Chapter 74: If There’s a Date, Take a Chance

Seeing how ugly Yan Liye’s expression had become, Zhang Ye, the chief director who had remained silent beside him all this time, lifted his thermos and took a sip.

“Nothing is set until filming actually starts. There have even been cases where roles were changed after filming had already begun. What’s there for Director Yan to get so worked up about?”

Everyone chimed in with a sentence or two, and their words only made Yan Liye’s anger rise until he felt like his heart was about to burst.

But looking at everyone’s expressions, he ultimately suppressed his emotions and sat back down, lowering his head with a sigh.

“Forget it. I was too worked up. At least Ling Xiaoli is still a pretty good actress.”

Yet a thought had already surfaced in his mind.

Once Ling Xiaoli arrived on set…

As he thought about it, the corners of his mouth gradually lifted into a strange smile.

But his head was lowered, so no one noticed.

………

H City, airport waiting lounge.

Ling Xiaoli carefully considered her wording. After making sure there were no problems, she clicked Send.

Watching the email on the screen as it sent, she nodded in satisfaction.

The Investiture of the Gods was an absolutely official, high-budget production.

That wasn’t only reflected in its hundred-million-yuan investment. It was also reflected in its powerful production team and dazzling cast.

It was even reflected in the email she had just sent.

The Investiture of the Gods was publicly soliciting theme songs from the general public!

Anyone with an idea could submit a song!

Once selected—

If you were a composer, a top singer would perform your song, and you would receive a substantial cash prize. The invisible benefits of publicity and increased fame went without saying.

And if you were an original singer-songwriter, then you could become an overnight sensation, gaining both fame and fortune!

As it happened, Ling Xiaoli just happened to know a song related to The Investiture of the Gods!

It was just that, unlike her previous song, “Prophecy,” which she often sang and whose musical score she knew extremely well, this song had taken every bit of her brainpower to recall.

She had painstakingly pieced together the musical score bit by bit and arranged the song herself.

Moreover, some of the original lyrics didn’t quite fit Director Zhang’s Investiture of the Gods, so Ling Xiaoli had also racked her brains and changed some of the lyrics herself.

She had no idea how it would turn out.

It had already been seven or eight days since she first heard about the song submission campaign, and only after all that effort had she finally managed to produce a demo.

I really hope it gets accepted!

Of course, this was just a matter of trying her luck whether there was a date or not.

She didn’t have particularly high hopes.

Ten minutes later, the flight began boarding.

After getting on the plane, Ling Xiaoli first sent Keke a message saying that she would arrive in C City that afternoon.

Then she switched her phone to airplane mode, opened her laptop, and continued working on the musical score.

And this was the real main event.

There were less than two months left, with the New Year holiday in between. Such a short amount of time was completely insufficient for her to shoot another movie or appear on a variety show.

So how could she quickly increase her fame within such a short period?

Writing and singing her own songs was the obvious answer!

The works in her head were her greatest source of confidence!

………

Yu Su yawned before closing the song demo in front of him.

A theme song for The Investiture of the Gods that could actually make him sleepy?

That had to be an international joke!

This thing could have its lyrics changed slightly and be released as a lullaby!

Still, compared with the previous submission, which he had been unable to stand after listening to only two or three lines, this one was already much better.

At least he had managed to listen to the whole thing.

As a composer with a tiny bit of fame, Yu Su had actively responded to the Music Association’s call and accepted the role of preliminary judge for The Investiture of the Gods theme-song solicitation.

The preliminary and secondary selections for this solicitation were being conducted simultaneously.

The job of the preliminary judges was to screen through the enormous number of submissions and weed out the ones that were simply too outrageous.

For example, songs that had absolutely no sense of melody whatsoever—or ones that sounded like lullabies.