Chapter 36
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Chapter 36: Threats
“Teacher Li, we are from Xinghui Entertainment Company, and we would like to invite you to join us…”
“No, thank you. I’m not interested!”
Li Xiaojun directly refused the invitation from Xinghui Entertainment Company.
Since he began posting song sheet music online to seek collaboration, many people started contacting him from the second month onward, all wanting to invite him to join various opportunities.
At first, these were just live-streaming guilds and small studios.
Later on, entertainment companies also came forward to invite him.
Now, even Xinghui Entertainment Company, one of the top ten entertainment companies on Taihuang Star, sent representatives to invite him.
“Teacher, do you know how much loss your online song postings have caused us at Xinghui?” The person from Xinghui fixed their gaze on Li Xiaojun after hearing his refusal.
“What? By releasing my own songs, I am causing you losses? Are you saying that my earnings are your losses?”
Li Xiaojun nearly laughed in anger at their words.
“By posting sheet music online, you have encouraged some of our composers to imitate you, which has led to our company losing at least several hundred million…”
“What does that have to do with me? If you can’t control your own company’s composers, how can you blame me?” Li Xiaojun showed no mercy.
He knew that many composers were also following his example of posting sheet music online to seek collaborations, but what was that to him?
Moreover, in the cultivation world, a composer’s income and status are quite similar to those on Earth.
Composers only receive a small portion of the profits from a song they create; the majority goes to the company and the performing singer.
In contrast, Li Xiaojun’s method of finding collaborators and retaining most of the profits ensured that he kept the bulk of the earnings from his songs.
A composer who wrote an excellent song, if not a well-known composer, might only receive a one-time payment, perhaps just a few thousand or ten thousand, or at most, one or two hundred thousand.
But if a composer collaborated as Li Xiaojun did, the revenue share could be enormous.
As long as the song was of high quality, this income would be a thousand times better than selling the song to an entertainment company.
Li Xiaojun earned billions from just a few songs, averaging nearly a hundred million for each.
Could a song sell for over a hundred million to an entertainment company? It’s unlikely any company would pay that much.
Many composers saw that Li Xiaojun’s model was profitable, leading to the trend of imitating his approach.
However, those who followed his lead ultimately caused significant losses for the entertainment companies.
Originally, most of the profits from these songs were meant for the entertainment companies, but now, the majority were being captured by the composers, leaving the companies with negligible earnings.
Thus, in today’s entertainment industry, especially the music industry, it was hard to find an entertainment company that didn’t resent Li Xiaojun.
Xinghui Entertainment was no exception, which is why they sought to sign Li Xiaojun!
Furthermore, they included a clause in the contract that prohibited Li Xiaojun from posting any works online by himself.
Li Xiaojun naturally wouldn’t agree to such a contract.
In truth, he had no desire to join an entertainment company.
Joining one would mean facing restrictions, and he didn’t want to be bound by any constraints.
In his view, no capitalist was worth trusting.
Moreover, the reason he posted songs online was mainly to gain fame.
As for making money, he didn’t care.
Once his daughter arrived and they recognized each other as a father and daughter, with her status as a great emperor, what couldn’t he have?
“Teacher Li, are you sure you don’t want to sign a contract with us? You’ve offended so many music companies. If you don’t join us, it won’t be good when they seek revenge.” The person from Xinghui Entertainment Company spoke with an implied threat when they saw Li Xiaojun remain unmoved.
“What do you mean?”
Upon being threatened, Li Xiaojun’s expression instantly soured.
“Teacher Li, you are undeniably a musical genius, but you need to understand that this is a world dominated by cultivators where the weak are eaten by the strong.
Many bosses of entertainment companies are cultivators, and it’s easy for them to eliminate an ordinary person, do you understand?”
The representative from Xinghui flashed a sinister smile at Li Xiaojun.
His meaning was clear: if Li Xiaojun didn’t find a company to join, he would likely face life-threatening conditions.
“Leave; I will not agree to join your company.”
Li Xiaojun couldn’t be bothered to drag out the conversation; he wouldn’t join Xinghui Entertainment Company.
Of course, even if he wanted to join an entertainment company, he would choose a better one.
After the people from Xinghui Entertainment left, Li Xiaojun fell into deep thought.
According to Xinghui, if he continued to damage other music companies’ interests, he could very well disappear from this world.
This wasn’t Earth, where the law offered protection.
In this world, there were no legal constraints preventing cultivators from killing an ordinary person.
In the predator-prey dynamic where cultivators reigned, for the sake of profit, those entertainment companies might indeed resort to killing to silence witnesses.
As an ordinary person, even if he were killed by a cultivator, no one would seek justice for him.
After thinking all night, the next day, Li Xiaojun recorded a video with his phone to announce his withdrawal from the Internet!
“Hello everyone! I am Li Xiaojun. Due to a lack of musical inspiration, I’ve decided to withdraw from the music industry starting today…”
……
Li Xiaojun’s withdrawal from the music industry caused quite a stir on the Internet in the Fanjingshan Immortal Realm, but it quickly faded away.
No one would care if a popular online figure left the music industry.
After Li Xiaojun withdrew, other entertainment companies ceased to trouble him.
Although Li Xiaojun’s previous actions had caused many entertainment companies some losses, he had now been forced to exit the music scene; if the companies still sought to kill him, that would be too unreasonable.
Li Xiaojun announced his withdrawal from the music industry to avoid such situations.
His daughter would soon return to Taihuang Star, and he couldn’t let a moment of impulse get him killed. He had to endure; otherwise, he would probably have to wait a hundred thousand years to see his daughter again.
Thus, withdrawing from the music industry was a relatively good way for Li Xiaojun to prevent unwanted incidents.
Moreover, he achieved his goal; he had become an internet celebrity with over five million followers.
“Teacher Li, this is Director Goza!”
“Goza, this is Teacher Li Xiaojun…”
In a tea house in Honghe City, a young man enthusiastically introduced Li Xiaojun to a middle-aged man.
“Hello, Goza.” Li Xiaojun greeted him.
“Hello, Teacher.”
“Goza, here’s the script I wrote. I plan to invest one billion to produce this movie…” Li Xiaojun handed the script to Goza!
