Chapter 200: Chapter 200: The Charts

Fireworks filled the sky, blanketing the entirety of Central City.

No matter where people were, they could look up and see the splendid fireworks bloom and fade.

No one was in the mood to sleep.

Those who loved the excitement celebrated outside, while those who didn’t stayed home on their Light Computers.

All the major platforms were celebrating, along with various apps, games, and film and television productions.

Right after the Spring Festival Gala ended, the midnight lineup of new releases began to air.

Jiang Qin felt it was a bit of a shame. If she’d had enough time, she would have wanted to get a piece of the midnight slot action, too. After all, Interstellar horror films had a huge market.

As for the horror films currently on the market, she felt it was more accurate to call them disaster films.

They were always about Alien Beast invasions, Insect Race infestations, black hole explorations, survival on a Deserted Star, or zombie viruses.

They were less horror and more disaster.

Interstellar People had no concept of ghosts or gods. Only a few ancient families from Blue Star still kept records of such things.

However, she suspected their records weren’t exactly proper.

Because those records weren’t historical legends, but rather… hmm, a bit like web novels.

Speaking of which, she had released a novel today, scheduled to be published tonight.

She had published *Strange Tales*.

It was a collection of episodic stories about ghosts, gods, and demons.

She planned to consolidate all sorts of supernatural short stories into it, not just those from *Strange Tales*.

But she was still out having fun right now and hadn’t checked to see if anyone was reading it after it was uploaded.

Most likely no one was reading it. After all, she had only published ten thousand words so far, though she planned to maintain a frequency of ten thousand words per day going forward.

It was only thanks to the Star Network’s writing system, where you didn’t need to type—you just had to think, and the words would appear. Otherwise, as busy as she was, she would never be able to update so much.

The main reason was that the stories were already in her head. She just needed to replicate them, not create them from scratch, which saved a lot of trouble.

…

After watching the fireworks show, they returned home. It was already two in the morning.

Now came the problem. On the first night of the new year, everyone wanted to spend it with Jiang Qin…

So, three men stared at her with fervent gazes, while one watched her with subtle anticipation…

Jiang Qin thought, ’…Cough, cough. First, let’s rule out Cang Hong. We’re not even married. What’s he thinking?!’

Then, she looked at the other three, feeling troubled.

’How can I possibly choose?’

Seeing Jiang Qin avert her gaze, the light in Cang Hong’s eyes dimmed. ’Sigh, I knew it,’ he thought. ’Who was I kidding? Boo hoo hoo…’

Jiang Qin’s eyes shifted uneasily. She whispered, “Why don’t we… all sleep together?”

Yun Xie raised an eyebrow, seemingly surprised she was that bold.

Lan Yuyan was also a little surprised, but he soon smiled gently. “As long as Qinqin is happy.”

As for Shi Lichuan, he had no objections. Logically speaking, it shouldn’t have been his turn tonight anyway.

But he also felt that today was different, and he wanted to wake up on the first morning of the new year and see the face of his beloved.

And so, Jiang Qin lay down on the same large bed with the three men.

Only Cang Hong, with a dark cloud hanging over his head, trudged dejectedly into the guest room.

Meanwhile, the atmosphere in the bedroom was a little strange.

Jiang Qin moistened her somewhat dry lips and quietly suggested, “How about I play some music to help us sleep?”

“Go ahead,” Yun Xie said nonchalantly, his arms crossed behind his head. “We can also check the final chart rankings and see who took the top spot.”

“It’s probably Cang Hong’s ’Stars’,” Lan Yuyan guessed.

After all, even though “Stars” was released late, it was incredibly popular, and the download fees for this single song had already exceeded one billion Star Coins.

According to the royalty split, Jiang Qin would get fifty percent, the company twenty percent, Cang Hong twenty percent, and the remaining ten percent would go to the music platform.

Then there was Darling’s “Notebook.” The song was extremely widespread, and its download count was not inferior to “Stars.”

So “Notebook” was ranked second.

The third was Yue Ji’s “Sea.”

The songs that followed were works by famous singers who already had massive fan bases.

“Sea and Sky” was also very popular, ranking eighth. People loved it whether they understood Cantonese or not.

The key issue was that nowadays, there were quite a few people who had never even heard of the Cantonese language.

Moreover, the singer wasn’t a big star, so while its popularity was high, it couldn’t compare to the songs at the very top.

“I Love You,” performed by a pair of singing and dancing twins, was also very popular.

Sweet, upbeat songs always did well in the Interstellar market. After all, with the large male population, they had a soft spot for cute girls singing sweet songs.

However, it couldn’t compete with the top few songs and only ranked thirteenth.

Still, that was an excellent achievement, considering it had fought its way out of three thousand songs!

If it weren’t for Jiang Qin’s fame, it would have been difficult for the song to reach this rank.

Many people downloaded it simply because Jiang Qin wrote the lyrics and composed the music.

This was also why she was able to negotiate such a high royalty split.

For any other composer, Tianwen Entertainment would have typically opted to buy out the song. Even if they offered a percentage, it wouldn’t have been nearly as high.

Such a high cut was the kind of treatment reserved for the legendary veterans of the music industry. Jiang Qin was the exception.

Lan Yuyan had even held a meeting to discuss her royalty split because many people in the company were against it.

But in the end, he made the final decision and pushed it through.

Jiang Qin had made it clear herself: if the split wasn’t a full fifty percent, she wouldn’t give the song to a Tianwen singer.

Even though she was a shareholder of Tianwen Entertainment, she wouldn’t allow herself to be taken advantage of.

She would rather let the songs rot in her hands than let someone else reap the benefits without putting in the work.

Besides, that share wasn’t all going into her pocket. She always donated forty percent of the total revenue to charity—something she had long been committed to.

After all, no one knew better than her where these works truly came from.

Of the money she earned, she only ever kept one-tenth for herself; the rest was used to support many pure-blooded humans.

The bloodlines of these pure-blooded humans were the truest descendants of the Blue Star People.

Then there was the restoration project for Blue Star, which required significant funding. The Federation Government wanted to restore the mother planet, but funds were always insufficient.

So she donated a substantial amount.

Another portion of her donations went to sponsoring many people who loved music but lacked the means to study it.

Among these people were Beastmen, Half-beastmen, and pure-blooded humans.

The money earned from her movie was donated to children who dreamed of becoming actors.

Her share from anime projects was donated to children with dreams of working in animation.

In short, she donated based on the industry.

As for causes like helping the critically ill or the impoverished, she donated a small portion to them as well. Those were the major charity sectors that most philanthropists contributed to.

So she focused her attention on more niche areas.

As the music began to play, the four of them gradually started to feel drowsy.

Jiang Qin didn’t play songs from the charts. Instead, she played her own playlist, which consisted almost entirely of songs she had released.

There was no heavy metal-like synthesized sound, only a melodious tune that drifted by their ears.

Everyone knew that nothing was going to happen tonight.

So, they gradually relaxed and drifted off to sleep.

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