"Moonlight Girl? You can start preparing."

The staff suddenly pushed open the door of their room and left this message.

"So fast!" Tang Yue opened her eyes suddenly. Before she realized it, she didn't expect that her back was already wet with sweat.

"Let's go." Lin Xuan'er put her hand on Tang Yue's shoulder. She glanced at her and then raised her lip. "When we go backstage and wait, Brother Chen should be on stage."

"Huh," Su Yin drank the yogurt in one gulp, "Let's go!"

"Well," Wang Xingrui cleared her throat, "This is the last song of the night. Anyway, I'll feel relieved after I finish it."

At the same time, Luo Chen, as the third-ranked guest in the on-site voting, finally got his turn on stage.

As his chorus guest, Ling Hu did not leave in a hurry like the others, but just regarded it as a notice fee.

On the contrary, Ling Hu was standing next to Luo Chen, humming a song: "Come on, you will be fine."

However, Luo Chen was far less confident than Ling Hu. He found that although he had always hinted that he didn't care about the championship, at this moment, a voice appeared in his heart:

"I want to win the championship."

Even if his opponent is Moonlight Girl, he will still give it a try.

Maybe it will work!

Ling Hu stared at Luo Chen. Seeing that he had nothing else to say except a fearless look, he said, "Relax. You already took first place in the first round. In fact, the champion will only be between you and Yue Shao. Taking second place is not bad."

"Yeah." Luo Chen nodded. When the staff signaled him that he could go on stage, he strode onto the red carpet leading to the stage.

At this time he said: "But I want to take first place, and I think they think so too."

Giving his all is the best way for him to show respect to Yue Shao.

Ling Hu tutted his words and threw a piece of gum into his mouth: "Come on, Xiaochen."

When he lifted the curtain, he was faced with 30,000 pairs of eyes from all over the country.

The host's voice echoed in my ears:

"Please welcome Luo Chen to bring us his second song."

As the music sounded, there was the sound of water drops falling.

Tick.

"Brother Yang?" Luo Chen raised his head and found that the person standing next to him was Zhou Yiyang.

"Tell me about your new song."

They came out of the bathroom and sat down in the living room.

Guan Fei silently closed the door for them and then quietly retreated.

"Have you read the lyrics and music?" Zhou Yiyang sat on a chair, wearing a spotless suit, with his watch perfectly visible on his wrist.

There is a certain disjunction between such a person and the lyrics he writes.

Or is it that beneath his elite appearance, he hides a lively heart?

"Yeah." Luo Chen nodded: "Fortunately, I'm not from SJZ."

"Pfft." Zhou Yiyang smiled and casually placed his phone on the table. "What do you think after reading the lyrics?"

"Depressed, huh? The lyrics are quite sad, but since I'm not from SJZ, I don't quite understand the words. I think they have a special meaning."

"Actually, it's not difficult to understand. It just requires some understanding of the historical context. By the way, listen to this audio clip."

Zhou Yiyang clicked on the recording, and the first sound that came out was a deep breath.

Tang Yue's voice was a little distorted in the recording:

"That must have been more than 20 years ago? Or 30 years ago? I actually didn't experience it. But I heard my dad mention it."

Tang Yue sat on the sofa, Su Yin and Wang Xingrui sat on either side, looking at Tang Yue curiously, as if they were listening to a story.

Lin Xuan'er was very tactful and poured a glass of water for Tang Yue and placed it in front of her.

"My dad was born in Harbin, but he visited SJZ when he was young. He went there again last year and told my mom that the city seemed to have stagnated for the past decade."

"But when he was young, SJZ, no, the entire North, was still very glorious."

When she was little, Tang Yue loved going to her grandmother's house during festivals. Sitting on the kang (kang), she would listen to her uncles and aunts, whose names she couldn't remember, reminiscing about the glorious past.

In their words, the fabricated Northeast is so unreal, like a fairy tale.

"Did SJZ have a pharmaceutical factory back then? I asked my dad, and he told me. Back then, working in a state-owned enterprise was a guaranteed job."

"But one day, the family you've always relied on suddenly collapsed. Laid off, transitioned, and unemployed. Every time my dad talked about those years, he would sigh. Fortunately, he was quick-witted and started his own business. Yes, then he met my mom, and I was born."

Zhou Yiyang cut off the recording, and then the laughter of four girls was heard.

"I understand that."

Zhou Yiyang raised his head and found that Luo Chen's body was leaning forward.

"I went home recently."

"I went back to my mother's hometown. It's in the countryside, and the development there isn't very good."

"I met a lot of elderly people there who didn't know how to use smartphones, Weibo, or Douyin. They even heard I was a celebrity from hearsay."

"Later, my grandmother came to Shanghai and lived there for a while. My mother told me that she wasn't having a happy time."

Zhou Yiyang stared at Luo Chen without interrupting him, but just listened to him quietly.

"My grandmother said you city people live too fast and she can't keep up. She went to a restaurant and found she had to order by scanning a QR code on her phone. She went to the hospital and was told to register online in advance. There are fewer and fewer front desk staff in all walks of life. Young people are living smarter, but the elderly are being left behind."

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