Teacher Song Ci, I'm Xiao Li. I'm the same age as you, but I'm two months younger than you. I hope we can have the opportunity to cooperate in the future!"
"Oh, I really don't know whether Teacher Song Ci and I are both from Yizhou. Should I be lucky or unlucky? We only have one quota for this Story Contest in Yizhou!"
"Teacher Song Ci, what is the theme of the script you are participating in this time? Is it a comedy or a suspense script like your "The Silent Truth" and "The Hidden Corner"? I feel that our competition is actually a suspense script. It is quite popular, after all, the shooting cost of suspense scripts is relatively low!”
Song Ci's ears were filled with the voices of major screenwriters.
He greeted everyone one by one.
Among these 16 screenwriters, Song Ci has only seen two of them.
But this did not prevent him from chatting with everyone as if they were familiar with each other.
"I wrote a suspense theme. The organizing committee told me that 5 of our 17 books this time are suspense themes, so our competition this time is too fierce!
"I heard that our directors and actors will not be paid for participating in the competition this time. Hahahaha, it's the same for everyone!"
While everyone was chatting and laughing, with the intervention of the organizing committee, everyone sat quietly in their respective seats and looked at the screen.
The directors over there made their own choices.
After about 10 minutes, the directors’ choices came out.
There were 17 scripts in total, but only 13 were chosen.
Among them, the script with the most selections is called "The Red Cloak".
This is a suspense-themed book.
The number of directors who chose it was seven.
It shows how much everyone likes this book.
On the other side, there are still 4 scripts that the director did not choose.
One of the books is called Jigsaw.
And this book is the book of Song Ci's "Saw".
Seeing this result, he was a little surprised at first, but then he smiled with relief.
After all, "Saw" is indeed a very ordinary suspense script based on the previous chapters.
There are a total of 5 suspense scripts this time. It is understandable that the directors chose the one that seems to be the best after careful consideration.
But the book "Saw" is excellent only in its huge twist at the end.
It's a wonderful twist that will go down in film history.
On the other side, several screenwriters who had received votes from multiple directors jumped up excitedly.
They couldn't help but clenched their fists, as if to celebrate that they had won the game. (End of chapter)
