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After seeing Scooter off, Link stood by the floor-to-ceiling window with his arms folded, watching the crowds coming and going on William Street downstairs. Occasionally, one or two tourists could be seen pointing at the Link Music logo, as if saying that it was the famous Link Music, where Link, Lana Del Rey, Mars, and Wiz Khalifa were all there.

While watching the scenery, Link was also thinking about the suggestions Scooter made before he left. Scooter told him that he is very popular in the entertainment industry right now, but as the album promotion and scandals decrease, his popularity will gradually decrease. If you want to maintain a high degree of popularity in the music scene, publicity and hype are indispensable. At the beginning, he chose to hype with the East Coast rap, which is a good move. You can continue to implement it, so that the two sides are in a state of disharmony, the topic will be higher, and it will be a win-win situation.

Link didn't object, and didn't care much. When the fame reaches a certain stage, if you want to break through the bottleneck and reach a higher level, hype alone is useless. It requires years of accumulation, and quantitative changes lead to qualitative changes, just like his punch weight. Promoting with East Coast rappers has very limited effect on him at this stage.

In addition, Scooter also mentioned the issue of developing personal brands. Link is a famous athlete and singer, with a high reputation and a large number of fans all over the world. He can completely follow the example of Jordan, Kobe, Kanye and others, cooperate with brands such as Adidas and Nike, and create personal sports brands or casual clothing brands , which is also a good way to make money.

Link thought about it, and it was a good suggestion. Kanye's initial net worth was only hundreds of millions of dollars. Through cooperation with Adidas and Nike, he founded Air Yeezy, and his future net worth will be as high as billions of dollars. The same is true for Jordan and others. If I want to become a billionaire or a billionaire, it is not enough to just rely on stock trading. I should also find ways to make some physical investments.

Boom, boom, boom! "Link, are you busy?"

Graeme, the head of link music production department, walked in wearing a baseball jacket. He was a little rounder than in 2008, but he still didn't care much about his personal image. His hair was messy and his shirt was wrinkled.

"Not busy, what's the matter?" Link sat back in his office chair, invited Graeme to sit opposite, and asked the secretary to bring a cup of coffee.

"No, I've had five cups of coffee today, and I smell like coffee all over my body. I heard that the tea here is good, please give me a cup of tea." Graeme waved his hand and said.

Link smiled lightly and asked the secretary to make a cup of black tea.

"Are you busy these days?"

"The busiest time has passed. At the end of the year and the beginning of the year, Link Music released three albums in a row. That was the busiest time. I'm not busy now, but I can't relax." Graeme shrugged and started talking to him. Talking about making the fourth album.

"Is it a bit too fast?" Link asked, touching his chin.

"It's not fast, you are very popular now, and the album is very popular. The more this is the case, the more you need to do enough work on the new album. If the quality of the new album is too poor, it will affect your reputation. The company plans to release your fourth album early next year. Special, then we should prepare now, determine the theme, write songs, collect songs, the more songs the better, keep improving, so that the quality of the produced album will not be bad." Graeme said.

Link nodded, agreeing with him.

Before he became famous, in order to become famous, he did a lot of flashy and troublesome operations, such as publicly provoking heavyweight boxing champions, claiming to solve all opponents within 100 seconds, and criticizing Washington outside the Grammy Awards. , almost being treated as racially discriminatory.

At that time, he was not well-known and acted recklessly.

After becoming famous, his personal influence has grown, and he will become cautious in his actions and words, and he often feels like walking on thin ice.

The same is true for releasing albums. When he first debuted, he didn't have much pressure, and it only took more than two months from the production of the first album to its release.

The second and third albums gradually became serious. As the album sales got better and better, and there were more and more fans, in order not to辜负the trust and expectations of the fans, he did not dare to mess around, and he would be more careful when making albums.

If the fourth album is released early next year, preparations should indeed be made in advance.

Link and Graeme began to discuss the theme of the fourth special. Since the two songs "sorry" and "Love Is Gone" have received good responses, the theme can be set as 'broken love' first, and the songs in the album are also based on sad love songs. main.

"Graeme, I have temporarily written six songs of this kind. You should also start collecting relevant songs, the more the better." Link said.

When the first and second albums were released, the quality of the collected songs was average, and none of them made it to the singles chart, which made him look down on the works collected by the company. For the third album, the company spent a lot of money to invite famous singers to write songs for him. The quality of the songs collected this time is good, and they all entered the singles chart. This also made him full of expectations for the songs collected by the company, maybe in the future, if he is lucky, he will collect a few popular champion singles from his previous life.

At the same time, Link also plans to invite Lady Gaga, Adele, Keisha and others to write songs. Several people are talented singer-songwriters, and the songs they write should be good.

After sending Graeme away, Link looked at his watch, it was already 5:10 in the afternoon, but Ivanka hadn't come to call him home for dinner yet.

Thinking that this woman is a workaholic, he turned off the computer, told the secretary, and came to the president's office in the east. Ivanka's assistant and secretaries were still there, which meant she was there too. Link knocked on the door, and a voice of 'please come in' came from inside, the voice was cold and indifferent, giving people a feeling of being difficult to mess with.

Opening the door, Ivanka was sitting behind a large desk, wearing a Prada white OL professional attire, with long blond hair tied up, holding a signature pen in her hand, and a pile of documents on the table, burying her head in handling work.

Seeing her like this, Link originally wanted to ask her about digging a hole for him, but he swallowed the words back to his lips. Anyway, he didn't suffer any disadvantages, and it's not bad to be a contract couple for the time being.

"Link, what's the matter?" Seeing him coming in, Ivanka stopped her work, looked up at him, her expression very serious.

"It's okay, I'll come and see you." Link shrugged, sat down on the opposite chair, picked up a folder and looked at it. There were financial documents, legal issues instructions, information submitted by dealers, etc. Work is complicated.

"Do you want to help me share the work? These materials can be handed over to you for approval."

"No, I'm a technician, I don't understand company management, the only thing I can do is applaud you." Link clapped his hands and laughed.

Ivanka gave him a charming look, drew on the document with a pen, suddenly frowned her slender eyebrows, and looked at him blankly, "Did I say I would invite you to eat seafood. Oops, I forgot."

Ivanka looked at her watch, saw that it was past five o'clock, and quickly put down her signature pen and documents, and called her assistant to prepare the car.

"Don't worry, it's already late, another day will be the same."

"No, I promised to cook for you, and I must do what I say." Ivanka turned off the computer, stepped on high heels, and came out carrying her handbag, urging him to get up quickly, otherwise it would be time for supper later.

Link shook his head, seeing her like this, he didn't have much expectations for the seafood she made.

"What seafood feast have you prepared?"

"I heard that you like seafood. I don't know which kind you like, so I ordered all the top seafood ingredients online. There are king crab, blue lobster, Belon oysters, and Australian prawns. I guarantee you will be satisfied. " Ivanka said as she walked.

"Sounds great." Link looked at the woman beside him and chuckled, "Eva, we're just an arranged couple, you're so nice to me, are you... in love with me?"

Ivanka stopped, glanced at him, and smiled: "Don't be too narcissistic, this is just a working meal, I just want to talk about work with you at the dinner table, nothing else, if I really fall in love with you , I won't just treat you to seafood, I will give you all the best things in the world."

"Really, that is to say, if I can make you fall in love with me, I can get the best things in the world?"

"That's right, but I will never fall in love with you."

"Why?"

"Don't you have any self-knowledge, scumbag!" Ivanka gave him a sideways glance, leaving behind an indifferent back.

Seeing her expression, Link couldn't help but doubt his previous judgment, does this woman really like him? In Baker's shop, she suggested that she find a fixed girlfriend, and finally the two became an arranged couple. Did she really help him restore his reputation instead of having other intentions? Did he misunderstand?

Link didn't quite understand. He was originally slow in emotional matters. After experiencing Taylor's incident, he is now even more unable to determine whether a woman has feelings for him and how much affection she has.

"What are you doing standing there?"

Immediately walked to the work area, Ivanka stopped, turned her head and looked at him and said, "According to Article 6 of the agreement, in public, we need to act like a couple, let everyone know that we are a couple, so as not to cause my father Suspicion, we should go together at this time."

Link shook his head, walked over, wrapped his arms around her waist, and squeezed the plump part. This woman is so annoying, when he is with her, even three brains can't guess her thoughts, this kind of woman can't be too gentle .

Ivanka gave him a twist, took his arm, and walked out of the Link Music office area side by side. The company's employees saw the two bosses going out hand in hand, and they all cast their eyes on them. They saw that one of them was wearing a casual suit, handsome and strong, and the other was wearing a suit and pencil skirt, sexy and dignified. Very well matched.

"Link and Ivanka are such a good match."

"I'm so envious, they not only have the world's top looks and wealth, but also have the most perfect couple, this world is too unfair."

"I used to think Link and Taylor were a good match, and I was disappointed to see them break up. Now I think Link and President Ivanka are a better match. I decided to support the two of them and hope they can go on."

The staff were talking a lot, and an employee took out his mobile phone and told his employer that President Ivanka and Mr. Baker went to work hand in hand today, and the two looked very close.

(End of this chapter)