I Inherited 5,000 Years of Family Property

Of course, Zhou Juelun was no longer in need of money now, and although the price Zhang Menglong offered was hard to refuse, his priorities had shifted from career and creative work to life and family. Even if he never worked another day, he could remain a happy millionaire, so he turned down Zhang Menglong's invitation.

However, he promised Zhang Menglong that should he hold a concert in the future, he would reserve the best seats for him, or if they both had time, they could also meet up to sing together.

"Alright, 2.5 billion has reached your account, and I've already paid the taxes for you."

"Mr. Zhang is so generous!" Paying taxes on 2.5 billion would usually result in a staggering amount, and most singers and actors employ various methods to avoid or evade taxes. Zhang Menglong voluntarily paying taxes and even covering it himself was indeed a breath of fresh air.

"Juelun, the money is in your account," Zhou Juelun's assistant said.

With 2.5 billion credited, even Zhou Juelun couldn't help but smile. Even if his former company took a share, this money was enough to double his personal assets—a single deal equivalent to all his past efforts; how could that not make him happy?

Having signed the contract, this meant that from now on, aside from Zhang Menglong's company, any other party distributing Zhou Juelun's works online would be infringing copyright. Be it Tengxun Music or any other platform, they had permanently lost their competitive edge over Zhou Juelun's output.

Even because Zhang Menglong had bought the cover rights, as soon as their existing rights expired, those songs would be forced off the shelves, or else they would face a lawyer's warning from Zhang Menglong.

"By the way, are we still going to the next event?" Zhang Menglong asked.

"Not going anymore," Zhou Juelun said with a smile, "Since the rights have been sold to Mr. Zhang, there's no need to go."

"Dani," Zhou Juelun told his assistant, "buy the tickets, we are going back."

"No need for that trouble," Zhang Menglong said, "Hong Yi, arrange it for me, send Director Zhou back with my private jet, and on the way back, help me bring a genuine oyster omelette."

"Mr. Zhang, that won't be necessary," Zhou Juelun thought Zhang Menglong would have a private plane since he himself owned a private plane worth over a hundred million, but he cherished it too much to use it just to send a guest.

"No worries, it's alright, I have more than a dozen private planes in Modi City."

"More than a dozen..."

"Don't feel burdened, I mainly want to eat the oyster omelette, sending you back is just incidental."

Using a private jet to fetch takeout for an authentic oyster omelette? Are you kidding me? Zhou Juelun and his assistant could never comprehend the thought processes of someone like Zhang Menglong, which they considered outlandishly lavish.

With that kind of money, one could hire a chef specializing in oyster omelettes to cook for him full-time.

"Haha, actually, I do have a chef," Zhang Menglong said, "I just forgot to bring him from Jiangnan City, the chefs from Bao Island Province here went home to visit their families for a couple of days."

"I... oh wow, that's really nice..."

"Mr. Zhang, your Indian flying bread has arrived," just then, an employee of Zhang Menglong's rushed in.

"Hmm, no jams right?"

"Jams?" Zhou Juelun's pupils dilated considerably, their jams, and not just mentioning machines but civilization too?

"Wait, what's with this bread?" Zhou Juelun suddenly thought of a terrifying thing, "Mr. Zhang, this isn't something you had flown in from India, is it?"

"Yeah, what's wrong?" Zhang Menglong told the employee, "Go heat it up, the Western European roast should also be arriving soon, we'll have Indian flying bread wrapped with Western European roast tonight, go prepare."

"Okay, Mr. Zhang."

"Uh..." Formerly, Zhou Juelun thought he was somewhat of a millionaire, but now he realized he might be quite poor.

...

"What? Zhou Juelun gave up signing with us?" Ding Yuxi received a call from the business department and was momentarily stunned.

"Yes, and the penalty fee has already been transferred."

"What about Tengxun?" Ding Yuxi asked. Now in Huaxia, the only one capable of competing with their Wangyi Music, other than Tengxun, was absolutely no one else.

"I just went to ask, their agreement was also terminated, Zhou Juelun's assistant said, the exclusive online distribution rights and the cover rights of his songs have all been sold, for a duration of ten years."

"Ten years? And exclusive?" Ding Yuxi knew what this meant, this meant that for the next ten years, their platform would not be able to feature any of Zhou Juelun's songs.

You should know, although the post-2000 generation might not understand Zhou Juelun, but those born in the '80s and '90s, who grew up listening to his songs, have now become the main force in today's society.

They have the financial capability and purchasing power to afford the copyright fees for his music, and many would be willing to recharge a VIP membership just for his songs, and the number of people in this group is enormous.

"Boss Ding, look at Weibo! Zhang Menglong said that he has bought all the copyrights of Zhou Juelun, not just that, but also those of Xue Zhitian, Lin Junjue, and my God, he even got the rights to that Korean supergroup!"

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Ding Yuxi immediately opened Weibo, and Zhang Menglong's post had already trended on the hot search.

"Friends, announcing good news; I recently partnered with Principal Wang to launch a new music platform called Music Forest. On this app, you can listen to music and download for free, all copyrights are already purchased, and you don't need to recharge for VIP. If there's any artist whose rights we haven't bought yet, just let the customer service know, and I'll buy them."

"Damn it!" Ding Yuxi slammed his phone hard onto the ground. Acquiring domestic artists' copyrights wasn't hard, but foreign ones, that was a whole different story. Not to mention anything else, two years ago, domestic platforms had already lost the rights to the group called "Big Bang."

But Zhang Menglong actually managed to buy them, and for 10 years!

"Awesome! Boss Zhang is just Boss Zhang, so dominant!"

"Holy crap, holy crap, holy crap! Finally, a platform like this has emerged; I've been waiting for years!"

"No need to recharge for VIP to listen! My God! Even if it requires recharging VIP, I would still be willing!"

"Wuwu, my youth is over."

"Okay, I've already deleted Tengxun Music and Wangyi Music."

"The one above, I deleted them too, and also left a 1-star bad review!"

Experience tales at empire

"Hahaha!"

"Damn, has Music Forest been bombarded yet?"

"What is he aiming for, spending so much money and not charging?"

"Aiming for you not taking a bath!"

"Aiming because you are handsome."

...

"Boss Ding, our app's download volume is plummeting!"

"The rating has also been brushed down!"

"Boss Ding, think of something quick, at this rate, by the time our purchased copyrights expire, our platform will collapse!"

"He is simply a madman!" Ding Yuxi suddenly remembered Zhang Menglong's words, this was not going to be an easy matter to resolve!