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Chapter 073 is progressing well.

After venting his anger with a family ethics and emotional story about a wicked mother-in-law, Yang Du threw all his energy back into the preliminary work of Tao Cheng's second album, "Swallowtail Butterfly".

Regarding the core of this album, the five songs that form the beginning, development, climax, and conclusion, among which "Bubble," "Cage," and "Swallowtail Butterfly" come directly from the system and have complete project files, which Yang Du can use directly.

"The Pain That Breathes" was not unfamiliar to him. With the solid foundation and systematic skills he had built in his composition major, he spent a morning reproducing the lyrics and music, and the arrangement could be redone.

As for the last song, "Unstoppable," which concludes the story and highlights the main theme, Yang Du used some of his reserves and selected the song "Unstoppable" from his previous life's Sia using a treasure chest.

The song's power and unparalleled confidence are practically tailor-made for the concept of breaking free from the cocoon and becoming a butterfly.

After receiving the project documents, Yang Du put a lot of effort into localizing the lyrics into Chinese.

While retaining the original song's explosive power and rhythm, the Chinese pronunciation is made more natural and better suited to Tao Cheng's voice.

This is all thanks to the fact that I just upgraded my lyric writing skills to the advanced level; otherwise, it would probably have taken even longer.

With five main tracks finalized, plus five supporting tracks that I finally managed to find after listening to so many tracks in the Jinshi Music Library for the past few days that I was dizzy and almost injured at work, a standard studio album with ten tracks is finally taking shape.

After seeing Yang Du's achievements, Fang Lei secretly called Hong Jie and said, "Your decision to invite Yang Du to be the album producer was absolutely wise."

Hong Jie, who was still out taking Tao Cheng to various events, was completely unaware of what was going on. When she learned that Yang Du had already finished all the tracks for the album, she was equally shocked and almost dropped her phone.

Sister Hong is a veteran in the industry. Although she hasn't been immersed in the production field for decades like Fang Lei, who is an artist and production director, she still knows roughly what the production cycle of an album is like.

In the traditional music industry system, producing an album is an extremely rigorous and tedious systematic project.

From the initial planning and project initiation to the final album release, the entire cycle typically takes anywhere from six months to two years.

Even the first phase of the project was incredibly demanding.

Just determining what concept an album should express and what style it should take often requires the planning team and producers to hold countless meetings and argue for ten days, half a month, or even three months before they can barely reach a consensus.

But what about Yang Du?

At the last meeting, the concept of "breaking out of the cocoon and becoming a butterfly" was established without any controversy. Now, at most three weeks after the last meeting, Yang Du has swiftly finalized all ten pieces of music.

Tao Cheng looked at Sister Hong in shock: "So... Junior brother not only compressed the production cycle that originally required two or three months into half a month, but also directly pushed the progress to the second stage."

"That's not all." Sister Hong put down her phone, her mind in a daze but also filled with the excitement of finding a treasure. "I just heard from Director Fang that the arrangements for all five main songs are finished. Once Yang Du finishes arranging the remaining five songs, you can get ready to go to the studio."

The second stage of album production is usually the most grueling part, involving song selection, songwriting, music composition, demo production, and even spending money to hold a songwriting workshop.

During this stage, due to differing opinions, it was common for a song to be scrapped and remade seven or eight times.

Some perfectionist singers even change the tracks before the album is officially released.

But Yang Du already had five main songs in his pocket, and with the addition of five more selected from the Jinshi Music Library, he had solved most of the problem.

"Once the arrangement is finished, my junior can move on to the third stage of recording. Oh my god, but I still have several gigs to finish."

Tao Cheng suddenly felt immense pressure. As a singer, she was now being chased by the producer's schedule.

This is... unheard of!

"Yes," Sister Hong exclaimed. "You have no idea how cheerful Director Fang's tone was just now. He bluntly said that, given the progress and quality, Yang Du's production fee of 80 plus 2% production points is really worth it. We'll invite him again next time."

"Hehe, Director Fang said last time that he was bitten by his junior brother, that Pixiu. No wonder he can become a director."

……

While the progress of "Swallowtail Butterfly" is certainly encouraging, the high-intensity, non-stop work and mental exertion are really draining.

So, Yang Du decided to find some fun for himself in his spare time to relieve some stress.

Of course, Yang Du's way of relieving stress is unique.

He opened Word and, while the iron was hot, wrote two more emotional articles on the theme of a wicked mother-in-law.

Following the first mother-in-law who coveted her daughter-in-law's dowry, the second and third mothers-in-law made their appearances.

Among them, the second mother-in-law is a strange old woman who considers herself a city dweller, has an inexplicable sense of superiority, looks down on her daughter-in-law who comes from the countryside, and is picky and sarcastic towards her.

The daughter-in-law cooked an authentic Sichuan-style boiled pork slices dish, and everyone else enjoyed it, finding it incredibly delicious with rice. Only the mother-in-law was extremely disgusted with it.

"Do you know what kind of people used to eat this kind of oily, salty, and spicy food? It was the dockworkers and the porters on the streets."

"They can't afford good ingredients, so they can only use spices and chili peppers to mask the fishy smell of offal and scraps."

"Now, the country is promoting healthy eating. You're making all this oily, salty, and spicy food—are you trying to kill us?! Are you so eager to get rid of this old woman like me?"

The third mother-in-law was even more bizarre, a typical remnant of feudalism. Because her daughter-in-law only gave birth to a daughter, she encouraged her son to have a child through surrogacy.

To this end, Yang Du racked his brains and designed a powerful line for her.

"Your womb is letting us down; we can't let the Jiang family line die out, can we? I've already planned it out. Once that woman outside gives birth to a son, I'll bring him home and register him under your name. What's wrong with that?"

—The name of the Jiang family is a little Easter egg, as it sounds the same as the Jiang in Jiang Yinglan's name.

"Won't the child still consider you his biological mother after he's born? He'll call you 'Mom' anyway, why make such a big difference? You get a healthy baby boy without having to go through all that suffering, that's a blessing from your past life!"

The second and third grandmothers also lived up to expectations, directly giving Yang Du 800 points of composition experience and 1000 points of arrangement experience, much to the delight of netizens.

[Help! Has Governor Yang really decided to switch careers and become a master of romance novels? Didn't he just officially announce that he would be the producer of Tao Cheng's second album?! Are you already starting to neglect your duties?!]

[This is incredible! I hereby unilaterally declare the Evil Mother-in-Law Universe officially established today!]

[Governor Yang, confess honestly! Do you even know how to write the word "restraint"?]

[They're all calling you Mom anyway, why make such a big deal out of it! How can there be such a bizarre old woman in the world! Ahhh, I can't take it anymore.]

[Professor Jiang just criticized you with great indignation, and you immediately turned around and published three articles about a wicked mother-in-law. What, doesn't our Professor Jiang have any face? (Funny)]

[They're all too young. According to the official statement from Qiuniu Studio, this prolific output of three articles in a row most likely indicates that Yang Du is frantically accumulating inspiration. Brothers, let him write, let him write!]

"I'm just a passerby, let him write it, let him write it!"

"I'm a sister, let him write it, let him write it!"

"I'm a fan of Orange (a popular Taiwanese singer), let him write it, let him write it!"

—"The lady upstairs is brave! She directly revealed her fandom: Professor Jiang is watching you!"