wip wednesday
sliding in just under the wire, I'm back to working on the rock star AU, so have dinner and conversation with Di Feisheng and Li Lianhua:
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After they’ve ordered, Di Feisheng cocks his head. “The kid was asking a lot of questions today—do you know why he’s suddenly so interested in the business side of things?”
“Ah, yeah. That’s coming from his family.”
Di Feisheng raises his eyebrows. “Are they talking again?”
“Mn.” Li Lianhua murmurs a thank you to the server who delivers their drinks, then takes a sip of his soda water with lime. “He had dinner with his aunts the other night and I guess one was grilling him. He asked me a bunch of questions that I am not exactly in a position to answer.”
“You mean,” Di Feisheng says, “that you don’t want to answer.”
He shrugs. “I haven’t been a working musician in ten years, I was fairly shit at dealing with management before that—”
“I don’t know about that. You managed to keep a whole lot more creative control than a lot of bands.”
Scratching his nose, he mutters, “To an extent.” Ignoring Di Feisheng’s narrowed eyes, he goes quickly on, “But you have a breadth of experience—between BLADE, JYA, and now, you’ve seen a lot of how the industry works. And who it works for.”
He matches Di Feisheng’s grimace—fuck the music industry.
Then, raising his glass, Li Lianhua adds, “I think he could learn a lot from you.”
