The orchestral prelude sounded, setting a majestic tone for the song before Du Wei started singing.
The string music gradually entered, and in just ten seconds it set off an undulating climax. Then it immediately fell silent, and then came Du Wei's ethereal and sweet voice that reached the door of the heart.
"When the petals leave the flower
Dark fragrance remains
The fragrance disappears after the wind and rain
No one comes to sniff…
If love tells me to go on
I will fight till the end of love
If the heart dies in splendor
Love will rise from the ashes
Unforgettable moments of lingering whispers
Memorialize me with your smile
Let your heart die in splendor
Let love rise from the ashes
The fire burned through the grass marks
Look at the spring breeze again..."
The lyrics are concise and atmospheric, with a bit of sadness, but more of a determination for love. Paired with Du Wei's voice, it is easy for people to resonate with it.
Su Yingxue read the lyrics in advance and liked the song very much. Although the lyrics had already surprised her, she was amazed again after hearing the song for the first time.
At the end of the song, Su Yingxue's eyes were a little red. She always felt that this song contained some touching emotions, and it became deeper and deeper as the song sang.
After listening to this version, Li Mu was deeply touched. After thinking about it carefully for a long time, he said to Chen Yadi: "Old Chen, in my opinion, this is the version. There is no need to do any post-editing. This version is too real and feels very good." good."
Chen Yadi nodded: "I think so too. This makes it look more real. What do you think, Miss Du?"
Du Wei smiled shyly and said, "I have no objection, I'm very satisfied with it!"
Li Mu asked Su Yingxue: "What do you think?"
Su Yingxue smiled slightly and said, "I don't understand this, but this song is really great. I think it's impeccable."
Li Mu then said: "OK, that's it! Old Chen, please help send this version to Xiaowei's sister via email first."
Du Fei had been clamoring to hear this song as soon as possible, so Li Mu asked Chen Yadi to send the song to her immediately.
After Chen Yadi finished sending the email and copied the source files to the CD, Li Mu invited everyone to have a meal together. Since the car was given to Zhao Kang, he took a taxi with Su Yingxue after the meal and sent Du Wei home first. Just returned to school with Su Yingxue.
Before sending Su Yingxue back to her dormitory, the two walked hand in hand on campus for nearly half an hour. Like other couples, they hugged and kissed in a deserted place to increase the intimacy between them.
Seeing that the dormitory was about to close, Li Mu watched Su Yingxue enter the dormitory building, and then turned and walked to his own dormitory building. On the way, he received an overseas call from Du Fei in the United States.
The first thing he said: "Li Mu, you are so awesome!"
Li Mu smiled and said, "Are you talking about "Secret Fragrance"?"
"Yes!" Du Fei said excitedly, "I even cried when I heard it!"
Li Mu looked at the time and said, "It should be around 10 a.m. New York time. You should be at work now, right?"
"Yes." Du Fei said: "I just came out from the meeting and listened to it secretly. It was really great! Thank you!"
Li Mu said: "Sister, if you really want to thank me, please help me register the company quickly."
Du Fei said: "Don't worry about this. I have asked a friend to help me get it done. The procedures for doing on-site operations are a little more complicated, but it won't take long. I asked him to hire professionals to help you register. In April You can definitely come down.”
Li Mu felt relieved and said, "When the time comes, help me find a suitable part-time manager. I will be useful."
"No problem." Du Fei agreed readily and said, "I will definitely help you handle this matter properly."
After successfully registering the company in the United States, Li Mu was ready to buy the domain name of Facebook. Domain names related to Facebook, such as thefacebook, thatfacebook, facebooks, etc., had been registered by Li Mu in China through Wanwang.com, etc. After winning it, most of the possibilities of this phrase in the domain name are basically monopolized by myself. When the time comes, Mark Zuckerberg, the top Harvard student, will definitely find me. This is the pace of history, there is no doubt.
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Du Wei's "Secret Fragrance" is a hit.
The moment Du Wei's voice came out of the studio monitors, everyone present believed that the song would be a hit.
There is no surprise. As soon as this song was released on Yiting.com, it quickly climbed to the first place on the Yiting hot list, and the index surpassed the second place by more than five times.
Netizens were full of praise for this song.
Someone said: "Du Wei allowed me to see a different side of her again. Her voice is really great. Three songs, three different feelings, but she sang all of them with her own taste. It's really amazing!" "
Someone said: "She is probably the only girl at Du Wei's age who is so beautiful and has such a good voice in the country! If she makes her official debut, she will definitely become a top female singer!"
Some people also said: "It's best for Du Wei not to rush to debut now. Just like now, it's good to release a song occasionally! She is one of the few academics in the domestic music scene, and her professional quality is better than those singers with wild backgrounds. Much stronger, if she can patiently finish the music conservatory, by then, I believe her strength will be even greater!"
Since the songwriter of this song is still signed by Muzi, the "stage name" Li Mu has also been sought after by many netizens.
"Teacher Makiko is so amazing and mysterious. Although he doesn't write many songs, every one of them is a classic!"
"Teacher Makiko's debut was actually very short. "Zebra Zebra", "When You Get Old", "The Year in a Hurry", "In My Singing", and "Secret Fragrance", these five songs are all very good, this kind of The stable and high-quality songwriters are definitely top-notch!”
"You have forgotten that Mr. Makiko's voice is also very good! He sang "Zebra Zebra" and "When You Get Old" which I have been reluctant to delete from my MP3. You must know that my MP3 can only save ten About a song! Now there is another song "Secret Fragrance" by Du Wei. It seems that I have to save money to buy a 64 MB MP3. It is best to do it in one step and buy a 128 MB MP3. In that case, at least I can save thirty or forty songs..."
After the song "Secret Fragrance" was released, not only did it gain a huge reputation, but its data feedback was also very consistent with Li Mu's previous judgment on the industry.
The growth rate of downloads has set a new record. The increase in downloads indicates that the number of terminals that can play MP3 is also growing. At present, the popular MP3 playback devices are either computers or MP3 players. Obviously the cost of the latter is lower and its popularity will be faster.
Li Mu checked online and found no recent sales data for MP3 players. However, on Zhongguancun Online, the types of MP3 players have increased significantly.
At present, the MP3 prices of big brands such as Samsung, JNC, and MSC are more expensive than Li Mu expected. The cheaper ones now are 32MB MP3s, which cost less than 300 to 400 yuan, and 64MB ones start at 500 yuan, 128 The price is almost a thousand yuan. If it is an MP3 with an LCD screen and can display Chinese song information, the price will be even higher.
However, now that brands such as Huaqi, Haier, Lenovo, Founder, and Adela have begun to produce related products, MP3 prices should not be far away from falling.
Li Mu feels that he can already start preparing a plan to disrupt the MP3 player market. This will not only become the driving force for the complete rise of Yiting.com, but also become the magic weapon for Taobao to become a blockbuster. It is too important for his next plan.
With the rise of Yiting.com, you can start to cash out your Yiting shares in batches and in a planned manner, in exchange for a large amount of cash. If Taobao can start selling Yiting MP3 in large quantities as soon as it comes up, it will definitely attract countless manufacturers, With the attention of dealers and even small merchants, this platform can quickly attract a large number of sellers to settle in. Only with a large number of stores can users truly develop online shopping habits.
Therefore, the small MP3 player carries the rapid rise of the e-commerce empire planned by Li Mu, which is of great significance.
After careful analysis, if you want to take the lead in the hardware market of this era, there are two most important factors: industrial design and price.
If you invest tens of millions of dollars and customize about 100,000 units, the cost of OEM should not be much higher than that of other manufacturers, and you will sell it on Taobao in the future. In this way, it will be better than the current hardware. Manufacturers have saved a considerable amount of channel costs. You must know that for manufacturers such as Lenovo, channel costs are unimaginably high in this era. Channels are not smooth and there are too many layers of middlemen. These are also factors that contribute to the high level of hardware today.
The domestic MP3 market is divided into three levels. The highest-end ones are almost monopolized by Korean brands. The mid-range ones are made up of a few well-known domestic brands. The low-end ones are the prototypes of some copycat OEM machines. The brands have little influence at all.
Li Mu has enough strength to fight price wars with these three levels of opponents, but if it wants to shake the status of Korean brands, it must have strong industrial design to win.
Not all consumers only care about money, they also care about the appearance, design and usage experience of a product.
Li Mu feels that it is necessary to find a product design company to first design the appearance and functions of the MP3 player he wants to make, and then find a reliable OEM. There is no need to wait for Taobao to go online for production, and he can start customizing it first. , just deliver the goods when Taobao goes online.
So Li Mu began to think about his own appearance requirements for an MP3 player.
The first thing he thought of was the Moonlight Treasure Box series, which is not yet on the market. This series can be regarded as a classic product in the early days of the domestic MP3 market. However, if you think about it carefully, it is still a bit ugly. If you look at some styles from the perspective of 2016, the curves The shape is designed somewhat like a mini massager used by women.
The next thing that comes to mind is the more orthodox cuboid machine. This kind of machine has been produced by many brands, and it seems difficult to distinguish it;
Li Mu also thought of Sony's S700, a classic dial controller that had been popular for a while.
However, after thinking about it carefully, Li Mu found that what he really liked was the iPod. However, now that the first-generation iPod has been released, Li Mu preferred to adopt the appearance of the iPod nano.
Nano is a slender and thin strip, and its cross-section adopts a flat oval design. It has a very good appearance and grip. Due to cost considerations, there is definitely no way to install a color LCD screen now, but it doesn’t matter. , you can use the most common monochrome screen, enlarge the screen, so that you can display more content, song lists, and even lyrics, and then design a disc-shaped control button in the lower part, an MP3 socket on the top, and a data cable socket on the bottom , it is basically OK to design a tying hole in the upper right corner.
However, Li Mu could only come up with a general idea in his mind, and professional designers would still need to come up with specific solutions.
Li Mu called Fang Xudong, who confirmed that he would leave his job in early April and arrive in China in mid-to-late April. He had already started writing Taobao's backend structure, and he said it was going very smoothly.
So Li Mu decided to ask Senior Brother Liu Edong to register the company first, and then asked him to seize the time to build an operations team. As for the front and backend of Taobao, he could leave it to his own R&D center for development, which was not a big problem.
Liu Edong has been waiting for news from Li Mu since he made an appointment with Li Mu to start an e-commerce business together. He sold all his stores not long after the new year. Now he reads e-commerce related articles at home every day. Book.
Since he transferred all the stores and left the Zhongguancun Electronics Building, the relationship between senior brother Liu and his girlfriend Gong Xiaojing has become much better. In the past, Gong Xiaojing and his family looked down upon his position as a small businessman, but now, although he squats at home all day , does not have any career, but Gong Xiaojing is still full of hope for him, because she witnessed the agreement between Li Mu and Liu Yidong with her own eyes. Li Mu's current Makino Technology is so powerful that even Gong Xiaojing's family was shocked when they learned that Liu Yidong wanted to cooperate with him. , her family's attitude towards Liu Eodong immediately changed dramatically.
Gong Xiaojing's family even said in private that if Liu Edong and Li Mu really jointly opened a company, and if, as Li Mu said, Liu Edong contributed 10% of the capital and held 20% of the shares, then Gong Xiaojing and Liu Edong could prepare to get married.
Gong Xiaojing conveyed the wishes of his family to Liu Edong. Because of this, Liu Edong has been waiting for Li Mu's call during this period, and it can be said that all the flowers have faded while waiting.
However, Liu Edong was also very able to endure his temper. He knew that Li Mu was a busy man now, and there was no point in urging him on his own. Instead, it might be counterproductive, so he kept suppressing his anxiety and waited for Li Mu to contact him.
When Li Mu's name appeared on the screen of his mobile phone, Liu Edong excitedly grabbed the phone and quickly pressed the answer button.
"Hey, Li Mu."
Liu Edong kept his voice as calm as possible.
Li Mu smiled on the phone and said, "Brother, what have you been busy with lately?"
Liu Edong said: "I am not busy with anything. The store has been transferred. I read books at home every day and read about e-commerce."
Li Mu laughed: "That's great. These books you read will come in handy soon!"
(End of chapter)