Many years later, a music critic recalled fondly in Organ magazine:

"The 18-year-old Jiang Xinhai is not a singing queen yet, she is just a college student busy with her final exams."

"And 18-year-old Wei Chi, who just wrote two hit songs, is facing unemployment because he offended the company's senior management."

"What kind of encounter was it like for these two people to meet? So much so that it added such an emotional melody to the history of music?"

…

2010 was not an embarrassing year for the Chinese music scene.

The four kings who were popular all over the country in the past, who have been in the movies, and who have been on vacation, are the only ones who are still active in the concert scene, and they have already stated that they have no plans to release new songs.

The shelves of record stores everywhere are covered with dust, the pages of music magazines are turned over, and the songs on the charts often remain unchanged for two months.

The influence of the older generation is gradually fading away, the new generation has not yet grown up, and the supermarket speakers are still playing songs from ten years ago.

People's eardrums long for fresh and beautiful music, just like hungry fields long for a good rain.

Until the end of 2021, Jiang Xinhai's first album "Promise" was released.

Some older people still remember the situation at that time:

Overnight, whether it was TV, radio, or speakers all over the street, fresh music that had never been heard before was being played.

In supermarkets, barber shops, in the stands beside the stadium, during fishing time at the company, and during commuting on the subway, people will suddenly ask strangers or strangers something like this from time to time:

"What song is this?"

Then they will get this answer: "Jiang Xinhai's "xx"? Haven't you heard it?"

“It’s very popular recently!”

One early morning in December, people opened the newly popular music software on the Internet, and were shocked to find that on the music listening list compiled by the software itself, the rankings on the first page, in the column of singers, all had the same name.

——

Jiang Xinhai.

Some people may even suspect that their eyes have seen it wrong, while others have directly clicked on one of the songs.

When music that didn't seem to belong to this time and space flowed from the speakers, they directly understood why the rankings had become like a bug.

"Later, I finally learned how to love. Unfortunately, you have already gone away and disappeared into the sea of ​​people..."

"Because of love, I no longer feel sad easily..."

"Love is a light, so beautiful, it guides us to the future we want..."

It's not that the music software has a bug, but that there is a bug-like existence in the Chinese music scene.

Jiang Xinhai.

"Have you listened to Jiang Xinhai's new album? My wife and daughter sing her songs every day."

"It turns out that my Xinhai not only looks sweet and cute, but also sings so beautifully."

"In the past few days, people have been asking me if I sell Jiang Xinhai's songs. I bought a batch of Jiang Xinhai's cassettes a few days ago. As soon as I got back, in the afternoon, there were only two left."

...The forums are filled with posts, and the number of comments is accumulating one after another. A revolution is brewing in the music world.

Until the end, when the 2011 Golden Melody Awards were announced, the album "Promise" accounted for 5 of the top ten Chinese golden songs.

Among the top ten popular songs in 2010, "Promise" accounted for 8 of them.

Best Chinese Female Singer of the Year - Jiang Xinhai.

Best music composition, best lyrics, best arrangement - all are due to the closeness of the production of "The Promise".

After the awards were announced, people cheered: a new king was crowned.

The shock that occurred more than ten years ago still has repercussions today. When Jiang Xinhai's old story is brought up again, people are reminded again of the fear that the music world was dominated by her.

Jiang Xinhai held a cherry in her mouth, her sweet smile as red as a cherry and she couldn't hide it.

"When I met your brother for the first time, I thought he was so handsome," she said to Chen Xi with a smile. "At that time, he was wearing a black suit, no tie, and the second button on his chest was not buttoned.

With his hands in his trouser pockets and his sneakers still on, he looked like he was the best in the world."

Chen Xi couldn't laugh or cry.

Wearing a suit and sneakers, it was hard for her to imagine how Jiang Xinhai didn't dislike him.

"As soon as he met me he asked, 'I'm a great musician, but I haven't written great enough music. Do you know why?'"

Chen Xi lowered his head. This arrogant tone was familiar to her.

Jiang Xinhai said: "I asked why, and he said, because he hasn't met me yet."

He Ling asked: "That was the first time you met?"

Jiang Xinhai nodded and said, "Yes."

He Ling smiled: "It turns out that you are such a humorous person."

Jiang Xinhai said: "Because I am the campus beauty of Binhai University. There were some boys who came up to me and confessed their love to me directly, but none of them were as arrogant as him. I thought he was here to confess his love to me."

Wang Feng smiled: "So, you didn't know that it was Dad Qu who came to find you, right?"

"Yeah, I imagined all the musicians to be very tall, not like him."

Qin Yunshang stuck out her tongue and said, "Usually I just shake my face and leave. It feels so rude."

"At least you shouldn't wear suits and sneakers when meeting..."

Jiang Xinhai also laughed and said: "But because at that time I really wanted to sing and be a singer, so as soon as he said it, I decisively agreed. I even invited him to lunch because he didn't bring any money.

I gave you all the money for taking the bus home."

He Ling was surprised: "Why didn't he bring any money?"

"The most important thing is that the first time he met you, he gave you a meal and asked you to borrow money?" Qin Yunshang was even more surprised.

"Correction," Jiang Xinhai said, "It's not a loan, it's a demand. He said, I don't care about a dollar anyway, so he won't give it back to me."

"..."

Jiang Xinhai added: "There is something even more extreme later. He said that writing and practicing songs requires a quiet environment, so he asked me to spend money to rent a house for creation. I spent 1,200 a month!"

Chen Xi was completely speechless.

She now understood a little bit why his brother's girlfriend at the time was so obedient to him.

She was a little suspicious, had his brother read some Neptune Book?

The barrage rolled by:

"Hahaha, it feels so funny to be so close."

"When Xinhai talks about this, I always mistakenly think that she is talking about her own experience of being cheated."

"If someone had told me that at that time, I would have thought I had met a liar..."

…

Qin Yunshang discovered any blind spots and asked cautiously:

"Senior Jiang, the house you rent is the address on the envelope?"

"Yes," Jiang Xinhai nodded, "Chunmingyuan, I rented this place at the time, and he was there, so I dare say he was Linya who wrote to Chen Xi."

That blind spot did not dissipate with Jiang Xinhai's answer. Instead, it became larger and larger in Qin Yunshang's field of vision, making her unhappy.

She finally couldn't help but ask: "So, you were living together at that time?"
Chapter completed!