Just as Jane was still confused, April shook her hand off and looked a bit aggrieved. “I know Star Entertainment is very powerful, and although I’m just an ordinary person, you can’t treat me like this… Those songs are all my hard work. What do you want me to do?”
Jane couldn’t make heads or tails of it and even wondered if she had missed something while lost in thought. She took a deep breath and tried to sound calm. “Is there some kind of misunderstanding between us?”
“Misunderstanding? Is there another Star Entertainment in Alodon? If you want to bully me, then I’ll… I’ll…” April’s voice weakened as she stuttered for a while but couldn’t find the right words. In the end, she could only stare at Jane with tears about to burst out.
“If you’re going to bully me, I’ll call the police because we live in a society governed by law…” But in the next second, her confidence wavered. “Please let me go. I can’t sell all my songs to you for only two hundred dollars.”
April lowered her head slightly. That day, she did go to Star Entertainment hoping to try her luck, so she handed over her few original songs. The result she received was only one contract.
On it was written that they would buy the rights to all of her songs for two hundred dollar, and what was even more outrageous was that if the songs were published, her name couldn’t appear in the lyrics or composition credits.
How could April agree to such conditions?
Although she held a glimmer of hope for success, April would never let her songs fall into someone else’s hands.
She looked at Jane in front of her, feeling even more aggrieved.
Through April’s words, Jane seemed to guess something. She furrowed her brow and cautiously asked, “Did you go to Star Entertainment?”
April didn’t answer directly but silently confirmed Jane’s question.
“Someone wants to buy all your songs under the name of Star Entertainment?” Jane blinked her eyes.
Listening carefully, April nodded cautiously, “If you really want to buy the rights to those songs, could you at least put my name on them after they’re released? Even if it’s not in the lyrics or composition, I just hope that people know that I wrote this song.”
Hearing this, Jane fully understood the issue at hand, and her brow furrowed even tighter.
“Are you saying that the person who wants to buy your original songs wants to buy the complete rights?”
Jane also knew that the most important aspect of a song after it’s published is the lyrics and composition credits.
And April still pitifully said, “I thought Star Entertainment was a big company, so I approached you with a hopeful attitude to recommend myself. But now it seems that someone like me, an ordinary person, can’t do that at all.”
Jane’s expression was not good at all, and she turned to look at Maria by her side. Both of them could sense the confusion in each other’s eyes.
“When did you come to my company?” Jane asked seriously.
Setting aside April’s singing ability for now, just based on the original composition she just performed, Jane felt that the people in their company’s music department couldn’t have overlooked her talent.
There must be some misunderstanding here.
“Just this morning,” April replied in a gloomy tone.
Thinking about what happened at Star Entertainment today, April felt even more upset, and her despondent demeanor even startled Jane.
Jane’s brow remained furrowed. It seemed like the music department hadn’t mentioned anyone today.
“Who did you meet at my company who said they wanted to buy the rights to your songs? Do you remember what they looked like?” Jane asked in detail.
Jane still couldn’t believe that something like buying the rights at such a low price was happening in her company.
At this point, Jane even doubted if this innocent young girl had been deceived by someone.
“He said he was the head of the music department, um… around thirty years old, I think,” April recalled carefully.
“What’s his last name? Do you know his full name?” Jane racked her memory. Her company had many department heads.
“I don’t know, he didn’t tell me,” April sighed.
Jane narrowed her eyes and looked at April with a puzzled expression. She tentatively asked, “Are you sure you went to Star Entertainment and not some other studio where someone tricked you?”
“I’m sure!” April nodded vigorously and pointed to the address on the business card. “The place I went to is right here.”
Jane’s face darkened. How could something like this happen in her company?
“When I initially gave my manuscript to the supervisor, he told me to wait. I waited for a long time without any news, so I couldn’t help but go to the CEO’s office,” April carefully observed Jane’s face and began to believe her identity to some extent.
Moreover, Jane looked so good that she couldn’t possibly be a fraud.
“You went to my office?” Hearing this, Jane asked in astonishment. “But I haven’t seen you.”
If this incident happened today, she wouldn’t have forgotten it. But the person in front of her had indeed never been to her office.
“I didn’t even go inside. The supervisor took me away as soon as I arrived, and then he said he wanted to buy my songs,” April shook her head.
“Jane, what’s going on here?” Maria glanced at Jane, full of confusion. She had been listening for a while but couldn’t quite grasp the whole story.
How could a fraud manage to infiltrate their company?
Jane rubbed her forehead and said to April, “Alright, tomorrow I’ll take you directly to the company. Can you find that supervisor for me?”
At this point, Jane had already started pondering the situation. It was ironic that something like this happened in her company. If she hadn’t encountered April today, she might not have known how many times this had occurred.
“I won’t believe you, I can be fooled once, but not twice,” April grumbled, but there was a hint of cuteness in her words.
Jane looked at her helplessly. Did she really look like a fraud?
She couldn’t help but sigh, “Then how can I make you believe me?”
April hesitated and blinked her eyes, unsure of what to say.
Observing this, Jane wondered where this innocent girl had come from.
Seeing the situation, Maria stepped forward and pointed at her own cheek. “Do you recognize me?”
April looked up at Maria and pursed her lips. “I have a vague impression, I think I’ve seen you somewhere.”
“I’m Maria, have you watched my movies?” Maria blinked her eyes and then smiled.
April tapped her own head and exclaimed, “I know you! I’ve seen your pictures.”
Saying that, she directly opened her phone, seemingly searching for something.
Seeing this, Maria assumed that April had saved her pictures in her phone.
“I didn’t expect you to be my fan.”
But in the next second, as April raised her phone, all of Maria’s smiles vanished instantly.