Chapter 950 onwards

"Performance was a success!"

Chen Siqi walked backstage carrying a large bouquet of flowers.

Lu Yanhe looked at Chen Siqi in surprise as she entered. He had only finished half of his stage costume when he stood up.

"How are you?" Chen Siqi asked. "Are you nervous?"

Lu Yanhe nodded: "A little."

"No problem." Chen Siqi hugged Lu Yanhe and warned, "Don't propose to me at the concert because of some rumors online. I won't agree."

Lu Yanhe laughed.

"Of course, my proposal to you wasn't a spur-of-the-moment decision; it was definitely planned."

Chen Siqi kissed Lu Yanhe on the lips.

“Many of your high school classmates and college classmates are here today. I noticed that you didn’t seem to be planning a get-together after your concert. Should we do it? It’s a rare opportunity for everyone to get together,” Chen Siqi said.

Lu Yanhe grunted and said, "After the concert ends today, I have to go to No. 13 Middle School to record 'The Days of Youth.' The recording of this program starts today, so I probably won't have time to spend with everyone tonight."

Chen Siqi: "Oh, okay then."

Lu Yanhe asked, "After the concert ends, do you want to come back to No. 13 Middle School with me? It's been a long time since I've been back."

"Sure, but you're going to record a show, is it appropriate for me to go?"

"Tonight's recording is just a small segment," Lu Yanhe said. "It will be finished in about an hour, and we probably have some time before the official recording, so we can go and take a look around the school first."

“Okay.” Chen Siqi nodded. “I’ve never actually strolled around No. 13 Middle School late at night before.”

Lu Yanhe: "Me too. If it weren't for the fact that 'The Days of Youth' was to be recorded at No. 13 Middle School and we had already made arrangements with the school, I don't know when I would have had this opportunity."

"However, No. 13 Middle School is currently... oh, it's summer vacation now, and school hasn't started yet."

"Yes." Lu Yanhe nodded, "Senior high school students also don't start school until September 1st."

These days, tutoring is being cracked down on.

In any case, high school students certainly wouldn't dare to openly violate the rules.

Chen Siqi said, "I'll ask Linyu and Zijun later to see if they want to go back together."

Lu Yanhe thought to himself that this wouldn't make any difference, so he nodded and said, "Okay."

"Alright, I won't bother you any longer. I'll head out now."

Lu Yanhe took Chen Siqi's hand and kissed her on the lips.

Lu Yanhe smiled and said, "Give me a kiss back."

After Chen Siqi left, Lu Yanhe turned around and saw Li Zhibai and Yan Liang, who had been silently acting as if they were invisible the whole time, looking at him with disgusted expressions.

Lu Yanhe ignored it completely.

-

7:30 p.m.

Lu Yanhe, Li Zhibai, and Yan Liang stood on the rising platform, waiting for the countdown to go on stage.

The entire audience chanted in unison as the countdown on the screen progressed.

"three--"

"two--"

"one--"

The intro to "Green Apple Paradise" begins.

Rhythmic and cheerful music filled the entire venue.

The entire venue erupted in cheers.

They actually started with this song!

Three people appeared on the stage from a rising platform.

The cheers grew even louder.

All three of them had their backs to the audience. As soon as the platform stopped, they all jumped and turned around at the same time.

They raised the microphone together.

"Don't linger on weekend midnights, come to Apple Paradise! We welcome homeless children!"

"Don't just stand there dumbfounded, let's shout together and say goodbye to the lonely midnight!"

...

This is their third time performing this song together.

When designing this concert, Lu Yanhe was pondering which song should be used to open the show.

After thinking it over, I decided to use this one.

Because it's suitable.

Even though concerts generally put more energetic songs with dance moves at the end to avoid excessive physical exertion and affecting the stability of the slower songs later on.

The audience was completely aroused by the song.

Everyone was singing along.

The sound was like a tidal wave.

Lu Yanhe could hear the voices from the audience even while he was on stage.

Li Zhibai and Yan Liang obviously heard it too.

The three of them danced and sang on stage, their eyes meeting in perfect harmony, their feelings for each other unspoken.

After the song ended, the entire venue erupted once again, with cheers and shouts that seemed to lift the sky off its face.

“Let’s sing ‘Green Apple Paradise’ again, still the three of us. How was it? Was it okay?” Lu Yanhe asked while catching his breath.

The entire audience shouted, "OK!"

Yan Liang: "It's been a long time since I sang this song. I'm so happy every time I sing it with the two of them."

Li Zhibai: "Since you love singing so much, you should have held your own concert sooner."

Lu Yanhe looked around and saw that the place was packed with all kinds of light boards and glow sticks.

He said, "I've attended other friends' concerts before, but this is the first time I've stood on stage and participated in our own concert. To be honest, I'm quite excited. Last night, we rehearsed here until 2 a.m. At that time, the venue was still empty, but now it's completely full, a huge, dark mass of people."

"I really didn't expect that we would actually hold a concert one day," Yan Liang said. "Before, it was just talk, just indulging in empty words."

Li Zhibai: "Old Lu even wrote several new songs specifically for this concert."

“Yes.” Yan Liang nodded.

Everyone screamed with delight.

Li Zhibai said, "The three of us sang 'Green Apple Paradise' and 'Love' together. Lao Lu said that these are nostalgic classics. Since we already have two, it would be more appropriate to sing one more."

“That’s right,” Yan Liang said. “So, our second song is also our third nostalgic song. It’s a new song written by Lao Lu, and today is its premiere.”

"I hope you all like 'Butterflies Fly'."

The music began, following the trailing notes of Lu Yanhe.

The three people had changed positions and were heading towards their respective points.

The lights dimmed, and a spotlight followed the three of them.

Lu Yanhe: "The sea breeze whispers the old captain's dreams in my ear."

Li Zhibai: "The white clouds are trying to find their home as they cross the mountain ridge."

Yan Liang: "The light rain awakens the sleeping lotus in its dream, revealing its smiling face."

The three of them said together: "I'll make my youth into a kite and climb it into the sky."

...

"Yan He wrote these lyrics again, right?" Xu Zijun whispered in Lin Yu's ear. "I don't know why, but even though it's such a cheerful and lively song, it makes me miss my childhood so much that I want to cry."

Lin Yu: "The lyrics of his song are very much like a primary school student's composition, so they are simple and unpretentious."

Xu Zijun turned to look at Li Pengfei, only to see that her boyfriend seemed engrossed in watching the stage.

"Are you moved?" Xu Zijun asked.

Li Pengfei nodded.

He turned his head and looked at Xu Zijun.

Do you remember how Yan He and I became acquainted?

"Of course I remember, you were just being a jerk back then," Xu Zijun said with a smile.

At that time, Li Pengfei sarcastically asked Lu Yanhe why this big star had suddenly come back to study.

Generally, the person being ridiculed would become angry and embarrassed, but Lu Yanhe frankly said that because the group was disbanding, he could no longer be a star and had to go back to school.

Li Pengfei said, "At that time, I really couldn't stand Lu Yanhe. Damn it, why could he skip school just because he was a star, work hard for three days and rest for two, and still not get scolded?"

"But when they really put in the effort, they crushed all of us." Xu Zijun laughed. "In just one year, they almost brought down all of us who were studying hard. Luckily, Lin Yu saved face for us."

“Yes, that’s why I really can’t feel any jealousy towards him at all.” Li Pengfei looked at Lu Yanhe, who was jumping around on stage with the other two people. “Tell me, how come he was able to stay unaffected by any emotions and just come back to bury himself in his studies under such difficult circumstances?”

“I don’t know. If I had his mindset, I might have been able to get into Zhenhua or Yuming. But these things, if you don’t have them, you don’t have them. You have to accept it.” Xu Zijun smiled. “Maybe it’s because he genuinely believes that the future can be bright and that it can be made bright through his efforts.”

"That's true. He doesn't always know what he wants, but he always knows what he has to do."

...

"The butterfly flies."

"Like childhood, running in the wind."

"It feels like the rainbow of my youth."

"Further than the sea, higher than the sky."

...

Lu Yanhe raised his left hand high, jumping and singing at the same time.

Scenes from the past flashed before my eyes.

It was only the second song, and I was already starting to feel tears welling up in my eyes.

As the song ended, Lu Yanhe couldn't help but feel a little wetness on his eyelashes.

control.

control.

Lu Yanhe took a deep breath.

Li Zhibai and Yan Liang came to his side, one on each side, and put their arms around his shoulders.

-

“We all started working when we were very young.” Lu Yanhe gripped the microphone tightly with both hands, turned to look at Li Zhibai and Yan Liang, and continued, “It sounds a bit old-fashioned to say this, but it’s true that we have all experienced a lot of ups and downs in the past ten years or so, some you know and some you don’t.”

"The song 'Butterfly, Fly' is the one that best represents my feelings when I look back. All the setbacks and low points I've experienced don't matter when you look back. They won't occupy your life or your memories, because what you'll always see is you, like a butterfly, trying your best to flap your wings and fly farther than the sea and higher than the sky."

Lu Yanhe took a deep breath.

"I hope that after facing and experiencing sadness, complexity, failure, and pain, each of us will still remember our dreams, remember love, and remember to fly forward. Once we've flown past those moments, then it's just another battlefield for our youth."

Lu Yanhe raised his hand and gently punched Yan Liang on the shoulder.

"It's up to you now."

Li Zhibai also repeated the action.

"It's up to you now."

The lights in the entire venue went out.

When the spotlight shone on, only Yan Liang remained on the stage.

The prelude to "The Battlefield of Youth" begins.

-

"My cousin is so handsome!" Yan Yuzhi screamed along with the fans at the scene for Yan Liang.

Yan Liang's parents were also sitting next to him.

They didn't stand up and scream, but the way they gripped their glow sticks betrayed their nervousness.

Although they were holding tickets for relatives and friends, no one around them knew that they were Yan Liang's family members.

Next to them were mostly people working in the entertainment industry who had obtained their tickets through various channels.

"He's really had a tough time," someone said.

"Everyone says that Li Zhibai relies on his true nature, Lu Yanhe relies on his talent, and Yan Liang relies on his hard work."

"I became skin and bones while filming 'The Gold Rush,' and then I practiced martial arts for several years in order to film the action scenes."

"yes."

...

Some people say that someone like me is not suitable to be an idol.

During the prelude to "The Battlefield of Youth," Yan Liang suddenly spoke, startling everyone. Then, everyone realized that the prelude to "The Battlefield of Youth" seemed to have been rearranged to allow him to speak at this moment.

Those in the know would realize at this point that it was specially designed to give Yan Liang time to express himself.

The audience shouted "No!" and "No!"

Yan Liang smiled and said thank you.

He continued, "Indeed, I am not as easygoing and carefree as Lao Li. I come from a very ordinary upbringing, so I often have to be conscientious and cautious at the same time."

"I don't have Lao Lu's talent to be able to fight against ten thousand people. I have nothing to rely on except my own efforts. For a long time, I was very self-conscious. It wasn't because of comparisons, but because I coveted the spotlight on stage, but I also found that I didn't have the ability to live up to it."

“For a long time, as you all know, many people have said that if I hadn’t been by Lu Yanhe and Li Zhibai’s side, I would have been completely ignored.”

Many people in the audience shouted "No!" and "We love you!"

Yan Liang smiled and said, "It's alright, these words can't hurt me anymore. What I want to say is that, no matter what, yes, I've stood by their side for many years, and even now, I'm still standing by their side. And after all these years, no one has been able to remove me from this position, has they?"

(End of this chapter)