This flight A897 had just arrived in Beijing from New York, USA, after a 13-hour flight.
In the arrival hall on the first floor of Terminal 1, Lu Chen, Lu Xi and Li Mubai were standing among the people picking up the plane.
They came to welcome Li Mubai's sister Li Muchi back to China.
After a while, a large number of passengers appeared in the passage ahead, making the entire arrivals hall noisy.
"sister!"
Li Mubai spotted a familiar figure among the passengers and waved hello quickly.
She was a beautiful woman in her twenties, with rosy eyes and willow-leaf eyebrows, bright eyes and white teeth. She was wearing a new set of off-white Chanel autumn clothes, with a graceful and slender figure, and a pair of long legs that attracted special attention.
You can see what an outstanding person she is from the glances frequently cast by the passengers around her.
Li Muchi, Li Mubai's second sister, a graduate of Wharton School of Business with a master's degree!
Even after a long international flight, Li Muchi still appeared to be in high spirits and not at all tired.
Hearing Li Mubai's greeting, she turned her head with a charming smile on her pretty face.
Dragging her dark blue suitcase, Li Muchi walked out of the gate and quickly came to Lu Chen and others.
"noob!"
She put down her suitcase, suddenly stretched out her hands, and grabbed Li Mubai's cheeks from left to right like lightning.
Squeezing her brother's cheek hard, she asked with a smile: "Do you miss your sister a lot?"
"It hurts, it hurts!"
Li Mubai grinned and did not dare to struggle. He could only mumble and beg: "I know I was wrong!"
Li Muchi let go of her hand and asked with a half-smile, "Where did you go wrong?"
Li Mubai looked sad and rubbed his face, and said: "Sister, let's talk about this when we go home. Let me introduce you first. This is my good friend Lu Chen."
"Hello!"
Li Muchi took the initiative to reach out to Lu Chen and said with a smile, "Nice to meet you!"
In front of Li Mubai, she was a queen-like sister, but against Lu Chen, she transformed into a capable white-collar elite.
“Welcome back home!”
Lu Chen smiled and shook hands with her, while introducing his sister: "This is my sister Lu Xi."
Li Muchi's smile suddenly became extremely charming, and she opened her arms and hugged Lu Xi hard: "When I was in the United States, I wondered what kind of person you would be, and now I finally meet you, and I am not disappointed!"
She came over and kissed Lu Xi on the face.
Lu Xi didn't expect her to be so enthusiastic. He was stunned for a moment before reacting: "Hello."
The two had made many overseas phone calls before and discussed the crowdfunding website online.
Li Muchi and Lu Xi are the same age and major in the same field, so naturally they have a lot of topics in common.
So even though it was the first time we met in person, we were not strangers.
Lu Chen helped take the suitcase, and everyone left the terminal together.
Li Mubai drove over his all-electric Porsche 17 four-door sports car.
After getting in the car, Li Muchi looked at the interior and said, "Xiao Bai, how many millions did this sports car cost? Now your family has cut off your pocket money, and you can't afford to support it. I'll give you a 30% discount."
Forget it."
Although the Porsche 17 is an electric car, the usual maintenance and insurance premiums are still very high. If the paint of this luxury sports car is scratched, it will cost hundreds of thousands to repaint the entire car.
Li Muchi's teasing really touched Li Mubai's sore spot.
He and Lu Chen jointly set up a crowdfunding website, and all the funds came from his family. But as a condition, Li Mubai will be self-reliant in the future. If the crowdfunding website makes a profit, he can get dividends. If the crowdfunding website loses money, he will have to drink the northwest wind!
And there is no need to discuss this matter. Li Mubai should not think about it as soon as he gets on the boat.
He said with a grimace: "Thirty percent off is too harsh, sister, if you want it, I'll give you fifty percent off."
After the family cut off the financial support, Mr. Li really couldn't afford a sports car.
If Li Mushi is willing to take it, he is really willing to let go.
It’s just a 30% off discount. It’s basically a new car!
Li Muchi said there was no need to discuss.
Lu Chen, who was sitting in the passenger seat, listened and found the siblings quite interesting.
In his heart, Lu Xi always felt that Li Mubai's sister was a bit weird. He couldn't explain exactly why.
But there is nothing to say about Li Mushi's character. She doesn't have the slightest bit of squeamishness like that of a rich girl. She is cheerful, generous and beautiful.
Talking and laughing all the way, the four of them arrived at Lu Chen's studio in the Creative Park.
Although the idea of the crowdfunding platform came from Lu Chen, the registration of the website and application for creative protection were all in the name of the studio, but after the cooperation with Li Mubai, the crowdfunding network will be spun off and established as a separate company.
The Li family is so energetic that they actually rented a 500-square-meter office building on the 29th floor of the same building to serve as the headquarters of the new company. The renovation has just begun.
Li Muchi had just returned to China. She did not rush home immediately. She proposed to visit the studio and the new company first.
According to the results of the consultation between Lu Chen, Li Mubai, Lu Xi and Li Muchi, Lu Chen holds 51% of the shares of Crowdfunding.com and serves as the legal representative of the company.
Li Mubai invested 5 million in cash, holding 49% of the shares, and served as the company's business manager.
This is equivalent to the Li family’s valuation of the crowdfunding website reaching 10 million!
This kind of valuation can be said to be very kind, and fully takes into account the friendship between Lu Chen and Li Mubai.
Otherwise, if Lu Chen simply provided an idea, it would be impossible to get such a high valuation from any venture capital, and it is even more likely that he would not be able to get a single penny of investment.
Moreover, the Li family is also responsible for applications for creative copyright protection.
As a condition of cooperation, Li Muchi will serve as the first EO of Crowdfunding Network, responsible for the daily operation and management of the website.
Lu Chen was actually very satisfied with this result.
His original plan was to use Crowdfunding.com as a platform for his own business, but he never thought about investing a lot of time, energy and money into the website to make it bigger and stronger.
So being a hands-off shopkeeper is his best choice.
After looking around for a while, back to the studio, Li Muchi asked about Lu Chen's album.
Lu Chen’s first album will also be the first project on crowdfunding website!
"My album will be released on Feixun Music tomorrow"
Lu Chen said: "Tomorrow is also the official launch of the crowdfunding website. I am still a little confident about my own project. The pre-funding goal is 500,000, and the crowdfunding is mainly for fans."
"As long as you have confidence!"
Li Muchi nodded and said: "My elder brother believes in you, and I am also optimistic about this crowdfunding platform. I hope that we can have a happy cooperation in the future. Then I will come over tomorrow."
Lu Chen smiled and said, "Okay, thank you for your hard work."
Li Mubai sent Li Muchi home. When leaving, Li Muchi took Lu Xi's hand and said a lot of words.
The siblings returned to the office.
Lu Chen noticed that Lu Xi's expression was different and couldn't help but asked: "Sister, what's wrong?"
Lu Xi smiled bitterly and said: "It's okay. Maybe I'm a little too worried. Let's just pay attention to the situation online first!"
Lu Chen didn't think too much, turned on his computer and logged into his blog.
In just over a day, his blog fans increased by 300,000, and all of them were active fans.
This is the result of promotion and hype on the Internet.
Originally, Lu Chen did not plan to invest much in the promotion of his album "My Deskmate". On the one hand, the company currently does not have much available funds, so every penny must be saved and not spent arbitrarily.
On the other hand, the financial investment in media promotion is a bottomless pit. He currently does not accept announcements or commercial performances. Spending money on this aspect is not very meaningful except to increase the cost of the album. He may end up losing money.
The first reason Lu Chen released an album was to improve his status, prove his ability with a well-produced record, and at the same time improve his status in the industry, so that he would have sufficient confidence to cooperate with other companies.
Compared with Feixun Music's online sales, Lu Chen values the release of d records more.
Crowdfunding network was born for D distribution!
But Cui Zhengzhi's provocation successfully aroused his anger, or more accurately, his fighting spirit.
You have been slapped hard in the face. If you don't fight back, how can you talk about being a celebrity in the industry?
So Lu Chen used Chen Jianhao's help to find an online marketing company for publicity and promotion.
His action was actually a bit late. Originally, online marketing needed time to be brewed, and it would go on sale tomorrow. Starting the hype now seems a bit temporary, and the effect will be much worse.
The Internet marketing company said the same thing, but Lu Chen had his own ideas and persistence, and he also provided the other party with two pieces of material for hype.
The first piece of material was the words "Come and fight the pain", which was used as a hot word on the Internet to directly reveal the grudge between him and Cui Zhengzhi, thereby attracting the attention of passerby fans.
The second material was a video of the graduation party that Lu Chen requested from the Publicity Office of Jianghai University.
This video already exists, but it has not been touched before.
He cut out clips of himself singing at the party and gave them to a marketing company for promotion, focusing on major forums and posts to attract the attention of young people, especially student groups.
In today's Internet age, most of the hot events on the Internet have behind-the-scenes promoters. It is impossible for Lu Chen to promote his album on a large scale in a short period of time just relying on his own strength and the help of his fans.
For this reason, Lu Chen’s album cost more than doubled!
But the effect is really good, whether it is the hot word "Come and fight the pain" or the video post of the graduation party, it is spreading like a virus in blogs, post bars, forums and Feixun groups.
I believe that as time goes by, the promotion effect will become better and better, and eventually the sales of the album will be greatly increased!
Of course, this is an ideal state, and the specific results have yet to be tested.
Start tomorrow!
At 7pm on September 8th, Lu Chen’s first solo album "My Deskmate" will be on sale on Feixun Music!——
The second update is here, please vote! (To be continued.)